Blog Posts from the Booth Family Center for Special Collections
Commedia dell'arte and Japanese Woodblock Prints
Without the capability of reproducing prints, Iowa born artist Bertha Boynton Lum would have never combined the French subjects of Commedia dell'arte in the style of Japanese woodblock prints.
The Far Side of the Moon
One of the more unusual objects in the University Archives is a lunar globe from the Soviet era.
New North, Old North. New South, ?
We have an Old North and a New North and we have a New South, so shouldn't there logically be or have been an "Old" South as well?
3 Cheers for Georgetown
Any Georgetown student or alum can probably sing the "Alma Mater" or the "Georgetown Fight Song" in their sleep. But what about such ditties as the “Hipper Dipper," the “Ray-Cheer," or, my personal favorite, the “Short Yell"? Never fear, dear Hoyas!
Blue Bird
While cataloging the University Art Collection’s 509 German movie posters this summer, I came across this 1977 poster for the film The Blue Bird (released in East Germany as Der blaue Vogel).
"I Fancy Myself a Little Better Looking"
The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass (circa February 1818 - February 20, 1895). Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper featured an interview and image of Douglass in 1879.
Discovering Alexandra David-Neel
A manuscripts archivist finds letters in the collections from Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969), described variously as explorer, Buddhist spiritualist, writer and anarchist.
Shoemaker's Shop Ledger Yields Serendipitous Football Fact
A reasearcher stumbles on a football-related entry from October 1844.
"Your Friend and Relation": Dolley Madison's Letter to General Zachary Taylor
On June 8, 1846, Dolley penned a letter from Washington, D.C. to General Zachary Taylor in Matamoros, Mexico.
Print Room
On February 28, the Art Collection was invited to participate in a Maker Hub workshop on linocut printing.
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