The Maine State Museum (MSM) owns and has responsibility for the most important collection of Maine historical images in existence, assembled over 40 years by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission (MHPC). Its 15,000 stereoviews are the single most comprehensive record of how the state appeared from 1860 to 1900 and the largest existing national assemblage of its kind in that format related to a single state. With photo postcards, a natural extension of this kind of popular and community-based photography, 21,000 items are included in this proposal. The resulting on-line catalogue will also represent a ground-breaking collaboration between these two independent agencies. Begun as a modest preservation resource, this collection is now the most significant of its kind anywhere and demands full intellectual control: it is uncatalogued and accessible only through personal contact. Its importance is without equal for Maine, but it has great national significance through Maine’s leadership in such dominant American industries as lumbering, paper making, granite quarrying, ice harvesting, shipbuilding, textile manufacturing and shoe-making, which also influenced western expansion and international connections. The images are also essential in documenting the full range of cultural and social patterns of life and community. The collection’s coverage is so complete in time and space that its record of change is a template and measure of the development of America itself.

The five hundred feet of B'nai B'rith International records contain the documentary history of BBI from its founding in 1843 to the present. This consists of administrative files; material on BBI's philanthropic and communal work in the U.S. and abroad; and records on BBI's participation in rescue and relief activities during the Holocaust. The collection also includes Jewish sports history memorabilia, records of local and district lodges, and an extensive holding of motion picture film. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection of Alfred Gottschalk totals 50 feet. Gottschalk was a USHMM commissioner appointed by President Carter. These records, dating 1978-2000, document the creation and evolution of the USHMM from conception to reality and detail how the U.S. created an institution commemorating this dark era of Jewish life. The Central Conference of American Rabbis is the oldest and largest rabbinical association in North America. Founded in 1889, the CCAR was a pioneer American rabbinical organization in social action, church and state problems, religious education and interfaith relationships. The Union for Reform Judaism, founded in 1873, is an association of over 900 Jewish congregations in the United States and Canada. The nearly 350 feet of records for these two groups, dating approximately 1970-2010, provide a wide ranging view of American Jewish religious, social and cultural life that will be invaluable to scholars in many fields.

Cataloging the vertical files of the Anton Brees Carillon Library (ABCL), including the archives of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA), will provide access to one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of carillon related materials. Most of the items date from the early 1920’s when carillons were introduced to North America and carry through to the present day as this collection continues to grow. Serving as a repository of primary and supporting secondary resources for professionals, students, and researchers, the ABCL vertical files aggregate as much information about past and present carillons in the world, of which there are approximately 600 in operation. For this collection, a carillon is defined as an instrument made up of at least 23 bells arranged in chromatic series and operated from a manual keyboard, though there are materials related to bells of historical importance and carillons that have been converted to electronic instruments. Materials may include correspondence, concert programs, PR materials, postcards, photographs, books, slides, rare carillon recordings, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, and biographical information. Collectively, these materials represent the artistic development and continued growth of an entire field of musical performance. Cataloging these materials will allow us not only to promote the profession and its instrument but also to provide more efficient access to a much broader scholarly audience.

This project culls human rights papers and ephemera from Congressman Gilman's previously unpublished private collection. Correspondence is the strength of the collection including first person documents from political prisoners, their families and prominent world leaders revealing efforts to ameliorate their situations. Personal costs of internationally tense conflicts of Rufuseniks, Irish religious and political prisoners, Vietnam era conflicts in southeastern Asia, and State of Israel concerns are unveiled. The collection also depicts the Congressman's intimate and contentious involvement with Soviet and Easter Bloc leaders providing scholars with unique insight into American international relations. During his tenure, the Berlin Wall fell, East and West Germany reunited, and the Soviet Union fell. Gilman's interest in human rights is reflected in the papers offering a rich array of moments of historical significance such the Cambodian regime of Pol Pot; correspondence with Dalai Lama; the peace process in Ireland; attempts to find Missing In Action soldiers (MIAs); meetings with the Pope regarding the Blue Brigade, and work to overthrow the Communist regime in Poland with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Together, they provide unique insights into a pivotal point in American international relations and world history, helping scholars assess events that led to American's emergence as a superpower.

