Special Collections News & Updates 2/2/2017

News of Interest:

Old Gold: Researching Seymour Gray Jr., civil rights activist and Hawkeye. UI archivist seeks info about 1965 alumnus. https://now.uiowa.edu/2017/01/old-gold-researching-seymour-gray-jr-civil-rights-activist-and-hawkeye
Adventures in Book Studies: Taking a Class inside Special Collections by Anna Tunnicliff. https://hacklibraryschool.com/2016/12/19/adventures-in-book-studies-taking-a-class-inside-special-collections/

Events:

On Friday, February 3rd, Professor Kevin van Bladel (Near Eastern Language and Cultures, Ohio State University) and Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences) join the UI’s Mellon Sawyer Seminarfor two lectures: a morning talk on ancient Persian manuscript traditions and an afternoon session on computational methods and tools. 151 Voxman Music Bulding, 10:30am and 1:00pm, respectively.
On Saturday, February 18, Poet Andrei Codrescu (author of the Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, editor of Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Life & Letters, and the 2017 collection of new poems, The Art of Forgetting) will present a talk Andrei Codrescu’s Posthuman Dada Guide, and will sign books. Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library, 7pm. Registration is requested.

Exhibitions:

Instruction:

Amy is working with Serina Sulentic to allow her graphic design students create printable and boxed versions of Codex Conquest: The Game of Book History, which is currently being developed and tested.

The Instruction Program is gearing up for the spring: we’ve already booked 77 classes!

If you have any plans to bring a class in this semester contact us ASAP about availability.

You can use this form: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/services/classes/

Staff Publications, Activities, and Awards:

Timothy Shipe, curator of the International Dada Archives has two new publications:

“Hugo Ball.” (in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism)

“A Century of Documenting Dada: From Coupures de presse to ‘Dadabase’”. In Caietele avangardei, no. 8 (2016).

University Archivist David McCartney wrote the cover story in this month’s Archival Outlook called, “Archival Bonds, Love and Friendship in the Archives.” http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=376049

From the Web and Social Media:

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Documenting Dada//Disseminating Dada Exhibition Opens: Ribbon Cutting

Documenting Dada / Disseminating Dada is an exhibition featuring items from the University of Iowa Libraries’ International Dada Archive, the world’s most comprehensive collection of material related to the Dada movement. Timothy Shipe who is the curator of the International Dada Archive and a librarian in Special Collections curated the exhibition.

From 1916 to 1923, a new kind of artistic movement swept Europe and America. Its very name, “DADA,” was notably missing the obligatory “ism,” distinguishing it from the long line of avant-gardes that had determined the preceding century of art history.

More than a mere art movement, Dada claimed a broader role as an agent of cultural, social, and political change. Its proponents wanted to affect all aspects of Western civilization, to take part in the revolutionary changes unfolding as inevitable results of the chaos of World War I.

The Dada movement was perhaps the single most decisive influence on the development of twentieth-century art, and its innovations are so pervasive as to be virtually taken for granted today.

This exhibition highlights Dada’s printed output, which documents the ephemeral aspects of the movement and shows how the dadaists used their publications to spread the movement beyond its origins in Zurich.

The exhibition continues through April 28, 2017 in the Main Library Gallery. Learn more here: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery/

On January 18, 2017 the exhibition was officially opened with a ribbon cutting. The ribbon cutting involved creating a Dadaist poem inspired by the instructions from Dada writer Tristan Tzara:

“To make a Dadaist Poem” (1920):

Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are—an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.

A Look Back on 2016 in Special Collections, University Archives, and the Iowa Women’s Archives

Special Collections News & Updates 12/8/2016

News of Interest:

Something Really Cool that You’ve Never Heard Of http://blog.admissions.uiowa.edu/mina/2016/12/something-really-cool-that-youve-never-heard-of/
Before & After Treatment: Keith’s New Theatre clipping book http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/2016/12/01/before-after-treatment-keiths-new-theatre-clipping-book/

Events:

Arthur Bonfield, “The Why, How, What, and Result of 60 Years of Rare Book Collecting”

In December the Iowa Bibliophiles’ guest speaker will be Arthur Bonfield who will speak about his 60 years of rare book collecting.

