Collections Under Development

This page shows a list of projects that are currently under development. Here you will find the collection name, the primary contributor, a brief description, and the status of the project. Please contact Stacy Person (ssperson@buffalo.edu or 716-645-0774) with any questions.

American Bands

Contributor: Frank Cipolla, Department of Music

This is a collection of ~300 35mm slides dealing with the topic of American bands from post-Revolutionary War on.

Status: All slides digitized; contributor working on metadata

Last Udate: June 10, 2009

Archacki Cartoon Collection

Contributor: Jean Dickson, Arts & Sciences Libraries

Approximately one thousand (1000) cartoons with text in Polish, published from 1931 to 1952, all in Henryk Archacki’s syndcated series entitled “Czy wiecie, że…” (“Do you know that…”). The cartoons ran weekly in Buffalo’s Dziennik dla Wszystkich (Everybody’s Daily), as well as several other Polish-language newspapers in the United States. Archacki himself was based in New York City. Most cartoons have four sections, each highlighting historical facts, current events in show business or sports, tidbits about Polish or American literature, music, or visual arts, geographic oddities, or connections between Polish and U.S. history. Someone in Buffalo clipped these cartoons and kept them in scrapbooks for over 20 years. They are intact but yellowed and brittle.

Status: Digitization complete; image editing underway; first book uploaded to development server; contributor working on metadata

Last Update: June 10, 2009

Buffalo and Western New York Newspaper Clipping File

Contributor: Linda Lohr, Health Sciences Library

Four 16” x 10” (40.6 cm x 25.4 cm) “scrapbooks” with a total of 789 pages of articles from Buffalo, Western New York and other newspapers. The time period covered is October 31, 1901 through June 14, 1906. The subject matter runs the gamut from public health issues such as disease outbreaks in the city and elsewhere, sewage, water, food and milk purity, tenements and animal control to politics and the activities of the Shriners. There are numerous images and cartoons as well.

Status: Photography and PDF creation complete; metadata template TBD. Original books in Preservation for creation of service copies and preservation of originals.

Last Update: July 27, 2009

Comic Books of the 50s

Contributor: Mike Lavin, Arts & Sciences Libraries

Explore one of the most turbulent and interesting decades in American comic book history--The 1950s.

Status: Import to CONTENTdm partically complete; gDLC staff working on metadata cleanup

Last Update: 6/10/2009

The Darwin D. Martin Photograph Collection

Contributor: John Edens, University Archives

The Darwin D. Martin Photograph Collection consists of 1167 images of Martin and the Martin family and their residences. The photographs date from Martin’s early childhood in the mid-19th century to the 1970s. In addition to providing a photographic record of Martin and his family, the collection provides a unique view of the construction and use of private residences designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Martin—the Martin House Complex in Buffalo, consisting of the Darwin D. Martin House, the Barton House, and other structures, and Graycliff, the Martins’ summer residence in Derby, New York. Included in the collection are photographs of the Martin House Complex by Henry Fuermann of Chicago and photographs by Louise Mueller and other notable regional photographers.

Status: Uploaded to CONTENTdm; creating custom queries; problems being worked out.

Last Update: July 29, 2009

 

Edgar R. McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection

Contributor: Linda Lohr, Health Sciences Library

The Edgar R. McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection was established in 1985 by Mrs. Annette Cravens in memory of her father, chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Buffalo from 1914 until his death in 1931. The collection, containing more than 150 instruments or sets of instruments chosen for their illustration of past medical and dental procedures, includes microscopes, surgical instruments, anatomical models, a leech jar and bleeding cups, and dental instruments. This is a continuation of a project that was completed in 2006.

Status: Photography and metadata complete; DLC organizing images and consolidating metadata for compound objects.

Last Update: July 29, 2009

 

Eleanor Steber Photograph Collection

Contributor: John Bewley, Music Library

The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1977 contains 166 photographs of American opera singer Eleanor Steber. The photographs include studio portraits, rare casual snapshots, and unique photographs of Steber performances on television. The collection was donated to the Music Library chiefly due to the digital presence of the J. Warren Perry Collection of Photographs which contains 26 photographs of Steber.

Status: Digitization and metadata complete. To be uploaded by Music Library staff.

Last Update: July 29, 2009

 

The Welch-Ludwig Research Collection

Contributor: Claude Welch, Department of Political Science, and Jeannette Ludwig, Romance Languages & Literatures

A collection of Drs. Welch and Ludwig's personal photographs from travels around the world over the last thirty years.

Status: Digitization complete; contributors working on metadata

Last Update: June 10, 2009