#doheny library

[tavoit]

"The written word passeth on the torch of wisdom"

This mural, one of a series, graces the Doheny Memorial Library at USC.  The artist, Samuel J. Armstrong, was Philadelphia-trained, and went on to be a chief animator for Walt Disney. Armstrong apparently was one of the directors of “Fantasia,” particularly the live-action sequences including Stokowski (Leopold!) leading the fabulous Philadelphians in the Toccata and Fugue.

[studyingfordummies]

Tuesday, 2 Feb 2016 || The Thinker.

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Elizabeth Sage Hare and Warren Chappell’s 1789-1939, the world of tomorrow, New York world’s fair diorama. 

Book extends, accordion-style. The viewer, or camera in this case, can look through the round peephole on the cover to see the diorama of the fair.

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Book of Hours (Horae BMV). Northern France and/or Bruges, circa 1460-1470.

Illuminated manuscript on vellum.

[usclibraries]

USC students studying for finals, 1950s edition.

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Look at this lovely visitor to the Archival Processing Center today. Isn’t he darling?

(I think the exhibit What Makes a Monster? is being taken down is what’s happening here. :P)

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From the 2014 Special Collections Holiday Exhibit. Part 3/3. Last, but not least.

First row: Christmas and the Professors. G. K. Chesterton. Los Angeles: W. and C. Nethery, 1989. Miniature Books Collection.

Second row: Christmas in Pastoral California. Francis J. Weber. Los Angeles: Bela Blau, 1971. Miniature Books Collection.

+bonus Special Collections Holiday Party photos.

Onwards, 2015.

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From the 2014 Special Collections Holiday Exhibit. Part 2/3.

First row: "Christmas Sketch: An Unpublished Playlet." Aldous Huxley. Boston: David Godine in collaboration with Dartmouth College. American Literature Collection.

Second row: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. Phyllis McGinley. New York: Viking Press, 1958. American Literature Collection.

Third row: An Alphabet of Christmas Words. Helen McKelvey Oakley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. American Literature Collection.

Fourth row: Mince Pie and Mistletoe. Phyllis McGinley. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961. American Literature Collection.

Fifth row: Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving. Washington Irving. Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1977. American Literature Collection.

Sixth row: "Navidad, a Christmas day with the early Californians. Arturo Bandini. San Francisco: the California Historical Society, 1958. Regional History Collection.