
Found photos. Originally located in a box marked “Probing into Science.” Apparently scientific evidence.
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061
November 2009
Untitled.
2007
Two vintage photographs housed in a plexiglas frame. Each photo 3-3/4″ wide x 6″ high.
Found in a box marked “Probing into Science” along with several science textbooks and a variety of laboratory glass (to be cataloged). Writing on verso: “writing with constraints, writing with constraints.” Deaccessioned, December 2009, anonymous collection.
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Entered December 23, 2009
Posted in miscellany | Tagged float, found photograph, glass, pencil, photograph, scientific evidence

Untitled found object. Like a bookmark. But not.
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060
October 2009
Untitled (Found Object)
Unknown
Hand-cut Xerox print. Approx. 3″ x 9″
Found in a borrowed library book, 2005.
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Entered October 11, 2009
Posted in natural history | Tagged ephemera, found object, leaves, paper

A work of fiction.
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059
October 2009
Untitled (A work of fiction)
ca late 1980’s
Paint on book. 5.5 x 8.25 x 1.25″
On extended loan from the collection of Oswald Boole.
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Entered October 4, 2009
Posted in general works | Tagged book, painting

Numerals. No apparent rational.
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058
September 2009
Untitled (numbers)
2007
Chipboard numbers. Each approx. 2″ high.
Numbers too numerous to catalog individually.
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Entered October 4, 2009
Posted in miscellany | Tagged numbers

Permission. 1400-50. ME. A yielding, giving leave.
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057
September 2009
Permission (210)
Unknown
Vintage reading/spelling card
Found (purchased) in Brooklyn, NY.
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Entered October 2, 2009
Posted in miscellany | Tagged ephemera, found object

Empty nest. Found on the ground.
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056
September 2009
Untitled (bird’s nest)
Summer 2009
Nest of a small unidentified bird. Approx. 3 x 3.5 x 1.25″
Found on the ground in upstate NY.
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Entered September 29, 2009
Posted in natural history | Tagged found object, nature, nest

Fragment. Fragile.
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055
September 2009
Untitled (nose)
circa 1982
Unfired clay and gesso.
Fragment from a death-mask casting of the archivist. Found in deep storage.
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Entered September 26, 2009
Posted in life sciences | Tagged clay, death mask, fragment
Week ending September 25. Two announcements.
100 Breaths (Ac. No. 005) is on loan to Proteus Gowanus for their “Transport” exhibition. PG is an interdisciplinary gallery and reading room in Brooklyn, NY and one of my favorite places in NY. The show opens tomorrow (September 26) from 6-9.
Plus, a pointer to Morbid Anatomy, an amazing site devoted to the study and collection of odd things at the intersection of art and medicine. J, Morbid Anatomy’s proprietor, was responsible for the Library’s first public exposure outside of our small storefront last spring.
Entered September 25, 2009
Posted in archivist's notes


Untitled (collage box). Small box with 21 collage works…perhaps about nature and numbers.
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002 [Ac. Nos. 033-053]
September 2008
Untitled (collage box)
unknown
21 small collage works, each 4 x 6″, collected in a cardboard box.
Gift, 2007. Anonymous donor.
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Entered September 13, 2009
Posted in general works | Tagged box, collage, nature, numbers

Ok.
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001, Ac. Nos. 015 and 011
August 2007
ok
2007
Twigs and copper wire. approx. 6 x 9″ ea.
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Entered August 27, 2009
Posted in natural history | Tagged alphabet, rustic, twig, typography