#Margaret Armstrong

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THE HOME LIFE OF WILD BIRDS; A new method of the study and photography of birds by Francis Hobart Herrick, 1858-1940. (New York/London: Putnam, 1901). Illustrated with many black & white photographs. Cover design by Margaret Armstrong.

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Publishers' Binding Thursday

For this week's Publishers' Binding Thursday book, I went searching in the catalog to see if we had any books designed by well-known designer Margaret Armstrong. There were several that came up and I went to the stacks to investigate. I found this lovely book and was excited to see how vibrant the colors are and what good shape the cover is in! However, upon a closer look, the cover is clearly signed "ELF" and not with Margaret Armstrong's characteristic overlapping "MA."

Try though I might, I cannot find any information about who E.L.F. may be, because searching in Google just turns up results about elves! I've also searched several digital collections to no avail, so if anyone has information about who E.L.F. might be I would greatly appreciate it!

The book is The Man Behind the Book by American author, professor of English Literature, Presbyterian clergyman, and diplomat Henry Van Dyke, Jr. (1852-1933). It was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1929. Van Dyke taught English Literature at Princeton, his alma mater, and was Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, mainly on the strength of his friendship with fellow Princetonian Woodrow Wilson. Van Dyke was also friends with Helen Keller and officiated Mark Twain's funeral.

The cover is just lovely, with gold, purple, and teal decorations featuring grapes and grape vines alongside some tulips. The cloth is a deep navy, which really allows the shiny gold and the bright purple and teal stand out. The spine is a bit worn, but repeats the same motifs used on the cover of grapes and grape vines stamped in gold along with the title and author's name.

We believe this copy may have belonged to American poet, editor, and critic Louis Untermeyer because it contains a letter from Henry Van Dyke to Untermeyer. The letter and the envelope in which it was sent are pasted into the front cover of the book. The address on the envelope is vague, just "Mr. Louis Untermeyer, Elizabethtown, Adirondack Mountain, New York." The envelope is dated and time stamped September 12, 1931 at 7:00 p.m.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[midnottart]

Dear Margaret Armstrong, you're long gone, but your name and art live on.

Inspired by this Reddit post of someone using Margaret's botanical illustrations for embroidery, I sat down to do the same.

From Wikipedia:

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867–1944) was a 19th and early 20th-century American book cover designer, illustrator, and author. She is best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west, Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915). (...)

Armstrong's passion for natural forms reflected her interest in botany and in particular, in wildflowers. During summers of the 1909-1914 period, she traveled and camped throughout the Western United States and Canada, becoming one of the first women to descend into the Grand Canyon. She discovered there several species of flowers that had not yet been identified by botanists. She describes those and many other species in her Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915). With its 550 illustrations (48 in color), her Field Book is considered the first comprehensive guide on the subject.

[princessanneftw]

Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra and The Duchess of Kent holding their new babies - Edward, Sarah, James and Helen - in 1964

📸 Lord Snowdon

[thecrownnetflixuk]

Life of a Princess.

Beau Gadsdon, Vanessa Kirby, Helena Bonham Carter & Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret in The Crown.

[asgoodeasgold]

The gorgeous and sizzling Tony & Margaret promo clips from Netflix for season 2 of The Crown. 

With some explosive performances and insane on-screen chemistry from Matthew Goode and Vanessa Kirby 💥🔥. Love them 🩷 These two must work together again!

And I can't wait to see Netflix's incredible promo machine getting into gear for Department Q! Matthew deserves all the support and all the love for his hard work and incredible talent.

📷 All clips are property of Netflix The Crown from their Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook (last clip via The Crown Net on tumblr), my gifs.

📷 My edits from above clips + photographs by Jason Bell for Vanity Fair (2017)

[shellibocs]

— every oc list got

tagged by @bloodskinandteeth @jamessunderlandgf @red-nightskies @scalpelsister @imogenkol and @kyberinfinitygems ! thank you all!!

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putting the list under the cut bc it got long lol! here’s the blank template

heterosexual

ines (dragon age: origins)

maniac

órlaith (bloodborne)

venera (mortal kombat)

elenore (far cry 5)

nora (fallout 4)

not even a human

desdemona (fallout: new vegas)

silly

kennedy (mass effect: andromeda)

yawen (mortal kombat)

margo (far cry 5/new dawn)

mental illness

venera (mortal kombat)

andrea (tomb raider)

mallory (life is strange: true colors)

fallon (dead by daylight)

lgbtq+ community

literally everyone except for ines LMAO

got bullied in school

fallon (dead by daylight)

girlboss

venera (mortal kombat)

war criminal

sylvia (call of duty: modern warfare)

morgan (call of duty: modern warfare)

rhea (fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood)

levi (call of duty: modern warfare)

exhausted

emily (far cry 5/new dawn)

teddy (far cry 4)

most likely self insert

amara (infamous: second son)

mallory (life is strange: true colors)

daniel (far cry 5/new dawn)

fallon (dead by daylight)

andrea (tomb raider)

just a dude

kieran (mass effect: andromeda)

levi (call of duty: modern warfare)

daniel (far cry 5/new dawn)

silas (cyberpunk 2077)

warren (far cry 5/new dawn)

[f-yeahbendaniels]

My Top Five Favorite Ben Daniels Characters (Significant Others): 2. Lord Snowdon & Princess Margaret - The Crown (2019).

[philibetexcerpts]

This was the home movie the Snowdons’ made as a gift for the Queen for her thirty-ninth birthday in 1965.

[thecrownnet]

65 years apart

PatriciaTreble  65 years apart: Princess Margaret and her granddaughter on the cover of Tatler

*Post retweeted by @the-snowdons​  ❤️💖💖

[andreeamq]

The Queen, the Queen Mother and Princess Anne wave goodbye to Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon from Buckingahm Palace forecourt as they leave for their honeymoon on May 6, 1960.

[thebeautifulbook]

WHOM THE GODS DESTROYED by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon. (New York: Scribners, 1902) Cover design by Margaret Armstrong.

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[uwmspeccoll]

Publishers' Binding Thursday

This week's Publishers' Binding Thursday books are the two-volume set Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving (1783-1859). Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, and historian, best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Astoria was commissioned by fur magnate John Jacob Astor as a history of his company's exhibition to Oregon. Irving's vision was to have it be a story not just of Astor's company and its history and adventures, but a sketch of the country beyond the Rocky Mountains, with tales and descriptions of the people and places therein.

This edition was published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1897. The cover design is by renowned publishers' binding designer Margaret Armstrong and is signed with her overlapping M.A. stamp. The title page decoration and the decorations on each page surrounding the text were also designed by Armstrong. They include design elements like fish, arrows, guns, acorns, beaver pelts, and more. Two of the four designs are featured in this post. The book features engravings by various artists and images based on photographs of the Columbia River and its environs.

There is also the bookplate of Arthur H. Anger (1871-1948), who was treasurer of Milwaukee's William Steinmeyer Company, which was a large retail grocery store. The Steinmeyer Building still stands on Old World Third Street/Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in downtown Milwaukee and currently houses the Wisconsin Cheese Mart.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[royal-confessions]

“I think it’s so sad that Princess Margaret never got to meet her only granddaughter Lady Margarita.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[princessanneftw]

1949/2024 - Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret arriving at Royal Ascot. 75 years later, their daughters Princess Anne and Lady Sarah Chatto arriving at Royal Ascot.

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Margaret being photographed