APPENDIX B: Complete List of Digitization Project Ideas Contributed by the BLC Libraries, as of 5/24/04

1. WOMEN & WOMEN’S ISSUES

• Boston University – probably can contribute something from general collections

• Brandeis –
• Fannie Hurst Collection (early twentieth-century Jewish novelist and notable figure of the times). 65 linear feet, 1889-1968, consists of photographs, correspondence, typescripts, speeches, articles, etc. It's not her complete collection, UTexas also has a collection. We share copyright with Univ. of Washington, but that would not cover the correspondence from others or the photographs.
• E.M. Broner Collection (Jewish feminist writer, part of the Steinem group). 1969-1997, 14 linear feet. Correspondence, manuscripts, etc. We own copyright; the correspondence from others would not be covered.
• Rose Jacobs Collection - Founder of Hadassah. 12 linear feet. Not processed, consists of correspondence and manuscripts. We do not own copyright.
• Brown –
• Sarah Helen Whitman Papers--Whitman was a well-known author in the mid-19th century and a member of a well-connected Providence family.  She also had the distinction of being Edgar Alan Poe's last romantic attachment and she is credited with keeping his reputation alive following his ignominious demise.  She has been the subject of a couple of biographies and the papers are consulted rather frequently.
• Dickinson Bianchi Papers--These are the papers that for many years resided at The Evergreens, the "other" family homestead next door to the Emily Dickinson house in Amherst.  The papers include both males and females but among the latter are Emily's sister Sue, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, a published author in her own right. Sister Sue, despite this appellation which was used in the family, was actually Emily's sister-in-law.  Emily's sister was Lavinia.  In any event, the collection provides considerable insight into the dynamics of the Dickinson family over a long period of time including much secondary material about Emily.
• Marty Mann Papers--Mann was one the pioneers of Alcoholics Anonymous and is credited as being the first woman to "stay sober in A. A."  She wrote about her experience in "Women Suffer Too" and she is a very revered figure in AA.  She was a pioneer in educating the public about alcoholism and AA and ultimately she founded the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) which is still in business today.

• MBL/WHOI – Women of Science at the MBLWHOI collection http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/exhibits/

• MIT – Papers related to the 1^st Women’s Architecture Firm in Boston (2^nd Women’s Firm in the United States).
• Northeastern

Abortion Action Coalition (Boston, Mass.), Records, 1970-1982 (M21)

Allen, Catherine L., Papers, 1928-2002 (M84)

Boston-Bouvé College, Records, 1892-2000 (bulk 1925-1970) (M41)

Boston Women's Music Collective, Records, 1972-1985 (M25)

Bouvé, Marjorie, Papers, 1892-1972 (bulk 1892-1918) (M89)

Cass, Melnea A., Papers, 1954-1979 (M79)

Coalition to Stop Institutional Violence, Records, 1972-1989 (M27)

Ehrmann, Sara R., Papers, 1845-1993 (M39)

Lewis, Elma Ina, Papers, 1917-1998 (M38)

Lynn, Minnie L., Papers, 1902-1991 (M85)

Northeastern University, Committee on the Status of Women, Records, 1986-1987 (A65)

Northeastern University, Faculty Wives, Records, 1941-1971 (A5)

Northeastern University, 50th Anniversary of Undergraduate Women, Records, 1943-1947, 1993 (A30)

The Oral History Center, Records, 1978-1998 (M73)

Osborne, Katherine G. , Papers, 1874-1942 (M6)

Ready, Kelley, Papers, 1981-1994 (bulk 1985-1989) (M88)

Ryan, Phyllis M., Papers, 1959-1993 (bulk 1961-1988) (M94)

The Second Wave: A Magazine of the New Feminism, Records, 1971-1984 (M19)

Snowden, Muriel S. and Otto P., Papers, 1911-1990 (bulk 1947-1985) (M17)  

Somerville (Mass.) Women's Educational Center, Inc., Records, 1975-1983 (M26)

Stein, Sondra Gayle, Papers, 1977-1981 (M93)

