Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

Items

• Elma's Historical Documents

  The collection under the care of the Elma Historical includes maps, journals, surveys, letters, ledgers, and other historic documents dating back to 1800 relating to the building of our Town. These records encompass all of Elma and surrounding towns of Lancaster, Marilla, the Town of Aurora and Wales. The documents can be broken down into topics, ie schools, political and community organizations. Many family documents include deeds, court records, pictures and scrapbooks relating to people in Elma. These items are valuable to the visitor wishing to explore their personal family history and geneology. Records include documents relating to the Ebenezers, when they were domiciled in Elma, and items of interest from the Seneca Nation and the Buffalo Creek Reservation. Topics include extensive records on the four covered bridges that were in Elma until 1921. These records include surveys, maps, letters and journals relative to the bridges. We have an records of the cemetaries in Elma including information on those cemetaries that are not already on line. Examples are family cemetaries that are located on private properties. The media,including newspapers from early Elma, film and audio records and equipment are permanent records of the lives and stories of local people, businesses, churches, sawmills and farms. This information is paramount in providing our residents, visitors and those interested in our local history with the tools and information they are seeking.
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  Litchfield Historical Society's Revolutionary Era and Early Republic Holdings

  Litchfield was a political and cultural center of rural New England during the period in which U.S. governmental systems formed and solidified. Collections document the Revolutionary war; 19th C female education; early legal education; the development of American common law; politics, family life, religion and slavery in the early national period. Litchfield, CT is the geographic focus of the collection, but the scope is much wider. For example, students traveled from at least fifteen states and territories to attend school in Litchfield, many Litchfield residents entered into state and national politics, and Litchfield residents helped settle northern New England and the Midwest. Individuals represented include Tapping Reeve, founder of America’s 1st law school; Sarah Pierce, founder of the Litchfield Female Academy; the Beecher family including Lyman and his daughters Catharine and Harriet who both attended the female academy; Benjamin Tallmadge who served as Washington's spy master during the Revolutionary War; Colonel John Brace, Revolutionary War Paymaster; Senator Uriah Tracy; Litchfield Law School students George Catlin, Horace Mann, John C. Calhoun, Aaron Burr, and the Wolcott family including Connecticut governors Oliver Wolcott Sr. and Oliver Wolcott Jr. (who also served as the second secretary of the treasury); Elihu Harrison, a Litchfield merchant who did business in New York and around the world; and Law School graduate and congressman George C. Woodruff.

• ONE Archives Arrangement and Description Project

  The 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 humanities 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 that conferred the first academic certificates in gay studies. In 1994, ONE merged with Jim Kepner’s International Gay Archives and in the last decade has functioned as a research center at the University of Southern California for the scholarly study of gender and human sexuality. The ONE Archives Arrangement and Description Project will catalog 19 collections (800 feet or 1100 boxes) of archival materials of pioneering LGBT institutions, writers and activists. These collections document the creation of a forum to discuss sexuality in the 1950s, gay rights in the U.S., pioneering gay activists, AIDS, gays and religion, gays in the military, gay journalism, and ONE Magazine. While the project collections have been used occasionally by researchers, they are almost completely inaccessible. This project will bring these collections to the attention of students, and scholars interested in the history of civil rights, health, religion, anthropology, gender studies, gay studies and various social sciences. These collections are critically relevant in documenting the evolution of social attitudes in the United States in the last half of the 20th century.

• Massachusetts Horticultural Society Historic Collection

  The collection, containing 4,500 book and journal titles dating from the 15th through the 20th centuries, was acquired by the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG) in 2002 from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. This rare treasure has been virtually inaccessible for the past 40 years and minimally cataloged due to a lack of funding and staff while in the Society’s possession. This collection brings together a comprehensive perspective of five centuries of research in botany, gardening, and landscape design, ranging from Theophrastus’ editio princeps of 1483 to Charles Darwin’s experiments in the 19th century. In addition to rare books, the collection contains important and unique journals, newsletters, almanacs, and bulletins of a variety of organizations in America and Europe. The serials, dating primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries, comprise the majority of the materials that remain uncataloged. The collection contains particularly scarce the cumulative volumes or complete runs of serials of more than 100 years. The journals comprise a unique body of literature, reflecting the dynamic intellectual and cultural landscape of 19th century New England, the emerging presence of the United States in the world, and the evolution of agriculture.

• Wonderland: The Joseph Cornell Study Center Collection

  The Joseph Cornell Study Center Collection is comprised of approximately 320 linear feet of the artist’s source materials and studio effects, dating from the 17th to the 20th century (bulk dates 1880s-1970). One of America’s most inventive and influential artists, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a premier assemblagist, who elevated box construction to a major art form in the 20th century. An insatiable collector, Cornell acquired thousands of printed and three-dimensional ephemera--searching the libraries, museums, theaters, book shops and antique stalls in New York, and relying on his contacts across the United States and in Europe. With these objects, he created magical relationships by seamlessly combining disparate images. After the artist’s death, the studio contents of his New York home were given to the Smithsonian American Art Museum to form the nucleus of the Joseph Cornell Study Center. This unique special collection contains two- and three-dimensional ephemera numbering in the thousands. Among the formats included are correspondence, photographs, postcards, prints, clippings, theater playbills, sheet music and other’ found objects, such as clay pipes, cordial glasses, corks, and marbles. The collection also includes the artist’s personal library (over 3,000 titles ranging from rare eighteenth century French texts to Little Golden Books from the 1950s), hundreds of record albums, and finished and unfinished examples of Cornell’s collages and constructions.

• Russian Satirical Journals 1905-1907

  The Revolution of 1905, sometimes described as “the first Russian Revolution,” was a period of major social, political and cultural upheaval. The Revolution launched the country on its first experiment in constitutional democracy and a sudden exhilarating expansion of the public sphere, as the slackening of censorship precipitated unprecedented freedom of public expression that found dramatic outlet in the so-called Satirical Journals, arguably the most distinctive and characteristic artifact of this remarkable period. Somewhere between broadsides and newspapers, the Satirical Journals provide far more than just political commentary on the revolutionary events. Richly illustrated, the journals represent a collaboration of some of the best artists, writers, journalists, political writers and illustrators of the time, from a broad spectrum of literary, artistic, and political groups. Some of the most famous artists and writers include: Leonid Andreev, Leon Bakst, Alexander Benois, Ivan Bunin, Kornei Chukovsky, Maksim Gorky, Boris Kustodiev, Leonid Pasternak, Fedor Sologub and Konstantin Somov. The Satirical Journals have been neglected in scholarship, probably mostly due to their rarity, and present a rich untapped resource for exploration and study. They contain hundreds of extremely rich and beautiful works of art and literature, as well as a treasure trove of material chronicling a complex and important episode in Russian political, social and cultural life.
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  Hidden Collections in the Philadelphia Area: A Consortial Processing and Cataloging Initiative

  This consortial project, encompassing 1652 collections totaling 24,580 linear feet held in 24 PACSCL member repositories, builds connections across collections and subjects for scholars and students from a range of disciplines. Materials address the scientific, cultural, aesthetic, social and spiritual mores of American society from the earliest European settlement across more than three centuries as they were expressed regionally, nationally and internationally. The collections (see Appendix) are equally notable for their continuity and depth of coverage over that span of history. The collections are especially strong in three areas: the political, economic, social, horticultural and cultural history of eastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley; the history and evolution of American science; science and medical education; and medicine; and the American religious and educational experience, locally and globally, especially in areas of social justice and activism that impacted our national dialogue. This is an extensive and complex project with partners ranging from major universities through small libraries and museums. It provides research opportunities for faculty and students at the more than 80 colleges and universities in the area and beyond. It offers a model for future collaborations for partners of disparate sizes, subject areas, and missions and is the logical next step after PACSCL's Consortial Survey Initiative, described below.

