Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

Items

• We Still Scream: The Mountain Eagle/Tom and Pat Gish Archives

  The collection covers the period of 1957 to 2005 and includes Mountain Eagle business records as well as the Gish's personal and professional papers amassed through their work as editors of a small-town coal-community newspaper that gained national attention during the War on Poverty. The Gishes were actively concerned with issues of poverty, housing, education, water quality, drug abuse, accountable government, and other issues affecting their community. The Mountain Eagle business records, which are often mixed with the Gish papers, include press releases, news articles (often by local citizens and sometimes hand-written), letters to the editor, color and b/w news photographs and negatives, audio recordings, delivery route records, and bills. The Gish papers include official and personal correspondence, grassroots newsletters, notebooks, fliers, news clippings, journals, art objects, notebooks, VHS tapes, reports, studies, data sets, and other forms of research on low-income housing, education, poverty, coal mining, water quality, and other issues in Appalachia, posters, drafts of speeches and presentations, maps, architectural drawings. The archives include: Pat Gish's files from the earliest years of planning and implementing the East Kentucky Housing Development Corporation and apparently all her documents for the duration of her involvement as its Director; Tom Gish's files throughout his terms as a Board member of the Kentucky Department of Education.

• Black Gold: Uncovering Florida's African-American Archival Treasures

  The ten collections in the Black Gold cataloging project relate to pre- and post-Civil War records, civil rights, religion, Black college football, HBCU band culture, and African Americans in science and technology. The collections vary in size, scope and medium type and include one large collection of the center's rarest and most fragile materials titled Black Archives Rare Records collection is comprised of materials grouped under five categories or material types: Rare Slave Papers/Documents/Newspapers,1835-1879; Rare books,1799-1950; Rare post and greeting cards, 1899-1940; and Rare Sheet Music, 1898-1951. Also included are five Civil Rights collections: the Dr. Patricia and Attorney John Due Civil Rights Collection, 1960-1990; the Priscilla Stephens Kruize Civil Rights Foot Soldier Collection, 1960-2000; the Rev. Charles K. Steele Civil Rights Movement Collection, 1956-1980; and the Wilhemina Jakes-Carrie Patterson Tallahassee Bus Boycott Collection, 1956-2006. Also included is one Black Church collection: Black Churches in America Collection, 1923-1985. Three FAMU collections relate to individuals, organizations and activities that have national and global influence. These collections include: the William P. Foster Black Marching Band Collection, 1946-1990; the Coach Alonzo Jake Gaither Black College Football Collection, 1948-1983; and the FAMU Football Film Collection, 1955- 1983. Finally, there is one Blacks in Science and Technology collection: the Dr. Kathleen Prestwidge African Americans in Science and Technology Collection, 1960-2000.

• Cataloging A Unique Audiovisual Collection from The Wende Museum

  East German Collection: 1) Films. 6,500 films: 16mm, 8mm, super 8mm, and filmstrips, with very few duplicate titles. The majority of the movies are documentary and educational films. Home movies constitute about 15% of the collection. Feature films comprise less than 5%. There are also numerous animated films for children. Until now, only 12% of the Wende's audiovisual collection has been accessioned (approximately 700 films). Of those, some 200 items have been cataloged, a little over 3% of the current collection. 2) Audio Recordings. 500+ records and audiotapes, including homemade mixed tapes, commercial and official recordings. Recordings and transcripts of hundreds of interviews made in the 1980s about everyday life in the GDR aired on public radio programs. Subjects include political officials and a cross-section of individuals from GDR society. These interviews complement the home movies and family photo albums in the Wende's AV collection, which also capture the everyday perspective. 3) Slides and Filmstrips. 10,000+ slides: About 75% are personal; the remainder are educational slides.

