Category: Cotsen Children’s Library
Special Collections Showcase May 2024
By Emma Sarconi and Deborah Schlein Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for two hours for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in our May 2024 […]
Wordless Wednesday #55
Selected by April C. Armstrong *14
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Things That Go Bump in the Vault
Princeton University Library’s Special Collections, which hold materials spanning millennia across the globe, have a fair share of demonic depictions lurking on the shelves. One never knows which ghost, goblin, monster, or other feared spectre could possibly come traipsing through the vault’s locked door.
Hans Christian Andersen’s Papercuts
Andersen was an impossible houseguest who often outstayed his welcome, but we are so glad to have these material witnesses to his talent.
