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• 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.
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  American View Books

  American View Books in the Avery Classics Collection provide pictorial documentation of cities and towns throughout the United States. The collection is comprised of 4,800 items, broadly termed “books” published in a variety of formats, including printed books, photographic albums, and novelties. Together these items present an illustrated history of the American built environment from the mid-nineteenth century to the twentieth century, a history told through images of buildings, streetscapes, monuments, and park lands. Intended as souvenir books for tourists, view books were often produced by local organizations like Chambers of Commerce to create a visual keepsake of a town or to commemorate major events including world’s fairs and natural disasters. Because of this, many of the books have an ephemeral quality, with paperback bindings or accordion-style paper fold-outs. The view books feature all types of photomechanical processes, such as albumen prints, chromolithographs, photolithographs, photogravures, photographs, and engravings. Novelty formats include stereograph cards, collapsible peep shows, and decks of playing cards. Taken as a group, the view books contain hundreds of thousands of images as well as detailed texts describing the growth of local industries, the construction of major buildings, the development of transportation networks, and the characteristics of regional architectural styles.

• Pocket Collections

  The Clark Library has identified six separate collections to be cataloged. 1. Ward Ritchie (1905-1996): 2500 monographs, serials, pamphlets, and clippings on both fine and commercial printing, typography, papermaking, and the history of the book, published during the 19th and 20th centuries, from Ritchie's personal library. A collection of about 10 boxes of personal papers, artwork, and ephemera. The items in this collection are part of a larger bequest. Most of which is already cataloged. 2. Richard Popkin (1923-2005): a donation of approximately 100 cartons of archives and personal papers used in his study and writing of religion and the history of philosophy. 3. William Roscoe (1735-1851): a donation of 220 books, dating from the 18th through 20th centuries, comprising contemporary and modern publications of his work. 4. James MacNeill Whistler (1834-1903): 780 books published in the late 19th through mid-20th centuries, primarily in English, comprising works about him, works illustrated by him, as well as a multi-volume portfolio of his etchings. 5. History of women collection: a collection of about 100 books, primarily in French, but also in English and German, from the 17th and 18th centuries. These works are part of a larger cataloged collection with few extant examples. 6. Engraved music: a collection of 200 scores, dating primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, comprising operas, sonatas, and scores for instrumental music.
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  The Churchill Weavers Collection - 40,000 Textiles Uncovered

  The materials comprise an archive of three-dimensional objects representing all hand-woven products made by Churchill Weavers from 1922 to 2007. Once considered America’s largest and finest hand-weaving studio, Churchill Weavers was founded in the rural Appalachian town of Berea, KY. As a record of production, Churchill Weavers kept a sample of almost every hand-woven creation they made in their 85 year history. The fabric archive is made-up of an estimated 40,000 fabric pieces in the form of swatches, yardage, finished and unfinished products, salesmen samples, and color blankets. These samples represent all Churchill Weavers production lines: scarves, baby blankets, couch throws, coverlets, household fabrics, ready-to-wear clothing, handbags, and men’s neckties. Specific weaving information, color ways, and design records accompany samples on attached product labels, paper notes, and tags. The collection includes unusual experimental fabrics that were not sold to the public, such as 1960s “space cloth” from a Churchill Weavers and NASA partnership to produce space suit lining material for Mercury mission astronauts; and samples of 1970s and 80s fiber art from the company’s work with American textile artist Gerhardt Knodel. Topics include: Appalachian weaving styles incorporated with modern tastes, fashion and artistry in hand-woven textile design and creation, economic impact on Appalachian region, and fiber science and experimentation.

• ARC and Artemisia Galleries: Women Artists' Cooperatives in Chicago

  Artemisia and ARC Galleries were the first women artists' cooperatives in the Midwest, opening in Chicago in September 1973. At the time women artists were marginalized in the art world and established both galleries to counter the prevailing male domination of the art world - the women needed to create their own exhibition space, control the programming, establish mentoring relationships, and have a space where they could freely and openly discuss feminist art, theory and other issues. They also reached out to artists across the country inviting them to exhibit and to speak, including Judy Chicago, Ruth Iskin, Cindy Nemser, Arlene Raven, and Miriam Schapiro. The galleries presented important feminist art exhibitions: ARC's “A Day in the Life, 24 Hours in the Life of a Creative Woman” and Artemisia's “Both Sides Now: an International Exhibition Integrating Feminism and Leftist Politics” both curated by Lucy Lippard. The collections contain exhibition catalogs, installation photographs, and artists' portfolios that were submitted for review, press coverage, and business records. ARC Gallery continues in business and has made a commitment to continue to deposit its papers at the Art Institute. Artemisia Gallery closed in 2003.

