Inventory of the
"Indivisible: Stories of American Community"
Project Records, 1988-2002
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA
Inventory of the Indivisible: Stories of American Community Project Records, 1988-2002 and undated
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Duke University
Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library
Durham, North Carolina 27708 USA
Phone: (919) 660-5822 / Fax: (919) 660-5934
Email: special-collections@duke.edu
URL: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/
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Descriptive Summary
Collection Title: Indivisible: Stories of American Community Project Records, 1988-2002 and undated
Creator: Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies.
Extent: 13.50 Linear Feet 7052 Items
Language of Material: English
Information for Users
Access Restrictions
Collection is restricted. Images and recorded interviews may be used for non-commercial, public
service, or educational purposes. All other requests to copy, reprint, or republish recorded interviews or
printed materials must be made in writing to the Center for Documentary Studies. Researchers who wish
to use an interview that does not have a release agreement must read and sign a "Research Agreement
for Restricted Materials." All quotes must be taken directly from the recorded interviews, not the printed
transcripts or logs.
All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center.
Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Also, some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require
further processing before use.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book &
Manuscript Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more
information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M.
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], "Indivisible: Stories of American Community" Project Records, David M.
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Provenance
The "Indivisible: Stories of American Community" project records and images were received by the
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2002 and 2006.
Processing Information
Processed by Ruth E. Bryan, Karen Glynn, and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico
Completed February 10, 2003. Additions made in October 2008.
Encoded by Joshua A. Kaiser and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University was established for the study of the
documentary process. "Indivisible: Stories of American Community" was a national documentary
project which took place primarily during 1999-2001, and was sponsored by the Center for
Documentary Studies in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of
Arizona. The project captured the experiences of individuals participating in grassroots community
organizations and activism in twelve American communities at the end of the 20th century.
Collection Overview
The records of the documentary project "Indivisible: Stories of American Community" span the dates
1988-2002, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1999 to 2002, the primary timeframe for the
project. Through photographs, oral histories, project records, videos, and other materials, the collection
documents the history of the project, sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies of Duke
University and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, which explored civil
activism, struggle, and change in twelve communities in the United States at the end of the 20th century:
the North Pacific Coast of Alaska; Ithaca, N.Y.; San Francisco, California; Navajo Nation, Arizona and
New Mexico; Eau Claire, South Carolina; Delray Beach, Florida; Western North Carolina; Stony Brook,
N.Y.; San Juan, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Yaak Valley, Montana.
The project co-directors were Tom Rankin of the Center for Documentary Studies and Trudy Wilner
Stack of the Center for Creative Photography. The project was also supported by the Pew Charitable
Trusts, the NEA, and other agencies. The images in this collection, most of were part of the traveling
exhibit, were taken chiefly during 1999 by twelve well-known documentary and landscape
photographers working in partnership with project oral history interviewers. They capture the
experiences of individuals participating in grassroots initiatives addressing American social issues such
as housing, immigration, the natural environment, race relations, youth empowerment, and economic
and cultural development, and others. The photographers are Dawoud Bey, Bill Burke, Debbie Fleming
Caffery, Lucy Capehart, Lynn Davis, Terry Evans, Lauren Greenfield, Joan Liftin, Reagan Louie,
Danny Lyon, Sylvia Plachy, and Eli Reed. Also preserved in this collection are the detailed oral
histories, both in recorded and transcribed formats; information on the traveling exhibit; and materials
on other project outcomes, including a hardbound large-format book of the images, a postcard exhibit, a
guide for educators, booklets and other publications on community organizing, and radio and television
programs. Other files document the establishment of research archives based on the documentary
project's output, at Duke, in Arizona, and in each of the twelve communities. Also, an Indivisible web
site offers further details about the project, the photographers, and the interviewers.
The collection is arranged into two series: Project Files and Photographs. The first houses the interview
records, including digital and analog cassette tapes of oral histories, as well as tape lists, logs, and
transcripts in both paper and digital formats, and the project files described above. The second series
houses the photographic prints, most of which were part of the traveling exhibition and the book.
Additional supporting materials found in the Project Files Series include postcards and videocassette
tapes from exhibits; a CD-ROM of the 2001 website; field notes in paper and digital format; and other
office files generated by the project and its staff, including Tom Rankin, one of the project co-directors.
Three hundred thirty-nine of the electronic transcripts have been migrated to the electronic records
server. A disk directories log and use copies exist. Please contact Research Services staff before coming
to use this collection.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the
Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
Bey, Dawoud, 1953Burke, Bill, 1943Caffery, Debbie Fleming.
Capehart, Lucy.
Davis, Lynn, 1944Evans, Terry.
Greenfield, Lauren.
Liftin, Joan, 1935Louie, Reagan
Lyon, Danny.
Plachy, Sylvia.
Reed, Eli.
Rankin, Tom.
Stack, Trudi Wilner.
Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies.
University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography.
Oral history--United States.
Community life--United States--Pictorial works.
Social problems--United States--History--20th century.
Community organization--United States.
Community development--United States.
