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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 · 7h

Come get your fix at #NewberryLibrary!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

doomscroll break

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

OUTSIDE the Lines!
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

Mapping ...
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Installation of the next set of door vinyl.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 17h

Mysterious paleography ftw!!

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

You know what would make a nifty term paper? -- that Voynich thing ...
Me (very briefly, as an exceptionally naive early graduate student at Yale)

Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Reposted by Suzanne Karr Schmidt

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

#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 · 1d

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 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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Signed by the author!

Signed interior, number 919 of a thousand.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 2d

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.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

It is very funny! Now... where's my Alighieri sauce?

Newberry library Dante portrait on vellum.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 3d

Mentally, I'd like to be here
#NewAcq #NewberryLibrary

Handcolored scene of slightly naughty looking gods and goddesses.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 3d

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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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

Islamic Textiles from #StLouisArtMuseum!

#SomethingBeautiful

Reddish flower on silver ground. Indian, 17th c.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 5d

Disembodied Reembodied won third place in this year's Meggendorfer Artist Book Award competition at the Movable Book Society conference in St. Louis! Here's more about the project:
hsl.lib.umn.edu/wangensteen/...

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 5d

Marilyn Moments...

In Modern and Early Modern flap prints! This blank skirt on Jenny Schmid's Disembodied Reembodied print cycle intriguingly channeled the Becker Medical Library repaired copy of Johannes Remmelin and Lucas Kilian's interactive Eve!
#Flaptastic #movablebooksociety
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Jenny Schmid artist book with white flap skirt.

Johannes Remmelin Eve Anatomy with a white replacement modesty flap.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 6d

Cinematic greatness in the making tonight at The Revival with @theonion.com and a bonus intro from @bencollins.bsky.social!
#BadPedophile #SexHouse
www.the-revival.com/shows

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 6d

Louche Lothario?
or
Power Flower Salesman?

This Biedermeier Beau is taking care of all of these posies for you... With a few emergency blooms in reserve for another customer!
Olin Library at #WashU, glimpsed during the #movablebooksociety conference!

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 7d

Der IGEL!

Lothar Meggendorfer really knew how to evoke lifelike movement! This book from the Olin Library special collections at Wash U is only one spectacular example! #movablebooksociety
#Hedgehog #paperengineering

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 8d

Calling All Chicago Fire Aficionados and Music Fans!

There's a FREE concert coming up on October 9 at 7:30 pm with historical music from the era of the short-lived (first) St. James Cathedral!
www.saintjamescathedral.org/music-and-ar...
#StJamesChicago

Poster for free Out of the Ashes concert at St James Cathedral Cathedral, Thursday Oct 9 at 7:30.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 8d

Explosion! Ally Low shows off his paper engineering improv!

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 9d

Dance Dance Revolution

And the Winner of the Golden Scissors at the second Biennial Pop-Off is ... Kyle Olmon! #MovableBookSociety

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 10d

Seemed like a very good boy to me!