It was late summer. The year was 1862. William Wilberforce Chapin, a young seminary student at Andover, writes to Miss Katie Belle Hayes in New Hampshire: Dear Miss Hayes. When I bode you goodbye at Andover I was expecting to spend the first week of vacation in making a tour through Vermont and Canada. Therefore […]
Smug Musings and Humble Landing Places
Sometimes when I am processing archival materials, I muse smugly to myself, “Oh, you silly people from the early 1900’s. Whatever were you thinking! How grand it is to live in more enlightened times.” At times, such lofty musings are founded, say the time when I opened up a folder housing pictures of missionaries in […]
Post-Internship Thoughts
On the first day of my internship at Burke, Brigette, my internship supervisor, asked if I would write a blog post discussing what I expect from my internship and the overall experience. Would I want to be a processing archivist once the next few months were over? Not having had any experience processing a collection […]
Metropolitan Archivist
The Metropolitan Archivist is the newsletter published by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. The Luce Project is an update featured on page 26 of the Winter 2013 issue – please take a look! […]
A Selection of MRL Pamphlets
Recently while researching for MRL10: American Home Missionary Society Records, I had to pull some material from the MRL pamphlet collections. The MRL pamphlet collection, which has been individually item-level cataloged and is available in CLIO, contains over 30,000 missionary reports and other publications. Many of these pamphlets are primary source materials and can often […]
Burke Friends Newsletter, Winter 2012/2013
Please see our Winter 2012/2013 edition of the Newsletter! Exciting information about the Library Director search, as well as interesting articles from staff and students. […]
State Council of Churches and Wrap-Up
I want to put in a quick plug for the collection that I just finished…on my LAST day of my internship here at the Burke Archives. Then I'll do a little wrap up of my time here and what I learned. WAB: State Council of Churches Records, 1943 – 1974. Abstract: Regional ecumenical and interfaith […]
Federal Council of Churches and the Bethlehem Steel Strike of 1910
While working on the Federal Council of Churches in America Records collection it is not surprising (considering my American Studies background) that I found the materials relating to the Bethlehem Steel strike of 1910 the most interesting. The materials comprise an almost minuscule portion of the collection; only one folder, but I love primary source […]
Be prepared!
If Hurricane Sandy and Winter Storm Athena have taught us anything, it’s to be prepared. We all knew that both storms were coming, and we were able to prepare to the best of our abilities, but nobody knew what the extent of the damage would be. If that has taught us anything else, it’s that […]
Interns Wanted!
Are you currently enrolled in a library science/archives degree or in a related field, such as history, anthropology or theology, and are you looking to earn credit and increase your skills on a practical level? We are looking for interns to help with the processing of these collections, specifically for the Spring 2013 semester. However, […]