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Peter F. Neumeyer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0394
Scope and Contents
The Peter F. Neumeyer Papers document Neumeyer's professional and academic career, beginning as a student and ending as a critic. The papers date from 1950, when Neumeyer was an undergraduate, to 2004, when he and wife Helen co-curated an exhibition on illustrator Margot Zemach. The bulk of the papers are from the 1970s through the 1990s when Neumeyer was a professor and actively published academic articles, reviews, and poetry. A recent addition to the...
Dates:
1947-2004; Majority of material found in 1968-1999
J. W. Eighmy Notebook
Collection
Identifier: MS-0468
Scope and Contents
This handwritten notebook was titled "Practical Notes and Formulae. By J. W. Eighmy, M. D." by its author, and dated October 10th, 1875. It is a collection of 77 recipes and formulae for treatments to numerous illnesses. Eighmy wrote these in a blank book of prescription forms from "J. H. Burnham, Druggist and Apothecary, Commercial Block, Sutter Street, Folsom, California." Formulas are included for a variety of ailments, including: whooping cough, "bites of serpents and...
Dates:
1875-1875
Maury M. Travis Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0401
Scope and Contents
The Maury M. Travis Collection consists of personal papers, correspondence, and press clippings which document Travis's personal life. It includes birth records, legal name change documents, and family correspondence with Travis's siblings, parents, and other extended family members. His profession as a Petroleum Geologist, along with his interest in the formation of the State of Israel, the Middle East in general, and his interest in anti-Zionism, are well...
Dates:
1905 - 1989
Louis A. Kenney Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0393
Scope and Contents
The Louis A. Kenney Papers document Kenney's years as University Librarian at San Diego State University. The collection dates from 1914-1992, and has been divided into four series: Correspondence, Professional Files, Printing Ephemera, and Scrapbooks.The Correspondence series includes Kenney's ingoing and outgoing correspondence from 1960 to 1980, as...
Dates:
1914-1992; Majority of material found in 1950-1992
George Phillips Sweepiana Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0186
Scope and Contents
The George Phillips Sweepiana Collection is a comprehensive collection of materials related to chimney sweepers. The collection dates from approximately 1932-1963, with the bulk of the documents undated. It consists of both paper records and artifacts. The collection has a broad interdisciplinary focus and includes literature, history, art, and artifacts relating to chimney sweeping. It has been divided into five series: Research Files, ...
Dates:
1932-1963
H. A. Betaque Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0475
Scope and Contents
The H.A. Betaque Papers document Betaque's career as a resident representative for the United State Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation between 1918 and 1922, with particular emphasis the construction of the SS San Pasqual and the SS Cuyamaca in San Diego, California. Highlights include panoramic photographs of the San Diego Harbor and ship yard, as well as construction photographs of...
Dates:
1918-1922; Majority of material found in 1918-1920
Reverend George Walker Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0399
Scope and Contents
The Reverend George Walker Smith Papers document Smith's ministerial career in San Diego at the Golden Hill United Presbyterian Church and Christ United Presbyterian Church, as well as his political, social, educational, and religious achievements. The collection includes sermons, church announcements, correspondence, Board of Education scrapbooks, news clippings, accolades, plaques and certificates of achievement, Kiwanis Club Information, and...
Dates:
1950-2000
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
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
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