• Bringing Film Collections to Light: A Project to Uncover Two Unique Collections of Film Ephemera

  The items to be uncovered by this project comprise two unique collections of American film ephemera: The Richard E. Teichert Collection and the Philip Sills Collection. These collections contain posters, glass slides, programs, sheet music, press books, magazines, scrapbooks, lobby cards, stills and other ephemera representative of the American film industry from the late-19th through the mid-20th century. The Richard E. Teichert collection is comprised of materials that are primarily related to the silent-film era (1896-1929). All of the major productions and major stars of the period are represented. In addition to its rich array of silent film materials, The Teichert Collection also contains numerous posters for the Western stars of the 1930s. The other collection, The Philip Sills Collection, is much larger and contains a wider array of materials that chronicle the American film industry from 1927 to 1970. This collection contains over 110,000 items, and consists primarily of film posters and film stills. The Sills Collection is particularly strong in materials that document films from the 1940s and 1950s. Preliminary finding aids for both the Teichert and the Sills Collections currently exist only in hard copy. The information for the Philip Sills Collection is contained in a card catalog and a rudimentary typed list of 181 single-spaced pages that was created from the catalog. The typed list contains only release dates and titles of the films. The preliminary finding aid for the Richard E. Teichert Collection is even more skeletal. It consists of a 7-page typed list that only includes titles of some of the posters and some of the glass slides. These hard-copy finding aids are ineffective for several reasons. First, they are not electronically accessible or searchable. Researchers who wish to use the collection lists or the Sills card catalog must be on site and must spend an inordinate amount of time browsing through each card or entry in order to discover pertinent information. Also, the lists are incomplete and contain no descriptors such as names of performers, directors, studios, etc. Due to the lack of detail and difficulty of searching the finding aids, the materials in these collections remain virtually inaccessible.
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  Discovering the Future: The New York Word's Fairs Collections of 1939 and 1964 at the Museum of the City of New York and the Queens Museum of Art

  MCNY and QMA together hold around 12,000 items (approximately 367 boxes and 450 oversize/irregular objects) documenting the New York World’s Fairs of 1939 and 1964, including books, pamphlets, printed ephemera, rare architectural blueprints, original artworks, film and audio recordings, photographic prints and negatives, architectural models, textiles, and realia. The varied formats and subjects of these materials present scholars with a uniquely holistic perspective on events that shaped the physical and cultural landscape of the city, even as their impact was felt around the globe. Increasing public access to the collections is extremely timely; with the 75th and 50th anniversaries of the Fairs in 2014, both museums anticipate heightened research interest in these materials. The museums steward many architectural plans and original design renderings from the Fairs, as well as official and unofficial photographs and home movies of the Fairs during construction and after they opened to the public. Realia is another important component of the two collections, and includes Fair-themed jewelry, scarves, buttons, plates, and other memorabilia. QMA holds a rare trove of photos, documents, and ephemera related to Salvador Dali’s 1939 Dream of Venus pavilion, as well as the entire Photography as Fine Art exhibit from the 1964 Kodak Pavilion. QMA is also home to The Panorama of the City of New York, a 10,000-scale architectural model commissioned by Robert Moses for the 1964 Fair.
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  Private Practices, Public Health: Privacy-Aware Processing to Maximize Access to Health Collections

