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Muir family collection on play-by-mail games
MS 414  
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Table of contents What's This?
  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Processing History
  • Collection Scope and Contents
  • Collection Arrangement
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Muir family collection on play-by-mail games
    Date (inclusive): circa 1991-2007
    Collection Number: MS 414
    Creator: Broden, Shannon Elise-Muir
    Creator: Muir, John C.
    Extent: 2.08 linear feet (5 boxes)
    Repository: Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
    Riverside, CA 92517-5900
    Abstract: The collection consists of materials related to various play-by-mail games collected and developed by John C. Muir and his daughter Shannon Elise-Muir Broden, including rulebooks, specification sheets, forms, newsletters, team rosters, turn results, reference manuals and play-by-mail publications.
    Languages: The collection is in English.

    Access

    The collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.

    Preferred Citation

    [identification of item], [date if possible]. Muir family collection on play-by-mail games (MS 414). Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.

    Acquisition Information

    Gifts of John C. Muir and Shannon Elise-Muir Broden, 2016.

    Processing History

    Processed by Serena Rodholm, Student Processing Assistant, 2018.
    Processing of the Muir family collection on play-by-mail games was completed by undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside as part of the Special Collections & University Archives Backlog Processing Project started in 2015. This project was funded by the UCR Library and administered by Jessica Geiser, Collections Management Librarian.

    Collection Scope and Contents

    The collection consists of materials related to various play-by-mail games collected and developed by John C. Muir and his daughter Shannon Elise-Muir Broden (represented as Shannon Muir in the collection), with Broden often playing as a beta tester for the games. Items in the collection include basic and advanced rulebooks, specification sheets of Gunfighter technology, blank forms to add to player's characters and locations, newsletters about game progress and player interaction, team rosters, turn results for specific characters played by Broden, reference manuals, and play-by-mail publications of game reviews.

    Collection Arrangement

    The collection is arranged into three series as follows:
    • Series 1. CTF2187, 1991-2007
    • Series 2. Other play-by-mail games, circa 1989-1990
    • Series 3. Periodicals, 1983-2007

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

    Subjects

    Fantasy games
    Play-by-mail games

    Genres and Forms of Materials

    Correspondence
    Notes
    Publications