Gordon Hall began compiling what became the Hall-Hoag Collection when he returned from World War II and encountered U.S. domestic hate groups at both ends of the political spectrum. Along with a group of volunteers, including Grace Hoag, he infiltrated and investigated radical and dissenting groups, collecting their printed propaganda as part of his efforts to preserve these irreplaceable materials for posterity. Only the 168,000 items and 5,500 organizations found in Part I have been processed, documented and made available to the public. The project focused on the much larger, unprocessed and inaccessible Part II, comprised of 800 cartons (2,400 linear feet or ca. 700,000 items). Its sheer size speaks to a monumental and unique contribution above and beyond what is available in Part I. A quick comparison of de-duped organizations represented in Part I and those identified in the portion of Part II that has been partially sorted indicates a two-fold increase. With over 300 additional cartons yet to be sorted, many more unique organizations and materials will be revealed. Hall-Hoag Part II is greater in size and breadth than the sum of the combined related political collections held at other institutions. Providing public access to a collection of this magnitude and uniqueness will be a very significant contribution to the documentary record, enabling increased scholarship and research.

Manuscript collections to be processed through this project have been selected from a list of the collections held in backlog, based on content and research value. The collections vary in size from small to large and contain original historical source materials relating to a number of important urban history and humanities themes. These themes mimic those of the most heavily requested manuscript collections at Museum Center--business, religion, social services, military history, women's history, African American history, politics, and science. Two of the collections are highlighted below. Fred A. Lazarus, Jr. Collection, 1916-1978: Fred Lazarus Jr. was the founder of Federated Department Stores and served on the Commission on Money and Credit, the Committee for Economic Development and the Citizens Development Committee. He is credited with persuading President Franklin D. Roosevelt to lengthen the Christmas shopping season by moving Thanksgiving up a week. Braun Sisters, 1909-1989: This collection contains the papers of E. Lucy and Annette F. Braun. E. Lucy Braun was a botanist and ecologist and was the first female president of the Ecological Society of America. She is best known for her 1950 book, Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America. Annette Braun was an entomologist well known for her works on Lithocolletis Hubner, Elachistidae and Tineid moths.

The NMAI Film & Video Center [F&VC] contemporary Study Collection is one of the most important and comprehensive collections of Native-produced media in the world. Works include significant media produced since the 1970s, when Native filmmakers first began creating films and videos in the United States, as well as independent documentaries and works for broadcast by non-Native filmmakers. Many works in the collection -- especially those produced by Native Americans during the past 10 years -- are works of creative expression, including features, short subjects, comedies, animations, youth productions, videos and other highly diverse works of both fiction and non-fiction from throughout the Americas. A significant number are in Spanish or Indigenous languages such as Hata Kui, Yup'ik, Tzotzil aand Quechua (with English or Spanish subtitles). The Study Collection also includes a significant number of unique video and audio recordings made by the F&VC staff, primarily since 1990. These include interviews with indigenous filmmakers from throughout the Western Hemisphere and documentation of discussions with filmmakers during NMAI programs (such as the NMAI Native American Film & Video Festival, the longest-running indigenous film festival in the world). This material represents footage that is not available through any other means, where NMAI holds the only available copy.

In this project, the Amistad Research Center processed and cataloged two organizational collections devoted to the decolonization of Africa. The American Committee on Africa (1953-2001) and The Africa Fund (1966-2001) worked to educate the American public and American policymakers on the legitimacy of African liberation movements and to provide assistance to liberation movements and the victims of colonial oppression in Africa. These collections consist of 520 linear feet of the publications and records of the American Committee on Africa addendum (1968-2001) and The Africa Fund (1966-2001). The processing of these records will expand access to materials that document human rights and political activities within many African countries, United States relations with Africa, as well as divestment campaigns and anti-apartheid and pro-African liberation movements in the United States and throughout Africa. These collections provide a comprehensive picture of two important, related liberal reform organizations, with insight into the sociology of left-liberal political groups of American and African activists.

