Join the Archivists Round Table of New York on Wednesday, September 20th 
for our first meeting of the 2006-2007 calendar!

Please RSVP to Leilani Dawson by Friday, September 15, 2006 
[log in to unmask] (recommended) or telephone:  (718) 222-4111 
x295. Please be reasonably sure that you can attend before responding. 

ART looks forward to bringing you another exciting year of programming, 
professional development, and networking! 
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Uncovering the Archives from 1785: The General Society of Mechanics and 
Tradesmen of the City of New York.
   
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
   
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen has cherished its historical 
records since its founding in 1785 by the master craftsmen of New York 
City, but few outsiders have seen more than published materials and 
typewritten excerpts.  In 2002, field archivists from the Robert F. Wagner 
Labor Archives at New York University uncovered a treasure trove of records 
from 1785 to the present. The collection was processed in 2005 with a grant 
from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.
    
Learn how a documentation strategy forged in 1984 brought forth this rich 
archival resource. Tour the General Society’s historic building, get a 
glimpse of selections from the archival collections, and learn more about 
what these records can tell us about the city’s past.
   
Janet Greene is Historian and Director of the Library of The General 
Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York.  Before 
assuming this post in 2003, Dr. Greene was Director of the Harry Van 
Arsdale Labor History Documentation Project at the Robert F. Wagner Labor 
Archives at New York University’s Tamiment Library.  Her goal at the 
General Society has been to make the rich history of this organization’s 
library and archival collections available to researchers, and to begin to 
interpret that past for the public.
   
Dr. Michael Stoller is Director of Collections and Research Services at the 
NYU Libraries and was acting director of the Wagner Archives at the time 
the documents that now make up the GSMT Archives were discovered. 
   
Tours of the Mossman Lock Collection will be conducted by the curator, John 
Erroll.  Dr. Erroll is also the Chair of the Library Committee, a member of 
the Board of Governors of the GSMT, and co-author of American Genius:  
Nineteenth Century Bank Locks and Time Locks, forthcoming in October.
   
Co-Sponsored by:        
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York and 
the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc.
   
Date:                            
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
   
Place:                           
The General Society, 20 West 44th Street (b/t Ave of the Americas and 5th 
Avenue)
   
Time:                            
5:30 - 6:30 pm Social and Tour
6:30 - 8:00 pm Program   
              
Directions:        
The facility is located in midtown Manhattan, not far from Bryant Park. By 
subway:; B, D, F, V to 42nd Street/Bryant Park; 7 to 5th Avenue; N,R,Q, W, 
1, 2, 3 to 42nd Street/Times Square.
   
Fee:                              
$4   Members   
$6   Non-members
   
RSVP:                          
To Leilani Dawson by Friday, September 15, 2006 [log in to unmask] 
(recommended) or telephone:  (718) 222-4111 x295. Please be reasonably sure 
that you can attend before responding. 
   
If you are person with a disability and need reasonable accommodations to 
attend this meeting, please contact Jocelyn Wilk at (212) 854-1338 at least 
7 days in advance so that we can make the appropriate arrangements.

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