Guide to the Rebecca Solnit Papers M1839

Alyssa Tou

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

2023

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Rebecca Solnit papers

Creator: Solnit, Rebecca

Identifier/Call Number: M1839

Identifier/Call Number: 16233

Physical Description: 43 Linear Feet (79 manuscript boxes, 5 flat boxes, 9 cartons, 2 card boxes)

Physical Description: 0.091 gigabyte(s) 102 3.5" floppy disks; 1 5.25" floppy disk; 1 hard drive; 12 zip disks.

Date (inclusive): 1968-2019

Abstract: This collection documents the life and work of the American author, Rebecca Solnit, including correspondence, juvenilia and family documents, manuscripts and research files, teaching files, and collected books, magazines, and clippings containing both her work and reviews and interviews relating to her work.

Biographical / Historical

Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is a San Francisco-based American author, activist, art critic, and curator whose work covers such topics as feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.

She is the third of four children of Theresa Allen and Albert Solnit, and was raised in Novato, California. She credits her brother David's influence for her involvement in the demonstrations at the Nevada nuclear test site, and later the Western Shoshone Defense Project, the experience of which developed into a significant part of Savage Dreams (1994).

After acquiring her GED, she attended the American University at Paris before eventually receiving an undergraduate degree in English from San Francisco State University in 1981 and a graduate degree in Journalism from UC Berkeley in 1984. She then worked as an editor and writer for ArtWeek, Pacific Sun, and other art publications. She has since authored many more articles for various publications such as Harper's, Orion, Sierra, and The Guardian. Her writing has also been included in artists' books, museum catalogs, and anthologies.

Her first book was Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era, published in 1991 and nspired in part by an encounter with the work of the filmmaker and artist, Wallace Berman, while working at the SFMOMA. Since, she has written over twenty-five more on various topics, including River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West ; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; and Men Explain Things to Me. She credits writers such as Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf, and Henry David Thoreau as inspirations for her own work.

Rebecca Solnit was an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 1989 and has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. River of Shadows won a National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a Sally Hacker Prize, while Call Them by Their Names won a Kirkus Prize. In 2019, she won the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Non-Fiction.

Scope and Contents

This collection primarily contains papers related to Rebecca Solnit's writing career - research files, notes, manuscripts, correspondence, reviews of her work, posters and brochures for her talks and lectures, as well as published copies of her articles and books. She also collected various art, activist, and punk magazines.

The personal file includes correspondence with family and friends, family histories, financial and medical records, and childhood writing, drawings, and school files. Juvenilia, personal correspondence, journals, and some other personal records are restricted.

The collection also includes the contents of a hard drive and floppy disks, cassettes and VHS tapes, and some CDs and DVDs, which cover a variety of subjects.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Rebecca Solnit papers (M1839). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research except for juvenilia, personal correspondence, journals, and papers of financial, medical, or otherwise sensitive nature, which are indicated in the finding aid. Materials must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Born-digital material is closed until processed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase, 2011. Accessions 2011-119, 2020-078.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)

Arts, Modern- -20th century

Authors, American.

Series 1. Book Files

Secret Exhibition

Biographical / Historical

The working title for this book was Swinging in the Shadows.

Box 1, folder 1-5

drafts

Box 2, folder 1-8

drafts

Box 3, folder 1

outline

Box 3, folder 2-10

drafts

Box 4, folder 1

drafts, image list

Box 38, folder 1-4

proofs

Box 4, folder 2-3

files - Berman

Box 4, folder 4-6

files - Conner

Box 4, folder 7-8

files - De Feo

Box 4, folder 9-10

files - Hedrick

Box 4, folder 11

files - Herms

Box 5, folder 1

files - Herms images

Box 5, folder 2-3

files - Jess

Box 5, folder 4

files - Larry Jordan

Box 5, folder 5

files - Kienholz

Box 5, folder 6

files - McClure

Box 5, folder 7

"Art Elsewhere"

Box 5, folder 8

articles

Box 5, folder 9

"General Articles (Assemblage)"

Box 5, folder 10

"Assemblage Artists"

Box 5, folder 11

"Beats"

Box 5, folder 12

"Broader Cultural Issues (BCI)"

Box 5, folder 13

"Factum Fidei," by Bill Berkson

Box 5, folder 14

"Film Guys"

Box 5, folder 15

images

Box 5, folder 16

captions for documentary photographs

Box 5, folder 17

"Documentary" - images

Box 6, folder 1

"Unused Images"

Box 6, folder 2

"Los Angeles"

Box 6, folder 3

Lost and Found in California exhibition

Box 6, folder 4

notes, interviews

Box 6, folder 5

"San Francisco"

Box 6, folder 6

research files

Box 6, folder 7

"Research Flotsam"

Box 6, folder 8

articles; related writing

Box 6, folder 9-10

letters

Box 7, folder 1

images

Box 7, folder 2

agreements, lectures, etc.