Voluntarism--United States.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--1980Delray Beach (Fla.)--Social conditions--1980Eau Claire (S.C.)--Social conditions--1980Ithaca (N.Y.)--Social conditions--1980Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico &Utah--Social conditions--1980-
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North Carolina, Western--Social conditions--1980Pacific Coast (Alaska)--Social conditions--1980Philadelphia (Penna.)--Social conditions--1980San Francisco (Calif.)--Social conditions--1980San Juan (Tex.)--Social conditions--1980Stony Brook (N.Y.)--Social conditions--1980Yaak Valley (Mont.)--Social conditions--1980United States--Social conditions--1980Audiocassettes.
CD-ROMs.
Machine-readable records.
Oral histories.
Photographs.
Slides.
Videocassettes.
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List of Series
Project Files Series, 1988-2002 and undated (26 boxes)
Images and recorded interviews may be used for non-commercial, public service, or educational
purposes. All other requests to copy, reprint, or republish recorded interviews or printed materials must
be made in writing to the Center for Documentary Studies. Researchers who wish to use an interview
that does not have a release agreement must read and sign a "Research Agreement for Restricted
Materials." All quotes must be taken directly from the recorded interviews, not the printed transcripts or
logs.
Photographs Series, 1999-2002 (20 boxes)
Contents of Collection
Project Files Series, 1988-2002 and undated
(26 boxes)
Images and recorded interviews may be used for non-commercial, public service, or educational
purposes. All other requests to copy, reprint, or republish recorded interviews or printed materials
must be made in writing to the Center for Documentary Studies. Researchers who wish to use an
interview that does not have a release agreement must read and sign a "Research Agreement for
Restricted Materials." All quotes must be taken directly from the recorded interviews, not the printed
transcripts or logs.
Box 1
Logs
Tape lists
Box 2
Tape lists
Postcards
Box 3
Tape lists and transcripts for Delray Beach, Village of Arts and Humanities, Handmade in America,
and Proyecto Azteca
Box 4
Tape lists
Box 5
Tape lists and transcripts for Alaska Fishing Communities, and folders of project information for
Eau Claire, Handmade in America, Proyecto Azteca, Southwest Youth Collaborative, Village of
Arts and Humanities, and Yaak Valley
Fact-checking and captions files
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Tom Rankin files
Check-list
Postcard captions
Book bios
Possible volunteers
Site-specific concerns
Library materials
Getting started
Box 6
CHALK (Calif.) transcripts
Doula transcripts
Dine Bi Iina transcripts (Navajo Nation)
Fact checking files
Possible community activist sites
"Give Back": files on process of finding local archives sites after each project
Box 7
Pew Charitable Trust files
Radio project/program for Village of Arts and Humanities
Project background
"Guides for educators"
Tom Rankin files
Publicity files (correspondence, resumes, radio programs, proposals, press releases)
Box 8
"Give Back" (files on finding local archive sites after each project)
Video: "Talking Cloths: Making Art and Making Community: Village of Arts and Humanity"
(VHS), 2002
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copy before use.]
Computer Discs: "Full Set Community Discs for Main Archive"
[These computer disks, Disk001 to Disk024, containing transcripts and some tape logs, have been
removed and their contents migrated to the Special Collections server. A disk directories log exists.
Contact Research Services staff.]
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Box 9
Tape logs and transcripts for Alaska Fishing Communities
Community archives files (correspondence, offer letters)
Box 10
Project feedback
Zip disk with scanned images of headshots (content of slides?)
Press coverage files
Tape logs and transcripts for Delray Beach, Handmade in America, Yaak Valley, Eau Claire,
Village of Arts and Humanities, and Dine Bi Iina (Navajo Nation)
Box 11
Tape logs and transcripts
Publicity files
Box 12
NEA grant file and other grant information
Center for Creative Photography file
Conferences
Contracts and other exhibit files
Forms and facts
Pew Charitable Trusts files
Village of Arts and Humanities project files (captions, articles)
Box 13
Southwest Youth Collaborative
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copies of audio and video material before use.]
Yaak Valley Forest Council
Daniel Rothenberg
Jeff Whetstone
Dan Collison
Box 14
Slides: portraits of individuals during projects, of photographers? (4 folders)
Documentary photographer biographies
Box 15
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Photographer biographies
Doula project transcripts
Comprehensive files on Doula, Eau Claire, and Navajo projects (field notes, articles, captions,
supporting materials for projects)
Box 16
Comprehensive files on Alternatives Credit Union, Handmade in America, Delray Beach, Citizens
on Patrol, and CHALK projects (field notes, articles, captions, supporting materials for projects)
Box 17
Comprehensive files on Alaska Fishing Communities and Proyecto Azteca projects (field notes,
articles, captions, supporting materials for projects)
CDs of contemporary popular Hispanic music (unopened)
Proyecto Azteca (NM) transcripts
Press packet for Indivisible
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copies of audio material before use.]
Box 18
Tape logs (no transcripts) for all project locations
Proyecto Azteca transcripts
Outreach, exhibit files
Postcard exhibit
Launch money
Travel
VIP lists (invitees)
Box 19
Location interviews
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copies of audio materials before use.]
Box 20
Location interviews
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copies of audio and digital materials before use.]
