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[muspeccoll]

#MarbledMonday: And, to round out June, here is a last set of marbled paper designs from the 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815).

Rare Z271 .W621 1987

[librarycompany]

It's National Library Workers Day and we're honoring the important role that library staff plays in running our beloved institution!

Photograph taken at the Ridgway branch of the Library Company, from LCP's archives.

[uwlittlemags]

These little Chanukah books are part of a remarkable series by Jewish writers & publishers in Berlin between 1933-1938. They began publishing 6 months after the Nazi book burnings, and continued until Kristallnacht. Schocken Verlag published 83 titles, 30 of which comprised the Jüdische Lesehefte series. Here at Special Collections, we have 5 of those 30. [Ehrmann, Eliezer L. Chanukka. Berlin, 1937. CA 15718 no.25 In den Tagen Mattitjahus: ein Chanukka-Büchlein. Berlin, 1937. CA 15718 no.24] #chanukah #chanukka #hanukkah #schockenverlag #jüdische #specialcollections #iglibraries #oldbooks (at University of Wisconsin-Madison) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI1TUx7JB9b/?igshid=hu6a1b24y5fp

[loynosca]

Healthcare Heroes

This morning we’re sharing an image from a beautiful photobook at Loyola University Archives & Special Collections titled Eudora Welty Photographs. Most people are familiar with Eudora Welty’s literary work, but many don’t realize she was first employed by the Works Progress Administration to photograph daily life in Mississippi and the Depression-era South. 

This photograph, captioned “Nurse at home, Jackson, Miss”, features an African American woman standing before a residence dressed in a clean, pressed nurse’s uniform and hat. She also wears a fashionable long coat with fur trim details. Behind her, a hand-painted sign mounted to the exterior wall reads “Clara Humes, Obstetric Nurse and Nursing”. Welty focused her lens on a diversity of people and classes throughout this period, but her photographs of the emerging African-American middle class are incredibly powerful. 

[hdslibrary]

Some #pridemonth appropriate library boxes found in the wilds of our stacks! #rainbowbookshelf #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #ahtl https://www.instagram.com/p/Bync3daJYoy/?igshid=lyucnyjjcrj9

[rubensteinlibrary]

This engraving sure makes us feel a little closer to Halloween! It comes from the 1725 edition of "Todten-Tantz," or Dance of Death. A common allegory in Christian Europe, the Dance of Death was meant to serve as a reminder that death comes for all people, no matter their social rank, age, or devoutness. The engravings in this book were originally made by Matthaeus Merian in the early 1600s, and each one depicts death leading off a different type of person, including a pope, a king, a merchant, a heathen, and a painter. Death with the Abbess is shown here. [N7720 .M47 1725] #SpineTingling #rubensteinlib #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram #rarebooks #danceofdeath https://www.instagram.com/p/BpUnwSzFVQL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17tqwu598g9qb

[stageybookish-blog]

NEW BOOKS! @veschwab #suecheung @therealmargaretatwood #booksofinstagram #books📚 #booksbooksbooks #booksofig #booksandbooks #booksofinsta #readingismagic #readingforpleasure #readingaddict #readinglist #readings #librariesofinstagram #libraries #iglibraries #librariansofinstagram #librarians #thelibrarians #bookblogger #bookbloggers #bookbloggersofinstagram #yabooks #yabookstagram #yabookstagrammer #yabookseries #yabook #yabookshelf #yabookworm #yabookblogger https://www.instagram.com/p/B17BGU3AqQI/?igshid=1v4wuqm2v1i0g

[kislak-center]

This week’s #SpineTingling entry is a book about the war against demons. We pulled out this spine from the shelf because its innocuous binding, combined with its mystical, grave subject matter (in Latin) made us think of a movie prop. This book is something a character like Van Helsing would peruse for guidance in vanquishing evil. Printed in Bologna in 1623, this title comes from the Lea collection. Philadelphia publisher, historian, and civic reformer Henry Charles Lea collected an extensive amount of works on ecclesiastical history, magic, and witchcraft. Follow this link to see the full digitized collection: http://ow.ly/Zjao30m48Vx Call number: PA8585.V225 D34 http://ow.ly/ZnNF30m491B * * * #wednesdaychallenge #bookspines #iglibraries #libariesofinstagram #rarebooks #demon #vanhelsing #demonology #pennlibraries #kislakcenter #specialcollections https://www.instagram.com/p/BpChCmlAq6w/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=eenscpzxddsy

[muspeccoll]

#MarbledMonday: Here are some more marbled paper designs from the 1987 reprinting of "The whole process of marbling paper," the first English paper-marbling manual (1815).

