Can’t get enough of pandemics and epidemics? Books to read

– about past United States epidemics are in the Archives and Special Collections in the Health Sciences Rare Books Collection:

Carey, Mathew. A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia: With a Statement of the Proceedings That Took Place on the Subject in Different Parts of the United States. 3d Ed., Improved. ed. Philadelphia: Printed by the Author, 1793. Call number WC 530 C275 1793.

Philadelphia’s yellow fever epidemic of 1793 claimed the lives of nearly 4000 people. Carrey’s book and other related histories revel a little-known episode in Black history. Due to a mistaken belief that African-Americans could not get yellow fever, many Blacks volunteered or were volunteered to care for the sick and dying. They served in all capacities, including as nurses, cart drivers, and grave diggers. At the time, Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the United States and one of the largest U.S. cities.

Other books in the Health Sciences Rare Books Collection are:

United States. Public Health Service. Preliminary Report on the Yellow-fever Epidemic of 1882, in the State of Texas. Washington, D.C., 1882. WCK U58p 1882

Fenner, Erasmus Darwin. History of the Epidemic Yellow Fever, at New Orleans, La., in 1853. New York: Hall, Clayton, 1854. WCK F336h 1854

Miner, Thomas, and William Tully. Essays on Fevers, and Other Medical Subjects. Middletown, Conn.: E. & H. Clark, 1823. WC M664e 1823

Herman P. Chilson, Hot Off the Press books, youth books, DVDs, videos, government documents, and oral history collections in the Archives and Special Collections and in the I.D. Weeks Library also have items on pandemics and epidemics.

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Is this an example of changing attitudes?

The Archives and Special Collections has a 1970’s poster promoting the Library with the caption “Looking for a date? Visit the I. D. Weeks Library.” What do you think, can 1970s attitudes towards dating and women in universities be inferred from this poster? If so, are current attitudes the same or different?

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Who was the first woman on the South Dakota Board of Regents?

Lulu (Mrs. E.P.) Wanzer may have been the first. She was from Armour, SD and was active in public health and the State Board of Health. A state summer camp for children was name Camp Wanzer in her honor. She was appointed to the BOR in January 1931 and served until her death in August 1931.

 

Sources (These are in the Archives and Special Collections except for the Argus Leader and Find a Grave):

Argus Leader newspaper, Sioux Falls SD, January 09, 1931, page 1

Coyote, USD yearbook, 1932, page 30 (A photograph of Mrs. Wanzer)

Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/ (accessed February 26, 2020)

South Dakota Historical Collections, volume 33, page 405, F646 .S76. (A short biography of Mrs. Wanzer)

USD Catalog, 1931-1932

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Honored Faculty at the University of South Dakota, 1887-1942

List from Knutson, Wayne S. “A story of faith and endurance: The University of South Dakota.” In From idea to institution: higher education in South Dakota, edited by Herbert T. Hoover et al, page 32. Vermillion, SD: University of South Dakota Press, 1989, call number LA364.5 .F76 1989.
name		date of initial appointment	academic areas
Lewis E.	Akeley	1887	Dean, School of Engineering, Physics
Marshall	McKusick	1902	Dean, School of Law
Arthur L.	Haines	1906	Chemistry
Mabel K.	Richardson	1907	Librarian
Winfred R.	Colton	1908	Dean, College of Fine Arts, Music
Grace E.	Burgess	1909	English
Carl	Christol	1909	History
Clarence E.	Lyon	1911	Speech
Ella	Lokken	1912	Music
William H.	Over	1913	Geology, Director, Natural History Museum
Alvin	Wilson	1917	Music
William H.	Batson	1919	Dean, School of Education
Edward P.	Churchill	1920	Zoology
Arthur M.	Pardee	1920	Chemistry, Director, Graduate School, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
M. Genevieve	Truran	1920	Music
Harold  E.	Brookman	1921	Engineering, Applied Sciences
Gladys E.	Leonard	1921	Physical Education
Edgar P.	Rothrock	1921	State Geologist, Geology
Claude J.	Whitlow	1921	Business
Vincent E.	Montgomery	1923	Coach
Earle S.	Sparks	1924	Economics, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Dean of School of Business
Charlotte	Noteboom	1925	Education
Herbert S.	Schell	1925	Dean of Graduate School, History
Elmer G.	Trotzig	1925	Journalism
Chester S.	Ball	1926	Financial Officer
Herman W.	Frankenfeld	1926	Registrar
J. Herndon	Julian	1926	Vice-president, Administration
Carl. B.	Hoy	1927	Coach
Thomas M.	Risk	1927	Education
Edwin H.	Shaw	1927	Biochemistry
Grace L.	Beede	1928	Classics
Claude	Schutter	1928	Law
Marjorie	Dudley	1920	Music
Harry	Olson	1930	Business
Marjorie	Beaty	1931	Mathematics
Edward	Ehrensperger	1931	English
Harry	Gamage	1934	Coach
Clark Y.	Gunderson	1934	Law
J. P.	Jones	1936	Business
William O.	Farber	1937	Government, Founder of Bureau of Government Research
Thomas	Geary	1937	Government
Warren M.	Lee	1938	Theatre, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Found of the Black Hills Playhouse
William E.	Ekman	1939	Mathematics
Alexander	Hartman	1939	Modern Foreign Languages
Wilber M.	Stilwell	1941	Art
R. F.	Patterson	1942	Dean of School of Business, History

