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Working with Film Negatives is Positively Fascinating
By Adrian Darden Kautz, History ’27, Digital Initiatives Assistant I have been working in the Archives & Special Collections Digital Initiatives unit since my first semester of college, and now I am about to finish my fourth semester! When I first took this job, I did not know much about digitizing historical materials, but I…
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Americana in Manuscript and Type: Piecing Together the Edward C. Fales Collection
By Alex Rienerth, ’25, MA in Literary History, 2024-2025 Graduate Assistant in Rare Books The Edward C. Fales collection was a bit of a mystery to me when I started working with it last semester. Many of the collections in rare books are extensively documented, including records from collectors that express their motivations and intentions…
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Saw, Process, Learn: My Time Working with the League of Women Voters Collection
By Alexis Reynolds, English and World Religions ’26, Spring 2025 Manuscript Archives Intern “Saw the wood in front of you” is what OU alumnus, David Crane*, said at a talk that I attended last semester. That phrase has never been more relevant to me than right now as I make my way through the Mahn…
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Analyzing Art and Mass Communication for Queer Advocacy Through Swarm of Dykes Archival Material
By Julia Weber, Journalism ‘25, Maddie Kiefer, Journalism ‘25 and Katrina Carlson, Journalism ‘26, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Fall 2024. During the fall 2024 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130…