all noise, all peace
“Outside, the streets, like rough tumultuous waters, were all noise, loud voices, confusion. Inside here, our hearts, like still, still water, were all peace.”
ex Mary E. Darley (c1870-1934). The Light of the Morning : The story of C. E. Z. M. S. Work in the Kien-Ning Prefecture of the Fuh-Kien Province, China (London, 1903) : 175
UCLA copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link
perforated circulation card, and field of flowers (detail; inverted) : link
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see Punch Cards for Data Processing, at the Smithsonian : link
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