tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88030757451480744502024-03-05T00:39:43.185-08:00Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison New acquisitions, generosity of donors, noteworthy holdings, exhibits, teaching activities, and events in the Department of Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16716411490062675421noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-21405315628961007842015-05-13T16:07:00.001-07:002015-05-13T16:14:11.080-07:00Maps!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In honor of this week's <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/" target="_blank">National Geographic Bee</a>, we invite you to visit the current exhibit in Special Collections -- “Mapmaking: Sources from the Geography Library, Map Library, and Special Collections.”</div>
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The exhibit honors the path-breaking accomplishments of the <a href="http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/" target="_blank">History of Cartography Project</a>, which has just published volume six, <i>Cartography in the Twentieth Century</i>.<br />
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Tom Tews of the <a href="http://www.library.wisc.edu/geography/" target="_blank">Geography Library</a> and Jaime Stoltenberg of the <a href="http://www.geography.wisc.edu/maplib/" target="_blank">Robinson Map Library</a> on campus worked with us to select items for the exhibit, which also includes materials from the History of Cartography Project collections. On display are maps, books, aerial photographs, and related items from the 16th century to the 21st, with most from the 20th century, in line with the focus of the publication it honors.<br />
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Many items on display carry a distinctly political message. For example, a “dream map” of intended German conquest in World War I (from the Andrew Laurie Stangel Collection in Special Collections) sits alongside a <i>Map of the Western Theatre of War</i> (1918) from the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. A <i>War Atlas for Americans</i> (1944) prepared with the assistance of the Office of War Information (from the Geography Library) illustrates the realities of World War II as delivered to bookshelves in American homes. A large four-panel map (from the Map Library) dates from the late 1940s in the Soviet Union and celebrates (thirty years later) the achievements of the Red Army during the Russian civil war, complete with Stalin’s words of praise. From the collections of the History of Cartography Project, a necklace charm in the shape of a map of Kurdistan creates and represents Kurdistan as a contiguous and united nation-state, though it is currently divided between the internationally recognized states of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria.<br />
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The exhibit also honors the important contributions of Arthur H. Robinson, founder of the Robinson Map Library, University of Wisconsin Cartographic Laboratory, and Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office, and David Woodward, who, with J. B. Harley, founded the History of Cartography Project. Woodward was also a valued friend of the Department of Special Collections and accomplished book artist.<br />
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Hours for the exhibit (and for our reading room) are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16716411490062675421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-39992382199312112812015-04-23T20:37:00.000-07:002015-04-23T20:42:37.039-07:00Celebrating Shakespeare's BirthdayOn this, Shakespeare's birthday, we celebrate as well the depth of the Peter Pauper Press Collection in the Department of Special Collections, the generous gift of James and Nancy Dast. We devoted an entire exhibit to the Peter Pauper Press in <a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/archives.html#y2011" target="_blank">2011</a>, but individual titles from the Collection also find their way into other exhibits and class presentations in Special Collections, including our recent collaborations with Prof. Josh Calhoun of the English Department.<br />
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The Peter Pauper Press produced many volumes drawing on the works of Shakespeare, and we have been pleased to point them out to students in Prof. Calhoun's Shakespeare classes. Handsomely designed and produced at “prices even a pauper could afford,” such titles capitalized on the enduring popularity of Shakespeare's writings. They include, as shown here, editions smaller and larger of <i>Hamlet,</i> <br />
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and multiple editions of Shakespeare's verse, among the many books of poetry produced by the Peter Pauper Press.<br />
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Volumes of Shakespeare soliloquies and sonnets exemplify a certain Peter Pauper graphic style;<br />
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whereas this one is filled with pithy sentiments we owe to Shakespeare, such as “There's small choice in rotten apples,” from <i>Taming of the shrew. </i><br />
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Watch this space for more about Shakespeare and the UW-Madison Libraries, as we, with our many campus and community partners, prepare for the <a href="http://www.library.wisc.edu/news/2015/02/26/university-of-wisconsin-madison-libraries-and-the-chazen-museum-of-art-to-host-shakespeares-first-folio-exhibition-in-2016/" target="_blank">visit in fall of 2016</a> of one of the Folger Library's copies of Shakespeare's <i>First Folio</i> -- part of a whole year of Shakespeare in Wisconsin. <br />
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Hearty congratulations are also in order to James (Jim) Dast on his receipt of the <a href="http://www.library.wisc.edu/news/2015/03/16/rotary-club-of-madison-honors-longtime-uw-madison-libraries-employee-with-senior-service-award/" target="_blank">Rotary Club Senior Service Award</a>. We are so grateful for such steadfast library friends, donors, and supporters as Jim and Nancy Dast. <br />
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<br />Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16716411490062675421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-8851207738292277872015-03-08T12:07:00.001-07:002015-03-08T12:07:24.926-07:00Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac" This weekend's community reading of Aldo Leopold's <i>Sand county almanac </i>at the UW-Madison <a href="http://uwarboretum.org/" target="_blank">Arboretum</a> prompts us to highlight the rich resources related to Leopold in Special Collections and in the University Archives at UW-Madison.<br />
