An 1873 Manual for Modern Mothers
Men have had their say. It is but fitting now that a woman should have hers, especially as the woman who assumes to speak does …
SLU Special Collections Currents
Saint Louis University Libraries Special Collections
Men have had their say. It is but fitting now that a woman should have hers, especially as the woman who assumes to speak does …
What do these two images have in common? They may share neither a color palette nor a design, but both depict paste papers found in …
In Our Journey Around the World: An Illustrated Record of a Year’s Travel of Forty Thousand Miles Through India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, …
Many a book could be clothed in style with the papers produced by participants in our February 11th marbling workshop. Among the workshop’s eight attendees were …
If you missed Rare Books’ Marbling Pop-Up Station during finals week, here’s your chance to learn trough marbling and to create vibrant, Valentine-worthy decorated papers! …
Our books like to keep many secrets (from centuries-old flowers pressed carefully among their pages to the carcasses of bookworms who gorged to death on …
What do tending livestock and working in a rare book room have in common? Both have a tendency to make your hands look like this: …
Holding a rare book is the closest I’ve come to time-walking. Perhaps this assertion seems dubious coming from someone who spent childhood summers chopping rutabaga …