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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
Keystone Stereograph Visual Aids Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0473
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 16 boxed topical sets of educational stereographs intended as visual aids for instruction for elementary school children. Though most topics relate to the natural sciences, two boxes relate to a Reading curriculum based around domestic activities and the life of a child. Boxes one and two of the collection each contain eight of the boxed topical sets.
Dates:
ca.1920-1925
Movie Poster Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0402
Scope and Contents
The Movie Poster Collection consists of twenty-nine original and facsimile posters. They are filed alphabetically by film title.
Dates:
1930-1981
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
San Diego County Department of Public Health Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0049
Scope and Contents
The collection includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, annual and monthly reports, fiscal materials, personnel files, statistical data, files on programs, published materials, photographs, and movie films. Most materials post-date 1960. It has been arranged into three major series, with numerous sub-series.
Dates:
1876-1981; Majority of material found in 1960-1981
James and Edith Harmon Environmental Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0125
Scope and Contents
The James and Edie Harmon Environmental Collection documents James and Edie Harmon's grassroots environmental work in opposition to numerous landfills, mines, and waste projects in the late 1980s and 1990s. The collection dates from 1973 to 1998, and includes environmental impact reports, correspondences, newspaper clippings, litigation documents, government documents, health reports, environmental reports, and letters from the Sierra Club and other...
Dates:
1973-1998; Majority of material found in 1980-1998
Hispanic Theatre of San Diego Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0126
Scope and Contents
The Hispanic Theatre of San Diego Collection, divided into 10 series, documents the history of the Hispanic Theatre of San Diego and the professional career and personal life of its creator, Jesus Sierra-Oliva. The collection includes scores of Sierra-Oliva's musical creations, original artwork, play scripts, photographs, programs, video and cassette tapes of his productions, and correspondence. The primary foci of his creative talents were Walt Whitman and...
Dates:
1923-2018
San Diego Hunger Coalition Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0213
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials related to a survey about hunger in San Diego carried out by the Hunger Survey Committee of the San Diego Hunger Coalition in 1983, in an attempt to quantify the total number of hungry people in the County. These materials include completed anonymous survey forms from a large number of zip codes in San Diego County, which asks individuals about their ability to buy food, how the economy affects their food-buying habits, and which gathers income,...
Dates:
1983-1983
James T. Richardson New Religious Movements Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0563
Scope and Contents
The James T. Richardson New Religious Movement Collection contains records of his scholarly research and activity to include newspaper clippings, photos, audio and video recordings, personal papers, organizational documents, federal agency records, and related anti-cult and scholarly papers spanning over the last fifty years. It is evident by the contents of this collection that several New Religious Movements directly contributed primary source materials about their activities to...
Dates:
1830-2014; Majority of material found in 1972-2010
School Integration Task Force Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0234
Scope and Contents
The School Integration Task Force Records document the Task Force's research and findings concerning the San Diego Unified School District's integration plan. These records contain correspondence, monitor applications and logs, school assignments, student testing results, enrollment statistics, court orders and charges, task force reports, race/human relations materials, and surveys. The collection dates from 1974-1983, and is divided into two series: ...
Dates:
1974-1983