The Mary MacLane Project

Philip Lipson

Born in the postwar boom decades, Philip Lipson has honed his research skills over decades of exploration in every kind of archive for his clients. He was the first major MacLane researcher on record and, after a visit to Butte in 1970, made important finds including MacLane's earliest known writing and her personal letters archived in Chicago. His company, Awesome Research Unlimited, headquartered outside of Seattle, specializes in personal and professional research and finds what other researchers can't. Philip says: "I specialize in finding impossible to find information about ordinary people, though I have made finds even about Presidents. My partner and I were the first to locate Barack Obama’s address in Seattle when he was a baby for the book Barack Obama: The Story by David Marannis (who also wrote the definitive biography of Bill Clinton). My passion is creating biographies and bibliographies of regular people who had their time in the sun, so that they are understood and remembered in times to come. I have access to newspaper archives and many other sources both online and in libraries that are not available to the average person. What I do is a labor of love but as a professional with a Master’s Degree in Library Science - my research into Mary MacLane alone has already turned up over 5,000 newspaper, magazine, and book citations - I offer the following fee schedule: free phone or e-mail consultation to see how I can best help you / first two items free as an introduction / from then on $20 per page or $20 per hour (negotiable). If you want specific items that can be discussed. If you have questions, requests, or want quick answers contact me via Gmail."