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Grants and Acquisitions

Tara Weikum

Adelphi University hasreceived a $30,381 grant to support the cataloging of its William Hone collection. Hone (1780–1842) is best known for his struggles for freedom of the press. The National Endowment for the Humanities grant will make the collection accessible through OCLC and RLIN, and will provide valuable information for research of Regency England and reform movements of the early 19th century.

The Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno, has been given a $50,000 gift by the Fresno State Athletic Corporation. The money came from a surcharge on all Fresno State athletic events held throughout the year.

The University of South Florida TampaCampus Library has received a grant of $18,007 from the Frank E. Duckwall Foundation to support the placement of two photographic collections on the Web. The Burgert Brothers Photograph Collection and the Robertson and Fresh Photograph Collection represent the development of the Tampa area beginning in the mid-1800s up to the 1960s.

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library atJohns Hopkins University has been given $1 million by Ferdinand Hamburger Jr. to support the archives named in his honor. Hamburger, a long-time Hopkins professor, founded the archives in 1971 and they were named after him in 1977.

The University of Pennsylvania has beengiven a donation of $1 million by alumnus Bernard Goldstein and his wife Patricia to create two high-technology centers in the library. The centers will provide the technology necessary to process and catalog all of the library’s materials including journals, books, magazines, newspapers, microform, and CD-ROM electronic reference tools. The donation will also create an electronic training classroom.

The Special Collectionsand University Archives Department at Rutgers University has been given a $28,000 grant to support the Labor Archives Project. The university received the money from the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine, and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO.

Acquisitions

The papers and library of human rightsadvocate Stetson Kennedy have been acquired by the University of South Florida in Tampa. Kennedy has published several books on human rights and has been credited with being an important deterrent to the Ku Klux Klan. The collection is being researched for a possible upcoming movie by Oliver Stone based on Kennedy’s life spent fighting discrimination and racism.

A Judaica book collection of more than10,0 volumes has been given to George Washington University’s Gelman Library. The collection contains books on religion, philosophy, classics, and art, and a large amount of out-of-print material. Compiled by Rabbi I. Edward Kiev over a number of years, the books were donated by his family to enhance academic research in Jewish studies.

A collection of works by Hannah More(1745–1833) and other women writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries has been acquired by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. The material includes all of More’s books in several editions, plus a notebook of reminiscences, table talk, and quotations.

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Materials relating to the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (Fruitbearing Society), Germany’s oldest learned society, have been acquired by the University of California, Berkeley. The collection contains books, manuscript documents, engravings, maps, and other materials relating to art, religion, law, theology, history, music, and many other interests. The Society’s main goal was the recognition of German as a scholarly and literary language.

Film composer Ronald Stein’s collectionof more than 600 manuscripts, books, printed scores, recordings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia have been acquired by Washington University (WU) in St. Louis. Included are 61 film score sets, five stage productions, and 26 other works. Stein, a WU alumnus, composed and conducted his first film score in 1955 and conducted more than 90 films over the years, working with directors such as Francis Ford Coppola and Alex Gordon.

The papers of Col. William Black andhis son-in-law, Robert S. Winslow, have been acquired by Angelo State University’s Porter Henderson Library. Winslow was a Confederate veteran and member of the New York and St. Louis Cotton Exchanges who worked on tariff reform for the wool industry. The collection relates to the Civil War and the West Texas ranching industry, and it includes personal and legal papers, ledgers, manuscripts, photographs, and other items dating from 1828 to the 1930s.

A major opera collection containing morethan 60,000 items has been donated to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by the estate of alumnus Lawrence S. King. The collection contains opera video laser discs, biographies of singers, photographs, and rare Russian opera scores; it represents opera recordings from the 1950s to the 1980s. An endowment has been created to provide funding for a permanent graduate assistantship to fully catalog the collection.

More than 250 documents from theAmerican Colonial and Revolutionary War periods have been acquired by New York University’s Fales Library. The collection contains letters written by George Washington, a land treaty for the first purchase of land in Connecticut from the Indians, and letters from military leaders during the Revolutionary War. Valued at more than $600,000, the documents were donated by Richard Maass, an alumnus of the university. ■