Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, May 7, 2010
La Chronique Anonyme Universelle
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We are in the midst of installing our next exhibit, due to open May 12th, From the Fall of Troy: Medieval Chronicles. A featured piece is a...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Vanity Plates
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A bookplate is one of the ultimate stamps of ownership - other than writing in the margins. Both a status symbol and art in it's own ri...
Friday, April 30, 2010
Mao's Little Red Variant
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We recently acquired two copies of the first edition of the famous "Little Red Book," Quotations from Chairman Mao (Peking: Centr...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Uncommon Book
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Described as a self-consciously hand-made object, "Common Threads" by Candace Hicks is a hand-embroidered canvas book that some ha...
Friday, April 23, 2010
Risley Family, Stonecutters
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200 years ago, on April 23, 1810, Levi Newcomb of the Class of 1810, died in Hanover just a few months before his anticipated graduation. F...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Plan of Paris
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One of the pleasures of working in Rauner Library is the "discovery" of things we never really appreciated. While preparing for a ...
Friday, April 16, 2010
SS Dartmouth Victory
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One of the 534 Victory ships built during World War Two, the SS Dartmouth Victory was hull number 169. Construction was carried out by the...
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