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Reflecting on my Graduate Assistant Experience in Rare Books

By Alexis Voisard, MA Student in English, 2022-23 Rare Book Graduate Assistant Athens has been spoiled by beautiful weather, and I’ve taken advantage by going around campus getting photos in some of my favorite spots wearing my graduation robe! It’s starting to feel bittersweet going to classes and working at the library knowing I only…
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Processing the Horace Coleman Collection

By Margaret Spetz, History ’25, Spring 2023 Archives Intern Processing the Horace Coleman collection was my first task as a Mahn Center Intern during the Spring 2023 semester. Coleman was an associate English professor at Ohio University during the 1970s and ‘80s. The collection contains Coleman’s personal letters, his military records, his correspondence with publishers,…
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Plants and Printing: 1485-1925, An Exhibit

By Morganna Marks, senior History major and OhioLink Luminaries intern, 2022-2023 As the Ohio University Libraries OhioLINK Luminaries intern for 2022-2023, I knew from the beginning that I wanted to create an exhibit. I wanted to do something very different from what I do in class. As a history major, I write a great many…
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O’Bleness Family Collection: Updates on the Mystery Photo Album

By Anna Denman, History ’23, Fall 2022 Archives Intern In my first post about the Mystery Photo Album, I wrote that I hoped to continue identifying photographs from the album and piecing together the O’Bleness family’s story. In the five weeks that followed my last post, I spent hours familiarizing myself with the O’Bleness family,…
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Investigating a Mystery Photo Album

By Anna Denman, senior History major, Fall 2022 Archives Intern After the Mahn Center staff introduced me to the many internship project options available for the fall 2022 semester, I was immediately intrigued by the unidentified photo album. Who were the people smiling, laughing, and posing in these photographs that appeared to be at least…
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Student Project: The Decline of Cursive

The Decline of Cursive: A Digital Exhibit by OhioLINK Luminaries Intern Judinya Thwaites-Brevik The Mahn Center was thrilled to welcome OhioLINK Luminaries Intern Judinya (Nya) Thwaites-Brevik for a seven-week rotation to start off the spring 2022 semester. Nya is a sociology major in the Honors Tutorial College, minoring in psychology and political science with a…