The William Abrahams Papers include material on books that Abrahams edited under his own imprint for such presses as the Atlantic Monthly Press, Holt Rhinehart and Winston, and E. P. Dutton. The papers contain working drafts, typescripts, research notes, and...
Correspondence is arranged chronologically, with letters from Adams and Waters interfiled. Incoming correspondence to Waters from others, primarily concerning the production of Adams' books, follows the Adams-Waters correspondence. Subject files for the books Waters worked on are arranged alphabetically by...
The Aguilar Papers and Photographs include the personal and professional materials of Laura Aguilar and occupy 2.75 linear feet. The collection traces through correspondence with mentors and friends both Aguilar's artistic development and her struggle with dyslexia. Her professional achievements...
Folk plays of Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado and Columbia on religious subjects. Also, alabades, or religious songs. See Contents List....
The collection consists of loose papers and volumes of general accounts. The first group in the series of loose material consists of sundry papers and documents from 1888 to 1897, and were originally found together as such. The second group...
33 French documents, dating from the 13th to 17th centuries, pertaining primarily to property and monetary transactions, including among other items records of sale, marriage contracts, rental contracts, expense records, and a will; also several documents issued by feudal authorities....
Scrapbook containing letters of American writers and artists to Hames Sutton, editor of THE ALDINE, a periodical devoted to the arts (American) and literature covering primarily the 1870s....
The collection contains correspondence with virtually every prominent literary figure in Latin America during the mid-to-late Twentieth Century, including Pablo Neruda, Salvador Allende, Augusto Roa Bastos, Jaime Alazraki, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Nicanor Parra, and many others. Also...
Literary manuscripts and letters of American writers. Autographs, portraits, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets....
Collection includes campaign material for the 1960 and 1968 Nixon campaign, 1972 Nixon campaign, and McGovern's 1972 campaign for president....
Facsimiles of various documents from the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War....
Includes 231 photographs and 231 lobby cards. Some of the photographs are signed by the stars. Many of the productions were performed in San Francisco's Curran and Geary theaters, some in New York and Los Angeles, and only one, "Wedding...
Irene Beardsley was a member of the successful expedition of 1978 to Annapurna; she maintained this collection of files. The collection includes research, correspondence, logistics, equipment, legal and financial files for the expedition. Also included is a signed copy of...
These papers of the Ames family include correspondence, notes, and financial records of Fisher Ames; correspondence of Margaret Bradford-Ames; military papers, letters, business papers, and notes of Pelham Warren Ames (San Francisco and Boston); and genealogical records....
Artifacts (including audio and video recording devices, recordings, and memorabilia) formerly comprising the Ampex Museum collection; approximately 25,000 photographs (including negatives and prints) and related indexes; documents in hard copy or microfilm form (including manuals, memos, sales materials, public relations...
This collection is an addition to M0051, the original gift of Mrs. Robert Van Vleck Anderson. These papers are closely related to the first collection and contain many letters by Melville Best Anderson, as well as drafts of letters by...
For information about this collection, refer also to the Anderson Family Papers, M51 and M111. This group of letters and assorted memorabilia dates from 1903 to 1933. Most of the correspondence is to or from Malcolm P. Anderson. There are...
Family of Scottish-English origins which came to the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The family settled on the East Coast, later moving West; the Andersons contributed to society in the fields of theology, education and literature....
The Anderson Family Papers is a collection of the papers of Melville Best Anderson. Most of the material is related to Anderson's translation of Dante's The material consists of: 1) correspondence to and from Anderson, 2) typescripts and manuscripts of...
Primarily incoming correspondence to Melville Best Anderson from former students Anna Strunsky Walling and Agnes Smith Manucci Capponi, from colleagues E.O. James, David Starr Jordan, Thomas H. MacBride, Charles Eliot Norton, and Paget Toynbee (fellow Dante scholar), as well as...
This collection consists mainly of papers and documents concerning the disbursement of indebtedness by the Creditors' Committee for the bankrupt Angel Island Publications, Inc.. It also contains some material and references to the preparation and printing of actual publications (Contact...
This collection contains annual reports, internal communications, corporate communications, engineering reports, manuals, product information files, catalogs, price lists, Apple publications, human resource information, conference and workshop information, software, hardware, and corporate memorabilia.
Collection contains organizational charts, annual reports, company directories, internal communications, engineering reports, design materials, press releases, manuals, public relations materials, human resource information, videotapes, audiotapes, software, hardware, and corporate memorabilia. Also includes information regarding the Board of Directors and their...
The collection contains Herbert Aptheker's professional correspondence with other academics, Marxist scholars, as well as his correspondence from his presidency of AIMS [The American Institute of Marxist Studies] with people interested in Marxism ; manuscripts, printed articles, and books written...
Contains an incomplete copy of the Koran and fragments of various manuscript books, one with comments in Persian. Includes an Arabic grammar, an Arabic prayer amulet, a fragment of a Sufic prayer, and an Arabic book containing stories praising the...
The collection documents Rae Armantrout's writing career from the 1970's through 2001.
Summary: Single items and small collections of letters by or about artists, some catalogs and examples of their work. Includes material on painters, sculptors, architects, and photographers....
The collection includes artotypes of business blocks, street views, churches, schools, hotels, "bird's eye" views, and other public buildings such as an old people's home, a bath, a store, and athletic club in San Francisco. Other cities are also represented,...
The collection consists primarily of letters from the 3rd Marquis of Salisbury to Alfred Austin written between 1887 and 1902, the bulk having been generated in the period 1887-1896. While some of the letters are merely invitations to visits or...
This collections contains the 69 plays from 29 members of the Autoren Kollegium, a writers college in Germany.
Primarily incoming correspondence, with only 4 retained carbons of Bacon's outgoing letters including one to Charles Ives. There is a high concentration of letters from the 1930s-1940s.
The majority of the collection relates to Bacon's tenure as the first San Francisco Director of the Federal Music Project, Works Progress Administration, 1935-1937. Included are correspondence (personal and professional), official project documents, concert programs, articles concerning the SFFMP, internal...
These papers consist largely of letters from George A. Bailey to his family during the Civil War, 1861-1864, but also include other family letters, 1840-1919, genealogical materials, deeds, and financial records. There is also a map Bailey drew of his...
Includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs....
This collection represents a small portion of the records of the Philadelphia steam locomotive production firm known as the Baldwin Locomotive Works until its merger with Lima-Hamilton Corporation. The materials include ledgers, specification books, and drawings for construction and decoration...
The collection consists of volumes of the Bank of Willows, a town (county seat) in Glenn County, California. The record books cover the years 1880-1905 and include journals (1890-1902); cash books (1880-1890); ledger (1880-1887); bills receivable register and bill books...
Family papers including photographs, correspondence, legal and financial documents, diaries, maps, clippings, and ephemera. Subjects focus on family activities including life in Santa Barbara, California, trips to London and Cocos Island, and general family history....
Letters, reminiscences, interviews, and term papers written for and collected by Mary Sheldon Barnes and her students in Pacific Slope history. Includes manuscripts of William B. Ide and others on the Bear Flag Revolt; a letter by Jessie Fremont; and...
The Baron Papers comprise the personal, professional, and research material of Salo Baron and occupy approximately 395 linear feet. As of July 1992 the papers total ? boxes and are arranged in 11 series, including correspondence, personal/biographical, archival materials, subject,...
Editions of the press' serial publication, "Schmuck," contain works of several artists from a single country, such as Iceland, France, and Hungary....
The papers feature the materials from Noel Behn's career as an author and a producer; and, include manuscripts (by him and other authors), personal notebooks, appointment books, research materials (clippings, magazines, printouts, off-prints, related to Hauptman-Lindbergh case and other famous...
The Michael Louis (and Mary) Belangie Collection is extensive (9 linear feet). It is divided as follows: Boxes 1, 2, 8 (oversize), and 9 (oversize photo album) contain files pertaining principally to Belangie's personal life. Boxes 3 through 7 contain...
Summary: Journal kept by Captain John R. Bell while with Stephen H. Long's expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1820. It covers March 13 -November 20, 1820....
The collection includes the questionnaires, together with the original NEH grant proposal and correspondence....
Includes correspondence, poems, miscellaneous printed material, autographs and a cassette tape. Correspondents include Clara (Clemens) Gabrilowitsch, Una Jeffers, Herbert Klein, Edwin Markham, John O'Shea and Alfred Edward Newton....
128 interview cassette tapes of Stegner and his associates, transcripts of the interviews, 100 back-up tapes; annotated copies of correspondence including that with Phil and Peg Gray; copies of Stegner periodical fiction, essays, and articles, including all of the very...
Research materials for Benson's biography of Steinbeck consisting of interviews, correspondence, articles, book reviews and other papers.
This collection of writing by Katherine Beswick consists of stories poems, and essays, probably written over a fairly long period in her life. All are typescript and some bear hand-written corrections and revisions. A number of these writings may have...
The Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Papers consist primarily of correspondence to Bierce from 1872-1913. There are several letters by Bierce himself but of these, many are printed copies or carbons. Several of the photos in the collection have notations and inscriptions...
A musician and composer whose one-man shows delighted and edified thousands of school children in the Bay Area. In the mid-1980s he developed an original one-man show called "Tryin' to get home" which was based on African American songs. Mr....
The collection contains information regarding 81 of Black Lizard's 82 titles, with the exception being Elliot Chaze's Black Wings has my Angel. The 170 folders are arranged alphabetically in four record storage boxes by book title. Though the order of...
Included are Peter Koch's work from 1975 through 1996. The archive contains works of poets and other authors that Stanford collects, and complements other library holdings by Koch and other fine presses of the American West. Among its approximately 1300...
Contains reports and other documents relating to the hydrology of Israel.
Typescript and three galleys of Bliven's autobiography....
This collection represents those files which were kept at Mr. Bliven's last place of residence, Kingscote Gardens (on the Stanford campus). The majority of the files date from the 1950s to the present, and are divided into alphabetically-arranged correspondence files...
Typescript of Colonel Clendenen's book which was published in 1969 by MacMillan Co. Typescript includes revisions in pencil made by Clendenen's editor, a Mr. Ritner....
This collection of 10 pamphlets reflects Jewish activities in the B'nai B'rith lodges of Chicago, Cleveland, Nashville, and New York.
The Judge Walter Bordwell Papers concern both his private and professional life as lawyer and judge. The collection spans the years 1835-1929, with the bulk of the material occurring from 1890-1912, during which his career was most active. There is...
Letters of Karl Bostlemann (b. 1825), German miniature portrait painter, his wife, children, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren written from Germany and the U.S., mostly in German. Includes a history of the King's German Legion by N. Ludlow Beamish printed in 1832....
Summary: Diary of Captain Bouldin of journey from Glasgow, Missouri to Mariposa, California by way of the Southwest. Typescript....
The ephemera in this collection was gathered from a Scouter's point of view, and includes materials which might have been collected over a lifetime career in scouting. The majority of the material in the collection reflects what a Scout leader...
The Bradford papers contain James Otey Bradford's correspondence from 1888-1919. Much of it is correspondence pertaining to his duties with the Wells, Fargo & Co. There are also typescripts of historical writings (possibly copied from printed sources) and copies of...
This collection contains transcripts of the lectures Miss de Branconiere gave from 1906 through 1910. Josephine Robinson, then employed by the Bank of Alameda, attended her evening sessions, took notes in shorthand, and typed them later. The collection fills sixteen...
This collection includes engravings, photographs, letters of request and responses, and the autographs of historical figures from the 1870's through the 1980's, including U.S. Presidents, European Royalty, U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and authors. Prominent figures include Neil Armstrong, George Bush,...
This collection consists mainly of letters written by the children of Otto and Caroline Brasch to their brother Frederick E. Brasch. They date from 1891 through 1920, and originate from San Jose, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Hawaii. The letters...
Correspondence and manuscript notes of Brasch and article reprints, photographs, and memorabilia collected by Brasch on the history of science in general and the history of astronomy from Isaac Newton to the modern period....
The papers come from Bredel's secretary, Ursula Kilian, who worked for him from 1953 to 1964. Included are Bredel's notes to Kilian, as well as some carbon copies of her letters to him; Bredel's correspondence with others including Walter Janka...
Literary manuscripts and letters of writers of the British Commonwealth. Correspondence, literary manuscripts, commonplace books, autographs, and photographs....
Summary: Autographs of the kings and queens and eminent men of Great Britain. Collection contains two large volumes, compiled in 1835 by Mansf. de Cardonnel-Lawson. Among those represented are Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, John Locke, Isaac Newton, William Wordsworth, and...
The collection contains annual reports, publications, and ca. 300 maps documenting the activities of the British Cotton Growing Association's activities, primarily in Africa, but also in India and Mesopotamia.
Legal documents, letters and a manuscript history all pertaining to Great Britain or her colonies or written by or about citizens of same (The Bonnards later in California). 1660 - 1935....
Correspondence between Busch and Henry Simon of Simon and Schuster, Inc.; outline for a novel, A Love Story (later, THE SAN FRANCISCANS); original manuscript and final draft, both with corrections, of THE SAN FRANCISCANS....
Typewritten copy with manuscript corrections and original typescript outline of Busch's novel, CALIFORNIA STREET, together with book reviews and correspondence relating to it....
Original typescript with ms. corrections, typescript printer's copy, supporting correspondence, publicity and promotional material, and reviews of the book. 1964-1966....
Collection contains software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, hand-held games, and computer industry literature documenting the microcomputing gaming industry during its formative years....
The collection contains photographs, subject files, clippings, and other research materials on the leaders of Silicon Valley.
These are the records of a fund operated between 1764 and 1770 to receive a tax on "rentiers" by which "rentes" themselves were to be reimbursed, thus relieving the burden of bond repayment which otherwise fell on ordinary crown revenues....
Small collections and miscellaneous single items pertaining to various periods, persons, and phases of California history (1760-1963). Includes letters, journals, diaries, reports, financial and legal documents, pictures and maps, some typescripts and photostats. General subject matter includes description and travel,...
The collection is listed in two series. The first consists of minute books, by laws, legal papers, correspondence, leases and account books of the California Bean Growers' Warehouse Corporation, covering the years of its existence, 1922-1947. The second series consists...
