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San Diego Opera Association Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0474
Scope and Contents
The San Diego Opera Association Records (1965-2008) documents the outreach, fundraising, growth and development of the San Diego Opera Association (SDOA), including the SDOA's outreach activities, fundraising, education, and work done in support of the San Diego Opera. It includes budgets, bylaws, correspondence, minutes, committee files, programs, photographs, and scrapbooks. The collection consists of five major series: Operational...
Dates:
1965-2008
Carlin Integration Case Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0029
Scope and Contents
The Carlin Integration Case Records include nearly three decades of court proceedings and research for Kari Carlin et al v. Board of Education, San Diego Unified School District. The records include court transcripts, briefs and court orders, correspondence, maps and charts of ethnic imbalance, various committee reports, court exhibits and depositions, declarations, interrogatories, enrollment statistics, student testing...
Dates:
1950-1997; Majority of material found in 1964-1997
U. S. Grant Hotel Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0256
Scope and Contents
The U.S. Grant Hotel Records consist of financial reports, correspondence, purchase orders, and committee reports mostly documenting Roy Lake's management, but including much earlier records, as well. The collection also includes blueprints and architectural renderings documenting its numerous renovations. The U.S. Grant Hotel records date from 1922 to 1977. The blueprints and architectural renderings date from 1926 to 1970. The collection is arranged in...
Dates:
1922-1977
Allan W. Anderson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0478
Scope and Contents
The Allan W. Anderson Papers (1949-2010) document Dr. Anderson’s work as a poet and academic in religious studies. The majority of the material dates from 1970 to 1990 with sparse documentation from pre-1970 and post-2000. These files document some of Anderson’s creative processes for his published works including the children’s book Songs from the Mifflinger Sea and A Little Cove of Nonsense,...
Dates:
1949-2010; Majority of material found in 1970-1990
Economic Research Bureau Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0203
Scope and Contents
The Economic Research Bureau Records (1927-2000) document the operations of the Economic Research Bureau, established as a branch of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, to conduct research and publish reports & directories related to the economic development and corporate investment in the San Diego-area economy. The collection consists of reports, publications, newsletters, photographs, and correspondence & memos. Of special interest in the...
Dates:
1927-2000; Majority of material found in 1960-1990
Asa Sackman Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MS-0404
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of seven manuscript diaries, written while Asa Sackman was serving in the 44th Regiment, Company G, of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The diaries date from October 1861, his first month of service, to August 1862. Sackman writes almost daily about the company's movements and actions, the weather, and camp conditions, and occasionally describes encounters with Confederate troops. The manuscript notes on the diary covers list several camps in West Virginia, including...
Dates:
1861-1862
John and Jane Adams Postcard Periodicals Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0057
Scope and Contents
The John and Jane Adams Postcard Periodicals Collection consists of magazines, newsletters, bulletins, gazzettes, collectors’ guides, auction catalogs, and ephemera related to deltiology, the study and collection of postcards.
Dates:
1947-1986; Majority of material found in 1970-1985
George Batty Diary
Collection
Identifier: MS-0405
Scope and Contents
In 1854, George Batty wrote this journal as a long anecdotal letter to his friends, describing his sea voyage from Liverpool to Montreal on the ships "Cleopatra" and "New Era." Battyʼs vivid daily account spans more than two weeks in August and September, with accompanying observations about city living in Montreal added in December at the end of the diary. Batty describes conditions of the ship and the weather, his fellow passengers, various events aboard the ship (such as a fire, drunken...
Dates:
1854-1854
John and Jane Adams Autograph Album Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0056
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 30 late Victorian autograph albums. The albums in this collection (except one) all belonged to young ladies. Some have only a few entries; the majority have many pages filled out. The albums belonged to girls in numerous locations across the United States. Some albums have entries from a discrete group of people ("Normal Institute Class"), though most are made up of a variety of friends and family. Often it is apparent that the owner later filled in...
Dates:
1851-1933; Majority of material found in 1860-1890
Surfing Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0246
Scope and Contents
The Surfing Collection documents surfing and surf culture through article clippings and documents, as well as ephemera and media that describe surf culture, surfing's history, and information about surfing. Series I: Documents contain various articles, bibliographies, and syllabi related to surfing. Series II: Media and Ephemera contains ephemera such as toys, stickers, postcards, playing cards, advertisements, menus,...
Dates:
1963-2011