Everett Henry drew these illustrations for a 1934 edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A copy of the edition lives in Burns Library. Intrigued and want to browse it yourself? Visit us! #Frankenstein #MaryShelley

On November 6, 1911, American Sally Fairchild wrote about her front row seat to the Xinhai Revolution, a revolution marking the end of China’s last imperial dynasty.🧵

Attn Boston genealogist and historians! We recently digitized student ledgers from St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing in Brighton. @universalhub.com @shamrockgen.bsky.social @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social @dlgenealogist.bsky.social @allston-brighton.boston.gov findingaids.bc.edu/repositories...

In the early 1900s, Bridget Murphy and her 7 children began hearing loud noises and footsteps in their Coneen, Ireland home They heard banging and rapping to the tunes of The Soldiers Song, saw plates thrown across rooms, and that the children’s beds were lifted off the floor.

Did you know that Burns Library has a copy of Dracula translated into Irish? This 1933 volume was translated by Seán Ó Cuirrín and features cover art by Dublin born artist Austin Malloy. Want to look at it yourself? Visit us!

Happy Birthday to lawyer, suffragist, and presidential candidate Belva Ann Lockwood, born this day 1830. This photo of Lockwood was taken in the Boston Public Garden in 1908, presumably on a visit to the city. Take a look at the album it lives in: https://library.bc.edu/iiif/view/BC2023-014-168624

Our new digital exhibit is live! “A Part to Play” draws on Burns Library collections to explore the cultural sphere of The Troubles considering how individuals used cultural forms to explore their communities’ perceived heritage, values, and aspirations.  https://bit.ly/part-to-play

Find something to take the edge off in our special collections

Join us on Wed., Oct. 22 for a book panel discussing James O'Toole's new book, For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America, from 5:30 -7pm in Devlin 101. This panel is co-sponsored with BC Libraries. The BC Bookstore will be on hand selling copies.

One of these things (is not like the others) 🐶🐶🐶🦊🐶🐶🐶 Joe Ritchie with a fox and some of his dogs and cats, Ardglass, County Down, 1217. John J. Burns Library. https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/2656

In early 1833, William Apes, an itinerant Methodist minister and member of the Pequot nation journeyed to Mashpee Plantation, an area inhabited by the Mashpee nation. Apes had heard that nearby settlers were causing trouble for the Mashpee residents. 🧵

100 years ago today, author Juanita Casey was born! Some of Casey’s correspondence, writings, photographs, and books live at Burns Library, including this copy of “The Circus" with a handwritten note and sketch by Casey in the front cover. Want to look for yourself? Contact us!

Professor Elizabeth Graver and her class, Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing the Past, visited us at Burns Library recently!

The Institute for the Liberal Arts launches the "Flourishing Together" series with a keynote by Harvard's Robert Waldinger, an expert on what constitutes a meaningful life. There will be a BC faculty panel exploring loneliness & its remedies. Register: https://on.bc.edu/FlourishTogetherLaunch25

"It's beautiful, it's rapturous, and it's frightening"- Taylor Swift on Burns Library Join us for a skills based, TSwift themed special collections workshop. Enjoy hands-on learning and learn (or relearn) how to find materials for your research. 3- 5 pm, 10/3, Burns Library. All welcome.

More on Fannie Farmer and her famous cookbook in this classic podcast. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/fan...

In the fall of 1879, Fannie Farmer founded her famous School of Cookery. Our 1945 promotional booklet for the school advertises the courses taught at the school, including “A Course for Men” and an “Intensive Salad Course.” #FannieFarmer

Digitization alert! We digitized the “Father Rector’s Office and President of Boston College scrapbook, which documents BC and Boston history from 1919-29. It's full of photos, clippings, and more. Check it out: https://library.bc.edu/iiif/view/BC1986-020F-151714

Recently, Rene and Patricia Moran visited us to learn more about their father Joseph, BC class of 1950 and former Boston FBI agent. They looked through records about intramural sports, the English Department, and Sodality. Have a BC alum you’d like to learn more about? Contact us!

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

Cleanse your timeline with our Friday morning reading room vibes

In Spring 2024, Professor Pheme Perkins' students visited Burns Library and wrote rhetorical analyses of items in our collections. Read Michael Tran ‘27's exploration of a palm leaf manuscript of Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises! http://bit.ly/4n5945e

We kicked off our semester by hosting sections of Making of the Modern World: Design, Ethics, and Engineering. We shared wiring plans for St. Mary’s Hall, a Boston Elevated Railway photo album, a mining diary, environmental engineering plans from the Everglades, and much more.

Happy Birthday, @bostoncollege.bsky.social ! #dyk that Boston College’s first campus was in Boston’s #SouthEnd? This postcard shows one of its first buildings. https://library.bc.edu/iiif/view/BC1987_012_ref1543

Our new exhibit "A Part to Play: Culture, identity & resistance during Northern Ireland's Troubles" is now open. Curated by Paloma Carroll-Ryan, it explores the cultural sphere of the Troubles, considering visual art, music, sports, and language. Drop by anytime we’re open to view the exhibit.

