This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Andrés Rábago, also known as OPS or El Roto, is a Spanish cartoonist who focused on social satire and critiques of current events. In his book of cartoons, Mitos, Ritos y Delitos en el Pais de Silencio, Rábago Read More
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Proof plates printed on satin … and on vellum, India, large, and ordinary paper
Since the days of the Silk Road, silk fiber has been woven into satin, a luxurious fabric that characteristically has a lustrous and a dull side. Satin has a long history, notably in Great Britain, as a printing support: maps, theatre programs, broadsides, bookplates, and menus are just a few of the objects that have Read More
A heavenly cure?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. As you look at the cover of this pamphlet you might wonder what divine content might hide within its covers, well that would be… The Pink Pills! The Pink Pills for Pale People were introduced in Read More
The works of Timothy Leary
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Cataloging work is now underway on the complete bibliography of author, psychologist, countercultural guru, and erstwhile Harvard lecturer Timothy Leary. The Leary volumes in the Santo Domingo Collection were previously the collection of Michael Horowitz, Leary’s associate and bibliographer. Read More
Steber and Vanessa
This post is the second in a series on the Eleanor Steber collection to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth. The first post can be seen here. Having an opportunity to explore Eleanor Steber’s music collection has been a real treat for me. Way back in another lifetime while studying opera at The Juilliard Read More