• Alternative Press Collection

  The Alternative Press Collection (APC) is one of the University of Connecticut’s signature collections. In 2007, the collection was featured in the ARL 75th anniversary publication, "Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries." The APC was founded in the late 1960s as a repository for publications emanating from activist movements for social, cultural and political change. The collection is currently one of the largest in the United States of its kind and contains thousands of newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations. In addition to historic materials, the collection includes contemporary alternative publications as well, with 90 non-mainstream serials currently on subscription. The collection receives heavy use by researchers and daily Inter-Library Loan requests from other libraries. The strength of the Alternative Press Collection pertains to the Vietnam Era anti-war and counterculture movements. The collection includes the library from the Radical Education Project of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and contains hundreds of student publications from around the United States. Other publications document social movements regarding race and ethnicity; feminism, gender expression and sexual orientation; materials advocating for the rights of other traditionally marginalized groups; and environmental sustainability.

• The Ade Bethune Collection at the College of St. Catherine

  Ade Bethune was a world-renowned liturgical artist, writer and social activist, and was influential in American liturgical art in the 20th century. Her career spanned 70 years from art school at the National Academy of Design and Cooper Union in New York in the 1930s to her final projects in the early years of the 21st century. Materials in the Collection cover her entire career. Highlights: Correspondence with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker community; Correspondence with Graham Carey on art and the Catholic Art Association; Project files (correspondence, drawings, architectural plans, models) from her U.S. and international church projects; Manuscripts and published writings on liturgical and social justice issues for Liturgical Arts, Orate Fratres/Worship, Interracial Review, etc.; Writings and drawings for children; Records and inventory of St. Leo Shop, her business which sold liturgical items for home use; Records and architectural drawings of the Church Community Housing Corporation, which provided affordable housing in Newport, RI; Design drawings for bronze altar candlesticks used at the Second Vatican Council; Examples of her work in many media: paper, tempera, metal, wood, textile, clay, stained glass. Topics covered: Sacred art and iconography; Liturgy and art; Theology of imagery; Graphic arts, lettering, illustration; Church architecture and furnishings; Catholic Worker Movement; Liturgical Movement, especially the role of women; Christian social movements.

• University of Rochester AIDS/HIV Education collection

  The University of Rochester AIDS/HIV Education Collection (AHEC), received as a gift from Dr. Edward Atwater in 2006, contains over 6,000 AIDS/HIV education posters, in addition to hundreds of postcards, pins, hats, comic books, and other ephemera, all relating to education about and prevention of HIV/AIDS. The materials represent HIV/AIDS education efforts from 109 countries and date from 1982 to the present. As a history of the response to the first three decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, they provide a powerful an invaluable resource for study, while serving as a continuing resource for education and information as the disease enters its fourth decade. This proposal requests funds for the cataloging of a core collection of 4,000 unique AIDS/HIV education posters not available at other institutions. The remaining 1,400 posters, as well as the ephemera, will be cataloged by the University as part of the institutional contribution to the project. All the posters and postcards will be digitally photographed as part of the University’s commitment to making this collection accessible to as large an audience as possible.
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  Providing Access to African American Collections at the Avery Research Center

  Avery Research Center is the prime repository for archival and material culture documenting the African American experience in Charleston and South Carolina. Despite an African American majority in the area for centuries, no repository focused on the topic until Avery, founded in 1985. Materials are diverse in format and topic. They include papers of civil rights leadersfree black families before the Civil War, 19th century burial societies, a leader of the local NAACP, an educator and developer of early black pride educational materials and associate of Malcolm X, papers of community organizers and business people, social and benevolent organizations; the papers of the first African American woman in the state legislature, oral histories of civil rights workers and sweetgrass basket makers carrying on an endangered craft, and a significant and large collection of international scope and value: the field notes, images, films, etc. of anthropologist Colin Turnbull, famous for his work on pygmies and other African people, with those papers of his collaborator Joseph Towles. Also included are hundreds of slave and African artifacts, and collections of images of local African American photographers and subjects, as well as vertical files arranged by topic. Art on paper and canvas include those by significant African American artists. While a few collections predate the Civil War, most span ca. 1880 to today. Except for the Turnbull/Towles papers, collections focus on the United States.

