Many of the archive materials are only available in person - the archive boasts many books, publications, and other resources about sites around the world.
Kohler Foundation archivist Ann Gappmayer has been hard at work, plugging away to inventory and rehouse recently received documents and other SPACES archival materials so that they will be easily searchable. The SPACES archive, currently located in a secure warehouse in Sheboygan, Wis, is now open for researchers by appointment. While the SPACES website is growing and becoming more robust every day, thanks to our legions of supporters, many of the resources included within the archive, like library books and journals, are only available in person. Ann shared that one of the goals is to add all the books in the archive to WorldCAT, the world’s largest library catalog, so that researchers and interested parties can discover the assets in the archive more easily.
Ann double checks all files to remove staples and paperclips, which can rust. She then transfers everything into archival folders.
Ann has been delving into the vast amount of materials that lie within the “Art” Harold Beal collection. Art Beal created Nit Witt Ridge in Cambria Pines, California and SPACES Founder Seymour Rosen and includes an incredible depth of resources: extensive letters, photographs, and even Beal’s birth certificate.
The effects of newsprint and other non-archival materials are seen here in this manila folder.
Volume 122, Number 4 Issue of National Geographic from October 1962 that features an article with the Watts Towers.
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