Arthur Bonfield is a Professor at the Iowa Law School and has been collecting books published between 1490 and 1800 for 60 years. He has collected about 1,000 books printed during that period and focuses his collecting on voyages, travels, and geography; English and European history; encyclopedias and dictionaries of the arts and sciences; political philosophy; and herbals.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library

Details on the UI Events Calendar: https://goo.gl/XJpGWK

Event Recap:

The Game of Thrones-themed Lunch with the Chefs drew the largest crowd ever on Wednesday the 7^th. So did our signed first edition copy of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, generously donated by Al Lewis, and several other items evocative of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Pete Balestrieri, Curator of Science Fiction and Popular Culture, and Margaret Gamm, Special Collections Librarian, enjoyed talking with attendees interested in the many related objects in Special Collections.

Instruction News:

We have digitized all of the blue slips! Now, if you teach with special collections, you can request spreadsheets of the materials you pulled by emailing Amy Chen at amy-chen@uiowa.edu.

As a result of this digitization effort (with warm thanks to Department Manager Lindsay Moen and her students!) and a new workflow, we are now beginning to send out emails to ask instructors if they would like to retain their blue slips. Otherwise, we will discard them. Look for an email from Amy in the next few weeks if you have brought your students to special collections.

Updates from the Iowa Women’s Archives:

https://www.tumblr.com/iowawomensarchives/153562807896/placeholder-picture-we-are-thankful-this-week-for

From the Web & Social Media:

This miniature song book is a bit too small to sing from, but Hannah gives it a try anyway.

https://www.tumblr.com/uispeccoll/154091161792

A guest post from the John Martin Rare Book Room at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences:

https://www.tumblr.com/uispeccoll/154165274060/guest-post-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin

Photo from the Frederick Kent Collection, University of Iowa Archives RG30.0001.001

https://www.tumblr.com/iowacitypast/154132439700/visiting-librarian-armanath-sharma-in-front-of

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Special Collections News & Updates 12/01/2016

News of Interest:

UI earns No. 1 ranking in university website accessibility: https://now.uiowa.edu/2016/11/ui-tops-in-university-website-accessibility
A Snapshot of Cook’s Point (with a shout out to Migration is Beautiful): http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/sc/2016/10/13/a-snapshot-of-cooks-point/

Staff Publications:

Instruction Librarian Amy Chen has a new publication.

“Possessing an Inner History: Curators, Donors, and Affective Stewardship,” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 12.3 (October 2016), 243-268. https://goo.gl/QwpXSZ

Join us in congratulating Amy!

Events:

Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern Eurasia

This Mellon Sawyer seminar is an interdisciplinary collaboration dedicated to mapping cultural exchanges across Eurasia from roughly 400-1450 CE, by focusing on the development, distribution and sharing of manuscript technologies. http://eurasianmss.lib.uiowa.edu/

Friday 2 DECEMBER 2016 – 8:30am-4:45pm / 166 IMU Iowa Theater (Iowa Memorial Union)
William Johnson
“From Bookroll to Codex”
Classical Studies, Duke University
8:30-10:00am

Susan Whitfield
“Beyond Scrolls and Codices: Manuscript Formats on the Eastern Silk Road”
Director, International Dunhuang Project, British Library
10:30am-12:00

Marina Rustow
“Fatimid State Documents, Serial Recyclers and the Cairo Geniza”
Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Princeton University
1:00-2:30pm

Myriam Krutzsch
“Papyrus as an Ancient Writing Material: Its Structure, Production and Classification”
Aegyptisches Museum, Berlin
3:00-3:45pm

Mark Barnard
“The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra of AD 868: A Conservation Approach That Goes Back to the Original”
Senior Conservator Emeritus, British Library
3:45-4:30pm

Arthur Bonfield, “The Why, How, What, and Result of 60 Years of Rare Book Collecting”

In December the Iowa Bibliophiles’ guest speaker will be Arthur Bonfield who will speak about his 60 years of rare book collecting.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library

Details on the UI Events Calendar: https://goo.gl/XJpGWK

So you want to visualize your data?

