A - K miscellaneous 1922-1925

Academic Senate 1934

Administrative Committee (Italian Professor) 1936

Administrative Staff (Minutes) 1934

Allison & Allison, Architects 1927-1928

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific Division) 1946-1956

American Association for the Advancement of Science 1934-1954

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Scientific Monthly) 1935, 1949

American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (Report of Round Table on Physical Problems Related to Deafness) 1933

American Institute of Architects 1949-1951

American Society for the Hard of Hearing 1933-1936

Aperiodic Microphone Firing Error Indicator 1944

Assali, Nicholas S. 1964

Audiometry 1938

B (Alphabetical by name) 1927-1949

Ballantine, Stuart 1932-1933

Banegal, Hope 1931

Barnett, Samuel Jackson ca. 1928 - 1934

Becket, Welton 1964

Bell Telephone Laboratories (Publications Department) 1926-1951

Beranek, Leo L. 1959-1960

Bolt, Richard Henry 1933-1956

Bourgin, D.G. 1936, 1940

Bruderlin, Henry H. 1936

Burris-Meyer, Harold 1934-1969

Burris-Meyer, Harold (“An Inquiry into the Educational Potential of Non-Verbal Communication.” Proposal, Third and Sixth Interim Reports) 1966, 1969

Cannon, David H. 1956

Chukar (Bird): memorandum for ornithologists 1970 August 10

Cremer, Lothar 1935, 1947, 1964-1965

Dean George Dudley, School of Architecture. 1966

Device for detecting gaseous impurities (witnessed description) 1939 May 31, 1943 June 10

Distinguished alumni award, University of Chicago club of Greater Los Angeles 1971

Elliot, Graham 1956 July 10

Fenn, Paul 1964

Foreign Press Awards (second biennial, UCLA Department of Journalism) 1960

Free, E.E. (Columbia Broadcasting System Studios) 1935

G 1929-1947

Golden Gate International Exposition (of 1940) 1937

Golden Gate International Exposition (of 1940) 1938

Grossman, Ernst 1934-1937

Gruen, Victor 1961 March 15

Harris, Cyril M. 1945-1964

Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning (Journal) 1930-1947

Henderson, Malcolm C. 1965

Hewes, Henry (American National Theatre and Academy) 1955

Hunt, Frederick V. 1933-1963

I miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

International Congress of Architects (Budapest) 1930

International Language League 1946

Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale (Turin, Italy) 1936

Johns-Manville Research Center 1929-1950

Journalism, UCLA Graduate Department 1949-1950

Ka - Kj miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Kerr, Clark 1956, 1960

Kerr, Clark, Charles Hitch, and Robert Sproul 1947-1974

Kl - Kz miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Knudsen children Robert and Morris 1966-1971

L - P miscellaneous 1922-1925

Lab - Lau miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Law - Laz miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Lawlor, Reed C. 1963

Lea - Lew miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Lefler, Anna B. 1964

Library (University of California) 1926-1945

Library (University of California) 1946-1947

Library (University of California) 1948-1950

Lic - Lit miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Lindsay, R. Bruce 1968

Llo - Lor miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Los - Loy miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Luc - Mac miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

M 1926-1949

McAllister, James A. 1964

Medical School, UCLA 1946-1948

Miller, Nicholas P. 1964

Moray Radient Energy Device 1932

Munson, Wilbur A. 1927-1964

North, Arthur T. (Reprint, “The Orchestra Shell of the Hollywood Bowl”) 1929

P 1936-1948

Obert, Leonard 1933-1936

Oceanography (Scripps Institute of) 1949

Pegram, George B. (Department of Physics, Colorado University) 1933

Pet - Poi miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Pinkler, Andrew G. 1954-1955

Pol - Rhi miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Portrait appraisal (stolen from Knudsen Hall) 1964 December 11

Powell, Alan (Reprints re Aerodynamic Sound) 1958, 1963

R and S (Includes Schoenberg, Schreimer, Seashore, Shanbaugh) 1932-1953

R, S, and mixed (Includes Anne Rowe regarding American Physicists) 1926-1950

R - Z miscellaneous 1922-1925

Reger, Scott N. 1935

Rettinger, Michael 1934

Roberts, William H. 1930-1935

Rosamond Dry Lake Absorption Tests 1940

Rosenblith, Walter A. 1942-1965

Rosenfield, Isadore 1935

Rudnick, Isadore 1939-1956

Ruskin, Lewis J. 1964

Sabine, Paul E. 1927-1942

Satow, T. 1930-1931

Saunders, Frederick A. 1932-1940

Scudder, K.J. 1936

Sepmeyer, Ludwig W. 1933-1965

Shephard, Wayne W. 1942

Sibley, Catherine 1940

Sivian, L.J. 1930-1947

Son - Sou miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Sonar Research 1937-1946

Sound Muffler and Automobile Air Conditioner 1936

Spa - Spr miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Sproul, Robert (Sabbatical 1948) 1948

Sta - Ste miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Standardization Committees 1931

Statham Instruments, Incorporated 1964-1968

Statham Instruments (business correspondence) 1963-1971

Steinberg, John C. 1935-1939

Stern, Isaac 1964

Stewart, G.W. 1925-1939

Sut - Tak miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956

Sverdrup et al. (Scripps Institute for Oceanography) 1940-1948

Teachers Insurance 1928-1945

Telephone Company (Southern California) 1928-1939

Twenty-Nine Palms Earth Current Measurement Tests 1926

United Research Corporation 1930

United States Naval Training Station, San Diego 1940

United States Navy Electronics Laboratory 1946-1948

University Buildings 1945-1947

Veneklasen, Paul S. 1938-1945, 1954

Warner, Arthur Howard 1933-1955

Watson, Floyd Rowe 1925-1946

Watson, Norman Allen 1932-1935.

Watson, Norman Allen 1936-1950, 1956.

