It was sad to learn about the changes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri – especially the loss of jobs for some of my favorite archivists. Here is the story.

It is this archive that holds the National Women and Media Collection. In it are the papers of women’s page journalists Roberta Applegate, Marie Anderson, Gloria Biggs, Dorothy Jurney, Eleni Epstein and Marjorie Paxson – whose donation initiated the Collection. Lance and made numerous trips to the Ellis Library and count it as our favorite archive.

I worry that the marginalization of the WHMC will also marginalize the NWMC which will celebrate its 25th year in 2011. It certainly is not good news. I will always be grateful to the archivists who helped us tell the stories of so many important women. In particular, I am thankful that that the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards were processed last year. It is a great resource for women’s page research.

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It was sad to learn about the changes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri – especially the loss of jobs for some of my favorite archivists. Here is the story.

It is this archive that holds the National Women and Media Collection. In it are the papers of women’s page journalists Roberta Applegate, Marie Anderson, Gloria Biggs, Dorothy Jurney, Eleni Epstein and Marjorie Paxson – whose donation initiated the Collection. Lance and made numerous trips to the Ellis Library and count it as our favorite archive.

I worry that the marginalization of the WHMC will also marginalize the NWMC which will celebrate its 25th year in 2011. It certainly is not good news. I will always be grateful to the archivists who helped us tell the stories of so many important women. In particular, I am thankful that that the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards were processed last year. It is a great resource for women’s page research.

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