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Special Collections now has “amazing” new additions to its Periodicals Collections. “Amazing Stories” was a science fiction pulp magazine started in 1926, featuring short stories that varied from issue to issue. |
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Special Collections has a growing collection of Black Mask Magazines. The Black Mask is a pulp magazine launched in 1920 by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. The Black Mask focused primarily on mystery and crime stories. The famous Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett first appeared in the September 1929 issue. |
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Children's Books
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One of the books housed in Special Collections, The Long Winter, by Laura Ingles Wilder, tells the story of a very harsh winter on the prairie. This Newbery Honor Book (1941) is illustrated by Helen Sewell, and Mildred Boyle.
Carrier Library's Special Collections contain over four hundred children's books, many of them historic classics. |
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The third installment of the Dressing for Education exhibit series, "The Fashionable Fifties at Madison College" is currently on display in the historic lobby of Carrier Library.
Professor Pamela S. Johnson’s research for the exhibit was made possible by a grant from Special Collections’ Margaret Burruss Endowment. |
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Folkstreams.net
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"The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve of documentary films about American folk or roots culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these hard-to-find films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups. They are streamed on the website together with background materials that highlight the history and aesthetic importance of the traditions and the films."
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Henkel Family Papers
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Browse documents pertaining to an important Shenandoah Valley family, the Henkels, whose printing press published more Lutheran material than any other press in the country. Some items have been digitized and are readily available for viewing. |
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The James Madison Papers are available online at the Library of Congress web site. The collection consists of approximately 12,000 items, including correspondence, personal letters, drafts of legislation, legal & financial documents, that document the life of the "Father of the Constitution." |
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JMU Founding Documents
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A selection of digitized documents and images representing JMU's first decade; records include early commencement programs, Normal Bulletins, Board of Trustees minutes, faculty minutes, yearbooks, student handbooks, student posters, selected correspondence and documents of President Burruss, and an interactive, annotated historical timeline, 1908-1910. |
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JMU Yearbook Collection Online
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The JMU yearbooks have been digitized and are available online. The collection of yearbooks range from 1910 to 2011. The first yearbook, The Schoolma'am, was consecutively published until 1961 when the official name was changed to Bluestone. |
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Shenandoah National Park Oral History collection
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The Shenandoah National Park Oral History collection is now freely available online. The collection consists of 135 interviews of people who were living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia prior to the creation of the Shenandoah National Park. Most of the interviewees resided on land that was claimed by eminent domain by the commonwealth of Virginia and subsequently turned over to the US government in the 1930s. |
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The Breeze
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An archive of the JMU student newspaper The Breeze is now available online. The archive runs from 1922 to present with fully searchable PDF files. |
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The Civil War 150 Legacy Project
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Document Digitization and Access is a multi-year initiative to locate, digitize and provide world-wide access to the private documentary heritage of the American Civil War era located throughout Virginia.
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