Into the Vault: Iowa's Privately Printed Peter Rabbit
Channel: Special Collections & Archives, UIowa Libraries
Date: 2020-07-20

Join Public Service Librarian, Lindsay Moen, for this eighth installment of Special Collections Summer Seminar Series. In this summer series, Special Collections & Archives staff will talk about what they know best, the collection! 

In this talk from July 10, 2020, learn the history of The University of Iowa's privately printed Tale of Peter Rabbit, from Beatrix Potter's concept, to the book's arrival to the Iowa stacks.

**After publication of this video, a researcher from the Beatrix Potter Society shared with us some helpful insight as to who one of the original owners of Iowa’s privately printed, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, might have been. It is possible that a relative of Beatrix Potter, Stephanie Duke (maiden name Hyde Parker), may have received this copy after Potter’s death in 1943. Stephanie and her husband, Captain Kenneth Duke, were left Potter’s Castle Cottage, including all of its contents. As a number of privately printed copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit were left at Castle Cottage, and later sold to dealers by the Dukes, it is likely that Iowa’s copy was one of these copies.**

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Speaker is Lindsay Moen
Title card graphic designed by Kalmia Strong
Editing by Liz Riordan and  Meaghan Lemmenes