This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman ran for 31 years in the New York Evening Journal and follows a cast of animal characters set in a highly stylized Arizona home. Although not popular among the Read More
Lasciviousness, libel, and letters
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. As the French Revolution erupted in 1789, the bourgeoisie took up a variety of arms against the aristocracy; among them was literature. Pictured here from the Santo Domingo Collection is La Messaline françoise, a libelous account, published under Read More
Natural Highs!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Although much of the Santo Domingo Collection focuses on illegal and medical drugs, there is some exceptions to these books that suggest other ways of getting that feeling. Alex J. Packer, Ph.D., an educator and administrator in Read More
He leaps tall buildings in a single bound!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Well eight foot walls at least! Meet Rex III, a black and tan Alsatian who was trained to detect dope and help catch criminals. Rex worked with the Flying Squad, a special crime unit with London’s Read More
The Jimi Hendrix Bibliographic Experience
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. This week’s feature is the second of two sculptural volumes: in this case, the binding itself, rather than the enclosure, defies convention. The book, a paperback French biography of Jimi Hendrix published in 1976, is unremarkable in itself. However, Read More