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{"value"=>"<p>Series III documents Wolfe's investigative process as a journalist and novelist employing the techniques of saturation reporting, the observation of events and subjects over an extended length of time. The bulk of the research files consist of stenography notebooks with interviews, scene observations, and notes on background research in published sources. Some of the stenography notebooks are labeled \"Books of Numbers,\" especially those that date after the early 1970s, though the content does not differ. Many of Wolfe's notes are handwritten using a personalized form of Gregg shorthand. Notebook covers are often titled with brief descriptions of their contents, but may also include notes on topics not reflected in the title, especially those from the 1960s and 1970s. Topics correlate to Wolfe's projects for the time period, and include youth culture, art, journalism, the life of the writer and the artist, the cultural milieu of the mid-century decades, architecture, computer technology, neuroscience, Darwinism, and evolution.</p> <p>Research files may also include library call slips showing books and periodicals consulted, correspondence with Wolfe's sources, clippings, photographs, programs, printed matter, and transcripts of interviews not conducted by Wolfe. Two files contain photographs from 1965 to 1969 that depict individuals and groups featured in Wolfe's mid-1960s essays, including Junior Johnson, Carol Doda, and the Pump House Gang. Some of these photographs served as the basis for Wolfe's drawings published in <span class=\"title\">The Pump House Gang</span></p> <p>Individual stenography notebooks in this series contain notes for multiple projects, many of which are short works. Wolfe's notebooks and research devoted to specific essays and books are filed in Series IV: Writings along with the manuscripts of those works. Readers seeking all of Wolfe's research files for a particular time period should review both this series and Series IV.</p>"}