{"id":1401,"date":"2010-11-24T09:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T09:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2012-12-03T20:40:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:40:32","slug":"an-archival-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/11\/24\/an-archival-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"An Archival Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cranberry, photographed by Don Ball, Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes when it’s my turn to write something for the blog, and nothing immediately comes to mind, I will\u00a0then think of an anniversary that can be celebrated, or a holiday that is approaching, and how the archival material can illustrate that event.\u00a0 With\u00a0Thanksgiving\u00a0fast approaching I thought “what’s in the archive that touches on this holiday?”.\u00a0 One of the best ways to\u00a0explore the archives is by using the\u00a0search box to the finding aids, available on our front web page (doddcenter.uconn.edu) and from the first collections page (http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/collections\/index.htm<\/a>).\u00a0 I decided to have some fun and put in search terms related to Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Here’s what I got:<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving: 14 hits, mostly from political and Children’s literature collections,\u00a0including a Thanksgiving themed popcorn tin in the Tomie dePaola collection.<\/p>\n

Thanks:\u00a05 hits, mostly related to expressions of gratitude from the creators of the collections.<\/p>\n

Turkey: 23 hits!\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 But it won’t surprise you to read that the vast majority of these hits are on references to the country, not the bird, in political collections.<\/p>\n

Gobble: only 2 hits, including the title “Gobble Gang Poems” by the poet Ed Sanders.<\/p>\n

Gobbler: 1 hit, in the Ted and Betsy Lewin Papers (a children’s illustrators collection)<\/p>\n

Stuffed: 7 hits! but mostly referring to stuffed toys, stuffed animals, and stuffed furniture (huh?\u00a0 What kind of collection is THAT?\u00a0 It’s a railroad collection, if you can believe it, a description of a photograph of the interior of a plush railroad car).<\/p>\n

Football: Lots of hits there — 55 of them!\u00a0 Most of them from the University Archives collections, references to UConn football, of course.<\/p>\n

Cranberry: 4 hits, including the photograph that you see above of The Cranberry, a diesel locomotive owned by the New Haven Railroad, taken by photographer Don Ball, Jr.<\/p>\n

Squash: 5 hits, three of them referring to the game, one to the vegetable, and one to a Leaf-Footed Squash Bug.<\/p>\n

There were 5 hits for “pumpkin” but NONE for “pumpkin pie”.\u00a0 That is just so wrong.\u00a0 There’s always room for pumpkin pie in the archive, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!<\/p>\n

Laura Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad and Labor Collections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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