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7-2017 News from the Midwest Midwest Archives Conference

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Recommended Citation Midwest Archives Conference (2017) "News from the Midwest," MAC Newsletter: Vol. 45 : No. 1 , Article 8. Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/macnewsletter/vol45/iss1/8

This News from the Midwest is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in MAC Newsletter by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. News from the Midwest Assistant Editors: Alexandra Bisio, Jesuit Archives, and Alison Stankrauff, Indiana University South Bend. Please submit News from the Midwest items for Illinois, Iowa, , Nebraska, North Dakota, and Ohio to Alexandra at abisio@ jesuits.org and items from Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, and Wisconsin to Alison at [email protected]. Submissions must be 150 words or less. Images are welcome!

remainder of the year in the hospital’s architecture, gave a presentation June ILLINOIS Ruth Lilly Learning Center lobby 6 at the Ames Public Library. Chicago Public Library in Indianapolis. The photo display features images of the 21 leaders who The Chicago Public Library Harold were incorporators of the James Whit- Renowned broadcast journalist Tom Washington Library Center Special comb Riley Memorial Association on Brokaw has announced the donation Collections announced the opening of April 9, 1921. The display introduces of his papers and memorabilia to the the collection, Chicago Park District hospital staff, families, and visitors to Department of Special Collections, Records: Photographs. Comprised of these leaders and how they began the University of Iowa Libraries. Brokaw approximately 61,000 photographic dream for the James Whitcomb Riley attended UI during his freshman prints dating from 1863 through the Hospital for Children that opened on year in 1958–1959. The collection early 2000s, the photographs docu- November 19, 1924. documents his 50 years with NBC, ment site development, park facilities, first as a field reporter and later as features (such as gardens, fountains, anchor of the NBC Nightly News. playgrounds, and sculptures), park IOWA Find more information at now.uiowa staff, programmatic activities, spe- Iowa State University .edu/2016/11/brokaw-donates- cial events, the lakeshore and shore The Iowa State University Library papers-to-ui-libraries. protection efforts, road construction Digital Initiatives Program has Iowa City has been a hotbed of protest and redevelopment, and citywide launched a new online exhibition, For and a hotbed of printing. Power to events, such as Special Olympics and Married Students: Building a Com- the Printers: The Alternative Press in cross-park tournaments. Periods of munity in Pammel Court, 1946–1978 Iowa City, 1965–1985 is a physical notable development in the history (exhibits.lib.iastate.edu/pammel- exhibit open May 15–August 25 in of the Chicago Park District are also court-digital-exhibit). In addition the University of Iowa Main Library. well represented, including WPA to content from the original Pam- Publications and other materials construction projects, landscapes, and mel Court exhibit that opened last from the Iowa Women’s Archives park features. The collection is rich January, the online version features and the University Archives will in evidentiary value for studying the an interactive timeline of Pammel be featured. Visit www.lib.uiowa growth and evolution of the Chicago Court’s history, links to related online .edu/gallery/exhibit/power-to-the- Park District’s properties and services, materials, and tools to compare and printers-the-alternative-press-in-iowa- as well as for telling Chicago’s story, contrast aerial views of campus and city-1965-1985. particularly with regard to how the some of the Pammel floor plans. The demographics and populations served online Pammel Court exhibit joins KANSAS by the city’s parks have changed the library’s 24 other online exhibits over time. Visit www.chipublib (exhibits.lib.iastate.edu). .org/fa-chicago-park-district-records- This spring, the K-State Libraries photographs/. Iowa State University Special Col- lections and University Archives joined organizations across the region (SCUA) opened its latest exhibition, in celebrating the 150th anniversary INDIANA “This movement for a more beautiful of the Chisholm Trail. Chisholm Trail: Iowa”: The Early Years of Iowa’s State History and Legacy features artifacts, Riley Hospital Historic books, maps, and photos that give Preservation Committee Park System, on May 17. Its online counterpart will open later this sum- visitors a glimpse into Kansas’s Wild The Riley Hospital Historic Preserva- West era and its turbulent relation- tion Committee (RHPC) is launch- mer. As a complement to the SCUA exhibition, Heidi H. Hohmann, ship with the Texas cattle trade. ing a second historical photo display From 1867 to 1885, the Chisholm for 2017 in July that will be up for the associate professor of landscape

