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• Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections at Harvard
• Guides and Published Manuscript/Archival Material in HOLLIS
• Digitized Collections on the Internet and in Harvard Libraries
• Personal Papers in Other United States Repositories
  • Biographical Dictionaries
  • Archive Finder, ArchiveGrid, WorldCat
  • Other National and Regional Guides
  • Subject Guides
  • Individual Repositories: Guides and Catalogs
  • Published Manuscripts (Full Text)
  • Directories
  • Current Awareness
  • No Luck?
  • More Information

  Appendices:

  • Appendix 1: W.P.A. Historical Records Survey State Manuscript Repository Guides
  • Appendix 2: Bibliographies of Autobiographies and Diaries

  Manuscripts and Archival Collections at Harvard

  Harvard is one of the world's largest repositories of manuscripts and archives. Manuscripts are held by more than 40 Harvard repositories which are listed in Harvard Libraries. Many of Harvard's collections are not represented in the HOLLIS Catalog, so a personal enquiry at the appropriate Harvard repository is worthwhile.

  The three largest general collections are:

  Houghton Library

  Finding aids for collections in the Houghton Library

  Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

  The Schlesinger Library is one of the leading collections of books, journals, and manuscripts on women's history.

  Finding aids for collections in the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

  University Archives

  The University Archives is the repository of the records of the University administration and of many, especially Harvard College, departments. The personal papers of Harvard College faculty are also collected here.

  Finding aids for collections in the Harvard University Archives

  A descriptive guide to the Harvard University Archives. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Library, 1974.
  LOCATION: Harvard Archives: HUF 156.174
  LOCATION: Widener: Behind Reference Desk and in several other Harvard libraries

  Using the HOLLIS Catalog

  To find an individual's manuscripts or organization's archives in the HOLLIS Catalog, do Subject keyword searches limited to manuscript format, e.g. "Warren, John" or "Harvard Medical School" in Expanded Search. An Author keyword search would not retrieve Warren manuscripts (outgoing letters, etc.) in other people's papers or in organizational archives, while a Subject keyword search retrieves both collections of Warren papers and his manuscripts in other collections.

  Searching by Topic

  Limit keyword searches to manuscript format, e.g., "botanist? or botany". The Summary field typically contains a description of the collection, and the Summary field is searched in a Keyword but not in a Subject keyword search. Often the terms used in the Summary field are different and broader than the specific terms used in the Subject terms. For example, the Subject terms for the Albert Hewett Coons papers contain "Immunoglobulins Research" to characterize Coon's interests; the Summary field uses "bacteriology" and "immunology". The History Note field is not searched. Not all manuscript collection records have topical Subject terms, only personal and organizational names. Keyword searches are necessary to find these by topic.

  A keyword search limited to manuscripts sometimes retrieves many Harvard theses and dissertations (which are labeled as being both book and manuscript format). These can be eliminated by limiting the results to archival collections using the Command Search. Use searches of the form:

  paleontology and wft=mx

  Collect Subject terms from pertinent records as you do keyword searches and look for related Subject terms. Subject terms for organizations are often useful in finding personal papers. The record for the John Warren papers bears the terms "Warren, John, 1753-1815" and "Harvard Medical School Curricula". The term "medical" occurs in the Summary field. Searches on medicine, physicians, or surgeons will not retrieve the record for the John Warren papers.

  The detailed information in selected inventories and other finding aids is now being made available electronically via the Digital Finding Aids Project as OASIS Online Archival Search Information System in Harvard Libraries.

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  Guides and Published Manuscript/Archival Material in HOLLIS

• Regional Guides
• Subject Guides
• Repository Guides
• Collection Guides
• Published full text (printed, microfilmed or digitized)

The Harvard University Library holds innumerable regional, subject, and repository and collection guides, directories of archives and libraries, and published full text (printed, microfilmed or digitized) collections. Most of these items have the words archives, archival resources, manuscripts, or sources (sources generally refers to printed as well as manuscript/archival sources) in their Subject terms in conjunction with geographical, topical, and occupational Subject terms and institutional and personal names. HOLLIS search techniques are outlined below. Analogous searches can be done in WorldCat for items not held by Harvard.

Regional guides

Regional guides describe the archival resources of a particular geographical area. Most records for regional guides bear a geographical name together with some combination of the Subject terms: archives, archival resources, manuscripts, sources. You may do a Subject keyword search of the form "Connecticut and (archives or archival or manuscript? or sources)"

Example:
A Guide to the history of Massachusetts / edited by Martin Kaufman, John W. Ifkovic, and Joseph Carvalho III. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988, 313 p.
Subjects:
Archives -- Massachusetts -- Directories.
Historical libraries -- Massachusetts -- Directories.
Massachusetts -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography.
Massachusetts -- Historiography.

Subject guides

Subject guides describe archival resources on a particular topic. Printed subject guides can be found by determining the appropriate subject terms for your field using a keyword search and looking at the subject headings on pertinent records, or by going directly to the Red Books of Library of Congress Subject terms in the Reference Room. Do a Subject browse, " Anthropology" and look for subdivisions relating to archives and manuscripts, e.g., "Anthropology Archives," "Anthropology History Sources," "Anthropology Manuscripts," etc. Try a Subject browse by occupation, e.g.: "Photographers," "Physicists," "Authors, American".

Example:
A guide to manuscript collections in the history of psychology and related areas / compiled by Michael M. Sokal and Patrice A. Rafail. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1982, 212 p.
Subjects:
Psychology -- History -- Archival resources.
Psychology -- History -- Manuscripts.

