Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• American Literary Families: A Preservation and Access Project

  The materials are composed of manuscript collections relating to three important twentieth century literary families: the Benet family, the Fitzgerald family, and the MacLeish family. The Benet family papers include documents on William Rose Benet (editor and writer) Stephen Vincent Benet (poet, short story writer, and novelist), Laura Benet (editor, poet, biographer), and others; the Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith papers include documents relating to her (writer and journalist) and her parentsF. Scott Fitzgerald (novelist) and Zelda Fitzgerald (novelist); and the MacLeish family papers include documents, especially correspondence, relating to Martha Hillard (professor and scholar), her husband Andrew MacLeish, and her children, including her son Archibald MacLeish (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet) and her daughter Ishbel MacLeish. Laura Benet, Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith, Martha Hillard and Ishbel MacLeish each attended Vassar, and these collections shed light on their lives and the lives of their literary families. The time period covered ranges from the late nineteenth century into the late twentieth century, though the bulk of the materials date from the first half of the twentieth century. As for geographic scope, the focus is on the east coast of the United States, especially New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, but a certain amount of material deals with other cities and places, such as Washington, D.C., Alabama, California, and Illinois.

• Van Alen Institute Design Archive

  Originally founded in 1894 as the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, Van Alen Institute (VAI) has accumulated a significant archive of historical design material documenting the development and expansion of late 19th and early 20th century American architectural education. This material was identified in 2007 and remains virtually unknown to design researchers and educators. VAI's archival material dates from 1893 - 1994 and is comprised of 258 linear feet of institutional records, 39 linear feet of photographic materials and 4,000 + original architectural drawings. Records include the Institute's founding documents, correspondence, trustee and design jury meeting minutes, financial documents, design competition programs, publications and scrapbooks. Photographic material includes over 200 albumen prints (1904-1908) and approximately 12,000 gelatin silver prints and negatives of student drawings (1904-1994). The archive's original drawings date from 1936 and are complimented by 67 remarkable drawings from the organization's early history that were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1980. Based on a preliminary box survey, VAI has identified four record groups corresponding to the Institute's historical departments - Architecture, Sculpture, Mural Painting and Interior Decoration - and three groups corresponding to the Institute's activities - Administrative Records, Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts and the Beaux-Arts Ball.

• Fry Collection of Italian History and Culture

  The Fry Collection of Italian History and Culture has been assembled and donated by William F. “Jack” Fry, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It includes manuscripts and correspondence, broadsides, printed ephemera, periodicals, and books from the early Renaissance through the 20th century. The largest category consists of materials from the period of Italian Fascism, illustrating, for example, Fascist propaganda, educational policies and practices, youth and women's activities, racial policies, Italian colonialism, and anti-Fascist opposition. The next largest category documents aspects of the history of the Veneto from the 15th century through the 19th, with particular attention to the French and Austrian occupation of Veneto in the 19th century. Correspondence and printed ephemera are complemented by many official avvisi and manifesti. Other materials fall into the following categories, as assigned by the donor in his extensive notes on the collection: the Church and Italian culture, partisans in Italy during World War II, 20th-century Italian Communism, political culture in postwar Italy, documents from Istria and Latina, theater and music in Italy, the period immediately preceding the Fascist period, the Italian postal and telegraph service, and other rare books and manuscripts mainly from Italy (15th-20th century).

• Uncovering Pacific Northwest Architectural Drawing Collections

  The project will focus on a series of approximately 100 collections of architectural drawings (about 400,000 drawings) from architects, landscape architects and architectural firms in the Pacific Northwest from 1889 to 2000 that document a wide range of the built environment such as residences, industrial and public buildings, churches, hospitals, schools, and vernacular buildings including gas stations, and motels. The majority of the materials are working drawings on drafting linen or tracing paper, but also included are design sketches and rendered presentation drawings. The quality of the work ranges from artistic renderings, that have been exhibited in museums, to site plans, elevations, design drawings and simple idea sketches. This archive of architectural drawings is the largest and most comprehensive in the Pacific Northwest and continues to grow in both size and importance to researchers. The collections document the contribution of Northwest architects to American architecture. Some of the architects represented include John Graham, who designed the Seattle Space Needle and the first successful shopping mall in the U.S.; Elizabeth Ayer, the first woman architect registered in Washington state; Minoru Yamasaki, the designer of the World Trade Center; Paul Kirk, a founder of Northwest Modernism, and modern architect, Roland Terry, noted for his innovation in interior design.

