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Typography Tuesday

De Vinne Ornamented Types

We return once again to Types of the De Vinne Press, published in New York by the De Vinne Press in 1907, this time to highlight some of the ornamented types offered by the press. It's wise to heed the warning that the incorrect use of ornamented type can sometimes be

An example of bad taste in superfluous ornamentation Printed work spoiled by needless ornamentation Fantastical ornament is disliked Simplicity most important.

You've been warned.

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the 1688 Tonson edition of Milton's Paradise Lost

feat. the original donor wall- the subscriber page

engravings by Robert White and Michael Burghers

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New Exhibit: The Art of Organizing in Latinx Milwaukee

UWM Archives is celebrating Latine Heritage Month with a new pop-up exhibit: “The Art of Organizing in Latinx Milwaukee.”

Featuring posters, photos, illustrations, and more, the exhibit highlights the range and dynamism of Latinx organizing in Milwaukee since the 1960s. Drawing especially on posters from the important local immigrant and workers’ rights organization Voces de la Frontera, the exhibit explores how Latinx organizers have developed a distinctive visual culture of protest as a key mode of expression for the movement’s politics and vision. A selection of historic film footage drawn from the WTMJ News Archive also dramatizes how the contemporary work of Voces organizers sits within a longer tradition of Latinx organizing.

Pictured here are three selections from the Voces de la Frontera Records (UWM Mss 356) featured in the exhibit, including poster prints by Favianna Rodriguez and John Fleissner, and a photograph captioned “Mother, Child, Labor Law.” We’ll continue to feature highlights from the exhibit as we move through the month.

Stop by the UWM Archives exhibit space to learn more, and be sure to check out related exhibits in @uwmspeccoll and AGSL, too! All three divisions of UWM Distinctive Collections will be participating in Doors Open tomorrow, Saturday, September 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Voces de la Frontera records, UWM Mss 356, oversize folder 1; Accession 2023-043, oversize folder 1; UWM Mss 356, Box 1, Folder 48.

–Eli

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Review of Filmmaker Simon Liu

Written by: Courtney Peterson

Last weekend I went to the opening night of M.U.F.F. (Milwaukee Underground Film Festival) organized by the UWM film department. They had two parts to the festival, one being a collection of films by different filmmakers and the second part was for a special guest artist who shared a collection of their work. On opening night their special guest was Simon Liu.

Simon Liu is a film artist who creates work of abstract documentaries, experimental diaries, and multichannel video installations. Watching his work was a kaleidoscopic experience. Filled with overlapping flashes of color. A collision of moments in time and overlays of emotions. The whole piece was a Quadruple 16mm projection performance which ended up being one of my favorite parts of his piece. I love watching the filmmaker frantically take color filters in and out and switch frames as the projector is running making every performance a little different and unique. 

It’s hard for me to view and discuss this artist analytically because while experiencing Simon Liu’s work I felt as if I was absorbed into the film rather than separated from it enough to analyze it. It felt like a memory as well as a dream, how our brains make a collision of images from experiences and all we remember are our feelings and brief fleeting imagery of what was happening. Millions of fluttering memories and feelings and associations of what was real and what my mind create. 

I also enjoyed the juxtaposition of his second film, Devils Peak, and how even though nothing about the film style changed, there was a slight shift to create a harsher tone. There were abrupt cuts and it became a little twisted and jagged. Blending well with the theme of a frantic city full of bustling people and noises. I also appreciated his description in the pamphlet about Devil's Peak displaying Hong Kong and its capitalist futurism and the past ghostly whispers, between gestures of resistance and the forces of suppression. It allowed me to understand more of how he was feeling than what he was experiencing. This creation to evoke emotion rather than giving me a visual story while still giving me a story of the suppression of people and the capitalist actions happening, was mind-blowing. I was given the colors, flashing images, and sound to feel something in a completely abstract way. I felt as if I was an alien being shown what it means to feel something. It was so fascinating and euphoric and a complete out-of-body experience.

