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Gary Hornseth
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Minnesota ephemerist. History, music, visual arts, a bit of baseball. Work = PR. Posts = else. Also the westerly half of Trademark Issues 🎸
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Wabasha at 5th
St. Paul, Minnesota
Nov. 23, 1949

Image: St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press via Minnesota Historical Society
Night view downward from atop a tall building, brightly lit street with cars and streetcar below, St. Paul Building at 5th and Wabasha in foreground, Minnesota State Capitol dome in background. Searchlight in distance.
November 23, 2023 at 3:02 PM
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Star, Star, Star A
1969
Yoshida Chizuko (1924-2017)
Woodblock print, color on paper with embossing

On view today at @artsmia.bsky.social as part of the exhibition “The Abstract Worlds of Yoshida Hodaka and Chizuko”
Museum description: Star, Star, Star A (1969) Yoshida Chizuko Woodblock print, color on paper with embossing GIFT OF THE YOSHIDA FAMILY On View in Gallery 251 Yoshida Chizuko positioned the three stars in this print in a vertical column and then colored them. Moving from the lightest value (on the left side of the top star) to the darkest value (on the right side of the bottom star), the eye can feel as though it is weaving in and out around the axis. The colors, although different, are complementary and seem to send out waves of light and energy. This simple, yet sophisticated print won a prize at the 1969 International Print Triennial.
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Always been a big fan of train station tiles. Such an easy way to bring long lasting color and uniqueness to each station.

Chicago, London, Berlin, New York
Blues in Chicago Red green and yellow in London Yellow toned tiles in Berlin Train station in New York City
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Book cover spotted while searching for something else on @archive.org: A biography of the British painter Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893). Cover artist not credited.

Image: Getty Research Institute; archive.org/details/ford...
Google lens description: The image displays the artistic cover of a biography titled "Ford Madox Brown: A Record of his Life and Works". The book is a biography of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. It was written by his grandson, Ford Madox Hueffer (later known as Ford Madox Ford), and was published in 1896. The cover features an intricate, art nouveau-style design with green and gold foliage motifs on a white background, framing a blue central panel with gold lettering.
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Eiichi Ohtaki’s A Long Vacation (1981) is one of the most beloved albums in Japanese pop music.
Ohtaki, born in Iwate Prefecture, blended American pop influences with a uniquely Japanese melodic sensibility.
A Long Vacation
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Watercolor specimens from “Paint and Colour Mixing: A Practical Handbook (6th ed.)” by Arthur Seymour Jennings, London, 1921

Image: Getty Research Institute via @archive.org; archive.org/details/pain...
A page of 36 watercolor specimens arranged in four rows of 9 vertical bars, with each bar showing a different color. Colors range from yellows to oranges, pinks and reds, greens, blues and browns. Page is headed “Specimens of Winsor and Newton’s Artists’ Water Colours”
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Spiraling into the weekend like ...
curved ornamental metal hand rail down stone stairway in late day sunlight with long shadow
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Look, I know the Grammys already happened, but if it's not too late I'd like to humbly request an entry for song of the year:

"The Vegetable Song-KidsLearningTube" on YouTube, uploaded in 2016 that my toddler randomly found and which sounds like the greatest lost 1995 "120 Minutes" performance ever
February 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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A page of index stamps
From: “Matthews' Book of Marking Devices and Metal Signs”
Jas. H. Matthews & Co., Pittsburgh
1914

Image: TheHoard Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/matt...
A page full of pointing finger index stamps. Some labeled: Read Carefully; Notice: Special Attention To This, Returned to Writer; etc. Copy: Matthews of Pittsburgh THE HANDY INDEX STAMPS They help to get your message quickly read and help to make quick action. Furnished plain or with any lettering in the centre, similar to those illustrated.
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba, Spain
Nov. 3, 2025
11:50 a.m.
A look upward at an ornate ceiling section with arches and sunlight streaming into windows, Chapel of Villaviciosa. Image: me
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Three illustrations from “Air Marking,” a U.S. Dept. of Commerce Aeronautics Bulletin with design guidelines for ground-based pilot navigation aids, July 1, 1929.

