Author: April C. Armstrong *14

Farewell and Best Wishes to Caitlin Abadir-Mullally, Special Collections Mudd Fellow for 2023

Farewell and Best Wishes to Caitlin Abadir-Mullally, Special Collections Mudd Fellow for 2023

I am Caitlin Abadir-Mullally and I wholeheartedly enjoyed my summer as the John Foster and Janet Avery Dulles Archival Fellow at Princeton’s Mudd Library. I am a Philadelphia-based archivist with an interest in digital archives and reparative description.

Wordless Wednesday #14

Wordless Wednesday #14

Selected by Adrienne Rusinko

Native American Rights, the Supreme Court, and Special Collections at Princeton University Library

Native American Rights, the Supreme Court, and Special Collections at Princeton University Library

In the Haaland case, the Supreme Court rejected a states’ right argument that would have gutted the ICWA, instead deciding by 7-2 that the Congress does have the constitutional authority to pass legislation to “secure the right of Indian parents to raise their families as they please; the right of Indian children to grow in their culture; and the right of Indian communities to resist fading into the twilight of history.”

Wordless Wednesday #13

Wordless Wednesday #13

Selected by Charles Doran

Early Printing Types, Lyons, ca. 1473-1500

Early Printing Types, Lyons, ca. 1473-1500

In 1933, William H. Scheide, a Princeton freshman, had travelled to Paris with his father, and De Ricci invited them to lunch in his apartment. He showed them the famous Lyons types, and presented them with one of the types, a letter P. 

Wordless Wednesday #12

Wordless Wednesday #12

Selected by Emma Sarconi

Wordless Wednesday #11

Wordless Wednesday #11

Selected by Emma Sarconi

Multispectral Imaging of an Aramaic and Greek Palimpsest

Multispectral Imaging of an Aramaic and Greek Palimpsest

By Will Noel Last year, Mike Toth of R.B. Toth Associates, in collaboration with the Digital Imaging Studio of Princeton University Library, captured multispectral images of Princeton University’s Garrett Ms. 24. This is a 10th-century Greek palimpsest, containing a number of Greek and Aramaic undertexts […]

Wordless Wednesday #10

Wordless Wednesday #10

Selected by April C. Armstrong *14

1870 Peck and Snyder Mutuals Baseball Card

1870 Peck and Snyder Mutuals Baseball Card

This card is one of a series of extremely rare trade cards issued by Peck & Snyder Sporting Goods Emporium featuring a formal studio photograph of the baseball team on the front affixed to a trade card with advertising for Peck & Snyder on the back. Unfortunately, the graphic on the back  is not visible as the card has been pasted into the scrapbook, which was a common practice for the period.