Data Life Cycle Event(s) Type: Digital exhibition Label: Crossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981 Curator: Weimer, Larry. Project manager: Radick, Caryn . Name: The Arts
Data Life Cycle Event(s) Type: Finding aid Label: Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr. Date: 2008-01 Date: 2009-02 Detail: updated Creator: Lee, Soo Jung Creator: Weimer, Larry Creator: Zarrillo, John Name: Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr. Reference: http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/williams01f.html
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Type: Exhibition section
Name: The Arts
Detail: "As Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, I am, of course, concerned with a broad range of subjects of importance to large segments of our population.One of those is Federal Support of the arts and humanities in general , and of museums in particular." Harrison A. Williams Jr. Remarks before American Association of Museums, 2 April 1974.Senator Williams was a member of the Special Subcommittee on the Arts, which served under the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. This subcommittee was charged with considering the formation of an organization to assist with the growth and development of the arts in the United States. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) were signed into law in September 1965. Williams later assisted New Jersey associations seeking funding from the NEA and NEH.
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Detail: The office of the Mayor of Cape May acknowledges Senator Williams's support for a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to document the Victorian structures of Cape May.
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Type: Finding aid
Name: Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
Detail: Finding aid provides description of materials in the Harrison A. Williams collection
CollectionCrossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections
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