We are seeking a media archivist to process the personal papers of Ray Dolby! This position is temporary (1.5 years) with an expected pay range of $73k to 92k per year. careersearch.stanford.edu/jo…
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Happening until 4pm in Hohbach Hall Room 126 SPECIAL, UNIQUE & RARE, monthly pop up. On view today, “Textiles and Fabric” items from our Humanities & Area Studies curators! Come by!!
Special Collections welcomes two new archivists this month: Chris Doan & Chloe Pfendler shar.es/af2vsR
New addendum to the papers of Lorraine Garcia-Nakata, a California-based visual artist - shar.es/af2vsr
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So nice to have visitors to our lab again! Thanks to the Medieval Studies Workshop focal group for making a visit to Conservation & Special Collections part of their symposium with students from UC Berkeley last month.
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Now open for research: the Dennis Witmer collection of Alaska as the Measure. For those interested in landscape photography, the Alaskan wilderness, and large-format cameras! library.stanford.edu/blogs/s…
check out this post script from a letter from July 14th, 1804 from our Colonial and Early American Papers stanford.io/3Oe2vMm #Hamilton #thisonegetsasleeve
Are you an archivist who's into the history of science and technology? We're hiring! Salary up to $85K. stanford.io/3LHawYm
We recently cataloged a set of Beastie Boys figurines! Here's the catalog record: searchworks.stanford.edu/vie… and a pic of the set! @StanfordLibs @StanfordSpec
Congratulations to the team behind The Janes on their premiere at Sundance! We are pleased they were able to use the research materials in @StanfordLibs Dorothy Fadiman/Concentric Media papers to complete their film: searchworks.stanford.edu/vie…
“We were ordinary women and we wanted every woman we helped to be the hero of her own story.” Read our #Sundance 2022 Premiere Coverage of THE JANES for more.
Check out this newly cataloged and preserved patented photograph album - the knobs, when turned, scroll through the photographs! searchworks.stanford.edu/vie…
Rare "swash" letterforms in papal bull from 1718 searchworks.stanford.edu/vie…
Phil Choy papers now open for research stanford.io/3avwSLN. More here: stanford.io/3FFPVRJ
Wrapping up processing on the amazing Philip P. Choy papers (stanford.io/3lfcV2b), we found mounts for an exhibit on protests in San Francisco that used recycled placards from those demos
Newly cataloged: an amazing photography album of the storied 442nd Infantry Regiment - a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei) who fought in World War II. searchworks.stanford.edu/vie…
Newly cataloged and preserved by conservation: Kabbalistic talismans, prayers, and cures = Ḳemiʻot, tefilot u-mirshamim shonim - searchworks.stanford.edu/vie… @StanfordLibs @StanfordSpec @laurawilsey
The March Fong Eu papers are now available - just in time for AAPI Heritage Month. More information about California's former Secretary of State & the first Asian woman elected to a state legislature here: stanford.io/33BV4se #StopAAPIHate @StanfordLibs
Happy Friday from @StanfordSpec - here's an interesting Qur'anic writing tablet...they were ritually washed down and the resultant water with tiny traces of their ink consumed as a form of spiritual medicine! @StanfordLibs @laurawilsey
