The collection chiefly consists of the administrative, scientific, and personal correspondence of Walter S. Adams spanning the years 1921 to 1956, including his work during World War II. Adams and the observatory staff worked, in secret, with the...
The collection consists of correspondence, documents, maps, reports, publications, and clippings related to land tenure and water use in and around Mono County (including Mono Basin, Mono Lake, Lee Vining Creek and Rush Creek), Inyo County, and Los...
The collection comprises 66 items including 23 travel letters, 15 diaries, 4 scrapbooks, 22 photographs and 2 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera. The travel letters cover two trips taken by Mary Catton: 1. Trip to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Cambodia,...
The manuscripts mainly consist of speeches or short pieces written by Gurdon Wallace Wattles regarding business practices, Nebraska, and his political views. It also includes scripts written by True Boardman. The majority of the correspondence is...
The Manuscripts series contains various poems, stories, and historical accounts written by Samuel L. Kreider. Many of these accounts relate to individuals like Charles Victor Hall and Mary Hall (original homesteaders of Los Angeles' West Adams...
The collection consists of the personal correspondence of Orrin Peck and his sister, Janet Peck. There are 119 letters from Phoebe Apperson Hearst and these letters discuss her philanthropy in the fields of art and education, her son William...
This collection consists of materials relating to Ralph H. Cameron's political and business activities, mostly in the years between 1903 and 1912. Box 1 consists of manuscript files, including land and mining claims, financial documents, and...
The collection consists of manuscripts by Dunstan Thompson, including book reviews, diaries, essays, plays, poems, and short stories, and correspondence (both to and from Thompson), photographs, drawings and ephemera. Correspondents represented in...
Accounts, deeds, legal papers, court records, household books, inventories and catalogs of family papers, estate and manorial papers, and correspondence relating to the estates, personal and financial affairs of the Hastings family. Most of the...
The correspondence series contains 961 letters and is organized alphabetically by author. The series consists of a large number of letters written to the Jacobs brothers and their mercantile and banking operations. The collection includes letters...
The collection is semi-cataloged and consists entirely of the incoming correspondence to Farmers & Merchants Bank of Sheyenne, N.D. between 1907 and 1942. It is arranged alphabetically by author then by recipient. Prominent among the addressees are...
The Ambrose Bierce Correspondence File consists of letters written by Bierce between 1871 and 1913. The letters are arranged chronologically. Much of the letters are concerned with details of Bierce's multi-volume Collected Works, and a majority...
The Willis M. Hawkins Papers, 1920-2009 (80 boxes) document the successful aerospace engineering career of Hawkins at Lockheed, the relationships between industry, military, and government, and the development of airplanes, missile systems, and...
The collection consists of positive microfilm copies of the proceedings of land cases brought before the United States District Court between 1852-1862 with transcripts of records from the U.S. Land Commission, where the claims had originally been...
This collection is organized to preserve, whenever possible, Robert Hine's original order. This includes most of his original folder titles, the original order of folders, and the original order of some of the boxes. The collection contains Hine's...
The collection is made up of material gathered by Knox Mellon for his dissertation about Job Harriman. The papers chiefly deal with Job Harriman; Frances Nacke Noel; socialism; the Llano del Rio Colony; labor and union issues; and suffrage and...
The collection is composed primarily of correspondence between Dr. Pogo and members of the general public with an interest in astronomical issues and the work of the Mount Wilson Observatory. The Observatory was founded in 1904 by George Ellery...
The collection constitutes the literary archive of New Mexico author N. Howard (Nathan Howard) "Jack" Thorp. It includes original manuscripts of Thorp's stories, as well as songs, correspondence, a diary, photographs and related publications. Of...
The following individuals are represented in the collection: R.L. (Robert L.) Barth; Robert Dana (b. 1929); Michael Dana Gioia (b. 1950); Thom Gunn; Donald Rodney Justice (b. 1925); Philip Levine (b. 1928); Robert Mezey; Timothy Reid Steele (b....
This collection contains photographs of citrus orchards, citrus fruit (lemons and oranges), workers in the field, and citrus fairs. Several companies show up in the photographs including the California Fruit Growers Exchange, San Dimas Lemon...