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Hiatus for “bird of the week” (Audubon gets a nip and tuck)
The page-turning of the Audubon will subside — for a brief summer vacation — until after the 4th of July. Conservator Jean Baldwin is working in the Watkinson over the next several weeks to address...
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Power to the People
From another institution, we recently received the gift of a box of the papers of Trinity alumnus Steven H. Keeney ’71 (on the right in the photo), relating to the Students for a Democratic Society...
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Mapping the Middle East
Several days ago we hosted professor Zayde Antrim’s “Mapping the Middle East” class. The students pick a historical atlas and answer a questionnaire about aspects of what they see. Here is the course...
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The Swallow-tailed Hawk (Audubon “bird of the week”)
“They always feed on the wing. In calm and warm weather, they soar to an immense height, pursuing the large insects called Musquito Hawks, and performing the most singular evolutions that can be...
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God & Evil in the Watkinson
On Friday morning we hosted a group of high school seniors from Enfield, some from an English class but most from a philosophy course taught by Kelly Mazzone (nee O’Connor), who took an M.A. from...
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NY Book Fair
Every April the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America) and the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) sponsors an international antiquarian book fair in New York, at the...
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Going boldly
[Posted by Ashley Esposito, a graduate student in American Studies doing an internship in the Watkinson] Leigh Couch Collection in progress… I have been a fan of contemporary science fiction and comic...
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Rare French & Indian War map
Rediscovering the amazing things we hold in the Watkinson in the course of our daily work is one of the best parts of the job. Associate Curator Sally Dickinson, who specializes in cataloging and...
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An almanac bonanza!
This collection just came in from an anonymous donor, who has single-handedly DOUBLED our holdings of this important genre of American print culture. Our collection, which spans 300 years of American...
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Chemistry Lecture Notebooks, 1863
Chemistry Lecture Notebooks The Trinity College Archives has just acquired two volumes of chemistry lecture notebooks from 1863. These notes were taken by William T. Currie—Class of 1863. The...
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