Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Mirabile Dictu: The rB yn Mawr College Library Bryn Mawr College Publications, Special Newsletter Collections, Digitized Books 2007 Mirabile Dictu: The rB yn Mawr College Library Newsletter 11 (2007) Bryn Mawr College Library Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/mirabile Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Library and Information Science Commons Custom Citation Mirabile Dictu: the Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 11 (2007) This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/mirabile/10 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Mirabile Dictu The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter Piet de Jong Watercolor, 1938. Jar, red ware, with red painted decoration. 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Fall 2007 Issue 11 Mirabile Dictu The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter Table of Contents Friends of the Library 2007/2008 Schedule Donors to Collections This Year 1 From the Director 2 Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Medieval Art Class and Exhibition 3 4:30 pm, Carpenter Library 21 Friendships Bring Many Gifts 4 Lecture: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Rhys Carpenter Collection of French Books 5 Professor Emerita of the Department of Classical and Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition 6 Near Eastern Archaeology, “Oral History: A Personal Suffrage Ephemera 7 Commemoration.” Bryn Mawr Collections Exhibited at Museums 8 6:30 pm, Rare Book Room, Canaday Library Ethnic Weddings 9 Exhibition Opening & Reception: Breaking Ground, Shifting Sands: Roman Glass 10 Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generation Special Collections Interns 11 of Women Archaeologists American Bookbinding History 12 Help Us Save this Book! 12 Wednesday, October 3, 2007 “For her pleasures:” Goodhart Hall 13 5:00 pm, The Acorn Club, Philadelphia, PA Transforming Goodhart Hall 14 Lecture: Elliott Shore, Contance A. Jones Director of Libraries and Professor of History, “The History of Restaurants.” The Friends will sponsor a reception at Friends of the Library Board The Acorn Club just before Elliott Shore’s talk. Members 2007-2008 Thursday, November 15, 2007 Teresa Wallace ’79, Chair 4:30 pm, Carpenter Library 21 Alexa Aldridge ’57 Lecture: Susan Handler Auth PhD ’68, Curator Judith L. Bardes ’53 Emerita of the Newark Museum, on Ancient Roman Sandra Berwind MA ’61, PhD ’68 Glass. Michèle Cahen Cone ’51 Serena D. DuBois ’70 Watch for your invitations to more events! Susan King ’86 Margery Lee ’51 Elisa Tractman Lewis MA ’95 Mirabile Dictu is the newsletter of the Friends Maxine Lewis ’58 of the Bryn Mawr College Library, Mariam Coffin Trina Vaux McCauley Canaday Library, 101 North Merion Avenue, Bryn Martha Stokes Price ’47 Mawr, PA 19010, published once a year. Joanna Semel Rose ’52 Steven D. Rothman To join the Friends of the Library or renew your mem- Mary Scott MA ’86 bership please visit our web site: Lita Solis-Cohen, Jr. ’52 http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/fol.shtml Doreen Spitzer, Jr. ’36 Barbara Teichert ’75 Editor: Jean Lacovara Jane Miller Unkefer ’55 Content Coordinator: Eric Pumroy Richard Wright Copy Editor: Marianne Hansen Donors to Special Collections and College Collections This Year Sandra Berwind MA ’61, PhD’68, Bryn Mawr, PA. Karen Pernet MSS SW ’86, Oakland, CA. Day James Joyce, Ulysses, Published for the Egoist Press, Recalls: A Memory Collaboration, Judith Barbour London, by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. Osbourne, fine artist and Jena Osman, poet. Old Lyme, CT: Judith Barbour Osbourne, 2005. Michèle Cahen Cone ’51, New York, NY. Collection of French books. (see page 5) Gloria Robinson ’45, Woodbridge, CT. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation Phyllis Feldkamp ’51, Ardmore, PA. Nine French to Sex. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1871, and fashion plates from the 1910s and 1920s. Addition to Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Phyllis Feldkamp Collection. under Domestication, London: John Murray, 1868. Theo Halladay ’48, Tarzana, CA. The Magazine of Enrique Sacerio-Garí, Rosemont, PA. José Marti, Art, London, Paris: Cassell & Co., 1891, 1896-1900. Our America/Nuestra América, translated by Enrique Sacerio Garí, Philadelphia: Blue Flower Press, 2002, Thomas E. Kinsella, Absecon, NJ. The Boston and La Revista del Vigía, #28 (2005), Matanzas, Cuba. Almanac, for the years 1859, 1871, 1880. Darby Scott, Bryn Mawr, PA. Seneca, L. Annaei Margery Lee ’51, Bryn Mawr, PA. Eight contem- Senecae Philosophi Opera, quae exstant omnia, Iusto porary prints and one dye coupler photograph from Lipsio, Antwerp: Ex officinia Plantiniana, 1632. George Segal, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Warren Rohrer, David Graham, John Kindness, Nancy Katrina Thomas’49 , Dover Plains, NY. Ethnic wed- Graves, Jody Pinto, and Marlene Dumas. dings collection of photographs