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Let's get down to the serious stuff: last minute Halloween costume ideas from Book Arts & Special Collections, found in Cosmorama: A View of the Costumes and Peculiarities of All Nations (1827): http://sflib1.sfpl.org/record=b1482474~S1

Trick or Treat! And don't forget, we're moving, starting tomorrow, to the SFPL page!

Happy Halloween all you researchers!

More Halloween greetings from us!

Happy Halloween everyone from special collections staff!

What's on the 6th floor?: Five Things in the San Francisco History Center That Will Give You The...

Just in time for - Five Things in the San Francisco History Center That Will Give You the Chills!

Check it out... if you dare!

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Finding Aid to the Carol Tarlen and David Joseph Papers 1977-2010 SFH 73

SFH 73 Carol Tarlen / David Joseph Papers are open for research"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8rr20s0/--local poetry, working-class. Goes nicely with Tarlen's selected poems published last year, "Every Day is an Act of Resistance. http://sflib1.sfpl.org/record=b2600058~S1

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We'll continue sharing wonderful treasures from the San Francisco History Center and Book Arts & Special Collections on the San Francisco Public Library page.

Official moving date is October 31, 2013.

THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE TO DIE FOR THE MUSIC. RIP Lou Reed. You’ll find the rest of his poem in “Intransit: The Andy Warhol-Gerard Malanga Monster Issue”: http://sflib1.sfpl.org/record=b2299168~S1

Microcomputer Software Lives Again, This Time in Your Browser | Internet Archive Blogs

JMESS + Internet Archive = access to fabulous old videogames! Hooray for software as archival material!

blog.archive.org The miracle is now so commonplace that it’s invisible: we have the ability to watch video, listen to music, and read documents right in our browsers. You might get a hankering to hear some old time radio, or classic television programs, or maybe read up some classic children’s books, you’re just a c...

"A locked form is unable to change..." from William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways: http://sflib1.sfpl.org/record=b1522424~S1 .

Calligraphy (detail) by Michael Harvey, 1989. In the Harrison Collection of Calligraphy and Lettering.

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Requiescat in pace, Michael Harvey. Renowned calligrapher, stone cutter, book designer has died. He leaves a legacy in lettering (some of his inscriptions appear on the walls of the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery). We are pleased to have some of his work in the Harrison Collection of Calligraphy and Lettering. Here's a video about Michael Harvey's work from the Edward Johnston Foundation:
http://www.ejf.org.uk/videomh.html

ejf.org.uk The Edward Johnston Foundation is a registered arts charity dedicated to the promotion of a public awareness of calligraphy and its associated disciplines

Historypin | University of California Extension location at ...

Help us solve this History-Mystery!

historypin.com Record from San Francisco History Center: University of California Extension location at Laguna & Hermann See more: http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/record=b1033797~S0 From OldSF: Location extraction technique: free-streets Extracted location: at laguna and hermann (form 8)

What's on the 6th floor?: ILLUSTRATED At Last

Illustrated at last--Alastair Johnston's article on the Robert Grabhorn Collection on the History of Printing and the Development of the Book...

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Historypin | First Western bank,21st & Mission street

Mission Mission & Mission Loc@l - will you share the fun? We need some help with our Year of the Bay History Mysteries project. We have the locations but need assistance with folks adding the Street View to these Mission District buildings.
Here's the how-to http://blog.historypin.com/2013/09/16/visit-1964-san-francisco-and-help-the-sf-public-library/

historypin.com Record from San Francisco History Center: First Western bank, 21st & Mission street See more: http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/record=b1019391~S0 From OldSF: Location extraction technique: free-streets Extracted location: 21st and mission street (form 5)

¡Viva! SF History Center Treasures: Relacion historica… del venerable padre fray Junipero Serra by Francisco Palóu. (1787)

Precious Ink | To the best of our KNOWLEDGE

Everything by hand...http://www.ttbook.org/book/precious-ink

Want some inspiration? Visit the Harrison Collection of Calligraphy and Lettering http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000007501

ttbook.org Everybody used to learn handwriting in school. And whether or not our handwriting was beautiful, we knew cursive and studied penmanship. Today, clasroom instruction hours are shrinking and who needs penmanship when we have keyboards and autocorrect? This hour, are we witnessing the twilight of ha...

