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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
John R. Theobald Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0359
Scope and Contents
The John R. Theobald Collection documents Theobald's writings. The collection dates from the 1920s to 1989 with many materials undated. Most of Theobald's papers are included in the Professional and Personal series. The Laurence McGilvery series comprises additional materials later donated by Laurence McGilvery, a San Diego bookseller who was involved in the production of Theobald's anthology of...
Dates:
1920-1989
Peter Bohmer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0334
Scope and Contents
The Peter Bohmer Collection documents Bohmer's brief tenure as a professor of economics at San Diego State College from fall 1970 to summer 1972, the protracted investigations and occasionally violent events leading to his dismissal, and Bohmer's subsequent arrest and imprisonment for his role in blocking a section of railroad used to ship supplies to Camp Pendleton in protest against the Vietnam war. Additionally, the collection contains materials that...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964 - 1973
Jack Stumpf Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0244
Scope and Contents
The collection includes working papers, correspondence, memoranda, course material, research topics, and professional activities.
Dates:
1947-1990
Oscar J. Kaplan Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0288
Scope and Contents
The Oscar Kaplan Collection documents Kaplan's career as a pollster, psychologist, gerontologist, and member of SDSU's faculty. Also included is Kaplan's work with various organizations including the Gerontological Society, American Society of Aging, the American Psychological Association, and SDSU's Center for Survey Research. Documentation of Kaplan's works as a pollster includes health surveys about tuberculosis and venereal diseases, health education...
Dates:
1941-1992
Myrtle Elizabeth Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0347
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of manuscript drafts for the book Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast, photographs, and scrapbooks. The scrapbooks are particularly noteworthy, and contain images of the 1915-1916 San Diego Exposition and other scenes of life in the early city. The photograph albums document Johnson's frequent participation in the annual Sierra Club outings to Yosemite and other national parks between 1914 and 1928, and include photographs of...
Dates:
1904-1928
Orrin Edgar Klapp Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0341
Scope and Contents
The Orrin Edgar Klapp Papers documents the Klapp's career as a naval officer and professor of sociology at San Diego State College from 1949 to 1969. The collection is comprised of information pertaining to the history of the Hydrographic Office during WWII, correspondence to and from Klapp, newspaper clippings, and a handwritten manuscript of Klapp's work A Materialist Metaphysics. Other highlights include manuscripts from...
Dates:
1942 - 1998
Bonnie Zimmerman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0329
Scope and Contents
Series I, Academic Work: This series, which contains materials that range from approximately 1970 to 2003, is a record of the teaching and academically related work and teaching of Dr. Bonnie Zimmerman. Each subseries holds materials from different aspects of Dr. Zimmerman’s academic career. The first subseries contains a history of courses taught in the Women’s Studies and other departments. In the folders are course syllabi, lecture notes, relevant articles,...
Dates:
1966-2003; Majority of material found in 1969-1999
Harry Steinmetz Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0305
Scope and Contents
The collection focuses primarily on international foreign relations from a social and political perspective. The time period for this material starts in the early 1900’s and extends until the late 1980’s.
The collection is divided into seven series. Each series is further divided into local, regional, national and international sections.
Dates:
1917-1986
John Adams Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0377
Scope and Contents
The John Adams Papers document Adams' publications and research, his years at San Diego State College as a professor, department chair, and University Archivist, his relationship with San Diego Union as book reviewer, and some limited parts of his personal life. The collection dates from approximately 1919-1982, with the bulk of documents created from the 1930s-1970s. The collection consists predominantly of publications and correspondence created during...
Dates:
1919-1987; Majority of material found in 1930-1979