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i wish i had SOME vague idea of what i want definitively, but i am sooo indecisive and i love medieval books so so so much lmao. and the possibilities are endless!! fun headings! funky colophons! illustrated initials! illuminated initials! decorative marginalia! dress me up like an incunable i love it all! lmaooo

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Zines from UWM Special Collections Pt. 3

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Zines and artist books at the UWM Library Special Collection

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The Most Expensive Toilet in the World

The most expensive toilet in the world is the International Space Station Toilet,  It’s only to be expected that the price on this space toilet is also out of this world. At $19 million, this is the most expensive toilet ever made in the history of toilets. It was built by Russia for the space station in 2008, and it features the most extras for that special kind of bathroom activity. This toilet has leg braces to keep astronauts in the proper position while using the toilet. It has special fans that suck in every single waste deposited into it into a septic tank. In addition, this is the only toilet ever created that has an advanced filter capable of extracting water from waste and purifying it for drinking. It’s the ultimate recycling machine.

International Space Station Toilet

There are four basic parts in a space toilet: the liquid waste vacuum tube, the vacuum chamber, the waste storage drawers, and the solid waste collection bags. The liquid waste vacuum tube is a 2 to 3-foot (0.91 m) long rubber or plastic hose that is attached to the vacuum chamber and connected to a fan that provides suction. At the end of the tube there is a detachable urine receptacle, which come in different versions for male and female astronauts. The male urine receptacle is a plastic funnel two to three inches in width and about four inches deep. A male astronaut urinates directly into the funnel from a distance of two or three inches away. The female funnel is oval and is two inches by four inches wide at the rim. Near the funnel's rim are small holes or slits that allow air movement to prevent excessive suction. The vacuum chamber is a cylinder about 1-foot (0.30 m) deep and six inches wide with clips on the rim where waste collection bags may be attached and a fan that provides suction. Urine is pumped into and stored in waste storage drawers. Solid waste is stored in a detachable bag made of a special fabric that lets gas (but not liquid or solid) escape, a feature that allows the fan at the back of the vacuum chamber to pull the waste into the bag. When the astronaut is finished, he or she then twists the bag and places it in a waste storage drawer. Samples of urine and solid waste are frozen and taken to Earth for testing. 

Space toilet derivative work

A next-generation space toilet called the Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) is being developed by NASA for Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV) is a US-European spacecraft intended to carry a crew of four astronauts to destinations at or beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). Currently under development by NASA and the ESA for launch on the Space Launch System (SLS). It is planned to be quieter, lighter, more reliable, more hygienic and more compact than previous systems. A flight test article of the UWMS is planned to be delivered and tested on the ISS in 2018.

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV)

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In 1610, Thomas Milles, champion of exhausting exhaustive titles, wrote The Catalog of Honor; or, Tresvry of Trve Nobility, Pecvliar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine, or, Tresury of true nobility : peculiar and proper to the isle of Great Britaine : that is to say, a collection historicall of all the free monarches aswell kinges of England as Scotland (nowe vnited togither) with the princes of Walles, dukes, marquisses and erles, their wiues, children, alliances, families, descentes & achievementes of honor : wherunto is properly prefixed, a speciall treatise of that kind of nobility which soverayne grace and fauor, and contryes customes, haue made meerly politicall and peculiarly ciuill (neuer so distinctly handled before) / translated out of Latyne into English. It was published by William Jaggard, a printer and bookseller in London between 1594 and 1623. He published many religious commentaries, books on British heraldry, essays, and histories. Jaggard printed eight other of Milles’ works.

Milles, a customs official, bailiff, and intelligence agent, was born in 1550(?) in Ashford, Kent, England. An avid advocate of mercantilism and free trade, Milles authored at least twelve printed titles between 1599 and 1617. Many were concerned with influencing economic policy, critiquing Catholocism, and documenting royal lineages.

Milles seems to have been concerned with accurately documenting the histories and lineage of Great Britain’s “True Nobility” in The Catalog of Honor, perhaps in response to a century with multiple royal lineage disputes, rife with political and religious upheaval. The 16th century saw the rise and fall of Mary I, Elizabeth I selling much of her holdings to finance foreign and domestic wars, the failure of the Tudor government system, and the 1690s depression.  In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died without an heir and was succeeded by James IV of Scotland, her closest living relative (and son of Mary, Queen of Scots).

