Tabloid
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Title
Tabloid
Is Part Of
Biological Sciences
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Human Biology
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Description
"The brand name ‘Tabloid’, however, stayed associated with things ‘reduced in size or compressed’ (Larson 2009: 86). It is this reduction in size that made the firm’s drugs perfect for travel, and the medicine chests in particular were designed to this end" (Liebenberg 2021: 45).
Creator
Nina Liebenberg
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Date Created
2021
Source
Liebenberg, N. 2021. The virus and the vaccine: curatorship and the disciplinary outsider. University of Cape Town. Doctoral dissertation.
Resonances
Natural History Museum
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Tabloid
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flamingo
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Lewis Carroll
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fairytales
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reduction
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shrinking
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exploration
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medicine chest
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Type
Photo
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg