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Ann-Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

The Luise V. Hanson Library on the campus 
of Waldorf College has been awarded a grant 
of $50,000 from the Roy J. Carver Charitable 
Trust of Iowa. The funds will enable Waldorf 
to purchase approximately 5,000 to 6,000 
volumes in support of the biology, business, 
and education programs. The Roy J. Carver 
Charitable Trust is the largest private founda­
tion in the State of Iowa, with assets totaling 
$300 million and annual grant disbursements 
of $13 million. It was established through the 
will of Roy J. Carver, a Muscatine industrialist 
and philanthropist. 

The International Guitar Research Archive 
(IGRA) at California State University­North­
ridge’s Oviatt Library has been awarded a 
grant of $23,200 by the Albert Augustine 
Foundation. IGRA contains a collection of 
American and foreign guitar music prints, 
guitar journalism, and correspondence re­
flecting the history of guitar in the United 
States from 1880 to the present. It is a 
unique, world­famous guitar music collec­
tion that contains more than 10,000 titles of 
19th­ and 20th­century editions, including 
material previously belonging to guitarists 
Andres Segovia and Laurindo Almeida. The 
Augustine Foundation sponsors the study 
and performance of classical guitar. It was 
founded by Rose Augustine, in honor of 
her husband Albert, who together worked 
in partnership with Andres Segovia and the 
DuPont Chemical Co. to develop the fi rst 
successful nylon guitar strings. The founda­
tion has previously granted the Oviatt Library 
$27,500 to fund the compiling of a database 
of IGRA holdings. The new grant will be 
used to develop a Web­based interface to 
enable researchers from around the world 
to easily access the IGRA Database. 

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Acquisitions 

A complete set of photographs of historic 
North American bank buildings have been 
donated to Columbia University’s Avery Ar­
chitectural and Fine Arts Library by the Par­
nassus Foundation. Conceived and initiated 
by Parnassus Foundation’s alumnus Raphael 
Bernstein, the commissions were undertaken 
in 1987 and 1988 by 11 distinguished Ameri­
can and Canadian photographers chosen for 
their creative abilities and the quality of their 
vision. Subjects range from the oldest surviv­
ing purpose­built bank in the United States 
(Bank of South Carolina, 1797) to postmodern 
skyscrapers (Cesar Pelli’s Norwest Center, 
Minneapolis, 1988). 

Archives from the New York Chamber 
of Commerce have been donated to Columbia 
University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 
The over 360 linear feet of materials document­
ing the history of the Chamber of Commerce 
track the history of the chamber from its 
establishment in 1768 through 1973, when it 
merged with the Commerce and Industry As­
sociation. The archives, which will be accessible 
for research in approximately two years, offer 
a view of the civic activities, economic vision, 
and political philosophy of New York’s busi­
ness leaders. New York Chamber of Commerce 
members helped mastermind the creation of the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal 
Reserve Bank, and New York’s subway system, 
as well as undertaking major conservation initia­
tives, including the development of the Croton 
Water system and the regulation of clean air. 
The archives include the minutes of committees 
and general meetings, correspondence between 
the chamber’s executive staff and similar orga­
nizations across the nation, and published and 
unpublished investigations of major problems 
facing New York City. Of particular interest are 
the records of arbitration cases that shed light 
on daily business operations in the 19th and 
early 20th centuries. 

324C&RL News April 2005

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