Life at Emory has dramatically changed since the University moved to Atlanta in 1915. Instead of streetcars, we have buses. Instead of a small, compact campus, we have a multitude of buildings and annexes. Instead of poodle skirts and bomber jackets, we have leggings and blue jeans. Do you ever wonder what campus was like…
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Tick-Tacky-Tock: Timely Removal of Aging Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Tape
Rare scrapbooks that document African American life in the United States from 1890-1975 are being preserved with support through a “Save America’s Treasures” (SAT) grant. The project is a collaborative effort with Emory University Preservation Office, Digital Curation Center, and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). The SAT grant is awarded through the…
Undine Smith Moore papers: Langston Hughes poetry book
“Revealing Her Story: Documenting African American Women Intellectuals” is a two-year project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to arrange and describe the personal papers of nine African American women writers, artists and musicians. Collections included in the project are the Pearl Cleage papers; additions to the Delilah Jackson papers; the Samella…
Langmuir Photograph Collection Now Available Digitally to the Emory Community
The Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection is now available digitally to the Emory community and to researchers in MARBL’s Reading Room. The collection, which was acquired in 2012, includes over 12,000 photographs depicting African American life from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Emory faculty, staff and students can access the collection…
Horace Mann and Julia W. Bond family papers
When people think about doing research in an archive, they often think about historians and biographers. Though many of the scholars conducting research in archival collections are in humanities disciplines, archives can be invaluable to scholars in fields such as sociology as well. The Horace Mann and Julia W. Bond family papers, now fully…