Box 7, folder 3-5

Rights & Repros

Box 7, folder 6

flyer for lecture

Box 7, folder 7

booksigning invite

Box 7, folder 8

exhibitions

Box 7, folder 9

"Beat Culture" show at Whitney

Box 7, folder 10

notes - chronology

Box 7, folder 11

fan mail

Box 86, folder 1

SF map - Beat culture

Savage Dreams

Scope and Contents

Contains a significant amount of material on Rebecca Solnit's work with the Western Shoshone Defense Project and the Nevada Test Site.

Box 7, folder 12

sources - drafts

Box 7, folder 13

chronology w/excerpts

Box 7, folder 14

facts to be checked

Box 8, folder 1

MSS material - essays and notes

Box 8, folder 2

writing - "The Body in Pain"

Box 8, folder 3

book proposal

Box 8, folder 4-8

drafts

Box 8, folder 9

drafts, related writing

Box 8, folder 10

Women Strike for Peace "WSP"

Box 9, folder 1

"Shoshone Legal History"

Box 9, folder 2

"Danns"

Box 9, folder 3

"Journal"

Box 9, folder 4

"Court"

Box 9, folder 5

Western Shoshone and land

Box 9, folder 6

"Handbook for Nonviolent Action"

Box 9, folder 7

Nevada Test Site - "APT"

Box 9, folder 8

"NTS"

Box 9, folder 9

"Environment"

Box 9, folder 10

"Nuclear Weapons/War"

Box 9, folder 11

"Manhattan Project"

Box 9, folder 12

correspondence

Box 9, folder 13

Vintage books correspondence

Box 9, folder 14

"Tangental"

Box 9, folder 15

"Yosemite - Biblio"

Box 9, folder 16

"Ahwahneechee" [1 of 2]

Box 10, folder 1

"Ahwahneechee" [2 of 2]

Box 10, folder 2

"Yosemite - Gen'l History"

Box 10, folder 3

Yosemite magazine 1991

Box 10, folder 4

"The Pastoral"

Box 10, folder 5

"Yosemite - Aesthetical"

Box 10, folder 6

"Nature issues"

Box 10, folder 7

"Yosemite - Ecology"

Box 10, folder 8-9

"Savage" research

Box 11, volume 1

Radical Labor in the Nevada Mining Booms 1900-1920

Box 11, folder 2

"NV - enviro"

Box 11, folder 3

research

Box 11, folder 4

teaching materials

Box 11, folder 5

Voices for Peace and Self-Determination poster

Box 11, folder 6

"Nevada Nuke Site" photos

Box 83, folder 1

RESTRICTED - SD/UC Press

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

A Book of Migrations

Box 11, folder 7

correspondence, etc.

Box 11, folder 8

"Green Blood File (Dec.)"

Box 11, folder 9

letters

Box 11, folder 10

Ireland trip

Box 11, folder 11

Ireland ephemera

Box 11, folder 12

flyer

Box 11, folder 13

covers, planning

Wanderlust

Box 12, folder 1-6

drafts

Box 13, folder 1-3

drafts

Box 13, folder 4

writing - "Footwork" article

Box 13, folder 5

"Walking Papers Quotes"

Box 13, folder 6

"Access"

Box 13, folder 7

Art and poetry

Box 13, folder 8

"Bipedalism"

Box 13, folder 9

Britain

Box 14, folder 1-2

Cities

Box 14, folder 3

"Gender"

Box 14, folder 4

"Landscape/Nature"

Box 14, folder 5

"Landscape Wanderers"

Box 14, folder 6

Memory

Box 14, folder 7

Nature

Box 14, folder 8

Nature Friends

Box 14, folder 9

"Pilgrims and Philosophers"

Box 14, folder 10

Psychogeography

Box 14, folder 11

Reclaim

Box 14, folder 12

Religion and pilgrimage

Box 15, folder 1

Streets/walking

Box 15, folder 2

"Travel/Pilgrimage"

Box 15, folder 3

"Travellers"

Box 15, folder 4

Women

Box 15, folder 5

"Virtually"

Box 15, folder 6-7

research

Box 15, folder 8

"Wanderlust Pics"

Box 15, folder 9-10

letters

Box 15, folder 11

publications (sent by friend?)

