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A Hymn for Women’s Rights, Statehood, and Polygamy By Alexander Jolley, Rare Books Assistant Between the 1850s-60s, the women’s suffrage movement had crossed the Mississippi River and moved into the American West. What had long been a political issue in East Coast metropolitan cities finally saw some...
"The Truth is on the march, and nothing shall stop it." — Émile Zola J'accuse--! : lettre au Président de la Republique Émile Zola (1840-1902) Paris: L'Aurore, 1904 xDC354 Z65 1904 Émile Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, and most established author from the literary school of naturalism. Born in...
“The importance of these prints derives not only from the fact that they are early witnesses to the use of printing in the Middle East, or their textual and artistic content, but also from their rarity.” - Mark Muehlhaeusler, "Eight Arabic Block Prints from the Collection of...
When the name of Western Americana, Rare Books, and University Archives was changed to “Special Collections” in 1971, it reflected a major shift in the holdings. In addition to the growing emphasis of rare books, Special Collections Director, Everett Cooley, was also made responsible of...
Color Standards and Color Nomenclature Robert Ridgway (1850-1925) Washington, D. C.: The author, 1912 QC495 R5 Robert Ridgway, ornithologist and full-time curator of birds at the United States National Museum, was renowned for the accuracy with which he painted birds and was unmatched in his eye for the coloration....
"To the King, the French Constitution, and the laws of the realm...
"Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, new-born world, yet withal so fine and so beautiful it might well fire the dullest observer to desperate enthusiasm." — John Muir,...
"The world is everything, and that is the case." Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) New York; London: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1922 BC135 W5 1992 Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria. He was raised Catholic, despite his mostly Jewish ancestry....
