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December January 2020 News Wrap Up

Black students sitting in classroom

Posted on Feb. 4, 2020, 1:48 p.m.

Review, upcoming events and newly processed collections

An Act of Moral Courage

A 1943 Syracuse Herald-Journal article about Japanese-American students.

Posted on Jan. 28, 2020, 1:55 p.m.

Tsuneishi, a 1943 graduate of Syracuse University praised Tolley for accepting Tsuneishi and “some of 100 of my Japanese American colleagues"

Writing over Medieval Texts in Renaissance Europe

Two pages of a medieval manuscript with red, blue, and black text

Posted on Jan. 21, 2020, 2:27 p.m.

Breviary on vellum, or a book that contains daily services recited by members of the Roman Catholic Church

Happy New Year from SCRC!

words happy new year lit behind black sky and fireworks

Posted on Jan. 15, 2020, 2:38 p.m.

Invitation from our William Wallace Denslow Collection

Boxing the Collections with a Box Making Machine

Posted on Dec. 17, 2019, 2:59 p.m.

Interview with David Stokoe

Marketing and Publicity and Press, Oh My!

White and red poster advertising The Wizard of Oz film and picturing Judy Garland.

Posted on Dec. 10, 2019, 3:22 p.m.

The marketing campaign for The Wizard of Oz film

Getting Pulled In

Black and white image of couples of men and women holding hands and dancing.

Posted on Dec. 3, 2019, 3:41 p.m.

Photos from the Syracuse University Military and World Wars Reference Collection.

November 2019 News Wrap Up

Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy of Duke University

Posted on Nov. 27, 2019, 3:57 p.m.

Recap of events and newly processed collections.

Katsushika Hokusai as Book Illustrator

Two interior pages of a book with wood block prints

Posted on Nov. 20, 2019, 4:25 p.m.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese painter and ukiyo-e printmaker

James Thornton and The Syracuse State School

White page with a list of entries on top of tan folder

Posted on Nov. 13, 2019, 8:41 a.m.

Syracuse State School was a facility that cared for mentally disabled children and, in some cases, adults.

Delight in the Mundane: Rehousing the Plastics Artifacts Collection

Pair of white sunglasses with seahorses on the sides of the lenses.

Posted on Nov. 5, 2019, 8:52 a.m.

A Library and Information Science student doing an internship in SCRC’s Plastics Artifacts Collection

October 2019 News Wrap Up

People sitting around a table in a classroom looking at a screen

Posted on Oct. 30, 2019, 8:59 a.m.

Recap of past month's events and news mentions

"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror..."

Woman in a hooded black coat wearing red gloves

Posted on Oct. 22, 2019, 9:07 a.m.

Selection of spooky materials from SCRC.

Shedding Light on Illuminated Manuscripts

Tan page of vellum with red, black, and blue text and decorations

Posted on Oct. 15, 2019, 9:55 a.m.

Illuminated manuscripts are handwritten books that have been adorned with vibrant colors, artwork, and even gold.

Ninth Street Women and New Books at SCRC

Yellow book cover with a woman creating art above the title.

Posted on Oct. 10, 2019, 11:12 a.m.

Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel, an immersive look at the post-war modern art movement from the viewpoint of the women who helped shape it.

September 2019 News Wrap Up

“A white sweatshirt with an embroidered orange letter ‘S’ and an orange textile stating “Syracuse” on top of a brown table.

Posted on Oct. 1, 2019, 11:30 a.m.

New exhibits, new acquisitions and recent events.

New Acquisition: Josef Albers' Interaction of Color

Paper with orange, yellow, dark blue, light blue, gray, and purple squares of paper attached inside, surrounded by black boxes and books on a wood table

Posted on Sept. 25, 2019, 11:47 a.m.

Acquisition of a 1963 copy of The Interaction of Color by Josef Albers.

It's No Wonder...That They're Called Little Wonders!

Black record with a yellow and green center

Posted on Sept. 17, 2019, 12:43 p.m.

Little Wonders are 5 ½ inches in diameter and carry sound on a single side.

American and Soviet "Truth": Pravda in Special Collections

Tan colored paper with black Russian text and a photograph of Russian state officials

Posted on Sept. 10, 2019, 1:08 p.m.

20th century American cartoonists' take on the Soviet Union.

150 Years of Tradition at Syracuse University

Orange and blue beanie

Posted on Sept. 3, 2019, 1:18 p.m.

University Archives’ most historically rich collections, including the Photograph Collection and Memorabilia Collection

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