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

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Featured Plate: 1806-03 BEL2

Fashion plate from La Belle Assemblée, unsigned.

Description from page 61:

PARISIAN DRESSES.

No. 8. Cloth Great Coat, in the Hussar style.

No. 9. A Morning Dress.

No. 10. Cambric Bonnet, satin neckhandkerchief, trimmed with Marten-skin.

No. 11. Complete Full Dress.

No. 12. Half Full Dress.

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Barbara Randolph (Detroit, Michigan, 5/05/1942-South Africa, 15/07/2002).

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Portrait of Lady Baldwin, Detroit Wolverines pitcher, posed in uniform in front of painted woodland backdrop. Handlebar mustache. Printed on card front: "C.B. Baldwin, pitcher. Detroit base ball club. Tomlinson, 236 Woodward Ave., Detroit."

Ernie Harwell Sports Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Six Books Still Life - Sarah Spencer

British , b. 1965 -

Oil on panel , 45 x 35 cm.

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From our vertical files: Cover detail from "Why Soap Sculpture, Anyway? How, in 25 Years, an Everyday Material Grew to be a Unique Medium of Education in Art Expression. A Talk by William G. Werner of the Procter & Gamble Company to the National Soap Sculpture Committee on its 25th Anniversary New York, June 4, 1952"

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One so rarely hears this pickup line anymore: “Did you ever read Bacon’s essays?”

Source details and larger version.

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Portrait of singer Josephine Baker from the 1935 film, Princess Tam-Tam. Stamped on back: "Cinemagence. RC Paris A 339 487 340. 12, rue Saulnier, 75009 Paris. Tel. [phone]" and "Collection G. Troussier." Handwritten on back: "Josephine Baker. Princess Tam-Tam, 1935. R. Edmond T. Greville. Photo [copyright] 1935, Pathe."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔰 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰

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A Japanese student leafing through a big volume sitting in the university library. Kyoto, 1970

Ph. Mario De Biasi

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Cover detail from Color creations from nature's studios revealing her masterly manipulation of color through the medium of superb motor car creations / Fisher Body Corporation, Fleetwood Body Corporation, General Motors. 1927.

National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Rein van Looy (1910-1994), ''Het klokje van zeven uur … en nu naar bed'' by Henk de Wolf, 1938 "…uit de spuiten kwamen verschillende kleuren, die in een prachtige boog lungs de hemel werden gespoten" (…different colors came out of the sprayers, which were sprayed into the sky in a beautiful arc.) De regenboogmannetjes (The Rainbow Men)

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Darest Thou Now O Soul The River of Knowledge Millard Sheets, mosaic, 1963 West Entrance The Detroit Public Library, 6/13/17 #8x10 gelatin silver contact print

Darest thou now, O soul Walk with me toward the Unknown Region, Where neither ground is for the feet, nor any path to follow? 

No map there, nor guide, Nor voice surrounding, nor touch of human hand, Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land. 

I know it not, O Soul; Nor dost thou– it is a blank before us; All waits, undream’d of, in that region– that inaccessible land.

Till, when the ties loosened, All but the ties eternal, Time and Space, Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bound us.

Then we burst forth– we float, In Time and Space, O Soul– prepared for them; Equal, equip at last–(O joy of fruits of All !) them to fulfill, O Soul. Walt Whitman 1900

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Close-up view of a model for a cornice detail on the Main Library, Detroit Public Library. Ruler with "Atlantic Terra Cotta Co." is displayed below detail. Handwritten on back: "Terracotta."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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Rosanna Tasker