Personal Papers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 169 Collections and/or Records:
Gwartney American Legion and Anti-Communist Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0063
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Barsh E. (Bill) Gwartney's service as a member of several American Legion Posts in Southern California, including correspondence and notes from his tenure as chairman of the Americanism Committee for the L.A. City Council Post in the early 1960s. Dating primarily from the 1960s, the collection consists of correspondence, notes, resolutions, unpublished reports, newsletters, memos, programs, newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook about the Southern California School of...
Dates:
1937-1981
G. Hamilton Hammon Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MS-0408
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook was compiled by San Diego resident G. Hamilton Hammon. Hammon, who was an artist and poet, included fair copies of original manuscript poems, as well as striking handpainted vignettes of San Diego scenes. Several photographs are also present. Most poems are dated and give a place of composition. Most places are in California; the last poem is from Sydney, Australia, and dated 1911. Of particular interest is a handcolored photograph of "The Krishnamurti Camp, Ojai Valley,...
Dates:
1911-1939
Donald H. Harrison Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0581
Scope and Contents
The Donald H. Harrison Collection includes photos, correspondence, audio tapes, typed and handwritten notes and copies of various documents collected by San Diego journalist and historian Donald H. Harrison. Notably, this collection includes Harrison's research files and manuscripts for his biography of San Diego Jewish pioneer Louis Rose. Additional files and photographs document San Diego's Jewish community.
Dates:
1990s - 2006
Samuel I. Hayakawa Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0020
Scope and Contents
The Samuel I. Hayakawa Papers document Hayakawa's term as a United States Senator. The collection comes from Hayakawa's San Diego-based regional office, one of five regional offices in California, and consists only of office records. The San Diego regional office covered the counties of San Diego, Imperial Valley, Riverside, and San Bernardino. The records consist of biographical data on Hayakawa, correspondence, invitations, office memos, press releases,...
Dates:
1959-1982; Majority of material found in 1970-1982
Walter R. Hepner Memorial Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0308
Scope and Contents
The Walter R. Hepner Memorial Collection documents aspects of Hepner's professional administrative career and his involvement with the community at large, including international travel. The collection dates from 1892 to 1977, with the bulk of documents created between the 1940s and 1960s. The majority of the collection consists of paper materials such as correspondence, retirement mementos, memorial artifacts, and personal scrapbooks. It contains a...
Dates:
1892 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1969
Carlotta Hernandez Terry Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0457
Scope and Contents
The Carlotta Hernandez Terry Collection (1951-2006) documents Hernandez's accomplishments as a singer-songwriter and painter. Of particular interest are transcripts of the songs written by the artist as well as pieces of her artwork. Also included are photographs of Hernandez's musical performances and paintings, including the Tierra Mia mural at Chicano Park. The majority of the material dates from 1970-1980 and focuses on her artistic achievements. Filed...
Dates:
1951-2006; Majority of material found in 1970-1980
Howard Hollman Newspaper Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0461
Scope and Contents
The Howard Hollman Newspaper Collection (1965-2000) documents the Chicano Movement and Hollman's activism in San Diego. Of particular interest are local newspapers such as La Verdad, La Raza, Inside the Beast, and Good Morning Teaspoon. The majority of the material dates from 1965-1975 and focuses primarily on the issues Chicanos...
Dates:
1965 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1965 - 1975
Deborah Horwitz and Paul Nierman Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0556
Scope and Contents
The Deborah Horwitz and Paul Nierman Collection consists of materials regarding the San Diego Chapter of the American Jewish Committee from the 1980s to the 2000s and the first San Diego Jewish Community Mission to Israel in 1995 when Yitzchak Rabin was assassinated. It also includes personal notes, speeches and clippings from Deborah Horwitz who was president of the San Diego Chapter of the AJC. There is also material on the Nierman Foundation and its...
Dates:
1963 - 2008
Kaye Hyde Manuscript and Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0412
Scope and Contents
Most of the materials in this collection were found tucked inside the books of Kaye Hyde's personal collection, donated by his son Hugh Hyde in 2005. Materials include correspondence, Hyde's handwritten notes to books in his collection, postcards, photographs, printed ephemera, newslettters, and newspaper clippings. Most items, like Kaye Hyde's book collection, deal with non-mainstream or alternative religious movements, alternative health and healing, and fraternal societies such as the...
Dates:
1922-1979
Interstate 15 Construction -- Indian Burial Grounds Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0133
Scope and Contents
The Interstate 15 Construction – Indian Burial Grounds Collection consists of a small group of correspondence, memoranda, notes and newspaper clippings from June 1977 to April 1978. The primary subject of these documents is the preservation, excavation and examination of several prehistoric Native American sites associated with the Luiseno Indians of Southern California which were discovered by Caltrans archaeologists in preparation for the construction of...
Dates:
1977-1978