As always,
Cooper is way ahead of the rest of y’all. Talkin’ this guys-in-kilts bidnis.
The Quarterly; Gordon Lish; Tables of Contents for issues 1–25
When I searched for this information recently I couldn’t find it, but I did encounter a number of people who expressed a desire for it. Perhaps it is out there somewhere and I just missed it. I decided to type these tables instead of scanning them (hence the slight differences in format) because I want to gradually add information. The original tables include the titles of individual works of fiction, but when two or more works by an author are presented the number of works is all that is given. I want to add those specific titles in brackets. Also, poets are represented by their names only, and I want to add the titles of their poems in brackets. After that is done–and it may take a while–I might try to provide a simple index comprised of authors’ names followed by the issue numbers in which their work appeared. If any of you see that this has been done elsewhere, please let me know and I’ll spend the time on something else. Also, if you see any errors at any point in this process, please let me know and I’ll make repairs.
City folk come in droves (to be where the action is)
“City folk come in droves to once-isolated White Rock Lake [in Dallas, Texas]. Some come to picnic, sail or fish, some just to be where the action is.” (April 1972)
Item from [NARA] Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 - 2000.
The First Album Cover
In 1939 a 23 year-old Alex Steinwess, a designer for Columbia, wrangled them into creating the first true album cover (rather than generic sleeves):
(hat tip to Triumph of Bullshit)
Talkin’ Archives
What do archivists talk about when they talk with other archivists?
Just out of curiosity, what, in this case, makes these foods archival instead of curatorial?
(From the Archives & Archivists list)
From the Chicago Tribune Archives
Set Trial Date for Lenny Bruce, 2 Others
Judge Daniel J. Ryan set trial in Jury court yesterday for Lenny Bruce, comedian, and two other men arrested Dec. 5 in a police raid on the Gate of Horn night club, 1036 N. State st., for Jan. 14. Bruce is charged with obscenity and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and the others with charges of keeping or being inmates in a disorderly house. Charges of disorderly conduct against Roger Pittman, 21, of 2147 78th av., Elmwood Park, and George Carlin, 25, of 20 E. Delaware pl., who were spectators in the club, were dismissed by Judge Ryan. The others charged are Alan Ribback, 34, of 59 E. Bellevue pl., the club owner, and Herbert O’Brien, 33, of 1. E. Oak st., a bartender.
December 1962 item reproduced on page 21 of Chicago Tribune, June 26, 2008.
“Jac Mac & Rad Boy Go!” as it should be seen
Seeing various low-grade copies of this posted on YouTube was the inspiration for my web site. This film was leased to Night Flight in 1985, included in the Outrageous Animation movie in 1988, licensed for use in Back to the Future Part 2 in 1989, and finally leased to Liquid Television in 1992. I own the copyright and now you can watch it in better picture quality. I own all of the master negatives, and will strike a clean print one day. [Wes Archer].
Primo. Look here. Ultimato.
Utah Phillips, 1935-2008
Photo of Utah Phillips by Steven Stone.
U. Utah Phillips, 73, a Grammy-nominated folk singer, rabble-rouser and anarchist whose wild white beard recalled his years as a tramp, died of heart disease May 23 at his home in Nevada City, Calif.
Mr. Phillips, over four decades on the road, combined storytelling with song, describing the plight of the working class, the power of labor unions and the necessity of direct action. He dubbed himself the “Golden Voice of the Great Southwest,” but, like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, his words, more than his baritone voice, carried authority. He had been a soldier, a railroader, a state archivist, a union organizer, founder of a homeless shelter and homeless himself.
Read more.
Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
Courtesy of the National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office.
In December 1950, President Harry S. Truman approved the establishment of a continental nuclear proving ground 65 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Between 1951 and 1992, 1021 nuclear detonations took place at the Nevada Test Site — one hundred explosions were in the atmosphere and 921 were underground. It is estimated that the test site employed 125,000 during the Cold War. The photograph [above] shows the De Baca test, detonated on October 26, 1958. Five days later the U.S. and U.S.S.R. agreed to a nuclear testing moratorium which stayed in effect until the Soviets resumed testing in 1961. In 1992, a second nuclear testing moratorium went into effect. Subcritical tests and other national security programs are ongoing at the 1375-square-mile Nevada Test Site.
