LU Lone Arranger: 19th Century Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University Newspaper Clippings Now Online

LU Lone Arranger

"Lone arranger" is archivist-speak for someone who works as a solo professional, rather than as a member of a large team of archivists (a generalist rather than a specialist). In this weblog I will share announcements, responses to reference questions that have come my way, and some of my previously unpublished writings relating to Lincoln University and its Archives and Special Collections, located in The Langston Hughes Memorial Library of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania.

About Me

Name: Susan Gunn Pevar

Location: United States

I was the Special Collections Librarian in Lincoln University of PA’s Langston Hughes Memorial Library from August 15 2005 - August 12, 2010, having served as Archivist Assistant in the same department prior to that, starting in 2000. My advanced degrees are an M.L.I.S. (Master of Library and Information Sciences) from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. (history) from West Chester University (PA), and I am a Certified Archivist (by ACA, The Academy of Certified Archivists). My undergraduate major (Bryn Mawr College) was anthropology.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

19th Century Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University Newspaper Clippings Now Online

Thanks to the Chester County Historical Society, which has a clipping file of old newspaper articles about Lincoln University; to community resident Hersey Grey, a long-time collector of local history who provided us with the digital files; and to the HBCU Library Alliance's Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Black College and University, which has provided a venue on its CONTENTdm server for Lincoln University to host digital files, we have been able to share some old newspaper clippings, going back to 1853, when the Presbytery of New Castle organized the Ashmun Institute.

These clippings are from the American Republican, the Daily Local News, the Jeffersonian, the Oxford Press, and the Village Recorder, and span the years 1853-1874. They are posted on the website as a compound object, under the title, "1853-1874 Newspaper Clippings of Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University (PA)," appearing second in the list, which is arranged chronologically.

Click here for a direct link to our collection.

Labels: Ashmun Institute, Lincoln University (PA), newspaper clippings