Finding aid to the Peter Mintun Cockettes Collection, 1970-2009 GLC 78

Peter Mintun Cockettes Collection is available in the San Francisco History Center, as part of the James C. Hormel Gay and Le***an Center archives. Mintun served as piano accompanist for the Cockettes in the early '70s. Fuller description on the Online Archive of California: http://bit.ly/1bmboKT

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What's on the 6th floor?: From our Test Kitchen: 'Buy It Fresh'

We've warmed up the 6th Floor Test Kitchen again!

Today's recipe: Apple Nut Muffins from the "Buy It Fresh" cookbook - recipes from the farmers and shoppers of the Heart of the City Farmers Market.

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In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines
lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
In two straight lines they broke their bread
and brushed their teeth and went to bed....

We love Madeline! http://sflib1.sfpl.org/record=b1871874~S1
Find more adventures with Madeline at your public library.

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/11/230949629/at-75-shes-doing-fine-kids-still-love-their-madeline

We’re moving to San Francisco Public Library! Please like us there!
We’ll continue sharing wonderful treasures from the San Francisco History Center and Book Arts & Special Collections.
Official moving date is October 31, 2013

What's on the 6th floor?: Unbuilt San Francisco: Twin Peaks Monument

Illuminated cascading water down Twin Peaks...what was unbuilt in San Francisco.

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Learn about "Treasures From the Archives" - Thursday, 6pm! http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1013379701

Another beautiful image from the Grabhorn Collection on the 6th Floor. [Margaret Rust, “The Queen of the Fishes.” (Eragny Press, 1894) : http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000637201]

Happy Birthday, Monsieur Diderot!
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See the Paris edition of the Encyclopedie (1751-1772) in the Book Arts & Special Collections Center on the 6th Floor: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=0200000201

The Illuminated Library curated by Sharon Bliss with the Fine Arts Gallery

Exhibition at San Francisco State University: http://creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/2013/09/21/6021

Today at 2:30, at the Sutro Library, SFSU, San Francisco calligrapher Thomas Ingmire in conversation with antiquarian book dealer John Windle:http://creativestate.sfsu.edu/events/2013/10/03/6671

See more of Ingmire's work in the Harrison Collection of Calligraphy and Lettering
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000007501

creativestate.sfsu.edu Artists and books have a long-standing relationship, from the earliest "illuminations" -- exquisite drawings that decorated the margins of early European texts -- through books made by artists, and wo

We know you're out there! Find this book on left-handed calligraphy in the Harrison Collection on the 6th floor!

http://sflib1.sfpl.org/record=b1555778~S1

The press mark of Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen's Black Vine Press. Find their books in the Grabhorn Collection.

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Federal govt shutdown affects local library service too--painfully reminded of this while following up on a reference question here at the desk... http://www.loc.gov/home2/shutdown-message.html

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From "A book of modern age and classical type faces" 1934, in the Grabhorn Collection on the History of Printing...

Another beautiful image from the 6th floor...

Letters Tableaux - Print Magazine

Lovely letters from Print Magazine

printmag.com Intricate tableaux framed by letters was one of those curious 19th century eccentricities.

Clipper advertising card exhibit at Bancroft Library

From our friends at The Bancroft Library!

sfgate.com The clippers - so named because they could "clip" over the waves - were "celebrities of the seas, projecting adventure and romance," wrote historian Jack von Euw. The Bancroft exhibit The Bancroft display and a small book by David Pettus, a San Francisco book collector, tell the…

From our collection of periodicals on book binding, printing and book arts. This 1905 dutch ad is on the cover of the Guild of Book Workers Newsletter.

A beautiful image for a beautiful autumn day--many more like it up here on 6.

2013 Architecture and the City Film Series

Coming this Wed. evening: trailer for local documentary 5 Blocks, together with full-length Danish documentary The Human Scale.

sfpl.org This SFPL event will occur on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 from 5:30 - 7:30 at Main Library Branch, Koret Auditorium

The printer's device (also known as a printer's mark) of Aldus Manutius (1449 or 1450-1515). Read more about this Renaissance printer in the Book Arts & Special Collections Center.

Share your knowledge about ! Historypin launched a new section on Year of the Bay called History Mysteries that asks for your help!

Explore 1964 San Francisco within our Year of the Bay project, and help to Street View some great photos of San Francisco landmarks courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library: http://blog.historypin.com/?p=3877