1 holograph letter to Mr. Bok by way of which Lyman Abbot presents a copy of THE HOME BUILDER (HQ734 .A44 1908)....
Holograph postcard addressed to Diane Di Prima....
Signed typescripts....
The audiorecordings of David Akin, an American anthropologist specializing in Kwaio culture of the Solomon Islands, includes cassette audio recordings, largely in the Kwaio lanuage or Pidgin English, with a typescript index. The collection also includes two annotated photocopies of...
Records (1895-1897) of the Alaska Commercial Company, a San Francisco trading company largely concerned with the Alaskan fur trade.
Papers of Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven, Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist who contributed to significant advances in the fields of magnetohydrodynamics, plasma physics, geophysics, thermonuclear reaction, and cosmology. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Louis Neel in 1970. Alfven...
Papers of an important editor who has had a significant impact on the development of post WWII American poetry. The Donald Allen Collection consists of four different groups or series of materials: materials pertaining to the editorial work at Grove...
The American Friends Service Committee - US/Mexico Border Program (USMBP) is a human rights advocacy organization that was established to support immigrant rights and concerns by documenting human and civil rights abuses by law enforcement agencies in and around communities...
Papers of Rae Armantrout, American poet and teacher. The papers primarily document Armantrout's writing, including typescripts of individual poems and published manuscripts, her personal journals, as well as an extensive amount of correspondence with other American poets. The collection also...
A microfilm collection comprised of printed and manuscript materials created between 1965 and 1998 by twenty-two separate revolutionary groups in Mexico. The collection presents a wealth of primary material documenting the organization and activities of these twenty-two groups. It is...
Papers of James Arnold, chemist, professor, and scholar. The collection documents Arnold's professional career, especially his work on Carbon-14 dating, gamma rays, the Apollo 11, 12, 15, and 16 missions, lunar sample research, meteorites, solar, and lunar history. The collection...
Twenty-three cassette audiorecordings of radio interviews and documentaries made by Christopher Ashton in Papua New Guinea between 1972 and 1975.
Fieldnotes and recordings of Mary Clifton Ayres, ethnographer and professor of anthropology, made during her ethnographic fieldwork (1979-1981) in the Morehead District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Ayres' research formed the basis for her doctoral dissertation entitled .
Papers of Herman Baca, prolific Chicano activist, political organizer, printer, and longtime chairman and one of several founders of the Committee on Chicano Rights (CCR). Baca is known for his community-based grassroots organizing, especially for civil rights and political and...
Papers of Frank Back, optical engineer and founder and president of Zoomar Inc., an optical engineering company specializing in lens design for television, motion picture and single-lens reflex cameras. Materials include biographical documents, reprints and typescript drafts of Back's professional...
Poem was published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Norman Arthur Baily (1915-1992),medical physicist,completed a B.S. in science at St.John's University in 1941, an M.A. in education at New York University in 1943, and a Ph.D. in physics at Columbia University in 1952. Baily devoted his career to radiological...
Writings of Bruno Balke, a physician and researcher specializing in the areas of sports medicine and the impact of environmental factors on work performance of humans. Covering the years 1937-1982, the collection includes Balke's 1937 doctoral dissertation in sports medicine,...
Documents related to the Balsas Valley Navigation and Improvement Company (Compania de Navegacio y Mejoras del Valle y Rio Balsas Mexico) that operated a navigation concession on the Balsas River in the Mexican states of Michoacan and Guerrero from 1909...
Papers of the family of book dealer and historian Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918). The collection consists of letters from his first wife, Emily Ketchum, to her family, 1859-1869; and to her sister, Mrs. Coit, 1860-1869. It also includes the journal...
Annotated mimeograph....
Manuscripts, signed by European rulers and nobles and dating mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries, collected by the family of writer Jarvis Barlow and his father Dr. Walter Jarvis Barlow, both of Southern California. The bulk of the collection,...
A bound holograph copy in George Barrell's hand of the journal he kept during four years of travel on the seas from Frebruary 1824 to May 1828. Fifteen years old at the beginning of the journey, Barrell recounts the departure...
Rest of title: ...Mexico, from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence, 1600-1825....
Annotated typescript of work done around 1960....
The papers of American writer, poet and editor Elizabeth Bartlett (1911-1994). The papers cover the period from ca. 1940-1994 and include correspondence, typescript poetry and prose, artwork, and ephemera. The collection also includes Bartlett's editing work for and , as...
Correspondence of art historian Bernard Berenson primarily with San Diego artist Norah Bisgood Woodward from 1950 to 1959. The collection is comprised of manuscript letters and postcards, a copy of by Alexia Mitchell, unsigned cards from Bernard Berenson, and photographic...
Eleven short poems....
Annotated typescript of four poems. The first three are signed by Berkson and Warsh, the fourth only by Berkson....
Typescript of seven poems stapled in a paper cover. A color photogrpah of Berkson is pasted to the front cover; the inside back cover is signed and dated by Berkson....
Papers of Charles Bernstein, writer, editor, librettist, educator, and publisher, who is most often associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, a body of writing named for the journal (1978-1982) by this name which Bernstein co-edited with Bruce Andrews. Bernstein writes poetry, essays and...
Holographs and typescripts of five poems, three reviews, and two letters. One letter is addressed to Lewis Warsh and two of the poems are dedicated to him as well....
Photocopy typescript of acceptance speech for the National Book Award in Poetry....
Typescript of eight unrhymed septets....
Holograph letter. The letter itself is undated; it was laid in a copy Bidart's COLLECTED POEMS (1990) and appears to continue the inscription in the book to Joe Brainard, which is dated 21 Nov. 1991....
Correspondence to Diane Di Prima. Poetry was published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Twelve 8 x 10 color photographs of the Black Horse Farms site prior to its development....
Typescript....
Papers of an American poet, translator, editor, and literary agent, containing materials that detail the course of his career and personal life from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Blackburn was the author of nineteen books of poetry published...
Materials relating to the publicaiton of Paul Blackburn's PEIRE VIDAL, including mechanically reproduced copies of the mss., a preliminary proof of the wrapper, two artist's pasteups of the wrapper by Mulch Press artist Basil King, and correspondence between Mulch Press...
Typescript partly in Spanish....
The Carlos Blanco Aguinaga Third World Studies program documents, originally conceived in Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College), contains planning committee documents collected by UCSD literature professor Carlos Blanco Aguinaga. The materials, including syllabi, curriculum notes, correspondence, and administrative meeting...
Published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of William Bond (d.1776), Revolutionary Army officer and colonel in the 25th Regiment of Foot from Massachusetts. Bond led the regiment from July 1775 to August 31, 1776, when he died from an illness at Mount Independence near Fort...
Professional papers of Henry G. Booker, mathematician and physicist trained at Cambridge University in the 1930s. His research focused on radio wave propagation, during a long teaching career first at Cambridge University (1936-1947) and, subsequently, at Cornell University (1948-1964), and...
Correspondence (1927-28) from Marjorie Kelly (Borsum) to family members during a year traveling in Europe and North Africa and a year living in Paris. Correspondence (1929-65) to Marjorie Kelly Borsum from one of Picasso's former mistresses, Fernande Olivier, from Mme....
Published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Four scrapbooks, probably kept by Mr. and Mrs. Vergil F. Bradfield, parents of Robert Bradfield. Vergil Bradfield lived in China from 1919 to 1938. He was associated with the Peking Union Medical College. Robert Bradfield was born in China. The...
Materials collected by Robert Butts consisting primarily of diverse works by and regarding the popular New York artist and writer Joe Brainard (1942-1994). Brainard was the author of fifteen books of writing, the illustrator of numerous other books produced by...
Letters to Joe Brainard, author and artist. The collection is comprised of correspondence from various poets and artists, including John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, and Kenward Elmslie, and includes letters, postcards, images and ephemera. The materials date from 1957 through 1994,...
Carbon copy of text published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Production materials (1985-2001) for books and broadsides published by Brighton Press, a San Diego (Calif.) fine press directed by Bill Kelly and Michele Burgess. Materials include correspondence with artists, production notes, woodcut blocks, etching plates, plate proofs, letterpress proofs, mock-ups,...
The correspondence of David Bromige, poet, playwright, and educator. He is associated with the Black Mountain School of poetry, particularly with his two mentors, Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan. The collection includes materials from Ted Berrigan, Richard Brautigan, Robert Creeley,...
Papers and photograph collection of James and Stevey Bruce, anthropologists, photographers, and filmmakers, specifically of New Guinea native tribes. The collection contains mainly narratives (scripts) to films of his expeditions, plus many photographs and slides. Bruce made expeditions from 1961...
Typescript of unpublished memoir....
Keith A. Brueckner (1924- ), a theoretical physicist, has worked in academia and as a consultant to government and industry. His research has focused on many-body theory and laser fusion. Throughout his career, Brueckner has consulted with numerous federal and...
Signed carbon typescript....
Signed carbon typescript....
Signed, annotated carbon typescript....
Typed, signed letters of a personal nature....
Manuscripts (1955-1969) of Sigurd Burckhardt, literary scholar specializing in Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist, and founding member of the University of California, San Diego, Literature Department. Materials include published and unpublished essays and articles, reprint copies, chapbooks, drafts, relevant notes, Burckhardt's...
Literary papers and artwork of Gerald Burns, "postmodern" poet, critic, artist, and editor. Included are typescripts of Burns' untitled poetry collection; galleys for Burns' critical books (1979) and (1982); page proofs of Robert Trammell's , for which Burns set the...
Typed, signed postcard concerning typesetting prices for Spells, Letters, and Minuet....
Correspondence to bookdealers regarding the sale of manuscripts and other literary materials. Ten typed letters to Henry Wenning, 7 typed letters to Grant Roman, and one typed letter and one holograph postcard to Graham Ackroyd....
Research materials of Elsworth R. Buskirk, American physiologist, related to his high altitude research project, "Physiology and Performance of Track Athletes at Various Altitudes in the United States and Peru." In 1965, Buskirk along with Paul Baker, J. Kollias, E....
The California Historic Landmark Project Collection contains historical essays about Californian registered landmarks, monuments and state parks. The essays were written between 1936 and 1940 as part of the W.P.A. Federal Writer's Project. In addition to typescript essays, the collection...
