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Looking for some flowers to celebrate #ArchivesInBloom? Try our Wednesday Flora series on for size!

Find all the Flora you could want here: https://t.co/qQKDK87t12

The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), sometimes called a Sparrow Hawk, is among our favorite neighborhood raptors. Around here we find Owls, Cooper’s Hawks, Red-tailed Hawks, and Peregrine Falcons, but the Kestrel is the smallest and most ubiquitous in our vicinity.

This #MayDay we'd like to share these red flowers in solidarity with workers the world over! They come from the May 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review' edited & published by William Robinson. Learn more here: https://t.co/DA23ZsY8tf

Today we present decorative plates from 'Haus eines Kunstfreundes' by the Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald. The designs were created for the competition “House for an Art Lover." Learn more here: https://t.co/g5QQZXs0C5

Shown here are the covers for the 1895, 1898, 1899, and 1900 issues, with an additional back cover from 1898. These issues were printed by the Democrat Printing Company in Madison, the official state printers.

This week’s owl comes from the printer’s mark of the Geneva printing bothers Pierre and Jacques Chouët as it appears on the title page of their 1621 printing of 'Sextou Empeirikou ta Sōzomena...' https://t.co/vC14ICEM67 #MondayMotivationOwl

Pesach greetings! This holiday we present a 2000 facsimile of 'The Moss Haggadah' published by Bet Alpha Editions. Learn about how this facsimile was created here: https://t.co/6bXVvZesjE #Passover

On this gray Milwaukee day we thought we’d brighten our #Feathursday with a few festively-festooned birds in the Parrot family from the 1913 edition of Brehms Tierbilder published by Bibliographisches Institut in Liepzig and Vienna. Learn more here: https://t.co/cFOVyICmwN

Today we present decorative plates from 'Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862' selected and described by J. B. Waring. Learn more about these chromolithographs here: https://t.co/qZxRz1U5Lv

It’s April 11, and yet there’s snow on the ground here in Milwaukee. While this may be disconcerting to us, it doesn’t seem to have any effect on the Downy Woodpeckers in our neighborhood, who are happily hammering away in tree lawns and woodlands, and making ready their nests.