The Libraries has some spooky items in its collections…beware! From the Commemorative Stamp Collection, The Mummy – Boris Karloff Führer durch Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark, 1929, Cover, "Panther." A. (Arnout) Vosmaer, more »
Category: Special Collections
In my work as a rare materials cataloger, some very remarkable books cross my desk. And although I've learned that even the most plain-looking books can hold surprises, I was more »
Golden Noble, Lord Derby, Devonshire Quarrenden, Gravenstein, Ellison's Orange . . . what are these you might ask? They are varieties of apples that can be found in The new book of more »
A few moths ago the Libraries received two valuable rare books from Ronald K. Smeltzer, collector and bibliographer. Nicolas Bion (1652-1733), Traite de la construction et des principaux usages des more »
The invention of the telephone has a fraught and complicated history, but in spite of legal challenges and controversy, most can comfortably credit Alexander Graham Bell with its creation. On more »
Louis Figuier, Les nouvelles conquetes de la science [The new conquests of science], 1883-85, Tome 1, plate opposite page 430 – "Fig.163: Fig. 163: Bureau centrale telephonique" (Telephone Exchange). In more »
Within the span of about a month, the Dibner Library received two separate inquiries about our lone manuscript page from the draft of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. more »