Presented by Trevor Alvord at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 18th - April 21st, 2012, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Session: Archival Collections Case Studies The digitization of historic archival collections can present a daunting array of challenges. Often archives were collected with poor documentation and little information about the creators or contributors to the collection. The processing of these archival collections sometimes requires special subject area expertise due to the content or special staffing considerations due to the sheer size of the project. This session focuses on three cases in which archival collections are being processed. Each presenter will discuss the special challenges within their own institutions’ collection and the solutions they have developed in such areas as copyright, workflow, cataloging, and assembling expert teams. MODERATOR: Heather Lowe, California State University San Bernardino PRESENTERS: • Trevor Alvord, James Madison University “Delivering oral histories” • Claire Dienes, Metropolitan Museum of Art “A 35mm collection assessment & digitization initiative at The Metropolitan Museum of Art” • Shalimar Fojas White, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection “The Artamonoff Business: Using Collections Research for Outreach and Strategic Communication"

5. 1924: Southern Appalachian
National park Committee &
Shenandoah National Park
Association
1926: Congress passes bill
creating the National Park

9. 1935: In December the Park
officially opens
1936: President Roosevelt
dedicates the Park in July
1939: Skyline Drive is
completed

13. The Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection, SdArch SNP, 1964-1999, consists of
135 interviews of people who were living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia prior to
the creation of the Shenandoah National Park. The interviews conducted primarily by
Dorothy Noble Smith (now deceased) were part of her research for Recollections: The
People of the Blue Ridge Remember . Additionally, members of the Potomac Appalachian
Trail Club, park collaborators Eugene and Diane Zior Wilhelm, Darwin Lambert, and others
participated in conducting interviews.
Of the original 135 interviews donated to James Madison University's Special Collections by
the United States Department of the Interior: National Park Service 90, or 67%, were
accompanied with the proper release forms. This leaves only 45 interviews, or
33%, without.
Because 67% of the materials donated were accompanied with the proper documentation
we feel it is within reason and good faith to assume that at some point all of the proper
documentation was taken and did accompanied the oral interviews. And that through time
and the nomadic nature of the collection the documentation was severed and lost from the
present compilation of documentation currently housed in James Madison University's
Special Collections.
Further more we recognize the historic value of these interviews, not only to the research
needs of James Madison University affiliates, but also to the surrounding community, and
the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Therefore we propose placing in good faith all
135 oral interviews in their entirety, with accompanying transcripts and images, online in a
forum that is unrestricted to public consumption.

14. § 8.01-40. Unauthorized use of name or picture of any
person; exemplary damages; statute of limitations.
A. Any person whose name, portrait, or picture is used
without having first obtained the written consent of such
person, or if dead, of the surviving consort and if none, of
the next of kin, or if a minor, the written consent of his or
her parent or guardian, for advertising purposes or for the
purposes of trade, such persons may maintain a suit in
equity against the person, firm, or corporation so using
such person's name, portrait, or picture to prevent and
restrain the use thereof; and may also sue and recover
damages for any injuries sustained by reason of such use.
And if the defendant shall have knowingly used such
person's name, portrait or picture in such manner as is
forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this chapter, the
jury, in its discretion, may award exemplary damages.
B. No action shall be commenced under this section more
than twenty years after the death of such person.
§ 18.2-216.1. Unauthorized use of name or picture of any person; punishment.
A person, firm, or corporation that knowingly uses for advertising purposes, or for the purpose of trade,
the name, portrait, or picture of any person resident in the Commonwealth, without having first obtained
the written consent of such person, or if dead, of his surviving consort, or if none, his next of kin, or, if a
minor, of his or her parent or guardian, as well as that of such minor, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and be fined not less than $50 nor more than $1,000.

15. SdArch SNP-23 Elza Cave March 30, 2009
Mr. Cave identifies his paternal grandfather as Henry Cave and his parents as Eliza Colvin Cave
and James Ashby Cave.
An online marriage record matches this information, confirms his birth year as 1907, his given
name as Elza, and his wife as Lula Breeden Cave.
GROOM: CAVE, ELZA ALFRED AGE: 19 POB: MADISON CO FATHER: CAVE,
ASHBY
MOTHER: CALVIN, ELIZA
BRIDE: BREEDEN, LULA AGE: 21 POB: MADISON CO FATHER: BREEDEN TOMMIE
MOTHER: CAVE, EFFIE
DOM: 1926 JULY 29 BOOK 2 PG 70
http://www.geocities.com/monsno_leedra/Madison_Co_Va.html
The marriage record indicates that Mrs. Cave was born around 1905, and the 1910 US Census
records a Lula Breeden, daughter of Thomas and Ethel, who was about 6 at the time.
The SSDI records several Lula Caves in Virginia, but none who were born around 1905 or who
were still living at the time of the 1978 interview. It does list a “Lulu” Cave, however, who
would match the available data on several different points.