The Harvard Theatre Collection is currently in the midst of a multi-year project to catalog and digitize the Angus McBean Collection of theatrical photographs. The collection consists of over 30,000 glass plate negatives and their accompanying contact proofs. Angus McBean was born in 1904 in Newport, South Wales, England. As a youth he was a…
You’ve Got Mail: “Singapore, withal, right on the equator!”
As a young man of 26, printer Alfred North was so full of passions, doubts and pronouncements of great surety that, though his pen yielded constrained, constant little lines, his thoughts could hardly be whittled into expression, even through the long, looping sentences that filled page upon page of his correspondence. This was especially true…
You’ve Got Mail: The History of One of My Toes
This posting inaugurates a new weekly feature on the Houghton Library blog, “You’ve Got Mail,” based on letters in Houghton Library. Every Friday this year a Houghton staff member will select a letter from the diverse collections in the Library and put that letter into context. It is our hope that this feature will introduce…
New on OASIS in January
Finding aids for 15 newly cataloged collections, and preliminary box lists for four recent acquisitions, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including Gilbert & Sullivan cigarette cards, human curiosities prints, and more….