Posts
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A letter in verse, proposing the squirrel as the totem of the scholar’s clan.
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The text of “Barnwoggler’s Invention”, Binkley’s 1926 satire of librarian/researcher relations.
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The end of Binkley’s 18 months in Europe; he sails home in time for Christmas, surviving a collision at sea.
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Binkley’s time in Europe is almost at an end. He continues collecting materials in England, goes to the theatre, and prepares to return home.
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Binkley arrives in London to continue collecting wartime publications, and acquires two large propaganda collections from the British government.
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In Binkley’s last month in Paris he collects materials from French societies and makes a last visit to the Alliod family in Lyon.
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Binkley settles into the work of collecting materials for the Hoover War Library in Paris, and spends weekends touring castles in the Loire valley.
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Binkley starts work in Paris collecting Peace Conference propaganda for the Hoover War Library.
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Being hired to work on the Hoover War Library collections sets Binkley on his career path.
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A quiet month, mostly in Lyon; life with the Alliods; a trip to Avignon
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Out of money in Lyon; Easter; a trip to Strasbourg; Berthe Fischer; more opera.
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RCB leaves his ambulance unit and commences his university studies, first at Dijon and then at Lyon.
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Hopes for Red Cross mission in Germany; on leave in Paris; assignment to University of Dijon.
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Ravitaillement around Château-Thierry; French lessons; on leave on the Côte d’Azur.
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A wrap-up of the series, summarizing Binkley’s accomplishments in 1929.
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Experiences of at least some of S.S.U. 578 on 11 November, 1918, in Aix-les-Bains, as told by Dan Evans; and what the Armistice meant to Binkley.
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Why did Binkley not take more interest in computational technologies?
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What Binkley thought about fascism after the summer in Rome.
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The relationship between Bob and Frances, as revealed in their letters after Bob’s departure from Rome.
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A letter from a friend describes an encounter with one of the Famous Five.
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Experiences with commercial flight in the 1930s.
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A letter conveying Binkley’s ideas on the value of training in history for undergraduates, to the students and to the culture.
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Binkley’s ideas influenced his Stanford friend Sidney Robertson in her folk music collecting projects.
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Binkley presses the library to acquire the Stenographische Protokolle of the now-abolished Austrian parliament.
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With Bob gone, Frances and the baby experience Rome in the autumn.
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In 1937 a short film of the union catalogue process was made.
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In archives “destruction is the necessary correlation to preservation”.
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The first steps of the Social Science Research Council toward establishing the Joint Committee on Materials for Research.
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Binkley confronts the warring historians of the Kriegsschuldfrage: Barnes, Fay and Schmitt.
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First impressions of Smith College.
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Binkley’s return to New York, without Frances and the baby.
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A comparison of the published and unpublished versions of “New Tools” shows that Binkley’s anti-Fascism was a part of his agenda in writing it.
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A few tidbits.
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A radio course on European history, from 1815 to the present, given the year after Binkley’s arrival in Cleveland.
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Some sample prints from Frances Binkley’s photographic training, 1938-40.
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A few more sources, including some video footage of the delegates to the World Bibliographic Congress in Rome.
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Links to the two manuals on documentary reproduction that Binkley produced in 1931 and 1936, digitized in HathiTrust.
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A little extra context for the In Memoriam lecture.
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A talk given at Binkley’s memorial service by one of his colleagues from the History Dept. at Flora Stone Mather College.
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A glimpse into how Binkley’s academic and technical interests interacted.
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Google Streetview of Binkley’s office in Cleveland.
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A view of the volume of Binkley’s selected papers, from Internet Archive.
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A prank at the Binkley’s apartment in the West Village, involving the poet Hal White.
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An attempt to bring together the threads of Binkley’s work, so far as I’ve discovered them in this blog.
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The Binkleys’ life in Rome away from the Congress: classes, an excursion to Naples, and research, including the completion of the article “Ten Years of Peace Conference History”.
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Evidence for an unpublished 1926 short story about a machine that automates the academic research process.
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In 1930 Binkley proposed to the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II that he should defuse the war guilt question by demanding a trial, as required by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
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A few incidents at the Congress, and an assessment of the outcomes, with a digression on an early Belgian/French microfilm projector company “La Photoscopie”.
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Binkley’s contribution to the development of copyright law, and how it applies to his own works.
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Binkley’s description of an incident during his service in a US ambulance unit in France, helping French refugees return to their homes in the winter of 1918-19.
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The text of a 1935 speech by Binkley for the library school at Western Reserve University, covering some of the same ideas as “New Tools”.
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The Binkley’s trip from New York to Rome and the beginning of the Congress.
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