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Like their modern cousins still available today, almanacs contained information necessary for the carrying out of many aspects of everyday life. Their biggest asset was their portability. The item held by Archives and Special Collections is in…

Who is hiding within the lines of these two portraits in pencil done by an unknown hand? Another caricature is to be found on the verso of the endpaper. While we today might not dream about doodling on the endpapers of an 18th century book, this…

Here we see the remnants of the leather straps that would have served to keep the book closed. More often than not, these fragile closures have not stood the test of time.

Poster for a workshop: date (November 26, 1896), place (Women's Place), subject and organizers (Helen Levine, Jane Taylor)

This photograph, from the L'udovit Kandra Fonds (20-003), consists of Andrej Rolík standing in front of the Milán R. Štefánik statue in Cleveland (Ohio), April 1968.

This small poster announces the Angela Davis conference organized on the International Women's Day in 1985. Angela Davis was invited by the Committee for March 8 in Toronto. Angela Davis activist and then co-chair of the National Alliance Against…

A draft of the Anti-racism kit compiled for the March 8th Coalition, a group made up of women from many backgrounds and organizations to help organize and carry out events for International Women's Day. The document includes tools and strategies…

A memo sent out by the Anti-Racism Work Group about their services.