4,594 research outputs found
Letter from Dwight Heard to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Dwight B. Heard, president and publisher of The Arizona Republican, to Carl T. Hayden about a visit by Stephen Mathe
Letter from Carl Hayden to Dwight Heard
No full textLetter of introduction for Dwight B. Heard on the arrival of National Park Service Director Stephen T. Mather to Phoenix. Mather's visit includes trips to Roosevelt Dam and Tumacácori
DiscoverArchive: System Engineering Management Project
No full textFinal report from Vanderbilt University ENGM 273 student group.DiscoverArchive within Vanderbilt University’s Library system currently exists in a very basic implementation that does not necessarily encourage the fundamental purpose of the archive. This purpose is to gather and publish to a common, openly accessible online database any and all faculty and student generated research produced at Vanderbilt University. The intent of this database is to allow anyone free access to the knowledge produced in this academic and research driven environment in an effort to further the combined knowledge of the academic world.
While the aims of the system are in accordance with the founding principles of the open access movement, the reality is that the current implementation of the system is far too rudimentary to handle the volume of data that would be generated by a University wide mandate to publish to the database. In its current state, the archive relies almost entirely on the efforts of Ronee Francis, Manager of Digital Archives at Vanderbilt, to go out and search for research documents and professors to include in the archive. Once she finds a viable document, she contacts both author and publisher to obtain permissions to add it to the archive, and if those are granted she fills out a non-exclusive Vanderbilt license that is uploaded to the archive along with the PDF of the document. If documents do not exist in digital form they must first be scanned by library staff. It is easy to see that this existing methodology can only handle so much data because of the amount of time that the few people involved must spend preparing each document.Jean and Alexander Heard Librar
Mary Brunson Heard Collection - Accession 1612 - M792 (849)
No full textThis collection consists of material collected by 1911 Winthrop Alumnae, Mary S. Brunson Heard (1891-1975). The collection consists of the November 1907 and January 1911 Winthrop Journal, a letter regarding an invitation to the Senior Dance by a Mr. Baker written on Winthrop Literary Society letterhead, a Senior English composition paper titled, “Henry Griswold’s Old Home,” Senior Astronomy list, and, of particular interest are the three typescript copies of poet Anna Peyre Shackelford Dinnies reminiscence or diary of her trip from New Orleans, LA to Charleston, SC in 1851. The reminiscence would be of interest to anyone interested in researching pre-Civil War South. Anna Peyre Shackelford Dinnies (1805-1886) was a South Carolina native (Georgetown, SC) and was the daughter of Judge William Frederick Shackelford. Anna was poet and writer who often used the pen name Moina. She received her education at the Female Seminary of the Miss Ramsays (daughters of author and historian Dr. David Ramsay) in Charleston, SC. She married Dr. John Clifford Dinnies (1806-1884) in 1830 and the couple later relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana. After twenty years away she took a trip to visit her family in Charleston in 1851. She detailed her experiences on her trip with her daughter Grace Louise Dinnies Smith (1835-1854) in her essay titled, “Notes of My Trip to South Carolina in 1851.” Mary Brunson Heard transcribed the diary which was in the possession of Mrs. Boykin.
The author discusses in detail her experiences traveling through Georgia and South Carolina while describing the people and places she came across and her impressions of each. She did not have a high opinion on the Georgians she met and described them as “rude and uncultivated in manner, coarse in appearance, and rowdy in habits,” but she was thoroughly impressed by Stone Mountain describing it as “striking,” a “wonder”, and “stands alone upon the Earth.”https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2747/thumbnail.jp
The W. Whittier Wright Collection Finding Aid
No full textFinding aid for a collection. Collection description: Incoming and outgoing correspondence between Walter Whittier Wright and author Andrew Nelson Lytle, 1943-1968. The collection was a generous donation to Special Collections by Mr. Wright in 1998.http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/wrightw.shtm
A Wake for The Living Manuscript Finding Aid
No full textFinding aid for a collection. Collection description: The collection includes the original manuscript typescript of Lytle's book A wake for the living, with galleys corrected by the author. The book is a chronicle of the Lytle family from the pre-revolutionary era to his generation.http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/wakefortheliving.shtm
The James D. Squires Collection Finding Aid
No full textFinding aid for a collection. Collection description: Correspondence, publications, manuscripts of writings, speeches, research materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, videocassettes, audiocassettes, signed original political cartoons and other memorabilia encompassing Squires's career as a journalist, editor, author and political adviser. The collection includes research materials and manuscripts related to several books: A search for justice (written by John Seigenthaler with contributions from Squires and others); Read all about it!; The secrets of the Hopewell box : stolen elections, Southern politics, and a city's coming of age; and, Horse of a different color : a tale of breeding geniuses, dominant females, and the fastest Derby winner since Secretariat. The collection also contains materials related to college courses taught by Squires.http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/squiresj.shtm
The Peter Taylor Papers Collection Finding Aid
No full textFinding aid for a collection. Collection description: Of the fifteen boxes of this collection, six contain correspondence (mostly incoming) and another five and a half are filled with manuscripts of Taylor's writings. The remaining items are of a biographical or personal nature, concern his career as an author and teacher, or involve his associates and their writings. One additional oversize box contains galleys of Taylor's writings and a poster from a film adaptation of "The old forest." The collection includes materials of use to those researching other literary figures such as Robert Fitzgerald, Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Hardwick, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, John Crowe Ransom, Eleanor Ross, Jean Stafford, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren. Students of American literature, Southern literature and the Fugitive and Agrarian groups will benefit from the papers.http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/taylorp_bio.shtm
Catherine Heard : Efflorescence // Catherine Heard : Id
No full textFabo notes that Heard’s installation braids Mannerist, Surrealist, and Gothic elements into a new, unsettling hybrid. He relates the corporeal anxiety registered in Heard’s distorted figures to the dual intent of Mannerism, where bodies are both narrative ciphers and mirrors of inner and societal crisis. The author also equates Freud’s concept of the uncanny with the phrase “disagreeable object” that Heard uses to characterise her work. Includes a selection of quotes related to the exhibition's main themes. Biobibliography 1 p. List of works
Herschel Gower Papers Finding Aid
No full textFinding aid for a collection. Collection description: The Herschel Gower Papers primarily comprises 6.05 linear feet of manuscript materials, which include drafts of an unpublished novel with its title and text changes in various versions. The papers also include manuscripts of his novel Faces in a Nashville Arcade and of his biography of Charles Dahlgren, Charles Dahlgren of Natchez: The Civil War and Dynastic Decline.
Professor Gower was a friend of writer Mildred Haun and her literary executor. His work as an editor of her stories is represented in these papers.
In addition there are articles and research notes and materials concerning Randal McGavock and his descendants, the Howell family and their descendants, and articles and books he wrote on the historic community of Beersheba Springs, Tennessee. There are subject files for his research on folklore, and for the D. Shelby Williams Trial which he used as background for his unpublished novel, and materials relating to poet John Crowe Ransom and author Peter Taylor.
These papers include a collection of correspondence and newspaper articles on the Yeatman and Polk families and their family ties with Gustave Eiffel, builder of the Eiffel Tower. There are fourteen reel to reel and cassette tape recordings, many of them songs recorded by the Scottish singer Jeannie Robertson.http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/mss/gowerh/gower-herschel.shtm
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