Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• Digitization of 50 Journals from 1877-1931 by Andrew A. Quarnberg

  CCHM will work with the Washington State University Vancouver Library to digitize, transcribe and translate 50 journals dating from 1877 to 1931 and associated ephemera. These journals were kept by Swedish immigrant and horticulturist Andrew Anderson Quarnberg to document daily weather patterns, the purchase and sale of trees and their produce, as well as the results of his experimentation with varieties of walnuts and filberts. The first 18 journals are in Swedish and have never been translated. These include the years from 1877-1891 when Quarnberg was a resident of South Dakota. We anticipate they will include information about the selection of Clark County as a new home. Quarnberg was well educated and in 1892, one year after moving to Vancouver, he was elected a County Commissioner. Elements of the journal, letters and other ephemera will relate to politics and his story as an immigrant.

• Taylor Archives: Complete Photography Catalog

  This project seeks to continue and expand the work of the Taylor Archives to preserve, document, and share the history of Paul Taylor's choreography and his companies. The primary goal of this project is to catalog, scan, upload, and share approximately 12,000 photos, contact sheets, negatives, and positives that help document Mr. Taylor's extensive career. This project safeguards the photographic content of the Archives and makes it readily accessible to scholars, dancers, choreographers, authors, journalists, and members of the public. Through this project, we hope to establish a model that encourages other dance companies to document, preserveand promote the wealth of their past and thereby help ensure appreciation of and enthusiasm for America's original art of modern dance for generations to come.

• The European Immigration Years, 1880-1919: Lay involvement and activities of local parishes, societies, schools and organizations of the American Catholic community in attending to the needs and impact of immigrants as evidenced through the Catholic Digital Newspapers Program (CDNP)

  The Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) and its digitizing partners will digitize significant Catholic newspapers from the European immigration years, 1880-1919. Local papers include diocesan newspapers from Boston, Chicago, Hartford, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco; the national perspective is represented by the only known national Catholic paper of the period, Our Sunday Visitor. This one year project (Feb. 1, 2016 - Jan. 31, 2017) will create a publicly accessible Catholic newspapers archive. Scholars are keenly aware of the importance of primary Catholic sources as the Church and the laity has helped shape the American experience, influencing our systems of education, social justice, immigration, and more. The significance to scholars of American social, economic, and religious history is the ability to access and fully exploit these hidden collections which are infrequently held, provide no indexes to the content and exist in analog formats.

• Digitization of Native American, Inuit and Hawaiian Collections

  Boston Children's Museum (BCM) requests support for the Native American, Inuit, and Hawaiian Collections Digitization Project, for a project involving two years of work to catalog, digitize and make electronically accessible objects from BCM's Native collections. One of only four children's museums with a collection, BCM holds approximately 3,500 artifacts from indigenous North American communities ranging from pre-contact archeological materials to the present day. This distinguished collection is little known outside of Boston and New England. The Digitization Project will allow BCM to gain intellectual control of these valued artifacts and enhance their accessibility through a searchable, online catalog. This will correct problems with incomplete and fragmented early card catalog and accession records, which currently make it difficult for researchers to discover and use. The creation of an online Native collections catalog will allow educators and scholars at all levels to learn about and study these primary resources.

• Digitizing Amateur and Unofficial East German Moving Images in the United States: Opening up a Virtual Cold War Conversation

  The Wende Museum project proposes to complete digitization of its collection of East German amateur and unofficial audiovisual media (begun through a 2012 IMLS grant), in order to make these works known and broadly accessible, and to connect them to complementary collections domestically and internationally. Many such cultural records of the Cold War era that document life behind the Iron Curtain became scattered during the widespread political upheavals of 1989-1991, and today remain hidden to scholars. Digitization and online exposure will bring these endangered artifacts of East German life to light. Making this collection, the only one of its kind, widely available through the Internet Archive, will place these materials in conversation with diverse yet related media types from other cultures, helping create new opportunities for transnational collaborations across a wide variety of research areas including film and media studies, cultural and political history and historiography, oral history, and art.

• Lenawee's Place in the Midwest: Essential Collections of Lenawee Archival Repositories (1870 - 1950)

  The Lenawee District Library in partnership with the Lenawee County Historical Society, the Hudson Museum, and the W. G. Thompson House Museum will digitize collections of Lenawee County historical individuals and corporations to assist researchers and scholars in researching the history of the Midwest. Collections include major industrial corporations, literary figures, and individuals that worked in the major cities of the Midwest.