Westwood Savings and Loan Association (business meeting minutes) 1964

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1936-1953

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1930-1971

Last will and testament, personal and financial papers and correspondence 1956-1969

Wilson, J. Gordon 1935-1938

Withdrawals (for military reasons) 1941-1942

Woodbury, F.R. 1934, 1940

Young, Robert W. (and reprints) 1941-1946 1964, 1965

Yust, Walter 1949

Zand, Stephen J. 1934

Miscellaneous correspondence 1928-1949

Miscellaneous correspondence 1949-1960

Oversize architectural drawing: University of California, Davis Chemistry Building (for "Miscellaneous correspondence," Box 46 Folder 11) 1940

Academic Employees (Departmental List) ca.1956 ca. 1956

Architects and Engineers (Acoustical consulting for UC Berkeley buildings) 1956-1961 1956-1961

Editorial Board 1932-1961 1932-1961

University Extension (Selection of Vice President and/or Director) 1956 1956

University of California, v.d.

1961

1962

1965 (January-June)

1965 (July-December)

1966

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, including family, acoustical consulting, and personal 1960-1964

Personal correspondence and papers (Includes letter from Vannevar Bush) 1922-1959

Confidential correspondence regarding academic appointments 1961-1963

Newspaper clippings 1922-1949

Miscellaneous personal correspondence, including Nitze, Hammond, and Shafor 1940-1972

1963 (January-April)

1963 (May-September)

1963 (October-December)

Letters of recommendation 1963-1965

1964 (January-June)

1964 (July-December)

1965 (July-December)

1965-1966

1966

1967

1967

1968

1968

1969

1969

1970

1970

1971

1971

1972

1972

Bills, receipts, financial correspondence 1972-1974

1973

1973-1974

1974

"Acoustical problem of the Great Hall of the People" ca. 1960

"Architectural Acoustics in the USSR" and newspaper clipping 1949, 1961

"Modern theory and practice in building acoustics" 1946

"Noise and motor driving" 1939

"On the reverberation in closed rooms" ca. 1929

Architectural acoustics (articles not written by V.O. Knudsen) 1956-1959

List of major acoustical consulting projects 1928-1973

List of acoustical consulting files given to Edward Dennis Rowley 1976 November 19

1929 May 28 - 1930 March 10

1930 March 12 - 1931 June 4

1931 June 24 - 1933 July 25

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1929-1941

Arizona State Fair Coliseum : Contracts paid in full 1964

Associated State Capitol Architects (Arizona State House and Senate Buildings) 1957-1959

Barrienbrock and Murray, Kleigman and Leizer (Santa Monica Municipal Auditorium) 1955

Becket, Welton (Hawaiian Village Dome Convention Hall) 1956, 1965

Becket, Welton (Los Angeles Music Center) : Contracts paid in full 1964-1965

Berkeley Public Schools (Gutterson and Corlett) 1940-1953

Bodmer, Louis (San Diego Municipal Auditorium and Mission Beach Bath House) 1947-1948

Burran, James A. Jr. (Clovis High School Music Building) 1957-1958

Burton, Harold W. (General Service Studios Sound Stage) 1947

Cain, Nelson and Wares 1961

California Commission (Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island) 1938

California State Office Building No. 2, auditorium. J.E. Standton and William F. Stockwell, Architects. 1956-1958

Cow Palace (State of California) : Contracts paid in full 1964

Disney Productions 1947

Eddy and Deasy (Porterville Memorial Auditorium) 1954-1955

Elks (Benevolent and Protective Order, Visalia Lodge No. 1298) 1963

Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI (Bodman, Longley, Bogle, Armstrong and Dahl) 1974 April 16

Fox and Ballas (Montana State University Music Building) 1951-1954

Grace Cathedral (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) : Contracts paid in full 1961 November 7

Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium (Frank Lloyd Wright) 1962,1964

Gruen, Victor (Fox Plaza) : Contracts paid in full 1964

Gruen, Victor (Midtown Plaza Shopping Center, Rochester, NY) 1960-1961

Gruen, Victor (Southdale Development Garden Court and Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN) 1954-1955

Gruen, Victor (Tishman Wilshire Comstock Apartments) 1962

Hamill, Samuel Wood (Ford Bown Oceanside Band and Choral Shell) 1949-1950

Hamill, Samuel Wood (San Diego Civic Theater) 1963

Hardison and DeMars (University of California, Berkeley Student Center) 1958-1963

Harrison, William H. (Fullerton Union High School Speech-Arts Music Building) 1955-1956

Hollywood Bowl 1926-1929

Honolulu Memorial Auditorium (Merrill, Simms & Roehrig and Adrian Wilson & Associates) 1960

Hope, Frank L. and Associates (San Diego Convention Building) 1962-1963

Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver, WA 1956

Hughes, A.L. (Washington University) 1936

Hunt, Myron and H.C. Chambers (Wilshire Elementary School auditorium and South Los Angeles Junior High School) 1935-1936

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC (General Services Administration) 1965-1972

Jubilee Auditoriums, Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1958

Lemmon, Mark (First Presbyterian Church, Wichita Falls, TX) 1956-1961

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York Philharmonic Hall (Max Abramovitz) 1963

Lincoln High School, San Francisco, CA (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) 1949-1953

Lippincott, Roy A. (Shell Development Lecture Hall, Emeryville, CA) 1958

Loye, Donald P. (Hollywood Bowl and Pilgrimage Theatre noise survey) 1958

Manitoba Cultural Center : Contracts paid in full 1964

McCoy, Ernest (Kern County Court House) 1956, 1959

Medical Dental Building, Vancouver

Mendelsohn, Eric (Park Synagogue, Cleveland, OH) 1948-1952

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1929-1930

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (sound stages) 1928-1929

Metropolitan Studios, Hollywood.

Minwax Corporation, Los Angeles.

Minwood Insulating Company, Kalamazoo.

Mirsky, Sylvian (Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, CA) 1946

Modesto Junior College Gymnasium (Kenneth R. Kaestner and Associates) 1974 April 15

Morrison Auditorium, Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) 1948-1950

National Acoustic Plaster Company, Los Angeles.

