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Category Archives: Book Collections
TGIF from PBO and the Minsky Collection
The book featured here is Black Friday by Frederic Stewart Isham (1886-1922) with binding design by Rome K. Richardson, published in 1904 in New York by Grosset and Dunlap. It is from the Richard Minsky Collection at the W.S. Hoole … Continue reading
New Exhibit! Mashup #2: Audubon meets T.P. Thompson meets the Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Opening this week — Audubon meets T.P. Thompson meets the Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, the second in what we’re calling an “exhibit mashup” — bringing together a few things in an interesting way. This exhibit focuses on J.J. Audubon, the ornithologist … Continue reading
(Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier) Lafayette wuz Here 4/3/25
It was on April 3, 1825, during his tour of the United States that French general and Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette was entertained at Montgomery with great fanfare — so much fanfare, in fact that Governor Israel … Continue reading
Hoole Library Featured in ARL book and website, Celebrating Research
The W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, and specifically the David Walker Lupton African-American Cookbook Collection is featured in the Association of Research Libraries’ book and website, Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research … Continue reading
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! A Memorable dinner at Antoines in New Orleans: March 17, 1914
Featured here is the menu and program cover from the annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner in New Orleans. This particular dinner was held at Antoine’s and featured such delicious green delicacies as Absinthe Verte and Artichaux Bayard. The final course … Continue reading
Turning Japanese: How Winnifred Eaton became Onoto Watanna in Victorian America
Join us Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at the Hoole Special Collections Library, 2nd Floor Mary Harmon Bryant Hall at 4:30 pm for a lecture by Dr. Edward Tang, Associate Professor of American Studies, The University of Alabama. [flier for event … Continue reading
Minsky Collection in PBO! From the real to the virtual!
It is a distinct pleasure and honor to announce that the Richard Minsky Collection of 19th and early 20th century publishers’ bindings have been added to Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books. This incredible group of books was … Continue reading
The David Walker Lupton African American Cookbook Collection — So much more than recipes!
The University of Alabama Libraries holds one of the largest collections of African American cookbooks in the country – some 450 volumes (and growing!) covering the period from 1827, when the first book with recipes by an African American was … Continue reading
Loujon Press — It catches my Heart in my Hands by Bukowski
What you’ll see at the lecture tonight in addition to a great talk and a cool documentary — It catches my heart in my hands, by Charles Bukowski; new and selected poems, 1955-1963. Title: It catches my heart in my … Continue reading