Emory President Sanford S. Atwood, right, helps commemorate the groundbreaking for the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing building, the proceedings of which are recorded in Series 210 In the spring of 2012, the Emory University Archives began an audiovisual materials survey and re-processing project. After months of wrangling cassette tapes, VHS tapes, 16mm film, Read More …
Here on the Digital Archives team in MARBL, we know that keeping track of your digital assets can be overwhelming. You may have files stored on multiple computers, not to mention in the cloud. Over the last fifteen years, you’ve probably accumulated a number of email accounts and even more profile pages: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Read More …
MARBL is staffed by an eclectic group of people who are knowledgeable, friendly and witty lovers of special collections. Periodically, they'll introduce themselves to you here on the blog by telling you how they got into the world of manuscripts, archives and rare books, and what they love most within MARBL's collections. by Elizabeth Chase, Coordinator for Read More …
Minute Book of the Frances E.W. Harper Literary and Social Circle, 1915-1929 Share I have always been fascinated by African American women who organized themselves into literary, social, and service organizations during the early to mid-twentieth century. Many of these clubs were founded within 50 years of emancipation and mark a thirst by African Read More …
It happens sometimes that MARBL has multiple patrons visiting and using our reading room at the same time who are working on similar themes or researching the same collections. In those cases, we like to let the patrons know so they can possibly discuss their work and gain further insights into their research. On October Read More …
Share Related Story: MARBL Blog entry about John Biggers, another African American artist whose collections are housed in MARBL Related Links: Edwin A. Harleston Finding Aid African AmericanCollections at MARBL Join the discussion As a literary scholar, I find it refreshing to take on historical projects in my second life as a graduate student Read More …
Share Related Links: William Levi Dawson Finding Aid Research Guide to African American Collections in MARBL Join the discussion Periodically, the MARBL blog will feature updates and insights from visiting researchers working within MARBL's collections. Gwynne Brown, Assistant Professor of Music History and Music Theory at the University of Puget Sound, spent a month Read More …
Many aspects of the Civil War which didn’t necessarily occur directly in Atlanta or even in Georgia, had a direct impact on Atlanta’s citizens. When the South seceded from the Union, it almost immediately fell into a financial crisis. Problems of inflation plagued the Confederacy throughout the war. There was not a great deal of Read More …
Salman Rushdie Discusses Creativity and Your browser does not support iframes. But You can use the following link. Link Share Related Story: Salman Rushdie: Emory News Center Related Links: Slate: Salman Rushdie's Well-Timed Memoir The Daily Mail: Life and Love in the Shadow of the Fatwa Join the discussion Valentine's Day, 1989: the day Read More …
Share Related Story: In Conversation: Short Stories-Kevin Young with Eamon Grennan Related Links: Eamon Grennan Finding Aid Join the discussion Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1941. After receiving his B.A. and M.A. from University College in Dublin, Grennan moved to the United States to attend graduate school at Harvard University. He Read More …
Correspondence from Imogene Hoyle to Amaryllis Bomar, “Atlanta is very dull now.”, June 30, 1863[?], Bomar Family Papers Share Related Story: Discovering Atlanta Related Links: Bomar Family Papers Finding Aid Civil War Research Guide Join the discussion While MARBL holds a significant amount of letters to and from soldiers in the Civil War between Read More …
The Lucille Clifton Exhibition Come Celebrate With Me: The Work of Lucille Clifton is currently on display in the MARBL gallery on the 10th Floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The exhibit is co-curated by Kevin Young, Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at MARBL, and Amy Hildreth Chen, Emory Read More …
