Suzanne Karr Schmidt

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Curator of (very old) weird books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera and Director of a pop-up book society. History of art, science, and decorative food. Acquired taste. Mostly in Chicago. She/her

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Hello, Hydra! She's slithering in just before the end of #WorldSnakeDay! Nicolas Spirinx engraved globe gores c. 1610 at #NewberryLibrary.

Scratch That! Please DO make me wholy drunke with the most sacred wine... Maybe through November? 1684 prayer for Poor Clares at #NewberryLibrary (3A 1874) #nuntastic #censorship

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

Happy New Fiscal Year to Me! By which I absolutely mean to #NewberryLibrary... #NewAcqs

Let Them ... Use Tape? "Marie Antoinette" returns to #NewberryLibrary and tries her hand at constructing a shiny and rather ominous edition of the mini Newberry popup. It only took her 14 minutes! #BastilleDay #PopUpBooksThroughTheAges

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They banned the book not because it contains any obscene content, but because it espouses a negative view of book bans.

Book about book bans banned by Florida school boardwww.theguardian.com Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty

Mane Event Part of a dicey situation at #NewberryLibrary (Case MS 5A 27) #NotALion #Caturday Feline lucky? See the rest of the 17th c. lottery book here: collections.newberry.org/asset-manage...

What About the Project 2025 Stance On Smut? Asking for a friend...

hey, go, People! what a great, brief, accurate read on what Project 2025 means by porn

Writer's Block Personified? Engraved 18th c. title vignette at #NewberryLibrary.

Chicagoland! Anyone have kids from 8-13 with nothing to do this summer? Check out this FREE day camp from my church. It's all about exploring the city and is starting soon... www.saintjamescathedral.org/outreach/sitc

Had that dream again 🦋🏇🪳 Metamorphosis at #NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01... #Kafka

Merge two films: Touch of Evil Dead

merge two films: New Jack City Slickers

What do we want? JUSTITIA (Justice)! When do we want it? Still!

Pope Joan: The Most Dramatic Gender Reveal of All Time? I somehow still missed it when this Pride Month collection at #NewberryLibrary went live last month! www.newberry.org/blog/from-th...

It's a TRAP!

Twinning Tuesday? Found an 18th c. fan of Rembrandt's Girl at a Window... From a calligraphic album at #NewberryLibrary: i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01... L'art d'ecrire suivant les principes prouvés de Mesnager, comme l'on verra dans ce traité, 1770.

TODAY! (And it will be recorded...)

Miss last summer's "Pop-Up Books Through the Ages' exhibition @NewberryLibrary? SO DO I! I'm talking (again) about all the Movable Mayhem involved ... Tomorrow! 2 pm Pacific Time for the Book Club of Washington! Please join us if you'd like: bit.ly/45KFhGQ

Friday Flowers A maze of 18th c. paste paper posies (or stenciled ones) @NewberryLibrary

How Many Licks Does It Take To Get To The Center Of The ... Tootsie Pop? Microscopic Flora with BIG Attitude at #NewberryLibrary! Ferrari, Flora, 1664: i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

I'm Not Musical... But all these binding duets really sing! Printed labels on handwritten scores from the 1700s in the Howard Mayer Brown collection at #NewberryLibrary!

This is Fine The most fashionable way to set your walls on fire is "flame stitch"! Late 18th c. German manuscript at #NewberryLibrary (Case MS 5485) Actual Flamestitch examples courtesy of Sophie Pitman. It may look straight out of 1970, but it's been spotted as early as the 13th century?!

Is Graphic Design (and a functioning Democracy) YOUR Passion? Sign up to remind US voters that they are never powerless: postcardstovoters.org #PostcardsToVoters #SaveDemocracy

Wunderbar! Just finished devouring the first (?!) English bio of Reformation-enabling artist Lucas Cranach the Elder! By @henkaipantomime.bsky.social, it should be read by everybody. Extra points for giving Cranach's nude ladies some agency, and for that devilish #NewberryLibrary pamphlet cameo!

Want A Provenance DEEP Dive? Buckle up! I recently noticed this lynx-shaped stamp on a book at #NewberryLibrary. This sharp-sighted feline was the emblem (aka mascot) of one of the first scientific societies, in early 17th c. Rome! #BigCat #Caturday 1/?

Pretty Pochoir Package ... for Poems and Prose of William Blake, Little Blue Book no. 677, Girard, Kansas, 1925. @NewberryLibrary (Case PR4142 .D4 1925) #GardenOfLove

Who's a Riddle wrapped in an Enigma wrapped in a Vest? (Hold the vest!) Currently starring at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in his spellbinding, sold-out The Enigmatist, David Kwong stopped by #NewberryLibrary yesterday to see some of our Renaissance puzzles and show us a few tricks of his own!

Snakes On An (Astral) Plane? Two horoscope charts with hand-colored woodcut snakes from the charming 1488 Astrolabium at #UISpecColl! So ... Is your future brighter with ONE snake 🐍 or a whole snake DEN? 🐍 🐍 🐍 🐍 🐍 🐍 One means the "man will be wise," while the six snakes "will have many enemies"!

Silent But Deadly? It's... A FART's Epitaph! Enjoy some quality 17th c. English literature from #NewberryLibrary!* i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01... *If you're wondering, in 1650, "cracked" meant "make a sharp noise"... #CrackedSo # SmeltSo

And Yet I Remain Unmoved! 🧭 Stationary compass's needle points north towards Ursa Major and by extension, Polaris! Astronomy pamphlet from 1627 Bologna at #NewberryLibrary #AdorableAstonomy