The Newberry will catalog maps and geographical views produced within three spheres of 19th- and early 20th-century popular culture: journalism, tourism and education. 1. Maps in illustrated magazines (11,000): L'Illustration, The Illustrated London News, Illustrirte Zeitung, Leslie's and Harper's were seminal illustrated magazines published in Europe and the United States beginning in the mid-19th century. Maps published in these magazines until 1920 will be cataloged. These maps include innovative statistical and political maps, maps depicting contemporary wars and events and maps documenting the prolific public works projects of this period. 2. Maps in travel guidebooks (5,800): The Newberry will catalog maps in a nearly comprehensive run of Murray's Handbooks for Travellers (1836-1915) and those within a significant number of guidebooks in the Guides Joanne and Guides bleus series (1853-1920). These guidebooks include large foldout maps of urban areas and transportation networks, views and panoramas. Maps in guidebooks of India and Africa, published during the apex of the British Empire, are especially noteworthy. 3. Maps in school geographies (22,700): The Newberry will catalog maps in its significant and growing collection of 19th-century school geographies. These holdings represent every important publisher of these staples of American education, including Jedidiah Morse ("the father of American geography") and Samuel Augustus Mitchell.

This project will result in searchable Japanese film ephemera and rare books from the 1870s through 2006 in the Makino Collection in an online finding aid, the Columbia catalog (CLIO), and the OCLC database. Film Programs: These are 26 unprocessed boxes at our offsite storage facility containing 3600 Japanese film programs and 2900 fliers (6500 items total). These complement 3000 archived prewar programs in an Excel File for which there is no searchable MARC record. Together, these will create the largest collection of Japanese film ephemera outside of Japan. Early Film Books: The collection has 14576 vols. of which 25% (4000 vols.) will need original cataloging. Of these, 450 vols. are rare Japanese books from the early era of film. Japanese Film Periodicals: In addition to commercially published magazines, the Collection has self-published journals from student clubs at universities. Essential to the study of left-wing movements and early film history, these and amateur film magazines covering small-gauge cameras are not found in libraries even in Japan. An Excel file has been created, but researchers would not find the information unless cataloged for OCLC. Film Studio materials: Toho Co., Ltd. internal memoranda, regulations, correspondence, film budgets, and company newsletters comprise these rare documents of one of the five major Japanese film studios. An Excel file was created, but collection level cataloging in OCLC will make them discoverable.

The collections selected for DCAAP have all been identified as having high scholarly research value and will contribute to the academic study of African American and African diaspora history in Washington, D.C. The collections chosen for this project date from as early as 1790 to 2004 and relate to the civil rights movement, Washington, D.C. politics, slavery, reconstruction, literature, and more. The materials include land and property deeds, photographs, audio and video recordings, and original manuscripts. Examples include Probated Wills, a collection that contains almost two centuries of District of Columbia records detailing the transfer of property, including slaves; the papers of Civil Rights activist Walter Fauntroy; the papers of W. Montague Cobb, the only black physical anthropologist in the United States before the end of the Korean War; the collection of bandleader and composer John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie; and the papers of local music legend Chuck Brown, also known as the Godfather of Go-Go. While these collections largely document African American life in Washington, D.C., they also show the significant influence and contributions of other African diaspora populations to the District. Further, they add to the collective understanding of the role of these populations in American history.

The Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) Archives and Special Collections encompasses the complete records of our survey, mapping, excavation, and material culture analyses from over 30 years of archaeological investigation in Egypt, as well as AERA's history as a research institution. The collections also document the professional career of AERA founder, Dr. Mark Lehner, and highlight the development of archaeological best practices. The AERA archive, which includes manuscript, photographic and slide, historic stereoview and postcard, and institutional records collections, is unique and irreplaceable resource of international significance for Egyptologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, Near Eastern scholars, and the interested public. The proposed project will enable the AERA Archives and Special Collections to provide access to outside scholars, promote international collaboration and discussion between archaeologists in the field and academic researchers, and participate in archaeology and information literacy education.

The University at Albany’s National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA)'s mission is to build a collection of archival materials from individuals and national organizations that played substantive roles in the history of capital punishment. Through a partnership between the School of Criminal Justice and the Library that began in 1999, the NDPA has acquired personal papers and organizational records to document the emergence, development and coordination of a political and social movement related to the death penalty. The NDPA collections present a comprehensive picture of political debate, reform, legal maneuvering and academic research from nationally recognized experts on legal executions in the United States. Scholars gain access to primary sources that provide insight into the process, influence and interplay of academic scholarship and political debate over capital punishment. The NDPA contains primary sources in compelling thematic areas, such as civil rights, advocacy efforts of victims' families and legal history as well as research examining challenges to the death penalty's constitutionality, deterrence, wrongful convictions and sentences for capital crimes. Dating from the 1960s through the 2000s, the NDPA contains many nationally significant collections including the official records of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, David Baldus Papers, and Capital Jury Project interviews with over 1,200 jurors from 353 capital trials in 14 states.

