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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 […]
SCUA NEWS – WINTER 2025
CLASS OF 1962 RING UPDATE Following up on the gripping “The Mystery of the 1962 Women’s College Ring” story from the last issue of the SCUA Quarterly, the second ring and its owner have been reunited! Beth Ann Koelsch tracked down (once again thanks to the 1962 Women’s College Yearbook and the internet) the owner […]
SCUA INSTRUCTION – Winter 2024/25
SCUA staff teach class sessions across many campus departments and programs, incorporating primary sources from our collections. These sessions give students the opportunity to learn from “hands-on” experiences with archival materials. Some of the notable classes and instructional opportunities this quarter include: Art 344: Imaging I Undergraduate students in Kelley O’Brien’s ART 344 Imaging I […]
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 […]
STUDENT SUCCESS: CECIL BARLOW
Hello! I’m the 2024-2025 Hodges Fellow at SCUA, having started in August. This is not my first time at SCUA—I started here as a processing assistant for University Archives in my sophomore year, meaning this is year two for me! This year I am here as a Hodges Fellow—a program that provides one semester of […]
Spring in the Cabin by Lois Morrison
-Audrey Sage The Special Collections and University Archives contains a copy of Lois Morrison’s artist book Spring in the Cabin. This delicate handsewn miniature book is 2.5″ x 2.5″ square, is constructed of a hand drawn cover, and contains handwritten text and illustrations. This book is accompanied by a collection of thirty six small hand […]
Cooking Through the Counties – Raspberry Nut Torte from Buncombe County
by Carolyn Shankle This issue’s recipe comes from the cookbook, Kitchen Witchery, issued by the Buncombe County Medical Auxiliary in 1978. With the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, we are keeping Western North Carolina in our minds and hearts. I’ll be featuring recipes from this region for the next few issues as the recovery […]
ABC OF BUGS AND PLANTS IN A NORTHERN GARDEN by Judy Fairclough Sgantas
by Audrey Sage I find summertime to be one of the most exciting times of the year because it affords the opportunity to witness the abundance and proliferation of insects and plant life in the garden. This wonderful artist book “ABC of Bugs and Plants in a Northern Garden” is filled with fantastic information and […]
The Restoration of Letters from New York
by Audrey Sage The Special Collections contains a copy of Letters from New York by L. Maria Child, which was published in 1845 by C. S. Frances & Co. in New York. Other works by L. Maria Child include Philothea: A Grecian Romance, History of Women, The Mother’s Book, and Flowers for Children. Prominent author […]
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. […]