It was a very busy week in Special Collections! Four separate classes worked with selected objects from the Art and Artifact collections (over 100 objects in all), we hosted several graduate students and independent researchers pursuing various investigations, and whenever we had a chance to look across the offices, we noted that Rare Books and Manuscripts was also quite busy with faculty, student, and outside researchers.
- Professors Hertel and Meyer and graduate students discuss late 19th-century photographs from the collection
- Graduate students in Professor Hertel’s Vienna seminar discussing photographs from the collection
To top it all off, we participated in the first of three campus-wide admitted student events on Friday, introducing several dozen potential members of the class of 2016 to Bryn Mawr’s collections and the people who work with them.
Also on Friday, weaving her way through students and staff, University of Michigan Professor Artemis Leontis–fresh from her “Greek Dress and the Embodied Archaeology of Eva Palmer Sikelianos” lecture the previous evening–pored over materials from the college Archives as part of her ongoing research into the life and work of this fascinating woman.