Home movies are one of the most valuable components of the Audio Visual Archives in Special Collections at J. Willard Marriott Library. Whether on 8mm film or VHS or another format, these films give the viewer rare access to unguarded moments in the lives of everyday...
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. — William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII The Poems of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1939 PR2841 A2 K5 1939 Edited by George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature,...
September 22, 2016 – Who would have ever guessed that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was once a banned book? In support of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library will host a Banned Books Open Reading...
1. Language is an unstable and mercurial thing, in habitual need of deep-tissue massages to ease its interior life of tumult, tension and spasm. 2. Stranger & Stranger: read as nouns, a pair of strangers; read as adjectives, a qualitative increase in the uncanniness of a situation; read as a noun and an...
We don’t always speak the same language when it comes to color and while that might lead to some ‘colorful’ conversation. Pantone and the Pantone Matching System are an established resources that allows reliable communication of color needs across disciplines. As a designer, manufacturer, or...
The War, Title Page Title: The War. Being a Faithful Record of the Transactions of the War between the United States of America and their territories and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 1. Issue Numbers 1 -52, dated 27 June 1812 – 15...
“I have to work here but I don’t have to eat here.” — Howard Brubaker (1882-1957) LIBERATOR New York: The Liberator Publishing Co., Inc. HX1 L5 Liberator began publication under the editorship of Max Eastman (1883-1969) in March 1918. Eastman’s sister, Crystal, worked closely with him, and wrote many...
photo by Scott Beadles An ancient piece from the Rare Books Department has been translated and published by BYU professor Lincoln Blumell. Read all about it in today’s BYU News: “BYU professor works with University of Utah library to translate 1700 year-old obituary” “I’ve looked at hundreds of ancient...
This year’s football season will kick off Thursday, September 1st, at 6:00 PM. The University of Utah has a long history of fan involvement and distinguished players. Throughout most of the 20th century fans and students would whitewash the cement Block U on the side...
HOW LONG? Sande James-Wascher Renton, WA: Wascher-James, 1993 N7433.4 W38 H69 1993 Women’s struggle for the vote through text, photographs, and quilt block. Text inspired by an article on women’s suffrage by Minna Morse in The Smithsonian, 1993. From the artist’s statement: “I choose to create what I feel will...