Blog Posts from The Booth Family Center for Special Collections

Archivist Cassandra Berman reviews Maryland Province materials.
Slavery, Archives, and Accessibility: Reorganizing the Maryland Province Archives
Thumbnail of rare books on a shelf
Getting to Know a Collection
Portion of letter to Miss Kivlon
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
B&O Railroad dinner menu, December 16,1927
Dinner on the B&O Railroad
Fr. Damien letter, copy of Dr. Mouritz prescription, detail
A Letter from Saint Damien of Molokai
J. Havens Richards signature thumbnail
J. Havens Richards, S.J.—After Georgetown
Utagawa Kunisada (and Chuck)
Utagawa Kunisada (and Chuck)
Ornate gilded cover of a book, showing flowers and the name Tennyson
Lionel Tennyson, Secretary to Lord Enfield
Logo of the Cousteau Society, showing a woman swimming with a dolphin
Jacques Cousteau’s Plea to President-Elect Jimmy Carter: “Develop Safe, Renewable and Abundant Sources of Energy”
A copy of the Juneteenth proclamation, with the headline The Great Event of the Age! Negro Emancipation Proclaimed!
Celebrating Juneteenth with the Library's Special Collections
Sister Rosaline Doyle, dressed in a habit, with a statue of Saint Francis in the background
Rediscovering the 1925 Georgetown University Women Graduates
Excerpt from a handwritten letter from February 1807, showing Liddy Butler's name
Liddy and Lucy Butler
An enslaved man in chains on one knee, with the slogan Am I Not A Man And A Brother
Hail Columbia: Contesting Slavery in the Maryland Province Archives
Walking Tour: An Interview with Kathleen Oakley
Walking Tour: An Interview with Kathleen Oakley
Reflections on Being an Archivist...
American Archives Month: Reflections on Being an Archivist...
Celebrating American Archives Month
American Archives Month: An Interview with Sophie Bennett
An Amateur Baseball Box Score
American Archives Month: An Amateur Baseball Box Score from 1864
Celebrating American Archives Month
American Archives Month: An Interview with University Archivist Lynn Conway
Cornelius Van Engert Books a Ticket on the Lusitania
Cornelius Van Engert Books a Ticket on the Lusitania
Oral Tradition and the John Carroll Statue
Oral Tradition and the John Carroll Statue
Archival Values and William Gaston's Tuition Ledger
Archival values as illustrated by the financial account of Georgetown’s first student
Women on the Margin
Women on the Margin in the Maryland Province Archives
The Home Baseball Game
The Home Baseball Game
"Strike for Better Grub"
“Strike for better grub”: Poetic Complaints about campus food after the Civil War