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[uwcairns]

Rounding out #PrideMonth with the Emily Dickinson tarot deck, inspired by the famously reclusive–and probably bisexual/biromantic–poet.

Tarot cards originated as playing cards in Europe (maybe Italy) in the 15th century. It wasn’t until the 18th century that they became associated with divination and the occult. (See @stuffmomnevertoldyou’s episode, “The Art of Tarot,” for more, & to learn about the queer artist who illustrated the famous “Rider-Waite” deck!) We’re not sure if Emily Dickinson ever came across a tarot deck, but she did live in New England at a time when Spiritualism and mediums were very popular, so, maybe? Dickinson scholars, please weigh in– would Emily Dickinson have been into tarot? I can definitely see Alena Smith's version of her (on Apple TV's Dickinson) doing a reading for Sue… 🌈🔮

Artwork by Halie Theoharides, Phoebe Harris, Bianca Stone, Emily Pettit (@goatinthesnow), and Haley Rene Thompson.

[Cairns PS 1541 Z5 E45 2014. The Emily Dickinson Tarot Deck. 2018.]

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#tarot #EmilyDickinson #EmilyDickinsonTarot #dickinson #bi #queer #PrideMonth #wlw #lgbtq #SpecialCollections #RareBooks #IG_libraries #UWMadison #tumblarians #cairns collection of american women writers

[librarycompany]

It's Friday the 13th so here is a handsome little black cat wearing a jaunty red bow to maybe momentarily distract you from the chaos. 

Funny, we’re making the same face...

Image:  J.A. Ladd & Son, Booksellers and Stationers...West Chester, PA. [Philadelphia], [ca. 1880]. Chromolithograph; 3.25 x 2.25 in.

#BensLibrary #LCPprints #Tradecards #Librariesofinstagram #IG_Libraries #Fridaythe13th #BlackCat #FelineFriday

[agslibrary]

We're a little late to the party, but we still wanted to participate in the Northwestern University Transportation Library’s #libraryloveislove challenge at least once! Instead of going day by day with each color of the rainbow, this map hits you will all the bright and vivid color vibes! It shows the Gravity Anomaly of North America and was made in 1987.

#librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #ig_libraries #pridemonth #lgbtq+ #maps #pride #rainbows #maplibrary

[biodivlibrary]

European lobster (Homarus gammarus). #SciArt by George Brettinham Sowerby from unfinished plate by James Sowerby for "Malacostraca Podophthalmata Brittanniae" (1815-1875) by William Elford Leach. Contributed to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by Naturalis Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/210018#page/298/mode/2up --------------------------------- #NaturalisBiodiversityCenter #bhlib #bhl #naturalhistory #crustacean #lobster #biodiversity #specialcollections #rarebooks #nature #libraries #library #archives #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries

#naturalhistory #librariesofinstagram #lobster #biodiversity #specialcollections #libraries #ig_libraries #bhlib #archives #library #crustacean #sciart #rarebooks #iglibraries #biodiversityheritagelibrary #bhl #nature #naturalisbiodiversitycenter #page

[therosenbach-blog]

We love the handsome simplicity of this #boringbutbeautiful binding, but these covers conceal something truly amazing. This is the first complete Bible printed in the Western Hemisphere, and it is written in the Natick or Massachusett language of the Algonquin people. [Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God Naneeswe Nukkone Testament Kah Wonk Wusku Testament. Translated by John Eliot. Cambridge: printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663. Collection of the Rosenbach, A663]. (at Rosenbach Museum & Library)

#boring but beautiful #ig_libraries #libraries of instagram #eliot bible #massachusett language #natick language

[moravianarchives]

Day one of the #LibraryLife 📚 challenge. I accepted this challenge from @annielauriesbooks, and today I challenge @cnlibrarian! 7 days of B&W photos 📸, no humans, and no explanation. ••• #iglibraries #moravianarchives #moravianhistory #archivesofinstagram #bwphoto #ig_libraries (hier: Moravian Archives, Bethlehem)

