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Observatory Fever
The Middlebury College Observatory, GIF-ified here by Special Collections Film Preservation Assistant Sam Cartwright, opened in 1937 and was torn down to make way for the construction of McCardell...
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“Shall we their fond pageant see?” A Midsummer Night’s Dream May 5-8!
While our February Folio fever has passed, the Shakespeare celebration continues with the theater department’s upcoming production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Come watch the latest show in the long...
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Mead Chapel Centenary: Then & Now
In celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the completion of Mead Chapel and Hepburn Hall, Special Collections presents a series of posts featuring interactive before-and-after imagery of these...
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New Special Collections exhibits just in time for summer!
Currently populating the glass cases of Davis Family Library are Margaret Armstrong book covers and historic postcards. Don’t miss the chance to see them before heading out for the summer! As part of...
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Mead Chapel Centenary: Then & Now Pt. II
In celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the completion of Mead Chapel and Hepburn Hall, Special Collections presents a series of posts featuring interactive before-and-after imagery of these...
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One Giant Leap For Mankind, and for Special Collections (ArchivesSpace has...
When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the first human steps on the moon on July 20, 1969, Armstrong famously uttered, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”...
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Stacks & Tracks, on the radio. Tune in.
Stacks & Tracks. The Special Collections & Archives radio show. We’re back. From the bowels of the library basement come wonders like you’ve never seen. (And still can’t, because it’s radio.)...
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A tribute to Barbara Jordan on her birthday
In celebration of Black History Month, we remember Barbara Jordan’s 1987 Commencement address at Middlebury. She received an Honorary Doctor of Laws and spoke about values in education and those which...
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Before and After Stonewall: Queer Stories Throughout American History
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956) This fall in the Library Atrium, view Special Collections’ new exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, an event that sparked the...
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