Collection consists of volumes of individually catalogued, tape recorded, and transcribed reminiscences of persons living in California. Interviewees include Peter J. Shields, Francis Peloubet Farquhar, Horace Marden Albright, Ida Sproul, Oscar Lewis, Joseph Russell Knowland, Ira Brown Cross, James D. Hart, Louis M. Martini, Walter A. Haas, Earl Warren, Wallace Stegner, the Ghirardelli family, Peter Mondavi, Kurt Herbert Adler, David Pierpont Gardner, Joseph Phelps, Kenneth M. Stampp, and Agustin Huneeus. UCLA Library Special Collections owns 1264 of the volumes (as of 2012), and there continue to be regular additions.

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