This unique and valuable collection consists of raw and edited news film and video tape of the local NBC affiliate from 1952 through 2003 with annual additions continuing through the present. It contains rare documentary coverage of Appalachia, focusing on West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio and southwestern Virginia. Coverage includes natural and man-made disasters, local, state and national political campaigns and events, economic and educational issues, industry and labor disputes, interviews with visiting celebrities and dignitaries, and reaction and commentary by citizens regarding national events and topics. Also included are periodic reports from the members of the local Congressional delegation regarding pending national legislation. Footage includes editorial commentary by station management and scripts for voice-over reporting as read by anchors during broadcast, complete with hand written notes and corrections.

The Florida Congressional Collections form part of the manuscript holdings in the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History in the Dept. of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida. The Library contains the largest body of political records in Florida outside of the state archives. Included in the Library are seven modern congressional collections. Of the seven, four are unprocessed and, therefore, intellectually and physically inaccessible to researchers. This proposal relates specifically to those four collections, but the project will also explore new methods and technology that will provide enhanced and integrated access to all of the Florida political collections. Included in the proposed project are the Senate papers of Lawton Chiles, 1305 cf (1971-1989) and Bob Graham, 583 cf (1987-2005), the House and Senate papers of Connie Mack III, 1190 cf (1983-2001), and the legislative papers of Representative William V. Chappell, 114 cf (1969-1989). The collections contain correspondence, legislative subject files, campaign material, speeches, media releases, audiovisual recordings, photographs, publications, and memorabilia. Each collection is arranged in several records series, but the core series in all are the actual congressional papers organized by congress and session. Together, the collections document the significant events of the times and a period of political transition in the South.

The UIC Library proposes a 2-year project to catalog the hidden Political and Social Action Pamphlet (PSAP) Collection. In the late 1960s, at a time when many libraries considered pamphlets to be expendable, the UIC Special Collections Department began actively soliciting donations and purchasing pamphlets with a goal of creating a comprehensive, permanent research collection focused on political and social activism. The PSAP Collection enhanced and supplemented the department’s collecting strengths in social service and social issues (anchored by the records of the Hull-House settlement house) and was collected as a product of both Cold War concerns and in response to national foment over Civil Rights, women’s issues, and alternative politics. The PSAP Collection consists of approximately 11,000 titles originating from diverse publishers and agencies. This rich primary source research collection documents social, economic, and political issues and events from the 1840s to the 1980s. Publications are primarily from the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, although Asian, European, and Latin American countries are represented. Pamphlets are a vehicle for political propaganda and the PSAP Collection represents a range of political philosophies, primarily on the left of the political spectrum. Individually, the pamphlets document important historical events and issues; as a whole they offer an overview of the political, social, and economic temper of their time.

The U.S. National Animal Parasite Collection Records span 100 years of animal parasitology research. A significant part of the collection consists of original line drawings and photographic records of animal parasites with descriptive indexes. A detailed history of USDA parasitology research at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center from 1886 through the 1980s (including employee biographies, photographs of staff and research facilities, program information, films, and parasite documentation) form another unique part of this collection. Other important parts of the collection include the personal papers of pioneering animal parasite researchers Brayton Howard Ransom and Cooper Curtice; an extensive collection of publications including proceedings of animal science organizations, significant journals and books in the field of animal parasitology, and collections of articles and research notes related to specific types of parasites. The original card file of the Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, a unique index to the world’s literature on parasites from 1892-1985, is also part of the collection. Most of the records in this card file have never been published. The U.S. National Animal Parasite Collection Records is a companion collection to the U.S. National Parasite Specimen Collection held at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. This unique set of materials on the history of veterinary parasitology is likely the most comprehensive in the world.

