Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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  San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive Project

  The San Francisco Examiner Archive is the photographic morgue of the Examiner, a newspaper that was at one point the flagship of the Hearst publishing empire. The archive dates from circa 1920 to the late 1990s, and is estimated to consist of 3.6 million negatives and 1 million photoprints. The San Francisco Examiner is a daily newspaper published continuously since 1865. From 1880 it was owned by mining magnate George Hearst, whose son William Randolph Hearst assumed management in 1887. From this single paper, W.R. Hearst proceeded to create one of the most enduring journalistic empires of all time. He leveraged his wealth to create a paper staffed with the most talented writers and photographers and produced some of the most influential journalism of the era. Under the stewardship of his son and grandson, the Examiner continued to thrive as a major daily, serving San Francisco and the Bay Area through the 1990s. The surviving collection amounts to a comprehensive documentary record of life in Northern California over 75 years of the 20th century. It includes images as diverse as: the 1934 longshoremen's strike, the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge, the home front and industry during World War II, North Beach in the era of beatniks, hearings and protests around "Un-American Activities", the Summer of Love, Johnny Cash's 1969 concert at San Quentin Prison, the Black Panther Party in Oakland, and the 1978 assassination of Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk.

• Delegates from Dixie: Southern Congressmen and Senators Since World War II

  The W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library of the University of Alabama Libraries, the Modern Political Archives of the University of Mississippi Library, and the Congressional and Political Research Center of the Mississippi State University Library have chosen to undertake a collaborative effort to seek funding to process the papers of several Southern political figures of the second half of the twentieth century. The materials consist of the office records of Alabama Congressmen Albert M. Rains, 1945-1964 (12 linear feet), Kenneth A. Roberts, 1951-1964 (64 linear feet), and Carl Elliott, 1949-1964 (495 linear feet), Mississippi Congressman Jamie Whitten, 1941-1994 (1,743 linear feet), and an addition to the records of Mississippi Senator John Stennis, 1947-1988 (200 linear feet). The papers document state rights, civil rights, southern agriculture, housing, urban development, rural affairs, consumer protection, water resources, military affairs, and military preparedness. In addition, the materials documenting the creation of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway by the US Army Corps of Engineers, to be added to the Stennis papers (200 linear feet), are relevant to the economic, ecological, and political history of the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

• Hidden American Collections of Tibetan Materials

  The extensive Tibetan literature in American collections was collected over the past century and a half by explorers, missionaries, diplomats, and scholars. Because Tibetan literature was largely copied and published in woodblock prints and loose-leaf collections, many of the texts in a collection are incomplete. Pages of a single manuscript volume may be distributed across several libraries, for example at Yale and the Newark Museum. By cataloging these collections, TBRC hopes to recompile these collections through the facilities of the web, making them available for the first time to scholars and Tibetans worldwide. The Works at the Library of Congress, comprising more than 3,000 volumes, came to the library from the consul William Woodville Rockhill, Berthold Laufer, Joseph Rock, Matthew Kapstein, and Tshering Thar during the period 1899-1996. Due to their relative obscurity inside the Library of Congress, the exact contents of these texts are little known, but the subjects covered include philosophy, medicine, art, psychology, alchemy, astrology, poetics, and history. They include rare and important examples that should ideally be incorporated into the larger digital library TBRC is developing. Apart from their intrinsic value to the Tibetan literary heritage, the extensive writing of Tibetan masters has significance to a much wider historical, literary and philosophical audience and will benefit scholarship in a wide variety of discplines.

• The Gurus of Sci-Fi: the Hugo Gernsback and Forrest J Ackerman Papers

  No genre celebrates its giants quite like science fiction, and Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) and Forrest J Ackerman (1916-2008) are giants of galactic import. The namesake of science fiction's most prestigious award, Gernsback launched the genre's first magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926, and related titles through the 1950s. Credited with inventing the term “science fiction,” he nurtured a loyal community of followers, but was not universally liked: H. P. Lovecraft once referred to the opportunistic publisher as “Hugo the Rat.” His papers at Syracuse University total 230 linear feet and include correspondence, artwork, photographs, scrapbooks, and serials from the early days of the genre, including titles like Amazing Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Sexology. Amazing Stories inspired a young Ackerman to build on Gernsback’s legacy. Like his predecessor, Ackerman is known less as a writer and more as a literary agent for writers like Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury. Both were arbiters of what was worthy of the moniker “sci fi.” From 1958 to 1983, Ackerman’s rag Famous Monsters of Filmland fertilized the imaginations of a generation of modern writers, including Stephen King. Ackerman's papers came to Syracuse University in the late 1960s. By 1973 they totaled 100 linear feet and included fanzines, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and ephemera-- all of it to this day unprocessed. Upon Ackerman's recent death, an additional 120 linear feet of material came to Syracuse.

