Finding Aid for the Bern Porter Papers LSC.0639
Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff, March 1984; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Online finding aid last updated 2002.
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Title: Bern Porter papers
Creator:
Porter, Bern
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0639
Physical Description:
50.0 linear feet
(100 boxes and 5 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1935-1983
Abstract: Bernard Harden Porter (1911- )was the Republican candidate for governor of Maine (1969) and was an author, poet, editor, illustrator,
and publisher. The collection includes papers, correspondence, manuscripts, notes, books, printed items, ephemera, a film,
illustrations, portraits, and lithographs by, and relating to, Bern Porter.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Portions of collection unprocessed. Material in the collection except for boxes 1, 37, 39, 41-43, 95-98, 103-105 is unavailable
for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
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[Identification of item], Bern Porter Papers (Collection 639). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Bernard Harden Porter was born on February 14, 1911 in Porter Settlement, Maine; Sc.B, Colby College, 1932; Sc.M, Brown University,
1933; special courses at Da Vinci School (1937), Convair School (1957), University of Maine (1960), and Federal School (1963);
in 1929 founded Bern Porter (publishing company) in Belfast, Maine; became physicist for Acheson Colloids Corporation (1935-40)
and for the Manhattan District Engineers (1940-45); became consulting physicist in 1945; director of Contemporary Gallery,
West Coast Design Guild, and Fund for Contemporary Expression, 1947-50; Republican candidate for governor of Maine, 1969;
became author, poet, editor, illustrator, and publisher; founding fellow, International Poetry Society; published works include
Colloidal Graphite: its Properties and Applications (1939),
Map of Physics (1939),
Henry Miller: a Bibliography (compiler, 1943),
Scandinavian Summer (1961),
Wernher Von Braun: a Bibliography and Selected Papers (editor, 1966),
Reminiscences, 1927-1970 (1970),
American Strange (1979), and
Isla Vista (1981).
Scope and Content
Boxes 1, 37, 39, 41-43, 95-98, and 103-105 include papers, correspondence, manuscripts, notes, books, printed items, ephemera,
a film, illustrations, portraits, and lithographs by and relating to Bern Porter. Manuscripts include
Man (1965) by William Faulkner (edited by Porter),
Semblance of a Devoted Past,
What To Do About Alf, and
Verda: The Master Builder by Henry Miller, and an essay, poems, and Run on by Porter. Also includes a portrait of James Joyce, a portrait of Porter
by Liesel Rosenthal, three lithographs, and one oil painting.
Online Items Available
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
Physicists -- United States -- Archives.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Archives.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
Porter, Bern -- Archives
[Huntsville, Alabama]
General note
[No further description available]
box 45
Through
January 1966.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 45
Through
May 15, 1966.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 47
Through
July 20, 1966.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 48
December 1966.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 49
To
February 15, 1967.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 49
To
June 15, 1967.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Includes Ole.
box 50
To
October 1, 1967.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 50
To
November 1, 1967.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 52
To departure for Guatemala.
February 25, 1968.
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
[Bernard Porter]
General note
[No further description available]
box 43
Distributed by Bernard Porter--his early authors.
General Physical Description note: Envelope.
box 96
Bibliographical notes.
November 1971-January 1977.
[Illustrations by Bernard Porter]
box 57
Folder no.2: Marijuana Review no.2.
box 75
Drawing. By Bernard Porter.
1961.
General note
Case by Bernard Porter.
box 75
Original illustrations for
Taifun Willi.
box 93
Original illustrations for Lamantia's erotic poems. Run-on by Bern Porter.
General Physical Description note: Original manuscript.
box 51
Letter. John G. Moore. vol.1, illustrated by Bernard Porter.
box 66
Dawnbird.
General Physical Description note: Original cut.
[Miscellaneous]
General note
[No further description available]
box 81
March 15, 1972-October 15, 1972.
General Physical Description note: Folders.
box 82
March 15, 1972-October 15, 1972.
General Physical Description note: Folders.
box 84
October 15, 1972-January 1, 1973.
General Physical Description note: Folder.
box 85
January 1, 1973-June 1, 1973.
General Physical Description note: Folder.
box 85
June 1, 1973-October 15, 1973.
General Physical Description note: Folder.
box 90
no.1-2: Correspondence, notes, manuscript material and little magazines.
October 1973-December 1973.
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 91
Correspondence, notes, manuscript material and little magazines.
January 1974-April 1975.
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 43
Bay Area Creators.
1945-1965.
box 48
[Miscellaneous].
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Frank Lobdell Catalog. Faulkner Poetry Project. Production material for Art Productions. 1928-1965. Correspondence with W. Lowenfels.
box 49
#7. Contains reviews of seven Porter publications.
May 1967.
box 53
Folder no.1: Guatemala City.