[The contents of the computer disks in this box may overlap or be duplicates of the computer disks
found in box 8 and migrated to the electronic records server.]
Box 21
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Location interviews
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copies of audio materials before use.]
Box 23
Location interviews
[Original audio and video materials are closed to use. Technical Services needs to reformat for use
copies of audio and digital materials materials before contents can be accessed. Please contact
Research Services before coming to use this collection.]
Transcripts
[The contents of the computer disks in this box may overlap or be duplicates of the computer disks
found in box 8 and migrated to the electronic records server.]
Box 24
Transcripts
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copies of digital materials before use.]
[The contents of the computer disks in this box may overlap or be duplicates of the computer disks
found in box 8 and migrated to the electronic records server.]
Field notes
Box 25
Location interview recordings
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copies of audio materials before use.]
Box 26
Location interview recordings
[Technical Services needs to reformat for use copies of audio materials before use.]
VHS Videos
[Originals are closed to use. Technical Services must arrange for viewing copy to be made before
contents can be accessed. Please contact Research Services before coming to use this collection.]
Box 26
"Indivisible Exhibit [TV program?], KVOA, 9/06/1999"
"Indivisible Chicago VNR [Video News Report?] with R. Suarez and all B-Roll and
photographs, 9/20/00"
"Indivisible PSA [Public Service Announcement?] 9/20/2000"
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"Exhibit 12/14/2001, UNC TV" [running time about 30 minutes?]
Photographs Series, 1999-2002
(20 boxes)
Prints in various sizes, chiefly in black and white, taken by documentary photographers in project
locations: Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, New York, and
Wisconsin. All captions and contextual notes have been taken from the original source. Unless
otherwise noted, images were also published in the volume, Indivisible: Stories of American
Community, and formed the traveling exhibit by the same name. Each print is prefaced by a unique
identification number assigned by the photographers. Arranged in subseries alphabetically by
photographer's last name.
Dawoud Bey (United States, b. 1953)
Seventeen black and white gelatin silver prints of community organizations and individuals in
Chicago, Illinois, with the chief focus on members of the Southwest Youth Collaborative, an effort
on the part of faith-based institutions, social service centers, recreational centers, and neighborhood
organizations to empower youth and their community in South Chicago neighborhoods.
Box 37
(L2000:040:001a-b): Danyale, West Englewood Youth and Teen Center, 1999 (two prints)
(L2000:040:002a-b, L2000:040:003, L2000:040:004, L2000:040:005): Aron Hanson, Youth
Organizer, Community Justice Initiative, 1999 (5 prints)
(L2000:040:006): Trenton, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network, 1999
(L2000:040:007): Adriana Bartow, Director, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network, 1999
(L2000:040:008): Darrin, West Englewood Youth and Teen Center, 1999
(L2000:040:009): Geoff Banks, Youth Organizer, Community Justice Initiative, 1999
(L2000:040:010): Alma Montes, Staff, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network, 1999
(L2000:040:011a-b): Janette Maldonado, Peer Mentor, Community Justice Initiative, 1999 (2
prints)
(L2000:040:012): Dowua, Greater Lawn Community Youth Network, 1999
(L2000:040:013): Keith Hopkins, Youth Coordinator of Reach Out and Touch, West
Englewood Youth and Teen Center, 1999
(L2000:040:014): Sherry Brown, Peer Mentor, West Englewood Youth and Teen Center, 1999
Bill Burke (United States, b. 1943)
Thirty-one 8x10 and 16x20 black-and-white gelatin silver prints of individuals involved with the
Alternatives Credit Union in Ithaca, N.Y. The Credit Union's policies and programs are focused on
supporting community-based economic development through access to loans, mortgages, and other
financial services for high-risk or low income clients.
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(L2000:038:001): Camila Vargas, 1999
(L2000:038:002): Tahila Mintz, 1999
(L2000:038:003): Kenneth Broadwell, 1999
(L2000:038:004): Black Peter Donovan, 1999
(L2000:038:005): Paul Glover, 1999
(L2000:038:006): Joseph Wetmore, 1999
(L2000:038:007): Dennis Montgomery, 1999
Box 42
(L2000:038:008): Scott Engelhart, 1999
(L2000:038:009): Bill Myers, 1999
(L2000:038:010): Paul Carubia, 1999
(L2000:038:018): Joey Kilmer, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:038:019): Jeff Furman, 1999
(L2000:038:020): Tim Brown, 1999
Box 43
(L2000:038:011): Karen Nguyen, 1999
(L2000:038:012): Laberta McGruder, 1999
(L2000:038:013): Amber Boyd, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:038:014): Leslie Muhlhahn, 1999
(L2000:038:015): Lekeesa Jones, 1999
Not in book or traveling exhibition.
