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  Moving Images 1938-1940: Amateur Filmmakers Record the New York World's Fair and Its Period

  The topic of this three-institution collaborative project is the New York World's Fair (1939-1940), and the context of other amateur films made during that period. The materials are original 16mm and 8mm film reels, the records of individuals and families. The partners will catalog film at Northeast Historic Film, Queens Museum of Art, and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. These moving images are primary source materials considered essential to study of the period. Footage is by members of the Amateur Cinema League and others. Architect Stephen F. Voorhees was vice president of the New York World's Fair and president of the Amateur Cinema League (ACL). In the ACL monthly magazine he wrote, "The New York World's Fair depends upon your camera and your eye to tell other generations that here, in 1939, men and women of good will from all over the earth had the courage to set up a tribute to the ways of peace and the hope of perfection." (ACL Movie Makers, June 1939) The Robert Decker Collection at Northeast Historic Film is Kodachrome color footage. Kodachrome, introduced by Kodak in 1923 and discontinued 2009, provided exceptional color quality and archival stability. Queens Museum of Art holds the 8mm and 16mm film of Ritabelle Shore and others. George Eastman House film is b&w and Kodachrome, received from personal collections, that describe New York City including Times Square, Jones Beach, and the World’s Fair.

• Creating a Shared catalog for New York's Ethnographic Collections: A Cooperative Project

  The identified folklore collections include materials which illustrate the use of cultural knowledge (oral narrative, handmade objects, music, dance, etc) within New York's communities. They illustrate New York's role in championing traditional music and culture through the Folk Revival Movement based in New York City and the WPA Programs of the 1930s, spearheaded by Ben Botkin. The collections for this project date to early twentieth century fieldwork and field studies influenced by early anthropological theories and methods. Early folklorists sought out rural communities or inner city ethnic enclaves for study. Folklore collecters and researchers were also active in 20th century radical political and social movements as well as educational reform movements. The collections of Camp Woodland are notable in this regards. The contents of the identified folklore collections include information on New York State arts and architecture, recreation and leisure, labor, education, politics, individual responses to war and conflict, social organization and activity, and social reform and social welfare. They include early Dutch & Iroquois languge and dialect recordings. They chronicle the regional nature of New York State, as well as new immigrant, refugee, and diaspora communities. Folklore materials are important to anthropology and ethnomusicology, sociology, history, and American and popular culture studies. Records are multi-format with audio and film being the norm.

• Cataloging Artifacts and Related Records of the World Trade Center Attack on September 11, 2001

  The materials can be divided into five general categories: 1) posters, letters, photographs and other ephemera left by the families of the victims at Pier 94 (the temporary family service center), and at the 9/11 memorial sites on the footprint of the towers; 2) material placed in City parks and other public places in the aftermath of the event; 3) artifacts of the World Trade Center buildings, vehicles, and other items recovered from the site, via Fresh Kills, Staten Island, where the debris had been brought for screening; 4) brochures and other printed material prepared by the Mayor's Community Assistance Unit to assist the victim families; and 5) correspondence sent to the Mayor's office and rescue workers.

• Cataloging the Map Collections of the New York City Municipal Archives

  The Municipal Archives is proposing to catalog its diverse and voluminous map records. Based on an initial survey of accession information, there are 111 collections that are described as maps; they total approximately 2,676 cubic feet, and span three centuries. The project will focus on city-government produced material. Published maps and atlases, including insurance maps (which account for approximately 250 cubic feet of the total), will not be included, unless it can be determined that they are unique and do not exist in any other institution. Maps in the Municipal Archives are identified as collections, as series within larger collections, and as individual items within series. They can be divided into several broad categories: property, waterfront, political subdivision, topography, and infrastructure. The “estate and farm” maps and the property-tax assessment maps, date back to the mid-eighteenth century. Often hand-colored, they indicate ownership of large tracts of land and their subsequent subdivision into building lots. Every inch of the city's many miles of waterfront is documented in a series of extraordinarily detailed survey maps. Other maps show the changing boundaries of political subdivisions within the city. Topographical maps indicate the natural features of the city. Maps that relate to construction of the city's parks, transportation, water and sewer infrastructure exist in significant quantities.