• The Byzantine Institute of America's Fieldwork Projects

  Thomas Whittemore founded the Byzantine Institute of America (BIA) in Boston in 1931 after traveling extensively in Europe and the Middle East and noting the destruction of monuments after WWI. The purpose of the Institute and its successor, the Dumbarton Oaks Fieldwork Committee, was to study, preserve, and restore Byzantine monuments particularly in countries where their survival was at risk from conflict or neglect. Work was conducted throughout Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, North Africa, and Turkey (1920-1972) and resulted in thousands of images of architecture, mosaics, wall paintings, and archaeological/historical sites. The project’s scope includes Thomas Whittemore’s photographs of Byzantine monuments and sites during the 1920s before the formal foundation of the BIA, watercolors and photographs of Coptic art in monasteries along the Red Sea, and images from the detailed architectural survey and conservation project of one of Istanbul’s iconic monuments, Hagia Sophia. Photographs include monuments, art, and sites dating from the 4th-15th centuries A.D. from lands once controlled by the Byzantine Empire and are valued for their documentation of the conditions of these historic treasures during the 20th century. The availability of catalog records will be an invaluable resource for archaeologists, art and architectural historians interested in the Byzantine period, historians of the Byzantine, Ottoman, and modern periods, historic preservationists, architects, and artists.

• Highlander Research and Education Center Collection

  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. As a result of this work, Highlander’s archive contains a unique collections of materials that reflect over seventy five years at the forefront of the grassroots movements These collections include photographs, audio and video tapes, reel-to-reel films, workshop recordings, papers from Highlander staff members, Board members, and program participants, and more. The collections contain information about well-known figures who worked with Highlander such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Septima Clark, and John Lewis as well as countless unsung activists and leaders such as the Clinton 12, students of the first integration battle. While most of these materials focus on grassroots social justice movements in Appalachia and the South, many also contain information about Highlander's national and international efforts such as formation of the International Participatory Action Network, participation in the International Council of Adult Education, work around the North American Free Trade Agreement before its passage in 1993, and connections relating to growing immigration to the Southern United States in the last 20 years.

• Dr. Margaret M. Bryant Papers

  Dr. Margaret M. Bryant (1900-1993) educator, author, and international authority on linguistics and folklore, was on the faculty at Brooklyn College, NY for over 40 years. She wrote 12 books and over 100 articles and reviews including English in the Law Courts, Psychology of English, Current American Usage, and Modern English and its Heritage, and served on the editorial and advisory boards of several dictionaries. Bryant was also a visiting professor at the Universities of Uppsala, and Stockholm in Sweden and taught summer courses at a number of US universities, including Columbia, Rutgers, and Hunter College. She was an active member and office holder in numerous professional associations, including the Linguistic Society of America, The National Council of Teachers of English, the American Association of University Women, and the American Folklore Society. Her papers consist of professional, organizational, and personal files including correspondence; research files pertaining to topics such as geolinguistics, word usage, American and world folklore, proverbs, onomastics, dialects, children’s folklore/rhymes, and new words; her travels, teaching, and involvement with women’s organizations such as AAUW. She earned her BA from Winthrop College in Rock Hill, SC in 1921, MA in 1925 and PhD in 1931 from Columbia University. Researchers interested in linguistics, philology, the history of the English language, and American and world folklore will benefit from her unpublished research.