• William Henry Seward Papers

  We seek funding to complete digitization of the entire print and manuscript contents of the papers of William Henry Seward and family (WHSP), housed at River Campus Libraries of the University of Rochester (RCL). This collection of record consists of public, private, and family correspondence of William Henry Seward and immediate family; files from Seward's term as governor, and United States Secretary of State; personal financial and legal records; speeches, proclamations, diaries and secondary printed material relating to his life and career. Approximately 325,000 images will be produced through this collaboration with the Internet Archive (IA) and made broadly accessible to researchers and the general public via IA and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). A graduate student intern will be funded by the grant to administer digitization activities including packing and quality control, and to provide assistance to library staff engaged in archival description and collection conservation.

• Shark Lady: The Collection of Ichthyologist Dr. Eugenie Clark

  The Arthur Vining Davis Library and Archives at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium will digitize the collection of ichthyologist Dr. Eugenie Clark. Materials in Dr. Clark's collection include dive logs, field notebooks, and travel journals detail over seventy-five years of her career as a pioneering marine researcher. Over 120 linear feet of archival materials will be made available and discoverable for scholars, students, and the public.

• Fashion Sketch Collections: a plan to bring to light hidden collections at the Brooklyn Museum and the Fashion Institute of Technology Libraries

  The Brooklyn Museum, in partnership with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), requests a grant to provide digital access to the Brooklyn Museum Library's and FIT's fashion and costume sketch collections. Both institutions hold large fashion and costume sketch collections; however, these hidden collections are minimally accessible for research. The proposed project will make these hidden collections digitally accessible, document metadata structure to make the collection easily searchable for audiences from a wide-range of backgrounds, as well as determine copyright status for the work of each designer. The partnering institutions also plan to explore links between its collections and other online collections within public institutions that house fashion and costume sketches to provide easier public access. Taken collectively the Brooklyn Museum and FIT's unique fashion and costume sketch collections characterize the school of American fashion design in the first half of the twentieth century and are worthy of digital access.

• The Ronald M. and Dianne J. Bernier Archive: Himalayan, South, and Southeast Asian Visual Culture

  In 2012 the estate of Ronald M. Bernier, former professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, donated his 35mm slide collection to the Department of Art and Art History's Visual Resources Center. Dr. Bernier was an art historian specializing in Himalayan architecture. He traveled extensively with his partner Dianne Bernier throughout Asia, with repeated trips to the Himalayas, South Asia, and Southeast Asia in particular. Beginning with their earliest travels to Nepal in the 1960s, the Berniers documented their research trips with thousands of high quality photographs. Comprising over 20,000 slides from the Himalayas, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, the unique breadth and depth of this collection reflects Dr. Bernier's expertise in art and architecture, and also his wide-ranging cultural interests over several decades. The collection documents a number of world religions, lesser-studied indigenous traditions, and the material cultures of dozens of countries, often recorded in multiple visits over time.

• Reconnecting the Empire: The Hidden History of Life and Law in the British Atlantic

  For this fifteen-month project, the University of Virginia Law Library will digitize 64 linear feet of legal records produced by the Scottish Court of Session, documents that reveal hidden histories of transatlantic trade, migration, and life in the British empire in the years surrounding the American Revolution. Despite its seat in Edinburgh, Scotland, the legal disputes that came before the Court of Session often spanned the Atlantic, and this digitization project reintegrates the spaces of the British empire--Great Britain, colonial America, the Caribbean, western Africa-- as they would have been understood and experienced by colonial Americans. Until now, a defendant/plaintiff name index and legal subject index have provided the only means of accessing these records, effectively hiding from scholars the richer context of people, trade, and politics contained within. Digital access to these documents will enable the creation of new knowledge about transatlantic life and law in both Scotland and North America.

• Out Front: 60 Years of LGBTQ Political Graphics at the ONE Archives

  Out Front: 60 Years of LGBTQ Political Graphics at the ONE Archives will expose a wealth of visual materials documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) viewpoints since the 1950s. To advance the cultural understanding of queer politics and visual culture, our project will digitize 4,200 political posters and protest signs from ONE's collections for free online public access via the USC Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). These artifacts include thousands of posters and handmade signs from the earliest protests and pride celebrations. Highlights include iconic posters created by ACT UP, the Gay Liberation Front, and 1950s-era homophile organizations like the Mattachine Society. These posters, stored in flat files at the ONE Archives' facility, are exceedingly difficult to access. They comprise some of the few remaining visual traces of pioneering activists and organizations that advanced the struggle for LGBTQ equality.

