Personal Papers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:
Morris Showel Cottage of Israel Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0462
Scope and Contents
The Morris Showel Cottage of Israel Collection consists of documents from promotional events either hosted by the Cottage of Israel or sponsored by other Jewish organizations in the San Diego area. It includes newspaper articles, photographs, flyers, announcements, displays, and invitations documenting the public relations efforts of the Cottage of Israel in Balboa Park from 1948 to the late 1990s. Materials are filed chronologically.The materials...
Dates:
1948-1999
Gussie K. Singer City of Hope Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0463
Scope and Contents
The Gussie K. Singer City of Hope Collection consists of tribute books, newsletters, certificates, and other papers, including a 1971 tribute book honoring Harry Bronstein.
The materials in this collection were donated to the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego in 2008 by Norma Peskin and Debra Bronstein. It was transferred to the Library and Information Access December 21, 2010.
Dates:
1971-2008
Bradley Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0239
Scope and Contents
The Bradley Smith Collection documents the career of photographer and writer Bradley Smith. The collection dates from 1962-1988. It consists entirely of paper records. The collection documents Smith's professional career through correspondence, research materials, book drafts, mockups, and photographs. The entire collection is grouped into one series: Project Files.The Project Files series documents Smith's...
Dates:
1962-1988
Reverend George Walker Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0399
Scope and Contents
The Reverend George Walker Smith Papers document Smith's ministerial career in San Diego at the Golden Hill United Presbyterian Church and Christ United Presbyterian Church, as well as his political, social, educational, and religious achievements. The collection includes sermons, church announcements, correspondence, Board of Education scrapbooks, news clippings, accolades, plaques and certificates of achievement, Kiwanis Club Information, and...
Dates:
1950-2000
Robert Eliot Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0011
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Smith's notes and working drafts used for the preparation of his publications, a record of his professional activities as the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Guatemala City representative, photographs of Mesoamerican pottery, and correspondence between Smith and other Mesoamericanists of his time. The collection provides important biographical and collaborative information about Smith, as well as the history of Mesoamerican archaeology. The majority of documents...
Dates:
1929-1983
Marta Sánchez Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0515
Scope and Contents
The Marta Sánchez Papers (1953-2013) document the professional career of Dr. Sánchez and include materials created during her tenure as a professor at the University of California, San Diego. The bulk of the collection dates from 1985-2010. Materials include lecture notes, syllabi, student work, journal articles, correspondence, press clippings, book pre-publication drafts, and conference papers. The collection is divided into four series: ...
Dates:
1953-2013; Majority of material found in 1985-2010
Tish Sommers Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0010
Scope and Contents
The Tish Sommers Papers include speeches and working papers, extensive correspondence with legislators and women's movement activists from 1970 to 1985. It also includes: photographs, drafts of published and unpublished manuscripts and research papers, newspaper clippings and publicity materials, organizational papers (correspondence, reports, fund raising and financial records), audio-visual material, awards, personal items, books and periodicals, and other...
Dates:
1970-1985
Anthony F. Sonka Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0242
Scope and Contents
The Anthony F. Sonka Papers (1906-1972) document Sonka's business activities in Lemon Grove, including his role with the Lemon Grove Chamber of Commerce. Of particular interest is an anecdote of the famous Hatfield Flood (1916) in the Tony Sonka Day file, and Sonka's involvement with the installment of Lemon Grove's giant lemon. Arranged alphabetically, the collection includes correspondence, photographs, golf score cards, membership cards, a Padres ticket...
Dates:
1906-1972
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 P. Stone Papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 30650024308138]
Identifier: MS-0346
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of personal and professional incoming and outgoing correspondence, research, lectures, and unpublished papers, and Stone's obituary. Correspondents include many of the chief librarians from the nation's top universities at the time, and the Dean of the Library School at the University of Chicago, Louis R. Wilson.
Dates:
1937-1958