Finding aids for 14 newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including photo albums of Virginia Woolf and the papers of the Baker Street Irregulars.

[thanks to Alison Harris, Roosevelt Project Cataloger/Metadata Specialist, for this post] Houghton’s collaborative digitization project of the Theodore Roosevelt manuscript materials with Dickinson State University in North Dakota includes 11 scrapbooks. The scrapbooks were particularly tricky to capture due to both the fragility of the newspaper clippings themselves and their often unwieldy size when unfolded. Read More

Finding aids for 18 newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including photo albums of Virginia Woolf and images of circus and pantomime performers.

[Thanks to Denise Shrout, Harvard ’11, for providing the basis for this post, with assistance from Martin M. Marks, MIT.] During the silent film era, it was standard to have live musical accompaniment for movies. Especially for feature films from the late teens on, accompanists would often use cue sheets that suggested mood, action, or Read More

[Thanks to Andrea Cawelti, Ward Project Music Cataloger, for contributing this post.] Gilbert Duprez was a superstar in the Bel Canto age of opera. The first tenor to sing a high C in chest voice, his darker, stentorian vocal technique ushered in the sound we now associate with dramatic tenor roles, and set in motion Read More