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Book Printing

  • Printing Anti-Spanish Propaganda for European Purposes

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    <html><body><p>It 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 an

  • The ties that bind: How the decay of a binding shows its construction

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    <html><body><p>Swem Library has a great many books in very bad bindings. Most modern books, for instance, are held together only by glue at the spine.

  • The World Before QWERTY

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    <html><body><p>Can you type without looking at the keyboard? This used to be a skill taught to people who wanted secretarial or clerical jobs.

  • Believable Lies

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    <html><body><p>The island of Taiwan, once commonly known in the West by the Portuguese name of Formosa, has recently resurfaced in the news in connection with the One China policy

  • Propaganda and the Beginnings and End of Spanish America

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    <html><body><p>The arrival of Europeans in the Americas was an event of global importance, and its effect on the people already living here was devastating.

  • Lasting Impressions: Printing from the Fifteenth Century to Today

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    <html><body><p>In the basement of Swem Library is a room used mostly for storage. Along two walls are machines and wooden cases full of drawers.

  • Art in the SCRC Collections

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    <html><body><p style="text-align: left;">SCRC has an active instruction schedule during the academic year, as professors from all departments bring their students in to

  • All Wrapped Up: The Montebourg Manuscript

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    <html><body><p><drupal-media data-align="right" data-caption="Montebourg Manuscript wrapper (Collection of French Language Manuscripts, 1633-1942, Mss.

  • From the Cradle of Printing into the Classroom

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    <html><body><p>One of the titles we will be showing in two upcoming instruction sessions this week, the 1483 <a href="