50 Years/50 Collections: Etheline Ross Cochran and Working Class Representations in the Archives
Historically, the contents of American archives have largely been reflective of the educated, upper and middle classes. Throughout history, the elite have possessed the resources to create, document, and preserve their histories in archives. The public has also been complicit in this selective archival vantage point because they create personal notions of whose legacy is considered “valuable.” The collecting policies of archives and archivists reflected, and to a certain exte