Daphne Dare Collection

This collection includes costume and scene designs from more than fifty productions by British designer Daphne Dare (1929-2000). Dare designed for major theatres on both sides of the Atlantic as well as for television and film. Throughout her career, she had a part in over sixty productions, serving in such roles as art director, costume designer, production designer, and set designer. Dare designed at the Bristol Old Vic from 1958 until 1963. She worked as a costume designer for BBC TV from 1964-1968, designing the first two years of costumes and monsters for Dr. Who. In 1967-1968 she became the Head of Design at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter. In the early 1970s Dare worked with Robin Phillips on a number of acclaimed productions including Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1970) with a young Patrick Stewart, Abelard and Heloise (Wyndham's, 1970) with Diana Rigg, Dear Antoine (Chichester and Piccadilly, 1971), and Miss Julie (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1971). 1973 was a very productive year for Daphne Dare and Robin Phillips with a season at Greenwich, a company including Jeremy Brett, Mia Farrow, Elisabeth Bergner, Penelope Keith, and Lynn Redgrave, in productions such as The House of Bernarda Alba, Three Sisters, Born Yesterday, Cats Play, and Zorba. In 1975, Dare became the Head of Design at the Stratford Festival, Ontario, under artistic director Robin Phillips. She designed over thirty-five productions, and was responsible, along with Phillips, for the renovation of the stages and auditoriums for the Avon and Third Stages, while also instituting a "Designer in training" program for young Canadian designers. In 1989, Daphne Dare designed Dion Boucicault's London Assurance (at Chichester and Theatre Royal Haymarket), with the director Sam Mendez. During the 1990s Dare focused primarily on film, working frequently with Ken Loach, including on his film Carla's Song (1996).

Project manager: Nena Couch, Theatre Research Institute Library
Funding source: OSU Libraries
Status: Complete
Link: http://drc.ohiolink.edu/handle/2374.OX/30999

Digital Stories

The Digital Story Collection in the Knowledge Bank is a growing collection of multimedia, 3-5 minute stories by and about the OSU community. Developed during 3 day intensive workshops, these stories are personal reflections of a professional community that add a new dimension to understanding our complex and vibrant campus. The emphasis of these stories is on a communal script development process that leads to compelling and personal narratives.

Stories are the bedrock of every culture. They help define a nation, a tribe, a community, a profession. They tell its history, they convey its wisdom and perspective. Stories allow us to understand someone else's experiences in a deeply personal way, creating empathy. Stories can help us care about something we might not otherwise care about. In them we convey not only information, but emotion and significance as well. In the age of the "disappearing book" and the emergence of technology in our buildings, digital stories are a new way to communicate what we do, who we are, and why we care.

Project manager: Karen Diaz, OSU Libraries Instruction Office Teaching and Learning
Status: ongoing
Links:

• https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/24838
• Digital Storytelling at Ohio State University

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 Library and Museum
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: Eric Johnson, Associate Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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://drc.ohiolink.edu/handle/2374.OX/19803

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, and produced or sponsored by OSU. 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