Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver Knudsen Papers LSC.1153
Finding aid updated by Kelly Besser, 2021.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Finding aid last updated 2021 March 29.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Vern Oliver Knudsen papers
Creator:
Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1153
Physical Description:
28.25 Linear Feet
(57 document boxes, and 8 map folders)
Date (inclusive): circa 1922-1980
Abstract: Vern Oliver Knudsen (1893-1974) was a professor in the Department of Physics at UCLA before serving as the first dean of the
Graduate Division (1934-58), Vice Chancellor (1956), Chancellor (1959). He also researched architectural acoustics and hearing
impairments, developed the audiometer with Isaac H. Jones, founded the Acoustical Society of America (1928), organized and
served as the first director of what is now the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center in San Diego, and worked as
a acoustical consultant for various projects including the Hollywood Bowl, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Schoenberg Hall,
the United Nations General Assembly building, and a variety of radio and motion picture studios. The collection consists of
manuscripts, correspondence, galley proofs, and other material related to Knudsen's professional activities. The collection
also includes the papers of Leo Peter Delsasso, John Mead Adams, and Edgar Lee Kinsey.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language of Material:
English
.
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the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vern Oliver Knudsen papers (Collection 1153). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Morris Knudsen, 1975 and 1979.
Gift of James Knudsen, 2004 and 2005.
Processing Note
Processed by Frank Glover, 1979. Additions to collection (boxes 45-65) made by Julia Morton, with assistance from Kelley Wolfe
Bachli, in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), 2010.
The processing of this collection was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Vern Oliver Knudsen was born in Provo, Utah, on December 27, 1893; BA, Physics, Brigham Young University, 1915; worked at
Western Electric, later known as the Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1918; PhD, Physics, University of Chicago, 1922; professor,
Department of Physics, UCLA; served as first dean of the Graduate Division, UCLA, 1934-58; became Vice Chancellor at UCLA,
1956; Chancellor, UCLA, 1959; researched architectural acoustics and hearing impairments; developed audiometer with Isaac
H. Jones; founded Acoustical Society of America, 1928, and served as president, 1933-35; organized and served as first director
of what is now the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center in San Diego, California; acoustical consultant for various
projects, including the Hollywood Bowl, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Schoenberg Hall, the United Nations General Assembly
building, and a variety of radio and motion picture studios; published two books,
Architectural acoustics and
Acoustical design in architecture; died, May 13, 1974.
Biographical Narrative
Vern Oliver Knudsen was born December 27, 1893 at Provo, Utah, the youngest child of Scandinavian immigrant parents.
At Brigham Young University (1911-1915), he was influenced by Professor Harvey Fletcher to study physics. After graduating
with a B.A. in physics, he fulfilled a missionary obligation for the Mormon Church. During World War I, he studied parasitic
earth currents in relation to transatlantic telegraph communications and in 1918, he joined Harvey Fletcher at Western Electric,
which later became known as the Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he worked on the development of amplifiers and oscillators,
increasing his knowledge of the emerging technology of vacuum tubes which Fletcher and his colleagues were using in studies
in hearing.
Knudsen began graduate studies at the University of Chicago as a student of A.A. Michelson in 1915. Knudsen's doctoral research
applied the vacuum tube techniques to a study of the sensibility of the ear to small differences of intensity and frequency.
Robert A. Millikan, Chairman of the Physics Department at Chicago, introduced him to Dr. George E. Schambaugh, a foremost
otologist. Knudsen and Schambaugh together investigated the sensitivity of pathological ears to small differences in loudness
and pitch, and ten cases of diplacusis, the condition in which the same tone is heard at a different pitch in each ear. This
led to later investigations of normal and impaired hearing with Drs. Isaac H. Jones and Norman A. Watson.
Receiving the Ph.D. in Physics magna cum laude in 1922, Knudsen turned down offers from the University of Chicago and the
Bell Telephone Laboratories, to accept the position of Instructor at UCLA, or rather the University of California Southern
Branch, as the campus near central Los Angeles was then known. Here began Knudsen's close professional and personal lifelong
relationship with Leo P. Delsasso, at that time a sophomore student who served as assistant to the department chairman. Knudsen
confronted the lack of research space and equipment, and conducted studies of architectural acoustics and of hearing impairments.
He and Dr. Jones developed the audiometer to assist in their research. Acoustics became a major emphasis of the UCLA Physics
Department, and a reverberation chamber was to be one of the department's major facilities when the university moved to the
Westwood campus in 1929. The work done here resulted in major experimental and theoretical research programs throughout the
world.
Knudsen was consulted on the acoustics of hundreds of structures, eventually to include major radio and motion picture studios,
the Hollywood Bowl, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and Schoenberg Hall, as an indication of his local contribution, but also
on a wider scope, to include the United Nations General Assembly Building in New York. His two textbooks on architectural
acoustics have become standard references on the subject.
In 1928 Knudsen joined with Professor F.R. Watson (father of Norman A. Watson), Wallace W. Waterfall (a former student of
Professor Watson) and Dr. Harvey Fletcher (of the Bell Telephone Laboratories) in founding the Acoustical Society of America.
Knudsen served as president of the Society (1933-1935) and was honored by it in many ways.
When UCLA began offering advanced degrees, Knudsen was a prime mover and first Dean (1934-1958) of the Graduate Division.
The offering of graduate degrees by public universities was an innovative idea at that time. Students who did doctoral research
under Knudsen included Norman Watson, Edwin Fricke, Richard Bolt, Robert Leonard, Richard Frick, and Isadore Rudnick. Other
students who came under Knudsen's influence were W.A. Munson, Robert Watson, Cyril Harris, John Munier, Ludwig Sepmeyer, Waldo
Lyon, Walter Rosenblith, Harper North, Paul Veneklasen, and Dah You Maa.
During World War II, Knudsen, on leave of absence from academic and research duties, helped to organize and served as first
director, of what is now the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center at San Diego. With the aid of Leo Delsasso and
excellent scientists and staff recruited in a minimum of time, much early research on the propagation of sonar signals was
accomplished.
Knudsen became Vice Chancellor of UCLA in 1956 and Chancellor in 1959, a position which he held one year before reaching the
mandatory age of retirement. "Retirement" for Knudsen meant a renewal of his research and consulting activities, finally reversing
the increasing administrative demands which he had regretted since first becoming dean. Also renewed were his concerns with
many causes such as environmental quality and, above all, his campaign against noise pollution.
In addition to the Acoustical Society, Knudsen participated in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
American Physical Society, the Los Angeles Building and Safety Commission, the California Institute for Cancer Research, the
Board of Directors of the Hollywood Bowl Association, and the Hope for Hearing Foundation. He received great satisfaction
in seeing the new physics building at UCLA named in his honor. Dr. Knudsen died May 13, 1974, at the age of eighty. He was
survived by his widow, three children, and two grandchildren.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, galley proofs, and other material related to the professional activities
of Vern Oliver Knudsen, physicist, acoustical consultant, and administrator at UCLA. The collection also includes the papers
of Leo Peter Delsasso, John Mead Adams, and Edgar Lee Kinsey.
Expanded Scope and Content
This collection of Vern Knudsen papers, ca. 1922-1980, contains correspondence, manuscripts, galley proofs, and other material
relating to the activities of Dr. Knudsen during his 52 years' association with UCLA.
The arrangement is roughly chronological, but reflects the file-keeping practices of Dr. Knudsen and his staff over several
distinct periods; for example earlier material of subsequent interest had in many cases been pulled from original files, rearranged,
and interfiled with later material, whereas other earlier material was stored as originally arranged. Material from a given
time span or on a particular subject may therefore often be discovered scattered through-out the collection. Obvious instances
of this are cross-referenced in the register.
A chronological file of Dr. Knudsen's speeches, an alphabetical file of committees and organizations, and material relating
to two published books and two unpublished books by Dr. Knudsen comprise separate and distinct parts of this collection, as
do files maintained separately by Leo Delsasso and a small amount of material originally belonging to John Mead Adams and
E. Lee Kinsey. These other three men were also physics professors at UCLA. Dr. Knudsen's personal, scientific, and administrative
careers were so frequently indistinguishable from one another that it would have served no purpose to separate his papers
into those categories or to separate the material accumulated by his colleagues. In particular, the inclusion in this collection
of extensive files of Leo Delsasso reflects the close and lifelong collaboration of these two men. Approximately one box of
early Physics Department records, however, mostly deriving from the period when Dr. Knudsen was Chairman of the Department
(1932-1938), has been removed intact from this collection and transferred to the University Archives. The records relate to
budgets, equipment and students, 1925-1941 (RG 39).
This collection comprises material that was a gift of Morris Knudsen, a son of Vern Knudsen, in 1975, and material that was
a gift of James Knudsen, a grandson of Vern Knudsen, in 2004 and 2005. Additional papers relating to Dr. Knudsen's research
and acoustical consulting, especially those generated prior to or independent from his career at UCLA, have been presented
to Brigham Young University by Dr. Knudsen's family.
There is a three-volume transcript of an interview of Dr. Knudsen by Mr. James V. Mink which is also available in the Department
of Special Collections, UCLA. (Call number: 300/101). Another copy of this transcript is available in the UCLA Physics Library.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
Correspondence and papers, 1920s-1974.
Acoustical consulting correspondence and papers, 1928-1976.
British mission notes, 1942.
National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders, 1938-1942, 1956.
National Research Council: Committee on Undersea Warfare, 1944-1952.
Graduate Division, University of California, ca. 1929 - ca. 1963.
Dedication of Knudsen and Kinsey Halls, 1963-1964.
Chancellorship (Congratulatory and get-well correspondence), 1959-1960.
Architectural Acoustics (Book), ca. 1929 - ca. 1932.
Acoustical Designing in Architecture (Book), ca. 1948 - ca. 1957.
Noise (Unpublished Book), 1949-1955.
Acoustics For Better Living (Unpublished Book), ca. 1970 - ca. 1971.
Speeches, Public Letters, Lecture Notes, 1920s-1973.
Committees and associations, 1925-1980.
Leo P. Delsasso papers, 1959-1963.
John Mead Adams notebooks 1901-1926.
Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers), ca. 1922 - ca. 1973.
Biographical Materials and Awards, 1928-1974.
Related Material
Teacher, researcher, and administrator [oral history transcript] / Vern O. Knudsen, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1966-1969. Available at
Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architectural acoustics.
Physicists -- United States -- Archives.
