Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, April 8, 2011
An Open Polar Sea
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Early expeditions to the Arctic attempted to force their way through sea ice in hopes of finding a practical northwest trade route to the Ea...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Lewiston - a Town that Disappeared
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Do you ever wonder what can happen to make a town vanish? Lewiston, VT, started out life as a small community on the Connecticut River. Fo...
Friday, April 1, 2011
April Fool's Day - The Autumn Version
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While attempting to showcase this day of hoax and trickery, of practical joke and parody, we sadly discovered that Dartmouth historically ha...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Second Folio
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One of the most requested items in our collection is our copy of Shakespeare's first folio from 1623. But we want to spread a little lov...
Friday, March 25, 2011
The Perfect Page
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An imperfect image of a perfect page In 1470 Nicolas Jenson printed the first book to employ his new Roman type, Eusebius's De euang...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Wheelock Succession in Chairs
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In addition to the presidential portrait that each member of the Wheelock Succession sits for during his presidency, the College has another...
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...
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