• Southold Historical Society Archives Access Project

  Approximately 18,000 items that document more than three centuries (1664-2009) of regional history. These include diaries, ledgers, daybooks, scrapbooks, albums, letters, photographs, documents, manuscripts, books, maps, blueprints, drawings, paintings, sketchbooks, business records, postcards, newspapers, etc. Those objects present in the Society's holdings relate to number of prominent and historically important American personages who had a long lasting impact on the region and State of New York. Some of the more well known of this group include: Ezra L'Hommedieu (A noted patriot of the Revolutionary War era and member of the Continental Congress); The Wiles family (A collection documenting three generations of noted American painters Lemuel, Irving, and Gladys Wiles); Charles Meredith (An important regional photographer who worked from 1929 - 1966); Frank Hartley (An inventor, illustrator, and early photographer associated with the region; and Henry Fitz (The famous American telescope maker and early photographer). Other important collections include papers and photographs that document the history of the Holland Submarine base of New Suffolk, LI. Holland was one of the first successful manufacturers of submarines in the United States. The majority of items relate to the history of Southold Town, Suffolk County, New York with some ancillary holdings that relate to other nearby communities and regional subjects.
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  Exposing Biodiversity Fieldbooks and Original Expedition Journals at the Smithsonian Institution

  The content addressed is composed of original objects (field books, unpublished journals, loose notes, sketches) that are held and maintained by the Smithsonian and which were produced by individuals who have engaged in field research related to all disciplines of biology. These materials are original accounts of the events that led to the collection and description of millions of plants and animals, including countless new discoveries. These are original sources that, in most instances, have not been itemized or incorporated into existing catalog systems and truly bear the "hidden" label. The unit of measure is, therefore, difficult to know. Although these objects are distributed across many Smithsonian research units, a recent canvassing has allowed us to extrapolate what we feel is a good estimate and these objects are in the process of being centralized for control purposes. They span two centuries of fieldwork, cover both terrestrial and marine environments and are significantly strong in their coverage of 19th century expeditions across North America, incl. the 1820 Long Expedition, the Mexican Boundary Survey (1848), Expedition of Maj. J.W. Powell (1868), Jenny Expedition to the Black Hills (1875), Death Valley Expedition (1890-91), Peary Expedition to Greenland (1897), Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899), and numerous voyages of discovery, e.g. North Pacific Exploring Expedition, HMS Challenger, the US Eclipse Expedition, and the US Steamer Albatross.

• Having Her Say: Liberating Key Resources in Feminist Journalism

  The Records of MS. MAGAZINE (372 ft, circa 1970-95), the first commercial magazine with an unambiguously feminist perspective. Materials include office, editorial, publicity, promotion, circulation, and advertising files; article manuscripts; files on special projects and individual editors' correspondence and other professional papers. Records of WOMEN: A JOURNAL OF LIBERATION (5 ft, 1968-83). Produced by a Baltimore collective as a forum for opinions and expression vital to the growing women's liberation movement, the materials include correspondence, minutes, research materials, and reader responses. Papers of Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939), a founder of MS. MAGAZINE, freelance writer, and popular lecturer on non-sexist childrearing, family life, feminism and Judaism. Her papers (91 ft, 1968-2008) include correspondence; research, organization, and subject files; drafts, published writings, and speeches. Papers of Dolores Alexander (1931-2008) freelance writer, reporter, and first executive director of the National Organization for Women (NOW). The 25 feet of papers (1945-98) document her writing career, activism, and broader feminist and lesbian issues. Photographer Cary Herz (1947-2008) began documenting the 1970s women's movement in NY City for MS. MAGAZINE as well as other publications. Her papers (20 ft, 1971-2007) include photographic prints, slides, and contact sheets documenting events of political, social and economic significance in the U.S.

