Sentences with phrase «rare book holdings»

The Library's manuscript and rare book holdings also include a number of original Whitman items, including a sampling of Whitman's draft pages and his handwritten corrections on printed proofs for Leaves of Grass.

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In this place I could read and still think that I was part of what held up a wall against any philistinism that would attempt to violate the quiet grandeur of what the history of Galveston in its archives and rare books contained.

Mary holds a master's degree in archival management from Columbia University and has extensive experience working with historic documents, architectural records, photographs, and rare books.

To grow the endowment, Goldman holds auctions (selling dinner dates with famous authors, rare books, and manuscript pages), hosts benefits (such as the New York benefit held in September 2008), and accepts financial contributions.

In a review for the title, Carla Trueheart raves, «It is very rare to come across a nonfiction book that grabs the reader and holds their attention as well as this one does.»

Last month, a fashioner designer held a runway show in the Rare Books room of The Strand, according to Yahoo!.

I prefer to stay in the field i started, and that is paper books, the one's you can touch and hold, and place on a shelf for future reading or collecting, or passing down if rare or for sentimental reasons.

He bought on an astonishing scale, collecting art objects in virtually every medium, including the rare books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, and ancient artifacts that are the core of The Morgan Library & Museum's holdings.

Lisa McCarty is a curator and photographer based in Durham, North Carolina.McCarty has held curatorial positions in archives, libraries, galleries, museums, and private collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum Library, the Peace Corps Archive, George Mason University, The Nasher Museum of Art, Cassilhaus Gallery & Collection, The Center for Documentary Studies and Duke University's Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where she is currently curator of the Archive of Documentary Arts.McCarty received a MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University and exhibits her photographs and moving image work internationally.

The British Library holds distinguished collections of original maps, artworks and journals from the voyages and, alongside rare printed books and newly commissioned video content, the exhibition will seek to shed new light on encounters that completed the outline of the known world and formed the starting point for the following two centuries of globalisation.

Deeply affected by Plath's experimental writing, Brooks conducted research at the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, MA which holds the majority of Sylvia Plath's original documents including personal letters and journals.

We have an abundance of beautiful things in the Joan Mitchell Foundation Archives — sketchbooks, photographs, prints, rare books, and gifts from other artists among them — but what matters most to me, and to the scholars who visit, is the information these materials hold and reveal.

Reproduction note: Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Library.

Though something like this is extremely rare, how do you think this affects both the way we do research as well as which books we need to hold in our libraries?

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