• The Walter Rauschenbusch Family Papers and the New York City Baptist Mission Society Records at the American Baptist Historical Society

  The Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) Family Papers (1861-1965; 107 cubic feet) document the life and work of Walter Rauschenbusch (WR) the Baptist theologian whose writings provide the philosophical underpinnings of the Social Gospel Movement. WR's papers include 40 feet of his correspondence, resource files, notes, clippings, essays, scrapbooks, book-length manuscripts, and other formats. Sixty-seven feet comprise correspondence, diaries, and other writings documenting the family life and political activities of his immediate family in the 50 years following his death. WR's early work at Second Baptist Church near Hell's Kitchen was supported by the New York City Baptist Mission Society (NYCBMS), on whose board he served. His ideas influenced the work of the NYCBMS, which funded bilingual churches for immigrants and championed progressive civil rights and labor policies. The NYCBMS Records (1812-1979; 140 feet) document this work through financial and legal records, minutes, correspondence, photos, and other items. Taken together these collections document the Social Gospel Movement in America as it was conceived and developed in the crucible of Manhattan's most socially and financially challenged neighborhoods. Here historians of politics, immigration, women, African-Americans, philanthropy, labor, religion, education, social work, and the family will discover valuable research resources.

• The Romare Bearden Archive

  Romare Bearden was one of the twentieth century's most influential American artists and intellectuals. The Romare Bearden Foundation's collection of our namesake artist's materials offers an important window into scholarship about Romare Bearden, the art world in twentieth century United States, racial and social tensions, among many other critical art and cultural history topics. Barbara D. Aiken, Chief of Collections Processing at the Smithsonian Institution confirmed that the collection holds significant research, intrinsic, and aesthetic value to Bearden scholars. However, the documents need to be better organized, arranged, preserved, and stored according to current archival standards in order to be accessed by Bearden scholars. The collection includes biographical information, plans and blueprints, awards, certificates, honorary degrees, personal and professional correspondence, writings by and about Bearden, numerous photographs and snapshots, a scrapbook, notebooks, drawings, doodles, sketches, sketchbooks, watercolor sketches, ca. 100 un-transcribed audio cassette tapes, and ca. 7 feet of printed material such as clippings, press releases, magazines, articles, reviews, exhibition catalogs, invitations, and newsletters. A portion of the printed materials, particularly the magazines, may have been used in Bearden's collages because many images have been cut from the pages. Some of the printed materials also reflect Bearden's interests in cartoons and music.
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  Samuel French Theatre Archives

  Samuel French entered the publishing business in New York City in 1853. In 1873, he bought out his British partner, Thomas Lacy, making Samuel French the world's largest theatrical publisher. Our collection consists of thousands of plays, including those published by Lacy from the 1840s through 1873, along with manuscripts of plays, business records, scrapbooks, and ephemera. We suspect we may have a complete set of the company's published output, but it is impossible to say for certain without item-level processing. The collection is rich in correspondence with playwrights and producers in the United States and England. Business correspondence reflects the company’s interest in and influence on international copyright law. The company pioneered the business of marketing scripts and supporting material to encourage productions by amateur theatre groups, in addition to their work with professional theatres in major cities. The business records include information on productions of plays published by Samuel French throughout the United States and the process by which European plays were acquired and adapted for American audiences. Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, publicity photos, playbills, tickets, and other ephemera document both professional and amateur productions. Manuscripts and typescript drafts of both music and scripts are another major component of the collection that will be of enormous interest to students and scholars.

• Old South to Urban Center: Emergence of the New Northern Virginia Politics

  These collections relate to politics in the Northern Virginia (NoVa) region during of the region's transformation from rural suburb to urban center. The region changed the state of Virginia while reflecting trends of the South and the U.S. The Dorothy S. McDiarmid Papers, 1950s-1993, document her career in the Virginia General Assembly, 1959-1989. McDiarmid reflected the importance of the NoVa suburbs in opposing Massive Resistance, a state policy closing public schools rather than integrating them. A Democrat representing Fairfax County's 35th District in the Virginia General Assembly's House of Delegates, McDiarmid led the way among the few women in a legislature dominated by men. In addition to integration, McDiarmid championed other issues related to women, teachers, and public education. The Stanford E. Parris Papers, 1964-1987, document a key suburban representative in the transition of the South to a Republican stronghold. Paris was a Republican U.S. Congressional Representative for Virginia's 8th District. Besides partisan issues of the time, Parris also defended suburban NoVa interests against those of central city Washington, D.C. As suburban Virginia integrated more closely into urban D.C., transportation issues became prominent. The Dulles Corridor Rail Association (DCRA) Records, 1985-2011, document the organization led by Patty Nicoson to extend the Washington Metropolitan Metrorail system to Dulles International Airport with the political issues involved.

