Sunflower garden with person standing next to a large sunflower, Reedsville, Meigs County, Ohio, circa August 1997. Lloyd E. Moore collection, Documentary Photography Archive, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
What’s your favorite flower?
Lloyd E. Moore photographed person w #sunflower circa August 1997.
Link in bio, full photo: https://bit.ly/moore-sunflower
#NationalGardeningMonth #flowers #gardening
Who’s behind the account? 💭
I’m Owen Keller, social media editor for this page! Take a trip through a week in my life working social media for #OHIOUniversityArchives this #NationalLibraryWeek!
#OHIOUniversity #DayInTheLife #WeekInTheLife #OHIOUniversityLibraries
Alden Library card catalog in use on fourth floor, 1973. 4 People look at materials on a table in the background. 2 people sit at a table flipping through cards. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
It's #NationalLibraryWeek and this year’s theme is “Find Your Joy.” We find joy in these 4th-floor card catalogs from the past!
Alden Library photos: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-aldenlibrary
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #ALA #libraries #OHIOUniversityLibraries
"False Promises" author Ric Sheffield will deliver the Central Region Humanities Center spring lecture on Monday, April 20, 4pm, at the Southeast Ohio History Center in Athens. www.ohio.edu/cas/central-...
If you can't make it, learn more at www.ohioswallow.com/978080401257...
#VotingRights
1995 yearbook, Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections. Top: 4 students sit or lay in the grass, 2 strumming guitars, in the grass in front of Lakeview (now Riverpark) apartments. Bottom left: A student jogs on the bike path with a Walkman and wired headphones. Bottom right: Students play sand volleyball on South Green volleyball courts.
Looking for things to do in the #spring sun?🌤️ Maybe these #OHIOUniversity students can inspire you!
1995 yearbook: https://bit.ly/Athena95Daffodils
#OHIOUniversityArchives #TBT
1978 International Film Fest Promo. A hand with eyes, eyebrows, and a mouth eats a film strip. April 21, 1978 The Post. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
It’s film fest week in #AthensOhio🎞️! If you're around, stop in at @athenacinema.bsky.social for Athens International Film & Video Festival. Students get in free!
https://bit.ly/ou-ua-post1978aifvf
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityLibraries @aifvf.bsky.social
Image of an almost complete puzzle featuring a large color botanical print on a white background.
Digitized version of the same original hand-colored leaf. Farfel leaf 685: Leonhart Fuchs, Labliche abbildung, Switzerland, 1545.
This puzzle reproducing a single page from a #LeonhartFuchs herbal printed in 1545 on floor 2 @aldenlibrary.bsky.social is almost finished, but the digitized leaf is always available online!
https://bit.ly/farfel685
#WoodcutWednesday #Herbals #16thCentury
Student employee uses barcode scanner at Circulation Desk. Part of project to document the 25th anniversary of Alden Library in 1994.
It's our Student Employee Appreciation Week! Thank a student employee, because they keep the Libraries running for all of us! We could not do it without you. 💚
#OHIOUniversity #StudentAppreciationWeek #StudentEmployee #StudentWorker #OhioUniversityLibraries
Collage of moments from 2010 Athens Beautification Day, 2010 yearbook. Photos include people climbing trees, throwing away trash, interacting with gardens. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
Athens Beautification Month is April!
From volunteering at the student farm to garden preparation, 2026 is full of #AthensOhio beautification events.
2010 yearbook: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-athensbeautification2010
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversityLibraries
Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent!
www.historians.org/news-publica...
Photo of person in a fedora and trench coat in front of the Varsity Theater. Marquee reads “It’s Back,” “Athens Film Festival.” The Post, April 25, 1986. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
The 53rd Athens International Film & Video Festival kicks off today in #AthensOHIO!
Students at #OHIOUniversity get in screenings free @athenacinema.bsky.social!
1986 The Post: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-aifvf-varsity-1986
#OHIOUniversityArchives
A young person kneels beside a dog in a rural yard with wooden outbuildings and house in the background. Circa 1940s-1960s. Frank Buhla Collection, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
Happy #NationalPetDay!
This photo of a person and their dog is our pick today!
One of hundreds of photos digitized in the Frank Buhla Collection: https://bit.ly/ou-mss-buhla
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityLibraries #pets
Person in polka dot shirt dances while others spectate at 1992 International Street Fair.
Crowd dances at the intersection of Court and Washington streets, 1986.
Person applies henna tattoo to the palm of another person’s hand, 1993.
Crowd of people dances in the street, 1986.
International Street Fair tomorrow! 4/11, 10:30AM-5 PM, Union St, #AthensOhio.
Here are some 1990s & 1980s throwbacks from past street fairs.
More of this annual event: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-internationalstreetfair
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #OHIOIWEEK26 #OHIOUniversityLibraries
We also refer people to the patients' own newsletter, Green Hill News, for a feel of day to day life. We have 1955-1971. This is a resource that you cannot see in the reading room due to prevalence of patient names, but we have it online with the names redacted.
bit.ly/ou-ghn
#Artemis II splash lands today! Let's zoom in on an illustration of the man on the moon from a 1656 edition of one of the earliest works attributed to #Galileo 🔭.
Trattato della sfera di Galileo Galilei, Rome, 1656. QB41 .A85 1656x. https://bit.ly/trattato-catalog
#RareBooks #NASA #Moon
Alisa Bishop (left), her mother (right), and others decorate cakes at 2010 Moms Weekend. Bishop and mother laugh together. The Post, May 3, 2010. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
Moms Weekend at #OHIOUniversity #TBT!
“Moms bring the nest to Athens.” #Throwback to May 2010, The Post.
More in student newspaper The Post: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-momswknd-2010
#OHIOUniversityArchives
Students chat and study in Alden Library study carrels, 1979. Ohio University Archives. Thank you Donors! Thanks for your support of the Libraries!
Thank you donors! Thanks for your support of the Libraries!
Students chat and study in Alden Library study carrels, 1979.
#OHIOGivingDay #OHIOUniversityLibraries #OHIOUniversityArchives
B&W unicorn illustrated printed endpapers, showing unicorn lying down under a starry night sky with a sliver moon in the upper right and large bird above it on the left.
For #NationalUnicornDay we offer these fantastic and fantastical printed #endpapers.
#Unicorns #MythicalCreatures #EndOfTheWeekEndpapers
W.B. Yeats, Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth and the Trembling of the Veil" London, Macmillan and Co 1926. bit.ly/catalog-yeat... #RareBooks
Congrats! 👏
Photo of cherry blossoms with text laid above. Header reads “Sakura Festival.” Additional text “2011” added. 2011 yearbook, Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
#Sakura Festivals at #OHIOUniversity!
Not only did these fests celebrate #CherryBlossoms, they also focused on Japanese history, with dances, stories, and more.
Hosted by the Japanese Student Association.
2011 yearbook: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-sakura2011
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversityLibraries
First side of a whiteboard covered in handwritten student responses the questions: 1. What does the word “archive” mean to you? 2. What would you put into an archive of your life?
Second side of a whiteboard covered in handwritten student responses the questions: 1. What does the word “archive” mean to you? 2. What would you put into an archive of your life?
March archives whiteboard takeover was a hit!
Read what people wrote in response to our questions! #WhiteBoardWednesday
Some great responses, like "accessible history!"
Schedule an appointment and learn more: https://bit.ly/oulibraries-archives-questions
#OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityLibraries
Giving Day is here! Give today to support the Libraries, aiding students and faculty in learning as research...and get some socks while you're at it! Illustrated with students with socks, group of building kit, tote, and socks.
It's Giving Day at #OHIOUniversity! 💚
bit.ly/libraries-gi... (April 8)
Your support helps expand access, enhance spaces, and keep resources affordable, making an immediate, campus-wide impact that benefits the entire OHIO community.
#OHIOGivingDay #OHIOUniversityLibraries
It's #InternationalWeek! Every year, #OHIOUniversity sets up international flags on College Green.
#AthensOhio look out for more events rest of week- ice cream social, street fair, more!
Full image: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-1991flags
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOIWEEK26 #OHIOUniversityLibraries
Please join us in congratulating the winner of this year's Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, Austin Allen, for his manuscript, Dissent. The winner was selected from ten finalists by judge Michael Prior. Dissent will be published in spring 2027. Learn more at ohioswallow.com/poetry-prize.
Please join us in congratulating the winner of this year's Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, Austin Allen, for his manuscript, Dissent. The winner was selected from ten finalists by judge Michael Prior. Dissent will be published in spring 2027.
Learn more at ohioswallow.com/poetry-prize.
Thanks for the h/t @johnokeefe.bsky.social !
Our open student newspaper archives is a rich lode! (1911-2011) #OHIOUniversityArchives
Wynton Marsalis concert poster, Ohio University, April 8, 1993. Photo of Marsalis leaning on a structure in front of a cityscape. Posters collection, Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
Jazz concert poster🎺.
Wynton Marsalis concert poster from performance at MemAud in April 1993!
90s jazz musical guests & more, Spotify: https://bit.ly/ou-uaSpotify
#JazzAppreciationMonth #OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #WyntonMarsalis
And if you think your collection has Ege leaves, you can use my online Ege Field Guide to identify them! Let me know if you find any. Happy hunting! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
New interview on #zines, livestreaming panels, and discretion when selecting materials. With Victory Earley, digital initiatives assistant, Classical Civs ’26.
2nd floor Alden Library #OHIOUniversity!
Event page, panel video: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-zinemaking2026
#OHIOUniversityArchives #solarpunk
Crop-in on a green-tinted aerial shot of Hocking River with trees surrounding on both sides. 2 people are in a boat on the water. 1931 yearbook, Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
Page with printed text: “The Hocking River as it is seen during late spring.” 1931 yearbook, Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
Ohio's own Hocking River for today's #TBT!
Here’s a snapshot of the river from a 1931 yearbook with a spring-green tint.
More: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-hocking1931
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #AthensOhio
Take Back The Night, Athena yearbook, 1998. People hold signs, another group holds up a banner promoting the event. Ohio University Archives, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections.
#TakeBacktheNight returns at #OHIOUniversity Thursday, 4/2, 6 PM #AthensOhio.
Resource fair, speakers, performances, and march at Baker Ballroom.
#Throwback to 1998 TBTN: https://bit.ly/ou-ua-tbtn1998
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #OHIOUniversityLibraries
