Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• The Maritime World in Photographs: Cataloguing the Photo Negatives of The Mariners' Museum

  The Mariners’ Museum Library, the largest maritime library in the Western Hemisphere proposes cataloging at the item level over the next three years its most significant holdings of 19th and early 20th century photographic negatives. These negatives, numbering over 48,000, have never been printed or cataloged, yet they contain images of a vanished maritime world captured by photographers of recognized artistic merit. The images are of ships, steamboats and small craft from around the world and of the people who built and worked in them. The photos are also of port cities and towns that may no longer exist. Scholars, teachers and artists will benefit from the story these photos tell about our past and potentially about our future.

• Illuminating New York’s Art and Performance Heritage from the 1960s to the Present: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives Audiovisual Collections

  This two-year project will allow the public to discover and access, for the first time, unique audiovisual collections documenting the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's influential and vibrant history of exhibitions, performances, and public programs from the 1960s to present. Despite the cultural and intellectual value of these collections, they remain hidden to the public. Recordings have only been identified at the box level as “audiovisual,”with no formal arrangement or description, making it difficult for even the most experienced researchers to discover them. With support from CLIR, an estimated 298 cubic feet of audiovisual recordings and over 50 cubic feet of paper records will be made available to scholars, students, and the public.

• The Modern Illinois Politics Project

  The Northwestern University Archives holds the papers of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and former Illinois State Senator, Illinois Comptroller, and Northwestern University law professor Dawn Clark Netsch. These collections of significant scholarly value in politics and constitutional law are currently completely hidden from researchers. The Modern Illinois Politics Project will fully process these materials and make them discoverable

• Paul Singer: Chinese Art and Archaeology

  The Paul Singer collection of 5,000 Chinese objects, ranging from the Neolithic to the 20th century, will be fully cataloged along with his papers and period photographs of the collection, reference images, and scholars and students in his two-bedroom apartment in Summit, NJ. Made accessible to the public for the first time, the collection serves as both a reflection of what was known about Chinese art and archaeology in the latter half of the twentieth century and a platform for new research in a broad range of disciplines.

• Illuminating Hidden Collections at the Center for Jewish History: Community Building and Cultural Engagement

  The hidden collections initiative will bring to light archival material that shows how Jewish individuals and organizations in the second half of the 20th century formed strong communities and organizations, engaged in social service, impacted scholarship and created art reflecting their experiences. In countries from the U.S. to Morocco to Romania, Jews encountered challenges associated with integration. They developed their cultural identities while maintaining commitments to the broader communities in which they lived. The project will take place from 2/2015 to 1/2017 and include material from the American Jewish Historical Society and American Sephardi Federation.

• Tucker-Coleman Family Papers

  The objective of this project is to process the hidden portion of the Tucker-Coleman family papers in Swem Library at the College of William & Mary and make them as discoverable as the family papers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

• Scarritt-Bennett Center Archival Project

  The Scarritt-Bennett Center's Virginia Laskey Research Library houses a significant archival collection concerning early women's missionary training; education of laity in the late 1800s' and early nineteen hundreds; and perspectives on the civil rights movement not documented before. That is why we believe the public should be more aware of it. With this project: finding aids, cataloging, indexing, and making it available by Internet will all be key in achieving a more publicly viewed collection.

• Travels in Search of the Source of the Nile: the James Bruce Archive at the Yale Center for British Art

  This two-year project through the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Yale Center for British Art will create a detailed finding aid for the uncataloged archival collection of the Scottish explorer James Bruce, which documents Bruce's eighteenth-century travels in North Africa and his exploration of Ethiopia in search of the source of the Nile. The project will culminate in an item-level inventory of the collection, which includes over 1,500 items of correspondence, journals, manuscript maps, and other unique material. The finding aid will be an indispensable tool for significant primary source material that will be of interest to scholars of eighteenth-century history, political science, archaeology, art, and natural history.

• Frank Lloyd Wright: the photographic record of his life and works at Avery Library

  This three-year project will inventory, accession and catalog 83,450 multi-format images in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives at Avery Library. This remarkable photographic record captures Wright's life from childhood through adulthood; in context with colleagues and significant contemporaries; photo documentation of his works from construction through completion; and digitized images of his drawings. Material types within this collection include original and copy photographic prints, film reels, stereographs, slides, and digital images. This project will establish a coherent methodology for cataloging multi-format analog and digital image materials across this singularly important architectural archive.

