Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Rose Library will be closed from December 22, 2023 to January 1, 2024. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. We hope that you have a wonderful, restful winter break. See you in the New Year! 🥳

Is seeing the new "The Color Purple" film on your Winter break to-do list? 💜

If so, you should know that Rose Library holds the papers of the novel's author, Alice Walker! Walker is a key figure in the major exhibition, "At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O'Connor and Alice Walker", now open on the 3rd floor of Woodruff Library. When you visit, you will be able to view the original, handwritten manuscript of "The Color Purple", as well as other items from Alice Walker's life and career. Learn more here: https://buff.ly/3RZ3zYJ

While not in the exhibit, you can also view the original script of the 1985 film, written by Alice Walker (which went unused), as well as props and photographs in our Reading Room.

Campus isn't the same without our students! 😴 Before we know it, though, the spring semester will be here and in full swing. We look forward to having even more students up in Rose Library, experiencing the magic of discovery.

One group that visited during the Fall semester was led by Kimber Clark, Assistant Director of College Advising, and Rebecca Rego, Associate Director of Advising. The pair brought new transfer students to Rose Library to learn about Emory's illustrious history. These students viewed items from Emory's past, including a Dooley suit, photographs, and campus publications.

Monday, Dec. 18, 2023 marks the 164th anniversary of Emory alumnus Young John Allen’s sail from New York to China (1859). Allen, a missionary who graduated from Emory College in 1858, published a small church magazine that grew into a national publication on history, politics, and other vital topics in China. He also translated Western publications into Chinese, which encouraged modern ideas about governing and society.

Significantly, he established schools to educate younger generations on modern ideologies such as democracy, equality, liberal arts and sciences. He became a supporter of women’s rights in China, strongly advocating against foot-binding and for educating women, even opening an all-girls school.

Emory’s Rose Library has a collection of Young John Allen materials, including personal papers, photographs, correspondence, diaries, and other items.

Read more in this wonderful blog by our Chinese Studies librarian and International Area Studies team leader, Gua-Hua Wang: https://buff.ly/3vbi9TD

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"I feel closer to Marie Ponsot in ways that would not have been possible without handling these documents for myself."

Learn about Kyler Schubkegel's experience diving into the papers of little-known American poet Marie Ponsot at Rose Library in our newest blog post, "Marie Ponsot’s Poetic and Epistemic Rhythms". Kyler is a 2023 recipient of the Rose Library Short-Term Award Fellowship. Read his blog post here: https://buff.ly/3tfNRi9

Inspired by Kyler's post? You can come research with us too! Applications are now live for the 2024 cycle of Rose Library's visiting researcher fellowships. Learn more and apply here: https://buff.ly/46XLgHk

Happy last day of finals to our Emory undergraduates! 🥳 We have loved having our students in Rose Library this semester.

One of the classes we hosted was ARTVIS 120: Intro to Visual Art. Since students from this introduction to graphic design course would be making zines of their own towards the end of the semester, they viewed many zines and artist books in Rose. These items centered around DIY culture, music, social activism, q***r education. Specific materials explored during the session included "The ABCs of Beauty" and "The Unmaking and the Making of the World".

The Atlanta Studies Symposium has put out a call for proposals for their upcoming 'Visions of Atlanta' conference on April 12th, 2024 at Emory. The symposium invites submissions on how people and institutions imagine, design, develop, and engineer the city of Atlanta. Abstracts are due on January 22nd, 2024. Learn more here: https://buff.ly/47Uqc5T

Want to participate but don't have an idea yet? Come visit the Rose Library and dig into our collections! Our collections paint a picture of Atlanta as a site of activism, entrepreneurship, diverse artistry, and forward thinkers. We have the records of local organizations, like the Karate for Women Atlanta, Atlanta Ballet, and WSB. We hold the papers of Atlanta leaders, such as Panke M. Bradley, Marvin S. Arrington Sr., and Asa Griggs Candler. We also hold the art of photographers, including Teri Darnell, Jon Arge, Ron Sherman, Charles Rafshoon, and Royce Soble. The work of activists and activist groups, such as AID Atlanta, the Freedom Park Conservancy, Rebecca Ranson, and the Southeastern Arts, Media & Education project are found throughout our holdings. These are just a handful of the collections waiting for you at Rose Library!

Pantone recently announced that "Peach Fuzz" is the color of 2024. 🍑 As Georgians, we have to agree with Pantone that peaches "effortlessly bridge the youthful with the timeless." 😊

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Applications for Rose Library's 2024 Visiting Researcher Fellowships are now live! 🥳

We are accepting submissions for 13 subject specific areas and 5 strategic areas, ranging in topics from southern Jewish history to Black print culture to LGBTQ studies and more! Applications close at 11:59 EST on February 29th, 2024, and awards will be announced on April 17th, 2024. Learn more and apply here: https://buff.ly/46XLgHk

Emory University’s Rose Library is proud to sponsor the “Steel Wheels 2023” art exhibition. This exhibit is created by the style writing community, and it was the first show to feature all-railroad graffiti when it debuted in 2008. The organizers have thanked the Rose for its “unwavering commitment to our beloved culture.” 🚂 Come on out this Friday and Saturday (December 8th & 9th) from 7-11pm at 898 Dill Ave SW, Atlanta 30310 to see this railroad inspired art exhibition!