  We will catalog personal and professional papers of 7 leaders in the field of Public Health. Collections are held by the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (Hopkins) and the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Countway). Included are papers of Barbara Starfield, known for her work on primary care and health policy (Hopkins); Arnold Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine who has written on the economic, ethical, legal, and social aspects of health care (Countway); Frank Polk, early leading AIDS researcher (Hopkins); Stephen Lagakos, known for his AIDS research and research linking poor water conditions to public health problems (Countway); E. V. McCollum, who discovered vitamins A & D (Hopkins); William and Miriam Pauls Hardy, audiologists who pioneered the screening of children for hearing loss (Hopkins); and Erich Lindemann, specialist in social and disaster psychiatry and community mental health (Countway). Collections document the interactions of leaders in public health with colleagues worldwide. Collections include correspondence, research data, teaching materials, student notebooks, biographical material, manuscripts, reprints, publications, photographs, sound recordings, electronic records, and material culture. Project includes wide variety of media, including textual documents, still and moving images, audio, electronic records, and material culture objects.

• Out of the Smoke and Ashes: Processing the Records of Pennsylvania’s Coke and Coal Industry

  The materials to be processed document primarily the Western PA coal and coke industry. They include the records of firms such as the Ricks Company, which manufactured and marketed a conveyor feeding system used in the processing of coal for coke production; records of H.C. Frick and Company, which document properties, buildings, machinery, workers, and operations involved in coal mining, coke production, and steel production covering the H.C. Frick Company and U.S. Steel Corporation subsidiaries within Fayette County, PA; ; and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh Division Records, which documents the railroad division's general management history. The Coal and Coke Heritage Photograph Collection documents the social history of several Fayette county communities--Uniontown, Connellsville, Brownsville--and other company towns dominated by the Frick Company and U.S. Steel; the Coal and Coke Heritage Oral History Collection contains ca. 1,000 interviews with coke and coke workers and area residents in the greater Fayette County region documenting life working for the coal and coke industry as well as life in the region; the Harold W. Aurand Anthracite Oral History Collection, 107 interviews chronicling miners' work experiences and community life in the anthracite coal industry in and around Hazleton, PA; and 40 interviews by Alan Derickson on Black Lung Disease. A summary follows: Ricks Manufacturing Company. Ca. 750 plans and drawings, plus drawers of client files, large box of company ledgers. Early-mid-20th century. No inventory or description exists for this collection. H.C. Frick and Company Records. Ca. 30 linear feet; 500 photographs, 19th-mid 20th century. A partial hand-written list exists for the photographs. Coal and Coke Heritage Photograph Collection. Ca. 250 images. A partial hand-written list exists. Coal and Coke Heritage Oral History Collection, ca. 1,000 interviews, 1977-present. The only access exists through a typed list of interviewee names. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Division Records. 250 Ln. Ft., 1920s- early 1970s. Collection-level MARC record is the only access. Harold W. Aurand Anthracite Oral History Collection. 107 items, 1975-1988. Collection-level MARC record is the only access. Alan Derickson Research Interviews Concerning Black Lung Disease. 40 Items, 1990-1994. Collection-level MARC record is the only access. In addition to these collections there are number of small individual coke worker related collections (most coming from interviewees) at the CCHC. Access exists primarily through the memory of the part-time staff member.

• Uncovering Philadelphia's Past: A Regional Solution to Revealing Hidden Collections

  This consortial project, encompassing 80 collections totaling more than 2,900 linear feet held in 18 area repositories, builds on preliminary work that laid the foundation for a regional approach to managing and providing access to historical collections. Collections included address the scientific, cultural, aesthetic, social and spiritual mores of American society from the earliest European settlement across more than three centuries as they were expressed regionally, nationally and internationally. The collections (see appendix) are especially strong in five areas: the political, economic, social and cultural history of the Delaware Valley; the history and evolution of American science and medicine; the American religious experience; history of education; and social justice and activism. Each individual collection has a high research value, often as determined by the PACSCL Survey Initiative. That value will be increased in the context of the shared PACSCL Finding Aids site, enabling researchers to draw topical connections between collections and across repositories. This is an extensive and complex project with partners ranging from major universities to smaller libraries and museums. PACSCL has increased the range of partners to include three additional non-PACSCL institutions -- a university, an archives, and a local historical society -- to foster collaboration, extend connections across collections, refine metrics, and test broader applicability of the protocols.

