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When state fairs go international

In 1862, the British Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Trades sponsored an international exposition in London. Exhibitors brought wares from 36 countries, and a publishing house chose 300 of the items in the exhibit to publish via tinted lithographs.…

Eye of the Beholder 4

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Archives & Special Collections

Eye of the Beholder 4: One Image, Many Perspectives

October 3, 2011-?

THE EXHIBIT: Archives & Special Collections is mounting an exhibit to demonstrate how a single item: this image …

the campaign season

[Ed note: I don’t know what’s worse, that I put down the wrong election day in this posting originally–based on the advice of a colleague which I didn’t confirm–or that none of you caught it in the 4 days it …

Too much fun to leave

From an unsolicited Facebook posting by a library colleague last night:

Too much partying at the Archives Open House–I missed my bus.

For those of you who missed the previous blog posting, we here at A&SC decided to celebrate Archives …

Eye of the Beholder: for a third glorious year

All right, I’ll ‘fess up. Our whole Eye of the Beholder exhibit thing? Was Arlene being lazy. In early September 2008, when I asked if we should do something for Archives Month in October, Mariecris suggested an exhibit. The problem …

April is the something month

T.S. Eliot might have called it the cruellest, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped a lot of people from using April to celebrate a lot of things. Jazz. Gardens.

And poetry, mathematics, and food, too. To celebrate April, the …