• U.S. Army Military History Institute Library, Photograph, and Manuscript Collections

  The Military History Institute (MHI), a division of the Army Heritage Education Center (AHEC), is one of the world’s largest repositories of primary source materials for American and military history, reflecting the nation’s rich cultural heritage from colonial times to the present. As the Army’s archive for its non-official history, the Institute holds more than fourteen million items that document the history of the United States, the U.S. Army, and military history. MHI is the Army's official central repository for historical source material. MHI holdings include over 260,000 books, 50,000 periodicals, 11,000,000 manuscript pages, 1,730,000 photographs and 50,000 artifacts covering every period of military history making the collection the finest military archive in the United States and one of the top in the entire world. The focus of the collection is the history of the U.S. Army: its antecedents, institutions, field operations, soldiers, and civilians. The specific areas are of interest are: (1) personal experiences of Army service, both peace and war, for all grades, periods, to include careers of the Army senior leadership, both civilian and military; (2) accounts by Army veterans, unpublished and published, with supporting images; (3) organizational experiences of individual Army units, commands and institutions, to include narrative histories and summaries; (4) papers of the Chief of Staff, Army; (5) historical documentation of Army operations and experiences.

• Bringing Hidden Woodrow Wilson Collections to Light: Cataloging Collections and Providing Online Access to Collection Descriptions

  The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library (WWPL) seeks to produce online electronic collection-level descriptions and series-level finding aids for 41 archival and manuscript collections in 263 boxes of materials. These resources include manuscripts, letters, speeches, pamphlets, newspapers, photographs, and other materials that are by, to, or about the 28th president and his times. The collections cover the late Victorian era through the birth of modern America, from roughly 1856 to 1930, and span the globe as Wilson’s world expanded from college professor, to Governor of New Jersey, and then to two-term President of the United States. These historic materials, most of which have never been seen by the public, shed light upon major topics in American history, including the establishment of the Federal Reserve System, anti-child labor and anti-trust laws, civil rights, women’s suffrage, World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, the Treaty of Versailles, and presidential health. Many of these collections have been recently acquired from private individuals and families, such as the personal correspondence of Wilson’s doctor, who treated the President throughout his administration and during his debilitating stroke in October 1919. The WWPL wants students, teachers, scholars and the general public to have access-both physical and virtual-to its archival materials. However, none of this material has been cataloged, and no electronic collection descriptions exist.
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  Mapping Special Collections for Research and Teaching at Goucher College

  Goucher’s James Wilson Bright Collection contains 4,000 books (1539-1926) collected by pioneering Johns Hopkins philologist, James Wilson Bright. This collection includes some of Goucher’s most valuable artifacts. For this project, we focus on 2,000 18th- and 19th-century items on the history of English studies, German editions of Middle and Old English works of literature, studies of Anglo-Saxon philology, and polyglot dictionaries. Selections from the college’s Manuscripts and Archives Collection include eighteen collections of mostly 20th- century records relating to women’s studies, Jane Austen, education, and history. Most collections are American, but the Austen materials contain correspondence from Anglo-American collectors. The notebooks (1829-1850) of John Mitchell Kemble, an Anglo-Saxonist and art historian, preserve the research on his publication of the history of Anglo-Saxon and its grammar. The papers of 20th century writer H.L. Mencken, and southern writer Sara Haardt Mencken, (his wife, a Goucher alumna, and professor), include more than 700 letters (1923-1935) that discuss love, politics, Hollywood, writing, events, and individuals. The Chrystelle Trump Bond Dance and Music Collection includes 1,000 pieces of American and European popular music and portfolios of dance music, 1820-1962. Strengths include 19th-early 20th-century social and theatrical dance and is valuable for reconstruction of dances and cultural studies of dance.
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  Foundations of Public Health Policy

  The collections, created by key leaders in American public health from the latter half of the twentieth century, have the capability to critically inform researchers concerning the origins, evolution, and optimal future direction of our contemporary health care system. The collections are those of: a) Leona Baumgartner, the first woman commissioner of the New York City Department of Health, 1954-1962, and who was later a national advocate and advisor to the federal government on the expansion of public health efforts in maternal health, preventive medicine, and international aid; b) Allan Macy Butler, Chief of the Children’s Medical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1942 to 1960, who engendered and exemplified emerging physician concerns with human rights, nuclear disarmament, and the organization of medical care; c) David Rutstein, who headed the Harvard Medical School Department of Preventive Medicine, 1947-1971, and who played a national role in the organization of medical care, the integration of preventive medicine into the care of individual patients, and the measurement of medical outcomes, so as to inform such efforts themselves; and d) Howard Hiatt, the Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from 1972-1984, who has catalyzed a wide range of initiatives concerning health care delivery, from those regarding the relationship of hospitals to their communities, to those regarding social justice and the ensuring of optimal care in the developing world.

