People stand around a table of archival materials, including some from Collection of Presidential Campaign Artifacts.

People congregate outside the Reading Room by two student presentations on monitors.

People observe materials surrounding the physical version of the OHIO Student Life in the Postwar Years: Rediscovering the Grace Fleischer Diary, 1949-1953 exhibit.

Student Showcase SUCCESS ✅.
2nd annual #FoundersDay Spring Student Showcase- 17 students from #Archives & Special Collections presenting outstanding work!
Served as opening of the annual #OHIOUniversityArchives Founders Day exhibit.
#MahnBlog: https://bit.ly/mahnblog-sp2026showcase
#OHIOUniversity

New collection--McDavis President’s Papers (2004-2017)!
Listen to #OHIOUniversityArchives intern Sophia McCauley discuss the legacy of #OHIOUniversity President Roderick McDavis and challenges of processing archival materials.
#MahnBlog by McCauley https://bit.ly/mahnblog-mcdavis-papers
#archives

We’re Really Not Much Different From Each Other: Working in the #ManassehCutler Papers.

Hayden Sprance (Eng Lit, Culture & Writing BA ‘26) on her #archives internship experience. Cutler (1742-1823) is considered a founder of #OHIOUniversity.

#MahnBlog https://bit.ly/mahnblog-cutler-sprance

Athens Mental Health Center #archives on display!
Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, walks thru exhibit. #Infographics by VICO 4112/5112 Illustration Capstone class!
Up thru fall semester @aldenlibrary.bsky.social 5th fl.
Blog: https://bit.ly/mahnblog-infographics-amhc
#MahnBlog #AthensOhio

Women in botany!🌷
Student assistant Adrian Darden Kautz, History ’27, discusses discovering women’s contribution to botany in new interview.
Read more at Mahn Blog: bit.ly/mahnblog-bot...
#herbaria #herbarium #PressedFlowers #MahnBlog #botanization #botany #algae #OHIOUniversity

Jellyfish inspired alphabet by Letitia Oteng.

Ice cream cone inspired alphabet by Tony Vacca.

Claymation-inspired alphabet by Mateo Mora.

Creative typography inspired alphabet by Precious Powell.

Alphabets by typography students, spring 2025
3rd floor Alden Library & online: https://bit.ly/mahnblog-alphabets-alden
Inspired by historic and contemporary typographic and graphic design texts from rare books collection.
#OHIOUniversity #AthensOhio #RareBooks #MahnBlog #typography #fonts

Collage of new online items examples. 1. Upper left: Person sketches bike in art classroom. From Kano, Nigeria Advanced Teachers’ College (ATC) records, 1969, University Archives. 2. Upper right: Leaf from Seaweed specimen album. From Flowers of the Deep, 1848. 3. Lower right: Store book cover, supply yard inventory, 1900. From Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company Records. 4. Lower left: Group poses at Bicycle picnic at Hibbard's Grove, Athens, Ohio, circa 1897. From O’Bleness Family Collection.

OHIO Digital Archives update for August is out! Find out about our newly digitized & available materials in our #DigitalArchives at bit.ly/mahnblog-di-....

#OHIOUniversity #AthensOhio #Nigeria #Seaweed #herbaria #CoalMining #archives #RareBooks #OHIOUniversityArchives #MahnBlog

Folders in archival box in the Booth collection with typed labels on tabs.

#Swaziland research.
June Meehan, history ’27 intern writes about recent #OHIOUniversityArchives acquisition, Alan Booth Swaziland Research Papers.
Booth, historian of Southern Africa, #OHIOUniversity prof, shares 16 boxes of early 20th C research.

bit.ly/mahnblog-ala...
#blog #Eswatini #MahnBlog

Screenshot of Collections Work section of Summer Reading from OHIO Archives Blog newsletter.

#SummerReading ☀️
Recent posts in #Archives & #SpecialCollections #MahnBlog make for great short reads!
#Blogposts by students highlight their work accomplished w/ our collections (analog & digital) in spring semester '25. 💚📗
bit.ly/ou-midsummer...
#OHIOUniversityArchives #OHIOUniversity #archives

Map overview of 1885 Athens, Ohio streets showing areas depicted in Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps alongside map key and title seal. Map is beige with blue and pink areas.

Adelle “Del” Stratton (history & comp sci '25) Digital Initiatives student asst, introduces the #AthensOhio Sanborn Map Viewer in a new #MahnBlog post.
Interactive #map & blog about their work: bit.ly/mahnblog-san...
#DigitalHumanities #LocalHistory #archives #mapsky #MapMonday #OhioUniversity

Farfel leaf 011: Book of hours, France, 1400s. A single Latin manuscript book of hours page with heavily illuminated left border. Border was used to create the digital exhibit header in image 2.

Screenshot of digital exhibit header: A Glance into Manuscript & Printed Leaves from 1200-1700.

Farfel leaf 597: Psalter, Ethiopia, 1750-1850. A single manuscript psalter page written in the Ge'ez language in black and red inks.

Letters laid out. Sample of correspondence from some of the institutions Dr. Farfel wrote to regarding his leaves (top to bottom): University of Minnesota, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Hispanic Society of America, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Germany), The Cleveland Medical Library Association, and The New York Botanical Garden.

New #DigitalExhibit about Farfel Collection of #Incunable & Manuscript Leaves. Read #RareBooks intern Zoe Duncan’s #MahnBlog bit.ly/mahnblog-far...

#ManuscriptMonday #MedievalMonday #MedievalManuscripts #EarlyPrintedBooks #IlluminatedManuscripts #BookOfHours #SpecialCollections

Front cover of Gibson’s Spirit of Love, a volume with brown binding and gold accents, including a cherub.

Photo of the Fales Collection on the shelves in the rare books vault.

Handwritten letters tipped into the back of the book Gibson’s Spirit of Love.

Happy #FeatureFriday!
"Earlier this semester I did detective work on the Edward C. Fales Collection. I talk about my #archives deep-dives & dead-ends with this collection in my #BlogPost"
Alex Rienerth #RareBooks Grad Asst, MA Literary History '25
bit.ly/mahnblog-fales #OHIOUniversity #MahnBlog