This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. When I first looked at this cover I thought it was some sort of science-fiction title, but upon further inspection it is actually a guide on what to do in the event of an atomic emergency.  The atomic Read More

Finding aids for five newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including a collection of documents on the history of Cambridge High School. Processed by Clinton Johnson (Simmons intern with Suzanne Sutherland): Hester Lynch Piozzi, Samuel Johnson, Anna Seward letters, and other letters, 1758-1820 (MS Eng 1755) Processed by Ashley Read More

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. For the Scientific Treatment and Cure of the Alcohol, Morphine, Opium, Chloral, and Cocaine Habits! Designed especially for the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse this pamphlet advertises the virtues of Dr. Rose’s Sanitarium.  Located in bucolic Connecticut Read More

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Newly represented among the authors in the Santo Domingo Collection is the showman and author P.T. Barnum. Shown here is an 1866 copy of Barnum’s survey/memoir The humbugs of the world, translated into French as Les blagues de Read More