The September 11 Television Archive
The September 11 Television Archive is a fascinating collection of news reports from the day (and the days following) the 2001 terrorist attacks on America.
Starting with an introductory video . . . showing how the attacks were reported in the US and around the world, it also offers the moment-by-moment coverage that the US TV networks and the BBC conducted at the time.
Dead People’s Books
Folks over at LibraryThing are beginning to aggregate the library catalogs of dead people. The first completed archive is Thomas Jefferson.
Field Recording: 1.2.2007
DP Q & A
No, no, no. Dr Pepper.
Q: I have 2 commemorative cans of Dr. Pepper. One is full of soda and one is empty. The archives of Abilene Christian University would like to keep both cans. Can anyone offer advice regarding safe housing and storage of the Dr. Pepper cans?
A: Try the Dr. Pepper Museum people.
(From the Archives & Archivists List)
“Dude! Santa Cruz Scores Dead Archive!”
The archives of the Bay Area rock band the Grateful Dead - a treasure trove of more than 30 years of memorabilia that includes the band’s first recording contract, life-size skeletons of band members and artwork hand-made by its fans - are headed to UC Santa Cruz, where they will be displayed at McHenry Library.
Juvenilia, circa 1970-71
Western Park Advertiser insert: Targeted marketing.
(Courtesy Steve Humphreys Collection.)
Eh, Sheila, that’s aspersions, not dispersions.
“Love story stuffed in suitcase opens window”
Inman and Olivia (Merriwether) Perkins. Circa 1942-1944.
“Love story stuffed in suitcase opens window.” Blech. But if you can stomach the arch journalistic language and read through it, this story from Sunday’s St. Louis Post Dispatch offers an instance of what we archivists encounter in the course of what we do (which is to say, read other people’s mail and all).
“I was taught by both (parents) that, generally, we were more alike than different,” Inman wrote in one letter. “And this, according to my parents, was especially true in the area of race. I was also taught that both beauty and deed were not just skin-deep; rather, both had roots that ran all the way to the core of our souls. Differences, my parents said, were created by men, not inherently in men.”
1979: Annus Mirabilis
That does it. This is it. 1979 marked some kind of something, the likes of which we may never again witness.
Published in 1979: India’s brilliant How to Care for a Guinea Pig.
The Social Function of Libraries and Archives
Back when I went to “Library School”, we all had to take a course titled “The Library and Society”. One day in class I said out loud, “One under-appreciated social value of libraries is that they provide employment to the otherwise unemployable.”
See comment by Cindy Scroggins ff.
Of course, this observation does not apply to Cindy or to Aaron Winslow or to me or any of the other librarians or archivists who contribute to or otherwise participate in the clusterflock experience.
Placeography
Placeography is a wiki where you can share the history of and stories about a house, building, farmstead, public land, neighborhood or any place to which you have a personal connection. If you don’t have a place to contribute, please enjoy learning about others.
if you had a say
A short list of a new color set at the Crayola Store:
electric earwax
neon bile
slightly bloody booger
pearly peuse
smeggy cheese
pink scrotum
What might you add?
Best Archives on the Web Awards (2008)
The categories: Best Use of Web 2.0 Technologies, Best Online Archival Exhibition, and Best Total Web Experience.
The winners, courtesy of Kate Theimer’s excellent blog, ArchivesNext.
The Linguists
The Death of John Thatcher, 28 January 1782
I put my hand against the door, it would not above half open; the passages leading to these houses, are inhabited by hard working persons, the premises belong to my master; there is a long passage, you cross a yard, it is no thoroughfare where the man was, it leads to the house, there are three passages, the alley is a thoroughfare that leads to them; I was then without a light, I went up stairs for my candle, I went down, and found a man laying on the ground with his breeches down, I took him by the hand and touched his forhead, found him very cold, and no appearance of life at all, with his breeches down, I did not examine into the cause of his death, I was frightened and went out of the passage to my master . . . .
From the testimony of JOHN BOTHWELL sworn, The Proceedings of the Old Bailey.
A Tree Grows in Detroit
Tree growing in rotting paper, Detroit Public Schools book depository.
Oh, no, oh, no, the years pass by in droves
First a shot of a forty-year-old photo (taken by my mom) of me and several of the other boys in the spring 1967 L.V. Stockard Jr. High production of If Boys Wore the Skirts. (That’s me in the polka dot shirt.)
