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Nov 11 2016

Special Collections News 11/11/2016

Posted on November 11, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

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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:

  • Portrait photo of Tom Brokaw - public domain image“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 20th 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”

Image of Arthur Bonfield

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

 

Staff Publications:

Next Generation PhD

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

 


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May 27 2016

Special Collections News & Updates 5/27/2016

Posted on May 27, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

Important Announcements:

  • Special Collections and the Iowa Women’s Archives’ Reading Rooms will be closed May 30th for the Memorial Day holiday.

 

Newsfeed:

  • Old Gold: The course catalog, or UI’s ‘wish book’: Archived publications serve as important university resource:  http://now.uiowa.edu/2016/05/old-gold-course-catalog-or-uis-wish-book by University Archivist David McCartney
  • ‘Star Trek’ filmmaker loves making voyage home http://now.uiowa.edu/2016/05/%E2%80%98star-trek%E2%80%99-filmmaker-loves-making-voyage-home
  • ‘Star Trek’ filmmaker on UI: ‘This is the place that shaped me’ http://www.iowalum.com/blog/2016/05/20/star-trek-filmmaker-on-ui-this-is-the-place-that-shaped-me/
  • Iowa Women’s Archives curator Kären Mason is featured speaking about Nancy Drew author Mildred Wirt Benson in the trailer for this documentary, “River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6: http://docublogger.typepad.com/highway6/2016/05/take-a-peek-at-the-award-winning-river-to-river-trailer.html

 

Image of Peter Balestrieri in Archival OutlookCurator of Science Fiction and Popular Culture, Peter Balestrieri is featured in the Cover Story of the May/June issue of Archival Outlook from the Society of American Archivists.

“Archivists are artists,” Balestrieri remarks, reflecting on his punk rock gig with the Violent Femmes and how a life with music and libraries intertwined eventually led him to Special Collections.

Read the whole feature here on pages 8-9 and 26.

 

Event Recap:

The UI Libraries hosted Nicholas Meyer, who made an appearance as a guest speaker in conjunction with the Main Library Gallery exhibition 50 Years of Star Trek.

Meyer, who is an alumnus of the University of Iowa, directed the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and contributed to the shooting script for that film (uncredited). He wrote portions of the screenplay for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and went on to direct Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), for which he also co-wrote the screenplay.

Storify of Tweets from the event.

Video from his talk is available here:

 

 

 

New Staxpeditions:

English Department Shakespeare Professor Adam Hooks joined us for an episode of Staxpeditions. Can you guess where his favorite call number range might lead?

 

 

 

New Acquisition:

Helen Hiebert’s Interluceo arrived recently, at the request of several UICB faculty members. Interluceo is a collaborative work, blending Helen’s paper and watermarks with papercut illustrations by Beatrice Coron and a binding by Claudia Cohen. It’s a beautiful example of how the talents of multiple artists can come together to tell a fascinating story using the form of the book itself. Photos and video really don’t do it justice! – Margaret Gamm

 

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Mar 25 2016

Special Collections Weekly Update 3/25/2016

Posted on March 25, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

Newsfeed:

  • Blog post: Norwalk High School Artists Connect with History to Inspire New Creative Work by Heather Wacha. Read more.
  • Blog post: March 30: Felicia Rice “Doc/Undoc” performance followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Read more.
  • Old Gold: The View From Above: UI archivist shares websites that feature aerial photos of campus, state by David McCartney. Read more.

Events:

  • Doc/UndocWednesday, 3/30: Felicia Rice, Doc/Undoc (lecture performance), followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gόmez-Pẽna (5 PM, Special Collections Reading Room). Read more.
  • Wednesday, 3/30: Historic Foodies Meeting (6:00-8:00 PM, Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room B).
  • Wednesday, 4/13: Iowa Bibliophiles, Jane Murphy and Mark Brookfield, 36 year partners in Murphy-Brookfield Books, will talk about the enormous changes brought on by Internet bookselling in the last 20+ years. (Refreshments 6:30 PM, Talk 7:00 PM, Special Collections Reading Room).