• Digitizing Film Footage of Non-Western Jewish Cultures from the Johanna L. Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials

  The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary ("The Library") seeks to digitize the raw film footage and related audio recordings from its Johanna L. Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials, a collection that documents the nearly extinct musical and communal traditions of several non-Western Jewish cultures that have survived over the last 2,000 years in India, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Armenia, and other regions in the Middle East. The footage is a window into the lives of these vanishing cultures before dispersal from their native lands. Once digitized, the recordings in their entirety will be made available at no cost to users via The Library's Digital Collections. The footage will help to build understanding of disappearing Jewish traditions throughout the world, and will attract scholars of ethnography, ethnomusicology, history, and anthropology.

• Digitization of the Jesuit Rare Book and Manuscript Collection

  Loyola Marymount University proposes to digitize selections from the Jesuit Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, 1540-1800, that illuminates the intellectual and creative engagement of Jesuit scholars with the Enlightenment Era world. Items selected for digitization are unique due to the individual artifactual nature of early printed works and manuscripts. Digitization of these texts will increase their visibility and accessibility to a global audience, and allow the library to digitally preserve them for the future. It will also allow for future research and scholarship in the digital research environment and build new knowledge about this period of history. Digitization will be outsourced and will be conducted using established standards. The project activities will include digitization of the texts, metadata creation and promotion of the digitized materials via various channels of communication. A part-time Project Assistant will be hired to assist with all aspects of the project.

• Historic Illinois Circuit Court Collections

  The Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission and Circuit Court Clerks plan to digitize historically significant documents in each county courthouse that are not accessible online. With an estimated of 65,000 items, the program emphasizes the creation of online resources that facilitate public use of records in the courthouses. This project will allow greater access to buried and hidden court cases. After completing the project, these documents will be valuable to scholars and students doing research on Illinois legal history. As a priority the project begins with identifying important cases and scanning the documents. Primary sources must be preserved for future research and to understand the nature of society from the 18th to 21st century. The Historic Illinois Circuit Court Collections (CCC) broadens the scope of our digital resources and fulfills our public service mission to preserve artifacts of the Illinois judiciary for future generations.

• Salve Regina Public Lectures Project

  McKillop Library will preserve and make available the public lectures and lecture series of Salve Regina University by digitizing, creating metadata and transcripts, and providing online access through the institute's repository, Digital Commons @Salve Regina. The collection includes the Atwood Lecture Series, the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Lectures, and lectures sponsored by various academic departments. For the named lecture series other materials such as photographs and monographs documenting the history of the series will be included.

• Microfilm collection of municipal and parochial archives from the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Chihuahua, and others.

  In the late 1960s a consortium of Texas universities undertook to preserve Mexican documents of major research significance by microfilming them. The archives, which date to 1599, consist of ecclesiastical, governmental, and private familial records. Each of the 16 institutions in the consortium identified a different Mexican state in which to work, and each school was individually responsible for its microfilming activities. Some schools never completed their work, but others, including the four submitting this application, filmed millions of documents. Since the mid-1970s, when filming was completed, these collections have fallen into disuse. Some are not even cataloged and thus are hidden from the scholars who most need access to them. We propose to digitize these records and host them in the Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas, where the public can easily access and use them in the creation of new knowledge.

• From Her Pen to the Printed Page: The Manuscripts and Working Papers of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  A partnership between Baylor University, Wellesley College and the University of Texas at Austin, the project will digitize more than 500 original manuscripts written by Victorian poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Previously available only to scholars on an in-person basis, the collection will provide unprecedented access to documents that reveal important insights into EBB's creative process. The manuscripts, written in her own hand, are her early drafts of poetical works such as Calls on the Heart, The Lady's 'Yes' and The Poet's Record. The collection will also include proof copies of her works; these early printed versions of her published works often include Browning's handwritten notes as evidence of her input into the editing process. The resulting collection will feature high-resolution images, complete metadata, transcriptions and worldwide access via the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections (http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu). The proposed collection will represent the single largest repository of EBB manuscripts available online.

• Digital Collection of U.S. Bioethics Commissions, Advisory Committees, and Research Panels Materials

  This project will create accessible digital files of local, state, and federal government documents related to the field of bioethics. The documents would be drawn from multiple governmental archival collections housed at the Bioethics Research Library, which cover a range of topics important to the early history (1970's) of the field through the present day including the ethics of health, the environment, and emerging technologies. The documents would be digitized and hosted in the open access repository, DigitalGeorgetown, with citations and keywords applied to assist with the discovery of digitized materials. This project will support the mission of the Library to make available the literature of essential areas of bioethics for use by worldwide researchers and policy makers, including international ethics committees, institutional review boards, and governmental ethics committees in more than 60 countries. To digitize the documents student employees will be trained and supervised in the processing of materials.

• College Women: Documenting the Student Experience at the Seven Sisters Colleges

  The College Women project will bring together the extensive collections of letters, diaries, and scrapbooks created by students at the Seven Sisters Colleges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and now held by Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley Colleges, and the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. More than 80,000 pages of these student writings will be digitized during the project, and will be searchable through the new College Women portal for the history of women's education. The project will open up new avenues for research in American women's history by making the important but dispersed and underused writings of the first generations of educated women easily accessible through a single site.

• Digitizing Social Justice: Advancing Knowledge of the American 20th Century Catholic Social Action Movement through Access to Correspondence, Oral Histories, and Publications of Dorothy Day, Ade Bethune, Fr. John Ryan, Fr. Paul Hanley Furfey, and Catholic Interracial Councils of New York, Washington, D.C., and the Twin Cities

  This collaborative project includes The Catholic University of America, Catholic Research Resources Alliance, Marquette University, and St. Catherine University. Over a period of three years (2016-2018) project partners will collectively digitize and make publicly available materials documenting Catholic social justice and action in the 20th century. The collections refer to each other, across holdings and across institutions. This project seeks to bridge the dispersed nature of these archival collections, creating critical connections for research in social justice. Materials selected will be digitized from holdings of the most significant activists and thinkers of the period, including Dorothy Day, Ade Bethune, John Ryan, the Catholic Interracial Council, and more. Source materials include diverse formats: correspondence, notebooks, diaries, manuscripts, press accounts, newsletters, newspapers, drawings, audio files, and photographs.

• Since our donor prefers to remain anonymous, the collection is alternately referred to as "Private Collector" in public and the "Greg Gaar Collection" internally.

  In early 2014, the WNP received a large collection of historical photographic materials from Greg Gaar, a local photographer and collector, in order to conserve, digitize, and make these images available to the public via the WNP website. Since that time, the WNP has surveyed, processed, cataloged, rehoused, and digitized 20 linear feet of the Gaar Collection through part-time volunteer labor, while approximately 385 linear feet of materials remain in the donor's possession and await transfer to the WNP for processing and digitization. Much of these materials originated from private collections and are unique, having never been released to the public prior to this project. The end goal of the project is to enable the addition of metadata crowd-sourced from local historians and historical associations, with digital files made available at lower resolution to an unrestricted population via our website, and at a higher resolution upon request for all activities.

• The Snyder-Hadlock Archive Digitization and Access Project

  The object of this undertaking is the inventory, digitization, catalog, and web posting of records pertaining to: 1)work in the western US by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1933-53, and 2) documentation work regarding ancient rock art sites throughout San Juan and Rio Arriba counties, New Mexico, and adjacent regions in Colorado and Arizona. Work will be accomplished by four new-hire assistants selected from four potential applicant pools: New Mexico colleges and universities; displaced/at-risk workers, giving preference to Native American applicants; or through traditional public hiring resources. In an effort to facilitate maximum impact for candidates from these resources and the community at large, three of the new hires will be retained for a period of 6 months each, to be placed in three separate training cycles. The fourth new hire will be classified as the Project Assistant and will help to provide continuity throughout the grant period.

• Aerial Photography Collection of the Grants Mineral Belt, New Mexico, Thomas R. Mann & Associates

  Over a two-year period the Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) at The University of New Mexico and the New Mexico Resource Geographic Information System (RGIS) will digitize, georeference and serve on-line an aerial photography collection donated to EDAC by Thomas R. Mann & Associates. The Grants Mineral Belt collection covers an economically and culturally important region in the State of New Mexico. This approximately 5,900 square-mile area was the site of the largest economic occurrences of uranium in the world and mining activity during the 1970s-80s and covers the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. This collection of aerial photography is only known to a small group of surveying professionals, and once the digitized, georeferenced photographs are available for free, they can be made known to a wider audience. Scholars and analysts can use this collection to address questions of ground water contamination, climate change, land use and change detection.

• Rudolf M. Schindler Architectural Drawings and Photographs Online

  The Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara will digitize and make universally available the architectural drawings, photographs and negatives for the 485 projects in the Rudolf M. Schindler Papers.Our project will take two years. Images and descriptive records will be made available from the California Digital Library's Online Archive of California and its image database, Calisphere, as well as from the Digital Public Library of America. One of the most significant and intriguing modern architects of the 20th century, Schindler's "Space Architecture" continues to attract scholars, practitioners, and, especially, students from around the world. While there are dozens of publications about Schindler and his work, only a small percentage of his designs have been studied. We hope to encourage new research on the work of an avant-garde architect whose ideas and designs still reward attention.