Category: history of print culture

• 40 years since the last issue of LIFE

  Posted on Jan 16th

  December 29, 2012, marked the 40th anniversary of the last issue of the original LIFE magazine. An  exhibit in the 1st-floor lobby […]

• Holiday cookery from the Peter Pauper Press

  Posted on Dec 23rd

  One of the mainstays of the Peter Pauper Press was the slim cookbook, attractively designed, and usually running to 60-some pages. From […]

• From another hotly contested election

  Posted on Nov 6th

  As the nation watches election returns, we call your attention to an example of political print culture from an another hotly contested […]

• Essay on flower painting (1810) now on exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art

  Posted on Sep 28th

  A book from Special Collections entitled A practical essay on flower painting in water colours by Edward Pretty (London: For S. and […]