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Volume 45 | Number 1 Article 8 7-2017 News from the Midwest Midwest Archives Conference Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/macnewsletter Part of the Archival Science Commons 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 Iowa State University 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, Michigan, 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 University of Iowa 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). Kansas State University .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 18 MAC Newsletter • July 2017 NEWS FROM THE MIDWEST—Continued Alexandra Bisio and Alison Stankrauff, Assistant Editors 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 United States’ 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 MAC Newsletter • July 2017 19 NEWS FROM THE MIDWEST—Continued Alexandra Bisio and Alison Stankrauff, Assistant Editors (Continued from page 19) 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