Guide to the John Dixon collection of R. Buckminster Fuller papers M1445

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

2023

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: John Dixon collection of R. Buckminster Fuller papers

source: Dixon, Amalya

Creator: Dixon, John, collector

Identifier/Call Number: M1445

Identifier/Call Number: 8547

Physical Description: 7 Linear Feet (9 manuscript boxes, 1 card box, 1 flat box)

Date (inclusive): circa 1945-1975

Physical Description: Report from Tricia/Maria: inactive mold, needs vacuuming (not freezing); Flat box 5 w/ conservation problems in 341

Related Materials

Buckminster Fuller papers (M1090) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4332640

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, Amalya Dixon, 2004.

Scope and Contents

Primarily articles by and about R. Buckminster Fuller, both typescript and published, predominantly regarding geodesics, as well as photographs, collected by his assistant, John Dixon.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Materials must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Dixon, Amalya

Series 1. By and involving RBF

Box 1, folder 1

Fluid Geography

Box 1, folder 2

Architecture out of the Laboratory

Box 1, folder 3

This Is Your Grand Strategy

Box 1, folder 4

Vertical Is To Live -- Horizontal Is To Die

Box 1, folder 5

Accommodating Human Unsettlement

Box 1, folder 6

Earth, Inc.

Box 1, folder 7

The Joseph Goldin Letter

Box 1, folder 8-10

Articles by RBF

Box 1, folder 11-13

Correspondence

Box 2, folder 1

correspondence

Box 2, folder 2

Dymaxion Airocean World

Box 2, folder 3

correspondence (numbered files 21-43)

Box 2, folder 4-11

numbered files 44-108

Box 2, folder 12

note cards

Box 6, volume 7

A Compendium of Certain Engineering Principles Pertinent to Brazil's Control of Impending Acceleration in Its Industrialization (with note to JD) 1943

Box 6, folder 9

Energetic-Synergetic Geometry

Box 10

Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization

Series 2. Writing about RBF

Box 3, folder 1-6

biographical

Box 3, folder 7

RBF death - clippings

Box 3, folder 8

Buckminster Fuller Design Science Center report 1987

Box 3, folder 9-10

lists - friends, articles, inventories

Box 3, folder 11

Dymaxion Index

Box 3, folder 12

articles 1940s

Box 3, folder 13

articles 1952

Box 3, folder 14

articles 1953

Box 4, folder 1-2

Chronofile clippings, etc. 1954

Box 4, folder 3

articles 1955

Box 4, folder 4-5

articles 1956

Box 4, folder 6

geodesics articles 1953-1957

Box 4, folder 7

geodesics 1958

Box 4, folder 8-10

articles 1959

Box 4, folder 11

articles 1960s

Box 4, folder 12

U.S. Information Service 1963-1964

Box 5, folder 1

geodesics articles 1964

Box 5, folder 2

U.S. Pavilion Expo '67

Box 5, folder 3

articles circa 1967

Box 5, folder 4

articles 1970s

Box 5, folder 5-8

geodesics articles

Box 5, folder 9

geodesics ads

Box 5, folder 10

Dome Cookbook, by Steve Baer

Box 5, folder 11-13

Domes built

Box 5, folder 14-17

Military reports and bibliography

Box 6, folder 1

World Trends Exhibit 1965-1975

Box 6, folder 2-4

articles

Box 8, folder 2

articles

Box 8

magazines

Box 9, folder 1-2

bio

Physical Description: some water damage

Box 10

oversize periodicals

Series 3. Photos

Box 7

photos

Box 9, folder 3-4

photos

Physical Description: water damaged

Box 11

negatives

Series 4. RBF activities and other papers

Box 6, folder 5

talks, lectures, conferences

Box 6, folder 6

School of Design, NCSU 1952-1953

Box 6, folder 8

Synergistics, Inc.

Box 6, folder 10

licenses

Box 6, folder 11-14

Center for a Voluntary Society

Box 6, folder 15

misc. articles - Summer 1969 to read

Box 8, folder 1

geodesics