12:15pm on Tuesday, December 6th

https://goo.gl/IsJXTe

Updates from the Iowa Women’s Archives:

Karen Mason, curator of IA Women's Archives @uiowa, shared her #everygirldeserves – to know her history! Details: https://t.co/jpIZT0gfcZ pic.twitter.com/oBzdnbDf2G

— Young Women's Resource Center (@YWRC) November 18, 2016

From the Web & Social Media:

https://www.tumblr.com/uispeccoll/153604092214/happy-thanksgiving-from-university-of-iowas

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December 14th Iowa Bibliophiles: Arthur Bonfield: 60 years of collecting rare books from 1490-1800

Iowa Bibliophiles December Meeting

Arthur Bonfield: 60 years of collecting rare books from 1490-1800

For the last 60 years Professor Arthur Bonfield has collected rare books— original copies of books on several subjects written, published, printed, and bound between 1490 and 1800. In this talk he will discuss the why, how, what, and result of his 60 years of rare book collecting. He has collected over 1,000 original copies of books from that period on voyages, travels, exploration, and geography; encyclopedias; English and continental history; English literature; English translations of classical Greek and Roman literature; political philosophy; and herbals. In his talk he will explain how and why his life has been enriched by his continuing attachment to and preoccupation with this very absorbing avocation.

Professor Arthur Bonfield received his legal education at the Yale Law School and recently retired from the University of Iowa Law School after serving 53 years on the faculty. As a teacher and scholar his specialty was Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. While on the Law School faculty he was actively involved in the reform of state administrative procedure law, state freedom of information law, and state civil rights legislation, and drafted many of the Iowa statutes adopted on these subjects. He recently was awarded the Iowa Freedom of Information Council Friend of the First Amendment Award for proposing and drafting the recently enacted Iowa statute creating the Iowa Public Information Board.

December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library. Refreshments will be served before the talk at 6:30PM.

Details on the UI Events Calendar: https://goo.gl/XJpGWK

Special Collections News and Updates 11/17/2016

New Directions for Special collections book cover

Statements from the American Library Association and the Society of American Archivists confirming a commitment to diversity and inclusion:

American Library Association:

“As an association representing these libraries, librarians and library workers, ALA believes that the struggle against racism, prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination is central to our mission. We will continue to support efforts to abolish intolerance and cultural invisibility, stand up for all the members of the communities we serve, and promote understanding and inclusion through our work.” – Julie Todaro, ALA President. Read the Full Statement

Society of American Archivists:

“SAA strongly rejects any acts of hate, discrimination, bias, or intimidation against anyone on the basis of ability, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or religion.” Read the full statement.

New Artist Books Browsing Collection:

We’ve started a new project to simulate browsing the artists’ books in the stacks. Every week, John Fifield will be refreshing the shelf with the
next ten books in the call number range, moving alphabetically by artist. Come visit us in the reading room this week to check out the first set.