• The William Faulkner Collections at the University of Virginia

  William Faulkner, the pre-eminent 20th century author, chose the University of Virginia Library as the repository for the manuscripts and papers in his possession at the time of his death in 1962. The William Faulkner collections at the UVa Library are the largest group of his manuscripts in the world, but the bulk of this significant collection is hidden to scholars. The collections total 54 linear feet (approximately 10,000 pieces in 140 boxes) but most of it lacks the full cataloging and item level description needed to make it discoverable. The only Faulkner materials that are well known to researchers are the manuscripts and typescripts of the novels and short stories, but the UVa Library also holds photographs, audiovisual material, editors’ correspondence, and personal and family letters deposited over the years by Faulkner’s daughter. Additionally, there are holograph and typescript material from 19 published and 2 unpublished novels including the basic holograph manuscript for 7 of the novels and for all others some variant form of the typescript, often with holograph corrections. The Library holds typescript setting copies (or carbons) of all the novels (except The Unvanquished) from The Sound and the Fury onward; complete holograph manuscripts of Flags in the Dust, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, The Wild Palms, a major portion of Mosquitoes and early typescript versions of Soldiers' Pay, Mosquitoes, and Flags in the Dust.

• Rare Middle East Collection Cataloging

  The Rare Books Division of Special Collections at the J. Willard Marriott Library holds a large collection of rare, fragile print material from the Middle East, mostly in Arabic, but also in Ottoman Turkish, Farsi, Pashto, and Urdu. The materials cover a broad range of topics including history, politics, religion (Islam, Sufism, Christianity), grammar, philosophy, medicine, zoology, poetry, jurisprudence, and others. The materials span a period from ca. 1600 to ca. 1950 CE. They were published in Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq and other Middle Eastern and North African countries. Approximately 5,000 of these pieces have no or inadequate catalog records. Of these, approximately 2,000 pieces need OCLC records. This collection provides important primary source material for the study of Middle Eastern culture and society, particularly because it is held in the U.S. A brief, random survey of these pieces showed that six out of the 12 reviewed did not have OCLC entries from the U.S. The collection was acquired over several years by Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, founder of the University of Utah’s Middle East Center in 1959 and, in 1960, the Middle East Library, a division of the Marriott Library, which currently holds over 150,000 items.
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  Excavating L.A.: USC’s Hidden Southern California Historical Collections

  Excavating L.A. includes diverse archival materials from 26 regional history collections at the USC Libraries. Primarily focused on Los Angeles urban and social history, the collections include a wealth of materials on California politics and community activism; L.A.’s freeways and architectural history; the Christopher and Webster Commission reports on the 1992 riots; and photographs and other visual materials documenting the rapid growth of mid-century Los Angeles. The Excavating L.A. project includes the papers of former U.S. representatives Alphonzo Bell and Lynn Schenk, early 20th-century women’s voting rights activist Amy Ransome, and activists Catherine Stern and Warren Steinberg. Other collections feature archival materials from the Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, the Century Freeway, the Los Angeles Board of Education, and the 1939 WPA Household Survey, allowing researchers to study the unique patterns of urban development that differentiate Los Angeles from cities like Chicago and New York that gained most of their populations in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Gregory Freeman Stone papers about the assassination of Robert Kennedy in L.A., outtakes from the nightly TV program Ralph Story’s L.A. (1964-70), and the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty archive shed light on underexplored aspects of L.A. history. Additional collections provide resources for studying Southern California journalism, industry, and public art.

• The Public's Right to Know: Cataloging the Hidden Collections of the University Libraries Public Reading Rooms on Nuclear Waste

  The Department of Energy/Freedom of Information Act (DOE/FOIA) collection is largely composed of regional DOE documents such as reports, testimonies, and previously requested FOIA documents. Items included are from: the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project (UMTRA); the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP); Human Radiation Experiments; Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) reports; Sandia National Laboratories Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statements (SWEIS). Sandia National Laboratories, a DOE lab, performs a wide variety of national security R&D, energy and environment technology research. The collection contains unclassified research materials generated by researchers and scientists at SNL. The importance of the collection resides in the research conducted that will impact current and future remediation techniques and needs covering nuclear as well as conventional hazardous wastes. The collection is a dynamic collection and materials are added on an ad-hoc basis. The Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) safely disposes of the nation's defense-related transuranic radioactive waste. The collection consists of a variety of materials from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the National Environmental Policy Act, environmental monitoring, federal and New Mexico state regulations, transportation, the National Transuranic Waste (TRU) Program, nuclear safety and quality assurance and safety. The WIPP collection is dynamic.

• Immigrant Publishing and Ethnic Print Project

  The proposed project contains materials printed 1910-2000 by 20th-century immigrants to the United States and international publications dealing with US immigration. Most materials date from 1920 to 1970 and represent published output by groups from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe (including post-World War II displaced persons), Finland, and the Near East. These areas are core strengths of the IHRC’s collections, which also include archival and published materials from late 20th-century refugee groups and immigrants from Africa, Southeast Asia, and former Soviet territories. The IHRC has extensive print donated by individuals and community organizations to supplement and expand the Centers’s collections of immigration history monographs, ethnic newspapers, serials, kalendars, and jubilee albums. The Immigrant Publishing and Ethnic Print Project has been developed to group together primarily monographs and rare serials for which there is no researcher access. The project encompasses nearly 350 distinct units of materials in languages from Albanian to Yiddish, representing one-time and ongoing donations of materials from scholars, individuals, ethnic libraries and other community sources. Many groups of print are related to IHRC archival donations, but retention decisions have not yet been made for this print.

• New England Archaeology Collection at the Department of Anthropology, UMass Amherst

  The University of Massachusetts is the preeminent institution for the archaeology of New England, and our collections reflect that status. The Department of Anthropology’s New England Archaeological Collection consists of approximately 50,000 catalog entries representing 600,000 individual artifacts obtained through archaeological field schools, faculty and student research, and donations from private institutions and individuals. Over 100 archaeological sites are represented, including several on the National Register of Historic Places. Our collection’s pre-Contact and Contact material represent the 12,000-year history of Native Americans in New England. The majority of these materials consist of stone tools, ceramics, bone tools, shell, botanical and faunal remains, metals, and textiles. The post-Contact materials represent the entire period of European-American occupation in New England. Objects from these collection subsets include architectural hardware (nails, window glass, masonry, etc.), agricultural tools, and personal and domestic items (ceramics, buttons, glassware, etc.). Many of the represented excavations have accompanying paper-based (and in a few cases electronic) field notes and provenience records of artifact context (i.e. stratigraphy) that follow no authority control and inadequately describe artifacts. Currently, no print or web-accessible finding aid exists that would allow researchers to access our collection in a meaningful way.

• Political and Social Activism Pamphlet (PSAP) Collection: Creating Multiple-point Access through Archival Description and Cataloging

  The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library proposes a 2-year project to catalog the Political and Social Activism Pamphlet (PSAP) Collection. In the late 1960s, at a time when many libraries considered pamphlets to be expendable, the UIC Special Collections Department began soliciting donations and purchasing pamphlets with a goal of creating a comprehensive, permanent research collection focused on political and social activism. The PSAP Collection enhanced and supplemented the department's collecting strengths in social service and social issues (anchored by Jane Addams' Hull-House records). The PSAP Collection consists of approximately 11,000 titles originating from diverse publishers and agencies. This rich primary source research collection documents social, economic and political issues and events from the 1840s to the 1980s. Publications are primarily from the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and Asia, Europe and Latin America are represented as well. Pamphlets are a vehicle for special interests and the PSAP Collection represents a range of people, and political and cultural philosophies, from American Indians to youth organizations and what's in-between, such as civil rights, labor and unionism, peace and war, and women's issues. Individually, the pamphlets document important historical events and issues; as a whole they offer an overview of the political, social and economic temper of their times.

