Uncovering the Secrets of Brooklyn's 19th Century Past: Creation to Consolidation
Uncovering the Secrets of Brooklyn's 19th Century Past: Creation to Consolidation comprises materials covering the period from 1834, when Brooklyn was first incorporated as a city, to its consolidation with New York City in 1898. Because Brooklyn'...
Jewish Heritage Collection
The College of Charleston's commitment to building a Jewish archives signals its dedication to a broadened view of history and a program of addressing underserved constituencies. The Jewish Heritage Collection is the largest and fastest growing ar...
Milestones in 20th-Century American Children’s Literature at the Free Library of Philadelphia
The six archival collections proposed for this project -- the Lloyd Alexander, the Virginia Lee Burton, the Carolyn Haywood, the Evaline Ness, and the Tomi Ungerer collections and the Frederick R. Gardner collection of Robert Lawson -- are part of...
Uncovering a Forbidden World: Providing Access to East German Art, Culture, and Politics
The collection comprises approximately 7,300 posters from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the following categories: film studios (3,300), art exhibitions (1,600), theaters (1,100) political campaigns and propaganda (700), an...
The Moravian Community in the New World: The First 100 Years
Lehigh University (Lehigh) and the Moravian Archives (MAB) will partner to process a selection of collections documenting the material culture, religious values and cultural diversity of the Moravian community of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from its ...
Moravian Archives
Catholic Social Action Access Project (CSAAP)
The common thread throughout these three significant-in-their-own-right collections is U.S. Catholic social action in the 20th century. St. Catherine University’s (SCU) Ade Bethune Collection includes the archives of Ade Bethune, world-renown...
atholic University of America, St. Catherine University
French Pamphlet Collections at the Newberry Library
Four French pamphlet collections that are primary sources for legal, social and cultural history; literary studies; and the history of publishing will be cataloged. 1. French Revolution Collection: More than 30,000 pamphlets and 180 periodicals...
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...
Intellectual Access to Moving Images of Work Life, 1916-1950
"Intellectual Access to Moving Images of Work Life, 1916-1950" will create descriptive records for 50 film collections (16mm, 8mm, 35mm) identified as significant moving image archival documents relating to work and labor in the first half of the ...
Exposing Biodiversity Fieldbooks and Original Expedition Journals at the Smithsonian Institution
The content being addressed is composed of original objects (field books, unpublished journals, loose notes, sketches) that are held and maintained by the Smithsonian and which were produced by individuals who have engaged in field research relate...
Uncovering California's Environmental Collections: A Collaborative Approach
This California Digital Library (CDL) project will uncover 33 hidden collections at institutions across California related to the state's environment and environmental history. The collections were selected and assembled for their unique and diver...
California State University Chico; California State University Fresno; Humboldt State University; UC Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, and Riverside; University of Southern California
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....
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 comm...
Song, Speech, and Dance: Special Collections from the Recorded Sound Archives at Yale and Stanford Universities
This proposal seeks to catalog more than 1,100 linear feet of audio and paper archival collections in the Historical Sound Recordings (HSR) collection at Yale University and the Archive of Recorded Sound (ARS) at Stanford University. At Yale, the ...
Stanford University Recorded Sound Archives