And you are always welcome to visit Rose Library to check out our graffiti-related collections, including the Jack Stewart papers and the H.J. Parsons photographs!

Some things never go out of style, while others... do.

Do you have a go-to winter look? 🧣

Are you looking for a challenge? Try reading the handwritten letters from W. B. Yeats to Maud Gonne! 🖋️

Over two hundred letters between the pair are now available to read online on Emory Digital Collections: https://buff.ly/3T6PXeD

If you're lucky enough to find yourself in Palm Springs, California between now and April 8, 2024, you have to stop by the Palm Springs Art Museum to see their current exhibition - "Kali, Artographer, 1932-2019".

Kali Archibald was a housewife in Long Island until 1962, when she shed her old life and her old name (Joan) to become a photographer in Southern California. Her beautiful art mixes classic photography with experimental elementals, which she called "artography". Rose Library is fortunate enough to hold the papers of Kali, including hundreds of slides of her art, as well as polaroids, journals, and letters. Learn more about the Palm Springs exhibit here: https://buff.ly/3T7uNgz

“It’s so neat to have the opportunity to see these artifacts in Atlanta,” said Goheen. “I love seeing original manuscripts and original artifacts. It takes me back and makes me realize, ‘[The Wiz] is great today, but the impact is just so much more than if it were just a nice musical.’”

The Emory News Center wrote a wonderful article about our celebration of the Holder-de Lavallade collection! Check it out now:

Emory celebrates 50 years of ‘The Wiz’ with Rose Library collection opening | Emory University | Atlanta GA To mark the 50th anniversary of the inaugural run of “The Wiz,” Emory students, faculty and staff gathered at the Rose Library to browse the papers of Geoffrey Holder, the show’s original director and costume designer.

Thank you to everyone who came out last month to celebrate the opening of our new exhibit, "At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker". This exhibit, located on the 3rd floor of Woodruff Library, is the result of years of hard work from curators, exhibitions team, event planner, preservation department, student assistants, and more. We hope that you'll stop by between now and May 18, 2024 to see it!

If you couldn't make the talk with the curators on the opening night, you can view it here: https://buff.ly/3sZ0TR1

Notice: The Kathleen Cleaver papers will be closed for processing starting January 1, 2024.

Kathleen Cleaver (1945 - present) is a African American activist and lawyer. Her widely used collection at Rose Library includes photographs, printed material, audiovisual and born digital material, books and periodicals, writings, subject files, and correspondence. The collection will be closed through February 2024 for processing, which will improve access to the materials. You can read more about this upcoming process in this blog post: https://buff.ly/3RnEZAs

We are looking forward to seeing graduate students during our open house TODAY! Pop by Rose Library between 10:30 and 1pm to grab a coffee and a snack. We will have information about our services, collections, and job opportunities - specifically for graduate students. See you there! 💙

To commemorate nearly 50 years of “The Wiz” on Broadway and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, Rose Library and the Pathways Center recently hosted a private show-and-tell of items from the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade Papers. Holder was the Tony Award-winning director and costume designer of the original Broadway musical "The Wiz." Holder’s papers, along with those of his wife, acclaimed dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, were placed at Rose Library in 2018.

During their visit, guests explored a display of their materials, including letters of support, photographs, original programs, and gallery images, along with Holder's storyboards and portfolios of set designs and costume drawings for “The Wiz.” They also heard from Rose Library's Anicka Austin, who processed this stunning collection. Thanks to her hard work, the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade Papers are open to the public.

Photographs by Bita Honarvar.

Hey grad students 👋 Come see us tomorrow, November 29th, up in Rose Library between 10:30 and 1pm! We will have coffee and snacks, and will share information about our services, instruction program, and job opportunities. We encourage folks from all programs to stop by Wednesday! ☕

The Woodruff Library Building will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 28th from 3am to 4:30pm for the memorial for First Lady Rosalynn Carter hosted on the Emory University campus.

Rosalynn Carter was not only a friend of Emory’s, but a trailblazer in mental health awareness, housing, and women’s rights. We echo the sentiments of Emory’s President Gregory Fenves on the loss of this incredible leader.

Image is from the Charles M. Rafshoon photograph collection in Rose Library.

Whether you venture out to catch some deals, or are staying in, we hope you have a safe Black Friday! 🛍️ As a reminder, Rose Library is closed today.

Image is from the Ron Sherman photographs.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 Are you the cook today, or are you washing dishes after dinner?