February 26, 1968-April 27, 1968.
box 53
Folder no.2: Guatemala City and Rockland, Maine.
April 1968-May 2, 1968.
box 61
Summary of Knox County Regional Report.
1969.
box 94
Cell 666: A television script by Eve Linkletter, Clinton Dufy and Bern Porter.
box 97
February 20, 1977-October 2, 1978.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 98
Vagabond White Paper, no.5 (c.
1983).
Scope and Contents note
Contains interview with Bern Porter by Phil Nuremberg. Signed by Porter and Nuremberg.
box 103
Portrait of James Joyce.
General Physical Description note: Framed and boxed.
General note
A coloured photograph, part of Porter's Joyce collection which did not go to Colby College, Maine.
box 99, box 100
Unprocessed additions.
General note
Purchase, ca. 1986(?).
[Edited by Bernard Porter]
box 42
Leaves Fall. Fred Luigel and Bernard Porter, editors.
General Physical Description note: Complete file, autographed. [Photocopy].
box 66
Henry: Anthology of World Poets, edited by Bernard Porter.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
[Published / Distributed by Bernard Porter]
box 51
Recent Selected Articles by Buckminster Fuller. Introduction autographed by Gertz. Distributed by Bern Porter Books.
box 61
Bernard Langlais, by P.L. Ely.
box 104
A Bridge for Luxembourg, by Paolo Soleri. Pasadena California: Bern Porter.
1958.
General Physical Description note: 7 sheets.
box 105
3 lithographs and 1 oil painting by George Stliilman. Pasadena, California: Bern Porter.
1958.
General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 65
The Genesis of `The Tropic of Cancer', by Michael Fraenkel. Additions by Bernard Porter. Published by Bernard Porter in
1970.
[Photographs / Portraits of Bernard Porter]
box 41
Portrait of Bernard Porter by Imogen Cunningham.
box 41
Bernard Porter at Schillerhaus Gardens by H. Bowden. Sausalito, California.
August 12, 1950.
General Physical Description note: Original copperplate.
box 88
Photograph of Bern Porter, by Harry Bowden. San Francisco.
ca. 1950.
box 66
Portrait of Bernard Porter.
General Physical Description note: Original cut.
box 103
Portrait of Bern Porter by Liesel Rosenthal.
box 66
Wildcat Hall Revisited: A Photographic Visit With Edward Weston, by H. Bowden.
General Physical Description note: Film.
box 51
Fifty-six Preliminary Poems. Lee Ver Duft.
box 37
Lyrics & Epigrams. Dakin Laurence, translator.
box 41
Man. William Faulkner.
1965.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
box 44
Bibliography of Henry Miller. Maxine Renken. Denver.
1962.
box 51
Copley-Book. Diter Rot.
1965.
box 51
Cancer on Trial. E.R. Hutchison.
Scope and Contents note
Insert by Bernard Porter.
box 58
Folder no.3: Letters, manuscripts, early pamphlet publications of Dutch-American poet Lee Ver Duft, etc.
box 75
Semblance of a Devoted Past, by Henry Miller.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
box 76
What to do About Alf, by Henry Miller.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
box 76
Metaphor: an Annotated Bibliography and History, by Warren Shibles. Whitewater, Wisconsin: Language Press, c.
1971.
box 77
Varda: the Master Builder, by Henry Miller.
General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
Scope and Contents note
With Bernard Porter drawings.
box 95
Bibliography. Janelle-Therese Viglini. Manuscripts. Poetry.
Where to go / What to do in New York.
box 83
Easy Dream Book, by Toby Messman. Piedmont, California, Bernard Porter Books.
October 1972.
General Physical Description note: Copy number one.
box 83
Pregnant Man, 4: Still Life), by Simon Fallon. n.p.,.
(1971-1972 ca. 1972.
General Physical Description note: Original typescript.
General note
Case by Bernard Porter.
[Belfast, Maine]
General note
[No further description available]
box 92
April 1, 1975-May 6, 1976.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 92
May 6, 1976-September 7, 1976.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 93
September 7, 1976-February 20, 1977.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
[Rockland, Maine]
General note
[No further description available]
box 51
To
September 1968.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Letters from Ginsburg, Rockwell Kent, etc.
box 54
no.4: through
July 1, 1968.
box 57
no.1:
September 1968-March 1969.
box 59
no.1:
January 1969-July 1969.
Scope and Contents note
Production materials include correspondence for
Dieresis by Bernard Porter and Man by William Faulkner.
box 59
no.2:
April-June 1969.
Scope and Contents note
John Martin (Black Sparrow Press), Dick Higgins (Something Else Press).
box 60
no.3:
June-July 1969.
Scope and Contents note
Issues of the time:
Berkeley Barb,
New York Free Press,
Village Voice, etc.
box 60
July 1969.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Contains Bernard Porter bibliography.
box 62
July-August, 1969.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 62
August 1969-December 1969.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 63, box 64
January 1970.
