Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Mapping 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. 1164
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025We 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. 190
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Super excited for #DouglassDay to kick off here at the Newberry! 0101
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I 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. 220
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Cool 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 111
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 27/09/2024#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 051
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 06/09/2024It 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. 190
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 13/07/2024Proud 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... 170
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 02/07/2024Best merch ever from my colleagues in digital initiatives. Check out the maps at digital.newberry.org/novacco 010
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 08/04/2024From Samuel Gridley Howe's Diagrams Illustrating a Compendium of Natural Philosophy, 1836, printed at the Perkins School for the Blind 052
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 26/03/2024Road map faces from Thorpe's Illustrated Road Map and Tour Book of CA, 1911. 000
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 07/02/2024I forgot to post this last week, bit did one of us fans of the other roaring twenties infiltrate wikimedia? 000
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 22/01/2024#BookHistory carousel ride collections.newberry.org/asset-manage... 000
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 13/09/2023Pretty 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 020
Dave Weimer @dweimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2023Don't let anyone tell you that local history doesn't go hard 030