(L2000:038:016): Jenny Ross, 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:038:017): Emme Edmunds, 1999
Box 15
(L2000:038:021): Bathroom of Don Ruff and Barbara Brazill's owner-built,
Alternatives-financed home, 1999
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(L2000:038:022) : Metalsmith and blacksmith Durand Van Doren, owns Durand's Forge and is
an Alternatives business member, 1999
(L2000:038:023): Alternatives member Steven E. Valloney and Charlotte Rosen at the Sunrise
Yoga Center, which Valloney owns, 1999
(L2000:038:024): Justin Armstrong, a Cayuga Wooden Boatworks employee, 1999
(L2000:038:025): Home of Zan Gerrity and Inge Alexander outside Ithaca in Slaterville
Springs, New York, 1999
(L2000:038:026): Sisay Sisouphone, proprietor of Sticky Rice restaurant and catering service, is
a beneficiary of the Community Enterprise Opportunities program at Alternatives, 1999
(L2000:038:027): Rob Root, Dave Engasser, and Matt Lee of Cascadilla Tree Care, an
Alternatives business member, 1999
(L2000:038:028): Jonathan Kline, Alternatives member and owner of Black Ash Baskets, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:038:029): Raina White at RIBS [Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles], a community bicycle repair
shop that is a business member of the credit union, 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:038:030): Rick Dobson, owner of Danby Motors, an Alternatives business member,
1999
(L2000:038:031): Alternatives-financed Long Point Winery building under construction, 1999
Debbie Fleming Caffery (United States, b. 1948)
Twenty-one 20x24" black-and-white gelatin silver prints of communities and individuals in the
western North Carolina mountains involved with "Handmade in America," a cooperative of
craftsmen and craftswomen designed to promote self-suffiency and locally-based economic
development.
Box 33
(L2000:056:001): Madison County Courthouse, Marshall, North Carolina, July 4, 1999
(L2000:056:002): Woodrow Lail, Marshall, North Carolina, in Penland's Store, 1999
(L2000:056:003): Bakersville Baptist Church, 1999
(L2000:056:004): Penlands', Marshall, NC, 1999
(L2000:056:005): Police Chief Denny Goforth and Justin Jones, Rock Cafe, Marshall, North
Carolina, 1999
(L2000:056:006): Stella Riddles' 14 four-leaf clovers, 1999
(L2000:056:007): Bakersville Barber and Gun shop, Bakersville, NC, 1999
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(L2000:056:008): True Love, Marshall, North Carolina, 1999
(L2000:056:009): Davitus Gosnell, July 4, 1999
(L2000:056:010): "The Depot," 1999
(L2000:056:011): Rodeo clown Randy Wilson, Marshall, North Carolina, 1999
(L2000:056:012): Love Gunther, Gunther Town, NC, 1999
(L2000:056:013): Ryan, 1999
(L2000:056:014): Davitus, July 4, 1999
(L2000:056:015): Prayer and Preparation, Marshall, NC, July 4, 1999
(L2000:056:016): Amerady Cantrell's hummingbird beans, Shelton Laurel, North Carolina,
1999
(L2000:056:017): The dreaded door, Marshall, North Carolina, 1999
(L2000:056:018) : Stacy Lee Wilson, volunteer fireman, Marshall, North Carolina, 1999
(L2000:056:019): Carolina For Sale, Spruce Pine, North Carolina, 1999
(L2000:056:020): Penland's store, Marshall, North Carolina, 1999
(L2000:056:021): Praying before bull riding, North Carolina, 1999
Lucy Capehart (United States, b. 1952)
Sixteen chromogenic prints of Native American individuals and their historic-breed animals, in
their Navajo Nation communities in New Mexico and Arizona.
Box 29
(L2000:059:001): Tony Vanderveer at home, near Haystack Mountain, New Mexico, 1999
(L2000:059:002): Interior, Sarah Natani's hogan with rugs woven by Sarah, Table Mesa near
Shiprock, New Mexico, 1999
(L2000:059:003): Sarah Natani in her sheep corral, Table Mesa near Shiprock, New Mexico,
1999
(L2000:059:004): Sheep near Polacca, Arizona, 1999
(L2000:059:005): Sarah Natani's sheep heading out to pasture, Table Mesa near Shiprock, New
Mexico, 1999
(L2000:059:006): Three Churro rams, Navajo Sheep Project's herd, Bloomfield, New Mexico,
1999
(L2000:059:007): Mary Oskie in front of her log cabin near Ganado, Arizona, 1999
(L2000:059:008): Untitled, [spinning wool into yarn] 1999
(L2000:059:009): Marlene Benally and Al Largo, Begay Ranch kitchen, Jeddito Island, Navajo
Nation, Arizona, 1999
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(L2000:059:010): Mountain sheep pictograph near Bluff, Utah, 1999
(L2000:059:011): Mutton case, in a traditional Navajo meat store, Farmington, New Mexico,
1999
(L2000:059:012): Lena Benally, a member of Diné bí' íína's board of directors, and her
grandson, Donnie, Begay Ranch, Jeddito Island, Navajo Nation, Arizona, 1999
(L2000:059:013): Sarah Natani holding a newborn lamb, Table Mesa, near Shiprock, New
Mexico, 1999
(L2000:059:014): Sheep and bucket near Polacca, Arizona, 1999
(L2000:059:015): Interior, Begay Ranch, Jeddito Island, Navajo Nation, Arizona, 1999
(L2000:059:016): Untitled [five dogs], 1999
Lynn Davis (United States, b. 1944)
Twenty-one 11x14" toned black and white silver gelatin prints of Alaskan landscapes and fishing
communities, documenting change and struggle in the community members' lives.
