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September has several Jewish High Holidays that we are highlighting here with 'Your Neighbor Celebrates The Jewish Holidays,' by Rabbi Irving Rosenbaum, and 'Jewish Holidays' by Chaim Gross which celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 18-20, 2020, and Yom Kippur, Sept. 27-28, 2020.

'Modelli D'arte Decorativa,' or “Decorative Art Models,” is an Italian art portfolio series from the 1910s. Today we are featuring plates from v.3 which includes paintings, friezes, and decorative landscapes, stained glass, fabric patterns, and medallions. https://t.co/av8oBEcrPh

This week's #ScienceSaturday post featured etchings from 'Relation d'un voyage du Levant' by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, published in Amsterdam, in 1718. The book is a collection letters to the Comte de Pontchartrain published after the author's death. https://t.co/j3TC3ZckHM

Color woodblock illustrations of summer flowers by Ogata Gekkō from 'The Floral Art of Japan: Being a Second and Revised Edition of the Flowers of Japan' and the Art of Floral Arrangement by Josiah Conder, published by Kelly and Walsh in Tokyo in 1899.

'Our Martyr Presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Their Illustrious Lives, Public and Private, and Their Glorious Deeds' by the journalist and biographer John Coulter, outlines nearly every detail surrounding his assassination, including little known details about Czolgosz.

On today’s date, September 14 in 1901, President William McKinley succumbed to two bullet wounds fired by anarchist Leon Czolgosz 8 days prior.

This week's post on the decorative arts features a few chromolithographic plates of ancient Assyrian decorative art from Vol. 1 of the 4-vol Italian art portfolio 'Gli stili nella forma e nel colore, rassegna dell’ arte antica e moderna di tutti i paesi.' https://t.co/pcqc9AJUCd

For Science Saturday this weekend we posted 'The History and Present State of Electricity' by Joseph Priestley, about experimental electrical equipment, published in 1775. Read more: https://t.co/EDq5GhNXw2

Today's #Feathursday is all PIGEONS, FANCY AND FINE! Today we present some domestic pigeon varieties from the two-volume set, 'The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication' by Charles Darwin, published in 1896. See more pigeons here: https://t.co/O054fCtrK5

It's #WoodEngravingWednesday! This week present original wood engravings by the American artist and printmaker Roderick Mead from the fine-press book 'Brandings,' with poems by Katherine Arnstein Heinemann. Learn more about the book and Mead here: https://t.co/edCIunMkJc