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Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University
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Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives, Ohio University Libraries @aldenlibrary.bsky.social‬, Athens.
https://bit.ly/m/archives-ohiouniversity
(Not that XL public uni in Columbus--we pre-date)
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Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social · Aug 25
Archives & Special Collections fall hours begin today 8/25!
Visit M-F 9-12/1-4 to see new exhibits, browse ref collection, take coloring/Legos break. Everyone is welcome!

Appt form bit.ly/oulibraries-....

#archives #RareBooks #SpecialCollections #manuscripts #DocumentaryPhotography #OHIOUniversity
View inside Archives lobby looking towards the doors into the reading room. Bobcat mascot cutouts stand on either side of those doors. Inside the reading room are wooden tables and chairs and reference books on shelves. Text: Archives Fall Hours begin 8/25! Visit M-F 9AM-12PM/1PM-4PM. Use our form to schedule appointment w/ curator: link" View of other end of Archives and Special collections lobby. Legos and coloring station table & chair, and wall display cases with posters, photos, and artifacts from the collections.
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Athens Mental Health Center #archives on display!
Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, walks thru exhibit. #Infographics by VICO 4112/5112 Illustration Capstone class!
Up thru fall semester @aldenlibrary.bsky.social 5th fl.
Blog: https://bit.ly/mahnblog-infographics-amhc
#MahnBlog #AthensOhio
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#NativeAmerican #music!🎵
Cherokee, Milwaukee-based singer Michael Jacobs performed at #OHIOUniversity Baker Center for free, 2008!
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Nov 2008 The Post: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-michaeljacobs-2008
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #music #performers #artists #musicsky
The Post, November 5, 2008. “Performance kicks off Indian Heritage Month.” Michael Jacobs performs guitar in provided photo to right. Text: interview with Jacobs. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#Caturday😻.
Lloyd E. Moore captured this golden hour moment with a decorative glass cat on a stove #DocumentaryPhotography.
Full quality image: https://bit.ly/dpa-moore-glasscat
#OHIOUniversity #documentary #photography #archives #photographs #cats #Ohio #cat #35mm #filmphotography #slides
Glass cat on stove, Chesapeake, Ohio, circa November 1990. Crop-in on cat and its shadow. Full image placed on a black background.
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Today's the first day of our annual winter holiday book sale!

