This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Aconitum also known as wolfsbane is a particularly poisonous plant that grows mainly in the Northern hemisphere. Apparently it was historically used to kill wolves thus the reference to the plant as wolfsbane. The image above is Read More
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A Vacation in Normandie
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. With the advent of smartphones and wifi everywhere, travel guidebooks seem like a thing of the past. Back in the late 19th century though, they might have been the only way to find your way around. The guidebook Read More
Conjoined twins
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Johann Conrad Brunner was a Swiss anatomist that is best known for his work with the pancreas and duodenum. This fold out plate displays both anatomical and skeletal conjoined twin fetuses, which is part of Brunner’s medical dissertation Foetum Read More
New on OASIS in August
Twelve finding aids for newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including posters from the May 1968 Paris protests and penmanship specimens from 18th century Boston writing schools. Processed by Susan Wyssen: Claude Farrère Papers, 1896-1957 (MS Fr 590) Marseille Heroin Trafficking Collection, circa 1963-1975 (MS Fr 614)
Komic Kats
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman ran for 31 years in the New York Evening Journal and follows a cast of animal characters set in a highly stylized Arizona home. Although not popular among the Read More