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The Charles M. Adams American Publishers Trade Binding Collection chronicles the development of book binding in the United states over a period of 100 years.
The Robbie Emily Dunn Collection of American Detective Fiction was begun in 1981 with the initial intention that only women writers would be included. It quickly became evident that to exclude certain works written by men would be to exclude some interesting women detectives. The character of Bertha Cool, for example, allowed the inclusion of Erle Stanley Gardner writing under the pseudonym of A. A. Fair. Gardner keeps company with approximately forty other gentlemen writers similarly brought into the collection by their fictitious lady sleuths.
A collection of works of interest to both boys and girls.
The majority of the texts scavenged for Otto Ege’s “Fifty Original Leaves From Medieval Manuscripts” (all but one in Latin) are liturgical in origin–Bibles, psalters, missals, breviaries, and Books of Hours–however Ege also included a few less common works such as the 15th-century manuscript of Livy’s History of Rome and a version of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. The leaves range in date from the late twelfth to the early sixteenth century and represent a number of distinctive regional styles in paleography and illumination from throughout western Europe, including Italy, France, Germany, the Low Countries, Switzerland, and England.
The collection represents the serial titles available to young girls from the mid-19th to early 20th century. [Search Cataloged Materials ]
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The Paul and Janice Hessling Home Economics Pamphlets Collection consists of commercial and government publications on the subject of home management and nutrition and includes educational materials, recipes, household hints, and other materials. The pamphlets were originally published between 1826 and the present.
The Jargon Society is an independent press founded by the American poet Jonathan Williams in 1951.
The Randall Jarrell Collection encompases both manuscripts and published works by the author.
The Lois Lenski Collection of Early American Children’s Literature is a collection of 18th and 19th century children’s books purchased by the author and illustrator beginning in the late 1920s when she and her family moved into a circa 1830’s house in Connecticut. Some of the books collected were inspiration for the character Phebe in Lenski’s book, Phebe Fairchild and her book.
Cookbooks and pamphlets published by North Carolina churches, schools, businesses, and other civic groups and individuals.
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In the mid-1960s, Walter Hamady founded The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill. He is known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking.
The materials focus on the following subjects : anthropometry, diet and nutrition, exercise therapy, deformities of the spine, barbell/dumb bell exercises, Indian club exercises, physical education and curriculum, and development of exercises specifically for children’s, men’s, and women’s health. They also document the development for the four major philosophical systems: German System (Turners), Swedish System, French (Delsarte) System, and American System.
Special Collections General is the home to materials supporting the curriculum, both past and present, as well as materials that contextualize holdings in Manuscripts and University Archives.
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Highlighted authors, presses, and topics: Geoffrey Chaucer , Charles Dickens , George Herbert , T.E. Lawrence , William Shakespeare , Mark Twain , Virginia Woolf , Artists Books , Bird & Bull Press , Gogmagog Press , Janus Press , and English Drama to 1800 .
Way & Williams, Publishers was officially established in 1895-Washington Irving Way, a bibliophile, native of Canada and former railroad executive, and Chauncey Williams, a Wisconsin native reared in England and a former advertiser-the firm had its predecessor in W. Irving Way and Company, a small publishing-bookselling company begun by Way in 1892. The new firm designated itself “Way and Williams, Publishers, Importers, and Booksellers.”
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Consisting primarily of British and American imprints, the Woman’s Collection is especially strong in early biography, memoirs and narratives of women, education, labor, health and hygiene, organizations, suffrage and anti-suffrage (United States, Great Britain, France and Germany), nineteenth and twentieth-century literature about women, social and moral questions.
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Highlighted author: Emily Dickinson
A collection of books and pamphlets focusing on women in the military, complimenting and contextualizing the Women Veterans Historical Collection.
The World War I Pamphlet Collection developed from two sources. The Greensboro Public Library donated a selection of pamphlets that were added to the Library’s holdings of United States government publications of that period and topic.
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The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at UNC Greensboro collects, preserves, and makes accessible unique and historical materials for learning and research. The department promotes the use of these materials by the University’s academic community, scholars, and the public. Its goal is to advance scholarship and to further the educational and service missions of the University. Read Collection Development Policy
Central to the mission of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives is the collection and preservation of unique and historical materials for learning and research. Over the past century, hundreds of individuals and organizations have generously donated materials to our collections. Read more here
