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 ...
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The Box of Lost Tales: John Boorman’s Lord of the Rings
Most people who are familiar with the director-writer-producer John Boorman know him for the iconic 1981 fantasy film, Excalibur. Many ... -
![A spread of an open journal, (recto) photograph of Steven LeBlanc (left) and Jerry T. Boyd (right) standing together indoors and (verso) passage in handwritten cursive script that reads “getting out of St. Louis and to San Francisco [,] Steve wrote me a postcard saying ‘Happy at last’ [,] Jerry and Steve, July ‘94.”](https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/boyd5.jpg)
Love, Jerry: A Celebration of Love, Loss, and the Life of a Gay Man in the 1970s-90s
In celebration of Pride Month, student Curatorial Assistant Jake Gentry shares his exploration of the newly-processed archive of writer, activist ... -
Provenance, Paleography, and Planetary Motion
Curator of Dermatology, Science, and General Medicine Erin Chiparo shares her exciting discovery of an uncataloged copy of an important ... -
A Glossary of Ape
Edgar Rice Burroughs was not a lexicographer but an author of pulp fiction, dozens of adventure and science fiction novels. ... -
Still Unpacking the Kripke Collection
At the beginning of 2023, I wrote that I’d pull interesting dictionaries and occasionally other language books and items from ... -
Elvira Bates Friendship Album
One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with aspects of history I never would have sought out ... -
Disney and the Blue Ribbon Books
By Kamden Spies, Lilly Library desk attendant and graduate student in the Department of Information & Library Science By 1932, ... -
A Most Expensive Textbook
I was surprised that I wrote so much about prices in my recent post about the unique copy of Louis-Lucien ... -
A Book Unique in Several Dimensions
Madeline Kripke’s collection includes many rare books, some of them classically rare — old books of status for which collectors ...