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Luis’s Substack

Luis Clemens

My personal Substack

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Books of Christmases Past

Each book here was given as a Christmas gift between 1887 and 1952.

It makes me feel warm and fuzzy to know that these books were first given as gifts between 70 and 140 years ago.

Most of the inscriptions are simple but moving, as above...

5 months ago
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Fangtastic!

Today, I touched a small ceramic figure made 1500 or so years ago. It was awesome. It felt like touching the passage of time.

This is an artifact of the Tumaco-La Tolita culture dating somewhere between 500 BC and 500 AD.

Thanks for readi...

8 months ago

Imagination Machines

Old photographs are imagination machines.

The gaze, the pose and the clothes all invite flights of fancy by whomever holds the photo.

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a year ago
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Black Ephemera & Photographs

In 1970, the United States Information Service organized a trip to Africa for a delegation of actors that included Raymond St. Jacques, Greg Morris and Barry White.

At the time, Barry White would have been 25 or 26. I love that megawatt s...

a year ago
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Vintage Romance For Valentine's Day

I spend a lot of time reading other people's mail. Dead people, mostly. And that includes the notes of love and the photographs they leave behind.

I bought the above photo and the Christmas card below in the same lot:

Thanks for reading L...

a year ago

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  • Luis Clemens

    I hop from one rabbit hole to another. All day. Every day. My livelihood demands it. I sell rare books, ephemera and assorted artifacts; anything that comes with a good story. This is my third act. I spent thirty years as a journalist.

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