National Chemical and Manufacturing Company, Chicago.

Nephi Plaster Manufacturing Company, Chicago.

Neutra and Alexander (Los Angeles County Hall of Records Building) 1956-1957

Neutra and Alexander (Orange Coast College Speech Arts Building Auditorium) 1955

Neutra and Alexander (University of Nevada, Reno Campus, Fine Arts Building) 1958, 1960

Neutra, Richard J. (Reno-Sparks Auditorium and Convention Hall) 1960-1961

North Seattle High School, WA (Naramore et al.) 1958

Ojai Presbyterian Church.

Palace of the Soviets (Amtorg Trading Corporation, New York) 1934, 1935

Pahlavi Palace, Iran 1967 November 27-30

"The Papago Freeway: A Report Prepared for the Arizona Highway Department" 1968 June

J. & D.B. Parkinson, Architects (Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles)

Paramount Publix and Paramount Famous Lasky 1928-1930

Pasadena Hospital Association

Phoenix Cultural Center Concert Hall (Charles Luckman) 1967-1968

R.C.A. Photophone 1929-1931

R.K.O. Theatre 1929-1931

Ramona High School Auditorium, Alhambra 1929-1931

Ritz Carlton Hotel, Hollywood

Roosevelt High School, Fresno, CA (Lake and DiLuck) 1951-1953

St. John's Cathedral, Spokane, WA (Whitehouse, Price and DeNeff) 1954-1961

St. Louis Brick & Clay Company

St. Luke's Methodist Church, Houston, TX (Mark Lemmon) 1957-1958

St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle

St. Monica's Catholic Church, Santa Monica

St. Thomas' Church, Hollywood

San Bernardino High School

San Diego International Sports Arena : Contracts paid in full 1964

San Diego State College Music Classroom Building (Frank L. Hope) 1966 December

San Francisco Stock Exchange

Santa Ana, First National Bank of

Santa Ana, Francis Willard Junior High School Auditorium

Santa Barbara School for Boys

Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, Los Angeles

Scripps College

Security-First National Bank, Los Angeles

Security Trust and Savings Bank, Los Angeles

Seidler, Harry (Sydney Opera House, Australia) 1956

Simons Brick Company, Los Angeles

Simpson Brothers Plasterer, Los Angeles

Sixth Church of Christ Scientist, Portland

South Pasadena High School Auditorium

Southwest Seattle High School, WA (Naramore et al.) 1955-1957

Southern Counties Gas Company of California

Sterling Electric Motors Company, Los Angeles

Third Church of Christ Scientist, Dallas

Thirteenth Church of Church of Christ Scientist, Hollywood

Three Forks Portland Cement Company, Hanover, Montana

Torfoleum [insulating material]

Union Fibre Company, Winona, Minnesota

Union Liberal Church of Pasadena

United Artists 1928

United Nations Building (Wallace K. Harrison) 1948-1950

Universal Pictures 1928

University Christian Church Chapel, Seattle, WA (Naramore et al.) 1958

University of California, Berkeley, Alumni House (Clarence W. Mayhew) 1957 May 29

University of California, Berkeley, Classroom Building, Office Building (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) 1949-1952

University of California, Berkeley Student Center-Auditorium (DeMars and Reay) : Contracts paid in full 1964

University of Washington Music Building (Whitehouse and Price) 1947-1950

Washburn University (Van Doren, Hazard, Stallings, Schnacke) : Contracts paid in full 1964

Washington State University Multipurpose Coliseum (John Graham) : Contracts paid in full 1964

West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, California

Westwood Methodist Church, Los Angeles

Wichita Cultural Center, Wichita, KS : Contracts paid in full 1963

Wilshire Boulevard All Souls Church, Los Angeles

Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Clark County Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV) 1957-1963

Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Los Angeles County Criminal Courts Building) 1966

Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Anaheim Convention Center and Oxnard Community Center Auditorium) : Contracts paid in full 1964, 1966

Winnemucca Grammar School (Nevada)

Wood Conversion Company, Cloquet, Minnesota

F.R. Woodbury, Acoustical Engineer, Portland, Oregon

Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles

Wrigley Dance Hall, Santa Catalina Island

Zellerbach Paper Company, Los Angeles

Oversize architectural drawings (for "Becket, Welton" and "Berkeley Public Schools," Box 51 Folders 5-6)

Oversize architectural drawings (for ""Bodmer, Louis," "Burran, James A. Jr.," "Fox and Ballas," "Hardison and DeMars," "Hollywood Bowl," Box 51 Folders 7-25)

Oversize architectural drawings (for "Lincoln Center" and "Lincoln High School," Box 52 Folders 1-3)

Oversize architectural drawings (for "Lippincott, Roy A.," "McCoy, Ernest," "Mendelsohn, Eric," "Morrison Auditorium, and "Neutra and Alexander," Box 52 Folders 4-13)

Oversize architectural drawings (for "Neutra and Alexander," "Neutra," and "Palace of the Soviets," Box 52 Folders 15-18)

Oversize architectural drawings (for "St. John's Cathedral," "University of California, Berkeley," "University of Washington," and "Wilson, Adrian," Box 53)

Oversize architectural drawings (for "Barrienbrock and Murray, Kleigman and Leizer" and Pahlavi Palace, Box 54 and Box 55) 1967 November 27-30

Notebook 1942 June 2-20

Notebook 1942 June 22-July 10

Supplementary material v.d.

University. Committee on Scientific Research of the University Defense Council

Personnel. Records re security clearances

Contracts

Purchasing

Travel

General Correspondence

Norman A. Watson, correspondence

Reports: “Ear Defenders”

Report: “Research on Ear Defenders” [by] V.O. Knudsen [and] N.A. Watson 1942

Ear Defender Patent

British Joint Services Mission report "Ear Defenders" 1954

Ear Defenders manuscripts and notes undated

Ear Defenders correspondence with Charles H. Beeler of The Defender Company 1938-1939

Defend Ears correspondence with Carey P. McCord 1938-1941

Ear Defenders correspondence with Paul H. Cullen of Mine Safety Appliance Company 1940-1941

Defend Ears correspondence with William P. Yant of Mine Safety Appliance Company 1939-1941

Ear Defenders correspondence with Mine Safety Appliance Company 1938-1941

Defend Ears patent correspondence with William H. Maxwell 1938-1941

Ear Stoppers correspondence with David H. Cannon of Cannon and Callister Law Offices 1938-1939

Ear Stoppers patents, agreements ca. 1938-1940

National Research Council: Undersea Warfare

Undersea Warfare, Committee on. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council 1965-1966

Oceanography Panel (Committee on Geophysical Sciences of the Joint Research and Development Board) 1947

Oceanography Panel (Committee on Geophysical Sciences of the Joint Research and Development Board, Washington, D.C.) 1944-1950

1929-1935.

1936-1938.

1939-1946.

Material pertaining to graduate education 1957-1962

Reprints pertaining to graduate education undated

Graduate Division commemoration 1963 February 12

Graduate Academy of the Arts and Sciences, first meeting 1963 April 7

Arrangements and invitation lists

Correspondence and papers pertaining to the dedication

Speeches 1964 May 16

Dr. Knudsen's speech 1964 May 16

Dedication ceremony photographs, correspondence, clippings 1963-1964

Letters of congratulation on being appointed Chancellor 1959 July

Get-well and congratulatory correspondence 1960

Newspaper clippings, articles, letters 1959-1960

Preface, Contents, Equations, Legends for Figures, and Style Sheet

Index

Chapter 1. Introductory

Chapter 2. “Physical Acoustics - Nature of Sound”

Chapter 2. draft dated 1929 July 10

Chapter 2. (continued)

Chapter 3. “Nature of Hearing”

Chapter 4. “Nature of Speech and Music”

Chapter 5. “Reverberation of Sound in Rooms”

Chapter 6. “Absorption of Sound - General & Theoretical Considerations”

Chapter 7. “Absorption of Sound - Methods of Measuring Reverberation”

Chapter 8. “Absorption of Sound - Measurements, Coefficients of Sound Absorption & Other Properties of Acoustical Materials”

Chapter 9. “Insulation of Sound - Noise in Buildings & Out-of-Doors”

Chapter 10. “Insulation of Sound - Fundamental Principles”

Chapter 11. “Insulation of Sound - Methods of measurement”

Chapter 12. “Insulation of Sound - Insulation Data”

Chapter 13. “Insulation of Sound - Calculation in Buildings”

Chapter 14. “Amplification of Sound”

Chapter 15. “Acoustics of Auditoriums - General Considerations”

Chapter 16. “Acoustics of Auditoriums - Shape”

Chapter 17. “Acoustics of Speech Halls - Noise, Loudness, and Reverberation”

Illustrations

Sales and Complimentary Copies

Pender's Handbook (copy)

Handbook Material

Parts 1-3

“Insulation of Sound - Theory and Measurement”

“Reverberation of Sound in Rooms”

“Acoustics of Speech Halls - General Considerations”

“Acoustics of Music Rooms - Fundamental Principles and Considerations”

School Buildings

Chapter Headings

“Acoustics of Architectural Interiors - Theory and Fundamental Principles of Design”

Articulation Test Recording Sheet

Open Air Theatres

Cut dummy for Architectural Acoustics

Chapters 5-6. “The Absorption of Sound”

Chapters 9-11. “The Insulation of Sound”

Page-proofs, pp.vii-304

Page proofs, pp.305-617, and incomplete set of duplicate pages.

Copy used for inserting changes for the fourth printing.

Cuts.

Cuts (oversized).

Chapter 2. “Physical Acoustics - Nature of Sound”

Chapter 5. “Absorption of Sound - Nature of Absorption”

Chapter 6. “Absorption of Sound - Methods of Measurement”

Chapter 7. “Absorption of Sound - Measurements, Coefficients of Absorption, and Other Properties of Acoustical Materials”

Chapter 8. “Insulation of Sound - Noise in Buildings and Out-Of-Doors”

Galleys 1932

1957

Dr. Knudsen's file copy with his corrections

Duplicate set

With corrections

Galleys 1950

Typescript draft 1948

Table of contents

Tables

Appendices

Tables and Appendices

Cuts

Cuts, continued

Chapters 1-8 (in part)

Chapters 8 (continued)-13 (in part)

Chapters 13 (continued)-20

Chapters 14-20

Research and correspondence for Noise (Book for John Wiley and Sons) 1950

Chapter 1: How Noise is Measured 1950

Chapter 2: Some Common and Uncommon Noises 1949

Chapter 3: Traffic Noise 1955

Chapter 4: Industrial Noise 1954

Chapter 5: Noise in Buildings ca.1950

Chapter 6: What Noise Does to Man 1950

Notes, research material, and correspondence for book draft 1970-1971

Working drafts

"Researches concerning quantum theory" ca. 1920s

Lecture Notes for Physics 1B 1926

Lecture Notes for Physics 114B: Theory of Sound and its Applications 1940, 1961

Lecture Notes for Physics 260: Military Acoustics ca. 1940

Notes on Mechanics of Wave Motion (from Michelson) 1922

"Recent Developments in Nuclear Physics" (Physics Seminar) 1933 November 6

Relativity ca. 1920s

“Wave Mechanisms -- a Review of Four Lectures by E. Schrödinger” ca. 1925

“Artificial Aids to Hearing” 1934

Incomplete speech drafts "Recent Trends in Physics" and "Indeterminacy and Free Will" ca. 1934

"The Quest of God Through [...]" undated

“Certain Scientific and Engineering aspects of a Social Science Research Foundation” 1935 March

“Recent Developments in Artificial Aids to Hearing” 1935 April 17

“Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics” 1935 May 24

“Recent Developments in Acoustics” 1935 June 25

“Making good with a graduate degree” 1936 March 31

“Recent Progress in Acoustics” (presented to S.M.P.E.) 1937 May

“Audiometry in Routine Otological Practice” 1938 January 24

“New Advances in the Design of Hearing Aids” 1938 January 25

“Scientific Research Under New Regimes in Europe” 1939 January 23

“Scientific Research Under New Regimes in Europe”

