Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• Cataloging the Collectors: Documenting Film Stills in the George Eastman House Collection

  The Motion Picture Stills collection currently includes over 600,000 vintage production photographs, reproductions made internally over the years, as well as prints made from frame enlargements prior to digital technologies. It is composed of many individual collections that were amassed by private collectors. "Cataloging the Collectors" will focus on documenting and cataloguing the 120,000 stills donated to the Museum after its founding that form the basis of the historic study and research materials at GEH documenting motion picture film production. These core collections reflect the personal tastes and interests of film historian and avant-garde filmmaker Theodore Huff (1905-1953), generally regarded as the first person to systematically collect film stills; James Card (1915-2000), film collector, author and the first curator of GEH's motion picture collection; and Ray Rueby (1898-1967), a sign painter who created theatre lobby displays and amassed his collection from the stills sent by Hollywood studios to local theatres in the midwest. Huff's collection encompasses the widest range of films produced in the first half of the 20th Century including rare vintage stills from D. W. Griffith's films; Card focused his collecting on the personalities from silent European productions, and Rueby's collection is a representation of how publicity stills were used in the exhibition side of the film industry.

• Denver Botanic Gardens Herbaria and Special Collections

  The Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium: Contains approximately 48,000 vascular plant specimens. Many unprocessed, backlogged specimens are waiting to be entered into the collection. Further, we annually add 700 to 1,000 new specimens to the collection through our floristic inventories and other types of field research as well as through the exchange of specimens with other institutions. Our collection primarily documents the flora of Colorado and the Southern Rocky Mountain region which includes Southern Wyoming and Northern New Mexico. The varied topography of our state supports a very diverse flora composed of over 3,000 species of vascular plants. The Colorado flora is greatly influenced by adjacent geographic regions as varied as the Desert Southwest, the Great Basin, the Great Plains, and the Pacific Northwest. As a result, we share species with our neighboring states and disjunct populations with those far away. These holdings are significant in that they not only represent present- day geographical relationships but also those from the geologic past. Our collections are from different time periods in Western history, reflect the species composition of different habitats, and vouch for many different types of scientific study. Our earliest collections date from the 1800s not long after Colorado statehood. We house the Waring Collection that documents the flora of Historic Denver. We also have collections of Kathryn Kalmbach.

• Rural Medical Practice and Education, 1780-2000

  A well-contextualized body of research material for the study of public health issues through the lens of rural medical education and practice. Chronological listing of parts: (1) Account Books: 24 account books (4,600 pages) ca. 1780-1915, of rural physicians, documenting costs of care, diagnoses, and treatments prescribed. Some include diary entries and vital statistics for communities served. (2) Physician Papers: 7 manuscript collections (44 ft.) of the records of seven area physicians, including the founder of the Dartmouth Medical School, Nathan Smith (1762-1829), documenting their practices between 1796-1956. (3) Medical Lecture Notes: 33 volumes (12,000 pages) and one linear foot of loose material. Notes taken by students in the Dartmouth Medical School, between ca. 1806 and 1901, covering an array of health and medical issues taught at Dartmouth with an emphasis on epidemiology in rural settings. (4) Medical Theses: 1,150 theses, 1815-1882, covering health issues current at the time in rural areas: from puerperal fever to small pox to water-borne diseases such as cholera. (5) Institutional Records: Records of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, 1893-1985, (21 ft) documenting the early activities of a small rural hospital and its growth into a major region medical center. (6) Departmental Records: Community and Family Medicine Department of the Dartmouth Medical School (188 ft), 1970-2001, including the records of Center for the Study of Evaluative Sciences.