• Newspaper Photograph Collections at HistoryMiami: Describing Images of a Multicultural Metropolis

  The Miami area has emerged as one of America's most vibrant and cosmopolitan multicultural cities. Newspaper photograph collections in HistoryMiami's archives visually document this growth, but only the photographic prints have been adequately described and are regularly used. The other, far more extensive media—negatives (most without corresponding prints), slides, transparencies, born-digital images, papers, records and artifacts—are overlooked by scholars, mainly for the lack of description. This three-year project will create finding aids for three large collections – the Miami News, the Miami Herald and Tim Chapman collections – totaling 370 linear feet and 76 cubic feet of photographs and related materials.

• Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Papers

  The Philadelphia Museum of Art is seeking a $126,250 grant to support the processing of the papers of Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch (1884-1976), a noted 20th-century collector of arms and armor. In 1977, he bequeathed his entire collection, along with its important library and archive, to the Museum. The first collaboration between the Museum's Library and Archives and a recently-appointed Associate Curator of Arms and Armor, this project will make this significant record detailing one of the most important arms and armor collections in the world available to a broad public.

• Political Research Associates Special Collection on the American Right Wing

  The library and archive at Political Research Associates (PRA) were established in 1982 to house materials written by and about movements, organizations, and individuals known collectively as the U.S. Right. The collection serves as a safe space for researchers and the public who might be reluctant or unable to visit the organizations producing this literature. This grant will enable PRA to systematically organize and catalog approximately half a million documents and objects. We seek to make critical technological upgrades; hire a new librarian, assistant, and interns; implement a new organizational system; and promote the library as an accessible resource for researchers, activist groups, and the general public.

• Josef A. Brozek Collection of Non-English Language Monographs in the Humanities and Human Sciences Project

  The collections at the Center for the History of Psychology are of considerable significance and influence to the discipline of psychology and related fields of study. The Josef A.Brozek Collection of Foreign Language Monographs in the Humanities and Human Sciences contains nearly 5,000 monographs in Eastern European languages encompassing subjects from psychology to Russian culture and politics. The Center's purpose is to make this portion of the uncataloged collection accessible to a global audience by creating English language records in a content management system and linking these records to a variety of other resources. The resultant metadata will be shareable across social media networks and searchable using any search engine.

• John Stubblefield Papers

  This two-year project will process and create a detailed finding aid for the papers of jazz saxophonist John Stubblefield, known for his avant-garde style, his association with musical greats Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Tito Puente, among others, and for his ability to "blow [the saxophone] like a raging torrent." (Robert Palmer, "Jazz: John Stubblefield" New York Times, April 8, 1980, p. C5.) Contained in eighty containers, this inaccessible collection includes correspondence, photographs, musical compositions, and record albums of this significant jazz musician.

• The Tubac Presidio and Fort Verde Collections

  Tubac Presidio and Fort Verde are historic properties that are emblematic of culture contact, assimilation, and subjugation of Native American groups during Euro-American colonization of the American West. Many archival materials associated with these properties have been hidden from scholars, educators, and the general public. Arizona State Parks will make these materials accessible for research and interpretation by inventorying, cataloguing, and archiving the documents and their associated metadata. The documents will be stored in a digital curation platform that allows for wide accessibility and dissemination to researchers and the public. In addition, these materials will be integrated into thematic collections in the digital platform.

• Accessing South Carolina Studio Photography Collections

  South Caroliniana Library, the oldest and most widely used special collection with USC Libraries, houses regional research collections. This proposal seeks support for 2 years to catalog important intact collections from three photographic studios in South Carolina. They consist of over 500 linear feet of images and negatives recording events, people, and the built and natural environment in three locations of the state between 1925 and 2010. Because they deal with civic institutions and celebrations, portraits, businesses, religious observances, and individual "rites of passage" of both black and white citizens, they are an important visual resource for understanding the history of SC, the region, and the nation.

• Chicago Musical College Project

  The goal of the Chicago Musical College Project is to provide onsite access to the most comprehensive collection of documents and recordings of the third oldest musical college in the country. Dating back to the 1870s the collection will combine the efforts and resources of Roosevelt University in collaboration with the Newberry to provide historians and other researchers information on this rare collection.

• Foreign and Ethnic 78s in the UC Santa Barbara Sound Archives, Phase II: Edouard Pecourt Tango/Latin American Music Collection

  The UC Santa Barbara Library is requesting funding for Phase II of its previously funded CLIR Hidden Collections grant, "Foreign and Ethnic 78s in the UC Santa Barbara Sound Archives.” Phase II consists of cataloging 15,000 78s, primarily from the Edouard Pecourt Tango/Latin American Music Collection of early recordings from Argentina, Uruguay, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the Latin American music diaspora. The discs date from 1900 to 1960, the bulk of which are from 1910 to 1950. These key resources are important to an increasingly global and interdisciplinary scholarly community in which historical recordings are used in the study of a variety of humanistic disciplines.

