Special Collections & College Archives is happy to announce six new collections and one new rare book available for research!
- The John McCann papers, 1969-2022, include letters and diaries from McCann, a conscientious objector, who while deployed in the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, became a conscientious objector. His letters and diaries depict his inner turmoil, and he ultimately became a field medic while serving.
- The Collection of Erotic Advertising, Order Forms, and Other Material Related to Sexuality and Astrology, 1927-1928 is a fascinating collection of an individual’s personal memorabilia including advertisements for French art photographs, sexual education manuals and books, and correspondence clubs with international women. However, the collection also includes metaphysical materials, including pamphlets on personal development and New Thought spiritualism.
- The First Time Women Voters and Activists International photo collection, 1917-1962, is a brilliant small insight into women’s suffrage around the world in the 20th century. Photographs show suffrage movements and protests, women casting their first ballots, prominent international suffragettes, and early female elected officials.
- The Pontiac and John Williams papers, 1898-1935 is a small collection of land grant documents and personal letters belonging to Private Pontiac J. Williams, Jr., an Indigenous American who served in WWI.
- The Records of transactions relating to enslaved persons in Cuba, 1872-1877, consists of two groupings of documents regarding enslaved peoples in Cuba in the 1870s. The first group includes sales entries for the sale of two teenagers with physical descriptions and their cost. The second group of documents consists of information regarding two enslaved individuals who were purchasing their freedom through the coartación system.
- The Panama Canal photograph collection, 1906-1910, consists of 16 photographs, both of the construction of the Panama Canal and the life around Panama. The collection additionally includes a booklet about the construction of the Panama Canal.
In addition, Special Collections & College Archives is pleased to share the recent acquisition of Primera parte del sermonario del tiempo de todo el año: duplicado, en lengua mexicana. Printed in 1614, Primera parte del sermonario del tiempo de todo el año, is an early Mexican imprint of a liturgical sermon used in the missionary program of the Catholic Church in New Spain. Published in Nahuatl, the language of the Mexica people, the book was intended for use throughout the Christian liturgical or ecclesiastical year.