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NEW ACQUISITIONS: SUMMER 2024
MANUSCRIPTS ANNE WALL THOMAS PAPERS Anne Wall Thomas was a Class of 1949 alumna of Woman’s College. Thomas graduated from Lilesville High School and earned a BFA and MFA from Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, now UNC Greensboro. Her teaching career began in the public schools of Oxford, NC, and continued in […]
New Acquistions: Summer 2022
RARE BOOKS French Neo-Gothic Typography and Printing Masterpiece Jean Midolle. Recueil ou Alphabet de lettres initiales, historiques avec bordures et fleurons d’après le 14 et 15 siècles. Gand [Ghent], G. Jacqmain, 1846. The title leaf and 24 chromolithographic plates were printed on porcelain coated paper, one for each letter of the alphabet (I and J were interchangeable, and […]
MFA Creative Writers Visit SCUA
-Suzanne Sawyer Creative writing graduate students in Associate Professor Emilia Phillips’ ENG 682: The Structure of Verse course visited SCUA on the afternoon of April 20, 2022. Students, some fiction writers and some poets, met with SCUA staff members Carolyn Shankle and Suzanne Sawyer for an immersion experience in spontaneous composition, typesetting and letterpress printing, […]
Spotlight on Students
by Patrick Dollar Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) has an extensive student worker, intern/practicum, and volunteer student worker program. Although the volunteer program has been temporarily suspended due to COVID-19, the department continues to employ 6-10 student workers and supervise several interns. Our students work on a variety of important projects, such as arranging […]
Curtain’s Up! The Carolina Theatre Records Come to Special Collections and University Archives
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives is thrilled to announce that we are now the home to the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro’s historic materials. A donation to our Manuscript collections, the Carolina Theatre’s materials include programs, marketing materials, slides, photographs, artifacts, and digital records. The Carolina Theatre has been an important cultural […]
Congressman J. Howard Coble Papers Available for Research
After several years of work, Howard Coble’s papers are now fully organized and available for research at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s University Libraries. Coble speaking at UNCG in 2009. The Congressman J. Howard Coble Papers is one of the largest collections at UNCG’s Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). […]
A New Exhibit Featuring Lois Lenski
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to host a new exhibit on Lois Lenski. “Lois Lenski: Art, Illustration, Literature, Research” is an exhibit designed around four themes utilizing materials from the Lois Lenski Papers and collections housed in SCUA. The exhibit attempts to show some aspects of Lois Lenski’s work […]
What’s New in SCUA Exhibit
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives is excited to announce the launching of a new, rotating exhibit in the first floor reading room of Jackson Library titled “What’s New in SCUA.” The rotating exhibit will feature recently acquired artifacts, books, documents, and photographs from the Special Collections and University Archives. Currently on […]
Newly Processed Manuscript Collections
As the summer come to a close, it is a good time to look back at the accomplishments of the last few months. We have five newly processed collections in the Manuscripts area of the Special Collections and University Archives that are open and ready for research. Here’s a bit more about them: Kay Hagan […]
Betty Carter, University Archivist
On Friday, May 7 2010, the University celebrated Betty Carter’s contributions to preserving and promoting the history of the institution. From her first day on February 1, 1974 through April 30, 2010, Betty processed, organized, and promoted the records of the presidents/chancellors from Charles Duncan McIver to Patricia Sullivan. Now, she was not at UNCG […]
