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Please join us for our upcoming events: MARCH 2025: March 3 – April 4, 2025 Exhibit – “LIP SERVICE: Spilling the Snake Oils of Women’s Health and Wellness Products” on the Jackson Library ground floor curated by Hodges Fellow Cecil Barlow. March 20, 2025 at 2 pm Program – Cecil Barlow will discuss his process […]
SCRAPBOOK SPOTLIGHT
The “NINA M.H.” SCRAPBOOK MYSTERY BY HERMANN TROJANOWSKI My name is Hermann Trojanowski, and I am the former Special Projects Archivist at UNCG’s Special Collections and University Archives Department (SCUA). One of the projects on which I worked while at SCUA was conducting oral history interviews for the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project […]
Caring for artifacts in the Robert C. Hansen Collection
-Audrey Sage Nestled within the Special Collections and University Archives is the Robert C. Hansen collection. This collection dates from circa 100 to 2020 (bulk 1800s-2000s) and contains programs, heralds, guidebooks and periodicals, playbooks, sheet music and songbooks, correspondence and autographs, original costume and scenery designs, posters, photographs, postcards, tradecards, scrapbooks, and other visual materials […]
Interview with Dr. William (Bill) K. Finley, former Head of Special Collections and University Archives added to UNCG Institutional Memory Collection
By Scott Hinshaw Coming at the end of our department’s fiftieth anniversary, I had a wonderful opportunity to interview Dr. William (Bill) K. Finley for the UNCG Institutional Memory Collection this spring. Dr. Finley is the former head of Special Collections and University Archives at UNCG, where he worked from 1998-2013. He is also Emeritus […]
A Student’s Perspective: Behind the Stacks in Manuscripts and Archives
I started in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) as a volunteer during the fall semester of my freshman year at UNCG (2010). I had emailed someone (I can’t remember who now) in the library and asked if there was any need for volunteers in the library. I thought I’d be checking […]
A Student’s Perspective : Behind the Stacks in Archives and Manuscripts
When I first started my graduate career at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), I decided to look for a job with the University Libraries. Directed to the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives department, I learned that they only had a volunteer position available, for which I promptly interviewed. In […]