{"id":9261,"date":"2017-04-19T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:58:55","slug":"from-the-archives-special-collections-fun-finds-from-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-fun-finds-from-scanning\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives &amp; Special Collections: Fun Finds from Scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/04\/CALLOUT_ScanFunds1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9262\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/04\/CALLOUT_ScanFunds1.jpg\" alt=\"CALLOUT_ScanFunds1\" width=\"394\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/04\/CALLOUT_ScanFunds1.jpg 406w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/04\/CALLOUT_ScanFunds1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a>In my four years here in the archives, I\u2019ve stumbled across a lot of interesting things in our files that aren\u2019t digitized. I\u2019ve compiled entire lists of things I\u2019d like to go back and find (with notes to locations that no longer exist, alas), but I just never have. This mostly includes fun names like Professors Grumbling, Boring, and Gross, Dr. Homer H. Hamner, Miss Sandy Seylar; a cursive typewriter, a story about President Todd falling on his face, and a mysterious handful of marriage certificates in a General Correspondence folder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/04\/ScanFunds0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-9267 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/04\/ScanFunds0.jpg\" alt=\"ScanFunds0\" width=\"372\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/04\/ScanFunds0.jpg 432w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/04\/ScanFunds0-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a>However, I was recently given a good handful of items to scan from a combination of the President\u2019s records, Ephemera, and the (unsorted) press release boxes from the UPS News Bureau, where I finally got an opportunity to have actual scans of these materials instead of just notes. Here we have an example of the original \u201ccorrection tape\u201d on a press release about the Black Arts Festival in 1969, a handwritten list of \u201ctypes of parties,\u201d from 1969 which includes \u201cfondeau,\u201d crab feed, funny money-Monte Carlo (which is just a casino themed), a champagne buffet, and a handful of others; and a handwritten letter from a Mrs. Huff that accompanied a $3.00 donation to the Now Mr. Lincoln fund.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/archives\/\">Archives &amp; Special Collections<\/a> is open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment if you want to come see what you can find for yourself!<\/p>\n<p><em>By Morgan Ford<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my four years here in the archives, I\u2019ve stumbled across a lot of interesting things in our files that aren\u2019t digitized. I\u2019ve compiled entire lists of things I\u2019d like to go back and find (with notes to locations that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-fun-finds-from-scanning\/\">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-9261","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\/9261","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=9261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9271,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions\/9271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}