Papers created by Ford Ashman Carpenter, meteorologist, aeronaut, author and photographer. The papers contian photographs, including several aerial and panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area and images of the Pacific Northwest and Panama Canal. Also included is an edited...
Materials related to the social movement that opposed the construction and operation of nuclear power generating plants in California. The bulk of the collection, dating from the late 1970s and early 1980s, consists of materials collected by August S. "Bill"...
Twenty-four patrol reports (microfilm), chiefly written by Ivan F. Champion, former Patrol Officer and Director of the Department of Native Affairs, Papua New Guinea....
Papers of the family of American painter John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1898) consisting mostly of the correspondence of John Chapman and his son, Conrad Wise Chapman. Of special interest are Conrad Chapman's letters to his family, written while he served in...
Papers of Ann Chowning, American anthropologist, related to her fieldwork in Papua New Guinea among the Molima people of Milne Bay Province on Fergusson Island in 1957-1958 and 1975-1976, the Sengseng people of West New Britain Province in 1962-1966 and...
Laboratory data and photographs compiled by Erik Hohwü Christensen and related to the 1935 International High Altitude Expedition to Chile. The collection includes two sets of test results for exercise on a cycle ergometer, one set taken at sea level...
The archive of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop documents the science fiction and fantasy writing seminar from 1969-1970, 1973-2002,and 2007-2012. Materials within the collection include typescripts and submission drafts by prospective and participating students, memorabilia, and class rosters.
Photocopy typescript....
Correspondence and ephemera collected by Ethan Ray Clarke, a Rhode Island Civil War regimental chaplain and small-town minister in New York and Michigan, with the bulk of the material representative of the period of the 1860s-1880s.
Papers of Hal Colebatch, an Australian political scientist who taught in Papua New Guinea in the late 1960s and 1970s and became involved in the independence and development of that country. The materials consist largely of subject files and unpublished...
Typescripts of poems published in THE FLOATING BEAR, with a letter to Diane Di Prima....
Part-typed, part-holograph postcard (1950) from Yvor Winters to Combs concerning the availability of Winters's published works. Typed, signed and annotated letter (1 Aug. 1959) from Combs to Prof. and Mrs. Yvor Winters requesting copies of their works for the collection...
Papers of Tram Combs, writer and bookseller. Combs lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1940s and was associated with many well-known writers. In 1951 he moved to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he owned and operated...
Papers of Edwin Aubrey Cook (1932-1984), American anthropologist, professor, and specialist in Manga culture in Papua New Guinea. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1959 and attended Yale University for his graduate education. Cook devoted his career to...
Three collections: Untitled, dedicated to Tom Clark; "Whoboddy," dedicated to Philip and Musa Guston; and "A B," made for Clark....
Typed, signed letters stamped with ORIGIN's address, in which Corman reviews and, for the most part, criticizes the Kirgo's "mag-catalog."...
Pencil and pen holograph....
Typescripts and films by husband and wife ethnographic team, David and Dorothy Counts. The collection includes typescript field journals, constructed from field notes, from ethnographic work conducted in New Britain, Papua New Guinea, as well as 16mm film documenting the...
The Elwin H. Covey, Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientist Files includes correspondence, flyers, informational materials and newsletters. Materials range in date from 1945-1947 and document the Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists' efforts to influence early U.S....
Personal papers of Francis Harry Compton Crick, neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner who co-discovered the helical structure of DNA with James D. Watson. The papers document Crick's family, social and personal life from 1938 until his death in 2004 and...
Papers of the Crippen Family, including patriarch George H. Crippen, who settled in San Diego in 1886 and helped develop the city through real estate and investment ventures. The papers include writings of John Crippen, son of George Crippen, personal...
Business records of George Crippen, early San Diego businessman and investor. The records document the George Crippen Investment Company and Crippen's partnerships with brother-in-law Frank S. Jennings, including the Point Loma Investment Company. Materials include bond and real estate sales...
The Elisha Oscar Crosby Papers consist mainly of autobiographical essays, documents, and correspondence regarding an early (1849-1895) California pioneer, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and civil servant. Subjects include Crosby's reminiscences of his official life in early California including his participation as...
The Harry Crosby Collection contains photographs of the University of California, San Diego; an exhibit of photographs entitled "Baja California, 1967-1992: Photographs by Harry Crosby" and a book proposal which led to the publication of THE CAVE PAINTINGS OF BAJA...
The papers of Robert Crosson, Hollywood actor and contemporary Los Angeles poet, contain manuscript and typescript drafts for Crosson's published collected works, especially GEOGRAPHIES (1981), ABANDONED LATITUDES: NEW WRITINGS BY 3 LOS ANGELES POETS (1983), CALLIOPE (1988), and THE BLUE...
Typescript....
Four autograph letters to Robert Hawley, publisher of Oyez books. Includes list of books donated by Curtis to the Univeristy Library, UCSC....
Papers of Joyce Arlene Cutler-Shaw, artist, lecturer and founder of the Landmark Art Project, Inc., and Landmark Art Collaborative. The collection documents Cutler-Shaw's teaching career at the University of California, San Diego Extension (1972-1974), Palomar College (1974-1978), and San Diego...
Records of the Cuyamaca Water Company, formerly the San Diego Flume Company, which was owned and operated by Colonel Ed Fletcher and Montana businessman James A. Murray from June 1, 1910, until its sale to the La Mesa, Lemon Grove...
Correspondence between Oliver Daniel and Ernst Krenek, most written during Daniel's tenure with Broadcast Music, Inc. Collection includes original letters and telegrams from Daniel and photocopies of letters from Krenek.
Date book containing holograph business entries for 1921, several holograph personal entries beginning in 1928, and a large number of mounted newspaper obituary clippings from the years 1930-1933 with comments written alongside abut the deceased and/or the funeral service and...
Papers (1852-1950) of the Dawson family, including patriarch John Barkley Dawson (1830-1918), a trailblazer, Texas Ranger and cattle rancher in New Mexico and Colorado, and several generations of his descendants. J. B. Dawson purchased part of the Maxwell Land Grant...
A bound manuscript written on vellum and pertaining to orthography, or the art of spelling as a science. Written by De Altedo, the work is dedicated to his friend Baldum (Baldus). The book is dated from internal evidence in a...
Papers of June Oppen Degnan, writer, publisher, political activist, and sister of poet George Oppen (1908-1984). Most of the collection documents Degnan's activities as publisher of the San Francisco Review in the 1960s, and her association with New Directions Books....
The papers of San Diego architect Homer Delawie. The papers, ranging in date from 1945-2007, document Delawie's career as an architect, with information for projects, both completed and unrealized. While files exist for many projects, the collection contains very few...
Papers of Demetrio Delgado de Torres, Undersecretary of the Spanish Ministry of the Treasury during the period of the Civil War and personal advisor to Juan Negrin, president of the Spanish Republic. The materials, written mostly in Spanish, cover the...
Title documents and correspondence related to the ownership of the Denton Ranch, also known as Rancho Jacume, located on the international border in Baja California Norte, Mexico near La Rumerosa. The collection forms the documentation for the Denton Family's claim...
Letters providing a detailed account of Dring's activities and travels in Sonora, Baja California, the islands of the Gulf of California, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. Written principally from Elide Island, Georges Island, Guaymas, Magdalena Bay, and...
Reprints (1924-1985) of journal articles by David Bruce Dill, physiologist and informal director (1927-1946) of the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory, director (1947-1961) of medical research for the U.S. Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratory, and director of the Laboratory of Patho-Environmental...
Annotated typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of Laurence Belmont Dixon, electrical engineer and amateur photographer. The collection consists primarily of materials documenting Dixon's travels in Japan in 1905, including a large group of photographs and a personal diary. Also included in the collection is an...
The Russell Doolittle Biochemistry Laboratory Records document the activities of a UCSD science laboratory engaged in research on the structure of the human fibrinogen molecule. The materials are arranged in three series: 1) NEWAT, 2) LABORATORY NOTEBOOKS and 3) AMINO...
The first leaf of the manuscript of the Sherlock Holmes nove, with holograph corrections and printer's notations. Glued to backing....
Five typescripts written between 1960 and 1969 and published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Manuscripts and drawings of Theodor S. Geisel, author and illustrator known internationally as Dr. Seuss. The collection (1919-1992) includes early drawings, manuscripts and drawings for the majority of his children's books, scripts and storyboards for Dr. Seuss films, television specials...
Research documentation from Brian du Toit's anthropological fieldwork from 1961-1962 in Papua New Guinea. Du Toit worked with the Gadsup people in Akuna, a village located in the Arona River Valley of Eastern Highlands Province. Research materials include 16mm films,...
Uncollected poems in manuscript....
Papers of Frank Tillman Durdin, China specialist, journalist for the NEW YORK TIMES (1937-1974) and the first American journalist granted a visa to reenter China in 1971. During his career, Durdin reported on the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), the collapse of...
Letters concering the NY TIMES request to publish Eberhart's poem "From suite in prison."...
Papers of Charles Edwards, physician, surgeon, administrator, and former Assistant Secretary for Health (1973-1975) of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Edwards also served as Commissioner (1969-1973) of the United States Food and Drug Administration, senior vice...
Papers of writer Lewis Ellingham, containing audio recordings and photocopies of materials used in his research on poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) and the Spicer Circle, which flourished from roughly 1956 to 1965. The collection consists largely of interview recordings and...
Papers of Robert Carl Elliott, scholar and professor of literature. Elliott specialized in the study of satire and its relationship to utopian societies. The collection includes manuscripts of writings by Elliott, correspondence with friends and colleagues, and material related to...
Papers of Kenward Elmslie, writer, performer, editor and publisher associated with the "New York School" of writers and artists. Elmslie's lyrics and libretti for operas and musicals--MISS JULIE (1965), LIZZIE BORDEN (1966), THE SWEET BYE AND BYE (1966), THE GRASS...
One page holograph letter, dated 6 May 1862, to "My Dear Blake" and informing the addressee of Thoreau's death and pending funeral arrangements. ...
Papers of anthropologists Arnold Leonard and Trude Scarlett Epstein. The accession processed in 1985 contains field notes and produce market studies compiled by Arnold and Trude Scarlett Epstein between 1959 and 1961. The materials detail the lives of the Tolai...