“Scientific Research in Germany” 1939 Spring

“The American Scholar Today and Tomorrow” 1939 April 5

“Cooperation in Research” (Among Colleges and Universities of the Pacific Southwest) 1940 November 9

“American Science in National Defense” (Address before University Associates) 1941 February 20

“Pre-War Observations and Post-War Possibilities” 1944 June 22

Commencement Address 1944 August 12

“Some Technological Aspects of Music” 1944 September

“Industrial and Population Trends in the West” (Western College Association) 1945 March 31

“Science in War and Peace” 1945 June 17

“Now it Can Be Told” (Scripp's College ; Y.M.C.A.) 1945 November 19, 1946 February 5

Mid-Winter Clinical Lecture 1946 January 28

“Keeping the talkies silent” (Letter) 1929 January 28

Remarks to Graduate Students, Graduate Club 1935 March 29

“The Influence of Professional Groups on College Curricula.” Proceedings of the Western College Association Meeting at Mount St. Mary's College. Los Angeles 1946 March 30

“Truth for Humanity's Sake” (University Religious Council) 1946 April 2

“Sequelae of Wartime Research” (Southern California Science Teachers Association) 1946 December 7

“Professional Training” (State Ways and Means Legislative Committee) 1947 February 14

“Recent Developments in the Field of Sound” (Engineering Department) 1948 February 2

Association of Graduate Students 1948 March 5

“Welcome to Cyclotron Physicists” ca. 1950

"The Acoustical Spectrum: Sound -- Wanted and Unwanted" (Correspondence and reprint regarding keynote address February 5-8, 1952) 1951-1952

“This I Believe” (WCBS Radio Broadcast) 1953 March 30

“Democratic Processes in Higher Education” (Utah Conference on Higher Education) 1953 September 13-15

“Democratic Processes in Higher Education” 1953 August - September

“Man's Right to Knowledge in the Atomic Age” 1953 December 11

“Getting Qualified Science Teachers in the High Schools, From the Point of View of the Graduate School” (A.A.A.S.) 1954 December 30

Arnold Schoenberg ca. 1955

"Higher Education in Our Democracy" Commencement address 1955

The California Institute for Cancer Research (Los Angeles Women's Guild) ca. 1956

“The Importance of Science and Mathematics in Our Culture” (Orange Coast College) 1956 March 15

Honors at Entrance Reception (Kerckhoff Hall) 1957 October 1

“Comments on Time and Eternity” (Moody B.I. Film) (University Affiliates) 1957 November 11

Material and correspondence ca. 1957

The Fourth Annual Samuel Goldwyn Awards for Creative Writing 1958 May 15

“Academic Distinction of UCLA” (UCLA Alumni Officers) 1958 September 20

Midwinter Exercises 1959 January 28

Western Data Processing Center Dedication 1959 January 29

"Designing the Indoor Acoustical Environment" 1959 February 2-3

"Acoustical and Structural Environment" 1959 February 2-3

Eleventh Annual Industrial Engineering Institute 1959 February 6

Foreign Student Conference Luncheon 1959 February 18

Introduction of Dr. James A. Pike (Convocation) 1959 March 4

Charter Day Luncheon Report (Beverly Hilton Hotel) 1959 March 23

Charter Day Report on UCLA 1959 March 23

Welcome to California Club Conference 1959 March 30

Message for Brochure, Thirteenth International Spring Festival 1959 May 3

Graduate School of Business, Seminar on Profit Renegotiation 1959 May 18

Orientation Hello 1959 September 21

“Dynamic UCLA” (Kiwanis Club, Westwood Village) 1959 October 9

Twelfth Annual Technical Conference of the Institute of Geophysics, “Message for the Opening Session” (delivered by Acting Vice Chancellor Dodd) 1959 November 5

“The Chancellor's Congratulations and Charge to the Home-Coming Queen” 1959 November 18

Dykstra Hall Dedication 1959 November 19

Sixth Annual Edward A. Dickson Journalism Day, “Welcome” 1959

George Washington Carver Day Luncheon (Beverly Hilton Hotel) 1960 January 5

Mid-Year Graduation Observance 1960 January 28

University Affiliates Dinner (The Cal Club) 1960 February 15

Charter Day Anniversary Ceremony 1960 March 18

Charter Day Luncheon 1960 March 18

Chancellors Report, Charter Day 1960 March 18

“Peacetime Uses of Space” - Introduction of Leston Faneuf 1960 March 23

RCA West Coast Electronic Center, Van Nuys - Dedication Speech 1960 April 6

Rotary Club Address 1960 April 28

Samuel Goldwyn Awards - Introduction of Samuel Goldwyn 1960 May 4

“The Challenge of Disarmament,” Conference at the Law School, Welcome 1960 May 7

Festival Oriental Music and the Related Arts 1960 May 8

Hippocratic Oath Ceremony 1960 June 9

Chancellor's Farewell to the Graduates 1960 June 10

"A Message From Vern O. Knudsen" ca. 1960

"Introduction to Seminar on Acoustics for Science Writers" 1960

“Impaired Hearing” 1961 March 20

“Reminiscences as a Chancellor of UCLA” 1961 April 24

Suggestions for “From Chancellor's Desk” ca. 1961 June 21

A "summing up" at retirement time 1960 July

"The Role of the All Nations Fair in Promoting International Understanding Through Inter-Cultural Communication in Los Angeles County" (Speech and Correspondence) 1961-1962

“Acoustics and Music” (Schoenberg Hall) 1962 March 8

Words Spoken at the Funeral of Leah MacKay 1962 March 20

Shephard Ivory Franz - Dedication of Franz Hall 1962 October 26

Introduction of Simon Ramo for Man of Hope Citation 1962 November 24

"Reminiscences of a Dean" 1963 February 12

Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology Ceremonies ca. 1963

“Acoustics of Music Rooms” (Research Group, UCLA) 1965 March 9

“Acoustics of Music Rooms” (Professional Women's Group) 1965 May 15

“From Architectural Acoustics to Molecular Physics” (Hughes Research Laboratory) 1966 December 1

