Restoration Miss Piggy https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/ids:49822699$1i image
I'm hesitant to say anything in case I'm in the wrong, but I think a bookseller is describing something as a book about freemasonry mainly because its author is named John Mason, a phenomenon that will be familiar to users of Mastodon.
My colleagues at the Woodberry Poetry Room have gotten a big Mellon grant to digitize WPR's pioneering archive of literary audio recordings:
Harvard Gazette
Where sights and sounds of modern poetry are — Harvard Gazette
Woodberry Poetry Room embarks on online preservation project
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The Library of Congress used multispectral imaging to reveal illegibly faded place names on a 16th century map of the North American coast.
The Library of Congress
The (Newly Revealed) Wonders of a 16th Century Portolan Chart of the North American Coast | Timeless
New details about early European explorations along the North American east coast have been gleaned from a 16th-century portolan chart by the Library
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You might well assume that my favorite part of the story “This 150-square-foot bookstore is located in a basement over the Sumner Tunnel” involves my love of books or subterraneanness, but I think it’s getting the Globe to print “Upstairs in the EBO & Co, which Cervasio opened in 2021, wines from across the world coexist peacefully with scratch tickets and bumper stickers that read, ‘This Whore Climbed Mt. Washington.’” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/25/arts/east-boston-bookstore-alexis-cervasio/ image
‘Sup dawg, we heard you like historical significance, so we declared your historical significance to be historically significant.
Pieces of History
The National Archives Building’s Landmark Plaque
On August 22, 2024, the National Archives Building’s National Historic Landmark Plaque is being unveiled. Visit National Archives News and the Na...
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If, like Instagram user ksferrante you "could watch John talk about pretty books all day" or at least for two minutes, check out this video of me showing off a cool #NewAcquisition.
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Houghton Library on Instagram: "#NewAcq: John Overholt, Curator of the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Early Books and Manuscripts, is back to share about a new joint acquisition between Early Books and Manuscripts and Printing and Graphic Arts from @liberantiquus. Philip Melanchthon’s “Loci Praecipui Theologici” (“The Chief Theological Topics”) is considered the first Protestant work of systematic theology. This 1559 edition was bound by Thomas Krüger of Wittenberg in an alum-tawed pigskin binding and features two full-length portrait panel stamps, one of Martin Luther on the front cover and one of Philip Melanchthon on the back, based on portraits by Lucas Cranach the Younger. #MartinLuther #PhilipMelanchthon #ThomasKrüger #Wittenberg #Binding #Theology #NewAcquisition #HoughtonLibrary #HarvardLibrary"
342 likes, 7 comments - houghtonlibrary on August 23, 2024: "#NewAcq: John Overholt, Curator of the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel J...
I found England’s least believable address. image
When I got my first church blazer around 1984 or so, I asked if I could get a pocket square for it and my mom said no, that was foppish. I wouldn’t say I was traumatized by this (mostly I thought fop was great fun to say. Fop fop fop.) but I have been repressing my inner dandy a bit ever since. I recently lost a bunch of weight (some ill health, followed by some good health) and I have had to replace all my clothes. I decided, dammit, I want pocket squares, and IMHO I look like a million bucks! image
Pretty please, include the call number if you're citing a specific item from a special collections library in your scholarly work. We get lots of questions like "so and so says you have this thing but I can't find it in the catalog" and having a call number means I can almost always track it down. (I mostly can without it too because that's where I'm a Viking, but man is it less work with the call number.)