• Uncovering the Archives of Union Theological Seminary

  The archive of Union Theological Seminary contains approximately 141 collections (1,135 linear feet) of papers from faculty members, students, and others associated with UTS, one of the oldest theological schools in the United States. This archive is housed in the Burke Library, which since 2004 has been part of the Columbia University Libraries system. Columbia manages and provides oversight of this collection. The bulk of this important archive remains hidden to researchers. Organizing and describing these materials will enable scholars to access these unique materials. This project will take three years and will require one project archivist, twelve interns, and archival supplies. We are requesting funding for one project archivist.

• Treasures of Song: Charting the Lutheran Assimilation in America, 1750-2000 - A comprehensive index of the American Lutheran Hymnal Collection

  The Center for Church Music, in collaboration with Concordia University Chicago (CUC), seeks support for the cataloging of 620 American hymnals published between 1750 and 2000. Together, these document the way in which Northern European Lutherans became assimilated into American life. The core of this collection was donated by Carl Schalk. It is housed at the Center for Church Music at CUC, located in the Rare Book and Manuscript Room of the Klinck Memorial Library. This project will alert scholars and hymnologists worldwide to the existence and contents of this collection by developing, for each volume, a WorldCat MARC record for the university database and separate linked database with full information about its provenance and content.

• MCG Jazz Archive Project

  Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG) Jazz is cataloging its extensive archives of photographs, audio and video recordings, paper records and digital files from more than 2,000 concerts, spanning from 1987 to the present. Information from all of the above sources will be cataloged as metadata and made available on a special search-engine Website called The Jazz Commons. The data will provide a valuable historical record of performances and in-house recording sessions by acclaimed jazz master and emerging artists and ensure a permanent, searchable archive for use by students, scholars, historians and the general public. Much of the data also illustrates MCG Jazz' history of community outreach and educational activities.

• Cataloging Burpee Museum's Hidden Dinosaurs

  Burpee Museum of Natural History has become a leader in active paleontological expeditions and research in North America in the past ten years. Over this time, expeditions have discovered "Jane" the best preserved and most complete juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, "Homer" a sub-adult from the first Triceratops bonebed, and the Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur Quarry, one of National Geographic's most important discoveries in 2008. The localities have yielded an impressive number of fossils, and will continue to produce specimens that are integral to scientific research in the field of paleontology. However, these specimens are currently inaccessible to most researchers due to the lack of cataloging and accessible, useful record keeping.

• Unbound Ideas: Serials documenting radical and progressive ideas in the twentieth century

  NYU's Tamiment Library will provide intellectual control over more than 9,000 serial titles, of which c. 7,800 are now unprocessed and inaccessible to researchers and 1,354 are under minimal control by title and collated into issue order. Preliminary surveys of the collection indicate that c. 65% of the titles do not appear in Worldcat or other databases. They represent a unique, rich and largely hidden trove of literature documenting the exchange of radical and progressive political ideas in the United States and worldwide over the course of the entire 20th century. The project will organize these serials into searchable collections, exposing these titles to bibliographic databases and making them available for research and teaching.

• A Courageous Voice: The Worldwide Journalism of Colin Edwards

  The Freedom Archives seeks a planning grant from CLIR as a necessary first step in the preservation of in-depth exclusive recordings by Colin Edwards (1924–1994), an internationally known radio journalist and commentator. In 1949 he began as a combat correspondent with the British army in Malaya, Burma, Indochina, and Korea. Over the next 30 years he broadcast documentaries from around the world on a wide range of topics. We will conduct a careful classification process, analyze the physical condition, catalog, make database entries and compile a finder's aid for his large body of work. The Freedom Archives has the expertise and technical facility to provide a firm foundation for preservation and future access by scholars.

• Avon Williams Papers Project

  This project will catalog and preserve unprocessed papers related to the legal and legislative career of Avon Williams Jr., a leading civil rights attorney and state senator in Tennessee. His more than 40 years of law practice included direct involvement in school desegregation cases in 86 of Tennessee's 95 counties; Gray v. University of Tennessee and Geier v. Tennessee, which impacted desegregation in Tennessee higher education; representation of Nashville 1960s civil rights activists; and other cases (many in collaboration with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and his first cousin, Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first African American associate justice on the U. S. Supreme Court).