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• Special Collections at Western Michigan University

  The Special Collections Department at WMU includes several collections for this grant. 1) The Institute of Cistercian Studies Collection (ICSC) on permanent loan from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky since 1972 (Obrecht collection). ICSC is the most significant collection of the Cistercian monastic tradition in North America and includes medieval manuscripts dating from 1174, printed books (incunabula to today), working papers and collections from prominent Cistercian monks and scholars of the order such as M. Basil Pennington and Jeremiah O'Sullivan. 2) WMU Medieval Studies collection, purchased to complement the loan, and working papers of medieval scholars outside of the order, such as the RHC Davis Manuscript collection.

• De Renne Georgia Library Cataloging Initiative

  The De Renne Georgia Library is the most complete collection of printed Georgiana for the period of 1700-1929. The De Renne family began to collect in 1880, amassing approximately 15,000 books, pamphlets, maps, engravings, newspapers, and manuscripts at its Wormsloe Plantation near Savannah. George Jones’s original drawing for the well-known engraving: “View of Savannah as it Stood March 29, 1734” is included, as is the first publication of the Georgia trustees in London (1732), the only known copy of the second Georgia Constitution (1789), a unique 1780 account of the Siege of Savannah, and the only extent copy of Death Song of the Cherokee Indian (1762). The De Renne Library holds the first product of a Georgia printer (Georgia Acts of 1755-1770), Georgia’s first book (South-Carolina and Georgia Almanack, 1764), and its first stage drama (“The Mysterious Father,” 1807). John Mitchell’s (1755) and William Faden’s (1783) maps of North America are among the many cartographic treasures. The many important materials on Indian affairs include tracts printed in the Cherokee syllabary. Correspondence from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis and General Sherman’s reply to the mayor of Atlanta on the city’s evacuation are notable Civil War holdings. The De Rennes acquired a rare satin broadside of Georgia’s Ordinance of Session (1861), and among the most rare pieces is the (12-foot-long) original signed vellum manuscript of the permanent Confederate constitution.

• Coming Out of the Closet: Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives at the Fashion Institue of Technology

  The FIT Special Collections and Archives acquires, preserves, and provides access to a wide range of primary research materials in their original formats, including archival institutional records, scrapbooks, oral histories, fashion sketches, illustrations, books, journals and other items. Subjects include the apparel industry, fashion and regional costume, textile design and the textile industry, and, to a lesser extent, art, architecture and interior design. We are committed to supporting research by FIT students and faculty, as well as designers and researchers from the apparel and textile field, other industry professionals, and scholars. Highlight topical areas include but are not limited to: European and American fashion magazines from 1806 to 1940; Fashion sketch collection (original sketches by European and American designers and firms from 1888 to the present); Scrapbooks of clippings and personal memorabilia documenting firms and designers; Original fashion illustrations (established in memory of Professor Frances Neady) donated by prominent contemporary illustrators and collectors; Oral histories of major 20th century fashion world personalities including designers, manufacturers, retailers, writers, editors, and educators and consisting of unpublished interviews with notable fashion designers and industry leaders, who talk about their lives, business and creative work.
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  Processing Voter Education Project Collection

  Atlanta based Voter Education Project (VEP) was founded in 1962 by the Southern Regional Council (SRC). Its purpose was to increase political participation for minorities and develop a more informed electorate. RWWL is the repository for SRC Papers that includes early records of VEP (1954-1971). These materials are available for research use. VEP separated from SRC in 1970, becoming an independent organization. VEP Executive Directors included Wiley Branton, Vernon Jordan and John Lewis. VEP worked with civil rights organizations such as SNCC, CORE, SCLC, and NAACP. In 1992, VEP closed its doors and RWWL became the repository for the records from 1967-1992. Included are administrative and research files, registration and election statistics, programs, photographs, publications, and promotional materials. Statistical data collected by VEP earned it a reputation as the nation’s most current and authoritative source on Black political participation in the South, voter rights, voter education and turnout. As the era of the civil rights movement passes and new generations of leaders emerge, efforts of organizations such as VEP become increasingly important for understanding the struggles fought and the progress made for a more inclusive American democracy. The VEP Collection contains a wealth of documentation for teaching, research and study. It provides a window into the past and a building block for the future.

• Armenian Community Life and Trade: Armenian Commercial Relationships in Iran, India, and the Far East 1600-1968:Minasian Collection 1632

  The UCLA Library holds the most important and significant collection of Armenian manuscripts in the United States, the jewel of which is the library of the late Caro O. Minasian, an Armenian physician in Isfahan, Iran who began collecting in 1935. The collection consists of 1,497 bound volumes, including Arabic and Persian texts. This project would focus on undescribed and uncataloged Armenian-language archival materials related to commercial activities and relationships of in Armenian communities in India, Iran, and the Far East during 1300-1968, which include personal papers, business correspondence, ledgers, local histories, and photographs, and ninety-five Armenian manuscripts that have also not been previously cataloged nor included in any online registry. While the UCLA Library has held these important collections of Near Eastern archival and manuscript collections dating from the fourteenth-century to mid-twentieth century’s for more than 35 years, they are largely unknown to students and scholars of Armenian and Near Eastern civilization or others who might find them useful in their research. While some of our Near Eastern manuscript collections have been described by Islamic medical historians or in Prof. Avedis Sanjian’s catalogue of the Armenian manuscripts including descriptions of bindings, textual contents and illuminations, there are no detailed and EAD compliant finding aids nor any MARC records for the manuscripts.

• Wake Forest University Manuscript Collections

  The collections of Olin T. Binkley, Randall Lolley, Wayne Oates, and Allen Mandelbaum reflect the lives of renowned scholars and thinkers. Binkley, Oates, and Lolley were religious educators, leaders in the fields of higher education administration, ethics, pastoral care and counseling, psychology of religion, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, medicine and theology, spirituality and health, and religion and society. They shared Southern Baptist roots, leaders who served as examples in moving towards moderate and tolerant positions, calling for social justice, inclusivity, and ecumenism within the nation's largest denomiation. The American Psychiatric Association granted Oates the Oskar Pfister Award for his contributions to the relationship between psychiatry and religion. Binkley served as President of the Assoc. of Theological Schools. The Mandelbaum collection reflects the work and writings of an internationally renowned scholar of Dante, Virgil, and Homer. Mandelbaum's writings and research on the literature, culture, and history of ancient Greece and Italy include translations and verse as well as notes and annotations. Mandelbaum was awarded the National Book Award for his Aenid, the Presidential Prize for Translation from Italy, and the Presidential Cross of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Italy's highest award. All collections consist of correspondence, manuscripts, lecturestranslations, sermons, minutespresentation notes, and publication drafts.
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  California Ephemera Project

  The California Ephemera Project produced a searchable, online catalog linking the ephemera collections of four institutions: California Historical Society (CHS); Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBTHS); San Francisco Public Library (SFPL); and Society of California Pioneers (SCP). These collections comprise materials, much meant to be discarded--brochures, catalogs, menus, billheads, mining certificates, theater programs, bylaws, political flyers, travel guides, wine labels, and more--whose content and graphic richness are a historical and cultural resource for scholars, students, and the public. There is overlap in topics between collections, yet many of the items themselves are unique. Often the only existing documentation for some topics, the material is relevant for research into 19th- and 20th-century California history. CHS: California, California cities and counties, San Francisco, businesses, theater, and people (biographical clippings); history of printing and publishing; 1850s-1980s. GLBTHS: Focus on Bay Area GLBT businesses, sites, people, organizations, events, guides, and directories; c. 1910-present; bulk is 1970-1990. SFPL: San Francisco (e.g., buildings, businesses, ethnic groups, neighborhoods, streets, parks), California (county files); prominent San Franciscans; 1850-present. SCP: General California information, and bio files about SCP members and notable Californians; 1850-1915; some county files to 1940s.

