#digital collections

[othmeralia]

February 8th is Dmitri Mendeleev's birthday

Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements.

Shown here is a rainbow-colored periodic table in the style of a spiral with different sizes of revolutions designed by J.F. Hyde of the Dow Corning Corporation.

Image: Hyde, J.F. “The Chemical Elements and Their Periodic Relationships.” Dow Corning Corporation, 1975. Folder Flat File 2. Science History Institute. Philadelphia.

[u-mspcoll]

Shanah tovah pop-up cards from the Jewish Heritage Collections are now digitized and available at the Jewish Heritage Collection Digital Archive!

Shanah Tovah pop-up card. JHC-E0001. Gift of Constance Harris.

Shanah Tovah pop-up card. JHC-E0011. Gift of Constance Harris. 

Shanah Tovah pop-up card. JHC-E0017. Gift of Constance Harris.

View pictures of the other shanah tovah pop-up cards from the U-M Library Jewish Heritage Collection

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Old Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, 1900

Wisconsin architect and printmaker Charles Clark Reynolds (1893-1969) produced this etching of the Door County port city of Sturgeon Bay for the Federal Art Project of the WPA in 1941. Reynolds, who was born in Sturgeon Bay, ran a successful architectural firm with offices in Manitowoc and Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1920-1934. Andrew Stevens, curator emeritus of prints, drawings and photographs at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, made these observations about another copy of the print at the Wisconsin Historical Society in his 1998 exhibition catalog, 150 Years of Wisconsin Printmaking:

The print's title and the notation on the plate that identifies the image as being "Sturgeon Bay 1900" suggest a nostalgic purpose for the work. Instead of presenting the city as it was when the print was made in 1941, he looked back forty years, perhaps by reference to photography, to present if at the turn of the century [as Reynolds himself would have known it as a boy]. As if to reference further the retrospective stance of the work, there is a pencil notation in the print's margin that identifies it as having been printed on antique paper. This retrospective aspect of the work . . . may also reflect some of the historical goals of other projects of the WPA.

Our copy of the print is part of a portfolio of prints from the Wisconsin WPA, and this image is from a digitized version of that print from our digital collection Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA, which was made possible with generous financial support from The Chipstone Foundation.

View other posts on prints by Charles Reynolds.

View more posts from our Wisconsin Arts Projects digital collection.

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

Gotta love cataloging sometimes

Caption of a postcard from the Mexican Revolution w/ a photo of a dead soldier on it: "that's a real dead body!" Yeah?? It sure is?? Bestie whoever you're showing this to probably lived through the American Civil War and/or is living through World War I I think they believe you

And another one (more dead soldiers): "kisses 🥰🥰 from your pookums!! <3 <3" sent to a woman in fucking Cornwall England

[gracehosborn]

I absolutely LOVE that The Papers of Alexander Hamilton editors cited where the original manuscripts were at the time of publishing their series however I hate the fact that since the creation of Founders Online just over a decade ago these citations haven’t been updated accordingly since they were first written in the 1960s, because in the half-century since some stuff has clearly moved around as evidenced by the last hour I have spent checking a number of archives and utterly abusing their search engines to locate the manuscript of a letter The PAH editors stated to originally be in one archive, yet coming to the discovery that:

Said archive evidently no longer has the manuscript, (nor do those few others I checked for good measure) but I could be wrong and it’s just staring me in the face hidden somewhere

The manuscript is either lost

Or it has been moved to God-Knows-Where

I just wanted to look at one paragraph 😭

[mangowillow]

in celebration of Indigo, i made a digital journal spread 🤍 listening to joon's album is now part of my morning routine!

[image-junkie]

Alen MacWeeney, New York City Subway, 1977. Gelatin Silver Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, New York Public Library Digital Collections.

[sennamaticart]

Brass and Copper

[bluebeesknees]

They’re being obnoxious at work 💙

[othmeralia]

Il Colombo : Regioni Esterne del Corpo, Scheletro, Sistema Vasale, Muscoli, Organi Interni

1924

Italian-language book on the anatomy of the pigeon. It includes a color illustration of a pigeon and a pigeon egg. The pigeon is composed of two large, double-sided flaps and a series of smaller flaps, each of which lifts to reveal the anatomical layer beneath it, from the pigeon's outer body to its skeleton, vascular system, muscles, and internal organs. The egg is composed of three double-sided flaps that depict the stages of embryonic development.

More images on our digital collection site. And our Director of Library Services wrote a blog post regarding the flap books! Check it out below.

[tinyhorror]

"look at his little beak! c'mere, you doll..."

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[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

FRANK UTPATEL

On this last Wednesday in May we present a wood engraving entitled Farmer's Holiday #4 by the noted Wisconsin artist Frank Utpatel (1905-1980). Utpatel made this engraving in the late 1930s as a Wisconsin artist in the Federal Art Project of the WPA. He is remembered mainly as an illustrator of fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories, especially through his longtime collaboration with  August Derleth who founded the Arkham House publishing firm in Sauk City, Wisconsin, a major publisher in this genre, especially the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Although he is remembered for his work as an illustrator, he was also a highly accomplished wood engraver.

This print was scanned as part of our digital collection Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA from a portfolio of original prints in Special Collections that bears the title Making a Woodcut, although most to of the prints stored here are mainly lithographs, etchings, and linocuts.

The Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA digital collection was made possible with generous financial support from The Chipstone Foundation.

View more posts with Frank Utpatel's wood engravings.

View more posts from our Wisconsin Arts Projects digital collection.

View more posts with wood engravings!

[mebssann]

Luz and her siblings!

[evenlyevi]

Girls' night

[duskerus]

⚠️TMA S4-5 SPOILERS ⚠️

One way or another. Together.