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Posts by Evyn Kropf

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lions and dragon in combat, configured like an ouroboros, surrounded by lines of persian poetry
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  • Evyn Kropf
Invisible gifts, strings attached: an investigation into a Qajar fingernail album
This post is by Remy Djavaherian (BA in Middle East Studies / Persian Visual Culture, University of Michigan, 2025), drawn from his work with an album from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Rectangular covers and pentagonal flap with bands of colorful floral vegetal designs surrounded by brown leather frame boarders
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  • Juli McLoone
Book Cloth: From Textile Bindings to Fashionable Fabric Samples
Join us this Thursday, January 15th, between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
colorful painted landscape scene with beach, boats and cargo at water's edge, boats, and rainbow over the sea
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  • Juli McLoone
A Few of Our Favorite Things
Join us this Thursday, December 18th, between 4-6p for our final Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
woman sitting on a man's back on a set with cameras and director's chair
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  • Katie Marie Jones
Ezra Stone: The Busiest Man in Hollywood
Join us this Thursday, November 20th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
array of square and rectangular images of collection material with handwritten text, photographs, and illustrations of various kinds
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  • Martha O'Hara Conway
Applications Open: Special Collections Research Fellowships
The current application cycle is now open for fellowships available to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections!
undyed canvas straitjacket on a half body mannequin
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  • Katie Marie Jones
Rare BOO👻ks and other Spooky Selections from Special Collections
Join us this Thursday, October 16th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
floral vegetal designs in bold layered colors arranged in geometric borders
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  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
Spectacular Stencils: Gorgeous Examples from our Pochoir Collection
Join us this Thursday, September 18th, between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
array of blocks of colored fabric with caption between in french
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  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
Colorful Neighbors: the Science of Simultaneous Contrasts
Read a bit about curator Jamie Vander Broek's journey toward developing the exhibit Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color, on view through 4 September in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room!
bucolic scene of a river with trees, shrubs and stately rows of houses at varying distances and caption "BATH WITH FERRY"
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  • Juli McLoone
Next week : Fashion, Food, and Flowers in Georgian England
Join us next Thursday, 20 March, between 4-6p for our next "Third Thursdays at the Library" event of the semester!
bucolic scene of cattle among trees by the edge of a stream
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  • Juli McLoone
Thundering Hooves in the Archives: Cows vs. Horses
Join us next Thursday, 20 February, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!