• Collections and resources for the study of women’s military history

  For more than 25 years the Smithsonian's Division of Armed Forces History, has collected artifacts, records, and biographical materials to document women's participation in military institutions. Although much of this material reflects the past century when women became official members of the armed forces, the archival and research resource collections proposed for this project also represent an expanded concept of military service. Throughout history, women have engaged in many activities, unofficial as well as sanctioned, that served military purposes, often indispensable but seldom acknowledged. Because military historians largely ignore women, while women's historians disdain the military, much of this history remains hidden. Our singular collection illuminates and documents this lost or undervalued history. It comprises a rich assemblage of publications, documents, records, diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, graphics, videos, oral histories, exhibition scripts, and ephemera. Portions of the collection, notably material associated with the division's outstanding women's uniform collection, are readily accessible, but most of it lacks access points. We also plan to identify and link to much additional relevant material that resides in other Smithsonian collections and in major military repositories lacking the label of women's military history.

• Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Papers

  Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch (1884-1976) was a New York businessman who collected arms and armor from 1914 until his death. In 1963, Princeton University Library published a catalogue of the art collection. Following a decades-long relationship with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he bequeathed, in 1977, his entire collection (along with its important library and archive) to the Museum where it was installed in a series of specially built galleries. The Kienbusch papers provide documentation of the Collection and biographical information. Correspondence and materials document his interactions with dealers, collectors, museums, and distinguished scholars. It includes an estate appraisal, copies of his will, inventories, receipts and invoices, drafts of articles, articles by others on the Collection, annotated auction catalogues, and genealogical files on the Kienbusch family. There is a large quantity of photographic material (over 40% of the collection): prints of objects in the collection and objects in other collections; glass and film negatives and photographs from Kienbusch's European travels; and lantern slides to accompany lectures. Personal papers include appointment books, travel diaries, autobiographies, a family history, photographs, tickets, receipts, and ephemera. The travel diaries and scrapbooks with photographs document collecting and study trips to Europe. Finally, the collection includes loose photographs of Kienbusch and his family members.

• Marvin Chauncey Ross Papers

  Most of the material in the collection focuses on Byzantine, medieval, and Russian objects—metalwork, ceramics, glyptics, jewelry, enamels, mosaics, and paintings, sculpture, and drawings. The correspondence comes from museum curators and directors, photographers, commercial galleries, and private collectors worldwide. Since the collection is not cataloged, a selection of four cases was processed in order to estimate the amount of material needed for preservation of the contents and the subject and sources were recorded. Box 001: Contents: 6 folders—260 photographs; 7 postcards; correspondence; publications; notes. Partial summary of Subjects: Constantinian porphyry sarcophagus, 15c; Conques Treasure, France, 13 c; 11 c silver gild book covers; 7 c coins; 11 c mosaic; Thomas Loraine McKenney, Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, 1814; 6 c Syrian silver bowl; 1-2 c limestone Paymyrene funerary stele; 4 c mosaics; 14-13 c BC Mycenean gold dish; Guarrazal Treasure 7 c. Partial summary of Sources: Giraudon, Paris; A. John Hugh-Smith Coll.; Virginia Mus of Art; MFA, Houston; Kofler-Truniger, Luzern; Bibl. Nat., Paris; Scala; Louvre; American Numismatic Soc.; Instanbul Archeol. Mus; Dumbarton Oaks; Hermitage Mus, St Petersburg; Cornelius C. Vermeule, MFA, Boston; RISD; Palazzo Carignano, Turn; Charles Parkhurst, Oberlin, Allen Mem Art Mus; Venice Accademia; Abegg-Stiftung Bern; Hispanic Soc of Amer., NY; Marguerite Mallon, Rome; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
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  Lee Metcalf Photograph and Film Collections

  The Lee Metcalf Photograph and Film Collections document the life and work of Senator Lee Metcalf. The materials, dating from 1915-1978, illustrate the career of one of Montana’s most renowned political figures. During his career Metcalf served as state representative, assistant Attorney General, associate justice on the Montana Supreme Court, U.S. Representative and, for over two decades, U.S. Senator. Metcalf had many interests that he supported, chief of which was protecting the nation's natural resources. He was an early proponent of pollution control; supported research on the harmful effects of pesticides and strip mining; promoted the regulation of timber cutting; and supported alternative energy development. His efforts to preserve the nation's wild areas were lauded by national conservation organizations. Metcalf also supported rural cooperatives, public power projects, and assistance to independent agriculture and mine workers. He advocated using government resources to redress social injustices, including proposing and working for legislation on Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, and veterans' benefits; aid to libraries, schools and small businesses; minimum wage laws; work safety laws; job training programs; consumer protection; and the return of control over their own lives to Native Americans. The Metcalf Collections illustrate the Senator’s projects, interests and work in Montana, Washington DC, and the nation through still and moving images.

