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Peg Woffington by Charles Reade 1899
by Audrey Sage The novel Peg Woffington which was written in 1853 by the British author Charles Reade. Inspired by the popular stage play Masks and Faces, Reade portrayed the London success of the Irish actress Peg Woffington (1720–1760). UNCG owns a copy of this work in the Robert C. Hanson Performing Arts collection in […]
The Small, But Intriguing 1916 History of Music Class Scrapbook
by Kathelene McCarty Smith During the Christmas season of 1916, juniors in the History of Music Class at the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNC Greensboro) presented Professor Wade Brown with a small scrapbook as a token of their esteem. The scrapbook was appropriately decorated with musical bars surrounding photographs of Professor Brown and […]
The Little Jungle Book by Linda Connor and Maria Sibylla Merian
by Audrey Sage We have added a luscious book by Linda Connor to our collection. Linda Connor is an American photographer and artist living in Northern California. Her work has taken her to remote parts of the globe, and her photographs consider the relationship of the sacred to the natural world and reflect her interest […]
The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man by Catherine Maria Sedgwick
by Audrey Sage – Senior Conservator The University Libraries Special Collections contains a copy of Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man, published in 1839 by Harper & Brothers. An important literary advocate for women in the 19th century, Sedgwick’s words, intelligence, and voice had fallen into obscurity towards the […]
HALF DOME – A CLIMBING HISTORY BY PETER AND DONNA THOMAS
-Audrey Sage The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Special Collections has acquired a copy of the delightful artist book, created by Peter and Donna Thomas, which gives homage to the awe inspiring Half Dome batholith at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. The artists created this tiny tome in […]
FERN BISEL PEAT – ILLUSTRATOR
by Audrey Sage Within a recent donation to the Special Collections, we received a copy of “The Night Before Christmas”, published in 1936 by the Saalfield Publishing Company of Aakron, Ohio. This wonderful edition was illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat, a very talented and popular illustrator in the early 20th century. “Fern Bisel was born […]
SCUA CALENDAR
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 […]
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 […]
SCUA Instruction: Fall 2024
SCUA staff continued to teach classes and workshops throughout the fall, incorporating primary sources from across our collections. These sessions give students the opportunity to learn from a “hands-on” experience with archival materials. Some of the notable classes and instructional opportunities this fall include: 2024 MFA Cohort Visit The incoming MFA students visited SCUA at […]