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To celebrate the #SummerSolstice we shared 'Harnessing the Sun: The Story of the Bell Solar Battery,' a booklet produced by the Wisconsin Telephone Company in 1958 to announce the invention of the Bell Solar Battery. Learn more: https://t.co/GFiE6I5pYg

Today we present a few of Barry Moser’s wood engravings from his 1984 Pennyroyal Editions printing of Washington Irving’s 'Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' #WoodEngravingWednesday

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This hand-drawn and painted mock-up of The Chandler Motor Car publication is missing its text! These illustrations were done by noted American artist and screen printer Max Arthur Cohn. #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesOnWheels

This week we present a few of the Anatinae or dabbling ducks that are common to our neck of the woods. Once again, our examples come from Rex Brasher’s 12-volume set 'Birds and Trees of North America,' published btwn 1929 & 1932. #Feathursday Learn more: https://t.co/AX1VTtuHwC

Miriam Macgregor is an Indian-born British wood engraver and type compositor. Since 1977, she has worked the Whittington Press. Today we present her wood engravings for P.J. Kavanagh’s Real Sky, printed in 1980 by Macgregor herself. #WoodEngravingWednesday https://t.co/onqLeIt99B

I was curious if we held any books that use Eurostile, and indeed we do!! And it’s a book I know well: Synesthesia, shown here, by Terence McKenna and Tim Ely, published in New York in an edition of 75 copies by Granary Books in 1992.

Today we are featuring animal art from 'Research: Design in Nature,' edited by John Gilbert Wilkins, published by the Field Museum of Natural History & the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 1924. The portfolio features over 200 leaves of plates. More: https://t.co/1cLVECZIOS

There are many ways to help support bees! You can help by:
- planting a diverse set of native plants, which flower at different times of the year;
- buying products from sustainable agricultural practices;
- avoiding pesticides, fungicides or herbicides in your gardens

On this day in 1824, six friends of poet Lord Byron, concerned for his reputation, burned his diaries after his death in what has been called the greatest literary crime in history. Learn more: https://t.co/QdGTncCoL2

It's #Feathursday! This week we bring you diving ducks from Rex Brasher’s 12-volume set Birds and Trees of North America, self-published between 1929 and 1932, containing hand-colored reproductions of Brasher’s paintings! https://t.co/Kzb05LsXrR