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Library Associates Newsletter
Summer 2006, Newsletter 80


A Taste of Special Collections

 

Library Associates enjoyed "A Taste of Special Collections" in May, when Special Collections staff gathered together and talked about some of the Library's historical, literary and artistic treasures.

 

Special Collections display

Admiring the Special Collections displays.

Lynn Conway

University Archivist Lynn Conway.

LuLen Walker

Art Collection Curator LuLen Walker discussing a wood engraving view of the Capitol, March 5, 1877, depicting the Inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes--The Ceremony on the East Portico.

Nicholas Scheetz

Manuscripts Librarian Nicholas Scheetz.

Display Case

Items on display included, clockwise from top right: first Georgetown student William Gaston's tuition record, 1791-1792; Jesuit House Diary, 1853-1869, open to the entry on April 15-16, 1865, the account of Lincoln's assassination; "Miss G Goes to Georgetown," 1964-1965, open to the chart specifying how coeds should dress and accessorize; Regulations for the Students of Georgetown College, 1829; and Proposals for Establishing an Academy, at George-town, Patowmack-River, Maryland.


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