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Suzanne Karr Schmidt
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
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Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · Nov 23
Some Rare Bookish News!

Man and dog find 16th c. German books on the Chicago sidewalk; I (eventually) find their rightful owner! www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/22/c...
Me in a blue dress and a large wooden chain necklace looking at two rare books
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 6h
I always forget what book it's in, so I will make sure we update the record this time! 🐸🐍🦏🐴🐻
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 6h
Emergency Endpapers!

#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 9393.5) #Brokatpapier #Bling #Frog #Zoo
#brocade i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
Bear, frog detail. Bear, rhino, donkey, snake! Frog! Gilt paper with animal designs and an orange background. 1890 Henry Probasco bookplate on left annoyingly interferes with the design. Horse, rabbit, fox?
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 8h
You're SO welcome!
The Newberry is a special special collections library; we don't require recommendation letters! Make your reader account any time: www.newberry.org/collection/u...
You can add as many books to it as you want to see later!
Just bring an ID with a current address when you get here!
Getting a Reader's Card
It all starts with a reader’s card. If you're 14 or older and have a research interest related to our collection, you can sign up for one in just minutes.
www.newberry.org
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1d
Happy weekend!
#Caturday #NotaLion
Printer's mark lion with some shields and a goofy grin.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 2d
Attempting to comport ourselves public-wise, chez nous, this evening...
Cheese tray, maple walnuts, truffle marcona almonds... Rosé next to garden roses in the dining room table. Setting for 6!
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 3d
Easily distracted by books
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 3d
Same!!
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 3d
Brilliant Colleague's
New Book Alert!

Buy Chris Fletcher's latest,
hot off the presses or read the OPEN ACCESS version online!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...
Arc Humanities book cover for "Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis."
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 3d
*screaming*
(This is US distributor. The Concordia UP pre-order page AND DISCOUNT CODE go live next month, when I'll start up the promo machine. But lookee that covvvver 🤤)
Illuminating Media
Reveals the hidden power of medieval manuscript decoration and its lasting influence today. The overlooked art of late medieval English manuscript illumination—its initials, borders, and non-figurativ...
press.uchicago.edu
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 3d
This is just to say

I have thrown out
the tree
that was by
the garage

and which
you were 
apparently saving 
for woodworking

Forgive me
It seemed abandoned
so tall 
and so dry

--Me, this morning
15th c. handcolored woodcut of gnarled branch.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4d
Come get your fix at #NewberryLibrary!
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d
doomscroll break
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4d
OUTSIDE the Lines!
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Completed doors.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4d
Mapping ...
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Installation of the next set of door vinyl.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4d
Can't contain how much you LOVE Maps?

We're getting a real treat ready for you at #NewberryLibrary! "Mapping Outside the Lines" opens tomorrow!

It's curated by Dave Weimer, more info here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/map...
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Exhibition door with geode looking diagram vinyl of white wiggly lines going up on the left side.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4d
Mysterious paleography ftw!!
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4d
You know what would make a nifty term paper? -- that Voynich thing ...
Me (very briefly, as an exceptionally naive early graduate student at Yale)
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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 5d
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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 5d
#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory
The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other. The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4d
And that's not even the real binding! Check out my alt text... Here's a detail of the actual cover. And the interior with a bookplate that I am convinced is Mrs. Munday throwing eternal shade on Harold!
Book cover with a woodcut Phoenix. Book with Newberry bookplate reading "Given by Mrs. Harold W. Munday in honor of her husband."
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 5d
Drop something SKELETAL

We've got something spooky brewing at the Newberry....
www.newberry.org/calendar/for...
Frans Masereel Danse Macabre, Newberry, 1941.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 5d
Signed by the author!
Signed interior, number 919 of a thousand.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 5d
"I have a hobby, re-reading Lady Chatterley!" -- Tom Lehrer

#BannedBook #shelfie
#NewberryLibrary
#BannedBooksWeek
Green leather book-box spines with gilt titles by DH Lawrence including a signed 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover; Tortoises; and Birds, Beasts, and Flowers.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 6d
To Your Health!

This Madonna of Loreto broadside and its contact-relic veil bore medical benefits... The hand-dated certificate from today, Oct. 6, (1780) notes that this precious cloth touched Mary's miraculous house, sculpture, and scapular, and could help heal all ills! #NewAcq #NewberryLibrary
Madonna of Loreto broadside with seal, black contact relic veil, and the Christ child in her arms, dated Oct 6 1780. Madonna shrouded in the veil that touched her miraculous house, among other things. Veil lifted, showing woodcut. Detail of the date.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 6d
It is very funny! Now... where's my Alighieri sauce?
Newberry library Dante portrait on vellum.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 7d
Mentally, I'd like to be here
#NewAcq #NewberryLibrary
Handcolored scene of slightly naughty looking gods and goddesses.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 7d
It's a good one! I was in town for a pop-up book conference, and was so glad to be able to stop by beforehand.
St Louis Art Museum, with St Louis statue out front.
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