Finding aids for six newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including a volume of the Virginia Woolf Monk’s House photos, letters of Samuel Beckett, and 19th century photos of Gilbert & Sullivan productions. Processed by Ashley M. Nary: Theatrical Photographs Read More

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The term “devil’s picture books” was used by the Puritans to refer to playing cards in hopes that it would prevent people from using them.  In the book by the same name, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer gives a Read More

Here are the complete works and collections we’ve digitized in the last three months. Highlights include one of our most spectacular medieval manuscripts, the Emerson-White Hours, a 17th century manuscript on magic tricks, a sonata by Handel, and a 19th century book of paper dolls. Account of Miss Pastrana, the Nondescript; and the Double-bodied Boy, Read More