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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Tulsa Race Riot photographs
The Department of Special Collections has a collection of many photographs related to the Tulsa race riot, which occurred 31 May-1 June 1921. A small exhibit of these can be found online. Many of these remain under copyright, even though … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, History
Tagged collections, history, photographs, Tulsa, tulsa race riot
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Contributing to the Ozarkscivilwar.org project
As we are now deeply into the sesquicentennial of the United States’ internal conflict most commonly referred to as the Civil War, I should mention that there is an interesting digitization project called Community and Conflict: The Impact of the … Continue reading
Posted in Collections
Tagged army, cherokee, civil war, collections, diaries, diary, Indian Territory, military, ozarks
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New Acquisition
The department’s newest acquisition is three wood engraved illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis by Peter Forster (Coll. No. 2011.032). The signed and numbered prints were made from the woodblocks used in Forster’s 1991 Folio Society edition of De Profundis, … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Collections
Tagged acquisitions, art, Oscar Wilde, Rupert Hart-Davis
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Happy Bloomsday!
Happy Bloomsday from the Department of Special Collections and University Archives. We are the proud owners of six(!) first editions of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Robert Frost
Posted in Collections, Guide to Literary and Related Materials
Tagged collections, Libraries, robert frost
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Factory House library
In 1982 McFarlin Library added a most unusual collection of nineteenth century fiction formed at the time the books were being published. In the early 1820s the merchants and wine-traders who had come from Britain and settled in Porto (also … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, factory house, Libraries, library, oporto, porto
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Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Collection
Sir Rupert Hart-Davis was a gentleman-publisher, author, editor and bibliophile. It has been said that nobody of Hart-Davis’s generation was so much at the heart of the English literary scene as he was. His careers in publishing, editing and writing … Continue reading
Cherokee Language Materials
Did you know you can search Google in Cherokee? To celebrate the new interface, we would like to highlight some of the department’s Cherokee language materials. We recently digitized a manuscript of medicine formulas written by Uwedasat, a.k.a. John Campbell … Continue reading
The Fugitive Poets
Walter Clyde Curry, Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Sidney Hirsch, Andrew Lytle, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Alan Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. In the spring of 1922, a literary movement began at Vanderbilt University centering on the little magazine … Continue reading
