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Jack the Ripper
The Strange but True Story of the Edgware Murderer
by Kathelene McCarty Smith SCUA recently purchased an interesting scrapbook that will enhance our instructional efforts related to sensationalized media coverage in Victorian London. The scrapbook was assembled by an unidentified man who gave the album to American actor Thomas Dartmouth Rice. It contains approximately 100 pages of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and clippings, many with […]
New Acquisitions – Fall 2022
RARE BOOKS “Capacity Taste, and Fertile Imagination” We recently purchased a copy of François Menon’s The Art of Modern Cookery Displayed (1767) for our Historical Cookbooks in the Woman’s Collection. This copy is the first edition in English of Menon’s encyclopedic cookbook, translated from the original French Les soupers de la cour (1755). Promoting simple […]
Restoration and Protection of the Northampton Chronicle page from 1888
by Audrey Sage Conservator Audrey Sage was thrilled to lay her hands on the recent acquisition of the original newspaper page from the Northampton Chronicle in England from November 13, 1888. This particular newspaper page contains coverage of the murder of Mary Jane Kelly by the “infamous London serial killer known as Jack the Ripper”. […]