Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2012 Comments Off on A revealing look into the Julio Santo Domingo Collection
The Modern Books and Manuscripts department is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection, comprising over 50,000 books, manuscripts, works of art, audio recordings and films, placed on long-term deposit at Harvard by the collector’s son, Julio Mario Santo Domingo III. The Santo Domingo Collection enriches and greatly expands the […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2018 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Thanks to Rachel Parker, Archival Assistant, for contributing this post. In my first blog post on the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library poster collection, I demonstrated why maintaining context can help answer the questions that arise when titling posters for […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2018 2 Comments »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Thanks to Rachel Parker, Archival Assistant, for contributing this post. In May I began describing, photographing, and re-housing a discrete collection of posters within the Ludlow-Santo Domingo (LSD) Library collection. Tackling the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library poster collection has […]
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Posted in Fine Arts Library on Apr 20th, 2017 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Size matters! was the motto that Wilhelm Moser and David Culby took quite seriously when creating The Manipulator in Dusseldorf in the 1980s. This art magazine is an impressive 70 cm long by 50 cm wide and marks the […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Mar 23rd, 2017 Comments Off on A Postcard for every Occasion
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Pulps are so called because of the low quality of paper, coarse untreated paper produced from wood pulp, on which they were printed. Because the quality of paper was so poor it meant that it was cheap thus keeping production […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Mar 9th, 2017 2 Comments »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library Or you may be more familiar with the word muzzle. Les muselières pour femmes et autres supplices (Muzzles for women and other punishments) authored by Jean Finot was most likely published in the early 20th-century in France. The earliest […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Feb 23rd, 2017 Comments Off on Mo’ money, Mo’ plant problems
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. If you are looking for some practical advice on how to grow cannabis under fluorescent lighting I’ve got just the book for you! A guide to growing Cannabis under fluorescents by C.E. Faber was published in 1974. Tips […]
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Posted in Fine Arts Library on Feb 9th, 2017 Comments Off on Remember Cootie Catchers?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library. Will you live in a mansion, drive a Ferrari, get your dream job, have two kids and marry your hot 12-year old crush? Or will your fate be to have a rusty pickup truck, work a minimum wage […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Jan 26th, 2017 Comments Off on Scandale!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Originally a French lawyer, Georges Anquetil was also a journalist and publisher who was well known for unorthodox methods and anarchist leanings. Early in his legal career he wrote under the name “Georges Evil.” His career […]
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Posted in Fine Arts Library on Jan 13th, 2017 Comments Off on Artistry of Linocuts
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. This lovely artist book Geheimzinnige Personen : omtrent de flarden des levenswas was created by a Dutch artist, Margit Willems. It loosely translates to Mysterious Persons: on the scraps of life and features 23 linocuts with text […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Dec 15th, 2016 Comments Off on Perils of drinking
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. L’antialcoolisme en histoires vraies is a volume that deals with the history of alchoholism and the various effects on all of society. Crafted as lectures and lessons that go with official programs it was written by Dr. […]
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Posted in Houghton Library on Dec 6th, 2016 Comments Off on Cautionary tales
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. As Nazi occupation expanded into France, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the avant-garde dramatist, actor, poet, and theorist of the Theatre of Cruelty, was committed to a mental hospital in Rodez. There he came under the care of […]
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Posted in Fine Arts Library on Dec 1st, 2016 Comments Off on Mad Dog’s i
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Today’s post features an artist named Richard Stine and his book Smile in a Mad Dog’s i. Stine self-published this first edition in 1974 with 4000 copies. Inspired by the receipt books that newsboys used to […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Nov 17th, 2016 Comments Off on Sinner man
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. “Here, in this taut, fact-crammed volume, you’ll be taken into the fifteen most infamous vice centers of the entire hemisphere, you’ll see for yourself how crime flourishes within each city.” America’s cities of sin is an anthology of articles […]
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Posted in Houghton Library on Nov 8th, 2016 Comments Off on Election day is upon us!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Inspired by Election Tuesday and in light of Massachusetts Ballot Question 4 I thought it might be interesting to look at a few ephemeral examples of the legalization of marijuana I recently uncovered within the collection. For those […]
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Posted in Houghton Library on Nov 8th, 2016 Comments Off on Moloch speaks: why I’m voting yes on 4
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Measures to legalize recreational marijuana are on five state ballots this year, including Houghton Library’s home state of Massachusetts. The Santo Domingo Collection naturally includes significant historical matter supporting the movement to legalize, but it also offers […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Nov 3rd, 2016 2 Comments »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Ever wondered how you can live like a hippie in the 1960s? The hippy’s handbook : how to live on love could be just what you need. This tongue in cheek guide tells you how to save […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Oct 20th, 2016 Comments Off on Don’t Eat that Mushroom!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Mushrooms- they are cheap and legal, but how do you ensure that you don’t eat the wrong one? Hallucinogenic Mushrooms contains information on identification, buying and eating mushrooms, different species, current laws, as well as poisonous mushrooms in Britain. This […]
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Posted in Widener Library on Oct 6th, 2016 Comments Off on Want to live on a Commune?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. What exactly is a Commune? I’ll use the words from the Commune : Journal of the Commune Movement to explore the concept. According to Joan (one of the contributors) there are many different types of Commune scenes. You have […]
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This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. I have to say as we have processed this immense collection one of the things that never ceases to delight me are the names of various plants. For example Bear’s foot, which is named because it has […]
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