News from the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives at the UNC Greensboro University Libraries |
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Illustration from The Sphere of Rocks and Water
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One of the primary roles of The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archive is to acquire books and original materials, whether by donation, purchase, or transfer.
SCUA recently acquired J.G. Lubbock's 1983 masterwork, The Sphere of Rocks and Water,
designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. This featured image is an intaglio print from a copper plate.
Learn more about this acquisition, and other new materials in the Rare Books, Manuscripts, University Archives, and the Women Veterans Historical Project Collections HERE.
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SCUA staff is actively involved with the campus and community. Recently, UNCG Libraries received a large grant to digitize materials related to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. This summer SCUA staff members were featured in local media, participated in campus and community events, curated exhibits, and were heavily involved with the Greensboro History Museum's "Flashback to the 1940s" celebration.
Read about recent SCUA activities HERE.
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SCUA focuses on working with UNCG students to help prepare them for current and future success. This includes student projects, internships, and other first-hand experiences with Special Collections and University Archives.
SCUA's summer newsletter highlights a museum internship and an online exhibit. Read about them HERE.
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SCUA staff continued to teach classes and give workshops throughout the summer, incorporating primary sources from across our collections. These sessions gave students the opportunity to learn from “hands-on” experiences with archival materials.
This summer, SCUA participated in the CHANCE program, a week-long summer college immersion experience for Latinx high school juniors and seniors. Read more about this and other instruction HERE. |
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SCUA's holdings include a wide variety of formats, including scrapbooks. Senior Conservator Audrey Sage takes us through the conservation process for treatment of scrapbooks from the Women Veterans Historical Project. Read about this work HERE.
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SCUA has extensive holdings of primary and secondary source materials related to physical education including dance, gymnastics activities, early childhood education movement, and athletics.
See the research guide HERE. |
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Within Dean of Women Harriet Elliott's manuscript collection are a film and interview about her work with the Roosevelt administration's initiative to conserve resources for the war effort. Both have been digitized and are available to the public. Learn more about Elliott's role in WWII home front mobilization HERE.
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The Passport to Juneteenth exhibit, held in the Hodges Reading Room during the month of June, was an immersive experience incorporating resources from Rare Books, University Archives, Manuscripts, and the Women Veterans Historical Project. The exhibit featured items spanning from 1773 to 2023, including printed materials, textiles, photographs, artifacts, artwork, and oral histories. Read about the exhibit HERE. |
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S CUA's cookbook collection includes more than 2,000 volumes from across North Carolina. Many of these are community publications, which were typically created with the intention of raising money. The UNCG collection is comprised of cookbooks from churches, community groups, hospitals, and various clubs. See four featured recipes HERE. |
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Our featured artist book is a miniature book created by the artists Peter and Donna Thomas, the Wandering Book Artists. Inspired by Walt Whitman, this amazing creation extols the virtues of nature, travelling caravans, and taking to the open road.
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Oral histories are one of SCUA's major collecting focuses. These interviews are with women veterans, local community members, and UNCG alumni and faculty. In a new feature, the Quarterly Review will highlight one oral history each issue.
First in the series is from the Women Veterans Historical Project. Susie Winston Bain (1922-2017) was a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) during World War II. Bain took flying lessons to qualify for the newly formed WASP in 1943. She ferried planes across the country and towed targets for men's live ammunition practice. In her oral history she discusses her experiences flying planes during World War II.
Listen to her oral history HERE. |
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