{"id":1847,"date":"2014-10-31T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2016-01-28T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T21:52:30","slug":"halloween-updates-from-rare-book-cataloging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2014\/10\/31\/halloween-updates-from-rare-book-cataloging\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween updates from Rare Book Cataloging"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Allyson Holliday, W.S. Hoole Library Complex Copy-Cataloger<\/p>\n

In the spirit of the season\u2026 there\u2019s something for everyone in the Division of Special Collections! Whether it\u2019s skeletons, haints, headless horsemen, witches, or demons, we have your interests covered.<\/p>\n

For skeletons: take a look at Hollick\u2019s Outlines of anatomy and physiology <\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1846. This text features a \u201cdissected plate\u201d of human anatomy and is extra special due to the signature on the front flyleaf from Thomas A. Cooper. Cooper was a distinguished actor and is recognized as America\u2019s premier tragedian. Cooper was born in London in 1776 and found great success on the London stage as Hamlet and Macbeth. He would later travel to America and make appearances in the theatre scenes of Philadelphia, New Orleans, Boston, New York, and cities in-between from 1796 until his death in 1849. His repertoire included 2,671 performance nights including 37 leading roles from Shakespeare\u2019s plays (Smith, 299).<\/p>\n

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Dissected plate\u00a0of Anatomy and Physiology<\/em>, Hoole Library Rare Books Collection QM31 .H7<\/p><\/div>\n

So now – haints? What is a haint? It is a word that I, as a Midwestern\u00a0transplant, did not know before moving down South. As defined by the Urban Dictionary, a haint<\/a> is a Southern colloquialism for a ghost, apparition, or lost soul. For some good ole Alabama haint stories see Haints, ghosts & boogers : chillbump stories from Alabama after dark <\/em><\/a>by Lynn Grisard Fullman. This book features some little known spooky tales from The University of Alabama, including \u201cThe Rocking Girl at the University\u201d from the New Hall dorm and \u201cThe Late-Night Class in Smith Hall.” For more on campus haunts see the chapter on The University of Alabama entitled \u201cHaints of War and Reconstruction\u201d in Haunted halls of ivy: ghosts of southern colleges and universities<\/em><\/a> by Daniel W. Barefoot.<\/p>\n

If you prefer headless horsemen, Hoole Library has a beautifully bound and illustrated copy of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Washington Irving in the Richard Minsky Collection. The binding design was created by Margaret Armstrong<\/a>, whose work is featured in Publisher\u2019s Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books<\/a>. This copy has a white checkerboard grain cloth binding with yellow, green, red, and gold stamping featuring a floral design. It has cream endpapers printed with a brown goblet, pipe, and pitcher pattern. The binding has Armstrong\u2019s signature on the front cover.<\/p>\n

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow<\/em>, Hoole Library Richard Minsky Collection PS2067 .A1 1899<\/p><\/div>\n

And last but not least \u2013 witches and demons.\u00a0Letters on demonology and witchcraft<\/em><\/a>\u00a0addressed to J.G. Lockhart, Esq. by Sir Walter Scott, has been recognized as one of the earliest attempts to deal with magic and demonology scientifically \u2013 spurring a flurry of \u00a0late nineteenth-century research on folklore, ethnology, and popular religion. Scott discusses opinions on demonology and witchcraft from the Old Testament period to his own time. Examining Scottish trials for witchcraft, Scott noted that the kind of evidence admissible gave free reign to accusers and left the persecuted no hope of escape. Prisoners were driven to confess by despair and the desire to avoid persecution.<\/p>\n

Ironically, this edition was included in Harper\u2019s Family Library as volume no. 11. The title certainly does not suggest light-hearted family reading. However, the publisher\u2019s series title was a marketing gimmick. With the word “library” in its series title, the publisher reinforced the notion that purchasers were not only buying books, but building libraries. Harper’s Family Library was advertised as the cheapest series of popular works ever published and included 187 non-fiction titles (American Antiquarian Society).<\/p>\n

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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft<\/em>, Hoole Library Sir Walter Scott Collection BF1531 .S5 1830<\/p><\/div>\n

For these items and many more\u2026come visit us. But watch out! Our corn husk doll is making the rounds this week, keeping an eye on things.<\/p>\n

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Our jack-o-lantern corn husk doll answers your reference queries in the reading room of Hoole Library<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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