• Improving Access to one of the World's Largest Collections of Plant Rust Fungi

  Purdue University’s Arthur Herbarium is home of one of the world’s largest and most studied collections of plant rust fungi. Its 110,000 specimens, from throughout the world, comprise the diseased part of plants, identified and stored in archival envelopes. More than 2500 of these are authoritative “Type Specimens” from which the species was originally discovered, classified, described and named. The earliest specimen was collected in 1769 during James Cook’s first voyage. Others were collected by famous Americans such as George Washington Carver. Rust fungi are all plant pathogens, many of great economic importance. Epidemics of wheat stem rust in the 20th century destroyed millions of bushels of wheat. This rust has been effectively controlled by development of resistant cultivars, but a new race recently found in Africa, overcomes the resistance found in most cultivars. Wind-blown spores of this race will likely eventually reach the Americas. In the present decade, soybean rust spread from Asia and Africa to the Americas. The Arthur Herbarium is a key resource for identification, diversity, and historical records of rust occurrence. Ecologists, biogeographers, botanists, and geneticists all over the world are now beginning to take advantage of this rich source of genetic information. Over the past eight years we have cataloged 50,000 specimens. We hope to catalog the remaining 60,000 and make the collection more widely available through a web-based interface.

• ONE Archives Arrangement and Description Project

  ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives is the oldest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) organization in the U.S. and it holds the largest collection of LGBT materials in the world. ONE began as the earliest national gay publication, ONE Magazine, in 1953; it later developed into an Institute with the first certificates in gay studies. In 1994, ONE merged with Jim Kepner’s National Gay Archives and since 2000 has functioned as an archive at the University of Southern California. UCLA Film & Television Archive has one of the largest collections of media materials in the world. ONE deposited its moving image collection, including film prints, negatives and tapes with UCLA in 2006. As a result of pre-application review from CLIR, ONE and the UCLA Film & Television Archive are enhancing their partnership by collaborating and integrating their projects to make these historically significant materials accessible. The collections document the creation of a forum to discuss sexuality in the 1950s, gay rights, pioneering gay activists, AIDS, religion, gays in the military and gay journalism. The ONE Archives Arrangement and Description Project will catalog 30 collections/sub-collections (935 feet) of archival materials of pioneering LGBT institutions, writers and activists. These collections are critical in documenting the evolution of social attitudes in the 20th century. Though use has been sporadic, the collections are almost completely inaccessible.

• The Louis Bromfield Collection

  The substance of the collection falls into three areas: his literary work (fiction, screenplays, criticism); his agricultural writings (soil conservation, agronomy, hydrology) and political writings preceding and during the Joseph McCarthy era. The geographic scope is national and international, particularly Brazil and Africa. In light of current national and international issues, such as world famine and water shortage, access to the Bromfield Collection documents research of national and international agricultural causes and reforms of enduring importance. Bromfield’s innovative theory and practice of sustainable farming is still applicable today. In fact, as an international agricultural crisis escalates, sustainable farming becomes an ever more important topic in the minds of farmers, scientists and politicians. In some cases, the Bromfield Collection contains the only extant records of such fugitive materials as transcripts of radio broadcasts and speeches to numerous business and community organizations. Bromfield’s affiliation with the Friends of the Land organization provides a detailed account of the history of the early environmental movement. The extensive collection of political newspaper columns broadens the appeal of the collection. Expanded access to this collection would be of service to such disciplines as agricultural and scientific history, political history, American studies, sociology and international studies.
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  Intellectual Access to Moving Images of Work Life, 1916-1950

  "Intellectual Access to Moving Images of Work Life, 1916-1950" has created descriptive records for 50 film collections (16mm, 8mm, 35mm) identified as significant moving image archival documents relating to work and labor in the first half of the 20th century. Like NHF's films named to the National Film Registry, From Stump to Ship (1930) and The Making of an American (1920), our accessions reward scholars with detailed records of labor, environment, and society. Each reel is unique coverage, not otherwise available. Our collecting criteria result from cooperation with historians since our founding, including David C. Smith, our first board member, Bird & Bird Professor of History at the Univ. of Maine, and Martha J. McNamara, Director, New England Arts & Architecture Program, Wellesley College. The reels hold hidden research materials--with a range of cataloging requirements--from among 800 collections gathered at NHF over 23 years. Many relate to non-moving image documents in other repositories, as moving images are a demanding category of archival holdings too often separated from related materials. NHF's Albert Farwell Bemis Collection, 16mm film (1920s-1930) shot by Bemis, an industrialist and benefactor to housing research, adds depth to MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation papers. Film from our Edwin Bienick Collection of the American Writing Paper Co. enhance holdings at W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Univ. of Mass., Amherst.