• Providing Access to Hidden Collections at Whitman College

  1. Berney-Rochat Family Collection, 1800-1970: papers of an early pioneer family; 2. Howard Brode Papers, 1890-1950: a Whitman College biology professor and museum curator; 3. Congregational Association of Oregon and Washington Records, 1857-1935; 4. Myron Eells Collection, 1850-1950: papers of a Northwest missionary, scholar, and collector; 5. Elliott Family Collection, 1820-1920: papers and business records of a prominent pioneer family; 6. D.C. Graham Papers, 1890-1950: a Chinese missionary, anthropologist, and educator; 7. W.J. Matthews Papers, 1862-1885: a military tailor; 8. Native American Photograph Collection, 1880-1920: representing various Northwest tribes; 9. Stephen B.L. Penrose Papers, 1890-1960: a Whitman College president; 10. Roberts Family Papers, 1850-1900: an early pioneer family; 11. Sager Family Papers, 1840-1920: a family connected with the Whitman mission and massacre; 12. Saint Paul's School Records, 1880-1970; 13. Henry and Eliza Spalding Collection, 1837-1885: papers of early Northwest missionaries; 14. A.J. Thibodo Papers, 1850-1900: a pioneer medical doctor; 15. Guy Turner Papers, 1898-1910: a Walla Walla civic leader and Spanish-American War veteran; 16. Walla Walla Valley Medical Society Records, 1882-1958; 17. Walla Walla Valley Photograph Collection, 1870-1970; 18. Marcus and Whitman Collection, 1834-1936: material by/about early Northwest missionaries; 19. Whitman Seminary and Academy Records, 1859-1912; 20. Whitman College Literary Society Records, 1882-1941.

• Southern California Indian Cultures: An Overview - Lectures & images focused on endangered Southern California American Indian cultures & languages

  The Siva recorded lectures cover American Indian culture, language, history and traditional art. Ernest Siva gave the first lectures in a course taught in the College of Arts and Letters (CAL) at CSUSB in the fall of 2006. Scholars and culture bearers sharing information during the lectures included Georgiana Sanchez (Chumash), Walter Holmes, Jr. (Cahuilla, bird singer), William Pink (Cupeño/Luiseño), J. Proudfit (Luiseño) and Daniel McCarthy, archaeologist/rock art expert. The spring 2009 course will be taught by Ernest Siva and Carmen Jany, an indigenous language specialist. Included will be the relationship between language, thought and culture, language ideologies, and language loss, documentation and revitalization. Guest speakers from various Southern California tribes will complement Mr. Siva’s focus on Indian history, language and culture, and his teaching of Serrano for everyday use. The earlier course taught by Mr. Siva emphasized culture; this course will focus on language performances such as storytelling and songs. The course will contain language samples in various forms valuable to students, teachers, tribal members, linguists and researchers. The Howe collection has 1,610 photo negatives by Charley Howe in Southern California and Mexico. An amateur photographer and a vocational archaeologist, Howe was a member of the Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California (ASA). The images document Howe’s travels and include many sites that no longer exist.

• Fondren Library Small Manuscript Collections Project

  This group of mostly small manuscript collections (5 lin. ft. or smaller) covers the range of subjects specialties at the Fondren Library: U.S. Civil War; Texas immigration, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, politics, urban planning, arts and architecture; student life and higher education. Dates broadly include 19th-20th century. The project includes 171 collections, 99 of which are unprocessed with no preliminary finding aid, and 72 of which do have preliminary finding aids but which are not currently accessible by scholars. Highlights from this group of small manuscript collections include Albert Campbell's U.S. Civil War diary; Charles D. Stuart travel journal, 1832; Reinermann family German immigration papers, 1841-1917; Dressel and Speiss families German immigration papers, 1785-1914; Michael Berryhill public transportation research, 1980s-1990s; Friedland research on murder of William M. Rice. Examples of the larger collections include Rice Prof. Keith Hamm's state legislature research materials, a fascinating look at U.S. politics during the late 20th century; literary papers of novelist and playwright David Westheimer (author of My Sweet Charlie, a novel about racial tensions in the 1960s); South Main Center Association's urban planning records; records of Arthur Jones, architect of many Houston civic and education landmarks; Eisenlohr letters of student life, 1915-21; academic records of pioneering computer scientist at Rice, Dr. Ken Kennedy, 1960s-2000's.