• Mapas historicos de Nuevo Mexico = Historic New Mexico Maps

  The Mapas historicos de Nuevo Mexico = Historic New Mexico Maps project will make an important regional collection of southwest history accessible to a wide range of researchers, historians, students and the general public. The map collection of primary historical documents held at the Fray Angélico Chavez History Library is a major resource of information about perspectives, beliefs and attitudes of long ago. The collection showcases the rich and complex history of the 47th state. It is a window to the past, to the age of Puebloan societies and to Spanish missions on the Camino Real. The maps reflect the changing landscapes, from Spain to Mexico, to US Territory, and the long struggle for statehood. By the advance of the modern era, with the influx of "Americans" on the Santa Fe Trail and the coming of the railroad, to the creation of a tourist mecca in the Land of Enchantment, the maps mirror the diversity of culture, language and geography that is today's New Mexico. The collection includes approximately: 3,100 maps from the 16th through 20th centuries of the Southwest, New Mexico, and Santa Fe, including Wheeler topographical maps, New Mexico county and city maps, as well as maps of North America, the Western Hemisphere, and many US states ; 1,200 blueprint Right of Way, Valuation, and Station railway maps from companies that operated in New Mexico, from the 19th to early 20th centuries ; 1,200 New Mexico Highway Department maps from the 20th century.

• Revealing the Treasures of Tennessee's Past

  The Nathaniel Crippens Papers dates the modern civil rights movement and contains glimpses into the dismantling of segregation in Tennessee's education system. This hidden treasure contains the Nashville Education Improvement Project papers; personal papers and letters on early teaching experiences in Nashville; materials relating to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Mr. Crippens' involvement with each; programs from fraternity events; teacher programs after integrating schools in Nashville; audio tapes of speeches with Civil Rights Movement participants; and material written on equitable education. Mr. Crippens was also an educator involved in the desegregation of local universities. Additionally, the Margaret Cate Papers are among the hidden collections in the division. In 1957, Ms. Cate was the principal of Hattie Cotton Elementary School. The previously all-white school was bombed because one African American first grader enrolled. The collections includes letters, clippings, photographs and correspondence. The Beverly Briley Collection is a compilation of papers of the first mayor of Metro Nashville at the onset of city/county government separation. Research value includes local government infrastructure. Hidden within the collection is transcripts, speeches, photographs and papers. The other hidden material include the Ann Wells Map Collection which is a collection of 146 (16th-19th Century) Tennessee maps; and the historic Nashville Banner biographical papers.

• Accessing Moving Image Material Culture

  The Museum maintains the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of artifacts relating to the art, history, and technology of the moving image--one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. Begun at the Museum's inception in 1981, today the collection numbers approximately 130,000 artifacts. The Museum's 45 artifact classes include: animation materials; books, literature, and periodicals; still photographs; motion picture cameras and projectors; television receivers; publicity materials; and costumes. Each artifact type will receive a detailed listing in the proposed finding aid. Photographs and periodicals comprise close to 30 percent of the Museum's holdings. Working from a base of 28,500 photographs, the Museum will create title-level catalog records for scene stills, portraits, behind-the-scenes photographs, theater site photographs, and equipment photographs. Title-level catalog records will also be created for the 500 periodical titles (approximately 6,000 issues) in the collection, including fan magazines, industry newsletters, and trade journals from 1911 to the present.

• Cataloging Prints and Printed Ephemera at the Museum of the City of New York

  The material to be cataloged consists of prints and printed ephemera contained in the Museum's Prints, Manuscripts, and Library collections. The Museum's diverse collection of prints ranges from 17th-century depictions of New Amsterdam to works by contemporary masters like Alex Katz and Robert Rauschenberg. Through commercial illustrations, maps, and artistic impressions, the print collection documents the evolution of the city's built environment as well as its social history. Printed ephemeral materials, traditionally part of the Museum's "Manuscripts" collection, cover a variety of topics and formats including: political election and campaign materials such as election cards, circulars, and invitations; items related to social events, concerts, lectures, balls, and public dinners, including invitations, dance cards, and menus; memorabilia related to bridges, fairs, celebrations, and the 1939 and 1964 Worlds Fairs; certificates for volunteer fire departments, churches, schools, and other entities; personal documents such as passports, licenses, and citizenship papers; trade cards, advertisements, and bootleggers' cards; bills and receipts for goods and services; and ephemera related to movements such as prohibition and women's suffrage; and other material documenting the daily life of New Yorkers. Finally, the pamphlets collection from the Museum's Library contains items published in conjunction with political events, anniversaries, inaugurations, and other civic matters.

