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Vol. 30:2 ISSN 0160-8460 June 2002
Recent Records Products and Documentary Editions
Records Products
The following products from records projects funded by the National Historical Records and Publications Commission (NHPRC) have been received since the November 2001 meeting.
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University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: $69,353 to process 15 manuscript collections relating to the history of South Carolina and the South in the university's South Caroliniana Library (NHPRC Grant No. 97-082). The collections cover topics in women's history, slavery and race relations, the Civil War, and political and military history. The finding aids produced have the following titles:
- The James Henry Hammond Papers
- The Thomas Eveleigh Richardson Collection
- The Samuel Lowry Latimer, Jr., Papers
- The Papers of Benjamin Livingston Abney
- The Papers of the Christensen Family
- The Records of the Christian Action Council
- The Papers of Elizabeth Boatwright Coker
- The Papers of James Lide Coker
- The Papers of Robert Richardson Coker
- The Papers of John Gary Evans
- The Papers of Blondelle Malone
- The Papers of Wyndham Meredith Manning
- The Papers of William Doyle Morgan
- The Papers of Stanley Fletcher Morse
- The Papers of Mendel Lafayette Smith
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: $40,000 to process the architectural records of the Institute's David Adler Archive (NHPRC Grant No. 97-083). The following finding aid and study guide was published; record descriptions were also made available through RLIN.
- The David Adler Archive at The Art Institute of Chicago
- The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: $77,873 to arrange, describe, rehouse, and catalog the records of Coxe Mining Company, an independent coal producer that played a key role in the development of anthracite mining in the state (NHPRC Grant No. 99-071). The finding aid produced has the following title:
- Coxe Family Mining Papers, 1774-1968
- The Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Albany, NY: $381,332 to develop guidelines to support and promote long-term preservation of and access to public electronic records of value to secondary users, including historians and other researchers (NHPRC Grant No. 98-027). The following finding aid was published:
- Opening Gateways: A Practical Guide for Designing Electronic Records Access Programs
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: $55,206 to organize, describe, catalog, and provide more effective access to collections in its Seeley G. Mudd Library relating to Cold War-era liberalism (NHPRC Grant No. 97-084). The finding aids produced have the following titles; they are available online at http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/.
- Wilbur Hugh Ferry Papers, 1962-1964
- Freedom House Archives, 1936-1997
- Fund for the Republic Archives, 1928-1964 [Bulk Dates 1952-1961]
- William W. Lockwood, 1919-1977
- Paul D. Tillett, Jr., Papers, 1952-1979
- H. H. Wilson Papers, 1938-1979
- Paix et Liberte Papers, 1950-1952
Publications Volumes
The following publications from NHPRC-supported documentary editing projects have been received in the Commission office since November 2001.
- Dear Papa, Dear Charley [Charles Carroll], Vol. 1 [Sep. 1749-Dec. 1768] (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
- Dear Papa, Dear Charley [Charles Carroll], Vol. 2 [Sep. 1769-Jun. 1778] (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
- Dear Papa, Dear Charley [Charles Carroll], Vol. 3 [Jul. 1778-Jul. 1782] (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 36 [November 1, 1781-March 15, 1782] (Yale University Press, 2001)
- The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 29 [March 1, 1796-December 1797] (Princeton University Press, 2002)
- Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott [1813-1879] (University of Illinois Press, 2002)
- The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, Vol. 12 [October-December 1777] (University Press of Virginia, 2001)
