John Overholt

Specimens of Fancy Turning (great title) is an 1869 book of photographs created in the style of a Spirograph by etching directly on photographic paper with a lathe. cc @publicdomainrev

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/332462

Specimens of Fancy Turning Executed on the Hand or Foot Lathe

Edward J. Woolsey (American, 1803–1872) Published by Henry Carey Baird (American, 1825–1912)

Apr 21, 2023 at 1:51pmWeb
Show threadAviva GaryApr 21, 2023
@overholt @publicdomainrev cool
Show threadLegalQuiltsApr 22, 2023
@overholt @publicdomainrev @_thegeoff this is so cool.
Show threadRoxanne MagnusonApr 23, 2023
@overholt @publicdomainrev that’s some pretty forward thinking creativity
Show threadThe Public Domain ReviewApr 25, 2023
@overholt !!!!! ❤️
Show threadKatjaApr 25, 2023
@overholt @publicdomainrev I'm both tempted and not, since I'm still feeling the lasting sting of desperately wanting a Spirograph, and my parents refusing to purchase one. I kept hoping my cousins would get tired of theirs and hand it down, but no such luck. (Maybe adulthood means buying your own Spirograph—or enjoying more sophisticated nineteenth-century predecessors?)