Two typed, annotated articles in Russian detailing the political situation in Spain in the early 1930s. Accompaneid by two holograph letters from Paris in English and French....
Papers of Robert Erickson, American composer and co-founder of the Music Department at the University of California, San Diego. The collection is comprised of correspondence, holograph music scores, materials relating to Erickson's teachings at UCSD and his work with the...
The papers of Clayton Eshleman, American poet, translator, and editor. Included is extensive correspondence dating from 1963 to 1992; original typescripts and manuscripts of Eshleman's prose and verse writings; travel notebooks; interviews; original typescript and manuscript drafts of original works;...
Documents, covering the period 1890-1985, of the family of Clayton Eshleman, writer, editor and translator. Includes correspondence between Clayton and his parents and between Clayton and his first wife Barbara; an extensive collection of family photographs; the family's school, church...
Holograph statistical report of the human and livestock population, acreage, and agricultural output at 14 Baja California missions at the end of June 1775 while under Dominican curatorship. Signed by Melchor de Peramas....
Three typescripts, one annotated....
Fifty-five unpublished poems, with an autograph letter from Falk to Roy Harvey Pearce....
Holographic account of R.A. Faxon's travels through Great Britain and Europe. The account begins on 1 July 1783 with Faxon's arrival in Northern Ireland and concludes with his arrival in London around August 16. In between Faxon visited Brussels, Munich,...
The collection is comprised of photographs, negatives, programs, and promotional materials relating to the historical pageant , written by Benjamin F. Sherman and performed annually from 1927-1932 in Escondido, California.
This collection was compiled primarily by Sol Ferrer Sanmarti, the daughter of Francisco Ferrer Guardia (1859-1909), a theoretical anarchist from Catalonia and the founder of La Escuela Moderna. The Francisco Ferrer Guardia material spans the last eight years of his...
Two photocopies of works published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Annotated carbon copies of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
The Lillian W. and William H. Fishman Papers document the medical and research careers of two cancer scientists, William Fishman and Lillian Fishman, who specifically researched what is termed an oncodevelopmental biological approach to cancer. Included in the papers are...
Annotated typescript published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
The papers of Ed Fletcher of San Diego, California, consisting primarily of the business records of Ed Fletcher (1872-1955), a noted San Diego land developer, civic leader, and member of the California State Senate. A native of Massachusetts, Fletcher arrived...
Photocopies of documents collected by the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico and held in the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico City, related to the investigation for violation of neutrality laws, indictment, and extradition of Ricardo and Enrique...
The papers of Anthony Forge, British anthropologist, professor and specialist in the art and aesthetics of the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea, include field notes, photographs and original Abelam art commissioned by Forge during his fieldwork in the Sepik...
Photostatic copies of papers of a British missionary who served on San Christobal in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Melanesia. Materials consist of Fox's manuscript for a dictionary, grammar, and transcribed tales of the Arosi language of San Cristobal...
Rest of Title: A discussion of the Spanish explorations and maps, the Colorado River silt load and its seismic effect on the Southwest, the alkali and salt problem in the Pacific Southwest with special reference to the use of the...
Papers of Kathleen Fraser, American poet, teacher and scholar. Influenced by the experimental poets of the New York School in the 1960s, Fraser became a prolific poet, an advocate of innovative women's writing, and a professor of creative writing at...
This small collection contains handwritten and typed manuscripts of Stephen Fredman's translation and adaptation of the play, , by the prolific Spanish baroque playwright and poet, Lope de Vega (1562-1635). The little-known play's American premiere, about the patron saint of...
Papers of Betty Freeman, photographer, philanthropist, and patron of New Music and contemporary composers. The collection dates between 1965 and 2008 and contains photographs both of and by Freeman; correspondence with numerous artists and composers; and original artworks by Robert...
Papers of Australian anthropologist Derek Freeman. The collection documents the research and publication career of a prominent Australian anthropologist; his correspondence with Australian, British and American colleagues; and, the scholarly debates that he sparked with his critical analysis of Margaret...
Unsigned holograph report in Spanish describing the Royalist coup d-etat of 4 Sept. 1797 in Paris and the arrest of a group including Charles Pichegru....
Papers of Morris Friedkin, American biochemist, professor and university administrator. His research interests included folic acid metabolism, cancer chemotherapy, enzymology, DNA synthesis, biochemical dynamics of the cell cycle, pharmacology, and positron emission tomography. Friedkin received his Ph.D. in 1948 from...
Correspondence, manuscripts, conceptual and mail art work, and ephemera documenting Ken Friedman's affiliation with Fluxus art movement spearheaded by George Maciunas. The collection includes examples of Friedman's Fluxus offset press, art work of other Fluxus artists, publications by Aktual, and...
Records of the FRONTERAS 1976 Executive Committee (Hamilton Marston, chairman), the San Diego-based bicentennial celebration project sponsored by the City of San Diego; the University of California, San Diego; San Diego State University; the University of San Diego; the San...
Papers of an American author and mother of the poet Paul Blackburn. The materials, originally part of the Paul Blackburn papers, include a small selection of Frost's writings, memorabilia, and correspondence. Included is correspondence with Frost's father, Amos Frost, her...
Papers of Gloria Frym, Bay Area-based poet, educator, and writer. The collection contains correspondence with other prominent poets and writers; typescripts and drafts of published and unpublished creative literary works; teaching materials; and notebooks. The papers also include biographical materials,...
The collection contains the papers of D. Carleton Gajdusek, physician, virologist, and medical researcher who received the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries concerning a new mechanism for the origin and dissemination of infectious disease. This research originated...
Papers of John S. Galbraith, professor of history and university administrator. Galbraith specialized in the history of the British Empire and taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1948-1964 and 1968-1984) and the University of California, San Diego (1984-1987)....
Papers of David Gansz, poet, librarian, educator, and author. Mentored by Robert Kelly at Bard College, Gansz became influenced by the Black Mountain School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Deep Image School. The collection contains correspondence with prominent poets...
Francisco Garcia Calderon's bound manuscript (1896) entitled "Replica al Alegato del Ecuador" and two preliminary drafts were compiled between 1892 and 1896 to document the history of border disputes between Peru and Ecuador over the provinces of Mainas, Jaen and...
Holograph manuscript of recipes comprised of 22 sewn leaves pasted into a linen cover. Eight other leaves have also been pasted in, presumably at a much later date since some of the leaves are dated 1912 and are in a...
Papers of Lewis Geddes, San Diego photographer and historical researcher. The bulk of the materials relate to historic adobe structures in San Diego County, Baja California, and Arizona. Included are notes and photographs created in the 1930s relating to the...
Writings of Geng Xiufeng, peasant activist and leader from the village of Wugong, China. The collection contains 55 bound, handwritten diaries and one folder of loose pages written by Geng from 1944 to 1992, documenting his reactions to agricultural reforms...
Papers of poet Charley George. Included are manuscripts of George's poetry and prose, correspondence and biographical materials. The papers contain the manuscript for his posthumously published collection of poetry entitled SUNDAY'S ENDING TOO SOON and his earlier chapbook A MORE....
Holograph letters in which gide responds to Hartley's apparent inquiry about Oscar Wilde's Ahab and Isabel, and declines to review Hartley's thesis....
Photographs of faculty, staff, students, buildings and events of the University of California, San Diego taken between 1964 and 1986. Also includes negatives from Glasheen's commercial studio in La Jolla. The collection is arranged in nine series: 1) PORTRAITS, 2)...
Papers of George Glenner (1928-1995), physician and research pathologist who specialized in Alzheimer's disease. In 1984 Glenner indentified the molecular structure of the beta amyloid protein and its relation to Alzheimer's disease. The collection includes biographical materials, notebooks, writings, correspondence,...
Papers of anthropologist Paula Brown Glick. Glick did much of her research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, particularly Chimbu. Papers include correspondence, writing, research files and notebooks, as well as a large number of photographs and slides.
Papers of Jane C. Goodale, an American anthropologist and photographer who conducted ethnographic research on Kaulong-speaking people of New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea. Goodale studied daily life and customs, identity, gender identity, gender relations, attitudes towards sexuality and...
Collection of John Bartlett Goodman, III, motion picture art director, bibliophile, author, and collector of Western Americana. Materials include manuscripts, correspondence, movie research materials, artwork and sketches, family memorabilia, ephemera, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and historical manuscripts associated with Goodman's...
Two holograph letters in which Gordon Cumming relates her experiences in the South Pacific. In the 1876 letter written in Fiji, she describes her stay in Fiji, the comings and goings of various British officials, Sir Arthur Gordon's attempts...
Papers of Robert J. Gould, physicist and research professor at the University of California, San Diego. Materials include notes, calculations, drafts and reprints of many of Gould's research papers.
A 35mm color slide show and 16mm color film documentary of the early history (1963-1967) of the University of California, San Diego, created by Charles Graves. The two formats were photographed nearly simultaneously and include the construction and dedication of...
Annotated typescript....
Papers of Howard E. Gulick, author, cartographer and traveler in the Mexican states of Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur and Nayarit. Gulick coauthored one of the first guidebooks on Baja California, the LOWER CALIFORNIA GUIDEBOOK (1956), which combined history...
Papers of Terrel Hale, American poet and editor, dating from 1975 to 2003. Included are original notebooks, typescripts, and drafts of Hale's prose, poetry, and plays; proofs, typescripts, paste-ups, lists of contributors, and correspondence related to the publication of .
Family papers and sugar plantation records (1709-1835) of the Hall family of England and Jamaica, including William Hall (b.1696), Thomas Hall (1725-1772), Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall (b.1748?), and Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall (b.1776). The Hall family owned and operated the sugar plantations...
Typescript of unpublished account....
Papers of Robert N. Hamburger, UCSD professor of pediatrics and researcher in allergy and immunology. Hamburger investigated the relationship between peptides and immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies and synthesized human IgE pentapeptide (HEPP), a substance shown to inhibit allergic response. Included...
Papers of a theosophist and member of the Theosophical Society in Point Loma, California, dating chiefly from the early foundation of Lomaland to the Society's relocation in 1942 to Covina, California. Included are descriptions of the Theosophical Society's Raja Yoga...
