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50 Features of Special Collections: Final Feature

50/50 It is with great enthusiasm that UC Davis Special Collections celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2016/2017. The Department was established in 1966 to house the library’s rare and unique collections. Holdings consist of over 183,000 rare books and pamphlets, 17,200 linear feet of manuscript collections and University ...

June 28, 2017 • Kevin Miller

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50 Features of Special Collections: Encyclopedist Denis Diderot

46 of 50 For the final five features celebrating Special Collections’ 50th Anniversary, we focus on a massive body of work that has come to represent the ideals of the Enlightenment and has been said to have inspired the French Revolution: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des ...

June 10, 2017 • Christine Cheng

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50 Features of Special Collections: Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center

45 of 50 Michael Harrison (1897-2005), a private book collector of Western Americana, and Margaret B. Harrison (1911-1980), a hand bookbinder, built the Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center. Over the course of 80+ years they amassed more than 21,000 volumes, Native American baskets and pottery ...

June 2, 2017 • Jenny Hodge

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50 Features of Special Collections: the World’s Greatest Wine Library

43/50 Don’t take our word as the world’s greatest wine library. Take it from the man who wrote the book on wine, Hugh Johnson, author of World Atlas of Wine, who donated his papers to Special Collections in 2015 to 2016. He described us as “simply ...

May 21, 2017 • Christine Cheng

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50 Features of Special Collections: Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin like a Victorian

41/50 We are quickly approaching the last 10 features of the 50 features celebrating 50 years since the founding of Special Collections. This time we focus on the way that the public engaged in the activity of reading during the Victorian era through Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle ...

May 7, 2017 • Christine Cheng

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50 Features of Special Collections: Chocolate – it’ll make you feel better

38/50 With Easter coming up tomorrow, what better way to celebrate than by shining a spotlight on chocolate? Our 39th feature is Madrid physician Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma’s treatise on chocolate, Chocolata inda: opusculum de qualitate & naturâ chocolatae. It was first published in Madrid in ...

April 15, 2017 • Christine Cheng

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50 Features of Special Collections: Final Feature

50 Features of Special Collections: Encyclopedist Denis Diderot

50 Features of Special Collections: Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center

50 Features of Special Collections: the World’s Greatest Wine Library

50 Features of Special Collections: Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin like a Victorian

50 Features of Special Collections: Chocolate – it’ll make you feel better

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