SCRC Blog Posts
List of blog posts
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.”
Connecting through the Collections
Posted on April 21, 2021, 10:41 a.m.
Transcribing papers from the William Safire Papers and creating metadata for videos in the Inside Albany Records.
Our Day Will Come: Black Pop Music in the Sixties
Posted on April 14, 2021, 10:50 a.m.
The African American Musicians Photograph Collection is a display of purchasing a collection with limited contextual information
Inside SCRC | Belfer Audio Archive with Jim Meade
Posted on March 26, 2021, 1 p.m.
The acoustic recording equipment used to record and play wax cylinders.
Maija Grotell: Revolutionary Craft in 20th Century America
Posted on March 25, 2021, 10:58 a.m.
The “Mother of American Ceramics,” Maija Grotell was a prolific and influential ceramist and educator.
Inside SCRC | Cartoon, Pulp Lit, and Sci-Fi Collections
Posted on March 20, 2021, 4 p.m.
Sharing a diverse range of historical materials from Cartoon, Pulp Lit and Sci-fi collections
Pieces of Puerto Rico: Plastics and Protest
Posted on March 11, 2021, 4:01 p.m.
The Branchell Company background included within the Edward Hellmich Papers.
"This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman."
Posted on March 3, 2021, 2:45 p.m.
Cécile Chaminade recorded seven compositions for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company.
Inside SCRC | Abolitionist Materials
Posted on Feb. 22, 2021, 4 p.m.
Petrina Jackson spotlights anti-slavery and abolitionist collection items.
Researching Stenogravures, Crystopal and Armand Winfield
Posted on Feb. 17, 2021, 7:12 p.m.
Stenogravures are very strong and are akin to stone carvings
Reconstructing Racial Equality in Syracuse
Posted on Feb. 10, 2021, 7 p.m.
Syracuse’s Interstate 81 has played a major role in the racial, social, and economic landscape of the city.
75 Years of Benjamin Spock’s Common Sense Parenting
Posted on Feb. 3, 2021, 6:32 p.m.
2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Benjamin Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
Marcel Breuer auf Deutsch
Posted on Jan. 14, 2021, 4:08 p.m.
Letters from the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive.
Inside SCRC | World War I American Red Cross Posters
Posted on Jan. 14, 2021, 3 p.m.
World War I-era American Red Cross posters