• Goddard College Archives

  The Goddard College archives document the college's rich 150 year history, first as a Universalist Seminary, then as an icon of progressive postsecondary and adult education. This project will make available a wealth of primary documentation related to the national conversations to which Goddard has repeatedly contributed. The archives document the philosophical foundation, creation, development, and growth of a protean, experimental college. Examples: (1) Political and cultural engagement, such as Civil Rights-related protests, providing safe havens for perceived radicals, such as members of the Hollywood Ten and the Chicago Seven; pioneering academic programs focusing on Feminist's Studies and Afro-American Studies; (2) Founding membership of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities; (3) The Adult Degree Program (started in 1963), which pioneered low-residency adult education; (4) The Goddard Design Program (1971-1977), the first institutional home of design-build, an architectural movement native to Vermont with influence on architectural practice worldwide; (5) The single-parent programwith family housing and on-campus child care. (6) Farm, Labor, and Canadian-American Business Conferences, which were held on campus during the semester breaks, extending the educational mission beyond traditional age learners. (7) Goddard's Service Learning Program, requiring students to fulfill a non-resident work term.

• Immigration, Migration, and Assimilation in the 20th Century American West: An Oral History Collection at California State University, Northridge

  These oral histories chronicle immigrant and migrant experiences from the perspectives of Asian, European, Latino, Jewish, and African-American individuals. Most relocated to and worked in the western United States. Their narratives are first-hand accounts of the sweeping cultural, social, political, and economic transformations that reshaped the United States and the world in the 20th century. The collection includes descriptions of the conditions that motivated immigrants and migrants to leave their homes, journeys to the US, and the challenges faced by immigrants and their children. More specifically, the collection includes first-hand accounts from Armenian refugees following World War I, migrants to California from the Dust Bowl and other parts of the US during the Great Depression, Jewish immigrants from Europe in the late 1930s, Japanese immigrants and Japanese-American experiences throughout the 20th century, migrants to California from other parts of the US who worked in the war industry during World War II, Jewish refugees and survivors of the Holocaust following World War II, refugees of the Communist Revolution in China, Jewish and other refugees from Russia in the early years of the Cold War, African Americans who moved west as part of the Second Great Migration, and migrant workers from Mexico and other Central and South American nations from the 1930s through the 1980s.
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  Out West: The LGBTQ Community Archive Cataloging Project

  Out West features 89 collections from the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives of USC Libraries and 22 collections from the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. These collections preserve the history of struggle for LGBT civil rights and give a comprehensive view of U.S. LGBT activists, artists, and organizations over a 50-year period. Ranging from records of the Asian/Pacific Lesbians and Gays, the Blue Max Motorcycle Club, the Community United Against Violence, and the Gay Men’s Chorus to artifacts documenting the life of Harvey Milk and the papers of pioneering activists José Sarria and Hank Wilson, novelist Patricia Nell Warren, and the Woman’s Building art center--founded in 1973 by Judy Chicago--these collections capture myriad facets of pre- and post-Stonewall LGBT experience. Revealing the hidden origins of LGBT social equality movements in the 1940s and 1950s, collections at each archive focus on L.A.- and San Francisco-based people and organizations with national impact on LGBT civil rights. Collections at ONE and GLBTHS complement one another, tracing similar organizations and showing how “going West” to California enabled diverse LGBT identities and modes of communal expression. Archival materials include papers, records, manuscripts, photographs, research, and ephemera: from the suit worn by Harvey Milk when he was assassinated to early gay wedding photos, matchbooks from 1950s gay bars, and memorabilia from José Sarria’s 1961 campaign for SF city supervisor.

• 150 Years of the Morrill Act: The Impact of Land Grant Institutions on Agricultural History and Rural Life in the U.S.

