Senior Jacqueline Colt took Dorothy Plum's famous 1958 Adirondack Bibliography (with updates in 1966 and 1992) and brought it up to date, recording every work of Adirondack fiction she could document.
Working with emeritus Special Collections Librarian Mark McMurray, the result is a 500-plus title bibliography of fiction within the Blue Line.
Using found texts and quotes from various poets and writers and repurposing them as later-day “sutra” texts, this work presents them in the Tibetan book format known as “pecha” an oblong shape that was derived from the Indian palm leaf format.
48 copies were printed at Caliban Press, Canton, New York, by Special Collections Librarian emeritus, Mark McMurray and student interns Elizabeth Vitek & Rebecca Doll. Ecoprint by Velma Bolyard. Additional presswork with students Elizabeth Cashin, Erika Davin & Nicole Potter. Spring, 2013.
The slides had been lovingly (and effectively) cared for and organized, and included those images photographed by Emilie Clarkson Moore and those she acquired. The Castles were interested in St. Lawrence taking the collection so that the collection could be in climate-controlled storage. Mr. McMurray and the Castles also discussed making the collection accessible through the Frank and Anne Piskor Reading Room, and through a digital platform.
The photography collection grew dramatically in the last several years thanks to the efforts of Michael E. Hoffman '64, former executive director of the Aperture Foundation, who, since his years at St. Lawrence, was a steadfast supporter of the Collection.
Included are letters to Poultney Bigelow, famous as a war correspondent and Remington's closest friend. Remington illustrated many of the articles which Bigelow wrote. A number of the articles Remington illustrated for Harper's Magazine are included in this collection.
There are also letters to John Howard and to Remington's wife, Eva Adele Caten Remington, and various others.
Inuit printmaking as we know it today dates back to 1957 when James Houston, a young European-Canadian, helped to create a cooperative graphic arts workshop in Cape Dorset, located in the northeast Canadian Arctic and part of what is now the recently created territory of Nunavut. Cape Dorset artists are well known for stone carvings and stone-cut prints, as well as lithographs, stencil prints, and etchings. Kinngait Studios, the graphic arts arm of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, releases an annual collection of limited edition prints that are made available every fall.
Mr. Church was one of the first mail-order film processors and later specialized in aerial photography, photographing farms and businesses, selling the pictures to the owners. Dwight owned a successful post card business selling them in local towns, and was an active canoe racer, swimmer, gymnast, skater and hiker. The collection consists of over 13,000 negatives and some prints. The photographs are of businesses, farms, main streets of towns, local colleges and natural phenomena in most towns in St.
Darwin W. and John R. Sunderland, brothers from Rensselaer Falls, New York, were the sons of Albert and Prudence Sunderland. Both served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Darwin, who was born in Addison, Vermont, was a private in Company C of the 106th infantry regiment of the New York State Volunteers. He served in the Union army from August 6, 1862 until he died in combat on May 12, 1864 near Brandy (Spottsylvania), Virginia at the age of 23.
A digital archive of the "Hill News", St. Lawrence University's student newspaper, is now available for editions published between 1911-2008. The entire archive is fully indexed and searchable.
In 1987, as part of the St. Lawrence University’s then annual Steinman Festival of the Arts, Vietnam War veteran Dick Amerault and photographer Boyd Nicholl organized what they called a “balanced view of the war era” in an exhibition of photographs by American G.I.s and nurses at home and abroad. In 1992, Amerault donated 63 photographs from the exhibition to the University in honor of art historian and fine arts faculty member Elizabeth Kahn.