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The Lilly Library from A to Z - Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection (Hardcover)
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The Lilly Library from A to Z - Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection (Hardcover)
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What do locks of Edgar Allan Poe's hair, Sylvia Plath's attractive
handmade paper dolls, John Ford's Oscars, and Ian Fleming's James
Bond 007 cigars have in common? They are just a few of the
fascinating objects found in the world-famous Lilly Library,
located on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. In this
beautifully illustrated A-to-Z volume, Darlene J. Sadlier journeys
through the library's wide-ranging collections to highlight dozens
of intriguing items and the archives of which they are a part. Read
about life and death masks of John Keats, Abraham Lincoln, and
Theodore Dreiser; Walt Whitman's last pencil; and vintage board
games, mechanical puzzles, and even comic books. Among the more
peculiar items are a pair of elk teeth and an eerily realistic
wall-mount bust of Boris Karloff. Sadlier writes engagingly about
the Lilly Library's major historical collections, which include
Civil War diaries and a panopticon of the war called the
Myriopticon; War of 1812 payment receipts to spies; and the World
War II letters and V-mail of journalist Ernie Pyle. This copiously
illustrated, entertaining, and educational book will inspire you to
take your own journey and discover for yourself the wonders of the
Lilly Library.
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