Collection includes papers regarding W.L. Comyn and Co. (1927), which deal with determination of the company's financial situation; the California Bank history chart, which lists California banks, the dates of organization, and whether they were liquidated or taken over by...
The bulk of this collection consists of twenty letters by A. S. Gibbons and/or his wife Sarah Cloud Gibbons to her family in Virginia, 1852 to 1857. A. S. Gibbons was an itinerant Methodist preacher who spent one year teaching...
This collection consists of reports on oil producing districts in Kern County and Santa Maria, California; data on exports from California ports, prices, and production figures; maps of oil districts; and a report on M. J. and M. & M....
Correspondence, newsletters, minutes, agendas, and memoranda....
Manuscript of Canan's "Civil War Military Intelligence."...
The collection contains materials related to the founding and history of the Career Action Center-Resource Center for Women, a job resource center active on the San Francisco Peninsula between 1973-2002.
White perceptions of African American as portrayed in the cover illustrations of sheet music. The quality of the artwork varies with its depictions, from crude racism to fairly refined perceptions of Black life over the period from the overthrow of...
Transcripts made by Clarence Clemens Clendenen, ca. 1958. Originals held by the Library of Congress....
Personal correspondence mainly with Washington Irving Way and Richard Hovey and his wife Henrietta Hovey. A few comments on world affairs but primarily concerned with his personal life and travels. References to Hovey about their joint work ca. 250 letters...
This collection consists of correspondence, an inscribed book, and 15 scrapbooks filled with clippings from newspapers, magazines, circulars, folders, conference advertisements, and programs dating from July, 1964 to Nov. 1972. All of the items relate directly to Stokely Carmichael and...
Correspondence, original works by Lewis, original works about Lewis, publications, newsclippings, photographs, audio cassettes, one 8 mm film, and 3 videos....
This collection contains Carnochan, Morris, Farnham, Lambard, Baldwin, and Bliss family papers and ephemera. Included are correspondence, documents (including commissions, maps, wills, bank statements, and receipts), printed material including bound genealogies and memorials, and photographs....
Correspondence, particularly with Harry Gamboa, Jr., Gloria Molina, Edward James Olmos, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Robert Rodriguez, original artwork, material about Cesar Chavez and the UFW, publications about Mexican American art and her own work including issues of...
Papers of the publishing houses of Bruno and Paul Cassirer, and manuscripts by Paul Cassirer. I. Papers of the Bruno Cassirer publishing house (1906-1933) include the original verdict of the Koniglich Preussisches Landgenicht Berlin in the 1906 obscenity case against...
This collection reflects Dr. Castaneda's work in multicultural and bilingual education, especially as it relates to Mexican American students. It includes elementary and secondary curriculum materials, grant applications for bilingual/bicultural education projects under Title VII legislation, materials from bilingual/multicultural programs...
Probably Spanish; index page titled in Spanish....
The Cator Papers are largely the correspondence received by Vincent Cator at the time of his involvement in the People's Party and afterwards, 1883-1915. Included in the collection are 16 letters written by Cator on various political subjects from 1894-1915....
Society newsletters and magazines, rail excursion flyers, excursion photographs, news clippings, announcements, time tables, ticket stubs, map, etc.
Summary: First draft, revised first draft, and second draft of Dr. Stone's manuscript, The Cave and the Mountain ... Includes manuscript corrections, editing of the second draft, the editor's copy of the manuscript and the galleys....
Publishing files for two books: 1) Sir Frederic Kenyon's 1927, and 2) Cyril Davenport's 1929. Both include correspondence from Bruce Rogers, book designer....
The records of the Centro de Acción Social Autónomo-Hermandad General de Trabajadores (CASA-HGT) document in large part the organization's ten-year transition from a service center designed to aid its members in obtaining legal aid and social services to a Marxist-Leninist...
Summary: Bound manuscript and typescript of a magazine written in England by a child, G. H. F. Power....
Records of the Chit Chat Club of San Francisco including correspondence, statistics, reprints of essays, and related material....
Summary: Drafts of Keynote speech for 1960 Democratic Party Convention in Los Angeles....
This collection includes letters, a diary, photographs, and military documents of several different individuals and families pertaining to military matters as well as life back home....
Unbound Civil War diary of a soldier, later an officer, who served primarily in Virginia. Contains two hand-drawn maps of battlefield, descriptions of non-combat life, food problems, and other related conditions....
Civil war period materials including: 1. Richard Reynolds papers, 1861-1912. (Notices to report, appointments, honorable discharges, pension notices, and loyalty oath). 2. A manuscript by Edward H. Ripley titled, "Memories of the capture and occupation of Richmond, April 3 1865,"...
This collection of six large record books from Company "M" of the 4th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry consists of a clothing book, a descriptive roll of the company, morning reports, the record of a general court martial, and an order book....
Summary: Two scrapbooks of clippings on the Civil War primarily from Boston newspapers. Also includes cartoons and illustrations....
Class records and memorabilia, 1914, design notebook from Columbia, 1915, correspondence, 1983-1985, Historical Society material and class and subject files....
The bulk of Dr. Clark's papers are her notes, papers, exams, and lab books from course work at Palo Alto Union High School, 1914-17, Stanford University, 1918-21, and Stanford University Medical School, 1921-25; included in these are the records of...
This collection consists largely of Correspondence to and from George A. Clark and David Starr Jordan. There are also a number of articles (manuscript, typescript and printed) by G. A. Clark and others on the fur seal controversy. Also included...
Correspondence, photographs (of China), books and pamphlets about Chinese art, etc....
Summary: Material of Lacey Coe with references to Leopold Auer. Includes photographs, scrapbooks, programs, and clippings....
Notes and ephemera connected with the book collection that Stanford Libraries bought. Includes correspondence and publications. The collection is particularly strong in Jewish, Israeli, and Zionist history, dictionaries, encyclopedias,and books in the field of Hebrew language; translations into Hebrew of...
Usually French photographers of French Africa. Three different accessions purchased from same dealer, although previous provenance is mixed. Some cards are written on; some not. Accession 1995-244 is in box 1, and consists of one album and 26 folders totaling...
This collection includes correspondence, diaries, account books, financial, legal and land papers, clippings, and other papers relating to the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and life in early America....
The Colt Press Papers is a collection of business records and correspondence of the Colt Press of San Francisco, California. The business records include: 1) duplicate copies of invoices, 2) checks and bank statements, 3) ledgers, 4) income and sales...
The papers include an eight-volume manuscript history of Dutch waterworks, 860-1837, written by Frederik Willem son (1800-1869), together with a two-volume manuscript index written by Frederik Willem's nephew, J.F.W. Conrad, listing the contents of his Waterways Library - a collection...
Summary: Letters, postcards, pamphlets, and typescript biography. Includes correspondence of Fanny Chapman on Tahiti, material on Arizona's Constitutinal Convention, typescript biography of Louise...
Personal papers including correspondence; manuscripts; interviews; subject, alphabetical, and legal case files; newspapers; and photographs.
The Gregory Corso Archive includes manuscript notebooks, published materials and personal and professional ephemera of Gregory Corso. They are housed in 3 document boxes and occupy 1.5 linear feet....
The Gregory Corso Archive includes manuscript notebooks, published materials and personal and professional ephemera of Gregory Corso. They are housed in 3 document boxes and occupy 1.5 linear feet. The materials are arranged in the following series:...
The papers feature the materials related to the political, economical, and social development of Latin American region in the last quarter of the 20th century, its relationships with the U.S. and the nearby countries. The collection includes clippings, leaflets, various...
Collection consists of 71 reel to reel audio tapes documenting poetry readings and lectures of many of the better known 20th century poets.
Working papers and correspondence (principally outgoing but also incoming email) from the late 1980s through 2002.
The Robert Creeley Papers document the life work of a leading American poet of the 20th century, one of the core members of the "Black Mountain School." They also document several important movements in American poetics in the second half...
The Culver Family Papers collection consists of fourteen boxes (7.5 linear ft.) of letters to and from family members, friends, and acquaintances, as well as manuscripts, journals, and miscellaneous papers. The collection covers the years 1858 to 1915, with the...
This collection consists of drawings by Culver used in comic strips, broadsides, satire cartoons, and calendars with some drawings by other artists, newsclippings about Culver, and several publications which contain Culver illustrations....
Includes 18 poems, most signed and dated, a reprint by from MODERN PHILOLOGY, "Logic and Lyric," 1953, and Charles Gullans' A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF J.V. CUNNINGHAM, 1973....
History, policies, organization, personnel, and technical training materials collected by Joseph D. Cusick during employment. Includes the serial, TRW Space Log, 1968-1979.
Arthur L. Dahl held various positions in the United States Civil Service, among them personal secretary to Gifford Pinchot, who was then National Forester. Dahl was transferred to San Francisco in 1908 as Chief of Maintenance in the Bureau of...
The papers document Dahlberg's writing career and personal life during the 1960s and 1970s.
This collection consists of letters from Leroy and William Daingerfield to their family in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Letters are revealing of legal, mining, and business conditions of the time....
Correspondence between William H. Dall and Mrs. Ida Shephard Oldroyd on the subject of shell collecting....
Summary: Design and construction reports on and photographs of several major United States dams, including: Boulder, Coolidge, Friant, Grand Coulee, and Hoover....
American poet, literary critic, and translator.
Correspondence, play and film scripts, treatments of novels, adaptations, drafts, lists, photographs, diagrams and working papers of Mr. Daves' career in the motion picture industry in Hollywood from 1930 to 1965. Mr. Daves was a writer, director and producer. The...
Trial transcripts, tape recordings of impressions of the daily trial proceedings, articles and newsclippings about the trial and Ms. Davis, photographs of the jury, and letters received by Mary Timothy. The material covers the period of the trial (January -...
Davis was closely associated with aircraft development through the early part of the 20th century. He, together with Donald Douglas, formed the Davis Douglas Aircraft Company (much later to become McDonnell-Douglas), and formulated and built the Cloudster, the first plane...
Includes letters, manuscripts, muscical scores, and printed ephemera collected by Dorothy Hatch. Major correspondents include John Black, Richard Church, Leonard Clark, Graham Greene, Dorothy Hatch, Edward Marsh, Barbara Morison, Christopher Morley, Lady Ottoline Morrell, F. C. Owlett, Herman Peschmann, and...
Family documents, including birth, baptism, school records, marriage, nobility, and death certificates. There are also French legal documents concerning a lawsuit, 1828-1830, 18th century property documents, 18th century passports, and a family tree....
Collection includes: 1)correspondence to and from Bernard DeVoto and to and from Avis DeVoto and other miscellaneous correspondents including Wallace Stegner and Carl Brandt, 2) financial papers such as cash account books, tax returns, receipts, 3) legal agreements, contracts and...
Correspondence, typescripts and galley proofs of 19 major works, 166 articles, 25 short fiction and non-fiction papers, broadcasts, speeches, lectures, and other papers. The correspondence (1948-55) with Harper's magazine relates to DeVoto's column The Easy Chair, and includes letters from...
The Jamaican Creole tape recordings is a collection of songs, stories and interviews recorded by the American linguist David DeCamp from 1957-1959. These recordings document DeCamp's research interests in the Pidgins and Creoles of Jamaica and British Honduras.
Memorabilia of Admiral Decker in occupied Japan, featuring high ranking military figures. Includes photographs and clippings....
This material spans the period from 1900 - 1918 with the bulk from 1914 through 1917. There are also a number of undated items. The collection consists of letters, a Protocol, bills, extracts from a diary, copies of contracts, powers...
Examples of his books and pamphlets, as well as wood and metal printers blocks, original illustrations, and a bit of personal material....
The collection contains issues of Mitteilungen, an East German magazine, from 1963-1989. The collection also contains various posters associated with issues of the magazine.
The collection includes correspondence, essays, financial records, official reports, designs and other illustrations. Also included are papers concerning the earlier Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung as well as personal papers of Alfred Fritz dating from the late 1940s.
Summary: Included in the collection are thirty-four letters and telegrams between Sun Yat Sen and Deitrich, and letters to and from Henry Clifford Stuart. Letters by Sun Yat-sen published in facsimile edition by Stanford press, Stanford, California....
Correspondence with statesmen, historians, staff of the Daily Telegraph, family, etc., memoranda, diaries, subject files, articles, materials on Oriental studies, books and journals, and photographs.
Summary: Holograph manuscripts of poems: Smiles, Songs and Summer; The Lament; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; At Random; Apocalypse; Day by Day; Andean Heights; Around the Clock; The Risen Sun:; and Wagon Wheels. Also includes small amount of biographical information....
The Harriet Doerr Papers contain materials from many of her published works including Stones for Ibarra, Consider This, Señora, Under an Aztec Sun, and The Tiger in the Grass. Comments and criticisms of the stories which make up the novels,...
The collection consists of a relatively small percentage of loose material and a much larger percentage of bound volumes....
The Anne Draper Papers reflect Draper's work as a trade union organizer, writer, and champion of the rights of farm workers. The collection is divided into five series, the contents and arrangement of which are described below....
A collection of manuscript, and various printer's proofs (galley, page, production) of the books of Robert L. Duffus. Also included are tearsheets of articles and editorials by Mr. Duffus....
Correspondence, clippings, photographs, certificates, and publications. Letters are primarily from Robert Duffus to his brother, William (1903-1969). Photographs are of Duffus at various times during his life, from high school graduation (1905) to a photograph taken in 1960....
Includes newspaper articles, printed programs, magazines, and poetry about and by Raymond Duncan. Some envelopes addressed to John Cook apparently written by Duncan. Biography included....
Material relating to the Orient (primarily Japan), its philosophy, art, way of life, history, government, etc. Includes mss. of books, letters, memos and reports. The typescripts of the Papers of Eli T. Sheppard form the bulk of the material. The...
Books, catalogs, posters, and ephemera documenting the history of East German art. The largest segments of the collection are KUNSTLERKATALOGE (411 titles), catalogs of exhibits held in East Berlin (174 titles), and catalogs of exhibits held elsewhere in the GDR...
Posters produced by DEFA for films (from many countries including East Germany) which they distributed....
This collection includes letters, postcards, bills, and clippings, representing persons in the fields of education and librarianship. Of note are the 181 items pertaining to William James, including 164 letters from James to F. C. S. Schiller discussing pragmatism, humanism,...