  The J. C. Allen & Son photographic collection focuses on agriculture and horticulture around the state of Indiana as well as other states such as Illinois, Michigan, and Texas. The images document rural life showing individuals working on farms, livestock, barns, farm homes and buildings, state fairs, farm equipment, instruction in the field, 4-H activities, and crop growing. The images also depict Purdue University campus scenes and events, as well as athletic contests. The collection covers the time period from 1910s to 1970s. The Purdue University College of Agriculture archival records contain a wealth of historical information regarding the early beginnings of the College with an emphasis on Agricultural Extension work (and some work in conjunction with the University of Illinois) and Agricultural Experiment Station work, 4-H, short courses, papers of longtime Dean of College of Agriculture John H. Skinner, and the University's dairy farm. This collection also encompasses overall Purdue University historical materials, general land grant university documentation, U.S. Department of Agriculture papers and documents as well as correspondence with the Secretary of Agriculture, and Big Ten/Intercollegiate Conference correspondence and documents. The collection covers the time period from 1890s to the 1960s.

• Centerpiece: Illuminating the Archives of the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center

  The materials consist of two collections that are significant in the study of vocational training for the disabled in both Virginia and the nation. The Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center Collection traces the history of the nation's first state-owned and operated comprehensive vocational rehabilitation center. WWRC was established to provide medical treatment and job training so individuals with disabilities could secure employment and independence. Because Virginia established a vocational rehabilitation program prior to the passage of the first Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act in 1920, its WWRC emerged as an early national leader in the field, helping to shape vocational rehabilitation as it exists today. The archives cover the start of the WWRC in the former Woodrow Wilson Army Hospital and trace changing programming and national attitudes toward disabilities and rehabilitation, moving from working with physically injured soldiers to serving anyone with a physical or mental disability. The Switzer Collection includes materials from Mary Switzer, who served under 9 presidents and was the highest ranking female bureaucrat in the Federal government when she retired in 1970. Switzer was director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, administrator of the Social and Rehabilitation Service at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and was instrumental establishing the World Health Organization and in the passage of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1954.

• Documenting Advocacy: Human Rights Collections in the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, Columbia University

  Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Southern Africa Project (LCCR), 1971-1994; Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), 1982-2011; Human Rights First (HRF), 1978- 2003. The collections contain a broad range of material from the 1980s through the early 2000s, covering these US organizations’ formation and early history, day-to-day operations, missions, meetings, interactions with other NGOs and governments, participation in conferences, and research projects. Some files also contain interviews/correspondence with victims of human rights violations. Topics are diverse, ranging from women’s rights in China to refugees seeking US asylum to the formation of the International Criminal Court. HRF places emphasis on issues in the Middle East and Latin America, while PHR contains extensive files on missions to the Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Cambodia, and Iraqi Kurdistan. However, both collections contain significant material on all regions of the world. LCCR contains material used by the Committee to carry on and advocate for their work throughout Southern Africa, with the highest concentration of material relating to South Africa and Namibia. Because of their large size and variety of information, these collections have tremendous research potential for scholars and current human rights activists, particularly those interested in how human rights organizations form and develop over time, and what programs and strategies have been most effective.

• Unearthing the Historic Geology Library and Archives Resources at the Museum of Geology, SDSM&T

  The library and archives resources of the Museum of Geology, SDSM&T, reflect over 125 years of institutional and regional history in mining, mineralogy and paleontology. Recently these collections were moved into a new, dedicated repository building, and for the first time can be catalogued, databased, and made available to students and researchers. The existing collections have been augmented by donations from state agencies and individuals. We are in the initial stages of establishing a linked geological archives system for the history and natural science institutions in western South Dakota and surrounding regions. This award will enable us to complete the crucial next phase of this project: establishing a database, cataloguing, developing finding aids, and providing help to bring other related collections across the region into this coordinated system.

