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Available Books | Available Voices, representing resources suggested for purchase during this year's Claiming Williams event, is now on display in Sawyer Library Atrium and Schow Library. Continue reading »
Spring 2018 intern Brad Havill arranged and described several collections of personal papers in the College Archives, including collections of correspondence and photographs from two Williams graduates who served in the First World War. Continue reading »
From the JA Archives, a brief exploration of Williams College’s Junior Advisor system using pieces from Williams College Archives, is on display in Sawyer library's main entrance for the month of April 2018. Continue reading »
Williams Asian American Committee presents I am AsAm Anecdotes, a display featuring selected quotes from students reflecting on their experience at Williams. Continue reading »
The acclaimed international showman and band leader was born on March 28, 1890 in Denver, Colorado. His father, Wilberforce, was a music director for the public school district, and young Paul began his musical studies at age three on a toy violin, advancing to the real thing when he turned seven. Continue reading »
Open one of the 224 scrapbooks in the Paul Whiteman collection, and you’ll find anything from concert reviews to photographs of Whiteman and his daughter Margo at a horse show or an interview with Whiteman’s father, Wilberforce. There are images printed on photo paper, delicate pages torn from magazines, and thousands of articles on yellowing sheets of brittle newsprint. The scrapbooks have been an interesting series to work with not only for their content, but for the opportunity they provide to consider the challenges of archival preservation. Continue reading »
A selection of recent acquisitions on view in the Schow Gallery February 21-May 10, 2018 demonstrates the variety of material being acquired by Williams Special Collections through gift, transfer, and purchase. Highlighted here are materials ranging from a seventeenth-century work of natural history to twentieth-century products of Second Wave… Continue reading »
The diets of contemporary celebrities are often the subject of much conjecture, with comments coming from “a source close to the star” and color photos featuring the “before and after” printed in countless magazines for sale in the supermarket. In the early 1930s, Paul Whiteman’s 100-pound weight loss made him the focus of such attention. Continue reading »
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