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Milestone Monday
March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, a day to honor the literary prowess of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) author of acclaimed high fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien has shared that the seeds of inspiration for his novels came from his childhood fascination and experimentation with constructed language and a 1911 Summer holiday hiking through Switzerland. Roughly fourteen years after his Swiss adventure, Tolkien would write The Hobbit and the first two volumes of Lord of the Rings while teaching in Oxford.
Stepping slightly away from Tolkien’s novels, today we’re digging into our broadside collection and sharing Bilbo’s Last Song (At Grey Havens), a poem about leaving Middle-Earth. It first appeared, as seen here, as a poster published in 1974 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., the original English publisher of his famous novels, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), who illustrated many of Tolkien's publications. Chronologically, the poem takes place at the end of the last volume of Lord of the Rings, however it was never included in the series.
Read other Milestone Monday posts here!
– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern
#milestone monday#j.r.r. tolkien#tolkien reading day#the hobbit#lord of the rings#bilbo's last song (at grey havens)#pauline baynes#broadsides#George Allen & Unwin
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With all the recent nostalgia discourse, this seems like a good time to share this broadside. From the inimitable Douglas Adams:
It amazes me how universally applicable these principles are to most discourse.
So annoyed that that title font was stolen out of the trunk after I'd printed this. It was the only project I ever got to use it for.
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All About the ILGWU
The ILGWU records held at the Kheel Center are the most extensive (over 2,500 linear feet!) and heavily used collection we possess. We are the the official repository of the ILGWU since 1987, containing photos, pamphlets, oral presentations, letters, banners, speeches, videos, and songs.
Here is an example of a poster from our ILGWU Broadsides Collection, #5780/109. For more on the ILGWU, visit this site: http://ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/.
Image description: A blue poster portraying two employees looking at a sign that says "The Law: You have the right to join a union". The poster then reads "YOU HAVE YOUR RIGHTS, USE THEM. The law says that you have the right to join a union. You can use that right to win more money in your pay envelopes and benefits you'd like but don't have. The law backs up your right. But only you can use it"
Poster by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and AFL-CIO.
#ILGWU#Posters#Broadsides#InternationalLadiesGarmentWorkersUnion#UnionStrong#Unions#September#Cornell#LaborArchives#LaborHistory#ArchivesOfTumblr#AllLaborHasDignity#KheelCenter#ILRSchool#LaborRights#Strikes
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Folio broadside approx. 17½" x 13¾", printed in red and blue with wood and metal type, and within an ornate typographic border printed in blue. Left-hand margin slightly ragged (but not touching the border); the whole slightly toned, but on the whole, very good.
Phillips, List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 3692.
Full listing at rulon.com
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Giving Tues: Support PiP (Partners in Print)!
I know there are many organizations worthy of your support— but I hope you’ll consider making a donation to the talented and dedicated letterpress artists of Partners in Print, who are the hands-on creative brilliance behind the Words of Courage project (which is very dear to my heart!) -- in addition to their other community printing and education projects. Any donation amount is meaningful, and you can donate at anytime -- but leading up to this Giving Tuesday (11/29) there’s a special early giving match: the first $2500 in donations will be doubled! Donations are tax deductible, and you can donate here: https://partnersinprint.org/donate/
Why I Love PiP: For the past 12 years the letterpress artists of Partners in Print have volunteered their time to make stunningly beautiful, hand-printed broadsides of poems written by kids at Seattle Children’s Hospital — my students, and fellow teaching writer Ann Teplick’s students, who we get to write with at the hospital via Seattle Arts & Lectures’ WITS program. The students and families receive broadsides of their poem plus the year’s whole “Words of Courage” portfolio set to keep (totally free!), and the broadsides are also displayed throughout Seattle during the year to further celebrate these powerful youth writers (including a selection within the hospital, at Seattle Arts & Lectures’ events, Jack Straw Cultural Center, and on tour through Seattle Public Libraries).
You can check out the current and past sets of Words of Courage broadsides here -- and an interview on SAL’s website with me, Ann Teplick, and Jenny Wilkson of PiP talking about WITS, teaching at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and the Words of Courage project here.
