Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for September, 2009

• Philip II letters now available online
  Posted September 22, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  The library recently completed its newest digital project, the digitization of a collection of letters from Philip II, King of Spain, related to naval wars with France and England during the period 1592-1597. These letters were previously available in incomplete black and white facsimiles. The letters have been re-scanned in full color and the digital [...]

• The Three R’s
  Posted September 10, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  L. Tom Perry Special Collections’ Rare Book Collection includes over 200 American textbooks dating from 1819 to the 1950’s, including readers and spellers, grammar and composition books, and arithmetic texts.  The readers include some 17 McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers, which were the most widely-used schoolbooks in America from their introduction in 1836 up until the First [...]