Library
Object Lesson: The Poet’s Lock
A lock of hair: symbol, simultaneously, of life and death. It will outlive you, and it may tell stories after you’ve gone.
A Foreign English Tongue
The woodcut illustration is from a volume of Chaucer’s works published in London in 1602 and now in the holdings of the Department of Archives and Special Collections of William H. Hannon Library.
The St. John’s Bible
Before the printing press was perfected, copies of the Bible were produced in a long, laborious process by monks.
Postcards as History
In classes on Islamic art and history of the Mediterranean region taught by Aliaa El Sandouby, postcards are a primary learning tool.
Object Lesson: History Set in Sand
It must be one of the oddest historical pieces in the William H. Hannon Library Archives and Special Collections: a sand jar, eight inches tall, with the words “The New Loyola — Rev. Joseph Sullivan —For the greater glory of God,” an image of the U.S. flag, and a jagged pattern of green, white, red, tan, pink, gray and gold sand lines. Even stranger is its origin.