Adams, John Mead
Delsasso, Leo Peter
Kinsey, Edgar Lee
University of California, Los Angeles -- History
Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974--Archives.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Undersea Warfare.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee.
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Physics--Faculty
Correspondence and Papers
1920s-1974
Correspondence and Papers (Alphabetical by subject or name)
1920s - ca. 1969
Scope and Contents note
Includes material regarding personal, technical, departmental, university, and professional activities. Correspondent files,
apparently created in the late 1950's but including that earlier material which had been of continuing interest.
box 1, folder 1
A - K miscellaneous
1922-1925
box 2, folder 1
Administrative Committee (Italian Professor)
1936
box 2, folder 1
Administrative Staff (Minutes)
1934
box 2, folder 1
Allison & Allison, Architects
1927-1928
Scope and Contents note
Regarding Royce Hall.
box 2, folder 2
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific Division)
1946-1956
Scope and Content
Additional material regarding the American Association for the Advancement of Science may be found in Committees and Associations,
"American Association for the Advancement of Science," Box 20 Folder 14.
box 47, folder 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1934-1954
Scope and Content
Includes material regarding American Association for the Advancement of Science award for "The Absorption of Sound in Gases"
and material on science education.
box 47, folder 2
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Scientific Monthly)
1935, 1949
box 47, folder 3
American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (Report of Round Table on Physical Problems Related to
Deafness)
1933
Scope and Contents
Round table held at the University of Chicago.
box 2, folder 3
American Institute of Architects
1949-1951
box 2, folder 4
American Society for the Hard of Hearing
1933-1936
box 2, folder 5
Aperiodic Microphone Firing Error Indicator
1944
Scope and Contents note
Research notes.
box 2, folder 1
Audiometry
1938
Scope and Contents note
Postcard.
box 46, folder 1
B (Alphabetical by name)
1927-1949
box 5, folder 13
Ballantine, Stuart
1932-1933
box 5, folder 14
Barnett, Samuel Jackson
ca. 1928 - 1934
box 2, folder 6
Bell Telephone Laboratories (Publications Department)
1926-1951
box 5, folder 16
Beranek, Leo L.
1959-1960
box 5, folder 17
Bolt, Richard Henry
1933-1956
General note
Additional material is filed under "Bolt Beranek & Newman," Box 5 Folder 16. Letter of 1947 March 24 added to this folder
2010.
box 6, folder 3
Burris-Meyer, Harold
1934-1969
box 6, folder 4
Burris-Meyer, Harold ("An Inquiry into the Educational Potential of Non-Verbal Communication." Proposal, Third and Sixth Interim
Reports)
1966, 1969
box 47, folder 4
Cannon, David H.
1956
Scope and Content
Contains one business letter.
box 46, folder 3
Chukar (Bird): memorandum for ornithologists
1970 August 10
box 6, folder 5
Cremer, Lothar
1935, 1947, 1964-1965
box 8, folder 9
Dean George Dudley, School of Architecture.
1966
box 55, folder 14
Device for detecting gaseous impurities (witnessed description)
1939 May 31, 1943 June 10
box 47, folder 5
Distinguished alumni award, University of Chicago club of Greater Los Angeles
1971
Scope and Content
Includes personal correpondence with Gustave Arlt regarding higher education.
box 47, folder 6
Elliot, Graham
1956 July 10
box 50, folder 4
Foreign Press Awards (second biennial, UCLA Department of Journalism)
1960
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 photograph, 7 photocopies of photographs available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File, a program, newspaper
clippings, and correspondence. Includes an image of Vern O. Knudsen presenting an award to the only woman to whom one was
granted.
box 6, folder 7
Free, E.E. (Columbia Broadcasting System Studios)
1935
box 2, folder 7
Golden Gate International Exposition (of 1940)
1937
box 2, folder 8
Golden Gate International Exposition (of 1940)
1938
Scope and Contents note
Includes one photograph. Additional related material in this collection will be found in Leo P. Delsasso's papers.
box 6, folder 8
Grossman, Ernst
1934-1937
General note
This material was formerly filed in the "National Noise Abatement Council" folder.
box 47, folder 7
Gruen, Victor
1961 March 15
box 6, folder 9
Harris, Cyril M.
1945-1964
box 2, folder 9
Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning (Journal)
1930-1947
box 6, folder 10
Henderson, Malcolm C.
1965
box 6, folder 10
Hewes, Henry (American National Theatre and Academy)
1955
box 6, folder 11
Hunt, Frederick V.
1933-1963
box 2, folder 10
I miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 47, folder 8
International Congress of Architects (Budapest)
1930
Scope and Contents
Regarding Knudsen's paper on Architectural Acoustics, presented to the XII International Congress of Architects in Budapest,
Hungary, September 7-14, 1930.
Includes letters of introduction. Includes photocopies of 2 photographs (originals can be found in the University Archives
Knudsen Vertical File).
box 2, folder 11
International Language League
1946
box 2, folder 11
Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale (Turin, Italy)
1936
box 47, folder 9
Johns-Manville Research Center
1929-1950
Scope and Contents
Regarding acoustical materials and tests.
box 2, folder 12
Journalism, UCLA Graduate Department
1949-1950
box 2, folder 13
Ka - Kj miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 47, folder 10
Kerr, Clark
1956, 1960
Scope and Content
Contains 3 letters, one of which is undated.
box 47, folder 11
Kerr, Clark, Charles Hitch, and Robert Sproul
1947-1974
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence regarding Vern O. Knudsen's salary.
box 2, folder 14
Kl - Kz miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
Scope and Contents note
Includes Alfred A. Knopf letters (2).
box 47, folder 12
Knudsen children Robert and Morris
1966-1971
box 1, folder 2
L - P miscellaneous
1922-1925
Scope and Contents note
Includes Harvey B. Lemon letters (3) and Dayton C. Miller letter (1).
box 3, folder 1
Lab - Lau miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 3, folder 2
Law - Laz miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 3, folder 3
Lea - Lew miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 6, folder 13
Lefler, Anna B.
1964
Scope and Contents note
Concerns an historic audiometer.
box 3, folder 4
Library (University of California)
1926-1945
box 3, folder 5
Library (University of California)
1946-1947
box 3, folder 6
Library (University of California)
1948-1950
box 3, folder 7
Lic - Lit miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 6, folder 14
Lindsay, R. Bruce
1968
Scope and Contents note
Regarding Max Mason, pioneer in underwater acoustics.
box 3, folder 8
Llo - Lor miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 3, folder 9
Los - Loy miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 3, folder 10
Luc - Mac miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 6, folder 15
McAllister, James A.
1964
box 3, folder 11
Medical School, UCLA
1946-1948
General note
Related material in this collection may be found in Box 17 Folder 8.
box 3, folder 11
Moray Radient Energy Device
1932
box 6, folder 16
Munson, Wilbur A.
1927-1964
box 6, folder 17
North, Arthur T. (Reprint, "The Orchestra Shell of the Hollywood Bowl")
1929
box 3, folder 11
Oceanography (Scripps Institute of)
1949
Scope and Content
Related material may be found in Correspondence, "Sverdrup et al. (Scripps Institute for Oceanography)," 46 Folder 9.
box 6, folder 18
Pegram, George B. (Department of Physics, Colorado University)
1933
box 3, folder 12
Pet - Poi miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 6, folder 19
Pinkler, Andrew G.
1954-1955
box 3, folder 13
Pol - Rhi miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 50, folder 5
Portrait appraisal (stolen from Knudsen Hall)
1964 December 11
box 6, folder 20
Powell, Alan (Reprints
re Aerodynamic Sound)
1958, 1963
box 46, folder 7
R and S (Includes Schoenberg, Schreimer, Seashore, Shanbaugh)
1932-1953
box 46, folder 8
R, S, and mixed (Includes Anne Rowe regarding American Physicists)
1926-1950
box 1, folder 3
R - Z miscellaneous
1922-1925
box 6, folder 23
Roberts, William H.
1930-1935
box 3, folder 14
Rosamond Dry Lake Absorption Tests
1940
Scope and Content
For related photographs, see Photographs: Propagation of sound in air, Rosamond Dry Lake, Box 47 Folder 28.
box 7, folder 1
Rosenblith, Walter A.
1942-1965
box 7, folder 2
Rudnick, Isadore
1939-1956
box 47, folder 13
Sabine, Paul E.
1927-1942
box 7, folder 4
Saunders, Frederick A.
1932-1940
box 7, folder 5
Sepmeyer, Ludwig W.
1933-1965
box 3, folder 14
Sibley, Catherine
1940
Scope and Contents note
Script for TV program.
box 3, folder 16
Son - Sou miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 3, folder 17
Sound Muffler and Automobile Air Conditioner
1936
box 4, folder 1
Spa - Spr miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 47, folder 14
Sproul, Robert (Sabbatical 1948)
1948
box 4, folder 3
Sta - Ste miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 4, folder 2
Standardization Committees
1931
Scope and Contents note
Reports.
box 7, folder 7
Statham Instruments, Incorporated
1964-1968
box 55, folder 13
Statham Instruments (business correspondence)
1963-1971
Scope and Contents
Includes material regarding the search for a Statham Instrument Planning Director. Includes material regarding a Nevada gaming
license. Includes photographs of Louis D. Statham holding a DeBakey artificial heart.
box 7, folder 8
Steinberg, John C.
1935-1939
box 7, folder 9
Stern, Isaac
1964
Scope and Contents note
One letter.
box 4, folder 4
Sut - Tak miscellaneous
1920s - ca. 1956
box 46, folder 9
Sverdrup et al. (Scripps Institute for Oceanography)
1940-1948
Scope and Content
Includes material regarding the academic status of Robert Siple Arthur. Additional material relating to the Scripps Institute
for Oceanography may be found in Correspondence, "Oceanography (Scripps Institute of)," Box 3 Folder 11.
box 4, folder 5
Teachers Insurance
1928-1945
box 4, folder 5
Telephone Company (Southern California)
1928-1939
box 4, folder 5
Twenty-Nine Palms Earth Current Measurement Tests
1926
box 4, folder 5
United Research Corporation
1930
box 4, folder 6
United States Naval Training Station, San Diego
1940
box 4, folder 7
United States Navy Electronics Laboratory
1946-1948
box 4, folder 8
University Buildings
1945-1947
box 4, folder 9
Veneklasen, Paul S.