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A drawing of an overhead view of a city block. One of the buildings has a flat roof upon which is placed directional signage, including a directional arrow pointing north, a directional arrow pointing towards an airport showing a 3 mile distance, and the name of the city in block letters— in this instance “Airville.” Caption FIGURE 3.-Typical air marking, including name of city or town, meridian marker, and airport pointer A drawing of an overhead view of an intersection coming to a T in a rural location. The two roads bear large letters the width of the road in height, reading NY-12 and US-20. Caption FIGURE 9.-Air markings recommended for Federal and State highways A drawing of an overhead view of two airport structures. On the roof of one structure is a sign reading “Municipal Airport Airview.” On the roof of the other structure is a directional arrow pointing north as well as two directional arrows labeled “Madison” and “Chicago,” pointing in different directions. Caption FIGURE 7.-Typical hangar roof markings showing route arrows
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Discos Bora-Bora, at which a signed 2015 Jayhawks setlist is among many framed on a wall #localangle
Granada, Spain
Nov. 7, 2025
6:52 p.m.
A nighttime view of a record stage exterior set into an old storefront, with the store lit from within.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Cádiz, Spain
Nov. 4, 2025
2:30 p.m.
View over Cádiz toward the sea from atop the Torre Tavira, an 18th c. watchtower and the highest point in the Old Town district, offering a 360° outdoor view. 173 steps to the top. Cirrus clouds and sun.
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Detergente Líquido at Bar Mutante, Sevilla
Nov. 2, 2025
2:10 p.m.
A colorful music venue filled with people, vivid lights and decoration a band playing at the far end.
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Ceiling, Catedral de Granada, Spain
November 5, 2025
5:08 p.m.
Wide-angle view looking upward at the cathedral ceiling with about a half dozen pillars reaching to the top. Ceiling has arched sections catching the uplighting. A few windows are visible as well as a bit of the upper part of the apse. Colors are generally white and grey.
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Sevilla Santa Justa Station, Spain
Nov. 1, 2025
1:06 pm
An interior view of a train station looking down a set of tracks that recede into the distance along with a set of ceiling arches. Travelers await a train along a platform. Clocks and signage. Grey and silver colors predominate. Image: me
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Coin telephone, c. 1960s
Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España

Seen on display last Saturday as part of a numismatics exhibit at the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
A photo of a wall-mounted pay telephone with a silver exterior, black handset and rotary dial. There is a narrow window into the enclosure that allows viewing of the coins inserted, I presume?
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Old telephone sign as tapas bar wall decoration, last Saturday afternoon, Madrid
A round, weathered metal sign reading TELEFONOS in yellow and blue block lettering, below an encircled outline map of Spain and Portugal. Casa Ambrosio Taberna, Madrid
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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A minute or so of a pharmacy sign seen last week along a street in Sevilla
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.
six pairings of words or passages the songwriter drew directly from the magazine article
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Went through my collection of old roller skate skate labels and scanned/rescanned them all. I did not realize that I had amassed 182 different ones.

The original purpose of these things was to affix them to your roller skate case and showcase all the different places you skated.
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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26 pages from a 1940 label sample catalogue. Type & shape inspiration!

www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/f...
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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“I think I spent just an afternoon on it.”

An annual repost as the World Series opens: From 2008, writer Paul Lukas (Uni Watch) interviews retired graphic designer Jerry Dior (1932-2015) about his creation of the MLB logo in 1968. ⚾️

Full article: espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/081105
MLB logo Excerpt: UW: What sort of thought process did you go through at the outset of the project? Did you know right away that you'd use a silhouetted image? JD: No, it just came about. UW: Did you know from the start that you wanted to show a human figure, instead of just type or other graphics? JD: No, I just went through some magazines and tried to figure out some ideas. I really don't know how the process worked -- I just did it, y'know? It was fast. I think I spent just an afternoon on it. UW [incredulous]: The whole thing took one afternoon? JD: Yeah. Excerpt: UW: Did Major League Baseball accept the logo pretty much as you designed it, or did they ask you to make adjustments? JD: Nope, no adjustments. I cleaned it up and that was it. UW: What do you mean "cleaned it up"? JD: You tighten it up so it can be reproduced. What I had originally created was just a Magic Marker sketch. UW [incredulous again]: The original version that you created in one afternoon, and that was presented to Major League Baseball, was rendered in Magic Marker? JD: Right.
October 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Know Your BL Colours:
No:52 Saffron

Triumph’s dull colour palette had an injection of vibrancy in the early ‘70’s & showed they could’ve been a lot more daring with their colour choices for cars like the Vitesse as this v late car looks rather fetching…
(📸: IG a/c classicsbychance)
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Array of push-pull plates
from: “Tubelite Aluminum Entrances”
Trade catalog
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
1960

Image: Association for Preservation Technology via @archive.org; archive.org/details/pitt...
A two-page catalog spread headed “Unlimited Tubelite®️ Multi-Insert Push-Pull Plates.” It shows illustrations of 17 different varieties of door-mounted, metal push-pull plates in vertical and horizontal orientations. Some simply say “Push” or “Pull,” some have decorative motifs suggesting a pharmacy, medical office or night club. Some feature cross-hatch patterns in red or black. Copy: The above are just a few of the many custom designs possible. Also available in solid colored Vinyl Plastic surfaces in the following colors. Metal Green Cordovan Red Ebony Blue Dark Mahogany Blizzard Grey Bronco Brown
October 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM