Series

CLIPPINGS & INFORMATION SUBJECT FILES,, 1959-1970.

Dates

1959-1970.

Scope and Contents

CLIPPINGS & INFORMATION SUBJECT FILES covers not just newspaper clippings but also HAW's speeches, correspondence and published articles about the topic at hand. Materials in this series for the most part were originally found in yellow labeled folders categorized as either Personal or Subject. The subject matter in Personal ranged from "Articles by the Senator" to HAW's "Voting Record," and in Subject ranged from "Aging" to "Youth & Delinquency." Generally, the material in this series references HAW or otherwise reflects HAW's involvement with the subject matter. The series is useful for providing a sampling of press coverage of HAW, his publicly articulated positions on various issues, and his various legislative activities during the 1960s.

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Undetermined .

Physical Description

(2.25 cubic feet)

Additional Description

Arrangement

CLIPPINGS & INFORMATION SUBJECT FILES is arranged following the original order in two sets, Personal and Subject. Each set is arranged alphabetically by the subject noted on the yellow labeled folders and roughly in chronological order inside the folders. The date range varied by folder but the general range is from 1959-1970. HAW's staff also generally labeled the clippings with the subject but when they did not the processing archivist penciled in the subject on the lower left corner of the back of the photocopied article. To conserve space the second set, Subject, was foldered with multiple topics in each folder. Articles concerning the same topic are grouped together within a folder but are not clipped together.

Related Series

Clippings concerning HAW from the 1950s through 1964 were collected by his mother; these can be found in the SCRAPBOOKS series of the Williams Family sub-group. Some clippings regarding HAW can also be found in the SUBJECT FILES, particularly in the Administrative Assistants and Press Office Files sub-series. Clippings for the period after the date range of this series (i.e., after 1970) can be found in the CLIPPINGS series and on MICROFILM.

Articles, floor statements, speeches, etc. by HAW can be found in several other series. Floor remarks are found throughout the collection, perhaps most readily accessible in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SPEECH & BILL FILES series. Speeches are most readily found in the SPEECHES series, although that series is missing at least some material from the early 1960s. PRESS RELEASES & NEWSLETTERS includes a folder of "manuscripts" (i.e., HAW articles) from 1963. NATIONAL INFORMATION FILES, NEW JERSEY INFORMATION FILES, and LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE FILES include reference material that is not principally focused on HAW, but those series do include HAW-related clippings, statements, and the like.

Appraisal and Discard Information

CLIPPINGS & INFORMATION SUBJECT FILES were found scattered across eight boxes of accessioned material. Most of the files contained original news clips glued to sheets of paper, although there were some photocopied clippings. Clippings already photocopied were kept by the archivist; the rest were sampled for each subject by topic and date, and the originals were discarded after being photocopied. All non-clippings, like correspondence and articles, were kept. Articles found in bulky magazines were extracted from the magazine along with the title page for source information, with the rest of the magazine discarded.

Repository Details

Part of the New Brunswick Special Collections Repository

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Contact:

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