Rare Z271 .W621 1987

[librarycompany]

Parlor Gallery opened in the 1880s and was operated by Lewis Horning. The photography studio was located in the on South 9th Street in Philadelphia and situated in the 7th Ward, which was the subject of a seminal study by sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois titled, "The Philadelphia Negro." 

Many of members of Philadelphia's Black middle and upper middle class visited Parlor Gallery to commission portraits that became family keepsakes. The portraits also served to counter the proliferation of racist caricatures in popular U.S. visual culture during the late nineteenth century. 

1st image: Parlor Gallery, Unidentified young African American woman, ca. 1891. Gelatin silver on cabinet card. 

2nd image: Parlor Gallery, Taylor Aldridge, 1883. In Portrait album of well known 19th-century African American men of Philadelphia. 

3rd image: Parlor Gallery, Unidentified young African American woman, ca. 1891. Gelatin silver on cabinet card. 

4th image: Parlor Gallery, Unidentified African American man with a dog, ca. 1880. Albumen on cabinet card.

[kheelcenter]

#OnThisDay the Haymarket Riot occurred on May 4, 1886.

In the 1880s, at a time when industrial expansion was rapid, workers put in long hours under terrible working conditions and were poorly paid. Many labor activists took to the streets to demand safe working conditions and fair wages. On May 3, outside Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine plant, workers on strike during a long-term action harassed strikebreakers as they left the plant, and police intervened, killing two strikers. The next day, while workers were peacefully demonstrating to protest police violence and calling for the 8 hour work day, police stepped in to disperse the crowd, and a bomb was thrown in the path of the police officers. Many were injured and at least 11 people died including 7 police officers and 4 workers. Four men were executed for the crime, though the identity of the bomber is still in dispute.

This illustration of the Haymarket tragedy from Harper’s Weekly conflates the timing of the riot, bombing, and Samuel Fielden speaking, urging demonstrators to remain peaceful.

[#5780176p #ILGWU  Communications Department Photographs #KheelCenter #ILRSchool #Cornell #CornellRAD]

[bbrarebooks]

95 Poems (1958) by #eecummings for #afinelibraryromance, one of our favorite (and most requested!) books. Limited edition 1/300 copies #signed and containing some of his most #romantic poetry, including “i carry your heart with me” and “i love you much (most beautiful darling)” 💘#poetry #signedbook #limitededition #rarebooks #loveinthelibrary @sfplbookarts @americanantiquarian @iglibraries #iglibraries (at B & B Rare Books, Ltd.) https://www.instagram.com/bbrarebooks/p/BuHedRSgCNO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vr2br3u2gd9p

[loynosca]

Have you ever wondered how the name English Turn came about? According to Captain Willard Glazier’s 1885 book, “Peculiarities of American Cities”, an ambitious English frigate was navigating the Mississippi River looking to claim territory when Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne (aka Bienville) and several of his men rounded a bend in the river just below present-day New Orleans in two bark canoes (though Glazier asserts the men were in a more imposing vessel). While not exactly an intimidating sight to behold, Bienville nonetheless paddled over to the ship and convinced English captain Louis Bond that a large community of French settlers were already established upriver and would defend France’s claim to the territory. Bond bought Bienville’s bluff and promptly turned his ship around, and the area about 75 miles from the Mississippi River’s mouth has since been known as English Turn. 

[pittrarebooks]

Day 4 of #libraryloveisloveislove is lookin’ a little green...we’re particularly fond of this shade, as seen on our copy of Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses. Written by William Ernest Henley and published by Harper & Brothers in 1901, we’re quite mesmerized by the symmetry on this cover! Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re running out of time to figure the answer to out that age-old question - what is the difference between indigo and violet?!

[rubensteinlibrary]

The Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) Archives and Periodicals Collection provide rich insight into feminist and lesbian activism from the 1970s to the early 1990s, particularly in the American Southeast. The Rubenstein Library holds ALFA’s organizational records as well as the hundreds of grassroots newsletters and journals they collected from other lesbian, feminist, and activist groups. Shown here is Atalanta, ALFA’s own self-produced monthly newsletter. #lgbtqhistorymonth #lgbthistorymonth #lgbthistory #lgbtqhistory #rubensteinlib #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram (at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpInUp6AVM0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rw6vg9kl0yon

[biodivlibrary]

We're celebrating the wonder of #trees for #Feathursday! Explore Tenants of the Trees (1907) by Clarence Hawkes, which was contributed for digitization by @amnh to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6478661 _________________________________________________ #Birds #Tree #PublishersBindingThursday #BookBinding #BookCovers #FancyBioBooks #FancyBookBinding #AMNH #AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #AMNH