Graydon Edward Spalding Papers: Finding Aid mssSpalding
Sara S. Hodson and Brooke M. Black
The Huntington Library
April 2022
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San Marino, California 91108
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Graydon Edward Spalding papers
Creator:
Spalding, Graydon E. (Graydon Edward), 1911-1993
Identifier/Call Number: mssSpalding
Physical Description:
4.91 Linear Feet
(9 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1927-1971
Date (bulk): 1942-1943
Abstract: Papers belonging to Huntington Library Stacks Supervisor and actor Graydon E. Spalding.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Graydon Edward Spalding papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Graydon Edward Spalding, 1989.
Biographical / Historical
Graydon Edward Spalding (1911-1993) worked as the stacks supervisor in the Rare Books Department of the Huntington Library.
His avocation was theater, and he performed in productions at the Pasadena Playhouse and other San Gabriel Valley venues.
Spalding also presented one-man shows and workshops for drama classes at Pasadena High School, Pasadena City College, and
others. He also served as an army private during World War II.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains diaries, correspondence and ephemera pertaining to Spalding's army experiences during the Second World
War, as an army private working as a mailroom clerk, with the military police, and in a German Prisoner of War camp, as well
as his theater work for the Pasadena Playhouse.
Processing Information
Processed by Sara S. Hodson in July 1993. In 2022, Brooke M. Black created an online finding aid.
Arrangement
Arranged in the following series: 1. Diaries; 2. Correspondence; 3. Biographical material and ephemera; 4. Oversize and miscellaneous.
General
Former call number: mssSpalding papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Theater -- California -- History -- Sources
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
Diaries -- United States -- 20th century
Ephemera -- United States -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century
Pasadena Playhouse
Box 4
Letters from Spalding
1942-1943 April
Box 5
Letters from Spalding
1943 May-October
Box 6
Letters from Spalding
1943 November-1945
Box 7
Letters to Spalding
1931-1971
Box 7
Biographical material and ephemera
Scope and Contents
Oversize folder contains a copy of the Magazine of the Midlands with Graydon Spalding's article about German Prisoners of
War and with many clippings on Nazi Germany pasted in.
Box 8, Box 9
Oversize and miscellaneous
undated
Scope and Contents
This material is unsorted.
