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litreactor.com LURID: Branwell Brontë—Wastrel or Romantic Hero? Why is Branwell Brontë such a hero to so many? Lurid takes a look at his wasted life, and how his perpetual failure became an integral part of the Brontë mythos.

bookriot:
“ Attention history buffs! Want to learn the true stories behind your favorite historical novels? Check out these nonfiction/historical fiction book...

bookriot:

Attention history buffs! Want to learn the true stories behind your favorite historical novels? Check out these nonfiction/historical fiction book pairs!
http://bookriot.com/2016/07/25/the-fact-behind-the-fiction-10-nonfictionhistorical-fiction-book-pairs/

Bram Stoker’s application for a ticket for the British Museum Library

darienlibrary:

britishmuseum:
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) describes himself in this letter as a ‘Barrister at Law’. He was indeed a lawyer, but he is much better known as the author of the horror novel Dracula, published in 1897, eight years before this letter was written.
All readers used to have to apply in writing to the Museum if they wanted to use the Museum’s Library. In his application Stoker admits that (like many other readers) he has lost his ticket – although his has been missing for longer than most. ‘I have used the Rooms since 1879 or thereabouts but I have not seen my ticket for at least twenty years and cannot find it.’
The Principal Librarian of the Museum replied to Stoker’s letter on 24 May 1905, telling him that a new ticket would be issued to him.
THIS IS VERY NEAT.

everyprettybook:
“ Brooklyn Public Library - Williamsburg, NY, US (circa 1900)
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everyprettybook:

Brooklyn Public Library - Williamsburg, NY, US (circa 1900)
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litreactor.com Library Love: A Rough Timeline of Lost Libraries From Iraq to Los Angeles, countless libraries have been lost to war, fire, and “progress.”

litreactor.com Dalton Trumbo: Who He Was And Why We Should Care He's the face of the Hollywood blacklist—and he's played by Bryan Cranston in a new movie—but just who is Dalton Trumbo?

litreactor.com F-Bomb News Roundup Oldest written f-bomb found, f-bombs on tickets are free speech, and who is topping Twitter in dropping the ol' F?

smithsonianlibraries:

Google’s new logo has us thinking about typography and the history of typeface. Luckily, we have some great examples in our digital library.
Some very fancy lettering can be found in The Embroider’s Book of Design by Freeman Delamotte (1891) [top left]. It has lettering examples for embroidery along with designs for ornamentation.
The book Letters & Lettering by Frank Chouteau Brown (1902) [top right, bottom left, very bottom] has 200 examples of (primarily) typefaces for reference, while Alphabets Old and New by Lewis Foreman Day (1910) has typefaces and more examples of historical lettering styles [very top, bottom right].
Find more typography and lettering under:
Alphabets
Type and type founding
Graphic design (typography)
Lettering

todaysdocument:

Apollo 11 Flight Plan
The flight plan for Apollo 11 was a minute-by-minute time line of activities for the mission crew—Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin—and Mission Control in Houston. The flight was launched July 16, 1969. Touchdown on the moon took place, as scheduled, on July 20, 102 hours, 47 minutes, and 11 seconds after launch from Cape Kennedy. The astronauts spent 21 hours and 36 minutes on the moon, and returned to Earth on July 24.
Apollo 11 Flight Plan
From the series: Pre-Shuttle Flight Data Files, 1968 - 1977. Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1903 - 2006

bookmania:
“ Books float on the street after a library on Rue Jacob, Paris is flooded during the Great 1910 Parisian Flood . (via historicaltimes)
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bookmania:

Books float on the street after a library on Rue Jacob, Paris is flooded during the Great 1910 Parisian Flood . (via historicaltimes)