News – Special Collections & Museums

Sep

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

Aug

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mar

A View from the Vault: Immaculate Conception Northampton Photograph by Donna Ferrato

By Britney Henry, Special Collections Graduate Assistant “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 ...Read More

On the left, a mural of women throughout history. On the right, a black-and-white photograph of two women kissing and holding a baby between them in front of the same mural.

Feb

A View from the Vault: Toni Morrison’s Five Poems, Illustrated by Kara Walker

By Arline Wilson, 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

An open bookspread, showing a silhouette of a vulture and a human in a tree with a poem on the facing page. The shadowed image is overlaid on the graphic.

Apr

New Resources In Mark Samuels Lasner Collection: A Selected List, March 2022

Originally posted by Kit Fluker, Special Collections Special Collections librarians welcome opportunities to collaborate with faculty and promote the use of our primary sources. Requests for instruction or faculty recommendations for new acquisitions can be sent to Special Collections: ...Read More