Posts Tagged ‘musical instruments’

14
Jul

DPD 14 July 2010: Japanese Musicians in Traditional Dress Playing Traditional Instruments

   Posted by: Tidbit    in Daily Public Domain Image, Images from other sites

Japanese musicans playing traditional instruments
Japanese musicians playing on traditional instruments – the samisen, fuye, taiko, and tsuzumi; c. 1910×1920. Photographer unknown. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LOC #LC-D41-26

This is a posed photograph from c. 1910×1920. I love how composed these women look. This photo was taken by an unknown photographer for the Detroit Publishing Company. The collection of the DPC is now the property of the Library of Congress, whose information on the collection says:

This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. Subjects strongly represented in the collection include city and town views, including streets and architecture; parks and gardens; recreation; and industrial and work scenes. [From the LOC website
You can read more about the collection at the Library of Congress’ website, where there is an article on the Detroit Publishing Co. Click on the image to see it and download it full-sized.

Peace

Bekka

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25
May

DPD 25 May 2010: Accordian

   Posted by: Tidbit    in Daily Public Domain Image, Images from other sites

Lady with an Accordian
Accordian. Line drawing by Pearson Scott Foresman, released into the public domain via Wiki Commons.

As promised, I’m featuring a few of Pearson Scott Foresman’s public domain line drawings. Foresman has uploaded dozens of drawings to Wikipedia Commons and marked them as ‘Public Domain’, so much so that he has several categories all to himself – including one of his PD art!

I’m going to be featuring a few of my favorites by him that I have saved in my graphics collection, but you are welcome to go and search through them for yourself! Obviously, I don’t have the time or space to feature them all.
Thank you Mr. Foresman!
Peace,
Bekka
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12
Sep

DPD 12 Sept 2009: Musical flourish

   Posted by: Tidbit    in Daily Public Domain Image, Images I made or modified, Images I scanned and cleaned up

This graphic comes from the 1923 American Type Founders Catalog, which I own. I modified it by cleaning up the scan and making it transparent.

Musical-themed printers ornament, from the American Type Founders Catalog, 1923. Cleaned up and made transparent by author.

Musical-themed printers ornament, from the American Type Founders Catalog, 1923. Cleaned up and made transparent by author.

The American Type Founders Catalog was more book than what we would think of as a ‘catalog’. It was hardbound and  nearly 1000 pages long. The company – which was, in turn, a congolmeration of smaller companies, made letterpress type and equipment. Their catalog was both a catalog and a demonstration of letterpress – it was completely typeset and bound using the type and equipment they sold. It contained numerous faux ads and announcements to demonstrate the versatility and quality of the type they sold. It also attempted to discourage using newer forms of printing such as Monotype.

Despite their best efforts, the company went out of business in 1933. There is an interesting website about the history of printing at Columbia University, which houses the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company. Originally the website of an Rare Book exhibit from 2001, one of the pages is specifically about the American Type Founders Co.

Peace,

Bekka

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