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In the JCB’s collections are 4 manuscripts that have had very little if any use over the years they’ve reposed on our shelves in the library stacks. Not listed in our finding aid to the Brown Family Business Papers, the extraordinary manuscript...
Curators Berie Mandelblatt and José Montelongo and Director Karin Wulf selected a handful of the new items we acquired for the Library in 2022. These ten items point to the range of our collecting interests, and also our focus on the totality of the collection...
It’s #AskAConservator Day, so it’s a perfect time to introduce you to the JCB’s new(ish) Head of Libraries Conservation, Roger! Roger does all things conservation at the JCB: collections repair and stabilization, exhibit preparation and mounting, environmental monitoring, and box-making.
Since he started the role...
Above: Anonymous map from 1793 or 1794 labeled “Carte géométrique et géographique de l’isle Sainte Lucie la Fidèle, présentée à Donatien Rochambeau, Lieutenant Général des armées françaises, Commandant Général des Isles du Vent.”
Earlier this year, George S. Parker II ’51 Curator of Maps and...
In addition to her role as Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Materials, Kimberly Toney created and maintains the Instagram account “Their Marks.” Roughly every week since December 21, 2022, she has published a post featuring a pictograph entered in place of...
The Declaration of Independence is one of the world's most important articulations of the basis for democratic government, and yet we know less about it than we should. Especially as we head toward 2026 and the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States...