Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

Items

• Robert H. Ruby Papers

  This collection encompasses the historical work of Dr. Robert H. Ruby (1921 -2013), physician/surgeon. His medical obligation to the government was served as the Chief Medical Officer on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at Pine Ridge, South Dakota (1953-1954). This experience piqued his interest in American Indian history and led to a second career as a self-taught historian and ethnographer. This collection is a compilation of research materials that were written or collected and used by Dr. Ruby in the course of his historical research and writing. This was at time when no others were researching/documenting information on American Indian history so it fills a void. In 1955 Dr. Ruby entered private practice in Moses Lake, WA.

• Early Photography Collection of Books, Manuals, Catalogs and Lenses

  The Penumbra Foundation seeks funding to catalog a collection of early photographic books, manuals, catalogs, and lenses. The collection consists of 1,400 books and manuals on photography, including descriptions of rare photographic processes and camera and lens catalogs. The collection also includes 2,000 early camera lenses. Anticipated project timeline is two years. Currently, the items housed in no particular order with physical browsing as the only way of searching the collection. Activities include organizing the collection, cataloging items in WorldCat, and opening a library for members and researchers by appointment. This will pave the way for the items to be digitized and placed online for a larger audience.

• Mosaic Stones of Holocaust Scholarship: Cataloging Undiscovered Collections of Personal and Family Papers at the USHMM

  The proposed project would fully catalog approximately 1,000 manuscript documents and archival collections that were donated by Holocaust survivors or their families during the first years following the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ca. 1993-1996). The museum would hire one archivist with experience in manuscript cataloging, who over the course of two years, would use the DACS cataloging standard to add appropriate data elements to existing stub records, enabling the content and context of these items and collections to be adequately described for the first time, and by doing so, enable their discovery and use. Catalog records would be uploaded to the museum's web-based catalog and to OCLC WorldCat.

• Critical Mass: Improving Access to the Archives of 20th Century Physicists

  A three-year processing project, to process collections of notable MIT physicists; all leaders and pioneers. The collections include research, teaching, writings, and professional and personal materials. They cover a broad range of topics and research areas and include: theoretical physicists, interdisciplinary approach to materials research; interpreters of science and technology: promoting broad public understanding, and advocating for science policy; mentors and leaders in their scientific disciplines; issues pertaining to women in science; and several connections to the Manhattan Project. These collections were selected because of their breadth, and because current access is hampered by the lack of processing and description.

• Sharing Andrew Carnegie's Legacy: Creating "Constellations of Information” by Directly Linking Museum Specimens with Associated Archival Materials

  Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) will catalog ten major archival collections that contextualize specimens, include valuable baseline scientific data, and offer insights into institutional and cultural history. Work will be carried out by an archival team informed by in-house specialists, experts from the University of Pittsburgh, and a network of museums. Funding will enable the customization of CollectiveAccess; strategies to integrate with KE EMu (the museum's specimen database) and external federated databases; and adhere to universal accessibility design standards. Scholars will gain access to hitherto hidden information that directly links noted museum specimens with associated archival records.

• Local Practice, National Impact: The Baker Art Gallery Collection

  This two-year project will process and catalog the Baker Art Gallery Collection at the Ohio Historical Society. The Baker Art Gallery was a Columbus-based studio whose portraits and domestic prints achieved national prominence in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. This project will combine the description of hierarchical relationships typical of archival finding aids with the item-specific granularity found in library cataloging. The resulting finding aid and catalog records will be easily accessible to researchers via OHS's online collections catalog. The completed project will provide essential primary resources for a range of historical and cultural scholarship on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

• Uncovering Hidden Pamphlets at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

  The Historical Society of Pennsylvania seeks a grant of $57,683 to support a 12-month cataloging project that will create access to approximately 10,000 of HSP's pamphlets for the first time. The project will use a streamlined approach to cataloging--modeled after "more product, less process"--that will make more material accessible in an efficient manner.

• Digging into the Oriental Institute: The Director's Office Correspondence of James Henry Breasted, 1916–1935

  The Director's Office Correspondence of the founding director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, James Henry Breasted (1865–1935), comprises the most important hidden collection in the Oriental Institute's Archives and serves as a significant body of source materials for scholars researching institutional and biographical histories, archaeological and philological projects, and US-Middle East cultural relations. The correspondence includes office letters, reports from the field (archaeological missions), and letters to and from Middle Eastern government officials. The project will involve the re-housing of the materials and the generation of a finding aid that will list the contents of the collection at the item level.

• Re-discovering the Stars: processing the Museum of the City of New York's Collection on Theatrical Personalities.

