This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Hey Beatnik! this is the Farm book by Stephen Gaskin is a tutorial on all things hippy and counterculture. Gaskin, founder of “The Farm” in Tennessee, was a famous leader in the Haight-Ashbury circles of San Francisco and…
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Lewis de Claremont is credited as the author on several occult books from the early 20th-century including Legends of Incense, Herbs, and Oils. The image of an “artist’s conception of Lewis de Claremont in tunic and turban with…
The following is the third in a four-part series on books from the library of Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) and her family. Presented to Jewett in 1885, this copy of Celia Thaxter’s Poems contains 22 original watercolor sketches by Thaxter, depicting flowers, birds, spiders, and seascapes. Best known for her poem “The Sandpiper,” Celia Thaxter…
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection. Today’s feature demonstrates the Santo Domingo Collection’s diversity of genres and formats. While clearly literary in nature, Sherlock Holmes: consulting detective is not a work of literature. Rather, it’s a game based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels, in which players…
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Counterblast by Marshall McLuhan is a unique book with insights into human interaction with new technologies and media. A Canadian communication theory philosopher, McLuhan investigates the way new media has changed the world, with an interesting focus on…
The following is the second in a four-part series on books from the library of Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) and her family. Published by the Paris firm of Edwin Tross in 1871, this volume of poetry by Louise Labé belongs to a limited edition of 500 copies, and is distinguished by the remarkable typeface used….
The following is part of a series on books from the library of Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) and her family. Best known for her novels and stories set in Maine, including Deephaven (1877) and The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Jewett’s papers and family library came to Harvard in 1931, the bequest of her…
The new year is getting off to a good start. Three issues of the Harvard Library Bulletin will be mailed to subscribers in the next few weeks and this will go a long way to getting it up to date. Volume 24: Number 2 (Summer 2013) includes three articles. Michael Winship is the author of…
As I was cataloging a box of social dance scores in the Ward Collection last night, I ran across an odd little score which looked to me like some kind of early photocopy from the 1960s, back when some copies had a strange glossy coating which didn’t really look like the emulsion of a true…
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Or perhaps a giant winged insect? As always the truth lies in the interpretation of the viewer. Bruce Connor was a renowned American artist who worked in a variety of media including film, collage, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography,…
