{"id":600,"date":"2015-03-19T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/?p=600"},"modified":"2024-01-29T13:29:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:29:18","slug":"b-porter-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/b-porter-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Bern Porter Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1677\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/Joyceana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1677\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/Joyceana-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"Joyceana\" width=\"459\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/Joyceana-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/Joyceana-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porter created conceptual maps in addition to working in other art forms. He also experimented with photography, poetry, prose and publication techniques.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bernard Harden Porter, Colby class of 1932, was a physicist, poet, artist, publisher, innovator and &#8211; throughout his life &#8211; a provocateur. Born in Houlton, Maine in 1911, he died in Belfast, Maine in 2004, ending a life filled with artistic and intellectual journeys and world travels. The <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.colby.edu\/cq\/vol9\/iss2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 1970<\/a> issue of the <em>Colby Library Quarterly<\/em> contains articles on Porter&#8217;s life and work up to that point.<\/p>\n<p>Details about our Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters are available <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.colby.edu\/special-collections-colby\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>&nbsp;PORTER AS DONOR<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Porter offered copies of his various book publications to Curator Richard Cary in 1959. Cary opened a discussion with Porter about adding unpublished materials to his collection. Although Porter originally envisioned UCLA as the primary repository for his manuscripts and other materials, and he deposited a large quantity there, he chose Special Collections at Colby as the home for his later donations.<\/p>\n<p>Additional works consulted:<\/p>\n<p>Bern Porter Collection. Colby College Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>Bern Porter donor file. Colby College Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Harden Porter, Colby class of 1932, was a physicist, poet, artist, publisher, innovator and &#8211; throughout his life &#8211; a provocateur. Born in Houlton, Maine in 1911, he died in Belfast, Maine in 2004, ending a life filled with artistic and intellectual journeys and world travels. The June 1970 issue of the Colby Library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225915,226213,31218,190433,45060,45057,218449,31221,268,45058],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}