Item of the MonthPrevious Items2009October -- 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 2008December -- 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 |