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ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries News from the Field ACQUISITIONS nationally acclaimed film; fan mail dating from the mid-1920s through late 1959; and reviewer • The Benson Latin American Collection at opinion cards filled out by those attending T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s recently acquired specially arranged studio preview screenings two collections of manuscripts, one related to for many of DeMille’s seventy motion pictures. Chilean history and the other to Mexican his­ A major portion of the DeMille Archives is tory. comprised of the correspondence files and rec­ “Both collections are significant and add con­ ords of Paramount Pictures covering the years siderable, depth to our present holdings,” says 1934-59. Paramount was the studio at which Laura Gutierrez-Witt, head librarian of BLAC. DeMille was headquartered for more than two “Although the Mexican material is essentially decades. a miscellaneous collection, it reinforces other DeMille’s stature along with Samuel Gold- manuscript and microfilm collections.” wyn and David O. Selznick as one of the few The Chilean material consists of about 325 independent film producers makes the DeMille pages in three volumes. A journal and a letter- Archives one of the few collections of its kind book, dated from 1817 to 1827, were written in the world. The archives reflect DeMille’s by John Hanna of Greenock, Scotland, a mem­ deep commitment to thorough research on each ber of a British trading expedition to Buenos of his films. Volume after volume of research Aires and Valparaiso, who later joined the fight notebooks painstakingly document historical in­ for Chilean independence. His letters include cidents relating to his late silent movies and all observations and impressions of the wars and of his sound films. the resulting political, social, and economic cli­ As well as containing extensive information mate of western South America. on his film career, the DeMille Archives amply Another letterbook, dated from 1819 to 1822, document the filmmaker’s endeavors in real es­ consists of official letters between Lord Thomas tate, radio, early aviation, political activism, Cochrane, vice admiral of the Chilean navy, and civic leadership. The DeMille Archives are and some of the major figures involved in the preserved in the Division of Archives & Manu­ fight for independence. scripts at Brigham Young University’s Harold The Mexican collection includes approxi­ B. Lee Library. mately 550 manuscripts and broadsides cover­ ing the period from 1547 to 1891. The • Copies of 300 letters written by a soldier 2,500-page group forms several mini-collections to his family during the Civil War are the re­ related to colonial hacienda and land records; cent gift to I n d ia n a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y by the Indian matters such as taxation, water rights, soldier’s grandson, Horace Davidson, of rural and land usage; military affairs; church organi­ West Terre Haute. zation and practices; and economic affairs. Davidson’s grandfather was John Henry Rip- The Benson Latin American Collection is petoe, a local teacher and farmer who was a part of the UT General Libraries. sergeant in Eli Lilly’s 18th Indiana Light Artil­ lery Battery. His letters tell of the life in en­ • The Harold B. Lee Library at B h ic h a m campments along the 7,000-mile route the Y o u n g U n i v e r s i t y recently received the battery traveled (6,000 miles of it on foot) in archives of legendary motion picture producer- Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia director Cecil B. DeMille. A gift from the late during the three-year period (July 1862 to filmmaker’s daughter, Cecilia DeMille Harper, August 1865) and his reactions to what was the DeMille Archives consist of more than 400 happening. cubic feet of production files, correspondence, The unit figured prominently in several im­ publicity records, photographs, artwork, scripts, portant battles of the war— Hoover’s Gap near and memorabilia. Among the thousands of Chattanooga, the Battle of Chickamauga, and items in the collection are DeMille’s copious General Sherman’s Atlanta campaign— and Rip- handwritten production notes for Union Pacific petoe’s accounts have already proved useful for (1939); complete script files for each of his Indiana writer John Rowell who used informa­ films from story treatment and notes to the final tion in the letters for his reference work, shooting script; unproduced subjects in various Yankee Artillerymen, published by the Univer­ stages of development that for many reasons sity of Tennessee Press. never made it to the screen; screen and costum­ The letters have been in Davidson’s posses­ ing test photographs for Charlton Heston and sion since he found them about forty-five years Yul Brynner for The Ten Commandments ago stuffed in an