George Dunne's Kings Pawn

The author's inscribed copy to his company was recovered today in the High School archives.  It will remain with The Fathers Library.  

A movement collection on the move.

OWS collection?

Braddock

while looking at Fletcher's Man from the Cave I forgot that Chuckwalla Bill hailed from Braddock

Bigfoot just kicking in the Hammer, 2011

The artist and his map

Cf. "bigfoot" Thompson center left.

J Michael Walker's Lyric Literary Map of Los Angeles

is looking for a permanent home!

Loyola Cub alum makes waves in Long Beach!

Save the date!

lets go

XCentricLA investigates the High School Archives of Loyola

http://www.xcentricla.blogspot.com/#!/2011/10/la-as-subject-history-happening.html

The High School Archives of Loyola debuts at the LA Archives Bazaar!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Hi7971QNk

Fresh clippings from LA's Archives Bazaar!

New friend of the archives Liane Schirmer is documenting LA!

The 6th annual archives bazaar was off the chain this year.

More pics coming but

 here's a collection of archivists from CSUN.

Making history

"Loyola ... it hasn't always been a high school; it hasn't always been taught by Jesuits; it hasn't always been at 1901 Venice Blvd.; and it hasn't always been called Loyola.

Loyola isn't a name or a place or a particular group of teachers. Loyola is a continuum, a skein of ides, values and visions that have withstood the test of time precisely because it has continuously and harmoniously adapted and grown with time.  Loyola is living proof of the paradox that the more something changes the more it remains the same.

The High School Archives of Loyola (Los Angeles): a draft bibliography

The frosh reading list

The Man from the Cave by Colin Fletcher:  Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982

This story of an unusual American life rescued from anonymity through the casual discovery of a few mysterious objects in an old steamer trunk is a wonderful telling of the thrill of discovery in intellectual pursuit.  This should be the most accessible book on this list for the young reader.  

A Modern Archives Reader:  Basic Readings on Archival Theory and Practice:  edited by Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Welch:  National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C., 1984

Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820-1870 by Lara Jennifer Moore:  Litwin Books, LLC, Duluth, 2008

“According to most histories of French archives and libraries, the nineteenth century was a period of slow but steady recovery from the trauma of the revolutionary era. In contrast, Moore argues that the organization of archives and libraries in nineteenth-century France was neither steady nor progressive. By following the development of the Ecole des Chartes, the state school for archivists and librarians, Moore shows that conceptions of "order" changed dramatically from one decade to the next. More important, she argues that these changing notions of "order" were directly connected to contemporary shifts in state politics. Since each new political regime had its own conceptions of both national history and public knowledge, each one worked to "restore order" in a different way.”, --- Amazon.com, 2011

"The French Revolution and the Materiality of the Modern Archive" by Ralph Kingston:  Libraries and the Cultural Record 46 No. 1, Austin, 2011

“Historians of vandalism and conservation during the French Revolution have treated the archive as an idea, an expression of modern political culture, and have largely ignored its material history. When revolutionaries "attacked" Old Regime depots, however, they were spurred on by necessity: locating valuable property titles, or paper for use as gunpowder funnels. Moreover, it was only when limited space in ministry buildings forced New Regime administrators to discard documents from their own holdings that archivists embraced historical conservation. Through ministerial deposits in the Archives nationales, the archive as a lieu de mémoire—legitimized by a respect des fonds—took shape in nineteenth-century France.”, --- University of Texas, 2011

That Noble Dream:  The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick, Cambridge University Press


Additional works

“A History of Christian Thought” by Paul Tillich:  self-published lecture notes; Cambridge, Mass. 1956

Jesuit High Schools Revisited by Joseph H. Fichter:  Jesuit Education Association, Washington D.C., 1969

A Bibliographical Essay on the History of Society of Jesus by William V. Bangert, S.J.:  The Institute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, 1976

Saint, Site and Sacred Strategy:  Ignatius, Rome and Jesuit Urbanism edited by Thomas M. Lucas, S.J.:  Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, 1990

High is beginning to plan for a first appearance at the Archives Bazaar.

The Avery Clayton award!

The student library at Loyola, 1926

Creating a space for the archives.

The high school archives at Loyola begins to take shape.

Loyola High School's planned archives facilities, Los Angeles, 2010

As Loyola began to gather it's historic records, this warehouse would be simultaneously cleared of 7500 square feet of surplus furnishings and furniture.

A Keystone F8 70mm aerial camera

Here's an image of Bro. McDermott's aerial camera before donation to USC.

Brother McDermott's camera equipment

An early challenge at the new High School Archives of Loyola would be to effectively manage Brother McDermott's extensive camera equipment. Included in this hardware collection was a 70mm camera and mountings for aerial photography, developing chemical and baths. In the end High donated the collection to the USC film school.

An archives interior

In preparation for the sesquicentennial celebration of one of Los Angeles most venerable institutions, Loyola High School is gathering the historical record in a designated facility

In Los Angeles, a high school archives at Loyola is slowly getting underway.

It is easy to miss but not hard to find smack in the middle of LA. This place is slowly being worked into the beginning location of the Loyola High School Archives.

Hannold Library portal

LA As Subject recently held another forum at the Honnold-Mudd Library at the Claremont Colleges.