Up on the 25th Floor

Two weeks ago, Carol from Loomis Village was nice enough to take me down to Applewood and Reed's Landing. While we won't be working within these communities for a while, it was necessary for me to find out how much material is housed at each place. Based on what we saw, both Applewood and Reed's Landing have about the same amount as Loomis House/Loomis Village. The conclusion here is that the series' for the archive will be split into living community. That means that the organization of the materials will look something like this.

The addition of the 'Loomis CEO' series is necessary because after Loomis Village was built some of the paperwork has to do with both Loomis House and Loomis Village. As you can imagine, things get more complicated by the time that Applewood and Reed's Landing join the bunch.

As for the boxes that I have from Loomis Village- I am still doing the inventory. I have been going through each box and making a list of all of the folders inside. When I come across folders that need to be removed (either empty or content that we don't want) I am putting them aside to be sent back to Loomis. I have done 9 boxes so far along with a few stray smaller boxes and binders, miscellaneous stuff. I am about half way done with this step.

As an example, here is the list from Box #8:

ID Marks: History

History Committee (unlabeled, crossed out)

History

Newspaper Articles

Loomis Village History

Undated Histories

Organization 1960's

Organization 1970's

Organization 1980's

Organization 1990's

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1976

1975

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1986

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

Misc. Newsletters

Strategic Planning Committee Loomis House

William S. Loomis

Board Lists

Two white binders with photographs/Obituaries 1960's

I think that this box is one of the most interesting; it is labeled 'History', and although it is only half the size of the other long boxes I have, it probably contains the most information about how Loomis got to be what it is today. I have not been able to actually go through the folders yet- the titles you see here are all I've seen of what is actually in the box. I can't wait to be able to go through this one with a fine comb!

Before I can go through anything, I have to finish this inventory! The plan is to have that done in the next week or so. By next Wednesday, I should have a better idea of what the time frame will be.

Thanks for reading!