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Went to check a Hamilton manuscript within the Library of Congress’ collection for a detail as I’m brainstorming my outlining plans for The American Icarus: Volume VII, and of all the places where Hamilton’s handwriting could be sloppy, it strikes me that it’s within a three page journal he kept over the course of a business trip.
What strikes me more though is that this manuscript has no printed transcription. But I can definitely see why.
Kitchen Interiors, Bad Roommates, 1930s Costume, and Levitation: Highlights from the Minneapolis Central Library Picture File
A range of cabinets on the 3rd floor of the Minneapolis Central Library hold the library’s Picture File, a collection of 600,000 images—in both color and black and white—sourced from books and magazines between 1895 and 2001. The collection provides a visual history of American culture in the twentieth century, tracking changing trends in fashion, interior design, and advertisement, as well as subjects in the news, reproductions of paintings and photography, and portraits of notable people. Many of these images were never digitized: you won’t find them in a Google image search.
Throughout the years, the Picture File has been a resource for local artists, History Day project students, theater set designers, zine authors, Halloween costume brainstormers, advertising creatives, and others looking for visual inspiration. The library’s annual report of 1943 even noted with pride that librarians from St. Paul Public Library had borrowed material for a children’s exhibit: “the reason for this—the St. Paul Art Department has no such collection of pictures.”
The files, indexed by subject, often reveal surprises. Librarians used the headings to play with meaning and stimulate the visual imagination, asking the question: what is a picture about? The way you read an image can change its focus and draw out new and unseen elements and contexts. The juxtaposition of images in a folder creates new connections: for example, “Everyday Life” groups mid-century advertisements for household appliances next to images of dogs and nuclear families next to the uncanny photography of Diane Arbus and conceptual works by Marina Abramović.
The Picture File contains images rich in local history as well. Clippings from historical Twin Cities publications and non-local photographic prints from the Minneapolis Times photo morgue, complete with original airbrushing, can be found throughout the collection. While most images in the collection can be checked out, folders with Minneapolis-related subject headings have been transferred to Special Collections for safekeeping. And local photos from the newspaper morgue can be found in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
Above images from the Picture File at Minneapolis Central Library:
1. Interiors: Kitchens before 1960 2. Roommates, Bad 3. Costume: 20th Century, 1935-1939 4. Levitation
This post was written by Mark V. from the Art, Music, and Literature department. An exhibit on the Picture File will be on display in the atrium of Minneapolis Central Library for the month of April.
Bookbinding
One of the many oddities held in the State Library of Queensland’s collections: a piece of the fuselage of the Red Baron’s downed airplane.
OM79-17/44 Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen Fuselage Fragment ca. 1918, John Oxley library, State library of Queensland.
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Artists’ Book Display for the week of January 28th, 2019
Some Stephen King GIFs. All these movies/miniseries available to borrow on DVD from the UAF Elmer E Rasmuson Library.
Spearhead a successful Wi-Fi hot spot lending program with advice from those who led the way Wi-Fi hot spot lending can help bridge the digital divide by addressing a persistent problem: lack of Internet access at home among low-income families.
These devices can be checked out like any other item in the library’s collections, and they don’t require installation in the home, as they rely on a cellular signal.
Ladies Island
A postcard of the bridge over the Beaufort River to Ladies Island in South Carolina.
From the Russell J. Arnsberger Postcard Collection held by the Beaufort County Library.
