Blog Posts from the Booth Family Center for Special Collections
Lady Mary's Sketchbook
A 19th-century sketchbook brings Lake District scenes around Lowther Castle to life.
Illustrated Travel in Pictures and Talks
Travel experiences can be captured in a myriad of ways, as seen in this series of armchair travels through manuscripts collections.
An "Incident of Battle" in the Spanish-American War
A field glass and its case go missing during battle.
Nine Point Harry and The Kingfish
A bundle of clippings about the 1913 captain of the football team yields a story about the Mayflower Hotel and mistaken identity.
Engraved Copper Plate of St. Benedict
The University Art Collection is a teaching collection, and as such it holds a number of original matrices of varying materials which have been incised by the artist, inked and then printed.
The Places You Will Go!
Travel vicariously with the help of wonderful and beautifully written travel accounts to both well-known tourist destinations and more far-flung places.
...and he declined to mix...
In what ranks among the least proud moments in Georgetown athletic history, Sam Apperious refused to play.
Salvador Dalí's Proofs for The Divine Comedy
This progressive proof animation is 37 seconds long, but in real life it takes a lot of time to make one full-color print.
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