 

Upcoming Deadlines:

  • DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 15, 2016: Apply for the Linda and Richard Kerber fund for financial support for those traveling to do research in the Iowa Women’s Archives. Read more.

Instruction:

Students from Norwalk High SchoolSpring Break week we had two class sessions: one from Grinnell and one from Coe College. Special collections staff co-taught a one credit museums studies spring break course with campus museum curators.

This week, we’re clearly back in business! We’ve supported 12 class sessions including: a graduate Spanish class, a graduate English class, a high school visit to see medieval manuscripts, English as a Second Language, Center for the Book, undergraduate English, and a class for the School of Library and Information Science. – Amy Chen

New Acquisitions:

These broadsides have been here for some time, but haven’t made it all the way through processing yet, so I’m still counting them as new! I’ve been walking by them every day admiring the color and fine lines of the illustrations. -Margaret Gamm xf PS3569 P48 R3 1986

Three broadsides
Close up of leaves
Close up of a rabbit
Close up of blue and green design
  • Half music, half murmur / David Hamilton.  Iowa City : Empyrean Press, 2009. x-Collection Broadside  FOLIO  PS3558.A44279  H35 2009
  • Rabbits do not know what they are : aphorism / by Jack Spicer.  Los Angeles, Calif. : Printed at the Bieler Press for Granary Books, 1986. x-Collection Broadside  FOLIO  PS3569.P48  R3 1986
  • Jurassic seas / Hugh Fox.  Santa Barbara, Calif. : Mudborn Press, c1979. x-Collection Broadside  FOLIO  PS3556.O9  J87 1979

Social Media:

  • Screen shot of our post on the main Tumblr pageThe Iowa Women’s Archives had a post featured by Tumblr as part of a special curated group of posts for Women’s History Month. Consequently, the post now has nearly 1000 likes and reblogs. See the post about Gwendolyn Fowler and life after graduating as a certified pharmacist from the State University of Iowa in 1936 here: http://iowawomensarchives.tumblr.com/post/139180162183/top-gwendolyn-fowler-in-honolulu-bottom-fowler 
  • In this episode of Staxpeditions a trip to the DQ call number range does lead to book exploration, but also to thoughts that drift to another DQ…


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Feb 19 2016

Special Collections Weekly Update 2/19/2016

Posted on February 19, 2016January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

News:

  • Charity Nebbe from Iowa Public Radio featured original Nancy Drew ghost writer, Mildred Wirt Benson, this week on “Talk of Iowa.” Benson’s papers are held in the Iowa Women’s Archives. http://iowapublicradio.org/post/missing-millie-benson-secret-case-ghostwriter-and-journalist
  • February’s “Old Gold” Column from University Archivist David McCartney, “Old Dental, the Final Extraction.” http://now.uiowa.edu/2016/02/old-gold-old-dental-final-extraction
  • Last week Special Collections participated in #colorourcollections with other institutions around the country. Here’s an analysis of the impact of that work. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/02/09/what-colorourcollections-suggests/
  • The Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio of the UI Libraries has a new touchscreen near its entrance in the north lobby, near the recently-completed exhibit gallery. It features content from the Iowa Digital Library, making its debut this week with images from the University Archives’ Patrobas Cassius Robinson Collection. Accompanying text was authored by Universtiy Archivist, David McCartney. Check it out soon!
Touchscreen
Touchscreen outside The Studio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Events:

  • Saturday, 3/05: Mujeres Latinas: Every Woman Has a Story  (11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. , Iowa Women’s Archives, 3rd floor, Main Library) Refreshments will be served!  RSVP: lib-women@uiowa.edu Questions? 319-335-5068.
  • Wednesday, 3/09: Iowa Bibliophiles: Douglas S. Russell speaking about famous book collectors and collecting. He is a Senior Judge of the Iowa District Court and will address the Bibliophiles on books by and about famous bibliophiles, their book collections and the books they have written about collecting. (7pm Special Collections Reading Room). http://afterclass.uiowa.edu/events/event/iowa_bibliophiles_douglas_s_russell_book_collecting
  • Wednesday, 3/30: Felicia Rice, “Doc/Undoc” (lecture performance), followed by a public conversation with Guillermo Gόmez-Pẽna (5 p.m., Special Collections Reading Room). http://book.grad.uiowa.edu/events/march-2016/gomez-pena-and-rice

New Acquisition:

  • Mentioned in our 2015 end of the year summary,  Orbitá is now cataloged and ready to be used. Cuban book artists Chucho Romeu, Roberto Morales, & Ernesto Sargenton created this artists’ book through a cooperative effort. Despite encountering serious difficulties in the course of their partnership—including a studio building collapse in 2011—they finished this book in 2013 under the collective name Proyecto Locatarsis. N7433.4.S166 O73 2013 
Image from Orbita
Image from Orbita
Image of Orbita

Instruction This Week:

  • Eight UI Class Sessions
  • One visiting Class from Cornell College

This Week’s Best Social Media Post:

This Civil War diary from 1864 has a great example of "cross-writing", which was a technique used to save space and paper. A lost art for sure! [MsC0925] #uiowa #specialcollections #libraries #civilwar #diaries #crosswriting #civilwardiaries #handwriting #19thcentury

A post shared by U. of Iowa Special Collections (@uispeccoll) on Feb 16, 2016 at 4:59pm PST

 Event Recap:

  • 2/18 Lunch with the Chefs, “Destination India.” Colleen Theisen, John Fifield, and Ellen Wrede created a pop up exhibition of cookbooks and miniature books that were featured at the IMU in collaboration with University Catering’s “Destination India” lunch.

John Fifield at Lunch with the Chefs

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Dec 18 2015

News and Updates from Special Collections 12/18/2015

Posted on December 18, 2015December 2, 2016 by Colleen Theisen

From the Web and Social Media

 

Boy hitting a pinata at a LULAC party in 1967

Preservation Projects Librarian, Vitalina Nova, wrote a blog post about the League of United Latino American Citizens Council 10, both their past records and their current projects for the Iowa Women’s Archives blog.

Image on the left from LULAC Council 10 Records, IWA0733

 

 

Rose Bowl sticker2016 Rose Bowl a chance to make new memories: UI archivist recalls Iowa’s five previous visits to Pasadena.  This month’s Old Gold column by University Archivist David McCartney was posted this week.

This 1959 Rose Bowl decal was sold by Iowa Book and Supply and donated to the university by 1976 alumnus Vernon Lustick, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

 

 

Notes from the Special Collections Classroom

This week’s news from Amy Chen, Instruction Librarian 

 

Image of a class of students examining books

Counting up some totals at the end of the semester, Special Collections (not including the Iowa Women’s Archives) taught 119 class sessions total in the Fall 2015 Semester:

4 in August

34 in September

39 in October

28 in November

14 in December

 

 

New Acquisitions

Arrival Notifications from Margaret Gamm, 

Acquisitions & Collections Management Librarian 

 

The Descent of Mount Gadam is a new acquisition for our Charlotte Smith miniature book collection. Amos Paul Kennedy published the book in 1993 under the imprint of his Jubilee Press, which was later renamed the Jubalee Press. The text is an adaptation of a folktale of the Mensa Bet-Abrehe people of northern Ethiopia.

Image of Africa
Page from a book with quote "Do not make a mistake, let each one stand it its place."
Folktale title
Posted in Weekly UpdateTagged Classes, Descent of Mount Gadam, gadam, instruction, iwa blog, LULAC, Old Gold, statistics
Image of John Fifield Presenting about the library at the Recoleta
Oct 16 2015

News From Special Collections 10/16/2015

Posted on October 16, 2015January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

Librarians in the Wild:

ICON Science Fiction Convention October 16-18th, 2015

Image of the front cover of the first ICON convention program
ICON Program, 1975

The ICON Science Fiction convention began 40 years ago, born from a passionate group of fans that met in a science fiction class taught here at the University of Iowa by the Hugo and Nebula award winning author Joe Haldeman, and the same group who formed a U.I. student group called S.F.L.I.S. (Science Fiction League of Iowa Students). This weekend marks the convention’s 40th Anniversary. (See the program booklet for the first ICON convention from 1975: Here).