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National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, and the Archives and Special Collections is celebrating with two exhibits on the 3^rd floor of ID Weeks.

At the top of the main staircase sits a small exhibit containing samples from Linda Hasselstrom, James Foley, and Kathleen Norris; with art by Ed Colker accompanying Norris’s work.

Linda Hasselstrom’s works are particularly interesting here- the book displayed was made from her late husband’s clothing, and the pages colored with his favorite tobacco. All poems in the book relate to him in one way or another. Linda is a poet from Western South Dakota, famous for her writings (poems and otherwise) about her life on a ranch in Hermosa, south of Rapid City. Linda’s papers are held in the Archives, and are being processed this semester.

In the Archives Reading Room, Room 305, find many more examples of poetry from both the Archives and the main collection. Included in this exhibit are examples of ancient Greek poetry by Sappho, a sonnet by Petrarch, Old English poetry, samples of Beowulf, and some more modern poetry. The more modern examples include USD Law professor Frank Pommersheim, Linda Hasselstrom, Linda Whirlwind Soldier, and explanations of Old English from past USD professor Thomas J Gasque.

All of these materials and more can be found anytime in the Chilson collection of the Archives, or in the case of the Beowulf books, the main collection. If you are interested in more poetry from ID Weeks, and especially the Archives, check the library catalog and use the location search filter “Chilson Collection/3^rd Floor” to find more.

A full list of the books and papers on display follows.

3^rd Floor Case:

-Hasselstrom, Linda, Dakota Bones, 1993

-Hasselstrom, Linda, Telegram Announcing the Death of my Father, Dakota Bones Draft

-Foley, James W., A Toast to Merriment, 1913

-Hasselstrom, Linda, George R. Snell, Poems, 1994

-Kathleen Norris, All Souls: Poems from the Dakotas 1993, Art by Ed Colker

Room 305 Case:

-Petrarch, Sonnet 137, ca. 1346-1353

-Sappho, Ode to Aphrodite, ca. 600 BC; in Donaldson’s Lyra Graca and H. T. Wharton’s Sappho

–St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Laus de Virgine Maria, ca. 1091-1153

-Pope Innocent III, Ave Modi Spes Maria, ca. 1161-1216

-Cædmon, Cædmon’s Hymn, ca. 658-680

-Unknown Author, Beowulf, ca. 975-1010, translated by Stephen Mitchell, 2017

-Unknown Author, Beowulf, ca. 975-1010, illustrated by Marijane Osborn, 1983

-Shakespeare, William, Ariel’s Song from The Tempest, ca. 1610-1611

-Milton, John, L’Allegro, ca. 1645, accompanied by paintings by William Blake

-Pommersheim, Frank, At the Catholic Worker, Dreaming of my Children and Good Friday (Yankton Surgery Center) from Mindfulness and Home: Poetry and Prose from a Prairie Landscape, 1997

