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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The University of Regina Archives is pleased to announce the completion of the arrangement and description of the Theodore Allen Heinrich fonds.
A truly fascinating individual, Heinrich was born in Tacoma, Washington, USA in 1910. Educated at the University of California and at Cambridge University (Kings College), Heinrich studied philosophy, art, and art history. A member of a prominent family, Heinrich embarked on extensive travels in Europe and Asia during the late 1920s and early 1930s were he became a regular in "high society" circles.
After a short-lived teaching career Heinrich began training with the US Army. Recognized for his academic and intellectual potential, in 1943 he entered the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie in Maryland. Following completion of his training he was sent to Europe were he served as a junior officer on the Intelligence staff of General Eisenhower. At the end of the war, he was transferred to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Division of the American army and played a significant role in the effort to repatriate looted and displaced works of art.
After his discharge from the American army in 1950 Heinrich was curator at various institutions in the United States and Canada. These included the Henry E. Huntington Art Gallery in Pasadena, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Heinrich taught at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1964 and 1965 and was professor of art history at York University from 1965 until his death in 1981.
The records cover the period from 1912 to 1981 and include his voluminous, correspondence, travel journals, publications, and notes. Also included are records relating to his intelligence training and activities and a large amount of material on his time with MFAA.
In addition to providing a complete record of a scholarly career, this collection provides an account of restitution efforts for Nazi looted art in the aftermath of World War II. The collection also provides detailed information relating to Canadian art, its institutions, management, and instruction. This collection will be of significant interest to students and researchers of art history and art repatriation at the end of World War II.
This arrangement and description project was made possible with financial assistance from the Government of Canada through the National Archives of Canada and the Canadian Council of Archives.
The complete finding aid for the Theodore Allen Heinrich fonds is available in Microsoft Word97 format on the University of Regina Archives webpage:
http://www.uregina.ca/library/libraries/Archives/index.html
The Society of American Archivists, in collaboration with the Canadian Council of Archives, is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore the process of reconciling the two principal North American standards for archival description with each other and with a broader international standard. The anticipated final product of this project will be a manual of archival description which reconciles RAD and APPM within the structure of ISAD(G).
It is expected that the resulting standard will also form the basis of a content standard for EAD, as well as laying the foundation for the development of broader and more comprehensive international standards.
Such standards will contribute significantly to more consistent description of archival holdings in repositories around the world, while at the same time greatly enhancing user access to these holdings.
This investigation of a Canadian/U.S. Manual of Archival Description will be a joint effort of the Society of American Archivists and the Canadian Council on Archives. The main part of this project will take place between July 2001 and June 2002, with the first meeting planned for Toronto in July.
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