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Personal Papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Dates: 1971 - 2008

Al and Pearl Slayen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0503
Scope and Contents

The Al and Pearl Slayen Collection consists of the Slayens' personal papers documeting their lives, philanthropic activities, and San Diego's Jewish community from the 1930s to the 1980s and includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, and event programs.

Dates: 1936 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1936 - 1955

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

Smith Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0584
Scope and Contents The Smith Family Collection consists of documents spanning three generations of the Smith family and includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, genealogical documents, and annotated photographs in hardcopy and digital format. Of particular interest are Samuel Smith's letters to his niece Marilyn, written while he was living in San Bernardino. Samuel's letters provide details of the community, his life in San Diego and wartime service in France during World...
Dates: 1862 - 2003

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

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