#Milwaukee Public Library

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last month, the Milwaukee Public Library's Arts & Media Department held its first Art Book Club session. Intended as an informal art book appreciation club that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation room, each session explores a different theme by looking at the wide variety of art materials in the collection. The collection is historical, non-circulating, and vast. I attended and spent an hour and a half mesmerized by the array of luscious materials presented.

There was design, architecture, fashion, and much more. As a type nerd, I was especially drawn to the several late 19th- and early 20th-century type specimen books on the tables. Here, for example, are some pages of chromatic initials by various European and American companies from Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer and published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffmann in 1898.

MPL held its second Art Book Club session on the theme of "Animals" last night, but I missed it because I was conducting an evening instruction session. Dang! But I'll be attending future sessions when I can and I'll keep y'all apprised.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #chromatic type #type specimen books #type specimens #initials #type display books #Schriften Atlas #Ludwig Petzendorfer #Julius Hoffmann #Milwaukee Public Library #Art Book Club #19th century type

[conservethis]

#instagram #milwaukee public library #video #print isn’t dead baby!

[onlytiktoks]

#tiktok #amc #amc theaters #amc Nicole Kidman #nicole kidman #milwaukee public library #public libraries #library #books & libraries

[petsincollections]

Teamster on Cart

A teamster directing a cart of goods up a road. A dog follows beneath the rear of the wagon, between the wheels.

Milwaukee Public Library Historic Photo

#dogs #horses #horse carts #teamsters #milwaukee historic photos #milwaukee public library

[freemoneyfree]

Highlights from the monthly Art Book Club at Milwaukee Public Library- Central. (next one is 2/26!)

Images 1-2: Aperture 229 Winter 2017 (feat. Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose revisited)/ Aperture 241 Winter 2020

Image 3: from The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific by Victoria Ginn

Images 4-6: from Nan Goldin / I'll be Your Mirror

#gender performance #photography #art books #nan goldin #cindy sherman #luc sante #aperture #i'll be your mirror #milwaukee public library #art book club #masking #future gender

[chumpy1012]

appreciation post for Kenneth W. Bernoska. Kind soul and filmmaker who takes beautiful photos of the Milwaukee Public Library branches. his favorite branch is the Tippecanoe Branch because it helped him a lot through Covid and I find that very inspiring. God bless your soul Bernie

#milwaukee public library #milwaukee #library #k. w. bernoska

[detroitlib]

View of a windmill in Holland, Michigan, with tulips in foreground. Printed on front: "Dutch mill, Holland, Michigan." Printed on back: "L.L. Cook Co., post cards, Milwaukee, Wis." Handwritten on back: "Dear Ethel, Just wanted you to know we are thinking of you. Tressa & Olin are such nice hostesses. We had a good trip over although it rained. Laura Lee was very good and has been. I think she misses her daddy. We'll go to Toledo on Monday. Then home later in week. Chet will meet us there. We'll see you soon. Love, Dorothy & Laura Lee. P.S. Fri. morn Chet wrote about G. Its wonderful." Card is postmarked April, 1929.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

#windmill #holland #michigan #michigan history #postcards #vintage #vintage postcards #1929 #tulips #flowers #dutch #l.l. cook co. #detroit public library

[mtsodie]

what truly matters tho is that i am on fire in the official ponytown recreation of the milwaukee public library

#💬

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last week, I showed you some initials I encountered at the Milwaukee Public Library's first Art Book Club gathering in October. Those initials were from an 1898 specimen book, Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer. This week I'm showing some alphabet sets from another collection I encountered there. These specimens are from Vignettes, lettres, chiffres, monogrammes et rehauts modernes, published in Paris by Les Éditions Guérinet, R. Panzani, successeur in 1931. The specimen book includes alphabets by several designers. The sets shown here are by A. Bardi and P. Picaud, whom I have not been able to identify. Still, the letter forms are quite enjoyable.

The next Art Book Club session at MPL will be on Saturday, December 16, 2023, 1:30-3 pm, with the theme of "Technology."

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– MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #type specimen books #type specimens #type display books #alphabets #Vignettes lettres chiffres monogrammes et rehauts modernes #Les Éditions Guérinet R. Panzani successeur #Art Book Club #Milwaukee Public Library #20th century type

[bighermie]

[anamericangirl]

One of the biggest failings of the church is that of the 17 people arrested or convicted last week of child sex charges, 15 of them were pastors or youth pastors. None of them were drag queens.

Source?

And also this is an argument made in incredibly bad faith. Bad people exist inside and outside the church. It's good that those people were arrested and convicted and that their crimes weren't tolerated once discovered.

And you think you proved something by saying none of the church staff arrested were drag queens as if that shows drag queens have never been convicted of or committed crimes against children? Look outside the church for that, bro. And you'll find far more child predators in public school than you will in the church as well. So if we use your logic what does that say about public school?

Most of those are drag queens. None of them are pastors or youth pastors.

So are you debunked or is the point you're trying to make flawed at its core?

#anon #answered

[petsincollections]

Milwaukee County Zoo parrots outside

A group of parrots are sitting outside on branches. Three of them are probably Scarlet Macaw's and the other one is mainly blue all over, possibly a Blue and yellow Macaw. Another tall bird, possibly an ostrich, is eating in the background. [7/8/1973]

Milwaukee Public Library Historic Photo

Milwaukee Historic Photos

#parrots #scarlet macaws #blue and yellow macaw #ostriches #zoos #milwaukee county zoo #milwaukee public library #historic photo collections

[freemoneyfree]

#history of books and printing #incunabula #Johann Grüninger #Milwaukee Public Library #Golda Meir Library #Biblia Latina #choice ferns #uwm special collections

[1americanconservative]

[schmergo]

When they announced House of the Dragon, I wondered how audiences would respond to a show about characters whose morality and values are unfathomably different from our own even by Game of Thrones standards, and it turns out the answer is just these really funny scenarios where you see a photo of a dude in a wig on social media and the comments are just wild.

About a quarter of the comments will be like, “The GOAT. Great man, great king, great father.”

Then another quarter will be like, “I will never forgive this man for putting his baby in the book drop at a satellite location of the Milwaukee Public Library. 😡”

Then a quarter will be like, “He had many flaws, but his heart was in the right place, and he and his sister were such a cute couple.”

And then the last quarter is like, “I can’t wait until they get to the scene from the books where he eats an entire live horse, bones and all, from his rival’s stables to assert dominance! Absolute chad. 👑”

#house of the dragon #hotd #tv #viserys targaryen #daemon targaryen #corlys velaryon

[oldmke]

The establishment of public baths in Milwaukee was endorsed in the 1880s "to encourage healthful swimming and cleanliness facilities for those not fortunate enough to have their own baths." In those days, the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan itself - except for severe winter months - were considered adequate bathing places. But as the city grew, too many people lived too far from the lake. Early baths were such a success that bonds were issued in 1893 to build the natatorium at 638 Greenbush Ave., now S. 4th St. The exterior was built of pressed red brick and trimmed with red terra cotta. The interior had a balcony surrounding the central pool, originally an iron tank. A central skylight supplied the light. Men and women used the pool at different times of day or days of the week. In 1904, this natatorium along with the West and North Side baths were used by more than 1 million people, prompting the city to build two more. Today, the South Side natatorium's pool is still in use - by dolphins, who attract customers to the restored building, which is now a restaurant. Photograph and information from the Milwaukee Public Library local history collection.

#milwaukee #wisconsin