Sasha Archibald · The Public Domain Review · 2022
Love and Longing in the Seaweed Album
Combing across 19th-century shores, seaweed collectors would wander for hours, tucking specimens into pouches and jars, before pasting their finds into artful albums.
Why we picked it
An unusual history of how Victorian seaweed albums transformed scientific specimens into intimate expressions of taste, desire, and remembrance.
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