Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Some frighteningly festive materials pulled for a class visit to Special Collections this morning. Happy Halloween! 🎃💀 030
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Drawings of Civil War soldiers from the childhood scrapbook of artist Duncan Smith (1877-1934). Smith was the son of UVA prof. Francis H. Smith and grandson of prof. Gessner Harrison. These drawings were likely done while Smith lived on the Lawn, and convey the Lost Cause ideology of the time. 130
Reposted by RosieAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 21/10/2025New on our blog: Senior Imaging Specialist Stacey Evans reflects on the process of re-digitizing African American portraits in the Holsinger Studio Collection for our 2022-23 Visions of Progress: exhibition. Read her post here: smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2025/10/21/h.... 187
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Treasures I found at the antique expo today: stereoscope and stereographs, a pelican horse brass, and mother of pearl and tortoise shell calling card cases! Plus, a placemat for Gumbo’s bowls repurposed from an old oriental rug. 020
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Some fantastic images (apologies for the glare) from the John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection we shared with the American Civil Wars class during their visit to @rareuva.bsky.social yesterday. Explore the collection here: archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories... 010
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The Acherontia atropos specimen I pinned in last night’s entomology class, just in time for spooky season 💀 020
Reposted by RosieAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights. www.ala.org/bbooks. 1314230
Reposted by RosieDenver Museum of Nature & Science @denvermuseumns.bsky.social · 02/10/2025🕵️♀️🦬 Mystery solved! Our missing 650-pound Museum bison has returned after 50 years. Learn about its journey back to the Museum in #Catalyst. dmns.mobi/47bCc43 06811
Reposted by RosieAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library @rareuva.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Repost from @/abigailenjoysliterature on TikTok: “to this day, still one of the best days ever. this was one of the highlights of grad school. i yearn for access to special collections again oh my god. what’s the coolest book related artifact you’ve seen?? #reading #BookTok #literature #reader #fyp” 122
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 22/09/2025In the American Civil Wars class visiting Special Collections today, students were greatly intrigued by a new acquisition: the James Thomas Watt Hairston Civil War prison ledger. archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories... 141
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025@literaturegeek.bsky.social’s zine, “The Good Pets of UVA Library” (featuring my Gumbo), was used for instruction in Special Collections today. The students loved it! Thankful to have such great colleagues who work on fun projects. 071
Reposted by RosieUniversity of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 17/09/2025New exhibition—the ABCs of the UVA Library! From Artists' Books to Zines, with 24 stops in between. (Actually more, as the article notes) This evening's event is a sold out full house, but the exhibition will be up for the academic year at @rareuva.bsky.social (with outposts in other libraries)news.virginia.eduExploring the ABCs of the UVA LibraryA yearlong exhibition showcases nearly 200 items, spotlighting rare books, artifacts and surprising objects from the collection. 085
Reposted by RosieUniversity of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2025"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un... 06924
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Papilio ulysses 🦋 I pinned in this evening’s entomology class and the bobcat skull I won in the class raffle! 020
Reposted by RosieRobbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there. 192178874
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 02/09/2025This weekend, a researcher came into the reading room and asked if we had William Faulkner’s typewriter. They were surprised when we responded, “Yes! It’s right behind you!” 020
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Newest addition to my collection, dating from the 1970s. This week I’ll be freezing and cleaning it to mitigate any pests, and then it will be good to mount! Rottweiler for scale. 010
Reposted by RosieJordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 01/09/2025RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother. 564223414550
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Materials from this morning’s class, including 1st ed. of “Watchmen,” a few miniature books, “Death Note,” and the original manuscript of “The Red Badge of Courage” in Stephen Crane’s hand paired with a graphic novel adaptation. 000
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 28/08/2025First class of the semester visits Special Collections tomorrow AM. Looking forward to working with them with graphic novels! 020
