February 1, 2023
by Astrid Johannah Smith
Digitization
This is a guest blog post by digitization lab assistant Abigail Watson, who has been with Stanford Libraries’…
February 1, 2023
by Astrid Johannah Smith
Digitization
This is a guest blog post by digitization lab assistant Abigail Watson, who has been with Stanford Libraries’…
December 12, 2019
by Astrid Johannah Smith
Digitization
Guest blogger Adria Castellucci, librarian for Rare Books and Library Collections a…
In honor of Father’s Day, it is a pleasure to share a very special object of personal significance that was recently donated to the Stanford Libraries in digital form. The item is a small “promotional brochure for an architecture firm based in Los Angeles in the 1960s with a list of their projects including drawings, maps, and photographs both of buildings and architectural models,” as described by rare book cataloger Ann Myers. The architect—my father—was Bodrell Joer’dan Smith, and this pamphlet both promoted and celebrated the accomplishments of his early career.
February 16, 2017
by Astrid Johannah Smith
Digital library
These delicately nuanced early reproductions were made using a collotype printin…