Highlander Research and Education Center Records, 1917-2017

 
Contents List
 + Part 14 (M2019-039; Audio 515A/245): Additions: Highlander Education and Research Center Archives, 1931-1997

Administrative/Restriction Information

Access Restrictions

RESTRICTED: Access to electronic records in Part 15 (M2021-023) available only onsite.


Use Restrictions

Permission to quote from the papers of any person still living must be obtained from that person; all literary property rights are retained by the Highlander Research and Education Center. Unauthorized reproduction of the microfilm portions of the collection is prohibited, as is the publishing of any unpublished material from the collection without permission from the Highlander Research and Education Center.

Copyright Restrictions: Individuals or corporate bodies other than the Wisconsin Historical Society hold the copyright(s) for portions of photographs in this collection. Permission from the appropriate copyright holder(s) may be required before reproducing items from this collection.


Custodial History

The bulk of this collection was received by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from Highlander in April 1971. Most of the tape recordings arrived in 1972 and most of the photographs in 1973. Major additions were received in 1977. Subsequent additions arrived between 1983 and 2010. See Acquisition Information for more details. The files from the Folk School years traveled from Monteagle to storage in Myles Horton's home in Knoxville and from there to New Market, before coming to Wisconsin. Portions of the files from the early Knoxville period were stolen in an office break-in while in Knoxville.

A significant portion of these Papers was loaned by Highlander to the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, for organizing and copying about 1967. At the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, this portion has been re-organized and integrated with the other papers in this collection. It came primarily from the materials now in the Administrative File, the Subject File, and the Publications series. In almost all cases, the materials Tennessee had copied were only part of the materials on any topic. For instance, some materials from a specific workshop had been loaned to Tennessee and others had not; in some cases, one page of a letter had been loaned and a second page had not. This was undoubtedly because what now constitutes the Subject File was in great disarray as stored at Highlander and received at Wisconsin.


Acquisition Information

Presented by the Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, Tennessee, 1971-1973, 1977, 1983-1984, 1990, 2000, 2004; Claudia Lewis, New York, New York, 1973; Mrs. Susan Thompson, Berkeley, California, 1974; and William Ray Turner, Tracy City, Tennessee, 1978; Myles Horton, New Market, Tennessee, 1988; Leslie Orear, Chicago, Illinois; Betty De Losada, 2008; Charis Horton, Sherman Oaks, California, 2010; and papers separated from the Ralph Helstein papers in 1999. Highlander Education and Reseach Center Archives (Part 14) were transferred to the Wisconsin Historical Society following the 2019 fire of the Main Office building in Tennesee. Accession Number: M71-091, M71-350, M72-008, M72-062, M72-103, M72-267, M72-451, M72-487, M73-095, M73-106, M73-213, M73-263, M73-469, M74-511, M77-427, M79-66, M83-030, M84-213, M88-362, M90-345, M99-039, M99-091, M2000-186, M2004-203, M2008-091, M2010-108, M2019-039; M2021-023; M2022-018


Processing Information

Original Collection (Part 1) processed by Karen Baumann and Gail Engels, 1973. The 1977 Additions (Part 2) processed by Karen Baumann, Jill Daugherty, Lynn Goldman, and Steve Wempner, 1979-1980. Additions (Part 3-13) were processed by Wisconsin Historical Society Staff. Highlander Education and Research Center Archives, 1931-1997 (Part 14) were processed by the Archivist(s) at Highlander and rehoused by Jacob Esselstrom. Further additions (Part 15 and 16) were processed by Emil Hoelter and Jacob Esselstrom from 2019 to 2022.