Stranger Than Lilies: A Cryptobotanical Survey of Freakish Flora, Peculiar Plants, and Historical Herbals
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora. “But ...
Rebecca Baumann
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Processing Capra Press
By Hal Parkinson Who creates a book? Is it the author, who writes the story that fills a book’s pages? ... -
The Ostroh Bible: A Book Encrusted with History
By Becky Craft and Brandis Malone In Spring 2023, students in the History of the Book course (ILS-Z681) were tasked ... -
Selections from Flora + Fauna: The Unicorn Through the Ages
By Erin Chiparo, Teaching and Research Coordinator and Co-Curator of Flora + Fauna When Isabel Planton and I began making ... -
“We hammer away!”: a look at Soviet Propaganda Posters
By Brandis Malone Brandis Malone is a second-year master’s student in the dual Russian and Eastern European studies and Library ... -
Exhibition Highlights: 400 Years of Shakespeare
This spring, the Lilly Library is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Shakespeare First Folio. The First Folio, printed in ... -
Spock’s Ears: The Story of an Unexpected Donation
Visitors often ask Lilly Librarians where we get all of our wonderful treasures. Of course we began with a generous ... -
Newly Digitized: French Literature Manuscript Collection
The Lilly Library’s French Literature Manuscript Collection is now entirely digitized and available to view online. You can search the ... -
Ten Things You Never Knew About the Lilly Library
Everyone knows that the Lilly Library is home to countless wonders. From Shakespeare to Spider Man, our wide-ranging collections bring ... -
Newly Digitized: The Autobiography of Daniel Isgrig
We’re happy to announce that the Lilly Library’s Isgrig Manuscript Collection is now fully digitized and can be accessed online ...