The project will process and open to the public 12 new collections totaling 300 cubic ft. These unique collections vary in size, scope, and medium type. They are grouped under 2 categories: FAMU History and Performing and Visual Arts. Seven collections under "FAMU History" relate to the education of African Americans and phenomena occurring at historically black colleges and universities. The records were created during the period of racial segregation and include the papers of 4 former FAMU presidents: J.R.E. Lee, 1924-1944, (4 cubic ft.); William H. Gray, 1946-1959, (8 cubic ft.); George W. Gore, 1950-1968, (8 cubic ft.); and Benjamin L. Perry, 1968-1977, (15 cubic ft.). The largest FAMU collection is: FAMU Public Relations Collection, (60 cubic ft. of records). Two collections relate to athletics: Alonzo Jake Gaither Black College Football Collection (40 cubic ft.); and FAMU Football Film Collection (40 cubic ft.). Five collections under "Performing and Visual Arts" offer insight into the artist, cultural, entertainment and intellectual interests of African Americans living in different regions. They include: Eugene Aaron African-American Art and Book Collection (45 cubic ft.); Beverly Barber FAMU Orchesis Dance Theater (20 cubic ft.); Rosalind Ellerbee African-American Film and Book Collection (20 cubic ft.); Bernard and Shirley Kinsey Art Collection (25 cubic ft.); and the Rawn Spearman Performing Arts Collection (15 cubic ft.).

The New-York Historical Society has a collection of approximately 5,500 eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century American almanacs, including an estimated 600 almanacs dating from before the year 1801. The collection is strongest in almanacs published in New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire, but it also includes representative examples from other states east and west of the Mississippi. Highlights include the only known copies of early eighteenth-century editions of Daniel Leeds’s American Almanack, printed in New York by William Bradford; the earliest almanac printed in New Jersey, Poor Roger, 1760; and Confederate almanacs printed in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, and Charleston, South Carolina.

The Atlanta-based Southern Regional Council (SRC) was formed in 1943 as successor to the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (founded in 1919); the two groups merged in 1944. The main focus of SRC was to improve economic, civic and racial conditions in the South for whites and blacks, as well as to lead the struggle against segregation, promote voter registration, and encourage broad reforms in the structure of Southern government. The SRC also conducted research projects, producing reports on race relations and the overall economic, political and social conditions of the South. The SRC continues to be active in Southern politics, social research and leadership training. Over the years, various officials within the -SRC transferred records to three different archival repositories in the Atlanta area. AUC-RWWL holds the majority of the records from its inception until 1968; as well as over 600 linear feet of additional materials from the 1980s to 2000s. Emory University's SRC records include administrative and program files from 1960 to2000. AARL holds the press files from 1940 to1975, as well as a large collection of SRC publications. At present, the unprocessed portion of AUC-RWWL records and the collections at AARL and Emory are not available for research use. Completion of the processing of the SRC records is an important expansion of the documentation of civil rights history from the movement's classic years into the late twentieth century.

Collections relate to the ethnographic documentation of the cultural practices and lifeways of both the long-established and newly arrived individuals and communities in three contiguous states in the Mid-Atlantic region: New York, New Jersey, and Maryland. The chosen materials are located in 24 partner institutions and were created from the 19th century to the present day by folklorists and fieldworkers wishing to document the plurality of cultural expression found within their states and region. The collections contain a significant amount of audio, visual, and paper documents. In the aggregate, they provide a lasting knowledge base of the region's cultural heritage for community members and the broader public. Topics are varied and include occupational culture of Chesapeake Bay and Long Island watermen, music, including the folk music revival of the 1960s, equestrian traditions (including thoroughbred racing, ring jousting, fox hunting), Baltimore's and New York's street vendors, Dutch and Iroquois language and dialect recordings, hunting and trapping, vernacular architecture, WPA collections of community folklife, crafts traditions and other domestic material culture, food, festivals, responses to war and conflict, 20th century radical, political and social movements, and the emergent traditions of immigrant communities. These materials are important to the disciplines of anthropology and ethnomusicology, sociology, history, and American and popular culture studies.

Collections include records of the Animal Rights Network (ARN), portions of the records of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), and Ron Scott Videotapes. ARN records contain files from animal welfare organizations around the world and much correspondence documenting the coordination of the animal welfare movement, as well as debates among activists from the 1970s to ca. 2000. The collection also features hundreds of subject files on topics related to animal welfare and files documenting groups opposed to the animal welfare movement. The AWI collection contains correspondence and other material related to the activities of AWI and its lobbying organization, the Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL). The bulk dates from the late 1950s to 1990. Although these materials focus on events in the US, they include a large number of files on international issues, reflecting AWI/SAPL’s cooperation with groups in other countries and key involvement in issues such as whaling and the exotic animal trade. The ARN and AWI collections also include many published items from a wide range of groups around the globe, including books, pamphlets, newsletters, and reports. Finally, the project will catalog hundreds of audio and video tapes documenting conferences, demonstrations, debates, and oral histories with important figures in the animal welfare movement. These audiovisual materials are found mainly in the Ron Scott Videotapes, but also among the AWI papers.

SCI-Arc has long used technology to facilitate access to new ideas in architecture and design. The Institute began its video archive in 1974 when students began taping lectures by visiting speakers. Now standard practice at educational and cultural institutions, videotaping lectures was uncommon in the mid-1970s. Featured speakers include Pritzker Prize winners Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Thom Mayne, Rafael Moneo, Christian Portzamparc, Richard Rogers, Kazuyo Sejima, James Stirling, and Peter Zumthor; notable American architects such as Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, and Michael Graves; and some of the world's most distinguished architects, including Wolf Prix, Peter Cook, Shigeru Ban, and Gunther Domenig. SCI-Arc has always stressed architecture as an interdisciplinary pursuit and thus provides a forum for creative leaders across disciplines. Included in the collection are major figures in art (Chris Burden, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Alexis Smith, Diana Thater, James Turrell), landscape architecture, critical thinking, film, design, and graphic design. The collection is among the most complete of its kind. Many speakers are captured more than once, providing opportunities for analysis of their development at different stages of their careers. The archive features groundbreaking symposia on the challenges facing minority and women architects as well as the development of alternative visions of urban planning and community development.

The materials that are the subject of this proposal can be divided into five general categories: 1) posters, letters, photographs and other ephemera left by the families of the victims at Pier 94 (the temporary family service center), and at the 9/11 memorial sites on the footprint of the towers; 2) material placed in City parks and other public places in the aftermath of the event; 3) artifacts of the World Trade Center buildings, vehicles, and other items recovered from the site, via Fresh Kills, Staten Island, where the debris had been brought for screening; 4) brochures and other printed material prepared by the Mayor's Community Assistance Unit to assist the victim families; and 5) correspondence sent to the Mayor's office and rescue workers.

The San Diego Museum of Man (SDMoM) seeks funding to catalog a collection of 25,000 photographs taken from 1890 to the mid-1900s depicting the history of San Diego and the surrounding area. These photographs have never been cataloged and consist of assorted media, including albumen prints, glass negatives, and daguerreotypes. Cataloging the collection at this time is critical due to the upcoming Centennial Anniversary of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition and the need for scholars to study the changing culture and history of the San Diego region. The images reveal a comprehensive pictorial study of life in the greater San Diego area, ranging from early contact with Native Americans up through the Panama-California Exposition and development of Balboa Park. Many of the photographs in the collection were gifted to SDMoM in conjunction with artifacts, which enrich knowledge about those objects and provide priceless insight into how San Diego County has evolved over the years. Abbie Boutelle, Constance Goddard DuBois, Malcolm Rodgers and E.H. Davis are just a few of the prominent San Diegans who made significant contributions to our understanding of the anthropology and archaeology of the San Diego area and also donated their photographs and artifacts to SDMoM. With proper cataloging, this collection of images will be invaluable to those interested in researching and understanding the history, culture, and archaeology of the greater San Diego region.