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, photographs, and other material representing over thirty-five years of artist Felipe Ehrenberg's professional career. Painter, illustrator, printer, publisher, and teacher, Ehrenberg also was active in social and political causes, particularly in promoting the political the...
Personal papers through 1996, including all his poetry manuscripts arranged in sequence of composition by Eigner himself. Also literary and family correspondence, prose manuscripts, notebooks and juvenilia of Larry Eigner.
This collection contains the papers of William W. Eitel, co-founder of Eitel-McCollough, Inc. and a distinguished engineer. Included are papers depicting the 1970's battle between private Ham Radio operators and the Federal Government over radio wave rights, his involvement with...
Summary: Set is incomplete; there is nothing before 1937, little for 1941 and 1943, and nothing for 1952, 1954 and 1955. There is a partial card file index....
Issues of El Malcriado collected by Father Victor P. Salandini. Some issues are in Spanish, with occasional issues in English.
Miscellaneous scrapbooks on musical, theatrical and literary subjects. Includes letters, programs, playbills, clippings, printed articles, prints and photographs. One bound volume, has twentieth century letters written to Felton Elkins. ca. 1775-1927....
This collection of 2 linear feet of Civil War papers was received by Stanford as a gift from Elizabeth Ellet Nitz and Frances Ellet Ward in 1994. The collection consists primarily of correspondence, including extensive letters of Brigadier General Alfred...
These papers contain several versions of Elwell's autobiography, including one written under a pseudonym and correspondence with possible ghost writers, especially R. B. Stone. Also included are engineering papers, clippings, biographical materials, and correspondence....
Correspondence, memoranda, research notes, rough drafts of reports, printed reports and pamphlets.
This collection documents that activities of Douglas C. Engelbart, a computer scientist whose pioneering work in the 1950s and 1960s (first at SRI International, later at Tymshare, Inc.) led to the development of the interactive personal computer. Most of the...
Summary: A miscellaneous collection of English documents form many sources, arranged in chronological order according to the dates of the documents....
Mounted clippings, pamphlets, leaflets, and mimeographed news releases pertaining to the primary election in California in 1934....
The collection consists of photographs Carl Mydans created while working for Life and Time magazines. The collection is arranged alphabetically by the location where the photographs were taken. Exceptions are the folders of General Douglas MacArthur photographs (Box 3 Folder...
A collection relating to the religions of Asia, principally Ceylon. The bulk of the collection consists of items gathered by Mr. Evans-Wentz, including palm-leaf manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs....
Correspondence, books, notes, printed material, ephemera, and photographs pertaining to Mahayana Buddhism. Also contains materials pertaining to Evans-Wentz's education....
These records include correspondence, work reports, inventories, financial papers, legal and official documents, American Consular Service reports on overseas film distribution, descriptions and illustrations for patent applications, scenarios, promotional brochures, miscellaneous printed articles, photographs, and short filmstrips. Representing the first...
Although this collection includes only a small portion of Curt von Faber du Faur's papers, it nonetheless contains some interesting personal items, such as a draft of an unpublished novel, and a few poems. Some German correspondence relates to the...
Arranged chronologically, the published listing includes authors of technical reports and dates of progress reports.
Material relating to various stages in the researching, writing, publication, and promotion of THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY, by Paul B. Fay, Jr., a longtime friend of John F. Kennedy. Includes manuscript, galleys, correspondence, and notes.
Summary: Pen pal letters (May 1949-November 1955) from Mrs. Field to Hector Bolitho with comments by Mrs. Field about her step-father Robert Louis Stevenson. Also includes letters from Mrs. Field's nurse, pictures of Mrs. Field and Robert Louis Stevenson, clippings,...
The Fielder Sheet Music Collection represents the fruit of the collecting labors of William R. and Louise Fielder. The collection consists of 2,532 individual pieces of sheet music, sheet music lithographs, and music related broadsides from the United States in...
Ca. 1700 film programs with the titles Progress Film Illustrierte (1953-1957) and Progress Film Programm (1957-1978, from #63/66 with additional title "Film für Sie"), both published by VEB Progress Film Vertrieb, Berlin, mostly 2 pages. The collection includes loose leaf...
22 Photographs, 31 audio tapes and 28 films relating to many of Bechtel Corporation's major construction projects.
The first part of the collection consists of material pertaining to the Jewish holidays in the order they occur during the year. Included here are also materials on the Holocaust (for Holocaust Remembrance Day) and Israel (for Israel Independence Day)....
The Joshua A. Fishman papers include correspondence; writings by Fishman (both published and unpublished); lecture notes and transcripts; audio and video tapes of some of Fishman's lectures; course outlines and notes representing most of the institutions where he taught; reviews...
Collection includes the papers of an American-born Yiddish poet living in Israel until her death in 1984. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, poetry manuscripts, newsclippings, subject files, personal documents, and school/youth activities.
Typescripts and correspondence. Correspondence is almost solely literary, relating to works represented in the collection. Typescripts include plays and short stories....
Letters and manuscripts, 1918-1940, pertaining to New Humanism movement of the 1920's. New Humanism is a philosophical and critical movement that flourished in the U.S. under the leadership of Irving Babbitt and Paul E. More, whose 1929-1930 articles and correspondence...
Summary: Letters and literary manuscripts from poets and political and scientific figures whose writings were to be published in anthologies edited by Foerster. Some letters pertain to the creative writing program at the University of Iowa. Correspondents include Stephen Vincent...
Correspondence with Helena Gilder, spanning their friendship of fifty years (1868-1916), and with other friends, family, and business associates. Also includes typed copy of Foote's work entitled, "Reminiscences".
The bulk of this collection consists mainly of negotiation files for each country the Foreign Bondholders staff were monitoring. The rest of the collection is made up of administrative records typical of a non-profit organization, such as Articles of Incorporation...
Summary: Daily journal of life in gold fields of El Dorado County, California. Describes return East via steamer and the Isthmus of Panama....
These papers, dating largely from 1913 to 1919, concern Foster's academic career at Stanford and the University of California and include her master's thesis, reprint of an article, commencement programs, clippings, and photographs. Also included are letters of condolence to...
Raised in Iowa, Fowler enlisted in the Confederate forces in February of 1862 at the age of 19. He was a member of the 2nd Missouri Volunteer Regiment of Infantry which crisscrossed the South, seeing action in every major battle...
The collection contains correspondence and ephemera from the Frost, Lee, and Buckingham Papers. Also includes two essays, one written by a 9 year old child....
The papers of this 20th century polymath contain his personal archive the Dymaxion Chronofile, manuscripts, drawings and audio-visual materials relating to his career as an architect, mathematician, inventor and social critic.
The Fundacion Eudardo Frei, Ano 2001 Proyecto Digitalizacion Archivo Historico is a joint digitization effort of the Fundacion Eduardo Frei, Santiago Chile and Stanford University Libraries. The electronic archive consists of digitized papers, monographs, memos, series, and audio / video...
Summary: Literary manuscript of a study on science fiction. Typescript drafts, galley proofs with corrections, some photocopies of material to be quoted....
Summary: Part memoirs, part journal for 1854-1861. Begins in Prussia and ends with Lissner's last two years in San Francisco. Typescript....
Correspondence, reports, minutes, legal documents, notes, newsletters, press releases, newsclippings, statistical information, questionnaires and photographs documenting Galarza's career as a labor organizer, scholar, Research Director in the National Agricultural Workers Union (1947-1960), and nationally prominent Mexican American activist.
Summary: Letters chiefly to Leon Lion and Sheila Kaye-Smith and one literary manuscript....
Primarily correspondence, some photographs, maps, journals, and Tailu manuscripts....
This collection of 8.5 linear feet (10 manuscript boxes, 1 half-sized manuscript box, 4 print boxes and 2 map case folders) of papers and items relating to the career of L.A.-based Chicano artist Harry Gamboa Jr. was purchased from the...
The 93 B&W prints are unique in that they were hand-printed in 1995 by Willie Garcia along with Gamboa's supervision. Although several of these images have been printed elsewhere, the quality and tonality of these prints will not be reproduced...
The collection contains 229 photographs documenting His work deals with Hispanic rituals, family life, and gang life. In addition to the photographic prints there are related books, magazines, reviews, and clippings.
The papers include original manuscripts and notes of many publications, 1961-1975, as well as files from the major task forces and commissions on which Gardner served, 1962-1982. There is considerable material from the National Urban Coalition including correspondence with national...
The bulk of this collection consists mainly of research notes, correspondence and manuscript material pertaining to Theressa Gay's historical research on the California Gold Rush. This collection also includes materials relating to other areas of historical research as well (see...
Collection contains outlined corporate histories of railroads in the United States and Canada. The collection covers almost every railroad that ever operated in the United States and Canada and includes some records of roads that were projected though never built,...
Summary: Author's typescript copy of STOP HERE, MY FRIEND, a collection of short stories with manuscript corrections and editing. Several of the stories are printed (clipped from magazines). Two galley proofs, one corrected and one final....
Miscellaneous correspondence between German artists.
These poems celebrate marriages, funerals, births, farewells, New Years, inaugurations and installations, and fests and feasts. The collection concentrates on Lower Saxony in the era of George I, elector of Hanover and King of England. An indication of the many-layered...
(Extra-parliamentary opposition, student movement; anti-authoritarian movement; leftist and alternative groups post 1967)....
Special Collections M0348 consists of letters, household bills and accounts, and legal documents related to the Gibbon Family. The three autograph letters by Edward Gibbon are addressed to Mrs. Holroyd, the first Lady Sheffield, at Brighthelmstone. The first concerns his...
The Barry Gifford Papers comprise more than forty-eight boxes of archival material, the vast majority of which is related to the publication process of Gifford's many books and spans the period 1970 -present. The largest subseries is composed of manuscript...
Includes broadsides, small pamphlets, etc. pertaining primarily to legal ordinances and insurance contracts....
Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts by Ginsberg and other Beat Generation authors, business records, notebooks and journals, clipping files, books, periodicals, audiotapes, videotapes, photographs, posters, and a CD-rom. Accessions received in 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2002 totaling some 140 linear feet...
Photographs of and by poet Allen Ginsberg and colleagues.
This collection contains typed manuscripts and photostats of typed drafts and published works by Louis Ginsberg. Also contains several letters between Louis Ginsberg and his son Allen Ginsberg regarding a joint publishing project....
David Gitin edited Bricoleur, corresponded with Oppen from 1968-1977. He published Oppen, sought his editorial eye when writing poetiy himself, welcomed his support when he wentjob-hunting. Oppen had sustained correspondence in this periodwith Michael Heller, Armand Schwerner, Levertov & Michael...
Photographic documentation by Standard Oil Company of California of the building of The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco (Calif.)....
Summary: Correspondence, notes, documents and typescripts relating primarily to Russia's presence in North America....
Collection contains the papers of Priscilla Ruiz Goldman documenting the production of WOMEN'S TIMES, an occasional monthly serial from Ketchum, Idaho, started in 1994.
Includes an unpublished rough and corrected draft manuscript by Jean-Paul Sartre (29 pp), messages from both Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, de Beauvoir letters (5), Henry Miller letters and cards (16), Graham Greene letters (28), and 11 taped interviews with...
Personal and business papers including fan mail, contracts, options, lay-offs, notes, and congratulatory telegrams. Also includes a typescript novel, "Genocide and the 8th Commandment" by Walter James Raney....
Pre-election, election, and post-election materials relating to Matt Gonzalez's run for City and County of San Francisco Supervisor in 2000, including publicity, correspondence, subject files, and newspapers coverage.
Contains sheet music published primarily in Chicago, Illinois from the 1930's through 1970.
Includes documents of the Synod, correspondence between various leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, correspondence with other leaders of the Russian emigration, and his own lectures and writings....
Timetables, tariffs, route maps and other printed ephemera, ca. 1890-1950.
Includes notebooks, 1968-1989; correspondence, 1948-1999; manuscripts by others, 1950-1999; Grenier's youth, 1941-1965; lectures, 1981-1998; critical writings, 1960-1998; poetry manuscripts, 1966-1998; book manuscripts, 1967-1997; files on works, 1971-1997; journal articles, 1959-1998; color slides (1,285) of "Rhymms" project; and signed copies of...
Primarily material (letters and drawings) concerning the Edith King Fisher farce including letters by Jane and Bob Grabhorn and Sherwood and Trina Grover. In addition there is a note from John Steinbeck to Trina Grover's father, Professor Carruth, ca. 1922,...
Manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs, and page proofs of Guerard's works, The hunted, Masquisard, Andre Gide, and Conrad, the novelist....
The Albert J. Guérard Research Materials on John Hawkes consists of 1.5 manuscript boxes. The collection contains 19 letters and the photocopies of over 200 letters written by Hawkes to Albert and Maclin Guérard between 1959 and 1994. The originals...
The Albert L. Guérard and Albert Thierry Correspondence Collection consists of 1 manuscript box. Other collections of ALG papers can be found in the Stanford Special Collections, the Hoover Institution Archives, and at the University of Pennsylvania. This collection is...
Collection contains many of ALG's original articles and monographs, both manuscripts and reprints. Materials include: works on the history and culture of France, correspondence and writings on urban planning in France and in the San Francisco Bay Area, and book...
General inventory of belongings made by notaries of Paris at Courvoisin's request, and at the request of his brother-in-law, Gabriel Guibert, Marquis de Bouville....
The simulation of this tank-on-tank engagement from the 1991 war against Iraq was run by the Institute for Defense Analyses and DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). The product was a learning tool for current and future soldier training,...
The Research Materials on Lya de Putti and Lois Moran Collection consists of 1 manuscript box. The collection contains Albert J. Guérard's materials on Lya de Putti, a Hungarian silent screen star whom he met in 1924. Included are correspondence...
Letters mainly to Guérard from authors, educators, and statesmen. Includes correspondence relating to world government; pamphlets and correspondence on "auxiliary languages"; and letters to his publishers, Scribner, and T. Fisher Irwin (England). Correspondents include Gertrude Atherton, Bernard Berenson, Van Wyck...
Correspondence, speeches, diaries, photographs....
Scripts and production notes related to feature films and proposed projects. Miscellaneous correspondence. Production and business documents: scripts, shooting notes, promotion, box office receipts, contracts, and legal correspondence. Original posters for all three feature films. Photographs. Clippings include local and...
