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Featured Collections

Tufts Combined Catalogs, Bulletins, and Course Announcements

This featured collection is one that can sometimes go unnoticed amongst TARC’s flashier university records. However, it contains information that’s invaluable for research on anything from the evolution of emerging academic disciplines to the changing social conventions throughout Tufts’ history. This collection is also one of our easiest to access— simply drop by the Reading Room, and you’ll find them all on shelves against the north wall. Additionally, TARC’s digitization team is currently...

Title page of 1854-1855 catalog.
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Elephant in the Reading Room: the TARC Blog

Black and white photo of Beelzebubs holding song books.
"The Singing College"
Box 003 of the Activities and Organizations records at the Tufts Archival Research Center is relatively unassuming at first glance. It’s a thin, gray box...

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Black and white photo of a WMFO radio host making a peace sign at the camera.
A Summer of Processing Leads to a Fall Without a Backlog
At TARC, we are always receiving new materials for our collections. Whether they are transferred from university departments, donated by alumni or student organizations, or...

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Handwritten text on white background that says "Adams Club, 1873, Tufts College."
"A Very Plain Bill of Fare:” The Adams Club and the Tufts Culinary Experience in the Nineteenth Century
Tufts was chronically short of two things during its first few decades of existence: money and students. To entice more men to enroll in the...

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About TARC

Tufts Archival Research Center (TARC) is the archives and manuscript repository of Tufts University and is open to the public.

TARC’s team of professional archivists provides stewardship for the Tufts University Archives, several hundred manuscript collections, and other permanently valuable physical and digital archival materials. TARC staff also assist Tufts students, faculty, and staff with recordkeeping activities, through records management and digital library services.

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