"Fitzgerald christened it the Jazz Age, but John Held, Jr. set its style and manners. His angular and scantily clad flapper was accepted by scandalized elders as the prototype for modern youth, the symbol of our moral revolution… So sedulously did we ape his caricatures...
A frequent task here in the Rare Book office at the Marriott Library is cataloging and archiving new books that have been donated or acquired. It is common for me to see all the new books before they get incorporated into the book "vault" and...
"Let's have a civil conversation! We agree to respect one another as we talk and listen. No eye-rolling. No attitude...
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Case for Spirit Photography Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) New York, NY: George H. Doran, 1923 First American Edition BF1381 D68 While many readers may recognize the name ‘Arthur Conan Doyle’ as the...
"To dress was to be invested with a public identity, according to a system of fixed codes. In a largely pre-literate society, people learned to read the value of textiles and the meaning of their cut as signs of profession, wealth, social status, and geographical...
“The art of printing, with its necessary tools — paper, ink, and type — has been of supreme importance in the advance of civilization. It has preserved for future generations the culture, literature, and history of former times; it has given opportunities in education for the common...
"This book is addressed to those who love mushrooms, who love the whole rich world of wild mushrooms in the same way that many love the flowers of the field and the birds in the air." Mushrooms, Russia and History Valentina Pavlovna Wasson New York : Pantheon Books,...
"Streets and sidewalks were moving masses of humanity — wide awake to the significance of pioneer week...
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” — Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He wrote seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction works between 1926 and his death in 1961. In celebration of this year’s...
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...