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Special Collections Materials on Display

Each year the Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries generously designate 20 percent of member contributions to fund the purchase of special collections materials.  This year, 12 items were purchased, and selected titles are now on display in the central corridor on M-Level.  More...

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Broom magazine

Avant-Garde Periodicals:
Fin-de Siècle, Dada, Surrealism...


"...little reviews, avant-garde reviews, are the very life of literature.  You say that their consideration would be
'vital to anyone who might want to study the evolution of literature'; I will go further:  they represent this evolution
itself; they are both the symbol and the reality of it..."  Edouard Dujardin.  Souvenirs et opinions varies, (December 1924):  138.

The Sheridan Libraries collections include a wealth of these ephemeral but valuable witnesses to the birth and development of the avant-garde in art and literature, in original format in Special Collections, as well as in reprint, facsimile, and microform in the general collections.

Image courtesy of Sims Reed Rare Books





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