• Bringing Out Burroughs Objects

  Originally established in 1977 by curator George T. McWhorter, this collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs is the largest in any institutional library worldwide. First editions in English and thirty other languages, rare periodicals with first appearances in print, pulps, comics, fanzines, films, posters, correspondence, photographs, realia, ephemera, and memorabilia all document the popular culture phenomenon of Tarzan and other heroes created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Recently other collectors have begun to place materials at the University of Louisville. Roy and Dela White of Colorado gave their extensive collection, including the family papers of Edgar Rice Burroughs' daughter Joan, in 2000. From 2004 to 2006 collector Bob Hyde of Pittsburgh and his children placed the collection he had developed since age 14. The Burroughs Collections are especially rich in primary source material, with original art by illustrators such as J. Allen St. John and Burne Hogarth; the files of first Burroughs biographer Irwin Porges; Burroughs family letters; toys, games, and other types of both licensed merchandise and homemade objects with which four generations of fans have explored and celebrated the iconic figure of Tarzan. While standard methods of cataloging and archival arrangement and description can provide access to print and manuscript items, the range of objects, spanning a century and representing multiple genres and formats, requires a new approach. A community of scholars and fans devoted to Burroughs stands ready to help, but their efforts, interest and expertise must be channeled, systemically organized, and documented.
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  Cataloging Hidden Archives of Western Botany and Beyond

  The Herbaria contain 2.3 million botanical specimens in addition to our archives which are one of the primary resources for the history of western American botany from the 1860's on. The geographic scope is world-wide, but the main focus is California. The archives contain letters and field books of at least 200 individuals in addition to documents, photographs, slides and correspondence from scientists around the globe, including gaps in the history of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, whose records were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. The archives encompass botanical expeditions on a world-wide scale including seven trips to South America, and collections by women botanists such as Ynes Mexia and Laura May Dempster. Highlights include renowned botanist Willis Jepson’s 62 field books, 25 research books and 25,533 letters in 52 volumes, as well as his personal archives. Our archives also include John and Sarah Lemmons’ hundreds of correspondents, field books and manuscripts, including veteran J. Lemmons’ sketches of Confederate prisons. Our correspondents range from Asa Gray and William Hooker, to John Muir and the Red Cross’s Clara Barton. Subjects encompass Mexican and Pacific expeditions to world expositions, and the formation of Sierra Club and Save-the-Redwoods League. The image collection represents an historical record of people and ecological sites worldwide. The unique map collections (vegetation plots) are augmented by Jepson’s place name index.

• 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.

• Oregon Public Leadership Archive (OPLA)

  The Oregon Public Leadership Archive (OPLA) contains the papers of key civic and community leaders who each contributed unique, creative and practical approaches to government and to community building that helped establish Oregon’s national and international reputation for independence, innovation and leadership in public service, legislation, and government as well as its progressive programs and citizen participation in government. Representing the diversity of Oregon, the OPLA includes papers from prominent and groundbreaking women politicians including former Portland mayor and speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, Vera Katz; Governor Barbara Roberts, Oregon’s first women governor; Portland City and Multnomah County Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury; and Avel Gordly, the first African American woman elected to the Oregon senate. Oregon’s history of innovative public planning is represented in collections such as the papers of Ernie Bonner, the Director of Planning for the City of Portland who, in the early 1970s, spurred the nationally touted revitalization of downtown Portland, and E. Kimbark MacColl, historian and noted author of works documenting the social, political and land development of Portland in the first half of the 20th century. Together these collections, as well as other smaller holdings from Portland State professors and other local community members, constitute a priceless archive of civic innovation, public planning and activism.

