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What Could A Trans Book History Look Like? Toward Trans Codicology, J D. Sargan University of Limerick

What Could A Trans Book History Look Like? Toward Trans Codicology, J D. Sargan

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This article draws on critical trans studies and queer archival practice to propose a book historical mode that extends what we know about the premodern trans experience beyond the recovery of individual biographies. Instead of turning to textual sources for the identification of transness, the author looks to Susan Stryker’s call for the “recuperat[ion of] embodied knowing as a formally legitimated basis of knowledge production.” Bibliography, he suggests, makes claims of objectivity that engender a particular reluctance to respond to such calls. But the lived reality of archival research is one of affective embodiment. Affect theory is an area that, …

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Don The Beachcomber, Drink & Food Menu, Hollywood, Ca, 1941, Don the Beachcomber Johnson & Wales University

Don The Beachcomber, Drink & Food Menu, Hollywood, Ca, 1941, Don The Beachcomber

Restaurant Menus

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Children Playing In River, Marie Lee University of the Pacific

Children Playing In River, Marie Lee

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Photo from Dimen Village of two boys and a girl swimming in the river. The boys are standing on the cut stone dam.

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Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer Rhode Island School of Design

Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer

Masters Theses

This is an artist talk contained within a book. It is 816 pages and 49 minutes long. Closed captions run across the spreads. A video of this talk can be watched on bendenzer.com/making-then-meaning

At RISD, I’ve been prompted to expand the scope and tools of my practice and to reflect on questions of meaning in my work.

I spend my days making things, but I’ve never really had good answers to questions of why I make the things I make, or what their meaning is. I don’t think there are simple answers to these questions.

I think meaning comes from …

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Trees And Texts: Indigenous History, Material Media, And The Logan Elm, Mark Alan Mattes University of Louisville

Trees And Texts: Indigenous History, Material Media, And The Logan Elm, Mark Alan Mattes

Criticism

Settler accounts of the Cayuga Native American Soyeghtowa (Logan), such as Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, interpret his famous mourning speech, “Logan’s Lament,” as the words of a melancholic, noble savage and vanishing Indian. This essay decolonizes settler accounts of Logan’s words and deeds such as Jefferson’s book by considering Indigenous relationships to a once-living memorial on Shawnee land in central Ohio, the Logan Elm, which nineteenth-century settlers apocryphally identified as the site of Logan’s speech. Drawing on scholarly work on Indigenous writing and historical media by Native American and settler intellectuals, as well as local …

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Pig, Marie Lee University of the Pacific

Pig, Marie Lee

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Photograph from Dimen Village of a pig sitting in the corner of an enclosure. The pig has a small circular white plastic tag attached to the edge of its ear.

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Old English Manuscripts In The Early Age Of Print: Matthew Parker And His Scribes, Robert Scott Bevill University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Old English Manuscripts In The Early Age Of Print: Matthew Parker And His Scribes, Robert Scott Bevill

Doctoral Dissertations

Covering the first dedicated program in the study of and publication of Anglo-Saxon texts, my dissertation examines the sixteenth-century origins of medieval studies as an academic discipline. By placing recent scholarship on media, materiality, cognition, and intellectual history in conversation with traditional paleographical methods on medieval and renaissance manuscript culture, I argue for a new way of understanding how early modern scholars studied and presented the medieval past. I take as my focus a corpus of emulative Anglo-Saxon manuscript transcriptions produced under Elizabethan Archbishop Matthew Parker. Equal parts facsimile and edition, these transcriptions are a unique example of early modern …

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Man And Children, Marie Lee University of the Pacific

Man And Children, Marie Lee

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Photo from Dimen Village of a man smoking a pipe and two children standing on a stone stairway. The girl is wearing a traditional outfit and the boy is wearing western style clothes.

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Millimeter Binding / Edelpappband, Peter Verheyen SelectedWorks

Millimeter Binding / Edelpappband, Peter Verheyen

Peter D Verheyen

What we call the “millimeter” binding in North America is a “nobler” version of the German “pappband,” or paper binding, hence the name “edelpappband.” The technique is based on the German case (Bradel) binding which is covered in paper. What distinguishes the technique is that cloth, leather, or vellum trim is added to the head and tail, foredges, and/or corners for greater durability, making the book more elegant at the same time. This article describes how to complete a binding using this technique.