40% off all titles and free US shipping on orders $50+ w/ promo code SNOW

www.ohio.edu/news/2025/11...
Ohio University Press to hold winter holiday book sale
Once again this year, Ohio University Press will offer the OHIO community a 40% discount off of its books, in all formats.
www.ohio.edu
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ICYMI, our #OhioDIG Insta this week was a #KentStateLibraries take over!
Check it out: www.instagram.com/ohiodig/
And Ohio #digitization / #digipres folks, watch for a call soon to do your own take over!
#OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives
Screenshot of Kent post on OD Insta. Desktop of digitization station on left, text post on right. Screenshot of Kent posts on OD Insta grid.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#OhioDIG '26 Meetings
Jan– virtual– Digital Preservation
Mar– virtual– Image Quality, OD PhaseOne UG
May– inperson– Topic TBD– Case Western Reserve, CLE
July– inperson– Topic TBD– Wright State, Dayton
Sep– inperson– Topic TBD– Seeking Columbus host!
Nov– virtual– Topic TBD
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OhioDIG MEETINGS – Ohio Digitization Interest Group – OhioDIG
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November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Archives💚 fall! #TBT
Students dive into & emerge from leaf piles in 1974 yearbook!🍂
#OHIOUniversity yearbooks are accessible online.
1974 yearbook: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-1973leafpiles
#OHIOUniversityArchives #archives #FromTheArchives #autumn #fallarchives #leaves #leafpiles
3 frames of people playing in the same leaf pile. 1974 yearbook, Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections. Top: hands emerge from leaf pile. Middle: Top of a person’s head emerges from lead pile. Bottom: Two people emerge from leaf pile, leaves flying in the air.
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Mapping workshop!
We are at Nelsonville Public Library 2-4 PM Weds 11/19, for an exploration of interactive historical #maps and #LocalHistory!
Event details: https://bit.ly/peters-mapping-workshop
#NelsonvilleOhio #AthensOhio #OHIOUniversity #FromTheArchives #archives #workshops #libraries #history
Blue-tinted cyanotype photo of exterior view of Athens Brick Company. Dated 1890. William E. Peters papers, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#InternationalEducationWeek 📚 starts today!
2019 International Week Gala Awards #throwback.
All #OHIOUniversity yearbooks are available online!
2019 yearbook: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-iew2019
#OHIOUniversityArchives #IEW #internationaleducation #internationaleducation #OHIOUniversity
Page on International Education Week Gala Awards, 2019. 2020 yearbook, Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections. Edited onto a gray background.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Philip "Phil" McCracken, artist born #OnThisDay, Nov 14, 1928!🎂
Based in Bellingham WA.
Gallery program for exhibition of his sculptural work & booklet of poetry inspired by the art by #JamesBertolino!
Finding Aid: https://bit.ly/aspace-james-bertolino
#BornToday #PhilipMccracken #art #poetry #OTD
Two pamphlets next to each other. Left: image of a Philip McCracken sculpture. text reading “Philip McCracken: New Sculpture and Drawings March 5-23, 1985, Kennedy Galleries." Right: “Poems Inspired by the Art of Philip McCracken, James Bertolino, Egress Studio Press."
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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NEW interview with manuscripts intern Anne Scarberry, English Literature, Culture, and Writing ’26!
Anne talks church history, pesky staples.
Full blog: https://bit.ly/mahnblog-churches-southeasternohio
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #interviews #archives #churches #blog #newblog
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Native American History ✍️
#NativeAmerican #author Mary Crow Dog, aka Mary Brave Bird, visited #OHIOUniversity 2009!
https://bit.ly/ou-ua-marycrowdog-2009
#TBT #NativeAmericanHistoryMonth
#OHIOUniversityArchives #ForeverOHIO #authors #NAHM #throwback
April 16, 2009 The Post. Mary Crow Dog comes to OU. Provided photo of author to the right under header. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Make Respect Visible week!💚
Spreading kindness and collaboration, both in our libraries & outside.
Many university events this week centered around kindness!
THOUSANDS of photographs online: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-photos
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #archives #FromTheArchives #ArchivesDive
Cheryl Adams works with Alden Library user. Piles of books in front of the pair. Ohio University Executive MBA program (Lancaster) group, 1979. Group of four people stand at the top of a staircase. George Cheripko at Circulation desk, Alden Library, circa early 1990s. Cheripko smiles and interacts with an Alden Library patron.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Roundtable TODAY!
Join virtually or in person today 11/12 for roundtable talk on Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & #ArtistsBooks📚
Event details, join: https://bit.ly/ou-roundtable-enslavement-abolition
#OHIOUniversity #RareBooks #roundtable #exhibits #exhibit #ArtistsBooks #RareBooks
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Happy #VeteransDay from #OHIOUniversityArchives!
#Throwback to #1940s at an American Legion parade.
Full image: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-americanlegion-1942
#OHIOUniversity #AmericanLegion #WWII #veterans #military
American Legion parade in front of McVey Cottage on East Union Street, 1942. People march in formation, some holding American flags. Cars are parked all down East Union St., and observers stand near and on the sidewalk.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Thurs 11/13 is the last screening of the semester for our #AppalachianStories Series with INHERITANCE! Then, things'll pick up again in Jan.