• Massachusetts Men on the National Political Stage: The Papers of Richard Wigglesworth, Robert Valentine, C.P. Curtis, George Williams, & Richard Olney

  The MHS seeks funding to arrange and describe (i.e. process) the papers of five Massachusetts men who served on the national and international political stage: Richard B. Wigglesworth (1891-1960), counsel and representative for organizations created under the Dawes Plan following the default of German reparation payments after World War I, member of Congress, 1928-1958, and Ambassador to Canada,1958-1960; Richard Olney (1835-1917), US Attorney General, 1893-1895, and Secretary of State during the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela over British Guiana,1895-1897; Robert G. Valentine (1872-1916), commissioner of Indian affairs, 1909-1912, founder of the field of industrial relations counseling; and owner of the "House of Truth," a Washington, DC location where intellectuals gathered to discuss issues of the early 20th century; Charles P. Curtis (1891-1959), Assistant to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, 1941, creator of Massachusetts's Fair Employment Practice Act, and author of The Oppenheimer Case: The Trial of a Security System (1955) about the revocation of J. Robert Oppenheimer's government security clearance in 1954 during the red scare; and US Representative and civil service reformer George Fred Williams (1852-1932). All five collections are closed to researchers pending processing. The project will result in five searchable EAD-encoded finding aids at the MHS website and recommend changes in processing and reference services at the MHS.
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  The Moravian Community in the New World: The First 100 Years

  Lehigh University (Lehigh) and the Moravian Archives (MAB) will partner to process a selection of collections documenting the material culture, religious values and cultural diversity of the Moravian community of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from its founding in 1741 until the opening of the community to non-Moravians in 1844 and the subsequent incorporation of Bethlehem in 1851. The records reflect the multi-faceted life of this transatlantic community in its interaction with other cultures. Because of the control of the church over every aspect of life within Bethlehem, matters were recorded in order to be reported to church leadership that in other communities went unrecorded. Collections reflect the breadth and depth of life in Bethlehem during this period. Personal papers of artists, tradesmen, missionaries, and sailors will be processed, along with business records (ledgers and inventories detailing operations of grist and saw mills, tailors and weavers; dye works; soap factory; taverns; tannery; & lumberyards). The congregational library (est. 1751) containing books considered helpful in building a settlement in the New World will also be cataloged (approximately 30% of these titles are not represented in WorldCat). Finally, approximately 800 maps and architectural drawings (maps and drawings of buildings constructed in Moravian communities) showing the earliest documentation of European settlement will be included in this project.

• Wildflower Center Landscape & Culture Collection

  The materials are all images in slide, transparency, print photograph, and negative format, split into the following collections. Wasowski Landscape Slides/Transparencies (1980s-2000s) - Andy Wasowski, a freelance writer and photographer, and Sally Wasowski, a landscape designer, have written nine books including Native Texas Plants and Native Texas Gardens. The Wasowskis contributed an extensive collection of over 11,000 landscape photos to the Wildflower Center. Wildflower Center Construction Slides (1993-1995) - When the new site for the Wildflower Center opened in 1995, it was a model of sustainable architecture as well as award-winning design. The Center’s architectural firm, Overland Partners of San Antonio, won praise for the sensitivity paid to the site as they designed the buildings to wrap around the elements of nature. Approximately 2,000 slides document the center's construction. Bessie M. Koehler Landscape Slides (1950s-1970s) - The Bessie M. Koehler collection came to us posthumously and comprises over 5,000 slides. Koehler photographed native plants and landscapes, focusing on the natural areas in the Northwestern U.S. Wildflower Center Cultural Slides/Photographs/Negatives (1982-2000s) - Over 8,000 slides, photographs, and negatives document research, fundraising, and public events since the inception of the original Wildflower Center (the National Wildflower Research Center) in 1982.

