Joel Silverman is a photographer, commercial filmmaker, and educator. He is currently an adjunct professor at Emory University, where he teaches photography and filmmaking with a focus on digital futurism, photographic art history, printmaking, and historic darkroom processes. He was a 2023 recipient of the Rose Library’s Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Collections Research Read More …
by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library. Rose Library is honored to play a small role in Science Gallery Atlanta’s newest exhibition, “JUSTICE”, where we will offer finding aids to some of our related collections. In their words, “This exhibition season invites researchers, artists, and audiences to contemplate and reimagine some of the Read More …
Mark Auslander is a historical anthropologist and former faculty member at Emory College and Oxford College. Let us consider two receipts issued during the Civil War in the town of Decatur, Georgia. Both cast light on the structures and experiences of enslavement on the lands that would become, many decades later, parts of the main Read More …
The Rose Library has a trove of collections that document activism in Atlanta, Georgia, the South, and the nation. Here is some information about a new collection. The Rose Library has acquired the papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ and human rights activist Winston Johnson. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, and photographs that document Johnson’s work Read More …
Today Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock will be sworn into office. Ossoff will take the oath of office using Rabbi Jacob Rothschild’s Chumash. Rothschild served as the rabbi for Atlanta’s Reform congregation, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, usually referred to as the Temple. The Rothschild papers detail the Rabbi’s friendship with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Read More …
Rose Library is staffed by an amazing group of people who are knowledgeable, friendly, and passionate about archives. The “Getting to Know…” blog post series asks 5 questions so our staff can introduce themselves in their own words. What do you do at Rose Library? I am the Visiting Archivist for Southern Jewish Collections. In Read More …
Although the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is currently closed to non-Emory visitors, many of our rich resources can be accessed at home. These materials include image collections, maps, rare books, audiovisual materials, and born digital materials. Researchers interested in specific topics can also contact the Rose Library reference staff for Read More …
The recent passing of Reverend Doctor Joseph Echols Lowery on March 27, 2020 has been sobering to say the least. The fiery minister, civil rights pioneer, human rights advocate, and challenger of injustice everywhere was not only a truth speaker, he demonstrated and encouraged the necessary actions that could and did lead to the Read More …
On January 30th, 2020, Rose Library held its first drag show in the archive. The show helped Rose Library celebrate our LGBTQ collections. And thanks to Brook Hewitt of Rose Riot Photography, we have a way to share this amazing event! On behalf of Randy Gue, Curator of the Political, Cultural and Social Movements Collections Read More …
Rose Library’s Curator of Political, Cultural and Social Movements Collections, Randy Gue, celebrates the 30th anniversary of Atlanta indie duo Flap on 3.4.2020 with a live music performance by the Emory grads in the archive! Quick, someone just had a momentary lapse in judgement and approved your proposal to put on a show—live music—where you work. Read More …
Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging about his experience processing the records of The American Music Show. Shortly after writing this first blog post, I was, along with the rest of the Rose Library, deeply saddened to hear of the passing Read More …
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 …
