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Zakheim (Bernard) Collection
MSS.2014.15  
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box 1

Personal and biographical material Series I 1902-2003

box 1, folder 1

Bernard Zakheim resumes and biographies

Conditions Governing Access

Resumes containing restricted personal information have been redacted and the originals restricted.
box 1, folder 2

Inventories of Bernard Zakheim's artworks 1972-2003

box 1, folder 3

Works Progress Administration forms 1935

box 1, folder 4

Warszawa book of photographs and postcard 1902

Language of Material: The book is in Polish and the postcard is in Yiddish.
box 1

Correspondence Series II 1930-2007

Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and related material from Bernard Zakheim, Masha Zakheim, Chauncey Leake, Herb Caen, Robert Sproul, Clark Kerr, the UCSF Alumni-Faculty Association, and others. It is predominantly professional in nature and concerns the work of Bernard Zakheim. Some personal correspondence is also included.
box 1, folder 5

Correspondence 1930-1969

box 1, folder 6

Correspondence 1970-1987

box 1, folder 7

Correspondence 1970-2007 (bulk 1970-1987)

box 1, folder 8

Herb Caen correspondence and clippings 1964-1985

box 1, folder 9

University of California, Office of the President correspondence 1939-1962

box 1, folders 10-11

Correspondence regarding the restoration of Zakheim's UCSF murals 1962-1985

boxes 2-3, oversize box 1

Writings and works of art Series III 1936-1994

box 2, folder 1

Poetry written and translated by Bernard Zakheim 1955-1975

box 2, folder 2

"The Frescoes of Toland Hall" 1938

box 2, folders 3-4

"Toland Hall Frescoes of the University of California Medical School" by Phyllis Wrightson, forward by Bernard Zakheim undated

box 2, folder 5

"Where Are the Artists: Diego Rivera," [by Bernard Zakheim] 1978

box 2, folder 6

"A Painter/Sculptor Creates with Words - The American Indians: The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel" by Bernard Zakheim circa 1980

box 2, folder 7

Masha Zakheim Jewett writings 1977-1979

box 2, folders 8-10

"The Art of Medicine: The Zakheim Frescoes at UCSF" by Masha Zakheim 1991-1994

box 3, folder 1

Phyllis Wrightson sketchbook circa 1936

box 3, folder 2

Donner Party subject file

box 3, folder 3

Medicine subject file

box 3, folder 4

Louis Pasteur subject file

oversized-box 1

Bernard Zakheim sketches and watercolor paintings 1957

boxes 3-5

Printed material Series IV 1928-2005

Scope and Contents

Publications and clippings include articles by Bernard Zakheim, Masha Zakheim, Herb Caen, and Chauncey Leake. Several of the publications include inscriptions by Phyllis Wrightson and Bernard Zakheim.
box 3, folders 5-8

Clippings 1933-2004

box 3, folders 9-10

Flyers, programs, and catalogs 1928-2005

box 4, folder 1

Magazines and journals 1937-1997

box 4, folder 2

University of California, San Francisco publications 1955-1982

box 4, folder 3

Printed material collected by Chauncey Leake 1939-1962

box 4, folder 4

California Art Research excerpts regarding Bernard Zakheim and university hospital murals, from Works Progress Administration Project 2874 1937

box 4, folder 5

California's Medical Story in Fresco, publication arranged by Chancey Leake with a forward by Bernard Zakheim and description by Phyllis Wrightson 1939

box 4, folder 6

Los Cuadros Murales de la Facultad de Medicina de San Francisco California by J.J. Izquierdo 1942

box 5, folder 1

Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 188, no. 6 1964-05-11

box 5, folder 2

Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 204, no. 6 1968-05-06

box 5, folder 3

"King Cole of California" by Frances Tomlinson Gardner, reprinted from Annals of Medical History, vol. 11, no. 3 1940

box 5, folder 4

The Opportunity for Pictorial Art in Modern Medicine: An Example in San Francisco [by Chauncey Leake] circa 1937

box 5, folder 5

Scattered Seeds: The Descendents of Rabbi Israel, vol. I, by George I. Sackheim 1986

box 5, folder 6

Scattered Seeds: The Descendents of Rabbi Israel, vol. II, by George I. Sackheim 1986

box 5, folder 7

Spectrum, vol. 12, no. 2 Summer 1964

box 6, oversize boxes 2-4

Audiovisual and graphic material Series V 1935-2010

box 6

Photographs Subseries 1 1935-1998

Scope and Contents

Includes prints, slides, negatives, and contact sheets.
box 6, folder 1

Portraits of Bernard Zakheim and others 1936-1975

box 6, folders 2-9

Toland Hall and Cole Hall murals 1936-1980

box 6, folder 10

Genius of Healing 1975-1978

box 6, folder 11

Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Monument and Bernard Zakheim portraits 1968

box 6, folder 12

Miscellaneous works of art and unidentified slides 1935-1998

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Video recordings Subseries 2 1970-2010

Scope and Contents

Contains 2 videocassettes and 62 DVDs. Included are films created by Margot Smith of Off Center Video in 2009 and 2010. Films narrated by Nathan Zakheim and Masha Zakheim. Subjects include New Deal art, WPA murals, Coit Tower, Beach Chalet, Rincon Annex, and "The Jewish Wedding" at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center. Also included are oral history interviews with Bernard Zakheim completed in the 1970s. Interviews cover his childhood, experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Germany, life in Paris, study in Tuscany, family relationships, Federal Art Project, art commissions, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising project, Coit Tower mural, and UCSF murals.
oversized-box 3-4

Printing blocks Subseries 3 1948-1972

Scope and Contents

Contains printing blocks depicting Bernard Zakheim's UCSF murals. One set of blocks used in the 1948 edition of Medi-Cal and donated to the archives by Alvin V.S. Hambly. Another set is labeled Phi Beta Pi.