Two manuscript versions of the book TOWARD A LIVABLE WORLD: LEO SZILARD AND THE CRUSADE FOR NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL (1987) prepared by Helen S. Hawkins and co-edited with G. Allen Greb and Gertrude Weiss Szilard. The early version (1974-1976) contains...
Papers of anthropologist and professor Terence Hays. The archive primarily concerns Hays' three field studies in the Papua New Guinea highlands in 1971-1972, 1981, and 1985, where he researched language and interactions between the sexes. The collection includes correspondence, field...
Papers of Lyn Hejinian, American poet, publisher and editor of Tuumba Press, co-editor of POETICS JOURNAL, and co-director of the literary project Atelos. She has been a member of the Poetics Faculty at the New College of California and is...
Notebook containing holograph field notes from Heller's 1902 exploratory trip to Baja California to collect specimens and data for the Field Museum of Chicago. Includes sketched maps of his routes and lists of the fauna and flora of the various...
Annotated typescript published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
The papers of Leland Hickman, actor, American poet, and editor. The bulk of the material dates from 1979 to 1989 and is related to the publication of the literary magazines Bachy, Boxcar, and Temblor, including extensive correspondence, original submissions, paste-ups,...
Notebook in boards with original oil paintings on the boards. The notebook contains poems and drawings, written in the form of a letter to Roy Harvey Pearce....
Papers of Lindsay Hill, American poet and editor. The bulk of the materials date from 1968 to 2001. Included is correspondence with friends and colleagues; original typescripts and manuscripts of Hill’s poetry and prose; business material related to Hill’s production...
The collection contains the manuscript for John Hilton's book HARDLY ANY FENCES: BAJA CALIFORNIA IN 1933-1959, which was published by Dawson's Bookshop as volume 38 of their Baja California Travel Series. Included are original typescripts for individual chapters, many of...
Papers of Sam Hinton, professional folksinger and teacher of literature and folklore. The collection is primarily composed of song compilations from Hinton’s performances, collected songs, coursework from UC Folklore courses, and contracts and correspondence regarding Hinton’s recording career. Also included...
The speech, a signed photocopy, was presented by Mr. Hitchcock to Columbia University alumni at a luncheon on 6 June 1972....
John Edward Hoffmeister (1899-1991) earned his degrees from Johns Hopkins University; an A.B. in chemistry in 1920 and a Ph.D. in geology in 1923. Field work in Tonga and Fiji in 1926, 1928, and 1934 formed the basis of his...
Signed typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of Thomas Hornbein, M.D., professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle Departments of Anesthesiology, and Physiology, and Biophysics and veteran mountaineer climber, explorer, and educator. The papers document the American Mount Everest Expedition where Hornbein and his...
Papers of Steven Michael Horvath, professor of physiology, researcher and director (1962-1984) of the Institute of Environmental Stress at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Horvath studied the physiological effects of the environment, particularly air pollutants, altitude, and heat. The...
The James Howard Collection documents the life of a mining foreman who lived in Guadalajara, Mexico. Most of the papers relate to Howard’s experience as a foreman at the Amparo Mining Company. The materials, written in both English and Spanish,...
Holograph letter addressed "Dear friends, in which Howe describes his journey from Acapulco to San Diego by ship and on foot, working conditions as a cook at Mr. Grey's camp, the whereabouts of various named ships, and how and when...
Papers of Susan Howe, American poet. The papers primarily document Howe's literary correspondence, poetry manuscripts, manuscripts of readings and talks, personal and working journals and art/poetry installations dating from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. A small group of personal...
The Hubon Family Papers contain largely correspondence to San Diego pioneer Frederick Hubon (1827-1882). The papers include correspondence from three generations of Hubons, with some correspondence from other relatives and friends. The correspondence touches upon major events of the nineteenth...
Papers of Jorge Huerta, playwright, Chicano director, and professor at the University of California, San Diego. The papers primarily document Huerta's directoral projects, academic work, and involvement with various national theatre organizations and committees. The bulk of the collection is...
Papers of Herbert Hultgren, cardiologist, mountain climber, researcher in high altitude medicine, and specialist in the study of high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). Hultgren and his colleague, Dr. Warren Spickard, were the first to publish a full account of high-altitude...
Holographs and annotated typescripts of 13 poems and short prose works written by Hutchinson between 1947 and 1953. The file also includes a copy of an essay by John Ciardi titled "Everyone writes (bad) poetry."...
Papers of David Ignatow, distinguished American poet. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ignatow edited several important periodicals, among them THE BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL (co-editor, 1950-1959), NATION (poetry editor, 1962-1963), CHELSEA (consulting editor, 1969-1971), and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW (editor-at-large, 1972-1976)....
Papers of Rose Graubart Ignatow, artist, poet and author. Materials include correspondence with friends and subjects of her drawings; letters from her husband, poet David Ignatow; and materials reflecting her career in art. The collection is arranged in two series:...
Papers of J. Stuart Innerst (1894-1975), missionary, Quaker activist, editor, and critic of American foreign policy toward China. Innerst worked in China as a United Brethren in Christ missionary (1920-1927) and later returned as a guest of the People's Republic...
Papers of Harvey Itano, American biochemist and pioneer in the study of sickle cell anemia hematology. The collection documents Itano's research on sickle cell anemia disease and his work in the field of molecular medicine focusing on understanding of genetic...
Papers of Calvin Jackson (1919-1985), jazz pianist, composer, arranger, ensemble leader, and host of radio and television programs featuring jazz music and performers. The material consists of manuscript scores and instrumental parts for Jackson's own compositions, his arrangements of the...
Edith Jarolim's project files for her two editions of Paul Blackburn's works, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PAUL BLACKBURN and THE PARALLEL VOYAGES. Included are photocopies of Blackburn's correspondence and manuscripts deposited in other libraries and Jarolim's correspondence with Blackburn's family...
Typescript translation by Paul Blackburn....
Research materials for PASSAGE FROM INDIA: ASIAN INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NORTH AMERICA by Joan Jensen, emerita professor of history from New Mexico State University. Jensen's book looks at Asian Indian immigration to the western United States and Canada; ethnic discrimination;...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of Gerald Woodrow Johnson, physicist and specialist in the fields of nuclear policy and atomic energy. Johnson served as associate director for testing at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory during the 1950s and was active in the development of underground...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Annotated typescripts....
Holograph letter of a personal nature in which Jordan mentions being made a Knight of the Order of the Rising Sun in Japan. Also signed by Jessie Knight Jordan....
Black and white photograph Mr. and Mrs. Jordan sitting near a pond. The photograph was originally laid in Jordan's DOAYS OF A MAN (1922; QL31.J6 A3)....
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Martin David Kamen (8/27/13- ) received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1933 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the same institution in 1936. He continued his research at Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory (later known as...
Papers of Nathan Oram Kaplan, university administrator and eminent biochemist affiliated with Brandeis University, where he developed that university's graduate program in biology during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and subsequently with the University of California, San Diego, where...
Surveys, dating from 1951-1992, conducted by Oscar and Rose Kaplan, public opinion pollsters and analysts for businesses, politicians, attorneys and newspapers in the San Diego area. A small number of surveys were conducted in the Los Angeles area and nationwide....
Letters from European composer Ernst Krenek to his former student, Mildred Kayden, and other related ephemera. Collection materials date from 1940 to 1986 and include letters, postcards, newsclippings, programs and a musical score.
Papers of Roger M. Keesing, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist whose area of specialization was the culture history and language of the Kwaio people of the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands. The Keesing Papers represent the research and...
Some of the items were published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Nine black and white photoprints of Tongan natives and scenes. The photoprints are undated but would appear to have been taken during the first half of the 20th Century. One photograph bears the embossed stamp of Kerry and Jones, Photographers....
Papers, 1980-1985, of an American anthropologist, consisting largely of carbon copies of anthropological field notes. The notes were originally taken by Bruce Knauft and his wife Eileen when they lived among the Gebusi people of Papua New Guinea from 1980-1982....
The correspondence of an important member of the 'post-beat' West Coast poetry community. The bulk of the collection covers the period from 1957 to 1972. Included are letters, cards, drawings, and poems from Joe Brainard, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen...
The papers of Joanne Kyger, an important member of the 'post-beat' West Coast poetry community. The papers document Kyger's life and writing as she traveled through San Francisco, Japan, New York, and Bolinas, California. The bulk of the collection covers...
Records (1957-1984) documenting the La Jolla Civic-University Orchestra and Chorus Association, consisting largely of correspondence of the organization's officers, subject files and various publicity materials for events. Materials include committee records, board minutes, membership lists, printed programs, posters, and photographs....
The letter is dated 20 Oct. 1959 and is addressed to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). Some of the materials were published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
The papers of American physician Sylvester Maxwell Lambert (1882-1947) relate primarily to his public health work for the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. He worked in this capacity in Oceania between 1918 and 1939, documenting the prevalence of...
Papers relating to writer and public policy analyst William Lanouette's research for , published in 1994 with Szilard's brother Bela Silard as co-author. Research materials are mostly photocopies of correspondence, clippings, patent documents, and other materials related to Szilard's life...
Papers of David Lasser, labor activist and aerospace visionary. In the early 1930s, David Lasser founded and became the first president of both the American Interplanetary Society and the Workers Alliance of America. He wrote one of the first books...
The JONATHAN LATIMER PAPERS contain a small collection of story ideas, outlines, scripts and screenplays. The materials are arranged alphabetically by title in one series entitled WRITINGS....
The John Willoughby Layard papers provide extensive documentation on the multi-faceted life and work of an English intellectual. All aspects of Layard's life are represented in the collection, including his personal life, family affairs, anthropological investigations, psychoanalytical practice, writing, intellectual...
Ethnographic fieldnotes and audio cassette recordings (1984-1986) created by Stephen Leavitt, American anthropologist and researcher in Melanesian culture. Included are fieldnotes, tape recorded interviews, interview transcripts, census materials, and Arapesh language materials related to the ethnography of the Bumbita Arapesh...
3 bound volumes containing legal documents, correspondence, and other materials pertaining to the dispute of ownership to the lands of the Ex-Mission of Santa Catarina. ...
Holograph letters of a personal nature in which reference is madeto Wright's review of the Day's THE GATE....