The Amherst College Library holds papers of three men who played key roles in the reconstruction of Europe and Japan after World War II. Charles Kades helped draft the postwar Japanese constitution and was central to the articulation of a new role for the Japanese emperor and to redefining the Japanese military as a self-defense force. Kades’ papers include extensive correspondence on questions of constitutional law, as well as rare copies of the minutes of the Japanese Diet. Legal scholar Karl Loewenstein’s papers detail his work to develop a postwar German constitution and civil administration under High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy, whose papers are also housed at Amherst. The McCloy Papers have been extensively processed and are heavily used. Loewenstein’s papers include a 200-page, German-language diary and correspondence with leading U.S. and European statesmen and intellectuals. Economist Willard Thorp’s papers describe his role in the creation and final negotiation of the Marshall Plan; his work on the “Point Four” project and GATT; and later economic assistance for Cyprus and Bolivia. Together with the McCloy Papers, the collections offer a rich array of primary source material for biographers and scholars of post-World War II U.S. diplomatic history, Japanese and European history, constitutional law, and international development. They complement holdings at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, MacArthur Memorial Library and Archives and elsewhere.

The Geleve Grice Photograph Collection consists of over 70,900 images of southeast Arkansas. Through these 6,500 prints and 64,400 undeveloped negatives taken between 1942 and 2002, Grice documented the social and cultural lives of African Americans living in the Mississippi River delta of Arkansas. The African American photographer Geleve Grice (1922-2004) was born in Tamo, Arkansas, 35 miles southeast of Little Rock. He lived most of his life in nearby Pine Bluff, where he owned a photography studio, and made his living photographing school graduations, funerals, fairs, parades, etc. He was also the official photographer for the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College (Arkansas AM&N; now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), the state’s historically black college. Many of the photos are of pre-integration events at black high schools. Particularly significant are photos of Silas Hunt, the first African American to enroll in a professional school in the South. The collection goes beyond local and state subjects, with informal photographs of such greats as Louis Armstrong, Joe Louis, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The collection consists of 23 boxes of unorganized photos, negatives, billing records, advertisements, AM&N yearbooks and annual reports, and 15 hours of oral history interviews with Grice. His photographs have been seen by only a few people. The collection is truly a gem in the rough and the epitome of a hidden collection.

Lehigh University (Lehigh) and the National Canal Museum (NCM) will partner to catalog a selection of collections documenting the material culture, canal-related businesses, and heavy industries established along the navigable rivers in the Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania from the middle of the 19th century to the 1990s. Research materials were collected with the intention to promote the appreciation, preservation and restoration of American industrial history in canal-served sites in the United States. Topics include the steel and iron industries, as well as the transportation networks driven by the growth of railroads and canals. Scholars researching economic history, history of science and technology, and the American industrial age would find value in these collections. Included in the NCM’s collections are corporate records of the Crane Iron Works Company, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and Bethlehem Steel Corporation, as well as the personal papers of such pioneers of industry as Robert Sayre and John Fritz. The NCM’s collections contain film, video cassettes, audio tapes, slides, photographs, architectural and engineering drawings, and manuscripts. Lehigh will also catalog from its own collections a series of architectural drawings from the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.

The Baldwin Library, internationally renowned for over 100,000 titles of 19th and 20th century British and American children’s literature, supports worldwide research in historical, cultural, social, or literary aspects of these texts. Its 800 early American imprints is the 2nd largest collection in the US. Three recent successful NEH grants cataloged nearly 25,000 titles and digitized over 4000, increasing access to scholars. However, 14,000 remain with only title and shelf location. Catalog entries of “15h1294, Election Day” hide the general citizenship subject, especially due to classification by size rather than subject. This gap in access to these hidden titles is a hindrance to scholars, who are counting on cataloging records to find primary sources. Gillian Avery travelled from Oxford, England to research Behold the Child, proving what Kenneth Kidd, associate professor at UF, says in his support letter, “Baldwin makes possible projects that aren’t viable anywhere else.” This statement is also true for scholars who are not children’s literature specialists. Horatio Sierra, Ph.D. candidate in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at UF, wrote “La Leyenda Negra in British and American Children’s Literature: 1583 to the Present,” using Baldwin materials. Between 1988 and 2005, scholars used Baldwin materials for more than 5 books, 7 articles, and 5 dissertations.

The political history of Alaska Native people and their leaders in the late 20th century is an epic story of modern America. The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) was formed in 1966 to address the Alaska Native aboriginal land rights and achieve passage of a just and fair land settlement. After five years of lobbying and legal work, the U.S. Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) on December 18, 1971. ANCSA established thirteen regional corporations and hundreds of village corporations along with the right to select 44 million acres of land and a total of $962.5 million in compensation for the land they relinquished. In 1989, the Alaska Federation of Natives formed the First Alaskans Institute; it has become the informal repository for the collection of literature that documents this historical journey. Currently stored in boxes and file cabinets, materials are inaccessible to historians, scholars, Native leaders and the general public. As a result, general interpretations of this important historical account are often incomplete. First Alaskans Institute’s Information Clearinghouse is the repository envisioned to collect, organize and make accessible this priceless collection. Information provided through the Clearinghouse will help to magnify the voices of Native leaders, students and emerging Native scholars. Alaska Natives will be given greater access to information they need to address the many challenges Alaska Natives face and will aid them in developing policies and programs that can build healthy and sustainable communities.

Bishop William Alfred Quayle (1860-1925) accumulated about 250 historically significant Bibles and related books to illustrate "book arts" across the ages. Today the Quayle Rare Bible Collection has been expanded and contains over 500 items housed as a special collection within Baker University’s Collins Library. Pieces within it cover periods from the ancient world through the modern era, including: Medieval manuscripts and illustrated leaves from the 11th through 14th centuries; and approximately a dozen incunabula such as an Eggesteyn Bible, two Coberger Bibles, and two Froben Bibles. Many major early English bible translations are also represented, including: Matthew’s Bible; the Taverner text; a second edition of the Coverdale Bible; the Tyndale Bible; a copy of the Genevan Bible; a Bishop’s Bible; the Douai-Rheims text and a first edition King James Bible. Important examples of biblical printing from 18th century America include a copy of Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi and numerous books printed by Christoph Saur, Robert and Jane Aitken and others. The Quayle also includes a copy of the Nurnberg Chronicle, several items printed by Greygnog Press in Wales and texts translated into American Indian languages like Cherokee, Pequot and Ojibwa. The collections preserves some of Bishop Quayle's own writing, copies of William Blake’s illustrations created to illuminate the Book of Job, a leaf from a Gutenberg Bible and many exceptional bindings.

The scientific reprints in these collections bring together a number of historic scientific and social disciplines which developed into modern day genetics and molecular biology and affected many aspects of society in the past and present. The collections, named after three directors of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who were the primary collectors of the reprints, contain contributions by scientists at a variety of international institutions. The reprints document key discoveries which have lead to interdisciplinary innovations and practical applications in agriculture, the health sciences, genomics, and other fields. They span the different ages of modern biological research beginning with the period of naturalist studies immediately following Darwin��s publication of Origin of Species in 1859 (approx. 4% of the reprints). The collections continue to span through the birth of plant genetics with the rediscovery of Mendel in 1900 and on through the development of classical genetics and the dark social history born from eugenic studies (approx. 82%). The next landmark age covered is the period following the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, which opened a new perspective on genetics and gave rise to the field of molecular biology (approx. 13%). In the 1970s, political and social activism closely engaged the biological sciences represented in these reprints through such topics as recombinant DNA and cancer studies (approx. 1%).

Two significant collections within the Walter Havighurst Special Collections at the Miami University Libraries provide information about the early history of communities west of the Alleghenies. The collections of John H. James (1800-1881) and Samuel Fulton Covington (1819-1889) reflect those individuals’ involvement in local, state and national politics; trade and commerce; banking; and inland navigation. Both collections reflect these men’s commitment to and concerns for the growth and development of the nation in which they lived.

The James Ford Bell Library, established at the University of Minnesota by Minnesota industrialist James Ford Bell, documents the history and impact of international trade and cross-cultural contact prior to ca. 1800. This project includes archival material, books and government documents, and historic maps of the early modern period (14th-18th centuries). The archival material, primarily handwritten manuscripts, reflects private and gov’t.-sponsored commercial enterprises, missionary and tax records, personal, business, and government correspondence, wills and testaments, court records, military records and correspondence, sales records of land and slaves, and plantation accounts. These are “documents of practice”--the paperwork necessary to move goods from point A to point B, receipts for the sale of slaves and other merchandise, insurance records, price lists, ship manifests, plantation account books, wills, etc. Travel narratives, histories, reports to/by government. agencies, memoires, and historic maps represent the uncataloged printed material. Many of the different types of materials are related, particularly those pertaining to Central and South America, enabling more comprehensive research within a particular chronology. Seven European languages and one Native American language are represented. It is from materials such as these that history is written; uncovering these materials will broaden considerably the number of dissertations, articles and books that can be researched here.

The University of California, San Francisco is among the oldest academic health centers in the western US, with origins in the earliest professional schools and hospitals in California. It is the only University of California campus devoted exclusively to the health sciences. UCSF faculty have conducted groundbreaking research in cancer, biotechnology, genetics, and infectious disease. The collection includes photographs, drawings, slides, and maps from the late 19th to the early 21st century illustrating: architecture of UCSF and pre-cursor institutions, showing the development of the Parnassus Heights campus and surrounding area, as well as downtown San Francisco; health care practitioners in UCSF hospitals, as well as other San Francisco hospitals, including St. Joseph’s, San Francisco General, Children’s Hospital; student life and social activities; campus organizations such as the Student Council and the Black Caucus; images from the 1960s and 1970s document social activism (e.g. civil rights and anti-war protests) among UCSF faculty, staff, and students. Images document the development of the health professions (medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy) in California, particularly the San Francisco Bay Area, and the western United States. Images illustrating UCSF leadership during larger event-- the 1906 earthquake, World War I and World War II, the AIDS epidemic, the emergence of biotechnology – give the collection significance as a source for social history.

The Amiri Baraka Papers reflect his life as a poet, writer, and activist. Indeed they chronicle the social movements and issues that gave shape to his world view. The collection is rich with correspondence from the 1960s to the present, including exchanges with James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Nina Simone, Ruby Dee, Quincy Jones, Maya Angelou, Diane DiPrima, Charles Olsen, Fielding Dawson, Vincent Smith, Russell Cinique, and Julian Bond, among many others. Also present are drafts, sketches, and notes for Baraka’s generous literary corpus, including manuscripts and manuscript versions of published and unpublished work from the 1960s to the present, including some fifty notebooks in which researchers can track Baraka’s ideas for poems, plays, art, jazz, criticism, and political pieces in holograph jottings, sketches, illustrations. For more than twenty years, Baraka hosted informal readings and jam sessions in the basement of his Newark home, many of which were recorded. Writers and artists captured in these unreleased tapes include: Allen Ginsberg, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Sun Ra, Lauren Hill, Michael McClure, Miki Pinero, Max Roach, David Murray, Abbey Lincoln, the Blue Ark Band, Kilmako Blues People, and many others. Also included: printed ephemera relating to demonstrations, protests, and political campaigns; benefits and performances; as well as numerous fugitive periodicals produced by Baraka and community groups in Newark and New York.

With nearly 500 linear feet of records encompassing performance in all its diversity, the materials comprise an extraordinary body of primary resources documenting the rich history of theatre and the performing arts in San Diego, the United States, and abroad, from the 19th century to the present. Collections include: The Old Globe Theatre (1935-1996) documenting California's oldest professional theater; The San Diego Union Performing Arts Collection (1908 - 2001) documenting theater, opera, symphony, ballet, and dance in San Diego, the United States; Dr. Susan Earnest Theatre Collection Photographs documenting theatres in Southern California prior to the Civil War, including some of the earliest and rarest images of San Diego theatres and opera houses; SDSU Theatre and Drama Department Records (1914-1996) documenting the history of SDSU theatre - one of the largest and most complete collections of student and faculty work from any SDSU department; San Diego Opera records documenting San Diego's professional opera company, founded in 1950; and the San Diego Symphony records created in the course of their public relations, marketing and performance administration, from the period 1936-1990. The collections show the spectacular growth of San Diego theatre since the 1980s that has exerted a lasting influence on the performing arts in America.

The Yale Bookplate Collection is one of the largest assemblages of printed bookplates and related materials in the world. The estimated extent of the Yale Bookplate Collection is 442 linear feet containing over 1,000,000 items. The collection consists of a general grouping arranged by single access points, and a combination of numerous personal and dealers’ collections. The access points nominally arranging this material include chronology and geographic area (15th and 16th century, Early American, Modern Italian, etc.) as well as broad subject headings (Ladies', Religious Orders, etc.). In addition, some artists are separately identified, for example Mark Severin and Michel Fingestein. Among the individual collections, the largest is the Irene D. Andrews Pace Collection, numbering approximately 150,000 bookplates (192 linear feet, or about 15 percent of the Yale Bookplate Collection). Smaller collections include the Wahlins Collection of Swedish Bookplate Artists, the Richard E. Ballard Collection of pre-revolutionary and Soviet-era bookplates, and the Alexander Kealas Collection of Estonian and Baltic bookplates. In addition to the bookplates, the Yale Bookplate Collection also holds a significant collection of books and printed catalogues related to the field of bookplate collecting, a small group of printers’ production materials such as wood and metal engraving plates, tools, and drawings, and manuscript material relating to the Pace Collection.

The 3,600 printed and 250 manuscript maps in the project pertain to the Mid-Atlantic region and primarily depict New Jersey and its constituent parts. The maps date from the 1630s to 1994, but especially from the 1770s onward. The maps include topographic, geological, boundary, zoning, insurance, real estate, land ownership, promotional, advertising, recreational, transportation, and historical depictions, as well as a number of aviation guides and charts of rivers, bays, and coastlines. The maps were made by or for commercial map publishers, governments, businesses, nonprofit groups, and individuals. The media employed are paper, cloth, and cloth-backed paper. Some maps are in one color; many exhibit several colors. The maps range in size from under one-foot square to several feet in each dimension.

The Catholic Charities Access Initiative aims to process and catalog three collections housed at the Catholic University of America (CUA) Archives and to conduct outreach toward assisting local charitable organization archivists in processing and cataloging their own valuable collections. The collections housed at CUA are the voluminous National Conference of Catholic Charities/Catholic Charities, USA (NCCC/CCUSA) records, the St. Vincent de Paul Society collection, and the Catholic Charities of Washington, DC collection. Local charitable records we aim to assist in processing and cataloging will be determined during the course of the grant. Branches of the Society arose to address the needs of impoverished Catholics in the 19th century, as did a range of local institutions. Members of the Society worked with the CUA community to found the NCCC at CUA in 1910. Early NCCC endeavors include coordination of local charity, establishment of Catholic schools of social work, and integration of social institutions managed by religious sisters. Known as Catholic Charities, USA since 1986, the organization serves today as a key advocate for progressive social legislation, and coordinates with local charities. Together the CUA collections include correspondence, meeting minutes, legislative files, surveys, photos, and publications related to charitable activities in a range of cities. Local collections include orphanage records, correspondence, surveys, and photographs.

The collections at the Center for Jewish History are held by its five research partners - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - and total more than 25,300 linear feet of archival materials, 500,000 volumes, and thousands of pieces of artwork, textiles, and ritual objects. The partners join together at the Center to share resources and provide a unified point of access to researchers, comprising the largest collection of materials documenting modern Jewish history and culture outside of the state of Israel, more comprehensive than that in any other repository in the world. The archival collections consist of both personal papers and organizational records and include millions of photographs, memoirs, official decrees, personal letters, sound recordings, moving image materials and more, illuminating daily life, politics, social services, performing arts and the world’s most comprehensive documentation on pre-Holocaust Jewish life. Museum collections include posters, paintings, sculptures, archeological artifacts, historical textiles and ceremonial objects. Serving a broad range of patrons, with materials in many languages from around the world, Eastern European Jewry, Sephardic Jewry, German-speaking Jewry, and the American Jewish experience coexist to provide a dynamic synergy that is an invaluable boon to researchers.

The project, proposed by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History (AARL) and Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), will encompass materials relating to key civil rights organizations, leaders, and activities in Atlanta, the Southeast, and the nation from 1930-2000. The selected collections contain the records of two influential organizations, the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the personal papers of civil rights leader Andrew Young. The collections include materials related to some of the most transformational moments and movements of the era, including voter education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the fight against Jim Crow laws, and desegregation. NAACP, Atlanta Chapter Records (1930s-1980s) document the history of the Atlanta Chapter; the bulk of which were created by Executive Director, Jondelle Harris Johnson (1973-1988 and 1992 -1998). The Andrew Young Papers (1950-2000) include materials that represent Andrew Young's life and work as Atlanta mayor, Congressman, ambassador, civil rights leader, minister, and businessman. The SCLC Records (1969-2000) provide a record of SCLC activities over a period of 40 years. The records include documentation relating to its longest serving presidents, Ralph D. Abernathy (1968-1977) and Joseph E. Lowery (1977-1997).

