#hildreth

[artdecodude]

Drama by Hildreth Meière . Roundel at Radio City Music Hall in #NewYorkCity . #ArtDeco #HildrethMeière 📸: me/2023 #RadioCityMusicHall

[roughridingrednecks]

Hildreth

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Meredith Lee Hill at Politico:

Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing on a new campaign hire as part of her team’s push to clinch must-win states this fall by keeping former President Donald Trump from running up the score in rural counties. Harris is tapping Matt Hildreth of the progressive Rural Organizing group as her rural engagement director, according to four people familiar with the plans who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter. Democrats have been hemorrhaging support in rural America for years, but making even a small dent in Trump’s steep rural margins could determine the outcome in battleground states that may be decided by razor-thin margins.

Hiring Hildreth, whose grassroots organization is already knocking doors for Harris and Democratic candidates across the country this fall, signals the campaign is looking to seriously expand a resource-intensive ground game to reach rural voters who could swing the election. The Harris-Walz team doesn’t expect the ticket to flip many rural counties. But some of Harris’ top advisers have argued that simply losing by slightly fewer percentage points in these areas could help carry her and down-ballot Democrats to victory. In recent memos, the campaign has argued “the key to decreasing margins in rural areas is to show up and compete everywhere — which is exactly what we’re doing across the country.”

A Harris campaign spokesperson confirmed the hire. The campaign is now looking to ramp up an aggressive ground game from Wisconsin and Arizona to Georgia and other battleground states, to peel away even a few percentage points from Trump’s rural margins. The move comes weeks after Democrats in battleground districts feared President Joe Biden’s debate fallout would cost them another wave of votes, including some of the party’s few remaining rural House seats. Harris’ deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks helped Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) cut down GOP rural margins in his 2022 Georgia Senate win, and he was a key part of organizing Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s recent bus tour in rural Georgia — a rare step for a national Democratic ticket as local Democrats argue the party has increasingly overlooked rural organizing at its peril.

Local organizers also note that the party has a solid opportunity to gain support in some rural communities, especially in pockets of Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona with younger voters and voters of color. The Biden-Harris administration and Democrats have poured billions in federal investments into rural communities, with Biden just this week touting new funding in a largely rural swing district in southwest Wisconsin. At the same time, Democrats in battleground districts have been worried that Harris may do worse than Biden in key rural counties against Trump, especially among older, white voters in the upper Midwest. Biden managed to make some small gains in rural counties, including with Obama-Trump pockets, in 2020 after Trump blew out Hillary Clinton in rural areas in 2016. Harris’ team is hoping that’s where Walz can boost the ticket.

The Harris/Walz campaign’s hiring of a rural voters director is a good idea, as Democrats need to learn how to reach rural voters and cut the margins.

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, November 20, 1820, an 80-ton sperm whale rammed and sank the Essex whaling ship in the South Pacific inspiring Herman Melville (1819-1891) to write his legendary novel Moby Dick.

The Essex set sail from Nantucket in August of 1819 with a 21-man crew in search of dwindling sperm whales. Over a year into their voyage, their captain decided to head further off the coast of the Galapagos than usual, finding themselves more than 1,500 nautical miles from the nearest shore. The bet paid off when the Essex came upon a pod of whales and set out in three whaleboats to harpoon them.

While they were away, their luck quickly changed when a monstrously sized sperm whale began ramming and ultimately capsized the Essex. Initially, all members of the crew survived the wreck and equipped their whaleboats with sails to head for land, however perilous weather and sparse rations soon took their toll. Within months, crew members were dying and left their companions to turn to cannibalism to survive. Ultimately, five men of the Essex were rescued by passing ships and lived to tell their tale. 

