This post is the first in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff and student catalogers in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Written by Alejandra Dean In the basement of Lamont Library, a little-known collection is poised to…
New Titles – August 2017
The Fall semester is in full swing and course reserves are filling up. We’re looking to provide more comfortable seating for browsing both new titles and course reserves, so we have been trying out demo chairs over the past few weeks. Grab a book, have a seat, and let us know what you think! You…
Salted Paper Prints from Special Collections
Here you see the wide range in tonality and richness in colors. Indeed, monochrome can be very colorful. We are so glad that many of these salt prints have remained in good condition, such that the facial expressions and details of clothing and accessories for each sitter are still astonishingly clear. In collaboration with the…