This post is part of an ongoing series featuring material from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Henri Austruy, born in 1871, was an attorney and editor of the journal La nouvelle revue from 1913 to 1940, when occupying Nazi forces shut the journal down. 1940 is also the approximate date of Austruy’s unrecorded death, which may Read More
Skills for Kids
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Although most of the items in the Santo Domingo Collection are geared towards adults there are some great exceptions. Discover Skills for Life is a teaching tool for elementary schools that addresses wide ranging topics from building self-esteem Read More
Go ahead, judge these books by their covers!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. One of the many pleasures of working with this collection is the amazing graphic nature of the cover art on books, newspapers, and magazines that we encounter on a daily basis. After seeing the success of Scanning Key Read More
A Guide to Hipsters
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Hipsters, a book by Ted Joans, is a collection of collages of paintings that depicts Greenwich village and the types of people that lived there. He explains many types from the Folknik to the Hipper-than-thounik. The folkniks “carry Read More
A Beatnik Refuge
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Greenwich Village by Fred McDarrah is a history of the New York City neighborhood from its inception as Old Green Village through the 1960s. A detailed account from its time as a Dutch Colony to its incarnation as Read More