Nineteenth century rare books, daguerreotypes, and twenty-first century digital imaging technology converge to help us glimpse the lives of people in the 1840–50’s. Todd Pattison remembers the first time a daguerreotype really caught his eye. “A friend who collects nineteenth century ...
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Special Collections featured book for November is The Indian Prophet: Bilingual Poems From the Ahtna Athabaskan by John E. Smelcer. Dr. Smelcer received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from Binghamton University, where he received the ...
Arthur Miller, Collected Plays 1944-1961 is the featured Book of the Month for October. This book contains a collection of some of Miller’s most famous works, including the “The Crucible.” Arthur Miller, Collected Plays 1944-1961. Edited by Tony Kushner. Library ...
How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine ...
For the Dog Days of August A Dog’s Tale by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). New York, London : Harper & Brothers. 1904. Call number: PS 1322 .D6 1904. Special Collections, Rare Book Collection. In honor of the dog days of summer, A Dog’s Tale ...
By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines Wroclaw University Library, based in Warsaw, Poland, is partnering with IBM to digitize 800,000 European manuscripts, books and maps that date back to the Middle Ages. The project aims to create the largest digital archive of ...
The true means of establishing public happiness. : A sermon, delivered on the 7th of July, 1795, before the Connecticut Society of Cincinnati is our featured book for July 2013. This short work (approx. 40 pages) was printed in New Haven, Connecticut in ...
Mission to Moscow by Joseph E. Davies, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938, is the Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections Book-of-the-Month for June 2013. The book is made up entirely of confidential dispatches to the State ...
In honor of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Hockey in Broome County (2005) is Special Collections’ Featured Book for May 2013. The Binghamton Senators, AHL-affiliate and farm team for the Ottawa Senators, may not have gotten far in the Caldor Cup playoffs but ...
Yoppy: the Autobiography of a Monkey by Mollie Lee Clifford. Illustrated Animal Autobiographical Series. Boston, New York : H. M. Caldwell Co. [1905]. Rare Book Collections, PS3505. L5 Y6. This book is a typical example of Children’s Literature from the turn of the ...