Category Archives: Featured Book

Yoppy: the Autobiography of a Monkey by Mollie Lee Clifford.  Illustrated Animal Autobiographical Series.  Boston, New York : H. M. Caldwell Co. [1905].  Rare Book Collections, PS3505. L5 Y6. This book is a typical example of Children’s Literature from the turn of the … Continue reading →

To celebrate Irish-American Heritage Month and Saint Patrick’s Day, the Special Collections’ Featured Item for March 2013 is sheet music from the Lois Root Collection of music scores: Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral : That’s an Irish Lullaby, with words and music by J.R. … Continue reading →

All this, and Heaven too / Rachel Field. New York : The MacMillian Company. 1940. The 2013 January Book of the Month is a recent addition to Special Collections. It is a gift of John McLaughlin, and represents just one … Continue reading →

This broadside is part of a series of broadsides printed by Stu McCarty and published by the Bellevue Press, Binghamton, NY.  The Christmas Poem is printed on a light blue-green paper with dark green and orange-red lettering.  The broadside is 43 cm … Continue reading →

This broadside is part of a series of broadsides printed by Stu McCarty and published by the Bellevue Press, Binghamton, NY.  The Christmas Poem is printed on a light blue-green paper with dark green and orange-red lettering.  The broadside is 43 cm … Continue reading →

The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come : delivered under the similitude of a dream : wherein is discovered : I. The matter of his setting out : II. His dangerous journey : and III.  … Continue reading →

William Henry “Bill” Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist.  He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1945 at the age of 23 for his World War II depictions of  the battle weary soldiers (or “dogfaces”): Willie and Joe.  These two soldiers are based … Continue reading →