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Special Collections and University Archives
Month: June 2024
UNCG SCHOOL OF NURSING ALUMNAE VISIT SCUA
On May 22, 2024, UNCG School of Nursing alumnae Kathryn Ortman Prohoda (’81) and her sister, Madeleine Ortman (’85) visited SCUA to view historical photographs as well as class composites that previously hung in the former School of Nursing building. While here, they posed with the portrait of Eloise R. Lewis, who was the first […]
SCUA News: Spring 2024
HAYES-TAYLOR YMCA COMMUNITY SCANNING On April 4th, 2024 SCUA staff volunteered to assist in a community scanning event led by Digital Projects Coordinator David Gwynn. The focus of the event was to preserve local African-American history. Community members brought their photographs, ephemera, and other materials to be scanned. The digitized files will be added to […]
You Are Here by Julie Chen
We are focusing our attention on the work of book artist Julie Chen. The University Libraries is privileged to have several of Chen’s exceptional works in their collection. One of which is titled You Are Here, a border book that measures 4″ by 4″, closed, but spans 15 1/2″ by 11 1/2″ when fully opened. […]
Student Success: Spring 2024
A Stereoscope Project Dulce Ivet Gonzalez, a BFA student majoring in Photography, visited SCUA with her class for an instructional session and was inspired to create a stereoscope. Gonzalez wrote: “I was fascinated by everything, especially photography related information and cameras. For my alternative process class with Professor Leah Sobsey, I created a stereoscope inspired […]
Preserving the Tuttle Collection
-Audrey Sage Lelia Judson Tuttle was born in 1878 in Caldwell County, North Carolina, where she grew up on the family farm. She graduated from the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) in 1900, and did postgraduate work in English at the State Normal before receiving her Master of Arts degree in English from […]
Early Days of the College: The Dixie Lee Bryant Scrapbook
by Kathelene McCarty Smith In April 1939, Dixie Lee Bryant presented a large comprehensive scrapbook of the early years of the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) to her friend and Alumnae Secretary Clara Booth Byrd. Perhaps arising from a wave of nostalgia inspired by attendance at a birthday celebration held the year before […]
“Carolyn is Cooking Through the Counties” Icebox Cheese Cookies, Wake County
Rare Book Curator, Carolyn Shankle, is cooking her way through SCUA’s vast North Carolina Cookbook Collection! She will have a new recipe each quarterly newsletter. This issue’s recipe comes from the North Carolina State College Woman’s Club Cook Book [undated, between 1952-1974], submitted by Mrs. H.A. Patten. This club was formed in 1919 with membership […]
Spring 2024: New Acquisitions
MANUSCRIPTS ART SUPPLY BOX This art supply box originally belonged to Josephine Crocker Maddrey Alston, a member of the Woman’s College class of 1948. Alston was a Home Economics major while attending WC. WORLD WAR I AMERICAN RED CROSS POSTERS These WWI posters stress the importance of giving to the American Red Cross. The Red […]
Instruction: Spring 2024
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives has a strong commitment to student outreach and instruction, teaching up to 120 instructional sessions per year. SCUA’s class sessions often incorporate a PowerPoint presentation, a “pop-up” display of related archival material, and a hands-on primary source analysis. This exercise integrates a variety of items from […]
