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January 31, 2020
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Green Book Era Motel on NAU’s Campus?

It is sometimes funny how a process that sets you off in one direction winds up sending you down a completely unanticipated path. Here in Special Collections and Archives, Cline Library at Northern Arizona University, we are currently reappraising J. … Continue reading

September 27, 2017
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Another Route 66 Collection

Last Friday we left Flagstaff and Northern Arizona University, and were off to Kingman, Arizona to pick up a new Route 66 collection from the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona. The collection was stored in the Powerhouse in Kingman, … Continue reading

February 9, 2017
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Victor H. Green’s Negro Travelers’ Green Book

Usually when I sit down at the keyboard to add a story to this blog, the story focuses upon a collection, or the status of an exhibit or it is something vaguely humorous (archival humor, that is). What I present … Continue reading

November 17, 2016
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Angel Delgadillo Collection Coming to SCA

On November 11th, 2016, Kathleen Schmand, Peter Runge and Sean Evans travelled to Seligman, Arizona to partake in a celebration honoring Route 66’s 90th anniversary, and to begin a project that has been in process for nearly two years- to … Continue reading

May 17, 2015
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Scholarship in the Archives: Route 66…Navigating the Archives

We have a guest post from an NAU graduate student from the anthropology department, Olivia Charest. What’s a socio-cultural anthropology student doing writing a blog for SCA, you might wonder. Well, here goes. I am a second year graduate student … Continue reading

March 3, 2015
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Get Your Kicks on the New Route 66 Archives and Research Website

                      The Cline Library, Special Collections and Archives at Northern Arizona University, in collaboration with the U.S. National Park Service, Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program, announces the launch of the … Continue reading