Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Organization

This collection is organized into five Series: I. National Office, II. Meetings, III. Publications, IV. Public Affairs, and V. Committees. Each of these series is further divided into the following sub-series.

Series I. National Office. Boxes 1–35

Sub-series:

1. Correspondence
2. Reports
3. Agendas
4. Minutes
5. Articles of Incorporation
6. Bylaws & Constitution
7. Accounts
8. Bank Records
9. Invoices and Receipts
10. Lease
11. Rosters
12. Administrative Procedures
13. Tax Forms
14. Time Sheets
15. Ledgers
16. Awards
17. American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Proposed Merger
18. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
19. Placement Service
20. Nominations and Elections
21. Membership
22. Photos
23. Videotape

Series II. Meetings. Boxes 36-55

Subseries:

1. Annual Meetings
2. Regional Meetings
3. Summer Research Conference
4. ASCB/EMBO Meetings
5. ASCB/American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
6. International Congress of Cell Biology (ICCB)
7. ASCB/American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
8. Programs
9. Announcements

Series III. Publications. Boxes 55-64

Subseries:

1. Book Order
2. Editorial Policy Committee
3. Invoices
4. Publications Committee
5. A guide to Opportunities in Cell Biology
6. Journal of Cell Biology (JCB)
7. Journal of Cell Regulation (JCR)
8. Rockefeller University Press (RUP)
9. News Releases
10. Printed Matter

Series IV. Public Affairs. Box 65

Subseries

1. Legislative Oversight Committee
2. Public Affairs Committee
3. Public Information Committee
4. Public Policy Committee

Series V. Committees. Boxes 65-75.

Sub-series

1. Education Committee
2. Minorities Affairs Committee
3. Women in Cell Biology

Provenance and Acquisition Information

Donated by the American Society for Cell Biology on March 30, 1995.

Processing Information

This collection was processed under the supervision of Marcia Frank Peri and completed in April 2000. The accession of the records of ASCB arrived in 85 boxes and 3 steamer trunks. While the records from later years were in reasonably good order, those for the period prior to the establishment of the National Office were extremely disordered. This was not surprising, because records from the early years were passed from officer to officer and from place to place. It was therefore determined that the organization of these records would follow from the order discernable in the later materials and along the lines of the committees structure set out in the ASCB management packet. This arrangement left the bulk of the disordered materials in one series, National Office. These documents were then arranged by activity. Thus, correspondence for all officers were kept together, as were reports, minutes, accounts, awards, nominations and so forth. When necessary this subseries was further subdivided by subject or date. For example, in the case of the correspondence it was necessary to further organize the documents by officer. Multiple copies have been disposed whenever there were more than two copies of a given document as have old checks and checkbooks.

Related Materials: Records of the Society for Developmental Biology, the American Society for Microbiology, the American Association of Immunologists, the American Type Culture Collection, and the International Union of Immunological Societies, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.