Posted in Widener Library on Mar 24th, 2016 Comments Off on “Be the envy of your friends and neighbors”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Santo Domingo collection contains plenty of material about various smoking paraphernalia, but Build This Bong has some extremely creative diagrams for building said paraphernalia. Taking a light hearted yet technical approach to the subject, author […]
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Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Mar 17th, 2016 Comments Off on Acupuncture Anesthesia
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. In the 1950s Chinese physicians in the People’s Republic of China began to wonder if acupuncture, which was typically used to treat pain, could actually be used to prevent pain during surgical procedures, which led to […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Mar 10th, 2016 Comments Off on How Old Will You Be in 1984?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. At the height of the Vietnam War, a time often remembered for the vigorous anti-war protests from young adults, particularly college students, Diane Divoky edited an anthology collection of pieces from underground high school newspapers from […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Mar 3rd, 2016 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Benzedrine for Breakfast is the autobiography of Noreen Price, who lived quite an unconventional life. Born in South Africa by accident because her Dutch mother missed the boat while visiting relatives there. Noreen was schooled in a […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Feb 25th, 2016 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Dick Gregory is an African American comedian, political activist, humanitarian, and nutritional consultant. His political comedy was groundbreaking for its take on race relations and other social injustices during the civil rights movements of the 1960s. […]
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Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Feb 18th, 2016 Comments Off on Watch out for Vipers
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Manual medico-legal des poisons… is a curious French text that appears to be primarily about the legal aspects of poisoning. It also includes instructions on how to treat snakebites, the bites of rabid animals, as […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Feb 11th, 2016 Comments Off on “A Standard of Laziness”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Tuli Kupferberg’s 1001 Ways to Live Without Working is a handbook, political satire, and collage all-in-one. Nestled between the actual 1005 point list are newspaper advertisements, photographs of protest, slave sale notices, and other pieces of […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Feb 4th, 2016 Comments Off on Images of the grotesque
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Gypsy’s first issue was published in London in 1915 and contained short stories, essays, poems, illustrations, sonnets, and prose. In their foreword the editors of the magazine acknowledged that many people would criticize their endeavor in […]
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Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Jan 28th, 2016 Comments Off on “50 Centuries of Service to Mankind”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. A History of Pharmacy in Pictures, a depiction of the history of the pharmaceutical profession through oil paintings, was first conceived by pharmacist and journalist George A. Bender before the Second World War. He was inspired […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Jan 21st, 2016 Comments Off on Home grown
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Touted as Europe’s first dope magazine, Home Grown’s first publication was in 1977 and presented an “enlightened and informative, as well as entertaining, attitude to dope and related subjects – views and approaches not expressed by the […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Jan 14th, 2016 Comments Off on This is a political newspaper/This is not a political newspaper
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. During the blossoming of the counterculture movement of the late 1960s, San Francisco saw the formation of an anarchist collective: the Diggers. Taking inspiration (and their name) from the 17th century English Protestant radical group which […]
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Posted in Houghton Library on Jan 7th, 2016 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. This collection has been especially rich with volumes by Charles Baudelaire who though most famous as a French poet was also an art critic, essay writer, and translator of Edgar Allen Poe. La Fleurs du Mal, […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Dec 17th, 2015 Comments Off on “The Surrealist Miracle”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. “Everywhere the hands, heads, eyes, arms and legs of millions are manipulated through abominable choreographics of obligations, restrictions, responsibilities, laws; life itself becomes inside out, upside down, flattened to the pastel walls of bureaucratic insensitivity—what is […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Dec 10th, 2015 Comments Off on A Yogi’s thoughts
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. This colorful volume is the work of Peter Max, a German artist, who dedicated this book to the brothers and sisters of the Integral Yoga Institute. The founder of the Integral Yoga Institute was Satchidananda Saraswati, […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Dec 3rd, 2015 Comments Off on “A sense of happiness stole over him”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Blackie, Fullerton & Co. was originally a bookselling firm founded in Glasgow in 1809 by John Blackie Sr., Archibald Fullerton, and William Somerville. They specialized in the sale of books in monthly or quarterly installments, mainly […]
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Posted in Houghton Library on Nov 24th, 2015 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The arrival of the Beat Generation generated controversy, conversation, and in some cases literature; for some onlookers, though, it was mostly a source of opportunity. Hence Beatnik, which promises “an uncensored, unexpurgated exposé of the ‘Beat Generation’”, […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Nov 19th, 2015 Comments Off on Father of criminology
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Cesare Lombroso was an Italian physician and criminologist who founded the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso’s theory of anthropological criminology was a mix of the concepts of Social Darwinism, physiognomy, psychiatry, and degeneration theory. Essentially […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Nov 12th, 2015 Comments Off on Jesus Junk
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Daily Planet publication appears to be somewhat of a mystery. It is clearly a reference to the famed Daily Planet newspaper from the Superman franchise, but I couldn’t find any further information about the title. […]
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Posted in Houghton Library on Nov 10th, 2015 Comments Off on Now they’ll sleep
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The influence of drugs on literary output is in evidence throughout the Santo Domingo Collection, but the volume pictured here wears that influence with unusual prominence: pictured on the publisher’s book-cloth binding is a cluster of opium […]
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Posted in Houghton Library on Nov 5th, 2015 Comments Off on Witches Sabbath
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Tableau de l’insonstances des mauuais anges et demons was published in 1612 and shines a light on the European witch trials of the 16th and 17th-centuries. It was written by Pierre De Lancre, a magistrate, who […]
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