Includes letters received by Anne Hadden, Irene Hardy, and Maude J. Wilson. Also includes letters collected by Miss Hardy. Correspondents include Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Horace Mann, John Muir, Lincoln Steffens, John Steinbeck, and Woodrow Wilson....
Letters, pamphlets and unpublished manuscripts collected by Dr. Hanley to support his doctoral research on the Inter-American Defense Board. Includes letters with former Board chiefs and others connected with the Board....
Summary: Two diaries, one depicting Hardin's journey to California by way of New Orleans and Mexico in 1849, the other is for the year 1852....
Letters between Harper's Magazine and Bernard A. DeVoto(1948-1955) concerning his column, "Easy Chair." Also includes typescript copies of letters from Harper's to senders of letters of condolence and letters to and from Harper's concerning DeVoto....
Correspondence between Roy Harris and Hans Barkan concerning the commissioning of Harris to write an orchestral work for Stanford's 50th anniversary celebration (1934-1942). Harris describes the process of composition and decisions made at every step. Also includes articles and photographs....
President Harrison's speech-making tour in 1891 was, at that time, the longest journey ever undertaken by any President while in office. The 9,232 mile rail trip lasted one month and three days. The trip was partly planned and largely financed...
Letters, notes, autographs, portraits, and other materials collected by the Harwood Family over a period of two hundred-fifty years. Much of the early materials, including Revolutionary War era materials, are navy and military service related. Later materials include letters from...
Collection consists of reports and correspondence concerning the reorganization of various companies that consulted Hathaway, a prominent management consultant, mainly in the East and New England, but in several cases in San Francisco. The years covered are 1907 to 1929,...
Correspondence, literary manuscripts, notes, drawings and photographs.
The Hawthorne Family papers at Stanford consist of letters, manuscripts, journals, sketch books, and memorabilia of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and of two of their children, son Julian [1846-1934] and younger daughter, Rose [1851-1926], both writers themselves....
This collection of books, letters, and other manuscripts was amassed by James A. Healy from his early days as a bibliophile in the thirties until his death in 1975. Its greatest strengths are in the areas in which he had...
Correspondence relating to the building of his book and manuscript collection, subject files, articles, publications, photographs, etc.
Prints, tracings, and sketches of technical equipment such as compressors and generators....
The collection includes files from XOC, VHS tapes, and Drexler drafts and galley proofs.
The collection contains original artwork, photographic images, periodical articles regarding both Hernandez and many of her contemporaries, original manuscripts, audio and visual recordings documenting interviews and political events, and ephemera gathered from artists, performers, and political/social activists and events.
The collection contains original artwork, photographic images, periodical articles regarding both Hernandez and many of her contemporaries, original manuscripts, audio and visual recordings documenting interviews and political events, and ephemera gathered from artists, performers, and political/social activists and events.
Manuscripts and other original work, correspondence (mainly incoming), works by other writers and artists (primarily Chicano).
This collection contains annual reports, sporadic issues of various Hewlett-Packard publications, product information flyers and brochures, and manuals for various Hewlett-Packard products.
Collection includes typescripts, with some corrections in pencil ("Geoffrey Chaucer," WINGED HORSE ANTHOLOGY revision, FATHER WAS PRESIDENT, and unpublished poems), correspondence dating chiefly from the 1960's and pertaining to negotiations for the publication of articles and books, and miscellaneous unpublished...
The most important individuals featured in the article were Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce. The Supreme Court judged them to be co-inventors of the integrated circuit. Kilby was at Texas Instruments, Noyce was at Fairchild, a company he had cofounded....
The Charles Hobson Collection contains correspondence, design notes, drawings, prints, prototypes, copper plates, etc. used in the creation and publication of artist books.
Summary: Timothy Hopkins' notes for and the manuscript of his "John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and some of his descendants" (1932); together with letters, documents, lists, diagrams, forms, clippings, and other papers....
The most significant collection of letters extant on the subject of the Central Pacific is contained in the Hopkins-Huntington correspondence. Some 2,500 letters and documents in 14 volumes cover the years 1860-1885 and are concentrated on the years 1872-1876. The...
Collection is composed of autograph letters of prominent colonial, revolutionary, and early American figures which are interleaved in the five volume work by Washington Irving, LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. The letters were bound into the work by R. W. Smith...
An explanation of a dispatcher's record of the movement of trains and a sample of dispatchers records from Beaumont, California, Los Angeles, California, and Mexicali, Baja California, covering the period 1936-1954. Also included are some xerox copies of reports dealing...
This collection consists largely of working papers for applications to, hearings before, etc., the California Railroad Commission (forerunner of the Public Utilities Commission) or the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1912-1915, 1922-1923, 1927-1930, 1932-1933, and 1936. Also included are reports, histories, statistics,...
Includes railroad stock certificates, photographs of early electric and gasoline trucks, aviation papers of Stanley H. Page, and other miscellaneous materials relating to transportation....
Miscellaneous items, once belonging to the Hopkins Transportation Library at Stanford, including a ledger from an English sailing vessel dated 1711-1757, a book of U.S. Navy signals for 1813, and research reports from the National Federation of American Shipping dating...
The Herbert Percy Horne papers span the years 1891-1912 with the bulk of the material falling into the period 1896-1903. Horne, during this time, was devoting his energies increasingly to art history and criticism, particularly his work on Botticelli; and...
Personal and professional correspondence, reference files and written drafts of various articles and books dealing particularly with Thaddeus Kosciuszko, I. J. Paderewski, the memoirs of Krystyna Narbutt, music collections in Poland, Polish printing and rare books, Polish manuscripts in the...
Collection consists of original and typescript copies of the letters of Charles and Edward Hosmer to their family in New York. The letters describe Charles' overland trip by wagon train and Edward's trip around Cape Horn to California, their work...
The collection includes incoming letters sent to James Alexander Houston, a medical doctor, the son and brother of Irish clergymen, and an emigrant from Ireland to the United States before 1845. Familiar with the Pitman method of stenography, Houston reported...
Manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence, the last including letters from Samuel Beckett, William Corbett, Mark Mirsky, and Alice Walker (one of Walker's containing reference to Tillie Olsen).
Correspondence, family history, literary manuscripts of Fanny Howe
The Fanny Howe papers contain correspondence, publications, notebooks and journals, family history, and material relating to Fanny Howe's career as a writer. The collection is divided into seven series, with series III - V representing all her written work, namely...
Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, clippings, photographs, and biographical material....
Fifteen original manuscripts of selected chapters of the writings of James Huneker bound with printed versions....
The collection contains letters and telegrams from Aldous Huxley's literary agents--James B. Pinker and Sons--to various persons, periodicals, etc. pertaining to Mr. Huxley's writings. These date from 1922 to 1934. This collection is not complete; for instance there are letters...
Includes original manuscripts, corrected typescripts, etc. for both major and minor works including M. BUTTERFLY, BONDAGE, and 1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF....
Correspondence, notebooks, maps, etc. relating to railroad and enginering ventures in California and the West, 1864-1879. Major correspondents include Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, C.P. Huntington, U.S. Grant, and J. Ross Browne....
The collection includes correspondence, which mention her works, her name change to Juana de America, her candidacy for the Nobel Prize, invites asking for her collaboration on works, and poems which mention her; documents and correspondence regarding her works; awards...
A pictorial documentation of American entertainment from vaudeville through Hollywood's golden age. Includes songs and lyrics by Roger Imhof....
Twenty-four letters, some with poems, from Baca, 1976-1987. From prison in 1977 he writes about learning to write poetry, a prison riot and the national guard storming the prison as he writes. Three letters from Denise Levertov, 1980-1981. Four letters...
Includes manuscripts, handouts, correspondence, monographs, movement publications, reprints, pamphlets, posters, stickers, and collages....
This collection documents the activities of Interval Research Corp. to foster new technologies that had yet to reach competitiveness and to encourage companies to form around these new concepts, technologies, and products.
Primarily correspondence, memos, working notes and technical reports from work on ARPANET, Control Meta Language, Modular Programming System and software and interface applications while Irby was at SRI International and Xerox Park....
The major portion of the Irish Papers is the correspondence of John Powell Irish, 1882-(1916-1921)-1923. Included in the collection are: the correspondence received by Irish; (not complete) eight items of a biographical nature written by Irish about members of his...
The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching and subjects materials Arturo Islas kept on file in his years teaching and writing at Stanford. The collection also includes materials relating Chicano issues, particularly the Chicano community at Stanford...
Summary: THE ITALIAN OR THE CONFESSIONAL OF THE BLACK PENITENTS : A ROMANCE by Ann Radcliffe, edited with an introduction by Frederick Pond. Some pages are typed and some are pages of old editions. Includes note to the printer explaining...
This collection includes material organized in four series: Private Papers, Personal Papers, Photographs and Printed Matter, and Ledgers and Accounts....
The DAVID JACKS PAPERS include correspondence, primarily business; legal and official documents in the form of leases, bills of sale, transfers of title, and court actions; financial papers; maps; clippings and printed materials; and photographs, photostats and prints. There are...
This collection, dating from 1929 to 1973, largely relates to Jenkins' career with the California State Division of Mines and Mining and includes correspondence, biographical material, talks, and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is correspondence concerning his appointment as...
Correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, and subscription records, 1934-1987; correspondence pertaining to the Conference on Jewish Relations, 1931-1956; and materials pertaining to the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.
Business correspondence, initiatives and referendums, legislation, scrapbooks, maps, newsclippings, and other papers, relating to Jones' career in the California State Senate and to State political activity after his term of office....
Documents collected by Frank Golder relating to John Paul Jones' career as Admiral in Russian Black Sea Fleet during the war against the Ottoman Empire. Includes copies (photostats and typed transcripts) of correspondence from Jones to Prince Grigori A. Potemkin,...
Market reports, investment evaluations, management studies, etc. made by Quantum Science Corporation. 16 mm sound film, I.M. CLONE, which describes a day in the life of a business executive in the year 2000.
Incoming correspondence, original calligraphy examples, printed ephemera, and photographic reproductions of various calligraphic styles, 4th century to present, with emphasis on contemporary calligraphers, particularly Fritz Knedel, Rudolf Koch, Oscar Ogg, Alfred Riedel, and Raymond DaBoll....
Journal, photograph, silhouette, printed booklet, and annotated sketch. The journal is one kept by Kane during the Second Grinnell Expedition, the purpose of which was to search for Sir John Franklin. The journal dates form June 4, 1854 to May...
The Thomas L. Kane papers primarily cover his two trips West in 1846-1847, and again, in 1858. There is some material covering the period between these trips and some after 1858. The collection contains letters, diaries, agreements, clippings, notes for...
The Keesling Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drafts of speeches and articles, reports, minutes of meetings, newspaper and magazine clippings, maps and blueprints, circular and form letters, political flyers, etc., pamphlets, annotated government documents, promotional brochures, miscellaneous printed material,...
Correspondence, scrapbooks, legal papers, and miscellaneous material relating to the selective service, the construction of the San Francisco International Airport, and various government committees and projects....
Book of strategy, scripts, storyboards, memos, notes, six- minute film strip featuring Mrs. Kennedy, and 15 five-minute television commercials....
The documents come almost exclusively from Kent and involve several of the same families, tenures, towns, etc., over the space of 300 years. 89 Deeds, including 9 conveyances, assignments, leases, and mortgages (1400-1800). Primarily in Latin, some in English....
Summary: Incoming letters to Kiesel, and some third party correspondence about him....
References to Fairchild Semiconductor are numerous.
Corresponence, documents, photographs and sketches, newspaper clippings, tearsheets, and Knibbs' death mask. The areas covered include works by Henry Knibbs, including novels, short stories and poetry; biographical data on Knibbs; and works by other authors....
Goodwin Jess Knight, born 9 December 1896 in Provo, Utah, received his A.B. degree in law from Stanford in 1919 and was admitted to the California Bar in March 1921. In 1935 he was appointed to the Los Angeles...
Papers of find press printer, Peter Koch, include press proofs, correspondence, teaching files, sales and financial material, student work, job files and media.
The subjects include rulers, statesmen, authors, scholars and other famous personages from ancient times to the nineteenth century. Most of the prints were produced in the 17th and 18th centuries from paintings by Has Holbein, Anthony Vandyke, Godfrey Kneller, Peter...
Minutes, reports, pamphlets, flyers, press releases, etc....
Reports, memos, surveys, statistics, legal documents, and some printed material. Arrangement is chronological. Subjects included are cartels, anti-trust , labor, conservation, investment, reciprocal trade, government purchasing, production, government regulations, inflation, land-lease, war mobilization, and international trade.
Extensive correspondence with Russian writers documenting Hungarian-Russian literary relations. Covers the period of destalinization of Russian literature. Significant collections of Leonid Martynov letters and poems, and Boris Pasternak's writings on Hungarian writer Petofi. Includes papers of Antal Hidas.
Summary: A handwriten copy, all in the same handwriting, of the company record kept by three successive diarists of the La Grange Company as it proceeded from Texas to California over the Southern Routes in 1849. It is unusual in...
Yiddish and other theater ephemera including Purim plays, a program aabout Ida Kaminska and the Jewish State Theatre of Poland, and programs for the Fourth Theatre Festival of Moscow-Leningrad, 1936.
Summary: Ten notebooks which deal with the following topics: blood and religion; spirituality; tithing and Mormonism; the serpent; Mormon revelations; Mormonism and Masonry; and "Epistole" of Liberty jail....
Crowder served as Palo Alto City Planner from 1972-1982 and was on the Portola Valley Planning Commission from 1974-1982. From 1987 to 1997 she was a member of the San Mateo County Trails Advisory Committee. She was an elected member...
The papers of Edward Lander consist of a photograph of the bust of Edward; letters from his father and relatives, 1853-1858; miscellaneous legal, military and financial documents; political and military broadsides; printed speeches and poems; and numerous clippings....
Summary: Contains two letters (1850) which describe Latham's trip and arrival in San Francisco. A Day Journal, January 1, 1860 to May 6, 1860, describes his election and first months as a senator in Washington, D.C. Typed transcripts of the...
The emphasis of this artificial collection made by a book dealer is Latin American political events occurring in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are also posters originating in Mexico and Central and South America.
This material consists primarily of correspondence from D. H. Lawrence to Lady Ottoline Morrell, Cecil Gray, Mrs. Maria Christina Chambers and a few others. There are two letters by Frieda Lawrence to Lady Morrell. Most of the letters are original...