• Highlander Center Collections

  Since its founding in 1932, the Highlander Research and Education Center has been at the epicenter of social justice movements in Appalachia and the South. Highlander has played a vital role in the growth and development of movements for workers' rights, Civil Rights, environmental justice, and global justice, among others. The stories of both famous and unsung activists and leaders who raised their voices to "form a more perfect union" are little known and little understood. Too often the stories of changes are the stories of famous individuals, not the many who helped to do the work. Subsequently, the connections of people inspiring each other within communities and across time and movements are even less understood. These lessons are critical to looking forward and understanding how this country makes real its democratic process. Highlander, because of its 77 year presence in this region of the United States, serves as a lens for seeing and understanding movements that improve lives, communities, and nations. It is this hidden aspect that we hope to raise up through this project by better documenting and connecting Highlander's history. This history links to national efforts such as the environmental movement and even beyond, to international educational and change efforts. These collections include photographs, audio and video tapes, reel-to-reel films, workshop recordings, papers from Highlander staff members, board members, and program participants.

• The History of Modern Genetics: Providing Access to Historic Reprint Collections at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives

  CSHL Archives holds the Davenport and Demerec Collections of rare scientific reprints. These reprints were carefully collected by these two prominent scientists for their and their colleagues’ research from 1868 to 1960. The collections hold approximately 90,000 reprints, which are organized in alphabetical order by author. Many of the 10,000 reprints we will select for cataloging represent the surviving evidence of pioneering scientists’ work, or history of particular fields. Their distinctiveness, compared to other reprints, has been noted by scholars. Many of them are the only physically available copy, which otherwise have been lost to history. These reprints are from obscure and extinct foreign scientific journals, and those rare, short lived titles, that are generally missing from standard histories of their fields. In total these papers represent a history of modern biology, eugenics (anthropometry, anthropology), and natural history (zoology, embryology). They document key discoveries by scientists from many international institutions which lead to interdisciplinary innovations and practical applications in agriculture, health sciences, genomics, and other fields. The reprints span the ages of modern biological research: naturalist studies immediately following Darwin’s 1859 publication, Origin of Species; plant genetics which began with the rediscovery of Mendel in 1900; the development of classical genetics; and the dark social history born from eugenics.

• Clementine Collection Rare Book Cataloging Project

  The Clementine Collection comprises the combined personal libraries belonging to the Albani family of Urbino and Rome. This noble Italian family included several cardinals, as well as Giovanni Francesco Albani who reigned as Pope Clement XI from 1700-1721. Strengths of the Collection include Roman and canon law, church history, philosophy, and a significant collection on Jansenism, with considerable unique material pertaining to this movement, to the Gallican church of the 18th century, and to the aftermath of the bull Unigenitus. Also present are books of Italian literature and drama which are expected in a library of cultured men who were also important patrons of the arts. A number of these are significant as association copies, dedicated to Albani family members, especially Clement and his nephews, Cardinals Annibale and Alessandro Albani (the latter serving for some years as head of the Vatican Library). Books date from the 15th century to the early 19th. A preliminary analysis places over eleven percent of the imprints in the 16th century, with the largest percentage dating from the 17th and a slightly smaller number from the 18th century. Owing to frequent rearrangements of the materials and early studies of the collection by subject matter alone, no accurate picture exists of the collection's overall chronological breakdown. An estimated 30 percent of the books are not represented in OCLC, the cataloging database accessed by scholars via WorldCat.

• Gorham Manufacturing Company Archive (hereinafter "Gorham Archive")

  Chronicling the industrial revolution in Southern New England, changing consumer tastes from Victorian times to the present and transatlantic competition in silver production, the Gorham Manufacturing Company Archive is an important resource for study and interpretation of American art, design, business practices, and consumer culture and serves as an invaluable resource to teaching and research, institutions, private collectors, and the general public. Gorham was an important part of industrial life and culture in Rhode Island for 170 years and at the turn of the 20th century was the world’s largest silver manufacturer employing some 2000 designers and producers of flatware, hollowware and presentation silver, with a bronze foundry producing statuary and a stained glass division creating windows for churches. Estimated at nearly 3000 cubic feet and occupying more than 21 stack ranges, the Archive features thousands of images of Gorham products and comprises corporate, personnel, costing, sales and advertising records along with blueprints, plaster casts and models, and pattern templates. Processing the Archive will provide enhanced access and unique insights into the largest and most complete set of public records of its kind, generating interest among universities, museums, municipalities, churches, and individuals.
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  Uncovering the Secrets of Brooklyn's 19th Century Past: Creation to Consolidation

