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Posts by Evyn Kropf

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pages of lines of calligraphic text in two forms of Arabic script
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  • Amy Crist
Treatments for two calligraphy albums
Another post on conservation work completed by our summer 2023 Baker Fellow, Katarina Stiller, this time for two calligraphy albums from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.
drawing of workers in coats and hats holding signs saying on strike and other messages
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  • Evyn Kropf
Next week : Arts and Resistance in the Labadie Collection
Join us next week for our first Third Thursdays at the Library open house, exploring material from the Labadie Collection!
interior scene with row of beds, girl rising up from one of them, and dwarves peeking in through the window
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  • Amy Crist
Get Those Books Moving : Part 4
Another installment in our series of posts on conservation work for pop-up and moveable books, this time from Katarina Stiller, summer 2023 Baker Fellow at the U-M Library's conservation lab
caucasian presenting man with tan shirt and headphones in profile with stone wall visible behind
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  • Philip A Hallman
Next week : John Sayles on Welles and Altman
Join us next Friday 14 April 3-5 pm in the Hatcher Gallery for an event with writer and director John Sayles! Sayles will kick off the Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker series by sharing items of interest he discovered while looking through the archives of fellow maverick directors Orson Welles and Robert Altman.
partially open book with red and black structure folding out from it
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  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
  • Amy Crist
Special Collections After Hours | Books in Motion
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (11 April) at 4 pm for our final After Hours open house of the Winter term, exploring a selection of moveable books!
printed page of latin text with large initial A and border of vines and leaves in black with green and gold accents
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  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Shannon Zachary
Coffee with the Curators | Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books
Join us this Wednesday, 8 March, at 4 pm for refreshments, viewing, and casual conversation with the student curators of "Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books"!
architectural scene of cityscape in black and beige
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  • Pablo Alvarez
Special Collections After Hours | Illustrations in Rare Books and Prints in Western Europe: A Very Brief History
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (14 March) at 4 pm for our third After Hours open house of the Winter term, exploring a selection of early rare books and prints containing images printed with the technique of relief (woodcuts) and intaglio (copperplate engravings).
printed page of latin text with large initial A and border of vines and leaves in black with green and gold accents
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  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Shannon Zachary
New Exhibit | Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books
The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring the title page. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.
poster with event announcement and images of family seated below potrait floral bouquet architectural cityscape and artists book with curved vertical forms emerging from red cube
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  • Evyn Kropf
Special Collections After Hours Winter 2023
We are excited to continue our in-person Special Collections After Hours open houses this semester! Join us on the second Tuesday of each month from 4 to 5.30 pm in the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library for an encounter with our collections.
three circular views of greek manuscript text on papyrus, persian manuscript text with astronomical diagram on paper, engraved frontispiece showing European astronomers at work
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  • Pablo Alvarez
  • Evyn Kropf
New Exhibit and Opening | Early Astronomy in the University of Michigan Collections
The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring a selection of manuscripts, early printed books, and artifacts illustrating Mesopotamian, Greek, Islamic, and Western European astronomies. Join the curators on Thursday, 12 January, 4-6p in the Hatcher Gallery for a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibit followed by an exhibit tour.