Styles come and go, but archives are forever 💅 (or for a long time, at least!) Join us this upcoming Tuesday (11/18) for November's Miscellaneous Monthly! Stop by Rose Library between 1pm and 3pm to view items related to clothing and fashion history. 👗💍👠 Free & open to all!

On Veterans Day, we honor members of our armed forces for their service to our country. This federal holiday began as "Armistice Day" and was a way to commemorate the end of major hostilities in World War I on November 11th, 1918. 📷: Langmuir African American photograph collection

Thank you for everyone who joined us last month for our annual Rose Library Drag Show! 🥳 news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

Faiza Khan is a graduate student at Binghamton University whose focus lays in the history of modern architecture in South Asia as well as the intersections of Eastern and Western material cultures. Read her blog post about the James Cobb Burke papers at Rose Library here: buff.ly/kCFveV4

Join us this year on Friday, November 7th at 6:30pm at the Emory Performing Arts Center for a talk with Noah Jemisin, interviewed by Atlanta's Halima Taha. The event is free and open to the public, but we encourage registration: buff.ly/tXjVL9q 📷: Hatch & Billops papers

Rose Library is currently accepting applications for the position of Collections Processing Archivist! 📦 Apply before November 14th for priority consideration. buff.ly/ugZZABW Interested in learning more? There will be an info session at 2pm on Wednesday October 29th. Register: buff.ly/GBmIF9v

Emily Hawk's research examines Black modern dance as a form of intellectual & political life in the 20th century United States. She is a 2025-26 recipient of the Pellom McDaniels Fellowship. Read Emily's blog about her dive into the records of "The Wiz": buff.ly/QtNJ1ee

October's Miscellaneous Monthly was fang-tastic!🦇 We explored different elements of spooky season, including ghost stories, witchcraft, skeletons, cults, and Halloween parties! Thank you to those who came by!

Rose Library and the Billops-Hatch Artist & Influence Programming Series presents an Oral History Interview with Noah Jemisin in conversation with Halima Taha. 📅: Friday, Nov. 7th at 6:30pm 📍: Emory Performing Arts Studio 💲: Free & open to all Learn more & register: buff.ly/vNAj5GU

✨ Sequins (& microfilm) are forever ✨ You can learn about the lives of showgirls past at Rose Library! ❤️‍🔥Rose holds the papers of famous performers Josephine Baker and Bricktop, as well as images of dancers in the Langmuir African American photograph collection. #TheLifeOfAShowgirl #TaylorSwift

Take a break from work or studying on Oct. 22 to visit our Typewriter Petting Zoo! We'll have different typewriter models out for you to try, as well as experts from the Atlanta Typewriter Club. 📆 10/22, 1-5pm 📍 Jones Room, 3rd Floor Woodruff Library 💲 Free and open to all

This July, Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant visited Rose Library to search for Eva Pearl Green Francis, a woman whose contemporaries described her as a "Colored Woman Worth $100,000". Find out what Tamara discovered about Eva Pearl & the all-black Mound Bayou community in her blog post: buff.ly/K8SIYEW

Happy Georgia Archives Month! 💚 This year we are focusing on leaving your trace in the right place as we document Georgia's environment through archives 😉 You can witness the changes in Georgia & Atlanta's landscapes in manuscript collections at Rose Library. 📷: Office of Alumni Publications photos

Since 2020, the Rose Library Drag Show has brought together students and the Atlanta community for an unforgettable night of musical performances by local drag queens. 📆: Thursday, October 9th at 7pm 📍 Robert W. Woodruff Library Building, 10th Floor 💲: Free & open to all 🚗: Fishburne Parking Deck

This past Saturday, we welcomed sixty Jane Austen fans from all over the Southeast to Rose Library to celebrate 250 years of the beloved British author. 💖 Thank you to everyone who joined us for this wonderful event! Photos by John King (Jane Austen Society of North America)

Casey Johnson is a PhD student in Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies department. He was the 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s Marcus Garvey Foundation Research Fellowship. Casey's blog post about his research visit is now live: buff.ly/4jz6Ac1

Juanita Stephens would have loved 2010s era Tumblr 💅 Instead, she had to settle for leading a fan club and working on her "ten Frank Sinatra scrapbooks" in the 1940s. Her club's "T-Jacket Journal" includes letters to Frank, essays from fans about their concert experiences, and fan art.

Questionable looking cats. 😼 Medieval murder-solving dogs. 🐶 A birthday party with lion cubs. 🦁 We enjoyed all of these and more at Sept's Miscellaneous Monthly! We hope to see you at next month's open house when we dive into the world of monsters, cults, and other horrors. 🧛

Hey undergrads! This workshop is for you! Join the Emory Oral History Program on Thursday, September 25th, 2-4 PM. Register for free: buff.ly/x12AH8D Note: Workshop for graduate students is planned for October 2, 2025.

Kaylen Smith is a History Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University whose dissertation explores the transition from the modern civil rights movement into the Black Power era through the lens of religious expression and activism. Her blog post about her visit to Rose is now live: buff.ly/D4A5uQC

Miscellaneous Monthly is Rose Library's open house series, which features different archival materials each month for you to enjoy! It is free & open to everyone, including members of the Atlanta community! Stop by on 9/16 from 1-3pm to view archival items related to animals! 🐾

Can't make it to the library right now? Get a taste of what you can experience in the "Striking Characters" exhibit through this Emory News article: bit.ly/46hYzEe "Striking Characters" is up through Dec. 20th in the Schatten Gallery and is curated by Emory Librarians Shanna Early & Hannah Griggs.

Our newest exhibition is just your type! 😉 Striking Characters: Typewriters, Literary Worlds, and the Art of Tim Youd is now on view at Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery. Curated by Emory Librarians Shanna Early and Hannah Griggs. 💙 Free and open to everyone!

Cox Hall has history! 🦅 The recently renovated food hall has been a site of student action since the '60s. On May 25, 1969, Black students blocked the entrance to bring attention to the unequal treatment of Cox's Black employees and other racial inequality across campus. 📷:Emory Photo/Video records

Chanelle Rose is a professor of History at Rowan University and a 2025 recipient of Rose Library's African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship. Her blog post about her research within the SCLC records and other related collections is now live: buff.ly/oB6TtJc

Come on out to the Jones Room next Tuesday, September 9th at 7pm to talk soccer! ⚽ We'll have Atlanta United commentator Jason Longshore and Emory soccer coaches Sue Patberg & Cory Greiner for a discussion about Emory's role in Atlanta soccer history and a look at the Eagles' 2025 seasons! 🦅

Please join us in welcoming Dylan Lewis to the Rose team! 🥳 Dylan is our new Rare Book Librarian. In this role, he will be working with the our print and rare book materials, including describing, preserving, and providing access.

You asked, we listened. 💙 Starting Sept 2nd, users can schedule their research appointments for up until 6pm on both Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the Fall semester. For the rest of the work week, our reading room will remain open for use from 10am to 4pm. Check out our hours: buff.ly/2WRqUSN

📜💍 I love shiny things, but I'd marry you with (acid free) paper rings 💍📜 #taylorswift #archivist

Happy #NationalDogDay! 🐶When Robert Woodruff wasn't busy being president of Coca Cola, he enjoyed spending time on Ichauway, his nearly 30,000-acre quail-hunting property in southwest Georgia, with his kennel of over 40 trained hunting dogs. The lives of these dogs are documented in his papers.

We are thrilled to receive a $280,000 grant through @gettymuseum.bsky.social's Black Visual Art Archives program! These grants aim to increase access to important archival collections across the USA with work by Black artists. Rose's grant is to support processing of the Jim Alexander photographs.

