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Wing Curator, History of Printing @NewberryLibrary. Dix-huitièmiste. Love Madeira, hot air balloons, civilité type & maîtres écrivains.
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Very cute funeral letters in wood. Enschedé, 1768 #NewberryLibrary

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Sliding in at the end of World Book Day with Miss Hannah Arendt’s reading list, UChicago, 1966. Billy Budd!

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How is this this not acceptable? Robert Granjon is turning in his grave, I’m sure.

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I love the lack of enthusiasm here for "some French books". At the back of Fatall Prudence (London, 1679). #NewberryLibrary

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Congrats to Demah Alfaiz on being awarded a Caxton Club grant for undergrads! Demah is one of the students I worked with for my immigrant printing in Chicago exhibition at #NewberryLibrary. You can read an interview we did with her here: www.newberry.org/blog/a-conve...

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I love that my cat understands the concept of a pillow.

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Chicago 4-ever

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What think ye of the CONGRESS now? From a collection of pamphlets by James Rivington. #NewberryLibrary

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Ukrainian writing book by Jacob Neronovych #NewberryLibrary Obrazt︠s︡y chistopisanïę. Lviv?: Izdani Iakyvom Neronovychem, 1835 🇺🇦

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I love this photo

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18th c hat hair. Manuscript writing book by William Ward (England, 1734) #NewberryLibrary

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Conceited Leters….varying from the nature of former Presidents (London, 1638). ;-) #NewberryLibrary

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Beardsley’s Shredded Codfish. From Ladies’ Home Journal, 1894. What do you think “Picked-Up” means?

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This book is so great!

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Letter from 18th c English writing master Ralph Snow to his fiancée, written in gold ink. Romantic! #NewberryLibrary

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I am the lady cat on this vinegar valentine. #NewberryLibrary

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It’s not a NewberryFest without the Wm. H. Page &Co chromatic specimen book. 1864?-ish

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This will be great! Hope to see some of you tomorrow!

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I wish more people used Garrett Boge’s papers at #NewberryLibrary. He was really good about archiving examples of his fonts in use. Here’s Spumoni, featured on what is probably the only applesauce package in the library.

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Something that we will be showing tonight at our Booked for the Evening event: a collection of 119 19th c Italian death notices from the Martinengo dalle Palle family. Lots of different type, paper, ink, printing techniques, etc. #NewberryLibrary archives.newberry.org/repositories...

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My goal is to be as cheerful as this little typographic cutie from @starshapedpress.bsky.social !

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Ooh this looks really good.

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If you’re in Chicago, swing by the Newberry tonight for a conversation with Vida Sačić and Amira Hegazy!

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Je dit bonjour avec La Ludlow! #NewberryLibrary

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Students are going to think that all these Charles James Fox satirical prints are funny, right? RIGHT??

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Tomorrow, I’m also showing a scrapbook of broadsides related to the Lambton family of Durham. I bought it because 1) several of the broadsides have Shakespeare references; & 2) some seem to be the print shop copies. #NewberryLibrary

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I’m doing a presentation tomorrow for a class on “archives” and I honestly have no idea about what to show, so I just picked totally confounding things, like this production file for a postcard for Dr Whetzel’s Cigarettes for Asthma. #NewberryLibrary

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I forgot to post my Charles I mourning ring yesterday. My boyfriend made it for me in 2018!

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I love looking at type on 19th c theater programs and the Royal Lyceum has some of my favorites. This one (1858) has 2 great versions of Double Dummy. Also, Rough Diamond indeed. + Birthplace of Podgers! #NewberryLibrary

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I’m doing a class presentation on 18th c English books next week, and I’m so excited to break out some Charles James Fox stuff. Here’s Fox’s Martyrs (London, 1784), with a great frontispiece. #NewberryLibrary

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Really enjoying this number of The Crisis (London, 24 August 1776) which printed the Declaration of Independence with an incredible intro.

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Really looking forward to this!

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We finished our weekend at Brown with a Brown 2026 sticker AND Jon Batiste. Both extremely memorable!

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