1938-1945, 1954
box 4, folder 10
Warner, Arthur Howard
1933-1955
box 4, folder 11
Watson, Floyd Rowe
1925-1946
box 4, folder 12
Watson, Norman Allen
1932-1935.
box 4, folder 13
Watson, Norman Allen
1936-1950, 1956.
General note
Related material in this collection will be found in Box 5, Folders 6 and 9.
box 55, folder 15
Westwood Savings and Loan Association (business meeting minutes)
1964
box 2, folder 11
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1936-1953
box 45, folder 11, box 45, folder 10
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1930-1971
box 55, folder 16
Last will and testament, personal and financial papers and correspondence
1956-1969
Scope and Content
Includes 1957 will. Includes partial obituary for Vern O. Knudsen's mother with photograph. Includes correspondence relating
to a car. Includes correspondence relating to health insurance. Includes gastronomical article about Vern O. Knudsen's son,
Robert.
box 7, folder 11
Wilson, J. Gordon
1935-1938
box 4, folder 14
Withdrawals (for military reasons)
1941-1942
box 7, folder 12
Woodbury, F.R.
1934, 1940
General note
Additional material in this collection will be found in "F.R. Woodbury, Acoustical Engineer, Portland, Oregon," Box 1 Folder
12.
box 7, folder 13
Young, Robert W. (and reprints)
1941-1946 1964, 1965
box 46, folder 11, box 46, folder 10
Miscellaneous correspondence
1928-1949
Scope and Content
Folder 10 includes a letter to Vannevar Bush and correspondence with Hans Reichenbach regarding Philosophy of Science. Folder
11 includes correspondence in German with Ferdinand Trendelenburg from 1939, 1941, and 1949; correspondence with the University
of Utah President regarding an offer that Vern O. Knudsen succeed him; and a letter from Rogers H. Galt of Bell Telephone
Laboratories. Also included is a 1940 letter regarding the University of California, Davis Chemistry Building: the accompanying
oversized architectural drawing may be found in Box 65.
box 46, folder 12
Miscellaneous correspondence
1949-1960
Scope and Content
Includes a personal letter from John M. Abrams, a letter from Harry James Orchestra praising the Flamingo Loung and Knudsen's
report on Flamingo Lounge acoustics, personal letters, material regarding the Utah Conference on Higher Education, and a letter
of congratulation regarding Vern O. Knudsen's Vice-Chancellorship from University of Utah Vice President G. Homer Durham.
box 65
Oversize architectural drawing: University of California, Davis Chemistry Building (for "Miscellanious correspondence," Box
46 Folder 11)
1940
Correspondence and Papers (Academic Duties and Committees)
1932-1961
Scope and Contents note
Regarding specific University of California Activities. Related material can be found under "Correspondence and Papers (Alphabetical
by subject or name) 1920s-1969: Academic Senate," Box 2 Folder 1.
box 7, folder 14
Academic Employees (Departmental List) ca.1956
ca. 1956
Scope and Contents note
Roster.
box 7, folder 15
Architects and Engineers (Acoustical consulting for UC Berkeley buildings) 1956-1961
1956-1961
box 7, folder 16
Editorial Board 1932-1961
1932-1961
box 7, folder 17
University Extension (Selection of Vice President and/or Director) 1956
1956
Correspondence and Papers (Chronological)
1961-1974
Scope and Contents note
After Dr. Knudsen's retirement, correspondence and papers were accumulated chronologically. The greater part still concerned
university matters, especially of an honorary nature. There was a greater diversity, however, and much of the material indicated
a renewed concern with technical research and with a variety of other causes and personal interest. Note that post-1961
correspondence with individuals, including Isaac Stern, can be found in "Correspondence and Papers (Alphabetical by subject
or name) 1920s-1969.
University of California,
v.d.
box 50, folder 1
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, including family, acoustical consulting, and personal
1960-1964
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous, including family correspondence, acoustical consulting correspondence, and personal correspondence.
box 50, folder 6
Personal correspondence and papers (Includes letter from Vannevar Bush)
1922-1959
Scope and Contents
Includes V.O. Knudsen's own list of historically interesting contents for Box 50, Folders 6-9. Includes passport photographs.
For a similar photograph, see "Photographs: Portraits of Vern O. Knudsen," Box 47 Folder 27. Includes an award of honorary
membership in the Audio Engineering Society from 1949 October 28. For additional awards material, see "Awards," Box 55 Folder
1.
box 50, folder 7
Confidential correspondence regarding academic appointments
1961-1963
box 50, folder 8
Newspaper clippings
1922-1949
Scope and Content
For additional clippings, see also the series Clippings.
box 50, folder 9
Miscellaneous personal correspondence, including Nitze, Hammond, and Shafor
1940-1972
Scope and Contents
Inlcudes several 1959 get-well notes.
box 49, folder 1
Letters of recommendation
1963-1965
box 8, folder 2
1964 (January-June)
Scope and Contents note
Includes Lewis Mumford holographic note dated 1964 February 2.
box 49, folder 4
1968
Scope and Content
Includes letter from architect Charles Lawrence, 1968 April 12, regarding a model for Vern O. Knudsen's house in Palisades.
box 8, folder 12
1971
Scope and Contents note
Includes Ralph J. Bunche letters (2).
box 50, folder 3
Bills, receipts, financial correspondence
1972-1974
box 49, folder 9
1973-1974
Scope and Content
Includes some letters of condolence to the family of Vern O. Knudsen.
Research Material (Annotated)
ca. 1929-1961
box 47, folder 18
"Acoustical problem of the Great Hall of the People"
ca. 1960
Scope and Contents
Material regarding Peking, China (also known as Beijing). From the Abstract. Zhur. Fizika, p. 36, No. 10 [1960]. By Ma Da-you.
box 47, folder 19
"Architectural Acoustics in the USSR" and newspaper clipping
1949, 1961
Scope and Contents
Clipping is entitled "Modernistic theatre built in Kremlin for Party and Parliament meetings."
box 47, folder 20
"Modern theory and practice in building acoustics"
1946
Scope and Contents
By Norman Fleming and William Alexander Allen. Vern O. Knudsen's annotations on pages 17, 20, and 34.
box 47, folder 21
"Noise and motor driving"
1939
Scope and Contents
Excerpt from the article by Arthur Hedley.
box 47, folder 22
"On the reverberation in closed rooms"
ca. 1929
Scope and Contents
English translation of "Uber den Nachhall in geschlossenen Raumen" by K. Schuster and E. Waetzmann. From Ann. d. Physik,
1 671(1929)
box 50, folder 2
Architectural acoustics (articles not written by V.O. Knudsen)
1956-1959
Acoustical Consulting Correspondence and Papers
1928-1976
Scope and Content
Additional materials relating to Vern O. Knudsen's acoustical consulting may also be found in "Committees and Associations"
and "Correspondence and Papers."
box 51, folder 1
List of major acoustical consulting projects
1928-1973
box 51, folder 2
List of acoustical consulting files given to Edward Dennis Rowley
1976 November 19
Scope and Contents
Includes a list of 152 project folders, 70 project drawing envelopes, and 39 individual rolled drawing sets. List includes
acoustical consulting projects not found in this collection.
box 1, folder 4
1929 May 28 - 1930 March 10
box 1, folder 5
1930 March 12 - 1931 June 4
box 1, folder 6
1931 June 24 - 1933 July 25
box 51, folder 3
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1929-1941
Scope and Contents
Includes a November 26, 1929 letter to Vern O. Knudsen that has been scanned.
box 54, folder 2
Arizona State Fair Coliseum : Contracts paid in full
1964
box 51, folder 4
Associated State Capitol Architects (Arizona State House and Senate Buildings)
1957-1959
Scope and Contents
The architects forming this partnership are Place & Place and Lesher & Mahoney.
box 54, folder 1
Barrienbrock and Murray, Kleigman and Leizer (Santa Monica Municipal Auditorium)
1955
Scope and Content
Santa Monica Municipal Auditorium is also known as Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Barrienbrock et al.'s estimate exceeded
available funding for the project. Welton Becket later designed the auditorium. Includes report and data. Includes issue
of Progressive Architecture, May 1969. Vern O. Knudsen is quoted regarding acoustics of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium,
page 151. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 64.
box 51, folder 5
Becket, Welton (Hawaiian Village Dome Convention Hall)
1956, 1965
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 58.
box 54, folder 2
Becket, Welton (Los Angeles Music Center) : Contracts paid in full
1964-1965
Scope and Content
Correspondence regarding a disagreement about Vern O. Knudsen's fee.
box 51, folder 6
Berkeley Public Schools (Gutterson and Corlett)
1940-1953
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 58.
box 51, folder 7
Bodmer, Louis (San Diego Municipal Auditorium and Mission Beach Bath House)
1947-1948
Scope and Contents
The Municipal Auditorium is located in the Federal Building, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. Oversize architectural drawing is
in Box 59.
box 51, folder 8
Burran, James A. Jr. (Clovis High School Music Building)
1957-1958
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawinga are in Box 59.
box 51, folder 9
Burton, Harold W. (General Service Studios Sound Stage)
1947
box 51, folder 10
Cain, Nelson and Wares
1961
Scope and Contents
A preliminary inquiry. Vern O. Knudsen wrote "Closed?" upon this file.
box 51, folder 11
California Commission (Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island)
1938
box 51, folder 12
California State Office Building No. 2, auditorium. J.E. Standton and William F. Stockwell, Architects.
1956-1958
box 54, folder 2
Cow Palace (State of California) : Contracts paid in full
1964
box 51, folder 13
Disney Productions
1947
Scope and Contents
Tests done with Leo Delsasso of the noise and vibration of IBM computer machines near workrooms. Includes correspondence,
data, and notes.
box 51, folder 14
Eddy and Deasy (Porterville Memorial Auditorium)
1954-1955
box 51, folder 15
Elks (Benevolent and Protective Order, Visalia Lodge No. 1298)
1963
box 51, folder 16
Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI (Bodman, Longley, Bogle, Armstrong and Dahl)
1974 April 16
Scope and Contents
Letter written on Vern O. Knudsen's behalf by his assistant, Vern C. Plane.
box 51, folder 17
Fox and Ballas (Montana State University Music Building)
1951-1954
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 59.
box 54, folder 2
Grace Cathedral (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) :
Contracts paid in full
1961 November 7
box 54, folder 3, box 54, folder 4
Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium (Frank Lloyd Wright)
1962,1964
Related Material
A memorial booklet about the Grady Gammage Auditorium was included in this collection. It may now be found in the UC Los
Angeles Special Collections Stacks under the title "Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium."