• Basil John Vlavianos papers

  The Basil J. Vlavianos Papers contain correspondence, literary manuscripts, lectures, business records, photographs, clippings, audio-visual materials, and artifacts documenting the career of one of the most important figures in 20th-century Greek-American life. The Papers reflect the activities of a diplomat, lawyer, professor, publisher, entrepreneur, and public intellectual in New York City. Topics include the United Nations, international law, human rights, World War IIMediterranean politics, Modern art, and Greek-American life. Vlavianos’ editorial files from the National Herald document the Greek-American experience during WW II and contain information about the Greek War Relief Association, an international philanthropic organization that saved thousands of Greek citizens from starvation during the war. The records also include phonographs of radio broadcasts and film. The papers contain United Nations files with correspondence between Greek Foreign Minister Sofianopoulos and Vlavianos about the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco for which Vlavianos served as legal advisor to the Greek delegation. The files contain official documents related to the creation of the U.N. Charter as well as private correspondence, photos, and ephemera reflecting Vlavianos’ personal experience. Finally, the collection includes the records of Arts Inc. a publishing firm which also operated a bookstore and art gallery in Midtown Manhattan.

• Firestone Library Antioch Coin Project

  The collection to be catalogued comprises about 3,500 coins minted by Byzantine and Arabic authorities excavated by the Princeton-led excavations in Antioch-on-the-Orontes (then Syria, now Turkey) between 1934 and 1939. The coins document the change of Antioch, one of the major political, economic and cultural centers of the late antique world, from the Byzantine and Mediterranean sphere in the sixth century to that of the newly-founded Islamic state, centered in the Middle East, in the course of the following four centuries. The coins are almost entirely of bronze and range from imperial Byzantine representations, through imitations of these, to totally epigraphic types. Though few of the coins bear dates in any era, they can be generally dated from the reign of Justinian I, beginning in CE 527, through the Sassanian Persian occupation of Antioch from 610 to 630, and the brief Byzantine recapture, to the Ummayad period beginning in CE 636 (AH 15), and the Abbasid Califate beginning in CE 749 (AH 132) and lasting until the Byzantine reconquest of Antioch in CE 969. These coins represent about twenty percent of the numismatic finds from Antioch in the Princeton Numismatic Collection. The other coins from the excavation are of much more straightforward attribution, and are being entered into the PrinNum online database as part of the ongoing cataloguing of the collection, carried out mainly by undergraduate students working under the supervision of the collection’s curator.

• Rediscovering Mid-Century Modern and beyond: Making Unknown Design Collections Available

  The materials to be addressed in this project were created by architects and landscape architects during the middle of the 20th Century. The records created include thousands of sketches, drawings, photographs, and project files for mid-century homes, suburbs, schools, parks, gardens, and commercial centers. They provide a wealth of material that encourages understanding of the design aesthetic of the era and supports the increasing scholarship interest in this period as evidenced by a growing number of publications, exhibits, presentations, dissertations, and journals. Although many of the buildings, landscapes, institutions, and commercial venues included in this project were built in California, others were located throughout the United States and internationally. These collections are relevant to individuals in numerous ways. They provide the history and context of existing public buildings and private homes, as well as the information needed to renovate and restore them. They and the scholarship they generate increase understanding of the physical world we live in. When the structures no longer exists, these records are all that remain to provide this knowledge. It is critical to insure their preservation and provide access to them. Collections: Mario Ciampi (1907-2006), Warren Callister (1917-2008), Walter Guthrie (1932-2006), Jack Hermann (1917-1989), Ernest Kump (1911-1999), Karl Linn (1923- 2005 ), Hans Ostwald (1913-1973), Donald Olsen (c. 1920-).