shifting

Took a walk around Lake Street on our first springlike day of the season.

Lake Street: former home of the Nicollet Ballpark (on the corner of Lake and
Nicollet Avenue), Wonderland Park with Infantorium!!
Plus: Robert's Shoes who boldly claims "Hardly a foot we can't fit".

tonight we launch—where shall we anchor

The motto of a class of ten!
photograph from 1949

spring sky

minnesota / outings

32 today

happy birthday dear sister!

'Dress us and we will be ready for a party.'

A Platt & Munk Educational Activity. MCMXLIX (1949)

Darger-esque!

parts

misc. interiors/exteriors

be true

minipeople

So glad it's Friday.

feats

A very long truck. Back of photo reads: Prestressed Concrete Inc. Anoka Minnesota
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A monogram containing all the letters of the alphabet and a 310 letter 'word monster' Both pages from Ripley's Believe It or Not! 1934. Simon and Schuster.

Lot's of feats here. Plus this and this .

flamingos, stacks and pots

misc.

transfers

I love the print quality on these stickers.

Larry and Phyllis cooperate

A young Alan Arkin playing Larry on Sesame Street episode # 131/1970.
Plus a mini compilation of Sesame Street goodies.

Typographica

Timeless! Come view Typographica first hand in the Minneapolis College of Art and Design's Library or visit modernism 101 for information or to purchase——yikes 4000$ for 16 of the total 32 issues. Perhaps you may want to read more on the magazine's founder, Herbert Spencer...

muse

Circles sampled from an old Italian art catalog: Catalogo Nazionale Bolaffi d'arte Moderna n. 7. 1972.

see and say +

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All four books from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design's Library.

1. See and Say. Text and Woodcuts by Anonio Frasconi. 1955

2. The Sound of Things by William Wondriska. 1955.

3. Limericks by Lear. Limericks by Edward Lear + illustrations by Lois Ehlert. 1965.

4. le petit arbre. Text by Thelma Volckman Delabesse + illustrations by Sylvie Selig. 1967.

a really great thing

Someone (I can't remember who?——so sorry!) gave me this fine package a very long time ago. It's one of the funniest things I own.