Rauner Special Collections Library

Friday, March 16, 2018

Stimulating Reading

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Most pamphlets published in the 17th century had the coffee-house crowd in mind as the audience. Coffee houses served as a kind of gentleman...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Sealing Wax and other Fancy Stuff

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We just bought a cool medical recipe book that was kept by Thomas Chadbourne, an early graduate of the Dartmouth Medical School (now the Gei...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Accounting for Wheelock

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None of Wheelock’s biographers, nor any of the historians of the College, ever mention Wheelock’s youth, other than to note his piousness an...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

A Long Time Coming

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We just acquired something that was presented to us 78 years ago. It took a while to get here. It is a mimeograph, typescript copy of Frankl...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Map Stories

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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words - this is certainly true if that picture is a map. When we think of what purpose maps se...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Serious History

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Humor - and especially black humor - often sticks in the imagination in a way that a dry reading of a subject doesn't. The Monarchs of ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Tiny Treasures

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If you've ever seen Rauner's Instagram, you may know that Tuesday is a bit of a special day when we post pictures of our coolest an...
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