Music, Arts & Literature

The (un)official blog of the Music Arts & Literature Department of the Main Branch of the Detroit Public Library. (The contents of this blog do not reflect the opinions or beliefs of my employer.) Follow us on Instagram @dplmal5201

[lazyjacks]

Hawk, 22 July 1891 Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-D4-5124

[detroitlib]

View of tapestry depicting men and women exiting a gondola in Venice, Italy. Woman on street presents bunch of flowers to woman; gondolier and buildings in background. Handwritten on back: "Tapestry, 1908."

National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Library Table

Maker: Herter Brothers (German, active New York, 1864–1906)                Date:1879–82                                                                                     Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States 

[detroitlib]

View of Robert Burns statue, located in Cass Park at Temple and Second Avenue. Monument was designed by George A. Lawson. Inscription reads: "Burns. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs. Nae man can tether time nor tide. Wee modest crimson-tipped flower thou's met me in an evil hour. The highest mead of praise, belongs to him who makes a people's songs, who strikes one note the common good, one chord a wider brotherhood."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[padek]

Bibliothèque d'architecture contemporaine Jean-Louis Cohen, Paris, France

[pwlanier]

LIEBERMANN, MAX

1847 Berlin–1935 Berlin

Portrait of the daughter Käthe, reading

Pastel on a flocked, velour-like canvas.

Van Ham

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Title page illustration from Specimens of Ancient Furniture. Drawn from Existing Authorities by Henry Shaw, F.S.A. with Descriptions by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick K. H. London: William Pickering, 1836.

[thelibrarymoose]

📍 Mackinac Island, MI

📚 The Island Bookstore

[detroitlib]

View of businesses at Gratiot Ave. and 7 Mile Rd. Businesses include F.W. Woolworth, Baker's, Winkelman's, Lord's, Father & Son, Kroger and Finsterwald's. Cars parked in street. Label on mount: "Shopping center, Gratiot, Seven Mile."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[oldpagesclub]

M. Mackiewicz illustration for 1958 "Jak kotek zwierzątka mlekiem częstował" (How the kitten treated the animals to some milk)

(book from my private collection)

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Joe L’Estrange - Old Cat Walking

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Isoda Kuryosai - Cat pawning at goldfish

[nemfrog]

Cat-lifting tip. Tibs cat book. 1948.

[huariqueje]

Cat’s Head  -  Julie de Graag , 1918.

Dutch,  1877-1924

Pencil on paper,  15,8 x 13,7 cm

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Tout cat（招き猫）

Shooting date: Early July 2025

©Abeja Mariposa

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Pendant, 1930s.

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'Cat with collar'. David Humbert de Superville. 1770-1849.