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Gary Hornseth
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Minnesota ephemerist. History, music, visual arts, a bit of baseball. Work = PR. Posts = else. Also the westerly half of Trademark Issues 🎸
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Today I discovered the Instagram of Sapporo artist Eiji Ohashi, who specializes in night photography of vending machines, mostly in winter.

“The reason . . . is that it will make us see hope and inspiration when we see shiny things in the middle of a dark night.”

Images at his site: eijiohashi.com
Upholstery fabric advertisement
Knoll Associates, Inc.
Progressive Architecture
June 1965

Image: US Modernist Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/usmo...
February 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Sunlight through leaves, today
Como Park Conservatory
Saint Paul, Minn.
January 31, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Beautiful illustrations of iron interacting with rocks, from the publication of a paper, "On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata", delivered by the botanist and geologist George Maw to the Geological Society on April 22nd 1868: publicdomainreview.org/collection/o...
January 24, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Seed catalog cover
Northrup, King and Co.
Minneapolis, Minn.
1929

Image: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection of the National Agricultural Library via @archive.org; archive.org/details/CAT3...
January 24, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Images from Owen Simmons' The Book of Bread (1903), a reference manual for commercial bakeries which includes striking pasted-in silver bromide prints and dazzling chromolithographs of bread. Read the book, and see more of its images, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-bread
January 7, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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January 6, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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L'espérance by Vincent Huot (2016)
January 6, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Ceiling lights, last week, Eclipse Records, downtown Saint Paul
January 1, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Hockey sweaters peaked at that moment, and it's been downhill ever since.
On this day in 1893, Barney Stanley was born in Paisley, Ontario.
In his hockey career he won a Stanley Cup and recorded 143 goals and 216 points in 217 PCHA/WCHL games. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1963 and died in 1971.
January 1, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Dec. 31, 1933: Minneapolis hotel workers restore bottle holders used as Prohibition-era plant stands to their original function. (Tribune)
January 1, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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I started this account one year ago today and posted about music history at least once per day throughout 2025. Whew! It’s pretty neat to accumulate 1,000 followers. Thank you for following, liking, commenting, etc. I have no plans to stop.
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Cover detail from “Minneapolis,” a quarterly magazine of the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, November 1930

Artist not credited.

Image: Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association Collection of Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Foggy Frozen Mississippi River
December 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“I've compiled a list of the water towers I saw this year . . . this is just a small selection.”
今年見た給水塔をまとめてみた。
団地以外の給水塔に限定しても今年は9基には全然収まらないのでごく一部の抜粋。全ては来年半ば頃には明らかにできる(はず)。
December 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Amending this opinion after a visit today: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts/Art is the best place in Minneapolis. I realize there are other opinions. That is mine.
I feel like "Mia" is one of the best places in Minneapolis. It is free to visit.
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
December 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Architectural rendering on display at Eclipse Records, yesterday, Saint Paul
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Couldn’t sleep. Went out.
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Lighting fixture, this afternoon
Cathedral of Saint Paul
Saint Paul, Minn.
December 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Chicago Athletic Association.
December 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“My favorite tempo is watching clouds move, right?”

In this short CBC video from 2020, Jerry Granelli (1940-2021) talked about his approach to drumming for “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
How Jerry Granelli wrote the drums for A Charlie Brown Christmas
Jerry Granelli, the legendary jazz drummer behind A Charlie Brown Christmas, explains how he wrote some of the rhythm for the 1965 classic holiday special.
www.cbc.ca
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
December 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Gateway Park at Christmas
Minneapolis
Ernest A. Kjorlie, photographer
1937

Image: Hennepin History Museum via Minnesota Digital Library; collection.mndigital.org/catalog/hchm...
December 17, 2023 at 12:45 AM
Trade catalog images, ceramic tile
J. Romeu Escofet (firm)
Barcelona
1915

Images: Avery Library (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/fabr...
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM