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 […]
SC&A has been made aware of a recording of a program of September 21, 2011 featuring C-Span founder Brian Lamb and George Mason University faculty member Richard Norton Smith. Norton Smith was a featured author on Lamb’s television program, Booknotes, on February 21, 1993. The Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection is part of George Mason […]
