Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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  Foreign and Ethnic 78s in the UC Santa Barbara Sound Archives

  UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Special Collections holds one of the largest and most diverse collections of historical sound recordings in the United States. The 78rpm disc collection at UCSB numbers 193,000 items. We are requesting funds to catalog a portion of the collection, focusing on recordings from Iberia, France, and Latin America. The 18,000 discs to be cataloged are primarily from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, France, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, and Spain and date from 1900 to 1960 (the bulk is from 1900 to 1940). The majority of the discs are from the Bruce Bastin/Interstate Music collection, the Edouard Pecourt collection, as well as smaller collections such as the Roberto Eyzaguirre collection of Peruvian 78s. No other public archive in the US has a similar quantity of European and Latin American recordings of popular, vernacular, and ethnic recordings from the first decades of the recording industry. The UCSB Library is a leader in documenting and providing access to early sound recordings. Foreign and ethnic 78rpm discs are increasingly sought after as the focus of scholars’ research expands into previously unexplored areas and we are the only U.S. institution to have a collecting emphasis on commercial foreign and ethnic 78s from around the world. These key resources are important to an increasingly global and interdisciplinary scholarly community where historical recordings are used in the study of a variety of humanistic disciplines.

• Race, Education and Politics: Two Archival Collections

  In the 1980s, St. Louis produced a plan, hailed as a model, to desegregate majority African-American schools. A product of the Voluntary Inter-district Coordinating Council (VICC), the plan created a system of magnet schools in the City and provided an opportunity for students to attend school, tuition free, in one of 17 suburban districts. Although the plan offered quality education in an integrated setting, most city schools remained segregated, and some leaders questioned the cost of busing to achieve integration. Freeman Bosley, Jr., the first African-American mayor in the city's history, campaigned on ending busing as a key to his plan for renewal. Two archival collections at the Missouri History Museums link these chapters in St. Louis history. The VICC records (1980-1999) consist of 74 linear feet of files pertaining to the administrative and legal challenges the group faced between its creation in 1980 and the U.S. Supreme Court Case, Missouri vs. Rockwood School District, forcing the state to comply with the plan in 1999. Secondly, the Mayoral Papers (1993-1997) of Freeman Bosley, Jr. shed light on the administration of an African American whose antibusing stance put him in opposition to the VICC. This collection consists of only 27.5 linear feet since most of the papers were destroyed due to poor storage conditions prior to donation. Only a quarter of the original collection remains, increasing its value as the only glimpse into an historic administration.

• The Labor and Industry Project

  The Labor and Industry Project will result in a shared repository of finding aids for relevant collections from the Senator John Heinz History Center (HHC) (http://www.heinshistorycenter.org) and Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation (RoS) (http://riversofsteel.com). The finding aids will be housed on Historic Pittsburgh (http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/), a collaborative digital library site hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, and indexed by OCLC's ArchiveGrid. The collections document labor and industry in Western Pennsylvania from the 1850s, when business was booming, through the end of the 1990s, when a new era of innovation began. The formats of the materials consist of papers, photographs, glass slides, maps, films, and audio cassettes. The collections include: (1) HHC: George Westinghouse (1870s-2000), 120 linear feet of records related to the history of the company, including 1939 World's Fair, patents, research, correspondence, and photographs; Jones and Laughlin (J&L) Steel (1865-1984), 340 linear feet of records documenting the history of the company, which was a competitor of Carnegie Steel Company; and US Steel (1883-1980), 290 linear feet of records documenting the history Andrew Carnegie's company. (2) RoS: Duquesne National Works (1917-1970), 830 linear feet of records documenting financial and budgetary issues, correspondence, appropriations, requests, and technical materials relating to the mills.

• Revealing Performances: Cataloging the BAM Archives Hidden Collection

  The BAM Archives, formally established in 1995, documents the lives of leaders, thinkers, and artists whose careers exemplify the spirit of American innovation, as well as trace the evolution of public and cultural life in the United States. Particularly valuable materials in the collection include video and audio slides; photographs, contact sheets, and negatives of production images; promotional shots; rare artist portraits and headshots; playbills; and press clippings from a broad range of publications from around the world. In addition, BAM's institutional records document the evolution of the contemporary performing arts, both in this country but also around the world, through artist correspondence, production plans, promotional material, and other records. The richness of the collection is demonstrated by the variety of complementary resources--the diversity of which is held by no other institution in the world--that studied together can inform an understanding of both the institution as a home for the performing arts, as well as individual artistsproductions, and time periods. Due to the significance of these artists not only to BAM's institutional history, but also to the history of the contemporary performing arts, these materials are of utmost importance to scholars and the general public.

