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 ... -
Triple-deckers and Charles Dickens’s A Child’s History of England (Part 1)
Reference assistant Amber Bowes highlights a lesser-known work of Charles Dickens in this exciting first installation of a two-part blog post! ... -
An anonymous accordion-format French–English pedagogical sort-of dictionary
I pulled out what looked ugly but turned out to be a gem — what sort of gem, I admit ... -
What Are Mechanical Puzzles?
Welcome to the first part of a puzzlingly exciting new series of blog posts, written by Andrew Rhoda, the Lilly ... -
Drake’s Principal Diseases
Curatorial assistant Elizabeth Arterberry explores the exciting world of diseases, geography, and early medical history! Many of the entries that ... -
Drawing Tolkien: Art Inspired by Tolkien’s Legendarium
Reference assistant Benjamin Yusen delves into the fantastical artwork of J. R. R. Tolkien’s world, complete with dwarves, dragons, and ... -
A Most Faire Frost: Frost Fairs of the River Thames
Trigger warning: Post contains brief mentions of historical animal cruelty and death (animal and people), including drowning, blood sports, and ... -
Locks of the Lilly: Examples of hair in the Lilly Library
Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry showcases some the Lilly Library’s famous and lesser-known hairy materials! Raising awareness for men’s ... -
Lessons in Latrinalia
It was, perhaps, unfair to introduce Allen Walker Read’s Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in the last post without providing ...