I want PiP to be able to keep doing this project forever! Thank you for your support of this meaningful project and all that PiP does in the community!
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Ray Tomasso’s love of wood type was infectious, and @interoceanstudio preserves his legacy—both in spirit and materials. I’ll be teaching with papermaker @kerri.cushman in August, kissing handmade paper with some glorious wood type. Can you join us in Colorado? Pulp to Paper | Paper to Print Workshop Instructors: Jessica Spring & Kerri Cushman August 13-15, 2022 Workshop Description: Join dynamic visiting West Coast artists Jessica Spring and Kerri Cushman for this immersive, three-day course. Students will create their own sheets of paper from traditional fibers, upon which they’ll print a finished, letterpress broadside. The class will culminate in a group exchange of prints and an exhibition at the InterOcean Studio Gallery. See interoceanstudio.org for details! #papermaking #letterpress #woodtype #broadsides #raytomasso https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfu5pdTFh56/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Salem and the Eclipse of 1806
Apparently we have not seen a solar eclipse of such long “totality” since 1806, and in that year the “point of greatest duration” of daytime darkness was Salem, timed at 4 minutes and 48 seconds! When I read that, I had to drop everything and do a little research into this very notable eclipse in early America, starting with a pamphlet by Boston instrument maker Andrew Newell entitled Darkness at…
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llama i must know
do you have any thoughts about siren bad sanses? 👉👈(//ŏ﹏ŏ//)
do i
Horror: Now, Skull is a cecaelia. But I think Horror would be a little different. A big frightening toothed whale - particularly, a Risso's dolphin. Risso's dolphins have a cool effect where any time they get an injury, their scars lose pigment and remain white forever. Horror is slowly turning whiter and whiter as time goes on.
Just like usual, he used to be normal sized, but his injury kickstarted a bizarre growth spurt and he's become far larger than he ever should've. He enjoys targeting boats - since he's so big he can easily sink small ships, his favourite 'game' is ramming vessels and seeing who survives after the ship rolls over. He eats anyone who drowns.
I can imagine him falling in love with you from the water, and rocking your boat purely to get your attention. If you ignore him he slams into the hull in frustration. He'd never sink your boat, of course... not unless you were really, REALLY ignoring him, and he lost his temper.
Dust: An oceanic whitetip shark. The beautiful dark colouring. The 'dusty' white edges of the fins and tail. A solitary, wandering creature that's probably responsible for many of the open-water shark attacks attributed to other species... IMO, it's absolutely perfect.
Before joining Nightmare, he travelled long distances in isolation, avoiding large vessels or groups but hunting down and killing anyone (or anything) he caught alone. He'll follow prey for weeks; he often waits for people on boats to go stir crazy before he attacks.
He's a distant admirer. He'll stalk from afar, but come closer at night, when it's hard to distinguish his dark shape against the moonlit sea. He thinks you'll be a very pretty siren.
Killer: @aka-indulgence suggested Killer is a bull shark and she's absolutely right. Killer is hyperactive and murderous, but incredibly loyal to those he cares about (even if he won't admit he cares). Bull sharks are fast, notoriously aggressive, yet surprisingly social.
Killer just enjoys... well, killing. He sometimes plays with his prey, but the games are never as forgiving as Horror's, or as patient as Dust's. He likes to bite the limbs off of his targets and watch them struggle to get away.
He's extremely friendly to you. Worryingly so. He lacks any subtlety, he'll come right up to your boat and put his arms over the edge when he wants your attention, flirting like you didn't just watch him murder another siren in cold blood. A swift strike with an oar is usually enough to ward him off - but unfortunately, it never seems to chase him away permanently.
Nightmare: He isn't any one species. He's much, much older. He was something else before his corruption... but times change, don't they? If you don't know what to call him, he certainly doesn't mind the ego stroke of being called a kraken.
Obviously it would be ridiculous of me to make Nightmare anything other than a cecaelia. He's large, scary, black as midnight sea, beautifully bioluminescent when he wants to be. He has attributes of lots of different deep-sea creatures; retractable hooks in his tentacles, a toxic bite, terrifying teeth, incredible vision. He's not the kind of thing you want to encounter underwater. Ever.