• Hidden Collections of the Brooklyn Museum: Making Auction Catalogs Accessible for Research

  Auction catalogs are vital for research within the art community and in other disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, history, economics and the study of the art market. However, auction catalogs are a challenge both in terms of knowledge of their existence and discovery of the content held within them. The Brooklyn Museum Library auction catalog collection represents sales of art with an encyclopedic range of objects from antiquity to contemporary art. The majority of the catalogs represent sales held in America, Europe and Asia, with additional catalogs from the Middle East. An estimated 50% of the catalogs represent sales of American art, ethnographic art (African, Oceanic, Native American) and the arts of Latin America. Several of these curatorial areas are underrepresented in research collections as well as lack coverage in traditional art indexing tools. The subject coverage includes fine arts, decorative arts and ethnographic objects. The publication dates range from the nineteenth century up to the present period. The catalogs showcase objects offered in public sales and very often feature entire personal and private collections. Rich with textual and visual documentation, the catalogs offer insight into the art market and the provenance of each object. Many of the catalogs include sale price or ownership information that is hand annotated or printed. Preliminary searching indicates that close to 50% of these catalogs are not listed in WorldCat. The majority of the research collections held in the Brooklyn Museum Libraries are listed in the following internationally available online tools: OCLC WorldCat and Arcade, the shared Library Online Catalog of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC). Since the Brooklyn Museum Library Online Catalog was launched in 2002, approximately 95% of the research collections have been recorded in this online tool. However only 10% of the auction catalog collection is listed in OCLC WorldCat and Arcade. This small percentage of the cataloged collection represents auction catalogs that contain information about objects either bought or sold by the Brooklyn Museum and public and private collections of deep interest to the Museum. The collections we now wish to make accessible include all rare or unique historic auction catalogs held by the Brooklyn Museum Library. By historic, we wish to focus on the earliest nineteenth century catalogs in the collection ranging from 1819 to the 1950's. Many of these catalogs contain handwritten annotations concerning sale prices and buyers which is unique information. Additionally, we want to fully catalog the following areas of interest to the Museum that are not readily available in the NYARC or other art museum libraries: (1) catalogs for historic American art sales; (2) catalogs for all Asian art sales; (3) catalogs for all ethnographic art sales; and (4) catalogs for all Latin American art sales. The proposed project will result in these currently uncataloged hidden resources being listed in OCLC WorldCat (SCIPIO database) and Arcade and available to the researchers working locally, nationally and internationally. As part of the proposed plan, we also want to: (1) weed out duplicates from the Library collection that do not fall in the categories listed above and are in other New York City art museum libraries. We hope to place the duplicates in an appropriate repository. (2) And develop a collection plan that outlines what the Brooklyn Museum collects in addition to what is held by NYARC and other local art museum collections 9n the New York City area as a guide for researchers.

• General Daniel Butterfield Civil War Collection

  The Julia L. Butterfield Library's Gen. Daniel Butterfield's Civil War archives provide a unique insight into the American Civil War. The more than 1200 documents (consisting of 12,500 distinct pages of information) include rare correspondence regarding military relationships and strategy that scholars would find invaluable. There are correspondence from Union generals, telegraphs from Secretary of War Stanton and Gen. Sherman as he approached Atlanta, a battle map of Gettysburg, photos, handwritten casualty lists, a manuscript by a field officer detailing the Battle of Gettysburg, a note from President Lincoln's assistant secretary, the personal journals of Gen. Butterfield during the was and more. Bequeathed to this library by his widow Julia in 1927, the collection's historical significance was not known until April 2011 when the West Point Museum Director & Chief Curator David Reel reviewed the collection, and was subsequently confirmed in May 2011 by Alan Aimone, Military Affairs Librarian, Special Collections and Archives at West Point Library. “The historical importance of the collection is unquestionable as a comprehensive archive of a major figure of the American Civil War and contains documents and letters, telegrams from 1861-64 that are irreplaceable and significant in content. . . No doubt, scholars of United States History and specifically the American Civil War will find a treasure trove of original, period material within the archive," wrote Reel.