West Roxbury (Mass.) Women's Club, Records, 1965-1973

Women's Action Coalition (Boston, Mass.), Records, 1992-1997 (M60)

Women Against Violence Against Women (Boston, Mass.), 1975-1978 (M22)

Women's Educational Center (Cambridge, Mass.), Records, 1971-1998 (M47)

Women's School (Cambridge, Mass.), Records, 1971-1992 (M23) _

• Tufts (Library) – small [22 items] collection of 19^th century pamphlets on suffrage or the condition of women industrial works
• UConn – Alternative Press Collection – materials that relate to the history of feminism, natural health, gay/lesbian/bisexual rights, intentional living. Women’s Land Army: Photographic materials [“There are significant intellectual property rights issues with these materials. However, they are very high on our list of items to digitize nonetheless.”]
• UMass Amherst
• Everywomans Center at the University of Massachusetts (1971-1986).
• Jozef and Tamara Obrebski Papers
• Chiefly ethnographic data collected by Obrebski in Macedonia (1931-1932), Polesia (1934-1936), and Jamaica (1947-1948), including field and interview notes, genealogies, government documents relating to research sites, and ca. 1000 photographs; together with correspondence (1946-1974), drafts of articles, analyses of collected data, and tapes and phonograph records, largely of folk music;  and papers of Obrebski's wife, Tamara Obrebski (1908-1974), also an ethnologist and sociologist.

• UMass Boston
• Boston Female Asylum Records (1800-1946): The Boston Female Asylum was founded as an orphanage in 1800 to care for orphaned and destitute girls in Boston. By the end of the century it had become a counseling and placement agency, evident in the change of its name to the Boston Society for the Care of Girls.
• Boston Children Friends Society Records
• UMass Medical/Worcester (collaborating with the Clara Barton Birthplace Museum) - Clara Barton's early correspondence belonging to her birthplace museum in Oxford, Mass. This would be interesting from a nursing point of view, or even just a famous women point of view. Clara was born in 1821 and I believe that most of the collection at Oxford is pre-Civil War.
• UNH – Amy Beach (Composer) manuscript scores, photographs, clippings – Published first symphony written by a woman.
• Wellesley –
• Ann Whitney (Sculptor, 1821-1915) unfinished biography and related correspondence.
• Women’s Health and Hygiene. The Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (BNSG), founded in the 1880s, moved to Wellesley in 1909 where it became a graduate program. The College offered a graduate degree in hygiene and physical education until the early 1950s. The collection includes the catalogs, registers of graduates and some alumnae files of the BNSG. The Archives holds the records of the departments that taught health, hygiene and physical education. These materials are constantly sought by researchers working in the areas of women & sports, women & competition, women’s collegiate athletics. Includes lots of photos.

2. NEW ENGLAND ENVIRONMENT

• Boston University – probably can contribute something from general collections

• MBL/WHOI – digital herbarium http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/archives/herb/; also collections from MBL’s Ecosystems Center
• MIT – Has several collections that could fit into this category. Architecture & Urban Planning collections related to Boston Harbor. MIT also has government documents and manuscript collections (‘one manuscript collection from a person who consulted on what became the Cape Cod National Seashore’). Civil Engineering collections related to New England waterways.
• UNH – Clamshell Alliance (Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant materials), Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
• UConn – has various collections that could fit, including Edwin Way Teale Collection, which is extensive. Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) was one of the best-loved naturalists of his generation. As a writer, he has been ranked with Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs. He was also an accomplished photographer who pioneered new techniques for creating close-up images of insects and other living things.
• UMass Amherst

§ Frank Waugh Papers (1896-1983)-Professor of landscape architecture and Head, Horticulture Department, University of Massachusetts. (Founder of what would become the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning.)

Correspondence (1903-1943); draft and printed versions of articles, lectures, papers, and books; reports; 223 etchings (1934-1943) and 108 photos (1905-1942) by Waugh; plans and blueprints; syllabi and reading list; news clippings of articles by Waugh, sometimes with handwritten notes; and bibliographies, book reviews, and biographical material.

• UMass Boston (collaborating with Urban Harbors): Judge A. David Mazzone's
  Chamber Papers on the Boston Harbor Clean Up Case, 1985-2002.
• UNH –

§ North Country (NH) Forestry Lantern slides, 1910-1920

§ Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests – foundation documents dating from late 1890s

• Wellesley – Paintshop Pond Clean-up. Although it includes papers related to current litigation, some earlier documents may be eligible for digitization.
• Williams –

(a) We have U.S. Forest Service notebooks produced during their research with our Hopkins Memorial Forest ca. 1935. The papers that document this area during an earlier period, the Rosenburg Papers, might also be applicable although they focus on farming.

(b) Our Environmental Studies program might have other materials, including student papers on a host of local environmental issues. I'd need to get in touch with them about the administration of these items, however.

(c) We also have the papers of Thomas Jorling, who taught Environmental

Studies here and later headed up the EPA.

3. SOCIAL ACTION IN NEW ENGLAND

• Brown - John Preston Papers--Preston, born in Mass. but a long-time resident of Portland, was a major activist in gay/lesbian and AIDS-related issues, particularly in New England.  He was the author of numerous books, from reportage to erotica.  He was a voluminous correspondent with many leading figures of the g/l community both before and after the AIDS epidemic, including a large number of authors who wrote fiction and non-fiction centered on AIDS.
• Northeastern

A. African American

Cass, Melnea A., Papers, 1954-1979 (M79)

Coffin, Gregory C., Papers, 1966-2002 (bulk 1966-1975) (M80)

Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, Records, 1954-1992 (M43)

Fraser, James W., Photograph Collection, 1905-1976 (bulk 1974-1976) (M66)

Freedom House, Inc., Records, 1941-1996 (bulk 1949-1986) (M16)

Lewis, Elma Ina, Papers, 1917-1998 (M38)

Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Records, 1966-1998 (M44)

National Center of Afro-American Artists, Records, 1924-1998 (M42)

Ross, John, Papers, 1963-1999 (M70)

Ryan, Phyllis M., Papers, 1959-1993 (bulk 1961-1988) (M94)

Snowden, Muriel S. and Otto P. , Papers, 1911-1990 (bulk 1947-1985) (M17)

Warren, Joseph D. , Papers, 1972-2003 (M87) 

B. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc., Records, 1975-2000 (M61)

Boston Intercollegiate Lesbian and Gay Alliance, Records, 1982-1992 (M65)

Bromfield Street Educational Foundation, Records, 1968-1999 (bulk 1985-1993) (M64)

Canfield, William J., Papers, 1965-1999 (M69)

Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network, Records, 1987-2001 (M86)

Graves, John C., Papers, 1971-1996 (bulk 1975-1980) (M83)

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Alliance of Massachusetts, Records, 1982-1997 (M91)

Mack, Robert W. and Paul F. Perkovic, Papers, 1974-1994 (M96)

Men of All Colors Together Boston, Records, 1980-1999 (M68)

Student Homophile League of Boston, Newsletters, 1970 (M90)

Theater Offensive , Records, 1987-2003 (M82)

C. Latino

La Alianza Hispana, Records, 1965-1999 (M55)

La Alternativa, Newsletters, 1984-1999 (M98)

LaGuer, Benjamin, Papers, 1984-2000 (M100)

Dept. of History, Latin America and the Caribbean in Boston Student Projects (A78)

Puerto Rican Entering and Settling Service, Records, 1969-1999 (bulk 1971-1972) (M81)

Ready, Kelley, Papers, 1981-1994 (bulk 1985-1989) (M88) 

