Year: 2014

Front facade of Houghton Library

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…