In this reoccurring series, members of the Special Collections staff will introduce some of our favorite objects found in the stacks of Special Collections at Princeton. April C. Armstrong *14, Library Collections Specialist | “Untitled, 1910 December 29” April, what do you do at Princeton? […]

Selected by Emma Sarconi

The painting depicts the experience of the first wave of the pandemic and is one of 17 pieces of COVID-19-related folk and tribal art from South Asia that was acquired for the Graphic Arts collection. … Each piece asks us to recall our own experiences of the pandemic and to reflect on its manifestation in India, too.

Selected by April C. Armstrong *14

Princeton is particularly rich in important copies of the Slave Ship Brooks, representations of which went viral at the end of the eighteenth century and helped in abolishing the trade in England. 

Selected by April C. Armstrong *14

This little book is a list of the names of all the champion hunting dogs owned by a great English book collector, who also had a Gutenberg Bible, etc.

Selected by Katie Zondlo

Last month, Kevin Kruse gave a public lecture entitled “Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government” as part of a series of events around the exhibition “Nobody Turn us Around” at Mudd Library.

Selected by Adrienne Rusinko