Library Blogs

Showing 1 - 10 of 17 items
Results for Date: January 2015
A loaf of bread on a plate.
  • Jacqueline L Jacobson
This month's recipe is "the Golden Loaf of South Carolina" from Sarah Tyson Rorer's 1899 _Bread and Bread-making: How to Make Many Varieties Easily and with the Best Results_ Rorer was involved in the Cooking School Movement, which advocated for standard measures and exact directions in recipes. While the recipe below is not as explicit as what a 21st century cookbook reader is used to, it goes into considerable detail compared to the average late-19th c. bread “receipt”
Mother and child with a loaf of bread, in an style that draws both from Art Deco and Art Nouveau
  • Jacqueline L Jacobson
American Culinary History materials are full of representations of children and childhood: sometimes realistic, sometimes wholly fantastical, with adults present or without them.
Plate 24, on the eyes and head of the grey drone-fly, from Micrographia. London: John Martyn & James Allestry. Printers of the Royal Society, 1665
  • Pablo Alvarez
This superb engraving depicts what the seventeenth-century English scientist, Robert Hooke, observed when exposing the head of a grey drone-fly through the lens of a microscope. The greatest section of the head was nothing else but two large “protuberant bunches,” mostly covered by thousands of tiny hemispheres arranged in “triagonal order”.
Photo of Riddle of the Traveling Skull cover.
  • Ian Demsky
Harry Keeler was a prolific writer of strange books that some consider so bad they're good.
Gauffered edge from our copy of two medical commentaries by the sixteenth-century Italian doctor, Leon Roganus Caietanus: Leonis Rogani Caietani Medici, in Galeni Libellum de pulsibus, ad tyrones, Commentarius; Leonis Rogani Caietani Medici de urinis libri tres.  Venice: Jacobus de Maria, 1575
  • Pablo Alvarez
This recently acquired edition of two medical commentaries by the sixteenth-century Italian doctor, Leon Roganus Caietanus, is bound in limp vellum with bevelled boards, and the gilded edges of the text block have been expertly decorated, or gauffered, with a special tool.



Cover of Roman Murder Mystery by Derek Parker
  • Vicki J Kondelik
Roman Murder Mystery by Derek Parker tells the true story of a murder case that was the talk of Rome in the late 17th century.
Screenshot of the Readability Test Tool
  • Ian Demsky
The Readability Test Tool can help web content creators make pages easier to read.
Anchor watermark in Isl. Ms. 463 v.2
  • Evyn Kropf
This Wednesday's watermark feature: Anchor motifs in watermarked papers from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection
Photo of warning sign.
  • Ian Demsky
The contents of this book might literally kill you.
Orphanage for Armenian boys. January 5, 1920. Aintab, Cilicia. Photograph by George R. Swain
  • Pablo Alvarez
"Now or Never": Collecting, Documenting and Photographing the Aftermath of World War I in the Middle East. This exhibit explores the role of the U-M archaeological expedition (1919-1920), led by Professor Francis Kelsey, as witnesses of the chaos and destruction in the Near East following Germany's surrender to the Entente forces on November 11, 1918.