Hi y'all! My pop pop, Milton F Perry, left behind a boat load of unfinished work after his unexpected death 30 years ago. He was the curator for the Truman library in independence as well as the Jesse James home.
We have box after box of his diaries, pictures of the war room during the dropping of the atomic bombs in ww2, sketches and paint samples of the art work done by Thomas hart benton, unpublished books, coins, stamps, newspapers, Truman's diaries as well as my pop pops.
We want to properly archive and store them, transcribe the documents to digital forms, etc. We don't know where to start or who to talk to. So I figured I'd come to the place of answers and community, reddit.
Can anyone help us?
Uh...have you called the Truman Library yet? Because if you're not aware of it, they have significant collections of almost all of Truman's aides, and your pop pop was certainly one of them as he curated that museum!
And it's not just your pop pop's diaries (and tapes, and everything else) that they'd want; if you actually have some of Truman's diaries as well, that may be a major historical find since Ferrell's review of them indicates he kept them sketchily. If there are more out there that Ferrell didn't transcribe, this is significant.
So please, call them on Tuesday.