The Libraries of The in the amount of $550,000. Claremont Colleges have re The gift will be used to sup ceived a grant of $1 million port the establishment of the from the Ahmanson Foun Grants Stuart L. Bernath Seminar dation to acquire new tech Room, to construct the nological capabilities and to and Gerald J. and Myrna F. upgrade existing technol Bernath Auditorium, to es ogy. The grant will enable tablish the Bernath Family the libraries to make endowment for the purchase progress toward their goal of A cquisitions of library materials, and to connecting various cam fund the Bernath Lecture puses, students, and faculty Series in the areas of Ameri through electronic networks. Hugh Thompson can history, diplomacy, and foreign affairs. Columbia University Libraries has received a grant of $25,000 from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to sup port two projects to increase scholarly access to archives at Columbia. The Rare Book and Acquisitions Manuscript Library will get $16,000 to aid in the completion of a project to catalog more More than 250 Edwardian novels writ than 300 valuable medieval and Renaissance ten between 1901 and 1915 have been acquired manuscripts from the library’s collection. The by the Fales Library of New York University. remainder will assist the Avery Architectural and The acquisition will strengthen the library’s al Fine Arts Library in cataloging drawings related ready extensive holdings of Edwardian popu to the archives of architect and builder Rafael lar novelists. Authors in the collection include Guastavino (1842– 1908). Edith Barclay, Harold Bindloss, Baroness Orczy, Max Pemberton, and many others. Harvard University's Fine Arts Library, along with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston United Media has donated 716 volumes and the National Gallery of Canada, has received of Newspaper Enterprise Association proof $160,000 to convert card files of art-auction cata books dating from 1903 to 1977 to Ohio State logs to electronic format. The three participat University’s Cartoon, Graphic, and Photographic ing institutions will contribute the records of Arts Research Library. The collection of syndi the catalogs—which provide financial and prov cate proof books is unique as the only publicly enance information of works of art dating back available complete run of all of the news sto to the 17th century—to SCIPIO, the Research ries and features offered by a major American Libraries Group’s database of auction catalogs. newspaper syndicate. The proof books include comic strips and panel cartoons, daily world The University of California -lrvine (UCI) news (from the Russo-Japanese War to the Libraries has received two gifts: the 1996 Se Carter presidency), editorial analysis (from nior Class Gift and a special grant from the noted columnists such as Heywood Broun, Friends of the Library. Graduating seniors are Drew Pearson, Ernie Pyle, and Eleanor asked to make a pledge, the recipient of which Roosevelt), and feature materials (including is chosen by ballot. The Senior Class Gift for child training, movies, etiquette, sports, and 1995 was more than $21,000. The Friends of gardening). the UCI Library have pledged $150,000 for the purchase of new furniture for the public areas A collection of art books, periodicals, in the renovated Main Library. and auction catalogs has been acquired by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Library. The University Libraries at W ayne State The gift, donated by brothers Joseph, Francis, University have received a bequest from the Nicholas, Henry, and Louis Fazzano (who Gerald J., Myrna F., and Stuart L. Bernath estate served as RISD’s president in 1992-93), totals
May 1996/315 more than 8,200 items, in versity Libraries’ Special cluding 1,600 books, mono Collections Division at the graphs of artists, exhibition University of Texas at Ar catalogs, and fine press edi lington. The papers include tions. The brothers also do four manuscript maps pre nated research materials pared by Benham during supporting a collection of the Mexican War which at 1920s and 1930s American test to his talent as a mili prints that were given by tary cartographer. In addi the Fazzano family to RISD’s tion, the collection includes Museum of Art in 1984. a rare copy of his recollec tions of his service entitled The papers of Joe Mad Recollections o f Mexico and ison, member of the Na the Battle of Buena Vista, tional Board of the NAACP Mexico, Feb. 22nd and and host of the “Lunch with 23rd, 1847, published in Joe” talk-radio program in Boston in 1871. From his Washington, D.C., have Civil War service there are been acquired by Tulane Joe Madison and friend. Madison’s 20 maps either drawn or papers are now at Tulane University. University’s Amistad Re used by him, as well as let search Center. Madison is former executive di ters and a handwritten ledger book with all the rector of the Detroit chapter of the NAACP and dispatches and orders reflecting his actions in president of the Michigan Leadership Confer western Virginia. ence. He was the national director for the NAACP Voter Education Department (1979–86). The papers of British playwright John His popular radio talk show won the 1990 March Osborne have been acquired by the Harry Ran of Dimes Achievement in Radio Award, and som Humanities Research Center at the Uni the JayCees named him one of America’s Note versity of Texas at Austin. Osborne, who died worthy Community Leaders in 1976, 1977, and Christmas Eve 1994, gained international fame 1978. The collection includes tapes, clippings, in 1956 when his play Look Back in Anger was photographs, and videos documenting a life presented at London’s Royal Court Theatre. The spent in the front lines of civil rights. collection includes handwritten drafts of most of Osborne’s works, such as The Entertainer, A collection of materials by and about Luther, Inadmissible Evidence, and A Patriot for American author Jesse Stuart have been ac Me, as well as clippings, photographs, posters, quired by the University of South Carolina. The and correspondence representing Osborne’s gift from Lucille Jordan Palmer includes 15 dealings with many people in the theater busi printed titles, a substantial collection of origi ness, and even fan letters. The handwritten nal letters from Stuart to Palmer dated from drafts for Look Back in Anger were acquired by the 1950s to the 1970s, and a group of inscribed the Ransom Center in 1993. cuttings and offprints of Stuart pieces which appeared in periodicals and learned magazines. The archive of noted photographer and The most important item is a rare first edition author David Plowden of Winnetka, Illinois, has of Stuart’s first book, Harvest o f Youth, pub been acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and lished in 1930 and inscribed to Palmer. Manuscript Library at Yale University. Since 1952, when he began to photograph steam lo The papers of Henry Washington Ben comotives, Plowden has studied, documented, ham, a colonel in the Corps of Engineers whose and commented upon the transformation of career included service in the Mexican War and America. Compiled over more than 40 years, the Civil War, have been acquired by the Uni- the archive includes more than 10,000 nega tives and contact prints, several thousand exhi bition and reproduction prints, field notebooks, Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Ac journals, correspondence, research notes, drafts quisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chi of various publications, and copies of virtually cago, IL 60611; e-mail: [email protected]. all of Plowden’s published work. ■
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