  The Museum of the City of New York will organize and describe its Collection on theatrical personalities, which includes correspondence, photographs, ephemera, annotated scripts, notes, contracts, scrapbooks, and memorabilia related to persons who worked professionally on and around the New York stage, including actors, playwrights, directors, critics, stage managers, lyricists, composers, and producers. The collection was assembled by Museum curators and staff over several decades, but it has never been comprehensively cataloged. This two-year project will result in an online finding aid and object-level cataloging of 1,000 collection highlights.

• "The Great Commercial Emporium of America": Economic History Archives at the New-York Historical Society

  The New-York Historical Society is proposing a three-year project to process eight previously undescribed, hidden and highly significant archival collections dating from the 1791 to the 20th century relating to the economic history of New York and the United States. They include the records of merchants, commission agents, shipping and mercantile firms, bankers, a commercial exchange, brokerage houses, an attorney and investors which together chronicle the history of business and finance in the United States. The project will result in the creation of finding aids, MARC records, a research guide, blog posts, and the dissemination of information about the collections through other social media.

• Church and State in the United States: Documenting War, Immigration Reform, and Civil Rights from 1859 to 1980

  St. John's University will partner with The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS-NY) and St. Paul's College to significantly enhance access to over 50,000 items documenting US turmoil during the Civil War and the Vietnam/Cold War. While these collections provide primary evidence documenting the isolationist and immigration trends through US social history, they remain unprocessed and therefore hidden to many scholars. For 36 months, this project will increase awareness of these collections through the arrangement and description of personal papers and ephemera that address each collection in its entirety. The final deliverable will consist of the creation of finding aids at the folder-level that can be shared online upon request.

• Access to All: The Disabilities Rights and Independent Living Movement Collections

  As the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act nears, the issues that brought that seminal civil rights legislation forward are of keen interest to researchers. The project will make accessible essential archives that provide the historical context and content to understand how disability rights was formed through the people and organizations behind the movement. The archival collections to be described include the work of such seminal, national figures as Judith Huemann and Fred Fay and advocacy and activist organizations including the World Institute on Disability and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. These collections are fundamental to scholarship in the field of disability studies.

• Creating Online Access to the Puerto Rican Community Archives [PRCA]

  The PRCA is a collection of primary resources on the history and culture of the Puerto Rican Diaspora in New Jersey. Since the establishment of the archive ten years ago, 45 collections of personal papers and organizational records have been accessioned, but remain virtually hidden from scholars. This project will create multiple points of access to 15 collections through processing, describing, and cataloging them. There are 53 million Latinos in the US, Puerto Ricans are the second largest group, yet there is a dearth of accessible primary resources on the community. This project will catalog 15 collections to make more resources about the Diaspora accessible and create a template for future cataloging of this community's records.

• Cataloging Hidden Archives of The University of Texas at Austin Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory

  This project aims to inventory and catalog the archives of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) of The University of Texas at Austin over three years. The archival materials consist of 554 cubic feet (cf) of maps, field notes, research permits, correspondence, images, artwork, and other documents relating to the history of paleontology in Texas and North America. The fossil holdings at VPL house approximately 250,000 cataloged specimens, the seventh largest vertebrate collection in the US. The archival materials represent the scientific and historic context for specimens collected from the late 19th century to the present day, and held in trust as a State, Federal, and Navajo Nation repository.

• Women in Science: Behind the scenes

  The purpose of this proposal is to make discoverable the papers, correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, notes, films and other research-related materials for successful women scientists with uncatalogued archives held by the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology: Tilly Edinger, Ruth Turner, Elizabeth Bangs Bryant & Myvanwy Dick. The audience will be scholars and students in the history of science, marine biology, arachnology and paleontology, particularly those with an interest in women scientists. These collection are well-suited to a CLIR grant because they are currently hidden to researchers.

• The Jerry Brown Papers at USC Libraries

  We will arrange and describe USC's Jerry Brown papers dating from 1970 to 1983. At present, no finding aid is available to help researchers explore this vast, complex, and historically significant collection. Our project will provide access to correspondence, records, and other papers—as well as photographs and audiovisual materials—documenting Brown's term as secretary of state (1971-1975) and first two terms as governor (1975-1983). Then as now, California was a bellwether state, and Gov. Brown's decisions on issues ranging from environmental issues to gender equality and taxation had national repercussions. They anticipate many key debates in contemporary U.S. politics.

• Hidden Nurses: Processing the Bates Nursing History Center Collections

  This three year project will make accessible to scholars seven currently unprocessed collections held by the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, one of the largest archival repositories focused on nursing history. The project will serve to highlight three themes central to understanding the role of nurses in delivery of health care to the American public. These themes include the growth of hospitals as scientific institutions, nursing publications, and nursing leadership and diversity. Once completed, the project will make available a wealth of documentary materials previously hidden from scholars which will add greatly to our understanding of the development of a profession essential to the nation's health.

