About manuscript research,at Academic & Publisher Research Regarding letters, diaries, unpublished works, you may engage us to call for and peruse unpublished materials in manuscripts and special collections and describe for you the substantive contents of file folders. You can then decide what you need and we can estimate time and cost of our further work, OR, we can reserve the materials for you to study and copy at the library. If we retrieve and copy for you, the more we know about your research questions, the better. We will include archival citations for your endnotes.
Our home office in residential Washington, DC is walking distance to the information riches of the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institutions, Archive of American Art, the National Gallery, Washingtoniana room at MLK, and other repositories. We do not assess trip charges to most research facilities within the District of Columbia. For one-day projects, we typically schedule from noon to noon to benefit from overnight services and "changing of the guard." We typically send copies of items found at the Library of Congress within 48 hours.
SOME CLIENTS: Viking Penguin, copyright research on Harlem Renaissance authors; University of Illinois, newspaper research 1920s; US Holocaust Museum, photograph research, 1940s; EDI, Mexican War project, maps and pictures; University of Wisconsin, Isolationist movement 1930s-'40s; DocFilm, University of Chicago, silent film music, 1920s. New Yorker Magazine, Central America, 1980s; ADC, 18th Century desks; Washingtoniana, OWI photographs; Snickersnee Press, artist biography, fine arts images; Asian film history; Wingspread Foundation, Women of World War II, Yale, performing arts photographs; University of Toronto, manuscripts of a congressman, 1960s. Manhattan Theater Club, wardrobe/makeup consultation; Tibetan language texts. Research for individual writers and scholars including those needing a few or a great many articles or images.
Anyone may engage our research assistance whether affiliated with an academic institution, publisher, museum, business, organization or as an individual (we occasionally steer people elsewhere). Students, we are not a term paper service. We can help you to enjoy the pleasure of doing your own unique research project. |
