Rauner Special Collections Library

Friday, March 18, 2011

Get Katy to the Nunnery!

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We are introduced to the town of Hillsover and Arrowmouth College in What Katy Did at School , by Sarah Woolsey, first published in 1873. Ka...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Wearers of the Green

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That would be Dartmouth Green not Irish Green, despite the time of year.  Why Green and how was it chosen? It's a question that has been...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Fit for a Princess

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We have a number of Books of Hours in the collection, but this is one of the smallest, with each of its one hundred and fifty six parchment ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Cork: The Other Brown Paper

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One of the most unusual items in Rauner's collections is a lavishly illustrated and illuminated edition of Don Quixote printed on cork....
Friday, March 4, 2011

Bass on Rhus Vernix and Magnolia Glauca

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The College Archives collection of theses from the Dartmouth Medical School covers the years 1815 to 1882. Seth Bass' 1815 A Dissertatio...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Samuel Beckett

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The Samuel Beckett papers were a gift from Lawrence Harvey, a professor at Dartmouth College, who amassed this small but important collectio...
Friday, February 25, 2011

"Opere" del Galileo

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In 1655, 13 years after the death of Galileo Galilei, the first edition of his complete works was issued, Opere di Galileo Galilei (Bologna:...
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