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                                             Special Collections will be closed December 20, 2023 through January 1, 2024 in observance of the University Holiday break.

Summer 2023 Closures - Juneteenth, Independence Day, and Department Retreat

A collage of black and white photos depicting African American children from the Dunbar School, a movie poster of The Long Hot Summer, and Chinese summer school at the Chinese Community Center.

Special Collections will be closed for the Juneteenth and Independence Day holidays, as well as a department retreat in August.

 

Clockwise from top left: float from Tucson Armistice Day Parade 1928; African American school children from Dunbar Elementary School dressed as US military servicemen and nurse on truck mounted float with stacked Springfield M1903 rifles. Banner reads "Dunbar;" poster for the film The Long Hot Summer at the Fox Theatre, 1958; Chinese summer school at the Chinese Community Center, 1967.

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