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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 19h

We practiced reading archival objects together, including immigration records, ration books, daily diaries, and even a toy car! We loved learning about the students’ writing projects and how they will use the skills we practiced to recreate the past.

Students examine special collections materials on book cradles and in folders

Student examines archival materials in folders

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 19h

Professor Elizabeth Graver and her class, Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing the Past, visited us at Burns Library recently!

Student discussing a toy car with member of Burns Library staff

Book with colorful illustration on a book cradle

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Boston College @bostoncollege.bsky.social · 5d

The Institute for the Liberal Arts launches the "Flourishing Together" series with a keynote by Harvard's Robert Waldinger, an expert on what constitutes a meaningful life. There will be a BC faculty panel exploring loneliness & its remedies.

Register: https://on.bc.edu/FlourishTogetherLaunch25

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 6d

"It's beautiful, it's rapturous, and it's frightening"- Taylor Swift on Burns Library

Join us for a skills based, TSwift themed special collections workshop. Enjoy hands-on learning and learn (or relearn) how to find materials for your research. 3- 5 pm, 10/3, Burns Library. All welcome.

Image of a book with text "Research like a Swifty, Find the Easter Eggs"

Image of a stack of books with text "The Life of Special Collections Research at Burns Library"

Image of Burns Library with text Taylor Swift Life of Showgirl album track list

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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 7d

More on Fannie Farmer and her famous cookbook in this classic podcast. www.hubhistory.com/episodes/fan...

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

In the fall of 1879, Fannie Farmer founded her famous School of Cookery. Our 1945 promotional booklet for the school advertises the courses taught at the school, including “A Course for Men” and an “Intensive Salad Course.”
#FannieFarmer

Blue cover of "Miss Farmer's School of Cookery" booklet

Booklet page with headings "A Course for Men" and "Summer course"

Black and white photographs of students checking a market order and a finished meal printed on a booklet page

Booklet page with heading "Intensive Salad Course"

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 16d

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 16d

Digitization alert! We digitized the “Father Rector’s Office and President of Boston College scrapbook, which documents BC and Boston history from 1919-29. It's full of photos, clippings, and more. Check it out: https://library.bc.edu/iiif/view/BC1986-020F-151714

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 18d

Recently, Rene and Patricia Moran visited us to learn more about their father Joseph, BC class of 1950 and former Boston FBI agent. They looked through records about intramural sports, the English Department, and Sodality. Have a BC alum you’d like to learn more about? Contact us!

two smiling women review archival materials at a table in the Burns Library Reading Room

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 19d

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 20d

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 20d

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

Collage of a newspaper clipping, hand colored image of Maud Gonne, and handwritten letter over a black and white photo of an elderly veiled Maud Gonne

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 26d

Cleanse your timeline with our Friday morning reading room vibes

Burns Library reading room with researchers seated at tables using archival materials and an archivist helping a student research

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 28d

In Spring 2024, Professor Pheme Perkins' students visited Burns Library and wrote rhetorical analyses of items in our collections. Read Michael Tran ‘27's exploration of a palm leaf manuscript of Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises! http://bit.ly/4n5945e

manuscript written on palm leaves and bound with string

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 7

Over 80 students explored the materials and reflected on how past decisions around engineering, infrastructure, and design can inform our present actions. Want to see any of the records we shared with the class? Contact us or drop by!

Pamphlet with image of a snow plow and title "Electric Railway Snowplows"

Group of students around a table look at comic books and velum bound book resting on a book cradle

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 7

We kicked off our semester by hosting sections of Making of the Modern World: Design, Ethics, and Engineering. We shared wiring plans for St. Mary’s Hall, a Boston Elevated Railway photo album, a mining diary, environmental engineering plans from the Everglades, and much more.

Group of students around a table look at archival documents

Book plate with schematic drawing of a building pillar

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happy Birthday, @bostoncollege.bsky.social ! #dyk that Boston College’s first campus was in Boston’s #SouthEnd? This postcard shows one of its first buildings. https://library.bc.edu/iiif/view/BC1987_012_ref1543

Color postcard showing brick building in Boston's South End with title "Boston College"

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our new exhibit "A Part to Play: Culture, identity & resistance during Northern Ireland's Troubles" is now open. Curated by Paloma Carroll-Ryan, it explores the cultural sphere of the Troubles, considering visual art, music, sports, and language. Drop by anytime we’re open to view the exhibit.

Exhibit poster with three children standing in front of cages and barbed wire gazing at a star with text "A Part to Play: Culture, identity, and resistance during Norther Ireland's Troubles"

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 2

Time for a #StudentWorkerPick! Our student worker Rachel recently uncovered this adorable photo of a Sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart holding a baby on the Newton College of the Sacred Heart campus. Follow us for more nun/baby content.

Widely smiling nun in habit holds an adorable baby

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Sep 1

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII wrote his famous encyclical letter on the “condition of labor.” Often called the “Pope of the Workers” Leo XIII used the lens of Scripture and Catholic doctrine to address issues such as child labor, fair wages, workers’ rights, and poverty.

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Aug 30

Step back in time to 1952 when the BC/Fordham game was played on Braves Field, now known as Nickerson Field on the Boston University Campus. Go Eagles!

Color cover of 1952 Fordham/BC football program

Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Aug 28

Their project offers new insights into the record book itself and life in 1850s Boston. Check out their work and tell us what you think! bcdigschol.github.io/policedata/i...

Color graph and chart with title "Amount of Arrest and Complaints by Categories

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our friends at @bostoncollege.bsky.social Digital Scholarship used a police station record book living at Burns Library to create a dataset of arrests, crimes, and public service in Boston’s crowded North End in the 1850s. 🧵 @universalhub.com @hubhistory.com @gigi4district1.bsky.social

Scan of handwritten police ledger on blue paper

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · Aug 27

#otd in 1911, Sally Fairchild snapped this photo of Hakone Lake and pasted it in her diary writing “A day full of happiness. A perfect view of Fuji at sunrise with the reflection in the quiet lake.” Read all of Sally’s digitized diary and see her photos: https://library.bc.edu/iiif/view/bc-2022-172

photograph of Mt. Fuji with its reflection in a lake in the foreground

handwritten page in a diary reading: "August 27, Hakone Lake, A day full of happiness. A perfect view of Fuji at sunrise with the reflection in the quiet lake. Later a beautiful walk to the Temple through a worship way lined with cryptomerias, surrounded by happy parties of Japanese people"

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