Archives Week 2001
Albion College: Archives at Work
"Memories feed the imagination..."
October 10 - October 16, 2001
Schedule of Exhibits and Events
Events
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Raffle and Blow the Senior Horn Contest for Archives at Work baseball caps
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Old Albion publications sale
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Help identify photographs from the Archives
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Join the Albion College Friends of the Library and receive a free yearbook from Archives surplus
October 10-13, 2001 8:00-10:00 p.m. Campus Cable Channel 4 - Moments in Albion College History
October 10, 2001 12:00-1:00 p.m. Briton Room - Come join Moe Arvoy, Director of Media Relations, Albion alumnus and former editor of the Pleiad, for lunch and a talk about the history of the Pleiad.
October 13, 2001 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Kellogg Center
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Historical
Web Tour of Campus
- "Lincoln in Repose" by Courter
- Reproductions of paintings by Newell and Courter
- Magazine covers and book illustrations by Hunt
- 1891 Albion College yearbook, Symplegades, illustrated by Newell
- 1900 Albion College yearbook, Pegasus, illustrated by Hunt
- Photographs of Courter & Newell
- Eminent & Interesting Albionians article on Hunt
- Reproductions of photographs of Hunt
- 1875 Albion College Catalogue
(Located online)
This exhibit takes you on a tour through the history of the buildings on the Albion College campus, both today and yesterday. The exhibit provides insight into the builders, money raisers, reactions to, and tribulations of the many historical buildings on campus. You can choose to find out the history of a particular building by choosing a link or you can choose to find out the history of a specific site by selecting it on a map that is provided for you. Otherwise, you can just take the tour, and the pages themselves will lead you through it.
Juvenile Fiction of the 20th Century: Horatio
Alger, Jr. & the Stratemeyer Syndicate
(Located
in the Mudd Learning Center lobby)
This
exhibit illustrates
the effect of the writings of Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) on that of
the world of juvenile fiction and the publishing world at large,
specifically that of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The exhibit
provides biographical information on Alger, as well as a description of
the influential "Strive and Succeed" philosophy that led
Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) to create his syndicate of juvenile
fiction writers. The
Syndicate was essentially a group of hand picked ghostwriters who were
hired to flesh out books from story outlines prepared by Stratemeyer.
Stratemeyer considered the use of pseudonyms very important, perhaps
believing that as writers left the firm or passed away it could impact
unfavorably on sales.
So for several of the juvenile series published by the Syndicate, a
number of different authors would write under each pseudonym. Whatever
the reason, dissemination of information as to the
identity of the Syndicate’s ghostwriters was strictly forbidden.
The Syndicate was responsible for several series of books, including but
not limited to the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift,
the Bobbsey Twins, and the Rover Boys.
| GENERATIONS
OF ARTISTS AT ALBION COLLEGE: Henry
Albert Mills, |
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(Located outside Special Collections in the Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center)
Henry Albert Mills was the founder and head of the Albion College Art Department from 1875 until 1882. During his years at Albion, he inspired one of his students, Franklin C. Courter, '76, to become not only famous creator of Lincoln portraiture, but to follow in his footsteps as professor and head of the Art Department for Albion College. Courter's tenure with the College lasted from the Fall of 1888 to the Spring of 1895 and was the teacher to both G. Glenn Newell and Lynn Bogue Hunt. G. Glenn Newell, '91, was famous for his farming landscapes; while Hunt was called by many, the "Audubon of his time".
Albion College owns paintings by 3 of the 4 of these gentlemen: Newell, Mills and Coulter. Mills donated a painting, an example of his more early work, to the College of the old Methodist Church Tower among the trees as seen from the back. The College owns 2 paintings by Newell, "Day Dreams" and "The Old Mills Pond", donated to the College in 1936 when Albion awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree. Of Courter's work, the College owns at least 2 paintings: "Lincoln in Repose", donated by alumnus G. Lynn Sumner, '07, and a painting of Rev. Lewis Ranson Fiske, former President of Albion from 1877-1898, given to the College by the Class of 1895. "Lincoln in Repose" resides in Special Collections in the Mudd Learning Center and is currently on display in this exhibit, while the portrait of Fiske hangs in the Presidents' Room in the Stockwell Memorial Library. Lynn Bogue Hunt was responsible for designing the Albion "A", and both Hunt and Newell illustrated the school yearbook while they were students.
Items in the display: