SCRC Blog Posts
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Marcel Breuer auf Deutsch
![A handwritten digitized Breuer letter in German that proved hard to read when I first opened it. Marcel Breuer Papers.](/media/images/A_handwritten_digitized_Breuer_let.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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
![poster illustration of person wearing red cross uniform with arm around another person](/media/images/red_cross.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Jan. 14, 2021, 3 p.m.
World War I-era American Red Cross posters
Animals in the Stacks
![Ink drawings of whales with the unit of measurement “barrels,” in this case oil. Barzillai Pease Journals.](/media/images/Ink_drawings_of_whales_with_the_un.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Jan. 6, 2021, 6:41 p.m.
Inspired by the Getty Collection, materials from our archives for animals within our own collection.
2020 Year in Review
![A happay new century to you](/media/images/A_happay_new_century_to_you.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Dec. 23, 2020, 4:40 p.m.
As we reach the end of a decidedly unprecedented and unusual year, let’s look back on some of the topics we researched, discussed, and discovered in SCRC’s collections this year.
Inside SCRC | Pan Am Flight 103 Archives: Shannon Davis
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Posted on Dec. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.
Postcard, written by Shannon Davis, victim of the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster, detailing her travels.
Tempering Virtue, Prohibiting Vice
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Posted on Dec. 17, 2020, 4:16 p.m.
When the Volstead Act came into effect on January 17, 1920, it ushered in a 13-year period where alcohol’s production, sale, and distribution was prohibited by constitutional law.
In the Beginning of the Year and When it Ends: Memorials to Pan Am Flight 103
![Garden of Remembrance](/media/images/Garden_of_Remembrance_.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Dec. 9, 2020, 2:24 p.m.
December 21 will mark the 32nd anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 individuals from 21 countries.
Hail Librarians!: Reflecting on SU Library Service
![Students studying in Carnegie Library](/media/images/Students_studying_in_Carnegie_Libr.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Dec. 2, 2020, 3:18 p.m.
“Hail, Librarians, holders o’ the golden keys!”, wrote poet Frank Elijah Dudley in 1955.
November 2020 Wrap Up: Native American Heritage Month
![SUA Onondagan](/media/images/sua_onondagan.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Nov. 25, 2020, 6:50 p.m.
Researching Audrey “Gonwaiahhih” Shenandoah.
Survival Kit: Provisions for your Research Journey Exhibit Interview
![The windows in the Plastics Pioneers Reading Room](/media/images/The_windows_in_the_Plastics_Pionee.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Nov. 18, 2020, 2:54 p.m.
The Edwin F. Bushman Papers are part of the Special Collections Research Center’s manuscript collections.
Inside SCRC | Jack Kerouac in the Belfer Audio Archives
![black and white photo of Village Vanguard club](/media/images/jack_kerouac.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Nov. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
Record/recordings featuring Jack Kerouac from the Beat Generation, housed in Belfer Audio Archive.
World War II Veterans at Syracuse University
![Yearbook photo of the Women’s Veterans Association from the 1950 Onondagan. Syracuse University Yearbook Collection.](/media/images/Yearbook_photo_of_the_Womens_Veter.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Nov. 12, 2020, 1:39 p.m.
Archives holds documentation of the dramatic influx of veterans on campus right after World War II.
Inside SCRC | Artists Diego Rivera and Carlos Cortez
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Posted on Nov. 4, 2020, 4 p.m.
Review of materials from Special Collections Research Center. A close look at what the artwork of artists Diego Rivera and Carlos Cortez tell us.
Inside SCRC | 1918 Influenza
![old daily orange newspaper from 1918](/media/images/1918_influenza.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Oct. 21, 2020, 4 p.m.
Meg Mason, University Archivist, explores a 1918 edition of the Daily Orange documenting the effects of the 1918 influenza outbreak on Syracuse University campus.
October 2020 Wrap Up
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Posted on Oct. 21, 2020, 1:06 p.m.
Collections materials featuring Halloween and election season.
George Fisk Comfort and the Museums Are Not Neutral Movement: Museum History at SCRC
![George Fisk Comfort, seated in art gallery, undated.](/media/images/George-Fisk-Comfort.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Oct. 14, 2020, 5:14 p.m.
George Fisk Comfort (1833 – 1910) was a liberal arts scholar and museum founder from Berkshire, NY.
Printing the Middle Ages: A Renaissance Edition of Bernard of Clairvaux
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Posted on Oct. 6, 2020, 5:23 p.m.
Renaissance edition of the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, printed in 1508 in Paris by Jehan Petit,
September 2020 Wrap Up: Banned Books Week
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Posted on Sept. 29, 2020, 5:50 p.m.
Banned Books Week recommendations.
Adjusting the Lens
![Exterior view of Hall of Languages, 1886.](/media/images/Exterior_view_of_Hall_of_Languages.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Sept. 1, 2020, 2:37 p.m.
Images in the Syracuse University Photograph Collection.