The LHS holds 97 of Boardman's ledgers. The New Milford Historical Society holds 3,411 pages of legal papers, correspondence and business records. The New Haven Museum's collection includes 872 items, and Yale holds 27 linear feet. Taken as a whole, these collections document the local agricultural and the proto-industrial manufacturing community in Northwest CT; foreign commerce and the influence of foreign goods and taste on rural Americans; education; the settlement of Ohio; northern slavery; textile history; family life; social networks; and American art during the early national period. Boardman served in the Revolution and trained as a clerk in New Haven. In 1781 he opened a store with his brother in New Milford where he brought foreign goods from Europe and India to the rural Litchfield County market. He shipped local agricultural goods to NY where he sold them at a premium. He brought back rum, molasses and a large variety of textiles to sell locally. A member of the CT Land Co. he invested in the CT Western Reserve; served several terms in the CT General Assembly; and was elected to the US Senate in 1821. Two of his sons attended the Litchfield Law School and two daughters attended the Litchfield Female Academy. Their papers are included in these collections. Several private collectors have also agreed to allow for description of Boardman artifacts and documents which remain with descendants and have been inaccessible to scholars.

The KPHS has extensive collections pertaining to all aspects of the history art, and culture of Kennebunkport, ME from the late 1600s to the present. Approximately 13,200 individuals visit the KPHS annually and benefit from collections-based exhibitions and programs. The KPHS has selected two significant, uncataloged collections for the project. The Maritime History collection spans the years 1740-1900 and focuses on the shipbuilding industry in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport and the maritime trade in the West Indies and China. The collection consists of ships portraits, half models, maps, day books, diaries of shipmasters, business ledgers, bills of lading, correspondence, photographs, instruments, and other artifacts. The geographic scope represents southern Maine, Massachusetts, New Orleans, Liverpool, England, the West Indies, India, and China. The Cape Arundel Collection, details the development of Kennebunkport as a summer colony between 1870 and 1940. This collection includes maps, architectural renderings, photographs, diaries, letters, stock certificates, newspapers, and business ledgers of the Boston and Kennebunkport Sea Shore Company founded in 1873. The summer resort colony was developed by families from St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New York and included the Walker and Bush families, Kenneth Roberts, Booth Tarkington, Atwater Kent and other prominent individuals. The area forms a National Register Historic District.

The earliest volumes which make up the library were acquired by Thomas M. Johnson prior to his arrival in Osceola in August of 1879. However, collecting efforts most likely accelerated during the last two decades of the 1800s when he began independently publishing two journals, The Platonist and Bibliotheca Platonica. The collection focuses on philosophy, religion, Greek and Latin literature, metaphysics, theosophy, and intellectual history. Most of the extant Latin authors are represented. The collection is strong in holdings regarding the English Platonist, Thomas Taylor (1758-1835), a favorite author of Thomas M. Johnson. There are substantial holdings regarding the Theosophy Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including books by and about Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Annie Besant (1847-1933). There are also significant materials on magic and the occult. The collection holds reference works such as the Souda, also known as Suidas' Greek-Latin Lexicon, edited by Ludolf Kuster (1670-1716), Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1736 edition), and August Pauly and Georg Wissowa's Realencyclopedie de Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (1910 edition). The library's earliest titles date back to the late 1400s and include Porphyry's Plotini Vita translated by Marsilio Ficino (1492) and Ficino's own De Triplica Vita from 1489. There are at least 25 titles from the 1500s and over 80 titles from the 1600s.

Materials were produced by the IBWC along the U.S.-Mexico border, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, and date from the 1920s through the 1990s. They include maps, photographs, and correspondence. The collection is an important source for both scholars and the general public interested in the demarcation and management of the border, as well understanding the twentieth-century relationship between Mexico and the United States. The archive covers such topics as the Chamizal Land Dispute; management of the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers; and through the words and images of thousands of photographs and correspondence, the life of diverse communities that have called the border region home for the past hundred years.

