Posted in Widener Library on Feb 26th, 2015 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Widener Library on Jan 29th, 2015 Comments Off on Farm Life
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Hey Beatnik! this is the Farm book by Stephen Gaskin is a tutorial on all things hippy and counterculture. Gaskin, founder of “The Farm” in Tennessee, was a famous leader in the Haight-Ashbury circles of San Francisco and […]
Posted in Widener Library on Jan 22nd, 2015 Comments Off on Will the real Lewis de Claremont please stand up?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Lewis de Claremont is credited as the author on several occult books from the early 20th-century including Legends of Incense, Herbs, and Oils. The image of an “artist’s conception of Lewis de Claremont in tunic and turban […]
Posted in Widener Library on Jan 15th, 2015 Comments Off on A Theory of Communication
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Counterblast by Marshall McLuhan is a unique book with insights into human interaction with new technologies and media. A Canadian communication theory philosopher, McLuhan investigates the way new media has changed the world, with an interesting focus on […]
Posted in Widener Library on Dec 11th, 2014 Comments Off on Hypnotic huckster
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. In his book Practical lessons in hypnotism & magnetism, L.W. DeLaurence states that “Occult force” is simply personal magnetism that if well developed is able to control man, woman, child or beast at will. If a person possesses this occult […]
Posted in Widener Library on Oct 30th, 2014 Comments Off on Spooktacular!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. In honor of Halloween I thought we share some creepy images that we found recently in a copy of Vu, a French periodical that covers a range of topics concerning France in the early 20th-century. As the cover […]
Posted in Widener Library on Aug 21st, 2014 Comments Off on Plant-lore for the masses
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Aconitum also known as wolfsbane is a particularly poisonous plant that grows mainly in the Northern hemisphere. Apparently it was historically used to kill wolves thus the reference to the plant as wolfsbane. The image above is […]
Posted in Widener Library on Jul 10th, 2014 Comments Off on 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 […]
Posted in Widener Library on Jul 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on Eastern Magic
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Indian Conjuring, a book written by L.H. Branson is a detailed instruction manual to a collection of tricks that Branson discovered while living in India. A magician himself, Branson explains tricks he has witnessed, as well as ones […]
Posted in Widener Library on May 15th, 2014 Comments Off on The Adventures of Tintin in Pop-up!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. “Tintin is myself. He reflects the best and brightest in me: he is my successful double…Tintin has accomplished many things on my behalf.” -Hergé Tintin who was created by Hergé, a pen name of Georges Prosper […]
Posted in Widener Library on Apr 24th, 2014 Comments Off on A Deal with the Devil
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The book of ceremonial magic; the secret tradition in Goëtia, including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic theurgy, sorcery, and infernal necromancy was written by Arthur Edward Waite and published in 1961. Ceremonial magic includes material […]
Posted in Widener Library on Apr 17th, 2014 Comments Off on The “Lady Adventurer”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Grace Thompson Seton was many things, a feminist, a suffragette, a poet, a mother, a designer, a crack shot, and most relevant to this post a travel writer. She was married to Ernest Thompson Seton who […]
Posted in Widener Library on Mar 6th, 2014 2 Comments »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Most likely we have all heard the slang of the word “fuzz” to describe a police officer. There appears to be little reliable information to back up the supposition that people indeed used the word during […]
Posted in Widener Library on Dec 2nd, 2013 Comments Off on Atomic emergency
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. When I first looked at this cover I thought it was some sort of science-fiction title, but upon further inspection it is actually a guide on what to do in the event of an atomic emergency. The atomic […]
Posted in Widener Library on Nov 12th, 2013 Comments Off on What’s for dinner?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Feeling a bit peckish? Why not try a delicious dish featuring Boletus edulis, which are fleshy mushroom-like fungi which have tubes in place of gills. They are often characterized as being “spongy underneath.” To make one version […]
Posted in Widener Library on Nov 4th, 2013 Comments Off on Death caps
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Once you have made the fateful choice to eat a Death cap it starts out slowly, there is no discomfort for the first twelve hours then you have abdominal pain with vomiting, diarrhea, and an extreme thirst. After […]
Posted in Widener Library on Oct 28th, 2013 Comments Off on 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 […]
Posted in Widener Library on Aug 21st, 2013 Comments Off on Le Milieu
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Considered one of the greatest illustrators of the French press is Jean Sennep, also known as Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes, who worked for several French newspapers including Candide and Le Figaro. He also published quite a few volumes of […]
Posted in Widener Library on Aug 12th, 2013 Comments Off on Protecting our treasures
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Santo Domingo Collection often comes across volumes that need a little extra TLC before being sent to their forever homes. Sometimes the binding is no longer attached, the cover has been ripped, or the material needs a […]
Posted in Widener Library on Aug 2nd, 2013 Comments Off on Arizona, in Three Bites
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Reginald Manning was an American artist and illustrator that began working for the Arizona Republic in 1926 as a photographer and spot artist. He eventually began drawing daily editiorial cartoons and worked at the Republic for the next […]
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