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The Pleasure of His Company

A photo may capture a moment in cultural time—literally mirroring beliefs, assumptions, conventions, and notions of behaviors acceptable and scorned. The 385 photographs in this book are just such mirrors. Two decades ago, John Ibson, a historian of masculinity’s history in the United States and of the variety of male…

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WAIL

"WAIL: The Visual Language of Prestige Records, is a revelation. Prestige, born in the post war years in a grungy, urban and restless New York, provided and pioneered a radical platform for expression...

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Art for Art House

Between 1947 and 1980, Peter Strausfeld, a German refugee interned on the Isle of Man during World War II, created unique, compelling posters for London’s Academy Cinema—the city’s premier art...

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grayscale map of the rochester area from 1960

Rochester History Vol. 83, No. 2 (Spring 2026)

Rochester History is a peer-reviewed biannual journal produced by the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County in partnership with Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of History....

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stylized wartwork of suwhite and yellow dun rays over a brown mountain with brown trees

Blazing a Trail

Dorothy Waugh’s National Park Service posters comprise a striking visual record in the history of the Great Depression and mark a turning point in American graphic design. Convinced that tourism...

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WAIL

Chris Entwisle, Mark Havens

$80.00

Munsell Trees

Mark D. Fairchild

$60.00

Rochester History Vol. 82, No. 1 (Fall 2024)

Christine L. Ridarsky, Rebecca Edwards, Patricia Uttaro, Elizabeth Carr, Erik R. Seeman, Richard D. Deverell, Daniel Gorman, Cynthia Van Ness

$10.25

Women, Enterprise, Craft

Sharon S. Darling

$80.00

Herbert Bayer's World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury

Benjamin Benus

$49.99

Rochester History Vol. 81, No. 2 (Spring 2024)

Christine L. Ridarsky, Rebecca Edwards, Patricia Uttaro, Rebecca Edwards, Michael J. Brown, Erica Bryant, Luticha André Doucette, Peter Wisbey

$10.25

The Splendid Disarray of Beauty

Richard D. Mohr

$75.00

Communicating Knowledge Visually

Sheila Pontis, R. Roger Remington

$60.00

Up Against the Wall

Donald Albrecht, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, William M. Valenti

$60.00

Late Harvest

Forest McMullin

$60.00

Finding Our Place in Nature

Richard Lynn Shearman

$29.95

Learning to Interpret

Campbell McDermid

$24.95

The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota

Jessica Marten, Janet Catherine Berlo

$24.95

Jeannette Klute

Therese Mulligan, Becky Simmons

$21.95

The Scythe and the Rabbit

Kay Amert, Robert Bringhurst

$39.99

Claude Bragdon and the Beautiful Necessity

Eugenia Victoria Ellis, Andrea G. Reithmayr

$49.95

Melbert B. Cary, Jr. and the Press of the Woolly Whale

David Pankow, Carl Purington Rollis, Kenneth Auchincloss

$200.00

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WAIL selected for AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show

WAIL: The Visual Language of Prestige Records has been selected for the 2026 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, which recognizes outstanding achievement in book design and production….

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Featured Subject: Art

Cover of 'Arthur Singer' by Alan Singer and Paul Singer

Arthur B. Singer was an American wildlife artist specializing in bird illustration. In a career spanning five decades, he illustrated more than 20 books.

During the 1980s, assisted by his son, Alan, Singer’s paintings of state birds were seen by millions when the U.S. Postal Service issued the State Birds & Flowers postage stamps. The stamps became one of the largest selling commemoratives in U.S. Postal history.

Singer received the Hal Borland Award in 1985 from the National Audubon Society. His paintings are represented in several public and private collections in the United States and Europe.

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