We’re on the boards!

Yes, highlights of the IPA Collection and Luther Gulick Papers now decorate a wall on the fifth floor of Baruch”s Newman Library at 151 East 25th St., (the same historic building, as we have written, that once housed Sam McClure’s irreverent upstart magazine and its staff of journalistic muckrakers back in the 1890s.) https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ipaprocessing/?s=muckrakers

Here’s archivist Steven Calco putting the finishing touches on the display, which went up shortly after Baruch officially announced the opening of the collection to scholars. However, a major part of it is still undergoing digitization for eventual online access.

It’s been a long haul, to say the least, since August 2014 when the collection first arrived at the Baruch Archives in more than 700 boxes looking like this…

…and this…

Now it looks like this!

So we take particular pride in the new exhibit that just skims the surface of the vast collection that traces the origins of the good-government revolution in America and the man who has been called “the leading reformer of the 20th century” — Luther Halsey Gulick III.

It’s worth a picture!