#librarylife #iglibraries #moravianarchives #moravianhistory #archivesofinstagram #bwphoto #ig_libraries

[umspeccoll]

It was the gold stamped elephant skull that caught our eye, something about the lighting in the stacks hit just right to grab our attention for week 3 of #SpineTingling created by @pemlibrary. "Proboscidea. : A monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the mastodonts and elephants of the world" by Henry Fairfield Osborn, 1936-1942. This challenge has been a blast so far. Keep em coming! _________________________________ #LibrariesOfInstagram #SpecialCollections #Bookstagram #RareBooks #Elephants #iglibraries #ig_libraries https://ift.tt/2Cp8pIl

#IFTTT #Instagram #special collections #rare books

[gennarocarrano]

Belle Collaborazioni! Anche la bookblogger @libri_e_nuvole segnala nelle sue stories il libro "Il Castigo-Volume I " ! Inutile dire quanto sia incredibilmente entusiasmante che tutte queste bookblogger ma prima di tutto lettrici promuovano i miei libri! Ovviamente io vi invito a seguirle, sia da lettori compulsivi poiché consigliano sempre bei libri(tosse...il castigo...tosse) sia da autori perché sono davvero professionali e disponibili! Grazie!!!!! Lo trovate su tutti gli Stores -Contiene illustrazioni- #bookblogger #librienuvole #instalibri #libriclassici #lgbt #romance #pavedizioni #ticonsigliounlibro #libridaamare #esoterismo #amoreuniversale #bookphotography #bookcover #bookporn #ilcastigo #buongiornopertuttoilgiorno #ig_libraries — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Kj1ROO

#Instagram #IFTTT

[librarycompany]

This week's #BindingAppreciationPost is brought to you by these floral printed paste papers. 

Also, #36DaysuntilSpring! 

Ein christlicher send-brief, an geistliche personen geschrieben. Allentown: Gedruckt fur die Verleger von A. und W. Blumer, 1835.

#BensLibrary #LCPbindings #LCPrarebooks #specialcollections #bookbinding #decoratedpapers #librariesofinstagram #19thcentury #ig_libraries

[librarycompany]

Sarah Josepha Hale was born in New Hampshire on October 24, 1788. Home-schooled and self-educated, Hale was a prolific poet and novelist, especially known for her nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb." In 1837 Hale began as editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, a position she would hold for 40 years (though she preferred the term “editress”) making her one of the most influential female voices of her time.  She was a champion of abolition and higher education for women, a widowed mother of five, and the one who persuaded President Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. She died at her home in Philadelphia in 1879 at the age of 90, and is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Image 1: [Sarah J. Hale] / painted by W.B. Chambers and engraved expressly for Godey's Lady's book by W.G. Armstrong. [Philadelphia]: Printed by H. Quig, [1850?]

#BensLibrary #HometownHeroes #WomensHistoryMonth #CityofSisterlyLove #librariesofinstagram #LCPrarebooks #IG_Libraries #SpecialCollections

[librarycompany]

New blog post alert! In today's post, Curator of Art and Artifacts and Visual Materials Cataloger Linda August writes about the "other" Hamilton, Sir William Hamilton, and a volume of beautiful colored engravings which LCP bought from him in 1772. Learn more about Hamilton, the book, and its influence here: https://librarycompany.org/2020/03/30/another-hamilton-in-philadelphia/

#benslibrary #ig_libraries #librariesofinstagram

[librarycompany]

#OnThisDay in 1840, John Quincy Adams began to argue the case of the Amistad in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Amistad was a Spanish slave ship bound for Cuba which experienced a mutiny at the hands of the kidnapped Africans who were on board. The rebellion led to a series of trials, during which the fate of those who were doomed to be sold into slavery was in question. Quincy eventually convinced the Court to rule in favor of sending the captives back to Mende (which is present-day Sierra Leone).  

Pictured here is a bust-length portrait of Sarah Margru Kinson Green. Green, a child captive onboard the Amistad slave ship and eventually returned to the United States to study at Oberlin College. 

