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Going Solo at the Public Design Commission

March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 lonearrangers1 Comment

Julianna Monjeau
Archivist & Records Manager
Public Design Commission of the City of New York
JMonjeau@cityhall.nyc.gov

As a “lone arranger,” I’m hesitant to provide tips and tricks for other lone arrangers. As we know, we each face challenges as varied and unique as our own archival collections. Our collections don’t always follow the rules and we aren’t always able to follow professional “best practices” due to staffing or budget concerns. In my case, I was lucky to take up the reigns in an archive that didn’t require a systematic structural or organizational overhaul. Moreover, I was lucky to join an agency that values its archival collection and recognizes its unique historical picture of how the public landscape of New York City has evolved over time.

The Public Design Commission was established as the Municipal Art Commission by the New York City Charter in 1898. The Commission was tasked with the oversight of all public artworks and monuments, but its scope quickly expanded to include public structures and open spaces. In 2008, the agency was renamed the Public Design Commission to better reflect its mission. The Commission reviews permanent works of architecture, landscape architecture, and art proposed on or over City-owned property. The Commission comprises 11 members and includes an architect, landscape architect, painter, sculptor, and three lay members, as well as representatives of the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, and the Mayor. The Commission also acts as caretaker and curator of the City’s public art collection, which is located throughout the city’s public buildings and open spaces. The Design Commission is a decidedly small city agency, with only 6 full time staff members.

The Commission maintains an extensive archive of projects reviewed by the Commission since 1902, documenting more than 7,000 sites throughout New York City and including tens of thousands of individual project records. The archive contains approximately 2,100 linear feet of records and continues to grow by approximately 1-2 linear feet per month, and contains original documents, drawings, photographs, and architectural plans. The archive informs the Commission’s review of current projects and provides a valuable resource to researchers. In addition, the archive holds special collections that were acquired as reference material by Commission members and staff over our 119 year history.

Manhattan Bridge
Manhattan Bridge, architect Henry F. Hornbostel, series 63, exhibit G, approved and disapproved in part March 10, 1903. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Manhattan Bridge
Manhattan Bridge, architect Henry F. Hornbostel, series 63, certificate, approved and disapproved in part March 10, 1903. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.

Though functioning without an archivist for 115 years, the Commission staff thankfully took great care to preserve a common sense filing system and preserve the records as best they could. In fact, the filing system used today dates back to 1902. Unlike many archives, this archive is very much alive. Everything submitted to and approved by the Commission is considered an active and permanent record. Our record series, which we define as a single location (for example: a building, park or public artwork) continue to grow as new projects are proposed and approved at new and existing sites. Each location is assigned a series number. Each document that was reviewed and approved by the Commission for a public project is assigned a letter. Aside from oversized bound or rolled architectural drawings, everything can be logically located by its series number. The downside of this system is that the collection physically expands from within, requiring periodic shifting of boxes to create room to grow.

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Installation of security measures for Manhattan Bridge in Manhattan and Brooklyn, engineer Weidlinger Associates Inc., series 63, exhibit HD, approved August 22, 2016. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.

Public Design Commission records are legal public documents and are available by appointment to the public upon request on a first-come, first-served basis. I usually handle approximately 2 research requests per week either remotely or by appointment in the archive. The archive handles research requests from three distinct groups: staff, city agencies, and the public. Approximately 80-100 project records are requested by staff each month as reference material for new city projects. City agency staff also reviews our records for the same purpose, often filling in gaps in their own recordkeeping. Lastly, our archive supports research by outside architects, artists and designers, students, historians, and citizens interested in public projects.

The Design Commission hired its first archivist (yours truly) in 2013 to oversee and maintain archival records and provide research services for staff, other city agencies, and the public. Being the first archivist at an institution can be overwhelming, but thankfully I was brought into an agency that historically loved and maintained their archive. Therefore, from the outset, I was able to focus on promoting, preserving, and making the archive more inviting to researchers, instead of reinventing the file system wheel. In 2013, the Commission launched a long-term preservation project to digitize the oldest and most fragile materials in the collection, increasing staff and public access to these historic documents while preserving the originals. As of 2017, we have digitized over 16,000 individual documents with the help of staff, interns and two digitization grants awarded by the New York State Archives in 2014 and 2016. These records are available to the public upon request and are periodically posted on our Flickr, Tumblr, and Twitter pages. All digitized material is linked to our database and available remotely to staff. This digitization project has significantly reduced the handling of our oldest records which are still actively reviewed by staff.