  Uncovering the Secrets of Brooklyn's 19th Century Past: Creation to Consolidation comprises materials covering the period from 1834, when Brooklyn was first incorporated as a city, to its consolidation with New York City in 1898. Because Brooklyn's history is central to understanding 19th-century American history, these significant resources, once brought to light, hold the potential for scholars to place Brooklyn within its proper national and global context. Map collections consist of manuscript and printed street, political, topographical, demographic and transit maps, richly illustrative of Brooklyn's remarkable expansion in the 19th century, demonstrating the subdivision and conversion of farmland to a densely-populated city and the development of public transportation and urban planning. Archival materials include personal papers whose creators range from working class immigrants and Civil War foot soldiers to small business operators and captains of industry; business records from a variety of manufacturing, banking and transportation interests and municipal records documenting myriad infrastructure and cultural projects. Photographic materials include glass negatives and slides, tintypes, stereographic prints and daguerreotypes, all providing a powerful visual synonym for the history documented in the textual collections. When cataloged, these collections will be invaluable resources for serious scholars of American history.

• Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Collections at Brandeis University

  We plan to make available four collections related to the Holocaust and Jewish and radical resistance to persecution before, during, and after World War II: 1. Helmut Hirsch Collection: The personal papers of Helmut Hirsch (1916-1937), a young German Jew executed by the Nazis for his involvement in a plot to bomb the Nazi headquarters at Nuremberg. Included are correspondence, photo albums, memorabilia, trial documents, and Hirsch’s poetry, artwork, travel diaries, school reports, and musical compositions. 2. Jewish Resistance Collection: A range of materials including: underground publications by German Communist and French Jewish resisters to the Nazi regime before and during WWII; international post-war reports and periodicals documenting the persecution and extermination of Jews and the course of several Nuremberg trials; and Nazi paraphernalia. 3. Lipman Nazi Documents: A range of original documents and correspondence by high-level Nazi officials including: the 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 such as Goebbels, Goering, Hess, Himmler, Hitler, and von Ribbentrop. 4. Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Documents: Daily orders issued from the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (1942-1944). The orders provide detailed information about the workings of the camp including the names and numbers of inmates killed on given dates.

• Uncovering Textile Images in the American Textile History Museum's Osborne Library

  The American Textile History Museum (ATHM) holds the most significant collections in North America that integrate both the the recent and past history of textiles and the American textile industry. The library collections consist of books, periodicals, manuscripts, and thousands of images and graphics. This proposal focuses on the cataloguing of a portion of those images and graphics that includes paintings, prints, photographs and textile labels. The collections are concentrated primarily on the American experience but also include materials from antecedent and parallel textile traditions. Paintings include watercolors and oils such as an 1848 view of the Middlesex Woolen Mill in Lowell, MA. The print collection consists of a variety of formats, such as a 16th-century German etching of bleaching cloth, oversized photomechanical prints of mills and insurance maps that display detailed technical drawings of mills. Photographs record images of mills, workers, and textile production from daguerreotypes to modern processes. Colorful textile labels designed for bolts of cloth are part of branding, and often show a view of the mill where the cloth was made, the type of cloth manufactured or an iconic image that conveyed a fabric’s qualities. All paintings, prints and labels will be catalogued. Not all items in the photograph collection will be chosen for this project. Images that provide the greatest value to researchers will be selected.
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  From Inventory to Direct Web Retrieval: Revealing the American Museum of Natural History's Archival Collections

  The archival collections of the American Museum of Natural History contain rich resources about the history of the institution, founded in 1869, and its fields of scientific research: anthropology, astronomy, earth sciences, paleontology and zoology. The cross-disciplinary focus of the AMNH archives, suports research about important historical and contemporary issues. Included among these topics are global warming and climate change, species loss and habitat transformation, cultural transitions, and the revision and sometimes denial of evolutionary biology. The collections include the professional papers of numerous distinguished individuals associated with the Museum, notably; scientists Franz Boas, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Margaret Mead; naturalists Theodore Roosevelt and John Burroughs; and the extraordinary artists Carl Akeley and Charles Knight. Every continent is referenced in the AMNH archival collections. Richard Owen, first director of London’s Natural History Museum influenced AMNH founder Albert Bickmore’s plans for the Museum. Paleontologist R. C. Andrews discovered dinosaur eggs in Mongolia. Morris Skinner collected a comprehensive fossil horse collection in North America. J. T. Nichols studied fishes in the Congo Basin. Harry Shapiro studied the descendents of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island. The archives also document Junius Bird’s archeological discoveries in Peru and Lincoln Ellsworth’s expedition to Antarctica.

