Preservation and Destruction
The complexity of the problems which may arise when the collection and organization of research material is envisaged as a whole is instanced in a memorandum on the destruction of documents prepared...
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In the 1937 report of the Joint Committee on Materials for Research to its parent institutions, Binkley wrote: At the June, 1937, meeting of the American Library Association, Director Hirshberg of the...
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A Summer in Italy, 1929 (Part 9)
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series A Summer in Italy, 1929 Watercolour of the fountain in front of the Villa Medici, belonging to Frances Frances Alone What a queer mixture — a baby & Rome.1...
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Binkley vs. the Library
Binkley was chair of the Library Committee at Flora Stone Mather College for most of his time there, and much involved with library development at Western Reserve University. Here is an exchange of...
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“The first time I ever pursued a folk singer on a raft”: Sidney Robertson and...
John Stone, photographed by Sidney Robertson (Library of Congress) In August 1939, in the California gold-rush town of Columbia, the musicologist Sidney Robertson1 recorded this fascinating 94-second...
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Woe unto You Writers of History: Undergraduate Teaching Policy, 1935
RCB’s carbon copy of the last page of the letter. How strong in this country, in this culture, is the ideal of freedom of investigation, how widely supported is the tradition of objectivity in the...
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Flying
Boarding gates at Cleveland Municipal Airport, 1936 (Library of Congress) Part of the fun of working through these papers is in the glimpses they provide of social and technological trends that we...
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For International Women’s Day: A Famous Canadian
The Binkleys’ Stanford friends sometimes broke up the monotony of days-long trips from one coast to the other by seeking alternate routes. A steamer through the Panama Canal was an option, but easier...
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A Summer in Italy, 1929 (Part 10)
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series A Summer in Italy, 1929 Article (cont’d) Article about the Binkleys’ book “What is Right with Marriage” in the Women’s Section of the New York World, 1 Dec....
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A Summer in Italy, 1929 (Part 11)
This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series A Summer in Italy, 1929 The date on Robert jr.’s birth announcement includes “Anno VII”, the year of the “Era Fascistica”. Writing about Fascism The signora...
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