Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edition of "The Divine Comedy." Editions that are rather valuable, but not quite valuable enough to ocupy space in the Houghton Rare Book Library, are locked in the "Inferno" to asure protection. Several beautifully-bound volumes of "The Arabian Nights," of Browning, and of Balzac are kept in the Cage for this reason...
Although erotica burns brightest in the "Inferno," Robert H. Haynes, Assistant Librarian of the Colege Library, hastens to point out that the Cage was not solely created to harbor such literature...
...papers used for occasional serious research are stored behind the gates to prevent possible loss. When one Wilbur F. Henderson of Conway, New Hampshire, donated nine large cases of longhand notes concerning bird migrations and weather changes over a period of 34 years, the notes were locked in the Cage for preservation. Patriotic blurbs and other notes from the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, the papers of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, and a collection of photographs of archaeological items have also found security in the "Inferno" stacks. Poor-paper books and those in shabby condition...
Pictorial magazines like the "Annual of American Photography" were mutilated when they remained fairly accessible to students. Haynes pointed out some issues of the periodical, which is now sent to the Cage, from which pictures had been torn...
Books that have been banned, either in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or throughout the country, are harbored in the "Inferno" for obvious reasons. All works on contraception are sent to the Cage, since they are banned in this State. The unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover," and Henry Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn," banned in the United States, find refuge here...