The other sirens would be very reluctant to let Nightmare know you exist. But when all three of his underlings are chasing the same prey... well. You'll catch his eye sooner or later.
#llamagines#cw drowning#killer comes back to nightmare with a huge mark on his face (you hit him with the broadside of an oar when he called you a snack)
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It’s SHIPWRECKED64 time, baby
Pretty sure that last one was a vent but honestly it’s more humorous than anything.
#shipwrecked64#broadside beach#stumbler o’hare#mascot horror#analog horror#fanart#art of tumblr#artist on tumblr#artwork#art#shipwrecked 64#mark mullins#Connor Thomas#kidcore aesthetic#kidcore art#kidcore
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I will forever love how funny as hell this image is
#I found it looking through the files of the game 😭😭… WHY IS HE JUST… STANDING THERE… MENACINGLY…#☆ (it’s time to make history!)#shipwrecked 64#shipwrecked64#broadside beach
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Typography Tuesday
PRINTING WITH WOOD TYPE!
Every semester, when we finally get to the invention of letterpress printing in Europe in my History of Books & Printing course, we all head over to a local print shop to set type and print a collaborative broadside. Last week we did just that and went over to Adam Beadel's Team Nerd Letterpress in the Walker's Point neighborhood of Milwaukee.
Usually, we compose in metal type, as that is what the students just learned about, but Adam recently received a huge influx of foundry type that wasn't set up yet, so we had to use wood type instead. Even though we wouldn't learn about the invention of production wood type for a few weeks, we were game because wood type is the best!
Each student was assigned to come up with a 3-5-word phrase based on the theme of "Transitions." They set their own phrase in wood type, I arranged the phrases into an exquisite corpse poem, we locked up the type on the bed of a poster press, and pulled a proof in blue ink (second to last image). Everyone was satisfied with the results, and with only a couple of adjustments, the students went on a tear, inking up the type in a rainbow of colors (last image), and pulling 15 more prints. Everyone went home exhausted and happy.
There are few things more thrilling than making your own letterpress prints. Thanks Adam!!!
View another letterpress post from a previous book history session.
View other posts on wood type.
View our other Typography Tuesday posts.
-- MAX, Head, Special Collections
#Typography Tuesday#typetuesday#instructions sessions#students#graduate students#Information Studies#INFOST 603#History of Books & Printing#letterpress#letterpress printing#wood type#Adam Beadel#Team Nerd Letterpress#type setting#broadsides#student work#exquisite corpse
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Right, how about a little bookbinding/printing for a change of pace? Finally had a chance to photograph my convention broadsides.
The Litany Against Fear from DUNE. First one of these I did (10 years ago? Zoinks!).
It's a little hard to see in a photo, but it's a two-pass piece. Several of the lines are a split fountain (different color ink on different parts of the rollers). As it happened, the purple and the Atradies green blended into a nice, deep spice blue, which are the lines on the second pass.
I also ran a few on specialty papers, including one on a reflective silver. That one is neigh impossible to photograph, but it's a very neat effect and the color differences are much easier to see.
11x14 to fit into a standard mat and frame.
I'm still very happy with this one.
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Check out another poster from the #KheelCenter Poster Collection! This pro-union broadside is uniquely American, centering Lady Liberty at the forefront of the 20th century fight for unions. A great example of the popular phrase, and even song, "Look for the Union Label!" The Kheel Center is open for in-person research and offers reproduction services for a fee. Set up a research appointment or send us an online request today to see our wonderful collection of colorful and inspiring posters! #CornellRAD #LaborArchives #LaborUnions #Posters #Broadsides #LaborHistory #LookForTheUnionLabel #WorkingWednesday #StatueOfLiberty https://www.instagram.com/p/ChXTz1cOYQU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#kheelcenter#cornellrad#laborarchives#laborunions#posters#broadsides#laborhistory#lookfortheunionlabel#workingwednesday#statueofliberty
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They r shmoovin
Oh, you can see those red gesture lines? What can I say, I like working messy >:)
Don't ask me where Walter is....
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Doodlin'
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