and documentation, and print by Ellsworth Kelly. (see page 9) Mario Maurin, Rosemont, PA. Correspondence of Joaquín and Jeanne Maurín, 1920s-1930s. Addition Pamela Sinkler Todd ’73, Philadelphia, PA. Diaries of to Joaquín and Jeanne Maurín Papers. Dorothy Burr Thompson ’23, PhD ’31. (see page 2) Mrs. Samuel W. Morris ’41, MA ’70, Pottstown, PA. Allison Dean Walker ’52, Lake Forest, IL. Charles Ten prints including two Rembrandt van Rijn etch- Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury & Evans, 20 ings, Virgin and Child in the Clouds, Christ Between numbers in 19 parts, December 1855-June 1857, and his Parents, Returning from the Temple, and an en- Sketches by “Boz” Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and graving of Albrecht Dürer’s St. Christopher (with the Every-Day People, London: John Macrone, 1836. Christ Child), Facing Left, and a Rembrandt-style figural scene printed by Philadelphia artist Alfred Glenys A. Weldman, Haverford, PA. Three terra- Bendiner; and six Japanese color woodblock prints, cotta heads, possibly Hellenistic-Roman. of the first half of the nineteeth century. Keiko Ohnuma ’82, Honolulu, HI. Diaries, travel accounts, and other autobiographical material. Detail from an illustration from the 1770 Paris edition of La Henriade by Voltaire, from the Michèle Cahen Cone Collection. 1 From the Director elcome to the celebration of activity that is described in these pages, work that intense- ly connects the special collections that the Wlibrary builds and for which it provides stewardship and interpretation to the teaching and learning goals of the college. From the Archives where Lorett Treese uncovers the early history of Goodhart to the 1487 edition of Boccaccio for which we need your help in restoration and preservation. What an enormous priv- ilege and possibility to be an undergraduate in Martha Pamela Sinkler Todd ’73 and graduate intern Megan Risse Easton’s course, which will not only introduce students examine a scrapbook belonging to Pamela’s mother, Dorothy to the medieval Book of Hours but will culminate in Burr Thompson ’23, PhD ’31. employing their experience to produce the spring exhi- Curator of the College’s Collections, and the depar- bition in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, working ture of Tamara Johnston, Registrar of the College’s with Eric Pumroy, Barbara Grubb, Marianne Hansen, Collections, gives us an opportunity to align the staff- and Carol Campbell. It is these intense collaborations ing patterns for all of our special materials so we can among and between faculty, students and our Special provide the users of these collections with better access Collections and Collections staff that lie at the heart and coordinated curatorship. of the new Teaching and Learning Initiative at the This year we welcome to the Special College under the leadership of Associate Professor of Collections Department a new postdoctoral fel- Education Alison Cook-Sather, who recently won a low, Tracie Wilson, who will be working on Katrina $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to help Thomas’ ’49 extraordinary collection of ethnic wed- foster the deep engagement of the students, faculty ding photographs. Tracie brings to the College a PhD and staff in collaborative work. in folklore from the University of Indiana and work- The Special Collections Department has not ing experience at the University of Illinois. In addi- only produced marvelous exhibits and built impressive tion to this collection, we have just received a mar- collections, but every year it has increased the number velous gift of the diaries of Dorothy Burr Thompson of classes that utilize its materials and the expertise of a ’23, PhD ’31 from her daughter Pamela Sinkler Todd fine staff. We are now looking forward to an even more ’73. I had the privilege of knowing Dorothy well dur- ambitious future for the kinds of collaborations that ing my years at the Institute for Advanced Study and We are now looking forward to am thrilled that her diaries—which run virtually un- interrupted from 1912 to 1970—will provide schol- an even more ambitious future ars with deep insights into the life of a significant scholar. It is a testament to Bryn Mawr’s centrality the department has engaged in under Eric Pumroy’s to the development of archaeology that three of the leadership: we are planning on bringing a visiting com- five women who are at the center of our exhibit in mittee to the campus in the fall that will look at ways the fall—Thompson, Lucy Shoe Merritt ’27, PhD in which we can make the best use of the College’s ’35 and Hetty Goldman ’03—were all connected to collections of art, prints, drawings, photographs and the famed Princeton Institute. Hetty Goldman has archaeological and mineralogical collections for re- the distinction of being the first woman to become a search, teaching and learning. The announced retire- professor at the Institute. Just what one might expect ment in February 2008 of Carol Campbell, longtime from a Bryn Mawr grad.