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Forgotten Fingerprints: Traces of People in a Private Collection

Libraries are primarily known as being a collection of books. But they are also goldmines of hidden personal stories, as anyone who ever encountered a specific book becomes a part of its story. Sometimes historians can use a book’s hidden clues to piece together remnants of people’s lives. Exhibited here are six books of The Addison collection, belonging to Addi McDowell, with detailed research on the human lives preserved within these books. Learn to transcend time as you discover how to read between the lines to find the secret stories hidden within a book's pages!
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Faces of Slavery in the U.S. and Morocco
The individual experiences of people in the U.S. and Morocco differed depending on their position in society, but they were...