Scope and Content
Grady Gammage Auditorium is located at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Includes acoustical report, newspaper clippings,
memorabilia, and the working specifications book from March, 1962.
box 54, folder 2
Gruen, Victor (Fox Plaza) : Contracts paid in full
1964
box 51, folder 18
Gruen, Victor (Midtown Plaza Shopping Center, Rochester, NY)
1960-1961
box 51, folder 19
Gruen, Victor (Southdale Development Garden Court and Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN)
1954-1955
box 51, folder 20
Gruen, Victor (Tishman Wilshire Comstock Apartments)
1962
Scope and Contents
Testing a humming noise in an apartment.
box 51, folder 21
Hamill, Samuel Wood (Ford Bown Oceanside Band and Choral Shell)
1949-1950
Scope and Content
Ford Bowl, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
box 51, folder 22
Hamill, Samuel Wood (San Diego Civic Theater)
1963
box 51, folder 23
Hardison and DeMars (University of California, Berkeley Student Center)
1958-1963
Scope and Content
Material regarding the University of California, Berkeley Student Center-Auditorium can be found in "Acoustical Consulting:
Contracts paid in full," Box 54 Folder 2. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 59.
box 51, folder 24
Harrison, William H. (Fullerton Union High School Speech-Arts Music Building)
1955-1956
box 51, folder 25
Hollywood Bowl
1926-1929
Scope and Content
Related material may be found in "Loye, Donald P. (Hollywood Bowl and Pigrimage Theatre noise survey)," Box 52 Folder 5. Oversize
architectural drawing is in Box 59.
box 51, folder 26
Honolulu Memorial Auditorium (Merrill, Simms & Roehrig and Adrian Wilson & Associates)
1960
Scope and Content
Honolulu Memorial Auditorium is within the Honolulu Convention Center.
box 51, folder 27
Hope, Frank L. and Associates (San Diego Convention Building)
1962-1963
box 51, folder 28
Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver, WA
1956
box 51, folder 29
Hughes, A.L. (Washington University)
1936
box 51, folder 30
Hunt, Myron and H.C. Chambers (Wilshire Elementary School auditorium and South Los Angeles Junior High School)
1935-1936
box 51, folder 31
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC (General Services Administration)
1965-1972
box 51, folder 32
Jubilee Auditoriums, Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1958
Scope and Content
Contains a commemorative booklet including "An Appreciation" by Richard J. Neutra and "An Appreciation" by Vern O. Knudsen.
box 52, folder 1
Lemmon, Mark (First Presbyterian Church, Wichita Falls, TX)
1956-1961
Scope and Content
Another of Mark Lemmon's architectural efforts, St. Luke's Methodist Church, is referenced in Box 53 Folder 2.
box 52, folder 2
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York Philharmonic Hall (Max Abramovitz)
1963
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 60.
box 52, folder 3
Lincoln High School, San Francisco, CA (Weihe, Frick and Kruse)
1949-1953
Scope and Contents
No Subnote Content
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 60.
box 52, folder 4
Lippincott, Roy A. (Shell Development Lecture Hall, Emeryville, CA)
1958
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 61.
box 52, folder 5
Loye, Donald P. (Hollywood Bowl and Pilgrimage Theatre noise survey)
1958
Scope and Contents
Includes letters recieved from John Lambie.
box 54, folder 2
Manitoba Cultural Center : Contracts paid in full
1964
box 52, folder 6
McCoy, Ernest (Kern County Court House)
1956, 1959
Scope and Contents
Includes congratulatory letter regarding Vern O. Knudsen's chancellorship.
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 61.
box 1, folder 7
Medical Dental Building, Vancouver
box 52, folder 7
Mendelsohn, Eric (Park Synagogue, Cleveland, OH)
1948-1952
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 61.
box 52, folder 8
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1929-1930
box 52, folder 9
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (sound stages)
1928-1929
box 1, folder 7
Metropolitan Studios, Hollywood.
box 1, folder 7
Minwax Corporation, Los Angeles.
box 1, folder 7
Minwood Insulating Company, Kalamazoo.
box 52, folder 10
Mirsky, Sylvian (Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, CA)
1946
box 52, folder 11
Modesto Junior College Gymnasium (Kenneth R. Kaestner and Associates)
1974 April 15
Scope and Contents
Contains one letter signed by Vern O. Knudsen's assistant, Vern C. Plane.
box 52, folder 12
Morrison Auditorium, Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences (Weihe, Frick and Kruse)
1948-1950
Scope and Contents
San Francisco, CA. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 61.
box 1, folder 7
National Acoustic Plaster Company, Los Angeles.
box 1, folder 7
National Chemical and Manufacturing Company, Chicago.
box 1, folder 7
Nephi Plaster Manufacturing Company, Chicago.
box 52, folder 13
Neutra and Alexander (Los Angeles County Hall of Records Building)
1956-1957
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 61.
box 52, folder 14
Neutra and Alexander (Orange Coast College Speech Arts Building Auditorium)
1955
Scope and Content
Contains only one letter from Alfred Boeke of Hutchison, Kinsey, Boeke, congratulating Vern O. Knudsen on the acoustics of
the constructed auditorium. Architects' full names are Richard J. Neutra and Robert E. Alexander.
box 52, folder 15
Neutra and Alexander (University of Nevada, Reno Campus, Fine Arts Building)
1958, 1960
Scope and Contents
No Subnote Content
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 62.
box 52, folder 16
Neutra, Richard J. (Reno-Sparks Auditorium and Convention Hall)
1960-1961
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 photographs. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 62.
box 52, folder 17
North Seattle High School, WA (Naramore et al.)
1958
Scope and Contents
Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson, Architects
box 1, folder 7
Ojai Presbyterian Church.
box 52, folder 18
Palace of the Soviets (Amtorg Trading Corporation, New York)
1934, 1935
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 62.
box 64
Pahlavi Palace, Iran
1967 November 27-30
Scope and Content
5 architectural drawings labeled A2, A3, A4, A5, and A8 of "Palace and environs for Her Royal Highness Princess Shams Pahlavi."
box 52, folder 19
"The Papago Freeway: A Report Prepared for the Arizona Highway Department"
1968 June
box 1, folder 7
J. & D.B. Parkinson, Architects (Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles)
box 52, folder 20
Paramount Publix and Paramount Famous Lasky
1928-1930
Scope and Contents
Regarding theater and sound stage.
box 1, folder 7
Pasadena Hospital Association
box 54, folder 5
Phoenix Cultural Center Concert Hall (Charles Luckman)
1967-1968
box 52, folder 21
R.C.A. Photophone
1929-1931
box 52, folder 21
Ramona High School Auditorium, Alhambra
1929-1931
box 1, folder 7
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Hollywood
box 52, folder 22
Roosevelt High School, Fresno, CA (Lake and DiLuck)
1951-1953
Scope and Contents
No Subnote Content
box 53, folder 1
St. John's Cathedral, Spokane, WA (Whitehouse, Price and DeNeff)
1954-1961
Scope and Content
Includes reference to work done on Spokane Cathedral including the chapel and assembly hall. Oversize architectural drawings
are in Box 63.
box 1, folder 8
St. Louis Brick & Clay Company
box 53, folder 2
St. Luke's Methodist Church, Houston, TX (Mark Lemmon)
1957-1958
Scope and Contents
No Subnote Content
box 1, folder 8
St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle
box 1, folder 8
St. Monica's Catholic Church, Santa Monica
box 1, folder 8
St. Thomas' Church, Hollywood
box 1, folder 9
San Bernardino High School
box 54, folder 2
San Diego International Sports Arena : Contracts paid in full
1964
box 53, folder 3
San Diego State College Music Classroom Building (Frank L. Hope)
1966 December
box 1, folder 9
San Francisco Stock Exchange
box 1, folder 9
Santa Ana, First National Bank of
box 1, folder 9
Santa Ana, Francis Willard Junior High School Auditorium
box 1, folder 9
Santa Barbara School for Boys
box 1, folder 10
Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, Los Angeles
box 1, folder 10
Security-First National Bank, Los Angeles
box 1, folder 10
Security Trust and Savings Bank, Los Angeles
box 53, folder 4
Seidler, Harry (Sydney Opera House, Australia)
1956
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating to collaboration in an architectural competition for the Sydney Opera House.
box 1, folder 10
Simons Brick Company, Los Angeles
box 1, folder 10
Simpson Brothers Plasterer, Los Angeles
box 1, folder 10
Sixth Church of Christ Scientist, Portland
box 1, folder 10
South Pasadena High School Auditorium
box 53, folder 5
Southwest Seattle High School, WA (Naramore et al.)
1955-1957
Scope and Contents
Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson, Architects
box 1, folder 10
Southern Counties Gas Company of California
box 1, folder 10
Sterling Electric Motors Company, Los Angeles
box 1, folder 11
Third Church of Christ Scientist, Dallas
box 1, folder 11
Thirteenth Church of Church of Christ Scientist, Hollywood
box 1, folder 11
Three Forks Portland Cement Company, Hanover, Montana
box 1, folder 11
Torfoleum [insulating material]
box 1, folder 11
Union Fibre Company, Winona, Minnesota
box 1, folder 11
Union Liberal Church of Pasadena
box 53, folder 7
United Nations Building (Wallace K. Harrison)
1948-1950
Scope and Content
Includes a reference to Richard Bolt.
box 53, folder 8
University Christian Church Chapel, Seattle, WA (Naramore et al.)
