#19th century library

[stefannhs]

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)

[escapismsworld]

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

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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.

[thebeautifulbook]

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

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Leafed through what I think is one of the best Spanish translations of North and South, 30 dead, 79 injured.

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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 20. Figure D43. Evening Toilette. Internet Archive, uploaded by Albert R. Mann Library

Figure D 43. — LADIES’ EVENING TOILETTE.

Figure D 43. — This consists of a Ladies’ basque-waist and skirt. The basque-waist pattern, which is No. 8637 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 again on page 442 of this magazine. The skirt pattern, which is No. 8672 and costs 1s. 3d. or 30 cents, is in nine sizes for ladies from twenty to thirty-six inches, waist measure, and is differently portrayed on page 447 of this publication.

The ideas expressed in this toilette are calculated to suit the most fastidious taste. Rich faille silk with high lustre and having small black figures on its sulphur ground is handsomely offset by the decoration of chiffon, embroidery and ribbon. A well-fitted lining closed at the center of the front insures a becoming adjustment to the waist, which has a low, round neck and a full front closed along the left shoulder and under-arm seam. The fulness in the back is drawn well to the center in the same manner as in the front by gathers at the neck and shoulder edges and by shirrings at the bottom. The short puff sleeves are made with full linings, gathered, like the puffs, at the top and bottom. A coquettish effect is given by a dainty bow of ribbon on each shoulder, and a softly wrinkled ribbon surrounds the waist. The low neck is decorated with a double ruche of white chiffon.

The five-gored skirt is smooth fitting at the front and sides and may be gathered or plaited at the back. At the sides it ripples but slightly and at the front it flares broadly. The foot trimming consists of a soft, double ruche of white chiffon. Hand-wrought embroidery in black runs upward from the bottom in vine pattern, each spray starting from under a ribbon bow at the ruche.

The toilette is noteworthy not alone for its admirable grace and style but for the practical features embodied in the basque-waist and its susceptibility to variations. A high or low neck and full-length or elbow sleeves may be arranged, and elaborate or simple effects may be attained, according to the use for which the toilette is intended. Faille façonné, moire antique façonné, velvet and the light silks and delicate chiffons and laces which are always more or less fancied, will be chosen for dressy wear, and for more practical occasions mixtures of color, canvas textiles and mixtures of wool and mohair and other novelties will be selected. Lace, colored embroidery, jet passementerie and bands of jet-embroidered mousseline de sole are available for handsome decorations.

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

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.

[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.

View other type specimen books.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[escapismsworld]

Imogen

1888

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

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Annabel Lee

How beautifully Poe told his love. And also his loss.

Poor Annabel Lee, got cold and sick and then she died. She was buried somewhere by the sea. Poe went her side, her grave everyday.. he spent nights there, he spent days there.. such a love!

Poe makes another point about his love, they were so in love with each other that even the angels in the heaven was jealous of them.. it's a love of inconceivable magnitude. And that's why, God were jealous of this love and separated them.

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me- Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we- Of many far wiser than we- And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

[lionofchaeronea]

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.

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Report from the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress regarding the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's Library

Record Group 128: Records of Joint Committees of CongressSeries: Committee Papers

In Senate of the United States

October 7. 1814

[number "372" written in pencil]

Mr. Goldsborough, from the joint committee, on

the Library of Congress,

Reported,

That they have received through

Mr. Samuel H. Smith, an offer from Mr. Jefferson

late President of the United States, of the whole

of his library for Congress in such a mode, and

upon such terms as they consider highly advan-

tageous to the nation, and worthy the distinguished

gentleman who tenders it. But the means placed

at the disposal of the committee being very limited

and totally inadequate to the purchase of such

a Library as that now offered, the committee

must have recourse to Congress either to extend

their powers, or to adopt such other plan as

they may think most proper.

Should it be the sense of Congress to

confide this matter to the committee, they

respectfully submit the following resolution:

Resolved by the Senate and House

of Representatives of the United States of

America in Congress assembled, that the

joint library committee of the two Houses

of Congress be and they are hereby authorized

and empowered to contract on their part for the purchase of the library of Mr Jefferson late

President of the United States, for the use of

both Houses of Congress.