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….
Music to Imperil Pauline to
[Thanks to Denise Shrout, Harvard ’11, for providing the basis for this post, with assistance from Martin M. Marks, MIT.] During the silent film era, it was standard to have live musical accompaniment for movies. Especially for feature films from the late teens on, accompanists would often use cue sheets that suggested mood, action, or…
Something I sang, that I don’t sing any more
[Thanks to Andrea Cawelti, Ward Project Music Cataloger, for contributing this post.] Gilbert Duprez was a superstar in the Bel Canto age of opera. The first tenor to sing a high C in chest voice, his darker, stentorian vocal technique ushered in the sound we now associate with dramatic tenor roles, and set in motion…
Newly digitized items for June
Our largest-ever new digitization post includes a collection of correspondence of Benedict Arnold, manuscripts of Thoreau and Henry James, a collection of early 19th century drawings of English theaters, and much more. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]…
New on OASIS in June
Finding aids for two newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including an archive of correspondence and other materials from the Russian composer Dmitrii Shostakovich….
New on OASIS in May
Finding aids for 16 newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including programs from Harvard theatricals and the records of an anti-women’s suffrage group….
Newly digitized items for April
Images of Mt. Vesuvius, a collection of African-American folk ballads, and a 16th century type specimen are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, for contributing this post.]…
New on OASIS in April
Finding aids for four newly cataloged collections, and preliminary box lists for three recent acquisitions, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including one of world’s largest collections of materials relating to contortionists….