Series 2 - Scrapbooks and memorabilia

Identity area

Reference code

UTA 1070-B2017-0007-2

Title

Scrapbooks and memorabilia

Date(s)

  • 1983-2016 (Creation)

Level of description

Series

Extent and medium

1.6 m of textual records

Context area

Name of creator

(1941-2017)

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

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Scope and content

Professor Bliss describes his scrapbook project in this way: “In 1983 I began keeping a "scrapbook" folder, in which I deposited copies of all my newspaper and magazine articles, reviews of my books, programmes of meetings, invitations, tickets, and other personal and family memorabilia. A few years later I employed daughter Laura to do occasional secretarial work for me, and she became the keeper and organizer of the scrapbook file into formal scrapbooks, ten of which were filled. After Laura moved away, my secretary, Andrea Clarke, kept scrapbook folders, the results of which are in my 2006 Donation [B2006-0015]. I also kept a personal scrapbook file, which, after retirement from the university in 2006, became my only scrapbook file.”

From 1994 on, the “scrapbooks” consist of loose material of the same type of as in the previous volumes, only now the storage medium is archival folders.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

The arrangement of this series is chronological.

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Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

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      Uploaded finding aid

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      Notes area

      Note

      Newspaper columns and letters to the editor also appear in Series 8: Manuscripts and publications, and possibly elsewhere. Some of them may not be present in these scrapbooks.

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      Reference number

      B2017-0007/004(17) - /008(13)

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