`docs/wichita-request-DRAFT.md`

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# DRAFT — NOT SENT
**To:** Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives — specialcollections@wichita.edu
**From:** Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
**Subject:** Research request — export of the Paul Conrad Cartoon Collection (MS 90-18) description

Dear Special Collections staff,

I am compiling a non-commercial, metadata-only index of Paul Conrad's editorial cartoons (no images reproduced; every record links back to the holding institution).

The Cartoon Collection of Paul Conrad (MS 90-18) in your ArchivesSpace lists titled Los Angeles Times cartoons, chiefly 1968-1971. Automated access to archivesspace.wichita.edu is behind a bot-protection challenge, which we respect. Our index currently marks roughly 200 of your items as "pending direct verification" because we could not read them from your site directly.

Could you share the collection's description as an EAD or CSV export (title, date, box/folder, identifier per item)? That would let us verify those records against your authoritative data and credit Wichita State properly.

Thank you,
Steve Abrams