• New Hampshire's Archives: Politics, Stories, Arts & News - Preserving NH's Pulse

  NHPR's archives represent a historical snapshot of NH with national relevance, captured on a variety of media, from reel to reel tape to digital formats, from the past 30 years. Some examples include interviews with presidential candidates, musical guests, national celebrities such as Christa McAuliffe, Bishop Gene Robinson, authors including Ken Burns, and poets including Donald Hall and Charles Simic. NHPR is the only statewide media outlet in New Hampshire, and has over 30 years of material that documents news, stories, events, arts and culture that have a statewide and often national importance. Much of today's news and events can be better understood within a historical context, yet much of this information is inaccessible though it exists. Once the collection is made available, other organizations throughout the state and indeed, the country, will be able to learn from the material and incorporate it into their missions for their constituents.

• Cataloging Rare Black Print Culture

  African American serials constitute, writes C. Polsgrave, an “alternative public sphere” that serves as “a base from which politically marginal groups challenge the power of the mainstream public sphere to define reality.” Emory has systematically collected this genre of print material as part of our attention to black print culture. We collect all aspects of African American life including religion, politics, art, music, literature, theatre, and history from the 1860s to 2000. This includes books and pamphlets, serials, broadsides, sheet music, palm cards, programs, and posters. We must catalog our serials, including periodicals, newspapers, college and high school yearbooks, souvenir journals, minutes, newsletters, proceedings, and transactions produced by literary, religious, educational, fraternal, political and other organizations, clubs, societies, and associations. We have more than 2,100 separate titles (one donor gave 1,000 titles; another donor gave 10 “banker boxes” of rare periodicals; the Woodson Library came with 242 different titles, with a like number in the Billops-Hatch and the Charles Butcher collections (the latter has a hundred different AME serial titles). Many are not recorded in WorldCat and more are not in Danky's national bibliography on African American newspapers & periodicals. We have unique holdings with no intellectual access; correcting this is our highest priority.
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  Processing the Editorial and Business Records of Eleven Little Literary Magazine Archives in the Poetry Collection

  The Editorial and Business Records of Eleven Little Literary Magazine Archives in the Poetry Collection feature the administrative and organizational records of eleven diverse poetry magazine archives. Representative of small press poetry publishing across the United States from 1960 to 2010, the archives--all of which have either been donated to or purchased by the Poetry Collection--are composed of literary letters, manuscripts, notebooks, business and production records, and publishing ephemera. The magazines, their locations, and the extent of publishing life are: Fire Exit (Boston, MA, 1968-1975); The Wormwood Review (Stockton, CA, 1960-1999); Chain (Philadelphia, PA, 1994-2005); Manroot (San Francisco, CA, 1969-1981); Drafting (Baltimore, MD, 2004-2005); Boss (New York, NY, 1966-1979); Buckle / Buckle & (Buffalo, NY, 1977-1982 / 1998-2006); Osiris (Schenectady, NY, 1972-2010); Lost & Found Times (Columbus, OH, 1975-2005); Score (Oakland, CA, 1983-1990); and First Intensity (Lawrence, KS, 1993-2007). These magazines represent different socio-aesthetic communities from feminist to academic avant garde to verbo-visual poetry and have served the careers of poets as different as Susan Howe and Charles Bukowski. Together, their archives document fifty years of poetic history, and the cataloging of these collections will immediately impact scholarship in the field of post-WWII American Poetry.

• Local Television Newsfilm: WIS

  The WIS television news collection comprises 16mm films shot by Columbia, South Carolina's NBC news affiliate from the mid 1950s through 1980. Donated in 1984, the collection contains an estimated 1,000,000 feet of film (over 450 hours of content). Even though the collection has been with the University for 20 years, roughly 40% of the content is still unprocessed and wholly unavailable to researchers. The following years are considered to be mostly or completely cataloged: 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. This leaves all elements from the 1950s and the majority of film from the 1960s--two decades that are absolutely pivotal in our nation's history--outside the reach of scholars. The films in the WIS collection document the city of Columbia and the Midlands region of South Carolina. Because Columbia is also the state capital, the WIS collection contains vital records of the entire state's political history as well as its response to national events, political movements, and cultural trends. For the purpose of this application we do not seek funds to revise existing catalog records. Nor do we seek to continue processing and cataloging records in the same unsustainable manner that identifies each story as an individual item. We have sought and received permission from the CLIR to submit these vital remaining films as a separate "hidden collection."

• Documenting Chicano and Latino newspapers in the United States, 1835-1989

  The materials consist of approximately 350 newspaper titles serving Latino communities from across the US covering the period from 1835 to 1989. These titles start with La Cronica: The Voice of Northern New Mexico (bilingual with issues up to 1915) and end with community-based weeklies and student newspapers prior to the 1990s when digital technologies and the internet began ensuring greater preservation and access. The bulk of the collection dates to 1960-1979. While only two-thirds of the titles have been inventoried, the geographic scope already includes 20 states (titles in parentheses): Arizona (3), California (78), Colorado (9), Connecticut (1), Florida (1), Hawaii (1), Illinois (4), Indiana (5), Iowa (1), Kansas (3), Massachusetts (1), Michigan (3), Missouri (3), New Mexico (44), New York (8), Oregon (3), Pennsylvania (1), Texas (60), Washington (1), Wisconsin (2), and Washington DC (3). The geographic core of the materials is in California, New Mexico, and Texas. The bulk of the newspaper titles address a Mexican American or Chicano readership (276 linear feet), however the materials include titles focused on Puerto Rican, Central American, and pan-Latino communities in the US (4 linear feet). This collection includes a significant number of titles that are not available on microfilm (238 titles or 68%). Only 33% of the titles (115) are available on paper at other collections. We estimate that at least half the collection consists of only available copies.

• Cataloging the Middle East Institute Library Collection

  The collection consists primarily of printed books and maps in the seven major languages of the region: Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Persian, French, Spanish and English. The scope of the collection encompasses major scholarly publications related to Islam, the Middle East, North Africa, Iran, and many other relevant subjects. In total, the library holds approximately 19,000 titles. The collection primarily houses works on history, literature, language, and folklore, with a secondary emphasis on the humanities and social sciences. The collection focuses on core areas within which the Islamic civilization arose and developed, and which are generally viewed as forming the modern Middle East. The collection covers a vast time span, ranging from the birth of regional civilizations such as Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, covering the beginning of Classical Arabic Literature around the nineteenth century, and continuing to the present day. The intent is to provide materials that cover the history of each of the various regions and cultures involved in the area for the entire period. The collection is meant to serve as a primary resource for scholars of the region, providing extensive research materials to serve the needs of researchers, patrons, and MEI staff. As the library hosts the largest collection of Middle Eastern materials in the United States, the collection serves as an important hub for Middle East scholarship and knowledge.

• Unlocking Hidden Collections of the Immigration History Research Center Archives

  The IHRCA contains archival materials, books, and periodicals. This project addresses hidden printed materials accumulated over the past 50 years which will contribute to the understanding of a multi-ethnic diaspora. Publication dates range from 1860 to 2000, most published after 1900 primarily in the United States and Canada. A small but historically significant number of items originate from the displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria following World War II. These items often had limited print runs and even fewer were transported to the U.S. Although produced outside the United States, these materials document the migration experiences of the refugees who eventually settled in North America. The IHRCA traditionally has utilized a broad definition of "print" in relation to its materials. Many ephemeral publications and “near-print” items, printed not by publishers but often mimeographed, e.g., pamphlets or flyers, reflect many genres--memoir, local histories of immigrant settlements, organizations, and commemorative publications, biographies of prominent people, textbooks, songbooks, immigrant business directories, and organizational convention booklets--have significant value.

