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🎉Congratulations to horror writer Dan Kraus (@kraus_author), winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel Angel Down!🎉You can check out the Daniel Kraus Papers at @pittlibraries to learn more about Kraus’ career as a novelist as well as his early childhood fiction, with manuscripts of published novels and notebooks of unpublished juvenilia. Link to the collection guide in our bio🔗

This image features short stories and school work created by Dan Kraus in high school- all part of the Daniel Kraus Papers.

#PulitzerPrize #horrorstudies #horrorwriters #archives #specialcollections

Taking pictures in front of the Cathedral of Learning's fountain is a graduation week tradition! Enjoy these pre-smartphone era "selfies" of Pitt students posed there (from the 1979 The Owl Yearbook) and congratulations to the class of 2026!! 📸🎓

#archives #specialcollections #h2p #pitt #cathedraloflearning #universityarchives

Taking pictures in front of the Cathedral of Learning's fountain is a graduation week tradition! Enjoy these pre-smartphone era "selfies" of Pitt students posed there (from the 1979 The Owl Yearbook) and congratulations to the class of 2026!! 📸🎓

#archives #specialcollections #h2p #pitt #cathedraloflearning #universityarchives

Taking pictures in front of the Cathedral of Learning's fountain is a graduation week tradition! Enjoy these pre-smartphone era "selfies" of Pitt students posed there (from the 1979 The Owl Yearbook) and congratulations to the class of 2026!! 📸🎓

#archives #specialcollections #h2p #pitt #cathedraloflearning #universityarchives

🎉Happy Birthday, August Wilson! The legendary Pittsburgh-born playwright and poet would have been 81 today. 🎉

This portrait photograph and birthday card are part of the August Wilson Archive at @pittlibraries. The birthday card in slide 2 was given to Wilson by the Broadway cast of Fences in 1987! If you look closely, you can see well-wishes from actors like James Earl Jones (who played Troy), Courtney B. Vance (who played Corey), and Charles Brown (who played Lyons).

You can learn more about Wilson's Archive by visiting https://augustwilson.library.pitt.edu/ (linked in our bio 🔗)!

#archives #specialcollections #augustwilson #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries

🎉Happy Birthday, August Wilson! The legendary Pittsburgh-born playwright and poet would have been 81 today. 🎉

This portrait photograph and birthday card are part of the August Wilson Archive at @pittlibraries. The birthday card in slide 2 was given to Wilson by the Broadway cast of Fences in 1987! If you look closely, you can see well-wishes from actors like James Earl Jones (who played Troy), Courtney B. Vance (who played Corey), and Charles Brown (who played Lyons).

You can learn more about Wilson's Archive by visiting https://augustwilson.library.pitt.edu/ (linked in our bio 🔗)!

#archives #specialcollections #augustwilson #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries

Over the course of the Spring semester, eleven @pittofficial undergraduate students have been following their curiosity in Archives & Special Collections and the Frick Fine Arts Library (@frickfineartslibrary). Hear their stories this Friday, 4/17, during Archival Scholars in Conversation! 📣

The Archival Scholars Research Award is a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh Library System (@pittlibraries) and the Office of the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (@ourpitt).

The 2026 ASRA cohort researched horror film scripts, early printed books like the Nuremberg Chronicle, feminist periodicals, Latin Hippocratic texts, children's literature, the history of mental health care institutions, and more!
#archives #specialcollections #studentresearch

Nerdy about 16th-century astronomy books or maybe you love to read your daily horoscope?Learn more about the histories of all things astronomy next week @pittlibraries! We've got a stellar line-up of makerspace activities, faculty talks, exhibits, and more. To learn more or register for events, visit: https://library.pitt.edu/origins (linked in bio) 🔗💫

#specialcollections #archives #historyofastronomy #astronomy #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram

🎉Celebrate🎉 with us as we mark the opening of the Sharon G. Flake Papers (@flakesharon) at @pittlibraries! Flake, a renowned author whose writing focuses on Black life and experience, will be joined by Curator Clare Withers, children's literature scholars, educators, and student researchers. There will even be an opportunity for you to view materials from the Papers!

📆Tuesday, March 31, 4-5:30 PM, The Archive I'm In: Celebrating Award-Winning Author Sharon G. Flake
Location: Hillman Library, 3rd floor, Archives & Special Collections Instruction Room 340
More information and registration at the link in our bio 🔗

#archives #specialcollections #literaryarchives #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries

Learn about the famous Japanese story of the Akō Incident (1701–1703) through a series of hand-made 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints from the Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection at @pittlibraries- now on display in the Hyland Gallery of Archives & Special Collections Exhibits in Hillman Library!

