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Ryan Kirkby | Archives Associate n a chilly Christmas night in 1895, local pimp Lee Shelton walked into a St. Louis saloon and shot Billy Lyons. His reason? Lyons touched his hat. There is more to the story. According to folklorist Cecil Brown in his book Stagolee Shot Billy […]
War, Pandemic, and the Homemaker Gillian Manford | Archives Clerk his is a time of changing conditions, of different habits and different modes of living. Many of the things we… take for granted no longer exist or must be adapted to present-day needs. And because our food is of the […]
Navigating “the bogey man of clashing colors” Ryan Kirkby | Project Archivist The Ontarion has invited writers from the Library, Archival & Special Collections to share stories about the unique pieces housed in the collection. Join us as we explore these fascinating, beautiful, scandalous, and weird bits of history. The […]
Curating Experiential Learning in Archival & Special Collections Melissa McAfee | Special Collections Librarian uring the Winter 2020 term, University of Guelph students were given an extraordinary opportunity to engage in a variety of experiential learning projects with a collection of original medieval manuscript codices, dating from the […]
Inside Incunables Rosalie Engels | MA candidate, SOLAL Helen Ling Liu | MLIS candidate (University of Toronto) Melissa McAfee | Special Collections Librarian Brittney Payer | MA candidate, History id you know that the McLaughlin Library is home to a collection of books on witchcraft dating from the Early […]
An Interview with Kathryn Harvey Kathryn Harvey, Head of Archival & Special Collections in McLaughlin Library, is finishing up her term as Head on Feb. 14. As a tribute to her 11 years in this position, Amanda Etches, Associate Chief Librarian (Research), sat down with Kathryn to ask her some […]
The Ontarion has invited writers from the Library, Archival & Special Collections to share stories about the unique pieces housed in the collection. Join us as we explore these fascinating, beautiful, scandalous, and weird bits of history. The items written about in this article are available for consultation in the A&SC […]
Selections from Archival & Special Collections By Lara Carleton | Archives Clerk he University of Guelph and its founding colleges (Macdonald Institute, Ontario Agricultural College, and Ontario Veterinary College) have a long history of winter traditions. MAC and OAC students in the early 1900s “tramped” across the snow-covered campus […]
by Graham Burt | Library Associate he Oxford English Dictionary defines a cookbook as “a book containing recipes and other information about the preparation and cooking of food,”and at their most rudimentary level, cookbooks do serve this purpose. But this has never been their sole function. Cookbooks are invaluable historical documents […]
The Ontarion has invited writers from the Library, Archival & Special Collections to share stories about the unique pieces housed in the collection. Join us as we explore these fascinating, beautiful, scandalous, and weird bits of history. The items written about in this article are available for consultation in the A&SC […]
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