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Personal Papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:

Filomena R. Manor, USAF Retired, Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0157
Scope and Contents The Colonel Filomena R. Manor, USAF Retired, Papers consist of nine boxes. The collection’s content focuses in part on the evolution of the United States Air Force (USAF), Biomedical and Dietary Science Corp food and diet programs developed from 1947 through 1983, and the related activities of Filomena Manor, who as an active-duty air force officer from 1950 until 1983, played a chief role in USAF dietetics. Manor, who retired from the USAF in 1983, began her...
Dates: 1930-2003

Martin Family Papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 30650024381200]
Identifier: MS-0430
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence between members of the Martin family, including Jodie Martin, his sons Alvin and Winston Martin, and Alvin's wife Florence Bunk Martin.  Though Alvin and Florence lived mostly in Portland, Oregon during the time of the letters, the family is centered in Texas around Ft. Worth and Cleburne.Many letters mention the trials of living during the Great Depression; most family members are unable to find any sort of work and mention this fact...
Dates: 1933-1941

Harry L. and Norma L. McCumber Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0158
Scope and Contents

This collection documents the origins of San Diego County place names. Norma L. McCumber (nee Hawkins) began collecting the information as a hobby in 1946. She addressed her inquiries to local chambers of commerce and post offices. The collection includes several responses, as well as Mrs. McCumber's notes on the subject.

Also included are two letters addressed to Harry L. McCumber, past president of the Conference of California Historical Societies.

Dates: 1946 - 1979

Fielding M. McGehee III Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0525
Scope and Contents The Fielding M. McGehee III Papers (1967-1999) consist primarily of correspondence between McGehee and his parents, Fielding McGehee, Jr. and Helen McGehee, and also include some correspondence to and from other family members. Many letters include discussion about draft resistance efforts as well as Peoples Temple and the agricultural settlement at Jonestown, Guyana. Some writings related to the draft are also...
Dates: 1967-1999; Majority of material found in 1967-1980

H. L. Mencken Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0001
Scope and Contents

This small collection of pamphlets, reprints, and correspondence is part of the larger collection of one hundred individually cataloged monographs and serials by and about H. L. Mencken, which is also housed in Special Collections. These small items consist of promotional materials, special event publications, letters, and one sound recording.

Dates: 1914-1968

Cantor Sheldon Merel and Marcie Merel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0585
Scope and Contents

The Cantor Sheldon Merel and Marcie Merel Collection contains memorabilia of Cantor Merel's career, including photographs, programs, correspondence, clippings, newsletters, CDs, and an autobiography. It also contains materials regarding the career of Marcie Merel. Digital photographs of the original binder contents and of awards and certificates are also in the collection.

Dates: 1942 - 2018

Ann Elizabeth Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0526
Scope and Contents The Ann Elizabeth Moore Papers (1954-1978) consist of correspondence, schoolwork, photographs, artwork and memorabilia. All materials are organized alphabetically by document type, with correspondence further organized chronologically within its folders. The largest amount of material is correspondence, and within that category most letters are written to Ann from her friends. The earliest letters date from when Ann was only eight years old, and most...
Dates: 1956-1978

F. T. Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0168
Scope and Contents

The collection features a handwritten memoir detailing Moore's and the 2nd Regiment's involvement in the Civil War, as well as Confederate forms, manuscripts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1861-1906

Ed Naiman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0425
Scope and Contents

The Ed Naiman Collection consists of B'nai B'rith Weinberger Lodge newsletters from the late 1950s and early 1960s, membership directories from the 1960s through the 1980s and letters and photographs from the American Committee for Israel’s 10th Anniversary, an event celebrated in Balboa Park in 1958. Mr. Joseph I. Feldman was the chairman of this event and editor of the lodge newsletter. Ed Naiman is the son-in-law of Joseph Feldman.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1958 - 1989

Abraham Nasatir Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0465
Scope and Contents

The Abraham Nasatir Papers consist of correspondence, articles by and about Abraham and Ida Nasatir, photographs, newspaper clippings, materials from various Jewish institutions in San Diego, items about Nasatir Hall at SDSU, and materials on the destruction of the Nasatirs' home the and rescue of their papers.

Dates: 1939 - 1996