Treasures of the Area Studies Collections: Reconsidering Primary Sources and Collections
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Baḥth al-maṭālib wa-ḥathth al-ṭālib
The author was the Maronite Bishop of Aleppo from 1725 until his death. The text (compiled in 1708) is an Arabic grammar aimed at a Christian audience, with grammatical examples chiefly drawn from texts of the Bible. Eli Smith gave this and other manuscripts to Salisbury during either of his visits to America in 1839 or 1846. -
Tracing Indigenous Power in the Collections of the Lewis Walpole Library
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Journal of travels in Europe 1838, May 27-1839, August 6 (p. 193, entry for March 25, 1839)
Salisbury describes in his journal his conversation with Smith when they met at Tauchnitz’ print shop, including Gesenius’ work on the ancient Himyaritic script of Yemen, an Arab poet’s response to a recent translation by Silvestre de Sacy, collecting Arabic manuscripts in Constantinople and Cairo, and the ease with which it was possible for foreigners to travel about in Syria. -
Eli Smith (1801-1857) with his wife Sarah Lanman Huntington Smith (1802-1836)
Smith’s wife Sarah founded a girls’ school in Beirut in 1833 that welcomed children of all faiths. In 1836 the couple were shipwrecked on a journey from Beirut to İzmir, and all their possessions—including precious samples of Arabic calligraphy that Smith had been collecting as models for his new Arabic typeface—went down with their ship. Sarah died of complications from the disaster three months later. -
Photo of Adina Verson and Katrina Lenk in Indecent
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Vineyard Theatre program for Indecent
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Program for Indecent
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Program for These Paper Bullets!
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Lyceum Theatre program for The Realistic Joneses
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Photo of scene from The Realistic Joneses
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Program for The Realistic Joneses
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Program for Eclipsed
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Photo of scene from Eclipsed
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Advertisement for Death of a Salesman
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Photo of Charles S. Dutton in Death of a Salesman
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Program for Eurydice
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Photo of scene from Eurydice
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Promotional sponges for The Clean House
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Photo of scene from The Clean House
Pictured: Zilah Mendoza, Laurie Kennedy, Franca M. Barchiesi, Tom Bloom, and Elizabeth Norment -
Program for The Clean House
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Photo of Seema Sueko and Keiko Yamamoto in The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
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Promotional mousepad for The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
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Program for The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
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Program for Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella
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Photo of scene from Venus
Pictured: Ben Shenkman, Lynn Hawley, Thomas Jay Ryan, Adriane Lenox, Adina Porter