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#TypeTuesday Quotes from "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard" printed by The American Book-Stratford Press in 1927.

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#ArchitectureApril #TBT The Alexandroff Campus Center at 600 S. Michigan Ave was originally built in 1906. The building is 15 stories high with brick and stone exterior, designed in a classical style. It was first acquired by Columbia in 1975. https://t.co/BiFyqLkFtg

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#TypeTuesday Typefaces Houghton (1880), Hogarth (1885), Art Gothic (1882), and Pamela (1872) as featured in a catalog of 20 fonts from the T.J. Lyons Antique Type Collection, which had been been available for use on a Photo Typositor, 1968.

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Today starts ALA Preservation Week 2018. In the Archives, it's important to keep our materials in the best condition possible to ensure they stay accessible. Visit this guide from ALA and learn what you can do to keep your personal heirlooms in good shape: https://t.co/9Umi8Ff7V7

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#ArchitectureApril #TBT 1014 S Michigan Ave: home of the Columbia College Music Department, built in 1912 & rehab'd for the Sherwood School of Music in 1941. Columbia bought it in 1997. It's faced with red brick & white terracotta on top of a steel frame. https://t.co/OfZyzFlTXf

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#WhatsUpWednesday On Monday we got out our Early Photography Collection out to share with a Photo Foundations I class who came to visit, focusing on portraiture!

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#TypeTuesday "A Little Bit About Punctuation and Other Funny Marks," by Muriel Underwood, 1995, Center for Book & Paper Arts.

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@CCCArchives We’ve made a video about how Johnston Typeface was designed, thought you may like it. https://t.co/Wde73SFXid

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#ArchitectureApril #TBT It's the 1104 S. Wabash building! Also called The Ludington, it was constructed in 1891 by William LeBaron Jenney and is both a City of Chicago Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places. Read more about The Ludington on our website.

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Happy 162nd B-Day to college co-founder Ida Morey Riley! She met Mary Blood in Iowa, who urged her to study at the Emerson School in Boston. She received her Masters degree in Oration before joining Blood in Chicago, where they founded the Columbia School of Oratory in 1890.

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The "Baynard Claudia" typeface for initials by Barnett Freedman, which are "distinguished from the capital by the fact that it is not part of the fount of type." From "Signature: A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts Vol. 1," 1935. #TypeTuesday

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#ArchitectureApril: the Dance Center at 1306 S. Michigan Ave. Built in 1930 by Anker S. Graven, the four-level Art Deco building originally served as a film exchange to the Paramount Publix Corporation, and Columbia bought and renovated the building in 1999.

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For Chicago Flag Day, watch Roman Mars' TedTalk explaining vexillology and what makes good flag design. (Spoilers: Chicago's is a great example!)

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#TypeTuesday "Buddhist Parables," interpreted and illustrated by Margaret Roche, printed at Artists Books Works, Chicago, 1991. Handset monotype in Bodoni, illustrattions are linoleum block prints.

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In honor of Poetry Month, we're sharing these poems by Columbia student Richard Frank Lubbers, class of 1965. He wrote them after taking a poetry workshop with Gwendolyn Brooks, and they were published in the Columbia Comment, a precursor to the Columbia Chronicle.

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April Fool's Day is this weekend, so don't be fooled by tricks like this one from the "Columbia Comical," 1991. #TBT #ThrowbackThursday

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An original leaf from the 1499 Aldine Edition of "Scriptores Astronomici Veteres" printed by Aldus Manutius at Vemice in 1499. #TypeTuesday

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Happy belated #TypeTuesday! This week we bring you "ITC Isbell," designed by Richard Isbell and Jerry Campbell in 1980, here shown in The Typesmiths catalogue.

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For #TBT and International Women's Day, so we're celebrating our founders, Mary Ann Blood and Ida Morey Riley. Blood attended Framington State University and Emerson College, through which she met Riley before the two established the Columbia School of Oratory in Chicago, 1890.

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From a stack of old boxes in a corner of the @LibraryTweet, to over 50 million digitally-catalogued items, the @CCCArchives are preserving and documenting the rich history of Columbia. https://t.co/RUTchZ3fDD