Strauss web site

Armed with goodies from my research in Cincinnati and San Francisco, I began working with Sudha, our graduate assistant, to build the web site about Strauss. Sudha created a basic design with areas to serve as placeholders for what could be a future full-blown archive. But right now the focus is on setting the story straight. Mike Baseheart will be contributing an introductory piece to explain the purpose. For what it's worth, these meager beginnings can be viewed in the Strauss directory on the Engineering Library web site.

I have discovered in my research that secondary sources are frustrating. They perpetuate stories that might have been mere imagination, or they build on facts that aren't exactly right. Thus I have focused as much as possible on primary sources. My dream would be to get a huge grant to digitize all the primary material and some secondary material I was working with, plus the treasures I haven't even seen yet. Among the latter would be material at the GGBHD, or even Strauss' own company files. Where are they?

Partners in such an enterprise would include for starters:
University of Cincinnati Archives (Kevin Grace)
Cincinnati Historical Society (Ann
American Jewish Archive (Kevin Profitt)
Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley
Transportation Archives, UC Berkeley
Water Resources Center Archives, UC Berkeley (Paul Atwood)
Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
Stanford Special Collections and Archives (Margaret Kimball)
GGBHD (Mary Currrie)
San Francisco Public Library History Room
CalTrans Archive, Sacramento
Chicago Public Library
Newberry Library
University of Chicago Library
Purdue University Archives
Purdue University

I notice that the American Experience "Golden Gate Bridge" production was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, dedicated to enhancing public understanding of technology. Perhaps they would be interested....