Chris Hoogendyk and Johanna Hoogendyk in 2019 in front of the original WCUU Museum where David Crockett Graham was the Director beginning in 1932.
Digital Repository
The Repository is at the Executive Office of the David Crockett Graham Historical Fund and synchronizes with the Fund’s Google Drive. Its content is available to anyone to read and includes letters, diaries, miscellaneous items, publications, and photographs. This is a work in progress. There are many things that have been digitized and need to be sorted and properly named before adding them to the repository. Work to digitize more materials is ongoing, including by our work-study scholar at Mount Holyoke College.
Note that Google directory listings put all folders first and then all files. The organization of the repository makes much more sense if the directory listing mixes folders and files alphabetically. You can do this by clicking on the set of three vertical dots at the right of the header line and selecting Mixed with files under Show folders.
Since many of the letters and diaries are in handwritten cursive, we are crowd sourcing transcription. At this time, access for transcription is limited to descendants of the Morey and Graham families. Instructions are in the repository. Access should be requested by contacting Chris Hoogendyk.
Original physical items corresponding to the digital files are in various family archives. Many of them have been collected together in the David Crockett Graham Archive Trust. As historically important items are identified in the Trust, they are transferred to the Fund, digitized, and will ultimately be transferred to a public archive. At this time Whitman College and Northwest Archives is the designated public archive. Other items that have been digitized are in the collections of individual family members. These are noted by the names on the digital files. Names ending in pwh or mjh are current examples.
Please note the Copyright and Use note at the top of each directory in the repository. Academic Fair Use is accepted and encouraged. Any bulk copying or publication requires prior permission. Contact Chris Hoogendyk with requests.