Category: Thordarson Collection

• A Closer Look

  Posted on Feb 10th

  We invite you to take a closer look at our new exhibit Natural History :: Natural Philosophy, on display in Special Collections […]

• Last Week for Exhibit: The Globe/Global in Shakespeare’s Time

  Posted on Jan 21st

  This coming week is the last one for the current exhibit in Special Collections, entitled “The Globe/Global in Shakespeare’s Time.” We hope […]

• Gilding the Lily

  Posted on Jan 13th

  The four volumes of the Thordarson Collection copy of Audubon’s masterwork, Birds of America, feature uniform and striking bindings by Riviere & Sons […]

• Sit Down With a Book Printed in 1623

  Posted on Nov 22nd

  Have you seen the First Folio on display at the Chazen Museum of Art or the exhibit on “The Globe/Global in Shakespeare’s Time” […]

• Glassblowing and our Chemistry Collections

  Posted on Sep 23rd

  We call your attention to tomorrow’s regional meeting of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society, at which Prof. Catherine Jackson of the UW-Madison Department […]

• Earthquakes as Explored in the Early Philosophical Transactions (& Elsewhere)

  Posted on Aug 31st

  The recent devastating earthquake and aftershocks in Italy reminded us of the attention paid to earthquakes at the Royal Society of London […]

• Romantic Circles — Newly Reviewed

  Posted on Jun 19th

  Katharine Van Arsdale’s recent “Internet review” in the June 2016 issue of College & research library news  of the web-based project “Romantic Circles” (itself celebrating its […]

• Thirteen for the Thirteenth

  Posted on Nov 13th

  We honor Friday the 13th with thirteen works from Special Collections, replete with examples of horror, mystery, spirits, and luck (bad or […]

• Bittern Sightings

  Posted on Nov 4th

  Inspired by Carrie Roy’s piece entitled “Bittern 70,” part of an art installation currently on view in the first floor lobby of […]

• “Paper as the Place of Discovery” — A Symposium on October 8-9

  Posted on Oct 8th

  We call your attention to a campus symposium – on October 8-9, 2015 – on the intriguing theme of “paper as a […]

• The Long S, Now Largely Extinct

  Posted on Oct 4th

  We had the opportunity last week to page through two volumes of our copy of Audubon’s double-elephant folio Birds of America with […]

• Green Green — It’s Green, They Say

  Posted on Aug 26th

  In celebration of the lush landscapes of summer, and with a nod to the first track of the The New Christy Minstrel’s […]