Notes and Queries
The Rutherford B. Hayes Library
announced that it will publish a comprehen-
sive microfilm edition of The Papers of
Rutherford B. Hayes. A printed guide
will accompany the microfilm edition.
The edition will include Hayes' genealog-
ical records, diaries, commonplace
books, correspondence, presidential re-
cords, Civil War records, business
papers, speeches, notes, vetoes, executive
orders, and miscellaneous items. For
further information, write to Thomas A.
Smith, Manuscripts Librarian, Rutherford
B. Hayes Library, 1337 Hayes Av-
enue, Fremont, Ohio 43420.
The New-York Historical Society has
announced the organization of a pro-
gram to microfilm a definitive edition
of The Papers of Aaron Burr. Sponsored
jointly by the historical society and
the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission, the edition will
include all letters to or from Burr and any
document written by him. Any librarian,
scholar, or collector who has informa-
tion helpful to the editors is asked to
contact Ms. Mary-Jo Kline, Editor, The
Papers of Aaron Burr, The New-York
Historical Society, 170 Central Park
West, New York, New York 10024.
Milwaukee Public Library announces the
accessioning of the papers of the
Socialist Party-Social Democratic
Federation of Wisconsin, 1898-1970. The
collection contains fifty-nine boxes of
manuscript materials, mainly in the 1930-
1970 period, plus eighty boxes of
pamphlets. While most of the items deal with
state affairs and with party activities
of Milwaukee, including those of Daniel
Hoan and Frank Zeidler, there is a
substantial correspondence to and from the
national party offices. There is matter
on American Socialist figures such as
Meta Berger, Darlington Hoopes, Norman Thomas,
and John Work. A twenty-
seven-page guide to the collection
including folder-by-folder description of
contents is available for $1.00.
Inquiries should be addressed to the Local
History and Marine Room, Milwaukee
Public Library, 814 West Wisconsin
Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233.
Documentation Newsletter is a new biannual publication from the Depart-
ment of Manuscripts and University
Archives of Cornell University Libraries.
Archival processes, problems and
solutions are discussed within this newslet-
ter. Also included are notices of recent
accessions, and descriptions of selected
collections. For information or to be
placed on the mailing list, write the
department, 101 Olin Library, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853.
Tamiment Library, New York University,
announced the formation of an
Oral History of the American Left
project, under the direction of Paul Buhle and
Roger Keeran, to record the experiences
of the veterans of radicalism in labor,
politics, and culture. The intent is to
create a central repository for those
interviews that already exist and insure
that many activists who have not yet
been interviewed will have their
experiences recorded. In time a guide to the
tapes will be issued by the library.
Inquiries should be addressed to the project at
Tamiment Library, New York University,
70 Washington Square, South, New
York, New York 10012.
264 OHIO HISTORY
The United States Capitol Historical
Society has revived its scholarly, inter-
disciplinary journal, Capitol
Studies. The journal, which pays an honorarium to
its authors of $200.00, seeks
interesting, documented studies of Art and Ar-
chitecture, History, or Political
Science pertinent to the national capitol building
or the United States Congress: past,
present, and future. For information about
the Society or its journal, address
inquiries to 200 Maryland Avenue, N.E.,
Washington, D. C. 20515.
Volume I of the Guide to U. S.
Government Maps is now available in a
preliminary edition. It covers the
geologic and hydrologic maps published by the
U. S. Geological Survey through December
1974, and will be updated annually.
A separate volume contains a Location
Index reprinted from The National Atlas
of the United States of America. The volumes may be ordered together from:
Document Index, McLean, Virginia, for
$50.
The 1881 History of Washington
County, Ohio by H. Z. Williams and Brothers
is being reprinted by the Washington
County Historical Society, 401 Aurora
Street, Marietta, Ohio 45750.
Gale Research Company, Book Tower,
Detroit, Michigan 48226, has recently
reprinted Edna Maria Clark's Ohio Art
and Artists. With 509 pages and 142
plates, this classic work is an in-depth
survey of the arts and crafts that
flourished in Ohio from the time of the
Indians up to its original publication date
in 1932. The reprinted edition sells for
$24.00.
An Encyclopedia of German-American
Genealogical Research has been pub-
lished by R. R. Bowker Company, 1180
Avenue of the Americas, New York,
New York 10036, for $35.00. The work
offers the researcher information on
available reference materials crucial to
any serious genealogical study of this
segment of the American population.
Recent promotions, appointments, leaves
of absences, retirements, or deaths
within the professional community of
Ohio historians include the following.
University of Akron: Earl J. Motz
resigned; Capital University: Russell Y.
Smith resigned in order to accept a
position with the federal government;
Cleveland State University: Donald Ramos
promoted associate professor;
Miami University: Fook Lam Gilbert Chan
and Jeffrey Kimball promoted
associate professors, and Thomas Michael
Hill accepted a visiting assistant
professorship; Notre Dame College:
Joseph E. Kall named chairman of the
Social and Behavioral Sciences Division,
and Sister Mary Claude granted an
absence for advanced study, 1976-1977;
Ohio State University: David S. Rosen
appointed assistant professor, Robert H.
Bremner appointed member of board
of editors, American Historical
Review; Ohio University: John Gaddis resigned
to take a position at the Naval War
College, and Harry Stevens and James
Cunningham retired; Ohio Wesleyan
University: Robert Shimp, Jr., promoted
associate professor and granted a year's
leave as Faculty Fellow to the New-
berry Library; Urbana College: William
P. Varga and George H. Carroll prom-
oted associate professors; Wright State
University: Eugene Craine, C. DeWitt
Hardy, and Paul MacStallworth retired,
Harold Hollingsworth died on Sep-
tember 8, 1975, and Peter J. Mark and
Donald Spivey appointed assistant
professors.