End of the Semester –
Focus on Archives & Special Collections
Classes in the A&SC
The Archives & Special Collections staff conducted 19 class sessions this semester. Topics ranged from portrayals of American Indians in print to Japanese American internment to the history of Gender & Queer Studies at Puget Sound. If you would like to explore opportunities to have a class session or original research opportunities for faculty and students in the Archives & Special Collections, please contact Katie Henningsen, Archivist & Special Collections Librarian.
Digital Collections
Puget Sound Digital Collections has launched; a one stop search for content from the Archives & Special Collections. This new search provides researchers with an easy way to search across collections, pulling up photographs, ephemera, and text documents on the same topic. Researchers may still search individual collections such as A Sound Past and Abby Williams Hill by selecting individual collections.
New Collection: University of Puget Sound Ephemera! The University Ephemera from 1888-1924 is currently available online. The University Ephemera contains menus, commencement programs, invitations, recital programs, admissions material, and much more. Digitization is ongoing, so remember to check back as we add content!
Latest Acquisition:
Gustave Mace’s Paris Unveiled, or, an expose of vice and crime in the gay French capital, 1888, this small pamphlet is illustrated throughout with woodcuts, most showing women engaged in nefarious acts. The text discusses styles of crooks, high and low classes of criminals, prostitutes, and thieves in Victorian-era Paris. See all of our recent additions by browsing our online list which is constantly being updated to reflect latest materials: http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/collins-memorial-library/new-resources/new-in-the-archives-and-special-collections/
Scholars in the Archives:
Professor Renee Simms will open our Behind the Archives Door lecture series in February. Our March lecture will feature Kathryn Stutz ’16, an AHSS recipient, who spent part of her summer in the Archives & Special Collections arranging and describing the Murray Johnson collection on the Cape Thompson Environmental Impact Report, 1946-1978.
Professor Tiffany MacBain has been our scholar-in-residence during the fall semester. Professor MacBain and Laura Edgar, Curator of the Abby Williams Hill collection will be presenting on Hill as part of the Pierce County Reads program on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:00 PM. The title of their presentation is, Unless the Indians are Willing: Flathead Resistance in the 1905 Journals of Abby Williams Hill and will be held in Collins Library.
Need Information? Don’t forget the Collins Memorial Library – Library Guides
Questions? Contact your liaison librarian
Comments: Contact Jane Carlin, library director
Remember – Your best search engine is a librarian!