• Hidden Moravian Music Collections: The Six-Inch View and the 30,000-Foot View

  The collections of the Moravian Music Foundation contain almost 20,000 manuscripts and early imprints of vocal and instrumental music, sacred and secular, from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries. Not all of this was written by Moravian composers, but it is all music which the Moravians used and enjoyed. Included in the collections of the Moravian Music Foundation are works by Haydn and Mozart, J. C. Bach, Abel, Johann Stamitz, and a host of lesser-known composers. A number of these are the only known copies in the world. While those large manuscript collections have been cataloged and hopefully will be converted to digital form, there remain other uncataloged collections. Of MMF's 81 collections51.7 percent (42 collections) are uncataloged or inventoried/not cataloged. Although this seems a high percentage, it is a low percentage of the number of titles under the care of the Moravian Music Foundation. The preliminary assessment of uncataloged materials is that there are 170 flat-storage archival boxes, 40 folders, 13 bound volumes, and 34 manuscript books (not in boxes). These materials include manuscript and published music, some individual pieces of music and some bound together, some hymn tune books, some copies of items in other Foundation collections, some part books, the Lowens Collection of 18th and 19th century American tunebooks, collections of program booklets and lovefeast odes, some personal copy books, some orphaned parts, and media.

• Cataloging of rare and unique books from The Museum of Modern Art Library's Special Collections, Latin American Collection, and Asian Collection.

  The Museum's recent expansion and renovation project, completed in 2006, nearly doubled MoMA's exhibition space and resulted in the construction of The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building. This new facility greatly enhances the Museum's capacity to offer a dynamic array of programs and resources and coincided with a remarkable growth in Library acquisitions, made possible by a series of gifts and endowed acquisition funds. While the Library catalogs close to 5,000 titles yearly, collection processing has not kept pace with acquisitions, making material inaccessible to outside researchers, the general public, and MoMA's curatorial staff. The requested grant will support an innovative plan to process and catalog the following priority collections, which are unique or rarely held: (1) Special Collections (900 titles) are comprised of notable acquisitions documenting modern and contemporary art, 1880 to 2009, and include rare serials and exhibition catalogs not found in most libraries across the country. (2) The Latin American Collection (5,177 titles) is comprised of materials spanning 1920 through 2009. A particular strength of the collection is its rare journals and artists' books. (3) The Asian Collection (2,030 titles) is comprised of gallery catalogs, museum exhibition catalogs, artists' books, and monographs documenting contemporary Asian art, particularly 1990 to 2009, with an emphasis on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean artists.

• Seeking Momentum: Improving Access to the Personal Papers of Physicists

  (1) Personal papers of Arthur von Hippel (1898-2003) Institute Professor and Professor of Electro-physics at MIT (MC321); his work established the field of materials science and engineering; colleague and family of notable European physicists. (2) Personal papers of Philip Morrison (1915-2005), Institute Professor and Professor of Astro-physics at MIT (MC052); noted for work in cosmology; and later as a leader in promoting and improving the general public understanding of science; papers includes set of personal diaries. (3) Personal papers of Bruno Rossi (1905-1993), Institute Professor and Professor of Physics at MIT (MC166); founding father of x-ray astronomy, which laid the foundations for high-energy physics; papers include set of research notebooks. Science topics: theoretical physics, interdisciplinary materials research, promotion of science to the public, advocacy for science policy, mentorship and leadership of scientific disciplines. Each collection was acquired over a period of time with multiple accessions, which have not yet been cohesively and clearly described for researchers. As each scientist worked at multiple institutions, describing what MIT Archives owns will serve both researchers as well as other Archives.