1958
Scope and Contents
Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson, Architects
box 53, folder 9
University of California, Berkeley, Alumni House (Clarence W. Mayhew)
1957 May 29
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 63.
box 53, folder 10
University of California, Berkeley, Classroom Building, Office Building (Weihe, Frick and Kruse)
1949-1952
Scope and Contents
Weihe, Frick and Kruse, Architects. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 63.
box 54, folder 2
University of California, Berkeley Student Center-Auditorium (DeMars and Reay) : Contracts paid in full
1964
Scope and Content
Material regarding Hardison and DeMars and the University of California, Berkeley Student Center may be found in "Hardison
and DeMars (University of California, Berkeley Student Center)," Box 51 Folder 23.
box 53, folder 11
University of Washington Music Building (Whitehouse and Price)
1947-1950
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 63.
box 54, folder 2
Washburn University (Van Doren, Hazard, Stallings, Schnacke) : Contracts paid in full
1964
box 54, folder 2
Wahington State University Multipurpose Coliseum (John Graham) : Contracts paid in full
1964
box 1, folder 12
West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, California
box 1, folder 12
Westwood Methodist Church, Los Angeles
box 54, folder 2
Wichita Cultural Center, Wichita, KS : Contracts paid in full
1963
box 1, folder 12
Wilshire Boulevard All Souls Church, Los Angeles
box 53, folder 12
Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Clark County Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV)
1957-1963
Scope and Content
Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 63.
box 53, folder 13
Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Los Angeles County Criminal Courts Building)
1966
box 54, folder 2
Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Anaheim Convention Center and Oxnard Community Center Auditorium) : Contracts paid in full
1964, 1966
box 1, folder 12
Winnemucca Grammar School (Nevada)
box 1, folder 12
Wood Conversion Company, Cloquet, Minnesota
box 1, folder 12
F.R. Woodbury, Acoustical Engineer, Portland, Oregon
General note
Additional related material in this collection will be found in "Correspondence and Papers: Woodbury, F.R.," Box 7 Folder
12.
box 1, folder 12
Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles
box 1, folder 12
Wrigley Dance Hall, Santa Catalina Island
box 1, folder 12
Zellerbach Paper Company, Los Angeles
box 58
Oversize architectural drawings (for "Becket, Welton" and "Berkeley Public Schools," Box 51 Folders 5-6)
box 59
Oversize architectural drawings (for ""Bodmer, Louis," "Burran, James A. Jr.," "Fox and Ballas," "Hardison and DeMars," "Hollywood
Bowl," Box 51 Folders 7-25)
box 60
Oversize architectural drawings (for "Lincoln Center" and "Lincoln High School," Box 52 Folders 1-3)
box 61
Oversize architectural drawings (for "Lippincott, Roy A.," "McCoy, Ernest," "Mendelsohn, Eric," "Morrison Auditorium, and
"Neutra and Alexander," Box 52 Folders 4-13)
box 62
Oversize architectural drawings (for "Neutra and Alexander," "Neutra," and "Palace of the Soviets," Box 52 Folders 15-18)
box 63
Oversize architectural drawings (for "St. John's Cathedral," "University of California, Berkeley," "University of Washington,"
and "Wilson, Adrian," Box 53)
box 64
Oversize architectural drawings (for "Barrienbrock and Murray, Kleigman and Leizer" and Pahlavi Palace, Box 54 and Box 55)
1967 November 27-30
British Mission Notes
1942 June 2-10
Scope and Contents note
Two handwritten notebooks and supplementary material in which Dr. Knudsen kept a record of his trip to Great Britain to study
and discuss wartime research.
box 4, folder 16
Notebook
1942 June 22-July 10
box 4, folder 17
Supplementary material
v.d.
National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders
1938-1942, 1956
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and papers regarding defense research activities and ear plugs (Ear Stoppers or Ear Defenders). Additional
material about standardizing measurements of underwater sound may be found under'Committees and Associations' and 'American
Standards Association.' Additional Ear Defenders material may be found in "Manuscripts and/or Reprints: Ear Defenders," Box
35, Folders 8-10.
box 4, folder 18
University. Committee on Scientific Research of the University Defense Council
box 5, folder 1
Personnel. Records
re security clearances
General note
Restricted under the Information Practices Act (California civil Code, Chapter 709)
box 5, folder 6
Norman A. Watson, correspondence
General note
Related material in this collection may be found in Box 4, Folders 12 and 13.
box 5, folder 9
Report: "Research on Ear Defenders" [by] V.O. Knudsen [and] N.A. Watson
1942
box 55, folder 3
British Joint Services Mission report "Ear Defenders"
1954
box 55, folder 4
Ear Defenders manuscripts and notes
undated
box 55, folder 5
Ear Defenders correspondence with Charles H. Beeler of The Defender Company
1938-1939
box 55, folder 6
Defend Ears correspondence with Carey P. McCord
1938-1941
box 55, folder 7
Ear Defenders correspondence with Paul H. Cullen of Mine Safety Appliance Company
1940-1941
box 55, folder 8
Defend Ears correspondence with William P. Yant of Mine Safety Appliance Company
1939-1941
box 55, folder 9
Ear Defenders correspondence with Mine Safety Appliance Company
1938-1941
box 55, folder 10
Defend Ears patent correspondence with William H. Maxwell
1938-1941
box 55, folder 11
Ear Stoppers correspondence with David H. Cannon of Cannon and Callister Law Offices
1938-1939
box 55, folder 12
Ear Stoppers patents, agreements
ca. 1938-1940
National Research Council: Committee on Undersea Warfare
1944-1966
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and papers. Additional related material in this collection will be found in Leo P. Delsasso's papers.
box 5, folder 11
National Research Council: Undersea Warfare
Scope and Content
Includes a booklet relating to World War II undersea and submarine warfare of 1941, issued in 1951 for the Office of Scientific
Research and Development: "Subsurface Warfare: The History of Division 6 National Defense Research Committee. Prepared under
the direction of John T. Tate." Division 6 was formerly known as Division C-4.
box 26, folder 9
Undersea Warfare, Committee on. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council
1965-1966
box 26, folder 7
Oceanography Panel (Committee on Geophysical Sciences of the Joint Research and Development Board)
1947
Scope and Contents note
This material was removed from a ring binder and placed with the committee files.
box 48, folder 11, box 48, folder 10
Oceanography Panel (Committee on Geophysical Sciences of the Joint Research and Development Board, Washington, D.C.)
1944-1950
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence with Vannevar Bush.
Graduate Division, University of California
ca. 1929 - ca. 1963
Scope and Contents note
Material probably brought together in 1963 to provide background for the Graduate Division commemoration.
Copies of Early Reports,
undated
box 8, folder 14
1929-1935.
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs (2) and chart of departments (2 copies).
box 9, folder 2
Material pertaining to graduate education
1957-1962
box 9, folder 3
Reprints pertaining to graduate education
undated
box 9, folder 4
Graduate Division commemoration
1963 February 12
Scope and Contents note
Includes draft, notes, and copy of a speech: "Reminiscences of a Dean Respecting the Early History of the Graduate Division."
box 9, folder 5
Graduate Academy of the Arts and Sciences, first meeting
1963 April 7
Scope and Contents note
Includes welcoming address.
Dedication of Knudsen and Kinsey Halls
1963-1964
General note
Additional related material in this collection will be found in Leo P. Delsasso's papers.
box 9, folder 6
Arrangements and invitation lists
box 9, folder 7
Correspondence and papers pertaining to the dedication
box 9, folder 8
Speeches
1964 May 16
Scope and Contents note
Copies and related correspondence. This file was probably created for Dr. Knudsen by Dr. Delsasso's office.
box 9, folder 9
Dr. Knudsen's speech
1964 May 16
box 54, folder 9
Dedication ceremony photographs, correspondence, clippings
1963-1964
Scope and Content
Relevant material may also be found in "Correspondence and papers pertaining to the dedication," Box 9 Folder 7.
Chancellorship (Congratulatory and get-well correspondence, clippings, etc.)
1959-1960
box 54, folder 6
Letters of congratulation on being appointed Chancellor
1959 July
box 54, folder 7
Get-well and congratulatory correspondence
1960
box 54, folder 8
Newspaper clippings, articles, letters
1959-1960
Architectural Acoustics (Book)
ca. 1929 - ca. 1932
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts, galleys, proofs, etc., of a book by Dr. Knudsen, published by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 1932.
Drafts and Manuscripts of Separate Chapters:
box 9, folder 10
Preface, Contents, Equations, Legends for Figures, and Style Sheet
box 9, folder 13-15
Chapter 2. "Physical Acoustics - Nature of Sound"
box 10, folder 1
Chapter 2. draft dated
1929 July 10
box 10, folder 2
Chapter 2. (continued)
Scope and Contents note
Supplementary material labeled "Elementary Physical Acoustics."
box 10, folder 3
Chapter 3. "Nature of Hearing"
box 10, folder 4
Chapter 4. "Nature of Speech and Music"
box 10, folder 5
Chapter 5. "Reverberation of Sound in Rooms"
box 10, folder 6
Chapter 6. "Absorption of Sound - General & Theoretical Considerations"
box 10, folder 7
Chapter 7. "Absorption of Sound - Methods of Measuring Reverberation"
box 10, folder 8
Chapter 8. "Absorption of Sound - Measurements, Coefficients of Sound Absorption & Other Properties of Acoustical Materials"
box 10, folder 9
Chapter 9. "Insulation of Sound - Noise in Buildings & Out-of-Doors"
box 10, folder 10
Chapter 10. "Insulation of Sound - Fundamental Principles"
box 10, folder 11
Chapter 11. "Insulation of Sound - Methods of measurement"
box 10, folder 12-13
Chapter 12. "Insulation of Sound - Insulation Data"
box 11, folder 2
Chapter 13. "Insulation of Sound - Calculation in Buildings"
box 11, folder 3
Chapter 14. "Amplification of Sound"
box 11, folder 4
Chapter 15. "Acoustics of Auditoriums - General Considerations"
box 11, folder 5
Chapter 16. "Acoustics of Auditoriums - Shape"
box 11, folder 6
Chapter 17. "Acoustics of Speech Halls - Noise, Loudness, and Reverberation"
box 11, folder 11
Sales and Complimentary Copies
Second Drafts of Separate Chapters:
box 12, folder 3
Chapter 2. "Physical Acoustics - Nature of Sound"
box 12, folder 3
Chapter 5. "Absorption of Sound - Nature of Absorption"
box 12, folder 3
Chapter 6. "Absorption of Sound - Methods of Measurement"
box 12, folder 4
Chapter 7. "Absorption of Sound - Measurements, Coefficients of Absorption, and Other Properties of Acoustical Materials"
box 12, folder 4
Chapter 8. "Insulation of Sound - Noise in Buildings and Out-Of-Doors"
box 12, folder 5
"Insulation of Sound - Theory and Measurement"
box 12, folder 6
"Reverberation of Sound in Rooms"
box 12, folder 6
"Acoustics of Speech Halls - General Considerations"
box 12, folder 7
"Acoustics of Music Rooms - Fundamental Principles and Considerations"
box 12, folder 7
"Acoustics of Architectural Interiors - Theory and Fundamental Principles of Design"
box 12, folder 7
Articulation Test Recording Sheet
General Physical Description note: (2 copies)
box 12, folder 8
Cut dummy for Architectural Acoustics
box 12, folder 9-10
Chapters 5-6. "The Absorption of Sound"
Scope and Contents note
Source material and correspondence.
box 12, folder 11
Chapters 9-11. "The Insulation of Sound"
box 13, folder 2
Page proofs, pp.305-617, and incomplete set of duplicate pages.
box 13, folder 3
Copy used for inserting changes for the fourth printing.