Box 37
(L2000:008:001 a-c): Bob Storrs and his House, Unalaska, Aleutians, 1999 (3 prints)
(L2000:008:002 a-c): Landscape of Unalaska; Walter Tellman; Walter and Brenda Tellman in
Their Boat, Aleutians, 1999 (3 prints)
(L2000:008:003): Volcano from Eric's Boat, Sitka, Alaska, 1999
(L2000:008:004): Little Priest Rock, Sitka, 1999
(L2000:008:006): USS Northwestern (bombed in WWII), Dutch Harbor, Aleutians, 1999
(L2000:008:007): Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Ascension, built 1826, rebuilt
1853-1858, existing church 1890- , Unalaska, Aleutians, 1999
(L2000:008:009): Halibut, Sitka, Alaska, 1999
(L2000:008:011): Nets, Sitka, Alaska, 1999
Not in in book or traveling exhibition.
(L2000:008:012): Theo Grutter, Sitka, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:008:013): House of a Subsistence Fisherman, Kogwonton Street, Sitka, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:008:014): Tramp Steamer, Unalaska, Aleutians, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
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(L2000:008:015): Large Marge's Dog, World War II Bunker, Dutch Harbor, Aleutians, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:008:016): Joe Shaishnifkoff, Dutch Harbor, Aleutians, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:008:017): Theo Grutter's Son, Ivan, Sitka, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:008:018): Seafood Processing Plant Worker, Sitka, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:008:019): Halibut, Sitka, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:008:020): World War II Bunker, Dutch Harbor, Aleutians, 1999
Not in book. Variant image in traveling exhibition.
Terry Evans (United States, b. 1944)
Nineteen 16x20, 20x24, and 24x24" chromogenic prints of Yaak Valley, Montana landscapes, and
loggers and other individuals, documenting change and social and environmental concerns in their
communities.
Box 31
(L2000:023:002): Oyster and Clam Benefit for the School Given by Yaak River Tavern, Yaak,
Montana, June 1999
(L2000:023:004): Mary, Ken, and Chiena Burggraf, Yaak, Montana, June 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:023:014): Crash Karuzas, logger, Yaak, Montana, June 1999
(L2000:023:015): Jesse Sedler, Yaak, Montana, June 1999
Not in book or traveling exhibition.
(L2000:023:016): Jesse Sedler, horse logger, Yaak, Montana, June 1999
Box 32
(L2000:023:005): Pete Creek Road, Yaak Valley, Montana, June 1999
(L2000:023:006): Haakon, Aaron and Shirley Karuzas, Yaak, Montana, June 21, 1999
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(L2000:023:007): Jesse Sedler and Strider, Yaak, Montana, June 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:023:008): Linda Stehlik's Cabin, Yaak, Montana, February 1999
(L2000:023:009): Reuben Kneller at his sawmill, Yaak, Montana, June 1999
(L2000:023:010): Zeita Mae Romeiko, Yaak, Montana, June 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:023:011): Camille, Cherith, Cassia, and Cedar Leidigh, Yaak, Montana, June 1999
(L2000:023:012): Logged Area, Yaak Vicinity, Montana, February 1999
(L2000:023:013): Robyn King and Jimmy Martin, Yaak, Montana, February 1999
(L2000:023:017): Summer Solstice Evening Sky over Karuzas' Home, Yaak Valley, Montana,
1999
Not in book.
Box 38
(L2000:023:001a-b): Roadless Area, Yaak Valley, Montana, February 1999 (2 prints)
(L2000:023:003 a-b): Top of Hensley Hill, Yaak, Montana, June 1999 (2 prints) (2 prints)
Lauren Greenfield (United States, b. 1966)
Twenty-six 13x20 and 16x20" Cibachrome prints of individuals in the San Francisco neighborhood
of Bayview/Hunter's Point. Many of the young people in these portraits are Youthline "listeners,"
who support a social network and gateway to youth services for teens in the area.
Box 29
(L2000:047:014): Karen Cortez (on right), age 17, 1999
She does a pop dance routine outside her apartment with her "sister" Jessica Ramos and her
friend Michelle Lawrence as her grandmother and aunt watch them from the window. Karen was
raised by her grandmother (who speaks no English) and her father, after her mother abandoned
her as a child to return to her native El Salvador.
Not in book or traveling exhibition.
(L2000:047:017): Bayview/Hunter's Point Apartment, 1999
There is a constant activity of drug transactions outside the window of Ayana and Asante's
impeccably clean apartment in Bayview-Hunters Point. Ayana and her friend joke about the boys
who sell "copa," the name of a hair gel product the girls use as a code word for crack. Bay View
is the poorest neighborhood in San Francisco and Mamie Matthews has always been very active
in the community. The drug dealers know Mamie and her family and, out of respect, do not loiter
directly in front of her building.
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(L2000:047:019) : Youthline listener Asante Matthews, age 21, 1999
She does her mother's hair in their apartment in Bayview-Hunters Point as the family prepares
for church on Sunday. Asante's mother Mamie has seven children of her own and four foster
children. Ayana and Asante help their mother care for the children but will be leaving for college
in Atlanta in the fall. They are the first in their large family to attend a four-year college. Enter
scope/content note.