Green, Sarah Margru Kinson (New York, ca. 1850). Engraving. 

#BensLibrary #LCPprints #BHM #LibraryBlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #LibrariesofInstagram #ig_libraries

[librarycompany]

By the late 19th century, many African Americans had been elected to public offices in the United States and become community activists. This print commemorates the prominent men who were representatives of the advancement of African American civil rights, including Frederick Douglass, senators Blance Kelso Bruce and Hiram Revels from Mississippi, John Brown, and Charles Edmund Nash.

-Jasmine Smith, African American History Subject Specialist. 

Image: Heroes of the colored race [graphic]. Philadelphia: Published by J. Hoover, c1881. Chromolithograph, hand-colored; 56 x 77 cm.

#BensLibrary #LCPprints #BHM #LibraryBlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #LibrariesofInstagram #ig_libraries #VOTE

[librarycompany]

The ratification of the 15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote. However, several southern states took extreme measures to legalize poll taxes and literacy tests to discourage them from doing so. In response, broadsides such as this one were published to express the importance of exercising the right to vote.  

This broadside from L. W. West reassures African American men that their votes matter and that voting will help them gain respect in the United States and abroad:

"Colored voters of Savannah; the time has come when we as voters and property owners must assert our manhood, if we have any, if not close your mouths and stop clamoring about your Rights...Go and perform that important duty at once and then don't allow yourselves to be bought and sold as cattle or as you were once when under the yoke of bondage."

-Jasmine Smith, African American History Subject Specialist

Image: West, L. W. Address to the colored men! of Savannah, Georgia. Savannah: Savannah Echo Print, [1880?]. 1 sheet; 23 x 15 cm.

#BensLibrary #LibraryBlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #Vote #LibrariesofInstagram #IG_Libraries

[librarycompany]

Each year the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) creates a national #BlackHistoryMonth theme.  This year’s theme is *African Americans and the Vote* which focuses on the #FifteenthAmendment, the rise of black political officers, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  In thinking about the ongoing struggle of African American’s right to vote, one must first consider the question, are “all men born free and equal”? 

This image was taken from an essay entitled “Opinions of Travellers,” a compilation of excerpts from various travel accounts including one from Captain Alexander on a rice plantation in South Carolina. He initially thought that the enslaved were well treated but soon realized that their want for education and lack of ordinary comforts was unreasonable.

He writes: “To suppose that slavery can long continue in this country, when other nations shall have freed themselves from the foulest strain which ever polluted humanity, is to contemplate a period when the United States will become a nuisance upon earth, and an object of derision to the whole world.”

-Jasmine Smith, African American History Subject Specialist

Image: William Croome. All men born free and equal? [graphic]. [Boston: s.n., 1834].  1 print:  woodcut;  4 x 6 cm. Published in Lydia Maria Francis Childs. Oasis. Boston: Benjamin C. Bacon, 1834. #######

#LibraryBlackHistory #BHM #LCPrarebooks #LCPprints #BensLibrary #LibrariesofInstagram #IG_Libraries #BlackHistory #blackhistorymonth #FifteenthAmendment #15thamendment

[librarycompany]

2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the #FifteenthAmendment which granted African American men the right to vote. 

This commemorative print celebrates the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, depicting a large central scene of the celebratory parade held in Baltimore in May of 1870 surrounded by several bust portraits of important figures. Among those pictured are Abraham Lincoln, abolitionist John Brown, and Frederic Douglass, alongside vignettes of African American troops, a classroom, congregations, and parade.

 -Jasmine Smith, African American History Subject Specialist

Image: The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of the African race in America and its final accomplishment, and celebration on May 19th A.D. 1870. [graphic]. Baltimore: Published by Metcalf & Clark, ca. 1870. 1 print:  lithograph, hand colored;  54 x 69 cm.

#LibraryBlackHistory #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #IG_Libraries #LCPprints #benslibrary #CivilRights #Vote #LibrariesofInstagram #fifteenthamendment