Acoustical Designing in Architecture (Book)
ca. 1948 - ca. 1957
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts, galleys, proofs, etc., of a book by Dr. Knudsen and Cyril M. Harris, published by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
in 1950. The book has also been refered to as Acoustical Design in Architecture. See "Publication rights for Acoustical
Designing in Architecture," Box 48 Folder 4, for material regarding the transferral of publication rights to the Acoustical
Society of America.
Material and correspondence for proposed 1957 revision
1957
box 43, folder 11
1957
Scope and Contents note
Revisions (Articles, reviews, correspondence).
box 14, folder 2
Dr. Knudsen's file copy with his corrections
box 44, folder 3-6
Galleys
1950
General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
box 43, folder 12-13
Typescript draft
1948
Scope and Contents note
Typescripts with holograph notations.
box 15, folder 5
Chapters 8 (continued)-13 (in part)
box 15, folder 6
Chapters 13 (continued)-20
box 43, folder 1-6
Chapters 14-20
Scope and Contents note
Drafts. Typescript with holograph notations. Correspondence.
Noise (Unpublished Book)
1949-1955
box 45, folder 1
Research and correspondence for Noise (Book for John Wiley and Sons)
1950
Scope and Content
Knudsen's own folder also contained Das akustische Trauma, by L. Rudei and W. Furrer.
box 45, folder 2
Chapter 1: How Noise is Measured
1950
Scope and Content
Draft, manuscript, and research material.
box 45, folder 3
Chapter 2: Some Common and Uncommon Noises
1949
Scope and Content
Draft, manuscript, and research material. Includes correspondence with astronomer J. Hugh Pruett regarding meteorite noise.
box 45, folder 4
Chapter 3: Traffic Noise
1955
Scope and Content
Draft, manuscript, and research material: aircraft, industrial, and traffic noise.
box 45, folder 5
Chapter 4: Industrial Noise
1954
Scope and Content
Draft, manuscript, and research material on industrial and vehicle noise.
box 45, folder 6
Chapter 5: Noise in Buildings
ca.1950
Scope and Content
Draft, manuscript, and research notes (includes notes for Chapter 6).
box 45, folder 7
Chapter 6: What Noise Does to Man
1950
Scope and Content
Manuscript and correspondence about further planned chapters and publication timing.
Acoustics For Better Living (Unpublished Book)
ca. 1970 - ca. 1971
box 45, folder 8
Notes, research material, and correspondence for book draft
1970-1971
Speeches, Public Letters, Lecture Notes
1920s-1973
Scope and Contents note
Numbered in chronological order. Some are technical lectures. The majority relate to administrative and ceremonial functions.
Manuscript and note card formats.
box 16, folder 1
"Researches concerning quantum theory"
ca. 1920s
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #1 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 1
Lecture Notes for Physics 1B
1926
box 56, folder 2
Lecture Notes for Physics 114B: Theory of Sound and its Applications
1940, 1961
Scope and Content
Includes material on electronic musical instruments.
box 56, folder 3
Lecture Notes for Physics 260: Military Acoustics
ca. 1940
box 56, folder 4
Notes on Mechanics of Wave Motion (from Michelson)
1922
box 56, folder 5
"Recent Developments in Nuclear Physics" (Physics Seminar)
1933 November 6
box 16, folder 1
Relativity
ca. 1920s
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #2 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 1
"Wave Mechanisms -- a Review of Four Lectures by E. Schrödinger"
ca. 1925
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #3 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 1
"Artificial Aids to Hearing"
1934
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #4 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 6
Incomplete speech drafts "Recent Trends in Physics" and "Indeterminacy and Free Will"
ca. 1934
box 56, folder 7
"The Quest of God Through [...]"
undated
Scope and Content
Damaged speech draft. Presented at the UCLA Roger Williams Club in November.
box 16, folder 1
"Certain Scientific and Engineering aspects of a Social Science Research Foundation"
1935 March
box 16, folder 2
"Recent Developments in Artificial Aids to Hearing"
1935 April 17
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #5 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 2
"Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics"
1935 May 24
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #6 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 2
"Recent Developments in Acoustics"
1935 June 25
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #7 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 2
"Making good with a graduate degree"
1936 March 31
box 16, folder 2
"Recent Progress in Acoustics" (presented to S.M.P.E.)
1937 May
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #8 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 3
"Audiometry in Routine Otological Practice"
1938 January 24
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #9 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 3
"New Advances in the Design of Hearing Aids"
1938 January 25
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #10 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 3
"Scientific Research Under New Regimes in Europe"
1939 January 23
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #11 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 3
"Scientific Research Under New Regimes in Europe"
Scope and Contents note
Draft. This speech is labeled #12 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 4
"Scientific Research in Germany"
1939 Spring
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #13 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 4
"The American Scholar Today and Tomorrow"
1939 April 5
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #14 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 4
"Cooperation in Research" (Among Colleges and Universities of the Pacific Southwest)
1940 November 9
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #15 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 5
"American Science in National Defense" (Address before University Associates)
1941 February 20
Scope and Contents note
Includes background notes, clippings, and letters. This speech is labeled #16 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6
"Pre-War Observations and Post-War Possibilities"
1944 June 22
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #17 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6
Commencement Address
1944 August 12
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #18 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6
"Some Technological Aspects of Music"
1944 September
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #19 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6
"Industrial and Population Trends in the West" (Western College Association)
1945 March 31
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #20 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6
"Science in War and Peace"
1945 June 17
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #21 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6
"Now it Can Be Told" (Scripp's College ; Y.M.C.A.)
1945 November 19, 1946 February 5
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #22 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 7
Mid-Winter Clinical Lecture
1946 January 28
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #23 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 7
"Keeping the talkies silent" (Letter)
1929 January 28
box 16, folder 7
Remarks to Graduate Students, Graduate Club
1935 March 29
box 42, folder 6
"The Influence of Professional Groups on College Curricula." Proceedings of the Western College Association Meeting at Mount
St. Mary's College. Los Angeles
1946 March 30
Scope and Contents note
1 manuscript. 4 copies of Proceedings. About graduate education.
box 16, folder 7
"Truth for Humanity's Sake" (University Religious Council)
1946 April 2
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #24 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 7
"Sequelae of Wartime Research" (Southern California Science Teachers Association)
1946 December 7
Scope and Contents note
Note cards and manuscript copies. This speech is labeled #25 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 7
"Professional Training" (State Ways and Means Legislative Committee)
1947 February 14
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #26 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 8
"Recent Developments in the Field of Sound" (Engineering Department)
1948 February 2
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #27 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 8
Association of Graduate Students
1948 March 5
box 16, folder 9
"Welcome to Cyclotron Physicists"
ca. 1950
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #28 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 8
"The Acoustical Spectrum: Sound -- Wanted and Unwanted" (Correspondence and reprint regarding keynote address February 5-8,
1952)
1951-1952
Scope and Content
Speeches given for the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the Institute of Industrial Health: Inservice Training
Course in Ann Arbor,MI.
Lectures presented include "The Acoustical Spectrum," "The Acoustical Spectrum After Dinner," "Sounds in the Ocean," and "Summary."
box 16, folder 9
"This I Believe" (WCBS Radio Broadcast)
1953 March 30
Scope and Contents note
Includes related correspondence. This speech is labeled #29 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 9
"Democratic Processes in Higher Education" (Utah Conference on Higher Education)
1953 September 13-15
Scope and Content
Also see "Democratic Processes in Higher Education," Box 42 Folder 5. This speech is labeled #30 within its containing folder.
box 42, folder 5
"Democratic Processes in Higher Education"
1953 August - September
Scope and Contents note
Draft. Correspondence. Handwritten Manuscript. Copy of
Proceedings of the Utah Conference on Higher Education, Utah State Agricultural College (September 1953). Also see "Democratic Processes in Higher Education," Box 16 Folder 9.
Relates to graduate education.
box 16, folder 10
"Man's Right to Knowledge in the Atomic Age"
1953 December 11
Scope and Contents note
Includes two copies and related correspondence. This speech is labeled #31 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11
"Getting Qualified Science Teachers in the High Schools, From the Point of View of the Graduate School" (A.A.A.S.)
1954 December 30
Scope and Contents note
Includes related correspondence. This speech is labeled #32 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11
Arnold Schoenberg
ca. 1955
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #33 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 9
"Higher Education in Our Democracy" Commencement address
1955
Scope and Content
At Scripps College 1955 June 10.
Includes correspondence and research material.
box 16, folder 11
The California Institute for Cancer Research (Los Angeles Women's Guild)
ca. 1956
General note
Correspondence in this collection
re this speech will be found in box 22, folder 11. This speech is labeled #34 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11
"The Importance of Science and Mathematics in Our Culture" (Orange Coast College)
1956 March 15
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #35 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11
Honors at Entrance Reception (Kerckhoff Hall)
1957 October 1
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #36 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11
Comments on Time and Eternity (Moody B.I. Film) (University Affiliates)
1957 November 11
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #37 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 12
Material and correspondence
ca. 1957
Scope and Contents note
re a speech about the need for increased emphasis on scientific research and education.
box 16, folder 13
The Fourth Annual Samuel Goldwyn Awards for Creative Writing
1958 May 15
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #38 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13
"Academic Distinction of UCLA" (UCLA Alumni Officers)
1958 September 20
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #39 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13
Midwinter Exercises
1959 January 28
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #40 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13
Western Data Processing Center Dedication
1959 January 29
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #41 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 10
"Designing the Indoor Acoustical Environment"
1959 February 2-3
Scope and Content
Proceedings of Conference on Designing the Indoor Environment, page 37.
box 56, folder 10
"Acoustical and Structural Environment"
1959 February 2-3
Scope and Content
Proceedings of Conference on Designing the Indoor Environment, Workshop Summary, page 85.
