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Over the weekend we posted a very mothy #ScienceSaturday post featuring 'The Naturalist's Library' from our friends in the @AGSLib. Check it out! https://t.co/PHkLMgx8Au

These images are facsimiles of 'Chinese Color-Prints from the Painting Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden,' originally published in the early-Qing Dynasty of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Our copy is the first American edition. Learn more here: https://t.co/dbHU7zupY7

For this week's #FashionFriday we’re recommending large skirts and pale blues for your fancy wear, thanks to plates no 65-74 from Costumes of the World, which illustrate French fashions during the reign of Louis XV, also known as Louis the Beloved. More: https://t.co/9U9NywUhfM

It's time for #WednesdayFlora! This week we present a few plates from the massive, 1000-page-plus publication 'Orquídeas en acuarela: La obra inédita de Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero' published by Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica in 2018. Learn more: https://t.co/q5ZJcvsZxc

The images of these lovely ladies promenading with their puppies were scanned for our digital collection Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA from volume 5 “Modern - Women” of the Costume Design portfolio created in the 1930s. Learn more: https://t.co/diG5dtjhsI

On this #EarthDay we present these vibrant, hand-colored lithographic illustrations from volume 4 of Asa Strong’s 4-volume work 'The American Flora,' published in New York by Green & Spencer btw 1850 and 1853, w/ illustrations by Edwin Whitefield. More: https://t.co/b4tmjAsuUQ

Today we present botanical illustrations from our American Geographical Society Library’s set of French natural history books 'Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle.' Learn more about the books here: https://t.co/g9WDX7GGvB

Yesterday was a glorious 70 degree day in Milwaukee and it got us excited for spring flowers! Today we are featuring flower studies from 'Research: Design in Nature,' edited by John Gilbert Wilkins, published by the Field Museum in 1926. Learn more: https://t.co/9OWZ0UmJRL

Look how nicely these herons and egrets are maintaining their distance! If these wading birds can do it, so can we!

These images are hand-painted prints from Rex Brasher’s massive, limited-edition, 12-volume set 'Birds and Trees of North America.' More: https://t.co/k4A7BFs41H

Today we present illustrations from Volume One of the revised edition of 'Paxton’s Flower Garden' by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton and published in London in 1882. The color illustrations we are featuring today are by Walter Hood Fitch. Learn more: https://t.co/zauxZ041CY