Overview Barrye Brown, Curator of Manuscripts for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library will talk about Arturo Schomburg, an Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile, whose collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints established the Schomburg Center in 1926. The book, Black Studies on 135th [...]
Overview How Can Book Bindings Sing? will examine Renaissance books bound in fragments of medieval music manuscripts. These “singing bindings” are hundreds of years older than the printed text blocks inside them, and the texts are on mathematics, physics, or astronomy and absolutely not on music. How is that possible? [...]
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Overview New York City bureaucrats have been creating records that document its government since the first Dutch settlers established a colony here in 1624. The records now total more than 250,000 cubic feet and are preserved in the Municipal Archives, one of the largest archival repositories in North America. Mr. [...]
Overview The Library of Congress holds more than 12,000 manuscript collections documenting a broad range of American history and culture, among them around 1,000 collections in the history of science and technology. Acquired as part of a broader collecting program targeting “nationally eminent Americans,” the Library’s science and technology acquisitions [...]
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