The 40th Anniversary convention is taking place this weekend at the Doubletree in downtown Cedar Rapids.  (There is still time to register). A partner exhibition is being held at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art including works created by each Artist Guest of Honor that has been a featured guest in the history of the convention.

Special Collections staff with an oversized checkAt the opening ceremonies Friday night, University of Iowa Librarians Peter Balestrieri and Colleen Theisen will be officially presented with a check for $1955.00 that was raised by the community in an auction last year to be used to support the digitization of the 1930s-1950s fanzines in the James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Science Fiction Collection. Rusty was a beloved member of the ICON community, and the community came together both donating items to be auctioned and bidding on those items in a heartwarming display of support for the University of Iowa’s role in carrying on the care and legacy of Rusty and his collection.

You will be able to catch the University of Iowa librarians throughout the weekend at the convention, both at a table in the dealer’s room where you can pick up our zine detailing the current status of the Hevelin Fanzine Digitization Project, and also at various panels throughout the weekend about Science Fiction and zine history, about using a University Library for research as a writer, and as co-conspirators for a project to make a mimeographed fanzine over the course of the weekend.

Read more about the Fanzine Digitization Project: Slate article or Official FAQ.

Read more about the donation: Here

 

Event Recap:

Iowa Bibliophiles October Meeting

Image of John Fifield Presenting about the library at the Recoleta

Wednesday, October 14th, John Fifield, one of our current Olson Graduate Assistants, presented about his work this summer at the Convent of the Recoleta in Arequipa, Peru, where he assisted with identifying and cataloging early printed books in the convent’s collection.  In the photo on the screen (click thumbnail to enlarge) you can see images of the exquisite handcrafted display cases in the convent library that were built by Bill Voss, of the University of Iowa conservation lab, on an unrelated trip in years past. Thanks to everyone who attended, especially the many new faces this month! The lively Q&A that followed the talk had to be cut short due to time constraints, so any unanswered follow up questions can be directed to john-fifield@uiowa.edu.

An example from UI Special Collections of a typical 17th-century Peruvian book will be in the case just inside the doors of Special Collections for the rest of October if you would like to stop by and learn about printing in Peru during the Spanish Colonial period.

 

 

From the Web and Social Media:

1. This month’s Old Gold column

1960 U I Football Team Photo

Remembering a time when postseason play was limited: 1960 Hawkeye football squad loses once, misses out on Rose Bowl

University Archivist David McCartney’s monthly Old Gold column tasks him with being a sports writer this month.

Photo: The 1960 Hawkeye football team. Image courtesy of University of Iowa Yearbooks collection, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, UI Libraries.

 

2. Weekly Dada related posts on Instagram – #dadagrams

Tim Shipe, curator of the International Dada Archives, has been posting about Dada on Instagram once a week on Thursdays. The #dadagram series will continue as a lead up to the 100th Anniversary celebration in 2017.  Fans of Dada should definitely keep tabs on this series on Instagram.

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This week's #dadagram is Walter Serner's Letzte Lockerung! Serner was active in the Dada movement on Switzerland and France. His "Letzte Lockerung" was published as a "Dada Manifesto" in 1920; in the expanded 1927 edition, he would change the subtitle to "A Handbook for Swindlers (and Would-Be Swindlers). [xPT2639 E8 L4 1920] #uiowa #specialcollections #libraries #dada #dadaatiowa #walterserner #switzerland #france #letzelockerung #20thcentury

A post shared by U. of Iowa Special Collections (@uispeccoll) on Sep 24, 2015 at 12:52pm PDT

 

3. Milestone Reached – 20,000 likes & reblogs

Sometimes it is nice to step back and recognize milestones. This animated GIF of re-sewing a text block on single raised cords upstairs in the UI Conservation Lab is now one of the most popular social media post we’ve ever made. With comments like “OMG, I’ve wondered how to do that for the longest time!”, it’s clear that even a momentary snippet can bring to light some of the otherwise invisible work that happens behind the scenes in the library.

https://uispeccoll.tumblr.com/post/121122960772/re-sewing-a-text-block-on-single-raised-cords

 

New Acquisitions:

1. Georg von Logau. Hoc volumine continentur…poëtæ tres egregii. Augsburg 1534

Latin classes return to Special Collections every semester to survey the material history of the transmission of Latin authors through time. We hope to see this little book used in many Latin classes over the years. Featuring work by Gattius , Nemesianus, and Calpurnius, it focuses on hunting, fishing, sporting dogs, and country life, and should be a very approachable text for even brief visits.

