Mary Elsie Fox Photograph Collection

A new finding aid is available for the Mary Elsie Fox Photograph collection. This collection came to Special Collections from a donor that discovered the photographs inside of a discarded scrapbook. The photographs remained unprocessed for several years following the donation, but graduate student intern Kate Norman recently processed the collection and created a finding […]

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East German Poster Collection Political Series Finding Aid

Since January Special Collections and Archives staff have processed a portion of the East German Poster Collection thanks to a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. The first series-level finding aid on the political posters is available here. Project assistants Lauren Shutt and Sean Tennant cataloged each poster individually using spreadsheets that […]

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Broadus Bailey French Revolution print collection

The Broadus Bailey French Revolution print collection features 82 engravings that begin with the Estates General meeting before the Revolution officially begins and continues through until just after King Louis XVI is executed.  Student assistant Stacey Kniatt processed the collection, created the finding aid, and entered metadata for the digital collection.

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Meet the Jack Rottier Photograph Collection

Last spring, Robin Rottier, a Mason psychology student and Preservation Assistant working in the library, donated a collection of thousands of slides, negatives, and prints taken by her father Jack Rottier. Jack Rottier worked as a photographer for the National Capital Region of the National Park Service from the early 1960s until he retired in […]

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