The Shadow of a Great Rock

This microform reproduction preserves a 1907 publication whose title evokes the biblical cadence of Isaiah 32:2 — "a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest... as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." Wood-pulp and cheap-paper publishing of this era bridged the Victorian tract tradition and the emerging mass-market magazine, distributing moral, adventure, and religious narratives to readers who could spare only pennies. These inexpensive print runs, now fragile and yellowed, survived largely through microfilm archiving programs. The physical object behind this frame — paper, ink, cover image lost to reduction — belongs to the fertile print culture that fed directly into the pulp explosion of the 1920s.