Title Page Image
Inside Text Image

2. Peter and Donna Thomas The Renaissance Pleasure Faire Broadsides, 1974-2011.

A retrospective collection of ten typographic broadsides that Peter and Donna Thomas made when working at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire. The broadsides were all letterpress printed on Peter’s handmade paper. They were illustrated with linoleum cuts and watercolor rubrication by Donna. An introductory broadside and a book they published in 1988 with a photographic history of the Faire are included with the broadsides.

https://vine.co/v/eQraX7BnZwD

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World War 1 map
Sep 04 2015

Special Collections Week in Review, 8/28 – 9/4, 2015

Posted on September 4, 2015January 14, 2019 by Colleen Theisen

 Recently on the Web and Social Media:

 

1930's Science Fiction Fanzines

The Hevelin Fanzine Digitization Project was featured on The Verge.  The University of Iowa Libraries is digitizing science fiction fanzines from the 1930s-1950s.

 

 

 

hallAugust Old Gold column from University Archivist David McCartney, Harrison Hall, the Residence Hall That Never Was. 

The planned 1,100-student high-rise, proposed in 1966, never got off the ground.

 

 

An artists book with three spoons in the binding

A Culinary Alphabet by Annie Tremmel Wilcox, published in 1998 was featured on our Instagram page. This culinary artist’s book has three spoons as part of the binding.  [Szathmary N7433.4 W524 C8 1998]

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Events:

 

1. The first Iowa Bibliophiles meeting of the 2015-2016 season

Cheryl Jacobsen Image

University of Iowa Center for the Book calligraphy instructor Cheryl Jacobsen will present about calligraphic hands featured in Medieval manuscripts held in Special Collections.

6:00PM – Stop by to view a repeat showing of the livestream video of Alison Altstatt’s September 4th talk

6:30PM – Refreshments served

7PM – Cheryl Jacobsen’s talk

Special Collections Reading Room, 3rd Floor Main Library, 125 W. Washington, Iowa City, IA

 

2. Special Collections Editions featured in Old Capitol Museum Exhibition

 

donqOpening Reception for The Quest Begins: Quixote at 400

Thursday, September 17, 2015 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Old Capitol Museum

 

Exhibition: Illustrations of Don Quixote: Interpretation of Imagination

September 17, 2015 to January 3, 2016

Old Capitol Museum Keyes Gallery for the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

Explore artistic interpretations of Cervantes’ tale from the 1600s to the 1930s through collected images from editions of Don Quixote from the University of Iowa Libraries.

 

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the sponsoring department or contact person listed in advance of the event.

 

New Acquisitions:

 

1. A new acquisition for our collection of miniature books.

Miniature book - view of the coverAmos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Descent of Mount Gadam, Jubilee Press, 1993.  Adapted from a folktale of the Mensa Bet-Abrehe people of northern Ethiopia. Includes a linocut outline map of Africa.

https://vine.co/v/eTJBM6xpHaH

 

2. A new addition to the University of Iowa Libraries’ map collections for studying World War I.

World War 1 mapThe Markets of the World. Open to Great Britain: Closed to Germany, London : Roberts & Leete Ltd., [1916].  This map shows sources of import for Britain during 1916.

https://vine.co/v/eT5YZ5uwWnm

 

Just for Fun:

Our graduate assistants made a parody of our new acquisition unboxing videos we’ve been making on the social media site Vine.

Please welcome our “new acquisition,” graduate assistant John Fifield.

https://vine.co/v/eIYrx5PBEwY

 

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