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Due to the extreme cold in the forecast, Special Collections and all UWM Libraries will be closed from 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 29 to 12:00 p.m. Thursday, January 31. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Stay warm out there!

This week's #Caturday post featured illustrations by the American artist and author J. Allen St. John for the first edition of 'Tarzan and the Golden Lion' by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Learn more here: https://t.co/0G8lYaodY5

Today we celebrate the birthday anniversary of Scotland’s national poet #RobertBurns with this first posthumous edition of the poet’s collected works, edited by the Scottish physician and Burns admirer James Currie. Read more here: https://t.co/ncmraldGu3

Happy Birthday Anniversary to #EdithWharton! This edition of 'The House of Mirth,' which was originally published in 1905, was published in 1975 by The Limited Editions Club in an edition of 2000. Learn more here: https://t.co/l6HdCcV0nr

The temperature has dropped here in the Upper Midwest, and we’ve had three days of snowfall, but that probably wouldn’t bother these arctic-loving birds! Can you guess what they are?

They come from Rex Brasher's 'Birds and Trees of North America": https://t.co/guS1MiSxxT

These vibrant floral illustrations are hand-colored lithographs from volume 3 of Asa Strong’s 4-volume work 'The American Flora,' published in New York by Green & Spencer between 1850 and 1853, with illustrations by Edwin Whitefield. More here: https://t.co/z72dY0Fqgq

The poet George Gordon Lord Byron was born on this day in 1788. Today we share Byron’s epic work of satire, Don Juan. This edition was published in 1926. It contains more than 90 illustrations by English book illustrator John Austen. More here: https://t.co/rzzPt8onjP

This week's #Caturday post was all about Happy Lions! Please enjoy these images from the picture book 'The Three Happy Lions' by children’s author Louise Fatio, illustrated by her husband and collaborator Roger Duvoisin, and published in 1959. More here: https://t.co/6dJOx5BAIz

For Fashion Friday this week, we present three hand-painted fashion plates (plate nos. 25, 26, and 28) from 'Costumes of the World' which highlight fashions of the 14th century. Learn more here: https://t.co/nXt7Y0hTy8

It's #Feathursday! Please enjoy these chromolithographs of American Sparrows from the 1907 edition of 'Bird-Life, A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds' by Frank M. Chapman, with illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton. More here: https://t.co/QdXwGSdWMF