General News of Interest:

It is GIS Day- there are events going on right now https://uiowa.edu/gis/day
The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History is crowdfunding support for “Project Lio-Rama” to preserve Harry and Josephine, two lions that lived in the zoo in City Park in the 1920s-1930s that need a habitat build in order to put them on display. Support the project here: https://goldrush.uiowa.edu/project/3351
Cedar Rapids Gazette article about the Tom Brokaw donation, “Tom Brokaw to House Memorabilia at Univerity of Iowa”: http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/higher-education/tom-brokaw-to-house-memorabilia-at-university-of-iowa-20161111
“Forever a New Frontier” – a Daily Iowan interview with former University President Sandy Boyd about protests in the 1960s-1970s. http://daily-iowan.com/2016/11/15/forever-a-new-frontier/
University of Iowa names Jim Leach as Interim Art Museum Director: http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/higher-education/university-of-iowa-names-jim-leach-as-interim-art-museum-director-20161114
“Why the Librarian is Your Story’s Best Friend” – A review of Special Collections Outreach & Engagement Librarian Colleen Theisen, and SLIS faculty member Jennifer Burek Pierce’s session at “Nerdcon: Stories” a storytelling conference held in October: http://winningedits.com/blog/why-the-librarian-is-your-storys-best-friend

Staff Publications:

Instruction Librarian Amy Chen and Outreach & Engagement Librarian Colleen Theisen have written book chapters in “New Directions for Special Collections” which will be available Nov 30, 2016 from Libraries Unlimited. See the book here.

Chapter 4: Developing K–12 Outreach Methods for Special Collections Centers
Amy Chen, Lisa Crane, Melanie Meyers, Charlotte Priddle, and Abby Saunders

Chapter 21: Towards a Culture of Social Media in Special Collections
Colleen Theisen

“Spanning the converging worlds of academic and special libraries, rare book collections, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions, this book will be useful to newcomers and seasoned professionals alike. The essays address the recurring themes of managing and welcoming change and the impact of digital technologies throughout the book, whether regarding new approaches to outreach and instruction, the acquisition and curation of non-traditional collections, new structures for discovery and access in a digital world, or the nature of special collections work now.”

Upcoming Events:

Historic Foodies November 30th Meeting

Historic Foodies is a community group supported by Special Collections and the Old Capitol Museum dedicated to testing an trying historic recipes. Stop by for their November meeting, taste test the results! 6PM-7:30PM, Coralville Old Town Hall.

https://www.facebook.com/events/565738743634361/

Arthur Bonfield, “The Why, How, What, and Result of 60 Years of Rare Book Collecting”

In December the Iowa Bibliophiles’ guest speaker will be Arthur Bonfield who will speak about his 60 years of rare book collecting.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library

Details on the UI Events Calendar: https://goo.gl/XJpGWK

From Our Social Media:

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Special Collections News 11/11/2016

Portrait photo of Tom Brokaw - public domain image

Newsfeed:

November “Old Gold” column from University Archivist David McCartney, “What Chicago, UI looked like 108 years ago”: https://now.uiowa.edu/2016/11/old-gold-108-years-ago
Featuring UI Libraries staff Rob Shepard: Daily Iowa article: Keeping an Eye on Segregation in the Nation: https://goo.gl/EcmXhI
Featuring photo from UI Archives: Iowa Now article: Celebrating points of pride, UI reflects on milestones in creating a welcoming environment for LGBTQ community https://goo.gl/6D51Dg

Tom Brokaw Donation News Coverage:

“Iowa Now” Press Release: https://now.uiowa.edu/2016/11/brokaw-donates-papers-to-ui-libraries
UI Special Collections blog: https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2016/11/10/tom-brokaw-donates-his-papers-and-artifacts-to-ui-libraries/
Press Citizen article: https://goo.gl/dvHc0x
KWWL coverage: https://goo.gl/nawW8I
KWQC coverage: http://kwqc.com/2016/11/10/tom-brokaw-donates-papers-and-artifacts-to-the-university-of-iowa/

New Acquisitions:

Chautauqua Printer’s Blocks Update from Margaret Gamm

Special Collections recently received several small but hefty boxes of printers’ blocks from the Smith-Zimmermann Heritage Museum in Madison, South Dakota. Printers used these heavy metal and wood blocks in the late 19th and early 20^th centuries to create promotional flyers and forms for Lake Madison Chautauqua events. One box contained several blocks related to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

