The job here at Cleveland has turned out to be a very interesting one from the educational technique point of view. This town is interested in all kinds of educational experiments. I suppose they would say it is school-minded or something of that sort. Practically everyone is taking a course in something or other. One [...]
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Frances Binkley’s Photography
Update 2012-03-04: I’ve found a 1938 booklet by Rabinovitch, which includes the first portrait below among his students’ work. I’ve scanned it and contributed it to the Internet Archive, where you can see the portrait in context. Here are some prints by Frances. There’s no information about where or when they were taken, and I [...]
More Sources on the World Bibliographic Congress, 1929
The IFLA website has some newly-mounted historical materials on the World Bibliographic Congress in Italy in 1929, about which I’ve been blogging here in the “Summer in Italy” series. The materials include a conference program (really a brochure), a report on the Congress by Marcel Godet, director of the Swiss National Library, and a poster. [...]
Manuals on Documentary Reproduction
The two versions of RCB’s manual on documentary reproduction are both now accessible from Hathi Trust, though you’ll need to belong to an institutional member to download the whole books.
In Memoriam – Clarification
I’ve turned up some letters that shed a little light on the closing paragraph of the memorial I posted the other day. In July 1940, Frances sent a copy to Ralph Lutz at the Hoover War Library at Stanford. She wrote: Here is one of the documents I said I would send you. You will [...]