Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, March 1, 2013
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
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From Peter Pan 's Captain Hook to Pirates of the Caribbean 's Captain Jack Sparrow, pirates are established and identified though t...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Sound Sampler
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Edison Wax Cylinders Charles Furlong Papers (Stef Mss 197 ) Sound recordings, whether spoken word, music or field recordings have alway...
Friday, February 22, 2013
Dragons of the Alps
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We have written before about unicorns being sited in the New World, and a seven-headed hydra in a cabinet of curiosities, but now we find ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Picturing the Past
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South Main Street White River Junction, VT George Fellows was a local photographer who was most prolific in the late nineteenth and ear...
Friday, February 15, 2013
A Nobleman's Entertainment
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What to do, what to do? How does a nobleman spend his time in 1611? We just acquired George Turbervile's The Book of Falconrie or Hawki...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Great Unknown
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One of our favorite maps in the collection is woefully incomplete. "The General Chart Showing the Track of H. M. Ships Hecla & Grip...
Friday, February 8, 2013
Queen of the Snows
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1929 Winter Carnival Queen and Court "Beauty and Charm to Be the Basis In Picking 1923 Carnival Queen" reads the front page h...
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