SCRC Blog Posts
List of blog posts
March 2020 Wrap Up
![Instagram post with photo of person looking at collections](/media/images/Screenshot_2022-06-24_111530.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on March 31, 2020, 10:52 a.m.
Public events have been postponed, and we are ending March on a quieter note as we shift to operating remotely.
The Orange in National Orange Day
![Two women wearing orange cardigans sitting behind Syracuse University Archives table, with memorabilia including band uniform on table](/media/images/OrangeCentral2017-727x600.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on March 24, 2020, 11:29 a.m.
The history of orange as Syracuse University's color.
Bringing Art to the People
![Pencil illustration of mother and child on red background](/media/images/EternalLove1-490x600.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on March 19, 2020, 11:44 a.m.
Pop-up exhibit on the Black Arts Movement.
Happy International Women's Day!
![Marguerite Higgins typing on typewriter](/media/images/mhiggins_8308-470x600.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on March 3, 2020, 1 p.m.
Highlights of groundbreaking or interesting women from collections.
February 2020 News Wrap Up
![screen shot of instagram post featuring Black Arts Movement popup exhibit](/media/images/Screenshot_2022-06-24_111530.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Feb. 28, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Looking back at events, newly processed collections
Special Collections Research Center History Highlights
![Leopold von Ranke in his library, early 1880s](/media/images/3A_Leopold-von-Ranke-in-his-librar.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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
![Book cover with image of 1800s couple](/media/images/Unfaithful-1-702x1024.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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
![Black students sitting in classroom](/media/images/BAMschool-687x600.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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.](/media/images/SyracuseHeraldJournal1943Watanabe-.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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](/media/images/palimpsest1.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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](/media/images/New-Years-Eve.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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.](/media/images/IMG-4724-e1620150965883-436x600.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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.](/media/images/Fledgling_Graduation_Dance-e157488.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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](/media/images/Ramaswamy_twt.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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](/media/images/IMG_0651-e1569612838869-1024x768.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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](/media/images/IMG_1256-768x1024.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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.](/media/images/IMG_1680-e1572982060660-768x1024.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
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](/media/images/MLA_Meeting.2e16d0ba.fill-300x200.jpg)
Posted on Oct. 30, 2019, 8:59 a.m.
Recap of past month's events and news mentions