• Women in Ministry: Hidden but not Forgotten

  Christians for Biblical Equality Records, 1988-2008 - 5 ln ft - organization founded in 1988 to promote fundamental equality of men and women (http://www.cbeinternational.org/); Ruth Gothenquist Papers, 1942-2008 - 2 ln ft - founded Women's Aglow, International, a worldwide Christian women's organization (http://www.aglow.org/); First Free Methodist Church of Seattle, WA Records, 1880-1980 - 12 ln ft - collection contains papers of Emma Ray, a 19th century woman evangelist; Henrietta Mears Papers, 1910-1963 - 2 ln ft - she founded Gospel Light Publishing Co. (http://www.gospellight.com/); Stephanie Beans Papers, 1988-2009 - 2 ln ft - woman pastor and evangelist at interracial Church of Berachah, Spokane, WA; First Baptist Church of Spokane, WA Records, 1881-2001 - 10 ln ft - collection contains contextual records during 19th century pastorate of May C. Jones; Interfaith Council of the Inland Northwest Records, 1974-2008 - 18 ln ft - organization founded in 1942 as Spokane Council of Churches - collection contains work done by and for women; Lucinda Gorman Papers, 1971-2008 - 2 ln ft - first woman graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary to receive a solo pastorate; Evelyn Peterson Papers, 19Xx-19xx - 1 ln ft - 1930s woman pastor in Montana - her son, Eugene Peterson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_H._Peterson), wrote the bible translation "The Message"; May C. Jones Papers, 1882-1937 - 2 ln ft - one of the first ordained woman pastors in America.

• Cataloging the Henry Hampton/ Blackside Collection

  Washington University’s Film & Media Archive is home to the Henry Hampton Collection. Hampton(1940-98), a St. Louis native and Washington University alumnus, created films that chronicle the 20th century’s great political and social movements, focusing on the poor and disenfranchised. He founded his Boston-based company, Blackside, Inc., in 1968. It became the largest African-American-owned film production company of its time. Over its 30-year history, Blackside won every major award in the documentary industry, including a Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. Blackside’s work continues to influence filmmakers. Hampton’s best-known film, Eyes on the Prize, attracted over 20 million viewers when it aired in the 1980s-1990s. The Boston Globe praised it as “one of the most distinguished documentary series in the history of broadcasting.” More than 20 years after its release, it remains the definitive work on the civil rights movement. During research and production, Blackside created or collected thousands of items: oral histories, interviews, archival footage, photos, producer notes, scripts, correspondence, rough cuts, and other materials. In 2001, Washington University was awarded this comprehensive collection and created a new facility to house the four tractor-trailer loads of material that had been in storage. These materials, many unseen outside Blackside, are important and unique historical records that offer incredible potential for new research.

• Starting Locally, Thinking Globally: Records of Virginia-Based Businesses in the Twentieth Century

  Targeted collections consist of records of twentieth-century businesses founded or headquartered in Virginia but employing a broad national workforce and/or supplying an expansive national and international customer or client base and being otherwise engaged in the global economy. The largest collection in this group (300 lin. ft.) consists of a major portion of the records of Reynolds Metals Company, manufacturer of aluminum and aluminum products headquartered in Richmond that promoted mining, manufacturing, and product development in localities and markets both in the United States and abroad. Other collections focus on coal mining (Jewell Ridge Company, 6 ft., and the Erskine Company, 36 ft.), the lumber trade and the production of treated telephone and utility poles for a massive national market (E. F. Conger papers, 6 ft.), oil exploration and production (Edrington Oil Corp., 5 ft.), shoe and hosiery manufacture and sales (including efforts of company owners to offer equal pay for equal work regardless of race or gender well before required by law [Craddock-Terry Company and Lynchburg Hoisery Mills records, 94 ft.]), pharmaceuticals (Owens & Minor, 27 ft.), insurance (including efforts to influence national legislation regarding roads and travel safety [Travelers Protective Assoc., 15 ft.]), retail and marketing (assorted collections, 53 ft.), containers (Seward, 18 ft.), and paper manufacturing (Cauthorne Paper, 3 ft.).