Aerial photographs of Baja California (Mexico) coastal features, including black-and-white images of points, ports, capes, bays, and islands, taken by Leland Lewis, a west coast navigator, sailor and author. Port towns represented include Ensenada, La Paz, Loreto, Mulege, Santa Rosalia,...
Papers of Richard E. Lingenfelter, research astrophysicist and UCSD physics lecturer. The collection documents his years at UCSD (1979-1999) as a member of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. Lingenfelter worked in the areas of solar high energy emissions,...
Papers of Robert B. Livingston, professor of neuroscience and medical administrator. The collection includes early correspondence (1947-1952), writings, talks and lectures, project materials, and UCSD teaching materials. Also included are papers of Livingston's mentor John F. Fulton. The papers are...
Typescript....
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Annotated photocopies of nine poems, two from an anthology and seven from typsescripts. Accompaniend by a letter (31 May 1969) to "Bas" (Basil King) referring to the poems as "the eucalyptus poems" and requesting that Bas do the drawings, a...
Dated typescript of poem....
Oversize map located at MC-044-08....
Papers of Ulrich Cameron Luft, 1910-1991. A research physiologist and physician, Luft was an authority in the fields of lung physiology and acclimatization to high altitude. He took part in the 1937 and 1938 German expeditions to Nanga Parbat in...
Typescript....
Shang-keng Ma (9/24/40-11/24/83) was born in China and immigrated to the United States in 1959. He earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962 and 1966. In 1966 he joined the University of...
Papers of Jackson Mac Low, a poet, composer and performance artist who has frequently used systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work. The bulk of the collection dates between 1937 and 1995. The collection contains notebooks...
Annotated typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers probably collected by the family of Pablo Macedo, Mexican lawyer and professor of political economy, mostly relating to his father Mariano's claim to the Hacienda de Nuestra Senora de las Rosarios (a.k.a. "Los Reyes"). The materials, written in Spanish,...
Two loose-leaf bound cookbooks. One, bound in a pebbled three-ring black notebook, contains 139 leaves of holograph recipes and lists. It is suggested the notebook was started when Helene Paul was enrolled in Miss Spence's finishing school in New York...
Annotated photocopy and typed and signed letter dated 24 May 1976....
Papers collected by Armando de Maria y Campos, Mexican poet, novelist, biographer, and journalist. Materials include a collection of twentieth-century corridos, a list of Mexican periodicals, documents (1633-1818) related to the Conde del Valle de Orizaba, and numerous historical documents...
The Marquis Collection of French Revolution Prints contains documentary prints, mainly engravings, which portray events, scenes and historical figures of the French Revolution. Included in the collection are 24 maps of France and Paris. The items date from the period...
Papers of Roberto Martinez, Chicano rights activist, political organizer, and director of the American Friends Service Committee's (AFSC) San Diego chapter from 1983 to 2001. The collection documents Martinez's career as an activist, locally in San Diego, as well as...
Letters from Francis "Pete" Mastrototoro to his girlfriend, then wife, Eva Mikelonis over the course of Mastrototoro's military service in World War II from 1942 to 1945. The letters primarily deal with his day-to-day life on bases in California, Texas,...
Papers of Bernd Teo Matthias (1918-1980), physicist, professor and researcher in superconductivity. Matthias began his research in superconductivity at the University of Chicago (1949-1951), joined the UCSD Physics Department in 1961, worked at Bell Laboratories and the Los Alamos National...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of Bernadette Mayer, writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. Most often associated with the New York School, Mayer uses compositional methods such as chance operations, collage and cut-up. Materials include correspondence (1963-1996) with writers, artists, publishers, and friends; manuscripts and...
Papers of a theoretical chemical physicist, researcher, author, consultant, and professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) from 1960 until his retirement in 1973. Mayer is best known for his work in statistical mechanics and the...
Papers of a Nobel Prize winning physicist and professor at the University of California, 1960-1964. The materials include general and family correspondence, and correspondence with physicists Hans Jensen and Edward Teller. Also included are reprints and writings of hers, as...
Typed signed letter regarding a meeting with Nancy Macdonald in New York City. Also included in the folder is an annotated typed draft of a circular letter to be issued by the Spanish Refugee Aid....
Thermofax of the poem. Also includes a letter dated 8 Sept. 1965....
The Marquis McDonald Papers contain only photographic materials created during the 1949-1950 trip through Baja California, many of which were published in BAJA: LAND OF LOST MISSIONS (1968). They are principally of mission buildings in various formats of 2 1/4...
Papers of William David McElroy (1917-1999), professor of biochemistry, the fourth chancellor (1972-1980) of the University of California, San Diego; and former director (1969-1971) of the National Science Foundation. McElroy's significant contributions to biology include isolating and crystallizing the compounds...
Papers of William James McGill, experimental psychologist, university administrator, author, teacher and community leader. McGill's research in reaction time measurement contributed to advances in cognitive psychology and his leadership as chancellor of the University of California, San Diego (1968-1970), and...
The papers of DeLoss McGraw, artist, children's book illustrator, fine arts lecturer, and educator, document McGraw's artistic career from the mid-1980s to 2003, especially his use of literary texts in his compositions and his collaborations with poets, most notably W....
Research materials related to the Baja California studies of geographer Peveril Meigs, III. Meigs conducted field research in northern Baja California, Mexico, between 1925 and 1936 observing geology, climate, indigenous populations, mission sites, and local culture in preparation for his...
This collection contains single manuscripts, typescripts and other materials which have been given to the Melanesian Archive since 1982. It includes many conference papers and other unpublished reports, most concerning anthropological topics. The geographic scope of the collection includes Papua...
Signed typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of Margarita Melville, a former Maryknoll sister and human rights activist, that document revolutionary movements in Guatemala from the 1960s through 1993. Revolutionary groups represented in the collection include Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (FAR), Guatemala Human Rights Commission and the...
Three holograph letters of bill payment (Mexico City, 1808) addressed to Rafael Llamas from Jose Rafael Morales. A record of the business transactions of Juan Gomez de la Vega between 1823 and 1824. Two promissory notes (1819 and 1820) for...
Two holograph documents. The first (1810) is entitled "Razon de las escrituras de la M.Y. Archiocofradia del Smo. Sacramento," and it lists mortgages and properties of cofradia members going back as far as 1743. Signed by Manuel Joseph Nunez in...
The Microcirculatory Society Records, 1948-2001 (bulk 1954-1999), document primarily the society from its beginning through the 1990s. Items within the collection include documents pertaining to Society organization and operation, photographs of members and events, and reel-to-reel and digital audio of...
The Middlebrook Photographs of San Diego & Arizona Railway Locomotives is comprised of black & white negatives and gelatin silver prints from 1910-1948. The collection documents the San Diego & Arizona Railway and includes images of locomotive engines, railcars, rail...
Papers of John Miles, University of California, Los Angeles and San Diego, fluid mechanics engineer, geophysicist, and educator from 1964-2003. Miles was also an associate editor of the JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS beginning in 1966. He is known for research...
The papers of James Milledge, a British high altitude physiologist and mountaineer. The collection includes diaries, databooks, correspondence, and clipping files documenting Milledge's participation in the 1960-61, 1964, and 1981 expeditions to Mt. Everest and the 1981 expedition to Mt....
Papers of Max Miller, La Jolla (California) author and reporter for the San Diego Sun. Miller is best known for his book I COVER THE WATERFRONT (1932), the first of nearly twenty books on subjects including the modern U.S. military,...
The papers of Stanley Miller, chemist, biologist, and professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for his research into the origins of life. The papers date from 1952 to 2010 and include correspondence, writing, referee reports, research and...
Documents (1712-1900) of the Millerd family of Rhode Island. Included are sermon books, correspondence, birth and death date information for family members, and records of debt. The collection is organized in two series: 1) SERMON BOOKS and 2) FAMILY DOCUMENTS.
Production materials of Momentum Press, a Santa Monica, California, literary press operated by writer and editor William Mohr between 1974 and 1985. Materials include correspondence, manuscripts and production proofs for numerous monographic works by Los Angeles poets, typescripts and paste-ups...
Logbook of the Colorado Steam Navigaton Co.'s steamship Montana, which operated between San Francisco and Port Isabel on the Gulf of California. Holograph entries by commanding officer George H. Douglas. Accompanied by a check dated 22 June 1878 drawn on...
Carbon typescript with 18 mounted photogfaphs. Accompanied by a typed, signed letter (24 April 1954) to Howard Gulick concerning Moore's expedition and Gulick's loan of a folder of papers on the Colorado delta....
Typed, signed letter with annotations, in which Moore discusses writing and gives general directions for submitting works for publication....
Editorial files of Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas, poets and editors. The bulk of the materials date from 1989 to 1992 and document the editorial and publishing process for the poetry anthologies and . The collection contains correspondence with prospective...
Papers of Neil Morgan, prominent San Diego columnist, writer, editor, and civic commentator, who is best known for his column "Neil Morgan" that appeared in the SAN DIEGO EVENING TRIBUNE (1961-1992) and the SAN DIEGO UNION (1992-2004). Morgan was the...
The Ephraim W. Morse family papers (1838 - 1907) document the private and public life of an important San Diego pioneer, businessman, merchant, and civic leader. In 1849, Morse sailed around Cape Horn with other Gold Rush pioneers. By 1850,...
Papers (1861-1884) of Ephraim W. Morse, a San Diego merchant, real estate broker, insurance agent, and city promoter. Materials include storebooks and account books for Morse's Old Town and New Town stores; correspondence; cased daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of unidentified subjects;...
Holograph letter presenting a copy of PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL (1844) to the Harvard Divinity School. The letter is pasted to the inside front cover of the UCSD copy (Rare, BX 5203.G7 1844)....
Papers of William Murray, noted writer and published novelist. Materials document the literary and professional career of California-based writer noted for his mystery fiction and contemporary feature writing. The collection contains correspondence, both professional and personal; typescripts and drafts of...
Typescripts of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Two holograph letters, one from Lucy P. Myers to Miss Sherman and the other unsigned but possibly from Mrs. Mead to Myers. Both discuss places to stay and what to see in and near Mexico City. Also a newspaper clipping...
The papers of Thomas Nee, conductor and University of California, San Diego emeritus professor of music, include correspondence and biographical materials related to his fifty years of classical and experimental music conducting.
Typed, signed letter apparently written in response to an invitation to be included in some sort of literary collection....
