This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The publication Bulletin de Police Criminelle was a weekly publication distributed to specific police stations throughout France beginning in 1907. These bound copies come from the Chalon-sur-Saône police station which is located in the Burgundy region of…
True French crime
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. I recently discovered two issues of a weekly French Police newspaper aptly titled Police Hebdo published in October of 1947. The publication appears to cover extremely sensationalized information and news about various crimes and criminals both in…
Self-Made Woman
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. “Is it worth sacrificing a man of your own and children to be a successful business woman?” Originally published in 1932 this is the 1940 fourth printing of Self-Made Woman. The novel presents Cathleen McElroy as an…
Spirit of the mushroom
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Giorgio Samorini is an ethnobotantist and psychedelics researcher who has published a great deal on sacred plants and psychoactive compounds. This hand-produced report appears to be documentation written by Samorini along with the color photographs from visits…
HER story
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Usually people purchase calendars because they have interesting or pretty pictures but the Women’s Heritage Calendar and Almanac is a different case. Explained perfectly in the introduction page, they state “History – never HER story. That’s…
The Life of Jesus?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Léo Taxil was actually the pen name for Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pagès, a man born in Marseille who was educated by Jesuits in the mid 19th-century. He became extremely disillusioned with the Catholic faith during his time among…
Observer-ing the 60s
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Color supplements to established newspapers were first produced in the 1960s and are believed by many to have changed the face of newspapers. Many thought that a color magazine would cheapen the journalistic integrity of the Observer, a…
Hi-Brew Beer
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Interested in brewing your own “special beer”? Then this book could be for you! Beer making has been going on for thousands of years and the Unknown Brewer, who is brewmaster of Hi-Brewers decided to share his…
International man of mystery??
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. I came across this French volume the other day and assumed it was about some sort of military hero, but as I took a closer look at the cover of the book I noticed that he was…
Let’s take a bite out of crime!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The collection has a large number of French translations of books that deal with crime and criminals in the United States. Chicago : ville du crime or Rattling the cup on Chicago crime was written by Edward…