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Dallas, TX - Collections from a prominent Tulsa, Oklahoma collector and a large group of 22 sets of drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright, among the great architects of the 20th century, will be among the highlights in Heritage Auctions’ Design auction April 15 in Dallas.
What is your role at your institution?Assistant Head and University Archivist of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collection and University Archives at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.How did you get started in special collections?
Los Angeles - A series of fascinating letters by Albert Einstein on the Jewish People’s rights to defend themselves, Nazi-Germany and anti-Semitism will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on March 28, 2019. Einstein Letter Defending Jewish Heritage
New York - Classic & Contemporary Photographs will be on offer Thursday, April 18 at Swann Galleries. The auction features diverse images from twentieth-century artists pushing the limits of the medium and its intended use, including Wilson A. Bentley, Dorothea Lange, Robert Mapplethorpe and…
New York - On 18th April Christie’s will hold an intriguing auction entitled The Arrogant Eye: Prints from The Collection of The Late Larry Saphire as part of our Prints & Multiples auction. The collection includes over 150 works on paper by modern masters such as Picasso, Braque, Miro, Matisse…
Back in January, we told you about the Beinecke Library's current exhibition, Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance. Today we're taking a closer look at one section of that exhibition, a collaborative project between the Beinecke and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas,…
New York City — The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts announced today that the Lou Reed Archive is now available for the public to use. To mark the opening of the collection, the Library is also issuing 6,000 limited edition library cards featuring Mick Rock's iconic image of Reed.…
A very busy auction week coming up!On Tuesday, March 26, Koller Auctions in Zurich will sell 274 lots of books, and an additional 63 lots of manuscripts & autographs. Among the former, a 1726 French-Latin edition of Maria Sibylla Merian's work on the insects of Suriname, bound with a 1730…
Novels, letters and photographs by pioneering and influential women from Josephine Bonaparte to J K Rowling feature in Bonhams Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases and Historical Photographs sale in London on Wednesday 27 March.
New York City —Walt Whitman has been called America’s “bard of democracy.” His life’s work, Leaves of Grass, ushered in a new and unconventional style of unrhymed verse. The New York Public Library will celebrate the bicentennial of the iconic writer’s birth with an exhibition that honors…