Papers related to the New Guinea Micro-Evolution Project, led by James B. Watson. Also included are papers written for an American Anthropological Association conference session looking back at the study and its impact on the discipline. Papers range in date...
Business documents and correspondence related to the New Rosario Silver Mining Company, Ltd., a British company with mines located in Mexico. The bulk of the materials are dated 1870 and deal mainly with the formation of the company.
Papers of Alfred North (1807-1869), Presbyterian missionary, minister, and printer. North served abroad for the American Board in Singapore (1836-1843) and in Madura, India (1843-1847). He subsequently worked as a minister in New York, Kansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin until his...
Papers of Harry Northup, Los Angeles poet, screen actor, and editor and founding member of Cahuenga Press. The papers largely comprise Northup's literary correspondence; his writings, including notebooks and journals, working papers, poem drafts, and manuscripts for collected published works,...
Research materials for Hugh Norwood's study of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, urban settlements entitled . Materials include aerial photographs, notes, maps, and survey forms and are arranged alphabetically by village or settlement name.
Papers of Alice Notley, American artist and poet. Materials include Notley's notebooks (1969-1990), correspondence with other artists and poets, collages, sketches, and watercolors. The accession processed in 1998 includes manuscripts, notebooks and correspondence. The accession processed in 2003 contains correspondence...
A collection of British and American literary manuscripts and correspondence primarily from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Research files compiled by Rachel Blau DuPlessis concerning American poet George Oppen, comprising photocopies of Oppen's letters (1930-1982), copies of Oppen's FBI file, and miscellaneous correspondence between DuPlessis and others pertaining to those Oppen materials. The results of DuPlessis's research...
Literary papers of George Oppen (1908-1984), objectivist poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969. Most of the materials date from the period 1958-1978. Included are manuscripts and typescripts for all the poems contained in Oppen's nine...
The papers of Linda Oppen, daughter of the Objectivist poet George Oppen and his wife Mary. Of particular importance is the correspondence between Oppen and her parents; 3 folders of typescript poetry by George Oppen; and 8 folders of material...
Papers of Mary Oppen, writer, painter, and wife of poet George Oppen. The Mary Oppen Papers contain extensive photographic documentation of the Oppen family, along with art works by George and Mary Oppen and a small file of papers. The...
Papers of Leslie Orgel, chemist, molecular biologist and Senior Fellow and Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he directs the Chemical Evolution Laboratory. Orgel's research interests include nucleic acid chemistry, molecular evolution, prebiotic chemistry, and problems...
Materials for a college final exam, including three mimeogrpahed exam question sheets entitled "The Romantic Self," two sets of Orr's notes, and a sheet of notes authored and initialed by several people....
The Otay Ranch Records depict the history of San Diego county through the administrative, economic, financial, employment and agricultural documents that describe the operations of this large south county ranch. The documents include correspondence from Stephen Birch, Sr., the original...
Papers of Maureen Owen, poet, editor, publisher and coordinator/director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project (1976-1980). The papers contain correspondence with colleagues, including Rebecca Brown, Bernadette Mayer, Susan Howe, and Ron Padgett; poetry manuscripts and drafts; production materials for published...
The Nello Pace Himalayan Documents contain writings relating primarily to the 1954 California Himalaya Expedition to Makalu, the world’s fifth highest peak, located in Nepal. Dr. Nello Pace served as the assistant leader and chief scientist for the expedition, studying...
Mimeograph typescript with holograph title page....
Video- and audiotapes of a conference on innovative writing by American women. Organized by Fanny Howe and Rae Armantrout, the conference took place on March 5-6, 1999 at UCSD. The audiotapes include the entire conference proceedings, including poetry readings by...
Holograph letter conferring power upon Blancarte to advance acquisition of the title to the lands of the Mision de santa Catarina in Baja California in the name of Plalacio....
Collection of photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings presumably surrounding Nannie Palmer's visit to Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Palmer in Salt Lake City. The postcards are of buildings and landscapes in Salt Lake City and outside environs. The photographs are of...
Taken sometime during the last decade of the nineteenth century?...
839 files of manuscript and typescript items (microfilm), including correspondence, journals, and patrol reports from out-stations in Papua New Guinea, 1890-1941....
Microfiche of government patrol reports for various provinces in Papua New Guinea. Most of the reports were written after 1945 and prior to Papua New Guinea's independence in 1975. Provinces represented in the collection include: Central Province, North Solomons Province...
Microfilm patrol reports from Papua New Guinea. 216 typescript items. At head of title: 1922-1923: Prime Minister's Department. 1923-1928: Department of Home and Territories, Central Office. 1928-1941: Territories Branch, Prime Minister's Department. 1941-1951: Department of External Territories (I), Central Office....
The papers of Chris Parry, Tony Award-winning theatre lighting designer and University of California, San Diego, faculty. The materials illustrate his extensive production career for both stage and film lighting design from 1975-2006 and as a lighting design instructor. The...
The collection of Harry Partch Music Scores consists of bound facsimiles of musical and theatrical compositions by experimental composer and instrument-builder Harry Partch, written between 1922 and 1972. Compositions include seminal works such as DELUSION OF THE FURY, OEDIPUS THE...
Papers of scholar, critic, and founder of the UCSD literature department and the Archive for New Poetry. Included is correspondence regarding a wide variety of topics, for example, Jack Spicer research and the creation of the poetry archive. Correspondents include...
Papers of Captain Harry Langley Pence, U.S. Naval Academy graduate (1906), career United States Navy officer (1902-1945), and Red Cross administrator (1945-1946). The papers contain communiques, typescripts, correspondence, diaries, memorabilia, memorandums, orders, photographs, reports, reprints, and scrapbooks.
Papers of Stanford Solomon Penner, professor of engineering physics and director of the Center for Energy and Combustion Research at the University of California, San Diego. Penner is known for his research in combustion and energy, applied spectroscopy, and thermophysics....
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, and teacher. A professor of literature (1968-1991) at the University of California, Irvine, Peters reviewed contemporary poetry for small press magazines beginning in the 1970s, published numerous poetry collections, and performed his...
Papers of Laurence E. Peterson, professor of physics, leader of the High Energy Astronomy Group, and director (1988-1997) of the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS). Peterson was involved in the planning and design of experiments and instruments...
Papers of Jon Phetteplace, composer and performer of contemporary music. Phetteplace collaborated in the improvisational group, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), and in The Contraband, which featured some of the same members. From 1966 to 1969, he was active as a...
Papers of Dennis Phillips, a Los Angeles poet who has also worked as poetry editor for the LOS ANGELES WEEKLY and as book review editor for the literary magazine SULFUR. The accession, covering the years 1971-1992, includes notebooks and typescripts...
Photographs, some taken by Katherine Tingley, of various scenes and events on the grounds of the Point Loma Theosophical Society....
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
A collection of forty-three black and white, 8x10 photographs taken by Carl Schur of contemporary poets reading at the Borders Book Store in Birmingham, Michigan.
Annotated carbon copy of letter written from St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., in which Pound speaks pejoratively of William Carlos Williams....
The Holly Prado Papers include material spanning the career of poet Holly Prado, from examples of early efforts written in her youth in the 1950s, through her professional work into the early 2000s, with the greatest portion of material dating...
The papers of L.G.C.E. Pugh, a British physiologist and mountaineer who combined field and laboratory research in pioneering work in modern high-altitude physiology and sports medicine. Pugh conducted studies on the impact of the environment on human physiology and performance...
Papers of Carl Rakosi, American "Objectivist" poet and social worker, who professionally practiced psychotherapy under the name Callman Rawley. Rakosi was known for his association with the Objectivist movement as well as Jewish writers of the twentieth century. The writings...
Papers of Reuven Ramaty, astrophysicist, pioneer in high energy astrophysics, and a leading theorist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for over 30 years. The collection documents his years at Goddard Space Flight Center first as post-doctoral research associate, then...
Papers of Roy A. Rappaport, an ethnographic anthropologist whose area of specialization was the religious ritual of the Tsembaga people of the Maring speaking region in Papua New Guinea. The Rappaport Papers represent the research and materials generated from his...
Signed typescripts.....
The papers of anthropologist and professor Kenneth E. Read contain typescript articles and essays based on his field work in Papua New Guinea in the 1940s - 1950s, as well as 1981-1982. Also included are three papers written by patrol...
The papers of John T. Reeves, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine, pediatrics and surgery in the School of Medicine at Colorado University. The papers document his medical and scientific contribution to high altitude, neonatal, and molecular and cellular pulmonary circulation...
Papers of Eric Reissner (1913-1996), professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1938-1969) and professor of applied mechanics and engineering sciences at the University of California, San Diego (1970-1979). Reissner's research interests included problems of turbulence and aerodynamic...
Papers of Hans Reissner (1874-1967), aeronautical engineer, physicist, professor, and researcher. Reissner designed the first successful aircraft with all-metal wing and tail surfaces and the first controllable-pitch propeller. He began his career in Germany, working with Ferdinand Zeppelin, Hugo Junkers...
The papers of a distinguished American literary figure. Reznikoff was a prolific writer of poetry, prose, essays, and chronicler of Judaism and the American Jewish experience. He worked both as an editor and contributing author on and , and was...
Papers of Géza Róheim, Hungarian anthropologist who applied psychoanalytic techniques to the study of cultures. Educated in Hungary and Germany, Róheim taught at the University of Budapest until 1938, when he immigrated to the United States. Between 1929 and 1931...
Photocopies of legal documents pertaining to litigation initiated Arthur B. Robinson, an employee and co-founder of the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, against Linus Pauling, the Institute, and several members of the Board of Trustees for, among other...
The papers of Patricia D. Roland range in date from 1995-2007 and include letters from poets John Taggart and Dominique Fourcade; typescript drafts of John Taggart's writing; and Patricia Roland's personal papers.
Papers of Martha Ronk, fiction writer, editor, and American poet. The papers primarily document Ronk's literary correspondence, poetry manuscripts, and editorial projects from the mid-1980s to 2008. The bulk of the collection is made up of Ronk's poetry manuscripts and...
Papers of Marshall Rosenbluth, professor at University of California, San Diego, and plasma physicist noted for his work in thermonuclear fusion, the Rosenbluth formula on theoretical scattering, and his role in the discovery of Rosenbluth-Hinton flows. The bulk of the...
