1) Blue yellow-backed Wood Warbler
2) Fork-tailed Flycatcher
3) Nashville Swamp Warbler
4) Common Blue Bird
5) Painted Bunting
6) Blue-winged Yellow Swamp Warbler
7) Anna Humming Bird
8) White-throated Finch
Hand-coloured lithographs taken from ‘The Birds of America’ (1840–44 ). After John James Audubon (American (born Haiti) 1785–1851 ).
Images and text information courtesy The Met.
(Source: metmuseum.org)
Graphic journalist and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton was browsing an antiquarian book fair on a Saturday morning in San Francisco when one book caught her eye. “It was open to a spread of a painting of a bowl of bright pink borscht in this gorgeous mint scalloped bowl. It had hand-lettered calligraphy recipes and it was absolutely exquisite,” she recalls.
She had stumbled upon an original 1945 manuscript of a cookbook designed by Cipe Pineles, who as the first female art director of Condé Nast, helped pave the way for women in design in the mid-20th century.
– Petra
GENIUS BAR 2073
Snow crystals. Lehrbuch der kosmischen Physik. v. 2. 1903.
1) Geranium macrorrhizum
2) Alsine laricifolia
3) Trifolium Thalii Vill
4) Saponaria ocymoides
5) Oxytropis Halleri Bunge
6) Cerastium Carinthiacum Vest
7) Lychnis alpina
8) Phaca alpina Jacq
9) Ononis rotundifolia
10) Cerastium alpinum
Illustrations taken from ‘Atlas der Alpenflora’ by Anton Hartinger, K. W. Dalla Torre. Published 1882.
New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
archive.org
Beautiful flowers.
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“The library is not just an information center. It’s always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For every walk of life.”
—From Meanwhile in San Francisco by Wendy MacNaughton
I love libraries.
(Source: ss1.us)
