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Cracking the Case of London’s Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves | Vanity Fair
Illustrations by Shawn Martinbrough; Coloring by Christopher Sotomayor. “Impossible,” said David Ward. The London Metropolitan Police constable looked up. Some 50 feet above him, he saw that someone had carved a gaping hole through a skylight. Standing in the Frontier Forwarding warehouse in Feltham, West London, he could hear the howl of jets from neighboring…
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At Harvard’s Houghton Library, the beauty of the book in all its forms – Harvard Gazette
For last semester’s seminar “Harvard’s Greatest Hits,” David Stern got about a dozen first-year students in a room and had them examine some of the rarest and oldest volumes at Houghton Library, Harvard’s rich and vast repository of art, culture, history and much, much more. Source: At Harvard’s Houghton Library, the beauty of the…
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How Two Thieves Stole Thousands of Prints From University Libraries – Atlas Obscura
They almost got away with it. Source: How Two Thieves Stole Thousands of Prints From University Libraries – Atlas Obscura
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The Most Festive Treasures of the New York Public Library’s Maps Division – Atlas Obscura
We wish you a mappy Christmas. Source: The Most Festive Treasures of the New York Public Library’s Maps Division – Atlas Obscura
