Stories about "Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library"
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2023/03/4x6_mays_and_Carter-400x267.webp)
12 Bates ‘CatFacts’ about Jimmy Carter, Jimi Hendrix, Julia Child, and more
Friday, March 31, 2023 12:24 pm
During our annual stint on the Great Day to Be a Bobcat livestream, we shared a few CatFacts with viewers. From there to here!
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2020/02/1860CottonInvoicesBundle-400x267.jpg)
Beyond ‘founded by abolitionists’: Students and faculty undertake a more inclusive examination of Bates’ founding story
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 2:07 pm
Ongoing research by Bates faculty and students into the college’s early connection to the U.S. slave economy seeks to add long-silenced voices to the college’s founding narrative.
![Items from the Bates artifacts collection, 1860s to 2011.See: bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC098.htmlIncluding: peace pipe used during class day; banners;Cornet used by Levi Washington Ballard who organized the Maine State Seminary Band; conk found by Outing Club; Paperweight with drawing of a scene from Bates vs Bowdoin football game of Oct. 29, 1898 showing William A. Saunders '99 with the ball and a score of Bates 6 and Bowdoin; nurse pin; shaving set; white cane used by President Phillips.](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2019/05/G2-121130_archives-artifacts_050-crop-400x267.jpg)
From the Archives: Tree conk, peace pipe, and football paperweight
Friday, May 3, 2019 11:30 am
From a paperweight inspired by a big Bates win to a peace pipe that raises questions, here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library.
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2019/01/crop-G2-mailman-330-0001-400x267.jpg)
From the Archives: Old hockey puck and horse-drawn mail delivery
Friday, January 25, 2019 10:42 am
Mail delivery by horse-drawn carriage, and the hockey puck from a 1927 game that was “fast and furious and marked by many swinging sticks.”
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2018/12/G2-detail-180719_wedgwood-Archives_0088-pgj-400x267.jpg)
From the Archives: Chase Hall barbershop and 1939 Wedgwood
Thursday, December 20, 2018 12:54 pm
From Brylcreem to bow ties, here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, elsewhere on campus — and beyond.
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2018/12/edit-681025-Muskie-Brody-Chamowitz-311-400x267.jpg)
8 reasons why Edmund Muskie ’36 was an amazing political candidate in 1968
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 3:37 pm
Fifty years ago, Edmund Muskie '36 ran one of the “exemplary national campaigns of modern times.”
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2012/06/cat-skull-sketch_0302-400x269.jpg)
From the Archives: Ode to a 30-cent hot dog
Monday, November 26, 2018 12:00 am
A few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus — and beyond.
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2018/09/180911_Charlie_Cook_Muskie_0102-400x267.jpg)
Charlie Cook: 2018 midterms truly the ‘most important since Moby Dick was a guppy’
Friday, September 14, 2018 9:15 am
Which will be stronger in November: the Democratic wave or the Republican seawall?
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-3.05.49-PM-1-400x267.jpg)
Video: Watch ski jumping off Mount David in 1936
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 2:51 pm
The spectacle of ski jumping from Mount David in 1936 was no less grand, or less popular, than the Olympic version.
![](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2017/10/171005_Jakub_Kazezcki_0125-400x267.jpg)
Look What We Found: Jakub Kazecki’s 1905 Bates German Club medal
Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:45 am
“Students graduate and start their lives." But there are material things that will "bring them back to Bates and create a Bates identity.”