• Tufts (Library) – collection of 19^th century abolitionist pamphlets, most with a New England connection [100+ titles]
• UMass Amherst –
• Luke Drury Family Papers (1746-1831)
• Papers of Luke Drury, farmer and gristmill operator, military officer, state representative, constable, deputy sheriff and selectman of Grafton, MA include family business correspondence, military, financial and legal papers concerning Drury's activities during the Revolution, Shay's Rebellion, and various positions in state and local government.
• Hudson Family Papers
• Correspondence (1825-1888) and journals (1830-1845) of Erasmus Darwin Hudson (1805-1880), anti-slavery organizer and orthopedic surgeon, relating chiefly to his activities for the Connecticut and American Anti-Slavery societies; his antislavery campaign map of New York state and surrounding areas (1841), with handwritten notes; account books (1831-1838) of Daniel C. Hudson and Erasmus Darwin Hudson; family records and writings of Erasmus Darwin Hudson, Jr. (1843-1887), thoracic physician, and other family @members; notes on the branches of medicine and handwritten drafts of lectures; genealogies of the Hudson, Shaw, Clarke, Fowler, and Cooke families, and printed material, memorabilia, clipping and photographs.
• UMass Boston – Boston Female Asylum Records (1800-1946): The Boston Female Asylum was founded as an orphanage in 1800 to care for orphaned and destitute girls in Boston. By the end of the century it had become a counseling and placement agency, evident in the change of its name to the Boston Society for the Care of Girls.
• UConn – Alternative Press Collection. This is a collection that’s heavily used and is extensive, but is partly uncataloged and has multiple preservation issues. Digitization would assist with the preservation goals of extensive newsprint items.
• UMass Medical/Worcester (collaborating with the Clara Barton Birthplace Museum) - Clara Barton's early correspondence belonging to her birthplace museum in Oxford, Mass. This would be interesting from a nursing point of view, or even just a famous women point of view. Clara was born in 1821 and I believe that most of the collection at Oxford is pre-Civil War.
• UNH – Rev. Roland Sawyer – Anti-Profanity League materials (c. 1900-1910) and is collection of glass plate slides documenting the 1912 Lawrence (MA) Strike
• Wellesley –The Elbert Collection: A collection of "approximately 800 volumes on slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction was assembled by Ella Smith, class of 1888, the second black graduate of Wellesley College, and by her husband, Dr. Samuel G. Elbert.” Materials in this collection are consulted by students enrolled at Wellesley.
• Williams
• We too have a slavery and abolition collection. The Strickland Kneass Collection covers more geographical territory than just New England, so I'd need to crunch the numbers on how much material we're really talking about. The Collection is used heavily by our students and faculty.
• We also have the records of Williams Strike Central which document the activities of our students 1969-1970 protesting the Vietnam War and the records of the Northern Berkshire Peace Group if you'd like documentation of last year's activities.

4. CAMPUS NEWSPAPERS

Brandeis [“The Justice - campus newspaper so we own copyright, 1948-present. 17,800 pages total at this time.”], Brown (Brown & Pembroke papers), MIT, Northeastern, UMass-Amherst, UMass-Boston, Wellesley, BU, UNH, UConn, Williams [“Please count us in for this. We have student newspapers back to 1830 covering the usual territory: news, literary, humor, political”]

5. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

• Boston University – probably can contribute something from Educational Resources collection

• Brandeis - Dime Novel Collection, including story papers, Oliver Optic books, etc. well over 1,000 dime novels, plus hundreds of issues of story papers. Collection is very fragile though very valuable.
• Brown - We have collected "The Night Before Christmas" exhaustively as a part of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays.  Many of these, indeed most, are illustrated and are an excellent document that traces the history of children's book illustration, through one title, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present (though we could not, of course, proceed beyond the copyright limits.
• Northeastern - F. Andre Favat papers, 1960-1977 (M11)
• UConn – Phyllis Hirsch Boyson Collection of Children’s Literature – high priority, over 6,000 books and 300 artifacts. Several databases already created.
• UNH –
• 1^st books published in NH towns, many of which are children’s books
• Leslie Frost Ballantine (daughter of Robert Frost) – childhood journals (1905-1908) which were the source for a not out-of-print book, New Hampshire’s Child

• Wellesley – Kindergarten movement books