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:047:020): Violeta Perez, 21, and her sister Massiel Perez, 15, at The Limited in the
Stonestown Galleria shopping mall, shopping for clothes for her cousin's quinceañera, 1999
Not in book or traveling exhibition.
(L2000:047:021): Molly Katzman, 17, tries on clothes in the Express dressing room at the mall
in the suburb of Corte Madera, 1999
Not in book or traveling exhibition.
(L2000:047:022): Josh Farr, age 19, sits with his mother Rosa Robinson at the San Francisco
airport before leaving for a trip to Houston that precedes his going away to college, 1999
Rosa says she always cries when Josh leaves. He is an only child and she a single mother so they
both await with trepidation his imminent departure for the University of Wisconsin where he has
received a full scholarship and will be the only African American student in his program.
(L2000:047:024): Listener Evelyn Lock, age 17, plays dominoes during a slow period on shift at
Youthline, 1999
Not in book or traveling exhibition.
Box 34
(L2000:047:002): Youthline listener Karen Cortez, 17, on her graduation day from Balboa High
School, 1999
She has been admitted to the University of California at Santa Barbara on a scholarship and will
be the first person in her family to atten a four-year college.
(L2000:047:006): Youthline listener Nina Rudnick, age 17, in her bedroom in Berkeley, gets
paged by her boyfriend, 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:047:007): Listener Suemyra Shah, age 17, a political activist and University of
California at Berkeley student, protests cuts in the Ethnic Studies department at Santa Clara
University, 1999
She was one of the leaders of the successful U.C. Berkeley protests on the same issue for which
students had hunger strikes and mounted tent cities.
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(L2000:047:010): Youthline listeners pose for a group portrait at Expressly Portraits at the
Stonestown Galleria shopping mall, 1999
Many listeners socialize together and two of them who are leaving for college wanted a picture
of their Youthline friends to bring with them.
(L2000:047:015): Listener Violeta Perez, age 19, fills out a questionnaire during a call, 1999
Every caller remains anonymous but gets asked a standard set of informational questions during
the course of their call.
(L2000:047:016): Youthline listener Violeta Perez, age 19, talks on her cell phone during a
shopping spree at the Stonestown Galleria shopping mall, 1999
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(L2000:047:004): Listener Ruth Barajas, age 18, in a meeting at Youthline, 1999
(L2000:047:008): Karen Cortez, age 17, gets her brow pierced at Body Manipulations, 1999
She goes to the piercing studio planning on a tongue-pierce but after being told that her tongue is
the wrong shape, ends up getting a brow pierce like her sister instead. Enter scope/content note.
(L2000:047:011): Ruth Barajas, age 18, talks to her boyfriend during her shift at Youthline,
1999
The Youthline listeners say that many of the support calls they get are about relationships.
(L2000:047:013): Youthline listener Ed King, age 21, has a barbecue with his close friend in a
San Francisco suburb. They throw lighter fluid on the barbecue to raise the flames higher, 1999
(L2000:047:025): Listeners Ayana and Asante Matthews (on left), age 21, in their "street
soldiers academic preparation class for girls and women" at the Omega Boys and Girls Club,
1999
They listen as girls describe times in their life during which they were scared. Ayana describes a
time when she and Asante were attacked in their car at a stoplight. One girl describes having a
baby as a teenager. Another girl is afraid of kids at school with guns. Another reveals her fear
that there is a contract on her life.Enter scope/content note.
Not in book.
Box 36
(L2000:047:001): William Walker, age 19, eats Cheetos during a Youthline meeting during
which listeners prepare an outreach presentation, 1999
(L2000:047:003): Nina Rudnick's backpack, 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:047:005): Karen Cortez holds her 14-year old cousin's new baby in the apartment she
shares with her father, brother and grandmother on her 18th birthday. Her other cousin, Jessica
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Ramos, talks on the phone to her boyfriend, 1999
(L2000:047:009): Listener Aya Cash, age 17, takes a support call from an anonymous youth
during her shift at Youthline, 1999
(L2000:047:012): Violeta Perez, age 21, hugs her boyfriend who has been confined to a
wheelchair since he was shot in an incident of gang violence, 1999
(L2000:047:018): Youthline listener Ruth Barajas, age 18, role-plays a "support" telephone call
with a student during a community outreach event in Bayview-Hunters Point, a poor
neighborhood in San Francisco, 1999
(L2000:047:023): Youthline listener Aya Cash, age 17, in her basement room in the house she
shares with her mother, a poet, 1999
Aya, an aspiring actress, gets ready for school, looking for books and other necessities under
piles of clothes and teenage artifacts.
(L2000:047:026): Ayana Matthews, 17, talks to her sister on the phone outside their apartment
in Bayview-Hunters Point, 1999
Joan Liftin (United States, b. 1935)
Eighteen 16x20" black-and-white gelatin silver prints of African Americans and Haitian Americans
and their communities in Delray Beach, Florida. They are involved with several volunteer
organizations to provide community policing, assist immigrants, and promote cultural
understanding.
