Sometime around the year 1491, the German cartographer Henricus Martellus produced an influential map of the world, which was likely used by Christopher Columbus on his 1492 expedition to the Americas. Naturally, Martellus made sure to note all the wildest rumors about ...
This is Edmund Reinhardt’s membership card in the Society for the Protection of Birds (Bund für Vogelschutz) from 1920. Edmund was the brother of Max Reinhardt, the famous Austrian theater and film director. This membership card is from the Max Reinhardt ...
Construction has begun on the creation of a permanent exhibit space dedicated to Edwin A. Link, his life and work, pulling materials from Link Collections, which are held in the Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections. The permanent exhibit will bring those collections ...
Aynur de Rouen, Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection, presented as part of a panel at the international academic workshop “Lines of Identity: Middle Eastern Diaspora in North America” at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, ...
The Beauvais Missal is one of the best-known victims of mid-twentieth-century American biblioclasm, serving as a perfect example of just how great a loss is incurred when a codex is dismembered and its leaves scattered. It also serves as a ...
Dr. Aynur de Rouen, Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association in Tampa, Florida on October 17. She presented a paper, “Now It Can Be Told: ...
Head of Special Collections, Jean Green, and Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection, Dr. Aynur de Rouen recently spoke at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Spring meeting in Roanoke, Virginia. They spoke as part ...
The mould-breaking outcome of Turkey’s general election on Sunday will be viewed as a personal rebuff for the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and as a historic political breakthrough for the country’s 18 million-strong Kurdish minority, which will be represented by ...
The Tilly Losch Collection consists correspondence, diaries, photographs and other materials. But, did you know that the collection also features a large number of loose sketches, sketchbooks, and over 500 of her paintings? Tilly Losch Collection Finding Aid Come ...