🎵 You left your typewriter in my apartment, straight from the tortured archivists department 🎵 It wasn't quiet in Rose Friday afternoon thanks to a trio of typewriters! Our staff had fun playing around with these striking, old school machines. Can you imagine writing a whole novel on one? 😱

In Rose Library's Langmuir collection there are several postcards featuring showgirls from Greenwich Village's Savannah Club. 🧡 The Savannah Club boomed in the 1950s and was noteworthy for being one of the only venues in the area to feature shows with all Black performers. #TS12 #TheLifeofaShowgirl

Crystal Nelson is an assistant professor of art history at UC Boulder whose research and teaching focuses on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. Their blog post is now live: buff.ly/Bhtjbte

Joshua Massey is a Ph.D. candidate at Bard Graduate Center, whose dissertation explores the yard environments of Black artists. They were a recipient of Rose's 2025 Southern History and Culture Fellowship. Read their blog post about their Rose visit now: buff.ly/mXg5iE3

Rose Library was recently awarded a grant from the Getty Foundation to process the Jim Alexander photograph collection. 🥳 We are excited to share that part of this grant includes hiring a Visiting Archivist for the Jim Alexander photographs! Apply by 9/5 for priority consideration: buff.ly/1ZeNCbK

Last week, Rose Library Visiting Fellow Marlo Starr was delighted to be able to see and touch Lucille Clifton's computer equipment, including a Brother word processor and monitor. These objects, as well as a Magnavox Videowriter and an HP Tower Pavilion Elite, are part of the Lucille Clifton papers.

We are ecstatic to share that we recently received a $280,000 grant from the Getty Foundation for the Black Visual Art Archives to process the Jim Alexander photograph collection! 🥳 news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

Such a great item! 💜 You never know what you'll come across at Rose Library! 😉

Thank you to those who traveled with us this Tuesday for our July Miscellaneous Monthly! ✈️ We visited Alaska with Jesse Peel, spent Saturdays in the 1990s at Disney World with Gary Monroe, holidayed at the beach with an unknown family, explored Morocco with Brion Gysin & more!

“Celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen” will be an all-day seminar on 9/20 that will include talks from well-known Austen and Regency scholars, a viewing of rare Austen editions, crafting, and a live taping of JASNA’s Austen Chat podcast. Register here: buff.ly/HDljiCV

The Kathleen Cleaver papers is now open to users again! 🥳 Kathleen Cleaver is a law professor and activist, best known for her participation in the Black Panther Party. You can make an appointment to view her collection in our reading room through the new finding aid: buff.ly/N9mNFMu

Edward Yang is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at UNC and a 2024 recipient of our Poetry and Literature Visiting Researcher Fellowship. His blog post, "Creating Enchantment: a History of the Gothic and Inspiring Interactive Reading" is now live: buff.ly/wudUImJ

Summer is for traveling, including to conferences! ✈️ Late last month, several Rose Library staff attended the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) conference in New Haven, Connecticut. In addition to presenting and attending sessions, they visited Yale's Beinecke Library!

Rose Library will be closed this Thursday, June 19th in observance of Juneteenth. We will resume our regular operating hours on Friday, June 20th. 📷: Robert Langmuir African American photograph collection

For nearly 60 years, the Georgia Archives Institute has provided intensive training in archives over the the course of a 10 day program. We were elated to welcome GAI students back to Rose this year, including a large group for a guided, "behind the scenes" tour of our facility!

In 1994, DC Comics released a limited run comic titled “Deathwish”, written by Maddie Blaustein, an intersex & transgender voice actress and writer. The comic follows a cop who is the city's "first and only pre-operative transsexual police lieutenant.” Rose Library holds all 4 issues of “Deathwish”.

"I was particularly interested in tracing the reception and perceptions of the work of the Black gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs during the 1990s..." The blog post of Rose's 2024 LGBTQ Collections Fellow, Sam King-Shaw, on Marlon Riggs is now live! Check it out now: buff.ly/KsNUifq

Join us on Tues, June 17th for a delicious Miscellaneous Monthly! 😋 Pop by Rose Library between 1pm and 3pm to feast your eyes on archival materials related to food. (Please note that there will be no actual food or drink at this open house - we're still an archive after all!)

Claude Mohr is an art history Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia studying the histories of modern and contemporary art, as well as a recipient of a 2024 Rose Library Short-Term Award Fellowship. Read his blog post, "Brion Gysin Out of Time", now: buff.ly/QZ6xgQ5