box 16, folder 13
Eleventh Annual Industrial Engineering Institute
1959 February 6
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #42 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13
Foreign Student Conference Luncheon
1959 February 18
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #43 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13
Introduction of Dr. James A. Pike (Convocation)
1959 March 4
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #44 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1
Charter Day Luncheon Report (Beverly Hilton Hotel)
1959 March 23
Scope and Contents note
Note cards and manuscript. This speech is labeled #45 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1
Charter Day Report on UCLA
1959 March 23
Scope and Contents note
Note cards, manuscript, and carbon copy. This speech is labeled #46 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1
Welcome to California Club Conference
1959 March 30
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #47 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1
Message for Brochure, Thirteenth International Spring Festival
1959 May 3
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #48 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1
Graduate School of Business, Seminar on Profit Renegotiation
1959 May 18
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #49 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1
Orientation Hello
1959 September 21
Scope and Contents note
Note cards and manuscript. This speech is labeled #50 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 2
"Dynamic UCLA" (Kiwanis Club, Westwood Village)
1959 October 9
Scope and Contents note
Includes "Certificate of Appreciation" presented to Dr. Knudsen. This speech is labeled #51 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 2
Twelfth Annual Technical Conference of the Institute of Geophysics, "Message for the Opening Session" (delivered by Acting
Vice Chancellor Dodd)
1959 November 5
Scope and Contents note
Note cards, manuscript, and note card excerpts for Dr. Dodd's Official Welcoming Address. This speech is labeled #52 within
its containing folder.
box 17, folder 2
"The Chancellor's Congratulations and Charge to the Home-Coming Queen"
1959 November 18
Scope and Contents note
3 copies. This speech is labeled #53 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 2
Dykstra Hall Dedication
1959 November 19
Scope and Contents note
Note cards and 3 copies. This speech is labeled #54 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 3
Sixth Annual Edward A. Dickson Journalism Day, "Welcome"
1959
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #55 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 3
George Washington Carver Day Luncheon (Beverly Hilton Hotel)
1960 January 5
Scope and Contents note
Note cards and copy. This speech is labeled #56 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 3
Mid-Year Graduation Observance
1960 January 28
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #57 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 3
University Affiliates Dinner (The Cal Club)
1960 February 15
Scope and Contents note
Note cards, manuscript and carbon copy. This speech is labeled #58 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4
Charter Day Anniversary Ceremony
1960 March 18
box 17, folder 4
Charter Day Luncheon
1960 March 18
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #59 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4
Chancellors Report, Charter Day
1960 March 18
Scope and Contents note
Note cards, manuscript, press release, and copy. This speech is labeled #60 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4
"Peacetime Uses of Space" - Introduction of Leston Faneuf
1960 March 23
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #61 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4
RCA West Coast Electronic Center, Van Nuys - Dedication Speech
1960 April 6
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #62 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4
Rotary Club Address
1960 April 28
Scope and Contents note
2 copies. This speech is labeled #63 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5
Samuel Goldwyn Awards - Introduction of Samuel Goldwyn
1960 May 4
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #64 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5
"The Challenge of Disarmament," Conference at the Law School, Welcome
1960 May 7
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #65 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5
Festival Oriental Music and the Related Arts
1960 May 8
Scope and Contents note
Printed Program containing dedication to Dr. and Mrs. Knudsen and Dr. Knudsen's remarks. This speech is labeled #66 within
its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5
Hippocratic Oath Ceremony
1960 June 9
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript and 2 carbon copies. This speech is labeled #67 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5
Chancellor's Farewell to the Graduates
1960 June 10
Scope and Contents note
2 copies. This speech is labeled #68 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 11
"A Message From Vern O. Knudsen"
ca. 1960
Scope and Content
Public address in Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly.
box 56, folder 12
"Introduction to Seminar on Acoustics for Science Writers"
1960
Scope and Content
At the 60th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Francisco, CA. Speech includes note on pronunciation of 'acoustics'
for students of R. A. Millikin. Includes correpondence regarding other speakers and papers.
box 17, folder 5
"Impaired Hearing"
1961 March 20
Scope and Contents note
Lecture for a Physics class. This lecture is labeled #69 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5
"Reminiscences as a Chancellor of UCLA"
1961 April 24
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #70 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5
Suggestions for "From Chancellor's Desk"
ca. 1961 June 21
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #71 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5
A "summing up" at retirement time
1960 July
box 56, folder 13
"The Role of the All Nations Fair in Promoting International Understanding Through Inter-Cultural Communication in Los Angeles
County" (Speech and Correspondence)
1961-1962
box 17, folder 6
"Acoustics and Music" (Schoenberg Hall)
1962 March 8
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #72 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 6
Words Spoken at the Funeral of Leah MacKay
1962 March 20
Scope and Contents note
Note cards and 3 copies. This speech is labeled #73 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 6
Shephard Ivory Franz - Dedication of Franz Hall
1962 October 26
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #74 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 6
Introduction of Simon Ramo for Man of Hope Citation
1962 November 24
Scope and Contents note
Includes biographical data on Dr. Ramo. This speech is labeled #75 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 14
"Reminiscences of a Dean"
1963 February 12
Scope and Content
Hardcover commemorative book for the 25th anniversary of doctorate awards at UCLA.
Includes 2 vinyl audio recordings inside cover.
box 17, folder 7
Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology Ceremonies
ca. 1963
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #76 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 7
"Acoustics of Music Rooms" (Research Group, UCLA)
1965 March 9
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #77 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 7
"Acoustics of Music Rooms" (Professional Women's Group)
1965 May 15
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #78 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 7
"From Architectural Acoustics to Molecular Physics" (Hughes Research Laboratory)
1966 December 1
Scope and Contents note
Note cards and related material. This speech is labeled #79 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 7
"Sound - the Good and the Bad" (UCLA Spring Lecture Series)
1967 May 1
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #80 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8
Welcome to the American Association for Engineering Education Meeting at UCLA and Press Conference
1967 June 16
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #81 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8
"The Conception, Gestation, and Birth of the UCLA Medical School," Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Dinner
1968 May
Scope and Contents note
Includes related material dated 1947. Additional material in this collection will be found in Box 3 Folder 11. This speech
is labeled #82 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8
A Tribute to Ralph Bunche at the Dedication of Bunche Hall
1969 May 23
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #83 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8
Harvey Fletcher (Governor of Utah's Appreciation Dinner)
1971 March 3
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #84 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8
Eulogy for Willhelmena Dickson
1971 March 9
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #85 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 9
Response following presentation of University of Chicago's Alumni Association (Los Angeles Chapter) Distinguished Alumnus
Award to Gustave Arlt
1971 April 27
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #86 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 9
Response at Triological Society National Meeting
1971 May 25
Scope and Content
Includes letter of thanks from Victor Goodhill, 1971 June 9.
box 17, folder 9
Margaret Eames (eulogy)
undated
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #87 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 9
Professor Leo P. Delsasso - Teacher, Administrator, Benefactor (Acoustical Society Meeting, Los Angeles)
1973 November 2
Scope and Content
This speech is labeled #88 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 15
"Life Begins at 80 -- Or Does It?"
ca. 1973
Committees and Associations
1925-1980
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, papers, and printed material representing Dr. Knudsen's interest and participation in a large number of professional,
technical, and academic organizations throughout his career.
Acoustical Materials Association
1933-1949
box 17, folder 10
Correspondence and reports
1933-1943
box 17, folder 11
Various bulletins and 1 report: "A Study of Improved Techniques for Sound Absorption Measurements by the Reverberation Room
Method"
1934-1941, 1949
Acoustical Society of America
1928-1980
box 18, folder 1
Application forms (blank) and by-laws
Chicago Meeting
December 1929
box 18, folder 3
Related correspondence, B - P
box 18, folder 4
Related correspondence, S - W
Correspondence and Papers
1951-1964
box 48, folder 2
Cleveland newspaper article and "News Notes"
undated
Scope and Content
Newspaper article includes photograph of Vern O. Knudsen with Dayton C. Miller and Paul E. Sabine during the sixth semi-annual
meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
box 18, folder 7
Executive Council
1929-1936, 1944, 1951
Editorial Policies (Journal)
1929-1935
box 18, folder 10
Letters to Members and Fellows
1929-1957
Los Angeles Meetings
1930, 1947
Meetings
1929-1956
Scope and Content
Material relating to the 60th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America may be found in Speeches, Box 56 Folder 12.
Printed Programs
1929-1965
box 48, folder 3
Acoustical Society of America and Second International Commission on Acoustics Congress
1956 June 17-23
Scope and Content
Meeting program from Cambridge, MA, notes, and article.
box 19, folder 9
Radio Broadcasts
1934-1935
Standardization Committee
1930-1955
box 19, folder 10
Reports on Terminology
ca. 1931-1933
box 19, folder 12
1931 (September-November)
box 20, folder 2
G.A. Sutherland, correspondence
1930-1931
General note
Additional correspondence with Sutherland in this collection will be found in Box 1 Folder 3.
box 20, folder 3
Treasurer
1930-1941, 1953
box 20, folder 4
Tribute to Dr. Erwin Mayer
1964
Wallace Waterfall, Correspondence
1929-1968
box 20, folder 5
Copies for Dr.Knudsen
1929-1948
box 20, folder 8
Gordon S. Watkins, correspondence
1932-1952
box 48, folder 1
Journal publications and correspondence
1929-1949
box 48, folder 4
Publication rights for Acoustical Designing in Architecture
1980 February 5
Scope and Content
Letter to Florence Knudsen requesting the tranfer of publication rights for Vern O. Knudsen and Cyril M. Harris's book, Acoustical
Designing in Architecture, to the Acoustical Society of America. Signed by Margaret Knudsen, daughter and conservator.
Air Pollution Committee
1954-1958
box 20, folder 11
reprints
1954 (October-December), 1958
Alexandria Graduate School (Egypt)
1960-1962
box 20, folder 12
Report: "Science in the Universities in the United Arab Republic"
1960
box 20, folder 13
Related material
1960-1962
box 20, folder 14
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1955-1965
Scope and Content
Additional material regarding the American Association for the Advancement of Science may be found in Correspondence: Box
2 Folder 2 (regarding the Pacific Division), Box 47 Folder 1 (regarding "The Absorption of Sound in Gases" and the AAAS award),
and Box 47 Folder 2 (regarding Scientific Monthly).
