#we saw a lot of other cool shit not just the ashman papers. but the rosewater box made me !! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

supercantaloupe · 4 months ago

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i'm so giddy honestly. it's not my first time having class (that's basically just show and tell with fun shit from the collections) at the library of congress but it is my first time having my prof be a librarian there and my first time getting to see the staff areas and special collections storage. and we were looking at some of the little mermaid documents the prof had pulled from the ashman papers for us to see and i had asked if they had stuff from god bless you mr rosewater cause i love that show and he said i think so but i'm not sure, which, fair enough it's a big collection in a massive fucking library and it's a fairly obscure show. but then when we were going through the special collections stacks and putting away the items we'd been looking at HE PULLED OUT THE BOX FROM THE ASHMAN PAPERS FULL OF ROSEWATER DOCUMENTS FOR ME TO LOOK AT!!!!!

#i wanna talk about me #GOLDEN!!!#it had draft scripts covered in handwritten notes and newspaper clippings about the premiere and a poster #and i think somewhere in there was correspondence with vonnegut himself and i'm just !!!!!!!!#i love studying library science AND music history i love studying it here with access to such an amazing collection #and its staff for my professors #i love looking at developmental materials for shows and seeing how they grew over time. I LOVE IT HEREEE #we also got let into the flute vault to look at all the old flutes lol. VERY fun class tonight #we saw a lot of other cool shit not just the ashman papers. but the rosewater box made me !!#at some point i ought to come up with an excuse to research the ashman papers so i can comb through that rosewater box in detail...#just pour over its contents for a day. oughh

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