“Sound - the Good and the Bad” (UCLA Spring Lecture Series) 1967 May 1

Welcome to the American Association for Engineering Education Meeting at UCLA and Press Conference 1967 June 16

“The Conception, Gestation, and Birth of the UCLA Medical School,” Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Dinner 1968 May

A Tribute to Ralph Bunche at the Dedication of Bunche Hall 1969 May 23

Harvey Fletcher (Governor of Utah's Appreciation Dinner) 1971 March 3

Eulogy for Willhelmena Dickson 1971 March 9

Response following presentation of University of Chicago's Alumni Association (Los Angeles Chapter) Distinguished Alumnus Award to Gustave Arlt 1971 April 27

Response at Triological Society National Meeting 1971 May 25

Margaret Eames (eulogy) undated

Professor Leo P. Delsasso - Teacher, Administrator, Benefactor (Acoustical Society Meeting, Los Angeles) 1973 November 2

"Life Begins at 80 -- Or Does It?" ca. 1973

Correspondence and reports 1933-1943

Various bulletins and 1 report: “A Study of Improved Techniques for Sound Absorption Measurements by the Reverberation Room Method” 1934-1941, 1949

Application forms (blank) and by-laws

Chicago Meeting December 1929

Related correspondence, B - P

Related correspondence, S - W

Correspondence and Papers 1951-1964

1961-1964

1947-1950

1951-1958

Cleveland newspaper article and "News Notes" undated

Executive Council 1929-1936, 1944, 1951

Editorial Policies (Journal) 1929-1935

1929-1933

1934-1955

Letters to Members and Fellows 1929-1957

Los Angeles Meetings 1930, 1947

December 1930

December 1947

Meetings 1929-1956

1929-1934

1935-1956

Membership 1929-1951

1929-1930

1933-1951

Organization 1928-1929

Printed Programs 1929-1965

1929-1935

1936-1947

1948-1961

Acoustical Society of America and Second International Commission on Acoustics Congress 1956 June 17-23

1962-1963

1964-1965

Radio Broadcasts 1934-1935

Standardization Committee 1930-1955

Reports on Terminology ca. 1931-1933

1930-1931 (August)

1931 (September-November)

1931 (December) - 1932

1933-1934

1947-1955

G.A. Sutherland, correspondence 1930-1931

Treasurer 1930-1941, 1953

Tribute to Dr. Erwin Mayer 1964

Wallace Waterfall, Correspondence 1929-1968

Copies for Dr.Knudsen 1929-1948

1929-1934

1935-1968

Gordon S. Watkins, correspondence 1932-1952

Journal publications and correspondence 1929-1949

Publication rights for Acoustical Designing in Architecture 1980 February 5

1954 February-August

1954 September

reprints 1954 (October-December), 1958

Report: “Science in the Universities in the United Arab Republic” 1960

Related material 1960-1962

General correspondence 1962-1965

Correspondence and papers concerning the Institute's project: “History of Recent Physics in the United States” 1964

Interview of Vern O. Knudsen by Leo P. Delasso and W.J. King 1964 May 18

American Institute of Planning. Fresno, California 1964 June 5

1969 January-July

1969 October-December

1970 April-June

1970 August-November

1971 January-April

1972 January-April

1971 August-December

1972 August-November

1973 January-May

1973 August-November

1932-1946

Measurement standardization for underwater sound (United States Navy) 1944-1945

1947 January-November

1947 December

1948-1950

1965 January-August

1965 November-1966 July

1966 September-1967

1968

Architectural and Musical Acoustics Symposium. Cambridge, Massachusetts 1956

Audio Engineering Society, Awards Committee 1964-1965

Building and Safety Commission 1939-1947

Audio Engineering Society 1954 April

California Fund for Music 1962

Examination of Financial Statements 1954 March 31

1954-1956

1957-1960

1961

1963 January-May

1963 June-December

1964 January-June

1964 July-December

1965 January-April

1965 May-December

1966 January-April

1966 May-December

1967

1968 January-May

1968 June-December

1969 January-March

1969 April-December

1970

1971

1972

1973-1974

Electronic Music, Committee on 1963-1965

1961

Information circulars related to Dr. D. Michael Marandini and the California Institute for Advanced Study (CIAS), filed with the Emeriti papers for 1961

1962-1964

Publication: “Planning Manual for Policy and Program Development” 1964

1965 February-May

1965 June - 1967

1967

1968-1972

1962-1963

1964

1937-1939

1947-1950

Friends of the Santa Monica Mountains 1964-1966

Hope for Hearing Research Foundation 1964-1967

Hollywood Bowl Association 1960-1961

1963-1964 November

1964 December - 1966

1944-1945

1946

1947 January-September

1947 October-December

1948-1953

List of Technical Papers 1960

Appointment of Director 1961

1961

1962-1963

Manuscript: Roy Harris, “Requested Prospectus for the Music Department of the University of California, Los Angeles” 1961

National Noise Abatement Council 1941-1945

1940

1941, 1944

Research Group (UCLA) 1963-1965

Bureau of Standards 1925-1937

Coast and Geodetic Survey 1933

Documents, Superintendent of 1927-1930

Education, Office of 1935

National Park Service 1936

Navy Department 1933-1945

Patent Office 1933

Public Health Service 1940

Public Roads, Bureau of 1930

State Department 1939

War Department (Signal Corps Laboratories) 1940

Weather Bureau 1933-1935

Appointments 1925-1959

Blue Shield 1961

1956 November-1957 January

1957 February

1957 March-October

1958-1959

1925-1950

1955

Disaster Preparedness and Laboratory Safety 1951, 1959-1963

1966-1969

Membership Committee 1971

Fu, Sandra Lok. Alien employment 1968

Hitchcock (Alfred) Science Theater 1963

Hope for Hearing Research Foundation 1965, 1967

Edgar Lee Kinsey personal papers 1924-1951

Memorial written by Dr. Delsasso 1961

Copies of Dr. D.S. Saxon's correspondence re memorial contributions 1964-1965

Dr. Delsasso's preparations

Speaker preparations

Copies of “Luncheon Talks” and “Dedication Ceremonies”

