Day 2 of visits by local elementary students to ARB. We are building a teaching collection to allow young students to work with primary source materials. Learning about book printing and postcards. Then the students are making their own zines and postcards! UC Libraries

Those familiar with Cincinnati history have likely heard stories of efforts to build a subway here. The project was never completed, so this might be the only image of someone trying to board the Cincinnati subway! UC Libraries #OhioArchivesMonth @ohioarchivists #Transportation

In September 1959, baseball legend, Spingarn Medal winner, and former chairman of the NAACP's Fighting Fund for Freedom Jackie Robinson was the featured speaker at Cincinnati NAACP's Freedom Fund Dinner. UC Libraries #BlackHistoryMonth

ARB is happy to help sponsor this year's Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon and support this wonderful annual event. Free and open to the public! #BlackHistoryMonth #DouglassDay UC Libraries

Spending some time with colleagues and our wonderful participants in Douglass Day 2024. UC Libraries UC_ArtSci UC McNair Scholars Program #DouglassDay

Surveying a new acquisition of Little Blue Books published by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company and we are really getting a chuckle out of the comments left by a former owner/reader. #snarkinthearchives UC Libraries

Learn more about the legacy of Marian Spencer's civil rights and education activism in Cincinnati by visiting the Archives and Rare Books Library at the University of Cincinnati! UC Libraries #BlackHistoryMonth

Back from the Preservation Lab...E. Lucy Braun's graduate school thesis from 1912. A botanist and conservationist, Braun and her sister, Annette (an entomologist), both received PhDs from University of Cincinnati and became pioneers in their fields. UC Libraries #WomensHistoryMonth

Stop by our table in the lobby of Langsam Library today to view some cool items from the Archives and Rare Books Library! Free library swag too!

The most asked question from our tabling at Langsam Library has been why were freshwomen not allowed to hold seances in the basement window-seats??? Rule 15 from the 1914 freshwomen rules as published in the University Record newspaper. UC Libraries

Do you have eclipse fever? We do, so we're sharing some materials on the total solar eclipse of Aug. 1869 housed in the records of the Cincinnati Observatory. You don't need special glasses to view them...just a research appointment! @uc_libraries #eclipse2024 #eclipsefever

Alex Temple officially joins UC Libraries as Reference Services Coordinator in the Archives and Rare Books Library libapps.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/2024/09… UC-ARB Library

Nineteenth Century Eclipse Photographs Featured in New Documentary. More info: libapps.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/2024/09… UC-ARB Library

So pleased to add works by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. to our collections at the Archives and Rare Books Library. Powerful work.

TODAY! Learn about Archives & Rare Books highlights at an Open House Monday, October 21st, 1-3:30pm, 8th floor Blegen Library. Enjoy refreshments and door prizes. UC-ARB Library

UC Libraries new strategic plan unveiled, an article on a new acquisition at ARB, new colleagues, and much more! (did we use the word "new" enough??)

Oh my! We almost missed National Cat Day. If we had, you would have needed to wait a whole year to see these pics of cats wearing top hats! The cats don't look too happy, but we think they are cute. From the James B. and John J. McNamara papers. UC Libraries #catswithhats

From all of us at ARB, have a haunting day... UC Libraries #halloween #spookybooks