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2009

October -- Zines from the Alternative Press Collection

September -- Students return to campus, photographs from the University Archives

August -- Women's Magazines and Fashion in 19th Century Spain - A Snapshot of the Spanish Periodicals and Newspapers Collection

July -- Live Recordings of Blues from the Newport Folk Festival

June -- Summer Session Picnic, 1942, a photograph from the University Archives.

May -- "A Celebration of Anita Riggio," showing the cover of her book Smack Dab in the Middle, part of the Northeast Children's Literature Collection.

April -- "The Company of Men" by Charles Olson, typewritten manuscript with handwritten notations, September 13, 1957, from the Charles Olson Research Collection.

March -- Photographs by Eric Miller from the Impact Visuals Photographic Collection

February -- Photograph by Frederic Ramsey, Jr., from the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture

January -- Fidel Castro at the New Haven, Connecticut, railroad station platform, boarding a New Haven Railroad train, during his visit to the United States in April 1959

2008

December -- illustration by Cyndy Szekeres in the Northeast Children's Literature Collection

November -- political campaign ephemera from the Herman Wolf Papers

October -- off our backs, a feminist periodical from the Alternative Press Collection

September -- the world's first telephone directory, from the Southern New England Telephone Company Records