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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 […]
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 Cookbooks are invaluable historical documents […]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 […]
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 these articles will be on display the week […]
Selections from Archival and Special Collections: The Scrapbook of Isabel McGiffin, Macdonald Institute ’29 by Gillian Manford | Archives Clerk AMONGST THE ARCHIVES’ diplomas, formal photos, and exam papers marking the achievements of young men in the early days of OAC and OVC, there can be found traces of another […]
Selections from Archival and Special Collections: An Album of Wine Labels by Melissa McAfee | Special Collections Librarian THIS ENCHANTING ALBUM was recently acquired for our culinary ephemera collection, which is comprised of advertising pamphlets, beer labels, menus, calendars, broadsides, and posters. The album contains 211 predominately German wine […]
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