SCRC Blog Posts

Happy International Women's Day!

Posted on March 3, 2020, 1 p.m.

Highlights of groundbreaking or interesting women from collections.

February 2020 News Wrap Up

Posted on Feb. 28, 2020, 11:30 a.m.

Looking back at events, newly processed collections

Special Collections Research Center History Highlights

Posted on Feb. 24, 2020, 11:45 a.m.

Let the Reader Emerge! Milestones of the Syracuse University Libraries

Unfaithful: Marriage Reform and Utopian Dreams

Posted on Feb. 13, 2020, 12:31 p.m.

Radical reform movements, including the Oneida Community in upstate New York and the Free Love Club and the Unitary Home in New York City.

December January 2020 News Wrap Up

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

Review, upcoming events and newly processed collections

An Act of Moral Courage

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

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!

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

Invitation from our William Wallace Denslow Collection

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

Interview with David Stokoe

Marketing and Publicity and Press, Oh My!

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

The marketing campaign for The Wizard of Oz film

Getting Pulled In

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

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

Recap of events and newly processed collections.

Katsushika Hokusai as Book Illustrator

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

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

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

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..."

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

Selection of spooky materials from SCRC.

Shedding Light on Illuminated Manuscripts

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

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

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

New exhibits, new acquisitions and recent events.