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May 9, 2018Posted in: Special CollectionsThe quotation in the title of this post is from a letter about an 1890 revolution in Buenos Aires known as The Revolution of the Park. -
April 11, 2018Posted in: Special CollectionsAs an Exhibit Apprentice in Swem’s Special Collections, I had the opportunity to curate a World War I centennial exhibit. -
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November 22, 2017Posted in: Special CollectionsDown in the belly of Special Collections sits a mysterious blue velvet box. Its contents are simultaneously mundane and bizarre, important for the study of language in Spain, and remarkably unremarkable. The box bears the inscription Matxin de Zalbaren Gutuna, La Carta de Machin de Zalba, 1416. What is it? Why do we have it? What makes it both special and ordinary? -
July 5, 2017Posted in: Special CollectionsWhat is the difference between printing and publishing? This is perhaps something many of us don’t think about, but there is a difference. After all, we now speak of things being published on the internet, so there is not an inherent relationship between print and publication, at least not anymore. Two documents from the Thomas G. -
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May 31, 2017Posted in: Special CollectionsIt may seem like Spanish empire in the Americas would have little to do with European politics, but we should not assume that the Atlantic world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was any less global than our own. -
May 17, 2017Posted in: Special CollectionsThe College of William and Mary was founded before the City of Williamsburg, the former in 1693, the latter in 1699. The original of this map, however, was made at some point before 1683, and was used by the Lords of Trade and Foreign Plantations in London in their administration of the colonies. It shows the area where Williamsburg and the College would be built, at least a decade before they came into being. -
May 3, 2017Posted in: Special CollectionsSwem Library has a great many books in very bad bindings. Most modern books, for instance, are held together only by glue at the spine. Even modern hardcovers have the same binding. Other than the hard shell surrounding them, they are in all other respects exactly the same as a cheap paperback. In the past, however, bindings were much stronger.