People

SC&A recently hired Carrie Hoover to work on digitizing the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection. Carrie is a history graduate student, who brings both historical knowledge and technical skills to the position. She will select key documents that provide insight into Mann's life and career. After careful selection, the documents will be scanned and available to view online through the Mason Archival Repository Service (MARS). For more information about MARS and the collections already available online, please visit

http://u2.gmu.edu:8080/dspace/index.jsp


Collection Highlights

SC&A has a rapidly growing number of digitized collections. This spring, SC&A added the Randolph H. Lytton Historical Postcards of Fairfax, Virginia Collection to its digitized collections. This collection serves as a window on the not-so-distant past for the City of Fairfax, Virginia. It features mainly Fairfax businesses, institutions, government buildings, and other places of interest. Many of the cards depict Fairfax places of lodging, particularly those along the Route 29 / Route 50 corridor. The collection contains about 200 color and black and white postcards. Total volume of the collection is .35 cubic feet or .5 linear feet. The digitized collection can be accessed at:

http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/lytton/lytton.shtml


Notable Researchers

Recently Tai Gerhart, a GMU history graduate student, examined approximately 15 cubic feet of material from the Early 20th Century Women's Magazine Collection. The collection consists of Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and Vogue - the three most important women's literary-fashion magazines of the early twentieth century. This extensive collection was bequeathed to the George Mason University by the estate of Jane Nierling. The copies are especially worthwhile because they have not been bound, so the original covers - illustrated by many of the foremost illustrators of the period - have been retained. They are now available for study and research by students in women's studies, cultural studies, American history, literature and design. For more information about the Early 20th Century Women's Magazine Collection, please see:

http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/womensmags.html


Collection Development and GMU Departmental Histories

SC&A's largest collection is the George Mason University Archives, containing official, permanent papers and documents of the University. SC&A is interested in acquiring departmental histories, which would add to the overall history of the University. If you have any departmental historical materials or know of any departments on campus that do, please contact SC&A at speccoll@gmu.edu or 703-993-2220. An Electronic Documentary History of GMU is already available at:

http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/gmdcs.html