Want to hear the story from the exhibit's curator as you gaze upon these beautiful prints? Join us 📆Friday 3/27, 11-11:30 AM for Hyland Gallery Talk: Chūshingura 忠臣蔵：Musha-e 武者絵 and Kabuki-e 歌舞伎絵 with Hiroyuki Good, Japanese and Koren Studies Librarian.
Location: Hillman Library, 3rd Floor, Hyland Gallery
More information at the link in our bio! 🔗

#archives #specialcollections #japanesewoodblockprints #japanesestudies #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram

The Nationality Rooms in the #CathedralofLearning are some of the most iconic spaces on @pittofficial's Oakland campus. Have you ever wondered how they got created and why they look the way they do? Join us in the Hyland Gallery (3rd floor, Hillman Library) this week for gallery talks that explore the histories of the Italian and French rooms through objects in @pittlibraries' University Archives.

More information at the links in our bio (including other events to celebrate 100 Years @nationalityrooms!)🔗🎉

Happy #marbledmonday book lovers! We could get lost in these marbled edges, which decorate twenty volumes of La sainte bible: avec des explications & reflexions qui regardent la vie interieure by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, 1790 (Call Number: PQ1799 .G8 S2 1790) in @pittlibraries' rare book holdings.

#archives #specialcollections #bookarts #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries

Happy #marbledmonday book lovers! We could get lost in these marbled edges, which decorate twenty volumes of La sainte bible: avec des explications & reflexions qui regardent la vie interieure by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, 1790 (Call Number: PQ1799 .G8 S2 1790) in @pittlibraries' rare book holdings.

#archives #specialcollections #bookarts #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries

Happy Spring Break @pittofficial community! Archives & Special Collections @pittlibraries is open this week, Monday-Thursday 9 am-4:45 pm, for all your research needs. 📚 You can also browse beautiful spring photographs of campus, like this one of the Cathedral of Learning from The Owl Yearbook (1984), using ULS Digital Collections (link in bio)!

Whatever you do, enjoy! 🌷

Mark your calendars! 📆 We're excited to host upcoming programs celebrating @pittlibraries' university archives and the work of local author Sharon Flake! All are free and open to the public. More information and registration at the links in our bio 🔗🔗🔗

2/26, 3/18, and 3/19 Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs Centennial Archives (NRIEP) (@nationalityrooms) & Special Collections Exhibits Opening and Gallery Talks. These milestone events honor a century of global understanding and cultural exchange fostered by the NRIEP at the University of Pittsburgh. Hear remarks from key partners in NRIEP and the University Library System (ULS) and explore rare and unique materials in ULS’s University Archives that document the history of these iconic rooms. Visit the exhibits in the Hyland Gallery from February 2026 to September 2026.

3/31 The Archive I'm In: Celebrating Award-Winning Author Sharon G. Flake (@flakesharon). Celebrate with us as we mark the opening of the Sharon G. Flake Papers at @pittlibraries. Flake, a renowned author whose writing focuses on Black life and experience, will be joined by Curator Clare Withers, children's literature scholars, educators, and researchers. A panel will explore the significance and authenticity of Flake's writing as well as the cultural impact of her work across time and the value of the archives to researchers. An undergraduate will share her recent use of the materials, followed by remarks from Flake and a brief Q&A. Capping off the event is an opportunity to view materials.

#archives #specialcollections #literaryarchives #universityarchives #nationalityrooms #libraryevents

Mark your calendars! 📆 We're excited to host upcoming programs celebrating @pittlibraries' university archives and the work of local author Sharon Flake! All are free and open to the public. More information and registration at the links in our bio 🔗🔗🔗

2/26, 3/18, and 3/19 Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs Centennial Archives (NRIEP) (@nationalityrooms) & Special Collections Exhibits Opening and Gallery Talks. These milestone events honor a century of global understanding and cultural exchange fostered by the NRIEP at the University of Pittsburgh. Hear remarks from key partners in NRIEP and the University Library System (ULS) and explore rare and unique materials in ULS’s University Archives that document the history of these iconic rooms. Visit the exhibits in the Hyland Gallery from February 2026 to September 2026.

3/31 The Archive I'm In: Celebrating Award-Winning Author Sharon G. Flake (@flakesharon). Celebrate with us as we mark the opening of the Sharon G. Flake Papers at @pittlibraries. Flake, a renowned author whose writing focuses on Black life and experience, will be joined by Curator Clare Withers, children's literature scholars, educators, and researchers. A panel will explore the significance and authenticity of Flake's writing as well as the cultural impact of her work across time and the value of the archives to researchers. An undergraduate will share her recent use of the materials, followed by remarks from Flake and a brief Q&A. Capping off the event is an opportunity to view materials.

#archives #specialcollections #literaryarchives #universityarchives #nationalityrooms #libraryevents

Happy #DouglassDay & #BlackHistoryMonth! Frederick Douglass, author, publisher, writer, orator, and abolitionist, was born into slavery and didn't know his exact birthdate.Because he chose to celebrate his birthday on February 14th, Douglass Day is observed on 2/14 to honor his memory and activism. Celebrations of his legacy in February gave rise to what we now call Black History Month in the U.S..

Want to learn more about Douglass and his work? You can consult the first edition of Douglass's second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (published in 1855), in @pittlibraries' Archives & Special Collections.