Rauner Special Collections Library

Last week a 19th-century English literature class came to visit us in Special Collections, and we had the chance to show them our first pu...

The first-year medical students at the Geisel School of Medicine visited  Special  Collections last week as a part of their On Doctoring ...

Happy Valentine's Day! Rooting around in the collections we found an awesome batch of very frilly Valentine cards from the 1880s and 1...

Good Lord, Tennyson! We were just looking up a poem from Tennyson published in 1851, and stumbled on this frontispiece for the American ed...

Diagram of the supposed Gloucester Sea Serpent. You’ve likely heard of Scotland’s famous aquatic cryptid who lives in Loch Ness, but wha...

We have blogged before about the rivalry between William Blake and Thomas Stothard over their competing images of the Canterbury Pilgrims ...

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