SCRC Blog Posts

“Boxes, and envelopes, and photos, oh my!” Fred Meyer and The Wizard of Oz Fandom

Posted on May 31, 2023, 4 p.m.

Processing Fred Meyer's papers, co-founder The Wizard of Oz Club.

Boxed in at the Library

Posted on May 25, 2023, 10 a.m.

Using the box maker to create housing for glass plate negatives.

Deep Dive in the Archive: The Role of an Archivist

Posted on May 24, 2023, 4 p.m.

What is an archivist? Archives collect and provide access to primarily unpublished items.

The “Straight-Backed, High-Nosed, Stiff-Necked, Great British Young Lady”: Music and Art of Liza Lehmann

Posted on May 1, 2023, 10 a.m.

Liza Lehmann (1862–1918) was one of the most prolific song composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and an influential vocal pedagogue.

Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc. Collection

Posted on April 27, 2023, 10 a.m.

A reflection on the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc. Collection from a graduate student intern.

“What ability lurks within women”

Posted on March 8, 2023, 10 a.m.

August 31, 1933, famed aviator Amelia Earhart wrote a brief note to photographer and photojournalist, Margaret Bourke-White, thanking Bourke-White for sending on one of her recent photographic prints.

Inside SCRC: A Letter from Booker T. Washington

Posted on Feb. 9, 2023, 1 p.m.

Washington's 1909 appeal aimed to improve operations at the Tuskegee Institute.

“We have that here?!”: Students Meet Special Collections at the Libraries’ Welcome Fest

Posted on Sept. 30, 2022, noon

SCRC tabled at Welcome Fest, highlighting the full range of resources, services and spaces available to students.

VALUE: Photographs, Memorabilia, Films and SU Archives

Posted on Dec. 16, 2021, 9:05 a.m.

Throughout this week, we have explored many facets of preservation in the archives.

Unknown: Cassette Tapes and the E. Thomas Billard Papers

Posted on Dec. 2, 2021, 9:26 a.m.

The Archives Preservation Countdown coverage continues on Sound Beat this week. Check out their episode on the E. Thomas Billard cassette tapes.

Judgement: Pope Leo XIII and the Belfer Cylinders Collection

Posted on Nov. 18, 2021, 9:52 a.m.

The Archives Preservation Countdown coverage continues on Sound Beat this week.

Risk: Photographs, Lacquer Disks and the Margaret Bourke-White Papers

Posted on Nov. 4, 2021, 10 a.m.

The Preservation Countdown coverage continues. Check out the episode on Margaret Bourke-White today!

Behind the Archives with Jim Meade

Posted on Oct. 25, 2021, 1:45 p.m.

Celebrating American Archives Month by highlighting our own Libraries staff members

TIME: Archives Preservation Countdown

Posted on Oct. 21, 2021, 10:05 a.m.

In 1967, WSYR issued the following message, an interruption to their scheduled broadcast.

Behind the Archives with Meg Mason

Posted on Oct. 6, 2021, 10:27 a.m.

Celebrating American Archives Month by highlighting our very own Libraries staff members

Processing the Papers of Constance Timberlake

Posted on Sept. 29, 2021, 10:12 a.m.

Papers of Constance Timberlake, professor of human development from 1971 to 1993.

Durable and Elegant: Mary Edwards Walker and Dress Reform

Posted on Aug. 25, 2021, 10:18 a.m.

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker achieved national recognition in the 19th century for her service as a surgeon in the army during the Civil War.

Push for Accessibility by SU's Alpha Phi Omega Chapter

Posted on July 15, 2021, 10:24 a.m.

Processing the Alpha Phi Omega Chapter Collection and push for accessibility.

Two Years in the Archives

Posted on June 16, 2021, 10:28 a.m.

Perspectives from the student employee Public Services Assistant Team in the Archives.

Houston, We Have Liftoff!: NASA’s Isolation Experiments

Posted on May 5, 2021, 10:35 a.m.

In 1959, for the Project Mercury recruitments NASA conducted a series of “extraordinary physical examinations.”