Time for a #StudentWorkerPick! Our student worker Rachel recently uncovered this adorable photo of a Sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart holding a baby on the Newton College of the Sacred Heart campus. Follow us for more nun/baby content.

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII wrote his famous encyclical letter on the “condition of labor.” Often called the “Pope of the Workers” Leo XIII used the lens of Scripture and Catholic doctrine to address issues such as child labor, fair wages, workers’ rights, and poverty.

Step back in time to 1952 when the BC/Fordham game was played on Braves Field, now known as Nickerson Field on the Boston University Campus. Go Eagles!

Our friends at @bostoncollege.bsky.social Digital Scholarship used a police station record book living at Burns Library to create a dataset of arrests, crimes, and public service in Boston’s crowded North End in the 1850s. 🧵 @universalhub.com @hubhistory.com @gigi4district1.bsky.social

#otd in 1911, Sally Fairchild snapped this photo of Hakone Lake and pasted it in her diary writing “A day full of happiness. A perfect view of Fuji at sunrise with the reflection in the quiet lake.” Read all of Sally’s digitized diary and see her photos: https://library.bc.edu/iiif/view/bc-2022-172

Perhaps of interest to listeners who enjoyed our recent podcast about Boston's 1894 newsboy strike. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/bos...

On #InternationalDogDay, check out these dogs selling newspapers on the Boston Common in the early 1900s. 🐕 Browse the digitized album where these photos live: https://library.bc.edu/iiif/view/BC2023-014-168625

Happy First Day of Class, @bostoncollege.bsky.social Eagles! We're so glad you're back. Classrooms, circa 1967, Box: 57, Folder: 81. Newton College of the Sacred Heart records, BC-1988-031. John J. Burns Library.

On August 22, 1911 Sally Fairchild traveled with a friend from Yumoto to Hakone Lake (also known as Ashinoko Lake). Her friend took a rickshaw, but Sally walked. 🧵

Digitization Alert! We just digitized 2 albums documenting life in the Boston area between 1895 and 1915. @universalhub.com @hubhistory.com 🧵

Caitriona Lally spent a couple of weeks on campus as our Burns Summer Fellow for 2025! She explored correspondence held in the @burnslibrary.bsky.social archive to explore that practical side of writing, a topic closely tied to current discussions on state funding for Irish contemporary writers

On August 15, 1911, Sally Fairchild wrote in her diary “I sat a long time before the Great Buddha. In February, we saw the statue first. And this week very often. And each time it seems the greatest work of art.”🧵

This summer, we’ve hosted three of our Build-A-Book workshops for #BC Experience students. One of our attendees created this cool collage cover for their book - we love it!

On August 11, 12, and 13, of 1911, Bostonian Sally Fairchild and her traveling companions spent three "perfect days" traveling to Japan's Mount Fuji and climbing its slopes.

For #InternationalBookLoversDay, here's a bookplate created by Austrian artist Rose Reinhold. It lives in the Boston College Collection of Bookplates. Drop by Burns Library anytime to see the whole collection!

Love this vibe for #InternationalCatDay This collage painting was created by artist Alden Marin for author John L'Heureux and lives in his papers at Burns Library. Marin seems to have created a number of cat artworks for L’Heureux, visit us to see them all!

We got to hang out with 44 @bostoncollege.bsky.social F1RST students yesterday! We did a practice research session together and shared some of our favorite primary sources with them. We had an awesome time and we're looking forward to seeing all of them again.

On August 6, 1911, Sally Fairchild made a second trip to Japan’s Mt. Haruna. On "a day of clouds," she and her companions hiked past a lake to a temple which she described as “the most beautiful we have seen.”

Let Burns Library plan your next literary themed holiday.

🚨Digitization Alert!🚨 We’re excited to announce that we have digitized poetry, notebooks, and unpublished manuscripts by W.B. Yeats. These materials live in the Boston College Collection of Yeats Family Papers and we are delighted to make them more accessible!

Today is the Feast Day of St. Ignatius of Loyola! We find evidence of St. Ignatius all over our collections, even if we aren’t looking at materials about him. This bookplate lives in an 1856 edition of “Notice sur le P. Jérome Natalis”is one example.

Happy #PaperbackBookDay! This paperback copy of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana took a trip into space with Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Grechko. When Grechko returned to planet earth, he sent Greene the book with a beautiful note in the front cover. Want to look at it yourself? Contact us!

We love this 1963 Orbital Flight Handbook from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama that now lives in our collections. Want to take a look at it yourself? Contact us!

🚨Digitization alert! 🚨 We digitized parts of the David Goldstein and Martha Moore Avery papers! Avery and Goldstein were friends who met in Boston socialist circles. They converted to Catholicism, disavowed socialism, and then worked to take down the very causes that they had promoted. 🧵

When Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger flooded Boston in the 1840s, many of them settled in Boston’s Fort Hill, the present day financial district. Historical documents from the period give us clues about life in Fort Hill. 🧵@universalhub.com @hubhistory.com @bostonirish.bsky.social