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Cape Henlopen Lighthouse

This 18th century engraving only recently turned up in a folder. Created by an unidentified artist, the view documents the Cape Henlopen lighthouse only 13 years after it was built in 1767.

Philippe Lançon, PLAS Visting Fellow for AY15, Injured in the Paris Terrorist Attack

Reposted for our friends in the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) Philippe Lançon, a journalist specializing in Cuba and Latin America who is on staff at Libération, was gravely injured last week during the terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

BIG Changes in the Gallery Entryway!

This behemoth box arrived just before the holidays and we were very excited to unpack what was inside (it almost felt like an early Christmas).

BIG Changes in the Gallery Entryway!

This behemoth box arrived just before the holidays and we were very excited to unpack what was inside (it almost felt like an early Christmas).

50 Books / 50 Covers

Did you have a favorite book last year, with a captivating cover or graphic design? Want to suggest the book as one of the 50 best designed books of 2014?

The BiblioFiles Presents: Martin Kratt

Just posted! An interview with Martin Kratt from the popular PBS Kids animated series Wild Kratts. Along with his brother Chris, Martin writes, directs, and stars in the show.

Ansel Adams Act proposed 1/2/15

H. R. 5893 To restore the First Amendment Rights of Photographers. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 2, 2015 Mr.

Human Clarity, White Light, Depth

The Manuscripts Division is pleased to announce the recent gift of manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of Charles William White (b. 1906), an American author who wrote under the pseudonym Max White.

Charlie Hebdo

Cartoon showing ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi giving a New Year’s message Today, Wednesday, January 7, 2015, gunmen attached the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and 11 people have been killed.

Helen Frankenthaler and Sonya Rudikoff: Letters from a Friendship

The Manuscripts Division is pleased to announce the recent donation of the papers of Sonya Rudikoff (1927-97), a Princeton-based writer, literary critic, and independent scholar of Victorian literature.

Human Clarity, White Light, Depth

The Manuscripts Division is pleased to announce the recent gift of manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of Charles William White (b. 1906), an American author who wrote under the pseudonym Max White.

Helen Frankenthaler and Sonya Rudikoff: Letters from a Friendship

The Manuscripts Division is pleased to announce the recent donation of the papers of Sonya Rudikoff (1927-97), a Princeton-based writer, literary critic, and independent scholar of Victorian literature.

Stella’s Pastorales

“In 1667 Claudine Bouzonet Stella published Les Pastorales, a set of sixteen prints of rural subject-matter which have been called the chefs d’oeuvre of the pastoral genre in seventeenth-century France.

“The Man Who Was Right Too Soon”: Nuclear Test Ban film

By Sarah Robey [We recently digitized a campaign film from the Adlai E. Stevenson Papers, located in our Public Policy Papers. The film, “Nuclear Test Ban,” was produced as a televised campaign program for Stevenson’s 1956 presidential bid against Dwight D.

Mammoth Haircut

What's a woolly mammoth to do when the Ice Age starts to warm up? Get a haircut of course! We made some spectacularly hairy mammoths, gave them drastic full body haircuts, and then played a little game called "Cold! Hot!

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