Box 15, folder 12

writing, walking tour, collected articles

Box 16, folder 1

drafts, notes, letters

Box 16, folder 2

notebook

Box 16, folder 3-5

walking publications and magazines

Box 16, folder 6

homeless, veterans

Box 16, folder 7-8

clippings, ephemera, etc.

Box 16, folder 9

Susan Schuppli street photos (slides)

Box 16, folder 10

cassette tapes

Box 16, folder 11

Hollow City

As Eve Said to the Serpent

Scope and Contents

As Eve Said to the Serpent is an anthology of previously published articles, whose contents may be represented elsewhere in the collection.

Box 17, folder 1

permissions

Box 83, folder 2

RESTRICTED - Georgia Press

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

"Muybridge" - River of Shadows and Yosemite in Time

Box 17, folder 2-7

drafts

Box 18, folder 1-2

drafts

Box 18, folder 3

chronology

Box 18, folder 4

essay draft

Box 18, folder 5

plan; preview

Box 18, folder 6

"My Productions"

Box 18, folder 7

"Bibliography"

Box 18, folder 8-9

research

Box 19, folder 1-4

research

Box 19, folder 5

"Tangents"

Box 19, folder 6

Yosemite in Time notes

Box 19, folder 7-10

notes

Box 20, folder 1

Yosemite in Time articles, notes, images

Box 20, folder 2-10

research files - A-M

Box 21, folder 1-10

research files - M

Box 22, folder 1-10

research files - M-S

Box 23, folder 1-5

research files - S-Y

Box 23, folder 6

correspondence

Box 23, folder 7

River covers and spec sheet

Box 23, folder 8

pictures

Box 23, folder 9

image holdings

Box 23, folder 10

image permissions and fees

Box 23, folder 11

images

Box 23, folder 12

"Image Bank" [1 of 2]

Box 24, folder 1

"Image Bank" [2 of 2]

Box 38, folder 5

images

Box 24, folder 2-3

Yosemite in Time prints and notes

Box 24, folder 4

Yosemite in Time Ghost River images

Box 24, folder 5

Yosemite in Time articles, writing, notes

Box 24, folder 6

Yosemite in Time prints, articles

Hope in the Dark

Box 24, folder 7

draft, notes

Box 25, folder 1

draft

Box 25, folder 2

"Acts of Hope"

Box 25, folder 3

Field Guide to Getting Lost

Box 25, folder 4

After the Ruins

A Paradise Built in Hell

Biographical / Historical

working title was Rising from the Ruins

Box 25, folder 5

drafts

Box 26, folder 1-6

drafts

Box 27, folder 1-2

manuscript with edits

Box 27, folder 3

proof (to page 41)

Box 27, folder 4

articles, notes, etc.

Box 27, folder 5

research

Box 27, volume 6-7

earthquakes and environmental migration publications

Box 27, folder 8-9

research files - B

Box 28, folder 1-8

research files - Burning Man-Katrina

Box 29, folder 1-7

research files - Katrina-Natural Hazards Center

Box 30, volume 1

Annual Natural Hazards Workshop 2007

Box 30, folder 2-6

research files - Mexico-Other sites

Box 31, folder 1-5

research files - Psyches-William James and Dorothy Day

Box 32, folder 1

comments

Box 32, folder 2

"letters"

Box 32, folder 3

permissions

Box 32, folder 4

letters, lecture flyers

Box 32, folder 5-11

Japan visit materials

Box 38, folder 6

Japan visit - DVDs

Scope and Contents

Three documentary films about the atomic bomb in Hiroshima: Barefoot Gen's Hiroshima, White Light, Black Rain, Short Films by Steven Okazaki, Vol. 1. These are all available in the Media and Microtext Center.

