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Beyond the Reading Room

Anecdotes and other notes from the U-M Special Collections Research Center.
Detailed illustration from Audubon's Birds of North America of a nest in a tree with birds sitting around it.

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The Jewish cemetery of Salonica, Greece.
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
The Jewish Cemetery of Salonica
A historical postcard depicting the Jewish cemetery of Salonica, Greece --- newly cataloged for the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.
The Hobo Philospher or the Modern Diogenes by Roger Payne, B.A., L.L.B., 1930.
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  • Julie Herrada
Radical Education: Hobohemia, Slim Brundage and the College of Complexes
Before punks, hippies, and beatniks there were hobohemians. Born in reaction to an increasingly urban and industrial American society, these radicals combined a working class consciousness with a rejection of rampant materialism to create a bulwark against a rising tide of greed and exploitation. The Hobohemia Collection gives a glimpse into this subculture through the writings and artifacts of two prominent hobohemians, Jack Sheridan (1905-1967) and Slim Brundage (1903-1990).
spines of three bound books stacked on top of each other
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  • Marieka Kaye
Special Collections After Hours | Kelmscott at the Special Collections Research Center
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (12 April) at 4 pm EDT for our final After Hours virtual open house of the term featuring the collection of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press books held at the Special Collections Research Center
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
The Jewish district of Salonica destroyed by the fire of 1917
A new item added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: Le Quartier israëlite détruit.
Mich. Ms. 30. The Four Gospels. <Northern Greece>, dated by colophon May 31, 1430 Paper, 424 fols; 197-198 x 140 mm.Fol. 306v; full-page miniature depicting the evangelist John; note the wide frame elaborately ornamented with a vegetal design; the background is bright blue with the inscription, 'Ο ἅγ(ιος) Ιω(άννης) ὁ Θεολόγος (St. John the Theologian).
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  • Pablo Alvarez
A New Exhibit: Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan Library: A Celebration
Splendors of the religious and artistic endeavors of Byzantine manuscript makers are on display from the Greek manuscript collection at the University of Michigan Library (Special Collections Research Center). We warmly invite you to explore these extraordinary treasures at the Audubon Room, North Hatcher Library, March 26-June 28, 2022.
Interior of synagogue
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
The Italian Synagogue of Thessaloniki
A new item added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection: The Italian Synagogue.
Woman in traditional dress, inscription in French
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Costume de femme juive (Souvenir de Salonique)
A new item added to the Jewish Salonica Postcard Collection.
image of an open pop-up book with view of koala bear leaping into pond surrounded by cattails and frogs
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  • Amy Crist
Get Those Books Moving : Part 3
Third in a series of guest posts from Shaoyi Qian, summer 2021 Baker Fellow at the U-M Library's conservation lab, describing her work on several pop-up and moveable books.
face of an older man in profile with white hair visible and hand raised
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  • Philip A Hallman
Special Collections After Hours | From the Archive to the Page: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman
Join the Special Collections Research Center next Tuesday (8 March) at 4 pm EST for our next After Hours virtual open house of the term celebrating the launch of ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman, which draws on materials from the Robert Altman Collection.
Woman in traditional dress, inscription in French
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  • Gabriel Mordoch
Mrs. Salem in youth (Souvenir de Salonique, 1916)
Enjoy a recently cataloged Jewish Salonica postcard housed at the Jewish Heritage Collection.