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Watkinson Lands a Whale!

September 6, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

by Donald M. Bishop, ’67 Although he graduated ahead of me – he was in the Class of 1959 and I was in the Class of 1967 – Jon Reynolds and I both received Air Force commissions through Trinity’s Air Force ROTC unit. He was shot down over North Vietnam when I was still at …

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Jon A. Reynolds papers — Updated and Fully Processed for Research

May 24, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

by Amy FitzGerald, Processing Archivist In honor of Memorial Day 2024, the Watkinson Library is pleased to announce an expanded and fully processed version of the personal papers of a Trinity College alumnus and decorated U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, Jon A. Reynolds. The Jon A. Reynolds papers consist primarily of correspondence and office files; …

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Documenting Trinity, Preserving History: The Trinity Tripod at the College Archives

May 2, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Savannah Brooks ’26 This year, the Tripod has been incredibly intentional about documenting and preserving the work of students, administrators, and faculty. The Tripod is crucial when considering Trinity’s history, particularly its student history. One phrase we like to tell our writers this semester is: “If it isn’t in the Tripod, it didn’t really …

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Limited Editions Club: Books and Manuscripts

April 1, 2022 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Stoykovich, Manuscript Librarian and College Archivist In February 2022, the Watkinson Library undertook a minor project to improve the finding aids for three archival/manuscript collections: the Limited Editions Club collection; the Dard Hunter papers; and the Roberts Brothers collection. Amy FitzGerald, Processing Archivist in the Watkinson, reformatted the finding aids by transferring them …

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A Papermaker’s Papers: A Fresh Look at Dard Hunter

March 25, 2022 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Stoykovich, Manuscript Librarian and College Archivist In February 2022, the Watkinson Library undertook a minor project to improve the finding aids for three archival/manuscript collections: the Dard Hunter papers; the Limited Editions Club collection; and the Roberts Brothers collection. Amy FitzGerald, Processing Archivist in the Watkinson, reformatted the finding aids by transferring them …

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Spotlight on New Acquisitions: Conrad Gessner’s Vogelbuch (“Bird-Book”) of 1582

April 27, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

As historian Ann Blair notes in her 2016 Bennett Lecture before the Renaissance Society of America, although Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) was both prolific and varied in his publishing interests, he is perhaps best known today as the author of natural histories, particularly his four volume Historia Animalium (1551-1558). Gessner’s Historia Animalium was originally published in …

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NEW ACQUISITION: From the ANNALS of Trinity College and SLAVERY

February 1, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

JOHN BAPTISTA ASHE (class of 1830) was one of “quite a few North Carolinians [who] attended Trinity—in that generation”1 The senior class of undergraduates at Washington (now Trinity) College in 1829-1830 included four North Carolinians, one of whom was John Baptista Ashe, later a lawyer and a member of the United States Congress representing the …

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