Knudsen Gold Medal. Awarded by the Acoustical Society of America 1967 April 20

William Henry Bragg, “The Carbon Atom in Crystalline Structure” (lecture) 1924

Ernest Rutherford, “The Natural and Artificial Disintegration of the Elements” (lecture ) 1924

“Dedication of the University of California at Los Angeles” 1930

Martin B. Barmatz and Isadore Rudnick, “The Velocity of Sound in the Immediate Neighborhood of the Lambda Transition of Helium” undated

A. Einstein, “Dispersion of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases” undated

Physics 266-A Term Papers 1948

“Inauguration of Clark Kerr as the Twelfth President of the University of California” 1958 September 26

Virginia Richard, “The Origin and Development of Graduate Education at UCLA” 1933-1964 (1965)

Sigma Pi Sigma Newsletter 1963 October

Louis B. Slichter, “Response, Acceptance and Address of the Evening: A Glimpse at the Geophysical Scene” 1966

“Values and Visions: a Report of Six Years of University Growth, 1958-1964” 1964

“Unity and Diversity: the Academic Plan of the University of California, 1965-1975” ca. 1964

LHS Octagon 1968 May 20

Dr. Knudsen's photograph and letters of appreciation (May 16, 1964)

Copies of awards and newspaper clippings 1946-1962

Waldo K. Lyon letter from the North Pole to Dr. and Mrs. Delsasso 1970 November 20

Life magazine article 1958 September 1

Saturday Evening Post article 1948

Memorial Resolutions. Correspondence as chairman of the Committee on University Emeriti Relations 1970-1971

1946 December-1947 August

1947 October-1948 June

Graphs re undersea research

Depth Charge Direction Recorder, patent applied for 1946 July 11

Optical Sound Bearing System, patent applied for 1946 July 12

Undersea Warfare Symposium 1946 September 17-18

Depth Determination by Triangulation 1949

Rotating Hydrophone Audio Torpedo Detector 1949

Submarine Signal Company 1949

ONR publication: Donald Ross, “Directory of Acousticians in Western Europe” (1965)

Physics-Biology Building Recommendations. University of California, Southern Branch 1925-1928

Physics Department, UCLA. History. Miscellaneous papers 1931-1934

1946-1947

1948

1949-1950

1951-1952

Apportion ledgers 1949-1969

“Secret” and “Confidential” Classifications. Security clearances and receipt forms 1952-1956

Senate Committee on Emeriti Relations 1970

University of California Exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco 1940

Note cards and spiral notebooks (2) 1959-1960 February 3

Spiral notebooks (3) 1960 May 25 - 1961 August 28

Spiral notebooks (3) 1961 June 12 - 1963 June 3

Physics 3 1901-1902

Roentgen Rays 1906 July 7

Reading 1926 July

Humorous verse

“The Absorption of High Frequency Sound in Oxygen Containing Small Amounts of Water Vapor or Ammonia” 1936 April

"The Absorption of Sound" (American Institute of Physics) ca. 1933

"Absorption of Sound in Air" (Data) 1932-1933

“The Absorption of Sound by Acoustical Plaster” 1932 December

“The Absorption of Sound in Air, in Oxygen and in Nitrogen--Effects of Humidity and Temperature” 1933 October

“The Absorption of Sound in Carbon Dioxide and Other Gases” 1938 January

“The Absorption of Sound in Gases” 1935 April

“The Absorption of Sound in Gases” 1935 June 14

“The Absorption of Sound in CO 2, N 2O, COS and in CS 2, Containing Added Impurities” 1934 January

“The Absorption of Sound in Oxygen as Influenced by the Presence of Other Gases”

Acoustic Properties of Rooms

Acoustical Designing in Architecture. New York: Join Wiley & Sons 1949, 1950

“Acoustical Design of the Theater” 1948 November

“Acoustic Problems in the Heating and Ventilation of Buildings” 1931 December

“Acoustical Terminology”-- American Standards Association 1936 October

“Acoustic Design of Architectural Interiors” 1924 October

“The Acoustics Design of School Buildings” 1928

“Acoustics in Comfort and Safety” 1949 July

“Acoustics in the Design of Auditoriums” 1927 September

“Acoustics of the Grady Gammage Auditorium” 1965 September

“Acoustics of Music Rooms” 1962 August

“Acoustics of Large Auditoria” May 1951

“Acoustics of Music Rooms” April 1931

“American Standards Association had Broad Program for Measuring and Labeling Sounds” 1936 April

“Analysis and Correction of Hearing Defects” 1925 January

“Architectural Acoustics” 1963 November

“Artificial Aids to Hearing” 1935 January

“Atmospheric Acoustics and the Weather” ca. 1935

“The Attenuation of Audible Sound in Fog and Smoke” 1948 November

“Audiometry” 1937

“Audiometry and the Prescribing of Hearing Aids” 1936 July

“Audiometers and their Place in the School Program”

“Audion Bulb Circuits in Otologic Practice” 1925 October

“Basic Principles Underlying Tests of Hearing and Artificial Aids to Hearing”

“Bone Conduction” 1931 April

“Community Noise” 1956 July

“Control of Sound in Buildings” ca. 1927

“Deafness, a Social, Economic and Medical Problem” 1937 July

"Defense Against Noise" 1942 February

“Diffraction of Sound by an Array of Rectangular Panels” 1964 December

“Diffusion and Absorption of Sound in a Model Reverberation Room” 1971 September

“Diffusion of Sound by Helium Filled Balloons” 1968 September

“Directional Measurements of Early Reflections in Auditoriums” 1971 September

Ear Defenders 1944

Ear Defenders 1939 February, 1965 January-February

Ear Defenders ca. 1940s - 1950s

“An Ear to the Future” 1939 July

“Education and Training for Oceanographers” 1950 June 23

“Noise --The Now Pollutant: It Can Be Abated” ca. 1968

“Die Einstelldauer der Schwingungsenergie in Sauerstoff” 1934-1935

“Electroacoustical Instruments as Applied to the Problems of Impaired Hearing”

