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It’s Fine Press Friday

In 1946, a year after the United States detonated an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the New Yorker magazine planned to run a series on the attack and its aftermath over four issues. Instead, they dedicated an entire issue to the extensive report by journalist John Hersey (1914-1993). Today we feature a 1983 edition of Hersey’s Hiroshima, published by Limited Editions Club in New York City, and featuring original eight silkscreen prints by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), and a new poem by Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989). Lawrence’s prints were produced at Studio Heinrici. Robert Burlen & Son bound the edition, and the text was printed by Bruce Chandler and Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress. Golgonooza Letter Foundry set the type in Optima Medium. Our copy, part of a limited edition of 1,500, is signed by Hersey, Lawrence, and Warren.

Jacob Lawrence selected Hersey’s essay, after Limited Editions Club commissioned his art for a book in 1982. The original eight paintings, from which the silkscreens were derived, now live in the permanent collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Lawrence served in the Coast Guard during WWII, as part of a racially a segregated regiment in Florida, and then as a Coast Guard Artist in Italy, Egypt, England, and India. He laments here that in addition to the “great geniuses” of the arts and sciences, “we have in the meantime developed the means to destroy, in a most horrible manner, that life that is our God-given right.”

This edition of Hiroshima came two years after the release of 1981 compilation of damages caused by the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In his afterward, Hersey describes and lists the “grim disorders” linked to exposure – especially among those who were children at the time, and those who had been in utero. These maladies “were not yet observable” at the time of the essay’s original publication. Such new documentation warrants, or course, the new edition and consideration of the work. But so too does the worry on which Hersey concludes: “civic memory has a dreadfully short half-life.”

--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Kia Optima

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I saw some pictures of Jeremy Brett as Count Dracula, and I'm always happy to have more references for capes.

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https://www.optimabatteries.com/experience/blog/does-optima-make-a-lithium-car-battery

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Silence de béton

(c)2025 Huimin Chi Route en bétonMaison en ruine, bambousTraces d’oiseaux コンクリ道破れ屋 竹林鳥の跡 Agfa Optima Sensor 535 + Polypan F 50 (ND+1)

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Happy Easter with Agfa (1960)

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Optima Mobile Porta un Amico

La promozione #Portaunamico in Optima Mobile offre agli utenti #Optima di guadagnare ricariche invitando i propri amici a richiedere una #SIM. Ogni cliente può portare fino a 5 amici e guadagnare un #bonus di 5€ per ogni amico che completa la portabilità.

Una ricarica di € 5,00 sulla SIM Optima per ogni amico che inviti a passare a questo operatore. Chi è Optima Italia? Optima Italia è un operatore di telecomunicazioni e fornitore di servizi energetici, attivo nel mercato italiano da oltre vent’anni. L’azienda offre soluzioni integrate per privati e imprese, comprendenti servizi di telefonia mobile, connettività internet, e forniture di luce e…

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Font Dating

Assignment Brief: We all were given a typeface and we had to research on it and gain information about it.

Font Assigned: Optima

Reflection: This assignment helped me recognize different typefaces, provided a new perspective on how to view them, and taught me to differentiate between similar typefaces.

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#HappyAnniversary to Angelique and your 2016 #Kia #Optima from Everyone at Landers McLarty Nissan!

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It' Fine Press Friday!

Coat of Art

Wisconsin artist Mark Brueggeman's work, which I have had the privilege of encountering during my internship in Special Collections, captivates with its distinctive artistic vision. This unique piece of art is a portfolio of broadsides inspired by the poem, A Coat, by W. B. Yeats, the first Irish Nobel laureate in literature.

The portfolio was published in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin, at Brueggeman’s Atelier Vermeil Studio in 2016, printed in an edition of 20 copies with Optima 24 type and intaglio and relief prints on Riverpoint paper, a Strathmore paper made at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where Brueggeman taught for many years.

Mark Brueggeman’s work spans a variety of media, a testament to his versatility and skill. His repertoire includes printing, pastels, intaglio and relief printing, letterpress, and drawing in ink, graphite, and pastel. He earned his undergraduate degree in drawing and painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and his graduate degree in drawing and fiber sculpture at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

Written in 1912, A Coat reflects a period in Yeats’ life when he was attempting to change his writing style. He experimented with various techniques and approaches, constantly striving to enrich and expand his writing. As a result, his poetry underwent numerous transformations, ultimately leading to the creation of his unique voice and style. When it comes to the poem’s meaning, it could refer to anything from Yeats’ own writing style to the futility of war or perhaps something else entirely. One of the most extraordinary things about poetry is that it is open to interpretation, allowing each reader to find their own meaning in the words.

-Melissa, Special Collections Classics Intern.

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#HappyAnniversary to Katie and your 2018 #Kia #Optima from Aubrey Lopez at Van Griffith Kia!

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Wymiana sprzęgła Kia Warszawa

X-Ceed, Stonic, Stinger, Niro, Venga, Cadenza, Soul, Ceed, Picanto, Cerato, Opirus, Sorento, Spectra, Optima, Sedona, Magentis, Carens, Rio, Joice, Retona, Carnival, Shuma, Rocsta, Clarus, Pride, Sportage, Sephia

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This is a robot I made for a Mutants and Masterminds game. Her name is Optima! She's safe! She's not crazy at all!

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Kek Marble Optima

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Kia Optima Hybrid