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Craftivism And Cottonian Bindings: “The Handiwork Of Greta Hall”, Helen Williams Northumbria University

Craftivism And Cottonian Bindings: “The Handiwork Of Greta Hall”, Helen Williams

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Edith Southey, Edith May Southey, and Sara Coleridge Jr. covered Robert Southey’s books in vibrantly printed dress fabrics, creating a collection that came to be called “the Cottonian Library.” This article is a manifesto for Cottonian bookbinding to be studied as feminist literary activism. It argues for the importance of looking beyond the book trades to the domestic and unremunerated ways in which women contributed to Romantic period book design, suggesting that the new feminist Craftivism can prompt us to historicize and to acknowledge the significance of Cottonian bookbinding as a practice that cannot be omitted from any history of …

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Waiting For Democracy, Naya Lee Chang, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2024 Rhode Island School of Design

Waiting For Democracy, Naya Lee Chang, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Baker & Whitehill supplemental content

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From Panels To Shelves: The Evolving Intersection Of Comics And Italian Libraries. History, Issues, Perspectives, Andrea Tosti 2024 Lancaster University, Lancaster (UK)

From Panels To Shelves: The Evolving Intersection Of Comics And Italian Libraries. History, Issues, Perspectives, Andrea Tosti

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

Despite comics' popularity and cultural significance in Italy, its integration into Italian libraries has been slow, problematic, and uneven. This is reflected in the scarcity of academic research on the topic, which demands further in-depth exploration.

In the context of Italian libraries, characterized by chronic underfunding and staffing shortages, comics might be perceived as a low priority. However, as essential cultural institutions, libraries must strive to reflect both the contemporary era and the evolving reading habits of their audience. Comics, in this regard, could prove to be – and in part already are – a critical resource, a 'booster' for …

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Always Judge A Book By Its Cover, Abby Miller 2024 The University of Akron

Always Judge A Book By Its Cover, Abby Miller

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The goal for this honors project is to build my illustration portfolio and to explore the world of children's book illustration. This project will facilitate my improvement in design layout, theming, and illustration. I would love to pursue a job involving children's book illustrations at some point in the future and completing this project would help me to understand the challenges that come with designing such covers, it would improve my ability to illustrate in a purposeful manner, and it would strengthen my portfolio overall.

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Recipes For Life: Black Women, Cooking, And Memory, Elspeth McKay 2023 University of Windsor

Recipes For Life: Black Women, Cooking, And Memory, Elspeth Mckay

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

This paper examines cookbooks written by Black women from the mid eighteenth to late twentieth centuries. As cookbooks, these texts are practical and instructional, while also offering insights into the transnational development of food as an expression of cultural history through the Indigenous, African, and European influences evident within the cuisine. African Americans, and more specifically Black women, have contributed to the food history of the Southern United States by developing a distinct African American cuisine. As the author, I reflect on what it means for me – as a white Canadian woman in a border city – to be …

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A Taste Of Home, Mia Schneider 2023 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

A Taste Of Home, Mia Schneider

Graphic Communication

The focus of my GrC 462 project is to preserve and celebrate my family's cherished recipes passed down through generations by transforming a collection of notecards into a comprehensive Holiday cookbook.

This cookbook will serve as a modern and lasting alternative to the fragile notecards, providing a tangible and shareable heirloom for future generations to enjoy and carry forward the rich culinary traditions of my family.

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Whale Migration, Cathy Chen, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Whale Migration, Cathy Chen, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Dive, Liam Lin, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Dive, Liam Lin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Rules Of Order, Julia Murray, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Rules Of Order, Julia Murray, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Picture Everyone Clothed!, Georgia Oldham, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Picture Everyone Clothed!, Georgia Oldham, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Surviving Height: A Short Guide For Tall People, Ryan Scott, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Surviving Height: A Short Guide For Tall People, Ryan Scott, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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The Haunting Of Lewisville, Rokia Whitehouse, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

The Haunting Of Lewisville, Rokia Whitehouse, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Dog (As Big As The) Sea, Kira Saks, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Dog (As Big As The) Sea, Kira Saks, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Do Not Read, Eden Andrulaitis, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Do Not Read, Eden Andrulaitis, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Tend, Meya Gao, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Tend, Meya Gao, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Archiving Is The New Folk Art: A Sampler, Lucy Pham, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Archiving Is The New Folk Art: A Sampler, Lucy Pham, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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The Gay Plague, Andrew Pumpelly, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

The Gay Plague, Andrew Pumpelly, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Limbo, Sofia Schreiber, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Limbo, Sofia Schreiber, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

HONORABLE MENTION | $100 Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Spoiled, Alina Pringle, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Spoiled, Alina Pringle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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5 12 12 20 100 21 28 1825, Tonia Zhang, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

5 12 12 20 100 21 28 1825, Tonia Zhang, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Buffalo Migration, Kaelin Behlmer, Special Collections, Fleet Library 2023 Rhode Island School of Design

Buffalo Migration, Kaelin Behlmer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

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Fleet Library Rhode Island School of Design

Special Collections Rhode Island School of Design

Marie Lee University of the Pacific

Peter Verheyen Syracuse University

J Sargan University of Limerick

Visual + Material Resources Rhode Island School of Design

RISD Unbound Rhode Island School of Design

Ben Denzer Rhode Island School of Design

Mark Mattes University of Louisville

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