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Honoring the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day
This Veteran’s Day marked the one hundred year anniversary of the armistice signed between Allied and Central Powers of World War I at Compiègne, France to end fighting on the Western front. The...
November 13, 2018
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10:19 AM
Hey! Is that John Wilkes Booth?!
This blog is part of an ongoing project to catalog and describe The A.O.K. Library’s Special Collections’ Photography Collections. This unknown actor’s album may be found in the Special...
June 22, 2016
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1:34 PM
New exhibit in Special Collections! On view now!
Step into the Special Collections at the Albin O. Kuhn Library to view our newest exhibit, Traveling through Photographs: A Glimpse at Photo Souvenirs from 1850-1950, curated by Sidrah Shayiq. ...
May 12, 2016
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4:09 PM
See the lives of working kids in the early 20th century
UMBC Special Collections: The National Child Labor Committee Lantern Slides A new digital collection, National Child Labor Committee lantern slides, brings online the images that were used by...
April 6, 2016
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2:37 PM
Open May 21 – August 11, 2013
This Spring semester, History graduate student Dot Alexander worked with Chief Curator Tom Beck to research and design an exhibit of cameras from the Library's Cavanaugh collection. Please enjoy...
May 22, 2013
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4:28 PM
Images from the Mildred Grossman collection
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections recently digitized 66 photographs of the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend an integrated school in largely segregated...
April 23, 2013
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11:44 AM