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Hats off to you on this #TinyTuesday!

Although this tiny book measures just 10 centimeters, it is chock-full of advice on how to be polite and well-mannered by mid-19th-century standards.

The Polite present, or Manual of good manners.. Boston: : Munroe and Francis., 1834. 71, [1] p. :  ill. ;  10 cm.

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What is this, a manners guide for ANTS?

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Have you seen the film Hidden Figures yet?

Find more on the space race these talented women helped make possible in our exhibition, Race to the Moon. 

This image from the exhibition comes from the collection of @usnatarchives.

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February 3, 2017 marks the centennial of the College Day picket of women suffragists on the White House.

To commemorate this anniversary, the Goucher College Library presents a public program, “A Nursery for Militant Suffragists”: The History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement at Goucher College.

Join us on Thursday, February 2nd at 7pm in the Batza Room of the Ungar Athenaeum!

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Navajo Nation Library Wants to Digitally Preserve Thousands of Hours of Oral Histories

The library is looking for help protecting its tapes

In the 1960s, the Navajo Culture Center of the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity (ONEO) turned to technology to preserve the oral histories of the Navajo people. Over the course of the next decade, the center recorded thousands of hours of oral histories, logging stories, songs and details about life as experienced by many Navajo elders. But while the preservation effort documented priceless details for generations to come, keeping the stories safe is harder—and more expensive—than it sounds.

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Alumna Spotlight: Ida Glatt

By Clara Hartman

Brooke and Carol Peirce Undergraduate Research Fellow, Goucher College

Suffragist, labor organizer, social worker

Ida Glatt was born in the city of Taurogen, Lithuania (then part of Imperial Russia) on November 18, 1893. She immigrated to the United States in 1900 with her mother and sister, Yetta and Eleanor Glatt. The family lived in Baltimore’s Ward 22, a working class neighborhood in Southwest Baltimore. Ida attended Western High School in Baltimore and worked as a playground supervisor before enrolling at Goucher College in 1913.

Ida Glatt as a college senior in 1917. Source: Donnybrook Fair, 1918.

Ida was extremely involved in social campaigns during her time at Goucher. In the yearbook her classmates wrote, “it has been said that she attends every social betterment convention within a radius of two hundred miles, besides marching in all the suffrage parades which are undertaken in this city or Washington.” At Goucher she was president of the Goucher Equal Suffrage League (which she helped to found), president of the Menorah Society, a Jewish student organization, a writer for the literary journal, and an actor in campus theatricals. She was deeply committed to the cause of socialism, bringing prominent socialist speakers to campus and petitioning the president for a new economics course on the subject.

Ida was also active in many Baltimore organizations including the Just Government League, the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and the Maryland Suffrage Party. In the summer of 1915 she was a “pilgrim” on the first suffrage prairie schooner, which traveled 350 miles to campaign for the cause. She was also one of the 11 Baltimoreans to attend the first annual meeting of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Ida was almost prevented from graduating from Goucher due to her anti-conscription actions with the Collegiate Anti-Militaristic League, for which she was the Baltimore representative.

In January 1917 she wrote to Alice Paul to volunteer herself and her fellow “Goucher girls” for the pickets. When Goucher College President William Westley Guth issued a public statement against Goucher students participating in the picket, Ida publicly held firm to her intention to participate, if only as an individual. On February 3, 1917 she and around 30 students made the trip to D.C. and picketed for suffrage. Ida returned to picket with another delegation a month later, on March 3rd. After graduation she enrolled at the University of Chicago to study political economy. In her first month in Chicago she stayed at Hull House, the progressive settlement house known as a center for ambitious social reform. She also established ties to the Fabian Club of Chicago, a socialist society, and eventually became a member of the club’s executive committee.

In 1917 Ida joined the Women’s National Trade Union League (WNTUL). The following year she moved to Wisconsin to work for the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor as an organizer and was instrumental in major strikes in Racine and Waukesha. Upon returning to Chicago in 1919 she became the Corresponding Secretary for the WNTUL. One of her greatest accomplishments with the League was organizing a settlement in the Chicago waiters’ strike.

In 1921, Ida was offered a position as an assistant to the European Director of the Federated Press of America, a labor news service, in Berlin. Ida’s association with the Federated Press began her career as a writer/reporter. In the introduction to her article on the American trade union movement in Clarté, the publication of the French socialist and pacifist organization, Ida was described as “one of the most followed correspondents of the Federated Press.” By 1924 she was writing for The Daily Worker and actively involved in Communist Party affairs.

