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Summer 2003 • Number 65 ALMANAC AAS NEWSLETTER • SUMMER 2003 • NUMBER 65 to our Conservation Department newspaper collection to expand by where the two sizes were separated, up to seventy percent. Few institu- cleaned, repaired, placed in archival- tions have the luxury of available quality wrappers and boxes, and space on site for newspaper volumes, shelved in our climate-controlled allowing volumes to be retrieved and stacks. The next week, a patron put in front of a patron in a matter using newspapers published near the of minutes rather than hours or days. North-South border during the Civil Since our founding in 1812 by War requested it. newspaperman Isaiah Thomas, AAS I have been calling the offices of has sought out runs of newspapers, other newspapers listed in Winifred and our collection contains over Gregory’s American Newspapers 2,000,000 original issues. The 1821-1936 (New York, 1937) and library has particularly strong find that less than twenty-five per- regional collections for New cent of the publishers still have their England, New York City, and early newspapers. Some have been Philadelphia, but it is weaker in given to local historical societies or other regions of the country and libraries, some have been lost to dis- especially outside the major metro- NEWSPAPER ACQUISITIONS asters, and unfortunately many have politan areas. So my aim is to track been destroyed. The goal of AAS’s down any existing files around the newspaper department is to contact country and fill those hundreds of n May 28, 1863, in the small 30, 2002, issue Judith Joy wrote, as many newspaper offices as possi- shelves for the benefit of our Otown of Centralia, Illinois “Although all copies of the newspa- ble in hope of obtaining files such as patrons. Because we collect nation- (seventy miles due east of St. Louis), per are on microfilm, it was with the Centralia Sentinel. I am also ally, a patron researching a topic that the first issue of the Centralia mixed feelings that the donation was contacting libraries, historical soci- was covered in multiple regions of Sentinel was published. J.W. and made. Perhaps the deciding factor eties, and individuals to see if they the U.S. can read newspapers from C.D. Fletcher started this newspaper was the realization that the newspa- are interested in depositing their all over the country under one roof: as a “Local Journal which shall dis- pers would be properly conserved, early newspaper files here to ensure ours. By obtaining more files, the seminate true and loyal sentiments, made available to scholars, and their availability to scholars and newspaper collection will become counteract the pernicious effects of a would be safe from fire, theft and their preservation. even more important for those who corrupt and disloyal Press, stir up possible vandalism.” As a result of the new book do their research under the AAS’s her business men to more enterprise The volume had two different stack, AAS fortunately has the space generous dome. and public spirit, advertise their sized formats bound together, and to expand the collection. We have Vincent Golden, Curator of interests, foster education, cultivate there was some soiling and tears. several hundred empty shelves in cli- Newspapers & Periodicals intelligence, and encourage morality Once it arrived at AAS, it was taken mate-controlled stacks, allowing the and religion.” This was the ninth attempt at a newspaper in the town. Eight previous newspapers were launched between 1856 and 1862, but all had quickly folded, leaving the town without one for over a year s a part of the spring meeting in New York, members when the Sentinel appeared. Starting visited the Harrison, N.Y. home of AAS Councilor Sid out as a weekly, it became a daily in A Lapidus, who explained how his collecting had 1884 and is still published today. In evolved from an interest in Thomas Paine to American 1888 T.L. Joy purchased it, and the Joy family remains its owners. Revolutionary War materials to a broader thematic concern A 1937 bibliography of with human rights and freedom. Sid showed his fellow AAS American newspapers noted that the members several prized items, ranging from his first acquisi- Centralia Sentinel had a file of its tion, made shortly after he graduated from college, of an edi- publication from the very beginning. tion of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man through more recent After a couple telephone calls, I acquisitions related to the history of Jews in America. At the learned that the Joys still held a end of his talk, he presented to Nancy Burkett as a gift to bound volume containing the first the library a very interesting 1794 manuscript slave eman- four years of their newspaper. So last cipation document. Nicholas Davies, the owner who freed December on a trip to my home state, his slaves, was born in Wales in about 1708 and was in I detoured to southern Illinois to meet Virginia