The Luis Leal papers document the personal and academic activities of a literary historiographer, mexican writer, and critic....
2850 pp. in all, comprising the collected correspondence of Sir William Lee, fourth Baronet of Hartwell, Buckinghamshire, (b. 1764 - d. 1801) and other members of his family....
Collection includes correspondence, typescript plays in various degrees of completion and form, and miscellaneous music and verse....
African American Paris stage performer noted for her comic, yet sensual, dance routines. While she took Europe by storm, racism in her native United States prevented her from being wholly accepted until 1973, just two years before her death. The...
The Maurice Lesemann papers are composed primarily of letters from the poet-novelist Elizabeth Madox Roberts, letters from the poet-critic Yvor Winters, a letter from Janet Lewis, and poems by Winters and Roberts. The correspondence takes place between 1919 and 1933,...
The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, clippings, and photographs
Correspondence and documents concerning the Southern Pacific Company and the Northern California operations of the Central Pacific Railroad. Topics include: accidents, brakes, employee problems, engines, engineers, rates pay, and train delays....
The addenda to the Letcher Railroad Collection consists of business correspondence of the Southern Pacific Company between Dec. 1887 and May 1889. The majority of the letters are addressed to William McKenzie, Asst. Genl. Master Mechanic, Sacramento, and H.J. Small,...
Summary: Typescript copies of letters written to relatives while on a trip to California and the West. Describes Utah and Mormons; Colorado and mining areas; Nevada; and California, particularly San Francisco and the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Yosemite....
The Denise Levertov papers provide a remarkable window into the life of this important English-born, American poet. According to Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov was "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most...
This collection contains: the correspondence of CLARENCE IRVING Lewis, PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR (or about Lewis) dating from 1953 through 1967; the lecture notes Lewis used for his Philosophy courses; the manuscripts of Lewis' books such as manuscripts of Lewis' papers; reprints...
Letters to Annie Law, a teacher and fellow shell collector....
Incoming personal and professional correspondence, including letters from William Bergsma, Gus Blaisdell, Elizabeth Daryush, Donald Davie, John Edmunds, John Fraser, Richard Freis, Charles Gullans, Thom Gunn, Maurice Lesemann, N. Scott Momaday, Grosvenor Powell, Pearl Andelson Sherry, Ann Stanford and Donald...
This collection contains correspondence (1835-1919), financial papers, musical compositions, and other papers. Included are published and unpublished biographical material about Miss Lind, a manuscript copy of her contract with P. T. Barnum (1849), scores used by her in concerts and...
Summary: Part memoirs, part journal for 1854-1861. Begins in Prussia and ends with Lissner's last two years in San Francisco. Typescript....
Correspondence, legal and financial papers, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous printed material including circulars, new releases, speeches, and political hand bills. The papers are predominantly political with particular emphasis on the non-partisan reform movement in Los Angeles beginning about 1906, the...
The collection contains correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts between American poet Ron Loewinsohn and many of the most prominent American authors of the mid-to-late 20th Century.
Papers consist of research materials gathered by Anne Loftis and compiled for the book which she co-authored with Dick Meister, The collection includes correspondence, interviews and oral histories, notes, photographs, and printed material such as brochures, handbills, newsclippings, and pamphlets....
Chiefly letters by London to Mabel and Edward M. Applegarth; to his English literary agent, James B. Pinker; and to his daughters. Also includes manuscripts of two longer works and nine poems by London, five poems by Edward Applegarth, several...
Official and personal correspondence, reports, legal briefs, speeches, publications, photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material; also included is correspondence dealing with Loomis' involvement in crises relating to Venezuela, Santo Domingo, and Panama, his role during negotioation of the Russo-Japanese War,...
Official and personal correspondence, reports, legal briefs, speeches, publications, photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material; also included is correspondence dealing with Loomis' involvement in crises relating to Venezuela, Santo Domingo, and Panama, his role during negotioation of the Russo-Japanese War,...
Papers concerning Atari, People's Computer Company, ComputerTown, Homebrew Computer Club, Northwest Computer Club, etc., together with correspondence and the draft of the first VISICALC manual....
The photocopies are grouped according to various subjects, the articles are also arranged chronologically, each with a cover-sheet summary of relevance to the case. Subjects covered include crime, jury selection, civil law suits, education, elections, appointments, employment, health, housing, socioeconomics,...
Correspondence with Leary, business correspondence about publishing projects, biographical material (including a typescript by Barbara Leary), typescripts of various Leary works, photographs, newsclippings, a poster, and publications (including INNERSPACE, 1966, and ROBERT ANTON WILSON'S TRAJECTORIES NEWSLETTER, Autumn, 1996).
Contains photostats of letters written by authors of the Victorian era in England, including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, A. Tennyson Dickens, John Forester, G. Hagarty, Leigh Hunt and T. B. Macaulay....
Marr was a well known painter in Munich where he held a chair at the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Kunste) from 1893 on, and later became its Director. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisonsin, in 1858, and died in...
Letters (courtship letters, letters of condolence, familial relations) and legal civil documents (birth, marriage, statements of witness, including copies from notaries books). The primary place of origin is Gray, Haute Sa^one, France. Louis Marthod is the primary correspondent, the military...
Includes more than 200 letters from Wright and over 2,000 letters to Wright from the Martins and other clients in Buffalo. Wright's letters refer to the design and construction of the Larkin building and the Martin homes and discuss...
Martin's photos are of young men, indoors and out, including body builders, college athletes, military and law enforcement men. He refers to his photography genre in a recently published book as male physique photography, tracing the history of the genre...
Primarily research materials about Donaldina Cameron, including some original materials and interviews. Martin's papers include manuscripts, correspondence, cassette tapes, and photographs.
Summary: Letters and agreements pertaining to the construction and equipping of the Masonic Theatre in Wallace, Idaho. Also letters about the billing, quality, and success of shows that appeared in the theatre....
An archive consisting of approximately 500 items from Herbert and Mercedes Matter, including production files and original artwork, manuscript material, correspondence, film and magnetic media, photographs, books, and printed matter.
Original artwork, photographs, letters, manuscripts, process materials, memorabilia, negatives, transparencies, film, printed material, and working equipment.
The slides, both black-and-white and hand-colored, are primarily of subjects at the New Mexico Indian settlements of Acoma, Laguna, and Santa Clara, with single scenes of Albuquerque, El Tovar, and Santa Fe. Not all slides are by F.H. Maude; a...
The slides, both black-and-white and hand-colored, are primarily of subjects at the New Mexico Indian settlements of Acoma, Laguna, and Santa Clara, with single scenes of Albuquerque, El Tovar, and Santa Fe. Not all slides are by F.H. Maude; a...
This collection consists mainly of W. Somerset Maugham's correspondence with Bertram Alanson, dating from 1921 through 1958 when Alanson died. Alanson was Maugham's investment consultant, but more importantly he was Maugham's friend. The letters are very revealing about Maugham's activities,...
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, childhood stories and drawings, correspondence, diaries, business papers and letters, press reviews and coverage, publications, posters, and photographs....
Newspaper clippings the subject of which is subversive activities and the resulting investigations in the United States. Topics covered are: the Smith Act, the Tenney Bill, the Levering Act, the University of California special loyalty oath, the McCarran Act, McCarthyism,...
Summary: Letters, clippings, and programs of Mr. McGiveney's appearances. Also letters from McGiveney to "Dear Amy" in Oakland, California....
Summary: Diary kept during overland trip from Ontario, Canada to Fort Kearny. Typescript....
Primarily fragments, these specimens were acquired to demonstrate the development of writing in the western world. A variety of scripts are represented, from Carolingian minuscule to the humanistic hands and the "cancelleresca."...
From England, France, Germany and Italy, these 17 fragments represent various scripts including Beneventan, Carolingian, Gothic and secretary....
The Margaret Meier Collection of Extreme Right Ephemeral Materials, c1930-1980, consists of 47 manuscript boxes and 9 print boxes. The collection contains Margaret and Herbert Meier's materials documenting the rise and the activities of the extreme right in California and...
Summary: A translation of Louis-Sebastien Mercier's L'AN 2440 by William Hooper, with an introduction by Frances Theresa Russell, Associate Professor of English at Stanford....
This library is a collection of musical manuscripts and of printed and engraved scores inscribed by great composers, and constitutes a unique addition to Stanford's educational and cultural resources.
The study of a legal case involving public school discrimination in the Orange County town of El Modena. The case, Mendez v. Westminster, traveled from then rural Orange County, all the way to the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, where...
Contains photographs from Menuez's Silicon Valley documentary. Includes negatives, slides and prints.
Summary: Manuscript of the short story, THE FUNERAL OF BEN GOLDMAN....
Summary: Copies of transcript of proceedings in case No. 238, Maria Antonia Mesa, claimant vs. The United States, defendent for the place named "Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito," 1853 and 1861; and notes on Ranchos of Santa Clara, Santa...
Administrative records, litigation files, and special program files.
The collection contains 410 Mexican movie posters dating 1940 through the 1980s.
This collection contains still images from 606 movies from the heyday of the Mexican movie industry. The collection is a rich pictorial resource documenting hundreds of Mexican actors and actresses.
2,226 photographs from 280 movies, each title has 8 original lobby cards, unless noted by asterik.
Typescript (partial) of Meylan's MEMORIES (1979) and photocopy of typescript of Meylan's The Essence of Humanism (vol. 1 and 2) (1976)....
Miles' correspondence about Muybridge, material about the Semi-Centenial Celebration and the invention of moving pictures, ephemera and published articles about Muybridge, and photographs and negatives including those used by Miles in his articles and publications about Muybridge.
Professional correspondence, clippings, student papers, some early class work by Milgrom, notes, reprints, ephemera. His book collection is particularly strong in Bible and rabbinic literature.
Primarily Miller's letters to Frances Cleveland Karle. Also correspondence between Emil White, Karle, and Harry Griffon.
Primarily Miller's letters to Frances Cleveland Karle. Also correspondence between Emil White, Karle, and Harry Griffon.
The John Franklin Miller Papers consist of personal and military correspondence, business, financial, and legal papers, official documents, calling cards, clippings and photographs, and some printed matter covering almost forty years, 1848-1886. The bulk of the material is dated between...
Apparently unrelated documents, primarily 17th & 18th century, in French and German, but also a few in Old French, English, Italian, Latin, and Arabic. Many from Bern (some of these are related) and one each from Geneva, Paris, Kensington, &...
Primarily photographs, some correspondence, ephemera, and rock samples....
The collection consists of notes and correspondences to and from will S. Monroe in preparation of a book he was going to call The notes are largely concerned with Whitman's contemporary authors and quotes from them on Whitman. The correspondence...
Correspondence, primarily between Montagu and his secretary, Nathaniel Davison (1764-1779), journals and notebooks, and miscellaneous documents and letters....
Ciphers, letters, official patents, documents, and one drawing collected by Montauti while special envoy. Letters include chancellery letters of Cosimo III and Francesco Panciatichi, as well as letters of various royal and church personages....
The Cherríe Moraga Papers document the life work of an important lesbian Chicana poet, essayist, and playwright of the 20th century. The papers include Moraga's personal and professional correspondence, journals, collected Feminist and Women of Color serials, drafts, manuscripts and...
Summary: Bound typescript of book, The Making of Great (Famous) Americans (published as MAKERS OF AMERICA, 1936), a study of the lives of sixty-three persons elected to the American Hall of Fame....
The collection at Stanford contains artifacts from the beginning of Moreno's career at the animation studios in 1928 through his family work in the early 1990s. The collection contains photographs of the staff members at the early animation studios, lists...
Morley traveled extensively in Europe before World War I, and it is from this era that his card collection dates.
Includes one design by William's daughter, May Morris, called Honeysuckle, 1883. Many samples are named and dated on their backs....
Summary: Radio and TV scripts, correspondence, newsclips, publicity materials, photographs, 90 reels of TV film, and sound recordings....
Forty oral history interviews (tapes and transcripts) conducted between 1970 and 1975, legal releases, correspondence and related materials. The collection also contains address and cast lists for ONE MAN'S FAMILY, original scripts for August 16 and 19, 1936, and program...
Contains personal correspondence of Samuel Morse, correspondence of the Pacific Improvement Company relating to liquidation of the company, and a report (12 v.) prepared for the Pacific Improvement Company in 1916, titled, "Iron, Steel, Coal & Coke on the Pacific...
Primarily letters from various members of the Murat and Bonaparte families to Murat. Includes correspondence regarding Murat's attempt to organize a Belgium Foreign Legion in the 1830's; manuscripts of his writings on politics, slavery, economics, and literature; and family legal...
Correspondence, 1958-1974; movie scripts; newspaper clippings, 1948-1976; magazine articles about Mae West, 1969-1970; photographs; and press releases.
This collection contains technical information on electron tube research from the years 1939-1959, the major portion being Dr. Nalos' papers from 1945-1959. While there is some correspondence and memos, most of the collection is comprised of technical reports. Many of...
The collection contains issues of internal publications, such as The Astrogram, and reports on NASA-AMES activities....
Letters primarily to or by members of the Nash family about their lives in the Oneida and Wallingford Communities, their work, activities and beliefs. A lot of geneological material on the Nash and Poole families. Excellent Civil War letters from...
The collection contains board minutes, correspondence files, administrative files, internal memoranda, policy statements, contracts, project reports, evaluation files, videotapes, and audiotapes documenting the first 18 years of the history of the National Council of La Raza and its various components....
Reports, research materials, legal papers, minutes, and correspondence of the Commission. Subjects include irrigation, desalting, water resource planning, water law, and water quality....
Materials dealing with the anti-fluoridation campaign, natural food and nutrition, natural healing and anti-organized medicine....
The collection consists of personal letters from Lemuel and William Newcomb to their family and letters from Lemuel to Julia Palmer, whom he married. Also included are the diaries of Lemuel (1861-1864), genealogical information, and post-war military papers....
The James Carson Needham papers cover a span of years from 1893 to 1936, the bulk of the material being between 1898 and 1908, in the 1920s and early 1930s. The subject matter contains very little of any personal nature....
Primarily typescripts of short works, together with some related correspondence....
