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Dark green leather book cover, with title stamped in gold: Dr. Chase's Recipes or Information for Everybody. Gold border also stamped around the edges, with patent medicine bottles in corners
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Much Depends on Dinner
We are excited to announce a special collaboration between the Special Collections Research Center, the William L. Clements Library, and the students of ALA 264 Much Depends on Dinner. From April 17 to May 8th, you will be able to find culinary history across campus on Diag Boards and Campus Bus Signs. To see all five selected items together, scroll through this blog post or visit the Shapiro Screens (April 16-May 7) on the first floor of the Shapiro Library.
Two yellow goldfinches perched on a thistle plant with purple flowers
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New Labels for an Old Book: Audubon’s Birds of America
The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce the installation of new labels contextualizing John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, which is on display in the newly-renamed Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room. the new labels acknowledge Audubon's role as an enslaver and vocal opponent of abolition, and further contextualize both The Birds and its author within the social and scientific landscape of the 19th century.
cluster of flowers in yellow and white with green leaves and brown stems against a yellow background
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Special Collections After Hours | Love in the Stacks
Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (14 February) at 4 pm for our second After Hours open house of the Winter term, exploring materials related to love and romance.
brown lunch box shaped and designed like a loaf of bread standing beside square cookbook with cartoon on cover and paper lunch sack
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Special Collections After Hours | A Perfect Pairing
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (13 September) at 4 pm (Eastern) for our first After Hours virtual open house of the term with the curators of A Perfect Pairing!
smiling white woman with short gray hair
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Remembering Janice Bluestein Longone
Culinary historian and Adjunct Curator Janice Bluestein Longone passed away on August 3, 2022 at the age of 89. Jan was the principal donor and driving force behind the formation of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive, the culmination of a life-long interest in culinary history that she shared with her husband Dan Longone, University of Michigan Chemistry Professor Emeritus.
A complete setting of child sized dinnerware and flatware, complete with a small teapot and teacup is in the foreground, while in the background an opening of the Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls is visible alongside two large apples.
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New Exhibit: A Perfect Pairing of Books and Dinnerware
A new exhibit pairs a dozen selections from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (Special Collections Research Center) with dishes from the International Museum of Dinnerware Design. Enjoy this display in the Audubon Room from Thursday, July 7 to Thursday, September 29.
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This Thursday: Artists' Books Among the Shelves
Join us online this Thursday 18 November at 7 pm EST for a virtual walk through a selection of artists' books preserved in the Special Collections Research Center!
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Nineteenth Century Fashion in Print | Virtual Encounters in Book History
Join us online next Thursday, 14 October at 11 am EDT for the next event in the series Virtual Encounters in Book History -- "Nineteenth Century Fashion in Print: Masculine Intimacy, Feminine Historical Consciousness, and Ephemerality in Commodity Culture"
Left: a broadside with the text of Harold G. Lawrece's poem, "Black Madonna" below a sepia-toned depiction of a Black woman as the Virgin Mary gazing lovingly at a Black infant. Right: A broadside with the text of Naomi Long Madgett's "A Mandate for Remembrance" laid over a watermark illustration of a stylized human figure sitting cross-legged and lifting their arms. A fire or sunburst appears in their left hand.
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Special Collections After Hours | Broadside and Lotus: Black-Owned Presses in Detroit
Join the Special Collections Research Center on February 9, at 4:00pm, for the second of our Winter 2021 After Hours events: "Broadside and Lotus: Black-Owned Presses in Detroit." Please register at the link provided in the blog post below.
Book Cover: Somewhat abstract drawing of a woman with wings holding an oil lamp on a pale blue background
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Handmade in Cuba: Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía
The Special Collections Research Center holds a large collection of works by Cuban book artist Rolando Estévez, including many books that he designed during his time with Ediciones Vigía and examples of those published under his own imprint, El Fortín, established in 2014. A new book from the University of Florida Press explores Estévez' impact as artistic director of Ediciones Vigía from 1985-2014.