Firestone Library, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
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Who determines the contents of an archive? How do a library’s holdings influence historians? Whose stories get told and whose do not?
The spring 2021 course “Archiving the American West" answered these questions and many more. bit.ly/3Bi1AUa
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Join us Sunday, Aug. 29 at 3 p.m. when Professor John Fleming discusses his extensive personal library, which includes 16th century Italian editions of the works of Petrarch as well as volumes of The Cornelius à Lapide’s Great Commentary from the 1700s. libcal.princeton.edu/event/8…
ALT Books from the collection of Professor John Fleming.
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This post is one of two Special Collections blogs about this theme today. Our colleagues in @PrincetonRBSC have provided a bit more context from the Graphic Arts Collection. graphicarts.princeton.edu/20…
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“Unequal to Anything,” a set of two letters from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, is now digitally available as part of our Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature. (Thanks to @emsarconi and the @PrincetonRBSC for sharing!) blogs.princeton.edu/manuscri…
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Hanga was a Japanese print portfolio publication, there were 10 quarterly issues printed. This cover of issue 3, 1924 features the print: Landscape with Warehouse by Fukazawa Sakuichi. They have a set @PULibrary and you can read more here: library.princeton.edu/news/m…
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Our latest digital exhibition, “Capturing Feathers,” explores the birds as an indicator species that serves as one of nature’s primordial messengers of #ClimateChange. library.princeton.edu/news/g…
ALT Color plate - British and Foreign Birds. A New Game Moral, Instructive and Amusing; Designed to Allure the Minds of Youth to an Acquaintance with the Wonders of Nature. (Eng 18 / board games 6113), Princeton University Library Treasures of the Cotsen Children's Library Collection, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library. Photographer: Squirrel Walsh
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Join us this Wednesday (4/21) for a discussion with @whitneytrettien about several experiments in digital book history drawn from her forthcoming book on radical publishing with scissors and paste in early modern England. Cc: @PrincetonRBSC @PennEnglish libcal.princeton.edu/event/7…
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Join us tomorrow, Sunday, April 18 at 3 p.m., to hear a panel of scholars and experts discuss what has been revealed from the T.S. Eliot & Emily Hale letters, one of the best-known sealed literary archives in the world!
Register here: libcal.princeton.edu/calenda…
CC: @PrincetonRBSC
ALT Envelope addressed to Miss Emily Hale
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We collaborated with CADAL @USCLibraries to bring our Chinese oracle bone collection online! Oracle bones are pieces of ox or turtle bones which were used for divination in ancient China, and constitute the earliest known Chinese writing: library.princeton.edu/news/e…
ALT An example of a Chinese Oracle Bone in the PUL collection.
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Princeton is looking for TWO NEW ARCHIVISTS. Please, come help us move mountains! ow.ly/p4PZ50EbKpa
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The Her Book Project, led by @EmSarconi, is updating our collections with the names of women book owners and helping to trace the lineage of book ownership throughout history: bit.ly/herbookpjct #WomensHistoryMonth
ALT Meat out of the Eater, an example of a book with multiple inscriptions.
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Over the past year, we’ve acquired several collections documenting women’s experiences in #AmericanHistory, including a schoolteacher’s diary and legal documents for Ann Porter’s abortion trial in 1829. #WomensHistoryMonth library.princeton.edu/news/g…
ALT Warrant for Ann Porter’s arrest in the Ohio abortion trial (1829).
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The @Yale & @RutgersU Black Bibliography Project, which seeks to address the lack of organized info about Black print as well as change cataloging practices around Black Print culture, is the topic for a two-part, online event on Tuesday, March 23: libcal.princeton.edu/calenda…
ALT PUL's two-part speaker series on the Black Bibliography Project begins on March 23, 2021.
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Performative poetry — like crumpling, twisting and throwing paper into the air — brought together 13 students in 13 different locations this fall as part of the “Language to Be Looked At” course. bit.ly/3eHnCHC
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Congratulations to Dr. Alan Stahl for earning the Giles Constable Award of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation! Stahl intends to use to fund two months of #numismatics archival research in #Venice in 2022: library.princeton.edu/news/g…
ALT Alan Stahl working in the Archivio di Stato di Venezia.
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Our archivists helped 14 women secure a place in history, identifying them in our Latin America manuscripts collections. Among them is María del Rosario Páez de Llamosas, daughter of former Venezuelan president José Antonio Páez. library.princeton.edu/news/g… #WomensHistoryMonth
ALT Dominga Ortiz Orzúa (1792-1875), wife of Venezuelan President José Antonio Páez and mother of María del Rosario Páez de Llamosas.
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Are you a collector?
The Elmer Adler Book Collecting Prize for #PrincetonU undergrads awards three cash prizes for personal essay submissions describing a compelling personal collection.
Learn more on Feb. 18 at 4 pm: libcal.princeton.edu/event/7…
CC: @PrincetonUSG @PrincetonRBSC
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Friday, Dec. 4 at 2 pm, Julie Mellby, #GraphicArts Curator, offers a captivating tour of #precinema optical devices: phenakistoscopes, megalethoscopes & cinematographs, to name a few. Special guests share history & treasures of @PrincetonGarden Theater.
bit.ly/2JMBR0j
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The Cotsen Children’s Library just added a collection of lianhuanhua, Chinese illustrated story or comic books, courtesy of an anonymous University alumnus. Among the 180 volumes are books that capture women warriors, popular folklore, and even the A-Team! bit.ly/3fsrhYd
ALT Xue Gang Rebels Against the Tang Dynasty 薛刚反唐, a historical novel adapted into lianhuanhua series (donation to Cotsen)
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Libraries across the world are grappling with how to address inherent biases and silences in the archives.
Today, Nov. 17, at 4:30 pm, the Archival Silences Working Group hosts a panel on decolonizing knowledges.
More: bit.ly/2IALhw0
@PrincetonRBSC @PrincetonHum
ALT Archival Silences; Decolonizing Knowledges; November 17, 2020 at 4:30 p.m.