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Lyric Opera San Diego Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0548
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs of Lyric Opera productions from 1990-2000. The collection is arranged chronologically by the name of each production. Materials include 35 mm film slides and contact sheets.
Dates:
1990-2000
Mann Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0567
Scope and Contents
The Mann Family Papers collection consists mostly of correspondence to Betty A. Mann (formerly Betty Avery) from her friends, family, and suitors. Some of the correspondence is addressed jointly or individually to Betty's husband, Dr. Edward Cox Mann. A couple of letters in the collection are written to other correspondents. The correspondence mostly regards personal and family matters, health, the weather, and travel arrangements.Notably, the...
Dates:
1920 - 1937
Filomena R. Manor, USAF Retired, Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0157
Scope and Contents
The Colonel Filomena R. Manor, USAF Retired, Papers consist of nine boxes. The collection’s content focuses in part on the evolution of the United States Air Force (USAF), Biomedical and Dietary Science Corp food and diet programs developed from 1947 through 1983, and the related activities of Filomena Manor, who as an active-duty air force officer from 1950 until 1983, played a chief role in USAF dietetics. Manor, who retired from the USAF in 1983, began her...
Dates:
1930-2003
Edward E. Marsh Scientology Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0610
Scope and Contents
The Edward E. Marsh Scientology Collection documents nearly seven decades of history, teachings, and communications around the group referred to as the Church of Scientology and its auxiliary organizations through a range of publications, internal records and artifacts. The collection includes informational pamphlets, booklets, fliers, handbooks, course materials, policy letters, event programs, news clippings, journals, photographs, product catalogs,...
Dates:
1941-2020
Martin Family Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0430
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence between members of the Martin family, including Jodie Martin, his sons Alvin and Winston Martin, and Alvin's wife Florence Bunk Martin. Though Alvin and Florence lived mostly in Portland, Oregon during the time of the letters, the family is centered in Texas around Ft. Worth and Cleburne.Many letters mention the trials of living during the Great Depression; most family members are unable to find any sort of work and mention this fact...
Dates:
1933-1941
John Martin Television Journalism Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0505
Scope and Contents
The John Martin Television Journalism Collection documents the career of newspaper and television reporter John Martin from his time as an editor of the San Diego State newspaper The Aztec in 1960 to his departure from ABC News in 2002. This collection consists of personal documents and mementos, records from Martin’s time as adjunct professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, scripts from Sacramento,...
Dates:
1960-2011; Majority of material found in 1965-2002
Grattan H. McCafferty Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0535
Scope and Contents
McCafferty kept a diary in which he made near-daily entries from April 8, 1942, the day before the surrender of Bataan, until the Japanese surrender in 1945 and the liberation of prisoners of war. The collection includes 15 notebooks and notepads which document McCafferty’s life in Japanese prison camps. McCafferty wrote in a sloppy and cramped hand in order to make the diary indecipherable to the Japanese authorities, and also due to the scarcity of writing supplies (he often fits two lines...
Dates:
1942-1945
Larry McCaffery Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0498
Scope and Contents
The Larry McCaffery Papers (1919-2009) document four decades of McCaffery’s distinguished career as a literary critic and professor of English at San Diego State University. The collection includes manuscripts of McCaffery’s literary interviews with well-known contemporary American and postmodern writers; correspondence; research files; lecture notes; clippings; book objects; and more. The majority of materials date from the 1980s and 1990s and focus...
Dates:
1919-2009; Majority of material found in 1976-2005
Harry L. and Norma L. McCumber Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0158
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the origins of San Diego County place names. Norma L. McCumber (nee Hawkins) began collecting the information as a hobby in 1946. She addressed her inquiries to local chambers of commerce and post offices. The collection includes several responses, as well as Mrs. McCumber's notes on the subject.
Also included are two letters addressed to Harry L. McCumber, past president of the Conference of California Historical Societies.
Dates:
1946 - 1979
Fielding M. McGehee III Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0525
Scope and Contents
The Fielding M. McGehee III Papers (1967-1999) consist primarily of correspondence between McGehee and his parents, Fielding McGehee, Jr. and Helen McGehee, and also include some correspondence to and from other family members. Many letters include discussion about draft resistance efforts as well as Peoples Temple and the agricultural settlement at Jonestown, Guyana. Some writings related to the draft are also...
Dates:
1967-1999; Majority of material found in 1967-1980