Ernest A. Young papers, 1871-1936
Brandeis University recently acquired a significant quantity of material originally belonging to the dime novel author Ernest Avon Young. This unique assemblage of manuscripts, typescripts, and...
View ArticleBrandeis Special Collections on the Internet Archive - Part I in an...
We at Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections are dedicated to the preservation of the materials within our collecting remit. We are equally dedicated to making these materials freely...
View ArticleTrustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Though one can view Honoré Daumier’s 19th century lithographs from a purely artistic or purely political standpoint, they were often a blend of both. An artist whose work was characterized by whimsical...
View ArticleStereoscopic Slides of the Holy Land, from the Dan Tassel photography collection
Brandeis University Archives and Special Collections holds 100 stereoscopic images of the Holy Land, dating from the turn of the last century. These stereoscopic slides were donated to Brandeis in 2013...
View ArticleFore-edge paintings
Brandeis University’s Special Collections is home to over 10,000 rare books, a host of treasures which includes myriad first editions, holy texts, incunabula, miniature books, illustrated manuscripts,...
View ArticleColonel Edward H. McCrahon Family Collection of World War I Posters
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Edward McCrahon joined the French Army in fighting World War I two years before the United States did. When the U.S. began fighting alongside the Allies, McCrahon joined the...
View ArticleLangston Hughes treasures in Special Collections
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, war journalist, leader of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the early innovators of the literary...
View ArticleBrandeis Special Collections on the Internet Archive - Part II in an...
We at Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections are dedicated to the preservation of the materials within our collecting remit. We are equally dedicated to making these materials freely...
View ArticleBurmese Palm Leaf Manuscripts
The Brandeis Archives and Special Collections Department is fortunate to own two 19th-century Burmese Buddhist texts, handwritten on palm leaves. Donated by Philip Pinsof, these make up part of the...
View ArticleFranz Lehman letters and other material, 1943-1949
The ninety-one letters and official documents that make up the Franz Lehman letters and other material collection at Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber Archives & Special Collections provide a...
View ArticleDr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Kessner Collection of Doughty Birds
It sometimes surprises our visitors to learn that Special Collections is home not just to books and papers, but to objects as well. Objects, just like books, can tell important stories—stories about...
View ArticleZora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine
University Archives & Special Collections proudly announces the recent acquisition of a first edition of Zora Neale Hurston’s debut novel Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934). Hurston (January 7, 1891 –...
View ArticleWitches, Demons, and Ghosts in Special Collections
Among the items held in the Brandeis University Archives and Special Collections are numerous rare volumes on a subject quite fitting for autumn in New England: the supernatural. Among the topics...
View ArticleLeonard Baskin & The Gehenna Press, 1951-1971
The Gehenna Press, founded by Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) in 1942, and located in Northampton MA, was one of the premier 20th-century fine presses in America. Leonard Baskin, a noted sculptor and...
View ArticleTheresienstadt concentration camp documents, 1939-1945
The Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Documents collection at the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections department consists of 200 daily bulletins of the ‘Jewish...
View ArticleThe Lenny Bruce Collection
Lenny Bruce was a comedian, satirist, social commentator, and rule breaker, whose brilliant, disturbing, and divisive comedy routines led to several arrests on obscenity charges. His bold use of...
View ArticleThe Crimean War in the French and British satirical press
Political intrigue has long served as artistic fodder, and political cartoons provide a particularly fascinating way to trace the winding paths of historical events, and the way in which this amusing...
View ArticleChildren's Literature Collection
Love it or hate it—or, display some more middle-way attitude if it pleases you—popular fiction plays an important role in society. The Brandeis Collection of Children’s Literature contains examples of...
View ArticleTheobaldus's Phisiologus de Naturis Duodecim Animalum, 1493
Precursors of the fantastical and brightly-illuminated bestiaries of later medieval times, physiologia were didactic and allegorical Christian texts which presented a catalog of the history and lore of...
View ArticleCoptic Liturgy and Prayers: The Anaphora of Saint Cyril
Special Collections is proud to hold a manuscript copy of the Anaphora of Saint Cyril. It is written in both Arabic and Bohairic, a dialect of Coptic which is itself the final form of ancient Egyptian...
View ArticleTrimalchio (or, The Great Gatsby)
In June 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald sent a brief letter to his editor: “When I send on this last bunch of stories I may start my novel. . .Its locale will be the middle west and New York of 1885 I think....
View ArticleMarcia Freedman papers
The Marcia Freedman papers* represent a fascinating addition to the growing Jewish Feminist Collections at Brandeis University. Recently acquired, processed, and now available in the University’s...
View ArticleJudaica materials in Special Collections
The Brandeis University Library houses a major Judaica research collection. We have extensive holdings in subjects as diverse as Bible, rabbinics, Jewish philosophy and mysticism, and Hebrew and...
View ArticleOscars at Brandeis!
On March 4, 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented the 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony. Our readers may know that the ceremony, which began in 1929, was first...
View ArticleHavurat Shalom records
In the fall of 1968, Havurat Shalom Community Seminary, a center for new forms of Jewish worship and religious study, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its mission was to be “a still small voice,”...
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