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Personal Papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

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

Georgia C. Amsden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0358
Scope and Contents The collection primarily documents Amsden's work with the American Red Cross and the Federal Department of Vocational Education in France between 1918 and 1919, as well as her later work at the San Diego State College of Business teaching stenography and shorthand.  The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, resumes, work reports, speeches, photographs, a scrapbook, and various artifacts including patches, pins, buttons and a bracelet, and souvenir and guide books. ...
Dates: 1917-1974

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

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

Kathleen B. Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0365
Scope and Contents The Kathleen B. Jones Papers document Jones’ professional career as a Professor, Associate Dean at San Diego State University and as activist-scholar within the greater community. This collection provides researchers with documentation of some of the activities and the contributions Jones made to the area of feminist scholarship. The papers date from 1977 to 2003, with the bulk of the documents created in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection consists of...
Dates: 1977-2003; Majority of material found in 1980-1999

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

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

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

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

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