27 Jan 2024
Another book I have written about but previously seen only on microfilm, digitized, &c = William Whiston’s 1727 Collection of Authentick Records Belonging to the Old and New Testament
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27 Jan 2024
Other books our seminar on apocrypha/pseudepigrapha will see at @hdslibrary this week include Antwerp Polyglot & London Polyglot (Oana Capatina & I checking out Hebrew Tobit in the latter below!)
ALT Two people marveling at a beautiful big book, centuries old but in somewhat miraculously superb condition
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1 Nov 2023
Thanks to our friends at the Harvard Divinity School Library (@hdslibrary) for coming to visit this morning and spending some time connecting about the work both of our institutions do in preserving religious history.
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19 Oct 2023
Doing #history is all about reckoning with the unexpected. Today’s find: Here’s Charles Sumner’s hat @MHS1791 #twitterstorians #materialculture
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3 May 2023
During the colonial era, churches were often a community’s main record-keepers, documenting births, deaths, marriages, and more. Thanks to the @hdslibrary, you can explore colonial era life through nearly 40 digitized church record books:buff.ly/3HpBP9H
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8 Mar 2023
WE'RE HIRING 🥳
If you love libraries, processing archives and dream of working at the repository of record for the archives of the Unitarian Universalist Association @hdslibrary you should apply for our Digital Archivist position!
More info here 👉 bit.ly/3Ya0wMP
ALT Stained glass window from the library.
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27 Jan 2023
Had an amazing time at @hdslibrary with the @BishopPearson archives. His life and work are so important for the study of Black religion. Thanks @MarlaFrederick and @jonathanlwalton for acquiring these materials.
27 Jan 2023
This week we welcomed @iupui @ProfJTE , the FIRST researcher to access our Carlton Pearson collection which was recently made available to the public!
ALT Professor Joseph Tucker Edmonds reads the Pearson papers. A large, grey Hollinger box with Pearson's papers stands open on the table.
ALT Professor Joseph Tucker Edmonds studies the Carlton Pearson papers. He wears a red scarf over a grey shirt.
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21 Oct 2022
How cool is this archive photo of Swartz Hall from @hdslibrary 😮 We’re so excited to welcome our alumni back to campus on Nov 4 for our first Alumni Day! We can’t wait to see you and catch up. #SeeYouSoon #WhatAThrowback #ThoseWereTheDays
Register here:
bit.ly/3sdvNRs
ALT A current photo of Swartz Hall with an overlay of a black and white photo of Swartz Hall in the past that depicts a parking lot in the place of the green that is seen today.
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29 Sep 2022
Parker knew he was dying: he said who should get some of his books. There are sketches he drew and two flowers he pressed, yellow & purple. The cover is leather and stamped with his initials. His journals are @hdslibrary and some books he owned @ the Boston Public Library 2/2
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28 Aug 2022
“We must say: ‘Wake up America! Wake up!’ For we cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.” – Representative John Lewis
The March on Washington, a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, took place 59 years ago today, in 1963. 📸 @hdslibrary
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16 May 2022
“Black church arson isn’t just historical. It’s a phenomenon that’s still happening."
In a spring semester class “Black Church Burning” taught by Professor Todne Thomas, students curated & created items for an exhibit on display now at the @hdslibrary.
hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/05…
ALT Students in HDS Professor Todne Thomas's class, "Black Church Burning," work on laying out items for a library exhibit they created.
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7 Jan 2022
2/2 image one shows the mystical theologian Jean Gerson (1363-1429) portrayed as a pilgrim passing a castle
attrib. Albrecht Dürer, v. 1, t.p. verso of: Gerson, Jean [Opera] [Strassburg, Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger], 1488. 3 v.
#pilgrimage #dog #camino #arthistory
@hdslibrary
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1/2 did you notice the little canine companion at the end of the bed in the Dream of the Magi? Dogs are often shown accompanying pilgrims in art - an iconographic motif that crosses cultures and time.
Over the next few days, I will show you some of my faves!
@hdslibrary
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29 Jul 2021
Hmmmm I wonder whether the librarians @hdslibrary could save the day? They have super powers <3 also the correspondence from the Women's Auxiliary with the Boston churches is likely to be in their archives
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24 Nov 2020
It's #nationalbibleweek! Here is one of the rare #bibles in Andover-Harvard Theological Library. Centuries-old bibles, illustrated bibles, annotated bibles. So many bibles! Search "bibles" at hdslibrary.tumblr.com to see more.
Photo by @hdslibrary Bible. German. Luther. 1558.
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26 Oct 2020
Happy Theological Libraries Month! Our librarians maintain world-class collections and provide services that allows the teaching, learning, and collaboration in @HarvardDivinity's community to thrive. Thank you for enriching our community @hdsspecialcollections and @hdslibrary!
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