Why isn each and every document described in the finding aid?
Again, it is a matter of time and money. Archives normally only provide “item level description” for the most rare and valuable of collections. Otherwise, most collections receive “folder level” description. We are working to deepen the level of description for our collections, and some of the more recently processed collections reflect that. Compare for instance the level of description in the B.I. Anderson Papers or the Hildreth Green Mau Papers with the older processing work of the Papers of Peter Stam, Jr. or the Franklin S. Dryness Papers.