These papers largely pertain to geologic and mining work in Alaska and Malaya undertaken by J.F. Newsom, with some materials pertaining to his son John Branner Newsom. Included is a field book on gold claims in Alaska and British Columbia...
The Huey P. Newton Foundation was started by David Hilliard and Fredrika Newton to develop and sponsor cultural, historical and educational programs and institutions consistant with the theories and teaching of Huey Newton and the philosophy and ideology of the...
The Newton Collection manuscripts consist of letters, drafts, reports, notes, bound volumes of lecture notes, tables, diagrams, portraits, printed pamphlets and booklets, and photostats by and about some of the leading figures in the history of science. It includes material...
Included are Neyman's original versions: some preliminary film shots, his film, such of it as has been preserved, stills from the film and related prints, correspondence, publicity from his day, and ephemera....
Literary manuscripts, research notes, copies of research material, clips, lectures, essays, printed material. Predominantly research material and manuscripts of published works on British theatre. Some unpublished material. Other subjects include; censorship, Victorian era, Thackeray, Defoe's JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR,...
This collection contains papers amassed by Siobhan Oppenheimer-Nicolau during her tenure as Program Officer at the Ford Foundation. It includes important documentation chronicling the development of the Southwest Council of La Raza, the controversies surrounding the Mexican American Youth Organization...
Printed material, primarily liturgies. Compiled and/or created for feminist, Queer, and multicultural Jewish communities in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1982-2000. Consists of three series: Holidays, Shabbat, and Life Cycle Events.
Printed material, primarily liturgies. Compiled and/or created for feminist, Queer, and multicultural Jewish communities in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1982-2000. Consists of three series: Holidays, Shabbat, and Life Cycle Events....
The collection includes files, catalog, press coverage, 68 slides, raw video coverage, one finished video, an audio cassette, clippings, and publications relating to the Revelaciones/Revelations exhibit.
Contains manuscripts and correspondence of Kathleen Thompson Norris and Charles Gilman Norris. Also includes photographs and articles about the two authors....
Areas represented include Canada, the Great Plains, East (U.S.), West (U.S.), and New Southwest....
This collection consists of single items, autographs, and small collections of noted women, American and foreign....
Collection contains photographs and photocopies of the printer's marks of various famous European printers.
The collection consists of two major subdivisions. The first is negatives and prints from Nowinski's Holocaust collection totalling some 6,250 images and 1,548 prints, and includes the following projects: "In fitting memory; the art and politics of Holocaust memorials," the...
Collection contains documents, photographs, videotape, and audio tape (reel to reel).
The items in this collection are dated from 1893-1909 and consist of correspondence (small amount) and business and legal documents. Under correspondence there are several letters from an injured employee, letters dealing with stockholders of Telepost, and a few letters...
Summary: Literary manuscripts. Typescripts with correction and galley proofs....
Collection contains incoming correspondence, 1888-1940 addressed to Ida Shepard Oldroyd, a curator of Geology at the Stanford University Museum, as well as records of transfers, exchanges and acquisitions of materials for the geology collection from the same time period.
Includes personal family correspondence between the Wittkowers and their son, and between the Olschkis and their children. The papers of the firm include individual files of correspondence with major scholars and collectors. In addition, there is a history of the...
The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, literary manuscripts by American author Tillie Olsen and others, material on the Longshoremen's Strike and the Socialist Party from during the mid-1930s, teaching material and student work, clippings, pamphlets, book reviews, awards, etc.
Manuscript drafts, proofs, notes, correspondence, and publications.
The General Edward O. C. Ord Letters total approximately 260 letters, the first written in Oct. 5, 1854 (two days before he married) and extending through January 30, 1885. The early letters from Oct. 5, 1854 -April 2, 1855 were...
The papers of Leigh N. Ortenburger contain correspondence, personal papers, maps, manuscripts, and photographic negatives and prints, with emphasis on the Cordillera Blanca in Peru and the Teton Range in Wyoming. He was the early author and eventual co-author of...
The Records of the Pacific Car Demurrage Bureau contains only records associated with business transactions including: receipted vouchers, payrolls, register of vouchers, cashbooks, time books, journals, and ledgers. Most of these are pasted into ledger books, which are old (dates...
Materials in the collection date from 1927-1940, the bulk falling between the years 1933-1939. Included are correspondence, minutes, drafts, reports, statistics, bills, receipts, contracts, clippings, press releases, various lists, organizational papers, announcements, memos, printed brochures, legal papers, itineraries, notes, photos,...
This is a single item collection constituted by the Pacific Improvement Co. Payroll Book for 1883. The books does not duplicate any information in the related Pacific Improvement Co. Collections (JL001 and JL017). The ledger shows the actual rates of...
Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Includes business and legal documents, correspondence, reports, minutes, deeds, annual reports, maps, and blurprints. Contains materials related to the Monterey Peninsula and its development. Business areas covered include land...
The collection is made up of approximately fifty percent loose material and fifty percent bound volumes (percentage estimated in shelf space). The loose material consists of documents, both routine business and legal, correspondence, reports, minutes, various types of financial business,...
This collection pertains to the history of the Pacific Slope from 1832 until 1953. Included are notes, manuscripts, and typescripts on the founding and development of the California Mission system; letters, legal documents, and manuscripts dealing with early land claims,...
This collection has three series: scrapbooks on San Francisco and California, Pacific Slope History scrapbooks, and Pacific Slope pamphlets. Volumes in the first series contain clippings from 1855 to 1894 pertaining to political and civic issues, railroads, and the general...
Documents on Pacifica Foundation, with emphasis on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California. Primarily printed articles about KPFA, programming schedules, information flyers and publicity materials....
Correspondence, committee meeting minutes, news clippings, flyers, photographs, blue prints, and publications....
The Charlotte Painter papers, including manuscripts, reviews of her books and correspondence, are arranged around the publication of her major works, preserving her own organization. A bibliography of Painter's work has been included at the beginning of this guide. An...
Letters and invoices (1929-1931) written or directed to Alwyn J. Scheuer. The letters concern orders for illustrations, prices, and shipping. The collection also includes 194 drawings by Papé, illustrations for seven works published between 1921 and 1930....
Summary: Volumes of newspaper clippings (1889-1912) covering Pardee's career and the general political picture of the time....
Correspondence, pamphlets, newsclippings and flyers pertaining to the subject of birth control and planned parenthood. Correspondents include Mary Ware Dennett, Margaret Sanger, Albert P. Van Dusen, the American Birth Control League, and the Voluntary Parenthood League....
The friendship of Howard and Dorothy Baker, Mildred and Bertrand Bronson and Lydia and David Park was intimate, stimulating and youthful. Baker was Yvor Winter's protégé, and a genius. Dorothy was writing or had just published YOUNG MAN WITH A...
The Parker Collection of Californiana contains official documents (many in Spanish), legal and financial papers, manuscripts of narratives and memoirs, printed material and clippings relative to California history. The major bulk of the papers are dated prior to 1900 and...
Summary: An edited version of the journal kept by Parsons during her trip overland from Wisconsin to California in 1850, edited with an introduction by Elene and Elizabeth Wilbur. The journal is the chronology of a trip undertaken by a...
These papers consist of a journal (1865-1866) kept by Peckham (with some entries by his wife, Mary Chace Peckham, active in the suffrage movement) during their stay in San Buenaventura, California; correspondence between Peckham and geologists then working in California...
Summary: Journal chronicling three years residence in California. Typescript. Several letters in Spanish....
Literary manuscripts, correspondence with writers, artists, fellow critics, and publishers, published essays and reviews, editorial and university administration files, and electronic discs.
Includes papers about the Centenary of the Treaty of Ghent, 1814-1914, publications by Harry Shaw Perris and George Herbert Perris, manuscripts by H.S. Perris, and papers and speeches by other writers.
The collection contains correspondence, notes, memorabilia, typescripts. Included is material pertaining to Stanford University and Sutters Fort.
Organization periodicals, Phelan's correspondence regarding Nazi activities, and ephemera relating to the Nazi movement and other political activities. Includes C.W. Bristol's THE WHITE PRIMER and considerable material from the National Socialist White Worker's Party (NSWWP).
Letters, papers, and documents for the years 1894, 1898, and 1899. Primarily official communications and documents of provincial and local military and civil officers of the Philippine Republic. The provinces of Cavite and Manila and the district of Caloocan appear...
Collection of prints, drawings, photographs and papers of Matt Phillips.
Collection contains 141 sketchbooks produced by artist Matt Phillips between 1962 and 2009.
35 holograph journals from 1959 to the present, tape and video recordings of the author's work, drafts of unpublished work, photographs, literary and professional correspondence, teaching files, publishing files, and personal files....
The Pinsky Papers is a collection of 19 linear feet of materials relating to the life and literary work of Robert Pinsky. The collection includes his personal and professional correspondence, poetry, literary criticism, and academic notes and papers. Also included...
The collection of production materials for The Plan of St. Gall is composed of materials formerly in the possession of the donors, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Born and Lorna Price. It is composed of A variety of materials representing numerous...
The Plumb collection consists of correspondence, cables, notes, reports, articles, drafts, clippings, maps, and some printed material from 1856 - 1912. Most of it falls between 1865 and 1881 though there are several gaps of months: October - December 1870...
Correspondence, radio scripts, manuscripts, notes, tapes, reviews of productions, photographs, periodicals, and clippings....
The collection contains broadsides, pamphlets, and prints by the Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada.
The collection contains specially-printed keepsakes, broadsides, magazines, photographs, tapes and cds, and other miscellaneous items either written by, or about, Lawrence Clark Powell, UCLA librarian and "bookman."
Letters, notes, and documents bearing presidential autographs representing a range from a military return for rations signed by William Henry Harrison (1794) to a copy of a speech given by Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954)....
The personal papers of Eduardo Quevedo include correspondence, leaflets, photographs and reports covering the years 1929-1968. The correspondence files from the 1940s, included in Series I (Personal Files), document his role in several early Mexican-American political organizations. There is a...
Collection contains over 2,600 photographs documenting various railways and trolley lines in the United States (primarily California) and Mexico.
Summary: Letters primarily to Ralston, dealing with William W. Cargill of the Oriental Bank Corporation of London and Charles de Long, U.S. Envoy and Minister to Japan. Also included are letters asking for money or a position, thank you letters,...
The collection consists of files that Raytheon's Semiconductor Division kept to monitor both the progress of their competitors and trends in the electronics industry. The original organization of the files has been largely reproduced here. Gaps in the numerical filing...
Records pertain to the editorial process of THE REAPER, its production, finiancial management, and other miscellaneous business, as well as the literary interests and opinions of its editors and contributing authors. Included is correspondence between the poetry editors Mark Jarman...
The collection consists of reports and correspondence concerning the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and some material dealing with Reed's earlier activities, such as his association with the Celite Company in Los Angeles, Public Works and management activities in...
Research materials for several projects, including the Stanford's Sacramento house and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve history. Two research papers, "A study of the Leland Stanford House in Sacramento, California," 1987, and, "The Serra statue at Presidio Monterey," 1988. Included...
The papers document the Remey and Mason Families and were edited and arranged by Charles Mason Remey....
Title papers, together with various bound ledgers of the Remillard Brick Company (San Francisco and Oakland, California) covering the period 1879 to 1921. Records of sales, purchases, jobs, inventory, employee records, etc....
Correspondence, organizational files, and the journal, 1969-1984. Includes Beardsley's research notes and typescript about the history of American women's mountaineering, ca. 1970, that was to have been used in von Reznicek's 2nd edition of VON DER KRINOLINE ZUM 6 GRAD,...
The collection documents the research phase of Berlin's biography of Robert Noyce, entitled THE MAN BEHIND THE MICROCHIP. Included are interviews and transcripts including one with Gordon Moore.
John O'Brien founded The Review of Contemporary Fiction (RCF) in 1980 and established the Dalkey Archive Press three years later. Since its inaugural Spring 1981 issue, RCF has appeared with exact regularity three times a year. Each number is devoted...
Personal and professional papers including incoming and outgoing correspondence, a few letters from Herbert Kline to John Steinbeck, notes on intertidal marine life, printed articles, manuscript notes of unpublished biology articles, a philosophical manuscript, financial records, photographs and notes from...
Legal documents, deeds, stock certificates, and by-laws pertaining to the Riverside Quartz Mine....
An eclectic mix of materials relating to the history of Tel Aviv. Included are census materials, advertisements from the 1920s and 1930s, maps and completion certificates for buildings constructed between 1935-1948, postcards, photographs, municipal documents, land deeds, visa and employment...
Correspondence, documents, photographs, early American newspapers, and printed matter. Includes documents signed by George Washington and 27 other U.S. presidents, government officials, and seven early California Governors. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Hamilton Fish, eight U.S. presidents, and other American...
This collection includes letters, autographs, account books, and printed material by or about noted figures in American history and politics. Also included are materials of general historical or political interest....
Although the bulk of this collection is divided between Stephen Rodefer's manuscripts and correspondence, there are also several other series of note within the collection. The "Personal Business" series includes documents pertaining to Rodefer and his family, while "Printed Matter"...
Several small collections of letters, civil documents, literary mss. in Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Latin and two translations from Spanish to English....
The papers include personal correspondence, memos and notes from Root's work (particularly at Lockheed), speeches, newsclippings, photographs (including some in yearbooks, 1929-1935) and publications.
Correspondence and reports of personal interviews relating to the origins of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League founded in 1907, principally in California. Materials prior to the late 1930's are copied from other collections in Stanford University Libraries, and the remainder are...
The collection includes product catalogs, brochures, flyers, and handouts from electronics firms throughout the United States, as well as from U.S. subsidiaries of international electronics firms. The majority of the materials document electronic sound and data recording technology.
The papers document Irving Rosenthal's life from his childhood onwards, containing outgoing correspondence, doctoral dissertation materials, manuscript materials, and detailed documentation of his own novel, . There are materials relating to his editorship of and , his trip to...
The Ross Papers comprise the personal and professional materials of Fred Ross and occupy approximately 22 linear feet....
Manuscripts of musical compositions, correspondence (1924-1973): Aaron Copeland, Henry Cowell, Carlos Chavez, Martha Graham, Carl Ruggles, and Edgar Varese, and one concert program....
The Manuel Ruiz, Jr. papers support research on such topics as organization of Hispanic communities, discrimination and segregation in housing, employment and schooling, the administration of justice, police-community relations, and juvenile delinquency--each topic important to an understanding of the Mexican...
The Isaac Russell papers document the personal and professional activities of a once-noted journalist and editor. The value of the collection is not solely of a biographical nature, for a sizable portion of Russell's correspondence and writings pertains to major...
Portraits of royalty, heads of state, military leaders, religious leaders, scientists, writers, actors, artists, dancers and aboriginal peoples....
The Sánchez Papers include the personal and professional papers of Ricardo Sánchez and occupy 66 linear feet. The collection consists of 91 letter and legal length manuscript bozes, four half-sized manuscript boxes, four print boxes and eight flat boxes for...
Summary: Letters written to Anthony Newnham relating to the purchase of books in the field of Victorian literature. Includes Sadleir's obituary....
The papers of Fr. Victor P. Salandini consist of 5 1/2 linear feet of correspondence, personal files, and reference files dating from 1949 to 1973. The research strengths of the collection lie in its fairly full documentation of Fr. Salandini's...
Roman Catholic priest who was both a scholar of farm labor problems in California and an active participant with the Mexican American labor movement, particularly the United Farm Workers.
The materials in the collection span from the late 1950s through 1994, and they consist of printed, visual and oral texts. Raul Salinas' writing and political activism reflect a multiplicity of interests and a hybrid of influences. His poetry is...
This collection consists of the papers of Samuel A. Moment, which he used in his capacity of Economic Analyst for the Temporary National Economic Committee (T.N.E.C.), specifically in the Committee's investigation into the domestic copper industry. The T.N.E.C. was an...
Mimeograph of arbitration proceedings between the San Francisco Local Joint Executive Board of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of America and the Hotel Employees and Hotel Operators. The strike, which involved members of six...
The collection consists of 55 letters from Saroyan totaling 153 pages and 36 letters and cards from Weisberg. The letters are intensely literary and show a side of Saroyan that becomes virtually invisible to documentation after his popular success in...
1568 notebook leaves documenting chiefly the apprenticeship and early success of Saroyan. The great bulk of the entries are notes on, ideas for or titles of short stories, bracketed by resolutions, observations, and, less frequently, personal data on how much...
Manuscripts, correspondence, journals, drawings, scrapbooks, clippings, financial and legal records, his personal typewriter, and ephemera.
The collection, spanning the years from 1800-1830, has been divided into four parts: outgoing and incoming correspondence to and from Abraham Emmanuel Sautter; accounts and invoices related directly to AE Sautter and Sautter Freres; correspondence and accounts to or from...
This collection includes correspondence and photographs covering the period after the arrival of Schallenberger in California, with an account, recorded by Mary Sheldon Barnes, of Schallenberger's overland journey to California from Missouri in 1844. Correspondents include John Townsend, Elizabeth Schallenberger...
Diaries, typescripts, publications (photocopies; originals with donor)...
Schuette was the general manager of the mining operation at New Almaden Mines from 1940 to 1945, when it was owned by the New Almaden Corporation. General and personal correspondence to and from the general manager,1943-1944, and business statements related...
The Schwabacher company records in this collection include records of several of the enterprises in Seattle, the Stockton Milling Company in Stockton, California, and of Schwabacher Bros. of San Francisco. There were many Schwabacher brothers and cousins, involved in the...
Single items & small collections written by or about scientists and their work. Includes letters, mss. of articles & books, clips, notes, diagrams, addresses & a journal. 1870-1948....
A collection of volumes of the diary of Alvin Seale and his wife Jessie recorded from 1901 to 1940. In the diary there are accounts of various parts of the world (e.g. Philippines, Hawaii, Hong Kong, South Seas, Galapagos, Latin...
Materials include curricula, newsletters, instruction books, song books, school board minutes, photographs, newsclippings, memoirs, ephemera and correspondence.
Summary: Consists of original drafts and copies of scientific papers written by T. J. J. See. Also included are miscellaneous items reflective of his career....
Scripts, screenplays, typescripts of 2 novels, correspondence, notes, publicity and photo albums, programs and journals....
The collection consists of two separate types of material....
The cards are mounted in a W.D., and H.O. Will's Cigarettes (Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain) card album, probably dating from the early 1930s. The album is completely filled with commemorative cards representing ships and other floating objects, i.e....
The Shafter Collection represents the papers and other materials assembled by General William R. Shafter during his many years of military service. As might be expected, the Collection includes personal and official correspondence, military papers (orders, reports, rosters, etc.), broadsides,...
Approximately a third of this collection consists of the papers from these two groups: publicity, minutes, organizational records, correspondence, and more. A second significant segment of these papers concerns Shapiro's involvements in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly those in support...
A collection of correspondence, reports, legal papers, business papers, and maps of the Shasta Dredging Co. of Shasta Co., California. Sufficient detail is presented to enable the reader to understand the day to day operations of the company, and some...
Included in the collection are carbon copies of Sheffield's correspondence with John and Elaine Steinbeck through the years 1944-1971. There are also copies of Sheffield's correspondence with Peter Lisca, another friend of Steinbeck. The clippings Sheffield collected are also included,...
Correspondence, printed material, photographs, and documents concerning Shenk's family, friends, family businesses (specialty chemical firm; land in the California Imperial Valley; and mining properties), and charitable, civic, and fraternal organizations. Justice Shenk's legal activities are represented to a minor degree....
Primarily wood engravings from Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, but also includes one process print, 2 half tone prints, and a colored heliogravure.
Jack Shoemaker's professional and literary archives represent a variety of personal and professional interests, including a number of unpublished or shelved manuscripts whose provenance is unclear. For this reason, the archive has been subdivided into a number of smaller series,...
The Paul Shoup collection contains some 7,500 items, by rough estimate, and covers primarily his terms as president and vice chairman of the Southern Pacific Company between 1929 and 1938. There are some items dated 1928 and some pertaining to...
The collection includes copies of Silberling's reports (1926-1936); copies of his "Confidential Weekly Letters" (1937-1942); "Graphic Surveys of Industry and Finance" (1936-1942); and "Corporation Analyses" of leading corporations (1919-1933). Also included is a short report written by Silberling in 1938...
A collection of ephemeral publications issued by or referring to the microelectronics industry of California's "Silicon Valley." Includes promotional material, price lists, conference proceedings, newsletters, etc.
This collection contains papers from the movement for simplfied spelling in the A.I.M.E. (American Institute of Mining Engineers) lead by W. H. Shockley. Included are letters to and from Shockley, to and from other members of the A.I.M.E. type script...
Includes research notes and documents on the United Nations collected by Joel Simpson.
Two volumes containing letters, postcards, clippings, and typed poems from Upton Sinclair and Mary Craig Sinclair to Ryo Namikawa. Also includes 8 volumes of Upton Sinclair's works translated into Japanese by Namikawa with a holograph note in Namikawa's hand....
Includes teaching materials for artists hired by Junkers to draw war events. These documents come, for the most part, from the archives of Johannes Lebek. All the teaching materials for the engine-builders were given by Katharina Michel....
Files concerning Twentieth Century Fox corporate business and film production, correspondence files including many American politicians, particularly Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon, and subject files on Greek Orthodox activities, philanthropy, etc.
Catalogs from the major Slavic book dealers outside eastern Europe.
Autograph letters of musicians, singers, composers and conductors. Also postcards, autographs, and a few photographs, in English and German. Songbooks in Aleut, [Danish?], German and English. 1821-1947....
Diaries, travel journals, and sketchbooks (1819-1855) providing a detailed and sustained account of Emma Smith's daily life. Also included are papers regarding disposal of her property, her funeral account, and a printed copy of MANUAL OF NOBILITY....
This collection consists chiefly of letters written to Lorna Smith from authors and politicians with whom she regularly corresponded. Also included are several typescripts and articles by and about her. Much of the correspondence concerns Upton Sinclair, and authors Erna...
The S. F. Smith Collection contains papers dealing with S. F. Smith and his descendents and the Bramhall family. It contains photographs, newspaper articles dealing with Smith and the writing of My Country, `Tis of Thee, pamphlets, correspondence to and...
The Gilbert Sorrentino Papers feature the materials of literary production of Sorrentino's creative career into 1999, including manuscripts, personal notebooks, and correspondence. Also present is a comprehensive collection of his papers and teaching materials from classes taught at Stanford.
The collection includes manuscripts, subject files, and newsclippings, primarily relating to Soto's research and teaching on Hispanics in the Catholic Church and migrant workers in California.
The collection includes 78 maps produced by Southern Pacific Railroad of lines, sidings, stations, and rail yards in California, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area but also including the Santa Barbara region.
This collection comprises the Board Minutes of the Southern Pacific Railroad and its subsidiaries, Mechanical Department plans and specifications of the rolling stock of the Southern Pacific and its subsidiaries, the Valuation Department records documenting financial transactions and value of...
Collection includes Southern Pacific dispatcher's daily train sheets and correspondence, a memorandum and a map regarding the sheets. The sheets are a sampling from three stations (Los Angeles, Beaumont, and Mexicali, Baja)....
The collection contains items generated or received by either Margaret or both Roy and Margaret together. Includes many fine press examples, some personal correspondence, and library exhibit materials.
Biographical information, correspondence, George Cosgrave correspondence, exhibit announcements, printing ephemera, and an incomplete set of his catalogs, #1-79....
240 volumes arranged by subject and date, as well as about 300 pieces of ephemera arranged by date....
Organizational records, including minutes, memos, files, etc., arranged by date....
Miscellaneous artifacts, mostly related to writing or printing and including such things as papyrus fragments, palm-leaf manuscripts, medals, seals, playing cards, old eye glasses and pens, Arabic scrolls, print blocks, including six by Theo Jung, and two marble (alabaster?) busts,...
The Spooner Papers contain D. B. Spooner's correspondence from 1899 to 1922. The bulk of the correspondence was written between 1915 and 1918. The collection also includes manuscript, typescript, and printed copies of articles by D. B. Spooner. There are...
Incoming correspondence (ca. 200 letters) from American and European political, religious, and literary figures. Manuscript of Rebecca Spring's memoirs (191 p.), ca. 1900....
Poems, an unfinished novela, an autobiography, and notes by Clayton Stafford. Poems by and correspondence with Howard Baker, J.V. Cunningham, Barbara Gibbs, Francis Golffing, Janet Lewis, Henry Ramsey, Ann Stanford, and Yvor Winters....
The collection covers contains correspondence, typescript poems, drafts of books and [unk] news clippings and a few photographs....
The collection includes some 1,246 names are represented, many of these with more than one photograph. The bulk of the dated photos are between 1915 and 1940, though there are many more recent that are undated.
Some 1,102 movies are represented, many with more than one photo....
Arranged alphabetically....
Correspondence and subject files, scrapbooks, vocal scores, Stark index addenda, photographs, autograph collections, etc. Much of the material deals with Cole Porter, including a video tape, 2 audio tapes, and several photographs....
19th century American and British stage material: photographs of 19th and early 20th century American and British actors, Irish Theatre programs, American silent film, and film and stage personalities.
The Joseph and Robert Starobin Collection consists of 47 archival boxes, some of which are oversized. The collection contains personal papers and research materials of the Starobin father and son. There are 17 boxes of periodical publications reflecting their political...
This collection contains the first and final drafts of by Joseph Henry Steele. It also contains research material and letters pertinant to the writing of the book. Finally, it contains material regarding the literary infringement suit against Dell Publications, Steele...
The collection is comprised of correspondence between J.H. Steele and various people re: Steele's biography of Ingrid Bergman. One box contains correspondence between J.H. Steele and Ingrid Bergman only. In addition to the correspondence, there are a few legal documents...
The collection is a compilation of ranch papers from the Steele Ranches of San Mateo County, California. The papers include financial papers, legal papers, photographs, maps, miscellaneous background notes written by Mrs. Catherine Steele. The collection covers over 100 years...
Includes correspondence, chiefly letters by Steele to various members of his family, manuscripts of numerous short stories, plays and novels, three etchings done by Steele, 1908, the privately printed story, "A Life," publishers agreements, photographs, press releases, clippings and other...
This collection contains material all relating to conservation. It is all printed material - reports, articles, magazines etc. The collection covers a period from 1956 and 1959-1968 and 1970-1973. Includes one letter copied to W. Stegner which was an enclosure...
Primarily incoming correspondence and some outgoing. Includes literary manuscripts by Pauline Bates Alden, Frank Bergon, Neilma Gantner, Mary Jane Moffat, Jack Nisbet, and Nancy Packer....
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, printed materials, photographs, and documents relating chiefly to the writing and publication of two works by Stegner, A SHOOTING STAR and THE GATHERING OF ZION. Also includes material on Mormonism used as background for later work....
Wallace Stegner, in an effort to promote good relations and literary exchanges between Asia and the United States, visited the Far East. With funding provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, Stegner and his wife visited India, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand...
The corrected typescript, galley proofs, some corrected galleys of the book of selected Steinbeck letters edited by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Walsten.
The manuscript, printer's mock-up, galleys, art work, proofs, and file copies (hard and paper) of the catalogue issued by Morrow in September, 1980....
Includes two original photographs, one of Sheffield, 1980, and one of Steinbeck, nd....
The Steiner Papers include the personal and professional papers of Stan Steiner covering the time period from 1940 -1987 and occupy 69 linear feet. They document the personal and intellectual activities of a writer, a social historian, a moralist, a...
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The collection is primarily letters and documents written by Steinbeck to family, friends and business associates. Also included are letters written to Steinbeck and letters written about him. Includes manuscripts and typescripts of works by Steinbeck, proofs of books, tearsheets,...
Summary: Research materials on the Bloomsbury group, E.M. Forster, and William Hale White. Includes 39 letters from E.M. Forster, 1956-1967, as well as letters from Arthur Sale, Noel Annan, Basil Willey, Leonard Woolf, and David Garnett. Includes correspondence, speeches, etc....
Summary: Transcript of a pocket diary kept during a trip from Washington, D.C. to California by ship via the Panama Isthmus in 1849....
The collection consists of original bridge plans and construction drafts. Four different bridge types are represented: Strauss direct lift bridge Strauss trunnion draw span Strauss trunnion bascule bridge and Strauss vertical lift bridge Years indicated after location of the project...
Photocopies and reprints of literary works, and some serial publications relating to Slavic literature. Includes two children's books belonging to Marina Struve.
