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Yeah, I couldn't find it either after I sent the link. 
Maybe they traded the arm chair collection for something 
else, or just don't list everything. But you get an 
inkling of the scope of things that are there from 
browsing the site.

You mentioned your interesting western ephemera--they are 
likely to have a room full of anything unique along with 
an associate librarian dedicated to managing it who 
majored in Russian language and has worn the same brown 
sweater for 30 years, or a punky blond youth who 
excersises his right to wear dresses to work that you will 
years later end up seeing playing a bad guy in a movie.

The stacks were a place you did not travel without a map, 
as most of the doors only opened one way and then locked 
behind you. If you made a mistake, you could end up locked 
in some room until someone noticed you missing. Each room 
was a different environment, some as you may have read are 
entire recreations of author's studies. The room of 
armchairs was like being in somebody's attic. It was a 
very Harry Potterish experience.

Just don't know how they ended up hiring someone as normal 
as me ;-)

--S

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:56:34 -0700 (PDT)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been browsing the site a bit, a good photo of a 
> very dignified looking Marcus Garvey, just now.  I don't 
> , though, know where to search for photo of Poe's d*mn 
> chair  :-)  ....bobf
>
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