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  • 29.13. [Interviews:] Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Ti-Grace Atkinson: Her Speeches and Speechmaking--An Interview," 1973.
    Scope and Contents: Clippings re: Atkinson, offprint of "Ti-Grace Atkinson: Her Speeches and Speechmaking," published in Today's Speeches. Paper includes transcription of interview Reynolds conducted with Atkinson on February 2, 1973.

 

other examples of recently-processed collections where folder-level scope notes were used extensively include:

Betty Gram Swing papers

 

 

Using a Physical Description/Physical Facet tag for description at the folder level

If you are describing the physical object in a folder and not the contents of the folder, you should use a <physdesc><physfacet> tag at the folder level (mirroring our practice with memorabilia and audiovisual materials).

 

EXAMPLE: from Mary H. Page papers 

         2.4 Suffrage campaign? diary, n.d.   

        <physdesc><physfacet>White leather diary with pencil. Green and purple seal on front, and purple and green strap enclosure suggest this may have been English suffrage memorabilia? Only one page written on, with a note about "Mrs. Leonard." </physdesc></physfacet>

 

White leather diary with pencil. Green and purple seal on front, and purple and green strap enclosure suggest this may have been English suffrage memorabilia? Only one page written on, with a note about "Mrs. Leonard."

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If a diary is entirely about a person's health and the weather, but one day also details the death of President Kennedy, you can note the entry about JFK in a scope note at the folder level, and more generally describe the quotidian nature of the diary in the Scope and Content.

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