Guide to the Coming Up On The Season Exhibition Records,
1996-2000.

Collection Number: 6831

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Julia Parker
Date completed:
January 2009
EAD encoding:
Evan Fay Earle, January 2009

© 2009 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Coming Up on the Season exhibition records, 1996-2000.
Collection Number:
6831
Creator:
Quantity:
3 cubic feet.
Forms of Material:
Audio Recordings, Legal Documents, Research Materials, Photographs
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Files relating to Coming Up on the Season: Migrant Farmwork in the Northeast include planning documents, research materials, contracts and agreements, and photographs. Also, cassette tapes of interviews with migrant workers.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Riverhill is a consulting firm that develops historical exhibition, interpretive plans for historic houses, and strategic plans for museums, historical societies, and heritage areas. Coming Up on the Season: Migrant Farmwork in the Northeast, an exhibition developed by Riverhill for the Cornell University Migrant Program explored the historic and contemporary role of farm workers and traveled to numerous venues throughout the Northeast for five years. The exhibition was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the New York State Council on the Arts.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Files relating to Coming Up on the Season: Migrant Farmwork in the Northeast include planning documents, research materials, contracts and agreements, and photographs. Also, cassette tapes of interviews with migrant workers.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Riverhill.

Subjects:
Migrant agricultural laborers--New York (State)
Migrant agricultural laborers--New Jersey.
Migrant labor--New York (State)
Migrant labor--New Jersey.
Agricultural laborers--New York (State)
Agricultural laborers--New Jersey.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Coming Up on the Season exhibition records, #6831. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1940-1990
"Coming Up on the Season" object worksheets
 Box 1 Folder 1-3
1940-1960
"Coming Up on the Season" object worksheets,copies, photo, cassette tape
Box 1 Folder 4
1940-1960
"Coming Up on the Season" object worksheets o/s
Box 1 Folder 4a
2002-2003
Long Island Migrant
 Box 1 Folder 5
1996-2003
Long Island Migrant documents
 Box 1 Folder 6
2003
Documents re exhibit
 Box 1 Folder 7
Grant awards
 Box 1 Folder 8
1998-1999
Exhibit concept drawing
 Box 1 Folder 9
Migrant Exhibition Manual, crate list
 Box 1 Folder 10
"Coming Up on the Season"- exhibit walk-through
Box 1 Folder 11
2001-2003
Exhibition contracts, plans, details, correspondence
Box 1 Folder 12
Migrant Talk / MAAM
 Box 1 Folder 13
2002-2003
New Jersey Migrant
 Box 1 Folder 14
2003
Long Island Migrant
 Box 1 Folder 15-16
2000-2003
Objects/Images Migrant farm work
 Box 1 Folder 17-18
Exhibition text
 Box 1 Folder 19
2001
Object in Exhibition - Migrants
 Box 1 Folder 20
2001
Migrant workers script, Kathryn Grover original
Box 1 Folder 21
2001
Unmatched copies of proofs in exhibition - "Coming Up on the Season"
Box 1 Folder 22
Migrant photo proofs
 Box 1 Folder 23
2000
Script and proofs for "Coming Up on the Season"
Box 1 Folder 24
2001
Name draft, Kathryn Grover
 Box 1 Folder 25
1996-1998
Archive survey
 Box 1 Folder 26
2003
Luchando por Nuestro futuro Manual de Los Padres
Box 1 Folder 27
1995
Exploring African-American History Long Island and Beyond
Box 1 Folder 28
1995-1997
Migrant workers New York State
 Box 1 Folder 29
1997-1998
Migrant workers New Jersey
 Box 1 Folder 30
1997
Massachusetts
 Box 1 Folder 31
1997-1998
Connecticut
 Box 1 Folder 32
1985-2000
Research - Migrant workers
 Box 2 Folder 1
1999-2000
Registrar/Curator files
 Box 2 Folder 2
1998-2000
Contacts/Meetings
 Box 2 Folder 3
1987-2000
Geneseo Migrant Center
 Box 2 Folder 4
1999-2000
RMSC (Rochester Museum and Science Center) Alice Mathis
Box 2 Folder 5
1998-2000
Migrant workers interview release forms
 Box 2 Folder 6
2000
Migrant school programs
 Box 2 Folder 7
1998-2001
Migrant workers curriculum project
 Box 2 Folder 8
2001
Educational information
 Box 2 Folder 9
1997
Other Migrant exhibits
 Box 2 Folder 10
1995-1998
NEH - general
 Box 2 Folder 11
1996
NEH project directors (meeting and training)
 Box 2 Folder 12
1995-1999
Migrant/NEH proposal
 Box 2 Folder 13
2000-2002
Cornell "exhibit objects" photos/comments/etc.
 Box 2 Folder 14
2001
Hammond
 Box 2 Folder 15
2001
Possible venue contacts
 Box 2 Folder 16
Installation photos
 Box 2 Folder 17
New Jersey Historical Society venue - objects and etc. (Migrant)
Box 2 Folder 18
1998-2001
Press re Migrant exhibition
 Box 2 Folder 19
1997-2002
Migrant worker budgets
 Box 2 Folder 20
Migrant installation manual
 Box 2 Folder 21
2001-2002
Migrant - financial
 Box 2 Folder 22
2001
GANY (Gallery Association of New York) facilities report
Box 2 Folder 23
1996-1999
Migrants - Cornell University - general and financial
Box 2 Folder 24
2001
Reproduction permission - Migrant
 Box 2 Folder 25
2001
Loan agreements - Migrant workers
 Box 2 Folder 26
1999-2000
Migrant/NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) supplemental
Box 2 Folder 27
1996-2000
Migrant - other funders (not NEH)
 Box 2 Folder 28
1994-1999
Migrant interviews New York State
 Box 2 Folder 29
2000-2001
Coins of Change
 Box 2 Folder 30
1997-2000
Interviews - migrant workers I
 Box 2 Folder 31-33
1995-2000
Migrant exhibit venues
 Box 2 Folder 34
1995-2001
Engman, Herb - correspondence
 Box 2 Folder 35
1996-1997
Community field workers: resumes and c. v.'s
 Box 2 Folder 36
1998-2001
Correspondence/proposals
 Box 2 Folder 37
1995-1997
Migrants - advisory
 Box 2 Folder 38
Community Advisory Committee
 Box 2 Folder 39
1995-2001
Kathryn Grover
 Box 2 Folder 40
1997-2000
Grant applications - Migrant workers
 Box 2 Folder 41-43
2000-2001
Exhibit plan notebook
 Box 3 Folder 1-3
Exhibit text notebook
 Box 3 Folder 4
1998
Cornell Migrant Program NEH interviews of farm workers
Box 3 Folder 5-6