A Smith family letter at the Lilly Library
Rare Books Cataloger Lindsay Weaver gives us a glimpse into the lives of everyday folk of the American frontier– through ...
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A Woman Among the Stars: Celebrating the Life and Career of Jeri Taylor
Jeri Taylor, scriptwriter and producer of many popular television shows, including Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager ... -
Artist, (Genius), Human: Exploring Drafts of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Teaching and outreach assistant Helen Gunn looks for Vonnegut in his drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five. A walk through the Lilly Library’s ... -
Processing Capra Press
By Hal Parkinson Who creates a book? Is it the author, who writes the story that fills a book’s pages? ... -
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 3 of 3)
A continuation from Part 2 of the journey through each series within the Barbara Mertz collection. Subject Files I spent probably several ... -
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 2 of 3)
A continuation from Part 1, in which we began the journey through each series within the Barbara Mertz collection. Correspondence ... -
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 1 of 3)
The first step to transforming roughly 200 boxes of correspondence, typescripts, royalties, scrapbooks, photo albums, gin glasses, dioramas, typewriters, and ... -
The poet and the scholar translate Beowulf
By Edward O’Shea, Emeritus Professor of English, SUNY Oswego, Author: Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey Many readers know Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) ... -
Poem or No-Em: Processing the Papers of Mary Ellen Solt
Two spools of thread in a box. A pen that looked like it had been chewed on. A plexiglass lamp. ... -
Selections from Flora + Fauna: Mary Ellen Solt’s “Forsythia” in Flowers in Concrete
When Erin Chiparo and I started planning for the exhibition Flora + Fauna: A Bounty of Beasts and Botanicals, we ...