Monday, September 21, 2009

Gettysburg Semester 2009 - Special Collections

This past week, in lieu of another battlefield trip, we were introduced to the Gettysburg College Special Collections. Director Karen Drickamer kindly gave us a detailed description of the procedure necessary to do research in the Special Collections and presented to us a sampling of the items available therein. Among reference materials for both the College and the battle, there were many very interesting pieces, including two Civil War diaries and a book in which a solder had written his name while in the hospital at Pennsylvania Hall.

Although brief, the visit offered a glimpse at the wealth of research materials available to us as Gettysburg College students – and I’m extremely excited to work in the Special Collections over the course of the semester!

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Visit the Gettysburg College Special Collections website to see the myriad resources available to researchers. The GettDigital collection offers many resources to the public online as well.

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