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We are honored to preserve and make available in Special Collections the <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/WU4351101" target="_blank">Robert A. McCabe collection of the writings of Aldo Leopold</a>, presented to the Libraries by Marie S. McCabe. The intriguing story of the collection and its path to the UW-Madison Libraries is recounted in the <i>Messenger magazine </i>for winter 1998/1999, <a href="http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW.FOLWinter199899" target="_blank">digitized</a> as part of the <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/UW/FOL" target="_blank">Friends of the UW-Madison Library collection</a>. Among the notable archival material in the McCabe/Leopold collection in Special Collections are manuscript pages of Leopold's <i>Sand county almanac</i>, which McCabe collected from what he called the "round file" after a secretary had typed them. McCabe, who would succeed his mentor Leopold as department head, noted later in <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm16918250" target="_blank">Aldo Leopold, the professor</a></i>: "I don't know if [Leopold] knew I was collecting his discarded longhand writings, but he knew I was interested in their literary quality." Below, for example, a page dated 4/1/44 and entitled "Thinking Like a Mountain" shows clearly Leopold's writing and editorial process.<br />
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Please note: <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/AldoLeopold/copyright" target="_blank">The Aldo Leopold Foundation holds the rights</a> to all of Leopold's unpublished material and works in non-extant publications. Written authorization from the Aldo Leopold Foundation is thus required prior to reproducing this or other Leopold manuscripts for publication or exhibition.<br />
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<li>an extensive <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/AldoLeopold" target="_blank">digital collection</a> produced with <a href="http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/13501" target="_blank">funding</a> from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Aldo Leopold Foundation, UW-Madison General Library System, and UW Digital Collections Center; </li>
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Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16716411490062675421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-13300931604258695732015-02-18T20:55:00.001-08:002015-02-20T09:35:05.825-08:00Volta and Inflammable AirsToday's Google doodle honoring the <a href="http://www.google.com/doodles/alessandro-voltas-270th-birthday" target="_blank">270th birthday of Alessandro Volta</a><br />
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prompted us to explore works by Volta in two of our outstanding <a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/about/collection_strengths/hist_sci/index.html" target="_blank">history of science collections</a>, the Cole Collection of Chemistry and the Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection.<br />
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Among our holdings are two 18th-century editions of Volta's letters on "inflammable airs from marshes," the first in Italian (<a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm03751688" target="_blank">published in Milan in 1777</a>) and a French translation (<a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm05817247" target="_blank">published in Strasbourg the following year</a>).<br />
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In these letters, Volta's first studies in pneumatics, he described his investigations of inflammable gases, primarily methane, which he had discovered late the previous year in Lago Maggiore. Volta's interest in this topic was piqued by the work of Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley, Marsilio Landriani, and Felice Fontana, among others.<br />
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Our two versions (1777 and 1778) of Volta's letters on inflammable gases deployed markedly different approaches to illustrating the phenomena and experimental apparatus in question. The original version, in Italian, featured engravings both decorative and informative mixed with letterpress; the French translation took a simpler tack, ornamenting the text with only a few decorative woodcuts. <br />
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The publisher of the French translation instead gathered substantive illustrations together on a single engraved plate, a conventional practice for scientific publications of the period and, one assumes, less expensive. Because it could be viewed at the same time as any page of the text, such a plate is now called a <a href="http://www.aba.org.uk/book-collecting/249-terms-of-the-trade" target="_blank">throwout</a>. </div>
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For more information on Volta and the broad range of his interests and accomplishments, see, for example, the biography <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm50072163" target="_blank"><i>Volta: Science and culture in the Age of Enlightenment</i></a> by Giuliano Pancaldi. Articles in <i>Nuova Voltiana: Studies on Volta and his times </i> address many aspects of Volta's scientific work; they include studies of pneumatic chemistry and respirability by such scholars as Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Marco Beretta. </div>
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By the way, in a piece in today's <i>Guardian</i>, "<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2015/feb/18/alessandro-volta-anniversary-electricity-history-science" target="_blank">A welcome but misleading Google doodle</a>," Charlotte Connelly, a Ph.D. student at Cambridge, took some issue with historical liberties taken by artist Mark Holmes in his design of today's Google doodle. </div>
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<br />Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16716411490062675421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-8536561640728988452014-12-23T14:40:00.002-08:002014-12-23T15:04:29.024-08:00Snow SupplementSince we in Madison are not destined to have much if any snow this week, enjoying instead temperatures in the upper 30s and some downright gray skies, we offer instead a view of snowflakes from the <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm05355541">Encyclopédie</a></i> of Diderot and d'Alembert.<br />
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Shown here are details from plate 2 of 5 plates for <i>Physique</i>, from <i>Recueil de planches, sur les sciences sciences, les arts lib</i><i>é</i><i>raux, et les arts m</i><i>é</i><i>chaniques avec leur explication, </i>5e volume, 248 planches (Paris: Chez Briasson, David, Le Breton, 1767), from our full set of the <i>Encyclopédie. </i>The plate was drawn by Goussier, engraved by Benard.<br />
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We recently had occasion to notice this plate of weather-related illustrations while showing the <i>Encyclopédie </i>plates to students in one of four sections of History 119, Modern Europe 1500-1815 (Prof. Lee Wandel with teaching assistant Monica Ledesma). For an earlier version of this course we digitized other <a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/course_related/Encyclopedie/index.html">selected images</a> from the <i>Encyclopédie</i>.<br />