• Wish You Were Here! Cataloging a historical postcard collection at the Miami University Libraries

  The historic postcard collection consists primarily of postcards from the United States and its possessions, but also includes 70 other countries during the late 19th century. All of the current United States are represented. The postcards focus on a variety of geographic levels, including cities, national parks, states, buildings and other specific local sites. Miami has been the recipient of two large private collections of historical postcards that serve as the foundation for our living collection. Its fine examples include leather and wood postcards, world's fairs and expositions, historical events, Art Noveau and Art Deco design, modes of transportation, children and animals in art, latest fashions, greeting and holiday cards, technological changes including the arrival of the telephone, photo cards of American troops in Europe during World War I, photographs depicting monarchs, famous people, and landmarks, and cards from more than 70 foreign countries. Street scenes in cities and towns throughout the world illustrate examples of urban planning and green spaces. The cards date from the U.S. Centennial Exhibition in 1876 to the present. We believe most of them date before 1920.

• Litchfield: The Next 100 Years

  Writing about Litchfield, William Butler said: “It is the romantic colonial revival image of the New England town rather than the authentically Puritan or historically accurate colonial image that has become a fixed stereotype in the American mind and has made a lasting material mark on the American Landscape.” The Society's collections taken together provide significant insight into this era and documents the transition of Litchfield from a bustling economic center to its economic decline and re-invention as a resort community. The letters of two soldiers and a chaplain together with the Record Book of the 2nd CT Heavy Artillery, ephemera, and relics, explain how the Civil War consumed the town and shaped its transition to the colonial revival. An explosion of civic activity is reflected in the records of the Grand Army of the Republic, Village Improvement Society, Garden Club, Women's Forum, Men's Forum, Needle and Bobbin Club; Litchfield Historical Society; Chapter of the American Red Cross; Equal Franchise League, and Horse Show, all established in this era. Architectural records and photographs of residences, businesses, and churches include the Richard Henry Dana, Jr. plans to restore the First Congregational Church and renovate the Tapping Reeve House. They are enhanced by historic district surveys, Nan F. Heminway (interior decorator and preservationist) Papers, and documentation of the Shepaug Railroad, various resorts, personal papers, and works of art.

• Liberté, égalité, Fraternité: Chronicling the French Second Republic

  The French newspapers were collected by William Wilberforce Mann, a New York attorney who lived in Paris from 1848-1855. The French newspapers are from 1848-1852, published upon the repeal of the laws that restrained freedom of the press. The collection includes many of the approximately 500 new newspapers that appeared just between 24 February 1848 to the end of the year, with views ranging from moderate republicanism to socialism. Many of the papers were short-lived. Later that year, the restraints on the press were re-instituted, causing several newspapers to fold. This collection of newspapers represents a period in France's history with a free press, resulting in a flourish of newspapers. They chronicle Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's (Napoleon III) election as president by popular vote and include biographies of him. They host political, cultural, and business topics in addition to letters from Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo, among others. Of note, several of the papers were created by women publishers. The collection includes the only known complete run of the Moniteur Universel in the Americas. Additional materials to be included are French maps and ephemera ranging from 1811-1895, which provide context for the content reflected in the newspapers. It is believed that the size and scope of this collection make it unique in the United States, certainly in the Southeastern US.

• Glass to Access: Revealing the Carroll Photo Service Collection

  The Carroll Photo Service Collection is an important photojournalism collection in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County History Division's Seaver Center for Western History Research. It complements other Seaver collections whose strengths consist of documenting people and locations in California from 1870 to the early 1930s. Covering the years 1924 to 1947, the collection documents the rapidly expanding Southern California region through images such as L.A.'s Mexican American community, taken on assignment for La Opinion, the nation's oldest Spanish language daily newspaper. The collection covers aviation extensively, including: the 1928 opening ceremonies of Mines Field, now LAX, and the 1928 National Air Races held there; the 1929 and 1931 National Women's Air Derbies--also known as the Powder Puff Derby--held at Clover Field, Santa Monica; and the first trans-continental commercial flight, piloted by Charles Lindbergh. By 1929, Los Angeles was the aviation capital of the United States with 55 airports and landing fields; 27 accredited aviation schools; more than 1,500 students of aviation and aviation mechanics; and 12 major airplane factories. Gubernatorial, Mayoral, and ballot initiative campaigns are documented. Sporting events coverage includes the 1932 L.A. Summer Olympics; the growth of intercollegiate sports, including USC, UCLA, Occidental College, Loyola University, and Whittier College; and outstanding athletes from Riverside's Sherman Indian School.

