Watkinson Library – Page 3 – Discoveries in the Watkinson

Trinity College’s ‘Long Walk Historic District’ is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

May 16, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Documenting Trinity, Preserving History: The Trinity Tripod at the College Archives

May 2, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Spotlight on Collections: Albrecht Dürer in the Trumbull-Prime Collection

February 29, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian In 1905 Watkinson Library received a donation that would be the envy of many museums: a collection of nearly 1500 early printed books and more than 40 scrapbooks of early woodcuts and engravings belonging to William Cowper Prime (1825-1905).[1] Prime—who served as the first chair of …

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Fanfare for The Plumb Memorial Carillon

September 14, 2023 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Barbara Sternal, Processing Archivist Every summer, people from around Hartford and beyond gather on the Trinity College quad to listen to the concerts performed on the Plumb Memorial Carillon, located in the tower of the College’s Chapel. The carillon is an instrument played on a keyboard of wooden batons that sound a set of …

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Edward F. Murray papers — Recent Acquisition

August 10, 2023 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Amy FitzGerald, Processing Archivist Through the help of a rare book dealer, a set of letters written by Edward Francis Murray, a Trinity College (Hartford) Class of 1918 student, to his high school sweetheart and future wife, Miss Mary Margaret “Mae” McGarry of Norwich, Connecticut, has arrived at the Watkinson Library. The collection consists …

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German Bibles and the American War of Independence

July 1, 2022 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian When we think of the influential printed documents of the American Revolution, most of us are likely to name only the Declaration of Independence, that most American of documents with its funny combination of stirring rhetoric and tedious complaint. A few might include Thomas Paine’s revolutionary …

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WGRAC Archives: Activating Herstory and Community at Trinity College

April 25, 2022 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Stoykovich, College Archivist and Manuscript Librarian In early 2020, the Women & Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC) Director, Laura Lockwood, reached out to the Watkinson Library to inquire if the College Archives would be interested in taking in a portion of the articles, papers, and audio in the WGRAC Library and Lounge. Accumulated …

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Women Authors and Roberts Brothers: A Publishing Firm’s Correspondence

April 15, 2022 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Stoykovich, Manuscript Librarian and College Archivist In February 2022, the Watkinson Library undertook a minor project to improve the finding aids for three archival/manuscript collections: the Roberts Brothers collection; Limited Editions Club collection; and the Dard Hunter papers. Amy FitzGerald, Processing Archivist in the Watkinson, reformatted the finding aids by transferring them from …

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Today in History: The Council of Trent and the Regulation of Printing

April 8, 2022 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian On April 8, 1546, the Council of Trent—formed, in response to the challenges posed by Protestantism, to clarify the doctrines and positions of the Catholic Church and to address calls for Church reform—met for their fourth session in the northern Italian city of that name. Calls …

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Limited Editions Club: Books and Manuscripts

April 1, 2022 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Stoykovich, Manuscript Librarian and College Archivist In February 2022, the Watkinson Library undertook a minor project to improve the finding aids for three archival/manuscript collections: the Limited Editions Club collection; the Dard Hunter papers; and the Roberts Brothers collection. Amy FitzGerald, Processing Archivist in the Watkinson, reformatted the finding aids by transferring them …

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