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Untitled Goose Game: Remix Edition Uses -VMI_1901 Coloring page created from images submitted for 2019's REMIX contest. -The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales Illustration and text from "The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales," edited by Katharine Lee Bates. Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1921 Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives.

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Catastic Acrobaticus: A depiction of a very large cat having great fun while her friends observe.

Source image: A depiction of rope dancers using a petaurum. From the book De Arte Gymnastica (page 164), 1573, by Girolamo Mercuriale.The woodcuts for the book were done by Coriolan based on drawings by Pirro Ligorio. Part of the Flax collection at VCU Tompkins-McCaw Library Special Collections and Archives.

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Source: Cover of "The F-U-N Book" by Mabel Guinnip La Rue. New York, The MacMillan Company, 1923.

Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives.

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“Good vs Evil” A tribute to moral decisions, whichever squirrel you feed will be the more dominant squirrel. 

Unidentified Copper Plate, image courtesy of the McGraw-Page Library Special Collections & Archives.

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Over the course of REMIX ‘18, we put out this “Cabinet of Curiosities” and invited the public to help us fill it up! Richmond’s First Friday Art Walk was a particularly fun time to add to this.

Almost all of the images from the Flickr album were used to create this collaborative art piece. For image citations, see: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmgxrHdW

Thanks for having a little fun with us, and we look forward to another year of creativity and cultural heritage collections in 2019!

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"Harbor Ghost" by Christine Stoddard

Source images:

• JMU_garber_fish01.jpg, from the William Garber Photograph Collection, image courtesy of JMU Special Collections

• JMU_garber_fish02.jpg, from the William Garber Photograph Collection, image courtesy of JMU Special Collections

• ODU_TheatreSpirit. Image courtesy of Old Dominion University.

• ODU_ProhibitionRecipesNorfolkVA. Image courtesy of Old Dominion University.

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Who’s ready for a new year of REMIX? We’re excited for Archives Month 2017 this October, and have chosen “Spirits in the Archives” as the theme. This can be everything from ghosts and ghouls to the centennial anniversary of Prohibition in Virginia, and even school spirit! You’ll find all sorts of spirits in the 2017 Flickr album, REMIX as you will! We look forward to seeing your submissions.

Images courtesy of Old Dominion University and Virginia Union University.

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"The Goblin Sisters" by Christine Stoddard.

Source Images:

• Miller_Halloween.jpeg. Image courtesy of Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library.

• ODU_VAOperaSpirit. Image courtesy of Old Dominion University.