The Catalog of Honor documents the titles and lineage of nobility, complete with engravings of their sigils. The first portion is a translation of Robert Glover’s Nobilitas politica vel civilis, with a title page engraving by Renold Elstracke.  The widespread concern with accurate lineage is evidenced in the multiple copies where Charles Bount’s illegitimate son Mountjoy Blount. He was later recognized and bestowed with the title of Baron and Earl a year later. In UWM’s copy, a paragraph referencing Mountjoy was cut out and later restored in manuscript.

A later book by Ralph Brooke, A catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England…discouering, and reforming many errors committed, by men of other profession, and lately published in print; to the great wronging of the nobility, and preiudice of his Maiesties officers of armes, who are onely appointed and sworne to deale faithfully in these causes., was written in part to correct errors made by Milles in The Catalog of Honor.

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It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a peek at Poetry Comics: from the Book of Hours by Bianca Stone. Published in 2016 in Warrensburg, Missouri by Pleiades Press, this 79-page collection of Stone’s work stretches the comic medium in a series of intimate and emotionally raw illustrations and panels. Poetry comics (a hybrid, experimental form of both mediums that can be seen in the work of artists such as Julie Delporte, Sommer Browning, and Anders Brekhus Nilsen among others) draw "from the syntax of comics, images, panels, speech balloons, and so on, in order to produce a literary or artistic experience akin to that of traditional poetry." As an unvarnished autobiographical comic with feminist undertones, it is in the lineage of artists like Aline Kominsky-Crumb. But Stone’s poetic approach, which informs her artistic style as well as her writing, injects an unruly tone of existential grappling that echos the illustrations and text of artists more akin to William Blake. 

Pleiades Press is based at the University of Central Missouri. Bianca Stone's work has been published in magazines like The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. Her poetry collection What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry. Her other books include The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018) and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014). In 2012 she collaborated with Anne Carson to illustrate her translation of Antigonick.

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--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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details from:

Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorned with sculptures. 

Samuel Garth, ed. 

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head, 1717. 

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This Week: "The Art of Organizing in Latinx Milwaukee" Featured in Gallery Night MKE

UWM Archives’ Latine Heritage Month pop-up exhibit, “The Art of Organizing in Latinx Milwaukee,” is featured in Gallery Night MKE tomorrow, Friday, October 18, from 4-7 p.m.! Stop by our exhibit space and explore the visual culture of protest through art from Voces de la Frontera and earlier generations of Latinx activists. 

As exhibit selections featured here show, the 1960s, 70s, and 80s were witness to increasing visibility and recognition for local Latinx artists, who spearheaded a variety of innovative arts programming initiatives. Organizations like Latino Arts continue this work today, and artists represented in the Union Art Gallery’s “Colors of Our Communidad” exhibition, also featured in Gallery Night, testify to the persistence of this vital tradition of artistic achievement in our present.

📸: Juan Alvarez Cuauhtémoc, co-founder of the La Guardia community newspaper, is pictured at an exhibition of his paintings at the Charles Allis Art Museum in Milwaukee in 1969. Juan Alvarez Cuauhtémoc Photographic Collection of El Movimiento in Milwaukee’s Latino Community, UWM Mss 222, Archives Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

📸: An exhibition catalog introduces “Hispanic Artists in Wisconsin,” also held at the Charles Allis. Roberto Hernandez Center Records, UWM AC 116, Archives Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

📸: A flier advertises “Hispanic Arts in the Park” programming. Call Number: UWM AC 116.

📸: A “Cultural Programming Proposal” seeks to unite Black, Latinx, and Inner City artists. Call Number: UWM AC 116.

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got tagged by @queenannadala 💕 thanks! time to talk about myself!!!

1. Nickname: em and mle

2. Gender: girl

3. Star sign: cancer

4. Height: 5′4″

5. Time: 11:11 hot damn lmao

6. Birthday: july 11 (my birthday being 7-11 is the only reason why ppl remember it usually lol)

7. Fave bands: my chemical romance, 2005-2009 panic at the disco, queen, simple plan, backstreet boys, florence and the machine

8. Fave solo artist: mika, hayley kiyoko, lorde, britney spears, elton john, cher

9. Song stuck in your head: lucky by britney spears

10. Last movie watched: uhhhh i think it was chernobyl diaries kdgadjflkd during a bad scary movie binge. it was worth it jesse mccartney was in it lmaoo

