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SHORT WORKS AND SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) SHORT WORKS AND SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: Excerpted journal entries, short articles and/or essays, writing fragments, correspondence, and secondary materials relating to events, people, and places in Baja. Topics include: La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur; natural phenomena specific to Baja; prominent locals like Salvador Garcia Pineda ("El Jeque"); and environmental conservation. The titles of most folders are Berger's own.
Box 1, Folder 1

Baja California - Environmental concerns ca. 1992-2009

General note

Includes pamphlets, reports, and writings.
Box 1, Folder 2

Baja California - Islands 1988-2004

General note

Includes Berger essay, "The Science of Desert Islands."
Box 1, Folder 3

Baja California - Presentations and talks 1997-2012

General note

In Spanish.
Box 1, Folder 4

Baja California missions undated, 2002

 

Vertebrados de las islas del Pacífico de Baja California 2007

General note

Report by Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A. C.
 

Baja California Sur

Box 1, Folder 5

Copper industry report, Santa Rosalía 2008, 2011

Box 1, Folder 6

Desmadre 2001

General note

Includes newspaper clippings and information on the environmental debate of Escalera Nautica (Nautical Steps).
Box 1, Folder 7

Development, culture and roads ca. 1994-2015

General note

Includes journals, Loreto development pitches.
Box 1, Folder 8

Flora and fauna 1979-2002

General note

Includes clippings, reports, and Berger writings
Box 1, Folder 9

Presentations and talks 1997-2012

General note

Includes Berger essay, "On Translating Estela Davis."
Box 1, Folder 10

Problems and criticism 2000-2008

General note

Original title included following terms: Exploration, dispossession/despojo, privatization salt project in Laguna San Ignacio Aerocalifornia, charcoal/carbon, officials eating Caguama.
Box 1, Folder 11

Violence 2014-2015

Box 1, Folder 12

Water undated

Box 1, Folder 13

Balandra 2005-2008

General note

Includes clippings, writings, correspondence.
Box 1, Folder 14

Carbon Ironwood/Palo Fierro ca. 1993-2011

Box 1, Folder 15

El Vizcaino - Peninsular pronghorn and osprey 1984-1995

General note

Includes Berger essays, "Ex Portadora de Sal" and "Guerrero Negro."
Box 1, Folder 16

Estela Davis translation ca. 2000

Box 1, Folder 17

Evaporation (salt) plant and gray whales, San Ignacio Lagoon 1995-1999

Box 1, Folder 18

"La Virgen de El Coyote" and "Burning Eye" - Unpublished short essays undated

 

La Paz

Box 2, Folder 1

The Sheik of La Paz ca. 1995

General note

Unpublished essay.
Box 2, Folder 8

Castorena Davis, Lorella - Presentación del Avance de Investigación de "Palabras e Imagenes de la Ciudad de La Paz, 1900-1959" undated

General note

In Spanish.
Box 2, Folder 7

Writings 1990-2015

General note

Includes journal entries.
Box 2, Folder 6

Piano concert - "La Paz Intermezzo" 1973

Box 2, Folder 5

Drug violence 2014-2015

General note

Includes translation of letter from Fernando Aceves Garcia.
Box 2, Folder 4

Journal entries - Bahia Magdalena travel 1987 January-February

Box 2, Folder 3

Journal entries - Art and music 1992-1997

Box 2, Folder 2

Short clippings and writings 1976-2004

Box 2, Folder 9

Means, Tim and Nora White - Conversation 1991-1993

General note

Operators of Baja Expeditions. Includes descriptive writings and correspondence.
Box 2, Folder 10

Niparajá 2003-2010

Box 2, Folder 11

Niparajá - Socieda de Historia Natural Niparajá AC financial report 2003 March

 

Niparajá 2003-2007

General

Assorted files in a variety of format (PDF, Word, Excel, JPEG), primarily documenting environmental and conservation activities. Includes 2003 San Diego Natural History Museum Binational Multidisciplinary Expedition conservation report, and other reports on the Corredor San Cosme-Punta Mechudo, in Spanish.
Box 2, Folder 12

Pineda, Salvador Garcia - "El Jeque, Distiller of Damiana" 1992

General note

A well-known La Paz distiller and winemaker. Includes photos. Related audiocassettes in Box 5.
Box 2, Folder 13

Planeta Peninsula - Miguel Angel de la Cueva 2003

Box 2, Folder 14

Problems of carbon in flora and fauna ca. 2004

Box 2, Folder 15-16

San Cosme-Punta Mechudo corridor 1993-2003

General note

Various environmental studies and reports; correspondence with Tim Means.
Box 2, Folder 17

San Ignacio 1975-2005

General note

Includes journal entries, writings, clippings, and a reproduction photograph.
Box 2, Folder 18