• David W. Salter Photographic Collection

  The Salter photo collection is arguably the most comprehensive collection of railroading's "Golden Age in the South". It covers the region's railroads from the late 1930's through the 1960's, decades that saw such important milestones as: The last of steam and the earliest diesels (Salter was an early pioneer in the use of color to document the stunning paint jobs on early diesels); The first streamliners, postwar passenger train expansion, and the last of the private railroad passenger trains at the dawn of the 1971 Amtrak takeover; The last days of local freight and branch line runs; The dramatic changes in freight trains, spanning the last of the "drag freights" and locals to the pioneer "piggyback" trains of the 1960s that forecast the fast, single-purpose intermodal trains that now dominate. The collection covers railroad lines that few, if any other, photographers recorded. Although Salter documented busy mainlines, his favorite locations were lightly traveled branchlines and secondary mains that most railroad photographers shunned, no doubt inspired in part by the railroad line of his hometown, Pitts, GA, where only a few trains passed daily. Such locations were far more typical of the South in the middle years of the last century, where rural life hung on far longer than in more populated parts of the country. Salter's collection also includes photos of regionally significant photographers, such as Frank E. Ardrey Jr., Hugh M. Comer, and George Mock.

• Discovering the Johns Hopkins Public Health Collections: A Major Resource for Research, Teaching, and Policy-making

  This project is to catalog institutional records, image collections, material culture holdings and personal paper collections of 20 individuals related to Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, the oldest and largest graduate school of public health in the United States. Holdings focus on topical areas within public health and include departmental records and faculty papers from Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health Administration, International Health, Population Dynamics, Maternal & Child Health, Public Health Nursing, Bacteriology and Parasitology. Included are papers of David Bodian, Isabel Morgan and George Gey related to development and testing of the polio vaccine; Abraham Lilienfeld, father of contemporary chronic disease epidemiology; Frank Polk, early leading AIDS researcher; Frederick Bang and Carl Taylor, proponents for international field work; and E. V. McCollum who discovered vitamins A & D, and other faculty. Personal paper collections include correspondence, research data, teaching materials, student notebooks, biographical material, manuscripts, reprints, publications, photographs and material culture. Institutional records include Advisory Board minutes, publications, departmental annual reports, and Dean's office correspondence from the tenure of William Welch, William Howell, Wade Hampton Frost, Allen Freeman, Lowell Reed, Ernest Stebbins, and John Hume. Collections document faculty interactions with colleagues world wide.

• The Roman Vishniac Project

  In 1935, Roman Vishniac, a Russian Jewish expatriate living in Berlin and working as a biologist and photomicroscoper, was commissioned by the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to photograph and raise awareness of impoverished Jewish communities in central and eastern Europe. The resulting images are some of the most iconic pictures in Jewish culture: the final visual record of communities destroyed by the Holocaust. Vishniac's entire archive was recently donated to ICP, including negatives, contact sheets, audio tapes, notes, and family documents, making possible a critical re-examination of the life and work of this renowned photographer. In addition to Vishniac's most recognized images, the collection includes rarely seen photographs of Jewish agrarian training camps and health organizations; children's refugee camps and technical schools; post-war Displaced Persons Camps; and many of Vishniac's portraits and commissioned works, which largely focus on refugees and were produced after he immigrated to the U.S. in 1941. Among its most remarkable contents is recently discovered film footage shot by Vishniac in remote Jewish communities in the Carpathian Mountains in central and eastern Europe--the only known filmed material of this subject--as well as footage from more urban locations. The archive also includes Vishniac's negatives and contact sheets, which have never been studied, printed or exhibited, and offer tremendous insight into Vishniac's technique.