• Letters to East L.A.: Mexicano American Wartime Correspondence from WWII to Vietnam

  Letters to East L.A. is a new initiative to document Chicano military service during WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, drawing on a unique and extensive collection of wartime correspondence that gives insight into the experiences of servicemen's families and community back home during wartime, and also the critical role of the first Latino from California to serve in the U.S. Congress since 1878. The correspondence included in this project reflects the experiences of people living in East L.A. during these wars, and it serves as an ideal entry point for situating Chicano military service and home front experiences in U.S. history. They include letters between a young woman (and future civic leader) and active duty servicemen, between a husband and wife separated by war (and among extended family members), and between an elected official and his constituents. These stories and the voices captured within 234 linear feet of correspondence belong to the generation of Mexican Americans who are amongst America's “greatest generation.” For Chicanos, this era generated an age group which is largely responsible for Mexican Americans' increasing participation within public institutions and a movement toward greater social empowerment and achievement within the larger American social framework.

• City, Borough, Neighborhood, Home: Mapping Brooklyn's Twentieth-Century Urban Identity

  City, Borough, Neighborhood, Home includes maps and archival materials that document Brooklyn's development from an independent city in the 19th century, through its consolidation with New York City, into one the largest and most diverse urban centers in America during the 20th century. The majority of maps and documents were created by local entities -- government, neighborhood associations, preservation organizations, and businesses-- and are rare or unique to BHS. An initial sampling of the maps found only 5 percent with records in Worldcat, but revealed political, topographical, transit, utility, and property maps that show the physical, ethnic, and institutional transformation of Brooklyn thought the 20th century. Records of the Corporate Counsel of Brooklyn include its "street openings" files and other matters brought by and against the City of Brooklyn to 1898 and after, as a borough of New York City. These documents track the expansion of Brooklyn’s street grid and infrastructure block-by-block, lawsuit-by-lawsuit, and record civil servant grievances; tax and property disputes; injury and breach of contract claims; and some criminal matters. BHS’s collections show Brooklyn becoming a deeply intertwined part of NYC while forging its own internationally recognized identity, place Brooklyn as a center of scholarship and debate about urban history, and convey important lessons about urban redevelopment, public-private partnerships, immigration, and community building.

• Scholarly Threads: Connecting Collections from Academic Sources

  The South Caroliniana Library (SCL), the oldest and most widely used specialized collection at USC, houses regional manuscript and research materials. This proposal seeks support to catalog nationally relevant papers of six academic scholars from southern institutions. They contain over 125 linear feet of correspondence, research notes, and manuscript drafts. The six individuals are: historian Yates Snowden (USC), literary critic and poet Monroe K. Spears (Vanderbilt U. and The U. of the South), an authority on modern British and American poetry, Guy Davenport (U. of Kentucky), an editor, translator and writer of fiction and criticism, Andrew Billingsley (USC) a specialist on the African American family, and George Fletcher Bass (Texas A&M), a pioneering underwater archaeologist. Each is an important collection; however, they are also connected by their origins. They contain correspondence and research that document the contributions of their authors, but they also reveal the methodologies and career paths of academics who were engaged as teachers but also as noted writers and professional leaders in their fields. Because of this they fill a unique niche, yet, due to priorities within the library's strategy for cataloging, including fragile early collections, they are not accessible. They are truly “hidden collections” with much research promise as well as potential links to similar collections of scholars at other institutions.

• The David Sarnoff Collection Processing Project

  The David Sarnoff Collection, approximately 2,800 linear feet covering the years between 1912 and 1986, is the most significant collection on the 20th-century rise of American commercial broadcasting, telecommunications, and military and civilian electronics in existence. The collection came to Hagley in 2009 due to the closure of the David Sarnoff Library of Princeton, NJ. David Sarnoff (1891-1971) was a pioneer in the creation of 20th-century American radio and television broadcasting as well as the development of the American electronics industry. Included in the collection are Sarnoff's voluminous personal correspondence, films, negatives, photographs, recordings, interviews, and scrapbooks. These materials document his long career, beginning with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, spanning his construction of a media empire based on the Radio Corporation of American (RCA) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and involving his development of postwar telecommunications and consumer electronics, and battles with regulatory agencies. A comprehensive set of the notebooks, technical reports, and scientists' writings from RCA's laboratories document technological innovations including the development of FM radio, transistors, color television, videodisks, computers, and satellites. The collection also includes strategic corporate communications for RCA and NBC, as well as extensive marketing literature and correspondence.