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Illustrations of snowflakes also remind us of an <a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/archives.html#y2007">exhibit</a> entitled "Stormy Weather" several years ago in Special Collections. A checklist of that exhibit, curated by Sarah Boxhorn (Potratz), is <a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/checklists/StormyWeather/Stormy%20Weather%20exhibit%202007%20checklist.pdf">available</a>. <br />
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From that exhibit, we highlight here <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm15065614" style="font-style: italic;">Cloud crystals: A snow flake album</a>, "edited by a lady" (1865) -- part of our <a href="http://memorial.library.wisc.edu/collections/cairns.html#a">Cairns Collection of American Women Writers</a>. </div>
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Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16716411490062675421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-71174994403571677852014-12-11T07:40:00.000-08:002014-12-11T07:47:14.029-08:00Secrets Reveal'dWe are delighted to announce that a digital version of our copy of the intriguingly titled <i>Secrets reveal'd</i> -- with copious annotations by Isaac Newton -- is now part of the UW Digital Collections: <a href="http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Newton">http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Newton</a>. Thanks to Melissa McLimans and Cat Phan of the <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/about">UW Digital Collections Center</a> for making images of this volume available to a world-wide audience. The images were produced using the Indus Color Book Scanner 5002 in the Department of Special Collections.<br />
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This copy is part of the Duveen Collection in Special Collections, one of ten titles in our holdings that were owned by Newton. Expect to see more of these titles from Newton's library in UW Digital Collections over the coming months. </div>
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Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16716411490062675421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-51917111539490490872014-10-24T13:25:00.001-07:002014-10-24T13:43:01.544-07:00Honoring the Sukov Collection The history of the <a href="http://memorial.library.wisc.edu/collections/littlemags.html#c" target="_blank">Little Magazines Collection</a> in Special Collections began in the late 1950s, when Memorial Library acquired by purchase and donation the collection of Marvin Sukov, a Minneapolis psychiatrist and dedicated collector of largely non-commericial, avant-garde, experimental English-language literary magazines. These periodical publications are called little not because they are necessarily very small (though some are), but rather because their publication runs tend to be small, which in turn means that they have not always been acquired by academic and research libraries. Frequently they also deviate from a strict timetable for their publication, which poses its own challenges to acquiring and cataloging them. <br />
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We are pleased today to welcome to Special Collections members of Dr. Sukov's family and to call attention to aspects of Dr. Sukov's original collection and his generosity to the Libraries in the years following the original acquisition of his remarkable collection of little magazines. <br />
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The building itself bears witness to the importance of Dr. Sukov, in the form of a conference room in which many a lively discussion of the growth of the Libraries' collections has occurred.<br />
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The collection now resides in what is called the Department of Special Collections within Memorial Library, where it anchors an extensive, and growing, collection <span id="goog_392063558">of little magazines. Shown here are a few very recent additions to the Little Magazines Collections, which enjoys much use by readers both local and afar. </span><br />
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In honor of today's event, "<a href="http://www.library.wisc.edu/news/2014/09/09/our-funny-university-well-make-you-laugh-on-the-way-to-success/" target="_blank">Our Funny University</a>," we have installed a modest exhibit on the first floor of Memorial Library entitled "Campus Humor Magazines Near and Far." These cases highlight extensive and lively collections of campus humor magazines in the University Archives and the Department of Special Collections. The magazines on display include UW’s own <i>Sphinx</i> and <i>Octopus </i>as well as campus humor magazines from other American colleges and universities.<br />
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These magazines address topics both light-hearted and controversial: some of the humor stands well the test of time, while other jokes and cartoons make today’s readers cringe. The University Archives holds the <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/UW/UWHumor" target="_blank">Sphinx and Octopus</a> (and is seeking more issues); Special Collections holds a large <a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/about/collection%20inventories/collection_inventory_Dobbertin.html" target="_blank">collection of campus humor magazines</a> from other institutions as assembled and donated to the Libraries by John and Barbara Dobbertin.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-23136975763243317952014-09-08T15:13:00.000-07:002014-09-09T14:37:24.825-07:00Extinct Birds & Rare Books: The Example of the Great AukIn conjunction with the <a href="http://www.library.wisc.edu/about/friends-of-the-libraries/events-and-exhibits/" target="_blank">first event of the fall semester sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries</a>, we will make available in our reading room rare books depicting bird species now extinct. A key source for this topic is <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm06755149" target="_blank">Extinct birds</a> </i>by baron Lionel Walter Rothschild (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907), part of the Thordarson Collection and available as well through <a href="http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.RothsExtinct" target="_blank">UW Digital Collections</a>. The subtitle of Rothschild's book told a depressing tale: "An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times--that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction." <br />
