Dr. John Nelson Warfield (1925 – 2009) was a faculty member at George Mason University from 1984 until his retirement in 2000. Beginning as Director of Mason’s Institute for Information Technology, he ended his tenure as Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS), a part of George Mason’s Institute of […]
After several years of reprocessing, the American Public Transportation (APTA) records are once again open to research with a new and improved finding aid. The records document a pivotal time in the history of mass transportation in the 20th century. Private companies operated nearly all of the mass transportation systems in the United States prior […]
We have recently installed an exhibit outside of SC&A in Fenwick Library focusing on the Federal Theatre Project titled “Voices from the FTP”. This exhibit takes the individual personal papers we have from FTP participants and integrates their story into the larger context of this government sponsored program. These may not be the most well […]
During the fall of 2012, Special Collections & Archives mounted an exhibition celebrating the career of American book artist and author Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) who worked in the medium of publishers’ bindings, designing book covers and “decorating” texts from 1890 through 1926. Armstrong began her thirty-year freelance career by creating covers for the McClurg Publishing […]
A number of personal collections related to the Federal Theatre Project are now processed and finding aids are available online. The J. Howard Miller papers include custom-made scrapbooks bound by the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, part of the Works Progress Administration of Wisconsin. Inside the scrapbooks are programs, photographs, posters, flyers, and newspaper clippings. Miller was […]