old metal coffee can on the (1956) as well as extensive set design sketches family farm near Green Valley Mine. Neatly and publicity campaign records for the inter­ written and well preserved, they are seen as a 266 valuable source of information for American national in scope; and relates to all applications history students and scholars. of puppetry— theatrical, technical, educational, For one thing, they are missives from a com­ and therapeutic. Included is material on pup­ mon soldier and cover a good portion of the petry in Western Europe, Indonesia, the Orient, war. For another, they concern a family that and the Americas, with emphasis on material has lived in western Indiana for more than 125 from Eastern European countries. years. The Rippetoes are descendants of the It is hoped that a bibliography of the French Huguenots who first settled in Virginia Batchelder-McPharlin Collection will be pub­ and moved westward in search of more room and lished soon. For information concerning the because “they hated the institution of slavery.” collection, contact the Fine Arts Library, Uni­ “The complete story of the Civil War has not versity of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and never will be told,” says ISU history pro­ 87131. fessor Dr. Donald Scheick, “but any time we get information like these letters the many, • In March, 1977, the Friends of the U n i­ many gaps slowly begin to fill.” v e r s i t y o f U t a h Libraries took advantage of The letters will become part of the manu­ an opportunity to make a significant contribu­ script collection housed in Cunningham Me­ tion to the library collection through the pur­ morial Library’s Rare Books and Special chase of a rare 1845 edition of George Catlin’s Collections Department. North American Indian Portfolio. This repre­ sents the crowning work of a gifted American • The Art & Architecture Library of W a s h ­ artist, who spent the years from 1829 to 1838 in g t o n U n i v e r s i t y has acquired from the Ran­ traveling in what was then known as the Far ken Institute of St. Louis the office collection West. He painted more than 600 portraits of of Eames & Young, a distinguished architectural distinguished Indians of both sexes. The 31 firm active in St. Louis from 1886 to 1915. The magnificent plates, of large format, in the copy collection, originally housed in the Wainwright given to the Marriott Library by the Friends Building, where the firm had its headquarters, are among his best work. was transferred to the Ranken Institute, where This volume is a worthy addition to one of it has been preserved for the last fifty years. the finest collections of Indian portraits and The majority of the books in the collection photographs to be found in any library in the (167 titles in 273 volumes) were printed be­ country. The Marriott Library already possesses tween 1880 and 1910, with a few printed be­ the tint editions of McKinley-Hall and Karl fore and after those dates. Most of the books Bodmer portraits as well as lithographs by Ed­ are oversize and many are portfolios with fine ward S. Curtis and other early American illustrations, in an exceptional state of preserva­ photographers. tion. Almost all the items in the collection are identified with the firm’s ex libris; a number of • Leslie R. Morris, director of the library, the items are inscribed by or to W. S. Eames. X avier University o f L ouisiana, announced The more distinguished items include a four- recently that the holograph of the poem “Lib­ volume set of Stuart & Revett’s Antiquities of erty” by Frederick Douglass has been discov­ Athens and a copy of Geo. Battista Falda’s ered by Thomas Bonner, Jr., associate pro­ seventeenth-century edition of Le Fontane di fessor of English at Xavier, in the Xavier Rome, both works with important original il­ University-Heartmann Collection. The poem is lustrations. A unique part of the collection is the second earliest artistic production of Doug­ eleven photo-albums, eight of which document lass and has never been published. Copies have the construction of large public buildings by the been sent to the Frederick Douglass Papers firm during the first decades of the twentieth Project at Yale and the Library of Congress. It century in St. Louis and other major U.S. cities; is currently under consideration for publication. the other three albums, containing photographs of small French chateaux, were probably used • Chapman Grant of Escondido, California, as models for the domestic buildings executed sole surviving grandson of President Ulysses S . by the firm. Grant, recently presented to Morris Library, S o u t h e r n I l l in o is U n i v e r s i t y , Carbondale, • The Fine Arts Library at the U n iv e r s i t y a collection of some sixty-five family letters and o f N e w M e x ic o recently announced the avail­ fifteen massive scrapbooks.
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