#Trade catalogs

[hclib]

Minneapolis School Supply Company Catalog, 1927

With fall just around the corner, many parents and teachers are busy buying school supplies. If you were a teacher in 1927, this Minneapolis School Supply Company catalog from our Trade Catalog Collection could have come in handy. The catalog lists everything from desks and blackboards to paste and pencils. Some of the items -- like Ticonderoga pencils and Crayola crayons -- might still be on school shopping lists this year.

[thebotanicalarcade]

n123_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Our new guide to rose culture :. West Grove, Pa. :The Dingee & Conard Co.,1891.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43804417

[imminent-danger-came]

I'll never get over the fact that MK trades his friends for power to save his friends. What's wrong with him

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Baltimore Printing Presses. Outfits of Type, etc. will be Supplied with Presses, Unless Otherwise Ordered.

[crossbackpoke-check]

a junkyard dog ain't always pretty but you always love that toothless smile

[kaymeewise]

IM BOOOOOOOOOOORED

i wanna do a Mandela catalogue art trade mainly as an excuse to see Lucy tatterson and my ver. of Gabriel in someone else’s style, and also want to draw more MC ocs so DM me if interested

[noramoons]

y’all my mom is in her carat era i cannot believe the course of events that have happened over the past two weeks

walked in the living room where i had a gose playing, pointed at the tv, and said “that’s dk!” (it was 😧)

sat and watched said gose episode with me and laughed out loud multiple times during parts that were meant to be funny

said vernon and wonwoo were both “really cute” on two separate occasions

pointed at a kpop album on a shelf in the electronics store we were in and told me she knew it was a seventeen album “because she recognized their names on the back” (it was, in fact, a seventeen album)

let me show her the Your Choice album i bought last week and identified s.coups, vernon, dk, and woozi on the poster 😭

in conclusion: who is this woman

[713-4th-ward-g]

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[misforgotten2]

Continental catalog   Spring - Summer 1965

[narelleart]

I visited a nearby city and stopped in a fish store that had four "species" of Parosphromenus (one undescribed, under a trade name).

I couldn't just leave, so I took home the pair they had of the species highest on the ranking list I'd made previously which also happened to be a critically endangered species. (Parosphromenus gunawani, if they were identified correctly. I'll sort it out when I get a chance to get a better look at them.)

I wish I could have taken the others too - some species had larger groups, and I would have bought every individual they had of any species I bought. But I wasn't prepared for that, I'm limited on tank space in my current living situation and only had one cycled filter ready.

All Parosphromenus are imperiled, they are endemic to niche specialized habitats that are under anthropogenic threat. They have no business in the aquarium trade, and certainly not in brick and mortar shops like this. Another customer was trying to get them to sell him moderately sized catfishes for his one gallon "tank". Anyone could walk in and buy these, with no intention of spawning them, no idea what they are.

I mentioned to the shop owner that they were imperiled and he clearly had no qualms about that, but was more so bothered that I brought it up.

The other Parosphromenus they had were:

P. nagyi

P. ornaticauda

P. sp. "Sentang"

[hclib]

C.H. Lippincott, Pioneer Seedswoman of Minneapolis

In 1886, Carrie H. Lippincott, a 25-year-old, single Minneapolis woman, in desperate need of money, launched what would become one of the most successful national seed businesses of the era. She was so successful, two Minneapolis seedswoman rivals soon popped up to compete for business—but Carrie had suspicions.

“My friends have urged me to print my latest picture, because a number of seedsmen (shall I call them men?) have assumed women’s names in order to sell seeds…I have devoted my best energies in the past eight years to building up this business and I have been successful. I have proved that a woman can do business.” - Carrie H. Lippincott, in her 1899 seed catalog

Miss Lippincott’s success is attributed to the fact that she sold exclusively flower seeds, which attracted a primarily female audience.

“I love flowers and I know that they make woman and the home happier and better; they brighten the dark pathways of life.” – Carrie H. Lippincott

Emma V. White, The Other Seedsman

Emma V. White Co. was one such company that Carrie Lippincott believed was actually run by a man. Emma White, was a real person, and was active in the women’s axillary of the Minnesota Horticultural Society. White lived with her cousin, who was married to the secretary of the Minnesota Horticultural Society, Augustus B. Latham, partner in the realty firm White & Latham. Carrie, and others, believed Mr. Latham was running the seed business, though there is no proof. Emma V. White Co. did outlive Mr. Latham.

See more local garden-related photographs and materials from the Hennepin County Library Special Collections in the exhibit The Seeds of Spring, on View at Nokomis Library through May. See a smaller version of the exhibit at Minneapolis Central Library through June. The above images are from undigitized seed catalogs in the Trade Catalog Collection.

[thebotanicalarcade]

n2_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The new guide to rose culture :. West Grove, Pa. :The Dingee & Conard Co.,1887.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43827994

[yanchagraffiti]

Various trading cards

1999 Epoch Catalogue

[decorationinside]

Bring the Continent Home: A Guide to Modern African Interior Design

[toolemerapress]

Ever seen and Embalmer's Frame Saw?

Let's talk frame saws. Common enough in Europe, uncommon in the United States, the frame saw is typically seen as a simple wooden frame for holding a blade that looks as if it was chopped from a bandsaw blade. Frame saws are incredibly useful tools. Capable of ripping, crosscutting, cutting on a curve and more depending on the blade and frame configuration. Fellow saws and turning saws are but two of the less common variations.

Even embalmers have their own frame saw. Although I don't read a lick of French, I can say with certainty that frame saw nomenclature is as confusing as bookbinder’s hammer names or plane names. Check out these three pages from the 1938 Peugeot Freres catalog. You can also see more Peugeot Freres material at my blog.

[kaymeewise]

I AM BORED So i wanna do an art trade (2 spots left)(Open)

I am bored so I wanna do an art trade

rules:

no incest

no proshipping

no fetishes

no furry (i’m not good at drawing them)

no mecha (same reason)

spots:

@derpu-doodles

2. @distorted-smile

3. @choijesoo

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