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December 9 – Nessie

No compendium of mythical creatures would be complete without Scotland’s own creature of myth – the Loch Ness monster. Nessie is said to live in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Sightings of Nessie date back to the…

Visit to Special Collections

Last week Special Collections had a visit from the photographer and artistic researcher Lisandro Suriel. Born and raised in Saint Martin in the Caribbean, Lisandro earned his Bachelor’s degree in Photography at the…

An Uncommon Smile

In this post Eddie Martin from our Photo team describes an unusual early portrait photograph in our collections which has caught his eye recently. Born in 1819, Cornelius Jabez Hughes followed his father into the…