Wikipedia:La Guardia and Wagner Archives

Welcome to the La Guardia and Wagner Archives GLAM page! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of New York City, and particularly exploring unique archival holdings such as the Edward I. Koch Collection.

Starting in 2021-2022, teams of student research fellows have been selected to work on Wikipedia entries relating to the Archives's LGBTQ Collections.

In past years, student teams served as "Ed Koch Scholars" from 2015-2016 and from January 2016-August 2017 conducting weekly research sessions with guidance from a project team of archivists and instructors. The first two teams focused their research on the creation of the entry on HIV/AIDS in New York City and related subjects. In 2017-2018, the student team worked on the issues of police brutality and NYPD history.

Read more about the history of this project here: Matsuuchi, Ann. "Connecting Wikipedia and the Archive". WikiStudies Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 40-64, Sept. 2017.

LGBTQ Collections and Political Histories

• La Guardia and Wagner Archives - please add info about newer collections with links to guides or exhibits. Y
• Thomas Duane; Danny Dromm;
• Rainbow Curriculum
• LGBTQ activist groups and collectives: Gay and Lesbian Democrats of America (GLDA); Lesbian Avengers^[1]
• International AIDS conference 2012;
• Dignity for All Students Act (DASA)
• Publications and media: Christopher Street Magazine
• LGBTQ legislation (the Archives has a great deal that can be used to make this better)
• LGBT activism in Queens: Queens Gays and Lesbians United
• Queens Pride Parade (lots of redlinks here)

2022 - women in City Council - incoming councilmembers - Tiffany Caban, Crystal Hudson, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Lynn Schulman

• LGBTQ New York City Council Democratic Primary winners(see Seat at the Table exhibit)
• New York City Council LGBT Caucus
• Journalists - Masha Gessen;
• More ideas on this growing task list

New York City History

• WikiProject New York City

Improving entries and adding relevant citations to archival materials in English Wikipedia

• Mayors of New York City articles

Improving entries and adding relevant citations to archival materials in English Wikipedia for NYC mayors.

Improving entries and adding relevant citations relating to 1980s activism by groups in NYC such as Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP, and filling out the history of HIV/AIDS in New York City

• Image donation

A collaboration between the La Guardia and Wagner Archives and project organizers to upload relevant images (both photographs and scanned documents) to Wikimedia Commons and categorize them so they can be utilized where appropriate in other Wikimedia projects (chiefly Wikipedia and Wikisource).

• Connecting archival collection finding aids with relevant entries.
• ---more here

The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, established in 1982, serves as a repository for NYC’s social and political history, which includes the largest collection of New York City mayoral papers. Archive records include the personal papers and official documents of Mayors Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Robert F. Wagner, Abraham D. Beame and Edward I. Koch, the records of the New York City Housing Authority, the piano maker Steinway & Sons, The Council of the City of New York and a Queens Local History Collection. Assets from these collections are regularly referenced in news stories, and studied by journalists, policy makers, and other researchers.

The La Guardia and Wagner Archives is based at CUNY's LaGuardia Community College.

For further inquiry and information about this GLAM project, please contact either Mozucat (talk) or Pharos (talk)