To mark the fate of the Essex we are looking at The Limited Editions Club (LEC) 1943 publication of Moby Dick; or The Whale presented in two volumes with illustrations by Boardman Robinson (1876-1952). Melville’s story of Captain Ahab and the great white whale is accentuated by Robinson’s muddy paintings that emulate the churning ocean adding foreboding layers throughout the book. Of the thirty-two paintings Robinson created for Moby Dick; or The Whale, eight are reproduced in full color with the other twenty-four reproduced “through an ingenious combination of the silk-screen process, offset lithography and varnish.” The volumes were printed by E.L. Hildreth and Co., bound in full sheepskin leather dyed to stimulate whale hides, and stamped in gold. 

Our copy of Moby Dick; or The Whale is number 289 from the collection of long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin and is signed by the illustrator.

View other Milestone Monday posts here.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[desolationfires]

Ashanti Hildreth

[modelsof-color]

Ashanti Hildreth by Nazar Cherniy for Grazia International Magazine October 2022

[therunwayarchive]

Ashanti Hildreth at Luisa Spagnoli, Spring 2023

[damonalbarn]

Blur in Colchester, 19 May 2023 - Damon with Nigel Hildreth and a bag of gifts from Colne Valley Youth Orchestra.  Nigel Hildreth is Damon and Graham's former music teacher at Stanway school and a musical director of the Colne Valley Youth Orchestra (both Damon and Graham were its members and Damon is a honorary president). Mr Hildreth spent the whole day at the Colchester Arts Centre, and several times stopped by the queue to chat with fans, so proud of Damon and Graham, and utterly lovely.

[to2llynottoby]

You say your love is true And I hope that it will be

I'd be sure if I knew That you loved me for me

Barbie (and Ken) - If You Love Me for Me

[slumpy11]

Dance, Drama and Song Relief sculptures in metal and enamel.

Radio City, New York

©Slumpy11 2024

[grimweaver]

A rough sketch of Sten (aka "New Arishok") with Terry Bogard's hair. 😁❤️ I should have put the hat on him too.

A true fan would get it.

[jay-in-the-notebook]

BRO YOU CANNOT TELL ME THAT THIS

IS PLAYED BY THE SAME GUY WHO PLAYED THIS

WHAT IS THIS, VEGGIETALES VOICE CASTING?!?!

SOURCE

[roughridingrednecks]

Hildreth from Florida

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday! 

Today we present The Innocent Voyage by British writer Richard Hughes (1900-1976), illustrated by American artist Lynd Ward (1905-1985) and published in New York by The Limited Editions Club, in 1944 in an edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. The novel was first published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers in 1929, and in Britain by Chatto and Windus as A High Wind in Jamaica in the same year.    The novel was listed as one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels. It has been adapted into film (1965) and two radio adaptations (1950 and 2000), and it is credited for influencing books such as Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Lynd Ward created more than twenty color lithographs for this edition. Each lithograph consists of four layers of color, pink, yellow, blue, and dark blue in combination they create the great diversity of value and color that we see. Combining the layers so successfully takes the hand of a skilled artist. Lynd Ward drew his illustrations directly on the plates, which were then printed by George C. Miller (1894-1965) in New York. 

This printing was published as a trade edition by Heritage Press, another imprint of George Macy, founder of The Limited Editions Club, in 1944. The trade edition does not contain original lithographs and the fine paper and binding that this edition does. 

Robert L. Dothard designed this book. The text is composed in Linotype Baskerville and was printed at the shop of E. L. Hildreth in Vermont. This edition is bound in a dyed sheepskin and stamped with a decorative illustration in gold foil. The paper is all-rag and was made by the Worthy Paper Company. Each copy is housed in a solander case wrapped in white linen and a lithograph by Lynd Ward. Our copy is a gift of Loryn Romadka to Special Collections, UWM Libraries, from the collection of Austin Fredric Lutter.  

View more Limited Edition Club posts.

View more Fine Press Friday posts.

– Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

This image has been edited to see full complete image.

[genevieveetguy]

. There's a saying in Chile about never standing under a bird that's full of shit. And I've just been living under that fucking bird for so long, it's actually become comedic.

Maestro, Bradley Cooper (2023)

[clemsfilmdiary]

Big Sky River: The Bridal Path (2023, Peter Benson)

8/16/23