{"id":7594,"date":"2015-11-11T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2015-11-10T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:14:02","slug":"from-the-archives-special-collections-whats-in-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-whats-in-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives &amp; Special Collections: What\u2019s In the Box?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/11\/Archives_Nov11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7595\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/11\/Archives_Nov11.jpg\" alt=\"Archives_Nov11\" width=\"171\" height=\"713\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019ve ever been in the Archives &amp; Special Collections, you\u2019ve probably seen the occasional \u201cstore flat\u201d box on the shelves. Well, I see them all the time, but even I forget they\u2019re there sometimes, so I decided to investigate!<\/p>\n<p>Since these boxes usually contain delicate materials, I started on the oversize\/miniatures side and opened the <a href=\"http:\/\/alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/UPUGS:everything:CP71149595740001451\">Qur\u02bca\u0304n\u00a0al-kari\u0304m<\/a>. Written before 1940, it\u2019s a beautifully handwritten edition, with floral endpapers. The description reads \u201cFrom Hacilar village in the Karnobat district of the Burgas Province in eastern Rumelia, a distant son of Sulayman Efendi&#8217;s sacred Quran\u201d in Ottoman Turkish. The binding is stiff maroon leather over cardboard, and the pages all have gold motifs as d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to looks inside some of the other \u201cstore flat\u201d boxes, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/archives\/\">Archives &amp; Special Collections<\/a> is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Morgan Ford<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever been in the Archives &amp; Special Collections, you\u2019ve probably seen the occasional \u201cstore flat\u201d box on the shelves. Well, I see them all the time, but even I forget they\u2019re there sometimes, so I decided to investigate! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-whats-in-the-box\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-7594","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\/7594","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=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7596,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}