• Potlatch Corporation Archives: Unveiling the Forest Industry of the Pacific Northwest

  Potlatch Corporation is a private timber/forestry/ lumber/wood products and paper company with a strong sense of environmental and social history that in December 2008 gifted its archives to the University of Idaho Library Special Collections & Archives, making them freely available for research. The first part of the archives was received (464 cubic feet) from the Lewiston, Idaho branch operations, while the second part(57 c.f.)was received in summer 2009 from the Spokane, Washington company parent archive. Seven previous archival accessions were received from Potlatch Corporation (including Potlatch Forests, Inc. and Potlatch Lumber Company) from 1986-1995, totaling 137 c.f., which have been processed as collections, MG 52, MG 96, MG 135, MG 191, MG 192, MG 193, and MG 388. While significant, these collections are overshadowed by the sheer size of the incoming archival materials that total 521 c.f. As one of the major timber/forestry/paper companies in the nation and the world, Potlatch Corporation has roots dating to the late nineteenth century, and is an integral part of American forestry and lumber/paper history. The records document not only the business history, but also the environmental history of much of the forest lands of the northern Rocky Mountains, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Arkansas. Social history is significant for the company town of Potlatch as documented in company ledger books and photographs.

• The Renaissance Society Exhibition Image Collection

  For nearly 100 years, The Renaissance Society has dedicated itself to the growth and understanding of contemporary art. Through exhibitions, publications, and education programs, it promotes the work of artists and movements that question and redefine the aesthetic boundaries of the visual arts. It is one of the nation's oldest and most internationally-recognized institutions in this arena. As a non-collecting institution, the museum is by definition what it does. As a result,each article of exhibition documentation--photographs, correspondence, press, and budgets--constitutes the museum's collection, and is invaluable primary source material for anyone interested in a history of the region's introduction, response, and contribution to 20th century art. Roughly 5,000 high resolution digital images from this collection currently exist in the museum's archive, including installation images and individual works from each show dating back to 1915. These images represent groundbreaking exhibitions by Matisse, Leger, Mies van der Rohe,and Magritte, many of which were the first presentation to American audiences. Early landmark group shows like "War Art" (1942) are also included, along with the museum's more current, prescient activity with artists like Robert Smithson, Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Struth, Luc Tuymans, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Kara Walker. Recent additions include rare documentation of site-specific work by international artists like Francis Alys and Katharina Grosse.

• Civil Rights Research within the Academy: the Archives of the Civil Rights Project (CRP)

  Archival records (paper and electronic) of the Civil Rights Project. The Civil Rights Project (CRP) was established in 1996 at Harvard University as a multidisciplinary research and policy think tank in support of academics, policy makers, and civil rights advocates. The CRP relocated to UCLA in 2007. The Project's original co-directors, Gary Orfield and Christopher Edley, Jr., maintained a broad perspective: civil rights among all populations - African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Native Americans - as it relates to education, employment, housing, immigration, the law, and city/state/federal legislation. The CRP archives document the Project's formation, growth, research, and the CRP's collaborations with scholars, policy makers, civil rights organizations, and journalists. The archival materials are in hard copy (165 linear ft.) and electronic formats. File types include: correspondence; research data; studies; interviews; comprehensive research subject files; audio and video recordings; and court-appointed expert reports. The electronic files, primarily email, document the CRP during its years at Harvard. CRP research studies have been produced at the request of the Ford Foundation and a number of Federal District Courts. Examples of comprehensive research files include the Chicago housing policy (1976-1992) and the Indiana Youth Opportunity Study (1990-). Court-appointed reports include civil rights cases in Baltimore, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