• On Track: Cataloging the NEERHS Library at the Seashore Trolley Museum

  The NEERHS Library collection consists of materials dealing with the development of mass transit technology and operations from 1830 to the present. Subject emphasis is on materials related to traditional streetcar and interurban service, including rapid transit, trackless trolley, and bus service. In general, the geographic scope of the collection is worldwide beginning in the 1830s, narrowing its focus to East of the Mississippi River after 1980, and narrowing still further after the year 2000 to the New England region. The following list of formats illustrates the unique richness of the collection: Blueprints; Books; Car advertising cards; Company documents (including operating instruction pamphlets and manuals, emergency procedure manuals, rules and regulations, maintenance manuals, car repair records, business correspondence, stock slips, annual reports, statistics, and financial records and reports); Conference proceedings; Films; General tourism brochures; Government documents (including state and municipal transit records, planning studies, and environmental impact statements); Manuscripts; Maps; Model railroad catalogs; Negatives; Newspaper clippings; Parts and equipment catalogs; Patents; Periodicals; Photographs; Postcards; Posters and prints; Public transit maps; Railroad and trolley museum brochures; Railroad timetables; Reference books; Research and technical reports; Roll signs; and Scrapbooks.

• Marquette's Catholic Social Action Heritage Project

  For nearly 50 years Marquette University Libraries has managed a manuscripts program that documents Catholic social activism in the U.S. This grant project will improve access to the audio recording within two of the most important collections. 1) The Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection documents the faith-based movement for peace and social justice founded in New York by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Their social movement remains strong, represented by more than 150 "houses of hospitality" across the globe. 2) The National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice was established in Chicago in 1960 by Catholic bishops to address racial discrimination in the U.S. These two major research collections contain over 650 cubic feet of records with enduring historical value. Together, they chronicle numerous social justice movements of the 20th century: women’s suffrage, labor rights, peace, and civil rights. 80% of Marquette’s social action manuscript collections are arranged and described, with inventories accessible via the Libraries’ website. However, these two collections contain approximately 750 at-risk analog tape recordings that require reformatting. These historic recordings also warrant item-level cataloging. The recordings capture the voices some of the most influential social activists, writers, and intellectuals of the era, including D. Day, Michael Harrington, Ammon Hennacy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Daniel Berrigan and Sr. Margaret Traxler.

• Hidden Collections: Gifts to the Library, 1980-1989

  The Clark has identified four discreet collections that were gifts to the library in its backlog of uncataloged materials that it would like to address with a CLIR grant: the Whitney S. Stoddard and S. Lane Faison gifts of Kleine Kunstf_hrer, German-language guides to Central European monuments published from 1934- present (ca. 700 titles); the George Heard Hamilton gift of materials covering modern European art (ca. 200 titles); the Wilhelmine Corinth Klopfer gift of materials related to the career of her father, Lovis Corinth, the German impressionist painter (ca. 100 titles); and a group of review copies of exhibition catalogues of contemporary art given to the library by numerous Eastern European museums and galleries, primarily Slovenian, during the 1980s, when the Clark housed the editorial offices of the Bibliography of the History of Art (ca. 100 titles).
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  Library of Congress Multi-Sheet Map Series Collection: Africa

