Posted in Widener Library on Oct 29th, 2015 Comments Off on Another day, another surprise!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. People often inquire about the wide variety of materials, both format and subject matter, from the Santo Domingo Collection so I thought it might be interesting to those who regularly read the blog to give […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Oct 27th, 2015 Comments Off on Not so good for what ails you
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Patent medicines have been treated before in this space; these are specious remedies, containing any number of drugs and adulterants, that flourished in the 1800s, before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 mandated ingredient lists and curbed […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Oct 22nd, 2015 Comments Off on Story of Eleonore
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. L’homme considéré dans l’état d’aliénation mentale : ouvrage divisée en trois livres … is a 19th-century French volume about the state of insanity, which starts off with a frontispiece of the beautiful Eleonore. As the text accompanying her visage […]
Posted in Schlesinger on Oct 15th, 2015 Comments Off on Cannabis cooking!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Stuffed mushrooms a la cannabis, shrimp wiggles, wacky cake, majun, pot loaf, cannabis chocolate icing and boston bean pot are all recipes that can be found in the numerous volumes that have recently been added to Schlesinger […]
Posted in Widener Library on Oct 8th, 2015 Comments Off on Police Bulletin
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The publication Bulletin de Police Criminelle was a weekly publication distributed to specific police stations throughout France beginning in 1907. These bound copies come from the Chalon-sur-Saône police station which is located in the Burgundy region of […]
Posted in Widener Library on Oct 1st, 2015 Comments Off on True French crimes
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. I recently discovered two issues of a weekly French Police newspaper aptly titled Police Hebdo published in October of 1947. The publication appears to cover extremely sensationalized information and news about various crimes and criminals both […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Oct 1st, 2015 2 Comments »
Houghton Library has acquired the archive of French writer, literary theorist, and philosopher Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) from his daughter, Cidalia Blanchot. Christie McDonald, Smith Professor of French Language and Literature at Harvard University, said, “I am thrilled by Houghton’s acquisition of this important archive. Scholars will have unprecedented access to material that will give us […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Sep 24th, 2015 Comments Off on Heister’s wedge
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Heister’s mouth-wedge was a popular tool used in dentistry in the late 19th and early 20th-century. The purpose of the tool was to keep the mouth wedged open in case a mouth-prop slipped, though one had to […]
Posted in Schlesinger on Sep 17th, 2015 Comments Off on Self-Made Woman
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. “Is it worth sacrificing a man of your own and children to be a successful business woman?” Originally published in 1932 this is the 1940 fourth printing of Self-Made Woman. The novel presents Cathleen McElroy as an […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Sep 10th, 2015 Comments Off on Spirit of the mushroom
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Giorgio Samorini is an ethnobotantist and psychedelics researcher who has published a great deal on sacred plants and psychoactive compounds. This hand-produced report appears to be documentation written by Samorini along with the color photographs from visits […]
Posted in Schlesinger on Sep 3rd, 2015 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Usually people purchase calendars because they have interesting or pretty pictures but the Women’s Heritage Calendar and Almanac is a different case. Explained perfectly in the introduction page, they state “History – never HER story. That’s […]
Posted in Andover-Harvard Theological Library on Aug 27th, 2015 Comments Off on The Life of Jesus?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Léo Taxil was actually the pen name for Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pagès, a man born in Marseille who was educated by Jesuits in the mid 19th-century. He became extremely disillusioned with the Catholic faith during his time among […]
Posted in Widener Library on Aug 20th, 2015 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Color supplements to established newspapers were first produced in the 1960s and are believed by many to have changed the face of newspapers. Many thought that a color magazine would cheapen the journalistic integrity of the Observer, a […]
Posted in Schlesinger on Aug 13th, 2015 Comments Off on Hi-Brew Beer
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Interested in brewing your own “special beer”? Then this book could be for you! Beer making has been going on for thousands of years and the Unknown Brewer, who is brewmaster of Hi-Brewers decided to share his […]
Posted in Widener Library on Aug 6th, 2015 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. I came across this French volume the other day and assumed it was about some sort of military hero, but as I took a closer look at the cover of the book I noticed that he was […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Jul 30th, 2015 Comments Off on Indian subcontinent in 60 engravings or less….
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Frans Balthazar Solvyns was born in Antwerp in 1760 and for the early part of his career was a marine painter capturing the likenesses of ships, ports, and harbor views on canvas. He departed for Calcutta […]
Posted in Widener Library on Jul 23rd, 2015 Comments Off on A Spiritual Guide
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Charles Berner offers his road to spiritual freedom in the short, pamphlet-like book, Enlightenment. Illustrated by Peter Max, this book has detailed instructions, including a sample schedule for a day of Enlightenment Intensive at the Institute of Ability, […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Jul 21st, 2015 Comments Off on The Beats Go On
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring material from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Published in 1952, John Clellon Holmes’s lightly-fictionalized autobiographical novel Go was the first literary depiction of the Beat generation – Kerouac’s On the Road was extant, but only in typescript. On the Road was among the works that would later eclipse […]
Posted in Widener Library on Jul 16th, 2015 Comments Off on Let’s take a bite out of crime!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The collection has a large number of French translations of books that deal with crime and criminals in the United States. Chicago : ville du crime or Rattling the cup on Chicago crime was written by Edward […]
Posted in Widener Library on Jul 9th, 2015 Comments Off on Exploring Advertising
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Although the marketing and branding world was very different in 2002, Jean Jacques Evrard and Brice Auckenthaler still present interesting and relevant insight in their book What If? Insights into brand trends and the birth of new target […]
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