Chloe Ferguson; Mohit Manohar, Lily Healey, Mary Thierry
The winners of the 2012 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize were announced at the Friends of the Princeton University Library’s winter dinner on March 25, 2012. See: http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/adler_prize/
The Council of the Friends of the Princeton University Library invites you to join Library curators and conservators for the third Book Adoption Party, Sunday, March 25, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Chancellor Green Rotunda. For reservations and further information, please visit the Friends of the Princeton University Library.
Anne Reeves, of Princeton Community Television, recently interviewed our curators and asked for a preview of some of the items up for adoption.
The Book Adoption Party offers Friends of the Library and guests the opportunity to underwrite the cost of acquiring and conserving selected rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and coins in the Princeton University Library’s special collections. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the Library’s curators and conservators and learn from them about the items available for adoption. The cost of these items will range from $15.00 to $3,000. Your reservation or contribution will entitle you to receive an advance copy of the event catalogue (also available online). For questions or cancellations, please contact (609) 258-3155 or loliveir@princeton.edu.
Moe Berg '23 in Switzerland, February 1946.
The current edition of the Princeton Alumni Weekly features an article on the papers of Moe Berg: In Moe Berg’s Papers, Glimpses of a Puzzling Figure.
To find out more about the Berg papers, see Moe Berg, Class of 1923.
Several of the items mentioned in the article are currently on display in the Main Gallery exhibition, “A Fine Addition: New and Notable Acquisitions in Princeton’s Special Collections.”
During the fall term of 2011, Professor Martha Sandweiss, History Department, and Brian Just, Art Museum Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas, co-taught a course entitled “Artifacts, Images, and History: The American Southwest.” The course explored Native arts of the American Southwest by analyzing Princeton’s own collections in the holdings of the Art Museum, the Department of Geosciences, and the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The Princeton University Art Museum magazine highlighted the course in its Winter 2012 issue, also available on the museum’s news page: The Museum in the Classroom.
For more, visit: http://blogs.princeton.edu/westernamericana/2012/03/05/western-americana-in-the-classroom-and-beyond/
Two items in our Peter J. Eckel Newsboy collection are featured in a just-released New York Times interactive –http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/02/theater/20120302-newsboys.html?ref=theater
“Newsboys Still Standing Firm” (article in NY Herald, July 30, 1899) [Box 8d]
Newsboy’s Prayer” (in street argot) [Box 10]
Finding aid for the entire collection is available at
http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/Eckel2_updated_05082009.pdf
For more information on rare books news, visit http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/
