Author: Jeffrey Makala

  • Postcard Collections on Display

    Postcard Collections on Display

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    Jeffrey Makala

    The new display in the Duke Library’s foyer showcases postcards. Special Collections and Archives houses several postcard collections: from Furman and the Greenville Woman’s College; from Greenville; tourist sites and locales from around South Carolina; and prominent buildings and sites from around the USA. We also have a collection of postcards from Camp Sevier, the…

  • Libraries Receive Gift of 17th and 18th Century Literature

    Libraries Receive Gift of 17th and 18th Century Literature

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    Jeffrey Makala

    Earlier this year, Dr. Duncan McArthur (English, emeritus) gave the Furman Libraries a collection of early printing that he has spent a lifetime assembling for his own teaching and research. “The Duncan McArthur Collection of Early Newspapers, Magazines, and Periodical Essays” is rich in some of the earliest printed periodicals and is now available for…

  • Medieval Manuscripts: Treasures from Furman’s Collections

    Medieval Manuscripts: Treasures from Furman’s Collections

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    Jeffrey Makala

           The largest corpus of objects of material culture from the medieval period in the West come to us as examples of textual culture: handwritten manuscripts on treated animal skin (parchment, or vellum) and, later in the 15th century, early printed books. Considering surviving textiles, household objects, and even architecture in stone, it…