#19th century library

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Artis Library, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (19th century library)

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The Queen of the Night

1818

Simon Quaglio

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The Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Brazil: A 19th Century Gem 🏛️📖

The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a library founded in 1837. It houses a vast collection of Portuguese literature, the largest outside of Portugal. The interior architecture is particularly impressive with its colorful shelves and busts of famous writers, creating a unique and magical atmosphere for visitors

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Group of young women reading in library of normal school, Washington, D.C., Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899.

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Photographic half-length portrait of a Native American (Dakota) man named Sun Flower, taken by a photographer for Heyn Photo in 1899. Now in the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

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The Dipòsit de les Aigües Library, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia.

This library is set up in a 19th-century water reservoir located in the heart of Barcelona. After 100 years of different uses -old people's home, storage for the fire brigade, car park for the local police department, archive for the Court of Justice- it became property of the Pompeu Fabra University in 1992. Since then, it's the university's library.

Photos by Arq Foto, Burçin Yildirim on Flickr, and The ISA Journal.

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"My heart is like a singing bird."

First line of the poem "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti

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From our stacks: Endpaper detail from A History of Gardening in England By The Hon. Alicia Amherst. Second Edition. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1896.

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The Delineator, no. 4, Vol. XLVIII. Autumn Number. October 1896. Published by the Butterick Publishing Co. London & New York. Colored Plate 21. Figure D44. Outdoor Toilette. Internet Archive, uploaded by Albert R. Mann Library

Figure D 44. — LADIES’ OUTDOOR TOILETTE.

Figure D 44. — This consists of a Ladies’ jacket and skirt. The jacket pattern, which is No. 8661 and costs 1s. 3d. or 30 cents, is in thirteen sizes for ladies from twenty-eight to forty-six inches, bust measure, and may be seen differently portrayed on page 438 of this number of The Delineator. The skirt pattern, which is No. 8599 and costs 1s. 3d. or 30 cents, is in nine sizes for ladies from twenty to thirty-six inches, waist measure, and is shown on its accompanying label.

A leading style of jacket or blazer and skirt is shown at this figure. The jacket is here pictured made of a handsome quality of broadcloth, with a velvet collar and velvet cuff-facings, and the skirt of gay plaid wool goods. The loose fronts of the jacket are closed with four handsome cord frogs and are reversed in stylish lapels that form notches with the rolling coat collar. At the sides and back a close adjustment is effected by under-arm and side-back gores and a center seam and stylish outstanding flutes result from extra widths underfolded in box plaits at the middle three seams. One-seam sleeves that are gathered stand out in short leg-o’-mutton puffs at the top and are comfortably close-fitting below; they are completed with deep, round cuff-facings of velvet. Machine-stitching finishes the pocket laps and all the free edges of the jacket.

The skirt, which is known as the new bell skirt, is circular at the front and sides and in two gores at the back. At the front it flares stylishly and it ripples gracefully at the sides and back.

The most admired jackets are made of broadcloth, cheviot, etc., in any of the popular shades, and a velvet collar and cuffs and machine-stitching form the fashionable finish. With a stylish street jacket, a skirt of plain cloth or of bright plaid wool may be worn.

The large hat shows a lavish trimming of ostrich tips.

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MANUSCRIPT CASE. European (Medieval style), 19th Century. Made of horn, bone, and silk.

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.

View other type specimen books.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

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Imogen

1888

Herbert Gustave Schmalz (English 🇬🇧, 1856–1935),

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I love the 19th century libraries in Amsterdam. The Cuypers Library is another gem.

The Cuypers Library (Rijksmuseum)

The Cuypers Library in the Rijksmuseum is the largest and oldest art history library in the Netherlands.

Artis Library, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (19th century library)

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But recent suggestions about Chopin’s private life collided awkwardly with Poland’s staunchly conservative traditions – and caused some to question whether the story of Chopin that Poles are told from a young age is true.

According to a Swiss radio documentary released in 2020, the composer had relationships with men.

Those relationships were left out of history by successive historians and biographers; a potentially thorny charge in one of Europe’s worst countries for LGBTQ rights.

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The Earth as seen from the Moon, illustration from pg. 71 of The story of the sun, moon, and stars by Agnes Giberne (National Book Company, Cincinnati, OH, 1898). Now in the Library of Congress.