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Waste receptacles in Richmond Borough, designed by the Superintendent of Street Cleaning, series 524, exhibit B, approved November 15, 1910. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.

The digitization project easily lent itself to promoting the archive and inviting researchers to use our records. By improving our public face on the Design Commission website and on social media, we created a more open and user friendly environment. In 2013 we received only 34 research requests, but by 2016 we received 87 research requests.

Completed murals in the recreation room, House of Detention for Women, Greenwich Avenue and 10th Street, Manhattan
Mural in the recreation room of the House of Detention for Women at Greenwich Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan, artist Lucienne Bloch, series 1498, exhibit AC, approved February 11, 1936. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.

I continue to look for ways to promote the archive, including providing after hours tours. We’ve recently added a public portal for archive tours every other month and hope to expand to offer tours for city students. As a lone arranger, I hope to continue finding ways to highlight and disseminate the Commission’s singular holdings, a goal I imagine many of us share for our own unique materials.

Posted in Digital Preservation, Digitization, Metadata, Photography, Preservation, Public Archives, Visual ResourcesTagged architecture, art, design, design history, New York City, visual art

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James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age, Wilmington, Delaware, May 1910. Photo by Lewis W. Hine, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) Collection. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ncl2004001219/PP/
James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age, Wilmington, Delaware, May 1910. Photo by Lewis W. Hine, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) Collection. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ncl2004001219/PP/
Commission signed by President James Madison appointing Dr. William Beaumont as a surgeon in the Sixth Regiment of Infantry in the US Army on December 2, 1812. Personal Collection #12, William Beaumont Papers, Bernard Becker Medical Library Archives, Washington University School of Medicine.
Commission signed by President James Madison appointing Dr. William Beaumont as a surgeon in the Sixth Regiment of Infantry in the US Army on December 2, 1812. Personal Collection #12, William Beaumont Papers, Bernard Becker Medical Library Archives, Washington University School of Medicine.
First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana, August 1942. Photo by Russell Lee, (FSA)/Office of War Information (OWI), courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1992001481/PP/
First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana, August 1942. Photo by Russell Lee, (FSA)/Office of War Information (OWI), courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1992001481/PP/
Anna Kelton Wiley, founder of The National Woman's Party telephones Doris Stevens, chairman of the InterAmerican Commission of Women at the Haugue, to ascertain whether the World Code now being drawn up by the Codification Conference of International Law will be based on sex discrimination, April 3, 1930. In the photograph, left to right: Anita Pollitzer of South Carolina; Anna Kelton Wiley; Alice Paul; and Elsie Hill of Connecticut. Photo by Harris and Ewing, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2013005824/
Anna Kelton Wiley, founder of The National Woman’s Party telephones Doris Stevens, chairman of the InterAmerican Commission of Women at the Haugue, to ascertain whether the World Code now being drawn up by the Codification Conference of International Law will be based on sex discrimination, April 3, 1930. In the photograph, left to right: Anita Pollitzer of South Carolina; Anna Kelton Wiley; Alice Paul; and Elsie Hill of Connecticut. Photo by Harris and Ewing, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2013005824/
National Archives, Division of Commerce Department Archives, Washington, D.C., Novmber 22, 1939. Photo by Harris and Ewing, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009014404/
National Archives, Division of Commerce Department Archives, Washington, D.C., Novmber 22, 1939. Photo by Harris and Ewing, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009014404/
Installation photos from Chuck Close: Red Yellow Blue, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, September 11-October 17, 2015. © Chuck Close. Photos by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Gallery
Installation photos from Chuck Close: Red Yellow Blue, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, September 11-October 17, 2015. © Chuck Close. Photos by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Gallery
Sol LeWitt installing Wall Drawing #292 at Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, September 1976. © Estate of Sol LeWitt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Bourlder
Sol LeWitt installing Wall Drawing #292 at Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, September 1976. © Estate of Sol LeWitt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Bourlder
Wall Drawing #795 at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 1998. Photo by Ian Reeves, courtesy, Fraenkel Gallery. Unprocessed image (left) vs. Processed image (right).
