Emory University Selected to Host Shakespeare First Folio
Emory University Chosen for First Folio Tour Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night. These famous plays and 15 others by Shakespeare…
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“Joe Louis Barrow: A Life and Career in Context” – MARBL Exhibits ...
Since the exhibit, “Joe Louis Barrow: A Life and Career in Context” first appeared in Woodruff Library in November of…
Processing Fun: Delilah Jackson Audiovisual Collection
“Revealing Her Story: Documenting African American Women Intellectuals” is a two-year project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records…
Exclusive Images of MARBL Renovation – Woodruff L10
The newly renovated MARBL will debut in Fall 2015, with an expanded reading room, dramatic vistas of Emory University and…
The Beautiful is Political: The Dianora Niccolini Papers at MARBL
Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library recently acquired the papers of New York photographer Dianora Niccolini. Niccolini is best…
Picturing a New South: MARBL Acquires the Photographs of Ron Sherman
Emory University’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) recently acquired 748 vintage silver gelatin prints from Atlanta photographer, Ron…
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Picturing a Photographer’s Atlanta: MARBL Acquires the Alli Royce Soble Photograp ...
Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library recently acquired twenty-four photograph albums from Atlanta artist Alli Royce Soble. Soble (b.1973) earned her BFA in photography from Georgia State University in 1998. She has exhibited her work in solo and...
Realism, Symbolism, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
In the late 1990s, as the long career of painter, sculptor, and university professor John Biggers was drawing to a close, the artist received letters from admirers commenting on his life’s work. A native of Gastonia, North Carolina, Biggers spent...
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...
Letters as a Lens
Archival research is akin to poking through someone’s bedroom while they are gone, or reading someone’s diary without their permission. At first, it seems that you are violating the space of another individual. There is no way for them...
Reflections on “Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens”
August 29, 2013 was a fun, if slightly overwhelming, day of work on the exhibit “Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens.” The curatorial team sat in MARBL for hours going through hundreds of Heaney’s photos as we tried to...
The Personal Journey of Brownie Broadway
In 1990, on the occasion of playwright Rebecca Ranson‘s forty-seventh birthday, the writer and poet delivered a public performance in Atlanta while in character as her alter ego, Brownie Broadway. The dialogue, performed with call-and-response audience participation, recounted the most...