Dave Weimer
@dweimer.bsky.social
Newberry Library; abolition; maps; other things
Add your own experience to the Folded Map Project!
October 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Add your own experience to the Folded Map Project!
Thanks to the MCA for the amazing Cage score
October 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thanks to the MCA for the amazing Cage score
Mapping Outside the Lines is open! Explore how maps work with classics like portolan charts and Antonio García Cubas and contemporary artists like Tonika Johnson, Ed Fairburn, and Ibrahim Miranda Ramos. Marvel at a fold-out river and listen to our rendition of a John Cage score.
October 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Mapping Outside the Lines is open! Explore how maps work with classics like portolan charts and Antonio García Cubas and contemporary artists like Tonika Johnson, Ed Fairburn, and Ibrahim Miranda Ramos. Marvel at a fold-out river and listen to our rendition of a John Cage score.
We just finished up the loan paperwork and it (and at least a few pages like these of the score of addresses) will be at the Newberry for an exhibit from Oct through mid Feb. I'm very excited we got it! We're working on a little audio interpretation of parts as well.
April 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We just finished up the loan paperwork and it (and at least a few pages like these of the score of addresses) will be at the Newberry for an exhibit from Oct through mid Feb. I'm very excited we got it! We're working on a little audio interpretation of parts as well.
Apparently I work in 1989
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Apparently I work in 1989
Super excited for #DouglassDay to kick off here at the Newberry!
February 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Super excited for #DouglassDay to kick off here at the Newberry!
I love mid-century fakes—this one calls itself a "faithful reproduction." It has chain lines and a watermark, but probably from a dandy roll and definitely not 17C paper b/c the shadows are all wrong. It's hard to tell here but the ink sits very flat on the paper too.
January 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I love mid-century fakes—this one calls itself a "faithful reproduction." It has chain lines and a watermark, but probably from a dandy roll and definitely not 17C paper b/c the shadows are all wrong. It's hard to tell here but the ink sits very flat on the paper too.
Cool thing: 15C Latin manuscript of Ptolemy's astrology with a gloss that shows European (east on top) and Islamic (south on top) T/O #maps
November 15, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Cool thing: 15C Latin manuscript of Ptolemy's astrology with a gloss that shows European (east on top) and Islamic (south on top) T/O #maps
TIL the newberry has 118 blocks from Thomas Bewick!
October 22, 2024 at 8:38 PM
TIL the newberry has 118 blocks from Thomas Bewick!
#CrossCrab: St Francis lost his cross and a crab brought it back the next day on the 1744 edition of the Murillo #map of the #philippines
September 27, 2024 at 8:10 PM
#CrossCrab: St Francis lost his cross and a crab brought it back the next day on the 1744 edition of the Murillo #map of the #philippines
It depends how hard you want to go but at least cite 410.235 (A) 12 of the Mass Sanitary Code www.mass.gov/regulations/...
Before you threaten to withhold rent or something, you need to request repairs in writing + need certified mail to have evidence of receipt.
Before you threaten to withhold rent or something, you need to request repairs in writing + need certified mail to have evidence of receipt.
September 6, 2024 at 1:19 AM
It depends how hard you want to go but at least cite 410.235 (A) 12 of the Mass Sanitary Code www.mass.gov/regulations/...
Before you threaten to withhold rent or something, you need to request repairs in writing + need certified mail to have evidence of receipt.
Before you threaten to withhold rent or something, you need to request repairs in writing + need certified mail to have evidence of receipt.
English 7, 1938-1939
August 11, 2024 at 1:47 AM
English 7, 1938-1939
Proud new owner of Boston Line Type! I got a tip and picked these up. I haven't ever seen the actual type before! Only the stereotyped plate of Dickens at Perkins. not all early since they didn't make the capitals letters until the 1850s. I need to do some page comparisons and measurements...
July 13, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Proud new owner of Boston Line Type! I got a tip and picked these up. I haven't ever seen the actual type before! Only the stereotyped plate of Dickens at Perkins. not all early since they didn't make the capitals letters until the 1850s. I need to do some page comparisons and measurements...
Best merch ever from my colleagues in digital initiatives. Check out the maps at digital.newberry.org/novacco
July 2, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Best merch ever from my colleagues in digital initiatives. Check out the maps at digital.newberry.org/novacco
From Samuel Gridley Howe's Diagrams Illustrating a Compendium of Natural Philosophy, 1836, printed at the Perkins School for the Blind
April 8, 2024 at 4:09 PM
From Samuel Gridley Howe's Diagrams Illustrating a Compendium of Natural Philosophy, 1836, printed at the Perkins School for the Blind
Road map faces from Thorpe's Illustrated Road Map and Tour Book of CA, 1911.
March 26, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Road map faces from Thorpe's Illustrated Road Map and Tour Book of CA, 1911.
I forgot to post this last week, bit did one of us fans of the other roaring twenties infiltrate wikimedia?
February 7, 2024 at 3:05 PM
I forgot to post this last week, bit did one of us fans of the other roaring twenties infiltrate wikimedia?
January 22, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Pretty excited about this new acquisition from Robert Rauschenberg's "Tares" series from 1972. An interesting way of registering what road maps meant to people in conversation with other ephemeral print #NewberryLibrary
September 13, 2023 at 10:52 PM
Pretty excited about this new acquisition from Robert Rauschenberg's "Tares" series from 1972. An interesting way of registering what road maps meant to people in conversation with other ephemeral print #NewberryLibrary
Don't let anyone tell you that local history doesn't go hard
September 11, 2023 at 11:58 PM
Don't let anyone tell you that local history doesn't go hard
Found Jesus on the verso of a 1478 Ptolemy
August 26, 2023 at 10:44 PM
Found Jesus on the verso of a 1478 Ptolemy