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One of these species was the great auk, or Alca impennis. Rothschild, a noted zoologist and collector, had in fact two specimens of the great auk in his own collection, noting that "The remains of the Great Auk and its eggs in collections are more numerous than one would think, considering the enormous prices paid for mounted specimens and eggs."<br />
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His book, filled with accounts of descriptions and illustrations of extinct birds as published in earlier books, pointed to a slightly confusing description and depiction of the great auk in the <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm02188001" target="_blank">Exoticorum libri decem</a></i> of Carolus Clusius (1605), who thought the bird a native of North America and called it a "Mergus Americanus." Rothschild did allow that the depiction in Clusius' work -- a woodcut -- was "a rather poor but perfectly recognizable figure" of the great auk.<br />
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Rothschild went on to credit the <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm49993057" target="_blank"><i>Museum Wormianum</i></a> (1655), an account of the collection assembled by the Danish physician naturalist, and university administrator Ole Worm (latinized as Olaus Wormius), with the "first comparatively good figure," by which Rothschild meant illustration, "from a specimen brought alive from the Faroe Islands."<br />
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Rothschild went on, "Curiously enough the figure shows a white ring round the neck, which no <span class="searchterm">Great Auk</span>, of course, possesses." Other authors have called attention to the fact that Worm kept the bird as a pet, hence the white collar around its neck. From my point of view, it is at least as interesting that the copperplate engraving of the great auk in the <i>Museum Wormianum</i> was one of the few engravings in this title, otherwise filled with woodcuts.<br />
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Worm (1588-1654) and his collection have attracted attention from historians of museums, art historians, historians of science, and artists. In turn, we call your attention, for example, to a history of <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm01674161" target="_blank">Danish museums</a> by Gudmund Boesen (gift of the William Reeder family to the Special Collections reference collection); reconstructions of Worm's museum by artists like Rosamond Purcell; and scholarship by historians of science and medicine like Jole Shackelford, who earned his Ph.D. from UW-Madison's department of history of science.<br />
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Many of the volumes we will show at the event on Tuesday, September 9, 2014, hail from the Thordarson Collection, rich as it is with lavishly illustrated works on ornithology. Others come from various other collections in the Department. Titles include: <br />
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<li>Clusius, Carolus. <i>Exoticorvm libri decem</i>. Antwerp: Ex officinâ Plantianâ Raphelengii, 1605. Call number: LV L49 Cutter oversize. </li>
<li>Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, S.J. <i>Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae, libris XVI distincta. </i>Antwerp: Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti. 1635. Call number: 1195438 non-current oversize. </li>
<li>Piso, Willem, et al. <i>De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica: Libri quatuordecim, quorum contenta pagina sequens exhibit. </i>Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, 1658. Call number: +LV +P67. </li>
<li>Worm, Ole. <i>Museum Wormianum, seu, Historia rerum rariorum.</i> Leiden: Ex Officina Elseviriorum, 1655. Call number: CA 15474 oversize. Bound with other titles. </li>
<li>Willughby, Francis. <i>Ornithologiæ libri tres. </i>London: Impensis Joannis Martyn, Regiæ Societatis typographi, 1676. Call number: 715372 non-current oversize. </li>
<li>Willughby, Francis. <i>The ornithology of Francis Willughby. </i>Additions by John Ray. London: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society ... , 1678. Call number: Thordarson T 2609 oversize. </li>
<li>Catesby, Mark. <i>The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.</i> 2 vols.
London: Printed for Charles Marsh ... Thomas Wilcox ... and Benjamin Stichall ... , 1754. Call number: Thordarson T 505-506 flat.</li>
<li>Wilson, Alexander.<i>
American ornithology; or, The natural history of the birds of the
United States: Illustrated with plates, engraved and colored from
original drawings taken from nature. </i>9 vols.
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814. Call number: Thordarson T 2610-2618 flat. </li>
<li>Audubon, John James. <i>The birds of America: From drawings made in the United States and their territories. </i>First octavo edition. New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840-44. 7 vols. Thordarson T 152-158. </li>
<li>Gould, John. <i>The birds of Australia. </i>7 vols. London: Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor; pub. by the author, 1848-1869. Call number: Thordarson T 1747-1754 flat plus supplement. </li>
<li>Strickland, Hugh Edward. <i>The dodo and its kindred</i>. London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Call number: QE872 C7 S8 oversize. </li>
<li>Carroll, Lewis. <i>Alice's adventures in Wonderland. </i>With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan, 1877. Call number: CA 6319. </li>
<li>Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, baron. <i>Extinct birds. </i>London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. Call number: Thordarson T 1496 oversize. </li>
<li>Brink, Carol Ryrie. <i>Caddie Woodlawn. </i>New York: Macmillan, 1961. Cairns Collection PS3503 R56 C33 1961. </li>
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We encourage you to attend the event on September 9, and then to revisit these titles, like others in the holdings of the Department of Special Collections, in our reading room, open Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-76116105111134440322014-07-27T22:01:00.000-07:002014-07-28T13:49:59.044-07:00A Matter of Scale: The Flamingo in Audubon's Birds of America On display through August 1 (this Friday!) in our exhibit "Books of Nature" is the magnificent illustration of the American flamingo in Audubon's double-elephant folio <i>Birds of America</i>. <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm08320196" target="_blank">Our copy</a> (in four volumes) of Audubon's <i>Birds </i>is part of the Thordarson Collection, which includes many titles with hand-colored ornithological illustrations.<br />
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The flamingo, like the other birds depicted in Audubon's masterwork, was shown at life size. For small and medium birds, pages of rather smaller compass would have sufficed. Not so for large birds like the eagle, cranes, egrets, and the flamingo, which filled, or more than filled, the oversize pages -- hence Audubon's insistence on using the paper designated as double elephant folio. Our copy, for example, is 100 centimeters tall.<br />
