A macabre collection worthy of Beetlejuice
Posted September 6, 2024
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano Horror writer Michael McDowell was fascinated by death and the different practices and beliefs around it. As befitting the...Category: Special Collections
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
Many Hands Make Light Work: Treating and Housing Over 1,000 Siege and Commune of Paris Posters
Posted August 27, 2024
By Jess Ortegon Over the years, Northwestern conservation staff have worked on a few sections of the Siege and Commune of Paris (ca. 1870-1871)...
Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Music Manuscripts
Posted March 8, 2024
By Paul Feller-Simmons ’25 PhD This blog post is adapted from the exhibition Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Manuscripts at Northwestern University, on view...
What a Trip! The Deacidification of a Far Out Collection
Posted February 21, 2024
By Julie Calcagno What do sci-fi pulp, countercultural newspapers, and 1960s books on marijuana have in common? They’re enjoyable reads, food for thought and...
Digital exhibit recreates the ‘sound world’ of Beethoven’s bassist using library collections
Posted January 31, 2024
By Elena Hubert ’25 With a name like “Domenico Dragonetti,” you would figure the world’s first virtuoso bassist would be as well-known as Ludwig...
Looking a Little Deeper: Conservation and Multispectral Imaging
Posted December 7, 2023
By Jess Ortegon During our work to care for the physical aspects of Northwestern University Libraries’ collections, we sometimes find that objects require a...
Madrid museum features Northwestern avant garde materials
Posted December 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This summer, the Libraries sent more than 40 rare items and 14 facsimiles to the Museo Nacional Centro...
Jenny Knauss and the Janes: The fight for abortion rights in ’70s Chicago
Posted November 2, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 The posters, fliers, and ephemera in the Libraries’ Femina Collection overflow with remnants of the fight for gender...
Beast of Burden: Digitizing Rolling Stones Summer Tour Archives
Posted September 21, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 In 1972, the Rolling Stones spent two months playing 48 shows across the United States after a three-year-long...