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The Fish Tank at the Lillian Goldman Law Library
A Very Short Story about the Yale Law Library Fish Aquarium We’ve got fish in our library. And we are not referring to the uninspiring and dreaded...
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A Plan of Newgate Prison in Dublin, 1819
A new acquisition from Maggs: George Warner, “Paper Relating to the Prisons in Dublin” (London: Luke Hansard, 1819), with an engraved plan of Newgate...
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"Cause of Death": notebooks kept by an early expert pathologist in London
The Rare Book Collection has acquired two manuscript notebooks kept by Ludwig Freyberger, physician and early expert pathologist at the turn of the...
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(Tiny) new acquisition: Elizabeth Fry's Books for prisoners project, ca. 1839
In 1839, the English Quaker, Elizabeth Fry, published this pocket-sized devotional work, intended for distribution to women prisoners in France. Fry...
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Summer Access to Westlaw, LexisNexis and Bloomberg Law 2022
WESTLAW Continuing Students Continuing students automatically get FULL access all year-round (180 hours per month). You do not have to do anything to...