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Despite the generous size of the pages, the flamingo was one of those birds that required a particular pose to allow it to be depicted at life size. What Audubon called the American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber, Linn., Old Male) was shown in plate CCCCXXXI (431) with a gracefully bent neck, the better to feed in shallow lagoons and lakes. Here is a closeup of the head of the "Old Male," close by its foot:<br />
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Modern sources indicate that the male American, or common, or Caribbean flamingo is some 40-48 inches tall, weighs 8 pounds, and has a wingspan of 5 feet. In Audubon's companion textual work, <i>Ornithological biography</i>, he wrote of the flamingo's "glowing tints" and wingspan of 66 inches, and described the flamingo's nest as no bigger than the crown of a hat.<br />
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In the first octavo edition of the <i>Birds</i>, published in New York in 1840-1844 in 7 volumes, the lavish illustrations of the double elephant folio were redone at approximately 1/4 of the original size, but still handcolored. Our <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm02208954" target="_blank">copy</a> of this octavo edition, likewise from the Thordarson Collection, is 26 centimeters tall, and depicts the flamingo in a similar pose:<br />
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This octavo edition adds 65 images to the 435 of the double elephant folio edition, with text revised from that in the <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm07374553" target="_blank">Ornithological biography</a></i>, and rearranged according to Audubon's one-volume <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm00680351" target="_blank">Synopsis of the Birds of North America</a></i> of 1839, itself only 22 centimeters tall.<br />
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison has other associations with the flamingo. The UW Digital Collections contain images from the <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/Zoology/Galapagos" target="_blank">University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum Galapagos Collections</a>, including this photograph of the Phoenicopterus ruber (greater flamingos) taken by Helene Marsh in Ecuador in 1991.<br />
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And, famously, the Pail and Shovel Party populated Bascom Hill with more than a thousand plastic pink flamingos to greet students on the first day of classes in 1979. For more information, see the Wisconsin Historical Society <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CDwQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2FContent.aspx%3FdsNav%3DNy%3ATrue%2CRo%3A0%2CN%3A4294963828-4294963805%26dsRecordDetails%3DR%3ACS2780&ei=eMzVU522AYSPyASOuYHQAQ&usg=AFQjCNHR2VvSLTN3EKPVzrn2Hhr9w2bASg&sig2=zUF5Rz2xh-kA4kgAf8SqTg&bvm=bv.71778758,d.aWw" target="_blank">description</a> of their plastic flamingo from the episode, itself derived from the wonderfully titled history of college pranks, Neil Steinberg's <i>If at all possible, involve a cow</i> (1992). The stunt still held appeal in 1990, when a graduate's mortarboard featured a balloon version, as shown on the homepage for the <a href="http://archives.library.wisc.edu/" target="_blank">University Archives</a>.<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-69953694709354015552014-07-02T15:34:00.005-07:002014-07-02T16:04:31.700-07:001914-2014: Commemorating an Event in Sarajevo This past weekend, news outlets noted an important anniversary: the centenary of the assassination in Sarajevo of archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, an event generally identified as precipitating what we now know as World War I. <br />
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While there are many depictions of this critical event on June 28, 1914, we call attention here to what transpired in Sarajevo just a few minutes prior. <br />
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This image, showing the departure from Sarajevo's town hall of the archduke, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, is one of hundreds of picture postcards in the Andrew Laurie Stangel Collection (call number CA 17439) in the Department of Special Collections. As Dr. Stangel describes the card, “<a href="http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Fatherland"></a>Shortly before this scene was photographed, a bomb was thrown at the open touring car in which archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were riding as their motorcade entered Sarajevo and proceeded along the north bank (Appel Quay) of the Miljacka River towards the Town Hall. The bomb exploded without injury to the archduke and his wife; it wounded instead a senior officer in the car behind them.”<br />
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More than 200 of the postcards from the Stangel Collection have been expertly digitized by the UW Digital Collections Center — and are available as “<a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/History/Fatherland" target="_blank">The Fine Art of Propaganda, Hand-Delivered</a>: GREETINGS FROM THE FATHERLAND!: German Picture Postcards and History, 1914-1945.” A search there for the keyword “Sarajevo” will yield more images relevant to the events leading up to the guns of August 1914.<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-35039536141867619142014-06-19T22:25:00.000-07:002014-06-20T15:18:05.023-07:00The Mendota Seminar, the Works of Shakespeare, and Special Collections We are delighted to welcome to Special Collections one session of this summer's <a href="http://english.wisc.edu/mendota/" target="_blank">Mendota Seminar</a> and to continue our collaboration with Prof. Josh Calhoun of the Department of English, who has made much use of our holdings in his teaching and has encouraged his students to dig deeper into aspects of print culture in Shakespeare's time (and beyond).<br />
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The Mendota Seminar session will showcase some of our holdings of Shakespeare's works and underscore opportunities for undergraduate and graduate teaching using rare books and manuscripts. Watch this space for details about the books Prof. Calhoun's students will be describing to seminar participants.<br />
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We also call to your attention Dennis Chaptman's University of Wisconsin-Madison news item "<a href="http://www.news.wisc.edu/22940" target="_blank">Rare texts, technology tell Shakespeare’s story in seminar</a>" and Tom Ziemer's piece (on the website of the College of Letters and Science at UW-Madison) about Prof. Calhoun and the <a href="http://news.ls.wisc.edu/humanities-the-arts/even-at-450-shakespeares-rich-tapestry-remains-relevant/" target="_blank">continuing relevance of Shakespeare's "rich tapestry."</a><br />