Box 27
(L2000:035:001): Swinton Avenue, Delray, Florida, Haitian Quarter, 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:035:002): Interior, Haitian American home, 1999
(L2000:035:003): The Beach at Night, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:035:004): Daughter of one of the dancers rehearsing for Haitian Flag Day ceremonies,
1999
(L2000:035:005): Fourth of July picnic, 1999
(L2000:035:006): Backyard, Sunday morning, 1999
(L2000:035:007): Robert Augustin and his baby sister, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:035:008): Near Delray Beach, Florida, 1999
(L2000:035:009): Fremiaud Basse holds photo of his fiancé, who drowned along with forty
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other Haitians when their boat capsized twelve miles off Florida shore, near Delray, 1999
(L2000:035:010): Fourth of July church picnic, near Delray Beach, Florida, 1999
(L2000:035:011): Delray Beach, Florida, 1999
Not in book or traveling exhibition.
(L2000:035:012): Haitian patrol volunteer Wilner Athouriste, 1999
(L2000:035:013): MAD DADS, an antidrug and volunteer street-patrol group, Delray, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:035:014): Restaurant Chez Zette, 1999
(L2000:035:015): Good Friday Procession; a particularly mournful event this year, coming soon
after the drowning of forty Haitians on boats making for Delray, 1999
(L2000:035:016): Member of the storefront congregation of Adner Elmon, 1999
(L2000:035:017): Haitian apartment, Delray, 1999
(L2000:035:018): Palm Beach County Stockade Correctional Facility, 1999
Reagan Louie (United States, b. 1951)
Sixteen 20x24 and 30x38 chromogenic prints of individuals in north Philadelphia involved with the
Village of Arts and Humanities, a community effort focused on reclaiming declining
neighborhoods through educational programs, the arts, and community-based social services.
Box 32
(L2000:032:003): Casey Ayers (with blindfold) and Raheem Wilson play
pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey during a baby shower given for a teen mom at the Village, 1999
(L2000:032:007): An after-school art class, 1999
(L2000:032:008): Mosaic sculpture in Ile Ife Park, by Joseph "Jo Jo" Williams and James "Big
Man" Maxton, 1999
(L2000:032:009): Angel Alley murals designed by Lily Yeh: "Angel Alley" (left) mosaic
created by James "Big Man" Maxton and "Angel Eyes" (right) mosaic created by Carolyn
Overholt and Brother Mohammed, 1999
(L2000:032:011): Bahia Beasley and a woman tie ribbons on newly planted trees, 1999
(L2000:032:012): Village staff members Sally Hammerman and Andres Chamorro performing
with puppets on Earth Day, 1999
Box 40
(L2000:032:001): Inlaid tile and stone floor of Meditation Park, 1999
(L2000:032:002): James "Big Man" Maxton at home, 1999
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(L2000:032:004): Long View of the Village's Tree Farm, 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:032:005): Casey Ayers and Ora Eldridge at a teen group meeting, 1999
(L2000:032:006): Boy playing hide-and-seek in Ile Ife Park, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:032:010): Kitchen and entertainment center in a house being rehabilitated by the
Village, 1999
(L2000:032:013): Neighborhood resident Davore Henderson playing guitar, 1999
Box 45
(L2000:032:014): Lily Yeh works with a neighborhood boy in Fairhill Park, Cumberland and
Tenth, 1999
(L2000:032:015): "Magical Garden" tile mural designed by Lily Yeh, Warnock Street, 1999
(L2000:032:016): Girls playing on Germantown Avenue, 1999
Danny Lyon (United States, b. 1942), "Building on the Border"
Twenty 11x14 and 16x20" Cibachrome and black-and-white gelatin silver prints of Texan
farmworkers and their communities near the Mexican border. Founded by the Farmworker's Union
in 1991 to provide decent and affordable housing for farmworkers and their families, Proyecto
Azteca benefits these community members, who also volunteer for building projects.
Box 29
(L2000:009:001): The Valley. Elissa Villareal, Benito Castillo and Heidy Rios Aleman at the
All Valley Flea Market dance, 1999
(L2000:009:002): A historic marker for the spot "where American blood was shed on American
soil," along with murals from Mission, and the Farm Workers Union hall in Pharr, 1999
In 1847 Congressman Abraham Lincoln declared that "the spot" was not, nor never had been part
of Texas or the United States, and therefore could not justify an invasion of Mexico. This
unpopular sentiment ruined his political career for the next decade.
Box 40
(L2000:009:003): A farm worker, Rolando Garcia, sings into an onion, with the bus schedule
out of McAllen, 1999
(L2000:009:004): Homes and interiors at Colonia Jessups with Lauro Pérez preparing lunch at
the Proyecto Azteca site, 1999
Box 41
(L2000:033:001): María Lopez at home in a colonia near Alamo, Texas, 1999
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(L2000:033:003): At the All Valley Flea Market Dance, 1999
Not in book.
(L2000:033:004): Martha Rángel harvesting onions near Mercedes. Ms. Rángel carries her
immigration papers in her back pocket in case she has to show them to INS workers, 1999
(L2000:033:002): Aristeo Orta, a construction worker at Proyecto Azteca, 1999
(L2000:033:005): Noe Galindo, Colonia Jessups, near Monte Alto, 1999
(L2000:033:006): Farm worker in a field near Monte Alto, 1999
Not in book or traveling exhibition.
