This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. L’homme considéré dans l’état d’aliénation mentale : ouvrage divisée en trois livres … is a 19th-century French volume about the state of insanity, which starts off with a frontispiece of the beautiful Eleonore. As the text accompanying her visage…
Self-Made Woman
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. “Is it worth sacrificing a man of your own and children to be a successful business woman?” Originally published in 1932 this is the 1940 fourth printing of Self-Made Woman. The novel presents Cathleen McElroy as an…
HER story
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Usually people purchase calendars because they have interesting or pretty pictures but the Women’s Heritage Calendar and Almanac is a different case. Explained perfectly in the introduction page, they state “History – never HER story. That’s…
Indian subcontinent in 60 engravings or less…
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Frans Balthazar Solvyns was born in Antwerp in 1760 and for the early part of his career was a marine painter capturing the likenesses of ships, ports, and harbor views on canvas. He departed for Calcutta…
From the Library of Sarah Orne Jewett: A gift from Celia Thaxter
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…