Rauner Special Collections Library

Here is a curious book. It contains multiple sets of engraved plates from the 18th century, mostly by Pierre-Alexander Aveline. The plates ...

Here in Special Collections, we have a lovely little volume written in 1687 by Richard Blome titled The Present State of His Majesties Is...

We have blogged about our man Charles "Stubbie" Pearson '42 a couple of times and we also featured him in one of our Hindsig...

If you like old tomes and creepy-crawlies, then do we ever have the book for you. In preparation for an anthropology class on bestiaries, ...

Dartmouth students in the 19th century had a habit of tweaking the sensibilities of their nervous professors. The school was a factory for m...

Most of us today have heard of the retail clothing outlet Abercrombie & Fitch, most likely because of a string of nationally publicize...

On July 9, 1917, Vermonter Belno Marsh Whelden enlisted as a private in the Machine Gun Infantry. For the next two years he would serve on t...