• Pioneers of Planetary Science Archives

  The Pioneers of Planetary Science archives include the archives of numerous notable planetary scientists, such a Gerard Kuiper, Thomas Gehrels, Ewen Whitaker, Michael Drake, and Charles Sonnet. The bulk date of the collections range from about 1900 to the present. The field of planetary science exploded in the 1960s with the United States' – and the then U.S.S.R.s' -- intense interest in moon and space exploration. Concurrently, universities and other institutes within the United States started to focus resources on the discipline which included NASA and the University of Arizona (UA)among others. In 1960 the UA founded the Lunar and Planetary Lab(LPL) with Gerard Kuiper as director. LPL was one of the few places which engaged in studies of the solar system, which at that time provided the much needed support for the Space Race. The collections submitted to be cataloged/processed for this grant include many notable scientists, researchers, and scholars from University of Arizona who assisted the Nation in furthering our space program and understanding our solar system. Notable work and research by these individuals include participating in space missions such as Ranger 7, the Apollo Program, the Explorer Program, Pioneer 10 and 11 missions. This collection represents the history of early space exploration and would have an impact on national and international scholars alike. The Kuiper and Geherls archives also cover aspects of WWII both the scientific and military aspects.

• Describing the World: Cataloging the Keystone-Mast Ledgers

  The Keystone-Mast Collection is the world's largest stereoscopic archive. The Keystone-Mast's 17 ledger books (containing an estimated 8,000 pages) and 45,000 file cards, dating from the early to mid-20th century and describing materials from the 1870s through 1960s, served as the Keystone View Company's internal record of every negative that they created or acquired. The ledgers detailed a description of each stereoscopic negative, the location where it was made, and typically included information on the photographer, date of creation, and original source of negatives purchased from other stereoscopic companies. The file cards individually listed images which were to be printed as mass-produced stereo cards, and included their titles and a list of what stereo card sets they were published in and the dates of those sets. These ledgers and file cards are essentially a detailed index to the Keystone-Mast stereoscopic archive. The information contained in the ledgers is extremely useful in contextualizing photographs in the collection for research. Dates, artists, and title information is of primary interest to all researchers, and this data often cannot be gleaned from the photographs themselves. Information on how the images were used commercially is also of keen interest to researchers eager to understand what images may have been seen by the American public, and in what context they were viewed.

• Connecting Charlotte's Black History Collections

  Connecting Charlotte's Black History Collections cover materials from 1920s to 2003. The materials in the proposed collections represent the history of African Americans in North Carolina, with a concentration of Charlotte's Black history. The collections contain photographs, oral histories, biographies, scrapbooks, and letters that are rare and hidden to the research community. The topics range from studies of health disparities among African Americans through the Charlotte REACH 2010 projectmaterials on North Carolina's first African American Congresswoman, Eva Clayton, to never seen before images of Charlotte historic black neighborhoods, and social life of black families in Charlotte from the Peeler collection dating back to the early 1900s. The invaluable, un-cataloged heirlooms stored at the Second Ward Alumni House that represents Charlotte's once thriving prominent black community Brooklyn, and artifacts on eight black neighborhoods in Charlotte, in which seven were destroyed through the urban renewal redevelopment project. The Eva Clayton collection and the Charlotte REACH 2010 collection are 50% processed. The Peeler photograph collection and the collection at the Second Award Alumni House are not processed. The combined collection represents estimate of 200 boxes to be processed and cataloged.

• Modern Poetry Collection - Manuscript Holdings Cataloging Project

  The Modern Poetry Collection consists of a holding of manuscript materials that date roughly from 1910s to 2010s and that document the literary production and careers of poets in the Greater Monadnock Region (of New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts), in New Hampshire, and in New England. Presently, the collection includes the papers of children's poet Edith Newlin Chase, William Doreski (poet and Robert Lowell scholar), Rodger Martin (poet and Worcester Review editor), former NH Poet Laureate Patricia Fargnoli, New Hampshire poet Jeffrey Friedman, and AWP Award-Winning Poet John Hodgen. The Modern Poetry Collection collects the records of small New England presses that specialize in poetry. The collection currently includes the records of Zephyr Press, a press based in Brookline, Mass. that specializes in poetry in translation of Eastern European and Asian poets and is best known for the first complete translation of the works of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Keene State College plans for further expansion by collecting the literary manuscripts and papers of all former New Hampshire poet laureates, published regional and state poets, and the records of small presses and poetry and poetry-related organizations in the state and region.

