Category: Graphic Arts Collection
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.
In the Company of Good Books: Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio
By Will Noel 2023 is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, the first edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare, printed by Jaggard and Blount in 1623. To celebrate it, tomorrow we are opening an exhibition entitled “In the Company of […]
Metropolis
This is one of many Metropolis posters, the most famous of which is the international poster, designed by Heinz Schulz-Neudamm. Our Swedish poster features Brigitte Helm.
Junius Spencer Morgan, Virgil, and “The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton”
By Will Noel Junius Spencer Morgan gave a phenomenal collection of materials to the Princeton University Library, so last year I decided to create a small online exhibition on items from that collection that we have digitized already. With very many thanks to Steve Ferguson […]