by 1733 when his first marriage the Joys. Judith Joy and her son Tom is recorded. Five years later he was grant- brought out a brown paper package ed 20,000 acres of land. One can only containing a bound volume with the first 207 issues from May 28, 1863, speculate why he freed twenty slaves just to May 16, 1867. I turned to the three months before his death in April 20, 1865, issue and saw a pic- September 1794. Pictured, Librarian ture of Abraham Lincoln with a black Nancy Burkett shows the newly acquired border around the edges, announcing document to University of Texas at the assassination; the news had Austin associate professor of history arrived from Springfield, Illinois via James Sidbury, who has spent the year at telegraph (see photograph). This vol- AAS as an A.W. Mellon Foundation post- ume of the Centralia Sentinel is the doctoral fellow, working on the topic only known copy of all but two of “Conceptions of Africa in Early African these issues, and the Joy family debat- American Culture, 1760-1830.” ed for quite a while before deciding to ( See related article on page 3.) donate it to AAS. In the December AMERICAN ◆ ANTIQUARIAN ◆ SOCIETY New Members The following were elected at the spring meeting in April 2003. Q. David Bowers WayBack: US History for Kids, a Web Sandra M. Gustafson George H. Merriam Wolfeboro, New Hampshire site that provides a window on Notre Dame, Indiana Alice Merriam A noted numismatist and founder of American history for middle-school Associate Professor of English, Notre Sterling, Massachusetts the Bowers and Merena Galleries, one students. She is a member of the edito- Dame University. Gustafson’s book Retired director of admissions at of America’s leading dealers in rare rial board of Common-place.org, an Eloquence Is Power: Oratory & Clark University and Fitchburg State coins. Bowers is the author of over on-line journal co-sponsored by AAS Performance in Early America was College and a retired school teacher. four dozen books, including works on and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute. published in 2000. The book traces Both George and Alice Merriam have rare coins and local history. the history of oratory in America from been active users (and faithful sup- Robert Fleck colonization through 1800, examining porters) of the AAS library for Robert C. Bradbury New Castle, Delaware the multiple traditions of sacred, decades. Their research interests Worcester, Massachusetts Founder and president of Oak Knoll diplomatic, and political speech. include American railroad history, Professor of health services manage- Books, specialists in antiquarian and genealogy, and local history. ment in the Graduate School of out-of-print titles on the history of Udo Hebel Management, Clark University, and a the book and the various book arts. Regensburg, Germany Ellen G. Miles collector, bibliographer, and dealer in Oak Knoll also distributes titles pub- Professor of American Studies, Bethesda, Maryland miniature books. In 2001, Bradbury lished by the Bibliographic Society of University of Regensburg. A Curator of painting and sculpture, published Antique United States America, the Private Library Peterson Fellow at AAS in 2000-01, National Portrait Gallery of the Miniature Books, 1690-1900, based Association, and the American Hebel is vice president of the German Smithsonian Institution. Her publica- on his thorough examination of the Antiquarian Society. Mr. Fleck has Association for American Studies and tions include Saint-Mémin and the miniatures in the collections of the served as president of the Antiquarian has been instrumental in establishing Neoclassical Profile Portrait in AAS and the Lilly Library. Booksellers Association of America, a a new fellowship for German scholars America (1994), American Paintings trade organization with 450 members at the AAS. His published works of the Eighteenth Century (1995), Catherine A. Brekus in the United States. include The Construction and George and Martha Washington: Chicago, Illinois Contestation of American Cultures Portraits from the Presidential Years Associate Professor of the History of and Identities in the Early National (1999), and Brush with History: Christianity, University of Chicago Period (1999). Paintings from the National Portrait Divinity School. A Jacob Hiatt Fellow Gallery (2001). at AAS in 1991-92, Brekus is the Woody Holton author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Richmond, Virginia Donald J. Ratcliffe Female Preaching in America, 1740- Assistant Professor of History, Durham, England 1845 (1998) and is currently working University of Richmond. His book, Emeritus reader in history at the Uni- on a book entitled Sarah Osborn’s Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, versity of Durham. A Haven Fellow in World (1714-1796): Popular Religion Slaves, and the Making of the 1983-84, a Research Associate in in Eighteenth-Century America.
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