• The Geleve Grice Photograph Collection

  The Geleve Grice Photograph Collection consists of 23 boxes of unorganized photoprints and unprinted negatives (totaling some 70,900 images), billing records, advertisements, college yearbooks, and 15 hours of audio interviews. This project focuses on processing the 6,500 photoprints and creating a finding aid that is web-accessible and web-searchable through EAD conversion. Taken between 1942 and 2002, the photographs document the social and cultural lives of African Americans in Arkansas, the Mississippi River delta, Texas, Chicago, and elsewhere. The African American photographer Geleve Grice (1922-2004) was born southeast of Little Rock, Arkansas. He lived most of his life in nearby Pine Bluff, owned a photography studio and made a living photographing graduations, funerals, parades, etc. He was also the photographer for the state’s historically black college at Pine Bluff. Some photos are of pre-integration events at black high schools; others are of small, rural black schools before school consolidation. Photos of Silas Hunt, the first African American to enroll in a professional school in the South, are also included. The collection goes beyond important local and state subjects, with photographs of Louis Armstrong, Joe Louis, and Eleanor Roosevelt. The collection is the epitome of a hidden collection and is nationally significant in its contribution to the scarce archival quality photographic record of African American life in the southcentral region of the U.S.

• Cataloging the Paul H. Gantt Nuremberg Trial Papers

  The Paul H. Gantt Nuremberg Trial Papers include materials related to Gantt’s work as a prosecutor in the Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, the United States prosecution office during the trials of Nazi war criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. These twelve trials took place from October 1946 to April 1949 following the four-power Allied trial of two dozen major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (November 1945 to October 1946). Paul Gantt moved to the Towson area in 1976 and retired from private practice two years later. He bound his copies of transcripts and other documents concerning the trials into 48 volumes. Shortly before his death on June 7, 1979, he donated the volumes to the Albert S. Cook Library at Towson University. The Gantt Papers contain approximately 20,000 pages including correspondence related to his work on the trials, copies of briefs, indictments, and other court documents. Significant portions of the collection, in some cases more than one entire volume, focus on the trials against Erhard Milch (Case 2), Friedrich Flick et al. (Case 4), and Ernst von Weizsaecker et al. (Case 11). While funds have not been available to compile a proper finding aid or inventory for the collection, it is clear that the Gantt papers not only are another collection of Nuremberg transcripts and briefs, but also contain unique private letters and in-house memoranda that will attract scholarly attention.

• Voices of Change Archive

  Formed in 1974 as ensemble-in-residence at Southern Methodist University, Voices of Change (VOC) is one of the longest standing new music ensembles in the U.S. The ensemble performs music from the 20th and 21st centuries, with a primary focus on living composers. VOC has performed music by over 300 composers, including more than 60 world premieres, of which the ensemble commissioned more than 25. VOC’s performers represent the top tier of Dallas-area musicians, including many Dallas Symphony principals. Visiting composers actively participate in pre-concert forums and occasionally conduct or perform. VOC has been recognized nationally and internationally for the high caliber of its performances and adventuresome programming. It has received several grants from the NEA and Copland Foundation. The VOC Archive consists of three collections of materials: over 800 musical scores of works performed by VOC, roughly 20% of which are not cataloged in OCLC; approximately 600 sound and 100 video recordings from performances and pre-concert forums; and 40 cubic feet of archival material from 1974 to 2000, including program booklets, artist and vendor files, awards, and other business files. Materials will be added to the archive periodically once materials are no longer in active use by the organization. The Archive will provide invaluable primary source material for research on 20th and 21st century music, particularly in the scholarly areas of performance and reception history.

• Women of Substance : Women's History Processing Project

  The project would encompass materials relating to key women educators and activists from Illinois, the Midwest and the nation from 1920 to 2004. The selected collections contain the personal and professional papers of nine distinguished women. The collections highlight some of the most transformational moments and movements of education, women's rights and political activism, including health education, pro-choice advocacy, and the equal rights movement. The collections include the papers of nine distinguished and notable women: Louisa Rosenblatt (educator and developer of the Reader-Response Theory in the teaching of literature, and a student of John Dewey); Anne West Lindsay (journalist and fiction writer); Elena Sliepcertich (educator and developer of health education programs used around country); Katherine Dunham (African American educator, anthropologist and dancer—pioneer of the Dunham technique); Helen Topping (educator and missionary to Japan); Jane Adams (educator and anthropologist of the Mississippi delta region); Carolyn Plochmann (educator and nationally renowned artist); Betty Mitchell (educator and local historian); Lillian Adams (social activist and founder of Southern Illinois ACLU and Planned Parenthood).