This collection of his papers includes correspondence dealing with the construction of the Sutro Tunnel (1869-1896; with a possible date of 1867); applications for employment on the tunnel project (1873-1877) and in the Baths (1892-1895); personal bills (1869-1890); miscellaneous correspondence...
The records of the Sutter Creek store of Lawrence and C. Soracco are dated 1866-1893, and consist of daybooks, cash books, a purchase book, customers' account books, ledgers. The store was established in 1860 and the date of its dissolution...
Summary: Collection includes biographical research for a biography of Theodore Dreiser, personal correspondence, writings, and material collected on the assassinatiin of John F. Kennedy....
The System Development Foundation was a scientific funding organization which distributed all its funds within a finite period of time. The Foundation was formed in 1969 from a corporation in existence since 1956, made its first grants (in the form...
Collection consists of six folders (chronological order) documenting the evacuation of a Japanese American family from San Jose, California, to Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. The notes, letters, and post cards describe life in the relocation camp....
Engravings (71) and posters (101) by multiple artists.
Collection includes 28 artworks in xylograph, serigraph, and metal engraving formats from 18 different Nicaraguan artists who were members of the Taller Experimental de Grafica (Experimental Workshop on Graphic Art).
Summary: "Revolving Door Sequence: Groundhog Day 1945." Poems printed by hand and pencil sketches in booklet with cover. Inscribed, "To Mrs. Ethel Scott."...
The Nathaniel Tarn Papers are a particularly rich collection of materials, gathered over nearly sixty years of Tarn's highly-varied and well-respected career. The Papers include manuscripts of his published and unpublished poetry and prose, notebooks from his anthropological fieldwork, and...
Includes notes, research material, correspondence, articles, worksheets, drafts, and copies of Taylor's magazine articles for Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Country Gentlemen, and Collier's. Major subjects include agriculture, gardening, aviation, personalities, foreign countries, Stanford University, and various industrial topics. Also...
Writings of Marie Taylor, 1848 and 1854 (poetry and prose). 19 journals of Marie Taylor, 1860-1877; 1 of Lillian Taylor Kiliani, 1919. Correspondence between the family, 1891-1927. There are also 4 boxes of cookbook material, much handwritten in both German...
Letters written to Newton Taylor in regard to research he was doing on the life of Clyde Fitch. He was planning to write a book about the life of Fitch, but apparently it was never written. Also includes miscellaneous printed...
The W. H. Taylor Collection consists of records of a general merchandise store in North Bloomfield, Nevada County, California, and records of various other mercantile and mining establishtments in California which apparently were not collected by Taylor, but are included...
An artificial collection assembled through time by the Department of Special Collections of objects, manuscripts, and printing samples relating to the development of printing and book making.
Playscripts and letters (handwritten, typed, and some photocopies) from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Represented are playwrights, actors, and directors. Includes original material by Thomas W. Robertson and Joseph M. Field....
Correspondence by persons connected with the theater including actors, producers and writers, some articles, etc. on the history of the theater, a number of playscripts, drafts and prompt copies. ca. 1885-1954...
Collection of theater programs from the former GDR. Includes important performances of the time, including plays of classical repertoire (Schiller, Goethe, Lessing, Goldoni) as well as modern (Brecht, Gorki, Bredel). Each program includes the cast, extensive descriptions, and quotations from...
Playscripts by Philip Dunning, correspondence to and from Dunning, and a script by Morton Grant....
Typescript (photocopy) of "This Otherwise Miserable Land", a history of Baja California. Bound with manuscript corrections....
The Thomas Family Papers collection consists of seven boxes (4 linear feet) of letters, notebooks, diaries, photograph albums and photos, ephemera, and newspapers and new clips pertaining to the lives of Jerome Beers Thomas, Jr., and his wife, Mary Denison...
Collection includes letters, newsclippings, and articles by and about Tomlinson and his work. Also included is a holograph manuscript of "That Next War," a typescript of "A Complaint of Peace," and a first edition of "A Complaint of Peace" in...
Contains legislative files, subject files, and general files, which include a smattering of clippings, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials.
These 43 volumes of the Towne and Bacon Printers, cover the years 1854 to 1875, and include journals (1856-1870); daybooks (1854-1866); cash books (1855-1875); receipt books (1855-1865); petty accounts and ledgers (1855-1868); ledgers (1854-1868); and a payroll book (1865-1873)....
This collection includes over fifty years' worth of materials on the author B. Traven collected by Herbert and Mina Klein. The holdings are divided into the following sections, which largely correspond to Herbert Klein's original ordering of the material....
Grant proposals, story outlines, script developments and treatments, publicity, soundtracks, videos, etc., all pertaining to the television scripts written and/or produced by Treviño. Includes photographs of Treviño, one by Harry Gamboa....
Single items and small collections (letters and some printed matter) by or about printers, publishers, book-binders, book dealers, bibliophiles and etc. 1812 - 1956....
Papers relating to the Harry Ueno's internment at Camp Manzanar in 1942. Includes correspondence, clippings, and oral history interview.
The collection includes record books, business and legal papers, financial papers, clippings, stock records, statistics, ledgers, and so forth, of the above railway companies. It also includes annual reports of the Municipal Railway Co. for the years 1949-50 and 1950-51....
Key documents and selected testimony in antitrust action. This set consists of photocopied typescripts of documents and testimony presented at this milestone case, which resulted in the breakup of America's largest technology-based corporation. It also resulted in the severance of...
Summary: Correspondence with Joseph Bradford of the Bradford Press, Portland, Maine, concerning the Merrymount Press and printing in general....
Urmy, Clarence...
British poet, writer and political activist. During the Edwardian period, while in her 20s, wife of a pacifist Socialist clergyman, Roberts first took an active part in the campaign for women's suffrage. Using her pseudonym Susan Miles for most...
Notes, maps, photographs, and clippings used in the preparation of Butler's THE VALLEY OF SANTA CLARA: HISTORIC BUILDINGS. Organized by city or town....
Summary: Report (in book form) on the value of secular realty which was in possession of people who lived there and were of German citizenship or origin. Also 215 maps of German Aryan property at Tira, Neuhardhof, Bethlehem, Waldheim, Wilhelma,...
Director of Stanford University Libraries, 1927-1947, Professor of Bibliography, 1948-1952, Professor Emeritus, 1952-1956, and Curator, Memorial Library of Music, 1952-1955. The collection contains primarily correspondence, accounts, provenance information, etc.
Correspondence, manuscripts and publications of essays in support of Super-8 film and of the media arts, scripts, notebooks, clipping files, exhibition flyers and books, journal publications, audiotapes of interviews (four of Varela, three by Varela of Paul Sharits, Stan Brakhage,...
Collection consists of documents (passports, invoices, inventories, financial statements certificates, records of judicial, legislative, and military proceedings, proclamations, etc.) and correspondence pertaining to the administration of Placido Vega as civil governor of the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, and as chief...
A pioneer in video art, Vâelez, together with Gary Hill and Bill Viola, was at the forefront of the generation that established video as an art form in the 1970s.
Collection contains 47 cartes de visite from 39 prominent British politicians from the Victorian era. Signature on cover, James E. Healey.
This collection of posters documents the repertoire of important theaters in the suburbs of Vienna from Biedermeier to the Gründerzeit periods.
The James L. Vizzard Papers document the activities of a Jesuit priest who spent more than thirty years lobbying, writing and speaking on behalf of migrant laborers, braceros and the rural poor in the United States. As the Washington representative...
Volga was a literary magazine published in Saratov, Russia, between the late 1960's and 2000. While it survived under the Soviet era and into the post-Communist Russian era, it was nevertheless shut down by Russian authorities in 2000.
Andrei Voznesenskii is one of the foremost poets of post-Stalinist Russia. He is the author of approximately 40 volumes of poetry in Russian, two collections of fiction, at least three plays and two operas. A five-volume set of his collected...
The collection contains presentation slides, reports, sales material, and other documentation from from LSI Logic Corp.; articles and papers given by Rob Walker; documents from Fairchild Semiconductor; specifications from Lawrence Livermore Laboratories; and, documentation from Philco Corp.
Apparently the typesetter's copy for the Wessex Press edition of 1933 (published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London)....
Photographs and negatives of the Long Beach earthquake, 1933, Woodie Guthrie, Fred Ross, and the Shafter farm labor camp, 1941, a Los Angeles labor demonstration, 1945, the Hollywood strike, 1945, and many informal and formal photographs from the Yosemite camera...
Books, clippings, reports, articles, and pamphlets relating to the Spanish American war....
The collection contains notes thaken by Helene Weiss and her associates during a series of courses taken from Heidegger; it forms a complete and clearly presented corpus of Heidegger's teaching and philosophy in one of the most important periods of...
Legal papers relating to Judge Welch's term as city attorney of San Jose and as Superior Court Judge, Santa Clara County. Also includes a small amount of personal papers and photographs....
The Wells Fargo Steinbeck Collection, originally the Rodgers Collection of John Steinbeck, contains more that 770 letters, photographs, clippings, unpublished short pieces, and ephemera from John Steinbeck and the Steinbeck and Hamilton families, dating from the 1890s to the early...
Part of the collection has been cataloged individually by monograph title. The material in this collection is more ephemeral, including texts in magazines, criticism, theater programs, posters, and a sketch.
Photographs, dealer catalogs, flyers, clippings, and an illustrated talk on the subject of trucks. Collection includes material on the products of Autocar; Trailmobile; Fageol Motors; Kenworth Craftsman; Mack Trucks; International Motor Co.; Reliance Trailer and Truck Co.; Hilo Transportation and...
These records are a miscellaneous collection of ledgers, journals, cash books, letter books, stock books, certificates, and daybooks, as well as a folder of deeds to mining and other property in Carson and Virginia cities, Nevada, by Mrs. Margaret A....
This collection contains typescripts of stories and poems, typescripts of newsclippings (1850-1872), and photographs of towns in the California gold country....
Correspondence and other papers relating to White's career as lawyer, Los Angeles district attorney, state senator, and U.S. Senator. Subjects covered include: estate litigation, water rights, incorporations, mortgages, property rights, local and California politics, patronage, tariffs, annexation, pensions, appeals for...
Letters from White to Helen Sutliff, both of whom were members of the Class of 1890 at the University of Kansas. Includes letters from Sallie Lindsay White and William Lindsay White and a class song written by William Allen White...
Mathematician in the field of oceanography; scientist and later consultant with Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. Head of the division of Thermal Energy Conversion where he worked on the development of the Polaris missile; later scientific analyst and consultant to...
The collection contains the editorial files of Stewart Brand and Jay Kinney, reader correspondence, photographic materials, and memorabilia. Also contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, promotional material, and issues of the magazines.
Summary: 3 notebooks of lectures on kindergarten method, abstracts, and examples of handicraft for children. Handicrafts include drawing, paper cutting, sewing, weaving, and paper folding. Made ca. 1883-1884 by a student in Mrs. Wiggin's kindergarten training courses....
Collection contains various printed speeches and addresses from the period beginning March, 1924 through November, 1927. In addition it contains various newspaper articles and miscellaneous correspondence....
Letters, diaries, clippings, and manuscripts pertaining to Dr. William's interest in the Kensington Stone, education in Latin America, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Dom Pedro of Brazil. Includes manuscripts of Dr. Williams' writings as well as...
Approx. 270 letters, dated between 1897 and 1943, written to Maud Williams from America, Miss Williams was a painter and miniaturist who had several works accepted by the Academy. One of the writers is her sister Lucy who married first...
Correspondence, documents, and original typescripts. Collection covers the origins, planning, research, writing, and publication of N. Wilson's novels, with emphasis on those published after 1963: DEEPDOWN RIVER, GALLEON BAY, and THE FEUDING POSTMASTERS. Also included are items relating to copyright...
An early member of the first chapter (Santa Clara Valley) of the Electric Auto Association, Bob Wing converted a '59 MGA Roadster in 1972. He has been the West Coast Editor of EV NEWS since it started in 1990. He...
The papers, covering 1906-1981, are divided into three major series: Winters papers, Lewis papers and related materials. Winters papers, which are subdivided according to genre, consists of personal correspondence (primarily in-coming), professional correspondence with colleagues and publishers, articles and essays,...
Letters, memos, and reports, including several items signed and/or annotated by Fuller. Also assorted pamphlets, posters, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, slides, and ephemera. 24 tapes and transcripts containing conversation between Buckminster Fuller, William Wolf, Neva Kaiser, Michael Ben-Eli, and...
The Theodore Wores Collection contains material especially pertinent to the painter's career in art. A relatively small amount of correspondence is organized by decade, from 1880 to 1939 (1880-1909, 1910-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939). The rest of the Collection includes exhibit catalogs...
The Works Papers include the correspondence of John Downey Works dated from 1911 to 1928, the bulk of which was written between 1916 and 1926. In addition, the collection contains a typescript copy of Works' memoirs concerning, especially, his years...
This collection contains journals, pamphlets, conference papers and notes. The UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, took place September 4-15, 1995; the NGO Forum on Women took place just northeast of Beijing, August 30-September 8, 1995.
The letters span the period of the bank seizure of Taliesin, Wright's work on The Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, plans for a resort, San Marcos in the Desert (never built), "Graycliff," a summer house for his old patron, Darwin D....
The Yevtushenko Papers include personal and professional papers of Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Although not complete, the collection provides substantial material on Yevtushenko's personal and literary career, which cannot be separated from the political context of the time. ...
Correspondence of William R. K. Young and Morgan A. Gunst with bookstores and societies selling rare and fine books. Much of the correspondence is with T. J. Cobden-Sanderson of the Doves Press....
Correspondence, documents, and printed reference materials which form a written record of Younger's career in Washington, D.C. from 1964 until his death in 1967 and the election of his successor. Covers almost every aspect of his life and duties as...
The J. Arthur Younger Papers represent virtually the complete written record of ten years in the House of Representatives (1954-1964). Almost every aspect of a Congressman's life and duties are covered: elections; House rules and procedure; committee activity; public and...
Contains research files, notes, audiovisual materials, notebooks, and manuscripts of Gregg Zachary's book Showstopper, documenting the history of the Microsoft.
The Zalba collection includes the business history of a bakery operated by Basques in Hollister, California. They catered to the local Basques, performing services such as finding them employment in the mines and loaning them money. They also provided supplies...