Repository guides

Many repositories have published guides to their collections which list their holdings at various levels of detail. These may be found in HOLLIS by a keyword or subject search on the name of the repository. Attach the term "(archives or catalogs)" if the repository name by itself retrieves too many records: american antiquarian society and (archives or catalogs)

Examples:

Burg, Barbara A., Richard Newman, Elizabeth E. Sandager. Guide to African American and African primary sources at Harvard University.
SUBJECTS
Harvard University Catalogs.
African Americans History Manuscripts Catalogs.
African Americans History Sources Bibliography Catalogs.
Africa Bibliography Catalogs.
Africa Manuscripts Catalogs.
Africa History Sources Bibliography Catalogs.

Molecules, cells, and life: an annotated bibliography of manuscript sources on physiology, biochemistry, and biophysics, 1900-1960, in the Library of the American Philosophical Society / Lily E. Kay. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society Library, 1989, 95 p.
Subjects;
American Philosophical Society. Library -- Catalogs.
Physiology -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs.
Biochemistry -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs.
Biophysics -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs.
Manuscripts -- United States -- Catalogs.
Biology -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.

Collection guides

Find published finding aids in the HOLLIS Catalog with a Subject Browse (e.g., "Faulkner, William") and scan the subdivisions for "Archives Catalogs, "Manuscripts Catalogs," and "Sources Catalogs," "Correspondence Catalogs" or by using a Subject keywords search (e.g., "Faulkner catalogs").

The King family papers, 1798-1927: a descriptive inventory.
SUBJECTS:
King family Archives Indexes.
Illinois State Historical Library.
King family papers, 1798-1927 Indexes.

Clark, Grenville, 1882-1967. A microfiche inventory of the papers of Grenville Clark as preserved within the library of Dartmouth College.
SUBJECTS:
Clark, Grenville, 1882-1967.
Law United States.

Note that in this record, as in many others, the Subject terms do not include "manuscripts", "sources", "archives", "catalogs", etc. Therefore a Keyword search (not a Subject keyword search) using such keywords as "inventories", "inventory" (use "inventor?"), "papers", "letters", "collection", "nachlasse", "archive prive", etc, may be required.

Published full text (printed, microfilmed or digitized)

It can be useful to do a Subject Browse in HOLLIS for an individual, e.g. "Jefferson, Thomas". Published letters, diaries, etc., listed under various subdivisions relating to primary sources will be displayed. Collection guides, calendars, etc., are also listed under these terms. Analogous searches can be performed in WorldCat in Harvard Libraries.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Archives
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Correspondence
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Diaries
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Manuscripts
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Letters are sometimes published in editions of complete writings of an author.

Published Diaries

Diaries are frequently published. Try a Subject Keywords search ("Diaries North Carolina") in HOLLIS or consult bibliographies of diaries.

There are several Internet directories of digitized primary sources.

Sample HOLLIS records:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. The complete works of Benjamin Franklin; including his private as well as his official and scientific correspondence, and numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed, with many others not included in any former collection, also, the unmutilated and correct version of his autobiography. Comp. and ed. by John Bigelow. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1887-88. 10 v.
Subjects:
United States Foreign relations 1775-1783.
United States Politics and government To 1775.
United States Politics and government 1775-1783.
United States Politics and government 1783-1789.


Note unhelpful Subject terms. A Keyword (not Subject keyword) search on "correspondence", "documents" or "letters" would retrieve these words in the title.

The FBI files on Elvis Presley / Thomas Fensch, editor. Woodlands, TX : New Century Books, c2001. 167 p. : facsims.
Subjects:
Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977 Archives.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Archives.
Singers United States Archives.
Widener | WID-LC | ML420.P96 F39 2001

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. The papers of Woodrow Wilson / [edited by] Arthur S. Link ... [et al.]. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1966-1994.
Subjects:
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Presidents United States Correspondence.
United States History 1865- Sources.
United States History 1913-1921 Sources.



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Digitized Collections on the Internet and in Harvard Libraries

• In Harvard Libraries
• Web Directories

In Harvard Libraries

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

Declassified Documents Reference System Online

LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial period - 1950

Web Directories

American Studies Web

British and American History Resources on the Internet

A Chronology of US Historical Documents

Digital Librarian: Archives and Manuscripts

Historical Text Archive

Directory of Historical Resources

Search Engines for Academic Digital Resources:

DLF (Digital Library Federation) OAI Portal

Digital resources of all types, archival and printed documents and collections, archival inventories, dissertations, etc., created by DLF member institutions. Search or browse by institutions.

UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials

OAIster(University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service)



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Personal Papers in Other United States Repositories

Biographical Dictionaries

For prominent figures, consulting the American National Biography and the earlier Dictionary of American Biography is often the quickest method.

American National Biography. 24 v. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.
LOCATION: Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. CT213 .A68 1999
LOCATION: Lamont: REF.ROOM CT213.A68 1999
LOCATION: Widener: RR 1711.20

Online version has many (largely) recent biographies not included in the print volumes. Many persons in the Dictionary of American Biography are not included in the American National Biography.

Dictionary of American biography. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1928-58.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 1711.2 and several other Harvard libraries

Indexed in Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Collections of personal papers may be found by consulting a scholarly biography. Some biographical dictionaries give locations for manuscript collections. More on biographical sources.



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Archive Finder, ArchiveGrid, WorldCat

These three electronic sources, all in Harvard Libraries, give locations for manuscript and archival collections. They overlap, but each includes collections not in the others.

1. Archive Finder (formerly ArchivesUSA) includes the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) and the index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS). Each collection is represented by a short paragraph describing its contents and a by a list of subject terms.

NUCMC is a national register of manuscript collections maintained by the Library of Congress. Since 1959, numerous United States repositories have sent short descriptions of their holdings to the Library of Congress for publication in a series of 29 printed volumes (1962-1993) and addition to the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) database (1986-date).