• Islamic Arts of the Book at the Smithsonian: Providing for Research Across Disciplines

  Together, the Freer and Sackler have the finest collections of illustrated manuscripts from the Islamic world in the U. S. The collections contain extremely rare illustrated texts, tremendous depth in certain formative periods, such as fourteenth-century and sixteenth century Iran, and thematic depth in illustrated copies of the Shanama. These rare texts have no searchable or comprehensive catalogue, yet they could offer an incomparable resource for inter-disciplinary research. The challenge is to produce catalogue records for a museum collection compatible with description standards used by libraries. Comprising 1,200 manuscripts and folios of paintings and calligraphy, the collections include Korans from the late eighth to the late nineteenth centuries, but are especially celebrated for illustrated literary works from Iran. These works include Balami’s Tarikhnama (ca. 1300), probably the earliest extant illustrated world history from the Islamic world, and one of two extant copies in the world of the Divan (collected works) of Sultan Husayn Jalayir (1402), containing the earliest examples of ink drawings from West Asia. The Freer and Sackler also hold the largest repositories in the United States of illustrated texts and individual paintings of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d. 1020), the Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209) and the Haft Awrang (Seven thrones) by the fifteenth century poet Jami (d. 1492).

• Recorded Sounds: The First Two Decades

  This project involves cataloging and writing finding aides for nearly 400 of the earliest audio recordings ever made. These experimental recordings date from the first decades of sound recording and reproduction. Beginning in 1877 with the invention of the phonograph, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Emile Berliner vied for patents and dominance of the commercial market for records and machines to play them on. Each inventor offered objects and supporting documents to the Smithsonian Institution, where they became part of the permanent collections. These early recordings are largely unknown, even within the Smithsonian. They have not been played since acquired, and sound has never been recovered from any of them. Beyond vague notes on ancient catalog cards, the content of most of the recordings is a mystery. No on-line finding aid exists. The recordings are now part of the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where they are classified as artifacts rather than as special collections as defined by libraries and archives. In collaboration with Library of Congress and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, we propose to use a noninvasive optical technique developed by those two institutions to scan and recover sounds from the Smithsonian's unique recordings as a necessary first step for cataloging.

• The Loveliest Village: A Century of Transformation in the Upland South

  The project focuses on the papers of George Fairbanks, Bishop Charles Todd Quintard, Telfair Hodgson and family, Bishop W. A. Guerry and family, and University lease records. Fairbanks, a founding trustee, managed business affairs of the University when it restarted in 1866 and documented its re-emergence. Quintard, second bishop of Tennessee, was the first administrative head of the new University and a major figure in the Episcopal Church. Bishop Guerry was a student, University chaplain, and for 20 years a trustee until his murder because of his racial views. His son Alexander served as Vice-Chancellor. The Hodgson family funded what later became a major hospital providing charity care for much of the southern Cumberland Plateau. Two members of the family were prominent University administrators. Because all residential and commercial property in Sewanee is leasehold, lease records enable study of residents, including faculty and staff, other professionals, laborers, and farmers. These collections depict a sparsely populated section of the Cumberland Plateau in 1856 that grew to a town of nearly 1,500 by the mid-1970s. Correspondence, diaries, official reports, manuscripts, town plans, drawings, surveys, court briefs, lease records, and newspaper accounts show the development of the railroad system, reconstruction, health care, education, the African American community, gender roles, socioeconomic class relations, and the emerging civil rights movement.

• Providing Access to Contemporary Women Artists’ Archives

  These collections comprise the records of women artists organizations and individual women artists, dating from 1945 to the present. Much of the material focuses on the 1970s, a time when the relationships among women, art, and society underwent a dramatic transformation. Thousands of individual women artists are represented, ranging from well-known artists to women who may never have exhibited in a gallery. While the majority of these artists are Americanalso included are women from Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Asia, many of whom exhibited internationally. The collections reveal the diversity among women artists in race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and ability. Organizations represented gave a forum for women artists to communicate and display their work, as well as advocating for women’s equity in the museum, gallery, and academic spheres. The collections include a variety of formats, such as letters, pamphlets, photographs, video and audio tapes, compact discs, and a few original works of art. As well as documenting women artists and organizations, the collections document women’s publishing, political organization, and the history of art in the post-war period. The five collections included in the project are the Lucy Lippard Women’s Art Registry; Heresies, inc. Records; the National Association of Women Artists Records; the Elsa Honig Fine Papers; and the Gloria Orenstein Collection.