• Sharing Terpsichore's Legacy: A Collaborative Project (Terpsichore)

  Terpsichore' covers a variety of dance-related materials in 14 collections at four institutions (the Repositories). The Dance Notation Bureau (DNB)in New York City collections feature the writings of dance notation innovator Rudolf Laban, documentation of the DNB's history from 1940, material on different notation systems, and files of choreographers whose works have been notated. The Museum of Performance & Design (MPD) in San Francisco holds videos of culturally and artistically diverse West Coast dance companies including AXIS Dance Company presenting disabled and non-disabled dancers ("mixed-ability"), Lily Cai Chinese Dance Co., Joe Goode Performance Group, Oakland Ballet, San Francisco Butoh Festival, SFJazz's Tap-Jazz Summit, and Theatre Flamenco. Work at The Ohio State University (OSU)in Columbus will focus on collections of African American choreographer Bebe Miller, Broadway choreographer Randy Skinner, dancer/choreographer Kenneth Rinker, show-business printer Bill Curtiss, three collections relating to eurhythmics creator Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Dance Notation Bureau materials distinct from those at DNB itself. The UCLA Library Special Collections (UCLA) will work on the substantial personal collection of modern dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis, whose legacy influenced seminal choreographers such as Martha Graham, Charles Weidman, and Doris Humphrey.

• Documenting the Family and Social Change in New York: A Collaborative Approach

  These multi-generational family paper collections are drawn from two institutions to form one inter-related collection of New York State material, spanning the 17th through the 20th centuries. The materials include almost every non-digital format in which people recorded their experiences, including diaries, letters, court documents, maps, photographs, deeds, account books, leases, pamphlets, tax receipts, and church records. There are 21 separate family paper collections, which often intersect through intermarriage and/or business relationships. Together they offer overlapping insights into forces of social change that affected Americans, especially war, land development, creation of transportation networks, and scientific advances. The families (with an example of the topics they illuminate) are: Anderson (Louis Kossuth); Burgess (political science); Chrystie (US Navy); (De Witt) Clinton (Erie Canal); Devereaux (Utica business development); Fish (Revolutionary War); Goldmark (American Chemical Society); Harison (Constitutional Convention); Hoyt (NYC social life); Jay (anti-slavery); Kane-Hand (railroads, Spanish-American War); Kent (Chancellor of NYS); Kernan (railroads); Ludlow (estate records); Morgan (Congress); Mott (subdividing the Bronx); Renwick (physics, engineering); Sage (lumbering, subways, canals); Van Schaack (Tories); White (hydraulic cement, canals); and Williams (geology, paleontology).

• American View Books

  American View Books in the Avery Classics Collection provide pictorial documentation of a variety of American cities and towns. The collection comprises 6,000 volumes (broadly termed "books") in a variety of formats including printed books, photographic albums, and novelty formats. View books capture the buildings (residential, civic, ecclesiastical, commercial, and industrial), streetscapes, monuments, park lands, and landscapes that define the American built environment from the later 19th and 20th centuries. These books were often produced as souvenir books for tourists or to commemorate important events, such as expositions, or natural phenomena like earthquakes. They were produced using a variety of illustrative formats and photo-mechanical processes such as albumen prints, stereocards, lithographs, photolithographs, photogravures, photographs, and engravings. Our view books range in size from the smallest--the Nutshell Novelty Company's accordion of photographs of the St. Louis exposition bound in an actual walnut shell--to extraordinarily large folio-sized volumes. Taken together, the view books contain thousands of images and also include detailed texts describing the growth of local industries and churches, natural phenomena, and the construction of bridges and roads, along with biographical information on important residents.

• Documenting the Modern Ecumenical Movement: The Hidden Archival Collections of the Burke Library

  This is a project to arrange and describe two hidden collection groups to support non-sectarian research into individuals, communities, and indigenous cultures related to the global missionary and ecumenical movements. Materials were added to the collections regardless of religious affiliation, with a concern for humanistic inquiry and informed social activism on a global scale. The Mission Research Library (MRL) was founded by John Mott in 1914 and initially funded by John D. Rockefeller to be “the most complete and serviceable missionary library and archives in the world, thoroughly interdenominational, ecumenical and international,” and “preeminently rich in source material.” The MRL and its archives were transferred to Burke in 1976. From India to North America, the MRL archives record the historical contexts (political, social, cultural, anthropological, medical, and educational) of missionary fields in the late nineteenth through twentieth centuries. The William Adams Brown Ecumenical Archives were founded in 1945 to form a center of resources for modern ecumenism. They record the history of many diverse ecumenical organizations and events from the 1860s to the present, including early church union movements in Asia, the records of the World Council of Churches, interracial dialogue during the U.S. Civil Rights movement, ecumenical conversations among Protestants and Roman Catholics, and the human rights and social service outreach programs of NY City charities.