The National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS) is a collection of thousands of finding aids, produced by repositories around the United States and issued on a set of microfiches. These are drawn from the National Archives; the Presidential Libraries (which house many sets of personal papers of people serving in Presidential administrations); the Smithsonian Institution Archives; the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress; state archives, libraries, and historical societies; plus academic libraries and other repositories. The descriptions in NIDS finding aids are generally much more extensive than the short NUCMC entries. Archive Finder searches the index to the finding aids, not the finding aids themselves. Bear in mind that not all repositories have chosen to submit finding aids to NIDS, and those that have may choose to send inventories of only a few of their holdings.

For the inventories (finding aids) themselves (on microfiche):
National inventory of documentary sources in the United States. parts 1-4. Teaneck, N.J.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985- .
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): Microfiche W 2549
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): INDEX Microfiche W 2549 (Guides)

Some of these inventories have been made available online by the holding repositories. Check the repository website or try ArchiveGrid.

Collection inventories are listed on the first fiche for each repository. For more specifics see the HOLLIS Catalog entry and Michael E. Unsworth's "Review of the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States." Microform Review, vol. 15, no. 4 (1986), pp. 232-239.

An updated version of Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (2nd ed. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1988) is included in ArchivesUSA. The entry for each repository includes short descriptions of holdings which usually give subject concentrations and sometimes list a few individual major collections. These statements are searchable in Archive Finder via a keyword search.

Searching Archive Finder

Choose "Collection Search" from the list on the left-hand side of the screen. On the Collection Search screen, use the Collection Name search if you only want collections consisting solely of your subject's papers. If you want to find papers of your subject housed in other people's papers (letters sent by your subject, etc.) use "All Keywords." Searching for the papers of Robert Frost, it is safest to try both "Robert Frost" and "Frost Robert." "Robert Frost" will search the description field. "Frost Robert" will search the index terms in NUCMC and NIDS. Occurrence of your search terms will be indicated by a red dot. The search "Frost and Robert" will pick up occurrences of the two words even if they are part of different names, but may be useful if you are unsure of the correct form of the name. Collection searches can be limited by repository, city, or state.

A Repository Search retrieves brief descriptions of repositories, not of collections. Repositories can be searched by city or state. Choose "Repository Holdings Keyword" to search repository holdings statements. There is no standardized subject vocabulary in the holdings statements, so try several terms.

2. ArchiveGrid searches two databases:

a. A database of searchable digitized "collection guides", typically inventories, for over 4000 collections from over 185 repositories. An inventory is, generally, the list of labels on the file folders containing a collection and is often many pages long. A fully searchable inventory thus gives detailed information on the contents of a set of papers.

b. The archives/manuscript "collection records" formerly in the the RLG Union Catalog (sometimes called RLIN) and recently (2007) transferred to WorldCat (below). These are catalog entries for about 500,000 largely U.S. collections. They are less detailed than the digitized collection guides. The RLG Union Catalog was a database of catalog records of books, archives/manuscripts, and other media contributed by over 150 research libraries. The RLG Union Catalog included NUCMC records since 1986 together with records contributed independently of NUCMC. The RLG Union Catalog records thus overlap with Archive Finder in the NUCMC records but not in the independently contributed records. These records can also be searched in WorldCat in Harvard Libraries. Since WorldCat includes records for books and other media as well as for archives and manuscripts, you will want to limit your search to manuscript format. To limit to archives and manuscripts, check <Archival Materials> toward the bottom of the Advanced Search screen.

3. WorldCat accesses the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) database, consists of catalog records contributed by about 45,000 libraries worldwide but mainly U.S. To limit to archives and manuscripts, check <Archival Materials> toward the bottom of the Advanced Search screen.

NUCMC Homepage offers free access to the WorldCat (OCLC) (including the RLG 1986-2007 NUCMC records) archives and manuscript (AMC) records.

Subject Searching

A subject search in WorldCat on your person's name will find both collections of your subject's own papers (which may well exist in several repositories) and letters written by your subject and occurring in their recipients' papers. You can also search for classes of persons by using subject terms: physics, physicists, women authors. ArchiveGrid and WorldCat use Library of Congress subject headings. NUCMC and NIDS have their own subject heading systems which are accessible from links labeled Index Terms after the collection description. Note the subject headings assigned to your topic and, if needed, repeat your search using the proper subject headings for each database. NUCMC subject headings may be browsed in:

Index to subjects and corporate names in the National union catalog of manuscript collections, 1959-1984. 3 vols. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1994.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 621.14.15

Limitations of Archive Finder, ArchiveGrid, and WorldCat

a. The records in these three databases are brief and so cannot list everything in the collections. Named correspondents and other associates include only well-known people or persons represented by large amounts of material.

b. The analysis necessary to allow preparation of an Archive Finder, ArchiveGrid, or WorldCat record is time-consuming, and many unanalysed and unreported collections await attention in the storage rooms of most repositories.

c. Numerous repositories do not report their collections. Many of these are small local repositories but may have significant collections.

There is no sure way around these limitations. Subject guides, compiled by experts in special areas, often list unreported collections. Otherwise you will need to identify possible repositories, often from clues in biographical sources, and enquire directly.

Web-Accessible Finding Aids

Many archives/manuscript repositories have been putting finding aids and sometimes full-text of collections on the Web without reporting them to WorldCat, RLG, or NUCMC (Archive Finder). Therefore, do searches in the Web search engines. It has been shown by Feeney (1999) that subject retrieval of such web pages using the search engines is very uncertain.

Feeney, K. 1999. Retrieval of archival finding aids using World-Wide-Web search engines. American Archivist, v. 62, n. 2 (Fall), pp. 206-228.



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Other National and Regional Guides

 Additional regional guides to manuscript resources may be found in the HOLLIS Catalog.

A guide to archives and manuscripts in the United States, ed. by Philip M. Hamer for the National Historical Publications Commission. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.
LOCATION: Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. CD3022.A45
LOCATION: Houghton: Reading Room HRR 37.4
LOCATION: Lamont: REF.ROOM CD3022.A45
LOCATION: Schlesinger: Ref. 016.09 H21 Fiske Room
LOCATION: Widener: RR 627. 28

Predecessor of NUCMC. Most of the collections included will be accessible through ArchivesUSA, ArchiveGrid, and WorldCat.

Historical records of Washington State: records and papers held at repositories: a publication of the Washington State Historical Records Advisory Board. 1981. 766 p.
LOCATION: Widener WID-LC CD3578.A1 H57

Manuscript Society Information Exchange Database

Descriptions and locations of numerous manuscripts in private collections.

Special collections in college and university libraries. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, c1989.
LOCATION: Law School: Special Coll Ref Z 731.S73 1989
LOCATION: Widener: RR45.92.11

Special collections in libraries of the Southeast, ed. by J. B. Howell ; with an introd. by Frances Neel Cheney. Jackson, Miss.: Published for the Southeastern Library Association by Howick House, 1978. xii, 423 p.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC Z732.S92 S64

Repositories listed by state, then city. Personal papers are listed under the repository and in the index.

Subject collections: a guide to special book collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries and museums in the United States and Canada, by Lee Ash. 7th ed. New Providence, N.J.: R.R. Bowker, c1993.
LOCATION: Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. Z731.A78 1993 Library has: 2 v.
LOCATION: Gutman Education: Ref. Z731.A78 1993 Library has: 2 v.
LOCATION: Loeb Music: Mus 50.16.10 Aldrich Room Library has: 2 v.
LOCATION: Tozzer: REF Z721.A8 1993 Library has: 2 v.
LOCATION: Widener: RR45.21.2 Library has: 2 v.

W.P.A Historical Records Survey State Manuscript Repository Guides

Some old guides that have fallen into obscurity may still be of use. Many repositories do not report their holdings, or report only a selection, to WorldCat, RLG, NUCMC, or the Web, and have published no recent guide. Many small repositories have very limited budgets, operate on volunteer labor, and are unable to report their holdings. Sometimes printed guides, often old ones, are the only source. The WPA Historical Records Survey guides of the late 1930s reported major holdings for many repositories. Indexes to these guides include both personal name and topical entries, e.g., physicians. Many local people represented in these collections corresponded with prominent persons elsewhere, and these prominent correspondents appear in the indexes. Items related to non-local individuals often occur in local autograph collections, which also are indexed. Many of the smaller repositories included have not been surveyed and reported since.

Statewide Online Catalogs and Directories

Several states have made available statewide online catalogs of, or including, manuscripts or statewide directories which include notices of individual collections. These include:

Online Archive of California

Massachusetts Special Collections Directory

Some repositories have listed some of their major collections in the Directory. Search in the "Collection Description" field. For an example see Natick Historical Society record.

In print: Trinkaus-Randall, Gregor. Massachusetts special collections directory. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, [1999].
LOCATION: Widener: RR 45.92.15 & other Harvard libraries

New York State Archives On-Line Catalog And Historic Documents Inventory Database

Catalog records for over 25,000 archives and manuscripts collections housed in most, but not all, New York repositories (libraries, historical societies, and other organizations). Excludes the holdings of the State Library and the State Archives.

Northwest Digital Archives

Finding aids (EAD) for archival and manuscript materials in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

Vermont: ArcCat

Catalog of Vermont archival and manuscript collections at several repositories, List of included repositories

Virginia Heritage

Includes finding aids from several Virginia repositories. Currently (7/2005) 1600 finding aids in the database out of an estimated 25,000 in the State.

Much statewide work is done in cooperation with the National Historical Preservation and Records Commission. Looking at the web sites of the state coordinators is a good way of looking for online catalogs and directories.

State Historical Records Coordinators and State Archivists



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Subject Guides

There are many guides to manuscript resources relating to particular subjects, bringing together information on the holdings of many repositories. They are compiled by subject experts who may be aware of collections not found in ArchivesUSA, ArchiveGrid, or WorldCat.

Additional subject guides to manuscript resources may be found in the HOLLIS Catalog. Use the standard search engines and Internet directories for your discipline to find subject guides on the Web.

A few examples are listed below:

• General
• Arts/Photography
• Ethnic
• Government
• Literature/Journalism
• Publishing
• Science
• Social Science
• Women's History

General

DeWitt, Donald L. Guides to archives and manuscript collections in the United States: an annotated bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
LOCATION: Gutman Education: Ref. CD3022.A2 D48 1994
LOCATION: Law School: Special Coll Ref CD 3022.A2 D48 1994
LOCATION: Widener: RR 627.25.5

Lists subject guides by subject, and regional and repository guides under regional sections. Sections on "Foreign Repositories holding U.S.-Related Records" and "U.S. Repositories Holding Foreign Records and Manuscripts".

DeWitt, Donald L. Articles describing archives and manuscript collections in the United States: an annotated bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 627.35

Useful but not exhaustive. Announcements and descriptions of sets of personal papers and short repository, regional, and subject guides are often published as periodical articles. Searches may also be done in the relevant periodical indexes. Guides to periodical indexes.

Downs, Robert Bingham. American library resources: a bibliographical guide. Chicago: American Library Association, 1951.
LOCATION: Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. Z1002.D6 Suppl. 1950-61.
LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Z 1002 D748a 1951
LOCATION: Law School: B/US 020 DOW
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC Z1002.D6

There are three supplements: 1950-1961, 1961-1970, 1971-1980. Indexed (including suppl. 1 and 2) in: Keller, Clara D. American library resources cumulative index, 1870-1970. Chicago: American Library Association, 1981.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC Z1002.D6 1972 suppl.

References to published descriptions of book and manuscript collections arranged by subject, with some personal names as subjects for literature and history.

Arts/Photography

Photographers: a sourcebook for historical research. Brownsville, Calif.: Carl Mautz Pub., 1991.
LOCATION: Fine Arts: Reading Room RFA1805.70

Ethnic

Buttlar, Lois J. and Wynar, Lubomyr Roman. 1996. Guide to information resources in ethnic museum, library, and archival collections in the United States. Greenwood Press.
LOCATION: Tozzer: REF GN36.U5 B8 1996
LOCATION: Tozzer: N.A.ETH. B 983 g
LOCATION: Widener: RR 4781.23.20

Spalek, John M. Guide to the archival materials of the German-speaking emigration to the United States after 1933. Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, 1978- .
LOCATION: Houghton: Reading Room HRR 343.7.5 Library has: v. 2.
LOCATION: Loeb Music: Mus 37.4.15 (v. 2)
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC E184.G3 Z997 x Library has: v. 1-3 in 4

Government

Burton, Dennis A. A guide to manuscripts in the Presidential Libraries. College Park, Md.: Research Materials Corp., c1985.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 627.26.15

The Presidential libraries house numerous sets of papers of Presidential associates and staff.

Congressional Collections at Archival Repositories

Guide to research collections of former members of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1987. House document; 100th Congress, 2nd session, no. 100-171. Bicentennial ed. Washington, DC: Office for the Bicentennial of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives 1988.
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): US Doc 540. 55
LOCATION: Kennedy Sch of Gov: Ref Z1223.Z7 G85 1988
LOCATION: Law School: Special Coll. Ref CD3043.G84 1988
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC JK1316.G85x 1988

Guide to research collections of former United States senators, 1789-1995: a listing of archival repositories housing the papers of former senators, related collections, and oral history interviews. Washington: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1995.
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): Y 1.1/3:103-35
LOCATION: Law School: Special Coll Ref CD3043.P39 1995

Literature/Journalism

Akeroyd, Joanne V. Where are their papers?: A union list locating the papers of forty-two contemporary American poets and writers. Storrs: University of Connecticut Library, 1976.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC PS325.Z99 A43x

Biggers, Shirley Hoover. American author houses, museums, memorials, and libraries: a state-by-state guide. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC PS141.B54 2000

Manuscript collections kept in one-author museums and libraries are sometimes not reported to OCLC, ArchiveGrid, NUCMC, etc. The only way of finding them is by contacting the museum or library, or viewing their web site.

Bracken, James K. Reference works in British and American literature. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 3102.1

Arranged by literary author. Includes publications on manuscripts, and author journals and newsletters.

Caswell, L. S. 1989. Guide to sources in American journalism history. NY: Greenwood Press, 319 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC P90.Z99 B53x no. 2

Guide to archival and manuscript sources, pp. 99-319. List of collections arranged by state and indexed.

Dictionary of literary biography. Detroit : Gale Research, 1978- .
LOCATION: Widener: RR 3129.5

Locations of manuscript collections for major figures. Gives only the major collection(s) for each person. See the cumulative index in the last volume.

Innes, C. D. Twentieth-century British and American theatre: a critical guide to archives. Aldershot, England; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC PN2266.Z99 I56 1999x

Robbins, J. Albert. American literary manuscripts: a checklist of holdings in academic, historical, and public libraries, museums, and authors' homes in the United States. 2nd ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1977.
LOCATION: Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. Z6620.U5 M6 1977
LOCATION: Child Memorial: ChM 18.41
LOCATION: Houghton: Reading Room HRR 286.8
LOCATION: Schlesinger: Ref. 016.81 R63a Fiske Room
LOCATION: Widener: RR 627. 23.2

The Transcendentalists: a review of research and criticism. Reviews of research / the Modern Language Association of America. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1984.
LOCATION: Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. B905.T68 1984 Consult Braun Room.
LOCATION: Child Memorial: Ch M 2517
LOCATION: Lamont: REF.ROOM B905.Z99 T72 x, 1984
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC B905.Z99 T72 x, 1984

Chapters on 28 Transcendentalists include sections on manuscripts.

The following biographical dictionaries of living authors include, in a few cases, locations of manuscript collections. Writers are dropped when they die, so you may need to consult earlier editions.

• Contemporary dramatists. 1st -5th ed. London: St. James Press, 1973 -1993. 5 v.
• Contemporary literary critics. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1982.
• Contemporary novelists. London: St. James Press; NY: St. Martin's Press, 1972-
• Contemporary poets. 6th ed. NY: St. James Press, 1996.
• St. James guide to crime and mystery writers. 4th ed. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1996.
• St. James guide to science fiction writers. 4th ed. London: St. James Press, 1996.
• Twentieth-century children's writers. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1995.
• Twentieth-century romance and historical writers. 2nd ed. Chicago; London: St. James Press, 1990.[1st ed: Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers]
• Twentieth-century western writers. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1982.

Publishing

Albinski, N. B. Guide to the archives of publishers, journals, and literary agents in North American Libraries. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Yearbook, 1993, pp. 202-225.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 3129.5.5

Guide to book publishers' archives. [U.S.] New York: Book Industry Study Group, Inc., 1996.
LOCATION: Houghton: Manuscript Department MS Ref-41
LOCATION: Widener: RR 101.18

20th century U. S. publishers and their predecessors. Includes archives still in the possession of their creators as well as those in repositories. Includes many small press, religious, immigrant, ideological and other publishers.

Archives of British and American Publishers

Describes microfilm set of archives of some major publishers.

Publishers' Records: Finding Lists and Special Collections (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Society)

Science

Elliott, C. A. History of Science in the United States: Research Aids for the Nineteenth Century: Guides to Manuscript Resources and Special Collections.

Forest History Society Archival Guide database

Covers environmental as well as forest history. New entries are printed as Biblioscope: An Archival Guide and Bibliography, published in Environmental history (1996- ) which continues Forest and Conservation History (1990-95).

International Archival Catalog (ICOS) (Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics)

Complemented by full-text Physics History Finding Aids

[Mathematicians] List of Archival Collections. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.

List of mathematicians with the locations of their papers.

Warnow-Blewett, Joan. "Documenting recent science: progress and needs. Appendix C: Catalogs of source materials for science and technology". In: Science after '40. (Osiris, 2nd series, 1992, 7: 267-298).
LOCATION: Widener: Sci 65.56 2nd ser.: v.7

Wheaton, B. R. 1992. Inventory of Sources for History of Twentieth-Century Physics: Report and Microfiche index to 700 000 Letters. Stuttgart: Verlag für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 294 pp., 61 microfiches.
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont) Microfiche W 4395

Online description.

Social Science

Directory of popular culture collections. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1989.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 2901. 5

The Hispanic experience in North America : sources for study in the United States, ed. by Lawrence A. Clayton. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1992, 189 p.
LOCATION: Tozzer | N.A.SOC. H 624
LOCATION: Widener | WID-LC | E184.S7 H57 1992

Labor history archives in the United States: a guide for researching and teaching. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1992.
LOCATION: Baker Business: HD8066.L33 1992
LOCATION: Lamont: REF.ROOM HD8066.Z99 L319 1992x
LOCATION: Schlesinger: Ref. 026.331 L433l
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC HD8066.Z99 L319 1992x

Sokal, Michael M. & Patrice A. Rafail. A guide to manuscript collections in the history of psychology and related areas. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1982. LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC BF81.S58 1982

Women's History

Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America

Additional Women's Collections

Women's Archives on the WWW

Women's Collections Roundtable Online Resources

Women's history sources: a guide to archives and manuscript collections in the United States. New York: Bowker, 1979.
LOCATION: Andover-Harv. Theol: Ref. Z7964.U49 W64
LOCATION: Schlesinger: Ref. 016.301412 H66w
LOCATION: Widener: RR 4761.16.5

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Individual Repositories: Guides and Catalogs

Many repositories have published repository guides, which list their holdings at various levels of detail, and/or collection guides describing individual collections. These may be found in the HOLLIS Catalog. Repository and collection guides are listed in bibliographies of subject guides.

A few examples of printed collection guides/catalogs:

American Philosophical Society. Library. Catalog of manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society Library, including the archival shelflist. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pub. Corp. [1970].
LOCATION: Widener: B 3695.13.5 F Library has: 10 v.

English literary manuscripts in the Boston Public Library checklist. Boston, MA: Boston Public Library, 1966. 25 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC PR107.Z99 B67 1966x

Massachusetts Historical Society. Catalog of manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society ... Boston, G.K. Hall & Co., 1969.
LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books f Z6623.M38 Library has: 7 v.
LOCATION: Widener: B 3673.48 F

Nebeker, Frederik. Astronomy and the geophysical tradition in the United States in the nineteenth century: a guide to the manuscript sources in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. American Philosophical Society Library Publication; no. 16. Philadelphia: The Society, 1991.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC QB33.U6 Z996 1991x

Most libraries have online catalogs some of which include manuscript holdings, although representation of manuscripts in online catalogs is usually incomplete. Many repositories list their manuscript holdings on their web sites, and some provide online access to inventories and other finding aids. There are several Internet directories of special collections and repositories of primary sources.

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Published Manuscripts (Full Text)

The full text of sets of personal papers is usually distributed by one of three methods:

• Printed books
• Digitization (available on the Internet or a CD-ROM)
• Microform

A guide to finding published manuscripts in the HOLLIS Catalog is available.

Documentary editions of the papers of major historical figures, e.g., The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, contain the subject's outgoing letters which are found in the papers of his correspondents. As locations for these letters are cited, documentary editions serve to locate the papers of the subject's associates.

Published Diaries

Diaries are frequently published. Try a Subject Keyword Search ("Diaries North Carolina") to find published diaries and bibliographies of diaries.

The repository holding a diary may hold other papers of the same person. See list of bibliographies of diaries. The bibliographies of manuscript diaries give locations; for the books listing published diaries, the printed diaries themselves must be consulted, although the location is not always given.

Digitized Diaries:
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: Diaries & Letters

List of full-text documents, mainly Civil War diaries.

Digitized Collections

Many repositories are digitizing whole collections. Many of these are available free on the Web or in Harvard Libraries. Typically only important collections of wide interest are digitized.

 Microform

Important manuscripts and collections of papers are sometimes microfilmed in their entirety. Typically a printed guide accompanies the microfilm.

Example:
New England women and their families in the 18th and 19th centuries--personal papers, letters, and diaries [microform]. Series A. Research collections in women's studies. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, c1997-
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): Film A 962.1 Library has: pts. 1-3 on 66 microfilm reels.
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): INDEX Film A 962.1 = guide Library has: pt. 1.

Internet resources for microfilm

Harvard owns many of the microfilm sources in the following lists.

Guide to Microform and CD-Rom Sources for History and Political Science in the University of Chicago Library

Lists microfilmed primary source material. Harvard has many of these sources. They have records in HOLLIS.

Historical documentary editions catalog

Lists the many documentary editions produced under the auspices of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History

Digitized printed guides giving detailed contents for over 125 microform collections in American history. Includes some personal papers.

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Directories

Links to repository and other sites may be located via the following:

• Archives and Manuscript Collections
• Guide to the history of science. History of Science Society
  • Lists newsletters, disciplinary history centers, repositories. Beginning in the early 1960s, several disciplinary history centers were created to foster the preservation of the records of academic fields. These centers usually restrict their collecting to materials that have no other institutional home. They sometimes do oral history projects and often maintain a list of locations of collections in their field and publish newsletters.
• Digital Librarian: Archives and Manuscripts
• Links to State Archives and Libraries
• National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators Member Web Sites (State Archives)
• Presidential Libraries
• Repositories of Primary Sources [Very comprehensive]
• State Archives & Historical Societies

The current American archival directory, Directory of archives and manuscript repositories in the United States, is incorporated into ArchivesUSA. The last printed edition was:

Directory of archives and manuscript repositories in the United States / National Historical Publications and Records Commission. 2nd ed. Phoenix : Oryx Press, 1988, 853 p.
LOCATION: Widener | RR 627.26.5 and several other Harvard libraries

Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada (Society of American Archivists, Business Archives Section)

Includes extant companies holding their own records or contracting with an archival firm.

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Current Awareness

Some disciplines have history newsletters which carry articles on primary sources. These newsletters are often not indexed in the periodical indexes. Some newsletters may be found in the HOLLIS Catalog Journals database with Subject Keyword searches of the form "anthropology history". These newsletters are infrequently found in libraries. lists of newsletters:

Elliott, Clark A. History of science in the United States: a chronology and research guide. NY: Garland, 1996, 543 p.
LOCATION: Harvard Archives | Reading Room | HU REF 360
LOCATION: Widener | RR 5005.15

Guide to the history of science. History of Science Society

Oxbridge directory of newsletters. 1979- . NY: Oxbridge Communications.
LOCATION: Baker Business: Ref. Z6944.N44 O88
LOCATION: Gutman Education: Ref Z6944.N44 O9
LOCATION: Widener: RR651.69

Newly published manuscripts, documentary collections, and guides thereto are listed in the "Documents and Bibliographies" section of the American Historical Review (April, 1979-date).

To search past issues of the American Historical Review:

Academic Search Premier includes 1975-current. In the three search fields enter:

• Journal Name: American Historical Review
• Title: Documents and Bibliographies
• All Text: YOUR SEARCH TERM

Major authors often have newsletters or journals devoted to their study. These may be found using a Subject Keyword search in the HOLLIS Catalog Journals database ("Faulkner William") or by using Patterson's list of author newsletters.

Patterson, Margaret C. Author newsletters and journals: an international annotated bibliography of serial publications concerned with the life and works of individual authors. Detroit: Gale Research Co., c1979.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 3003. 75

Updated by: Patterson, M. C. "Author newsletters and journals: Supplement". Serials Review, vol. 8, no. 4 (1982), pp. 61-72; vol. 10, no.1, (1984), pp. 51-59; vol.11, no. 3 (1985), pp. 31-44.
LOCATION: Widener WID-LC PN4832 .S47

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No Luck?

Many small repositories do not report or publish accounts of their collections yet may have important research material. Repositories that do publicize their collections have often massive backlogs of uncataloged material. To discover these collections it is necessary to identify likely repositories based on biographical information about subject and institutional affiliations, place of residence and of death, etc. Addresses of likely repositories can be found in the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States, an expanded version of which is included in ArchivesUSA, and through lists of repositories on the Web.

Once you have exhausted the available sources, you can publish a request for information on appropriate LISTSERVs:

CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV® lists

List of Mailing Lists on Archives, Records Management, Museums and Related Subjects

H-Net. Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Such enquiries are published by several periodicals, including:

• New York Review of Books
• New York Times Book Review
• Notes and Queries
• Times Literary Supplement

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More Information - Overviews

Archival information, ed. by Steven Fisher. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004, 180 p.
LOCATION: Widener | RR 627.26.10

Chapters on:

• American Governmental Archives
• Genealogical Archives
• Science Archives
• Religious Archives
• Women's History Archives
• Moving Image and Sound Archives
• Fine Arts Archives
• Performing Arts Archives
• Sports Archives
• Business Archives
• Military Archives

Burke, Frank G. Research and the manuscript tradition. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press; Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1997, 310 pp.
LOCATION: Schlesinger: Ref. 025.171 B959r
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC CD3021.B87 1997

Burnette, O. Lawrence. Beneath the footnote; a guide to the use and preservation of American historical sources. Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1969, 450 p.
LOCATION: Baker Business: Historical Collections CD3021.B93
LOCATION: Widener: US 125.32

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Appendix 1: W.P.A. Historical Records Survey State Manuscript Repository Guides

Only state-wide surveys are listed below. The Check list (below) lists repository guides and catalogs, calendars, and transcripts of individual collections.

