{"id":5725,"date":"2014-04-10T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2014-04-08T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:18:38","slug":"from-the-archives-a-quick-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-a-quick-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives: A Quick Reminder\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CALLOUT_bookOnShelve\"<\/a>\u2026That the archives aren\u2019t entirely old, dingy books and stuff. It\u2019s also old, dingy letters and school memorabilia!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure that when you write a letter (or as is more common nowadays, an email), you don\u2019t consider it to have any importance at all. You\u2019re probably right, but how about that old receipt you got once, for the money required to build a bus shelter? How about that old football you used to own? How about that copy of The Trail<\/i> you pick up every now and then, if only to see if you\u2019re in the \u201cHey Yous\u201d? Well, you\u2019d be surprised how useful some of those things are. But if you\u2019re, say, President Thomas, then it\u2019s definitely worth saving.<\/p>\n

You probably wouldn\u2019t believe the amount of letters the President of an institution sends over the course of 31 years (that\u2019s President Thompson, if you were wondering). We\u2019ve got six boxes alone dedicated to general correspondence with every letter of the alphabet \u2013 and an entire folder labeled \u201cCoffee, John M.\u201d Do you want to know more about the Rockefeller Theological Fellowship Program? Hop on over to box 9, folder 38 of the Thompson collection. Want to know more about the Harry Brown Fountain? Box 10, folder 40. What if you had a question about how the College settled the riveting debate of who had to pay to water the flowers on Union? We\u2019ve got that covered too (box 12, folder 4). Not enough context in letters for you? You could always check out the nine-volume (or 2,015 page) Thompson Histories.<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t forget, if you have an odd or abstract question about the school\u2026chances are the answer is somewhere in the dozens of boxes we have. Stop by the Archives & Special Collections (2nd<\/sup> floor of the Library) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays between 1:00pm and 3:00pm.<\/p>\n

By Morgan Ford <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026That the archives aren\u2019t entirely old, dingy books and stuff. It\u2019s also old, dingy letters and school memorabilia! I\u2019m sure that when you write a letter (or as is more common nowadays, an email), you don\u2019t consider it to have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}