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She said the papers contain “an incredible wealth of knowledge” and have been some of the most surprising archival documents to work with.

“I swear, every time we open it to do a research project, whether it’s us or our student workers, they always open to something funny or something that’s timely now, and we’re like, what year was this?” Shumar said.

The university is working with Creekside

“You’re digitizing all this primary source material, which is how our history books are written, how we make sure that history books are factual and not thrown in with all this crazy stuff,” Morgan said. “You go back to that primary source material. What did it originally say? For me, that’s entirely important to understand our history so that we don’t repeat it.”

Once the archive is complete, it will be accessible through the libraries homepage and through the university’s Digital Collections.