New Frontiers in Graduate History Special Insert—February 2010

New additions to Digital collections RECENT ACQUISITIONS BY THE The Archives & Spe- The Gibson Collection was established The Lambrinos Collection cial Collections has in 1994 when Robert Chalmers Gib- is a recent acquisition of CLARA THOMAS ARCHIVES & in the past year son, after almost fifty years of collect- historical Canadian made selections ing rare books and manuscripts, do- school textbooks and SPECIAL COLLECTIONS from four of its spe- nated his Canadiana collection to York children’s literature col- cial collections and University. It is particularly strong in lected by Sheila digitized them with the Internet Archive early Canadian travel narratives and Thibodeau Lambrinos. The Clara Thomas Archives & Special a generational change in faculty has (http://www.archive.org/details/ geographic treatises. YorkUniversity). Collections of York University Libraries opened new horizons for the expan- The Canadian Pamphlet Collection is Selections include items from : an eclectic assortment of printed Ca- collects primary source material to sup- sion of acquisition activities. nadian ephemera, broadsheets and The Yolton Collection. This collection port research and learning by the uni- Focus is concentrated on six areas : pamphlets. Dating from the 18th cen- was the gift of John W. Yolton, profes- tury to the present, the collection cov- versity’s faculty  Literature & sor of Philosophy. The collection fo- ers a wide variety of subjects that in- cuses on early editions by or about and students. Communications clude social and political issues, relig- Scottish philosopher John Locke. FEATURED ion, fine arts, women and immigration. FONDS New materials  Culture are acquired  Social Reform Aubrey Golden 2 and civil liberties from a wide va-  Jewish Studies Marilou McPhedran 2 riety of sources  Finance and constitutional reform including an  The Environment Morgan Family Image credits: 2 and midwifery international network of antiquarian These six areas share intersecting CLARA THOMAS p.1 : Students in the Archives Reading ARCHIVES Room, 31 March 1989. (Brian Pichell) York Lee Lorch 3 book dealers, retiring faculty and staff, content in the disciplines of Canadian & University photograph collection, F0091. and human rights SPECIAL ASC05083. Selections from Wyndham Lewis and individuals and organizations studies, women’s studies, multicultur- Obsidian Theatre COLLECTIONS Collection. 3 and the Black voice across the country. While York University alism and sexual diversity. p. 2: David DePoe speaking at a sit-in and a press Prigent & Greene Family 3 has always specialized in research conference in Toronto, 1967. Toronto Tele- and Royalist France gram F0433. ASC00621, ASC00623, collections relating to Canadian litera- Visit our website, email us or drop by Hours : Monday—Friday, New Additions to ASC00624. | Selections from the Morgan 4 10:00 am — 4:30 pm. Digital Collections ture, politics, fine arts and social reform, during our research hours to explore! Family fonds, F0540. | Title page of

Culpepper's compleat and experienc'd mid- Telephone: 416-736- 5442 wife , (1718), call number 11221. Email: [email protected] p. 3: Wyndham Lewis Collection Selections from the Obsidian Theatre Com- pany fonds, F0555. | Selections from the Lee Homepage : York University Libraries founder of the Vorticist ments of the early twenti- http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/ArchivesSpecialCollections/ Lorch fonds, including a photograph of the Lorch family at a press conference in 1949. recently purchased from movement. Always a eth century. index.htm ASC05122. | Selections from the Prigent & antiquarian bookseller, controversial and ex- Green Family fonds, F548. Hugh Anson-Cartwright treme character, Lewis York’s University Archives was named in honour of Dr. Clara Thomas, p.4 : the collection of Wynd- represents an important, Professor of English at York University from 1961 to 1984. The Clara Portrait of Clara Thomas, York University ham Lewis books and but often overlooked, Thomas Archives has been a beneficiary of Dr. Thomas' extensive Libraries fonds, F0066. ASC0502. | related material The Ca- figure in English Modern- literary connections, moral and financial support, and good will for Selections of digitized holdings from the nadian-born English ism. The Lewis collection Internet Archives. many years. painter and writer was a will be a rich resource for seminal figure in Mod- students studying the ernist literature and literary and art move- Page 2 New Frontiers in Graduate History Page 3

