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Stories from the Archives: Wellesley College in the 1910s
About the Author: Shelby Daniels-Young is a senior at Dana Hall School. These short articles are a product of her Senior Project, which was a two-and-a-half-week-long internship at the Wellesley College Archives, researching students and aspects of student life in the … Continue reading
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Happy Valentine’s Day from Special Collections!
One of my favorite collections that we have is the Browning Collection, composed of the published works, manuscripts, love letters, and other items belonging to Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. If you’ve ever visited Special Collections, you … Continue reading
Southern Graphics Council International Conference 2012
This year’s ARTS 322 Advanced Print Concepts class kicked off spring break with a trip to New Orleans. We were there as participants in the Southern Graphics Council International Conference, a yearly gathering of printmakers, professionals, and students alike. As … Continue reading
Type, Lettering & Calligraphy at Rare Book School
Here is almost all you need to know about the course I took at the the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School (RBS) last summer: the instructor designed and set the type for a 28-page supplement to his course pamphlet, … Continue reading
Career Path: From Clapp to Gorgas
It’s nine in the evening the Sunday after exam week at The University of Alabama. I’m in the bindery, on the top floor of the main library, making a box. During the fall of 2011, I worked in the typographic … Continue reading
The Rüben Broadside
One of the most intense and exciting projects of the Fall 2011 semester in the Book Arts Lab was collaborating with an art history and biological studies class. This first-year seminar on the topic of the Art and Science of … Continue reading
Career Path: Becoming a Book Conservator
Back in 2005 when I first began my studies at Wellesley College, I thought I had everything figured out. At the age of 18, I was convinced that I’d major in psychology, handily fulfill all of the pre-med requirements, and … Continue reading
Papers of Emma DeLong Mills Open for Research
A spirit of adventure, though not mandatory for completion of an archives project, certainly enhances the journey of collection processing. Here at the Wellesley College Archives, I was afforded the opportunity explore the paper trail left by a life of … Continue reading
From Curious Plants to Proto-Paper
History is not dead or forgotten, merely past– that is, for most people. But in our work in the Book Arts Lab, we travel through time on a daily basis. One day we may replicate a woodcut from a fifteenth-century … Continue reading
Contrasts in Calligraphy
A little confession: I’ve been obsessed with Julian Waters’s work ever since I got sucked into calligraphy, which — a word of warning — is a black hole from which the unwary will never emerge. Fortunately for me and my … Continue reading