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 65
February 1970-March 1970.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 67
May-June, 1970.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 67
June 1970.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 68
August 1970-December 1970.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Contains Bernard Porter lecture: Aspects of the Atomic Bomb, October 10, 1970, and correspondence.
box 68
July 1970.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 73
January 1971.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 73
February 1971-March 1971.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 74
April 1971-May 1971.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 74
Through June 1, 1971.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 77
Bernard Porter: Bibliography. Rockland, Maine.
August 30, 1969-October 2, 1971. January 11, 1972.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 94
vol.1. Bern Porter.
February 1973-June 1974. 1977.
box 95
vol.2. Bern Porter.
July 1974-February 1977. 1977.
box 97
vol.3.
March 1977-February 1979.
box 42
Miller Said.
General Physical Description note: Original.
box 104
Art productions. New York.
1937. 1937.
General Physical Description note: 80 leaves in a cloth case.
General note
Collected and assembled by Bern Porter.
box 105
Broadside. San Francisco.
1955-58.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Complete file of 52 numbered items, and negatives of most of them. Also included are a few projected broadsides, never published.
Photographed in March, 1976, Matt Lubic, Seattle, Washington, in order to publish them in facsimile.
box 102
Art Scrapbook.
Scope and Contents note
Collected, assembled and with a front cover in oil, by Bernard Porter (On loan).
box 88
After Brockman: A Symposium. n.p., Abyss Publications.
1974.
Scope and Contents note
With typescript manuscript of essay by Bern Porter (inserted).
box 88
Contemporary Italian Artists, compiled by Bern Porter. Venice.
1973.
General Physical Description note: Copy 1 of 2 copies.
box 69
Per Book. Rockland, Maine.
1970.
General Physical Description note: Copy number one.
box 69
Enry One. Rockland, Maine.
1970.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 69
Enry 2-5. Rockland, Maine.
1970.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 69
OEye. Rockland, Maine.
1970.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 69
Reminiscences, 1927-1970. Rockland, Maine.
1970.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 46
Moscow.
1966.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 46
468B.
1966.
General Physical Description note: One of six copies.
box 46
Maldorot.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
With original frontispiece by Bernard Porter.
box 46
My life in New Hampshire.
1961.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
A collection of papers.
box 46
Mathematics for Electronics. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1965.
box 58
Knox County, Maine.
General Physical Description note: Holograph.
box 61
Knox County, Maine. A Regional Report.
1969.
box 65
Recollections of Alabama.
General Physical Description note: Copper plate.
box 65
Oraisons Fanèbres de Bossuet.
box 69
Novel Art News.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 69
Ula.
1971.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 69
b.p.
1971.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 70
Package no.1:
Assorted Cuts, 1938-1965. vol.1.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 70
Assorted Cuts, 1935-1965. vol.2, by Bernard Porter.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 70
Package no.2:
Assorted Cuts, 1949-1965. vol.3.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 71
Assorted Cuts, 1961-1967. vol.4.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 71
Assorted Cuts, 1945-1965. vol.5.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 71
Assorted Cuts, 1965. vol.6.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 72
Ginsberg/Porter.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 72
Hexa 914.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
box 75
Knox County Diary.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 76
I've Left.
General Physical Description note: Paperback.
box 76
Construction.
1961.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 76
Mechanical Drawing.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 77
Found Painting.
1963.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 77
Frosted 1C27.
1971.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 78
The 14th of February.
1971.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 81
Found Poems. Millerton, New York: Something Else Press.
1972.
Scope and Contents note
Paperback edition with holograph notes and signature.
box 83
Founds, vol.3. n.p.
n.d.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 84
Hand Fashioned Chocolates. n.p.,.
ca. 1972.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 86
Founds, vol.1.
1968-1972.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 86
Mothering Time: Selected Works. Published by Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles.
1928-1973 . 1973.
General Physical Description note: Original typescript.
box 87
Founds, vol.2.
1968-1972.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 87
Trattoria Due Forni.
General Physical Description note: First of two copies.
General note
Porter also made the case by hand.
box 88
Where to go / what to do / when in New York / week of June 12, 1972, by Bern Porter. n.p.
1973.
General Physical Description note: Copy 146 of 250 copies.
box 88
no.1:
Life in Alabama.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
A collection of papers.
box 89
no.2:
Life in Alabama.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 89
no.3:
Life in Alabama.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 101
Found Object.
1946.
General Physical Description note: Only copy.
General note
Case by Bernard Porter, 1971.
box 98
The Manhattan telephone book.
box 98
Poems.
1984.
General Physical Description note: Holograph and photocopy.
Scope and Contents note
Written on this around-the-world trip. January-March 1984.
