Month: September 2018

Suspense in the Archive, or: Did the Mid-Century Avant-garde Have a Southern Accent?

Posted onAuthorCourtney E. Chartier

In July 2018, Dr. Anna Ioanes conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short Term Fellowship program. Dr. Ioanes is Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis. Archival research can be a suspenseful experience. The researcher turns pages and opens boxes, hoping to find something that is yet Read More …

Frederick Law Olmsted in Atlanta

Posted onAuthorCourtney E. Chartier

The Library of Congress recently announced a completed digitization project focusing on the collection of Frederick Olmsted.  As a manuscript archivist who has worked with the papers of the Druid Hills Civic Association (DHCA) and the Dana White papers, I knew immediately that the Library of Congress had missed highlighting Olmsted’s work in the South, Read More …