Rare Books Blog

Panel Discussion: Yale Reckons with Slavery

Kathryn James — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:51:50 +0000

In this informal panel discussion relating to the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s current exhibition, Race, Slavery, & the Founders of Yale Law School, panelists will discuss the exhibit in the broader contexts of the university-wide Yale & Slavery Research Project and similar initiatives at other American law schools and educational institutions. Panelists include Susan Gibbons (Vice Provost for Collections & Scholarly Communications), Michael

Legal Information & Book History - Beinecke Library Visit

Kathryn James — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:15:03 +0000

Next week, the Legal Information & Book History workshop will meet at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to examine the account books kept by Samuel J.

Exhibit Tour, Oct 20 - "Race, Slavery, & the Founders of Yale Law School"

Kathryn James — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:47:08 +0000

Please join Fred Shapiro (Associate Director for Collections) and Kathryn James (Rare Book Librarian) on Thursday, October 20, 12-1pm, for a tour of the Library’s current exhibition, “Race, Slavery, & the Founders of Yale Law School.” We’ll meet at the Rare Book Room, on Level Two of the Library, down one floor from the main entrance. Please bring your Yale ID to access the Yale Law School building.

Incarceration & Imagination - Online Gallery & Beinecke Exhibit

Kathryn James — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:35:27 +0000

Shown left: “Published on board the convict ship ‘Success’ ”: Detail, The History of the Convict Ship ‘Success’ (1912); call# SSP H629.

Invitation - Legal Information & Book History Workshop, Thurs Sept 29

Kathryn James — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:03:45 +0000

Back to School: Highlights from the Rare Book Collection

Kathryn James — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:34:02 +0000

Back to School: Highlights from the Rare Book Collection

An exhibition welcoming incoming and returning students, on view in the Danzus-Panziger Rare Book exhibition area, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Level Two

August 1-31, 2022

Including:

–Batman’s Yale Law School diploma, in the original art work by Sal Amendola, ca. 1974
–Copy-editing the Gettysburg Address, in the Yale precursor to the Harvard Bluebook, Yale Law Journal, 1921
–Law students in class, ca. 1495

"Cause of Death": notebooks kept by an early expert pathologist in London

Kathryn James — Fri, 06 May 2022 15:12:17 +0000

The Rare Book Collection has acquired two manuscript notebooks kept by Ludwig Freyberger, physician and early expert pathologist at the turn of the 20th century in England. Originally from Austria, where he trained in Vienna as a physician, Freyberger was a prominent London physician and barrister-at-law at the Middle Temple. Nominated as an expert pathologist in 1902 by John Troutbeck, Coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster, Freyberger kept detailed notes of his postmortem investigations, recording both his own notes on the cause of death and the jury’s verdict. Covering

A Plan of Newgate Prison in Dublin, 1819

Kathryn James — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:17:48 +0000

A new acquisition from Maggs: George Warner, “Paper Relating to the Prisons in Dublin” (London: Luke Hansard, 1819), with an engraved plan of Newgate Prison.

(Tiny) new acquisition: Elizabeth Fry's Books for prisoners project, ca. 1839

Kathryn James — Tue, 03 May 2022 18:11:41 +0000

In 1839, the English Quaker, Elizabeth Fry, published this pocket-sized devotional work, intended for distribution to women prisoners in France. Fry was a dedicated advocate for prison reform and a founding member of the Ladies’ Association for the Reformation of the Female Prisoners in Newgate, reconfigured in 1821 as the British Ladies’ Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners. Between 1838 and 1843, Fry made five visits to European prisons.

Exhibition Opening: "Fresher, More Recent Tragedies": Media and the Memory of the Attica Prison Uprising

Kathryn James — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:31:25 +0000

In April 1972, the French theorist Michel Foucault made a detour from a campus trip to the State University of Buffalo to visit the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York. Attica, the prison, was by then already “Attica,” the site of the violent series of events of September 9-13, 1971. Watched on television, read in the news, “Attica” was consumed by audiences across America and around the world.

Rare Books Blog

Panel Discussion: Yale Reckons with Slavery

Legal Information & Book History - Beinecke Library Visit

Exhibit Tour, Oct 20 - "Race, Slavery, & the Founders of Yale Law School"

Incarceration & Imagination - Online Gallery & Beinecke Exhibit

Invitation - Legal Information & Book History Workshop, Thurs Sept 29

Back to School: Highlights from the Rare Book Collection

Back to School: Highlights from the Rare Book Collection

An exhibition welcoming incoming and returning students, on view in the Danzus-Panziger Rare Book exhibition area, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Level Two

August 1-31, 2022

Including:

–Batman’s Yale Law School diploma, in the original art work by Sal Amendola, ca. 1974 –Copy-editing the Gettysburg Address, in the Yale precursor to the Harvard Bluebook, Yale Law Journal, 1921 –Law students in class, ca. 1495

"Cause of Death": notebooks kept by an early expert pathologist in London

A Plan of Newgate Prison in Dublin, 1819

(Tiny) new acquisition: Elizabeth Fry's Books for prisoners project, ca. 1839

Exhibition Opening: "Fresher, More Recent Tragedies": Media and the Memory of the Attica Prison Uprising

–Batman’s Yale Law School diploma, in the original art work by Sal Amendola, ca. 1974
–Copy-editing the Gettysburg Address, in the Yale precursor to the Harvard Bluebook, Yale Law Journal, 1921
–Law students in class, ca. 1495