This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Several books by the Reverend David Wilkerson and his followers are in the Santo Domingo Collection. Wilkerson, an evangelic pastor who moved to New York because he felt called to help young gang members and drug addicts, recounts Read More
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Before there was Botox
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Before botox, plastic surgery, and aestheticians, L’horreur!, women were forced to combat aging and maintain beauty the old fashioned way- with tips and remedies from publications such as Comment se guérir? This French publication by the mysterious Dr. Read More
Pictures of a president
Theodore Roosevelt was arguably the first truly modern president; nowhere is this more evident than in the thousands of photographs taken of him which capture his larger-than-life personality and incredibly productive life. The Theodore Roosevelt Collection photographs, comprising over a hundred boxes of several thousand images, are the most heavily used materials within the Read More
Glossing the Law in Houghton Library MS Typ 121
So why would the Ames Foundation, which focuses on the history of law, want to have Houghton MS Typ 121 digitized? There are dozens of manuscripts of the Digestum vetus, roughly the first third of Justinian’s Digest or Pandects, which is itself the largest part of the Corpus Iuris Civilis, the compilation of texts of Read More
Adventures of Fido
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Le Aventures de Fido Caniche by surrealist artist Valentine Hugo, is an intricately detailed picture book that follows a dream sequence of Fido, an innocent, inquisitive poodle. In the dream Fido visits other exotic animals including a peacock Read More