• Native Americans of California and the Southwest: Cataloging the Huntington's Visual Collections

  The photographs, negatives, lantern slides, artwork and visual media described in this proposal were created by expeditionary photographers, tourists, collectors, ethnographers, federal officials, school teachers, studio operators and others interested in representing Native Americans for myriad agendas and purposes. Ranging in date from post-Civil War government expeditions down the Green and Colorado Rivers, through the 1910s when romanticization of the "vanishing American" reached fever pitch, and on into the 1920s and 1930s when figures like author Mary Austin advocated for Indian rights, the collections embrace an important era of Native American representation. The collections are particularly strong in depictions of Puebloan peoples from Arizona and New Mexico as well as California tribes. 19th century collections compiled by Indian agents such as Horatio Nelson Rust and George Wharton James emphasize dwellings, rituals and dress; early 20th century dealer and collector Grace Nicholson formed personal as well as business relationships with the tribal people whose wares she supplied to the nation's major museums, a familiarity reflected in her snapshots. The grant also includes cataloging the country's most extensive holdings of Carl Moon (1879-1948) and Frederick Monsen (1865-1929), professional photographers and self-described ethnographers who, like their contemporary Edward S. Curtis, made imagery that fed a nationwide fascination with Native Americans.

• Pennsylvania German Archival Collection at The Hershey Story

  The archival collection covers a wide range of subjects, but primarily falls within these broad categories: religion; general history/reference; agriculture; trade, manufacture and business; advertisements, domestic materials; education; legal records; health/medicine; world's fairs and expositions; and personal papers. Materials include published volumes, unpublished manuscripts, early newspapers, account books, almanacs, dictionaries, religious texts, broadsides, student workbooks and attendance records, land deeds, military records, diaries, scrapbooks and photographs. A significant portion of the collection consists of German language texts, fraktur and broadsides. Many of the published volumes are beautifully decorated with watercolor and ink drawings. German immigrants settled in many other parts of the United States, with Pennsylvania being one of the earliest areas established. Many Americans with German ancestry can trace their family origins to Pennsylvania. The material originates from two main sources, George Danner and Nevin Moyer. Both were prominent members of their communities and extensive collectors. Danner was a dry goods merchant and operated a small “museum” while Moyer's career varied from teacher, military officer and political official. Items from the Moyer collection also relate to Indiana were he had extended family. Sizable portions of the Museum's artifacts originate from the Danner and Moyer collections.

• Cultural Imagery Revealed: cataloging the core historical photography collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University

  The materials to be cataloged are the core historic photographic prints of the Peabody Museum archives, ranging in dates from circa 1870 to the mid 1960s, reflecting over a century of collecting by the Peabody Museum and representing the oldest photographic images held at the Museum. The collections are kept in acid-free boxes within a climate controlled storeroom, physically arranged on shelves by world area and situated intellectually by accession number (within each world area). The bulk of the core photographs reflect the following world areas in order of geographic emphasis: North, Central and South America (192.25 linear feet); Asia (52 linear feet), Europe (17.5 linear feet), Oceania (15 linear feet) and Africa/Middle East (20 linear feet). This group of photo collections are a series of unique historical prints that represent a significant part of the Museum's collecting history as well as the archival processing backlog; the images remain completely hidden from researchers because of a lack of proper descriptive cataloging that, if carried out, would enable researchers better access to the photographs. Furthermore, this project will provide much needed descriptive metadata for this unique photographic archive by creating MARC records and EAD Finding Aids that will be uploaded to HOLLIS and OCLC/WorldCat databases and made accessible worldwide.

• An Infinite Diversity of Mind and Character: Uncovering the Transformation of American Education at 19th-Century Harvard

  Studied as a group, the 53 collections of personal papers of Harvard faculty document the 19th-century transformation of Harvard���and American universities in general���from a regional seminary into a modern research university, providing a new model for undergraduate education, as well as professional study in law, medicine, and divinity. The scope of faculty research expanded rapidly, with results shared broadly in the US and abroad. The collections document innovations in new or changing disciplines and fields of research, such as anthropology (Frederic W. Putnam), astronomy (Edward Pickering), English literature (Barrett Wendell), fine arts (Arthur Kingsley Porter), American history (Albert Bushnell Hart), geology (Nathaniel Shaler), and zoology (Edward Laurens Mark). The collections also trace the emergence and internationalization of Harvard��s museum and library collections as preeminent resources for research (William Dandridge Peck and Justin Winsor). Of great importance is correspondence (the ���scholarly communications�� of the age) between Harvard faculty and colleagues at peer institutions, such as the Boston Public Library, American Museum of Natural History (NY), Smithsonian Institution, US Geological Survey, and the Field Museum in Chicago. The collections are primarily paper-based, including correspondence, research notes, drafts of papers, and publications, as well as photographs, drawings, field notebooks, botanical specimens, and ephemera.

