Descriptive Summary
Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Related Material
Descriptive Summary
Title: Upton Sinclair collection
Dates: ca. 1930s
Collection number: Mss 113
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-sized document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: Clippings, leaflets, broadsides, envelopes, political pamphlets, 1934 issues of Upton Sinclair's Epic News (Los Angeles campaign
newspaper), and ephemera of the American novelist and activist.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages:
English
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Upton Sinclair collection. Mss 113. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
Clippings, leaflets, broadsides, envelopes, political pamphlets, 1934 issues of
Upton Sinclair's Epic News (Los Angeles campaign newspaper), and ephemera of the American novelist and activist Upton B. Sinclair, Jr. (1878-1968).
Materials related mainly to his bid for the governorship of California.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
End Poverty League.
Elections -- California.
Related Material
In Special Collections:
- One printed card by American Typewriter Shorthand, using a Sinclair letter as an example for conversion to shorthand, ca.
1930. (SC 278).
- One anti-Sinclair flyer in the shape of a dollar-bill, with slogans such as "One SincLiar Dollar," "Good only in California
or Russia," and "A Vote for Sincliar will put California on the bum and the bums on California," printed in response to the
Sinclair for Governor campaign on the Democratic ticket, 1934. (SC 831).
- One note (TNS) from American author Upton Sinclair to Dr. Sweet, re receiving Sweet's prior note. Los Angeles, 4 February
1933. Laid in Upton Sinclair,
The Jungle (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1906). (SC 569).
Copies of books by Sinclair can be found by searching the UCSB Library catalog.