South Dakota had just become a state four years prior, so many people saw the World’s Fair as a prime place to promote the state. Several groups formed to raise funds for a display, and the state legislature eventually approved funding as well. By the time of the Fair, South Dakota had put together a building’s worth of exhibits. More information on South Dakota’s involvement in the fair is available through the University of South Dakota Archives and Special Collections Blog here: https://archivesandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/south-dakota-and-the-worlds-columbian-exposition-of-1893/

The Lake Madison Chautauqua Association would have been a natural fit for an exhibitor. Chautauqua organizations sponsored community education programs that usually included lecturers in special topics like religion, astronomy, and history. Many presenters travelled around the country, allowing headliners to grow in fame.

The blocks in the images here were created with a variety of techniques and were meant to be used with different types of ink according to different methods. One of the newest types was photogravure, which allowed mass printing of photographic images.

Upcoming Events:

Arthur Bonfield, “The Why, How, What, and Result of 60 Years of Rare Book Collecting”

In December the Iowa Bibliophiles’ guest speaker will be Arthur Bonfield who will speak about his 60 years of rare book collecting.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 7PM in the Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library

Details on the UI Events Calendar: https://goo.gl/XJpGWK

Staff Publications:

Next Generation PhD

Amy Chen occasionally posts in the blog for the Newly Composed PhD: Writing Across Careers. This blog supports the efforts of the Next Generation PhD, a planning grant the University of Iowa received from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support inquiry to better understand challenges to doctoral education. Her most recent piece is called “PhDs in the Library.”

From Our Online Communities:

Iowa Women’s Archives on Tumblr highlighted some of the papers of female politicians that are held in the archives.

https://www.tumblr.com/iowawomensarchives/152644423160/women-in-the-legislature-need-to-look-like-a

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Tom Brokaw Donates His Papers and Artifacts to UI Libraries

Collection spans five decades of work as TV journalist, correspondent for NBC

Tom Brokaw, former anchor of the NBC Nightly News and co-anchor of the Today show, attended the UI early in his academic career and has been a longtime Hawkeye supporter. This morning he announced on the Today show that he was donating papers and artifacts representing his 50 year career to UI Libraries.

Read about this historic donation in Iowa Now: http://spr.ly/60188GHGm

Pan Am bag, photo, and letters from Tom Brokaw's papers — Selections from Tom Brokaw’s Papers

In describing his donation on the Today Show on November 10, 2016, Brokaw praised the UI Libraries and cited the “World Class” library as being one of the reasons for his donation. Stay tuned to this space to learn more about the collection, how to access it, and for future news about Mr. Brokaw.

Watch the video segment from The Today Show here: https://goo.gl/5EACfA

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Special Collections News 11/03/2016

Newsfeed:

Edward Gorey’s Reawakening of Dracula by Hannah Hacker: https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2016/10/24/edward-goreys-reawakening-of-dracula/
Keith/Albee Vaudeville Collection in DIY History! by Justin Baumgartner: http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/2016/10/26/keithalbee-vaudeville-collection-in-diy-history/
15 Vintage Recipe Collections to Explore (Check out #7!): http://mentalfloss.com/article/87451/15-vintage-recipe-collections-explore
200-Year-Old Historic Books Reveal Hidden Fore-Edge Paintings (Check out the final GIFs): http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/hidden-paintings-on-edge-of-books
Why Do We Still Care About Shakespeare? Talk of Iowa from Iowa Public Radio with English Department Professor Adam Hooks: http://iowapublicradio.org/post/why-do-we-still-care-about-shakepeare

Instruction Update:

Join us in congratulating Amy Chen, Alonso Avila, and Margaret Gamm on the successful completion of their 2016 First Year Seminar classes. Amy Chen taught, “The History of the Book: The Game,” Margaret Gamm taught, “Constructing Reality in Fiction: Using Primary Sources to Write More Creatively,” and Alonso Avila taught, “Liberation: A Hip-Hop State of Mind.”