• Chrysler Museum Knoedler Auction Catalog and Artist File Accessibility Project

  The Jean Outland Chrysler Library is known as a source of historic, rare, and otherwise unobtainable materials key to tracing the provenance of many works of art. In 1977 Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. bought the London art history library of M. Knoedler & Co., Ltd. At the time of its acquisition, this large collection of monographs, reference books, auction and exhibition catalogues, price indices, and periodicals comprised a comprehensive library of every publication of importance in the fields of fine and decorative arts. Two portions of this extremely useful collection, Auction Catalogs and Artist Files, remain uncataloged and undescribed. The Library currently holds 30,875 auction catalogs dating from the early-19th century to the present. Included are catalogs from well-known auction houses such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s, as well as less-known and extinct firms. The physical catalogs are significant research resources because they contain original handwritten annotations of sale prices, newspaper clippings, and notes. Also associated with this collection are 51 linear feet of Artist Files. These files contain materials from the Knoedler Library collection, as well as items gathered by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. They include manuscript materials and original works of art created by individual artists, records relating to the sale of artworks, clippings from 19th through 21st century periodicals, catalogs and exhibition materials, as well as a wide variety of ephemera.

• Illuminating Hidden Collections at the Center for Jewish History

  The materials cover the histories of organizations in NYC, as well as those around the country whose composition stemmed from towns in Europe from which they emigrated, such as those associated with Galicia or with Telsch, Lithuania. They also cover labor organizations in NYC and elsewhere, such as the Yidisher Teatr Gezelshaft in Detroit and the American Association for Jewish Education. Also included are dozens of collections that describe the stories of Jews leaving Germany for America and Israel prior to WWII. The collections included in this initiative encompass the stories of Jewish migration, establishment and assimilation over the last 150 years. The strength of the combined collection lies in the accumulation of documents supporting research across a broad range of disciplines. The proposed initiative includes materials that will uncover evidence to support work on U.S. and European historical and biographical studies. The collections also hold particular strengths for those exploring immigration, labor, and cultural history. Materials for this initiative will come from three of the Center's five partner institutions: AJHS, LBI, and YIVO. They include family papers as well as records of aid societies and educational organizations. The collections lack bibliographic representation in the Center's Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) and are hidden from researchers and the public. Each is either newly-acquired or has long been in need of arrangement and processing.

• Clementine/Albani Collection Original Cataloging Initiative

  The Clementine Collection comprises combined personal libraries formed over several centuries by the Albani family of Urbino and Rome. This noble Italian family included diplomats and cardinals as well as Giovanni Francesco Albani, reigning as Pope Clement XI from 1700-1721. Collection strengths include church history, philosophy, and major Roman and canon law works together with a significant collection on Jansenism including unique material pertaining to this movement, to the 18th century Gallican church, and to the aftermath of the bull "Unigenitus." Also present are books of Italian literature and drama denoting a library of cultured men who were important patrons of the arts. A number of these works are significant for their printing, provenance (presentation copies) or physical features, (original bindings). Books date from the 15th century to the early 19th. An estimated eleven percent are 16th century imprintswith the largest percentage from the 17th and a slightly smaller number from the 18th century. An estimated 33 percent of the collection is not simply hidden from scholars but entirely unknown, having no listing in OCLC, the database accessed by scholars searching for books via WorldCat. Subject areas with the highest proportion of such unique titles include Jansenist material and Roman and canon law. Beyond their absence in WorldCat, many of these works are also unknown in the catalogs of European libraries and thus immune from online discovery.

• Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Collections at Brandeis University

