{"id":1065,"date":"2012-10-17T12:56:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2012-10-22T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T15:30:10","slug":"farewell-to-the-rare-book-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/17\/farewell-to-the-rare-book-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the Rare Book Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/10\/00Reception.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1066 aligncenter\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/10\/00Reception.jpg\" alt=\"The Cornell Law Library invites you to a Farewell Reception in honor of the Edwin S. Dawson Rare Book Room, Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 3:30pm-6:00pm\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/10\/00Reception.jpg 625w, https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2012\/10\/00Reception-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">While we&#8217;re looking forward to the new classrooms and entrance that the law school&#8217;s construction project will bring, the project also will bring an end to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/library\/WhoWeAre\/OurSpace\/Rare-Books-Room.cfm\"> Edwin S. Dawson Rare Book Room<\/a> at Cornell Law Library.\u00a0 To celebrate the life of a wonderful room, we&#8217;re having a farewell reception next Wednesday, October 24.\u00a0 Come see highlights from the collection, including the medals of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/library\/WhoWeAre\/Mission\/upload\/CLS2006MyronTaylor.pdf\">Myron C. Taylor<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/library\/WhatWeHave\/SpecialCollections\/Scottsboro.cfm\">Scottsboro train<\/a>, and some wonderful nineteenth-century <a href=\"http:\/\/ebooks.library.cornell.edu\/t\/trial\/\">trial pamphlets<\/a> and other print <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/library\/WhatWeHave\/SpecialCollections\/\">special collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/22\/special-collections\/\">More information about our special collections and a future rare book room<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re looking forward to the new classrooms and entrance that the law school&#8217;s construction project will bring, the project also will bring an end to the Edwin S. Dawson Rare Book Room at Cornell Law Library.\u00a0 To celebrate the life of a wonderful room, we&#8217;re having a farewell reception next Wednesday, October 24.\u00a0 Come <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2012\/10\/17\/farewell-to-the-rare-book-room\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4537],"tags":[326,351,4556,334,4555,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}