Rose Library will be closed this Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. The library staff wishes everyone a happy and safe holiday, filled with great food and meaningful connections! 🦃

Next Wednesday, November 29th, Rose Library will have a drop-in open house for graduate students. Stop by between 10:30am-1pm for a snack and to learn about how Rose Library is here for YOU. We will be sharing information about our research fellowships, employment opportunities, instruction sessions, and more! We hope to see you there ☕

Late last month, over the course of two days, 8 different small groups visited us from Dr. Linda Merrill's ARTHIST 101: Art, Culture, and Context course. These students viewed many of our oldest items, including an ancient cuneiform tablet on permanent loan from the Carlos Museum. They also interacted with original and facsimile materials in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and more!

Food. Family. Football. Parades. Dogs.

What's your favorite Thanksgiving tradition?

We've had some amazing classes this semester! One of them was ENG 480: Contemporary American Poetry with Walter Kalaidjian.

The goal of this session was to familiarize students with using Rose Library and have hands-on experience with archival items. The students worked with materials from the Danowski poetry library, curated by Dr. Kalaidjian. Materials included "A Traffic of Love" and "Smokey the Bear Sutra".

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of the "You Don't Got Dis: A Hip Hop Legacy" exhibition at Science Gallery Atlanta! This exhibit, which features Rose Library's Ear Wax Records and Jack Stewart graffiti collections, is a journey through Atlanta's hip hop scene.

The exhibit is up through December 3rd at Science Gallery Atlanta, located at 225 Rogers Street Northeast, Atlanta, GA, 30317. Learn more here: https://buff.ly/3G0fkXU

Graduate students - mark your calendars! ✏️ Rose Library will be having a drop-in open house for grad students on Wednesday, November 29th. Stop by between 10:30am-1pm for a snack and to learn about how Rose Library is here for YOU. We will be sharing information about our research fellowships, employment opportunities, instruction sessions, and more! We hope to see you there ☕

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"Yun Ch'i-ho was from Korea, but he actually didn't come directly from Korea; he actually came via China. And he came to Emory precisely because there was a missionary school in China run by an Emory alum named Young J. Allen. Allen recognized Yun as a very promising student, so he was able to fundraise to support his education in the United States. Initially he goes to Vanderbilt, and then he transfers to Emory and graduates in 1893." - Chris Suh, assistant professor of history, during the Emory College’s "First Fridays" series lecture, November 2023

We are thrilled to announce that Yun Ch'i-ho's papers are now available to view online! https://buff.ly/3sts6Lt

This is especially exciting due to the fragile nature of his original diaries, which are not able to be viewed in person for that reason. Work on this digitization project was enabled by an endowment and an agreement with Yun Ch’i-ho’s nephew, Ted Chung.

⌚: Pocket watch likely purchased by Yun Ch'i-ho in Oxford, Georgia, circa 1892-1894, and which he wore regularly throughout his life.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦: Group portrait of Yun Ch'i-ho with other Emory alumni in Seoul, Korea, 1926.

📖: 1883 Diary of Yun Ch'i-ho [in Chinese and Japanese].

📖: 1941 Diary of Yun Ch'i-ho.

Many hands make light work! In theory! 👋🏻

Today is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day! These Emory students (photo taken between 1940-1959) look like they're having fun, but probably not succeeding! From our partners at Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, available at https://dlg.usg.edu/record/geusc_170msbcck2-cor_81937pvn68-cor

Rose Library secures Mellon grant to create virtual reading room, expand access to collections | Emory University | Atlanta GA Thanks to a Mellon grant, Emory’s Rose Library will build a virtual reading room pilot project to expand national and global access to its renowned literary and poetry collections.

"These walks fuse archival research with urban exploring to encourage an engagement with Atlanta’s layered history."

Learn how Joel Silverman transformed his findings within our collections into a free monthly artist-led walk series of Atlanta in our newest blog post, "Walking Through History: Rose Research in Action" Joel is our 2023 Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Collections Research Fellow. https://buff.ly/47q5Ssq

On this Veterans Day, we want to take a moment to acknowledge all those who have served in our armed forces. To our patrons who are veterans, we salute you. In our collections, you can find the stories of individuals who have fought for our country, from the Revolutionary War to the present day. 🦅

Image from the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection.

"While some folks are frustrated and tuned out and staying home on election day, trust me other folks are showing up. Democracy continues with or without you." - Michelle Obama

Are you voting today? 🗳️ Today is Election Day, and while it may not be a presidential election year, it is still important to vote on matters in your local community! We encourage you to vote, if you are able.

Images of 1972 elections are from the Ron Sherman photographs.

If you missed the opening of the "S*x Pistols Atlanta, 1978" exhibit at Different Trains Gallery in Decatur, you're in luck! Photojournalist Ron Sherman will be at the gallery on this Thursday (11/9) at 7pm for a conversation about his stunning photographs. 🤘

The exhibit will be up through the end of this week, so make sure to come see it now! https://buff.ly/46YjgUL