Reposted by RosieBOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Hello, I’m a special collections librarian in a film. I can’t go two appearances without shushing someone, and I insist people handle the collections with white gloves. I use the Dewey Decimal System for the manuscripts. I am either a spinster or a bombshell. 0608
Reposted by RosieJake Calhoun @jjacobcalhoun.bsky.social · 25/07/2025I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to present on my team’s research into Brown’s Cove last night on behalf of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. If you missed it, you can watch the presentation via the link below! youtu.be/YxmUcgAmT0I?...youtu.beContours of Community: Digitally Mapping Brown's CoveYouTube video by Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society 021
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I made this to express my frustration 🙃 #civilwar #kenburns #pbs 020
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 05/07/2025This document is 1 of only 26 known remaining copies of the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence, printed in Philadelphia on the night of July 4, 1776 by John Dunlap. The paper it was printed on bears the watermark of King George III. @rareuva.bsky.social 031
Reposted by RosieJake Calhoun @jjacobcalhoun.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I recently spoke with Sonja Sharp at @latimes.com about the violent history of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, and its significance to Trump's use of federalized troops in Los Angeles. Check out the article to learn more.latimes.comCalifornia hopes law from bloody era of U.S. history can rein in Trump's use of troopsCalifornia’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim origins and a Spaghetti Western-sounding moniker. 022
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025My recently finished entomology pieces, Goliathus orientalis and Danaus plexippus. 🪲🦋 021
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025#OnThisDay in 1882, the funeral of naturalist #CharlesDarwin was held at #WestminsterAbbey. He is interred in the north aisle of the nave, not far from Sir Isaac Newton. Invitation and program for Darwin’s funeral, Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library 010
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Mourning locket containing the interwoven hair of George and Martha Washington, late 18th-early 19th century #ushistory #georgewashington 020
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Some exciting things from today’s @uvalibrary.bsky.social Tibetan Collection Open House. The collection was established in the early 1970s and is among the most comprehensive globally. 060
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Came across this interesting binding in the stacks today depicting August I, Elector of Saxony, by an assistant of Jacob Krause. Text is Cicero’s Orations, printed in Frankfurt, 1582, by the press of Andreas Wechelus. 010
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Sunday night Io moth entomology class at Rest In Pieces #rva 010
Reposted by RosieSHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Swiss physician and naturalist Conrad Gessner was born #OTD in 1516. Considered one of the fathers of modern zoology and botany, he is perhaps best known for his monumental work Historia animalium. In it, he attempted to document every known animal at that time, including a few curve balls. (📸BHL) 02813
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 22/03/2025For #InternationalDayoftheSeal, “Phoca” from Conrad Gessner’s “Historiae animalium,” volume 2, 1554. 🦭 #naturalhistory #rarebooks 011
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025That Friday feeling…💀🎉 Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. @rareuva.bsky.social 020
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025If you’re in Baton Rouge tomorrow, @jjacob05.bsky.social is giving a public lecture on Louisiana's Black Militias and the Election of 1870 at Louisiana’s Old State Capitol! louisianaoldstatecapitol.org/exhibits-eve...louisianaoldstatecapitol.orgThe Rise of Black Militias in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana |…Join historian Dr. John Jacob Calhoun at the Old State Capitol for a deep-dive into the impact on the 1870 election and the fight for political power. 031
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Cartouche from Emanuel Bowen’s “An Accurate Map of North America,” 1755 🐊 010
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Spent a beautiful afternoon walking on Grounds with Gumbo 🧡💙 #uva 010
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Ptolemy’s “Geography”, Strasbourg, 1513. @rareuva.bsky.social 020
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Materials from today’s Gothic literature class: “Tales of Terror” (1801) and advertising material for “The Bleeding Nun” (1817). Note how the figure’s face changes—it would have been used behind a candle to cast a frightening shadow on the wall. 020
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Buffalo Bull from George Catlin's “Souvenir of the North American Indians.” 040
Rosie @rarebookrosie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Today’s workplace wonder: First plate in v. 6 of “Recueil de Planches…” illustrating Diderot and d'Alembert’s Encyclopédie (this edition 1762-1772). @rareuva.bsky.social 1124