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On Saturday Mendota Seminar participants will see, among other examples of Shakespeare's "enduring legacy," <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm04852984" target="_blank">our copy of the Second Folio</a>. <br />
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This wonderful volume, the very generous gift of Ann Nelson, was profiled in the <a href="http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW.FOLSpringSummer1997" target="_blank">magazine of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries</a> (pp. 8-9) in 1997. Ann Nelson made the gift to Special Collections in memory of her late husband, Prof. Harold "Bud" Nelson, who was director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication from 1966 to 1975 and was a member of its faculty for 26 years. Ann Nelson served as president of the board of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries in 2001-2002. <br />
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was once owned by John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), described by Michael T. Davis in the <em>Oxford dictionary of national biography</em> as a "radical and philologist," who devoted "much attention to the etymologies of words and grammatical standards concerning prepositions and conjunctions." We see evidence of this fine attention to detail in Tooke's annotations in our copy of the Second Folio.<br />
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Gregory (or his translator) did not use the word <i>pi </i>or the Greek character π in this context, referring instead to the work of the 17th-century Dutch mathematician Ludolf van Ceulen establishing the quantity with much greater precision than our shorthand approximation to two decimal places (3.14). (The passage in question used a rather odd Latinized form of van Ceulen's first name). Special Collections also holds an 18th-century edition of <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm21727022" target="_blank">van Ceulen's work</a>.<br />
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Thanks to Anthony Lattis for zeroing in on Gregory's and Adams' treatments of π.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-7743161416201492252014-02-06T15:56:00.000-08:002014-02-06T15:56:14.544-08:00Event Celebrating Acquisition of Woodland Pattern Book Center Archive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee. For more than 30 years it has played host
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-31639059339049588182014-01-21T12:48:00.001-08:002014-01-21T12:48:13.074-08:00A "Hard Frost" and George CruikshankAn exhibit in Special Collections several years ago, entitled "<a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/archives.html#y2007" target="_blank">Stormy Weather</a>," featured a case with volumes of George Cruikshank's <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm28715109" target="_blank">Comic almanack</a>, </i>one per month with appropriate weather highlighted. As we shiver through another January cold snap in Madison, we recall the entry for the month of January 1836:<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-14514760128112567962013-12-27T14:43:00.002-08:002013-12-27T14:44:37.135-08:00A change in the weather Winter weather in Madison -- of which we've had plenty recently -- usually brings a dramatic drop in humidity. And apropos of humidity, we noted a relevant book in our holdings by the Swiss natural philosopher and geologist, Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799). De Saussure is credited with building the first comparable hair-tension hygrometer in 1783; and here, in our copy of his <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm04159335" target="_blank">Essais sur l'hygrométrie</a> (Neuchatel: S. Fauche, 1783), a fanciful engraving introduced his innovation.<br />
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The putti (the Italian word describing chubby male children, usually nude and often with wings, depicted in works of art in the early modern era) shown here were evidently helping to make such a hygrometer: one wielded scissors to cut some strands of the hair of the other for use in the instrument. In the standard version of the hair-tension hygrometer, a long strand of hair, under tension with a thread and weight, expands and contracts in length with changes in humidity. After describing what called his "new comparable hygrometer," de Saussure addressed theories of hygrometry and barometry and their application to meteorology.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-13316857128315219892013-10-01T09:57:00.001-07:002013-10-01T10:29:34.595-07:00Last Week for Exhibit "On the Sunny Side"This will be the last week for our exhibit "<a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/index.html" target="_blank">On the Sunny Side</a>," showcasing books, periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials from Special Collections and University Archives.<br />
As the hours of sunshine diminish, we all may find ourselves more aware of the impact of daylight (sunlight!) hours on daily life. We invite you this week to take a few minutes to walk to Memorial Library and visit the exhibit on the 9th floor.<br />
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Shown here is a detail from a geocentric depiction of eclipses as contained in an <a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocn537339387" target="_blank">Italian manuscript of 1570</a> (written some decades after the publication of Copernicus' treatise on the revolutions of the heavenly bodies). This manuscript, along with other editions of, and commentaries on, the late medieval text "On the sphere" by Joannes de Sacro Bosco (or Sacrobosco), has found use already this semester by students in History of Science 323 (the Scientific Revolution), as taught by Prof. Florence Hsia with Robin Rider. For more from our holdings of such works, see the small online exhibit "<a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/sacrobosco/index.html" target="_blank">Sacrobosco and His Commentators</a>."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-65179971037032177232013-09-04T20:29:00.000-07:002013-09-04T20:35:04.065-07:00Orreries, from our Current Exhibit, "On the Sunny Side" <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #999999;">Accompanying the orrery in the exhibit are several 18th-century publications in English about orreries and other astronomical instruments used for observation and demonstration. We call your attention here to one of them, a relatively rare edition of an elementary textbook, <i>An easy introduction to mechanics, geometry, plane trigonometry, measuring heights and distances, optics, astronomy</i> [etc.] by James Ferguson (1710-1776), published in 1768 in London. It contains an advertisement for devices and aids to learning astronomy – notably, what were called “Cards of astronomy, and a living orrery, made with sixteen school-boys.”