Emmett Chisum Special Collections at UW

10/17/2025

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We'll be highlighting items from the Emmett Chisum Special Collections every other Friday.

🎃 Spooky Season is Here... in Miniature! 🎃
Our Special Collections Halloween-Themed Mini Book is hauntingly adorable — a tiny treasure filled with a chilling tale, vintage illustrations, and creepy curiosities from our archives.

If you're feeling the Halloween vibes, come check it out, or any of our other mini books in the Emmett Chisum Special Collections Reading Room!

08/15/2024

Emmett, our reading room buddy is all perked up for the new school year.🪴📚

05/07/2024

It’s finals week! 😱
These UW students from 1942 are studying really hard! Looks familiar.🤔
Good luck to everyone, and keep pushing Pokes!

12/11/2023

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12/06/2023

It’s ! 🏀
This week Special Collections brings you a photo of the UW men’s basketball team from the 1946 Homecoming game against CU. See the famous Kenny Sailors as he crouches for a one-handed jump shot?! Spoiler alert...He didn't miss.😎

11/28/2023

It’s !📚😚

The holiday season is upon us, and to celebrate, we are featuring a Canoso Miniature Book titled “Counting Toys” by Donna Thomas. This tiny book is part of a collection of “Counting Toys” books in which there are only 200 copies! Ours is number 58.😎

Find this tiny book and many other fun books in UW Libraries' Special Collections!

11/14/2023

🎉 Calling all Shakespeare fans for ! As one of the most famous and influential playwrights of all time, William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and many more works of prose and poetry throughout his life. 🖋️🔥

At Chisum Special Collections, we have several of his works! Pictured here are three mini copies of Shakespeare’s acclaimed plays: Macbeth (left), a leather-bound copy of Measure for Measure (center), and The Tragedy of King Lear (right). If you’re interested in enjoying tiny Shakespeare–and tiny books in general–come visit us in Room 309 at Coe Library! 🤠

11/08/2023

This , it’s all about the Border War!!🏈🐏🐴

If you were at the game 🏟 or watching cozy at home🏡, you know we won the border war! This rivalry started in November of 1899, and the Cowboys and Rams have gone head to head for the coveted trophy 115 times.

Basketball season 🏀 is also starting! The cowgirls have played the Rams 112 times and are currently tied overall 56-56. The men's team has played this match up 239 times 😲 and leads the series 137-102. The next game is in January 2024. Beat those sheep, 🐏 Pokes🤠!

11/06/2023

Good ! 🌞🌈

This week's map, from 1899, is a rough, hand-drawn rendering of Medicine Wheel, Fortunatus, the city of the broken heart, and a few rivers and roads in northeast, northcentral Wyoming. The Medicine wheel is a circular alignment of limestone boulders about 80 feet in diameter, and for hundreds of years it has held spiritual significance for Native Americans who still perform religious ceremonies there. There are many more medicine wheels in America and Canada but Bighorn Medicine Wheel is best preserved, having transformed public land management in Wyoming. 🐿

11/02/2023

Welcome back to another !

Today, we have some images from the 1967 WYO Yearbook 🤠📒. This academic year, White Hall was being built to expand the campus🏫. White Hall was named after Laura A. White and is a twelve-story building that houses up to 587 residents🏢. Construction workers took personal advantage of the warm fall 🍂🍁weather that year and finished later than anticipated. As you may know, we are building new dorms more than 50 years later⏱! What do you think the new residence halls will be named?

Stop by Special Collections today to see this yearbook and more!