Author: Watkinson

NEW ACQUISITION: From the ANNALS of Trinity College and SLAVERY

February 1, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Drawing on Connecticut’s Historic Canvas: Architect Roger S. Clarke

November 13, 2020 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Common Lives of the Uncommon: Judges, Politicians, and Socialites in the Curtis Family

May 22, 2020 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

The Watkinson Library at Trinity College makes available several groups of personal papers and materials, from the Curtis, McLanahan, and Heister families. The Curtis, McLanahan, and Heister collections primarily contain correspondence, newspapers, and photographs, which document the lives of Judge William Edmond Curtis, Judge Holbrook Curtis, William Edmond Curtis Jr., Dr. Holbrook Curtis, and Elizabeth Curtis.

What Fools These Mortals Be

December 12, 2011 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

[Posted by Sally Dickinson, Special Collections Librarian, Watkinson Library] Today in the Watkinson we were filling an interlibrary loan request and were having trouble finding the requested cartoon. Henry Arneth was looking at the German version of the weekly Puck but coming up empty-handed. I suggested looking in the American edition, which was easier to …

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The “Modern Prometheus” or the “Timeless Prometheus”?

October 29, 2010 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

[Posted by Henry Arneth, Watkinson staffer] While shelving a book in Watkinson Library, I noticed the 1984 edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and immediately thought of the awesome illustrations (woodcuts) by Barry Moser created for this edition. I had first seen the illustrations, separate from the book, when I worked for an auction house and several copies …

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Eat your heart out, Indy!

October 27, 2010 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

[Posted by Mary Jordan, ’11, who works in the Watkinson] The rather bland title of The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Deciphered and Translateddoesn’t quite capture the Indiana Jones tactics that Major Rawlinson went to in the mid 1800s in order to write his book about the inscription. The Behistun Inscription was chiseled into a cliff …

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Recruiting with Grog; or, swilling into service.

October 10, 2010 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

[Posted by Dan Milner, University of Birmingham (England); recent link: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/04/smithsonian-folkways-releases-civil-war-naval-songs/] Stan Hugill was the last seaman known to have sung sea shanties aboard a British merchant ship. Hugill was also a prolific maritime painter and author of books on sea songs. In Sailortown(1967), he mentions a New York shanghier who operated a combination hostelry-cum-grogshop named Larry Maher. About 10 years …

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Dante and Doré, A Union Made in…Literature!

September 27, 2010 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

[Posted by Henry Arneth, Trinity ’09 and a member of the Watkinson staff] Gustav Doré (from Gosling, below) For over 100 years, the names Dante and Doré have been linked in literature; one of the reasons is that Dante’s Divine Comedy—the epic poem—is one of the many works illustrated by Gustave Doré and is one of …

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Elisha Stanley left his mark

August 24, 2010 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

[Posted by guest blogger Lynn Fahy, Catalog Librarian] Elisha Stanley was a student at the Edward Hall Family School for Boys in Ellington, CT in 1863. He and other teenage boys lived with Hall and his family and attended classes in the building next door, which is now a private home. One of Stanley’s textbooks, Sallust’s …

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A Coiled Fish of the Sea