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The total number of IG users following @username on last update.
The total number of IG users that @username was following on last update.
Indicated the number of follower @username has for every user he/she follows.
Indicates how this user uses his/her Instagram account.
The number of photos in @username’s feed. It might not be the same as the total amount of photos posted over time as Instagram offers the option to delete a photo at any time.
The date when @username last posted a photo to his/her feed.
How often does @username usually post a new photo/video.
The average amount of likes a photo by @username gets.
Two users might have an average of 100 likes on their photos. One got 100 likes on every single one of his photos, while the other got 20 in most of them and 2000 in a couple. The first user will have a high consistency while the second one will have a low consistency.
A good consistency is always a good sign.
The average percentage of IG users who follow @username who like his/her photos.
A good engagement rate is a sign of a healthy and responsive community.
The average amount of comments a photo by @username gets.
The average percentage of IG users who follow @username who comment on his/her photos.
Two users might have an average of 10 comments on their photos. One got 10 comments on every single one of his photos, while the other got 2 in most of them and 200 in a couple. The first user will have a high consistency while the second one will have a low consistency.
A low comment consistency can indicate that the average amount of comments might have been affected artificially due to a promotion.
The average percentage of comments a photo gets in relationship to the likes.
popularity
27,302
411
micro influencer
@fisherlibrary is a micro influencer with 27,302 followers.
content
1,843
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Oct 09
daily
@fisherlibrary is quite active, usually publishing every day, with a poor use of captions but great use of hashtags
community engagement
226 / 0.83%
86%
2 / 0.00007%
42%
@fisherlibrary's community is poorly engaged but consistent
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History
30 days
90 days
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date
followers
following
uploads
eng. rate
avg. likes
avg. comments
Oct 12
18
27,302
411
1,843
0.83%
226
2
Sep 26
4
27,284
412
1,836
0.87%
238
2
Sep 24
0
27,280
412
1,835
0.87%
238
2
Sep 23
18
27,280
412
1,834
0.92%
251
2
Sep 20
3
27,298
412
1,833
0.92%
250
2
Sep 19
1
27,295
412
1,833
0.91%
249
2
Sep 18
1
27,294
412
1,833
0.9%
247
2
Sep 17
4
27,295
412
1,832
0.91%
249
2
Sep 16
5
27,291
412
1,832
0.89%
244
2
Sep 15
1
27,296
412
1,831
1%
273
3
Sep 12
4
27,295
412
1,831
0.98%
267
3
Sep 11
3
27,291
412
1,830
0.99%
271
3
Sep 10
2
27,288
412
1,830
0.98%
268
2
Sep 09
3
27,286
412
1,829
0.99%
269
2
Sep 08
5
27,283
412
1,828
0.99%
270
2
Sep 07
2
27,278
412
1,828
0.99%
270
2
date
followers
following
uploads
eng. rate
avg. likes
avg. comments
Sep 06
7
27,280
412
1,828
0.99%
269
2
Sep 05
0
27,273
412
1,828
0.97%
265
2
Sep 04
30
27,273
412
1,827
0.99%
270
2
Sep 03
15
27,243
412
1,827
0.97%
263
2
Sep 02
5
27,228
412
1,826
1.09%
297
3
Sep 01
7
27,233
412
1,826
1.08%
293
3
Aug 30
8
27,226
413
1,825
1.09%
296
3
Aug 29
17
27,218
413
1,825
1.08%
293
3
Aug 27
6
27,201
413
1,824
1.06%
289
3
Aug 26
3
27,195
413
1,823
1.06%
288
3
Aug 25
1
27,192
413
1,823
1.05%
285
3
Aug 24
4
27,193
413
1,822
1.08%
293
3
Aug 23
2
27,189
413
1,822
1.08%
293
3
Aug 22
1
27,187
413
1,822
1.07%
290
3
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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We hope that this illustration of a fashionable woman walking her dog from the cover of the autumn 1913 issue of Dry Goods Review reminds you to get outside and away from your devices this long weekend.
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The Virtual services offered by the Fisher Library will be suspended on Monday for the holiday.
Dry Goods review, later rebranded as Style, was published from 1913-1981.
This issue is digitized and available on the Internet Archive.
Style. Toronto: 1913
BEWARE the CIDER TRAP for children!
‘What do the signs in the saloon windows mean, ‘Sweet Cider Free’?’
This pamphlet published by the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) answers the question, describing how by using this 'Satanic' lure, barmen turn good young country boys into alcoholics by offering them a free taste of home in the form of an innocent-looking glass of sweet cider.
🍏
Although the Temperance movement began in Canada in the early 19th century, the Canadian arm of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, an organization of women seeking legal prohibition of alcoholic beverages, began in 1874.