For updates on our Instruction Program, and a lively feed of other content, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter.

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Upcoming Special Collections Events & Events of Interest:

Iowa Bibliophiles Present Blaine Greteman:

Shakeosphere: Visualizing Shakespeare’s Networks

This event is part of SHAKESPEARE AT IOWA (August 29 – December 30), a celebration hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries.

Refreshments at 6:30pm – Program at 7:00pm – Special Collections Reading Room – Third Floor, UI Main Library

What can new digital technologies tell us about old books and the people who made them? Renaissance scholar and UI English Professor Blaine Greteman will discuss and demonstrate his digital project, “Shakeosphere,” which has mined information about publishers, booksellers, printers, and authors from half a million books published between 1473 and 1800. Shakeosphere uses this data to map relationships between these people, so that we can discover how Shakespeare and his contemporaries were connected by a rapidly changing communications network. By employing some of the same algorithms that Facebook uses to find your friends – or the NSA uses to find potential terrorists – Greteman and the team working on Shakeosphere are also able to identify the “hubs” in this network. This talk will explain some of the ways that such work reveals a hidden history of the printers, publishers, and booksellers who gave us Shakespeare.

View this event in the Campus Events Calendar

UI Libraries’ and UICB William Anthony Conservation Lecture with Barb Korbel

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016 – 6:00pm

Location: 2032 Main Library

Join us at the Main Library for the third annual William Anthony Conservation Lecture featuring Barbara Korbel. Korbel is the Collections & Exhibitions Conservator at Newberry Library in Chicago, IL.

University Lecture Committee: An Evening with Lois Lowry

Date: November 16, 2016 7:30pm

Location: Englert Theatre

View this event in the Campus Events Calendar

Event Recap:

Shakespeare Creepy Campus Crawl, October 28, 2016

Special Collections partnered with the Old Capitol Museum this year for a Shakespeare themed Creepy Campus Crawl. Despite the Cubs’ World Series game, 750+ kids and parents from across the region wandered from room to room, played in a Renaissance village, learned a period dance, played games like throwing skulls with Hamlet, made crafts like paper ruffs, wrote with quill pens, made Shakespeare buttons with a University of Iowa Librarian, and even met The Bard himself (played by Shakespeare Professor Adam Hooks from the Department of English). Many thanks to the Iowa City/Coralville Convention and Visitor’s Bureau whose grant funding helped make this year such a success.

ICON Science Fiction Convention, October 28-30, 2016

University of Iowa Special Collections made our yearly trip to the ICON Science Fiction Convention in Cedar Rapids, now in its 41st year. In addition to running an information table about our science fiction collections and the Hevelin Fanzine Digitization Project, special collections librarians updated the community on the progress processing and digitizing the Rusty Hevelin Science Fiction Collection, taught sessions about Gene Wilder, and along with UI Librarian Lisa Martincek, taught a session about using University Library resources as a writer. The ICON community designated The Hevelin Collection digitization as one of the recipients of proceeds from their annual charity auction. A previous fundraising effort from the community in 2014 raised $1955.

Halloween Guests in Special Collections:

Princess Elsa and the Winter Soldier visited the library this week.

https://www.tumblr.com/uispeccoll/152570764677/the-winter-soldier-dropped-by-today-to-check-out

https://www.tumblr.com/uispeccoll/152561571747/the-disney-princess-elsa-graced-us-with-her

From the Web and Social Media:

Twitter recently announced that they will be closing down Vine, a social media platform for short looping videos that we have been using to bring you “box opening” videos showing our new acquisitions as they arrive. Stayed tuned to this space as we soon reveal our new plans to bring you similar content in a new way.

Our delightful Hawkeye Ghost says goodbye to Vine and expresses our feelings better than we can do in this space:

https://vine.co/v/5paarQzXYur

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