Wall Drawing #795 at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 1998. Photo by Ian Reeves, courtesy, Fraenkel Gallery. Unprocessed image (left) vs. Processed image (right).
Mural in the recreation room of the House of Detention for Women at Greenwich Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan, artist Lucienne Bloch, series 1498, exhibit AC, approved February 11, 1936. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Mural in the recreation room of the House of Detention for Women at Greenwich Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan, artist Lucienne Bloch, series 1498, exhibit AC, approved February 11, 1936. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Manhattan Bridge, architect Henry F. Hornbostel, series 63, certificate, approved and disapproved in part March 10, 1903. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Manhattan Bridge, architect Henry F. Hornbostel, series 63, certificate, approved and disapproved in part March 10, 1903. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Waste receptacles in Richmond Borough, designed by the Superintendent of Street Cleaning, series 524, exhibit B, approved November 15, 1910. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Waste receptacles in Richmond Borough, designed by the Superintendent of Street Cleaning, series 524, exhibit B, approved November 15, 1910. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Installation of security measures for Manhattan Bridge in Manhattan and Brooklyn, engineer Weidlinger Associates Inc., series 63, exhibit HD, approved August 22, 2016. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Installation of security measures for Manhattan Bridge in Manhattan and Brooklyn, engineer Weidlinger Associates Inc., series 63, exhibit HD, approved August 22, 2016. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Manhattan Bridge, architect Henry F. Hornbostel, series 63, exhibit G, approved and disapproved in part March 10, 1903. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Manhattan Bridge, architect Henry F. Hornbostel, series 63, exhibit G, approved and disapproved in part March 10, 1903. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
Design and locations of two lions at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the New York Public Library in Manhattan, sculptor E.C. Potter, photographer A.E. Sproul, series 208, exhibit AZ, approved October 11, 1910. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Photographic print, 9.5 x 7.5 in.
Design and locations of two lions at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the New York Public Library in Manhattan, sculptor E.C. Potter, photographer A.E. Sproul, series 208, exhibit AZ, approved October 11, 1910. Collection of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Photographic print, 9.5 x 7.5 in.
Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, spring 1943 Photo by John Collier, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/item/fsa1992001380/PP/
Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, spring 1943 Photo by John Collier, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/item/fsa1992001380/PP/
Woman with headphones listening to radio broadcast between ca. 1920 and ca. 1930 Photo by Underwood & Underwood, courtesy Photo courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012649424/
Woman with headphones listening to radio broadcast between ca. 1920 and ca. 1930 Photo by Underwood & Underwood, courtesy Photo courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012649424/
Crowded stacks, 1970. Photograph shows an African American employee of the Library of Congress among crowded book shelves with another employee. Photo courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017646178/
Crowded stacks, 1970. Photograph shows an African American employee of the Library of Congress among crowded book shelves with another employee. Photo courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017646178/
Arriving at Ellis Island, 1907 Photo courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97519082/
Arriving at Ellis Island, 1907 Photo courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97519082/
A cross roads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, La., June 1940.
A cross roads store, bar, “juke joint,” and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, La., June 1940.
Hawthorne Bridge, Spanning Willamette River at Hawthorne Boulevard & Madison Street, Portland, Multnomah County, OR. Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Waddell & Harrington, Pennsylvania Steel Company, United Engineering & Construction Company, Robert Wakefield & Company, City Of Portland, and Judith A McGaw, Norman, James, and Leslie Schwab, photographer. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/or0290/. (Accessed June 06, 2017.)
Hawthorne Bridge, Spanning Willamette River at Hawthorne Boulevard & Madison Street, Portland, Multnomah County, OR. Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Waddell & Harrington, Pennsylvania Steel Company, United Engineering & Construction Company, Robert Wakefield & Company, City Of Portland, and Judith A McGaw, Norman, James, and Leslie Schwab, photographer. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/or0290/. (Accessed June 06, 2017.)
Connecticut College for Women, New London, Connecticut. Palmer library, carrels in stack room. Photo by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., courtesy ibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gsc1994021290/PP/. (Accessed June 06, 2017.).
Connecticut College for Women, New London, Connecticut. Palmer library, carrels in stack room. Photo by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., courtesy ibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gsc1994021290/PP/. (Accessed June 06, 2017.).
[Copy machine in office], 1936. Photo by Harris & Ewing, courtesy Harris & Ewing Collection, ibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/hec2013010866/. (Accessed June 06, 2017.)
[Copy machine in office], 1936. Photo by Harris & Ewing, courtesy Harris & Ewing Collection, ibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/hec2013010866/. (Accessed June 06, 2017.)
AFS President Arthur Howe, Jr. being greeted by AFS alumni after his arrival in Santiago, Chile in 1971. Foto Cerrillos Chile. Photo courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
AFS President Arthur Howe, Jr. being greeted by AFS alumni after his arrival in Santiago, Chile in 1971. Foto Cerrillos Chile. Photo courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
Arthur Howe, Jr. in 1943. Photograph by Loftus B. Cuddy, Jr., courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
Arthur Howe, Jr. in 1943. Photograph by Loftus B. Cuddy, Jr., courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
AFS ambulance drivers evacuating Tobruk Hospital in Libya in 1942. Photograph by Arthur Howe, Jr., courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
AFS ambulance drivers evacuating Tobruk Hospital in Libya in 1942. Photograph by Arthur Howe, Jr., courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
Arthur Howe, Jr. in Damascus, Syria in November 1965. Photo courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
Arthur Howe, Jr. in Damascus, Syria in November 1965. Photo courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
Arthur Howe, Jr. pointing to Iran on a globe during his AFS presidency in 1967. Several years later he traveled to Abbasabad, Iran to give a speech about AFS and its role in international education. Photo courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
Arthur Howe, Jr. pointing to Iran on a globe during his AFS presidency in 1967. Several years later he traveled to Abbasabad, Iran to give a speech about AFS and its role in international education. Photo courtesy of the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
The original teaching skeleton used in the nursing school of the local hospital, after being donated to Special Collections at the Mooresville Public Library. Photo courtesy Special Collections at the Mooresville Public Library.
The original teaching skeleton used in the nursing school of the local hospital, after being donated to Special Collections at the Mooresville Public Library. Photo courtesy Special Collections at the Mooresville Public Library.
1815 embroidery of Mt. Vernon by Frances “Fanny” Macklin Ellis Wilkinson, using human hair, post-conservation. Photo courtesy of the Khalaf Al Habtoor Archives at Illinois College.
1815 embroidery of Mt. Vernon by Frances “Fanny” Macklin Ellis Wilkinson, using human hair, post-conservation. Photo courtesy of the Khalaf Al Habtoor Archives at Illinois College.
1815 embroidery of Mt. Vernon by Frances “Fanny” Macklin Ellis Wilkinson, using human hair, pre-conservation. Photo of Jenny Barker Devine, Associate Professor of History, Illinois College.
1815 embroidery of Mt. Vernon by Frances “Fanny” Macklin Ellis Wilkinson, using human hair, pre-conservation. Photo of Jenny Barker Devine, Associate Professor of History, Illinois College.
Lobster gifted to Congressman Paul Findley from Mohammed Motie, foreign minister of South Yemen, during Findley's "Mission to Aiden," in May 1974. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Papp, Public History Graduate Intern, Illinois College.
Lobster gifted to Congressman Paul Findley from Mohammed Motie, foreign minister of South Yemen, during Findley’s “Mission to Aiden,” in May 1974. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Papp, Public History Graduate Intern, Illinois College.
Front view of a British Tank, ca. 1916, from Photographic History of The World's War, 1918.
Front view of a British Tank, ca. 1916, from Photographic History of The World’s War, 1918.
British tank crossing trenches, from Collier's Photographic History of The World's War, 1918.
British tank crossing trenches, from Collier’s Photographic History of The World’s War, 1918.
British "Centipede"/"Mother"/"Big Willie" tank, ca. 1916--afterwards known at the Mark I Tank, from
British “Centipede”/”Mother”/”Big Willie” tank, ca. 1916–afterwards known at the Mark I Tank, from
World War One "Splatter Mask." Photo in the Public Domain.
World War One “Splatter Mask.” Photo in the Public Domain.
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Center for Democracy & Technology letter to the Unites States Department of Homeland Security, regarding "A-Files." Photo courtesy the Society of American Archivists.
Center for Democracy & Technology letter to the Unites States Department of Homeland Security, regarding “A-Files.” Photo courtesy the Society of American Archivists.
Vets protest bonus bill delay, January 1931, Washington D.C. Photo by Harris & Ewing, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2013006243/
Vets protest bonus bill delay, January 1931, Washington D.C. Photo by Harris & Ewing, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2013006243/
The Librarian, U.S. Naval Academy, ca. 1890-91. Photo by Detroit Publishing Co., courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994001136/PP/
The Librarian, U.S. Naval Academy, ca. 1890-91. Photo by Detroit Publishing Co., courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994001136/PP/
An array of pumpkins, ready for the autumn customer rush at the Kelp's Pumpkin Patch stand near Nashville in Brown County, Indiana. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc., courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016631899/
An array of pumpkins, ready for the autumn customer rush at the Kelp’s Pumpkin Patch stand near Nashville in Brown County, Indiana. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc., courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016631899/
From Library of Congress online (https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct002354/) Colton's illustrated & embellished steel plate map of the world on Mercator's projection : compiled from the latest & most authentic sources exhibiting the recent Arctic and Antarctic discoveries & explorations Photo courtesy Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3200.ct002354
From Library of Congress online (https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct002354/) Colton’s illustrated & embellished steel plate map of the world on Mercator’s projection : compiled from the latest & most authentic sources exhibiting the recent Arctic and Antarctic discoveries & explorations Photo courtesy Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3200.ct002354
Diane Wells Archivist & Records Manager Diocese of Olympia, Seattle, WA
Diane Wells Archivist & Records Manager Diocese of Olympia, Seattle, WA
The Nguyen Family from Vietnam Olympia Churchman Photo. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
The Nguyen Family from Vietnam Olympia Churchman Photo. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Refugee Resettlement Office files. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Refugee Resettlement Office files. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Storage room at the Refugee Resettlement Office with boxes and cabinets containing stacke from floor to ceiling. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Storage room at the Refugee Resettlement Office with boxes and cabinets containing stacke from floor to ceiling. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Staples, clips and other fasteners removed from Refugee Resettlement Office files during processing. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Staples, clips and other fasteners removed from Refugee Resettlement Office files during processing. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Processed Refugee Resettlement Office files. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Processed Refugee Resettlement Office files. Photo courtesy the Archives of The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.
Michael Aday Librarian-Archivist National Park Service Collections Preservation Center Great Smoky Mountains National Park Townsend, Tennessee.
Michael Aday Librarian-Archivist National Park Service Collections Preservation Center Great Smoky Mountains National Park Townsend, Tennessee.
Archives stacks at National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Archives stacks at National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Research room at National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Research room at National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Summons to the Sheriff of Washington County, NC from Clerk of the Court John Sevier, from 1782. Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Summons to the Sheriff of Washington County, NC from Clerk of the Court John Sevier, from 1782. Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Civilian Conservation Corps scrip, from 1932. Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Civilian Conservation Corps scrip, from 1932. Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
William Oliver Collection being humidified and flattened (before). Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
William Oliver Collection being humidified and flattened (before). Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
William Oliver Collection being humidified and flattened (after). Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
William Oliver Collection being humidified and flattened (after). Photo courtesy National Park Service Collections Preservation Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Two Australian soldiers enjoying the snow, January 1942. Photo by Matson Photo Service, Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010006642/PP/
Two Australian soldiers enjoying the snow, January 1942. Photo by Matson Photo Service, Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2010006642/PP/
Secretary with telegrams pledging over $100,000.00 to International Rescue Committee, November 8, 1956/ World Telegram & Sun photo by Ed. Ford, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95505385/
Secretary with telegrams pledging over $100,000.00 to International Rescue Committee, November 8, 1956/ World Telegram & Sun photo by Ed. Ford, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95505385/
Southington, Connecticut. Stacks of the public library containing 15,000 books. Photo by Charles Fenno Jacobs, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress): https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8d34963/
Southington, Connecticut. Stacks of the public library containing 15,000 books. Photo by Charles Fenno Jacobs, courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress): https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8d34963/
Brookings building at 722 Jackson Place in 1932. Photo courtesy Brookings Institution.
Brookings building at 722 Jackson Place in 1932. Photo courtesy Brookings Institution.
Brookings building at 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, 2018. Photo courtesy Brookings Institution.
Brookings building at 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, 2018. Photo courtesy Brookings Institution.
Edith Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg (holding unknown child), unknown, Louis Ginsberg (L-R), ca. 1967. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey.
Edith Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg (holding unknown child), unknown, Louis Ginsberg (L-R), ca. 1967. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey.
Allen Ginsberg writes to his Aunt Clara from Amsterdam. 12/31/82. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
Allen Ginsberg writes to his Aunt Clara from Amsterdam. 12/31/82. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
Allen’s inscription to his cousin Pat Sebold. 12/10/74. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
Allen’s inscription to his cousin Pat Sebold. 12/10/74. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
Allen’s inscription to Aunt Clara. 1/24/87. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
Allen’s inscription to Aunt Clara. 1/24/87. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
Edith Ginsberg’s letter to Clara (written as Claire). 2/28/87. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
Edith Ginsberg’s letter to Clara (written as Claire). 2/28/87. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey
May Day Parade, New York, 1910. Photo courtesy George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a51058/
May Day Parade, New York, 1910. Photo courtesy George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a51058/
Typing class at the San Diego Vocational School, June 1941. Photo by Lee Russell, courtesy U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information/Office of Emergency Management/Resettlement Administration Black & White Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017789625/
Typing class at the San Diego Vocational School, June 1941. Photo by Lee Russell, courtesy U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information/Office of Emergency Management/Resettlement Administration Black & White Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017789625/
Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California, November 1938. Photo by Dorothea Lange, courtesy U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information/Office of Emergency Management/Resettlement Administration Black & White Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770943/
Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California, November 1938. Photo by Dorothea Lange, courtesy U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information/Office of Emergency Management/Resettlement Administration Black & White Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017770943/
Labor Relations Board, ca. 1937. Photo by Harris & Ewing, courtesy Harris & Ewing photograph collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/hec.22806/
Labor Relations Board, ca. 1937. Photo by Harris & Ewing, courtesy Harris & Ewing photograph collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/hec.22806/
"Labor," ca. 1912-1930. Photo courtesy National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.27767/
“Labor,” ca. 1912-1930. Photo courtesy National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.27767/
Am. Fed. Labor, ca. 1921-1922. Photo courtesy National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.29804/
Am. Fed. Labor, ca. 1921-1922. Photo courtesy National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.29804/
Woman on float of the Women's Auxilliary Typographical Union, Labor Day parade, New York, New York, September 6, 1909. Photo courtesy George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsc.00154/
Woman on float of the Women’s Auxilliary Typographical Union, Labor Day parade, New York, New York, September 6, 1909. Photo courtesy George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsc.00154/
Am. Fed. of Labor, December 12, 1923. Photo courtesy National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016836374/
Am. Fed. of Labor, December 12, 1923. Photo courtesy National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016836374/
Am. Fed. Labor Char Women's Committee, ca. 1919-1920. Photo courtesy National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.28680/
Am. Fed. Labor Char Women’s Committee, ca. 1919-1920. Photo courtesy National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.28680/
Group of young women reading in library of normal school, Washington, D.C., 1899. Photo by Johnston Frances Benjamin, courtesy Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/item/90711146/
Group of young women reading in library of normal school, Washington, D.C., 1899. Photo by Johnston Frances Benjamin, courtesy Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/item/90711146/

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