The American Textile History Museum (ATHM) holds the most significant textile history collection in North America, including library collections of books, periodicals, manuscripts, and 47,000 images. This proposal focuses on a portion of those images, including paintings, prints, photographs, and paper-based ephemera. The collection is concentrated primarily on the American experience but also includes materials from antecedent and parallel textile traditions. Paintings include oils and watercolors such as an 1848 view of the Middlesex Woolen Mill in Lowell, MA. The print collection consists of a variety of formats, such as a 16th-century German etching of bleaching cloth, as well as oversized photomechanical prints of mills. Photographs record images of mills, workers, and textile production from daguerreotypes to modern processes. Broadsides include timetables and regulations (“Do Not Drink the Canal Water!”), while strike posters record working life from another perspective. Textile labels, handbills, and trade cards are part of branding and advertising campaigns. Colorful labels often show a view of the mill where the cloth was made or an iconic image that conveyed a fabric’s qualities. The library’s audience includes scholars and non-scholars in industrial, technological, labor, women’s, and local history; environmental specialists, architects, engineers, renovators; weavers, artists, designers; genealogists; publishers, novelists, filmmakers, and exhibit designers.

The American Vernacular: Vinyl at the Periphery of Culture project will result in the cataloging of 20,000 LP recordings of traditional American music, many of which exist in recorded form on obscure record labels that are not readily available in other library collections and are rarely cataloged. Cataloging these materials will make available Bowling Green State University’s holdings on over 600 record labels representing a wide variety of American roots music genres recorded between the late 1940s and the mid 1990s, including gospel, country, folk, blues, bluegrass, zydeco, Cajun, polka, rockabilly, and border music. The project excludes major labels and most of their subsidiaries in order to provide access to these less accessible and rarer recordings. By the completion of the project, all of BGSU's holdings on the following labels will be cataloged: Alshire, Antilles, Arc, Arhoolie, Artist's Recording, Atco, Boot, Cattle, Charly, Chess, Colonial, Coral, Coronet, County, GNP Crescendo, Crown, Diadem, Diplomat, Dot, Everest, Fiesta, Flying Fish, Great Southern, Harmony, Heritage, Impact, Jewel, Kapp, King, Liberty, Light, Mango, Maranatha, Monitor, Monument, Musicor, Myrrh, Nashboro, Rebel, Relic, Rhino, Rite, Roulette, Rounder, Savoy, Shanachie, Skylite, Somerset, Sparrow, Spinorama, Sugar Hill, Sunset, Tempo, Vanguard, White Label, and Word. In addition, BGSU’s complete holdings on hundreds of smaller labels will also be cataloged.

The Newberry Library’s Herman Melville Collection is one of the largest collections of Melville material in existence. It was originally assembled to support the work of the editorial staff of The Writings of Herman Melville, a project established by Professor Harrison Hayford of Northwestern University. Professor Hayford's personal library formed the core of the collection, and it has since been greatly augmented by purchases and gifts. Among the large gifts are translations donated by Leland Phelps; the Melville collection of Dr. James A. FitzSimmons; and the Moby Dick collection of Professor H. Howard Hughes. The Collection is nearly complete in its holdings of editions issued during Melville's lifetime. It is also extensive in editions and printings from Melville’s death to the present; collected works and selections; periodicals to which he contributed; anthologies published during Melville’s lifetime which include his writings; translations; books entirely or partially about Melville; dissertations; a representative collection of anthologies and textbooks containing Melville; anthologies which one would expect to include Melville, but don't; books on whaling; books Melville used as source material; books drawing on Melville for their titles or epigrams; books of which Melville owned a copy; and Melville titles in other formats, such as comic books, Braille, and audio tapes.

The materials included in this project describe and document Alabama’s cultural, political and legal history from the territorial era to early twentieth century, as noted in the collections of William H. Brantley, Jr., Joseph Willett, Jr., Joseph Willett, Sr.and James E. Horton. While these collections focus on people and events important to Alabama history, they also provide insight into the history of the southeast region, as well as the United States as a whole.