  Six collections related to the Holocaust and Jewish and radical resistance to persecution before and during World War II: 1. Helmut Hirsch Collection (c. 1916-1992): Personal papers of a German Jewish youth executed by the Nazis for his involvement in a plot to bomb the Nazi headquarters at Nuremberg. 2. Jewish Resistance Collection (c. 1932-1950s): Underground publications by German Communist and French Jewish resisters to the Nazis; international post-war reports documenting the persecution and extermination of Jews and the course of several Nuremberg trials; and Nazi paraphernalia. 3. Lipman Nazi Documents (c. 1925-1945): Original documents and correspondence by high-level Nazi officials: family papers of Wilhelm Frick, Reich Minister of the Interior; documents related to the assassination attempt against Hitler (1944); and original documents issued by top Nazi officials (Goebbels, Himmler, Hitler, etc.). 4. Curt Rosenthal Correspondence (c. 1938-1947): Personal and family correspondence of Curt Rosenthal, a German Jew and émigré to the U.S., spanning the Holocaust and World War II. 5. Spitzer Family Collection (c. 1925-1980): Correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the experiences of a Czech-Jewish family before, during, and after the Holocaust. 6. Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Documents (1942-1944): Hundreds of daily orders issued from Theresienstadt, which provide detailed information about the workings of the camp.
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  The "Color Curtain" Processing Project: Unveiling the Archives of Chicago's Black Metropolis

  This collaboration identified 150 unprocessed and inaccessible collections to process and catalog. The collections have high scholarly research value along with low condition ratings. The collections were appraised and identified during the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's project to survey unprocessed and inaccessible archival collections that document African American history and culture and are housed at institutions in Chicago. The collections selected for this project address political, cultural, social, spiritual and economic aspects of African Americans lives throughout the history of Chicago. The collections document events from the founding of the city, to the great African American migration from the southern United States into Chicago and the Midwest and also the Chicago's public housing history from the early 1940s up to the election of a South Side Chicago politician to the presidency of the United States. The collections are especially strong in these areas: (1) the history and evolution of public housing and public programs in Chicago; (2) the history of civil rights, social justice issues and community activism in Chicago (3) the Black Arts Movement in Chicago and (4) the Chicago labor movement and union history. Some collections of note include the Chicago Housing Authority Records, the Illinois Labor History Society Records, the Woodlawn Organization Records and the Chicago Urban League Records.
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  Labor Rights are Civil Rights/Los Derechos de Trabajo Son Derechos Civiles

  The six bilingual collections include: membership records and correspondence of the Alianza Hispano Americana, founded in Tucson, Arizona in 1894 as a mutual aid benefit society for Mexicans in the Arizona territory, featuring insurance documents that serve as legal evidence of financial transactions among members and within lodges; correspondence, subject files and ephemera from the League of United Latin American Citizens, formed in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1929, which is the oldest active organization of Hispanics in the United States and the Maricopa County Organizing Project, an entity which organized farm workers in Maricopa County, Arizona, both of which show strike strategies and union positions on matters such as health care, wage differentials, working conditions and negotiated labor contracts and agreements with growers; case files documenting job training and skill measurement activities from the Service, Employment and Redevelopment Project, which was a federal non-profit organization tasked with providing job training and education to the economically disadvantaged; and correspondence, journals, and other business transaction records of the United Steel Workers of America, Local 616 in Clifton, Arizona and the Arizona AFL-CIO which both document the civil, legal, and labor rights of workers including its Mexican American workers by revealing evidence of causes of deaths or injuries on the job and if subsequent medical treatment by company doctors was warranted.

• Unknown Outdoors: Documenting the Appalachian Mountain Club's Collections

  The Photographic Collections of the AMC Library and Archives to be cataloged are divided into four segments by material type. The photographic print collections consist of approximately 10,000 items housed in boxes, filing cabinets and albums. A small subset of approximately 2,000 film negatives duplicate many of the works already in print form, but others exist solely as negatives. Approximately three thousand 35mm color slides record the last fifty years of the club in pictures. Several hundred films and videos are also included. The Manuscript Collections contain primary sources on hiking and climbing all over the world, but especially the Northeastern United States. Summit logs from the late 19th and early 20th century are the sole records of visitors to White Mountain summits in the Golden Age of New England tourism. Log books in the collections also record the thousands of visitors to AMC's wilderness huts and lodges since 1888. The Map Collection is a repository of almost every map ever made for AMC, and of maps collected by members during their travels around the globe. Numerous sketches and completed maps by noted cartographer George P. Bond, who created the first detailed map of the White Mountains, are also housed here. A huge backlog of AMC's Institutional Records (including ephemera and oral history interviews) that document the club's conservation, recreation and education activities over the course of the past 80 years will also be cataloged.
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  For the People, for Education, for Science: Web Access to the American Museum of Natural History Archives