As described on our webpage, we propose arranging and describing 80 literary collections. The largest collections are the H.G. Wells papers, Carl Sandburg papers, and W. S. Merwin papers. For each of these authors we are the repository for the major collection of the author's personal papers. Additional extensive collections include the papers of James Jones (the author of From Here to Eternity), the authoritative collection of William Maxwell papers (author and longtime editor of the New Yorker), and the Edwin Rolfe papers (poet and member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War). Turning to the 19th century, we have manuscript materials documenting the life of Lewis Carroll (the Flodden Heron collection) and William Cobbett (the famous labor activist of the early nineteenth century). We have an interesting collection of uncataloged 19th-century scripts, including several pantomines. We have strong collections in the area of literary publishing history, including one of the three major groups of records documenting the famous Bentley publishing firm, a small collection relating to Mudie's lending library, and a little known archive of materials related to Grant Richards and his publishing firm, Grant Richards Limited. Finally, we have a variety of small, hidden collections that document a wide range of literary and social figures.

The collection resides at the Sanford Museum in Sanford, Florida. It encompasses letters, diaries, legal documents, speeches, articles, and other documents composed by Henry S. Sanford and others. Sanford was a lawyer, diplomat, and investor who purchased and developed the land that would become Sanford, Florida. Subjects covered in the collection include Sanford's schooling in the United States and Europe; American business and diplomatic endeavors in the Congo; legal endeavors in Central and South America; businesses in Connecticut and Michigan; the unification of Germany after the Franco-Prussian War; life in the American West before it was settled; a sugar plantation in Louisiana owned by Sanford and his brother-in-law; Sanford's citrus groves and the issues surrounding them, including the importation of Swedish workers; domestic and diplomatic issues during the Civil War; the slave trade and more.

This project focuses on the following: Theory of Warfare; Military History:Ancient World to Modern Day (Iraq War); Biographies of great leaders and generals; Local History; Archaeology and Underwater Archaeology; AHC Documents and grants; and Geographic Elevations of Mobile Bay.

The collection documents all facets of Japanese American life surrounding the period of World War II internment and on to present day. It includes correspondence, particularly with family in internment camps and brothers or sons serving in the US Army in Europe and the Pacific; photographs, including a significant collection documenting religion, business, sports, and social life in the late 1940s and 1950s; diaries and journals; sketch books showing scenery in and around internment camps; artifacts, many of which were made of scrap wood in internment camps; rare published materials, such as internment camp newspapers and high school yearbooks, and information pamphlets targeting Nisei (the American-born children of Japanese immigrants) who were leaving camps for work or education; and vital records, such as alien registration cards and US Army service records. It is arguably the most significant collection of Japanese American history, arts and culture materials in the Midwest and the only significant collection documenting life outside of the traditional, west coast population centers. The collection has and will draw interest from Japanese Americans and Asian Americans in Chicago; local, regional and national scholars of Japanese American studies, Chicago and World War II era history; visiting school groups and local public school classrooms; broader members of the community with an interest in multicultural communities.

The MVZ archives provide the historical, ecological, legal, and sociological context for the vertebrate specimens that comprise our unique collections. They document the expeditions, research, and views of prominent western pioneers, evolutionary biologists, and conservationists (e.g., Annie Alexander, Charles L. Camp, Joseph S. Dixon, Joseph Grinnell, Alden Miller, Robert Stebbins, and many others) from the late 19th century to present. Joseph S. Dixon, for example, was a well-known conservationist who organized the first wildlife surveys in U.S. national parks, and led the Park Service to protect endangered species and fragile habitat. The MVZ archives include detailed fieldnotes and annotated maps from over 300 scientists and students, thousands of pages of correspondence (much of historical importance), original artwork used in seminal publications, and photographic documentation of field sites, specimens, and animal observations in various formats (prints, negatives, 35mm slides, lantern slides, glass photo plates, digital). These archives are used extensively by scientists, historians, teachers, government agencies, and public policymakers, and have formed the basis for projects on history of science, American history, evolutionary biology, and women in science. They provide the foundation for efforts to resurvey vertebrates throughout North America to document and understand change either directly or indirectly through human activity and/or climate.