Box 32, folder 12

student papers, interview

Infinite City

Box 32, folder 13

style sheet, checklist

Box 32, folder 14

drafts

Box 33, folder 1

proof

Box 33, folder 2

book invoice; main essay

Box 33, folder 3-4

research

Box 33, folder 5

"Artists"

Box 33, folder 6

"Ben Pease" maps

Box 33, folder 7

addresses, images

Box 33, folder 8

project descriptions

Box 33, folder 9

maps

Box 33, folder 10

SFMOMA

Box 33, folder 11

SFMOMA agreement for commissioned artwork

Box 33, folder 12

Jim Nisbet

Box 33, folder 13

Aife Murray

Box 33, folder 14

articles, correspondence

Box 33, folder 15

ephemera, publications

Box 33, folder 16

1962 SF calendar

Box 38, folder 7

maps

Box 38, folder 8

demographics

Box 61, folder 1

maps

Box 62, folder 1

final proof

Box 76, folder 9

ephemera

Box 83, folder 3

RESTRICTED - Creative Capital Retreat

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 83, folder 4

RESTRICTED - UC Press

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

The Faraway Nearby

Box 34, folder 1

unannotated pieces

Box 34, folder 2-9

drafts

Box 34, folder 10

comments

Box 35, folder 1

research

Box 38, folder 9

covers

Unfathomable City

Box 35, folder 2-3

drafts

Box 35, folder 4

map connections

Box 61, folder 2-3

maps

Scope and Contents

Folder 2 also contains a hand drawn map from the St. Bernard Adult Education program.

Box 62, folder 2

proof

Men Explain Things to Me

Box 35, folder 5-6

proofs

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Box 35, folder 7

draft

Nonstop Metropolis

Box 61, folder 4-5

maps

Box 62, folder 3

maps

Drowned River

Box 35, folder 8

"Letter from a Drowned Canyon" in The California Sunday Magazine

Box 36, folder 1

"Lake Powell - Selected Proofs"

Box 36, folder 2

research

Cinderella Liberator

Box 36, folder 3

Advanced Reader Copy

In the Looking Glass House

General

This is a seemingly unpublished work written in the 1990s.

Box 36, folder 4-9

drafts

Box 37, folder 1-2

drafts

Box 37, folder 3

"Cave - Looking Glass House"

Box 37, folder 4

correspondence 1992

Books

Scope and Contents

Includes both books by Rebecca Solnit, as well as books containing her writing.

Related Materials

For magazines and newspapers to which RS contributed, see Series 2, Subseries 2. Publications and clippings.

Box 64

Books

Box 65

Books

Box 66

Books

Box 67

Books

Box 68

Rebecca Solnit in translation

Series 2. Essays, articles, and other project files

Subseries 2.1. Project files

Box 38, folder 10-11

images

Box 41, folder 1

Early writing

Box 41, folder 2

Essay drafts 1989-1990

Box 41, folder 3-5

Essays

Box 42, folder 1-2

Essays

Box 42, folder 3

"My Talks"

Box 42, folder 6

Baroque Paintings from the Ringling Museum Audio Tour Script

Box 42, folder 7

SJICA Project - Terra Cognita 1987-1988

Box 42, folder 8-9

Headlands Center for the Arts essays 1989-1990

Box 42, folder 10

"David Ireland"

Box 42, folder 11

"Profiles"

Box 42, folder 12

artist files, mailers 1989-1990

Box 43, folder 1

Falkirk: A House in History

Box 43, folder 2

"Falkirk"

Box 43, folder 3

Art writing 1986-1992

Box 43, folder 4

"Blind" 1990s

Box 43, folder 5

Writing - "Rock and a Hard Place" circa 1991

Box 43, folder 6

Environmental writing 1991

Box 43, folder 7

SFAI - "Crossing" circa 1991

Box 43, folder 8

Kingdoms - "Lewis" 1992

Box 43, folder 9

Essay on memories

General

for Lewis DeSoto, likely Kingdoms project.

Box 43, folder 10-11

"Misrach" 1992-1995

Box 44, folder 1

"Dashiell" 1995-1997

Box 44, folder 2-3

When Borders Migrate show 1998-1999

Box 44, folder 4

"My Notes - Porter"

Box 44, folder 5

"Correspondence + contract - Carter documents - Porter" 1998-1999

Box 44, folder 6

True North project circa 2000s

Box 44, folder 7

Gohlke 2004

Box 44, folder 9

"Who is Writing?" circa 2000s

Box 44, folder 10

"Way Station" circa 2010s

Box 44, folder 11

Laramie Atlas Project 2011

Box 45, folder 1

"Meridel"

