Rauner Special Collections Library

We have a lot of pieces of wood in our collections. We never seek them out, they find us. That's because Dartmouth loves its trees, and ...

In 1662, Joan Blaeu published his 11-volume Grand Atlas, Geographia . The frontispiece to the final volume depicted the New World in alleg...

Ever think that you can feel the sun's rays beating down? While that impression may be illusory, visible light and all forms of electrom...

Alex Stefansson In 1908, arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson set out on his second expedition. He hired an Inuit woman named Fanny Pan...

What started as a Surrealist parlor game, the exquisite corpse has become a favored medium for book artists. Originally the concept was a wo...

"I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am…" proclaims Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy...

Dartmouth Hall was built between 1784 and 1792 to replace College Hall, which had fallen into disrepair. The process took so long because of...