(L2000:033:007): The dance hall, All Valley Flea Market, 1999
(L2000:033:008): Epifanio Morales at Proyecto Azteca, 1999
Box 28
(L2000:033:009): Taco stand, downtown McAllen, 1999
Not in book.
Box 27
(L2000:033:010): Roberto Rodríguez's family near Edinburg, 1999
(L2000:033:011): Pay phone, San Juan, Texas, 1999
(L2000:033:012): Family at the flea market, Pharr, Texas, 1999
(L2000:033:013): Farm worker, a regular at the All Valley Flea Market dance, cutting cabbage,
1999
(L2000:033:014): At the All Valley Flea Market Dance, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:033:015): Farmers clear an onion field near Monte Alto, 1999
Not in traveling exhibition.
(L2000:033:016): Route 281, the Military Highway, 1999
The horizon shows the Rio Grande River, established as the border with Mexico after the War of
1848.
Sylvia Plachy (United States, b. 1943, Hungary)
Fourteen 16x20 and 20x24" gelatin silver prints documenting the training and work of community
doulas and midwives in Ithaca, N.Y., and the families who benefit from their support before,
during, and after childbirth.
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L2000:034:001: Jacqueline Shepard and another student in their doula class train for labor
support through role-playing, 1999
(L2000:034:002): Doula Jacqueline Shepard caring for Sunshin Gordon, 1999
(L2000:034:003): Jacqueline Shepard in her brother's backyard holds up portraits of her role
models, her mother and her sister, 1999
(L2000:034:004): Lise Golub, at a postpartum visit, delights in Olivia Gordon, a baby whose
birth she recently attended as a doula mentor, 1999
(L2000:034:005): Robert Gordon holds his new baby, Olivia, before she is taken to the nursery,
1999
(L2000:034:006): Olivia studies her father, Robert Gordon, minutes after being born, 1999
(L2000:034:007): Sunshin, Robert and Olivia Gordon pose for their first formal family portrait,
1999
(L2000:034:008): Jane Arnold, midwife, attends Sunshin and Robert Gordon hours before the
birth of their first child, 1999
(L2000:034:009): Robert Gordon holds Sunshin as first-time doula Jacqueline Shepard adds
support, 1999
(L2000:034:010): Sunshin Gordon resting between contractions, 1999
(L2000:034:011): Robert attending to Sunshin Gordon during a wave of pain, 1999
(L2000:034:012): Sunshin Gordon is comforted by the hands of midwife Jane Arnold and doula
Jacqueline Shepard, 1999
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(L2000:034:013): Robert and Sunshin Gordon hold their new firstborn, Olivia, 1999
(L2000:034:014): Jane Arnold, midwife, hands Sunshin and Robert Gordon their new baby,
Olivia, 1999
Eli Reed (United States, b. 1946)
Eighteen 16x20" framed gelatin silver prints of community volunteers and their friends in Eau
Claire, South Carolina.
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(L2000:031:001): Leroy Moss, a community worker and activist who is blind, at the recreational
center that is named in his honor, 1999
(L2000:031:002): Reverend Wiley Cooper teaching children about the many portrayals of Jesus,
1999
(L2000:031:003): Scott Trent Jr., former president of the Eau Claire Community Council,
looking at graffiti on the Norfolk-Southern railroad trestle on North Main Street, 1999
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(L2000:031:004): Henry Hopkins, local organizer and executive director of the Eau Claire
Community council, at a meeting on the prevention of violence, 1999
(L2000:031:005): An Eau Claire street at dusk, 1999
(L2000:031:006): Rhett Anders, current Eau Claire Community Council president and real
estate agent, in front of a historic local property, 1999
(L2000:031:007): Fran Potter, a member of the zoning board and former president of the Eau
Claire Community Council
(L2000:031:008): Reverend Wylie Cooper of Shalom and volunteers help rehabilitate the home
of an elderly resident, 1999
(L2000:031:009): Lee Bolton and a Shalom member do yard work as part of their housing
rehabilitation effort with the Eau Claire Community of Shalom, 1999
(L2000:031:010): Church members at Wesley United Methodist Church prior to a baptism
service, 1999
(L2000:031:011): Rotary Club Meeting, 1999
(L2000:031:012): Toliver's Mane Event barbershop, 1999
(L2000:031:013): Men's Breakfast Group leaving College Place United Methodist Church,
where they have met for over fifty years, 1999
(L2000:031:014): A local senior artist hands a bouquet she made to a visitor, 1999
(L2000:031:015): The South Carolina National Guard participates in a local parade in an Eau
Claire neighborhood, 1999
(L2000:031:016): Playing baseball at a trailer park on Fairfield Road, 1999
(L2000:031:017): Columbia chief of police Charles Austin, Sr. baptizes Brandon Hawkins at
Central Baptist Church, 1999
(L2000:031:018): Scott Trent Jr. has lived in the same house in Eau Claire for nineteen years,
1999
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