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News from the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives at the UNC Greensboro University Libraries

Winter 2022 | Issue 5
Digital Darkroom Class asks "What is Truth?" Read more...
Senior Conservator Audrey Sage shares
her work with tiny things.
Catch up with SCUA departmental news, including recent community presentations, exhibits, publications, and media spotlights!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SCUA!
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is excited to announce its 50th anniversary year. Read more...
Learn about the beginning years of SCUA from the first department head Emmy Mills here...
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives is excited to announce the recent acquisition of the papers of Davis Hosmer, a soldier of the American Civil War.  Read more...
One of the primary roles of Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archive is to acquire books and original materials, whether by donation, purchase, or transfer. Recent additions to the Rare Books, Manuscripts, University Archives, and Women Veterans Historical Project Collections include....Read More...
MYSTERY ACQUISITION
This new acquisition is somewhat of a mystery. Transferred from the Alumni House, we know it is from the Woman's College years but that is all. If you can identify this adorable animal (a skunk? a badger? a fox?), or to whom it might have belonged, please let us know at scua@uncg.edu!
HIGHLIGHTED COLLECTION
Black Power Forum, 1967, UNCG
To enhance research and instruction, SCUA creates Research Guides to provide targeted information and resources relating to a particular author and subject. This guide provides access to the materials held in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives relating to civil rights at UNCG and locally. https://uncg.libguides.com/scua_civil_rights
FEATURED ARTICLES
We asked student worker Elizabeth Konopka, to tell us about something exciting she discovered while processing a collection. Elizabeth worked with the papers of Michael Fleming Parker, a former professor from the MFA Writing Program at UNCG. Read about what she found here.
We were delighted to discover how to tenderly plank a piece of shad or fry a cake in this lovely cookbook by Linda Larned from our cookbook collection.
In this newsletter, Special Collections and University Archives would like to feature North Carolinian influential musicians, from our Story Map website, created by UNC Greensboro Library and Information Science student, Jon Hill. To explore the map, please visit here...

Special Collections continues to enhance and develop its Artist Book Collections.
SCUA recently added IT WAS THERE ALL ALONG by Frank Hamrick . This wonderful handmade book gives us a visual exploration of remote waterways and regions through the southeast.
In June 2019, Patrick Dollar, archivist, began discussions with the head of the Triad Stage Board of Directors about donating their records to SCUA. In March 2021, Patrick and Stacey Krim, Manuscripts Curator, took a van and picked up 45 boxes that were being stored at the Triad Stage offices. Read more...

In the Rare Book Collection, SCUA has a number of holdings that document the history of race in the United States. Special Collections Specialist Carolyn Shankle selected some notable titles from the shelves written by Black and African American authors. Read More...
Curator of Manuscripts Stacey Krim and University Archivist Erin Lawrimore will be spearheading a new oral history project about Triad area women politicians. Read more...
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