Here are the complete works and collections we’ve digitized in the last three months. Highlights include Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson manuscripts, photographs of the home of Sarah Orne Jewett, and an illustrated Dutch incunabulum on the destruction of Troy….
The Enduring Classical Tradition IV
This elegiac title page introduces 8 leaves of engravings and 2 pages of printed text, reveals a poignant personal story and is the occasion for another blog on the theme of Enduring Classics. Lucernae veterum was was published, presumably in Nuremberg, on 9 February 1653 and records the death in Lyons on 13 January 1653…
The “Glo” of Advertising
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Day-Glo Designer’s Guide offers insights into the way that Day-Glo colors have been used in both art and advertising. Although Day-Glo is common today, the process wasn’t discovered until 1934 by Robert and Joseph Spitzer. While…
The Enduring Classical Tradition III
These 14 leaves of manuscript notes record a week-long trip in July 1849 of a group of British antiquaries along a portion of Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Hadrian’s Wall is a defensive fortification system, begun in 122 AD under the orders of the Emperor Hadrian, to mark the northernmost extent of the Roman empire, and…
Alice’s Alice
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. This recently-cataloged volume from the Santo Domingo Collection appears to be an unexceptional 1932 printing of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland: the book’s illustrated covers have faded, and its acidic paper stock has gone from white to tan….
I need that like I need a hole in the head! Oh wait…..
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Trephination is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the membrane that surrounds the skull in order to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases. Often referred to as a…
Snow vogue
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The depredations of the drug trade are fertile ground for crime and mystery fiction: pulp, in a word. In the Santo Domingo Collection, these lurid works stand on the shelves alongside opium-inspired poetry and countercultural acid narratives. Pictured…
Toy Theatre
pfMS Thr 969 (3) Germany, late 19th-century Reassembled briefly prior to permanent storage by Patrick McAndrews, Graduate Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Advanced Studies Program. Music provided by Clip Art audio. Enjoy the show. http://youtu.be/5Y-u7V8KFj0 Submitted by Vicki Denby, Curatorial Assistant. …
New on OASIS in January
Finding aids for four newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including a collection of materials from the architect and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller. Processed by Bonnie B. Salt: Marcus Lee Hansen Lecture Notes and Research Notes on Immigration, 1928-1938 (MS…