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Dec
6

A View from the Vault: Manuscript Poetry Notebook of John Wieners

By Aaron Bisson, graduate assistant for the Poetry as Activism Project “A View from the Vault” showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of ...Read More
The front cover of a notebook alongside a look at the handwritten notes inside
Nov
8

A View from the Vault: Jacques Hnizdovsky’s Linocut ‘Turkey’

By Jan Gardner Broske, Museums “A View from the Vault” showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each month, we highlight a ...Read More
A linocut of a turkey
Oct
11

View from the Vault: Civil War Ghosts at Fort Delaware

By Arline Wilson, Special Collections “A View from the Vault” showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each month, we highlight a ...Read More
Photos from the book Civil War Ghosts at Fort Delaware
Sep
13

View from the Vault: Malachite from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Sharon Fitzgerald, Museums “A View from the Vault” is a new series that showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each ...Read More
A vivid green mineral
Aug
9

A View from the Vault: Schloss’s English Bijou Almanac for 1840

By Petra Clark, Special Collections “A View from the Vault” showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each month, we highlight a ...Read More
A close-up of fingers holding an especially tiny book.
Jul
12

A View from the Vault: Betty Boyd’s Watercolors

By Ashley Rye-Kopec, Museums “A View from the Vault” is a new series that showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each ...Read More
A watercolor painting of a lake landscape and another watercolor painting of people fishing at a lake.
Jun
14

A View from the Vault: Ebony Magazine Special Edition, 100th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, September 1963

By Arline Wilson, Special Collections “A View from the Vault” showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each month, we highlight a ...Read More
A magazine cover showing Frederick Douglass and a magazine article titled "100 Years of Negro Entertainment"
May
10

A View from the Vault: Adger W. Cowans’ Primavera

By Amanda Zehnder, Museums “A View from the Vault” is a new series that showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each ...Read More
Detail from an abstract painting showing colorful splatters of paint.
Apr
12

A View from the Vault: Romeyn Beck Hough’s The American Woods

By Jaime Margalotti, Special Collections “A View from the Vault” is a new series that showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. ...Read More
A book's outer casing, an inside title cover, and unbound plates with thin slices of tree specimens.
Apr
6

How to Speak the Language of the Flowers: Floral Dictionaries in the Horticulture Collection

Article by Ellen Dubs, 2022 Summer Fellow with the Special Collections Department in UD’s Undergraduate Research Program   They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how about a bouquet of flowers? Over 2,000 years ago, ancient civilizations ...Read More
A bouquet of various flowers.