Rauner Special Collections Library

Paper marbling is a beautiful and tricky art form that is often used to create endpapers for book binding. The marbled design is made by fl...

On September 22, 1918, young Clifford Orr wrote home to his mother about the first weeks of his Freshman year at Dartmouth. In his four-page...

In 1840, a fourteen-year-old boy from Kent County, England, went to sea on the whaler Sussex , which sailed from London on January 20, for t...

With the approach of 2018, we hope that you have plans to spend New Year's Eve in style, whether that be out on the town enjoying musi...

We hope this gets you into the spirit of the season! brought to you by the inventor of the modern Christmas card, Louis Prang, his "Win...

If you were a book illustrator faced with creating the first illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost , where would you focus? Let...

Last week, we brought you an 1890 plea to farmers to stay in New Hampshire. The lure of the rich soil of the Midwest was proving too strong,...