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Posts by Evyn Kropf

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text block with large initial D and vines and flowers on the margin
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  • Pablo Alvarez
Next week | Incunables in Special Collections: Five Decades of Printing History
Join us for our next Third Thursdays at the Library open house, exploring early printed books!
lines of Persian calligraphy in modified Arabic script, written on the diagonal, accented with gold and colored decorations, set in a green framed album page
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  • Evyn Kropf
Sultan Murad IV, redoubtable warrior and calligrapher? A calligraphic piece in Isl. Ms. 441
This post is by Sumeyra Dursun, 2023 Heid Fellow, from her research in the Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Sumeyra is a doctoral candidate in the history of Islamic arts at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.
three writers standing holding Ardis printed copy of a text
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  • Evyn Kropf
Next week | Soviet Contraband : Publishing free thinkers in the Soviet Union
Join us next week for another Third Thursdays at the Library open house, exploring material from the Ardis Press Records!
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!
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"!