Thursday, June 15, 2006

SC&A Collecting Areas

Recently, there has been several questions regarding what types of materials SC&A collects. SC&A's collecting areas are quite diverse, including such topics as the history of George Mason University, theater, photography, transportation, and planned communities.

Futhermore, Special Collections & Archives specializes in collecting Northern Virginia related items, pertaining to a variety of topics such as:

Transportation
Planned Communities
Civil War
George Mason, the historical figure


SC&A already has numerous Northern Virginia collections, including:

Planned Community Archives Collection
Eleanor L. Templeman Local History Collection
Ruth Preston Rose Collection
Henry Lampe Papers
The League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area Collection
C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection
Jack Underhill Collection



Special Collections & Archives seeks to collect:

Maps
Photographs
Books
Working papers
Manuscripts
Oral histories