-Rincon, Enrique Ollivier, La Noche from Poemas del Corazon, 1975

-Buechel, Eugene SJ, Lakota Tales and Texts, Inyan Hoksila or Rock Boy, dictated by Walker from Rosebud, SD, 1904, compilation published in 1978

-Hasselstrom, Linda, Extended Forecast from Bitter Creek Junction, 2000

-Whirlwind Soldier, Linda, Journey Foreseen from Memory Songs, 1994

 

Pope Innocent III, Ave Modi Spes Maria, ca. 1161-1216

Cædmon, Cædmon’s Hymn, ca. 658-680

Shakespeare, William, Ariel’s Song from The Tempest, ca. 1610-1611

Milton, John, L’Allegro, ca. 1645, accompanied by paintings by William Blake

Buechel, Eugene SJ, Lakota Tales and Texts, Inyan Hoksila or Rock Boy, dictated by Walker from Rosebud, SD, 1904, compilation published in 1978

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Hometown’s Fallen: Discovering the Human Aspects of Wars

The Archives Special Collections has recently received a book about residents of our county who did not return from war. It contains 10 biographies written by USD students and their professor concerning military service personnel from Clay County, South Dakota, who were killed in action. The biographies are based on information gathered from local archives, libraries, historical society, veterans services office, online resources, and family members.

The library has received two copies. One is in the book collection in Special Collections, and one is in the main collection of the library.

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50th Anniversary of I.D. Weeks Library

In honor of the 50^th anniversary of the I.D. Weeks Library building, the Archives and Special Collections has organized a special exhibit to display the changes of the USD library through the years, from the beginning of the university in 1882 through today.

The first exhibit on the second floor of I.D. Weeks focuses on a specific aspect of the library’s construction – Operation Book Lift, which was held in April 1967. Of particular note is an actual fabric bag that was used by USD students and faculty to help haul books from the original library building from 1912 to the new library building.

The second exhibit, outside of the Archives and Special Collections room, focuses on the role of women throughout the library’s history. Several women were head librarians and some even had the role of dean. Another aspect discusses the large donation by a Sioux Falls woman, including a rare 1817 edition of Homer’s The Iliad, and the final aspect analyzes the discrimination against USD’s female students.

The final and biggest portion of the exhibit is a timeline of the library. Though most of the library’s original books were destroyed in a massive fire in 1893, students, faculty, and community members donated books to help the university’s library to grow. In 1912, Andrew Carnegie donated a library building, allowing the library to be housed in its own place for the first time since the university’s founding. After various expansions and renovations, and a rise in students, President I.D. Weeks (who was president of USD from 1935-1966) reached out to the Board of Regents in hopes to build an entirely new library building to house the library’s almost 300,000 volumes. The new library opened in spring 1967 with an official dedication in fall 1967.

Over the next few months, the exhibit will be on display; for those unable to view the exhibit in person, photos will be attached with this post! For more information regarding the exhibit or any of the materials used, please visit the Archives and Special Collections on third floor for a list of the collections consulted.

 

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Celebrate National Library Week

“Books remain one of the strongest bulwarks we have against tyranny – but only as long as people are free to read all different kinds of books, and only as long as they actually do so.”

Books for Living by Will Schwalbe, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, p.257.

National Library Week is April 9 – 15, 2017 .

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Mahoney Music Collection Cataloging Project

It is a fun day in the Archives and Special Collections when we get a batch of Mahoney Music Collection books back from the catalogers.

The library at the University of South Dakota is in the process of creating catalog records for all the books in the Mahoney Music Collection. Having catalog records in the library catalog and in OCLC will make the books in this collection more findable for readers. Most of the oversize books and the regular-size books are done, and the catalogers have begun on the thinner, floppier books that we store in file folders. This is such a great project, and we send a big thank you to the catalogers for doing this.

Don’t forget that select items have been digitized and placed on the Digital Library of South Dakota.

ML 155 .W5 G469 1926

 

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University of South Dakota Buildings – I.D. Weeks Library

During the 1980s and 1990s, University of South Dakota commencement program covers often presented brief descriptions of USD buildings.

 

 

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