Day: January 25, 2019

Front facade of Houghton Library

The Castañé Collection Series: “One: ‘Miscellaneous Items’”

By Michael Austin, Manuscript Cataloger, Houghton Library The Castañé collection, donated to Houghton Library in 2015 by Spanish businessman and collector José María Castañé, comprises over 10,000 items documenting the major conflicts of the 20th century involving European powers. Papers, photographs, and realia from the Second World War are most strongly represented, followed by material…