• The (Invention and) Reinvention of Public Health: Enabling Access to Archival Collections that Inform Contemporary Discourse (TRoPH)

  The collections enable a broad examination of the origins and evolution of public health research, education, and practice in twentieth-century America. They further reveal the directions individual public health sub-disciplines, including industrial hygiene, tropical medicine, and community mental health, would take over the course of the century and beyond. Collections include: a) early administrative and decanal records reflecting the formation and expansion of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), 1913 to 1999 (129 cubic feet); and b) the personal and professional records of seven leaders in diverse fields that shaped our modern conceptions of public health, 1911 to 1989 (271 cubic feet): Leslie Silverman, chair of the Department of Industrial Hygiene and internationally recognized expert on air pollution control, industrial ventilation, and nuclear safety, 1940-1966; Benjamin Greeley Ferris, Jr., early researcher in respiratory disease and environmental epidemiology, 1933-1989; Jean Mayer, international leader in the field of nutrition, 1953-1974; Erich Lindemann, ground-breaking researcher in community mental health, 1927-1976; Richard Pearson Strong, 1911-1945, pioneer in tropical medicine; and Geoffrey Edsall, 1934-1979, and Nobelist Thomas H. Weller, 1960-1980, authorities in bacteriology and immunology.
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  Z. Taylor Vinson Transportation Collection Processing Project

  As a lawyer working for the Department of Transportation, Z. Taylor Vinson wrote the federal safety regulations for car tail light requirements. His first spoken word, “car,” presaged a lifelong passion of building one of the greatest, most comprehensive, transportation collections ever assembled. The collection, approximately 700 linear feet, is among the most significant collections on transportation history. The main focus of the collection includes an estimated 200,000 trade catalogues documenting automotive history from its beginning to the present day. Most every make and model is represented, as is every country that produced automobiles. Additionally, there are thousands of related items, including newspapers and magazine advertisements from 1900 onwards, operators’ manuals, showroom sales albums, dealer data books, corporate annual reports, newspaper and magazine articles, books and an array of promotional toys and scale models. The magazine section alone comprises long runs and often complete runs of: Road & Track; Motor Trend; Antique Automobile; Special Interest Autos; Automotive News; Motor (US) annual issues; Motor (UK), including the show issues; The Autocar (UK), including the show issues; Illustration (France), including the annual Salon numbers. Finally, there is a strong, but concentrated, collection of imprints relative to automotive history and brand specialization.
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  Open Plan, Open Access: Increasing Researcher Access to Modern Architectural Records

  The papers of Ray Kappe and William Krisel, two hidden architectural collections at the Getty Research Institute (GRI), are explorations of the Modernist goal of creating housing that is well-designed yet affordable. Incorporating project files, drawings, photographs, models and ephemera, these archives reflect the development of modern open-plan residential architecture in the second half of the twentieth century, especially in Southern California. During his fifty-year career, Ray Kappe has designed and built close to 100 houses. Kappe’s major contribution to the field of architecture is the development of pre-fabricated, modular and sustainable residential architecture. He introduced principles of "green" architecture, such as recycled materials and energy- and water-saving systems, into his designs long before most other architects. William Krisel is best known for the thousands of tract houses he designed and built in greater Los Angeles and Palm Springs during the 1950s and 1960s, through which he brought “modernism to the masses.” Krisel firmly believed in the power of good design to improve people’s lives and in contrast to many of his contemporaries, he did not think that designing large-scale, affordable housing developments was an activity unworthy of creative energy. In the 1970s Krisel’s focus shifted to high-rise residential and commercial structures, in which he again pursued creative design solutions to avoid the problem of monotony.