<br /><br />As the text explains, the cards would carry "the names and periods" of planets and moons in the solar system," and each of the boys would hold a card corresponding to a planet or moon. "Now begin your play, fix your boys in their circles, each with his card in his hand, and then put your orrery in motion." With sufficient repetition, this game, the author claimed, would fix "clear and sure ideas of the solar system." A "seventeenth boy of a large size must be used for the sun in the center" (pp. xx-xxi). We're just sorry that the volume contained no illustration of such a living orrery!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #999999;">Others at the time were less enthusiastic about its pedagogical value. An anonymous reviewer in <i>The monthly review. Or, literary journal </i>by "Several Hands" (July 1768) could not "altogether approve" of the living orrery, thinking it "a crude and trivial performance." Not only that, but if the boys were to "act the diurnal as well as the annual motions (in which case it would resemble a dervises [dervish's] dance), the whole solar system would be liable to a vertigo, and all the planets would drop from their respective orbits" (p. 64). <br /><br />A sidenote: Although James Ferguson is well-represented in <i>ECCO</i>, that is, the extensive compilation <i>Eighteenth-century collections online</i>, this <i>Easy introduction </i>(London, 1768) does not currently appear there. </span></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-15668428819616509992013-08-01T09:24:00.002-07:002013-08-01T10:19:30.267-07:00Image from Kircher's "Ars magna lucis et umbrae" Featured in New BookA large foldout engraving from our copy of Athanasius Kircher's <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm03199135" target="_blank">Ars magna lucis et umbrae</a>, in X. libros digesta</i>, published in Amsterdam in 1671, is featured on the dustjacket of a new book, <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocn818734543" target="_blank">To overcome oneself</a>: The Jesuit ethic and spirit of global expansion 1520-1767</i>, by Prof. J. Michelle Molina of Northwestern University.<br />
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The image in full presents the extent of the Jesuit enterprise as a tree, with Rome at its center (indeed, its trunk) and far-flung branches. See, for example, references to the Jesuit presence in Canada, Brazil, and China in this detail from the upper half of the engraving:<br />
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Prof. Molina spoke in Memorial Library in fall 2011 in the <a href="http://humanities.wisc.edu/workshops/past-mellon-workshops/science-and-print-culture/" target="_blank">Science and Print Culture workshop</a> organized by Prof. Florence Hsia of the UW-Madison history of science department. That workshop, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities as part of its A. W. Mellon Workshop program, took advantage of a large exhibit in Special Collections entitled "<a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/archives.html#y2011" target="_blank">Jesuits and the Construction of Knowledge, 1540-1773</a>."<br />
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A digital humanities project in the Libraries, a joint undertaking of the Department of Special Collections and the UW Digital Collections Center, is producing a searchable database of early modern Jesuit iconography pertaining to scholarship and travel, drawing on the extensive holdings in Special Collections of illustrated works by Jesuit authors. A <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/UWSpecColl/JesuitIcon" target="_blank">prototype</a> of the database is available. <br />
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<li><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm18632753" target="_blank">correspondence concerning Iceland</a> written to Sir Joseph Banks (a collection <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/HistSciTech/BanksJ" target="_blank">digitized</a> as part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections), </li>
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Participants then presented an archival object of their choosing "as a material and theoretical focus of inquiry" at the final workshop session, held at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Since the intent is to convert presentations at the workshop into a publication, we won't steal the participants' thunder by previewing their choices. But it is clear they enjoyed the opportunity to examine<br />
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Thanks to library colleague Susan Barribeau for the last of these photos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-39196754220481635912013-05-31T09:01:00.002-07:002013-05-31T09:03:14.399-07:00Highlighting Private Presses from Wisconsin To accompany the multi-venue exhibit “<a href="http://specialcollectionsuwmadisonlibraries.blogspot.com/2013/05/text-support.html" target="_blank">Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper</a>,” a small exhibit in the lobby of Memorial Library recently offered a small sampler of output from some of Wisconsin’s innovative private presses, ranging from the early years of the 20th century to the early years of the 21st.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Black Mesa Press, Madison, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Centennial Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Juniper Press, La Crosse, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Juniper Press, Madison, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Midnight Paper Sales, Stockholm, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Northeast/Juniper Books, La Crosse, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Perishable Press, Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Philosopher Press, Wausau, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Quixote Press, Madison, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Red Ozier Press, founded in Madison, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Salient Seedling Press, Madison, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Silver Buckle Press, Madison, Wisconsin<br />
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sutton Hoo Press, La Crosse, Wisconsin<br />
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All the works that were included in this display hail from the holdings of Special Collections. Susan Barribeau and Robin Rider, who curated the Wisconsin private press display, invite you to examine other examples of fine printing in the Special Collections reading room.<br />
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In this, the first in a series of posts about our private press holdings, we highlight the Black Mesa Press, founded in Madison in 1981 by poet Charles Alexander. The exhibit included three works from the Press:<br />
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Oppen, Mary. <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm08354676" target="_blank">Mother and daughter and the sea: Poems.</a> </i>1981. Our copy is no. 128 of 150.<br />
