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Nov 13 2015

News and Updates from Special Collections 11/13/2015

Posted on November 13, 2015January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

Recently Cataloged

Two carts of books

Two carts of 1930s-2000s science fiction books from the James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Science Fiction Collection have recently returned from the Cataloging-Metadata Department.  Among these are hardcover and paperback books as well as magazines and periodicals. Included are works by Isaac Asimov, H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Herbert and more. Use the keyword “Hevelin” in the Infohawk Catalog to browse an up-to-date list of everything from the collection that has a catalog record to date, or check out the gallery below to browse some titles.

 

Science fiction books
Science fiction books
Science fiction books
Science fiction books

Recently Published Collection Guides

  1. Rippey Postcard Collection, MsC1033, Late eighteenth and early twentieth century postcards.  http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/2633
  2. Wachel Collection of Early Photographs, MsC1040.  Includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, ferreotypes or tintypes, and cyanotypes. It also contains a collection of union cases, mostly holding miniature photographs of the Civil War era. Of special note is an album titled “Canoe Trip 1915” which is the record of a canoe trip taken in Illinois by four men, presumably brothers of the name of Jehren. It is enhanced by the inclusion of rhyming couplets commenting on what is occurring in the photographs.  http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/2631


New Acquisitions

1.The Resounding Whistle Comes to the Archives

Archivist holding a steam plant whistleThe recently-retired power plant whistle has arrived at the library! Many thanks to Kyle Smith, electronics instrumentation supervisor in the power plant and whistle historian, for making this possible.

The whistle is the third of a line first used at the plant in 1939; this particular one functioned from sometime between 1992 and 1994 until last Tuesday, when #4 was activated. More about the whistle and its history is at http://now.uiowa.edu/2015/11/whistle-work

You can see a photo of this whistle in action in 2011 here.

 

2. Marie Curie Dedication

Marie Curie inscribed this lovely edition of Pierre Curie to Laird Clark Addis, the father of the donor. Laird C. Addis donated the book earlier this year, along with another that will be featured next week. We are very excited to receive these pieces of scientific history.

Marie Curie Book

 

From the Web and Social Media

Digital Transitions posted a featured video about the UI Libraries digitization equipment and NEH grant funded project to digitize Special Collections’ extremely brittle Vaudeville scrapbooks.


 

Event Recap

People gathered around Greg Prickman looking at books

Three copies of Liber Chronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle) from 1493 were on hand for the Iowa Bibliophiles talk last Wednesday night.  Greg Prickman, Head of Special Collections introduced the provenance of the copy from the Main Library, the copy from the John Martin Rare Book Room at the Hardin Medical Library, and a copy from the private collection of Arthur Bonfield.

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Next month’s meeting is Wednesday, December 9th at 7pm where Arthur Bonfield will give a talk about his collections of 16-17th century travel literature.

 


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Posted in News, Weekly UpdateTagged colleen theisen, greg prickman, hevelin collection, liber chronicarum, marie curie, msc 1033, msc 1040, msc 356, the nuremberg chronicle, whistle

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