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Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and the Henry Folgers
Emily Dickinson, Daguerreotype ca. 1847, Amherst College Archives & Special CollectionsIn 1874, Emily Dickinson wrote the poem: Dear March – Come in – How Glad I am – I hoped for you before –...
Interviewing President Senghor
In my writing career, I’ve had the opportunity to write articles based on interviews with two African heads of state: --President Sangoulé Lamizana of Upper Volta, Africa Report, May-June 1973, pp....
Collecting During COVID or the Power of a Postcard
Stephen H. Grant joined the Arlington Neighborhood Village (ANV) in 2015. For those that might not be familiar with the organization, reading the Mission Statement is a good place to begin:...
The Stephen H. Grant Postcard Collection Digitization Project
The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives (EEPA), National Museum of African Art announced The Stephen Grant Postcard Collection Digitization Project, a collaborative cataloguing and digitization...
Postcards in the Folger Archives: British Sea Captain John Robinson and Henry Folger
"I thoroughly enjoy your Folger updates. I resonate with Uncle Henry and Aunt Emily’s pleasure at long and slow Atlantic sailings. Two years ago I crossed on Wind Star, a motorized sailing ship for...
Dakar 2005: An Exhibit of Old Postcards of Senegal, and Peter Strickland, American Consul on Gorée Island
Images & Memories (I&M) is a cultural organization founded in 1995 specializing in ancient and present-day iconography in 18 countries.
Greetings from Batavia: Postcards from the Dutch East Indies
Archipel is a journal of interdisciplinary studies on Insulindia (Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, East Timor), established in 1971, with particular attention...
The Wichita Postcards Club Newsletter
I don’t know about yours, but my mid-life crisis struck me in Africa in 1980. I was visiting my first exhibit of old picture postcards in the National Library of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. I knew Ivory...
Old Amherst Postcards
Amherst College, Walker Hall 1906For Amherst College classmates and Library staff, I put together an illustrated talk on Old Amherst Postcards.COMMENTS:CONNECT
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