Princeton University Library's Latin American Ephemera Project
PUL began to collect and build an archive of Latin American ephemera and gray literature in the mid 1970s to document the activities of political and social organizations and movements, as well as the broader political, socioeconomic and cultural ...
Grass Roots Activism and the American Wilderness: Pioneers in the Twentieth Century Adirondack Park Conservation Movement
The Apperson and Schaefer papers reflect grass roots political activism to conserve the Adirondack Forest Preserve and to expand the Adirondack Park from 1899 to 1996 (Apperson 1899-1963 44 cu.ft, Schaefer 1930-1996 166 cu.ft). The collections inc...
Building New Access Tools for the National Death Penalty Archive
The University at Albany’s National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA)'s mission is to build a collection of archival materials from individuals and national organizations that played substantive roles in the history of capital punishment. Through a pa...
Post-War Industry and Development of the Southwest Metroplex
Over the past 50 years the DFW Metroplex has experienced explosive growth. Collections included in this proposal relate to urban planning, politics, industry, industrial education and major infrastructure projects in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlingto...
Discovering Modern China: University of Washington & University of British Columbia Collections
Among the top East Asian collections in North America, UW & UBC hold a wealth of hidden Chinese collections including pre-modern classical texts & source materials from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) through the early years of the People’s Republic ...
University of British Columbia Libraries
Using a Team Approach to Expose Yellowstone’s Hidden Collections
The Yellowstone National Park Archives document the history and science of the world’s first national park, now a United Nations Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site. The manuscripts, photos, maps, films, oral histories, administrative record...
The Walter Rauschenbusch Family Papers and the New York City Baptist Mission Society Records at the American Baptist Historical Society
The Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) Family Papers (1861-1965; 107 cubic feet) document the life and work of Walter Rauschenbusch (WR) the Baptist theologian whose writings provide the philosophical underpinnings of the Social Gospel Movement. WR'...
Uncovering Egyptian Archaeology: Cataloging the Hidden Collections of Ancient Egypt Research Associates
The Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) Archives and Special Collections encompasses the complete records of our survey, mapping, excavation, and material culture analyses from over 30 years of archaeological investigation in Egypt, as well a...
Hidden Cinema Heritage at Anthology Film Archives
Five collections proposed for this project--the Stan Brakhage Collection, the Hollis Frampton Collection, the Gretchen Berg Collection, the Collective for Living Cinema Archive, and Anthology's collection of publications--vary in size and contain ...
We Still Scream: The Mountain Eagle/Tom and Pat Gish Archives
The collection covers the period of 1957 to 2005 and includes Mountain Eagle business records as well as the Gish's personal and professional papers amassed through their work as editors of a small-town coal-community newspaper that gained nationa...
B-Sides and Rarities: Providing Access to Popular 45-RPM Singles
B-Sides and Rarities: Providing Access to Popular 45-RPM Singles will result in the cataloging of approximately 80,000 sound recordings, specifically 45-RPM singles of popular music, most of which are not readily available in any other public inst...
Holocaust and Jewish Resistance collections at Brandeis University
1. The Jewish Resistance Collection (c. 1932-1950s): Underground publications by German Communist and French Jewish resisters to the Nazis; international post-war reports documenting the persecution and extermination of Jews and the course of seve...
Providing Access to the Ellsworth La Boyteaux Collection of Art from Papua New Guinea
The Ellsworth La Boyteaux Collection of art from Papua New Guinea includes approximately 160 artifacts from diverse regions of Papua New Guinea, but primarily the Sepik region. The objects date from the mid-20th century. Donated to California Luth...
Sounds of the Human Sciences: Uncovering Hidden Sound Recordings at the Center for the History of Psychology
The collection consists of 4,760 sound recordings dating from 1919 to the present and contains both commercial and noncommercial recordings that document the history of psychology and related human sciences in the United States. It is comprised ma...
Perspectives on the HGP: Discovering hidden personal collections documenting the origins and development of the Human Genome Project in the U.S.
This project involves 27 personal collections, comprising some 185 lf of physical material and ~15GB of electronic material related to HGP. Among the individuals who created these collections are the developers of many methods/devices that were cr...
Cataloging Rare Black Print Culture
African American serials constitute, writes C. Polsgrave, an “alternative public sphere” that serves as “a base from which politically marginal groups challenge the power of the mainstream public sphere to define reality.” Emory has systematicall...
Experience Music Project - Hidden Collection (working title)
EMP holds a historic music collection of approximately 140,000 objects (containing more than 80% of all physical music material produced in the Northwest during the last century) and an Oral History archive of more than 850 interviews with musicia...
Black Gold: Uncovering Florida's African-American Archival Treasures
The ten collections in the Black Gold cataloging project relate to pre- and post-Civil War records, civil rights, religion, Black college football, HBCU band culture, and African Americans in science and technology. The collections vary in size, s...
Old South to Urban Center: Emergence of the New Northern Virginia Politics
These collections relate to politics in the Northern Virginia (NoVa) region during of the region's transformation from rural suburb to urban center. The region changed the state of Virginia while reflecting trends of the South and the U.S. The Dor...
Segregated Japanese American Military Units of World War II: A Collaborative Cataloging Project of Oral Histories, Photographs and Documents
GFBNEC's oral history collection includes 1,185 interviews from across the U.S., making it the largest collection of its kind in the country. Significant effort was invested in locating Nisei veterans whose wartime experiences were unique or signi...
Access to Alexander Agassiz's Expedition Images
The Alexander Agassiz collection of about 1,000 gelatin dry plates, film negatives and prints dating from the late 1890s to the early- 20th century is important because it uniquely adds to Agassiz scholarship, providing access to many unpublished ...
Uncovering Hidden Collections of Significant National Organizations: A Cataloging Project of the American Jewish Archives
The five hundred feet of B'nai B'rith International records contain the documentary history of BBI from its founding in 1843 to the present. This consists of administrative files; material on BBI's philanthropic and communal work in the U.S. and a...
Kentucky School for the Deaf: History of Student Life
We want to work with the following related materials: Ledgers: Two large ledgers dating from January 1888 to October 1944, document basic student enrollment information, including age, home, date of enrollment. These ledgers also list the relation...
Milestones of Kennebunkport, Maine
The KPHS has extensive collections pertaining to all aspects of the history art, and culture of Kennebunkport, ME from the late 1600s to the present. Approximately 13,200 individuals visit the KPHS annually and benefit from collections-based exhib...
Fresh and Fashionable Goods
The LHS holds 97 of Boardman's ledgers. The New Milford Historical Society holds 3,411 pages of legal papers, correspondence and business records. The New Haven Museum's collection includes 872 items, and Yale holds 27 linear feet. Taken as a whol...
Access to Twentieth Century Shipbuilding in Los Angeles Harbor : California Shipbuilding Corporation, 1941-1945.
“Access to Twentieth-Century Shipbuilding in Los Angeles Harbor” will connect two important collections from California Shipbuilding Corporation on World War II era merchant shipbuilding. The collections provide visual material unique to the Kais...
MCG Jazz Archive Project
The MCG Jazz Archive Project encompasses metadata that describes thousands of concerts and musicians, along with more than 60,000 photographs in various formats: Approximately 40,000 photographs in 35-mm negatives (50 percent have been scanned) of...
Finding Freedom: Documenting the Legacy of Slavery and African American History through the Collections of the Maryland State Archives
The Friends of the Maryland State Archives have chosen two unprocessed series from the Archives' collections: QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Miscellaneous Court Papers) 1815-1905 MSA T3273 This is a trial court with a jury that hears large, se...
Cataloging the Middle East Institute Library Collection
The collection consists primarily of printed books and maps in the seven major languages of the region: Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Persian, French, Spanish and English. The scope of the collection encompasses major scholarly publications related to ...
The Sage of the Osage: Cataloging the Library of Thomas M. Johnson
The earliest volumes which make up the library were acquired by Thomas M. Johnson prior to his arrival in Osceola in August of 1879. However, collecting efforts most likely accelerated during the last two decades of the 1800s when he began indepen...
Saving Time: Cataloging America's Hidden Horological History
The records in the National Watch and Clock Museum archives are from numerous American horological manufacturers, including Seth Thomas Clock Company, Hamilton Watch Company, Illinois Watch Company, Westclox Clock Company, and Gruen Watch Company...
New Hampshire's Archives: Politics, Stories, Arts & News - Preserving NH's Pulse
NHPR's archives represent a historical snapshot of NH with national relevance, captured on a variety of media, from reel to reel tape to digital formats, from the past 30 years. Some examples include interviews with presidential candidates, musica...