This pamphlet is digitized and available on the Internet Archive
The cider trap for children. Toronto : Dominion W. C. T. U. Literature Depository, [190-].
Salesman’s sample book of coloured horticultural specimen plates. La Pointe Nursery Company
1887-1905
This scrapbook in the Fisher’s collection is a compilation of coloured and black and white printed illustrations from numerous sources, charting the history of fashion from the compiler’s perspective.
Scrapbooks and compiled manuscripts can tell us a lot about their owners, what texts they had access to, and their reading habits.
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[Une histoire de costumes en images. Grangier, Louis Adrien Romain. Fribourg, 18--]
Naturalists and their Investigations, from our Victorian Natural History collection, takes a romantic look at the lives of Charles Linnaeus, Thomas Edward, George Cuvier, and Thomas Kingsley.
Thomas Edward, trained as a shoemaker, was fascinated from a young age with caterpillars, moths, and wasps in their various life stages.
The numerous headpieces and tailpieces showing the natural world convey a light and homely mood.
This item is digitized and available freely on the Internet Archive.
Naturalists and their Investigations. Linnaeus, Edward, Cuvier, Kingsley by George Day. London: S.W. Partridge [1896].
IA Book of the Week: Guidebook & Atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound.
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Each week, the Fisher Library highlights a piece from its collection on the Internet Archive, which is open to anyone to explore. In case you've missed the last few posts, visit the Fisher's blog, Through the Revolving Door, at the link above to read in detail about some of the harder-to-find items from our collections, like this guidebook and atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound, published in 1879.
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William Gilbert, physician to Queen Elizabeth, laid the foundations for the modern science of magnetism and electricity with this book. In the first part, he outlined the history of the magnet, and put forward the hypothesis that the earth itself was a gigantic magnet. He also touched on the application of terrestrial magnetism to navigation. In the second part he distinguished the effects of electricity from those of magnetism, thereby establishing electricity as a distinct discipline. He in fact coined the word “electricity”.
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Science Literacy Week 2020 may be over, but our display of highlights from the library's history of science collections is still online! Visit the link above to read about Gilbert's work and fourteen others.
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William Gilbert (1544-1603). De magnete. London: Peter Short, 1600.
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Wondering what to do with all of the apples showing up in your CSA, at your grocery store, or courtesy of friendly neighbours?
How about trying out a recipe for Brown Charlotte Pudding or Apple Pudding from Maria Ann Banner Price's nineteenth century culinary manuscript?
The first recipe is a pudding made with bread, and the second for ‘A nice apple pudding’ involves puff pastry topped with stewed, strained apple and a steamed meringue.
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The apple recipes in this manuscript from Quebec were pointed out by a staff member involved in a project to transcribe many of our digitized Fisher manuscripts, including several more cookbooks! We hope to eventually share these transcriptions on our digital collections website.
[Culinary recipe book: manuscript. Maria Ann Banner Price. Montreal: 183-?]
This coming Monday is the holiest day of the Jewish holiday cycle, Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). On this day observant and traditionally-oriented Jews do not eat or drink, and abstain from other pleasures for 25 hours, and convene in synagogues for an almost full day of prayers. The day’s liturgy begins with a ceremonial declaration, Kol Nidrei, which is recited just before sundown on Yom Kippur eve.
The dry formula of this declaration has become emotionally charged given its history since the Medieval period and has thus found a special place in the hearts of most Jews, becoming a moving introduction to this most holy day.
The traditional text of this recitation is in Aramaic. However, in the liturgical tradition of Jews of the Balkans, the text of this declaration is in Hebrew, as seen on the page in the right side of the image here. Published in Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 1510, this is the first published edition of this prayerbook for kehillot Romanya (the communities of the Byzantine Empire), which was almost unknown anywhere else in the Jewish world. Apparently this copy, which is held by the Fisher Library, is the most complete copy known.
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[Seder tefilot ha-shanah le-minhag ḳehilot Romanya] [Constantinople, 1510].
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Today is National Tree Day in Canada, a day to celebrate the value of trees in our environment and our lives.
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These early images of trees from items in our collections show tree planting and the English Rose Willow.
Ruralia commoda by Pietro de Crescenzi, [Speier, Peter Drach, ca. 1490-95]
The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes gathered by John Gerarde. London. [Edm. Bollifant for [Bonham Norton and] Iohn Norton, 1597.
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Our annual display of rare science books for Science Literacy Week has gone digital for 2020! Click through the link in our bio to see highlights from the Fisher Library's extensive collections in the history of science, including first editions of Euclid's Elements; several key works by Galileo; Charles Darwin's hand corrected proof sheets for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), and more.