Jack McCarthy and Ida Glatt McCarthy. Source: The McCarthy family.

In 1922 she married John Patrick “Jack” McCarthy, an Irish immigrant engaged in labor organizing who was also city circulation manager for The Daily Worker in Chicago. They had two sons together, John and Patrick. The family moved to Southern California where Ida supported Jack’s work with the Communist Party and Congress of Industrial Organizations, raised her sons, and worked as a medical social worker. As a social worker, she worked intensively with Jewish and Latin American immigrant communities.

Ida suffered from an aneurysm in the early 1950s and was bedridden until her death in 1957.  

Details of Ida’s socialist and suffragist activities at Goucher College are documented in the Board of Trustees Records (Special Collections & Archives, Goucher College Library), the Goucher College Scrapbook (Special Collections & Archives, Goucher College Library), articles in The Sun (Baltimore) between 1915 and 1917, the National Women’s Party Records (Library of Congress), The Weekly, the college newspaper, Donnybrook Fair, the college yearbook, and her Alumni Individual Record (Special Collections & Archives, Goucher College Library). Information on Ida’s labor career can be found in Life and Labor (Chicago: National Women’s Trade Union League, 1921), “Le Syndicalisme minoritaire aux Etats-Unis,” Clarté, 31 December 1921, Proceedings of the Annual Convention (Chicago: Illinois State Federation of Labor, 1917), Race Riot (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1970), and “United States Passport Application: Ida Glatt” (1921). An interview with Susan McCarthy, Ida’s granddaughter, was conducted 7 July 2016.

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Google has many ‘search operators’ you can use to make your specific searches more successful. 

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Google before you go!

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We, too, love a good button.

Have you caught all our Pokemon buttons this semester?

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Fantastic Lumberjanes fan art made by our Creative Director.

(source and find more art here)

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L is for Lumberjanes and for libraries!

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Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, Maryland

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Campus Libraries See Increase in Discriminatory Incidents

Between Wednesday, November 9—the day after the U.S. presidential election—and Wednesday, November 16, the Southern Poverty Law Center collected reports of more than 700 incidents of hateful intimidation and harassment through submissions to its #ReportHate page, which launched the day after the election. More than 60 of these occurred on academic campuses, including in libraries, ranging from verbal attacks, fliers, and personal notes containing hate speech to postings on social media. Most of these have thus far been limited to graffiti and property defacement, but at least one student has been physically confronted.

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The Goucher College Library is committed to being a service and a resource for all members of the Goucher College community.

Find our values statement here: http://libraryguides.goucher.edu/libinfo

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Get Yourself Tested! TODAY! at 1 pm in the Health Center: http://events.goucher.edu/event/get_yourself_tested_6851#.WD29F33kBQ4

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I asked a graduate of the Woman’s College [Goucher College], who lives in Wyoming (where they have had the good custom of equal suffrage for forty years), if she was not shocked when she saw her father and mother going to the polls together, and she replied that it seemed just as natural as to see them go to church together. She was shocked when she came to Maryland and found that in this state women’s opinions are not considered worth counting. And that is the whole question in a nutshell. Shall we count the opinions of women in regard to the laws which affect their pocket-books, their health, their homes and their children?

Thaddeus Thomas, “Why Equal Suffrage Has Been a Success” (address, Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, October 31, 1909). Special Collections and Archives, Goucher College Library, Baltimore, Md.  (via goucherspecialcollections)

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Stressed about finals? There’s a guide for that.

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Petition of William H. Gilpin in the Fugitive Slave Petition Book, 11/28/1851

Series: Fugitive Slave Record Book, 1850 - 1860. Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009

In this transcribed entry from the Fugitive Slave Record Book, William Gilpin requests permission of the court to seek out and recover his fugitive slaves: Hannah Paca, Henry Hawkins, Elen, Cupid, Anna, and Mary.  

The Fugitive Slave Record Book series consists of a transcribed record of the petitions and supporting documents filed with the District Court under the Fugitive Slave Act of September 18, 1850 by masters seeking to reclaim custody of African American slaves. The supporting documents might include copies of descriptions of the fugitive slaves, owners’ titles, affidavits, certificates, bills of sale, wills, deeds, and court orders.

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Typography Tuesday: Making a Font of Type

Our Typography Tuesday post for this week comes from Matrix 4, the annual, limited-edition, letterpress-printed “Review for Printers & Bibliophiles,” printed and published by the Whittington Press in Andoversford, England. The photographs and letterpress sample are from an article by Stan Nelson, former Museum Specialist in the Graphic Art Collection at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum, and proprietor of the Atelier Press near Washington, D.C. The article, “Any Fool Can Cut a Punch … “ is about his design and hand punch-cutting for the press’s signature typeface Robin, which he began in 1976 and first used in 1978. The typeface is named after his daughter. The font is based on the Carolingian Miniscule manuscript hand of the 9th century CE (see captions for details).

