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 […]
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.
Graduate student assistant Stacey Kniatt recently processed the French Communist Party poster collection. A finding aid is available here.
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 […]
Earlier this fall an inquiry came to SC&A about the John C. Becher Soldier Show Collection (see Veronica Fisher’s post from Tuesday, October 20, 2009). Further correspondence revealed that the researcher had actually taken part in the World War II soldier show “Fall Out for Fun.” Excited by the prospect of learning more about the […]