Aubrey Golden and Civil Liberties Obsidian Theatre and The Black Voice

This recent accession fessionals working in DePoe during a period Founded in February 2000, ment and Consecrated Ground, consists of client files education, science, and of conflict between the Obsidian Theatre Company is a as well as the first international from the law practice of engineering and he also hippy community of leading black theatre company collaboration (Canada and Bar- Aubrey Golden. represented Native Yorkville and local au- in Canada, endeavouring to bados) of Austin Clarke's Giller Best known for his in- groups in their disputes thorities in the 1960s. produce local plays, develop Award-winning novel The Pol- volvement in civil liber- with government agen- playwrights and train emerging ished Hoe. ties cases, Golden’s cies, commissions, and theatre professionals. The theatre holdings include work also focused on private parties. The Obsidian has encouraged Can- operational records, correspon- constitutional, labour, fonds also documents ada's local black playwrights dence, production notes, critic environmental, and ad- his defense of the sex and actors, mounting local reviews, costume and set de- ministrative law. He shop Lovecraft for ob- works such as The Adventures signs as well as playbills, post- took a lead role in the scenity in the 1970s, as of a Black Girl in Search of ers and other promotional ma- development of collec- well as his defense of God, Born Ready, The Monu- terial. tive bargaining for pro- figures such as David

An online finding aid can be found at : http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000555.pdf An online finding aid can be accessed at : http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/submissions/fonds/ON00370-f0000510.pdf Lee Lorch And Human rights Morgan Family and Midwifery During the 1950s and participated in the deseg- personal papers as a The Morgan Family has between 1942 and 1960s, mathematician regation of schooling in mathematician, aca- Researchers can recently donated nurs- 1946. This donation Lee Lorch and his wife, Tennessee and Arkan- demic, civil rights activist often find supple- Grace Lonergan Lorch, a sas. and humanitarian. mentary sources for ing and medical text- provides rich insight former school teacher, Both were brought be- archival material in books as well as medi- into medical practices our special collec- were involved in the civil fore the UnAmerican Ac- tions. York University cal documents includ- in England during WWII. rights movement in the tivities Committee, and Libraries have in re- ing a medical register Items are searchable in United States. They following harassment, cent years acquired fought for the desegrega- the family emigrated to rare books relating to kept by midwife Helen the York Library Cata- tion of the Stuyvesant Canada. the history of nursing James of London logue. Housing community in The Lee Lorch fonds con- to complement archi- val holdings like the New York City and later tains his professorial and Morgan Family fonds An online finding aid can be found at : http:// archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000524.pdf and the School of Marilou McPhedran and constitutional reform Nursing Program at Prigent and Greene Family and the university. One Royalist France of the most recent Marilou McPhedran is a and children. Included in Action Committee on additions has been Canadian feminist law- the fonds are materials Violence against this early 18th cen- yer, consultant and ac- relating to McPhedran’s Women and Children, This collection of material material relates to the ers in France to the Brit- tury treatise on mid- tivist. Her archival re- seminal work to ensure and the Ad Hoc Commit- was recently donated by activities of Francois ish government between wifery. cords reveal her activi- that women were in- tee of Canadian Women York Professor Ian Noel, le Comte de Pri- 1790 and 1808. In fact, ties and illustrate her cluded in the Charter of on the Constitution. Greene. Consisting of gent. Prigent was a sol- Prigent is often cited as work in the areas of Rights and Freedoms, constitutional reform, as well as materials re- correspondence, genea- dier and aide de camp to one of the historical in- women's international lating to her activities on logical charts, birth and kings Louis XVI and Louis spirations for The Scarlet and national rights, the Women's Legal Edu- marriage certificates re- XVIII, and as an agent, Pimpernel. women's health, and cation Action Fund garding the Prigent fam- conveyed correspon- violence against women (LEAF), the Metropolitan ily, the majority of the dence from Royalist lead-

An online finding aid can be found at : http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000514.pdf