I chose this course bulletin because I feel it gives an interesting glimpse at college life and how one found out about and applied to courses in the days before internet or computers. Nowadays we do everything […]
I decided to look through the Gay and Lesbian Union Journal to see what they were writing about on the day I was born. Sadly, there was no entry on my birth day, but there was a nice Happy Valentine’s Day message […]
I was really interested in the materials from Counter-Commencement at QC in 1969. For 732 I worked on a paper about materials of campus activism from 1967-1969 housed at NYU and Columbia, so this item caught my […]
Anti-Apartheid and Lettuce Boycott Pins (1960-1986), New York, NY – Queens College Special Collections and Archives (Queens, New York) My attention was grabbed by these three pins. All three are circular, two […]
I looked through The Gay and Lesbian Union journal from 1987 to 1988. The first few pages seem to detail concerns about losing funding for the club. I found quite funny the comment of Peter saying he would “start […]
An item I found interesting is former student George Scherr’s contribution to the 1937 Queens College seal design contest. The top of the seal features a crown and the bottom bears the phrase “urge igitur con […]
I picked this photo from the “Life at Queens College Photographs” collection from 1981 advertising Queens College: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.33096015 I was immediately drawn to the advertisement […]
The picture “Activist Graffiti” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38225561) caught my attention because it connects many of my interests through the content, the way it is categorized, and how I found it. […]
Browsing the Community Collections, I was struck by how few items were in the GLASA (Gender, Love, and Sexuality Alliance) category compared to most others on the page. The choice of thumbnail caught my eye as […]
Looking through the JSTOR site, I wanted to explore the activism in the 1960s on campus collection. The “Faculty Response to Campus Unrest” https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29234756 and “Administrative Respo […]
I selected a contact sheet of photographs capturing an anti-tuition rally on Queens College campus in 1965. It grabbed my attention because while I knew CUNY tuition was free until the NYC financial crisis of […]
I chose a pdf of a Queens College Yearbook from the year 1972 (Silhouette 1972 on JSTOR). The photos on pages 62-67 were particularly striking, as they depict the second time “Queens College was shut down by a s […]
I selected Las Carceles de Lemberg from the Comedias Sueltas Collection. I was drawn to this collection by my own ignorance on the subject and curiosity about what could be gleaned from such a document beyond […]
The item I chose was the Gay and Lesbian Union Journal from 1988 to 1989. As a former member of my high school’s GSA, I always interested when LGBTQ+ gather in community. Browsing through the journal, there was a […]
I decided to look through the Civil Rights Movement Photographs, being that my focus in history is African American History- specifically the Black Power Movement. I originally intended on going outside of my […]
Hi everyone! For my Welcome Post, I decided to explore the “Life at Queens College Photographs” Collection. One image, titled “Anti-tuition rally 1965” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29709018), caught […]
I decided to look through the Queens College Seal Designs and Logos collection because it stood out to me as something worth archiving that was likely, if not commissioned by the Queens College faculty, then […]
I chose to look through the Revisions: Writing at Queens College collection because I am interested in student creative works, while going through the collection I was intrigued by the title “Feeling Writing” […]
