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Digitizing Lost Farfel Leaves
By Lilyana Mays, MA in Art History ‘26, Digital Initiatives Graduate Intern Background My experience with the Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Collection of Incunable and Manuscript Leaves held by the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections is a bit of a long story. In the spring of 2024, months before graduating with BAs in…
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“Sincerely, The Foliophiles Inc.”: Untangling the Pages from the Past Portfolio Sets
By Avery Kumes, Honors Tutorial College Classics & Religious Studies, ‘27, Spring 2026 Rare Book intern My name is Avery Kumes and I am a third year Honors Tutorial College Classics & Religious Studies major. I am broadly interested in a public history career, and after a summer experience processing archival records in the East Tennessee…
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Processing the Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Collection of Incunable and Manuscript Leaves
By Zoe Duncan, Honors Tutorial College Art History with a certificate in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, ’26, Rare Book Intern, Spring ’25 As an Art History major, I often find myself working with materials as a researcher. My familiarity with the Mahn Center began over the summer of 2024, when I spent a few…