  The Archives of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) hold a wealth of historical resources that document scientific research in anthropology, astronomy, earth sciences, paleontology and zoology, as well the Museum’s 141 year history as a preeminent research and educational institution. The manuscripts, photographic print and slide collections and department records include professional papers of individuals whose work revolutionized science and public understanding, including Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Henry Fairfield Osborn and Ernst Mayr. The collections also detail the evolving role of museum exhibitions and how they impart knowledge, from Carl Akeley’s dioramas to today’s multi-media interactive presentations. Some 4 million people visit the Museum each year to learn about important scientific issues, like climate change, biodiversity, cultural transitions, genomics and evolutionary biology, but very few know of the depth and breadth of its historical documentation. Referencing every continent--from paleontology in Mongolia to ichthyology in the Congo Basin, from the Bounty mutineers’ descendants on Pitcairn Island to archeological sites in Peru, and from expeditions in Antarctica to agriculture in Mexico--the collections' multi-disciplinary focus continues to support researchers worldwide. The project will enable the AMNH Library to serve even more by increasing awareness of these unique and valuable sources of information for research and education.

• Closing the Gap: Identifying and Cataloging Uncataloged Titles in the Classed Collections at the American Antiquarian Society

  Materials in AAS classed collections, i.e. works with call numbers beginning with E (American History); G (Topical Classifications); H (Latin America); J (Foreign History and Travel); L (U.S. Local History); R (Biography); X (Religion); Y (Antiques and Collecting); and Z (Printing and Related Arts), cover a wide range of topics within the scope of the Society's mission--to document the life of America's people from the colonial period through the Civil War and Reconstruction. They include primary and secondary materials from the 18th and 19th centuries. Religious and political works, novels, poetry, local and county histories, medical and scientific treatises, and annals of travel and exploration are well represented. For reasons that will be explained in this proposal, an estimated 9 percent of these preeminent collections are hidden--not only from readers but sometimes also from staff--because although they have call numbers and are on the shelf in a logical place, they have never been cataloged. Our experience with this problem reveals that coverage of twentieth-century publications is very good, though occasional gaps exist. Coverage of materials printed in the U.S. before 1841 is virtually complete. But a dismaying number of U.S. imprints, 1841-1899, and of British and European imprints of the 18th and 19th centuries have no cataloging records whatever. This is not a recon problem, where cards were simply skipped; the cards never existed

• Labors for the Good of Mankind: Hidden Collections in Science and Social Policy

  The Academy archive reflects concerns of the nation's intellectual leaders from the eighteenth century to the present. Containing both formal and informal evidence of how important ideas developed during the past two centuries, the holdings offer rich material for intellectual historians, researchers in many academic disciplines, public policy experts, and for members of the general public interested in what their predecessors valued and how they thought. The Academy requests funds to preserve and catalog three categories of materials: the history of science, technology, medicine, and public health; American social policy and institutions; and international relations and global security. Holdings in each category span the history of the nation There are many hidden treasures among these manuscripts, transcripts, documents, rare books, and audio-visual materials, such as: The transcript of the exchanges between Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz on natural selection, considered the first Darwinian debate in America and currently available only in published synopses; Detailed accounts of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's work on American poverty; Records of the 1960 “Summer Study on Arms Control,” a formative meeting in U.S. arms control policy. Part of the project title--Labors for the Good of Mankind--comes from a 1796 letter from Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, which is among our holdings in the history of science, technology, medicine and public health.
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  Song, Speech, and Dance: Special Collections from the Recorded Sound Archives at Yale and Stanford Universities

  This project processed more than 1,100 linear feet of audio and paper archival collections in the Historical Sound Recordings (HSR) collection at Yale University and the Archive of Recorded Sound (ARS) at Stanford University. At Yale, the collections include the Stanley Dance collection of taped interviews with major jazz figures (196 ft.), the complete business archives of Overtone Records and the Spoken Arts Record Company (40 ft.), and general collections of autograph letters, photographs, and recording company logbooks (66 ft.). The general collections are especially rich in materials relating to early singers, including Enrico Caruso, Adelina Patti, and Geraldine Farrar. In addition, there are collections of test pressings of recordings by Vladimir Horowitz (8 ft.) and audiotapes of historical events, guest speakers, and concerts on the Yale campus (205 ft.) The collections at Stanford include recordings from the Ambassador Auditorium Performing Arts Series (651 ft.), called by some, “The Carnegie Hall of the West.” The series hosted 20 seasons of musicians of international prominence from 1975-1995, including concerts by Luciano Pavarotti, Arthur Rubinstein, the Vienna Philharmonic, Frank Sinatra, and many others. Other Stanford collections include performances by internationally renowned Metropolitan Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett (2.5 ft.), and test pressings and instantaneous recordings of virtuoso violinists Yehudi Menuhin (1 ft.) and Jascha Heifetz (10.5 ft.)