  A multi-sheet map series is defined in "Cartograhic Materials: a Manual of Interpretation for AACR2" as "A number of related but physically separate and bibliographically distinct cartographic units intended by the producer(s) or issuing body(ies) to form a single group." The individual sheets normally share unifying characteristics, including a collective title and common scale, symbols, and sheet identification system. The collection of 12,000 multi-sheet map series housed in the Library of Congress comprises an estimated 2.5 million map sheets covering all parts of the world, with every country represented by a variety of topographic and thematic map series at various scales. The focus of this application is on the subset of series maps of Africa, some 125,000 map sheets. The maps are primarily published in the 20th century, but with some content and coverage issued in the 19th century. The multi-sheet map series are often serial in nature, with sheet editions issued over the life of the series. The Library of Congress has systematically collected and retained all editions of each sheet that it has been able to acquire, resulting in an unparalleled documentation of geospatial change over time.

• Caleb Fiske Harris Collection on Slavery & the Civil War

  The Harris Collection originally comprised about 9,300 items, and came into the library’s possession in September of 1884 by purchase from the estate of Caleb Fiske Harris (1819-1881), a Rhode Island-born entrepreneur whose success in business in New York enabled him to retire at age 40 and devote his life to book collecting. 609 volumes were added from the Rhode Island Soldier’s and Sailor’s Historical Society, and later gifts included two Civil War scrapbook collections numbering over 100 folio volumes. There are almost 3,000 “books” (works issued in stiff covers, often multi-volume) in the collection, as well as almost 400 bound volumes containing roughly 6,000 pamphlets ranging in date from the early 1700s to the 1880s.

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

  The materials consist of the office records of four Alabama congressmen, Albert Rains, Kenneth Roberts, Carl Elliott, George W. Andrews and William Nichols; one Alabama senator, Jeremiah Denton, one Mississippi congressman, Jamie Whitten, and an addition to the records of one Mississippi senator, John Stennis, all of whom served between 1941 and 1994. The papers document state rights, civil rights, southern agriculture, housing, urban development, rural affairs, consumer protection, water resources, military affairs, the rise of the Republican Party in the South, military preparedness, a growing concern with world-wide terrorism, and a host of litmus test issues associated with the resurgent right wing of the Republican Party. 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, are relevant to the economic, ecological, and political history of the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

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

  Purdue University’s Arthur Herbarium is home to one of the world’s largest and, despite inadequate cataloging, most-studied collections of plant rust fungi. Its 110,000 specimens comprise the “rusted” part of a plant, identified and stored in archival envelopes. More than 100 of these are authoritative, typed specimens from which the species was originally discovered, classified, and described. Rusts are important plant pathogens and are of scientific interest because of their close evolutionary relationships with their host plants, their complex life cycles, and their ability to morph and thrive in extreme environments. As new strains of rust attack crops and threaten the world’s food supply, it is critical that collections such as this one become more widely available for study. This collection is also significant to our cultural heritage. The earliest specimen was collected in 1769 during James Cook’s first voyage, and others were collected by famous Americans such as George Washington Carver. Accompanying the specimens are original botanical sketches, scientific and historical notes, photographs, microscope slides, and DNA sequences. These can provide insight to the development of botany as a discipline as well as into the history of the collectors. Despite its obvious scholarly value, much of the Arthur collection remains hidden. For example, six specimens collected by General George Custer from the Western Territories were recently discovered in the collection.

• Through Their Eyes"

  "Through Their Eyes" is a collection of over 500 scrapbooks containing over 25,000 individual archival documents, documenting the service of Army women from World War One to the present. The albums contain letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, holiday and birthday cards, mementos such as train tickets, entertainment programs, and personal items that these women felt were important enough to save. A few examples follow. The WWI album from Ethel Gray details her 18 months at a Base Hospital in France as a contracted Reconstruction Aide (what we now call a physical therapist.) A WWII album from Harriet West-Waddy contains rare photographs of African-American women in uniform during WWII. West-Waddy was formerly an assistant to Mary McCloud-Betheune. Four albums contain hundreds of clippings and photographs depicting life of women who served in the first Training battalion at Fort Lee, VA in the late 1950s. It captures their experiences as the Army underwent racial integration. There are several scrapbooks from women's service in Vietnam that tell their unknown story. These women's service took them all over the world offering a global perspective. The information they contain paint a true and accurate picture of the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of the owner, often as they transitioned from civilian to soldier, and back to civilian.

