Finding Aid to the Harmer E. Davis Collection of Book Ephemera, 1931-1964
Processed by David Zlotnick.
Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library
Institute of Transportation Studies
409 McLaughlin Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-1720
Phone: (510) 642-3604
Fax: (510) 642-9180
Email: itslib@uclink4.berkeley.edu
URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ITSL
© 2002
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid to the Harmer E. Davis Collection of Book Ephemera, 1931-1964
Collection number: NS 3563
Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library
- Institute of Transportation Studies
- 409 McLaughlin Hall
- University of California, Berkeley
- Berkeley, California, 94720-1720
- Phone: (510) 642-3604
- Fax: (510) 642-9180
- Email: itslib@uclink4.berkeley.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ITSL
- Collection Processed By:
- David Zlotnick
- Date Completed
-
September 2002
© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Harmer E. Davis Collection of Book Ephemera,
Date (inclusive): 1931-1964
Collection number: NS 3563
Creator:
Davis, Harmer Elmer, 1905-1998
Extent:
1 carton
Repository: The Institute of Transportation Studies Library
Berkeley, California 94720-1720
Abstract: [Abstract text]
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Institute of Transportation Studies Library. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Library.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Institute of Transportation Studies as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Harmer E. Davis Collection of Book Ephemera, NS 3563,
Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Acquisition Information
Donated to the library by the Institute of Transportation Studies, September 2002
Biography
Harmer E. Davis, born July 11, 1905 in New York was a professor of Civil Engineering (eventually becoming professor emeritus)
and founding director of the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering (ITTE), now known as the Institute of Transportation
Studies (ITS), at the University of California, Berkeley. He attended U.C. Berkeley and received a B.S. and subsequent M.S.
in Civil Engineering. Upon completing the M.S. degree, he began his 43-year career of research, teaching, and administration
at Berkeley as an Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering. He died December 24, 1998 at the age of 93.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of one carton containing approximately 70 items, chiefly antiquarian book dealers' catalogs, leaflets,
and advertisements, along with newspaper clippings, personal notes, and other book ephemera assembled by Harmer E. Davis between
1931 and 1964.
Carton 1, Folder 1
Book Announcements, 1932-1950
Physical Description:
12 items
Scope and Content Note
Published book announcements, 1932-1950
Carton 1, Folder 2-5
Dawson's Book Shop,
1931-1943
Physical Description:
32 items
Carton 1, Folder 2-4
Catalogs, 1931-1945
Physical Description:
26 items
Carton 1, Folder 2
1931-1937
Physical Description:
8 items
Carton 1, Folder 3
1938-1942
Physical Description:
9 items
Carton 1, Folder 4
1943-1945
Physical Description:
9 items
Carton 1, Folder 5
Catalogs,
Special List & misc., c1942-1943
Physical Description:
6 items
Carton 1, Folder 6
Misc. items, 1940-1975
Physical Description:
7 items
Carton 1, Folder 6
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Harmer E. Davis, Dec. 1940
Carton 1, Folder 6
Notice of change of ownership from Archetype Press, June 1940
Carton 1, Folder 6
Band Concert at the Lake Program Guide, Summer 1975
Carton 1, Folder 6
Memo to Will Hamilton
Physical Description:
1 leaf Mss.
Carton 1, Folder 6
An Evening of Classic American Humor and Song Campfire Circle, 1975
Physical Description:
3 leaves photocopy
Carton 1, Folder 6
Where to Look in the Bible
Carton 1, Folder 6
Christmas Card from Max and Dorothea Radin
Carton 1, Folder 7
Newspaper clippings, 1938-1964
Physical Description:
9 items
Carton 1, Folder 7
Bookman's Notebook , 1942
Physical Description:
2 articles
Carton 1, Folder 7
The Press Democrat, July 25, 1964
Carton 1, Folder 7
Daily Californian,
"Editorial Page"
Carton 1, Folder 7
Charter Week Edition,
"Hail to the Chief", 1956
Carton 1, Folder 7
Statewide University (Vol. 20, No.1), 1956
Carton 1, Folder 7
Notes for Bibliophiles, 1938 (May 8, May 22, Aug. 14)
Physical Description:
3 articles
Carton 1, Folder 8
Quarterly News Letter of the Book Club of California, 1936(Mar., June, Sep., Dec.) 1937(Mar., June)
Physical Description:
6 items
Carton 1, Folder 9
Various catalogs, 1932-c1950.
Physical Description:
20 items
Carton 1, Folder 9
Rare California, Catalog of a Collection of Unusual and Important Books.
Carton 1, Folder 9
Fifty Books of the Year, An Exhibition of American Bookmaking
Carton 1, Folder 9
William P. Wreden Rare Books
Physical Description:
3 catalogs
Carton 1, Folder 9
George Fields, Bookseller & Publisher
Physical Description:
4 catlogs
Carton 1, Folder 9
Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.
Physical Description:
2 catalogs
Carton 1, Folder 9
The Colt Press
Physical Description:
6 catalogs
Carton 1, Folder 9
Roy Vernon Sowers
Physical Description:
2 catalogs
Carton 1, Folder 10
Various literature, 1935-1966.
Physical Description:
16 items
Carton 1, Folder 10
Cantique Spirituel (poem excerpt), C.F. MacIntyre, 1954
Carton 1, Folder 10
Christmas in Plymouth 1621, Ruth and James Hart, 1960
Carton 1, Folder 10
The Facts About Shakespeare, Pages 163-166, William Allan Neilson and Ashley Horace Thorndike, 1936
Carton 1, Folder 10
An Exhibition of the Work of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn,
1942
Carton 1, Folder 10
The True Ballad of the Galloping Horse, William Henry Davenport, 1935
Carton 1, Folder 10
The Ballad of the Horseshoe Nails, C.F. MacIntyre, 1953
Carton 1, Folder 10
The University of California Press,
1940
Carton 1, Folder 10
Standards of Measurement and Nursery Rhymes, Chauncey D. Leake, 1959
Carton 1, Folder 10
The Pert and Sassy Blue Jay, vol. 19, pp. 784-785, Nov. 1964
Carton 1, Folder 10
Why not a Jaunty Cane?, vol. 20, pp. 997-998, Dec. 1965
Carton 1, Folder 10
Incentive to Vigor, vol. 21, Feb. 1966
Carton 1, Folder 10
Aeschylus at Gela, vol. 21, pp. 103-104, Mar. 1966
Carton 1, Folder 10
Spectrum, Swing and Feel Young!, vol. 21, pp. 298, 209 & 212, May 1966
Carton 1, Folder 10
Age and Memory, vol. 21, May 1966
Carton 1, Folder 10
Older but not Old, vol. 21, June 1966