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Arnaud's, New Orleans, A La Carte Menu, Date Unknown, Arnaud's

Restaurant Menus

No abstract provided.

Virginia Ferry Corp, Cape Charles To Little Creek Fork (Norfolk), Va, Date Unknown, Virginia Ferry Corporation

Cruise Ship & Shipping Line Menus

No abstract provided.

Atlantic Coast Line R.R. Co., Wilmington, N.C., Havana Special Menu, Date Unknown, Atlantic Coast Line R.R. Co., Geo. L. Mitchell, Asst. To The Executive Vice President

Train Menus

No abstract provided.

Canadian Pacific Dining Car Service, Canadian Pacific Railway Lines, Banff Springs Hotel, Canadian Rockies, Date Unknown, Canadian Pacific Railway Lines, T.M. Mckeown, Manager

Train Menus

No abstract provided.

Z Helix, Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

116 pages : all illustrated. "The helix is chiral and exists in two varieties, S and Z. The book Z Helix developed around the manufacturing conventions of coil bindings (which are only available as Z helices), and the color and structure of the sculpture 'Square Helix (Z)' which was included in an exhibition entitled The New Ambidextrous Universe at the ICA London in 2014. The book contains five Z helices"--Insert. Two color coils interweaved. Spiral bindings in orange and blue. Indigo print on 4mm transparency film. Housed in a corrugated cardboard box (31 x 26 cm) Title, author and imprint …

Meet Me In My Kitchen, Alice Austin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 circular map fold book. Title from paper wrapper. Publication information from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 26, 2015. Limited edition of 20 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "A love of pie inspired this circular love letter of linoleum prints of pie. A reduction printing process was used to create prints in yellow (lemon), red (cherry), and blue (blueberry) with text--expressing love of another--printed on the yellow pie. The reverse side of each print is relief printed by hand from lace. The three part circular map fold book is joined with a magnet which allows …

2nd Hand Reading, William Kentridge, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations. Reproduction of an altered book created by drawing and painting in a copy of The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Second Edition, volume I, A-M, 1936. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

Visionaire 64: Art John Baldessari Red Edition Samsung Galaxy, John Baldessari, Samsung Galaxy, Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos

Visionaire

10 leaves of color plates : portraits + 1 case Title, statement of responsibility, limited edition statement, and sponsor name from top of case. "Editors Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos; creative direction, cover design Greg Foley"--Accompanying sheet Ten black and white self-portraits ("selfies") taken by celebrities, with embossed color additions by John Baldessari

"For 64 ART, Visionaire collaborates with legendary conceptual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. The issue is divided into 3 editions: Red, Green, and Blue. Each edition contains 10 loose 12X18 inch black & white portraits with embossed color interventions by John Baldessari. Sold separately in a limited quantity …

Visionaire 64: Art John Baldessari Green Edition Samsung Galaxy, John Baldessari, Samsung Galaxy, Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos

Visionaire

10 leaves of color plates : portraits + 1 case Title, statement of responsibility, limited edition statement, and sponsor name from top of case. "Editors Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos; creative direction, cover design Greg Foley"--Accompanying sheet Ten black and white self-portraits ("selfies") taken by celebrities, with embossed color additions by John Baldessari One of the portraits is listed as being taken by someone other than the subject.

"For 64 ART, Visionaire collaborates with legendary conceptual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. The issue is divided into 3 editions: Red, Green, and Blue. Each edition contains 10 loose 12X18 inch black & …

Portraiture And Text In African-American Illustrated Biographical Dictionaries, 1876 To 1917, Dennis Williams Ii

Theses and Dissertations

Containing portraiture and biography as well as protest text and affirmative text, African- American Illustrated biographical dictionaries made from 1876 to 1917 present Social Gospel ideology and are examples of Afro-Protestantism. They are similar to the first American illustrated biographical dictionaries of the 1810s in that they formed social identity after national conflict while contesting concepts of social inferiority. The production of these books occurred during the early years of Jim Crow, a period of momentous change to the legal and social fabric of the United States, and because of momentous changes in modern American print industries. While portraits within …

Stolperstein Für Ernst Collin, Peter D. Verheyen

Librarian Publications

Article (in German) provides biographical details about the life of Ernst Collin, son and grandson of Prussian and German court bookbinders, who was one of the leading writers in the field of bookbinding and the history of the book in the period between the World Wars.

On April 1, 2014 two Stolpersteine (Stumbling Blocks) were laid to memorialize Ernst Collin and his wife Else (nee Cronheim) in front of the entrance to their home at Cicerostr 61 in Berlin. Stolpersteine are “monuments created by Gunter Demnig that commemorate victims of the Holocaust. They are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for an individual …

Illustrated Tales Of Little Sister Fox: Stories About A Clever Fox From Russian Fairytales, Rachel W. Smoot

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis examines the interaction of pictures and words in children’s storybooks. The illustrations placed alongside the text of the book are just as important to understanding the story as are the words. “Illustrated Tales of Little Sister Fox” combines elements of several traditional Russian folktales into a single story. Illustrations are hand sketched and digitally painted.