This project will make accessible the collections of prominent individuals and organizations who have led the national movement in Disability Rights. The collections are relevant to anyone doing research into the Disability Rights Movement, and the general social protest and civil rights movements since the 1960's. Fred Fay focused his efforts in Massachusetts and New England. Ms. Huemann's activities were centered mainly in Washington, D.C. Isabelle Grant worked with tenBroek to establish the National Federation of the Blind. The project includes the following collections: Center for Independent Living records, circa 1970-1990. 31 cartons, 1 box, 1 oversize folder (40 linear feet). Disabled International Support Effort (David L. Landes) records, 1960-2008. 30 cartons (38 l.ft.). Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund records, 2000-2013 (additions). 30 cartons (25 l. ft.). Disabled Students' Program records, 1964-2002. 29 cartons, 1 box (36 l.ft.). Frederick A. Fay papers, 1960-2000. 39 cartons (49 l.ft.). Isabelle Grant papers, 1950-1980. 12 cartons, 1 box and 1 oversize folder (16 l.ft.). Judith Heumann papers, 1947-2003. 24 cartons, 3 boxes, 2 oversize folders (31 l.ft.). Indoor Sports Club records, 1950-1996. 16 cartons, 1 box, 1 oversize box, 9 volumes (20 l.ft.). Betty Medsger papers, 1960-1980. 11 cartons (14 l.ft.). World Institute on Disability records, 1983-2000. 66 cartons, 1 oversize box, 2 oversize folders (84 l.ft.).

PUL began to collect and build an archive of Latin American ephemera and gray literature in the mid 1970s to document the activities of political and social organizations and movements, as well as the broader political, socioeconomic and cultural developments of the region. Access to the material was provided by slowly accumulating and organizing thematic sub-collections, creating finding aids, and microfilming selected curated sub-collections. Reproductions of the microfilm were commercially distributed and resulting royalties were used to fund new acquisitions. That model gradually become unsustainable during the past decade and microfilming was halted in 2008. Meanwhile PUL's commitment to building the collection continued uninterrupted and a growing archive of unique ephemeral primary sources has remained a hidden collection. It includes thousands of pamphlets, brochures, flyers, placards and other printed items created during the past decade by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, public policy think tanks, and other types of organizations across Latin America, in order to publicize their views, positions, agendas, policies, events, and activities. Topics best represented are human rights, elections, gender issues, indigenous peoples, youth issues, labor, ecology and environmental issues, development, public health, education and religion -- all essential to study of contemporary Latin America.

B-Sides and Rarities: Providing Access to Popular 45-RPM Singles will result in the cataloging of approximately 80,000 sound recordings, specifically 45-RPM singles of popular music, most of which are not readily available in any other public institution. Cataloging these materials will make available a significant portion of Bowling Green State University's (BGSU) holdings representing a wide variety of popular music genres recorded between the late 1940s and the mid 1990s, including rock and roll, country, folk, blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, and more. Bridging publication practices from the 78-RPM era with those of the long-playing record era, 45-RPM records forged a path for marketing and distribution of single songs with a heavy emphasis on the increasing role of teen culture in shaping commercial output. With a focus most often on a single artists, 45s fed into the cult of personality that began to surround performing artists in the '50s and '60s while also contributing to the portability of teens' music collections and to the marketing of popular artists and songs. Meanwhile, radio stations and jukebox owners were able to make use of the short-form recording to program popular singles easily. While these recordings became hallmarks of popular culture and often represent the only commercial release for many songs, they have never been prized by libraries because of their seemingly ephemeral cultural significance and, as a result, are rarely cataloged.

The San Diego Museum of Man (SDMoM) will catalog: 1. More than 7,000 archaeology records from the Malcolm J. Rogers and the Emma Lou Davis Collections. Rogers (1890-1960) was a pioneering archaeologist, who served on SDMoM’s staff from 1929-1945 and again in the 1950s until his death. His work centered on the study of prehistoric cultures from Southern California, Baja California, and the Southwest. His archaeological maps, field notebooks, site records, and reports date from the 1920s-1960. Davis (1905-1988) was an archaeologist and SDMoM staff member who studied Paleoindian archaeology in the California Deserts. Her field notebooks and site records date from the 1960s-1970s. 2. 10 archival boxes containing slides, field notes, and personal papers dating from the 1980s-1990s from the Spencer MacCallum Archive. MacCallum (b.1931) was the first anthropologist to study and foster the Mata Ortiz art movement in Mexico. 3. 25,000 photographs from an uncataloged photographic collection including the H.K. Raymenton Collection: Raymenton (c.1900-1972) was an historian and President of SDMoM’s Board. His collection of 50 photo albums and over 3,000 prints and negatives document the countries he visited in the early 1900s as a cultural historian. These countries, including Samoa, Iraq, India, China, Thailand, and the Philippines, have large populations in San Diego. Cataloging these collections will provide significant research potential to traditional academics, local communities and Native Americans Scholars.

