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Archives Awareness Week : 2 – 8 April 2012
To celebrate Archives Awareness Week, held the first week of April, we’re compiling a idiosyncratic and completely biased list of interesting news stories involving archives, historical documents or rare books and the compelling stories they generate. These can cover a … Continue reading
Election Propaganda of Yore
Inspired by a twitter post by the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) we’ve pulled a few historical pieces of election propaganda from federal and provincial elections of the nineteenth century.
All of these items have been digitized by the Internet Archive … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, News, Rare Books
Tagged 1896, digitization, election, federal election, international relations, Internet Archive, Ontario, pamphlets, policy, political cartoon, political poem, politics, propaganda, provincial ridings, satire, scandal, tariffs, taxes, vote, voters
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Mariposa Digitization Project featured on CBC’s Metro Morning
Bright and early this morning, the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections’ latest online exhibit was featured on CBC’s Metro Morning. Host Matt Galloway interviewed the founder of the Mariposa Folk Festival and promoted our online exhibit of historical programs, … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, institutions and organizations, News
Tagged CBC, digitization, folk music, Mariposa Folk Festival, music, online exhibits, Orillia, promotion, Toronto
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The Gibson Collection
The Gibson Collection was established at the Clara Thomas Archives in 1994 when Robert Chalmers Gibson, after almost fifty years of of collecting rare books and manuscripts, donated his Canadiana collection to York University.
Recently library staff from the archives and … Continue reading
