The professional accomplishments of Waldo Gifford Leland (1879-1966) are legendary: historian, surveyor of archival repositories in America and in France, father of the American Historical Association's Conference of Archivists, archival theorist, J. Franklin Jameson's key lieutenant in the battle for the establishment of the National Archives, second president of the Society of American Archivists, and long time head of the American Council of Learned Societies. This splendid classic brings together Leland's most significant writings concerning archives and archival methods, concentrating on the period from 1908 to 1920, when Leland was most involved in helping to create the American archives profession.

Introduction The Progressive Professional:
Waldo Gifford Leland (1879–1966). 1
Chapter 1 On Photography (1908) . 49
Chapter 2 The First Conference of Archivists (1909). . . . . . . 59
Chapter 3 First International Congress of Archivists and
Librarians (1910). 91
Chapter 4 The Fourth Annual Conference of
Archivists (1912). 131
Chapter 5 The National Archives (1912). 165
Chapter 6 Illinois Archives Building (1912–1913). 199
Chapter 7 Catholic Historical Societies (1917). 243
Chapter 8 The Archivist in Times of Emergency (1940). 261
Chapter 9 Historians and Archivists in the
First World War (1941). 277
Chapter 10 Recollections (1951). 299
Chapter 11 Reminiscences (1955) . 325
Epilogue Where’s Waldo Now?. 365
Bibliographic Essay . 369
Acknowledgments. 373
Index. 375