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Trail, which ran from southern Texas project, including rural Douglas or inquiries regarding tours, contact through Oklahoma and Kansas, was County schools that closed in the Johna Ebling, exhibits manager, at the primary route for southern ranch- 1960s and photos of Lecompton [email protected]. ers to drive their herds north to the elementary schools and the high railways that shipped their longhorns school, which started in 1903 and Lexington Public Library to eastern markets. continued until 1970. For more County directories, local histories, information on the project, see www and postcard images of Kentucky are Additionally, in the fall, students now available through the Lexington enrolled in Translating the Freedom .lecomptonkansas.com/treasures- of-the-township-by-monica-davis. Public Library’s new Kentucky Room Papers: Charles de Gaulle and WWII Digital Archives at lexpublib.org/ Correspondence conducted extensive Or see www.lecomptonkansas.com/ lecompton-high-school-history for digital-archives. Among the inaugural research using correspondence from documents in the Digital Archives are the Richard L. D. and Marjorie H. information on Lecompton’s rich high Morse Department of Special Col- school history. • The 1940 Rural Directory of lections. Students’ work appears in Fayette County an exhibit, Très Secret: Translating the • 55 historic postcard images of Freedom Papers. central Kentucky • The 1896 illustrated program of the Woodland Park Kentucky Chautauqua Assembly • A published transcript of Maude Ward Lafferty’s 1917 local history speech, The Town Branch • The 1923 songbook, Mountain Ballads for Social Singing • The 1892 and 1896 Annual Cata- logue of Hamilton Female College KENTUCKY The items digitized are housed in the Central Library’s Kentucky Room. Filson Historical Society Like all the items in the Kentucky The Filson Historical Society an- Room’s closed stacks, they are avail- nounces the opening of two new able for viewing in the Kentucky exhibits honoring the centennial of Room by request. However, librarians the ’ entry into the First expect digitization to make these rare World War, Called to Arms: Kentuck- items more widely available while still ians in the First World War and Selling safely preserved. the War: Posters from WWI. These exhibits are open to the public and co- (Continued on page 20) Territorial Capital Museum incide with WWI lectures happening The Territorial Capital Museum in throughout the spring and summer Lecompton, Kansas, received a grant months. For more information about from the Kansas Records Advisory the exhibits and lectures, visit filson- Board to digitize photographs for historical.org/exhibits. In addition Kansasmemory.org. The photographs to in-house galleries, WWI-related were part of a collection of rural image galleries are also available and and Lecompton schools from 1880s can be viewed at filsonhistorical.org/ to 1970s. Students and teachers are galleries/world-war-i-posters and fil- identified in most photos. Over 300 sonhistorical.org/galleries/music-of- photographs were scanned for the the-great-war. For more information

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Northern Kentucky University Michigan State University southeastern Michigan’s people and The Special Collections and Univer- The Michigan State University Ar- communities. The exhibit empowers sity Archives Department provides chives continues to work on transcrib- visitors to create independent insights professional assistance to regional ing, scanning, and posting materials based on the evidence contained in the archival and cultural heritage organi- from its Civil War–related collections. Reuther Library’s numerous archival zations. Thanks to a National Endow- There are now 85 collections online collections documenting not only the ment for the Humanities grant, Steely comprised of over 1,800 objects and events of 1967, but also the social, eco- Library and the department were able nearly 7,300 pages. The Civil War nomic, and political landscape before to present a free security workshop. collections can be found at civilwar and after the violence. The Reuther Last fall, the library hosted a two- .archives.msu.edu. Library joins several area cultural day DAS workshop. Several years As part of a campuswide Science institutions in a partnership to mark ago NKU was awarded a National Festival, the MSU Archives hosted the inauspicious 50th anniversary Endowment for the Humanities Sus- an open house featuring significant of the events of 1967, including the taining Cultural Heritage Collections scientific archival collections, includ- Historical Society, the De- grant to assess the environmental ing those of Barnett Rosenberg, troit Institute of Art, the Charles H. climate of its collections storage room. Margaret Zee Jones, and G. Malcolm Wright Museum of African Ameri- The department has recently donated Trout. Through demonstrations and can History, the Michigan Science extra PEM monitors from the grant activities, visitors learned about the Center, and MOCAD. The physical to four local museums, libraries, and scientific aspects of archival work, exhibit, funded with a grant from the historical societies in support of their such as types of paper, humidifying Michigan Humanities Council, will work. photos, deodorizing pamphlets, and be open through January 2018. It is de-acidifying newspapers. also available online at projects.lib .wayne.edu/12thstreetdetroit MICHIGAN The MSU Records Management Central Michigan University program recently announced the The DigMichNewsContest 2017 completion of a major revision of received 6,839 postcards (2,761 of MSU’s Human Resources retention which were handmade) and 25,136 schedules. Part of a larger project to tweets. The L’Anse won and will have revise all of the university’s retention 12 reels of its microfilmed newspapers schedules, the new Human Resources digitized by the Clarke. records retention schedule includes more records series; uses a consistent, Three EIAC half-inch, black-and- easy-to-use format; and better aligns white, sound videotapes of major with institutional, federal, and state African American poets reciting policies and regulations. Dr. Melba Boyd (Distinguished Professor their poetry at CMU on February 14, of Africana Studies, Wayne State 1974, were digitized in January 2017 University) speaks in front of a timeline by Scene Savers. Herbert Woodward On April 27, the Walter P. Reuther at the Reuther Library’s 12th Street, Martin, Etheridge Knight, Raymond Library opened its exhibition, 12th Detroit, 1967 exhibit opening on April R. Patterson, Mari Evans, and Dudley Street, Detroit, 1967: Employment, 27. To her left, guest speaker Dr. Cynthia Fleming (professor emeritus, Department Randall (who founded the Broadside Housing, Policing, and Race Relations of History, , in Evidence. Few topics in Michigan’s Press in Detroit) all played important Knoxville) and reception MC and exhibit roles in the Black Arts Movement. history are as divisive as Detroit’s 1967 team member Dr. Louis Jones (field Topics include life in prison; love; Civil Unrest (frequently known as the archivist, Reuther Library, Wayne State African American women house- Detroit riot, rebellion, or uprising). University) listen to Boyd’s recollections keepers; slavery; Dafuskie Island, Decades later, the aftereffects of those of being a teenager in Detroit during the South Carolina (Gullah); Dr. Martin five days of physical damage and uprising. Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Patrice emotional trauma linger on through Lumumba, and Frederick Douglass. a profound disconnect between

