Blog Posts from The Booth Family Center for Special Collections

Black and white photo of Margaret Thatcher walking down the steps of Healy Hall
Margaret Thatcher visits Georgetown, February 27, 1981
A collage depicting Mitt Romney and Barack Obama wearing skirts among other gender-swapped imagery.
Linda Stein’s “Gender Scrambling”
Amanda's copy of Revolt in the Desert on display with the newspaper clippings she found in the book
National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest
Front of a book with a wooden binding, an oval stencil with classical figures, and stenciled ferns surrounding
Judging a Book by its Cover
A ticket to the 1952 Summer Olympics depicting a man running and another throwing the discus.
Tickets to the 1952 Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland
A detailed drawing of Abraham Lincoln looking out from amidst a crowd of people.
"President Lincoln Entering Richmond": The Public Memory of Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation
Envelope addressed to the GU president with charred edges
Irony in the Archives
A woodcut depicts a woman symbolizing Lady Justice gesturing to the left and resting her arm on a Bible.
Imperialist Propaganda in a Dutch Bible Illustration
A black and white photograph of writer Robert Louis Stevenson, a young white man with a moustache sitting in front of a simple backdrop.
A Letter from the Pacific Islands: Robert Louis Stevenson to His Mother Margaret, August 22, 1889
A close-up of a copy of the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.
Excuse Me, I Think There’s a Hair in My Book
A close-up of a page from the Hellmap Atlas, depicting drawn faces in various states of anguish in black and white.
The Hellmap Atlas
Custer's jacket
Poe's Raven, Custer's Jacket, and Other Encounters While Working on Lau 5
Jesuits in the snow
A Very Jesuit Christmas: Holidays in the Maryland-New York Province
LGBTQ Resource Center brochure and Attache
Preserving the History of the LGBTQ Resource Center
Guidonian Hand thumb
The Guidonian Hand
Blog post-Butch the mascot, thumbnail
Big Dog on Campus
Detail from Browne's "Along the Canal"-thumb
Welcome Back to Georgetown!
Joe DiMaggio note
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio
Stovall blog post
Recollections of Lou Stovall (1937-2023)
Making Books in Special Collections
Making (in) Special Collections
Thumbnail of Healy brothers
Patrick F. Healy, S.J. and His Brothers
Mi'kmaq blog post thumb
The Suckerfish in Gaspesia
Prince of Wales speaks at Georgetown University seminar, 2011
His Royal Highness, Charles, Prince of Wales, visits Georgetown
Sculling on the Potomac painting
Sculling on the Potomac