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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Behind the Archives Door: October 6, 4:30 p.m., featuring Suzanne Moore, “A Musings in Honor of Aileen Kane”
Please join us for Behind the Archives Door featuring Suzanne Moore – a letter artist, painter, and printmaker whose eclectic interests meld in the diversity of her artists’ books. Her books blend abstract and representational imagery, rich color and surface … Continue reading
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Hoover’s Company Profiles: A New Business Database for Firm Research
Over the summer the library added a subscription to Hoover’s Company Profiles, a database that contains proprietary information about public and non-public companies and their key executives. Each company record includes a company overview, history, products, and operations, subsidiaries and … Continue reading
Holy Cow, School’s Back in Session!
Today we’re highlighting Holy Cow by X-Files star David Duchovny. In it, three unlikely heroes embark on an odyssey for a better life. The trio includes a witty and optimistic cow by the name of Elsie Bovary, a pig who’s … Continue reading
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From the Archives & Special Collections: Don’t RUNE it
I came across an interesting book the other day in the Archives & Special Collections about Viking runes and their meanings called The Book of Runes by Ralph Blum. The book is meant to be a guide to help gain … Continue reading
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Behind the Archives Door: Thursday, 9/10, 4 p.m., featuring Tiffany MacBain, Associate Professor of English, ‘I was cut out for the wilds’: The Landscape of Gender in the Journals of Abby Williams Hill
Join us for a look into the ongoing research of Tiffany MacBain, Associate Professor of English, as she draws on the Abby Williams Hill collection in the Archives & Special Collections. Many know 19th-century Tacoma local Abby Williams Hill as … Continue reading
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Dare to Dream! A Great Fantasy in the Popular Reading Collection!
Evie O’Neill, “America’s Sweetheart Seer,” can read objects to learn about the past. When communities fall victim to a mysterious sleeping sickness in New York City, Evie is called upon to deal with menacing magic of nightmares from which one … Continue reading
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From the Archives & Special Collections: Further Finding Aid Fun
Mss.027, Bills of Sale for the Purchase of Slaves: This collection includes three original handwritten receipts for the purchase of Slaves dated July 4, 1835, June 21, 1837, and September 19, 1845. Mss.028, T.H. Callaway letter to James R. Callaway: … Continue reading
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