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4th Week of February 2023

February 26th, 2023

The Typography of W.E.B. Du Bois

A new Cooper Hewitt exhibition examines the remarkable data visualizations he made for the 1900 World’s Fair

Caption "Political Unrest"

 

 

Mapping the Battle of Fredericksburg

Images from the Library of Congress Map Collection

“Plan of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia” by Robert Knox Sneden

 

Hogarth Gets a Spa Day

Restoring a volume of prints by the great British caricaturist William Hogarth.

Volume before treatment

 

A Letter Writing Cat?!

Henry writes to his owners while they’re away on vacation.

Typewritten letter signed with a pawprint

 

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