The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of William & Mary Libraries is pleased to announce that it will award travel grants to faculty members, graduate students, and/or independent researchers to support research use of its collections. Writers, creative and performing artists, filmmakers, and journalists are welcome to apply.
Special Collections
Posted on January 12, 2024
Feb 2016
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February 24, 2016Pirates, pirates, pirates!
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February 10, 2016One of the titles we will be showing in two upcoming instruction sessions this week, the 1483 Leaves from the Ninth German Bible (Biblia Nona Germanica), is the only one of our nine titles printed before 1500 that is in a language other than Latin.
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February 8, 2016The Rou
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February 4, 2016Andros Copy of the Royal Charter (UA 77)
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February 1, 2016Parents keep their children’s letters and drawings, now often putting them on the refrigerator. Unless the children were sent away for education, in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century, most stayed close to home and probably only wrote if a parent were away. There are some letters in our collection written by older students away at boarding school or college, but letters by very young children are few.
Jan 2016
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January 20, 2016Before superhero and princess Valentine’s Day cards, we had Lord Byron.
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January 6, 2016None of the books from the first library of William & Mary survived the 170
Dec 2015
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December 16, 2015Nineteenth-century bound sheet music of
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December 8, 2015In Swem Library’s Special Collections Bound Manuscript Collection, there is a handwritten transcription of some documents from the 1677-1686 Entry Warrant Book of Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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December 7, 2015