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0 0 likes | 24 24 playsIn 1940, book designer and collector Elmer Adler was invited to Princeton University for three years and stayed for 12 in an “experiment in the study of printing…
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0 0 likes | 33 33 playsGrab your binoculars and join us for an hour of virtual birding, as we turn the pages of John James Audubon’s gigantic, hand-painted "Birds of America"…
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0 0 likes | 92 92 playsThe Scheide Library was gifted to Princeton's Firestone Library in 2015. The collection had been housed within Firestone since 1959, when William H. Scheide…
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0 0 likes | 150 150 playsJoin us for a live webinar highlighting representations of the pandemic in South Asian art that were recently acquired by the Princeton University Library.Julie Mellby,…
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0 0 likes | 115 115 playsPlease join us for the fourth Gillett G. Griffin Memorial lecture with guest Raina Lampkins-Fielder, curator of The Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization…
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1 1 likes | 83 83 playsJoin us for a live webinar highlighting transgender studies, past and present, in Princeton University Library collections and private archives.RL Goldberg (they/them),…
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0 0 likes | 156 156 playsJulie Mellby, Graphic Arts Curator, offers a captivating tour of Princeton University Library's collection of pre-cinema optical devices, rare artifacts designed…
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0 0 likes | 64 64 playsRecently, the Library acquired most of the rare, letterpress editions printed by Anaïs Nin (French-Cuban, 1903-1977). Best known for her diaries, Nin also wrote…
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0 0 likes | 19 19 playsOn Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th amendment was signed and sealed by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, prohibiting both states and the federal government from denying the…
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0 0 likes | 246 246 playsKelly Bolding, project archivist in the Americana manuscript collections, and Valencia Johnson, project archivist for student life, discuss goals of the Princeton…
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0 0 likes | 108 108 playsJanuary 2020 brought the release of the much anticipated "Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation" by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and…
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0 0 likes | 54 54 playsAs part of its Summer 2020 Small Talk Series, the Council of the Friends of the Princeton University Library held an online event with William Noel, John T. Maltsberger…
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1 1 likes | 144 144 playsPresenters: Julie Mellby, Graphic Arts Curator, Princeton University Library, and Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints…