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Travel Grant Competition
The
Department of Special Collections
Washington University Libraries
St. Louis, Missouri
Application Deadline: March 15, 2010; Travel
must occur between May 15, 2010 and June 30, 2011
Download
the application form here
Travel
reimbursement grants of up to $1000 are available to faculty, graduate
students, undergraduates, and independent scholars who would like to use our collections
for research. Funds may be used for transportation, food, lodging, and
photocopying. Applicants must reside at least 50 miles from St.
Louis.
The
Department of Special Collections is a multi-faceted research institution that
contains materials related to a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Below is a listing of some of our major collections:
Film and Media Archive: The Film and Media Archive is committed to the preservation of documentary film and other media which chronicle America's great political and social movements, with a particular emphasis on the African-American experience. The collections of prominent filmmakers Henry Hampton (Eyes on the Prize) and William Miles (I Remember Harlem) include hundreds of hours of high quality programming and feature a comprehensive and diverse array of primary interviews, photos, archival footage, and written documents that they gathered during the film production process. For more information, contact Joe Thompson at [log in to unmask] or (314) 935-8739.
Manuscripts: Collections of literary papers, press archives, and
magazine archives. The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of major
20th-century literary figures including James Merrill, Samuel
Beckett, Howard Nemerov, Stanley Elkin, William Gass, Mona Van Duyn, and many
others. For more information, contact John Hodge at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
or (314) 935-5413.
Modern
Graphic History Library:
Dedicated to acquiring and preserving distinguished works of modern
illustration and pictorial graphic culture. Focusing on artists’ working
materials and sketches as well as finished artworks, the range of the
collection extends from book, magazine, and advertising illustration to graphic
novels, comics, poster design, pictorial information design, and animation.
For more information, contact Skye Lacerte at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
or (314) 935-7741.
Rare
Books: Collection
strengths include the history of books and printing, especially the English
Arts & Crafts movement; the book arts; semeiology and the history of
non-verbal communication; a collection of Little Black Sambo books and related
objects; and 19th- and 20th-century British and American
literature complementing the modern literary archives housed in the manuscript
unit. For more information, contact Erin Davis at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
or (314) 935-5583.
University
Archives: The Washington University Archives is comprised of more than 300
unique collections. Most collections chronicle the long history of
Washington University from 1853 to the present day. These diverse
collections range from the writings of University co-founder William G. Eliot,
to student produced publications, and professional and personal papers of
faculty members such as Arthur Holly Compton. Other
collections relate to 20th-century St. Louis history, with a
focus on business, transportation, politics, social welfare, urban planning,
and architecture. Finding aids describing the collections are available
to researchers on-line. For more information, contact Sonya Rooney
at [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
or (314) 935-9730.
Links to the
websites for these collections may be found at http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/#collect.
The Department of Special Collections, Washington
University Libraries
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/
(314) 935-5495
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