{"id":528,"date":"2015-09-28T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=528"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:09:54","slug":"tunnel-books-at-cc-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/09\/28\/tunnel-books-at-cc-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"tunnel books at CC Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thames<\/a>\"Thames<\/a>Tunnel books<\/a> have been made and sold since the mid-18th century in Europe. The earliest one in CC Special Collections, History of the Thames Tunnel<\/em> (1861), was sold to tourists in England, as was our next-earliest, The Picture-Post Coronation Peep-Show Book<\/em> (1953).<\/p>\n

Our copy of the Thames Tunnel book is quite worn, suggesting that many people looked through its eye-holes over the years before it came to the library.<\/p>\n

\"Coronation<\/a>Our Coronation book, on the other hand, was purchased in kit form and never put together. Luckily, the Journal of Wild Culture<\/em> offers a photo essay<\/a> showing what the book looks like from various angles.<\/p>\n

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Our other tunnel books are artists’ books made in the last two decades. Edward H. Hutchins’s\u00a0 Arizona Wildlife<\/em> (1999) is made from picture postcards.<\/p>\n

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Jill Timm’s Falling Leaves<\/em> (2006).<\/p>\n

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Laura Russell’s Nocturne<\/em> (2004) shows a fanciful version of the neon signs on Colfax Avenue in Denver and is a favorite among CC students.<\/p>\n

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Kyoko Matsunaga’s Aoyama Airport<\/em> (2013).<\/p>\n

For a good overview of tunnel books, see Jean-Charles Trebbi’s The Art of Pop-Up: The Magical World of Three-Dimensional Books<\/em> (Promo Press, 2012), available at many libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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