Los Alamos Historical Society

Many do not know that the IMA houses two different libraries. The Stout Reference Library and the Horticultural Society Library provide numerous resources for their visitors, which mainly consist of students, IMA Staff, docents, collectors, researchers and even members of the community. The Stout Reference Library “focuses on the encyclopedia collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, while also providing general information about art and art history of all periods.” (Stout Reference Library, 2017) The Horticultural Society Library “houses more than 2,000 volumes, including general reference books and books on landscaping, specific plant families and horticulture.” (Horticultural Society Library, 2017) I mention the libraries because this semester, I am technically considered a library and archives intern at the IMA. My mentor however is the archivist, Samantha Norling. She has done impressive work at the IMA in such a short time. She jump-started the Archives online portal, which consists of thousands of digitized items from the archives. The IMA received a “generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)” (Documenting Modern Living, 2017), that allowed for 17,000 items from the Miller House and Garden archival collection to be digitized.

Beginning my love of reading an early age, I was never the type of child who was drawn to fictional stories. As an 8 year-old child in West Virginia, I was recognized by the local library for my love of biographies, autobiographies and recollections of world events. This love has continued throughout my adult life, desiring to read novels such as “We Were Soldiers Once…and Young” by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore rather than watch the major motion picture “We Were Soldiers” starring Mel Gibson. Even though the motion picture received multiple awards, when reading the recollection of Mr. Moore’s accounts, the feeling of loss, distress, anxiety and fear can be felt in each word that he has written while reliving this horrendous war.

Not every man who 's fought in a war planned on doing so. In fact, not all of them even want to. It 's rare to find enough people voluntarily willing to lay down their lives for their country, so more often than not militaries used what we would call “citizen soldiers.” Citizen soldiers are exactly what they sound like, regular citizens taken from society and turned into people capable of serving in the military. Although it may seem obvious when plainly written out, citizen soldiers had vastly different experiences compared to career soldiers, and Stephen Ambrose attempted to pin down that specific experience in his book Citizen Soldier. Ambrose uses oral interviews from World War II veterans and other materials to explain the experiences of the common American soldier who served in WWII between D-Day and the eventual surrender of the German forces. However, when examining his book, it 's important to ask how successful Ambrose was in painting an accurate picture of this kind of soldier 's life during his service. Is the information he uses specific to the men who served in Europe, or can it also be linked back to the soldiers in the Pacific? This paper will evaluate his work by comparing it to oral interviews from WWII veterans both from the same areas that Ambrose 's veterans serve in and in locations not included in his work.

Clancy contrived a glorious amount of anecdotes to share with Congress back in 1924. As Clancy explains, “I learned more of the spirit of American history at my mother’s knee than I ever learned in my four years of high school study of American history and in my five and a half years of study at the great University of Michigan” (Clancy, 3). Clancy presented this personal experience to explain the “un-Americanism” of Americans with little to no foreign descent. He continuously points out the Americanism of Americans of foreign descent. According to statistics, Clancy lists percentages of Italian-Americans affected by war, showing that they, too, are

My artifacts are from the exhibit “Life and Labor: The Photographs of Milton Rogovin” by Milton Rogovin. My first artifact is Untitled from the series “Working People: Ford,” the second artifact is Untitled, from the series “Working People: Atlas Steel, Frank Andrzewski,” and lastly is Untitled from the series “Lower West Side, Buffalo.” Milton Rogovin is a man from Buffalo, New York who referred to himself as a social-documentary photographer who focused on the people he called “the forgotten ones,” the working class of America. His photos recorded the changing multi-ethnic and working class communities, where he would set up take a photo of someone during their job and then of them inside their homes where the person chose how the photograph

This clearly goes to show how the work done at Los Alamos was an enormous influence even on his later work in life.

For this assignment, students were asked to review an archival institution and critically examine it. This included doing an in-person interview with a staff member and a website review. Some areas students were asked to explore in the archive were; its mission, policies and procedures, funding and staffing, holdings, accessibility, online presence, security, and programming and outreach. This paper will cover the archival institution of UC Davis. The person that was interviewed for this assignment is Kevin Miller. Miller is the Interim Head of the Special Collections Department at UC Davis, he is also a University Archivist in the Archives and Institutional Assets Program. This paper will include the interview this student had with Kevin

Cultural heritage defines who we are as human being, as a community, as a country, and as a nation. Equally, in this country we have a shared history and identity. Hence, it is very important that archivists work to preserve our country’s cultural heritage. Going back as far as the 1960’s, archivists amongst others have been working to preserve our cultural heritage and it very important that they continue to seek out cultural heritage educational programs and the local communities, to learn more effective and efficient way to preserve and share lost information about America’s diverse heritage. If they are not educated on cultural heritage, they may not be able to conserve the archival materials that define the people of those communities,

Over the course of the World War II unit, we have felt increasingly negative feelings towards You because of the way curriculum is structured. Many believe that what we are doing is not contributing to our education in any way. However, with Your policy of allowing the question “Why are we doing this?” out of the window, we are now being pressured into writing

This summer, I will be laying the groundwork that I will need to start my dissertation. First, I plan to network with other professional archaeologists in New York, specifically with local and state museums. Secondly, I plan to create my bibliographies that I will need in order to study for the qualifying exams. I have contacted Dr. Jonathan Lothrop and other professionals at the Albany State Museum, and I plan to be in regular contact with them throughout the summer so that I can gain access to collections that I can use for my dissertation. During the phone conference I had with the Albany State Museum, we discussed my proposed research, available collections, allocating lab space for my research, and opportunities for engaging with the

The archive I am visiting for this term project is the Local History & Archives of the Hamilton Public Library located on the third floor of the Central Branch at 55 York Boulevard in Hamilton, Ontario. Since 1914, Hamilton Public Library has been collecting and preserving Hamilton 's history. The Local History & Archives collection consists of material such as letters, photographs, manuscripts, diaries and other original records created by Hamilton and area citizens. There are records of local businesses and organizations, family papers, government records of the City of Hamilton and the County of Wentworth, military records, theatrical collections, music collections, ephemera, etc. This archive visit took place on November 16th 2016.

This semester I had the opportunity to work first hand with Jason Gumm in the Glenville State College Archives center located in our colleges library. Not only did I have the opportunity to work closely with Jason, but different members of the library staff and other student Interns. During my time in the Archives center I had the chance to experience what having a job in an Archives entails, and the different types of knowledge it requires to properly maintain and keep up an archives to efficiently provide a proper display of information.

As a new young retired military vet, I often find myself thinking about my past. I sit and ponder my activities and my failures. Thankfully, my accomplishments outweigh my fiascos. Though, there are a few that shaped me into who I am today, specific events that foreshadow greatly on my future. Many being recycled, so I remember almost every detail down to smell. Considerabl one major turning point in my life is when, I was given the opportunity to go to the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation Camp Parry Sound located in Parry Sound, Ontario and doing the wilderness program for the second time. When I think of this moment and these experiences during the program, a light bulb goes off in my head and I see the cues all around me that have

Archivists play an important role within society. Historically, archives were centered on the preservation of materials (Vassilakaki & Moniarou-Papaconstantinou, (2017). As the centuries passed, the role of the archivist expanded the schooling necessary to work as an archivist became more complex, and the field of archival science developed into what it is today. In the scope of library professions, the number of archivists is still quite small. As of April 2015, there were approximately 166,200 librarians working in the United States, as of that May, only 5,460 of these were archivists (Eastwood, 2017). This indicates that the profession is still developing. According to Jenkinson (1922), the author of the Manual of Archive

It has also been viewed as an alternative that allows scholars to get around the historical discipline altogether. For Michael Frisch, who has reflected on the craft and implication of oral history for two decades, these two visions of more history or no history are not entirely satisfactory. Oral history has a greater potential because it can make history more meaningful—it can be a qualitative improvement, it can make for better history. Functioning within the realms of history, this approach can enrich an already extant knowledge base. It can also be more responsive and reciprocal than the history that is written exclusively for an academic audience and lacks relevance for the public at large.