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The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of film star…
Sotheby’s' Visions of America auction series this month is led by its Fine…
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The University of Minnesota Libraries has announced the largest donation by first-time donors in its 155-year history, a $2m contribution to establish an endowed curatorial chair for the Kerlan Collection of Children’s Literature.
Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
comes to auction later this month focusing on the prominent American photography dealer, gallerist, and collector with a passion for printed and manuscript Americana.
Although it's a bit early to get excited about Christmas, two sections of Heritage Auctions' October 18 - 22 Art of Anime and Everything Cool auction offer some yuletide Peanuts and Dr Seuss excitement.
The British Library has issued a new update on its recovery from last year's cyber attack in October 2023 which affected virtually every section of its service.
Posters designed by Leslie Ragan for the New York Central Lines railroad come up for sale at Swann Galleries today at its Rare & Important Travel Posters auction.Ragan designed one of the most recognizable American train posters, an Art Deco image of The New 20th Century Limited, the Henry…
A framed collection of pens used by American presidents to sign historically significant legislation goes under the hammer Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political auction November 1-2.
Objects believed to have inspired Jane Austen’s writings and a full collection of her first editions are the centrepieces of a brand-new permanent exhibition at the writer museum Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire.
RR Auction’s monthly Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale runs through October 16 with more than 800 lots of signed books, autograph letters, and historically significant documents from the 16th century to the present day. Highlights include:
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Nubia Lateefa who is the owner and curator of The People's Porch, a mobile library archive of historic Black memorabilia.
The NYPL has acquired the archive of Oliver Sacks which showcases the life and career of the author and perhaps most important medical humanist of the 20th century.
