Archive: May, 2018
Special Collections has added several outstanding pieces of Edo Period Japanese art and illustration to our holdings, including the work of celebrated artists and a very interesting artistic technique. These items are all currently available for research in our reading room or classrooms! Sō Shiseki gafu 宋紫石画譜, 1765 A woodblock-printed book reproducing the artwork of …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Orson Pratt letter to Nathaniel H. Felt. This item is a handwritten and signed letter, dated December 11, 1866, written from Liverpool, England, on “Latter-Day Saints’ European Printing, Publishing, and Emigration Office” letterhead. It is a brief letter to Felt, who …
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May 14, 2018 by Ben Harry
In 1977, the Cecil B. DeMille papers (MSS 1400) were donated to the BYU Special Collections. In this collection, we have 1,263 boxes of correspondence, production-related artwork, still photographs, and AV materials that cover the career of one of classic Hollywood’s most dynamic and significant filmmakers. One of the interesting pieces of information hidden in …
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May 10, 2018 marks the 149th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah – linking both East and West Coasts of the United States for the first time. To commemorate this anniversary, here is a link to an image of the “Joining of the Rails” by Charles Roscoe (C. R.) …
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English poet John Keats published his famous long poem Endymion in the spring of 1818. The first literary reviewers hated it, but over the centuries, the poem and poet’s legacy has grown and it’s now a staple of English poetry anthologies. Even if you’ve never read Endymion, you probably know its first line: “A thing …
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