{"id":7791,"date":"2017-02-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=7791"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T17:33:03","slug":"remember-cootie-catchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2017\/02\/09\/remember-cootie-catchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Cootie Catchers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"img0029\"<\/a>Will you live in a mansion, drive a Ferrari, get your dream job, have two kids and marry your hot 12-year old crush? \u00a0Or will your fate be to have a rusty pickup truck, work a minimum wage job, have 13 kids to feed, and live in a shack? \u00a0Cootie catchers helped us answer these difficult questions in our struggle to discover our futures! \u00a0Originally called the salt cellar it was first seen in an origami book called\u00a0Fun with Paper Folding<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>in 1928. <\/i>\u00a0Apparently the cootie catcher name caught on because of the pincer like movement the folded paper makes, which can mimic catching insects, like lice. \u00a0I discovered this cootie catcher, or fortune suggester if you prefer, in an issue of X-ray magazine<\/em>. \u00a0It is meant to be removed from the plastic to reveal your future! \u00a0Published by Pneumatic Press in California this limited<\/p>\n

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edition publication only produced 226 copies per issue\u00a0and is actually a kind of collaborative\u00a0artist book\u00a0full of highly ephemeral objects, art pieces, textiles, poems, photographs, prints, and other types of materials. \u00a0Materials are tucked between pages, affixed with stickers and glue, or found inside envelopes. \u00a0The user is meant to interact with the items and every page is supposed to surprise. \u00a0I was certainly surprised when I found the page by Mike Dyar that supposedly contains his hair. \u00a0If indeed it IS his real hair did he donate it to every copy?<\/p>\n

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Another particularly delightful page was the fortune cookie. \u00a0It is designed with a cut in the page so that you can literally pull the fortune from the drawing of the cookie. \u00a0This fortune\u00a0said “When you’re through changing- you’re through!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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These fascinating issues of\u00a0X-ray magazine<\/a>\u00a0can be found in the collection of the Fine Arts Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Donna Viscuglia, Cataloger and Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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