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This weekend, Jews around the world will be celebrating Rosh Ha-Shanah, the New Year. While this year all such celebrations will be drastically different from what any of those celebrating have experienced in their lifetimes, this holiday marks the beginning of the yearly holiday cycle, which has been mostly unchanged for many centuries and the prayers said will be generally the same (albeit shortened in many communities this year). The prayer books used in the five biblically-mandated holidays are called Maḥzorim (singular: Maḥzor; lit. cycle), but some early maḥzorim included the prayers for the entire Jewish holiday cycle in one book. One example is this 2-volume 14th century Maḥzor manuscript from Ashkenaz (Germany), which is part of the Fisher Library’s Friedberg collection.
Seen here is a page with part of the Rosh Ha-Shanah liturgy. Those familiar with the prayers of Rosh Ha-Shanah, can identify in the left-hand column the text of “Unetaneh Tokef,” one of the most central liturgical sections of the prayers of both Rosh Ha-Shanah, meant to describe the awe of the Day of Judgement. For many it is the pinnacle of these days’ liturgy. The text of this prayer in this 700-year old manuscript is almost identical to that which is recited today.
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Maḥazor [manuscript]. Western Germany, early 14th century.
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Happy from the thirteen creatures observed in this single drop of water, from a popular work on microscopy by Victorian naturalist Agnes Catlow. "Drops of Water" was published as microscopes were becoming more widely available and professional naturalists and amateurs alike were newly fascinated by all things invisible to the naked eye. Catlow's work examines the contents of five "drops of water" with five hand-coloured lithographic plates.
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Catlow, Agnes, 1807?-1889. Drops of water : their marvellous and beautiful inhabitants displayed by the microscope. London : Reeve and Benham, 1851.
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Our annual display of rare science books for Science Literacy Week has gone digital for 2020! Click through the link in our bio to see highlights from the Fisher Library's extensive collections in the history of science, including first editions of Euclid's Elements; several key works by Galileo; Charles Darwin's hand corrected proof sheets for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), and more.
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Sep 23 2020 GMT14:47
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Today is National Tree Day in Canada, a day to celebrate the value of trees in our environment and our lives.
🌳
These early images of trees from items in our collections show tree planting and the English Rose Willow.
Ruralia commoda by Pietro de Crescenzi, [Speier, Peter Drach, ca. 1490-95]
The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes gathered by John Gerarde. London. [Edm. Bollifant for [Bonham Norton and] Iohn Norton, 1597.
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Oct 05 2020 GMT14:14
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Naturalists and their Investigations, from our Victorian Natural History collection, takes a romantic look at the lives of Charles Linnaeus, Thomas Edward, George Cuvier, and Thomas Kingsley.
Thomas Edward, trained as a shoemaker, was fascinated from a young age with caterpillars, moths, and wasps in their various life stages.
The numerous headpieces and tailpieces showing the natural world convey a light and homely mood.
This item is digitized and available freely on the Internet Archive.
Naturalists and their Investigations. Linnaeus, Edward, Cuvier, Kingsley by George Day. London: S.W. Partridge [1896].
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Oct 02 2020 GMT17:27
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IA Book of the Week: Guidebook & Atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound.
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Each week, the Fisher Library highlights a piece from its collection on the Internet Archive, which is open to anyone to explore. In case you've missed the last few posts, visit the Fisher's blog, Through the Revolving Door, at the link above to read in detail about some of the harder-to-find items from our collections, like this guidebook and atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound, published in 1879.
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Oct 07 2020 GMT15:19
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BEWARE the CIDER TRAP for children!
‘What do the signs in the saloon windows mean, ‘Sweet Cider Free’?’
This pamphlet published by the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) answers the question, describing how by using this 'Satanic' lure, barmen turn good young country boys into alcoholics by offering them a free taste of home in the form of an innocent-looking glass of sweet cider.
🍏
Although the Temperance movement began in Canada in the early 19th century, the Canadian arm of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, an organization of women seeking legal prohibition of alcoholic beverages, began in 1874.
This pamphlet is digitized and available on the Internet Archive
The cider trap for children. Toronto : Dominion W. C. T. U. Literature Depository, [190-].
Salesman’s sample book of coloured horticultural specimen plates. La Pointe Nursery Company
1887-1905
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Sep 21 2020 GMT15:55
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Our annual display of rare science books for Science Literacy Week has gone digital for 2020! Click through the link in our bio to see highlights from the Fisher Library's extensive collections in the history of science, including first editions of Euclid's Elements; several key works by Galileo; Charles Darwin's hand corrected proof sheets for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), and more.
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