The collection consists of 4,760 sound recordings dating from 1919 to the present and contains both commercial and noncommercial recordings that document the history of psychology and related human sciences in the United States. It is comprised mainly of cassette tapes and reel-to-reel audiotapes, but also contains vinyl records, compact discs, and wire recordings. The majority of the collection is in the English language. The precise condition of the materials is unknown, but examinations of random samples of the collection indicate the majority are in good condition. Sample genres include oral history interviews, instructional and self-help recordings, therapy sessions, and radio appearances. Sample items include recordings from a 1950 workshop on motherhood, 1940s vocational guidance interviews with returning servicemen, a lecture on coping with stress given at a Veteran's Administration hospital in 1966, and 1970s radio parenting advice from psychologist Lee Salk. The collection provides a fascinating view of changing ideas about cognition, emotion, and behavior throughout the twentieth century. Because of the widespread influence of psychology in American society, these titles are of potential use to a variety of scholars, including social and cultural historians, historians of science and technology, and students of American studies and media studies. They are also inherently interesting to museum-goers, who encounter applied psychology in their everyday lives.

All collection materials relate to the Lichliter site, a prehistoric archaeological site covering several acres. The collection is the result of an excavation undertaken by DSNH from 1962-1970. The site is a Late Woodland period (Ohio River Valley, A.D. 450-1000) village in Montgomery County, OH. The collection as a whole consists of artifacts, field notes, maps, and printed photographs. CLIR funds are requested only to support the cataloging of the artifact collection. Artifacts include ceramic sherds, projectile points and other stone tools, carbonized botanical samples (seeds, nutshell, and wood fragments), animal bone, and soil samples. A small percentage of the overall collection is represented by finished formal tools or ornaments. The majority of artifacts represent waste products or byproducts of human activity across a broad range of domestic activities such as the manufacture of tools, butchering animals, processing plant foods, and cooking. The site is one of only a few Late Woodland sites discovered and one of the most completely excavated sites of this period. In the Ohio River Valley, the Late Woodland period refers to a poorly known, yet highly important period of dynamic cultural change. Within this time period, archaeologists recognize the collapse of Middle Woodland predecessors (known widely as the earthwork builders termed “Hopewell”); the formation of the first nucleated villages; and the adoption of maize agriculture.

Professionals represented in PRI's archives are each remarkable for individual achievement and academic contribution. Awaiting discovery are the files of ca. 36 prominent scientists, notably including women, early Latin American researchers, and collectors of specimens in PRI's extensive research collection since its founding in 1932. Materials include (1) field notes, maps, and collection catalogs of many 20th-century fossil collectors, funded by sources such as oil companies and NSF; (2) photographs of fieldwork, specimens , conferences, etc., in a variety of formats (prints, negatives, slides, films); (3) correspondence, journals, original drawings, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts; (4) small to large artifacts (e.g., flags, magnifiers, slide rules, typewriter, printing press); and (5) early records of PRI's "Bulletins of American Paleontology" (est. 1895), the oldest continuous paleontological serial in the Western Hemisphere. Collections-associated materials are prioritized, due to their support of collections-based research. Second in importance are 3 professionals chosen for their compelling roles as individuals, researchers, and teachers: Gilbert Harris (1864-1952) and Katherine Palmer (1895-1982), PRI notables and important American invertebrate paleontologists studying the Cenozoic Atlantic Coastal Plain, and Curt Teichert (1905-1996), a German-American researcher of ammonites and Paleozoic stratigraphy, and editor of the "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.

The records in the National Watch and Clock Museum archives are from numerous American horological manufacturers, including Seth Thomas Clock Company, Hamilton Watch Company, Illinois Watch Company, Westclox Clock Company, and Gruen Watch Company. Many other manufacturers are likely represented in the collection as well. These companies employed tens of thousands of Americans in the manufacturing of their timepieces, impacting millions of Americans directly and indirectly. Millions of clocks and watches were made all over the country from the mid nineteenth to late twentieth centuries. The history of the watch and clock industry in the United States is an important part of the history of the industrial revolution and manufacturing in America. Uncovering the records housed in the archives will allow scholars to better understand the workings of these companies, which employed tens of thousands of Americans. Everyday timepieces purchased at the height of American dominance in the field of horology are passed down to new generations, who wish to know more about their new heirlooms. A better understanding of the materials housed in the National Watch and Clock Museum's will allow librarians and researchers to better serve the public in identifying and learning about their clocks and watches.

Fresh Air celebrates the diversity of American arts and culture by engaging voices from a broad spectrum of art forms. Poets, novelists, playwrights, photographers, actors, filmmakers, musicians, composers, dancers, and choreographers are all regularly featured. Fresh Air also engages audiences by offering a wide variety of topics like domestic and international news, political issues, history and technology. Programs include: The U.S. Presidency with people like Jimmy Carter; The American Songbook with people like the Metropolitan Opera's Dawn Upshaw; Literature with authors like John Updike; Journalism with people like Katherine Graham; or Storytelling with illustrators like Maurice Sendak. Through multiple interviews with the same person spanning years, Fresh Air has provided an evolving perspective on many topics and personalities. Fresh Air's interviews with John Dean and others involved in Watergate helped listeners gain a new perspective as the national political scene changed, and see our current political events through the eyes of a Watergate insider. Fresh Air has also created multiple shows or series that deepen our understanding of the power and challenges of the free market economy or study the richness and history of race and ethnicity. For instance, following 9/11, Fresh Air spent several days deepening Americans' understanding of the complicated intersection of religion, politics, diplomacy and violence that contributed to that event.

The proposed project focuses on the works of scientists in the American West during the late 19th century when California was experiencing tremendous growth. The “wild West” was disappearing and scientific exploration was flourishing. The project will focus on ten collections representing scientific work at the Academy and throughout the Pacific Rim:
Hans Herman Behr (1818-1904, Academy conservator, entomologist, botanist), Lyman Belding (1829-1917, Academy ornithologist), James Blake (1815-1893, Academy vice-president and geologist), Walter E. Bryant (1861-1905, Academy ornithologist), George Davidson (1825-1911, Academy president, geodesist, engineer), Carl H. Eigenmann (1863-1927, Academy member and ichthyologist), Gustavus A. Eisen (1847-1940, Academy curator, naturalist, horticulturalist), William Otto Emerson, William Hammond Hall (1846-1934, Academy member and California's first State Engineer), and John VanDenburgh (1872-1924, Academy curator and herpetologist). Highlights of the ten collections include early U.S. Coast and Geodetic surveys, early examples of stereoscopic photography, documentation of Alaskan exploration, personal diaries of frontier life, hand-drawn maps and sketches, manuscripts, and ephemera from the collectors' field work. Five of these collectors are represented in Academy research specimen collections: Eigenmann, Belding, Bryant, Eisen (including type specimens) and VanDenburgh.

As physical artifacts representing the many aspects of printing and design history, the Wing Collection’s printing specimens range widely in place and date of origin, and cover numerous subjects and levels of production. Each item was chosen by the curator to represent a printing phenomenon--a genre of production or use, the work of a designer or illustrator, an innovative technology or new typeface, etc. Among the more important groups of materials are hundreds of broadsides, chapbooks, song sheets, advertising pieces, and thousands of fine-press prospectuses. There are also many type specimens and paper specimens, both in pamphlet and book form. Of the nearly 29,800 items in this project, roughly 20,000 pieces (85 linear feet) of printed ephemera represent important rare material unlikely to be collected elsewhere, let alone in the context of printing and design artifacts and certainly not described as such. The Wing Collection represents 90 years’ experience in analyzing books in terms of their creation as printed objects. The project will integrate the diverse collections of uncataloged printing specimens into the existing classified scheme of the larger Wing Collection, producing collection and item-level catalog records that elucidate the logic of the curatorial choices made in creating this collection, and providing Encoded Archival Description (EAD) inventories that allow keyword searching of printing terms and creators across all collections in the project.

This collection's topic is the 1904 World's Fair and Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri. The collection includes brochures, tickets, maps, hold-to-light postcards, photographs, souvenir spoons, coins, and other fair memorabilia and ephemera. The time period covered is mainly from the fair itself, though some materials pertain to the time before and after the event. Geographically this collection has a large scope as states and countries from around the world converged on St. Louis, and many materials are from outside the United States. Making these materials more accessible would benefit the students and faculty at our university and other universities, especially as there are classes that focus on this topic. World's Fair researchers and those that study popular culture would also benefit from increased accessibility. It would also supplement our iBook regarding this topic. The unique materials in this collection provide tangible evidence of this important and large event from over a hundred years ago.