11. Last show watched: charmed

12. When did I create my blog: uh something like 2012 i think

13. What do I post: whatever floats my fancy. mostly media stuffs and history

14. Last thing I googled: uwm academic calendar (spring break plans babey)

15. Do you have any blogs: others? yeah i run fyeahjessicanatasha despite the fact i don’t read comics anymore lol

16. Do you get asks: sometimes but not often

17. Why did you choose your url: i time i watching jurassic park 3 in the middle of the night and i was like... what if.... alan and billy... gay??? and thus a star was born

18. Following blogs: 122

19. Followers: 1054

20. Fave colour: cranberry

21. Average hours of sleep: bout 5 or 6 probs

22. Piercings?: 2 on each earlobe and 1 on my right ear cartilage and left nostril. eventually more ear stuff will be joining.

23. Instruments: i played the clarinet in 5th grade band. since then? just me voice B)

24. What I’m wearing: giant blue tshirt with super mario on it that says “power up”

25. How many blankets do you sleep with: 1 comforter, 1-2 fleece throws, 1 afghan. 

26. Dream job: idk it’s not very specific locationally. but like, a university archives and special collections that has just a really rad collection and lets me do my own research in addition to my librarian/archivist responsibilities

27. Dream trip: soo many. i would love to do a tour that like mimics frankenstein (tho i don’t know if it’s go so far north lol). 

28. Fave food: i just love dumplings so much

29. Nationality: american 

30. Current fave song: good guys by mika

as for the tagging others... comb back to me later lol

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Week 6 - Architecture

Northwestern Mutual Headquarters - 

 One of my favorite buildings in Milwaukee is the Northwestern Mutual Headquarters Building. It was designed by Pickard Chilton Architects based in New Haven, Connecticut. The Northwestern Mutual Building has 32 floors and has a 1,100,000 ft² floor plan. The building is not only a great building to look at, but has a few awards to its name as well. It has won or was a finalist for these awards: Honor Award, American Architecture Awards, 2019; Mayor's Design Award, City of Milwaukee, 2018; Commercial High-Rise Architecture Award, Americas Property Award, 2018; Project of the Year, Milwaukee Business Journal Real Estate Awards, 2018. The building is also LEED GOLD certified which means that the US Green Building Council (USGBC) has certified the building is a green building earning 60+ points in the USGBC rating system of green building in a number of categories. To me as an architecture student this is very important because I believe that in the future we need to start designing more for sustainability and designing for the Anthropocene.

Milwaukee Art Museum Calatrava Addition (Quadracci Pavilion) -

The second building shown in the picture is the Milwaukee Art Museum Calatrava Addition. Designed by Santiago Calatrava completed in 2001. The official name for the addition is the Quadracci Pavilion. The 142,050-square-foot structure was completed in 2001 and houses a grand reception hall, an auditorium, a large exhibition space, a store, two cafés, and parking. Both cutting-edge technology and old-world craftsmanship went into creating the graceful building, which was made largely made by cast in place concrete.

UWM Meltwater House - 

The UWM 2009 Solar Decathlon Meltwater house was designed by a group of students from UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning. This project was for a Solar Decathlon competition which had certain building sustainability requirements to meet. The building was built in the courtyard of UWM SARUP then moved to its final location to the east of UWM Sandburg Resident Hall South Tower. The design of the roof is special to allow for the collection of rainwater runoff into a holding system to be used later.

North Point Water Tower -

The North Point Water Tower was designed by architect Charles A. Gombert and was first put into service on September 14, 1874. The tower served the City of Milwaukee 89 years and is a symbol for the Milwaukee Water Works 145+ years of service to the city. The water tower is made of the historic cream-colored cut limestone from the Hiram and Horace Story Quarry. It was one of the principal works in the original water supply system that  provided Milwaukee with 16 million gallons of water a day. The tower has been recognized with several historic designations including being an Official Landmark of the City of Milwaukee; designated by the Milwaukee Landmark Commission on September 11, 1968.

Frederick C. Bogk House -

Designed for Milwaukee alderman Frederick C. Bogk House by Frank Lloyd Wright. This is Wrights only single-family residential project in Milwaukee. This building was designed after Wright returned from Japan. This house has some elements of design with Japanese influence with the use of a low pitch hip roof with an influence from the Imperial Hotel in Japan and the use of strong horizontal and vertical lines.

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