W&M Libraries Blog

2017

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  SCRC's Exhibition Now Open at the Muscarelle Museum of Art

  Posted on February 15, 2017
  From the Special Collections Blog
  On February 11 the exhibition, Written in Confidence: The Unpublished Letters of James Monroe, opened to the public.
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  The Research Behind a Catalog Record: Map of Coal Lands in Raleigh County, West Virginia

  Posted on February 8, 2017
  From the Special Collections Blog
  An interesting old map, recently cataloged and made accessible in the Earl Gregg Swem Library Rare Books Collection at SCRC, bears witness to the transformation of West Virginia from a region of "breathtaking scenery and lavish virgin forests" to a land where "mountain farming culture was defeated by the ever widening grasp of speculators and absentees" (Barbara Rasmussen.