• Discovery and Cataloging of Hidden Archives of the Essig Museum of Entomology

  The Essig Museum (EMEC) at UC Berkeley is among the top three largest University arthropod collections in the US, with specimens dating to the 1890s. UCB faculty pioneered the field of Medical Entomology, with documents, images, and specimens dating back 80 years. The California Insect Survey, beginning 1939, launched expeditions throughout the state to discover the unique fauna and habitat associations of California arthropods, resulting in many publications. UCB also has been a pioneer in biological control, testing and releasing insects against pests since the 1940s. The EMEC archives provide the historical, ecological, legal, and sociological context for the specimens that comprise our extensive collections. They document the expeditions and research of prominent students and faculty associated with the museum who have become leaders in entomology at institutions throughout the world. However, the extent and condition of many of these materials are largely unknown due to the idiosyncrasies of record keeping and archiving by hundreds of individuals throughout the years. Recent efforts to discover these materials have uncovered annotated maps, rearing records, glass 35mm slides, photographs, original drawings, and notebooks not recorded in any catalogs. Materials are also distributed across many laboratories and offices in several buildings using a variety of storage systems. It is likely that a considerable amount of historically valuable materials still await discovery.

• Richard D. Lamm, MSS 1210

  The collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, draft and final speeches, subject content research files, manuscript drafts for publication of articles and books, photographs, sound and video recordings, memorabilia, journal and newspaper articles, books and objects. Subjects include local, state, US West regional, and national politics as related to both the Democratic Party and later, the Reform Party. Issues of regional and national importance are covered including abortion, the environment, euthanasia, immigration, health care, population control, tax reform, and women's rights.

• Access to The New School Archives: Intellectual Control and Collection-Level Description

  The New School (TNS) archives represent the extraordinarily rich and wide range of intellectual and creative work produced across TNS from its founding in 1919 through the 2000s. The archives document the school's formation as an educational experiment, the University in Exile (established in 1933 to provide safe harbor to European Jews and dissidents suffering under fascism), and on through the merger with Parsons School of Design (1970) and Mannes College of Music (1989). Also here is evidence of lesser-known aspects of TNS history, including its role in fostering major 20th century modernist art, theater, dance, and music projects. Aaron Copland and Martha Graham spent formative periods of their lives at TNS, as did John Cage, Berenice Abbott, Alexey Brodovitch, and others. Hundreds of recordings document visiting luminaries such as Martin Luther King, Jr.; Romeo Dallaire; Anais Nin; and Marina Abromovic; papers include those of Arnold Brecht and Frieda Wunderlich. Never before adequately described or made fully accessible, these collections are of national significance, affording researchers a unique lens through which to study many of the most important and dramatic transformations throughout 20th century American society, culture, arts, education, and politics, telling the complex story of a university continually at work on innovative models of rigorous academic inquiry tethered to civic engagement and novel forms of transdisciplinary education.

• Revealing a World of Work: Labor and Management Collections at Cornell University's Kheel Center

  The Kheel Center's hidden collections document the American workplace in the 20th century, including the history of organized labor, management theory and practice, and industrial relations. They include, but are not limited to, records of important figures in national politics (Frances Perkins, Martin Catherwood, Theodore Kheel), female pioneers in workers education (Alice Cook, Jean McKelvey), important unions (ACTWU, UNITE), and management interests (Academy of Management, Council for International Business). These hidden collections are richly dense, including correspondence, notes, reports, photographs, and audio-visual materials--much of which has been used sparingly, if at all. The collections will certainly be useful to traditional labor historians, as they shed light on U.S. deindustrialization, labor conflict, and working conditions. For example, this grant will enable the cataloging of oral histories with union members and officers, labor educators, arbitrators, and others who were impacted by or influenced the fate of American factories, major strikes, and workplace safety laws. Just as surely, the materials will support teaching and scholarship on feminism, immigration, international politics, urbanism, civil rights, and other topics. Many who became leaders in the women's movement started out in unions, for example, and several unions, themselves led by immigrants, kept very good records on the growth of immigrant populations in American cities.

• African American Agricultural Education Historical Legacy: The New Farmers of America, Veteran Farmer's Program, and 1890 Land Grant Documents

  The New Farmers of America (NFA) was a national organization of African American farm boys studying vocational agriculture in the public schools throughout 18 states in the eastern and southern United States from 1927-1965. The NFA started in Virginia in May, 1927 with a few chapters and members, and concluded in 1965 with more than 1,000 chapters and more than 58,000 active members. The organization merged in 1965 with the FFA as a result of the Civil Rights Act. NC A&T State University possess the largest known collection of NFA memorabilia and served as the national headquarters of the organization. The collection consist primarily of business records, student handbooks, photographs, albums, correspondence, student award medals and plaques, officer banners, and other miscellaneous documents. The second part of the collection concerns the African American Veteran Farmer's Program which was designed for returning soldiers during WWII and the Korean War. The program was housed at the 1890 Land Grant Institutions and provided veterans opportunities to utilize their G.I. Bill to learn about the latest farming techniques. The collection for this area consist of student farmer records, business correspondence, and photographs. The last component consist of a variety of 1890 Land Grant and NC A&T State University agricultural education historical documents. The documents consist of photographs, business records, course projects, extension publications, and other pertinent items.

• From Script to Screen: Revealing Labor Union History Through the Writers Guild Foundation Archives

  The From Script to Screen: Revealing Labor Union History cataloging project will make the rare and unique archival collections of the Writers Guild Foundation (WGF) accessible to students, researchers, aspiring writers, scholars, Writers Guild of America (WGA) members, and the public. The WGF supports and provides educational programs devoted to the art, craft and history of writing for the screen, including a non-circulating special library open to the public. The archival collections contain the personal papers of prominent writers, vintage scripts, photographs, oral histories, ephemera such as typewriters, awards and strike realia, and historical items from the Blacklist era and the formation of the WGA. The materials span from the dawn of cinema in the early twentieth century to the golden age of television in the 1950s and the rise of digital media in the present. The collections represent an important part of American history and popular culture in relation to the role of writers in film, television, radio, and new media. The materials serve as a record of the very first labor union in the entertainment industry, and in many cases are the only existing records of important WGA events and key periods in film, television and radio history. The proposed project will help bring these vital pieces of America's cultural heritage to a wider audience, improve outreach to researchers, and encourage the study of film, television and radio from the writer's perspective.

• Documenting the Hidden Heritage of Maine's Coastal Fisheries

  This project will catalog Maine fishery and fishing community materials hidden in small historical societies and museums in northern New England. Fishing first attracted settlers to the Gulf of Maine. After overfishing depleted cod stocks near Boston, mid-17th c. fishermen turned to the Maine coast. There, fishing remained relatively sustainable for almost 300 years. Today, Maine's rich coastal fishing grounds have become lobster feedlots. Fewer vessels now fish for cod from all New England than fished from Frenchman's Bay alone 150 years ago. These fisheries remained undocumented until over 1,500 19th c. New England fishing logs were discovered at NARA Waltham in 2001. Linking these logs with ancillary documents allowed social and scientific discoveries that encouraged the search for more sources. Few documents exist from the early 1700s; most will likely range from 1800 to 1930. Historians seek documentation about the social, economic and environmental history of coastal communities; marine scientists are looking for data that reveal changes to marine resources; climate scientists are seeking detailed documentation of weather history; coastal residents are seeking a renewed sense of community identity and economic stability. This project will contribute to all of these agendas by revealing and enhancing access to records generated by fisheries and fishing communities.

