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Friday, April 22, 2011

Archival techniques for your collection: April 30 in D.C.: How to manage and preserve their collections - The Library of Congress

Pass It On: Personal Archiving Day - The Library Today (Library of Congress):

"Pass it On: Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress will be held on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in LJ 119, first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington D.C. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed.

Library staff will be on hand to talk directly with individuals about how to manage and preserve their collections. There will also be videos and printed information available. For security reasons, attendees are asked not to bring collection materials to the event. No appraisals will be provided. For information about visiting the Library go to www.loc.gov/visit/."

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Retro Advertising from Belgium + More Belgian stories

BELGIAN RETRO ADVERTISING

Collection of Letters from famous scientists, &tc. + Excerpts from Famous Love Letters

A man of letters -- famous letters | SouthCoastToday.com:

"Mel Yoken, UMass Dartmouth's Chancellor Professor Emeritus of French Language and Literature, shows off his extensive collection of letters from famous scientists, politicians, writers and actors, housed at Brown University's John Hay Library in Providence."

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Monday, April 4, 2011

Collecting "Stranger’s Guides" >> Book Collectors News & comic book murder

AE Monthly - the Magazine for Book Collectors & Booksellers

Ten years ago, David Gerstel of Montreal, Canada, a long time collector of travels and voyages, searching for a less costly collecting opportunity began to collect AmericanStranger’s Guides, books published mainly in the 19^th century to help itinerants understand cities they would visit. These are intensely local directories, often with maps, always with advertisements, listing essential details for the newly arrived.

A dozen years later David is moving on, ... [s]elling what he has collected now becomes the challenge.

To do this he has enlisted the help of Bernie [Bernhard] Lauser of Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts in Vancouver. Bernie is an interesting choice as he is one of the few dealers who represent sellers wanting to sell thematic collections as well as archives.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

1918 memoir opens window to suffrage movement views - The Boston Globe

1918 memoir opens window to suffrage movement views - The Boston Globe:

"HARTFORD — Cheryl Dunson knew she had found something special when she saw the small black notebook, covered in a plastic sleeve, inside a cardboard box of old memorabilia at the Connecticut League of Women Voters.
The notebook, found last year, contained the views of Connecticut legislators on the issue of women’s suffrage.

The notebook, found last year, contained the views of Connecticut legislators on the issue of women’s suffrage.

Recorded inside, in meticulous blue script, were the memoirs of a suffrage leader who interviewed members of the all-male Connecticut General Assembly more than 90 years ago on whether women should be granted the right to vote."

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Lincoln photographs and lost memorabilia

Berea College houses extensive collection of Lincoln photos
The Shedd/Schwarzschild Abraham Lincoln Collection consists of over 1800 books and other materials. Included are Eastman Johnson’s famous picture of “The Boy Lincoln,” a gift to the College in 1908; two handsome bronze plaques; and an original Lincoln letter. An Abraham Lincoln Collection in Historical Collections includes numerous photographs, printed memorabilia, and other period pieces supplementing the book collection. New books about Lincoln are regularly added to the collection.

News and historical Images (Resources via Purchase Library)
Young Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president." by Preston Butler, August 1860.
Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection.

Everything to do with Abraham Lincoln: biographies and articles, podcasts and educational materials, ephemera and pop culture. It's here!

Abraham Lincoln Presidential memorabilia, collectibles, souvenirs

Lincoln's Lost memorabilia
Lost speeches and missing correspondence
• The Bixby Letter
• The stovepipe hat with the bullet hole (from the first attempt, 8 months previous to his his assassination
• Notes to the Gettysburg Address or photographs of the event
• Death Quilt from the house owned by William Petersen across from Ford Theatre. As a guest in the house only weeks before, John Wilkes Booth slept under the same quilt that Lincoln died upon.