Sweet Briar’s having nonstop thunderstorms all this week, but we hope you have the chance to get out in the sun this weekend, like these students from the ‘50s!
Our Phi Beta Kappa chapter is inducting its newest members this afternoon in the Browsing Room! To celebrate, here’s a photo of the very first group of Sweet Briar PBK inductees!
Caption: “First members of Theta of Virginia chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, Mar. 3, 1950: l. to r. Elizabeth Franke Balls, ‘13; Sarah Webb, '50; Frances Cone, '50; Dr. Margaret Ribble, '13; Margaret Murchison, '50; Nan Powell Hodges, '10; Marcia Patterson, '32; Mary Morris Gamble, '50; Lola Steele, '50; Louise Weisiger, '15; Mary Lanman, '50.”
@BowersMuseum will be hosting the 1st Orange County Archives in Action on November 3rd, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact the OC Archives in Action Planning Committee at [email protected]. We hope to see you there! #OC #california #orangecounty #archive #archives #museum #library #collection #archivist #register #librarian #history (at Bowers Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn-Hslvg4iU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ahnw0vhdkkuz
We are getting excited for the @ohassociation conference sponsored by @sworalhistory in Salt Lake City October 16-20! Our oral history collections are growing and we look forward to sharing our research with these networks.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum has an impressive site. Instead of a typical orientation film, you will be inpressed by the museum’s Reagan #hologram. We viewed the ranch narrative. “The Tack Room at Rancho del Cielo – President #Reagan has just returned from a #horseback ride and he talks to us about the Ranch and how it helps him to balance the pressures of the Oval Office, and then tells us a little about his ideas on #freedom.”
While you visit, be sure to visit the archive. #October is the designated month for American archives. “As a Presidential Library administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (#NARA), the Reagan Library, under the authority of the Presidential Records Act, is the repository of presidential records for President Reagan’s administration. The Library’s holdings include over 60 million pages of documents, over 1.6 million #photographs, a half million feet of motion picture #film, tens of thousands of audio and video tape, and over 40,000 #artifacts.” The are located at 40 Presidential Drive |Simi Valley, CA 93065. The are open hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. seven days a week.
Original #photograph at The @nationalarchivesuk Catalogue ref:COPY 1/432/63, ‘Her Majesty the Queen in pony carriage with Princess Christian and Princess Frederica of Hanover standing by.’ John Brown her faithful servant holds the reins. #Photographer: Robert Milne, Sep. 11 1897 #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth #British #monarch #herstory #history #regal #royal #archives #archivist #monarchy #tbt #throwbackthursday #1800s #QueenVictoria #Victorian #VictorianEra (at The National Archives) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvAjnbTg22l/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1408mjvzv6lfl
I am working on a big data cleanup in one of our photo collections that involves individually editing each photo record for hundreds of photos. Today I came across this one.
New York City Mayor Robert Wagner (left in white wearing a hat), his wife Susan, and a bunch of other people on a beach c. 1955. The collection has lots of vacation/beach/pool photos. So what makes this one special?
The random guy wearing a devil mask.
Visit your local archives (and/or find them on social media), we have great stuff.
LIS 2212: Library Equipment and Your Strong Opinion
If you don’t have a favorite of every single piece of library equipment then you 100% have a least favorite. Which microfilm reader is a little bitch, which book cart is hardest to steer, which printer jams most frequently, which desk supplies you will under no circumstances allow visitors to use.
Don’t worry. You are not alone in your hoarding of supplies or vendettas.
LIS 2212: Library Equipment and Your Strong Opinion
If you don’t have a favorite of every single piece of library equipment then you 100% have a least favorite. Which microfilm reader is a little bitch, which book cart is hardest to steer, which printer jams most frequently, which desk supplies you will under no circumstances allow visitors to use.
May is National Photography Month! The Fine Arts Library holds more than 150,000 photographs and slides documenting Islamic art and architecture, as well as ethnographic views that provide cultural context.
Middle East and Islamic Photographs Collections are strong in albumen silver prints produced by commercial studios in the second half of the 19th century. These images are complemented by the photographic output of the first generation of scholars of Islamic art history, such as K.A.C. Creswell and Ernst Herzfeld, taken with documentary intent.
