All three of us are bibliophiles, big time. Grad Girl is at a disadvantage as most of her older books are here and not in Texas. So she'll get a bit of grace with this week's post.
I raided my professional library for my photo.
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| Kate: Chemistry Tomes |
These chemistry books were written in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, These weren't purchased because I collect old books, no I collected these to use. When I was a refinery chemist, we didn't have a lot of high tech equipment in the lab, but I did have access to a lot of chemicals. These books included a lot information not only on how to test for certain chemicals, but the chemistry of some basic reactions that don't get included in modern text books. When I had the refinery job, the Internet wasn't the World Wide Web just yet, so these old books were the quickest way for me find ways to answer questions about what was going on in operations.
Similarly My Guy's photo comes from his professional library.
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| My Guy: The Classics |
These are his physics undergraduate and graduate text books for the most part. There are a couple of older classics that he has added to his collection over the years. So these are probably not what you'd consider classics, but they are the go to texts for physicists. My Guy doesn't have much reason to consult them these days, he pretty much functions as a weird mix of chemist and engineer. He has used my stack of chemistry books more than once over his working years.
As I said Grad Girl's oldest books are still here in her bookcase. So she improvised.
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| Grad Girl: Old is Relative |
Now that she's mostly finished with school, Grad Girl spends her days applying for jobs and occasionally treats herself to some time out of the apartment for coffee and a good book. That book came out last year, so it's not a new release. For the purposes of our challenge that counts as old.
My Guy and I took pretty much the same range of photos. But then again how many ways are there to photograph old books?
This week's challenge card is the last one in the deck.
We should have some colorful photos for next week.
7 comments:
I hope you find another deck of cards to continue the photo challenges. I enjoy seeing the results. Best wishes to Grad Girl in her job search.
How sad to be reaching the end of the deck of cards. I purged my old professional book collection about a year ago. I've been enjoying your photo challenges over the years. Hope GG finds a wonderful job quickly.
The hardest decision I had to make when I retired was what to do with my professional books! When things are always changing in your field, resources go out of date quickly. Glad you could use those older books during your career. Since finishing her grad school program, I bet Grad Girl is looking forward to catching up on some "older" books!
Great photos. Those book titles look a little daunting to this social scientist. On the other hand, my titles included things like “On Death and Dying,” and some other uplifting tomes about dying and insanity. Yeah…I donated most of them when I retired. Didn’t need those downer titles in my library when I retired.
Old books are so interesting, a slice of history. Will you continue the photo challenge after next week?
Oh your photos are SO interesting. You did good to keep your books. I got rid of my mathematics books several years after we got married, and I miss them. Not that I'd read them for pleasure or anything, but just to have them!
I always enjoy your photo posts. You all take some amazing photos time after time! What are you going to do now that you've been through the entire deck of cards? Start over?
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