Kangaroo Is Kangaroo, I Am I, Jeongrye Choi, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

37 unnumbered pages including 3 folded pages : illustrations (some color). "Designed, illustrated, printed, and bound by steph rue at the university of iowa center for the book in the spring of 2014. text graciously provided by jeongrye choi, who holds the copyright. additional thanks for sang-seok yoon, joung-a park, sara langworthy, and julie leonard."--Colophon Edition of 40 copies. Text in English and Korean. Case binding. Library has copy 33 of 40. Purchased at Codex 2024. SEI

Change = Anything Can Happen Next!, Bob Pliny, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 27 pages. Publication information from 23 Sandy Gallery website. "A meditation upon the nature of change. Change is everywhere and always. It is the ceaseless motion of things continually being transforming into other things."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Text and illustrations were handpainted using graphite and colored pencil, acrylics, photo copies and composition gold leaf. Layers of recycled book pages and wallpaper. Altered book, re-used hardcover book binding. Unique artists' book. Accordion fold, attached to back cover. Text extends out to 148.5 inches.

Maille, Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

24 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. "As a weaver, recreational student of topology and collector of wire entanglement puzzles, I've been studying chainmaille and the many variations of meshes that can be made with interlocking rings. The book 'Maille' is a collection of images from this research which have been heavily processed and rendered using a variation on halftoning: a mesh of differently sized white rings. The volume is hinged together with metal rings like those used to make the weaves in the photographs."--artist's statement.

Abecedarian, Ashley May, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

volumes : color illustrations . Vol. 1. A-M. Using high quality scans of vintage postcards, artist Ashley May creates kaleidoscopic digital collages. She re-purposes the traditional use of post-cards into a 21st century communiqué: the GIF animation. In collaboration with Endless Editions, Ashley May designed an artist book inspired by her GIF animations. This 14-page, accordion-bound book spirals outwards into a 28 x 28 inch circle, mimicking an animation in physical space. -- Limited Editions website. Accordion variation, fan binding. Book can be folded into a carousel variation structure.

Visionaire 64: Art John Baldessari Blue Edition Samsung Galaxy, John Baldessari, Samsung Galaxy, Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos

Visionaire

10 leaves of color plates : portraits + 1 case Title, statement of responsibility, limited edition statement, and sponsor name from top of case. "Editors Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos; creative direction, cover design Greg Foley"--Accompanying sheet Ten black and white self-portraits ("selfies") taken by celebrities, with embossed color additions by John Baldessari

"For 64 ART, Visionaire collaborates with legendary conceptual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. The issue is divided into 3 editions: Red, Green, and Blue. Each edition contains 10 loose 12X18 inch black & white portraits with embossed color interventions by John Baldessari. Sold separately in a limited quantity …

1 In 3: Women Have Been Slapped, Pushed, Or Shoved, Jaime Shafer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume unpaged. Cover title. Limited edition of 25 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Printed at the Black Rock Press using a Vandercook Universal I and inkjet pigments. Letterpress printed from metal type and polymer plates on Stonehenge paper. Inkjet printed on Hahnemuhle Duo and Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art paper. Found and altered photographs"--Colophon. Hedi Kyle's flag book structure, bound in paper over boards. An outline of a woman's head is printed on the back of the accordion spine. Text letterpress printed in red and grey on flags and cover boards. Flags feature inset altered portraits of female …

Shift, Shift-Lab, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 box, contains 5 books and 3 folded cards. Each artist created a small book of identical dimensions to reflect her interpretation of the word "SHIFT". Edition limited to 20 copies, numbered and signed by artists. Five books issued in drop-lid box, covered in grey fabric with paper title label and magnetic closure. CONTENTS 1825-1862-1918 (Shift) / K. Baldwin -- Shape shifting / Denise Bookwalter -- Shift in position / Sarah Bryant -- A shift in perspective / Macy Chadwick -- Redirecting shift / Tricia Treacy.

