Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax Headquarters.

The Johnson Wax Headquarters – also known as the Johnson Wax Administration Building – was completed between 1936 and 1939 in Racine, Wisconsin. It provided the main office for SC Johnson & Son, an American manufacturer of household cleaning supplies.

Despite its location on an industrial park, Wright designed the building in his organic architecture style with references to natural forms. This is exemplified in the main open-plan office space, which is often described as forest-like.

Research Tower, Johnson Wax Headquarters,

Racine, Wisconsin, USA,

Built: 1944–1950

Designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) SC Johnson Wax Complex & Research Tower, Racine, Wisconsin, USA, 1936-1939. - source Lilyane Haddad.

Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection

Jenkins Bread. Racine, Wisconsin. Postmarked Jan 1909.

Pool Party - Racine, Wisconsin Summer 1968

The old YMCA downtown, where I used to go to local shows as a teen, has been bought by the city and is going to be torn down at some point. I am having feelings about it, so I went and took a bunch of photos. These aren't even all of them—the rest are being saved for a hybrid photo-and-text essay I'm working on.

(April 19)

Tiers of light. #franklloydwright #architecture #architecturephotography #wingspread #racine #wisconsin #wrightinwisconsin #scjohnsonafamilycompany #johnsonwax #herbertfjohnsonhouse #flwsites #wrightsites #fllw #houses #interiordesign #brick (at Wingspread) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6i16NLcBK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

dusk in the library parking lot // Racine, WI // June 2001

Cliff Avenue, Racine, Wisconsin.

Lasheky Anquanette Hill, 45

Last seen in Racine, Wisconsin in 2023.

Publishers’ Binding Thursday

For this holiday season Publishers’ Binding Thursday post, this is Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens, published by Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, WI in 1940. The book features a weirdly unseasonal publishers’ binding featuring pink and white illustrations on a cream/yellowish book cloth. Unfortunately our copy is missing the front of its dust jacket, but at least the binding remains largely undamaged. 

Included in the book are three stories by Charles Dickens: “A Christmas Carol,” “The Chimes,” and “The Cricket on the Hearth.” Only “A Christmas Carol” is illustrated. The endpapers are truly the star of this book, though, and feature a lovely illustration of the town getting ready for Christmas. The illustrations are by Milwaukee artist and cartoonist Erwin Louis Hess (1906-1999) who had just started working as a comic book artist for Dell Publicaotions at this time.

We hope all your Christmas preparations are going smoothly and that all will have a happy holiday!

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BERNIE SKULLFACE & Chewie are ready for Opening Day. #wiskullsin #wiskully #wisconsin #wisco #wi #milwaukee #mke #madison #greenbay #kenosha #racine #appletonwi #eauclaire #laceossewi #oshkoshwi #janesville #wisconsinskull #skull #skulls #skullshirt #wisconsinpunk #wisconsinhardcore #badgerstate #shoplocal #wisconsintattoo #brewers #brewcrew #thisismycrew (at Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqafo6guwXV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

(via "Is That a Vortex? (In Greys)" Tapestry for Sale by Scott and Mary Schneider art_photography)

Frank Lloyd Wright,  Wingspread House 1939, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. - source Mary Tampakopoulou..

Did the Peaches just never play the Bells? 

Mound Cemetery // November 17, 2023 (Racine, WI)

Mound Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Racine, and is so named because of the effigy and burial mounds that existed in the location long before white settlers were buried there. We took the kids there on a field trip last week, after teaching them about the tribes whose lands we live on, and about Native American burial mounds in general. We of course visited all the still-extant mounds there (one of which is pictured in the fourth photo from the top), but I also took photographs of some of the most interesting graves. I was particularly fond of the one pictured in the third photo; where, over time, the tree has grown so its branches rest on top of the stone. And I had to take a picture of the grave in the bottom-most photograph: Captain William Bones is buried there! Like Bill Bones, aka The Captain, from Treasure Island!