Rose Traines womens basketball plays

After metal artist Rose Traines died in 2020, we received over 70 cubic feet n of her materials from her family. Her work is found in the Park Library building at CMU, in the Mount Pleasant hospital, and multiple sites and museums throughout the US. 

Her collection had large amounts of duplicates and miscellaneous materials. Two students and I spent parts of several days doing a rough sort of materials and reboxing so we could shelve the collection. Just by eliminated duplicates, blanks, empty containers, publications, and blank greeting cards, we got her 70 plus cubic feet down to 28. Then we received an addition of another 20 or so cubic feet later. 

Mitchel is currently processing her collection, doing detailed work.  The images in the top of this blog entry are Rose's hand drawn copies of plays for women's basketball. This is the first example that we have like this in the collection. She did not play basketball on a  CMU team. She briefly attended MSU before CMU, so she would not have played there. These may be from a gym class at CMU or perhaps she played on high school team in her home town of Montpelier, Indiana. We will have to further investigate. And yes, we will remove the circular paper clip during processing.