This project will make available to scholars the visually rich collections of eight graphic designers found within the Graphic Design Archives of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries. The Graphic Design Archives at RIT document and preserve the work of historically significant American graphic designers active from the 1920s to the 1950s. In addition, selected contemporary designers working in the modernist traditions are also included. The holdings of the Graphic Design Archives include over thirty designers; however because they are not processed, eight of those collections are virtually hidden from researchers. These eight archives include the following individuals -- Elaine Lustig Cohen, Rudolf de Harak, William Golden, Matthew Leibowitz, Cipe Pineles, Alex Steinweiss, Fred Troller, and George Tscherny. All of these collections are of interest to scholars in a broad range of disciplines, from graphic design historians to researchers studying the history of business and advertising to scholars studying the role of women in design and publishing to art and design museum curators.

Some of Cincinnati's richest history centers on its railway involvement--one of the largest collections of original photographs, architectural drawings, planning documents, railroad artifacts and printed material has long been closely held by the Cincinnati Railroad Club. The collection comprises over 70,000 items--its core is source material from all 7 major railroads that once served Cincinnati. The collection continues to grow through donations, estate gifts, and acquisitions. Most of the collection is inaccessible to researchers or the general public, stored in a manner and at a location unsuitable for public viewing, and ultimately not conducive to preservation of the artifacts. Many of the items in the collection are in critical need of attention, having been produced on deteriorating, unstable media. Invaluable expertise needed to provide informed descriptions and appropriately catalogue the artifacts rests with Club members, many of whom are advancing in years—it's vital to begin this project now, before their unique knowledge is lost. The project will digitally capture and catalogue the entire collection. This will make this collection--of great importance to our history--available to a global audience, and ultimately prepare the most fragile items for responsible stewardship. Artifacts would be available for digital reproduction and distribution, which could be used to help defray costs of proper storage and ongoing preservation.

Wood type refers to individual letters, figures, punctuation, ligatures and dingbats carved in relief on blocks of type-high (0.918”) wood with a flat smooth face, designed to print with ink on paper. Darius Wells, who in 1827 invented the process to mass produce wood type, first commercially showed wood type specimens in March 1828. The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, founded and operated by the Two Rivers Historical Society, in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company's original building, is a resource for printers, printmakers, historians and educators to access what has evolved into the largest collection of wood type in the world. The Museum's 1.5 million pieces of wood type represents a one-of-a-kind collection of printing technology that spans from the early 1800's to 1984, when the company ceased production of wood type after a 104-year status as the largest manufacturer of wood type in the United States. The overall collection represents virtually all wood type manufacturers in the history of the nation, as Hamilton bought out all other significant wood type firms between 1827 and 1909. The Silverman-Graham Lee Hidden Collection is comprised mostly of donated and purchased materials, primarily derived from wood type collector Irving Silverman, and the estate of Graham Lee. A smaller batch of materials originally manufactured by Hamilton but never sold is also included. There is potential for wood types dating from as far back as 1827 to be discovered.

This proposal aims to catalog and make accessible the world's most extensive collection of rare pamphlets and printed reports from Christian missionaries, missionary organizations, and indigenous religions and societies engaged by missionaries during the 19th and 20th centuries. This proposal will support non-sectarian research of individuals, communities, and indigenous cultures related to the global missionary and ecumenical movements. Materials were added to the collections regardless of religious affiliation, with a concern for humanistic inquiry and informed social activism on a global scale. These materials document not only the history of religious identities, but also the history of educational, medical, and political movements crucial to the development of human society in the modern world. Though published, these materials were often not widely disseminated among academic circles or library collectors, but were purposefully collected by missionaries and their parent organizations, and are very often not available from other libraries, especially those most accessible to North American researchers. They include extraordinarily rare materials from missionary fields around the world. The pamphlets and reports are part of the Missionary Research Library (MRL). From India to North America, the MRL archives record the historical contexts (political, social, cultural, anthropological, medical, and educational) of missionary fields during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Admiral Cary T. Grayson was President Wilson's physician and friend from the President's inauguration in 1913 until his death in 1924. For the last twelve years of the President's life, Dr. Grayson attended to him all day and often at night. The collection includes hundreds of letters from Dr. Grayson to his wife and others describing events and behind-the-scenes discussions at the Paris Peace Conference and other incidents in the President's life. In his diary, letters, and medical records, Dr. Grayson detailed events such as Wilson's daily activities, conversations with heads of state, and the President's health and the medical care given to him after his stroke in 1919. These papers will provide great insights into the American involvement in the war and peace negotiations. Dr. Grayson's papers also give insights into Woodrow Wilson the man and alters aspects of the current historical interpretation of Wilson and his presidency. This collection needs to be made available to scholars, students, and the general public. The James Gordon Papers contain the papers of Alice Gordon Grayson's father. Alice Grayson married Cary T. Grayson. James Gordon was a multi-millionaire who made his money in coal and other natural resources. He died of cancer in June of 1911.