Papers of Jerome Rothenberg, American poet, performance artist, editor, translator, and teacher. The papers document Rothenberg's writing and editorial career. Although the collection contains some materials from earlier periods, the bulk of the papers date from the late 1960s through...
Papers of Richard Rubenstein, American poet. The papers contain letters (1950-1958) to Rubenstein, letters his wife received after his death about his manuscripts, manuscripts, and a bound scrapbook of clippings and letters. His correspondence includes two letters from William Carlos...
These photographs were all taken during live performances of jazz in San Diego. A few were taken in night clubs. Most were taken at performances of either the San Diego Jazz Festival, when I served on its board of directors,...
Typed, signed letter addressed to "Ben" summarizing Rukeyser's recent activities and referring to Ben's piece on independent filmmakers and a mutual acquaintance named Leigh Miller....
Holograph letter dated 'Thursday" concerning payment for a group of Russell's poems to the published in the PACIFIC SPECTATOR....
The correspondence of John T. Ryan (1891-1934) documents the activities of a Tuolumne County, California, quartz and placer gold mine owner. The bulk of the correspondence deals with Ryan's attempts to find financial backers to help him develop the Ryan...
Papers of a noted physician, virologist, humanitarian, and founder of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California. Salk is best known for his development of the world's first successful vaccine for the prevention of poliomyelitis, licensed in...
Papers (1933-1999) of Paul Saltman, biochemist, professor of biology and administrator at the University of California, San Diego. Saltman studied the basic chemistry of metal ions in biological systems, the role of trace metal elements in nutrition and gained popular...
Instructions that payment be made to Joseph Machuca, a soldier, and notification that a mass will be said at Loreto on 1 jan. 1700....
Records of the San Diego County Hospital. This collection comprises hospital registers, discharge records and service analysis ledgers, as well as birth and death registers. The materials range between 1912 and 1954, with the bulk dating between 1940 and 1942.
Black and white snapshots of various San Diego vistas, including Balboa Park, La Jolla Cove, and Torrey Pines Reserve....
Business documents from three San Diego railroad companies. From the San Diego, Cuyamaca & Eastern Railway Company: 1890 loan request documents signed by secretary and treasurer T.J. Daley and a book of carbon copies of general manager E.A. Hornbeck's letters...
The collection documents the planning and structural engineering of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from the project binders of junior bridge engineer, Nathan Davis Whitman, Jr., who worked for the State of California Department of Public Works, Division of Highways...
Holograph affidavit transferring land to Manuel Machado, presumably from part of Arguellow's ranchero de Tijuana....
Papers of Leslie Scalapino, Bay Area poet, scholar, experimental prose writer and founding editor of O Books, an Oakland, California publisher. The collection contains correspondence with other prominent poets and writers; typescripts of published and unpublished literary works including collaborative...
The papers of Harold Scheffler, anthropologist, relate to Scheffler's field research on ambilineal descent groups on Choiseul Island in the Solomon Islands between 1958 and 1961 and to his comparative study of religious revitalization movements, especially the Christian Fellowship Church,...
Papers of Alan Schneider, a prominent director in contemporary American theater. For many productions, the director's prompt book provides Schneider's conceptual notes, analysis of theme and characters, and notes on direction. The collection contains correspondence between Schneider and actors, writers...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
29 letters from James Schuyler to artist John Button, mostly annotated typescripts....
Papers of James Schuyler, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and member of the New York School circle of poets and painters. A New York City resident since 1950, Schuyler moved among prominent artists and writers of the period and worked as an...
Papers of Armand Schwerner, poet, performance artist, musician, translator, editor, and professor of literature. Schwerner is best known for his long serial poem entitled "The Tablets." The papers contain correspondence, drafts of published and unpublished poetry and prose, journals, notes,...
Records of the Office of Public Affairs of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), a biomedical research, educational and clinical institution first located on Prospect Street in La Jolla, California, and later moved to Torrey Pines mesa. The collection contains public...
Typed, signed letters of a personal nature in which Selby discusses some of his works and the process of writing....
Holograph letter with sketches in which Selwyn describes the first part of his travels to several South Sea islands, chiefly giving an account of his stay on Tongatapu in early 1848....
Michael Boris Shimkin was born in Siberia in 1912 and emigrated to the United States in 1928. Shimkin played an important role in American cancer research as a clinical and experimental researcher and an editor of major research journals. He...
The papers of Lee Shippey, writer and journalist for the LOS ANGELES TIMES (1923-1958), include correspondence, poetry, published and unpublished manuscripts, lyrics, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. The scrapbooks document his LOS ANGELES TIMES daily column "Leeside o' L.A.," and his...
Papers of Verna Cook Shipway, American architect and author. Shipway designed homes in New York State and California, and wrote, with her husband Warren Shipway, five books on contemporary Mexican residential architecture and interior design. The papers include correspondence, travel...
Essay on the social contexts of language in literature and poetry, and the relation of language and history in the language arts....
Papers of Ron Silliman, American writer and editor. Silliman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life and is associated with the Language school of contemporary writers. He edited the anthology In The American Tree, published...
Papers of Massoud T. Simnad (1921-2002), an engineer in nuclear energy and UCSD adjunct professor of materials science and engineering. The collection documents Simnad's work in the field of nuclear reactor technologies and superconductivity and contains files related to his...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Two black and white photographs, dated 22 Feb. 1897, of a military parade in San Diego....
Papers of Alex Smith, poet, writer, teacher and bibliographer. The collection includes typescripts of hundreds of Smith's poems, manuscripts of his short stories and long poems, and correspondence with a number of important literary figures including: Steve Benson, Alan Bernheimer,...
Letters from poet Gary Snyder to Sally “Shandel” Parks, friend and prominent member of the local San Francisco Bohemian scene, written during the period from June 1953 to April 1966. Collection contains letters, postcards, poems, and ephemera - including one...
The records (1969-1985) of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Studies document the Society's administrative and program activities for the promotion and support of historical scholarship and research in Iberian history and related fields. The material includes correspondence, conference programs...
An artificial collection constructed by Mandeville staff from two or more accessions of postcards featuring images of southwestern and Baja California sites. The collection is added to as postcards are received....
Holograph manuscript concerning a curt case dealing with ownership of real estate in the Granada area of Spain....
Holograph letter introducing George S. Hale to Nathaniel Niles, U.S. Charge D'affairs in Turin, Italy....
Made in Berkeley, Calif. Bound in fabric, typed on American Watercolor paper. Dedicated to Josephine Miles. Accompanied by one autograph letter signed but undated to Miles....
Two instances of a poem posthumously published in spicer's ONE NIGHT STAND (1980). One is a corrected holograph in graphite, the other an uncorrected typescript. both mss. are dated 1949....
Carbon copy of general report and summaries by Richard Sachse of wharf property owned by the Spreckels Bros. Commercial Co....
Typescripts of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of Leonard Stein, American music scholar, pianist and musical director of "Encounters," a series of musical events performed in Los Angeles and co-sponsored by the Pasadena Art Museum, the Coleman Chamber Music Association, the Pasadena Music Teachers' Association, and...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Letterpress copybook containing copies of Stow's business and personal correspondence indexed by name of correspondent....
Photographs and audiorecordings of Professor Andrew Strathern and Dr. Pamela J. Stewart, who are a husband and wife research team. Strathern and Stewart have carried out long-term fieldwork in the Western and Southern Highlands Provinces of Papua New Guinea, studying...
Papers of Marvin Studebaker, an amateur historian of the Civil War and San Diego. Included in the papers are Studebaker's research on Henry J. Hartstene, a participant in Arctic exploration parties of the 1850s and a naval officer in the...
The Hans Suess Papers document the career and achievements of a renowned geochemist. The materials in the collection date from 1875 through 1989. The nineteenth century papers pertain to Suess' father, Franz Eduard Suess, professor of Geology at the University...
Holograph letter dated "July 29" in which Sumner mentions receiving a note from Sir David Brewster and announces his inteniton to call on Mr. Purvis in Boston. The letter probably could not have been written after 1868....
Archives of the Sun & Moon Press, Douglas Messerli's "alternative" publishing venture, dedicated to experimental poetry, fiction and drama, begun in 1976 in College Park, Maryland, and later located in Los Angeles. The collection documents the publishing history of the...
Business correspondence to Christopher Carrell, proprietor of the Sunderland Bookshop, County Durham, England, from various clients, including Bob Cobbing, Lee Harwood, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Edward Lucie-Smith, Barry MacSweeney, and Jonathan Williams....
The Swope Family Correspondence contains letters from Charles Byron Swope to his new wife Gretchen, written from Fort McDowell on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, between December 1917 and November 1918. The letters begin shortly after Swope's induction into...
Laboratory notebooks (1948-1953) of Leo Szilard and Aaron Novick. Szilard, a nuclear physicist, biologist and advocate of global arms control, held an appointment (1948-1955) as a professor of biophysics at the Institute of Radiology and Biophysics, University of Chicago, and,...
The Leo Szilard Letters to Gertrud Weiss collection contains letters written between 1937 and 1959 from Szilard to Weiss. The letters document the development of their relationship during this period and cover a variety of topics, from the everyday to...
Papers of a nuclear physicist, biologist, and advocate of global arms control. Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1898, Szilard moved to Berlin in 1919, where he studied engineering and physics and received his doctorate under Max von Laue at the...
Papers of John Taggart, a contemporary American poet known for his formal and prosodic innovations. In addition to his long career as a professor at Shippensburg State University, Taggart has been involved in supporting literary communities and has written about...
The Chiyo Thomas Telford Papers contain correspondence, memorabilia and photographs from the World War II period, when Telford was with the American Red Cross in the Philippines, to the early 1950s. Principal correspondents include Elbert D.Thomas, her father and senator...
Notarized transcription of a file of documents concerning payment to the Dominican missionaries in Baja California. The first part of the file presents evidence of the missionaries' behavior, lists the heads of the missions, and gives 1793 and 1794 mission...
Records of the Theatre and Arts Foundation of San Diego County, a non-profit corporation founded in 1954 to promote the county's cultural development through educational lecture programs, special events, international friendship programs, and the performing arts, especially the La Jolla...
