I came across this great little pamphlet yesterday in the Burwell Benson Papers (Collection #60-z, finding aid). It’s an 1877 catalog of “farm, freight, plantation, platform & spring wagons” from the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company of South Bend, Indiana – the same Studebaker famous for producing those swank early 20th-century (horse-less) automobiles.
The catalog includes [...]
You never know what you’re going to find in our collections. Today, while looking for something totally unrelated, I happened upon a folder with an intriguing title: “Prescription and Diet Book, circa 1800s.” I thought I might have stumbled on some sort of early new age work. So, I started thumbing through.
What [...]
We recently uncovered a single-item collection with this intriguing title: “Sailor’s Journal, 30 March-24 April 1847″ (#5219-z). Although not completely unheard of, this is a bit of a strange one in that it’s totally unattributed.
Normally, our collections are tied to a definite creator (a person, or perhaps an organization), but here we have an example [...]
Individual collections of manuscript material preserved in the Southern Historical Collection range in size from giant collections of more than half a million items all the way down to single-item collections. Our smaller collections, due to the way that they have been cataloged over the years, are referred to as “z-collections” (or simply “z’s”). [...]