Most prominent is the Harvard Semitic Museum Photographic Archives. Developed at the Semitic Museum between 1891 and 1992 and transferred to the Fine Arts Library in 1995, the archive includes more than 38,000 images in a variety of formats.
Turkey, Contantinople. Mosque of Santa Sophia. Robertson, James, 1813-1888, English [photographer] Albumenized salt print: Istanbul, Hagia Sophia (Aya Sofia Camii) 10” x 12”, 25.5 x 30.6 cm salted paper prints photographs Repository: Harvard Fine Arts Library, Special Collections 1851-1853 HOLLIS number: olvwork365432
“I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities”
by Audre Lorde
This pamphlet, part of a series which “presents issues, strategies, and resources which focus upon the political concerns of women of color” (see back cover above) was released by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. The press, started by Barbara Smith, Lorde, and other Black feminists in 1980, had the goal of publishing works by women of color, voices that were often silenced elsewhere.
In this purple pamphlet, emblazoned with an anti-homophobia pin on the cover, we read Lorde’s thoughts on unifying with Black women of all sexualities. She pushes back against the idea that Black lesbians are fighting for the same political rights as Black non-lesbians. She asserts that lesbians have families too, and denounces the homophobia she sees. It is addressed to those who might see differences in sexuality as a barrier, and highlights a goal for straight and queer Black women to work together towards justice. It then offers resources for organizing, with the hope that this pamphlet will be used to educate and incite activism.
Audre Lorde, a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” was an extraordinary activist and writer who used her voice to call for social and racial justice. A former librarian, Lorde’s legacy is vast and we are happy to have a small part of it here at Special Collections and Archives at The University of Iowa.
–Rachel M-H, Special Collections Olson Graduate Assistant
A lion cub and a room full of children - what could possibly go wrong? This photo is from Julian Huxley’s 1937 Christmas Lectures ‘Rare Animals and the Disappearance of Wild Life’
Julian Huxley was born on this day in 1887. A passion for evolutionary biology clearly ran in the family - he was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, AKA ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’ for his staunch and loyal support of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
On this day in 1903 Pierre Curie, accompanied by Marie Curie, gave a Friday Evening Discourse at the Ri, simply titled ‘Le Radium’.
That same year Pierre and Marie were awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on the spontaneous radiation discovered by Henri Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize.
Pierre Curie used an early sample of radium during his Discourse demonstration and stored it in this copper alloy pot and box, which are still radioactive to this day.
A photograph mounted on cardboard, depicting two men in sack suits and bowler hats standing on a large pile of seaweed on Coronado Beach. The photograph is numbered 160 on lower left corner, with the caption, “Moonlight Scene on Coronado Beach.”
October is American Archives Month. To celebrate, we are highlighting our staff around the country and their favorite records from the holdings in the National Archives.
Today’s staff member is Leslie Simon, Archives Director at the National Archives at Philadelphia. Her favorite records are 2 pages from the Bankruptcy petition of Edgar Allen Poe, under the Bankruptcy Act of 1841. This was also filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Petition [from the File Unit 12089325 - Case 1304, Edgar A. Poe]. http://research.archives.gov/description/12089326.
Here is what she has to say:
“I like these because: 1. No one knew Poe had ever filed for bankruptcy before the listing “E.A. Poe” in the docket book caught the eye of one of the staff here (Jefferson Moak) while he was working on a request. Poe wrote to a friend that he hoped to take advantage of this act, but did not have enough money to file. Presumably someone did loan him that money, or maybe even paid for it for him; he or she may be among the creditors listed. 2. These documents reflect the pathos of Poe’s life. He owed money for doctors, for rent, for books, for his wife’s piano lessons, for paper, for “notes to hand” to people from Virginia to New York. “The petitioner is possessed of no Property, real, personal or mixed, beyond his wearing apparel and a few printed sheets, of no use to anyone else, and of no value to anyone.” The mystique of Poe’s life is captured in these very un-mythic documents.”
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