Box 45, folder 2

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) Cultural Needs Assessment 1995

Box 45, folder 3

"Photography"

Box 45, folder 4

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison

Box 45, folder 5

"Finlay"

Box 45, folder 6

"20th Century Landscape Painting"

Box 45, folder 7

"Landscape"

Box 45, folder 8

"Earth Art"

Box 45, folder 9

"Activist Art"

Box 45, folder 10

"War"

Box 46, folder 1

Art

Box 46, folder 2

"Art Crit"

Box 46, folder 3

"Eco/Art/Place"

Box 46, folder 4

"Philosophy"

Box 46, folder 5

"Feminist"

Box 46, folder 6

"No Pacific Rail Road"

Box 46, folder 7

"Art Projects"

Box 46, folder 8

"Ann Hamilton"

Box 46, folder 9

San Jose Joint Library (class presentation?)

Box 56, folder 10

Diane Burk resume and "Peeling the Onion" proposal 2002

General

Found together with Headlands Center for the Arts mailers (1992), in Folder 9.

Box 60, folder 8

"Linda Connor" 1989

Box 86, folder 3

Other artists' work and exhibitions

Box 60, folder 14

"Rules of the Labyrinth, or, Some Comments on Wandering in Benjamin's Berlin Chronicle", letters circa 2003

Box 88

comb bound anthologies

Scope and Contents

2 copies of "Looking Glass House;" "Earthbound" compilation; photocopy of "Buile Suibne;" Paris articles; "Lineage of Wings," Lewis DeSoto Proposal for Public Art Work

Subseries 2.2. Publications and clippings

Box 39, folder 1-2

ArtWeek magazine (articles) 1984-1990

Box 39, folder 3-4

ArtWeek magazine (issues) 1984-1987

Box 39, folder 5

ArtWeek magazine (issues - photocopies) 1986-1989

Box 40, folder 1

Pacific Sun (articles) 1985-1988

Box 40, folder 2

Pacific Sun (articles - photocopies) circa 1986-1987

Box 40, folder 3

Pacific Sun (issues) 1986-1988

Box 40, folder 4

College of Marin Times 1980s

Box 40, folder 5

Marin Review 1987-1988

Box 40, folder 6

Early published articles circa 1984-1990

Box 42, folder 4

Articles 1980s-1990s

Box 42, folder 5

Articles 2000-2002

Box 43, folder 8

Articles 2004-2005

Box 54, folder 1

California Coast & Ocean 2007, 2009

Box 54, folder 2

Emergency Response Network (ERN) 1986

Box 54, folder 3

Photo Metro August 1991

Box 54, folder 4

The Nation 2003-2010

Box 54, folder 5

Articles 2000s

Box 60, folder 13

Intervals: Futurefarmers 2011

Box 62, folder 4

London Review of Books 2003-2013

Box 62, folder 5

Frank magazine No. 5-10 1986 or 1987

Box 63, folder 1

Music Calendar November 1983

Box 87

Rebecca Solnit in magazines - Harpers, Orion, Sierra, Art Issues

Subseries 2.3. Other project and research files

Box 46, folder 10

"Ideas" [1 of 2] circa 1990s

Box 47, folder 1

"Ideas" [2 of 2]

Box 47, folder 2

"Politics"

Box 47, folder 3

"Urban + Tech"

Box 47, folder 4

"Art"

Box 47, folder 5

"Montana"

Box 47, folder 6

California notes and printouts 2009

Box 47, folder 7

Landscape

Box 47, folder 8

Oil spill 2010

Box 47, folder 9

images and excerpts (mostly Looking Glass?)

Box 60, folder 10

Slides - Barbara Bosworth, Terry Evans 1990s

Box 60, folder 11

Rebecca McBride photo portfolio

Box 60, folder 12

grants, articles, letters 2013

Box 86, folder 3

Artists' work and exhibition ephemera

Subseries 2.4. Ephemera

Box 40, folder 7

Public Art Works brochures and mailers 1990-1991

Box 54, folder 6

lecture/exhibition mailers and brochures

Box 54, folder 7

lecture ephemera 2009

Box 56, folder 1

project ephemera

Box 56, folder 2

exhibition ephemera and letters

Box 57, folder 10

The Luncheon Society with Philip Zimbardo panelist bios 2006

Box 60, folder 7

SFAI - 6195 posters and programs circa 1980

Box 63, folder 2

exhibition newsletters

Box 63, folder 3

posters

Box 76, folder 10

lecture and event brochures and posters

Series 3. Academic Life

Subseries 3.1. Teaching

Box 48, folder 1-2

Teaching - "My Notes"

Box 48, folder 3

Graduate Criticism and Theory Seminar: "Memories, Identifies, Race, Place, Space and Machines" class reader Spring 1996

Box 48, folder 4

Graduate Criticism and Theory Seminar probably 1996

Box 48, folder 5

Class Notes/Readings

Box 48, folder 6

English 143N seminar: "Writing Everything Else" reader, University of California, Berkeley Spring 2014

Box 48, folder 7

English 191V: "Stories in Silicon Valley" reader (bound copy), Stanford University Spring 2017

Box 49, folder 1-3

English 191V: "Stories in Silicon Valley" reader (loose pages)

Box 49, volume 4

English 191V: "Selvage and Sutra" reader Spring 2018

Box 49, folder 5

Reading Selections 2018

Box 49, folder 6

Teaching? - articles

Box 50, folder 1

Journalism 227: "Writing the City" reader, University of California, Berkeley Spring 2005

Box 54, folder 8

Teaching appointment at UC Berkeley 2004-2005

Box 54, folder 9

articles for class reader?

Box 54, folder 10

"Bibliographicals"; also others' course syllabi 1990s

Box 88

course readers (RS's and others') 1990s

RESTRICTED

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 77, folder 7

Pedagogy - student evaluations (ES: The Essay, California College of Arts and Crafts) 2003-2004

Box 77, folder 8

J227 student evaluations 2005-2006

Box 77, folder 9

"Student Work" English 143N

Box 77, folder 10

Students' papers 2017

Subseries 3.2. Student work - RESTRICTED

Scope and Contents

Includes Rebecca Solnit's writing from her time as a student and other school documents.

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 77, folder 1

"Medievalism"

Box 77, folder 2

"Articles '84"

Box 77, folder 3

"Pop Art"

Box 77, folder 4

"Term Papers: Other"

Box 77, folder 5

"English Papers"

Box 77, folder 6

School papers

Box 78, folder 1

School papers and grades 1967-1984

Box 78, folder 2

Essays

Box 78, folder 3

"Resumes, Grades" 1980s

Box 83, folder 5

UCLA application 1987

Series 4. Collected publications and ephemera

Subseries 4.1. Collected publications

Box 50, folder 2

Art/Aesthetics

Box 50, folder 3

Cities/Revolution

Box 50, folder 4

"Celebration of Zapatismo" by Gustavo Esteva

Box 50, folder 5

Colorado River

Box 50, folder 6

Environment/Race

Box 50, folder 7

Language

Box 50, folder 8

Landscape/People

Box 51, folder 1

Life/Perception

Box 51, folder 2

Collected poems

Box 51, folder 3

"Precepts" Buddhism

Box 51, folder 4

Buddhism

Box 51, folder 5

On writing

Box 51, folder 6

Spanish papers

Box 51, folder 7

Susan Sontag

Box 51, folder 8

Technology/Time/Change

Box 55, folder 1

Nature

Box 55, folder 2

Nature and Art

Box 55, folder 3

Environment/Climate Change

Box 55, folder 4

Art

Box 51, folder 9

The Argonaut on 1906 earthquake & fires

Box 51, folder 10

Clippings

Box 51, folder 11

Durban Platform/Paris Agreement 2015

Box 51, folder 12

Semina 1-9 (photocopies)

Box 54, folder 10

crack December 1988

Box 54, volume 12

Envío November 2005

Box 54, volume 13-16

The Workbook 1991-1996

Scope and Contents

Four issues: Winter 1991, Fall 1994, Summer 1995, Winter 1995-1996

Box 55, folder 5

Occupy publications and other activism articles

Box 55, folder 6

Tolling Elves 2002-2006

Scope and Contents

Some duplicates. Missing Issues 16, 18, and 29.