• Discovery in the New College of Florida Archives

  The Discovery in the New College of Florida Archives project encompasses the physical arrangement and intellectual description of the College's records documenting the development of the institution and the uniquely innovative education philosophy. The Office of the Presidents series highlights the distinguished leadership of the Baughman, Elmendorf, and Christ-Janer years during the first three decades. The Architecture collection offers insight to the amazing diversity of the East Campus with buildings designed by I.M.Pei and the historic Guilded Age mansion of Charles Ringling estate on the West Campus, as well as, the contemporary Caples Campus to the south. The History of New College of Florida collection documents a vivid record of the early years of the College, the educational philosophy, campus planning, and the support of notable personages. The unique academic vision of the College is exemplified in the Academic Programs series with the Environmental Studies Program with the work of John Morrill and the Medieval Renaissance Studies records. The papers of Margaret Bates, a distinguished African Studies scholar, and Capt. Ralph Styles, coordinator for campus planning offer two unusual examples of the diversity of the manuscript collections. The Discovery in the New College Archives project would greatly support scholarly research of the diverse holdings with searchable web-based finding aids for collections of scholarly significance.

• Documenting Civil Rights and Civic Activism: the Papers of Margaret Bush Wilson

  The Margaret Bush Wilson Papers document many significant events and movements of 20th-century America, offering a unique view of local and national history. A pioneer for African Americans and for women, Margaret Bush Wilson (1919-2009) led a distinguished career as a lawyer, public servant, and civil rights activist. As the second woman of color admitted to practice law in Missouri, she began her legal career as a U.S. attorney for the Rural Electrification Administration, served among counsel in the landmark Supreme Court case of Shelley v. Kraemer, and provided legal assistance to those involved in the demonstrations at Jefferson Bank & Trust. Wilson was the first African American woman to run for Congress in Missouri and later held several public service positions including assistant attorney general, assistant director of the Lawyers for Housing program, which aimed to increase low-income housing in St. Louis and six other cities, and acting director of the Model City Agency, an initiative created by President Johnson. However, it was her role as the first African American woman elected to chair the NAACP board of directors, a position she held for nine consecutive terms, that placed her in the national spotlight. The Papers document Wilson��s life and include her personal and professional correspondence, speeches, research notes, photographs, awards, and personal library, providing rare insight into historic events that altered the trajectory of a city and a nation.

• The William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection

  The William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection is an extraordinary compilation of printed material and artwork that traces the portrayal of Jews by scholars, artists, laypersons, and even antisemites from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The collection includes rare books, fine art, postcards, illustrated journals, greeting cards, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera, newspapers, cartoons, caricatures, etchings, lithographs, chromolithographs, watercolors, medallions, stamps, textiles, and miscellaneous formats. Materials are in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages. The majority of the collection consists of imagery—visual material accessible to all, no matter what language one speaks. The Rosenthall Collection documents the lives, history, religious ceremonies, dress, and customs of the Jewish people. Synagogues are a particular focus, including variant images, different printings, alternate views of interiors and exteriors, maps, and panoramas of sanctuaries from around the globe. Many imprints depict European synagogues that were destroyed between 1938 and 1945. These iconographic materials, as well as illustrations and photographs of Jewish ghettos, costumes, cemeteries, folk and religious life, are grouped by subject and location and stored in approximately 90 portfolios. The collection also contains Jewish caricatures, postage stamps, New Year cards, portraits of individuals, and clippings from Jewish journals and publications.

• Transnational Passages: Promoting Research in Maritime and Migrant Labor Collections of the Pacific Slope

  The hidden collections for this project are part of the 200-plus labor-related collections held by Special Collections. Maritime and migrant labor collections are of high scholarly value and our top priority is to increase their visibility and access. These collections connect to the theme of maritime and migrant labor in the Pacific Slope, tracing transnational labor flows and global economies, addressing an array of scholarly concerns: labor, industry, immigration, civil rights, and political history. They are important to Asian and Latin American studies, legal studies, and literary criticism as well as history, and attract scholars from around the Pacific and the US. Collections include records of important unions:ILWU, Cannery Workers, Carpenters, Ship Scalers, Fishermen, Inland boatmen, Marine Engineers;state and county labor federations; IWW; United Farm Workers of Washington, state political organizations and law firms, and the papers of important activists and journalists. Highlights include more than a dozen collections documenting often-overlooked communities such as Asian American labor activists, especially Filipino Americans; collections documenting the history of West Coast radicalism from the 1890s-2000s, and key materials on civil rights activism in African American, Asian American, Latin American, and labor circles. As well, legal scholars find documentation of pivotal 1970s affirmative action campaigns of high scholarly interest.

