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Stephan Archives Newsletter, March 2013
Want to know what has been happening here in the Stephan Archives the past few months? Check out the first issue of the Stephan Archives Newsletter. Meet the archival staff, learn about the recent visit of historian James McPherson and find out what to expect for Alumni Weekend 2013!
University of Wisconsin digitizes papers of Aldo Leopold, L. 1905
The following news comes from The National Historical Publications and Records Commission concerning the papers of Aldo Leopold, Lawrenceville Class of 1905, whose papers are held by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University Archives. Leopold was a ground-breaking environmentalist and author of A Sand County Almanac.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.”So begins the Foreword of “A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, which he dated as March 4, 1948. Six weeks later, Leopold, one of the most influential natural conservationists of the 20th century, passed away.
Leopold’s legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics.
Through a grant from the NHPRC, the Aldo Leopold Foundation contracted with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) to digitize the Leopold papers. The Leopold Collection (http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/AldoLeopold/project) houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold’s rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until the middle of the 20th century.
– Courtesy of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
For more background on this particular project, see this 2007 news article.
The digital collections themselves may be searched here.
Let it snow!
With what is promising to be another intense snowstorm moving onto the East Coast, the Stephan Archives pulled out some of the photos from past historical snowstorms that have hit Lawrenceville, including one in 1902 and the renown Blizzard of March 1914.
Photo taken on Main Street looking South following 1902 snowstorm.
Undated early snowstorm photo in the village of Lawrenceville, c. 1900
Looking up Green Street following the March 1914 blizzard.
We have no idea who “Mr. Woods” is, but we do know this photo is from the blizzard that struck New Jersey in March 1914.
Historian James McPherson to lecture at Lawrenceville
Lucy Harmon McPherson, donor of the School’s Lincolnalia collection, in what is reputedly one of her mother’s Antebellum gowns.
The Lawrenceville School’s Bunn Library and Gruss Center of Visual Art have teamed to present a discussion of Abraham Lincoln, his legacy, and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War led by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson. The lecture, “Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation,” and a post-event reception, will take place on February 12 at 3:30 p.m. in the Gruss’ Hutchins Rotunda. All members of the public are invited to attend this free event. Guests are also encouraged to to view the School’s own collection of Lincoln memorabilia, selected from the Bunn Library’s Stephan Archives, on display in the Gruss Center of Visual Art.
McPherson is the George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including the 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning “Battle Cry of Freedom,” “Crossroads of Freedom” (which was a New York Times bestseller), “Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution,” and “For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War,” which won the 1998 Lincoln Prize.
The lecture has been made possible by the sponsorship and grant from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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