This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Today from the Santo Domingo Collection, we have a handsomely designed volume: this edition of La main enchantée (The enchanted hand), a fantasy story by the French author and poet Gérard Labrunie, who wrote under the pen name Read More
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Happy Halloween from the Roosevelts
In a newly-acquired photograph album that belonged to the family of Theodore Roosevelt, we discovered this delightful, undated, image of a Roosevelt family jack-o-lantern, sitting on the porch at Sagamore Hill. The pumpkin seems to be sporting not only a pince-nez, but also a handsome mustache, suggesting that perhaps it’s in costume. [Heather Cole, Assistant Read More
Curiosities of Chinese Medicine
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Médecine et pharmacopée en Chine is comprised of three volumes that are each bound with colored cord inside an illustrated paper cover. Published in early 20th-century France the volumes appear to explore medicine and pharmacology in China. Each Read More
Virtually Dickinson
We are very pleased to announce the launch of the Emily Dickinson Archive, http://edickinson.org, an open-access site that brings together nearly all of Emily Dickinson’s extant poetry manuscripts. A collaborative effort across many institutions, the resource provides readers with images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives, and also offers an array of transcriptions Read More
You shall not Pass!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Lowell Thomas was an American writer, traveler, and broadcaster that is often known as the person who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. This graphic depiction of an Afghan man is from the dust jacket of Beyond Khyber Pass Read More