{"id":39586,"date":"2025-01-15T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=39586"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:48:20","slug":"newly-acquired-materials-in-distinctive-collections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/newly-acquired-materials-in-distinctive-collections-2\/39586\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Acquired Materials in Distinctive Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39588\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39588\" class=\"wp-image-39588\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/1000099412-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Page from a scrapbook with photos from Jerusalem\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/1000099412-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/1000099412-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/1000099412-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/1000099412-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/1000099412-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/1000099412-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page from the photo album: Journey to the Holy Land, 1928, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nablus \u2013 Album and Large Printouts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and makes available the Libraries\u2019 unique and rare materials. Our collections range across disciplines, time periods, and formats and include faculty research and personal archives, Institute records, student and community life materials, Institute publications, the Aga Khan Documentation Center, and rare book collections on various topics of science, technology, engineering, architecture, and the humanities &#8212; just to name a few.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here are new acquisitions brought into the collections from June through December 2024. Some materials are accessible today, while others are being processed and cataloged and will be available soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Available now<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/907\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Douglas T. Ross papers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/694\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Francis Otto Schmitt papers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1380\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jerome Friedman papers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1378\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whitehead Institute records<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1308\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judith Wechsler personal archives<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1368\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nancy Hopkins personal archives<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/7582\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">September and June theses<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935713408206761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Written Revolution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (zine)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/5\/resources\/1383\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Erica Dodd Archive on Islamic Art<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo Album documenting a journey to the Holy Land (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heiliglandfahrt<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) (German, 1928).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935740109006761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryatt, Kitty, et al. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">La Prose Du Transsibe\u0301rien Re-Creation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Two Hands Press, 2018. <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Artists\u2019 book)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Coming soon<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Woodie Flowers personal archives<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the Rosalind H. Williams papers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Martin Tang Oral History<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/478\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MIT Museum records<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/911\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dirk Jan Struik papers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Addition to Faculty Meeting records<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/615\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philip Morrison papers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the SHASS records (Gender Equity Committee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the Graduate Student Council records<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the Corporation Risk and Audit Committee records<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the Harvard-MIT HST program records<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Class of 1938 reunion book<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the MIT Libraries records<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the MIT Corporation records<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawrence B. Anderson personal archives<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrew Kazdin recordings and ephemera<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Various student guidebooks from the office of student life<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Thistle (student publication)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Martha Peterson Archive on Stucco Stained Glass Windows in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samuel R. Peterson Visual Archive on Architecture in Iran<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrieshabibi.com\/news\/477-dima-srouji-s-work-acquired-by-mit-libraries-late-monuments-6-2024\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Late Monuments 6<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Dima Srouji, 2024).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/ejdckj\/alma9935707410806761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ando\u0304, Tadao. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ando\u2019s Hands\u202f: Tadao Ando Works 1976-2020<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. CCC A\u0304to Rabo Kabushiki Kaisha, 2021.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Artists\u2019 book)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/ejdckj\/alma9935735509406761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Otero-Pailos, Jorge. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Treaties on De-Fences<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. [Otero-Pailos Studio], 2023.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/ejdckj\/alma9935710091306761\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dictionnaire Arabe-Franc\u0327ais\u202f: Dialectes de Syrie [6 Fascicules]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Published by Paris, Geuthner, 1935.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/ejdckj\/alma9935699410506761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chinnici, Michael, and publisher Red Octopus Press. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vanishing Cuba\u202f: curated photo storytelling collection<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Reserve edition., Red Octopus Publishing, 2021.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/ejdckj\/alma9935717211506761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wortzel, Adrianne, et al. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">See No Evil<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Small Editions, 2021.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To see any of these collections or items (even the items coming soon), follow the instructions on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/visit-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or fill out our<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mit-ddc.libanswers.com\/ask-ddc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> contact form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with any questions. Please note that some records may be closed for a set time frame due to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/institute-records-access-statement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Institute access restrictions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or donor restrictions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and makes available the Libraries\u2019 unique and rare materials. 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