Box 57, folder 1

Clippings (photocopies) for Muybridge project? 1872, 1878

Box 57, folder 2

miscellaneous clippings

Box 57, folder 3

Jordan Fisher-Smith article and Don Worth photography with notes to RS

Box 57, volume 4

Jay DeFeo exhibition catalog 2006

Box 57, folder 5

Health publications

Box 57, folder 6

Maximum Rocknroll No. 31 December 1985

Box 57, folder 8

"Punk Stuff" 1983-1984

Box 57, folder 9

Art books

Box 63, folder 4

RE/SEARCH magazine No. 3 1981

Box 57, volume 11

California Thoroughbred magazine

Box 58

books

Scope and Contents

Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News; Wind Bell Vol. 37 No. 1; New Haven Review 12

Box 86, folder 2

Articles

Box 86, folder 4

Jackrabbit Homestead circa 2007

Subseries 4.2. Ephemera

Box 55, folder 7

"Other artists/events"

Box 56, folder 3

Susan Schwartzenberg San Francisco Arts Commission projects 2000

Box 56, folder 4

"Ephemera: Printed Matter"

Box 56, folder 5

Mailers, etc.

Box 56, folder 6

Ephemera, business cards, etc.

Box 56, folder 7

Ephemera, notes circa 2011-2012

Box 56, folder 8

Business cards

Box 56, folder 9

Headlands Center for the Arts mailers 1992

General

Found together with "Diane Burk resume..." in Folder 10

Box 57, folder 12

Iceland ephemera, newspaper, trip itinerary 2008-2011

Box 76, folder 7

art ephemera

Box 76, folder 8

exhibition essays and ephemera 1989-1992, 1997

Box 76, folder 11

early ephemera

Box 86, folder 5

ephemera, calendars

Box 57, folder 13

misc. ephemera, writing, notes

Series 5. Articles about Rebecca Solnit

Box 52, folder 1

Reviews 1991-1998

Box 52, folder 2

proposal for SF map project w/selected press clips circa 2003

Box 52, folder 3-4

Savage Dreams

Box 52, folder 5

Book of Migrations

Box 52, folder 6-7

Wanderlust

Box 53, folder 1

Hollow City

Box 53, folder 2

As Eve Said to the Serpent

Box 53, folder 3

Reviews 2002-2005

Box 53, folder 4-5

River of Shadows

Box 53, folder 6

Press 2004-2009

Box 53, folder 7

Reviews 2006

Box 53, folder 8-9

Paradise Built in Hell

Box 53, folder 10

Infinite City

Box 53, folder 11

Articles about RS

Box 58

Publications containing articles about and interviews with RS

Box 63, folder 5

Publications containing articles about RS

Series 6. Correspondence

Subseries 6.1. Professional Correspondence

Box 59, folder 1-6

"Literary Business" 1991-2009

Box 59, folder 7

Professional/Literary Correspondence 2008

Box 59, folder 8

Professional correspondence circa 1990-2013

Box 60, folder 1

Professional correspondence 1984-1986

Box 60, folder 2

"Mike Davis, etc." 1990s

Box 60, folder 3

Fan mail 2000s

Box 60, folder 4

"Detroit" for Harpers 2007

Box 60, folder 5

Thank you letters from sixth graders 2006

Box 60, folder 6

Student constituent letters on environment 2009

Subseries 6.2. Personal Correspondence - RESTRICTED

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 69, folder 1

Albert Solnit circa 1979-1981

Related Materials

Some other letters can be found in Box 79, Folder 2.

Box 69, folder 2

Theresa Allen circa 1979-1981

Box 69, folder 3

Ida Ginsburg Solnit circa 1979-1981

Box 69, folder 4

Ann circa 1978-1981

Box 69, folder 5

Frances Solnit Gallegos, Claire, Jessica circa 1979-1982

Box 69, folder 6

David, Daniel, Stephen, Diane, Laura circa 1977-1981

Box 69, folder 7

Lauren and Christine Monsen 1979-1981

Box 69, folder 8

Warren Easton 1980-1981

Box 69, folder 9-10

Personal correspondence 1978-1988

Box 69, folder 11

Personal correspondence 1984

Box 70, folder 1

"Old Letters (by Me)"

