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Historical sheet music collections: The Heroism of King George

15 January 2016 Cawelti Uncategorized

In our recent investigations of Houghton’s historical sheet music collections, I ran across an unusual score of the anthem God Save the King. The score included an unfamiliar verse by Mr. Sheridan at the bottom of the first leaf, and I couldn’t find the imprint recorded anywhere (though frequently libraries don’t catalog their sheet music Read More

This is a political newspaper/This is not a political newspaper

14 January 2016 irinarogova Uncategorized

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 Read More

Historical sheet music collections: Dancing Downton-style!

13 January 2016 2 responses Dana Gee Uncategorized

Some terrific dance music for a grey Wednesday – some genteel, early-Downton-Abbey era numbers, and some a bit more scandalous:

New on OASIS in January

7 January 2016 John Overholt Uncategorized

Two new finding aids have been added to the OASIS database this month: Processed by: Irina Klyagin Robert O’Hearn set designs (MS Thr 1236) Processed by: Jennifer Lyons Twentieth century American and British theater programs (MS Thr 1194)

Magnificent vellucent!

adharris Uncategorized

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, Read More

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