Matrix 4 was printed in 1984 in an edition of 590 copies in 12-point Monotype Caslon on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The color photographs were printed at The Sencio Press in Banbury, England. The sample sheet was hand printed at the Atelier Press.

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New exhibit in the Ath!

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Five Things To See: Sports Gallery

Our Sports Gallery exhibition explores the contributions of African American athletes on and off the field. As one of the few high-profile organizations to accept African Americans on relative terms of equality, sports offered black players a unique role in American culture and politics. Here we highlight five things from one of our inaugural exhibitions.

1. Baseball signed by the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers team

Photo: Baseball signed by the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers team 1953, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

For the first half of the twentieth century, Major League Baseball excluded African American players from their rosters. Most black players turned to the Negro Leagues to showcase their skills on the national level. In 1945, the Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey decided to take the first step to integrate the Major Leagues. By then, Rickey had already begun scouting the Negro Leagues in search of potential black players to add to the Dodgers’ roster. Rickey identified Jackie Robinson of the Montreal Royals as a potential pick. After an extensive interview between Rickey and Robinson about whether Robinson could handle the racial abuse he would endure on and off the field, Rickey offered Robinson a contract to which Robinson agreed. Two years later, on April 15, 1947, Robinson played his first game in the Major Leagues as the first African American player to do so. In the following years, the Dodgers recruited more black players, all of whom signed this baseball in 1953: Robinson, Roy Campanella, Joe Black, and Jim Gilliam.

2. Leotard worn by Gabby Douglas

Photo: Leotard worn by Gabby Douglas during her first competitive season 2003, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gabrielle Douglas. 

Gymnast Gabby Douglas rose to prominence during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. There, she became the first African American woman to win the gold medal in one of the most high profile events: women’s artistic individual all-around competition. Gabby Douglas wore this blue leotard during one of her first gymnastics competitions.

3. Ticket for Joe Louis v. Max Schmeling boxing match

For many Americans during the 1930s, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s rise to power during World War II potentially threatened American democracy. So when U.S. heavyweight boxer Joe Louis was slated to fight German fighter Max Schmeling in 1936 and again in 1938, Louis –– despite his being black in Jim Crow America –– became a symbol of American democracy versus the spectre of fascism. In their first bout, Louis lost to Schmeling which Hitler later boasted as evidence of Nazi Aryan supremacy. Two years later, Louis defeated Schmeling in a first round knockout. Louis’ victory was trumpeted in the press as a triumph of American democracy. For African Americans, his win represented a symbolic blow against racism everywhere, in the United States and abroad.

4. Tennis racquet used by Althea Gibson

Photo: Tennis racquet used by Althea Gibson, mid 20th century - late 20th century, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Donald Felder and family.

Althea Gibson was the first African American to win a Grand Slam tennis event at the French Championships (now the French Open) in 1957. She also became the first African American woman to compete on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. During her career, Gibson constantly challenged race, gender, and class conventions as a black woman playing a predominantly white, predominantly male, and predominantly upper-class sport. Unlike other female tennis players during her time, Gibson was an aggressive player who hit powerful groundstrokes with her racquet and was not afraid to charge the net, all of which earned her the reputation of lacking femininity –– a common accusation against black women. Nevertheless, Gibson forged ahead, breaking barriers with each swing of her racquet, and using her accomplishments as evidence that African American women deserved social and political equality. 

5. “Mr. Rogell The Tigers Arent All White Anymore!” hand-painted protest sign

In 1958, Ossie Virgil, the first Dominican to play in the Majors, joined the Detroit Lions.This sign chastises Detroit, Michigan for being the next to last team to integrate. “Mr. Rogell” refers to William George “Billy” Rogell, a member of the Detroit City Council and former shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. During his time on City Council, Rogell was a staunch segregationist and advocated for the creation of a separate city for Detroit’s African American residents in order to quell racial tensions. Whoever made this sign wanted to make sure that as a former member of the Tigers, Rogell was fully aware that segregation was on its way out.

Photo: Statue of Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and Peter Norman at the 1968 Olympics in the Game Changers exhibit, National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

Written by Skyler Gordon, Social Media Summer 2016 Intern, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Welcome to the newest Smithsonian, the National Museum of African American History and Culture - just down the road in DC!