The Mapas historicos de Nuevo Mexico = Historic New Mexico Maps cataloging project made one of the most important collections of the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library accessible to a wide range of researchers, historians, students and the general public. The History Library is the institutional successor of New Mexico's oldest library (1851) and is part of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors. A non-circulating, closed stack research facility, it preserves historical materials -- manuscripts, maps, rare books -- documenting the history of the state, and the American Southwest from pre-European contact to the present. The map collection of primary historical documents is a major source of information about perspectives, beliefs and attitudes of the past. The collection offers both scholars and history buffs the opportunity to see the American Southwest from the viewpoint of early Spanish explorers and the topographers of the Army of the West. Over 5,500 maps ranging from blueprint railway maps, surveyors maps for Western expansion, and 18th century manuscript maps of Bernando de Miera y Pacheo, which all showcase the long and varied history of the region, are held in one repository, making a wide range of research possibilities available for scholarship. The proposed cataloging project will make this unique historic map collection more widely known and enable us to assist researchers more efficiently.

The U-Matic collection contains a vast variety of content which tells the story of North American country and vernacular music. Footage in the collection dates from as early as the 1940s and as late at the mid 1980s. The collection is informally grouped into 4 series or sub-collections: the Graham Collection, the Dick Heard Collection (both named for their donors), the Music Video Collection, and the Format Transfer Collection. Rare interviews, musical performances, and rare early television footage of country musicians from 1961-1980 make up much of the Graham Collection. The Dick Heard Collection ties vernacular music to its geography and current events during the early 1980s: these tapes consist largely of unedited camera-original footage depicting regional cultural music events, intended for use in television broadcast. The Music Video Collection, donated throughout the years by record labels and production companies, documents the radical change in popular country music's sound, style, and fan base during the 1980s era, when country music exploded from its regional roots to blend with rock, pop, jazz, and even world music to become one of the most popular musical forms in the world. The Format Transfer Collection contains home movies, orphan films, live events, and other footage which originated on film or early video from as early as 1945. In cases where the original element has suffered decay or color fading, these tapes may be the best quality extant.

The KGMB-TV News and Programming collection contains videotapes, motion picture film reels, photographs, slides, transcripts, and research material from KGMB-TV, the Honolulu, HI CBS affiliate and the state's first television station, which began broadcasting in 1952. The collection includes local news broadcasts from the 1970s-1990s, which follow major Hawaiian news events including the first voyage of the Hokule'a - a double hulled sailing canoe, the 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention creating Hawaiian rights, Ferdinand Marcos' exile, and the Kilauea volcanic eruption. The collection also includes local television programming from 1970-2010, some of which was never aired outside Hawaii. Children's series like "Checkers and Pogo" and "Hawaii's SuperKids;" documentaries including the Peabody Award-winning "Beyond the Great Wall: Journey to the End of China," comedy specials like "Pat Morita's Mix Plate of Comedy," "Rap Reiplinger: Rap's Hawaii,” dance and music programs like "Island Music, Island Hearts," and the annual "Na Hoku Music Awards" and "King Kamehameha Hula Competition." Because the programming was created specifically for Hawaiian audiences, it presents a unique insight into Hawaiian community entertainment, the local culture, and advertising trends and can provide a rich and valuable research resource that has not previously been readily available to the public.