Daphne Dare Collection
This collection includes costume and scene designs, and some related
production materials for Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada
productions by theatre designer Daphne Dare (1929-1980).
Dare designed for major theatres on both sides of the Atlantic and for British film and television. In 1975, she became Head of Design of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada, where she designed over twenty productions. When complete, the collection will include 225 digital images that represent the holdings of Dare’s original design work for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada, Ontario from 1975-1980 and 1986. Other designs in the collection include her work from the late 1950s through the mid 1990s for the Bristol Old Vic, Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre Company, Northcott Theatre (Exeter), the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the Chichester Festival, Greenwich, and others.
Project manager: Nena Couch,
Theatre Research Institute Library
Funding source: OSU Libraries
Status: In development
Link: pending
Digital Stories
Digital Storytelling is a way of talking about something in a manner that conveys not only information, but emotion and significance. The OSU Libraries have taken an interest in creating stories because we see it as a whole new way of talking about ourselves. In the age of the "disappearing book" and the emergence of technology inside and outside our buildings, it is a new way to communicate what we do, who we are, and why we care.
Digital stories may combine elements of text, photos, motion video and music. One excellent example in the Knowledge Bank collection is "The San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection," by Amy McCrory. The collection of stories is expected to grow as others contribute their work.
Project manager: Karen Diaz,
OSU Libraries Instruction Office
Status: ongoing
Links:
Hale Scrapbook
The Hale Scrapbook (so designated by historian and collector Draper
Hill, from whom it was acquired) dates from approximately 1746 to 1830
and includes engravings by the leading artists of Georgian England,
letters, newspaper clippings, woodcuts, broadsides, sketches, paintings,
and other miscellaneous materials. The book, consisting of approximately
150 pages, was brought to the U.S. from England with members of the
Hale family of Boston. William Makepeace Thackery remembered in 1854
the scrapbook in his grandfather's library: "...there would be in the
old gentleman's library in the country two or three old mottled portfolios,
or great swollen scrap-books of blue paper, full of the comic prints
of grandpapa's time..." Before electronic media, scrapbooks such as
this provided hours of amusement and education for their owners. The
Hale Scrapbook reflects historic events (such as an 1819 engraving about
polar exploration), culture (for example, a print depicting Saartjie
Baartman, a Khoisan brought as a freak to Europe from South Africa),
as well as art history with works by Gillray, Bunbury, Cruikshank and
others.
Social and political satires from Georgian England are a major part of the Hale Scrapbook. The image accompanying this description, "The Dandy Sick O, Tim poor y O, more ease," was created by Isaac Cruikshank in February 1819 as a spoof on fashionable men. The colored engraving in the scrapbook is 23.5 x 35.5 cm.
Project manager: Lucy Caswell, Cartoon
Research Library
Status: Complete
Link: http://cartoons.osu.edu/hale/Hale.php
John Foxe Collection
"In 1563, John Foxe published the first edition of Acts and Monuments
of these Latter and Perillous Dayes, touching Matters of the Church,
which almost immediately came to be more familiarly known as The
Book of Martyrs ... It was succeeded in 1570 by a greatly expanded
two-volume edition in which Foxe added accounts of early church history
to the original stories of martyrdoms. The years 1576 and 1583 saw the
third and fourth editions, and Foxe's death in 1587 was followed by
the fifth (1596), the sixth (1610), the seventh (1631/32), the eighth
(1641), and the ninth (1684) editions. Each edition added some new materials,
including accounts of the St. Bartholomew Day massacre of Protestants
in Paris in 1572, the projected Spanish invasion of England in 1588,
and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 as well as (in 1641) a life of Foxe attributed
to his son Simeon. By any measure, Foxe's Acts and Monuments
ranks among the most popular and influential Renaissance English books."
[from 1999 Foxe Exhibition Catalog]
Ohio State University Libraries and the Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, were awarded two grants to contribute images to the American Theological Library Association's Cooperative Digital Resources Initiatives (CDRI) database. The first OSU/Bridwell project provides images for approximately 220 woodcuts from the 1554 and 1559 Latin editions and the 1563, 1570, 1576, and 1583 English editions as well as title pages, calendars, almanacs, and indexes. The second project provides images of the engravings, title pages, calendars, and indexes from the ninth edition (1684). Foxe’s Actes and Monuments is a key document in the long stream of Christian literature and denominational development. Providing access to this original resource material with its accompanying metadata supports the study of church history in general, Reformation studies, iconography, theology, English art and literature, as well as other disciplines.
The image accompanying this description, from the 1563 edition, depicts "Bilney awaiting martyrdom in his cell."
Dates of coverage: Woodcut project: 1554-1583; engravings project: 1684
Status: Woodcut project: complete; engravings project: complete.
Project manager: Beth Whittaker,
Head, Special Collections Cataloging
Links:
- CDRI Collection Description [Woodcuts]
- CDRI Collection Description [Engravings]
- Search CDRI Collection (use Limit by Collection feature)
- OSU Libraries Portal: John Foxe Acts and Monuments
John Glenn Archives
The collection contains four major sub-groups: Senate Papers; Non-Senate Papers (consisting of family records and records from John Glenn’s military, NASA, corporate, and post-Senate careers); Audio-Visual Collection; and Artifacts Collection. On-line finding aids are available for each of the four sub-groups. Other links provide biographical and bibliographic information on Senator Glenn. Additional links lead to a gallery of selected photographs from the collection and a Web exhibit commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the Friendship 7 space flight.
The image accompanying this description is a framed portrait of John Glenn in his Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95 space suit, presented to him by the Boeing Company, 1998.
Project manager: Jeff Thomas, University Archives
Status: Complete
Link: http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/glenn/glenn.php
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Forestry Image Collection
The collection consists of over 5000 images documenting various aspects
of the research and activities of the Department of Forestry of the
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. The images include representative
trees, tree seeds and fruits from various locations around the state
of Ohio. Also documented are events such as field days, 4-H activities,
logging camps, and sites important in the history of Ohio forestry (such
as the tomb of August Imgard, credited with bringing the Christmas tree
to Ohio.) When used in conjunction with current conditions, the images
provide an historical record of forest conditions and can help track
changes that have affected forest recovery, management and health.
The image accompanying this description captures Louis Bromfield (wearing hat), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and conservationist, and an unidentified man at the 1946 dedication of the Malabar Tree Farm near Mansfield.
The formats of the original images include glass slides (positive), glass plates (negative), film negatives and positive prints; most are black and white.
Project manager: Constance
J. Britton, OARDC Library
Ownership: Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Library, Wooster
Dates of coverage: 1886-1961
Funding source: OSU Libraries and Ohio Forestry Association
Status: Completed
Link: http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/Science/Login
University Archives Collections
This collection held in the OSU Knowledge Bank currently includes streaming versions of documentary films made during 1939, 1946, 1961, 1964, and 1970. These films, produced during and after World War II and during a period of social turmoil in the 1960s, offer unique glimpses into the history of Ohio State University.
Project manager: Rai Goerler, University Archivist
Funding source: OSU Libraries
Status: ongoing
Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/5954