Box 70, folder 2

Personal correspondence 1987-1990

Box 70, folder 3

"Mr. Bates" 1989-1991

Box 70, folder 4-5

Catherine Page Harris 1989-1994

Box 70, folder 6

"Letters" 1990-1993

Box 71, folder 1

"Letters" 1990-1993

Box 71, folder 2

David Dodge 1991-1994

Box 71, folder 3-4

Letters circa 1992-2000

Box 71, folder 5-6

Letters 1993-1995

Box 71, folder 7

Tim O'Toole 1994-1995

Box 71, folder 8

Letters 1994-1997

Box 72, folder 1-2

Letters 1994-2000

Box 72, folder 3-4

Correspondence, addresses, business cards, etc. 1995-1999

Box 72, folder 5

Letters 2000-2002

Box 73, folder 1-2

Letters 2000-2002

Box 73, folder 3

Personal correspondence circa 2000-2006

Box 73, folder 4-5

Personal correspondence and business cards circa 2002-2005

Box 74, folder 1

Personal correspondence circa 2004

Box 74, folder 2-5

Correspondence 1993-2010, bulk 2006-2009

Box 74, folder 6

Letters circa 2007-2009

Box 74, folder 7

Letters circa 2008-2011

Box 75, folder 1

Letters circa 2008-2011

Box 75, folder 1-5

Letters 2010s

Box 72, folder 2

Letters 1994-2000

Box 85, folder 1

"Mr. Brodie"

Box 85, folder 2

Letters 1982-1986

Box 85, folder 3

Holiday letters probably 2004

Series 7. Journals and notebooks

Box 82

early class/student notebooks

Box 89

Notebooks

Box 90

Datebooks 1978-2011

Box 91

business cards

RESTRICTED

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 84

Journals 1977-2015

Address and phone books

Series 8. Personal file

Subseries 8.1. Juvenilia - RESTRICTED

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 78, folder 4

"A Cure for Living"

Box 78, folder 5

Poems circa 1970s

Box 78, folder 6

Poetry, etc.

Box 78, folder 7

Poetry circa 1980s

Box 81, folder 1

childhood drawings, writing

Box 81, folder 2

juvenilia circa 1971

Box 81, folder 3

childhood stuff

Box 81, folder 4-5

student papers, writing, drawings, clippings

Box 83, folder 9

writing and other papers before 1983

Subseries 8.2. Financial and medical - RESTRICTED

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 79, folder 3

Financial papers 1978-1983

Box 79, folder 4

Financial 1980s

Box 79, folder 5

Financial 1992

Box 79, folder 6

Financial 2000s-2011

Box 79, folder 7

Receipts 2011

Box 79, folder 8

Grants, etc.

Box 79, folder 9

"Royalties" 2000s

Box 80, folder 1

Royalties 2013

Box 80, folder 2

Rent 1981-2006

Box 80, folder 3

Car 2005

Box 80, folder 4

Machines - warranties, instructions, etc.

Box 80, folder 5

Insurance

Box 80, folder 6-9

Taxes 1995-2015

Box 80, folder 10

Medical circa 1978-1981

Box 81, folder 6

Personal property inventory 1977

Box 93

X-rays

Subseries 8.3. Family

Box 76, folder 4

"Family Stuff" 1962-1977

Box 76, folder 5

"Allen-Brady-Walsh family history, 1707-1989" circa 1993

Box 76, folder 6

family papers

Box 86, volume 8

Embudo: A Pilot Planning Project for the Embudo Watershed of New Mexico, from Albert Solnit

RESTRICTED

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 78, folder 8

Albert Solnit - Books 1987-1988

Box 78, folder 9

Albert Solnit - Estate [1 of 2] 1987

Box 79, folder 1

Albert Solnit - Estate [2 of 2] 1987

Box 79, folder 2

Albert Solnit - Personal

Scope and Contents

Also includes correspondence between RS and her father.

Subseries 8.4. Photos

Box 75, folder 6

Photos, etc. circa 2010s

Box 75, folder 7

Photos 2012

Box 75, folder 8

photos, negatives

Box 76, folder 1

personal photos

Box 76, folder 2

photography

Box 76, folder 3

id cards, address book, etc.

Subseries 8.5. Other personal papers

Box 40, folder 8-10

"Silliness"

Box 60, Box 9

Rebecca Solnit and David Schafer art books 1987, 1989

RESTRICTED

Conditions Governing Access

Closed for ten years following Solnit's death.

Box 83, folder 6

Computer

Box 83, folder 7-8

Addresses

Series 9. Awards

Box 67, folder 1

Awards

Box 86, folder 6

Awards

Box 86, folder 7

RISD honorary degree 2012

Box 92

Award plaques and certificates

Series 10. Media

Audio

Box 94, Item 1

Messages - Thanksgiving to Palm Sunday or Sa

Physical Location: 1 audiocassette

Box 94, Item 2

Voices for Peace - BAPT