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From the Stacks: Grandville’s Les Fleurs Animées (The Flowers Personified)

One of my favorite things about my job is cataloging our rare book collections because I never know what I’ll find when I look between the covers of the books that cross my desk.  I’ve cataloged hundreds of early print

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Head’s Up: The Ancient of Days

A recent post on a listserv led me to a fascinating article in the Harvard Gazette. The story concerns some 4000 year old cuneiform clay tablets that were looted from Iraq, seized by U.S. Customs from smugglers, and consequently survived

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The Seinfeld Connection

Recent acquisitions are the focus for our summer exhibits, and new additions to the Rick Ludwin Collection provide us an opportunity to feature some of our favorite pieces from this collection. Rick Ludwin is a Miami alumnus who had a

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Maurice Sendak: 1928-2012

Maurice Sendak, widely considered one of the most important children’s book illustrators of the 20th century, passed away this week. I’d like to take this opportunity to look back at some of his work and highlight the creativity and imagination

Closed Wednesday morning, May 9th. Open at 1 p.m.

Special Collections will be closed Wednesday morning, May 9th. We will open at one p.m. Wednesday and close at our regular time at 4 p.m. We will return to our normal summer hours of 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. on

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: P.T. Barnum to David Swing, March 20, 1889

Welcome to the inaugural post in our Signed, Sealed, Delivered blog series, where we’ll highlight some of our favorite, and most fascinating, letters from the Walter Havighurst Special Collections!  Miami’s special collections contain thousands upon thousands of original pieces of

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