Child, S. B. and D. P. Holmes. Check list of Historical Records Survey publications: bibliography of research projects reports. No. 7 (110 pp.) in: W.P.A. technical series. Research and records projects bibliography. No. 1-8. Washington, DC: Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration, Division of Professional and Service Projects, 1940-1943, 8 v.
LOCATION: Widener: Soc 1759.96.405

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States. California. Los Angeles, Calif.: Southern California Historical Records Survey Project, 1941, 75 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: US 38010.60

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States. Florida. Jacksonville, Fla.: Florida Historical Records Survey Project, 1940, 28 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: US 20510.25

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in Illinois. Prelim. ed. Chicago, Ill., The Illinois Historical Records Survey Project, 1940, 55 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: US 26510.10

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States: Iowa. Des Moines, state of Iowa, Iowa Historical Records Survey Project, 1940, 47 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: US 28010.20

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in Louisiana. 2d ed. (Louisiana Historical Records Survey) University, La., The Dept. of Archives, Louisiana State University, 1941.
LOCATION: Widener: US 22010.4

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in Louisiana. Louisiana Historical Quarterly, v. 24, no. 2 (April, 1941), pp. 305-353.
LOCATION: Widener: US22005.5

2nd ed., November, 1941, 48 pp. mimeo. Not at Harvard.

Indexed in Index to the Louisiana Historical Quarterly, comp. By Boyd Cruise. New Orleans: Plantation Book Shop, 1956, 270 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: US22005.5

A Reference List of Manuscripts relating to the History of Maine, directed by Elizabeth Ring. Pts. 1-3 (pt. 3 = index). Maine Bulletin, v. 41, no. 1; v. 42, no. 1; v. 43, no. 8 (University of Maine Studies, 2nd ser., No. 45), 1938-1941.
LOCATION: Widener: LSoc 4697.17 2nd ser. v. 45

Preliminary edition of Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in Massachusetts. Boston, Mass., The Historical records survey, 1939, 160 pp.
LOCATION: Countway Medicine: Rare Books f 1.Kh.1.
LOCATION: Widener: Roosevelt R810.Un3m6 Mass.
LOCATION: Widener: US 58.45

Guide to manuscripts depositories in the United States: Michigan. Detroit, Mich., The Michigan Historical records survey project, 1940.
LOCATION: Law School: B/TR 020 HIS
LOCATION: Widener: US 27010.20
LOCATION: Widener: Roosevelt R810.Un3m6 Mich.

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States: Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Records Survey Project. Saint Paul, Minn., The Minnesota Historical Records Survey Project, 1941, 84 leaves pp.

Not at Harvard.

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States: Missouri. Preliminary ed. [Prepared by the Missouri Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration.]. St. Louis, Mo., 1940, 17 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: US 25010.10

Preliminary edition of Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States-Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., The Nebraska Historical records survey project, 1940, 43 pp.
LOCATION: Law School: B/TR 020 HIS
LOCATION: Widener: Roosevelt R810.Un3m6 Neb.
LOCATION: Widener: US 29010.5

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States: New Hampshire. (Preliminary ed.). Manchester, N. H., The New Hampshire Historical Records Survey Project, 1940, 44 pp.
LOCATION: Houghton: Accessions *42-3920
LOCATION: Widener: Roosevelt R810.Un3m6 N.H.
LOCATION: Widener: US 11510.11

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States: New Jersey (preliminary volume). Newark, N.J., The Historical records survey, 1941, 62 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC F134.Z99 H57 x, 1941

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in New York State (exclusive of New York city). (Historical Records Survey) Albany, N.Y., 1941, 424 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: US 15217.41 HCL has vol. 1.

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in New York State (exclusive of New York City): supplement. (Historical Records Survey) Cooperstown, N.Y.: [New York State Historical Association], 1944.
LOCATION: Widener: US 15217.41.2

Guide to manuscript depositories in New York City. (Historical Records Survey) Albany, N.Y., 1941, 150 pp.
LOCATION: Not at Harvard

Guide to ten major depositories of manuscript collections in New York State (exclusive of New York City). Ed. by H. P. Yoshpe and G. W. Roach. Proceedings of the Middle States Association of History and Social Science Teachers, v. 38, no. 2, 78 pp.
LOCATION: Widener: EducP 314.5

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in North Carolina. (Historical Records Survey of North Carolina) North Carolina Historical Commission (Raleigh), Bulletin no. 41, 1940, 18 pp.
LOCATION: Law School: Harvard Depository US 905.01NC HIS
LOCATION: Widener: US 19007.19 vol.41

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States. Oregon-Washington. Portland, Or., The Oregon Historical Records Survey, Official Project no. 65-1-94-25, 1940, 42 pp.
LOCATION: Law School: B/TR 020 HIS
LOCATION: Widener: US 37510.15

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in Pennsylvania ... Pennsylvania. Dept. of public instruction. Bulletin.[n.s.]; 774. Harrisburg, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of public instruction, Pennsylvania Historical commission, 1939, 126 pp.
LOCATION: Baker Business: Historical Collections L194.B52 no. 774
LOCATION: Widener: Roosevelt R810.Un3m6 Penna.
LOCATION: Widener: US 16510.6
LOCATION: Widener: US 16507.105.10 vol.4

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn., The Tennessee Historical records survey, 1940, 27 pp.
LOCATION: Law School: B/TR 020 HIS
LOCATION: Widener: US 24510.15

Guide to depositories of manuscript collections in the United States. Oregon-Washington. Portland, Or., The Oregon Historical Records Survey, Official Project no. 65-1-94-25, 1940, 42 pp.
LOCATION: Law School: B/TR 020 HIS
LOCATION: Widener: US 37510.15

Guide to manuscript depositories in Wisconsin. Prelim. ed. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Records Survey Project, 1941.
LOCATION: Widener: US 27510.30

Hefner, Loretta L. 1980. The WPA Historical Records Survey : a guide to the unpublished inventories, indexes, and transcripts. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 42 pp. + 1 microfiche (90 fr.) Widener: WID-LC E173.Z99 H43 x, 1980
LOCATION: Microfiche W 2636. Includes Wisc. Manuscript Survey

Includes Wisconsin manuscript guide.