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is expected to be completed in the Straitsville History Group, Shawnee spring of 2019. The new building will State University; Sisters of Charity give greater visibility to Missouri’s of Cincinnati (Mount Saint Joseph, history and heritage while improv- OH), Wilmington College Peace ing public access to the society’s Resource Center; and Worthington programs, services, and resources. Historical Society. The Ohio Archives Grants are funded by the National Attendees at the Reuther Library’s 12th University of Missouri Historical Publications and Records Street, Detroit, 1967 exhibit opening The University of Missouri will Commission, an arm of the National on April 27 discuss their memories of the be offering two archives courses uprising. Archives and Records Administra- in 2017–2018, taught by Professor tion, through its State and National Sarah Buchanan. In fall 2017, ISLT Archival Partnership Grants program. 9410 Archival Practice will introduce students to the practice and theory of archival work, focusing on the SOUTH DAKOTA key processes of records creation, South Dakota State Historical appraisal, preservation, and outreach. Society In spring 2018, ISLT 9410 Archival The South Dakota State Historical Systems and Records Management Society’s Deadwood Fund grant will orient students to archival ar- program has awarded grants to five Attendees at the Reuther Library’s 12th rangement and description using historical sites. Funding for the Street, Detroit, 1967 exhibit opening on archival metadata and access tools program comes from Deadwood April 27 study panels that consider the such as ArchivesSpace, applying aftereffects of the events of 1967. gaming revenue earmarked by state principles to organizational contexts law for historic preservation projects of managing records. throughout the state. The society’s MISSOURI The School of Information Science State Historic Preservation Office at and Learning Technologies is also the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre State Historical Society of pleased to have partnered with the administers the program. These were Missouri Black Archives of Mid-America in of- the most recent sites to receive grants The State Historical Society of Mis- fering ISLT 9410 Archives in Context to supplement their work: souri broke ground April 19, 2017, as a spring break in-service learning for the Center for Missouri Studies, Arlington: Arlington Community opportunity. Students engaged in an a new facility located at 6th and Elm Museum, also known as the Arlington archives workshop led by Professor Streets in downtown Columbia. Masonic Temple, built 1907–1908. Buchanan and collections work with The groundbreaking ceremony was archivist Geri Sanders. Students and Delmont: Thomas Lenehan House, held to celebrate this milestone in faculty have also formed a new Soci- or the Onion House, built 1902. the society’s effort to build a larger, ety of American Archivists Student Faulkton: Pickler Mansion, built more modern, and more accessible Chapter at the University of Missouri. 1882–1894. headquarters. The 76,000-square- foot building, designed by nationally Madison: Herschell-Spillman Steam recognized design and planning firm OHIO Riding Gallery, also known as the Gould Evans, will provide the society Prairie Village Carousel, built some- Ohio Historical Records with a state-of-the-art facility to carry time between 1901 and 1920. Advisory Board out its mission to collect, preserve, OHRAB awarded Ohio Archives St. Onge: Anderson-Ridley Barn, and disseminate Missouri’s history Grants to eight institutions: the built 1902. and heritage. The Center for Missouri City of Alliance; Dawes Arbore- Studies was made possible with a $35 tum, Newark; the Historical Society million state construction bond and of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, Inc.; New (Continued on page 22)

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to access information about draw- architects and engineers. A guide to WISCONSIN ings for many famous Great Lakes the complete collection can be found vessels, including the Fraser Class at library.uwsuper.edu/fraser. Contact University of Wisconsin– and Maritimer vessels, the Edmund the archives to learn more: 715-395- Superior Special Collections Fitzgerald, and the William A. Irvin. 8359, or [email protected]. and Archives Many of these drawings are not avail- More than 9,000 engineering draw- able elsewhere and are accessible to the ings for over 200 vessels are now public for the first time through this available for research in the Fraser collection. In addition to thousands Shipyards Collection at the UW– of engineering drawings, the Fraser Superior Special Collections and Shipyards Collection contains cor- Archives. A searchable online index respondence, photographs, and more. for the drawings is available at fra- This collection is of interest to model sershipyardscollection.omeka.net. builders, maritime history researchers, The new index will allow researchers maritime archaeologists, and naval

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