Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library audiovisual materials
Overview
Contains audiovisual materials collected by the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library, usually audio recordings related to drugs and counter-culture, including phonograph records, beta cassettes, video cassettes, published DVDs, and more.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1965-2009
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Special equipment or surrogate required; consult Houghton staff.
Extent
9.37 linear feet (26 boxes)Contains audiovisual collected by the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library, including phonograph records, beta cassettes, video cassettes, published DVDs, and more. usually audio recordings related to drugs and counter-culture. Julio Mario Santo Domingo collected mainly materials relating to drugs and counter-culture throughout the 1980s up until his death in 2009, but the phonograph records may include materials from beyond that time period, dating earlier in the twentieth century. Many of the video cassettes are taped recordings of television broadcasts.
Includes audiovisual and/or digital media: ; VHS tapes, beta tapes, cassette tapes, and DVDs.
Biographical / Historical
The Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library is the world’s largest private collection of material on altered states of mind. The collection was formed by Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr. (1957–2009), an investment advisor who resigned his business interests to devote himself to collecting.
Arrangement
Collection has been minimally processed. Materials have not been arranged.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Special equipment or surrogate required; consult Houghton staff.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2012M-76. Deposit, Julio Santo Domingo III, April 2012. Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
Processing Information
Processed by Betts Coup, 2019.
Processing Information
Boxes were not relabeled with call number and new number at the time of processing.
- Title
- Santo Domingo, Julio Mario, 1957-2009, collector. Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library audiovisual materials, circa 1965-2009 (MS Am 3331): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2019 July 29
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou03240
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Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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