This month Collection Highlights featured the streaming media collection. Virginia Tech Libraries provides access to over 60,000 streaming videos. Documentaries, foreign films, kids films, historical footage, classics, animated, and instructional videos can all be streamed and watched anytime, anywhere. No special equipment or … Continue reading → Continue reading
This year for Women’s History Month, Special Collections has some special things going on! We will have a display on the second floor of Newman Library near the main entrance. “Remarkable Women Throughout History: Snapshots from Special Collections” is a month-long display (March 1-31) with posters, items in exhibit cases, and a book display from the … Continue reading Women’s History Month 2017
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This year for Women’s History Month, Special Collections has some special things going on! We will have a display on the second floor of Newman Library near the main entrance. “Remarkable Women Throughout History: Snapshots from Special Collections” is a month-long display (March 1-31) with posters, items in exhibit cases, and a book display from the … Continue reading Women’s History Month 2017
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Earlier this week, I got to spend a little quality time with the Culinary Ephemera Collection (Ms2013-028). There was a folder full of items waiting to be added. Items for this collection pile up a bit slower than for the Culinary Pamphlet Collection, so I don’t need to go back to it quite as frequently. … Continue reading Ephemeral Medicines (Patent and Practical)
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A Young Blacksburg Woman Falls Victim to Infatuation We may be just a little late for Valentine’s Day, but of course the subject of love is never passé. And that brief, trite introduction leads us to the 1919 diary of a young Blacksburg woman named Olivia Tutwiler. Pouring her heart into a small composition book, … Continue reading The Crush
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Some recent research has led me to a little bit of the history of oyster availability in the early 20th century. I was fascinated to learn that landlocked (or at least landlocked from the eastern seaboard) locations like Kentucky and Tennessee would have train cars loaded with ice and oysters brought inland for purchase and … Continue reading Getting Out of Our Shells: Shellfish Cooking by an African-American Chef in 1901
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In honor of Black History Month, I thought I’d take this week to talk about the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. If you’ve watched television or attended a movie in the last 50-60 years, you’ve probably seen a reference to Freemasonry or Masons. While the Masons have become a mythic symbol in popular culture that is often … Continue reading Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Tadmore Light Lodge, No. 6184 (Blacksburg, VA)
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I feel like the new pamphlet round-up should be a quarterly-esque type event. And since it’s been about 5 months since the last one, here we go again! (Side note: These are all brand new items. They haven’t been added to the Culinary Pamphlet Collection yet, but they will be soon!) This Price Flavoring Extract … Continue reading New Pamphlet Round-Up #5!
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Sherwood Anderson’s “The Cornfields” first appeared in print his first collection of poems, Mid-American Chants, in 1918. It’s the first poem in the book, too. So, a lot of “firsts” here. It would be dangerous for me (a two-time English major and avid poetry consumer) and a long read for you, if I were to launch … Continue reading The Cornfields of Sherwood Anderson
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