Rauner Special Collections Library

Friday, April 3, 2020

Ordinary Memorabilia

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The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne was held in Paris in the spring and summer of 1937. The Peace Pavil...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

You Laugh

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We recently acquired a small collection of Dartmouth's more recent history related to the introduction of coeducation in 1972. Elizabeth...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Early Readers

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Until quite recently, one of the first texts that many children would have learned to read was the Lord's Prayer. A child learning to r...
Friday, March 13, 2020

A Patriotic Mystery: The Bird of Washington

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In celebration of our new single-case exhibit on display in Rauner- Some Truly Odd Birds: Audubon’s Mysterious Aviary - we’d like to presen...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Context is (almost) Everything

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We have a pretty cool letter from Charles Darwin in the collection. It opens simply enough with "Dear Sir," but the name of the re...
Friday, March 6, 2020

Lousy with Literary Distinction & Poetry

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Oh goodness, we have once before blogged an instance of author Kenneth Roberts expressing his disdain for a bit of literature in his epic ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Hiding in Plain Sight

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We have blogged a couple of times in the past about the giant Antiphonal we keep out in the reading room. It is one of those very impress...
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