{"id":1193,"date":"2011-05-23T14:17:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T14:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:50:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:50:37","slug":"how-doth-the-little-crocodile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2011\/05\/23\/how-doth-the-little-crocodile\/","title":{"rendered":"How Doth the Little Crocodile&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-crocodile-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1192\" title=\"Fountain Gators\" alt=\"Fountain Gators\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2011\/05\/FountainGators-revised-1024x723.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I realize that it is an odd topic to write a blog post on, but crocodiles and alligators have been consuming my thoughts for the last week or so and a collection I have been processing sealed the deal on me writing about them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I&#8217;ve Been Thinking About Alligators: <\/strong> My husband is a herpetologist (studies and works with reptiles &amp; amphibians) and is at a 9-day workshop on Crocodilians.\u00a0 As I write this he&#8217;s actually in St. Augustine Florida right now observing mating patterns in American alligators.\u00a0 My little piece of the action, however, is relegated to scouring the archives for reptile-related ephemera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I&#8217;ve Found in the Archive:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Leroy Sullivan Collection<\/strong>&#8211; This is the collection I was processing last week. Leroy Sullivan was a Flight Lieutenant for the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. In our collection, we have his correspondence to friend, and former UC librarian, Grady Long. Also included are 3 diaries written by &#8220;Sully&#8221; while he was overseas (which I read cover to cover). In 1942 he and his squadron found themselves in Africa- first in South African, then Sudan, then on to Cairo. While in Cairo he writes <em><strong>&#8220;Have been doing a bit of crocodile shooting on the Nile lately but bullets bounce off like rain drops!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Okay, so I read this the day after my husband leaves for &#8220;croc school&#8221; and I know that I have to keep digging to see what else I can find!<\/li>\n<li>The image above is from an old book in the Chattanooga Today series and is of <strong>Fireman&#8217;s Fountain<\/strong>, which can still be found in downtown Chattanooga near the courthouse. No longer remaining, however, are the alligators. They were a short lived addition to the fountain area around the early 1900&#8217;s. (LOVE the tiny wire fence surrounding the fountain square!)<\/li>\n<li>The image below is of an original watercolor by <strong>Barry Moser<\/strong>, created for the book <em>Whistlin&#8217; Dixie<\/em>. We have both the book and the original watercolor in the Special Collections department.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Robert Sparks Walker Collection<\/strong> contains poems written by the Chattanooga naturalist on every animal imaginable. I have no doubt that the alligator is represented (seeing as Walker wrote poems about such unlikely candidates as the leech and the potato bug), but I did not have the time to scour all 105 boxes of the collection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland.<\/strong> Okay, so this one is kind of cheating.\u00a0 I know that the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/How_Doth_the_Little_Crocodile\">Crocodile<\/a>&#8221; poem is in this book and we have 4 amazingly illustrated copies here in the Special Collections.\u00a0 No illustration for the poem though \ud83d\ude41 .<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I found this such an interesting exercise- almost like a game.\u00a0 &#8220;Crocodiles- how many references to them can you find in the archive?\u00a0 Go!&#8221;\u00a0 If I had all day to wile away looking for related materials, I know I could find more.\u00a0 Come visit us in the Special Collections and see what you can dig up!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-crocodile-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1197\" title=\"Redheaded Girl Holding Crocodile\" alt=\"Redheaded Girl Holding Crocodile\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2011\/05\/IttyBittyGator-776x1024.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that it is an odd topic to write a blog post on, but crocodiles and alligators have been consuming my thoughts for the last week or so and a collection I have been processing sealed the deal on me writing about them. 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