A 1st prize winner of the Documentary Feature at the AIFVF in 2024! Kelly Hatas of HAPCAP will give pre-show presentation

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From the Hills and Hollers: INHERITANCE with Kelly Hatas
Join us on Thursday, November 13th as our Appalachian Stories Film Series explores the generational effects of the opioid epidemic on the region! This event will include a pre-show presentation by …
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November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Exhibit roundtable!
Join us virtually or in person Wednesday, 11/12, 1-2 PM, for a roundtable discussion on these Enslavement & Abolition materials!
Details: https://bit.ly/ou-roundtable-enslavement-abolition
#OHIOUniversity #RareBooks #roundtable #exhibits #exhibit
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Vintage radio ad!📻 1975 yearbook: “rock all day, rock all night." ACRN is still running 24/7! #MusicMonday
Access all #OHIOUniversity digitized yearbooks online and for free!
1975 yearbook: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-acrn1975
#OHIOUniversityArchives #music #radio #ads #musicsky
1975 yearbook, Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections. Illustration on page with “ACRN” logo printed over it. Text circles the design: “creative rock 'round the clock” “dorm stations and cable 99.3.” Square crop from full page, including blurb on ACRN and a header: “rock all day, rock all night.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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HALL SPOTLIGHT: Washington Hall at #OHIOUniversity looks super classy in this #1950s #TBT.
East Green residence hall named after George Washington.
https://bit.ly/ou-ua-washington1950s
#OHIOUniversityArchives #archives #dorms #DormLife #archives #FromTheArchives #ArchivesDive
View of Washington Hall interior from behind a rounded couch. 4 people lounge on various pieces of furniture.
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Archives & Museums club visited Digital Initiatives and Mahn Center yesterday! Always happy to make new friends and share our work 🥰

Caption: Students view archives materials in Digital Initiatives.

#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #ForeverOHIO #archives #tour #ArchivesDive
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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#17thcentury's LONGEST #engraving?
Over 100 engraved plates, 15' foldout!
De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciae rege gestis commentariorum libri septem.
https://bit.ly/de-rebus-a-carolo
#RareBooks #CopperEngraving #Pufendorf #IllustratedBooks #EngravedIllustrations #FoldoutIllustration #MilitaryHistory
Partially unfolded 15' long foldout depicting the funeral procession for King Karl X Gustav of Sweden. Close-up of one portion of the extended foldout focusing in on the procession in the foreground with buildings in the background. Title page of the book. View of the original vellum binding of the book.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Ready for 11/4 football game v Miami?
At 1964 Homecoming, #OHIOUniversity beat Miami 10-7!
See coverage in alumni journal: https://bit.ly/ua-alumnus-1964homecoming
#BeatMiami #OHIOUniversityArchives
The Ohio Alumnus, November 1964. Ohio University Archives. Detail of 1 page of Homecoming coverage showing 3 images. Clockwise: Football players carry coach. "Jubilant Bobcats carried Coach Bill Hess off the field on their shoulders following Ohio's dramatic 10-7 upset of arch-rival Miami." Men in suits at presentation of “scroll of appreciation” for President Alden from the stadium field. View from behind speaker looking out into crowd holding BEAT MIAMI signs. "Enthusiasm reigned supreme at the Friday night Pep Rally held on the west portico of Memorial Auditorium. Bill Hess promised Ohio a victory."
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Check out our Mid-Semester Events Update!
Incl:
- HYBRID! Roundtable: Enslavement & Abolition in Antebellum Texts & Contemporary Artists’ Books 11/12 1pm
- Online exhibit: A Glance into Manuscript & Printed #Leaves, 1200-1700
#DigitalArchives #RareBooks #OHIOUniversity
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email : Webview : Upcoming Events from Archives & Special Collections and Digital Initiatives
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November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Two marbled books 📖 better than one!
The Riches of #Chaucer: In Which His Impurities Have Been Expunged, His Spelling Modernised... 2-vol set with marbled paper covers & edges.
Happy #MarbledMonday!
Catalog record: https://bit.ly/riches-chaucer-catalog
#MarbledPaper #Marbling #Marbled #RareBooks
Close-up on marbled paper cover, red and white design. Close-up of the marbled edges of 2 books. Close-up 2 marbled paper-covered books.
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM