JOHN’S RENDEZVOUS SAN FRANCISCO WINE LIST San Francisco, CA: 1940 Beverage list from “John’s Rendezvous,” a San Francisco restaurant opened by John Sobrato at 50 Osgood Place during the Prohibition. By the 1940s the restaurant had gained a reputation for its food and was considered by many...
Fleur-de-neige et d’autres contes de Grimm Paris: L’Edition d’art, 1929 French translation of twelve Brothers Grimm fairy tales, including “Hansel and Gretel,” “Rumplestiltskin,” “The Fisherman and His Wife,” “Briar Rose,” “The Goose Girl,” “The Little Brave Tailor,” “The Six Swans,” and “The Juniper Tree.” Illustrated with full-page...
Contained within the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Special Collections are thousands of historical photographs depicting areas of Utah as it once was. As time has progressed, many of these features have been destroyed to make way for future developments, resulting in the history of...
Hello everyone! The summer has really flown by already, and as we’re ramping up for Fall semester, we’re constantly trying to build and improve services here at the Library. During the course of the semester we’ve been working with several students to implement Raspberry Pi’s...
Since 2010, I have been the Audio Projects Librarian in the Marriott Library. Over the years I have been asked, from time to time, if there was a way to digitize “dead formats”. A format “dies” when the average consumer no longer maintains or possesses...