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bhgross144.bsky.social
OK, friends---Only a few hours remain to submit research proposals for @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-2027 #fellowships!

We will accept applications until 5:00 PM CST (UTC-6) this afternoon.

www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

#humanities #SpecColls 🗃️📜
homer simpson is holding a bell and a sign that says the end is near
ALT: homer simpson is holding a bell and a sign that says the end is near
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November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"I WANT MYSTERIOUS GLYPHS AND SIGILS!"

(Me too, Calvin....Me too.)

#RareBooks #speccolls #CalvinAndHobbes
#VoynichManuscript #Voynich 🗃️📜
drleonj.bsky.social Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 20d
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October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
One of the cool things about visiting @ransomcenter.bsky.social is walking past the Niépce Heliograph *and* a Gutenberg Bible before entering our exhibit galleries!

More on the heliograph, which was created in 1827: www.hrc.utexas.edu/niepce-helio...

#photography #photosky #histSTM #speccolls 🗃️📜📷
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French, 1765–1833), Untitled 'point de vue,' 1827. Heliograph on pewter, 16.7 x 20.3 x .15 cm. Gernsheim Collection, purchase, 964:0000:0001 Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
July 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
jasonwdean.com
Hoping you all can recall this better than I: I feel like there is a quote out there about how incunables as a group are the best studied subset of books, and the quote also makes the case as to *why* they are so well studied. I feel like I saw it recently, but cannot pin it down... #speccolls📜
July 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"Newest Old Glory" (published #OnThisDay in 1960): The new American flag with Hawaii's 50th star is unfurled by a Boy Scout patrol atop Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks.

norman.hrc.utexas.edu/nyjadc/ItemD...

#31DaysOfNYJA #BoyScouts #AmericanFlag 🇺🇸
#speccolls #photography #photosky 🗃️📜📷
"Newest Old Glory" The new American flag with Hawaii's 50th star is unfurled by a Boy Scout patrol atop Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks. Date published: 1960-07-01 Photographer: AP Wirephoto NYJA Collection Harry Ransom Center
July 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1859, French funambulist Charles Blondin became an international celebrity after successfully crossing the #Niagara River on a #tightrope.

This illustration of that event comes from @ransomcenter.bsky.social's #Circus Collection🎪: hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

#speccolls 🗃️📜
Detail from "Mons. Blondin's walk across the cataract" [undated] Circus Collection Harry Ransom Center
June 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
What can this cryptic wax seal reveal about the history of #LGBT activism?

Read more about the Order of Chaeronea and its founder, George Cecil Ives, whose papers can be found @ransomcenter.bsky.social!

www.instagram.com/p/DLakoCuhTH...

#speccolls #QueerHistory
#PrideMonth #Pride #LGBTQ+🗃️📜🌈
Order of Chaeronea seal in wax, undated. George Cecil Ives Papers (5.11). Harry Ransom Center.
June 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
jasonwdean.com
Watching Meg Ford's 2020 Presidential Address to the @bibsoc.bsky.social : a strong reminder of the proud traditions of cataloging and bibliography - not two separate activities, but threads in the same rich cloth. #speccolls📜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQtg...
The Bibliographical Society Presidential Address – Margaret Lane Ford, Bookselling and Bibliography
YouTube video by SchAdvStudy
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June 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"Ensuring public access to records in the #archives is part of #NARA's core mission and the new security standards do not--and would never--change this."

(X update from the National Archives re: College Park, HT @anthonyclark.bsky.social, link in alt-text)

#ArchivesAreForEveryone #speccolls 🗃️📜
https://x.com/USNatArchives/status/1937872088934883624 June 25, 2025 We caused a misunderstanding yesterday in the way we communicated long overdue enhanced security standards that are going into effect at the National Archives at College Park, M.D. First things first: For those who want to come to College Park and look through the records, the research rooms were, are and will ALWAYS remain open to the public. Ensuring public access to records in the archives is part of NARA's core mission and the new security standards do not - and would never- change this. The National Archives is implementing long overdue enhanced security standards at College Park due to several recent incidents that have left those in the building- including researchers- and our nation's records vulnerable to threats. In addition to other measures, NARA is increasing video surveillance and mandating that traffic bollards stay up closer to the building. Many of these measures mirror security standards that have been in place for many years at the research rooms at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and research facilities at presidential libraries. We look forward to continuing to always welcome researchers to College Park. ###
June 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Just went to the #NationalArchives website, and the announcement shared below has been removed.

It seems the question of whether historical research is a "legitimate business need" is moot, at least for now...

www.archives.gov/college-park

#Archives #NARA #ArchivesAreForEveryone #speccolls 🗃️📜
bhgross144.bsky.social Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · Jun 24
I should have posted the more striking banner image…

#ArchivesAreForEveryone
June 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Access to the historical record should not be restricted to "visitors with a legitimate business need."

Archives belong to everyone!

#NationalArchives #speccolls
#archives #skystorians 🗃️📜
June 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Where were you the night the bots came for @hagleycenter.bsky.social?

(cc: @businesshistoryc.bsky.social)

#BusinessHistory #Hagley
#BizHist #speccolls 🗃️📜
michaelsocolow.bsky.social Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · Jun 24
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.

They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."

The web is being murdered. So aggravating.

digital.hagley.org
"The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack" begins a message from the archive, explaining that AI is using bots to train machine learning learning models.
June 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
#Bloomsday has arrived! Did you know that @ransomcenter.bsky.social is home to the final first edition page proofs of #Ulysses, complete w/Joyce's handwritten corrections?

More details on the Center's #JamesJoyce Collection: norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...