• Revealing Hidden Collections through Minimal Processing and Teaching

  The 792 collections included in this proposal comprise the unprocessed portion of the historical manuscripts collection at Whitman College (i.e., records that are not part of the official records of the institution). These collections include the records of missionaries, soldiers, miners, pioneers, and others involved in incorporating the Pacific Northwest into the United States and developing Washington Territory (later State) into a significant cultural and economic region. There are over a dozen collections of papers of missionary families, beginning with missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and Henry and Eliza Spalding, and dating from the early to the late 19th century; there are over 60 collections of papers of pioneer families, beginning with the orphaned Sager children and the explorer Augustus Thibodo, and dating from the mid to the late 19th century; there are some 400 collections of records of organizations, beginning with some of the earliest voluntary, agricultural, industrial, and technological organizations established in the Northwest, and dating from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century; and there are more than 300 collections of personal papers of important individuals from southeastern Washington, including missionary and anthropologist D. C. Graham and Justice William O. Douglas, and dating from the early to the late 20th century.

• Major Railroad Archival Collection

  Major railroad archival collections at the Nebraska State Historical Society and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to be cataloged are as follows. Union Pacific Railroad: This collection relates to all aspects of the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its business activities, including corporate, legal, and public relations activities; engineering; railroad construction; and locomotive design. Chicago Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad--Lines West collection: This collections includes specific field books, maps, drawings, and other materials from 1869-1950s relating to land development in Nebraska. The Charles Kennedy Railroad Collection: The Kennedy Collection is a large collection that includes railroad annual reports from railroads across the United States, and state railroad commissions (1826-1980). The Val Kuska Collection: Val Kuska was a colonizing agent and an agricultural development agent for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. This collection documents the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company's efforts to attract settlers and improve agricultural practices in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas. It also relates to rail traffic in the 1900s. Among these important historical materials are several thousand photographs, advertising posters, scrapbooks, and time tables.

• The Mertle Collection: Where Photography Meets the Printing Press

  The Mertle Collection provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of photomechanics, the processes and production methods that not only revolutionized printing but, more importantly, brought the visual world onto the printed page. It includes archival materials dating from the 18th to mid-20th century, photographs, correspondence, technical notes, printing plates, cameras, drawings, cabinet cards, stamps, and ephemera. Holdings that will be of exceptional interest: William Fox-Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature (1844), the first book illustrated with tipped-in original photographs; “Shantytown,” the first reproduction of a photograph with a full tonal range in a newspaper (New York Daily Graphic, March 4, 1880); Original prints of Edweard Muybridge’s studies on animal and human locomotion (1870-1880); Researches on Light by Robert Hunt (1844), first book devoted exclusively to photochemistry; Scrapbooks of Frederic Ives, the inventor who received a patent for the half-tone letterpress; The important 2nd edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Optiks (1718); A copy of Julia Margaret Cameron’s miniature edition of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, (1875) one of only four known to exist; and Other noteworthy items: specimen reproductions by Karel Klic, inventor of rotogravure; records of Max Levy, pioneer of halftone screens; correspondence between inventors; and pencil sketches of dot formations by the halftone researcher Arthur Fruwith.

