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Gale Family Library - Last night, while catching up with my high school friend Lindsey and her husband Austin, I casually mentioned that I'd be "going back to the archives" tomorrow. Lindsey stopped me and said, "I'm sorry but you always say that and I don't know what 'archive' is."

I realized I did. Too much. Here's how in general (1) I'm still working on my PhD, and (2) "I'm going to the archive!" A post describing what I do when I say it.

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Yes. I. Directed by Fr. Steven Avella of Marquette University. I will be available between May 2019 and 2020. (Hopefully this gets us to the next question in about 85% of my conversations with my family/friends/friends of the family.)

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Now that's all I know. You can read more about where I've been and where I'm going in my series Barnstorming the Midwest.

These are the primary sources for my thesis. Consider a DQE from AP US History, no one selected the sources for me; I have to find them, read them, evaluate their value for my research and somehow save it.

In general, the archives I use are (semi)compiled collections of primary sources that describe the activities of an organization, event, or individual - articles, manuscripts, ephemera, etc. (This has become complicated for historians with oral histories, community archives, and the rise of the Internet, but I'm getting off topic.)

No. They are often found in museums, research centers, state historical associations, or universities, wherever figures give away collections of essays. George McGovern has donated a large portion of his papers to Dakota Wesleyan University, from which he graduated, as well as funding for a wonderful library in his family's name. In Wisconsin, articles by many political figures like Dave Obey (D-WI7), Stevens Point, Stout, Green Bay, La Crosse etc. in the private collections of their library (go check it out! Great). Here's a nice map of the archives I think I should visit when all is said and done:

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There are many things. Sometimes you have to register, sometimes you pay a fee, sometimes you talk to an archivist and explain what you are looking for, etc. /drink, be quiet, etc.” You sign your name on it and if an archivist wants they can definitely print me my firstborn because once I'm sure I can take pictures, I take them as seriously as I use a public wifi - terms of use doe, but in the end, you'll follow these general steps:

This is what the Minnesota Historical Society's Gale Library Archives looks like. I go in, choose a table and set up my laptop and take notes:

Since I take notes on my laptop and use it to look up things I've never heard or understood before, I usually look for a desk, preferably in the back and next to the power outlet. At GGD, the C7 table is my jam.

This week I'm working at the papers of Carol Connolly, a Saint Paul feminist who co-chaired the Saint Paul City Council candidate Minnesota Women's Political Group (MWPC) and eventually wrote a gossip/political column.

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And other regional newspapers. It was boxes 4, 5, 15, 7, 3 and 2 that particularly interested me in his papers. There are other things I need as well, but since my time is limited, I start there, prioritize and then go back to other things.

Based on the information on that page, I fill out an application form with the collection name, box numbers and call numbers. Here's what it looks like:

File clerks keep the top white copy and give me a yellow carbon for my records. I can also ask them to "keep" the boxes for the next few days so that if I don't finish a box one day, I can come back the next day.

I emailed the archivists on top of my game and the boxes are waiting for me. I usually do this when traveling out of town. Otherwise, it will take between 5 and 30 minutes for an employee to pull the boxes out of the secure storage and bring them to my desk. Researchers can request boxes up to 30 minutes before the library closes.

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A file clerk drives me a car or carries a box. There are two variants for me: bank boxes and archive boxes.

Left: What I call the banker's box, taken from box 15 of Carol Connolly's personal papers in the MNHS.

As I said, I have a rough idea of ​​the folders I'm looking for, as I've pinned what I want to see in each box. Anyway, I open the box and look at the folders arranged in it:

I use that pink marker to keep my places as I can only get one folder out of the box at a time and those folders should be kept in the exact order I found them. You leave everything as you found it. I pulled a folder out of the box, marked my place, laid the folder flat on the table, and began reading the papers, looking for commentary on Minnesota, Midwest, and national politics on feminist issues and their relationships. To the Democratic-Peasant-Labor Party.

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Folder folder, leafy like a book. I'm lucky that most (I'm guessing 90%) of my sources are typewritten. Colleagues like Matt Douglas have to learn paleography (handwriting deciphering)... and then use it to read 18th-century French manuscripts. in France.

Look at this! A draft article on the founding of the Minnesota Electoral Voters PAC allows me to show how female political activists crossed party lines to reach pro-choice voters in both the DFL and IR! While this is hardly unheard of today, it is a continuation of the organizing GOP feminists who survived the widespread takeover of the Republican Party by the New Right. Women's groups even supported Nancy Brataas, who was an IR primary candidate for Minnesota's First Congressional District in 1984, but lost the primary to sales manager Keith Spicer;

This group likely contributed in some way, particularly among suburban voters, to crossing voters for Independent Republican gubernatorial candidate Arne Carlson in 1990 over pro-life DFL incumbent Rudy Perpich. But that's a quest for another day. Now I jot down what he said in a notebook document, maybe pull out a selection excerpt and launch my phone's Google Drive app.

Open Google Drive, open the folder where I want to scan the file, start a new scan and frame the picture.

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(Yes, I took a picture while taking a picture. Fortunately, my Google Chrome browser filters out the "annoying whips" from most websites.)

If you know me, you know how lucky I am with phones. I somehow bricked the soft keys on the bottom of my last Google Nexus 6, but it still takes great pictures and is basically an iPod connecting to Wi-Fi. This allows me to keep my phone with me for text/call/navigation purposes and still get about 8-9 hours of browsing, especially when traveling in new cities. I open Google Drive, go to my folder for Carol Connolly (Thesis Research -> Minnesota -> Individual Activists -> Carol Connolly -> Box 2 -> subfolder if needed) and run a scan.

The My Drive scanner tries to crop the document automatically, which makes it easier when I place the document on a contrasting (usually much darker) surface.

I don't want to break any publishing rules so I won't post a full scan but these will be uploaded in high resolution which means I can reprint the notes on 8.5x11 paper to read and mark up for my own use. I usually give a title by date (YY-MM-DD, always two digits for each) and subject for easy sorting, research, and writing.

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When I finish a box - it can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 6 hours depending on how full the box is, how many folders I need and how many notes I have - I put it back on the table. If I have other boxes in this request form they will redirect me to the next box. Otherwise, I file a new claim form and wait for that box to arrive at my desk.

Yeah! However, I don't mind the large booth-style readers MHS has, so I prefer ILL (Cross-Library Loan) to Marquette, where I do PDF scans of them and print them for my own storage and compilation. They are useful for PDFs of newsletters like Wy Spano's.

Gives a very, very good portrait of political issues at the state level in any given situation