Laura Romans

Manuscripts Archivist with @UTKLibraries📖📜🗂️

[TNandWar @TN_and_War]

Explore the Special Collections room with us located in Hodges Library! There you can find an abundant amount of resources about Tennessee history, manuscript collections, rare books, University Archives, and the Modern Political Archive.

Check it out!

[UT Libraries @UTKLibraries]

The art of Knoxville-born artist Joseph Delaney is featured in UT Special Collections. The exhibit includes figure studies from a Delaney sketchbook, photographs and published examples of Delaney’s work.

📍Hodges Library, 1st floor
⏲️Mon- Fri, 9 am-5 pm

https://t.co/gofvt6LUZm

[TNandWar @TN_and_War]

The Center is grateful to the UTK Special Collections (@UTKLibraries) for helping us process and preserve many of the unique donations we have received over the years. Here are donations from Oliver M. Summers and David L. Dungan.

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Months after the Civil War ended, 3,700+ African American South Carolinians submitted this 54-foot petition urging Congress to ensure that their voting rights were secured in the new state constitution. The Library just unrolled it publicly for the first time. Here's why. 🧵

[UT Knoxville @UTKnoxville]

Six years after wildfires blazed through Gatlinburg, @utklibraries is helping the community heal through a wide-ranging project that includes oral histories and illustrations from alumni artists @MarshallRamsey, @PaigeBraddock, and Danny Wilson. https://t.co/GzpMNOOVFp

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

A mad tea party
https://t.co/Jdq44ckZrS From: Alice's adventures in Wonderland [by] Lewis Carroll. 12 illus. with original woodcuts and an original etching by Salvador Dali

[V&A @V_and_A]

Snow, David Hockney, 1973 🌨️

From The Weather Series. Inspired by representations of weather in Japanese prints.

[The New York Historical @NYHistory]

✨ Tis the season! Happy #NationalPoinsettiaDay! 🍃

This poinsettia lamp was likely designed by Clara Driscoll, the head of the women’s glass cutting department at Tiffany Studios. See 100 Tiffany Lamps on view in our 4th floor galleries. https://t.co/sUO3Jih3Uh

[V&A @V_and_A]

The Rabbits’ Christmas Party 🎄

Explore Beatrix Potter's narrative series of four finished watercolours.

📸 © Frederick Warne & Co

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Alvin Ailey
Van Vechten Photographs https://t.co/qWUpl1ylzT and https://t.co/06PbGav72o

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood.
1st Ballantine books ed.
BEIN 2018 7029: Paperbound. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
https://t.co/wRYGZwg5c6

[Smithsonian Transcription Center @TranscribeSI]

One of the best archival resources for understanding the past and locating ancestors? Business ledgers and account books. (but really, hear us out)

Beyond expenses, they often include the names of individuals, reveal social and economic trends, and more. #1MillionTranscribed

[Laura Romans @LauraBRomans]

Why yes actually being an archivist IS glamorous and The Cart Desk™️ is proof.

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Billie Holiday photographs
more: https://t.co/TIgKosvkeR

[Houghton Library @HoughtonLib]

@HoughtonLib is proud to announce the launch of a years-long effort to make primary sources by and about African Americans and the diaspora available digitally. This site offers collections and context, and we invite you to explore!

Visit: https://t.co/zQHIMwFwQ9

[V&A @V_and_A]

Beatrix Potter's landscapes 😍

Just two days until tickets go on sale for Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature - https://t.co/SsZPjqujPV

Images courtesy Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.

#DrawntoNature

[UT Libraries @UTKLibraries]

UT Libraries launched a website of interviews collected by Rising from the Ashes: The Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires Oral History Project, recording the lived experiences of the wildfires that swept through Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains 5 years ago.
https://t.co/2xwclp12bN

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Trove of Gordon Parks “study sets” comes to Yale Library; read more: https://t.co/FDDH1wovLx @YCAL_JWJ @GParksFound (Image: Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948. Photograph by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.)

[Casey E. Ovella Davis @CaseyEDavis1]

We have 8 internship openings for Spring 2022 at the @amarchivepub! Remote & paid ($15/hour) up to 20hr/week! Interns will be working on the Kansas and New Mexico digitization projects. Spanish or Vietnamese language skills are a plus! https://t.co/2qxVccrbRI