• Paul E. Tsongas Congressional and Presidential-Campaign Papers

  The Tsongas Collection offers an unusual combination of political papers and memorabilia that documents terms spent in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate from 1974 to 1984 as well as his Presidential campaign from 1991 to 1992. The Collection represents national politics and, as such, is international in scope. The dominant concerns throughout Tsongas’s political career, however, were focused on domestic issues. Compelled by the challenges faced by his home town of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the demise of its textile industry, Tsongas served on key committees in the House and Senate that enabled him to confront national problems of manufacturing decline and related economic, energy, and environmental issues. Legislation concerning energy policy, the county’s reliance on foreign oil, conservation, nuclear energy, and environmental protection were of particular importance to Tsongas throughout his political career and figured largely in much of the legislation he worked on, the speeches he gave, and the books he wrote. Materials associated with these issues such as hearing notes, reports, briefs, correspondence, and speeches comprise a large portion the Collection. Topic highlights include the 1978 Lowell National Historical Park, the 1979 Chrysler bailout, and the 1980 Alaska Lands Act, all of which passed due to legislation written by Tsongas. Other highlights include manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of his books.

• Turbulent Times: Cataloging the Lawrence Journal-World Newspaper Photographic Collection, 1953-1975

  The Lawrence Journal-World Photographic Collection contains the photographic archive of the daily Lawrence, Kansas newspaper from 1953-1994. The archive comprises 489 linear feet and includes both flexible negatives (4x5 and 35 mm) and selected prints. The Libraries also owns a complete run of the newspaper on microfilm. These unique photographs provide important social documentation of a Midwestern town and public university, recording grass roots politics, University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University histories, and campus and community unrest in the 1960s and 1970s; and provide a window into the civil rights and women's movements, gay and lesbian activism, American Indian rights, and environmental, agricultural and economic issues from a Midwestern perspective. University-related photographs have been culled from the overall collection and reside in University Archives, arranged by general university-related subjects and chronologically within each subject area. The remaining component is in the Kansas Collection, with negatives separate from prints, arranged chronologically as received. Many earlier images are in original non-archival envelopes identified only by date, with some additional subject identification. This project will focus on providing description and access to a selection of the most historically important images from 1953-1975, with general access to the entire collection provided through a collection-level descriptive finding aid.

• Provide Access to Susan King/Paradise Press Collection

  Susan King moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s to be part of the experimental Feminist Studio Workshop. She eventually became the studio director of the Women's Graphic Center at the Woman's Building. She is the artist/author of numerous artists' books and scholarly writings about artists' books. Many of her works were published by Paradise Press which she founded. As a result, her collection documents several areas of study and transformative decades of the 1970s to 1990 in L.A. It is comprised of her writings, reviews, essays, articles, talks, sketches, and research material for workshops given and taken by Ms. King. Her writings also document Paradise Press including drafts, notes, research materials and published works; one linear foot box of photographs, negatives, contact sheets, and slides, along with photo-documentation of her trips to Europe; files on each of the Paradise Press projects including manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, business records, typographical and binding design sketches, dummies and mock-ups, approx. 60 oversize art items; proof pages, and proof copies; one linear foot box containing unique books, finished projects, models and ideas for projects; several boxes of material pertaining to Ms. King’s career in teaching and exhibiting including some student work and 40-50 structure models used for teaching and creating new work; 7 linear ft boxes of correspondence between Ms. King and other notable book artists, e.g. letters, postcards, emails.

• Rescuing Mid-Century Modern: Exposing Hidden Architectural Collections

  Four important California architects created the materials in this proposal. Although the strength of their records lies with a range of typologies documenting mid-century modernism, they also document the precedents and influence of that period in later designs. These designers were widely recognized during their time but now are less well-known because their records have been unavailable. Collections contain drawings, photographs, & manuscripts. The bulk dates are 1940-1975. Warren Callister’s first house (1942) received national attention and believing that architecture could affect social dynamics, his design for the retirement community Rossmore won him national recognition. Ernest Kump shot into national prominence for his radically modern Fresno City Hall (1941) selected by NY MOMA as one of the most significant American structures built between 1932 and 1944. An internationally recognized expert in school architecture, Kump designed many public schools and community colleges in California (1940s-60s). A prolific inventor who held 59 international and U.S. patents, in 1970 he created Tekkto Systems to explore the potential of space age technology for mass production of low-cost housing. Donald Olsen’s unique international style modernist designs stand out in Northern California. Two of his homes received landmark status in 2009. Hans Ostwald managed an extensive residential practice winning an Honor Award from the AIA for his 1953 Wienand house in San Francisco.