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| Series I: Manuscript Materials | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | |||||||||||||
| Administrative Files | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 1 | Collection Guide | ||||||||||||
| Hard copy of collection guide and zip disk containing the
following: Graphic Materials database. Fields include: ID number, frame, format, photographer, title, created/published, event, people in photo, location, notes, and repository. Sound Recordings database. Fields include: audio number, audio log, informant, date, location, event, subject, format/quantity, and length. Contents of Working in Paterson Project Collection diskettes: fieldworkers notes and logs. (See Series IV: Electronic Media) | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 2 | Collection Guide | ||||||||||||
| For the Working in Paterson Project Collection housed at the Paterson Public Library in Paterson, New Jersey. | |||||||||||||
| Reference Tools | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 3 | Working in Paterson Fieldwork Calendar | ||||||||||||
| Calendar for June-September 1994 that lists where the fieldworkers were during the project. 9 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 4 | Sound Recordings database | ||||||||||||
| Hard copy. Fields include: audio number, audio log, informant, date, location, event, subject, format/quantity, and length. 23 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 5 | Places/People/Events photographed by Martha Cooper | ||||||||||||
| Table of places, people, dates, and events photographed by Martha Cooper during the Working in Paterson project. 2 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 6 | Events in Black and White Photos | ||||||||||||
| Table of the events depicted in black and white photographs. Fields include: event, date created, call number, fieldworkers, notes, location. 8 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 7 | Working in Paterson field notes summary | ||||||||||||
| Table of information from field notes; fields include: item, date, location, informant/event, fieldworker, and co-worker. 11 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Preliminaries | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 8 | Cooperative Agreement | ||||||||||||
| Agreement between American Folklife Center and National Park Service. Draft of agreement, signed final agreement with related correspondence. 50 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Planning | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 9 | Background Ideas | ||||||||||||
| Memos, notes, budget draft. 17 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 10 | CHAPMAN, Lloyd | ||||||||||||
| (National Park Service contact) Correspondence and planning documentation. 19 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 11 | Correspondence, National Park Service | ||||||||||||
| 34 pages | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 12 | Correspondence, TAYLOR, David | ||||||||||||
| (Project director). 15 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 13 | Fieldwork Schedule | ||||||||||||
| Outline and two copies of memorandum. 5 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 14 | Job Announcement | ||||||||||||
| Copy of public announcement for researchers. 2 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 15 | Paterson Contacts | ||||||||||||
| Business cards, correspondence, list of names, receipt. 6 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 16 | Project Applicants | ||||||||||||
| Applications, cover letters, resumes, correspondence from applicants selected to work on the project. 20 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Background Information | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 17 | Boarding Houses and Residential Health Facilities | ||||||||||||
| Directory of facilities in Paterson, a possible setting for project research. 24 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 18 | H.R. 3498/1104 (U.S. Representative Herbert Klein) (Great Falls Redevelopment/Preservation) | ||||||||||||
| Data sheet from Congressional Yellow Book, clipping. 2 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 19 | LAUTENBERG, Frank R. | ||||||||||||
| U.S. Senator (D-NJ). Correspondence, press releases, personal biographical data sheet, consent form, two visitor passes to Senate chamber, and one 8 x 10 black- and-white photo. 29 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 20 | Lowell National Historic Park | ||||||||||||
| Park handbook, map, press releases, museum and festival brochures that provide examples of the city's industrial heritage. 20 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 21 | N.J. Urban History Initiative (P.L. 102-154) | ||||||||||||
| 11 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 22 | The Paterson Great Falls/S.U.M. National Historic Landmark District Condition Assessment Project Summary Report. | ||||||||||||
| 8 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 23 | Paterson Urban History Initiative Advisory Committee | ||||||||||||
| Advisory committee meeting outlines and notes, project status report, grant program notes. 22 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Project Personnel | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 24 | CARROLL, Tom | ||||||||||||
| Fieldworker project proposals, contract, invoices, and progress reports, related correspondence, related paperwork from LC travel office. 79 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 25 | COOPER, Martha | ||||||||||||
| Fieldworker correspondence, contract, LC purchase orders, LC purchase requisitions, notes. 33 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 26 | Fieldworkers | ||||||||||||
| Memo, notes. 3 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 27 | Guide for Project Fieldworkers | ||||||||||||
| "Notes on Archiving and Media Documentation: A Guide for Project Fieldworkers Prepared in Connection with the Project 'Working in Paterson'"(2 copies). 68 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 28 | LEVITAS, Susan | ||||||||||||
| Fieldworker correspondence, contract, LC travel requisitions, notes. 33 pages. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 29 | McCARL, Robert | ||||||||||||
| Fieldworker correspondence, contract, invoices, notes. 31 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 30 | SMITH, Lynda | ||||||||||||
| Fieldwork assistant contract and invoice. 4 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 31 | TORRADO, Carlos | ||||||||||||
| Fieldwork assistant contract and cancellation. 3 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Equipment and Expenses | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 32 | Equipment | ||||||||||||
| List of documentation equipment used during field survey. 16 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 33 | Expenses | ||||||||||||
| Preliminary accounting of expenses. Invoices, purchase orders and miscellaneous documents. 126 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Publicity and Public Relations | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 34 | Business Cards | ||||||||||||
| Business cards for the Working in Paterson fieldworkers. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 35 | Certificates of Appreciation | ||||||||||||
| Copies of certificates sent to informants and others who assisted with the project. 8 blank certificates. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 36 | Correspondence, Informants | ||||||||||||
| Letters sent to informants along with copies of Folklife Center News featuring articles about the Working in Paterson Project. 5 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 37 | Folklife Center News (Summer 1994), Vol. XVI, No. 3 | ||||||||||||
| "American Folklife Center Documents Occupational Culture in Paterson, New Jersey," by David Taylor. 3 copies. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 38 | Folklife Center News (Spring 1995), Vol. XVII, No. 2 | ||||||||||||
| "Narratives of Work: Stories Told by Retired Workers and Their Children," by David Taylor, and "Paterson's Hot Texas Wiener Tradition," by Timothy Lloyd. 3 copies. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 39 | Folklife Center News (Summer 1995), Vol. XVII, No. 3 | ||||||||||||
| "African American Family Business in Paterson, New Jersey," by Susan Levitas. 3 copies. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 40 | Hot Texas Wiener Articles: | ||||||||||||
| Two articles that mention American Folklife Center's Working
in Paterson project. 4 pages. "Hot Texas Wiener entrepreneurs are on a roll," The Record, July 9, 1995. (2 copies) "Secret still in the sauce," The Record, July 16, 1995. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 41 | Letter of Appreciation to Informants | ||||||||||||
| Post-project correspondence with informants. Letters of thanks, letters accompanying Folklife Center News article. 26 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 42 | Library of Congress News press release | ||||||||||||
| "American Folklife Center Documents Occupational Culture in Paterson, N.J." English and Spanish copies. 3 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 43 | Mailing List | ||||||||||||
| Informants' addresses. 5 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 44 | Project Handout | ||||||||||||
| English and Spanish. 3 pages. | |||||||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 45 | Botto House/American Labor Museum | ||||||||||||
| 6 pages, 3 pamphlets, 3 booklets (68 pages each) | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 46 | Dominican Parade | ||||||||||||
| Flyer | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 47 | Dyers Local 1733 | ||||||||||||
| COSTA, Marianne (informant). Unpublished story of her memories and experiences of Dyers Local 1733, Amalgamated Clothing Textile Workers Union of America. 8 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 48 | Famous Patersonians | ||||||||||||
| "Fifty Famous Patersonians Across 200 Years" from the Great Falls Visitor Center. 1 page. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 49 | Hot Texas Wieners | ||||||||||||
| "Geography Quiz: Where's the Texas in the Texas Wiener?," New York Times, Sunday, January 12, 1997. 1 page. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 50 | "The Limited Fame of Sam Patch" | ||||||||||||
| By Kathleen M. Kavanaugh. New York Folklore Quarterly, Volume XXVIII, Number 2, June 1972: Study of a man who jumped into waterfalls. William Carlos Williams dedicated several pages of his poem Paterson to Sam. 17 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 51a | The Mill Street Forward | ||||||||||||
| [See Box 39] June 1987, Volume 1, Number 1. 12 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 51b | The Mill Street Forward | ||||||||||||
| [See Box 39] Spring/Summer 1990, Volume 1, Number 5. 12 pages. | |||||||||||||
| FOLDER 52 | New Jersey Urban History Initiative Newsletter | ||||||||||||
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