Memories Of Science, Dorothy A. Yule, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Limited edition of fifty copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Typeset in Garamond, Latin Condensed and Copperplate, designed with Adobe CS5 and letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine. Engravings are from the Dover Pictorial Archives and 'The complete encyclopedia of illustration' by Johann Georg Heck. Star maps.. by Susan Hunt Yule. Music.. by Doug Yule. lyrics.. by Dorothy A. Yule"--Colophon. "Recorded, mixed and mastered at: Avast! Studio, Seattle, Washington. Engineer: Jonny Mendoza; Produced by Doug Yule and Jonny Mendoza. Performed by Big Red Dog. Doug Yule: Guitar, Vox, Shakers. Cary Lung: Mandolins. Tom Collicott: Guitar. Dan Yule: Violin, Bass"--Audio disc. …

A Field Guide To Weeds: With Illustrated Taxonomy Of The Most Pernicious And Troublesome Plants, Kim Beck, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 96 unnumbered pages. "Third edition of 1500 copies, 2014."--Title page verso. A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. Becks innovative project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivythe very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoidcreep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the readers attention to …

The Riso Book: Portland, Colpa Press (San Francisco, Calif.), Publication Studio Portland, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

103 unnumbered leaves . Title from publisher. "Copyright Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak"--Title page. "Colpa, in collaboration with Publication Studio Portland presents 'The Riso Book: Portland', the fourth installment of a traveling publication project and exhibition between Los Angeles, Marfa, San Francisco, New York, and Portland.The series standardizes the conditions of production underlying artist publications and presents the book as exhibition. 'The Riso Book', inspired by the format of Seth Siegelaub and Jack Wendler's 1968 'Xerox Book', is a geographic survey of contemporary artists with similar practices across several cities. In Portland, 5 artists will work over the course of …

American Manifesto, Todd M. Thyberg, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map . "With a tip of the hat to printers and activists of the past, American Manifesto calls the United States citizens to action on a number of national concerns--our country's health, leadership, and environment, to name a few"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on September 1, 2015. "If America really is the best country on earth... why do so many of our people go hungry? Why do our leaders consistently work for corporate interests rather than individuals' rights? How can our leaders, the media, and we the public still …

Fabrik, Linda Welch, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

84 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Title from book cover. Unique artist book, signed by artist on page [3] of cover. Coptic binding. Pages incorporate acrylic painting, screen print ink, found papers, book board. "A visual flipbook of text, color and pattern," this one-of-a-kind painted book is by Linda Welch. Her abstract, layered, mixed media books incorporate oil painting, collage, screen printing, found book pages and wax."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

New Horizons, Bruno Van Den Elshout, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

212 pages : all color illustrations. Title from case. Edition of 2012 numbered copies. Flatbook. Issued in paper wrapper and slipcase. Book design: Rob van Hoesel. On New Years Eve 2011 artist Bruno van den Elshout launches his camera-machine on the roof of a hotel on the beach in The Hague (NL). His goal is to capture the North Sea-horizon one year round. The camera-machine takes a picture of the horizon once every hour of 2012. That is 8,785 images. When these images start to arrive from the machine, the horizon suddenly reveals his surprisingly overwhelming appearance. Gray, grim, ordinary, …

Visible Spectrum, Conveyor Magazine, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

9 volumes : color illustrations .

Unbound, Jessica Peterson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Cover title. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. "'Unbound' was designed and produced in a single month. The typefaces are Sabon and Scala Sans. The text is letterpress-printed on handmade cotton and abaca paper."--colophon. "Unbound is a limited edition artists' book which honors the veterans of Prince Edward County's 1959 school lock out ... The book was conceived and designed by artist Jessica Peterson and recounts the closing of the public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia, from 1959 to 1964. Unbound tells this story of these events with timelines, archival evidence, and collected …

Instant Books, Purgatory Pie Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

5 pamphlets : illustrations. Collection title from slipcase. A collection of five previously published "instabook" pamphlets. Each pamphlet autographed/ individually numbered in a limited edition. High anxiety/Team evil (2004) -- Brains & spines (2005) -- Enclosure exposure: data protection patterning (2007) -- Box (2008) -- Join the art party of the U.S.A. (2011). Library has Instant Books No 36.

Whipstock, A.B. Gorham, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

36 pages : color illustrations Cover title. Limited edition of 40 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. " ... written, designed & letterpress printed by AB Gorham at Small Craft Advisory Press, Tallahassee, FL, for the MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Typeset in Scala & printed on a Vandercook 15-21 with photopolymer plates & linoleum block on handmade cotton/abaca paper"--Colophon. "Laid in a Japanese two-flap hard cover with title (once incised, once printed) on two flaps ... Laid out in a shifting grid, Gorham's poetic text and the book's simple but elaborate structure reinforce the …

Ni Queue Ni Tête, Vera Molnar, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 folded sheet (46 unnumbered pages) : illustrations Issued in a clamshell box with paper cover label and compact disc mounted inside front cover. Includes a pamphlet with text by Jean-Yves Bosseur. Edition of 100 copies. Inkjet print on paper. Accordion book. In French. Library has copy no. 46. Purchased for Fleet Library at RISD through the Anne (MFA 92), Michael, and Amelia Spalter Fund. SEI