• Suckley Family Papers

  The Suckleys and their ancestors were among the early families to settle in Rhinebeck and the Hudson Valley, establishing large land holdings through the English King in 1697 and 1703. "Wilderstein," the family estate established in 1852, became the repository for the Suckleys and their extended family over the 140 years it was continuously occupied. The Suckley Family Papers, 1704-1991, encompass a wide range of materials and topics of interest to scholars of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Approximately 500 cubic feet of material is included in this proposal. Among the formats found in the collection are manuscripts, ledgers, deeds, photographs and photograph albums, scrapbooks, newspapers, magazines, clippings from magazines and other printed sources, etchings, engravings and other works of art on paper, oral histories and video tapes. Late 18th- and early 19th-century trade and commerce between the U.S. and the Caribbean, South America, and England; exploration of the American Northwest and its natural history; the participation in voluntary organizations during World War I; the history of architecture, landscape, and interior design during the second half of the 19th century; domestic life in the 19th and 20th centuries; all these themes and more are richly represented in this largely unknown and underused collection.

• Major Railroad Archival Collections

  Major railroad archival collections at the Nebraska State Historical Society and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln include corporate records of the Union Pacific Railroad and its subsidiary lines (1862-1980s); field books, maps, drawings, and other materials of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy(CB&Q)Railroad--Lines West collection(1869-1950s)relating to land development in Nebraska; the Charles Kennedy Collection of U.S. railroad annual reports to stockholders and to state railroad commissions (1826-1930); and the Val Kuska Collection relating to agricultural development of the area served by the Burlington route (late 19th century through the mid-twentieth century). Among these important historical materials are several thousand photographs, advertising posters, scrapbooks,and time tables.

• Cataloging the Lawrence Journal-World Photographic Collection

  The Lawrence Journal-World Photographic Collection, housed in Spencer Research Library, at the University of Kansas (KU), contains all the photographs (prints and negatives) taken by the local daily newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas from 1953-1994. The photographs are extremely important in support of the study of social history, and document town development, KU history, campus and community unrest in the 1960s and 1970s, civil rights, the women's movement, gay and lesbian activism, Haskell Indian Nations University and American Indian rights, environmental issues, agriculture and economic history. This project will focus on the photographs from 1953 (the earliest in existence) to 1975. These photographs provide a window into community development and values as Lawrence and the University experienced and reacted to the volatile counter culture of the 1960s. Lawrence made national news in this time period, with the burning of the KU student union in 1970, which followed the shooting deaths by police of two young men. The Kansas National Guard patrolled the streets to deter arson and sniper fire, while armed vigilantes spoke of restoring law and order. The richness of this Lawrence, Kansas experience has been studied by Rusty Monhollon in his book "This is America? The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas," and demonstrates that the unrest of the 1960s was not confined to urban areas, or elite universities. The Journal-World photographs will provide important documentation of this time.

• Far West and Far East: Uncovering Urban and International Archives at CSUN

  Two distinct collections of Special Collections & Archives will be covered in this project: the Urban Archives Center (UAC) collection with a Far West focus and the Old China Hands Collection with a Far East focus. The UAC, first established in 1979, comprises 200 individual collections, documenting the history of California, with a primary concentration on the Greater Los Angeles area in seven special focus areas: Urban Development, Education, Journalism in Southern California, Labor and Guild History, Minority and Ethnic Studies, Political Movements, and Women of Los Angeles. Major topics that fall within our overall collecting focus include: city and county planning; change in the labor union movement; school desegregation, bilingual education, and student rights; the journalistic history of prominent guilds and individuals; civil rights, the Chicano Movement, Asian community activism, anti-Semitism, and the diverse cultural history of Los Angeles; communism, national health care, tax reform, and the political education of Los Angeles’ citizens; the philanthropic history of Los Angeles; and the role women have played to improve their communities. The Old China Hands Archive was established in 1996 to preserve and publicize the heritage of people from other countries and cultures who have resided and worked in China. Over the years, the Archive has acquired unique collections such as oral histories, diaries, letters, and photographs, which are awaiting processing.

