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Small Special Collections Library (UVA)

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Books, manuscripts, art, objects, digital collections, and more. Our name is Small but our collections are anything but.

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On Grounds this week? Small Special Collections Library (UVA) is open Mon-Fri—stop by and check out the Collective Bargaining for the Common Good — a student-curated exhibition on 2 decades of labor unions at UVA & in Charlottesville. Read more: bit.ly/3UGU1Bu

On Grounds this week? <a href="/RareUVA/">Small Special Collections Library (UVA)</a> is open Mon-Fri—stop by and check out the Collective Bargaining for the Common Good — a student-curated exhibition on 2 decades of labor unions at UVA &amp; in Charlottesville.
Read more: bit.ly/3UGU1Bu
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Just a reminder, UVA Library spaces will be closed on Monday for Memorial Day. As always, check library.virginia.edu/hours for Library hours. #memorialday

Just a reminder, UVA Library spaces will be closed on Monday for Memorial Day.

As always, check library.virginia.edu/hours for Library hours.

#memorialday
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Lean more about this interesting item from UVA! Bernard Proctor Black History Scrapbook c.1949-1950 is a homemade Black history notebook of clippings and illustrations compiled by Bernard S. Proctor, a Tuskegee Airman. University of Virginia Library Small Special Collections Library (UVA) ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?d…

Lean more about this interesting item from UVA! Bernard Proctor Black History Scrapbook c.1949-1950 is a homemade Black history notebook of clippings and illustrations compiled by Bernard S. Proctor, a Tuskegee Airman. <a href="/UVALibrary/">University of Virginia Library</a> <a href="/RareUVA/">Small Special Collections Library (UVA)</a> 

ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?d…
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Did you know that we have one of the largest miniature book collections in the United States? Do you want to learn more about the collection? Check out the collection update in our new blog post! Blog: wp.me/pfnjvG-1ui #MiniatureBooks #MiniatureMonday #McGeheeMiniatures

Did you know that we have one of the largest miniature book collections in the United States? Do you want to learn more about the collection? Check out the collection update in our new blog post!

Blog: wp.me/pfnjvG-1ui

#MiniatureBooks #MiniatureMonday #McGeheeMiniatures
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In honor of #DisabilityPrideMonth, today on our blog: "Seeing the World from a Different Perspective." A recently processed collection (MSS 16844) gives insight into how Helen Keller wrote and typed her personal letters. Learn more: wp.me/pfnjvG-1ur #Deaf #Blind

In honor of #DisabilityPrideMonth, today on our blog: "Seeing the World from a Different Perspective." A recently processed collection (MSS 16844) gives insight into how Helen Keller wrote and typed her personal letters.

Learn more: wp.me/pfnjvG-1ur

#Deaf #Blind
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On our blog today: “We have had some adventures...” A rare Civil War letter chronicles the thwarted attempts of a Confederate family from Galveston, Texas—birthplace of Juneteenth—to evade the Union Naval blockade and reunite with their father in Cuba. wp.me/pfnjvG-1we

On our blog today: “We have had some adventures...”
 
A rare Civil War letter chronicles the thwarted attempts of a Confederate family from Galveston, Texas—birthplace of Juneteenth—to evade the Union Naval blockade and reunite with their father in Cuba.
wp.me/pfnjvG-1we
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Join us to celebrate the exhibition opening of "Anne Spencer: I Am Here!" on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from 5:30-7 p.m. View the exhibition, hear gallery talks by curators and special guests—plus food and drink! Tickets are limited: RSVP your spot today: at.virginia.edu/AnneSpencer-Op…

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Behind-the-scenes of the installation of “Anne Spencer: I Am Here!” Celebrate the opening with us next Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 5:30 p.m. Food, drink, good times and gallery talks! at.virginia.edu/AnneSpencer-Op…

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What can a Gibson Girl’s impressive hairstyle tell us about early 20th-century aspirations? Check out “Issuing Modernisms,” the latest first-floor exhibition in Special Collections library.virginia.edu/news/2024/thor… Image—Charles Dana Gibson's “Gibson Girl” drawings for Life magazine

What can a Gibson Girl’s impressive hairstyle tell us about early 20th-century aspirations? Check out “Issuing Modernisms,” the latest first-floor exhibition in Special Collections 
library.virginia.edu/news/2024/thor…
Image—Charles Dana Gibson's “Gibson Girl” drawings for Life magazine
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Happy Halloween—it’s another great pumpkin by Ed Morton! Inspired by R. Hooke’s 1667 Micrographia (Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses…), our pumpkin is being eaten by fleas, cicadas, more! at.virginia.edu/micrographia