• Providing Access to the Ellsworth La Boyteaux Collection of Art from Papua New Guinea

  The Ellsworth La Boyteaux Collection of art from Papua New Guinea includes approximately 160 artifacts from diverse regions of Papua New Guinea, but primarily the Sepik region. The objects date from the mid-20th century. Donated to California Lutheran University in the 1970s by the art collector Ellsworth La Boyteaux, the collection includes a range of objects such as carved ancestor figures, yam cult figures, polychromed suspension hooks, ceremonial house decorations, painted shields, masks, plaques, weapons, musical instruments, and jewelry. Approximately 100 of these artifacts have been digitally photographed in high resolution. Many of the artifacts are painted on bark or other organic textiles.

• The Ohio River Valley - In Times of War, Peace, and Expansion (1800-2000)

  Scholars across the U.S. and around the world are beginning to document the important role the Ohio River Valley played in the development of the United States -- from its earliest Pioneer days and explorations of the Louisiana Territory by Lewis and Clark, to its eruption into Civil War under the leadership of President Abraham Lincoln, to its evolution into a business and industrial giant. The collections selected for this project include the papers of some of the Ohio Valley's oldest families, businesses come and gone, and reports that testify to the damage done to the natural landscape in pursuit of some greater economic outcome. Today, these letters, data, and documents provide clues as to how we can reverse some of the damage caused by past actions and find a healthier way forward. At the same time, they hold gems of information on family genealogy, art and architecture, and national organizations that continue to hold influence today -- Sierra Club, Red Cross. The manuscripts included within this project were each contributed by families that at one time lived in Kentucky (some may still reside there today). However, the subjects to be covered within the scope of the 24 collections have proven to have national and international interest. The documents cover two centuries of history in the Ohio Valley, from 1800-2000.

• The Kansas City Stockyards Collection

  The Kansas City Public Library holds a significant collection for an 1874 enterprise that defined Kansas City to the nation. Established by Boston business interests (Adams, Forbes), the Kansas City Stockyards and a network of railroads played a pivotal role in making this Midwestern “cowtown” a national agribusiness hub. Untold millions of animals on the hoof passed through this location on their way to other markets, second only to Chicago. The archives of the KC Stockyards, only recently acquired, entirely unprocessed, and virtually unknown to scholars, cover the period 1890-1940, when the operation reached its zenith. In 2008 the owner of the historic Livestock Exchange Building (1911) in Kansas City, Missouri, donated a mass of warehoused documents to the Library. Staff of the Missouri Valley Special Collections identified critical pieces in the collection: (1) an estimated 5,000 architectural drawings and blueprints of the stockyards complex, including quarantine areas, holding pens, sewer and drainage systems, slaughter houses, and administration buildings – essentially a city within a city; (2) hundreds of historical documents, including business correspondence, payroll records for a largely immigrant work force, railroad documents, area maps, flood surveys, land abstracts, and field notes for structures; and (3) dozens of vintage photographs apparently meant to document the relationship to the stockyards to the nearby Missouri River.

• Tolton, Tibesar and Quincy University: the Catholic Response to Racism

  The Tolton collection is particularly valuable to Catholic scholarship with the investigation for canonization underway by the Catholic Church. The Tolton collection includes autographed, cabinet card size photographs of Fr. Tolton, autographed prayer cards, materials relating to the canonization process, and the original typescript of From Slave to Priest, entitled Good Father Gus. Highly regarded among Japanese Catholics, Fr. Tibesar voluntarily moved with Japanese Americans into an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho in 1942. The collection includes letters (1925-1970 from China, Japan and the United States) an unpublished autobiography, parish and sermon notes, greeting cards and letters in Japanese, small Japanese artifacts including hand-made chopsticks, art work including a hand-painted scroll illustrating the Tibesar parish in Japan. The Quincy University archives contain materials that can provide context and depth to collections previously highlighted. They include: History of Quincy College by Fr. Francis J. Grey, an unpublished, typescript manuscript covering 1860-1990; Hilchenbach Letters translated from the German by Fr. A. Reyling, 1974, 3 vols. which includes letters exchanged with Fr. Tolton; Quincy College presidential papers and publications from 1870-1900 and 1940-1965; and the collection of Harry Forrester, one of the first basketball coaches in the Midwest to integrate African American players onto the team.