• The Paleontological Research Institution Archive

  The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) Archive consists of over 200 cubic feet of documents assembled by the founders of PRI from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, as well as the personal papers of more than a dozen of their colleagues and students, many of whom were important in the early geological and petroleum exploration of the U.S. Gulf coastal plain, Caribbean, and Latin America. The PRI Archive include the personal and scientific papers of PRI’s first two directors, Gilbert Harris (1864-1952) and Katherine Van Winkle Palmer (1895-1982), as well as around a dozen of their students and colleagues from the period ca. 1900-1970. Several of these individuals – including a notable number of women - were important in the history of geological and petroleum exploration of the U.S. Gulf coastal plain, Caribbean, and Latin America, including petroleum geologists Axel Olsson (1889-1976), Floyd Hodson (1893-1971), Helen Plummer (1892-1951), Carlotta Maury (1874-1938), and Norman Weisbord (1901-1990), and prominent academic paleontologists John Wells (1907-1994) and Curt Teichert (1905-1996). These materials also include the original maps and field notes that document the fossil and other specimens these individuals gathered in the PRI collections.
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  The Records of the Communist Party, USA and the Library of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies: A Preservation and Access Project

  The records of the Communist Party, USA and the Library of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies, now at NYU, form what is probably the most important collection in the United States documenting the history of Communism and the American Left. The archive begins in the 1910s with records and publications relating to the Industrial Workers of the World, continues through the era of the Russian Revolution, the formation of the American Communist Party in the 1920s, the Depression of the 1930s, World War II, the Cold War, Red Scare, the New Left era, and finally to the 1980s and 1990s and the breakup of the Soviet Union. This collection includes internal documents that describe how the Communist Party was organized and functioned, records documenting the Party’s role in the labor and civil rights movements, and materials relating to international communism. The Library of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies (the research library maintained by the Communist Party at its New York headquarters) is a comprehensive collection focusing on the history of communism, socialism, and Marxist theory and practice. It contains rare and ephemeral publications issued by left-wing and labor presses, and a nearly complete run of Communist Party publications, monographs, journals, pamphlets, and newspapers published in Cuba, Eastern Europe, China, the Soviet Union, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, many of which are not available in North American research libraries.

• Hold the Presses: Southern Journalism Manuscript Collections Project

  These five manuscript collections --Tom Little, Charles Bissell, Grantland Rice, Fred Russell, and James Stahlman -- help document nearly a century of newspaper journalism on a local, regional, and national level. Many aspects of newspaper production are represented, including columnists, editors and cartoonists. The collections include personal correspondence, business papers, writings, scrapbooks, subject files, photographs, and other materials. On a local level, both major Nashville newspapers “The Nashville Banner and The Nashville Tennessean” are represented in the collections. On a regional level, these collections have an appeal to middle and western Tennessee. On a national level, the collections include syndicated columns from Grantland Rice, Fred Russell, and James Stahlman as well as coverage of major newspaper associations like the Southeastern Newspaper Publishers Association and the American Newspaper Publishers Association. While all of the donors of our journalism manuscript collections began their careers with either Vanderbilt University or local Nashville connections or both, many of them moved on to positions of national prominence and influence. Tom Little won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 1957 for a cartoon advocating the use of Salk’s polio vaccine. Bissell, Rice, Russell and Stahlman also won a number of national awards for their contributions to journalism.