Despite the many demands of being president, Theodore Roosevelt found time to regularly write to each of his six children while they were away at school or visiting friends. Tailored to match each child’s interests and personality, TR’s letters are filled with descriptions of family pets, siblings’ antics, and his own many adventures (which make Read More

Update: These documents have now been fully digitized, and are available here. Although the overwhelming majority of Houghton’s collections are well-cataloged, a few things that slipped through the cracks in the conversion from the card catalog to an online catalog still lurk on our shelves. Karen Nipps, Head of the Rare Book Cataloging Team, recently Read More

For over 20 years, the bookseller David Block and his wife Shiu-min Block assembled a personal collection of bookbindings produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their choice was guided by the condition of the books and the range of bindings they wished to include in their collection. In 2008, the David and Shiu-min Block Read More

Finding aids for nine newly cataloged collections, and preliminary box lists for four recent acquisitions, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including programs of the Ballets Russes and playbills from Boston theaters. Processed by Irina Klyagin: Ballets Russes Programs, 1907-1929 (MS Thr 965) IUrii Nikiforovich Danilov Papers, 1920-1980 (MS Russ 125)   Read More

Here at Houghton we are constantly digitizing new material. We’ll continue to post about larger items and collections and collections here on the Houghton Blog under the digitzation tag. But there are also so many interesting and beautiful single images that we wanted to find a home for as well, so we’ve created a new Read More