Papers of William Bell Thompson, physicist, researcher, professor, editor, and administrator. Thompson did pioneering work in plasma physics and established the field at Oxford University and the University of California, San Diego. He did theoretical and applied work in controlled...
Papers of Gennaro M. Tisi, noted clinical and research specialist in the area of pulmonary medicine and a founding member of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego. Author of over 100 original articles, chapters, and abstracts, Tisi's...
The Topolobampo Collection contains Albert Kimsey Owen's business records and promotional materials related to the colony and railroad enterprise established on Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa, Mexico between 1872 and 1910. Materials include business correspondence, writings by Owen, legal documents, descriptions of...
Survey form responses, correspondence, and report drafts for the UNICEF funded Papua New Guinea Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research (IASER) project entitled "Survey of Traditional Birth Attendants in Papua New Guinea." The project was conducted by Dr. Patricia...
Papers of Teddy G. Traylor, organic chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Traylor's research interests included organometallic chemistry, autooxidation, oxygen transport, and bioorganic chemistry. He made significant contributions to biomimetic chemistry through studies of...
Was originally laid in UCSD copy of H. Trench's NEW POEMS (1907, RARE PR5671.T6 N4 1907)....
The Gael Turnbull Papers are arranged in two series: 1) LETTERS TO CID CORMAN and 2) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS....
17 of the photographs are various images of the Hotel Del Coronado, one is an image of the La Jolla coastline, and one is of a group of ostriches at the corner of Fifth and F Sts. The photogrpahs bear...
Typescript transcription of a report describing a trip from San Diego to the lands of the International Company of Mexico in Ensenada, Baja California.
Typed, signed letter to Joseph Wood Krutch at THE NATION, which discusses "vanity-publishing" and refers to an earlier letter sent to Krutch critical of Mr. Belitt's article on Henry Harrison....
The Ian Tyson Collection contains book production materials for collaborations between Ian Tyson, British painter, printmaker and book artist, and prominent poets including Andrew Crozier, Larry Eigner, Wai-lim Yip, Jackson Mac Low, and Jerome Rothenberg. Materials include correspondence, manuscripts, page...
Records of a publishing company established by poets Lewis Warsh and Bernadette Mayer in 1977. Successor to Angel Hair magazine and Angel Hair Books, United Artists published works of contemporary poets and writers, including Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Alan Ginsberg,...
Papers of Harold Clayton Urey, Nobel Prize-winning chemist who contributed to significant advances in the fields of physical chemistry, geochemistry, lunar science, and astrochemistry. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium, and made...
Papers of Paul Vangelisti, poet, editor, translator, publisher, and radio producer. The collection includes correspondence with colleagues; drafts of single poems, as well as published collected works including (1973), (1978), (1991), and (2007); book and art reviews; and notebooks. Also...
The Vanguard Press publishing files are related to distribution rights for THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS and TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). Largely a correspondence (1968-1985) between Vanguard Press...
The Vanuatu Oral Histories of World War II contains transcripts of interviews, conducted from 1987-1988, with Vanuatu men and women who experienced the war. The bulk of these transcripts are in Bislama, and describe topics such as the arrival of...
Papers of William F. Vermilion, physician, lawyer, Iowa state senator, and Civil War captain (1862-1865) of Company F, 36th Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Materials related to Vermilion's military career include correspondence with his wife, company morning reports (May 1864-August...
Papers of an American poet and editor which shed light on the careers of a group of writers who began publishing in the late 1960's. Vermont published three books of poetry: CHARLIE IS LAUGHING, TWO WOMEN, and SELECTED POEMS. He...
Holograph legal documents of the family of Jose del Villar y la Torre. Includes an undated list of family legal docuemtns, an undated affidavit attesting to Joses's marriage to Ana Maria de Arravaim y Canales, baptismal certificates for two great...
Collection of Marguerite Vogt, prominent molecular biologist and virologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She is noted for her research in the development of a polio vaccine and studies linked to the genetic nature of cancer. Her collection...
Papers of Melvin Voigt, first university librarian (1960-1976) at the University of California, San Diego. The materials relate to Voigt's professional career in library science as an editor, writer, reviewer, researcher, and consultant. Included are correspondence, journal articles, book reviews,...
Typescript of poem dedicated to the Lewis Warsh and signed by Anne Waldman. The typescript is bound in a red translucent plastic cover. A photograph of Anne Waldman is pasted to the center of the first leaf....
62 cancelled personal checks made out to various persons and retailers, stapled together....
Typescript of poem dedicated to Lewis Warsh and signed by Anne Waldman....
Manuscripts, photocopies of typescripts, and reprints documenting Michael Ward's medical and geographical investigations in the Bhutan Himalayas....
Typescripts of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Papers of Gerald Lee Warren, deputy press secretary during the Nixon and Ford administrations and editor (1975-1995) of the SAN DIEGO UNION. The collection contains Warren's office files from the editorial department of the UNION and includes subject files, correspondence,...
Papers of Jan Weimer, former executive food editor of , author, food writer, and consultant. The collection dates from 1974 to 2004, and contains letters, drafts of articles, clippings, tear sheets, awards, ephemera, and photographs, as well as video and...
Papers of Hannah Weiner (1928-1997), a New York City poet and significant member of the "language-centered" group of writers. The papers, covering the years 1946-2002, contain notebooks, typescripts of poems, prose works, typed transcriptions of notebooks, audiorecordings, and miscellaneous materials....
The papers of an important member of the West Coast Beat poetry community. Lew Welch's papers include correspondence, poetry, prose, plays, essays, songs, scrolls, and notebooks. The collection as a whole contains information pertaining both to Welch's personal battle with...
Papers of John B. West (b. 1928), professor of physiology, researcher in high-altitude medicine and adaptation, author, and leader of the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Mt. Everest (AMREE). West participated in Sir Edmund Hillary's 1960-1961 Himalayan Scientific and...
The WESTMORELAND/CBS COLLECTION contains many of the joint exhibits entered into the record during the libel suit of General William Westmoreland against the Columbia Broadcasting Company in 1985. Included are photocopies of interview transcripts, notes, memoranda, cables, CIA records, books,...
Letter and typescript copy of the text from a postcard sent by Tram Combs to Whalen, both concerning a collection of San Francisco Bay Area poets' works that Combs was putting together....
Five holograph letters of a predominantly personal nature. Correspondents include Thomas Whaley, Thomas's mother Rachel Whaley, Thomas business partner E.W. Morse, , Thomas's son Frank Whaley, E.M. Miles, and "Nan" (Mrs. A.E. Whaley?)....
Typed, signed letters on Charles Scribner's Sons letterhead concerning a manuscript of Belitt's poems entitled "To-morrow or After" which Belitt apparently would have liked to have had published....
The photograph of Wieners was taken by Raymond Foye, and it is accompanied by a letter from Foye to Michael Davidson dated 9 May 1985...
Holograph letters of a personal nature in which Flossie mentions W.C. williams and some of Cid Corman's writings....
Preface, notes, and 3 brief poems are by Merrill Moore. 'Published in a limited ed. of 200 copies, of which this is no. 88."...
Papers of Edwin C. Wilson, (1893-1972), American diplomat, served as U.S. Minister to Uruguay from 1939-1941, U.S. Ambassador to Panama from 1941-1943 and U.S. Ambassador to Turkey from 1945-1948. Materials include correspondence, writings, photographs, U.S. State Department documents and ephemera.
A collection of documents pertaining to Dr. Oscar Wyss's modification of an oxygen generator manufactured by Mine Safety Appliances in Pittsburgh, Penn. for use by climbers during the 1951 Swiss Everest Expedition. The collection includes correspondence among Dr. Wyss and...
Papers of a music critic, author, teacher, and poet, who championed modern avant-garde music, presented a series of chamber concerts in Los Angeles called "Evenings on the Roof," and headed the music department at Buffalo State University. The materials consist...
Accompanied by an envelope dated 14 May (year is illegible)....
The Ben Yellen correspondence with Charles L. Smith files contain mainly correspondence in the form of prescription-pad notes (1960-1970s) from Yellen to Smith regarding water rights in Imperial County (Calif.), writings and lists (1970-1999) created by Smith about Yellen, and...
This small collection of correspondence contains approximately fifty letters and notes consisting mainly of correspondence (most covering the period 1987-1991, with attachments dating back to 1972) that Imperial Valley physician and social activist, Dr. Ben Yellen, sent to others, and...
Papers of Benjamin L. Yellen (1907-1994), physician and political activist in Brawley, California. Most materials date from 1948 to 1994 and pertain to water, farming and medical issues in Southern California. Typewritten correspondence forms the core of the collection, while...
The files contain the official transcripts of two federal trials regarding water use in the Imperial Valley and the non-enforcement of two provisions of the original Reclamation Act of 1902. The provisions concerned a 160-acre land size limitation and a...
Papers of Herbert Frank York, founding director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (1952-58); member of the Presidential Scientific Advisory Committee under Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson (1957-58; 1964-68); chief scientist of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA); first...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Holograph receipts for the death and burial arrangements of Yraeta's wife, Magarita Gomez de Valencia. Some of the receipts are in the name of Margarita's sister, Ana Josepha Gomez de Valencia. An unfinished holograph letter (1784) to Fermin de Pizalde...
One letter (1810) addressed to Francisco Yturbe from Jose Manuel Guzman, and twenty letters addressed to Gabriel Manuel de Yturbe, a "coronel" at Coyoacan, Mexico. Of Gabriel's letters, ten are business letters (1829-1830) from Antonio Padilla, probably Gabriel's agent in...
Papers of Bruno Zimm, inventor, educator, and polymer DNA scientist. Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at University of California, San Diego, from 1960 to 1991 and professor emeritus after his retirement in 1991. Zimm is known for his work on...
Holograph letter explaining Louis Zukofsky's several birthdays....
A collection of poems, some set to music composed by Celia Thaew Zukofsky: A-9, first half, with explanatory preface; Paris; Anew 3; Happier, happier, now; Motet; To my wash-stand; When in winter spring? Also two versions of the essay "Charles...
Papers of Benjamin W. Zweifach, pioneering researcher in the field of microcirculation and co-founder of the Bioengineering Department at the University of California, San Diego. Zweifach served as professor of bioengineering at UCSD from 1966-1981 and was designated emeritus professor...