Month: July 2011

Front facade of Houghton Library

Thackeray Bicentenary Exhibition and Symposium

Opening today is “The Adventures of Thackeray In His Way Through the World” a new exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray. Houghton will also host a symposium on Thackeray’s life and work on October 6th. The symposium is free, but advance registration is required; see the website for more…

Theodore Roosevelt Scrapbooks Digitized

[thanks to Alison Harris, Roosevelt Project Cataloger/Metadata Specialist, for this post] Houghton’s collaborative digitization project of the Theodore Roosevelt manuscript materials with Dickinson State University in North Dakota includes 11 scrapbooks. The scrapbooks were particularly tricky to capture due to both the fragility of the newspaper clippings themselves and their often unwieldy size when unfolded….

New on OASIS in July

Finding aids for 18 newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including photo albums of Virginia Woolf and images of circus and pantomime performers….