• The Great Hunger Document Collection

  The collection proposed for this project, known as The Great Hunger Document Collection, is housed in the Arnold Bernhard Library at Quinnipiac University. The collection is part of the documentary component of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum (Múseam An Ghorta Mhóir) at Quinnipiac University. The museum, which opened in October 2012, is home to the world's largest collection of Irish famine related materials. The Great Hunger Document Collection is a special collection consisting of approximately 4000 documents dating from the 1790s until the early 1920s, with an emphasis on publications directly related to the Irish potato famine (1845-1852). The British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland are the largest part of the collection. Also included are four volumes of The Bogs of Ireland including 68 maps of Irish bogs, a copy of the six volume set on the Disturbances in Ireland published in 1825, and a complete set of twelve volumes of The Parnell Commission. In addition, the collection includes The Lady Sligo Letters. This collection of personal papers is comprised of 220 letters dating from the 1820s to the 1860s, with over 100 of the letters dealing directly with the famine years in County Mayo. The Great Hunger Document Collection is the only one of its kind in the United States, and offers valuable insights into Irish history, and in particular The Great Hunger.

• Filming History: 50 Years of American Life in USC’s David L. Wolper Collection

  The focus of Filming History is the collection of producer and documentary filmmaker David L. Wolper (1928-2010), which provides a comprehensive record of his life, career, and active involvement in politics. We also selected the collection of documentarian Robert Guenette (1935-2003), who worked closely with Wolper. Wolper's collection comprises more than 950 linear feet of papers, 5,000 to 8,000 photographs in 3 filing cabinets, and a wide assortment of film props, memorabilia, artwork, and ephemera. Wolper focused on historical subjects in his documentaries and the miniseries Roots but created films and TV productions in nearly every genre and even produced events like the 1984 Olympics with a far-reaching influence on American life. Wolper's collection provides a complete overview of his prolific career, starting with the launch of network TV after WWII and extending through the many social and political changes of the 1950s-1990s. Wolper's collection includes scripts; videotapes of his film and TV productions; business records; correspondence with figures ranging from Roots author Alex Haley to former President Eisenhower; and artifacts like a copy of General Patton's famous 1944 speech to his troops and Marilyn Monroe's adoption certificate and baby photos. Guenette's collection, comprising 50 linear feet, includes papers, video recordings, research materials, and other items related to They've Killed President Lincoln and his other award-winning documentary films.

• Holocaust and Jewish Resistance collections at Brandeis University

  1. The Jewish Resistance Collection (c. 1932-1950s): Underground publications by German Communist and French Jewish resisters to the Nazis; international post-war reports documenting the persecution and extermination of Jews and the course of several Nuremberg trials; and Nazi paraphernalia. (4 boxes). 2. Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Documents (1942-1944): Hundreds of daily orders issued from Theresienstadt, which provide detailed information about the workings of the camp. (4 boxes). 3. Curt Rosenthal Correspondence (c. 1938-1947): Personal and family correspondence of Curt Rosenthal, a German Jew and émigré to the U.S., spanning the Holocaust and World War II. (1 box). 4. Halina Nelkin Collection: Holocaust ephemera and personal papers collected by a survivor. (1 box). 5. War Crimes Trial Photographs: A collection of Nuremberg Trial photographs (1945-1946). (1 box).

• MCG Jazz Archive Project

  The MCG Jazz Archive Project encompasses metadata that describes thousands of concerts and musicians, along with more than 60,000 photographs in various formats: Approximately 40,000 photographs in 35-mm negatives (50 percent have been scanned) of jazz concerts from 1987 to 2004; Over 8,000 born-digital images documenting every MCG Jazz-sponsored performance held at the MCG Jazz concert hall or other regional venues from 2005 to the present; More than 400 digital images scanned from 35-mm negatives of MCG Jazz recording sessions plus 100 born-digital images of recording sessions; At least 3,000 35-mm negatives and 1,000 born-digital images from co-sponsored festivals and tribute events; Approximately 800 photographs illuminating the founding and early history of MCG Jazz; Over 4,000 photographs representing MCG Jazz's educational outreach activities, including classes, demonstrations and special events for schoolchildren; and Metadata extracted from audio and video recordings (approximately 25 percent completed), paper documents, and digital files describing approximately 200 data points per concert as relating to 20,000 songs performed at 2,000 concerts, 3,000 musicians and several hundred technicians.

