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Marybelle S. Bigelow Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0298
Scope and Contents
The Marybelle S. Bigelow Collection dates from 1953 to 2001. The collection is arranged in two series, personal and professional. In addition, there is an oversized section, which contains materials from both series. The collection includes correspondence, drafts and manuscripts, photographs, diaries, slides and other papers related to Bigelow's personal life and career as an art professor.The Personal series (1953-2001)...
Dates:
1953-2001
Black Hawk, Colorado Grocery Ledger
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0601
Scope and Content Note
This 1897 Black Hawk Grocery Ledger tracks the balance of trade during the month of September,
1897. It has a hard cover canvas binding with leather corners, and both the cove and spine have
“Sept 1897” written along with the names Robins and Schear in the front. The ledger contains 420
pages, but only pages 1 through 336 are filled. The rest of the pages have tears and water damage. The ledger covers the whole of the month of September 1897 with the exception of the Sunday dates, when the...
Dates:
1897
Samuel Thorburn Black Memorial Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0324
Scope and Contents
The Samuel Thorburn Black Memorial Collection documents both Black and his presidency, and includes correspondence, financial records, annual reports, Pauline Black's diaries, and a scrapbook of the trip Mr. Black and his daughter took around the world.
Dates:
1877-1922
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
Ralph Bowers Bowman San Diego Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0537
Scope and Contents
The Ralph Bowers Bowman San Diego Photographs Collection (1922-1937) includes scenes of the San Diego metropolitan area. Subjects of the photographs include landmarks, waterfront scenes of fishing boats, freights ships and naval ships; Balboa Park; La Jolla; Point Loma; aerial views; street scenes; football games; visiting dignitaries; and personal photographs of Bowman's children and family. Also documented by the photographs are several road trips to St....
Dates:
1922-1937
Robert M. Briggs Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0453
Scope and Contents
The Robert M. Briggs Papers (1943-2004) document Brigg's military duty during the Second World War and his paintings and personal writings. Highlights include Briggs' scrapbook of photographs, newspaper clippings, sketches, and watercolors of fellow servicemen, local Okinawans, landscapes, and battleships during World War II. Briggs drew many of the sketches rapidly while under enemy fire and painted them in later. Filed alphabetically, the collection...
Dates:
1943-2004; Majority of material found in 1943-1945
Lida Brodenova Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0002
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, awards, travel accounts, opera and recital programs, clippings, photographs, diaries, postcards, reviews, scrapbooks, photo albums, tape and phono recordings. Much of the collection is in Czech, and is separated into personal and professional categories.
Dates:
1917-1992
Harold K. Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0436
Scope and Contents
The Harold K. Brown Papers (1956-2000) document Brown's participation in the local Civil Rights Movement, his dedication to community economic development, and his professional life, with a heavy emphasis on the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Brown's role in the School Integration Task Force, and his involvement with the Black Economic Development Task Force. Highlights include the Congress of Racial Equality's actions against the employment practices of...
Dates:
1956-2000; Majority of material found in 1963-1965, 1990s
Susanna Bruff Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MS-0481
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings brilliantly hand-colored in watercolor by Susanna Bruff, and pasted onto pages of a discarded catalogue. Each clipping is an issue of a popular comic strip entitled Ethel, which was drawn by Ethel Hays and syndicated in the 1920s. Using the daily adventures of flapper Ethel, each comic is a commentary on the changing role of woman in 1920s American society. Topics covered by the comic strips include: advances in...
Dates:
1927-1929
Bureau of Jewish Education of San Diego Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-0202
Scope and Contents
The Bureau of Jewish Education of San Diego Records consist of the administrative and program files of the bureau from its founding as the Jewish Education Commission in 1949 up to the mid 1970s. Of note are the files pertaining to the bureau's educational arms, including the Institute of Jewish Studies under the Jewish Education Commission, and later the three schools established under the Bureau of Jewish Education: Hebrew High School, Teachers Institute,...
Dates:
1948 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1968