Category: William H. Scheide Library

Special Collections Showcase March 2024

Special Collections Showcase March 2024

Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in March 2024: Object 1: Pank-a-Squith (1909) — (E-000072) Published in 1909 for […]

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 #4

Wordless Wednesday #4

Selected by Emma Sarconi