Creator:
Miller, Betty Albertus, 1933-2019.
Inclusive Dates:
1829- 2020
Abstract:
Files, correspondence, photographs, printed material, posters, and artifacts (hair combs)
relating to Betty Miller, the Miller Hair Comb Museum, and the Antique Comb Collectors Club International (AC3I)
Type of Material:
Combs (hair ornaments)
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Magazines (periodicals)
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Celluloid (cellulosic)
Ivory (material)
Jet (coal)
Tortoise-shell.
Administrative records.
Minutes (administrative records)
CD-ROMs.
Museum records.
Research notes.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Massachusetts -- Leominster.
Plastics
Ornamental combs -- History.
Ornamental combs -- Specimens.
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.
Celluloid.
Tortoiseshell.
Ivory.
Jet (Precious stone)
Clothing and dress.
Material culture.
Ornamental combs -- Societies and clubs.
Small museums -- Alaska.
Creator:
Cassara, Beverly Benner.
Inclusive Dates:
1943- 1999
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, research material, personal papers,
audiovisual material, printed material of the American adult educator. Includes extensive information on
participatory research, volksschule (folk schools), and international and multicultural education. Organizations
and institutions with a significant presence in the collection include the American Association for Adult and
Continuing Education (AAACE), Association for Women in Development (AWID), the International Council for Adult
Education (ICAE), Colby College, Highlander Research and Education Center, the University of Southern Maine,
and the University of the District of Columbia. Notable individuals with a significant presence in the collection
include Thelma Barer-Stein, Julius Seelye Bixler, Marcie Boucouvalas, Willard Callender, Paolo Freire, Martha
Friedenthal-Haase, Peter Jarvis, Faustine Jones-Wilson, Malcolm Knowles, Volker Lühr, Helge Pross, and Matthias Wesseler.
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Book reviews.
Books.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Drafts (documents)
Manuscripts for publication.
Meeting notes.
Newsletters.
Newspapers.
Papers (document genres)
Photographs.
Research notes.
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Adult education in a multicultural society.
Adult education through world collaboration.
American women: the changing image.
Educators.
Adult education
Adult education -- Africa.
Adult education -- Germany.
Adult education -- Research.
Adult education -- United States.
Alternative education.
Educators -- United States.
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)
International studies in education.
Multicultural education.
Participant observation.
Women -- Education.
Creator:
Shaktman, Ben, 1937-
Inclusive Dates:
1949- 2009
Abstract:
Papers of the American playwright and
director. Correspondence subject files; production material comprising research, notes,
costume sketches, and drafts for plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Arnold Wesker, Ben Shaktman and others; manuscripts; printed material (posters, playbills, programs,
more); audiovisual material including audiotapes, photographs; material pertaining to Royal Court Theater in London, The Berliner Ensemble, Pittsburgh Public Theater (PPT), Theatre Nationale Populaire (TNP) in Paris, The National Endowment for the Arts; more
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Drafts (documents)
Lecture notes.
Photographs.
Research notes.
Reviews (documents)
Scripts (documents)
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Theater programs.
Subject:
Directors.
Dramatists.
Dance and theatre
Popular culture
Acting -- Study and teaching.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Musicals -- Production and direction.
Television -- Production and direction.
Theater -- Production and direction.