• First National Bank of Santa Fe

  The records of the First National Bank of Santa Fe cover the period from 1870 through 1940, a period that cover the 42 years before New Mexico became a state, through the early statehood period, and the Great Depression. According to Bank history, this was the first bank west of Kansas City, south of Denver, and east of San Francisco. It is the oldest bank in the Southwest currently in operation. The time of the Bank's founding was a time when the Southwest was bustling with activity. Only 24 years had passed since New Mexico was part of Mexico rather than the United States; Spanish was the predominant language, and the railroad had yet to appear. Economic and social history of the region is embedded in the bank's records. Land transactions, labor history, mining, the railroad, building construction, individual accumulation of wealth, the success and failure of businesses from New Mexico and across the country are documented in the collection. The history of the First National Bank of Santa Fe is a lens into the history of banking in this country. Much interesting and insightful historic, economic, and demographic data can be gleaned from analyzing the data contained in ledgers, cash books, correspondence, and documents. In many ways, this collection documents the economic history of New Mexico and much of the Southwest and beyond.

• Describing the Broun Collection

  The Maurice Broun collection (1906-1979), noted ornithologist, conservationist, and author, and first curator at Hawk Mountain, a sanctuary that is on the National Historic Register of Historic Places, from its founding as a sanctuary in 1934 until his retirement in 1966. His library and papers, donated by his widow in 1981, consist of some 1,500 books and 20 cubic feet of diaries, correspondence, research notes and papers, clippings, journals and pamphlets, photographs and films in various formats, and other materials. Of particular note are his diaries, which include detailed daily entries of his activities from the 1930s to the 1970s; his collection of slides and films, all of which appear to be meticulously labeled; a poster from the first meeting of the North American Hawk Migration Association in 1974, which is signed by all the attendees, including nationally-known ornithologist Chandler S. Robbins; and original letters with the authors that are tipped into some of the volumes of his book collection. Among the latter, some of the correspondents, such as Rachel Carson, are important naturalists and environmentalists. Also noteworthy, is the Oversees Photo Records compiled by Broun during his service in the Navy in the South Pacific in World War II. These two oversize published volumes include dozens of annotated photographs taken by Broun of military activities and everyday life in the South Pacific during the War.

• Oral History Cataloging Project

  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Oral History Collection holds more than 12,500 interviews comprising almost 24,000 hours of testimony with Holocaust survivors and victims of Nazi persecution as well as witnesses, collaborators, perpetrators, liberators, rescuers, and members of prosecution. Approximately 25 percent of the interviews were produced by the USHMM. In addition to its self-produced testimonies, the USHMM serves as a repository for more than 9,700 interviews conducted by 130 institutions, organizations, and groups, as well as 441 individual testimonies conducted by friends or family members of survivors. Contributing organizations have entrusted the USHMM to preserve these interviews for future generations and to make them accessible. Every year, the USHMM takes in several hundred testimonies from outside sources. The focus of this grant are the 1,450 interviews with non-Jewish bystanders, collaborators, and perpetrators recorded by the Museum since 1996. This collection offers an additional dimension to traditional Holocaust survivor testimony and is an invaluable primary resource for Holocaust education and combating Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism today.

• Herman Melville Collection, 1846-[ongoing]

  The Herman Melville Collection at the Newberry Library is one of the largest collections of Herman Melville material in the world (more than 6,100 items). Founded to support the work of the editorial staff of The Writings of Herman Melville, a joint project with Northwestern University to publish authoritative editions of Melville's works, the collection was built upon the personal library of materials compiled by Professor Harrison Hayford, General Editor of the project. Greatly augmented through purchases and gifts, the collection rapidly grew in number and scope to include nearly every edition and adaptation of Melville's work printed during his lifetime; thousands of editions and adaptations published from 1891 to the present, including editions of works in more than 40 languages, and a Moby Dick collection of more than 700 volumes; secondary sources on the study of Melville and his literary output; and sources (both textual and non-textual) documenting the popularity and importance of Melville's works to world literature and culture. Among the secondary sources, researchers can find more than 1,000 volumes of biography and criticism, a nearly comprehensive collection of English-language dissertations from 1930-1980, and works related to Melville's library and personal research. In addition to the traditional printed works and anthologies, the Collection includes children's books, comic books, Braille editions, audio recordings, illustrations, and works of art.