San Ignacio - "Night of the Gueras" 1988

General note

Includes journal entries.
Box 3, Folder 1

Santa Rosalía church 1992-1997

General note

Includes clippings and notes.
Box 3, Folder 2

Whales and whale watching ca. 1983-1995

Box 1, Folder 19

Winemaking in the Comondus / The winemaking tradition in Los Comondú - Profile by Francisco López Gutiérrez on the Murrillo Pérpuli family and mission-style wines

 

BOOKS AND ESSAYS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) BOOKS AND ESSAYS: Drafts of a selection of Berger's major published works, including the books Almost an Island (1998), La Giganta y Guadalupe (2010), and Sierra, Sea and Desert: El Vizcaíno (1998).
 

Almost an Island

Box 3, Folder 3

"Islomania" - Alternative introduction undated

Box 3, Folder 4

Chapter 2 - Annotated draft undated

Box 3, Folder 5

Chapter 4 - Annotated draft 1977

Box 3, Folder 6

The Curse of the Chingadero undated

General note

Unpublished manuscript. Material within informs Chapter 4, pages 58-67.
Box 3, Folder 7-8

Son of the River Journal Meets Baja 1968

General note

Two versions of a chronicle of the first trip to Baja. Evolved into first chapter of Almost an Island.
Box 3, Folder 9-10

Baja California Precludes undated

Box 3, Folder 11

First Trip to Baja California with Katie Lee 1968

 

La Giganta y Guadalupe

Box 4, Folder 1

Drafts undated

Box 4, Folder 3

Interviews and background material 2008-2009

Box 4, Folder 4

Original and final texts with bios and captions 2008-2009

Box 4, Folder 5

Lico (Federico Savín Talamantes)/Sierra Le Gigante 2001-2012

General note

Uncompleted manuscript and journals: "Rancho San Juan, Santa Martha/San Carlos."
Box 4, Folder 7

Sierra, Sea and Desert: El Vizcaíno - Typescript 1998

Box 4, Folder 8

Sierra, Sea and Desert: El Vizcaíno - Interviews and background material 1995-1998

Box 4, Folder 9

Miscellaneous unpublished manuscripts undated

 

NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) NOTEBOOKS: Berger's notebooks, which include observations on topics ranging from the total solar eclipse of 1991, to cave paintings in Baja. Titles are Berger's own.
Box 4, Folder 10

Cueva Pentada 1977 October

Box 4, Folder 11

Total solar eclipse 1991-1992

General note

Includes background materials and research.
Box 4, Folder 12

Cave paintings, Sierra San Francisco, Santa Rosalía and San Ignacio 1995

Box 4, Folder 13

El Vizcaíno, Guadalajara, Puerto Chale, misc. ca. 1990-1999

Box 4, Folder 14

Isla Cedros, la Reforma, notes on habitat 2003

Box 4, Folder 15

Miscellaneous Baja notebooks undated, 1991

 

AUDIOCASSETTES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) AUDIOCASSETTES: Sound recordings of Berger's interviews with Bajan locals, including personalities featured in Berger's writings, such as El Jeque. Identifying notes from the original cassettes were transcribed for the finding aid description.
Box 5, Folder 1

DR at Eclipse, Robert Fadal 1992 April 2

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Box 5, Folder 2-3

El Jeque 1992 May 15

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Box 5, Folder 4

Ruben 1993 March 23

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Box 5, Folder 5

Alev and Rina 1993 May 5

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Box 5, Folder 6

Mary and Mac - El Meson 1993 May 15

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Box 5, Folder 7

Bertine 1993 May

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Box 5, Folder 8

Victor Sanchez Sotomayor undated

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Box 5, Folder 9

Consuelo (entrevista y trando Puerto de Ilusion) 1994 April

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Box 5, Folder 10

Consuelo (Hymno de las Mujeres Profesionistas) undated

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Box 5, Folder 11

Paul Lorem (7/10) Walter (7/11) Abrams family undated

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Box 5, Folder 12

Jose Luis Leon 2009 March 30

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Box 5, Folder 13

Fermin 2009 April 3

General note

Possibly defective tape.

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Box 5, Folder 14

Fermin 2009 April 3

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Box 5, Folder 15

Organico Alevanra Nieto - Gari Bay undated

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Box 5, Folder 16

Carmen Vazquez 2009 May 1

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Box 5, Folder 17

Fco DLMOS 2009 May 6

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Box 5, Folder 18

Aaron 2009 May 7

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Box 5, Folder 19

Paty Galino/Sergio Alvarez 2009 May 8

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Collection Contents
SHORT WORKS AND SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
BOOKS AND ESSAYS
NOTEBOOKS
AUDIOCASSETTES
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