Collection of John Bartlett Goodman, III (1901-1991), motion picture art director, bibliophile, author, and collector of Western Americana. Materials include manuscripts, correspondence, movie research materials, artwork and sketches, family memorabilia, ephemera, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and historical manuscripts associated with Goodman's interest and research on the American West.

John Bartlett Goodman, III, was born August 15, 1901 in Denver, Colorado and moved to California by the age of three, first to San Diego and then to Los Angeles in 1916. After high school he worked in an architect's office, but left in 1920 after a short time to join the art department of the Famous Players Lasky Company, an early motion-picture company. Goodman's forty-seven year professional career in the motion-picture industry included work on 252 movies. He spent seventeen years with Paramount Studios, worked for Warner Brothers Studios, and served as supervising art director (1942-1945) for Universal Studios, after which, he pursued a freelance career as an independent art director. Goodman won an Oscar for his color art direction of the Phantom of the Opera in 1943. He was the art director for the films The Mountain (1955) and Rawhide (1959) and the weekly television series Rawhide (1961-1965). Goodman retired from film work in 1967.

12.8 Linear feet (20 archives boxes, 4 card file boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 8 oversize folders)

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Extremely brittle documents have been photocopied for preservation. These original documents are restricted; researchers may use photocopies located in the collection.