“The Effect of Audible and Subaudible Vibrations on the Acuity of Hearing” 1929 November

“The Effect of Humidity upon the Absorption of Sound in a Room, and a Determination of the Coefficients of Absorption of Sound in Air” 1931 July

“Facts and Theories about Audition” 1925 December

“From Architectural Acoustics to Molecular Physics” 1962 July-August, September-October

“Functional Tests of Hearing” 1924 September

“Germany's War on Noise” 1936 September

“Getting the Most from Acoustics”

“The Golden Age of Hearing Aids” 1939 November

“Hearing Aids Today and Tomorrow”

“The Hearing of Speech in Auditoriums” 1929 November

“Hearing with the Sense of Touch” 1928

“Hearing in Auditoriums Effects of Reverberation” 1926 September, 1927 January

“Hearing better in the presence of noise” 1925 July 31

“History of the UCLA Physics Department”

"How Sound is Controlled" 1931 October

“Insulation of Vibration” 1928 June, 1938 September

"Introduction" to Outdoor Noise and the Metropolitan Environment: Case Study of Los Angeles with Special Reference to Aircraft 1970

“Interfering Effect upon Speech of Tones and Noise” 1936

“Keeping the Talkies Silent”

“Measurement and Calculation of Sound Insulation” 1930

“Measurements of a Single Helium-Filled Balloon” 1968 September

“Measurement of Reverberation Using the Thermionic Tube Oscillator as a Source” 1926 November

“The Measurement of Sound Absorption in a Room” 1928

“Modern Acoustics and Culture” 1936

Model Studies of the Effects on Motor Vehicle Noise of Shapes and Arrangements of Buildings Along Urban Streets. III--“Roadside Barriers” 1973

“Noise, the Bane of Hearing” 1955 May

Paracusis. The sole remaining reprint from The Laryngoscope 1926 September

“The Physicist in the New World” 1943 April

“A Plan for Group Testing of the Hearing of School Children” 1926 September

“Plaster and Acoustics” 1931 September

“The Propagation of Sound in Air and Water” ca. 1946

“The Propagation of Sound in the Atmosphere” 1946 July

“Proposed Standards for the Measurement of Noise” ca. 1934

“Quiet and Air-Conditioned Buildings” ca. 1936

“Quiet Buildings” 1926 September

“Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics” (Journal Article) Manuscript and cuts 1934 January

“Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics” (Journal Article) Galleys and draft (original title: “Progress in Architectural Acoustics”)

“Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics” 1934

“Recent Progress in Architectural Acoustics: Geometric and Wave Acoustics in the Design of Rooms” 1947 November-December

Reminiscences: I. “Noise” II. “Sound Stages” 1970 August

“Report of an Investigation of Ten Cases of Diplacusis” 1923

“Resonance in Small Rooms” 1962 July

“Reverberation Room Acoustics -- Effects of Various Boundary Conditions” 1967 November

“Review of Architectural Acoustics during the Past Twenty-Five Years” 1954 September

“Science in Music” 1940 October

“Selective Amplification in Hearing Aids” 1936 January

"The Sensibility of the Ear to Small Differences of Intensity and Frequency" 1922 September

“Sensibility of Pathological Ears to Small Differences of Loudness and Pitch” 1922

“Some Cultural Applications of Modern Acoustics” 1938 January

“Some Practical Aspects of Architectural Acoustics” 1940 April

“Sound Waves and Rhythms” 1948 December

Symposium on the Eighth Nerve 1935 January

Sonotone Audiometer. Contains two pamphlets on Model no.1

“The Teacher and the Problem of Deafness” 1939 January

“Underwater Ambient Noise” 1948 November 15

“Vacuum Tube Hearing Aids” 1937 February

“What Audiometry Can Now Mean in Routine Practice” 1938 August 13

“What's New in Acoustics?” 1947 November

What You Hear Can Hurt You 1961 February

Complete list of publications of Vern O. Knudsen

Biography and biographical forms ca. 1967-1969

Eulogies for Vern O. Knudsen by Gustave Arlt and Chancellor Young ca. 1974

Obituaries and correspondence, Vern O. Knudsen memorial service 1974

Awards 1937-1971

Acoustical baffle chamber (Los Angeles Times) 1964

Chancellor's conference with Robert Rogers 1960

Events with Vern O. Knudsen ca. 1937-1964

Knudsen family photographs 1954-1963

Portraits of Vern O. Knudsen as a young man and as chancellor undated

Propagation of sound in air, Rosamond Dry Lake, CA 1935 February 12

ROTC Day 1952

1928-1959

1959

1960

Relating to retirement 1960

1961-1973

"The noise haters" 1961

"The UCLA story" 1961-1962

"Chancellor greets 600 at musicale" 1963

"Graduate Division celebrates anniversary" 1963

"Knudsen urges study of rights and wrongs" 1963

"Noise reaches level where citizens want it stopped" 1964

Press release "America lags in designing quiet homes, apartments" 1965 February

"Hope for hearing research foundation" 1965

"Professors make sound behave" 1966

"It sounds as good as it looks" 1966

"Knudsen, former chancellor, prof given country's top acoustic award" 1967

"Two-level orchestra solves sound problem" 1967

"Balloons round out musical pleasures" 1967

"UCLA models probe theater acoustics" 1967

"Ears join eyes, lungs, and skin in pollution" 1967

"The roar can kill you" 1967

"UCLA models probe sound problem" 1967

"UCLA 50 years old, starting new era" 1969

"Minis may concern musicians" 1969