“But to go on from here When it has all come back, bread On the waters, for life is This emptying and filling the Rivers big at their head Swollen as big as at the mouth, Shall we begin earlier next time, Push the seeds to the surface?”...

24 April, 2018 /

Students from Introduction to Textual Analysis (SPAN3070-1), taught by Prof. Isabel Dulfano, met in the Rare Books Classroom three times Spring Semester 2018 to work with three different sets of books from the rare book collections. Themes were “Narración de cuentos: literatura, historia, viajes, biografía,”...

13 April, 2018 /

Rare Books is pleased to announce the launch of the Curtis Census, a website produced by Tim Greyhavens for the global community. The J. Willard Marriott Library is one of the institutions that holds an entire set of Edward Curtis’ The North American Indian....

10 April, 2018 /

— Photographs by Scott Beadles PROMENADE DE LONGCHAMP, OPTIQUE NO. 4 Paris, ca. 1810 The Promenade de Longchamp was an annual social event which took place on the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Holy Week every spring along the Champs-Élysées and through the Bois-de-Boulogne. The tour ended at...

29 March, 2018 /

A piece from the rare book collections is on loan at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, in its ongoing exhibition, Ancient Mediterranean Art: Res Mortis. The piece may be viewed at the museum through September, 2018....

26 March, 2018 /