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Watkinson Lands a Whale!

September 6, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

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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Edward F. Murray papers — Recent Acquisition

August 10, 2023 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Amy FitzGerald, Processing Archivist Through the help of a rare book dealer, a set of letters written by Edward Francis Murray, a Trinity College (Hartford) Class of 1918 student, to his high school sweetheart and future wife, Miss Mary Margaret “Mae” McGarry of Norwich, Connecticut, has arrived at the Watkinson Library. The collection consists …

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WGRAC Archives: Activating Herstory and Community at Trinity College

April 25, 2022 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Stoykovich, College Archivist and Manuscript Librarian In early 2020, the Women & Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC) Director, Laura Lockwood, reached out to the Watkinson Library to inquire if the College Archives would be interested in taking in a portion of the articles, papers, and audio in the WGRAC Library and Lounge. Accumulated …

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Spotlight on New Acquisitions: Two early works by a prominent American woman printer

July 28, 2021 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian With the exception of perhaps Gutenberg, the names of printers do not often feature prominently in historical narratives. Even on the title-pages of the books they bring into being, their names—if they appear at all—are generally relegated to the margins. This marginalization may seem obvious and …

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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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