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Drachler, Rose, and Jacob Drachler. <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm08718430" target="_blank">For witches.</a></i> 1982. Our copy is no. 88.<br />
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Barrows, Anita, et al. <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm08425674" target="_blank">The limits.</a> </i>1982. The Libraries hold two copies: one in Special Collections, the other in the Kohler Art Library.<br />
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The Libraries' holdings of Black Mesa Press run from 1981 to 1984. In that year Charles Alexander moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he established the Chax Press.<br />
<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-10034572672063975322013-05-29T13:02:00.002-07:002013-05-29T13:17:59.736-07:00Gallery Talk on Thursday, May 30, at 2 P.M.Please join us on Thursday, May 30, at 2 p.m. in Special Collections (976 Memorial Library) for a gallery talk about the current exhibit, "<a href="http://specialcollectionsuwmadisonlibraries.blogspot.com/2013/05/text-support.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6e0300;">Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper</span></a>." Tracy Honn of Silver Buckle Press and Lyn Korenic of Kohler Art Library, guest co-curators for this exhibit, will highlight favorite items on display and point to the variety of collections on campus containing relevant books, printed ephemera, and archival materials. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-58541844233606744282013-05-13T20:18:00.001-07:002013-05-13T20:24:55.241-07:00Shawn Sheehy to Speak on Tuesday, May 14, on "Concept to (Political) Action: Pop-Up Artists’ Books"Please join us on Tuesday, May 14, 12:00–1:30 pm, for an <a href="http://library.wisc.edu/news/2013/05/07/artist-talk-concept-to-political-action-pop-up-artists-books-featuring-shawn-sheehy/" target="_blank">artist talk by Shawn Sheehy</a>: "Concept to (Political) Action: Pop-Up Artists’ Books. The talk, in 126 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, is one in a series of events surrounding the multi-venue "<a href="http://specialcollectionsuwmadisonlibraries.blogspot.com/2013/05/text-support.html" target="_blank">Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper</a>."<br />
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This multi-part illustration of the Daimler automobile comes from <i><a href="http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm08333781" target="_blank">Les transformateurs d’énergie</a>: Générateurs, accumulateurs, moteurs, avec les plus récentes applications à la navigation aérienne</i>, assembled by a committee of engineers and published in Paris in 1910.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803075745148074450.post-77135238290925576652013-05-04T21:47:00.002-07:002013-05-06T11:21:29.858-07:00"Jesuits and Visual Culture": Center for Early Modern Studies Conference in Special Collections On May 7, 2013, Special Collections will host a full-day session of a <a href="http://german.lss.wisc.edu/~smoedersheim/jesuit/" target="_blank">conference</a> entitled " '<i>Spiritual Optiks</i>': Jesuits and Visual Culture." This conference, organized by Prof. Sabine Mödersheim, director of the Center for Early Modern Studies (CEMS), builds on scholarly interests across campus as well as the exhibit "<a href="http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/archives.html#y2011" target="_blank">Jesuits and the Construction of Knowledge</a>" in Special Collections in 2011 and an ongoing project to digitize <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/UWSpecColl/JesuitIcon" target="_blank">Jesuit iconography</a> through the UW Digital Collections.<br />
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The CEMS conference program begins at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 6, 2013, with a public keynote lecture with the intriguing title, "Jesuit Emblems and Catholic Comics," by Laurence Grove, director of the Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures at the University of Glasgow. The lecture will be held in room L150 in the Elvehjem building, Chazen Museum.<br />
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Conference sessions on Tuesday, May 7 (held in Special Collections, 984 Memorial Library) will feature wide-ranging studies of Jesuit emblematica, analysis of specific images of lunar geography in the 17th century, exploration of a Jesuit "empire of knowledge," and a workshop investigating scholarly possibilities afforded by the UW-Madison digital Jesuit iconography project.<br />
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The latter <a href="http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/UWSpecColl/JesuitIcon" target="_blank">project</a> (undertaken through Special Collections and the UW Digital Collections in collaboration with Prof. Florence Hsia and graduate students Meridith Beck Sayre and Lynnette Regouby from the <a href="http://histsci.wisc.edu/people/index.php" target="_blank">Department of History of Science</a> at UW-Madison) aims at presenting high-quality digital images of illustrations from our strong holdings of scholarly works by Jesuit authors in conjunction with detailed, searchable descriptions. Such illustrations range from deeply symbolic frontispieces of Jesuit publications on mathematical sciences <br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ArDxIqVg4yY/UYXaq2ym3eI/AAAAAAAAALM/3u4hlwuoFTQ/s1600/Tacquet_tp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="engraved title page from the Opera mathematica of Tacquet, held in Special Collections, UW-Madison, and digitized through the UW Digital Collections" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ArDxIqVg4yY/UYXaq2ym3eI/AAAAAAAAALM/3u4hlwuoFTQ/s1600/Tacquet_tp.jpg" height="320" title="" width="205" /></a></div>
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to depictions of exotic animals encountered by Jesuit missionaries<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aArWEDLM19Y/UYXbbacbnPI/AAAAAAAAALc/mObnpf8xAQA/s1600/Tachard_Second_voyage_Paris_1689_pangolin_afterp272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="What we now call a pangolin, from Tachard's Second voyage to Siam (1689), from Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison " border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aArWEDLM19Y/UYXbbacbnPI/AAAAAAAAALc/mObnpf8xAQA/s1600/Tachard_Second_voyage_Paris_1689_pangolin_afterp272.JPG" height="208" title="" width="320" /></a></div>
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and from fanciful (if mathematically accurate) sundials<br />
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to disembodied diagrams of mechanical experiments.<br />
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See the <a href="http://german.lss.wisc.edu/~smoedersheim/jesuit/Program-booklet.doc" target="_blank">full program</a> for details about the CEMS conference sessions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com