SCUA News
Special Collections and University Archives
Month: October 2009
Trade Binding Images Now Available Through Public Catalog
The American Trade Bindings Digital Library ContentDM database has been up for over a month. [See earlier post.] Users can now access images through the public catalog now that code to the live database is moved to the public catalog. Images are shown in both the brief and full record displays. If you want to […]
A Cloud of Death Engulfs a Campus: Typhoid Fever and UNCG in 1899
In November and December of 1899, the State Normal and Industrial College [now UNCG] faced a major crisis that almost shut down the school permanently after existing for only eight years. On November 15, 1899, Linda Toms, a student from Shelby NC, died suddenly from typhoid fever. Following her death, twelve more students would contract […]
