“I’ve never had the experience of writing to anyone in the army before. I suppose you’ve never written to anyone in jail before, so I guess we’re even.” George Houser, July 17, 1941 George Houser and Roger Shinn first met as students at Union Theological Seminary, living across the hall from each other on […]
Month: April 2016
Burke Coloring Book
Today is our inaugural stressbuster where we will be offering up coloring books and sweet treats! The coloring book was created using images of items within our amazing special collections. For those who are unable to come and who want to follow along at home we wanted to share the pages as well as a […]
Coloring in the Burke
In honor of the Burke’s first “coloring book,” created for a stress buster event the library is hosting for Union Theological students next week, I thought it would be nice to show off this sweet children’s coloring book from ca. 1920: Each page offers a new image (x3) to be painted in with the way it […]
Hanging Out With Ulanov
Since the beginning of 2016, I have been working to finish up some processing projects in the archives. In particular, I have taken over the initial processing of the papers from former Union alumna and Professor Ann Belford Ulanov. These papers start with her work from her student years at Radcliffe College and end as […]