• Richard Hugo House Zine Archive and Publishing Project

  The Zine Archive and Publishing Project (ZAPP) is a collection of over 20,000 hand-made zines. Zines (the word is taken from “fanzine”) are self-published, small circulation, non-commercial publications that focus on a range of topics including art, literature, politics and pop culture. The ZAPP archive at Richard Hugo House may be the largest collection in the world and contains several rare publications, including the Riot Grrls, Bikini Kill, Jigsaw, and Grrl Trouble, and first editions of Factsheet Five, the premier zine index. While the collection includes zines from across the US, the bulk of the materials focus on the five-state region of Washington, Alaska, Oregon, California and Idaho. The period covered is from 1945-2009, with a concentration of materials in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Within the collection are zines, mini-comics, chapbooks, pamphlets, broadsides, mail art projects, and other small press publications. These materials would have especial relevance to scholars studying the political environment in Seattle leading up to the WTO riots, the early Riot Grrl movement and third-wave feminism, ecological and environmental organizing in the Pacific Northwest, the history of fisheries, the early era of Fantagraphics and graphic novels, and the history of music (with an emphasis on the “grunge” era). The collection also would be vital to scholars focused on the history of the Pacific Northwest, popular culture, and youth, queer or music subcultures.

• Perkins School for the Blind Archives Project

  Perkins-related material -- most are unique primary-source documents: Correspondence from the 1820s through the 1920s, including letters from people prominent in 19th-century New England philanthropy and in the national education reform movement; Educational, financial, and housekeeping records from the 19th and 20th centuries; Journals and letters written by Perkins student Laura Bridgman, the first deafblind person to learn language; Teachers’ journals and papers that document the early practices of education of students with blindness and deafblindness; Documents and publications relating to the first four directors, including Samuel Gridley Howe; Documents and publications relating to Julia Ward Howe; Scrapbooks of newspaper articles, 1880-1950s; and Student and alumni publications. Material related to Perkins students Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy – unique primary source material: The Nella Braddy Henney Collection of correspondence (1920s-early 1960s); Henney’s notes for her 1936 biography of Macy; Original correspondence, 1890s; Keller scrapbooks, 1880s-1960s. Material related to the history of education of the blind; attitudes toward people with disabilities: Annual reports and scrapbooks about other schools, 1880-1950s; The Bettye Krolick International Music Braille Collection (collection of published materials); Papers donated by alumni and staff, documenting educational practices and individual accomplishments.
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  Changing the Landscape: Exposing the Legacy of Modernist Architects and Landscape Architects

  NCSU Libraries’ SCRC holds the papers of several significant modernist architects and landscape architects who changed their professions as well as the national and regional landscape. SCRC has collected representations of their works to make them widely accessible to scholars and practitioners. Selections from six influential designers--Matthew Nowicki; Lewis Clarke; Richard Bell; George Smart; Holloway & Reeves; Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed--comprise approximately 1200 linear feet of material spanning the latter half of the 20th century. All practiced in North Carolina but had national scope and influence. Comprising over 40,000 original plans and drawings in both paper and electronic formats as well as related project files and records, these collections offer valuable insight to the evolution of the field and modernism's relevance today. Among the works that this project has uncovered are Matthew Nowicki's internationally acclaimed J.S. Dorton Arena, unique for its steel cable supported saddle-shaped roof in tension and held up by parabolic concrete arches in compression; Lewis Clarke’s plan for Palmetto Dunes, Hilton Head Island; Richard Bell's Water Garden, an influential mixed used development; and Holloway and Reeves's North Carolina Museum of Art, done with the nationally renowned architect Edward Durrell Stone. These works reveal how the local practice of modernism changed the built environment as well as the cultural climate of cities around the nation.