![]() ![]() Each piece is wrapped in acid-free paper, so there's a lot of material moving around. You have to take out one item at a time and keep them all in order. You tell them in advance which boxes you want to see ( selecting from this list) and a pile of large, gray, flat boxes will be waiting for you on a cart. So I finally got off the dime and made an appointment to see some of the collection.Īnyone can use the Kerlan's archives, but you need to make an appointment and go during business hours. She said I should do it as soon as possible because, well, you just never know what will happen in life. Then I happened to meet the past director of the collection at a party and told her about my interest. ![]() But somehow I never quite got there to see them. ![]() I know, I know, I live not too far from the campus, and I've been aware of these holdings for years. I've written many times about my love of the writer/designer/illustrator Ellen Raskin (see the list at the end of this post), but recently I got serious about my near-obsession: I went to see the collection of her original work held at the Kerlan Collection of children's literature at the University of Minnesota. ![]()
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