#literature #booksky #speccolls 🗃️📜📚
Final corrected page proofs of Ulysses (1922), James Joyce Collection (1.10).
June 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Spotted during this afternoon’s reference shift @ransomcenter.bsky.social: T.E. Lawrence’s copy of #Ulysses, signed by #JamesJoyce! (A bit early for #Bloomsday, but impressive nevertheless…)

#humanities #literature
#modernism #speccolls
#LawrenceOfArabia #booksky 🗃️📜📚
June 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Fun fact: Cunard composed a poem while sitting for McCown's 1923 portrait. Her unpublished typescript can also be found in @ransomcenter.bsky.social's collections.

For further details, check out Tracy Bonfitto's blog post from last March: sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...

#speccolls #humanities 🗃️📜📚
In the Studio Is it March, spring, winter, autumn, twilight, noon Told in this distant sound of cuckoo clocks? Sunday it is—five lilies in swoon Decay against your wall, aggressive flocks Of alley-starlings aggravate a mood. The rain drops pensively. ‘If one could paint, Combine the abstract with a certain rude Individual form, knot passion with restraint… If one could use the murk that fills a brain, Undo old symbols and beget again Fresh meaning on dead emblem…’ so one lies Here timeless, while the lilies’ withering skin Attests the hours, and rain sweeps from the skies, The bird sits on the chimney, looking in. Nancy Cunard (British, 1896–1965), “In the Studio,” 1923, unpublished poem. Unpublished scrapbook 1921–1927, Nancy Cunard Collection, 26.3, Harry Ransom Center.
May 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Coming to @ransomcenter.bsky.social in April 2026: Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt, an exhibit developed in partnership w/@thejohnrylands.bsky.social that will explore life in Greco-Roman #Egypt using #papyrus manuscripts!

Learn more: www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/...

#SpecColls #Papyri📜🗃️
Bring history to life at the Harry Ransom Center
YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center
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May 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Me (yesterday): HORNBOOK COASTERS!

Me (earlier today): Maybe some people don't know what hornbooks are...

Me (right now): Good thing @aarontpratt.bsky.social prepared a video to answer everyone's hornbook-related questions!

#Hornbooks #ChildrensBooks #WordsAndWonder
#RareBooks #SpecColls 🗃️📜📚
March 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
H O R N
B O O K
C O A S
T E R S!
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#ChildrensLiterature #ChildrensBooks #KidLit
#BookHistory #SpecColls #RareBooks
#WordsAndWonder #RansomCenter 🗃️📜📚
aarontpratt.bsky.social Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social · Mar 25
JUST IN: the make-your-own hornbook coasters we designed for the @ransomcenter.bsky.social's newest exhibition, Words and Wonder: Rediscovering Children's Literature.
March 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
"Who'd have thought learning about religion could be fun?"

#Simpsons #speccolls 📜
January 31, 2025 at 4:06 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
A gentle reminder that applications for the Linda Hall Library's 2025-26 fellowships are due *tomorrow*, Jan. 17, 2025.

Apply here: lindahall.org/fellowships/
Email fellowships@lindahall.org if you have questions.

#histSTM #histsci #histmed #histtech
#NEH #aerospace #Rarebooks #SpecColls 🗃️📜
January 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Bern Dibner, the Ukrainian-born American engineer who assembled an impressive collection of books about the history of science & technology (now housed at the Smithsonian & Huntington Libraries), is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.

www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #speccolls #OnThisDay 🗃️📜
Portrait of Bern Dibner, photograph, undated, NYU Libraries (library.nyu.edu) Paper front cover, Heralds of Science, by Bern Dibner, Burndy Library, 1955 (Linda Hall Library)
January 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Happy new year, Bluesky friends!

Are you interested in applying for the Linda Hall Library's 2025-26 research fellowships? There is still time to register for our online information session this Friday, Jan. 3.

#histSTM #histsci
#skystorians #STS
#BookHistory #speccolls 🗃️📜🧪⚙️🔭📚
January 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
#ICYMI: @finchinthestacks.bsky.social shared a fun #FellowFriday find from LHL's History of Science collection!

(Manuscript notes in a 1546 edition of Melchior Sachse's
Artzneybuch köstlich für mancherley Kranckheit des gantzen Leibs)

🗃️📜

#histSTM #histmed
#speccolls #RareBooks
finchinthestacks.bsky.social Finch Collins @finchinthestacks.bsky.social · Dec 20
Friday before Hanukkah and I’m reviewing books for a fellow, all well and good. Then I open this 1546 German medical book, and BOOM.
Sheet of paper covered with writing in a 16th-century German hand. The date at the bottom reads 1546.
December 20, 2024 at 10:20 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
(Bangles) 🎵 It's just an emblematic Monday...🎵 (/Bangles)

#histSTM #BookHistory #NaturalHistory
#speccolls #Emblems 🗃️📜📖
#FestinaLente #Aldus🐬⚓
flori-p.bsky.social Flori Pierri @flori-p.bsky.social · Nov 18
Oh yeah, it's emblem time! First up, everyone's* favorite, Festina Lente. I'm guessing that I'm going to see a lot of these in this collection of papers.

*me, Aldus Manutius, and maybe Erasmus. That's everyone, right?

From Jacobus Typotius, Symbola varia Diversorum Principum... (1602)
image of a dolphin encircling an anchor. Written above the image is "festina lente"
November 18, 2024 at 11:12 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Lots of great accounts to follow on this list...

(And I'm there too!)

#speccolls #RareBooks #BookHistory 🗃️📜
jasonwdean.com Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · Sep 26
Hi everyone, I've made my first starter pack for Rare Books and Spec Coll folks. I am completely sure I've missed folks, so please speak up in a reply and I'll add you to the pack! follow on, friends! 📜 #bookhistory go.bsky.app/4fvc2XS
September 26, 2024 at 1:27 PM