• Bridge and Building Forensics: Civil Engineering Archives at Lehigh University

  The 20th century saw many advancements in civil engineering technology. Through this project, Lehigh will catalog the personal and corporate papers of prominent civil engineers and influential societies from this period, including those of Blair Birdsall, John Fisher, Willis Slater, and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Both Fisher and Birdsall made significant contributions to bridge engineering and research. Fisher is best known for his work on fatigue and cracking of steel bridges around the world, and Birdsall was an expert in cabling and suspension bridges. Bridges addressed by these records include the Tappan Zee, Verrazano, Golden Gate, Brooklyn, and Akashi, as well as the Washington Metro. Lehigh also plans to catalog the papers of Slater, a pioneering educator brought to Lehigh to direct the activities of the innovative Fritz Engineering Laboratory in the 1920s. In addition, a collection of approximately 200 postcards featuring American bridges will be cataloged as part of this project. The field of transportation studies has been gaining momentum in recent years as evidenced by the number of researchers contacting Lehigh’s and other special collections. Cataloging these archives will provide access to correspondence, reports, subject files, court records, images, and engineering data, among other materials.

• Experience Music Project - Hidden Collection (working title)

  EMP holds a historic music collection of approximately 140,000 objects (containing more than 80% of all physical music material produced in the Northwest during the last century) and an Oral History archive of more than 850 interviews with musicians, filmmakers, authors, and other luminaries who have shaped our cultural landscape. In addition to a substantial recorded-sound and moving-image archive, the collection includes musical instruments and equipment, photographs and films of historic performances, promotional materials, and other artifacts that document the process of creating, producing and promoting music--as well as artists' own personal effects, e.g. costumes, jewelry, and song sheets. The museum now has more than 60,000 cataloged; 54,000 accessioned but not cataloged; and approximately 26,000 not-yet-accessioned objects. Collections acquisition has been minimal in recent years, as EMP has used many loaned items for recent exhibitions, and the current backlog of un-cataloged objects is hampering exhibit development while causing persistent underutilization of the collection. The 2-dimensional un-cataloged objects include posters, handbills, magazines, and various correspondences, including letters and postcards. This project will position EMP to improve its curatorial control of these works, pursue future cataloging projects, and preserve remaining, un-cataloged accessioned artifacts, consisting of audio materials such as record albums, compact discs, and tapes.

• Hidden Treasures of Native American Studies at The Evergreen State College

  The collections contain documentation of curriculum preparation and teaching of our nationally recognized college's Native American studies (NAS) extending over the past 41 years, including: syllabi, lecture notes, research analyses, reports, interviews, meeting minutes, correspondence, histories, genealogies, images, publications, and audio-video presentations by faculty teaching in the NAS and related Master of Public Administration Tribal Governance program. We receive frequent requests from scholars to review these materials. The records aggregate mostly unprocessed materials from deceased or emeriti faculty, including Riley Adams (Kikiallus' guest scholar), Jovana Brown (MA, MLS, & Ph. D. Political Science), Craig Carlson (PhD English), Lynn DeDanaan (MA Anthropology; PhD Cultural Anthropology), Carolyn Dobbs (MA Political Science; M Urban Planning; PhD Urban Planning), Russell Fox (M Urban Planning), Mary Ellen Hillaire (Lummi--MSW & MEd), Lovern King (M Communications; PhD Policy, Governance & Administration), Carol Minugh (Gros Ventrer--MS Education Administration; DEd Higher Education Administration), Mary Nelson (Colville--MA Art, Anthropology & Minority Studies), Linda Moon Stumpff (Apache-Seminole--MA Public Administration & Regional Planning; PhD Public Administration, Regional Planning, Land Management & Public Policy), David Whitener (Squaxin--MEd Public School Administration), and former Provost Barbara Leigh Smith (MA, PhD Political Science).