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Must Love Dogs: E. J. Detmold
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<html><body><p>This month's "Must Love Dogs" blog series again focuses on an illustrator. E. J.
World War I in the Everyday Experience
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Must Love Dogs: Cecil Aldin
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<html><body><p>Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) was a British artist and illustrator, famous for his portrayal of dogs.</p>
Handmade books and the Old Stile Press
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Founders: The People Behind William & Mary
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<html><body><p>This year's Charter Day marked the 325th anniversary of the founding of William & Mary by William III and Mary II, the first and (to date) only joint-m
Tis the Season
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<html><body><p>In this month's dog series post, we decided to focus on dog books related to the December holidays.
Must Love Dogs: 11/11/18
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<html><body><p>In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, effectively ending World War I.
Must Love Dogs: Journal of a Neglected Bulldog
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<html><body><p>You may recall from our <a href="https://scrc.blogs.wm.edu/2017/09/13/mu…
Must Love Dogs
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<html><body><p>If you've ever visited the Special Collections Research Center, you may have learned that we hold the second largest collection of books about dogs in the Unit
"The Looted Book"
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<html><body><p>Institutional knowledge is an awesome thing and something that is often taken for granted and/or overlooked.
Mosaic Intern's Work Offers Glimpse of Artistic Text
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<html><body><p>What do Indiana Jones and the Content Services Mosaic Intern have in common?
Instruction in Special Collections: A Closer Look at SCRC's Recent Acquisitions
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<p>With a goal of not only collecting and preserving texts and objects for future generations, the Special Collections Research Center is devoted to acquiring books and artifacts that can ben
A Lover of Words Reveal'd
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<html><body><p>Swem Library holds two editions of <u>A grammar of the English tongue, with the arts of logick, rhetoric, poetry, &c.</u>, but it is in the earl
Bingo Finds his Way to Belarus: Yiddish Dog Books in the Interwar Period
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<html><body><p>Many of the treasures in Special Collections don't actually live in the stacks downstairs but are instead housed in Swem Library's Offsite Stacks (SOSS).
Printing Anti-Spanish Propaganda for European Purposes
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<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 and seventeenth centuries
The ties that bind: How the decay of a binding shows its construction
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<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. Even modern hardcovers have the same binding.
Believable Lies
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<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.
The Research Behind a Catalog Record: Map of Coal Lands in Raleigh County, West Virginia
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<p><span>An interesting old map, recently cataloged and made accessible in the Earl Gregg Swem Library Rare Books Collection at SCRC, bears witness to the transformation of West Virgini
"Sea Fables Explained"
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<html><body><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Imagine, if you will, a creature with a lower body made of the skin and scales of a carp, a human-like upper body wi