• Massachusetts Petitions on Women's Rights

  The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS), home of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and the Massachusetts State Archives will conduct a three-year project to (1) catalog and digitize women's rights petitions sent to the Massachusetts state legislature from 1619 to 1925; (2) conduct collaborative research on these petitions in women's history, literature, and American legal and political history; and (3) join the records with data on anti-slavery petitions sent to the Massachusetts state legislature assembled from previous grants as part of an open-access website where the petition data can be used by teachers, researchers, citizens, genealogists, and the public at large for further research.

• No joking about art and the 1st Amendment: The Lenny Bruce collection at Brandeis University

  Brandeis University, an institution founded on principles of social justice and named in honor of a Supreme Court Justice who championed every American's right to free speech, will process the personal papers of internationally renowned Jewish comedian, social critic, and 1st Amendment activist Lenny Bruce. In Brandeis's Archives & Special Collections, these materials will join the papers of many other influential figures and historymakers as well as materials that highlight social justice efforts both at Brandeis and in America. Lenny Bruce had an undeniable impact on the intersection of art and freedom in America, and the processing and promotion of his papers we propose here will allow that impact to continue and thrive.

• Movers and Shakers: the Hidden Archives of the Museum Founders, Dealers, and Early Collectors that Shaped and Defined the Field

  This twelve-month project will provide access to important archives of eleven individuals who helped shape and define the field including museum founders Adele Earnest and David L. Davies; Robert Bishop, director; Gerald Kornblau, collector and dealer; and Julia Weissman, scholar; among others. The 60 linear feet of uncatalogued archives are truly hidden to scholars and are of interest because they illuminate the diverse personalities and eccentricities of the early leaders in the field that were more likely to be part of a bohemian crowd—attracted to folk art not because of its prestige value but by its artistic, instructive, and ethnological significance. Their passions are evident in their letters, research, photos and more.

• AAC Institutional Archives and Photo collections

  Our project title is "American Alpine Club (AAC) Library Cataloging Project”. It encompasses the following collection: The AAC Institutional Archives, sub-series Multi-media (Photograph and Film Collections) collection, which includes lantern slides, printed photographs, negatives and film. The AAC Archives, or "Institutional Archives” contain archival material related to the history of the American Alpine Club, one of the most prominent clubs focusing on mountaineering and other outdoor pursuits, including conservation and exploration. The un-cataloged portion of the collection contains valuable scholarly materials. Our multi-media collection contains valuable and diverse photographic materials and formats.

• A model of iterative cataloging for architecture archives in the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB

  The Art, Design & Architecture Museum plans to extend an iterative cataloging model, begun in 2012, to provide access to the specific buildings and projects in 30 partially cataloged architecture archives and to give public access to existing digital images. The majority of researchers who contact the Architecture and Design Collection want to know which buildings or projects are represented in an archive and to see images online. Leveraging work completed during our past CLIR grant, which enabled us to create collection-level records for every one archive, we propose adding building/project lists to these preliminary records. A web-based image database will expose existing digital images and related live metadata from Archivist Toolkit.

• The Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania: The Intersection of Politics, Industry, Culture and the Environment

  The Lehigh Valley has long been considered a microcosm of United States growth and evolution, whether in the form of industrial technology such as was produced by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, or by legislation regarding immigration crafted by politicians from the region. Cold war, war and anti-war efforts of the 20th century are represented amongst these diverse but interconnected collections which address a variety of public affairs and environmental topics. This two-year project will catalog the archival collections of: Bethlehem Steel; Godfrey Daniels; activist Nancy Shukaitis; LEPOCO: Lehigh Pocono Committee of Concern; the South Bethlehem Historical Society; as well as Congressmen Donald Ritter, Frederick Rooney, and Francis Walter.

• Connecting Art of the People, Art of the World

  Mingei International Museum (MIM) seeks funding to catalog and create finding aids for the Museum's exhibitions archive, which depicts the development of an idea begun by founder Martha L. Longenecker in 1978 into one of the nation's preeminent folk art collections today. Cataloguing these materials will provide invaluable information about exhibition objects, important individuals and cultures involved with these objects, and the connection of MIM with these cultures. By outlining the progression of exhibition design, it will also create a blueprint for others who aim to display arts of daily use (mingei) as well as trace the evolution of folk art, craft, and design in Southern California for the historical record.

• Senator Charles S. Robb Papers

  This collection is comprised of the personal papers of Charles S. "Chuck" Robb while serving as one of Virginia's senators in the United States Senate. This is a large collection detailing Robb's constituent correspondence, legislative actitivities in the U. S. Senate, press relations, and political activities on behalf of fellow Virginia Democrats. This collection is an important source of information on a late 20th century politician, relating to his influence and career progress from Virginia politics to contributions at the national level.