American Institute of Physics
1962-1965
box 20, folder 15
General correspondence
1962-1965
box 20, folder 16
Correspondence and papers concerning the Institute's project: "History of Recent Physics in the United States"
1964
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence of Dr. W. James King, Project Director, and interview with Dr. Harvey Fletcher. Additional Fletcher
material in this collection will be found in Box 1 Folder 1.
box 48, folder 5
Interview of Vern O. Knudsen by Leo P. Delsasso and W.J. King
1964 May 18
Scope and Contents
American Institute of Physics Oral History Project. Interview regarding early history of Physics and Vern O. Knudsen's early
research. Includes biographical information.
box 21, folder 1
American Institute of Planning. Fresno, California
1964 June 5
American National Standards Committee
1969-1973
Scope and Contents note
Earlier related material in this collection will be found under "American Standards Association" and "American Standards Institute."
box 21, folder 3
1969 October-December
Scope and Contents note
Includes publication
Specifications for Audiometers.
box 21, folder 5
1970 August-November
Scope and Contents note
Includes publication "Methods for the Calculation of the Articulation Index."
box 21, folder 10
1973 January-May
Scope and Contents note
Includes publication: Martin Sonn,
Psychoacoustical Terminology.
American Standards Association
1932-1966
General note
Subsequent related material in this collection will be found under "American Standards Institute" and "American National Standards
Committee." Additional related material will be found under "Foreign Standards Committees."
box 21, folder 12
1932-1946
Scope and Contents note
Includes publication: F.H. van den Dungen,
Remarques sur les Vocabulaires d' Acoustique (1936).
box 48, folder 6
Measurement standardization for underwater sound (United States Navy)
1944-1945
box 22, folder 3
1965 January-August
Scope and Contents note
Includes publication:
The Effects of Shock and Vibration on Man.
American Standards Institute
1939-1968
Scope and Contents note
The "American Standards Association" became the "United States of America Standards Institute" in 1966. Material was filed
under the heading "American Standards Institute." Later related material in this collection will be found under "American
National Standards Committee."
box 22, folder 7
Architectural and Musical Acoustics Symposium. Cambridge, Massachusetts
1956
box 22, folder 8
Audio Engineering Society, Awards Committee
1964-1965
box 22, folder 9
Building and Safety Commission
1939-1947
box 48, folder 7
Audio Engineering Society
1954 April
Scope and Content
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. Directory of members. Vern O. Knudsen listed pages 15 and 32. Award of Honorary
Membership in the Audio Engineering Society, 1949 October 28, may be found in "Personal correspondence and papers," Box 50
Folder 6.
box 48, folder 8
California Fund for Music
1962
California Institute for Cancer Research (CICR)
1954-1974
box 22, folder 10
Examination of Financial Statements
1954 March 31
Scope and Contents note
Financial statements dated June 30 for 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969 (2 years), and 1972 (2 years) will be found
filed by date in the following material.
box 22, folder 11
1954-1956
General note
A related 1956 speech by Dr. Knudsen will be found in Box 16 Folder 11 (speech no.34).
box 23, folder 5
1965 January-April
Scope and Contents note
Includes publication:
A National Program to Conquer Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke.
box 23, folder 11
1968 June-December
Scope and Contents note
Includes
Science magazine (September 1968).
box 24, folder 7
Electronic Music, Committee on
1963-1965
Emeriti, National Committee of the, Incorporated
1961-1967
box 24, folder 9
Information circulars related to Dr. D. Michael Marandini and the California Institute for Advanced Study (CIAS), filed with
the Emeriti papers for
1961
box 24, folder 11
Publication: "Planning Manual for Policy and Program Development"
1964
General Physical Description note: Removed from original binder.
Emeriti Association, UCLA
1967-1972
General note
Additional related material in this collection will be found in Leo P. Delsasso's papers.
Faculty Research Lecture Committee
1962-1964
Foreign Standards Committees
1937-1950
Scope and Contents note
This was not the name of an organization, but a file heading used by Dr. Knudsen to describe activities primarily involving
the American Standards Association and various foreign agencies.
box 25, folder 4
1937-1939
Scope and Contents note
Includes publication "Mitteilungen des Deutschen Akustischen Ausschusses" (1939).
box 25, folder 6
Friends of the Santa Monica Mountains
1964-1966
box 25, folder 7
Hope for Hearing Research Foundation
1964-1967
box 48, folder 9
Hollywood Bowl Association
1960-1961
Institute for Creative Arts
1963-1966
Institute of Geophysics
1944-1961
box 25, folder 15
List of Technical Papers
1960
box 25, folder 15
Appointment of Director
1961
Music, Administrative Committee. Appointment of Professor
1961-1963
box 26, folder 2
1962-1963
Scope and Contents note
Includes
Journal of Research in Music Education (Fall 1959).
box 26, folder 3
Manuscript: Roy Harris, "Requested Prospectus for the Music Department of the University of California, Los Angeles"
1961
Noise Abatement Commission, Los Angeles
1940-1945
box 26, folder 4
National Noise Abatement Council
1941-1945
General note
Correspondence with Dr. Ernst Grossman has been removed to Box 6 Folder 8.
box 26, folder 8
Research Group (UCLA)
1963-1965
United States Government Agencies
1925-1945
box 26, folder 10
Bureau of Standards
1925-1937
box 26, folder 10
Coast and Geodetic Survey
1933
box 26, folder 10
Documents, Superintendent of
1927-1930
box 26, folder 10
Education, Office of
1935
box 26, folder 10
National Park Service
1936
box 26, folder 10
Navy Department
1933-1945
box 26, folder 10
Public Health Service
1940
box 26, folder 10
Public Roads, Bureau of
1930
box 26, folder 10
War Department (Signal Corps Laboratories)
1940
Leo P. Delsasso Papers
1959-1963
Scope and Contents note
Files created when Dr. Delsasso was Chairman of the Physics Department at UCLA. Includes much earlier material regarding
UCLA and outside contract research which was often conducted in collaboration with Dr. Knudsen.
box 26, folder 11
Appointments
1925-1959
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence
re Dr. Delsasso's salary, sabbatical, war leave, loyalty oath, etc.
box 26, folder 11
Blue Shield
1961
Scope and Contents note
Includes membership roster.
Building and Campus Development Committee
1958-1963
Scope and Contents note
Material
re Major Capital Improvement Program.
box 26, folder 13
1956 November-1957 January
Class of , UCLA
1925
Scope and Contents note
Material
re Dr. Delsasso's undergraduate class.
box 27, folder 2
1925-1950
Scope and Contents note
Includes graduation program (1925) and photographs of 25th class reunion (1950).
box 27, folder 3
1955
Scope and Contents note
Material
re Dr. Delsasso's chairmanship of the 30th class reunion.
box 27, folder 4
Disaster Preparedness and Laboratory Safety
1951, 1959-1963
Emeriti Association, UCLA
box 27, folder 6
Membership Committee
1971
box 27, folder 7
Fu, Sandra Lok. Alien employment
1968
Scope and Contents note
Restricted under the Information Practices Act (California Civil Code, Chapter 709).
box 27, folder 8
Hitchcock (Alfred) Science Theater
1963
box 27, folder 9
Hope for Hearing Research Foundation
1965, 1967
box 27, folder 10
Edgar Lee Kinsey personal papers
1924-1951
Scope and Contents note
Includes original documents and photographs, probably used by Dr. Delsasso in preparing Dr. Kinsey's memorial.
box 27, folder 11
Memorial written by Dr. Delsasso
1961
box 27, folder 12
Copies of Dr. D.S. Saxon's correspondence
re memorial contributions
1964-1965
Knudsen and Kinsey Halls (Dedications)
1964 May 16
box 27, folder 13
Dr. Delsasso's preparations
box 27, folder 15
Copies of "Luncheon Talks" and "Dedication Ceremonies"
box 28, folder 1
Knudsen Gold Medal. Awarded by the Acoustical Society of America
1967 April 20
Scope and Contents note
Includes copy of Dr. Delsasso's statement in the
Congressional Record.
Miscellaneous Publications
Scope and Contents note
Printed material and reports originally stored in Dr. Delsasso's files.
box 29, folder 11
William Henry Bragg, "The Carbon Atom in Crystalline Structure" (lecture)
1924
box 29, folder 11
Ernest Rutherford, "The Natural and Artificial Disintegration of the Elements" (lecture )
1924
box 29, folder 11
"Dedication of the University of California at Los Angeles"
1930
box 29, folder 11
Martin B. Barmatz and Isadore Rudnick, "The Velocity of Sound in the Immediate Neighborhood of the Lambda Transition of Helium"
undated
box 29, folder 11
A. Einstein, "Dispersion of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Removed from folder bearing notation "personal copy of V.O. Knudsen/ file with course material for Physics 214."
box 30, folder notebook
Physics 266-A Term Papers
1948
Scope and Contents note
Includes a list of papers (9), apparently submitted for Dr. Carl Eckart's class.
box 30, folder 1
"Inauguration of Clark Kerr as the Twelfth President of the University of California"
1958 September 26
Scope and Contents note
3 copies of program.
box 30, folder 1
Virginia Richard, "The Origin and Development of Graduate Education at UCLA"
1933-1964 (1965)
Scope and Contents note
Booklet.
box 30, folder 1
Sigma Pi Sigma Newsletter
1963 October
box 30, folder 2
Louis B. Slichter, "Response, Acceptance and Address of the Evening: A Glimpse at the Geophysical Scene"
1966
Scope and Contents note
2 copies of reprint.
box 30, folder 2
"Values and Visions: a Report of Six Years of University Growth, 1958-1964"
1964
Scope and Contents note
Brochure.
box 30, folder 2
"Unity and Diversity: the Academic Plan of the University of California, 1965-1975"
ca. 1964
Scope and Contents note
Brouchure.
box 30, folder 2
LHS Octagon
1968 May 20
Scope and Contents note
Dedication of the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California.
box 27, folder 16
Dr. Knudsen's photograph and letters of appreciation
(May 16, 1964)
Lyon, Waldo K. Arctic Ice Researcher and Explorer
General note
Additional related material in this collection will be found in box 3, folder 10.
box 28, folder 2
Copies of awards and newspaper clippings
1946-1962
box 28, folder 3
Waldo K. Lyon letter from the North Pole to Dr. and Mrs. Delsasso
1970 November 20
box 28, folder 3
Life magazine article
1958 September 1
box 28, folder 3
Saturday Evening Post article
1948
box 28, folder 4
Memorial Resolutions. Correspondence as chairman of the Committee on University Emeriti Relations
1970-1971
Scope and Contents note
Includes University of California publication
In Memoriam, December 1970.
National Research Council. Committee on Undersea Warfare (Spitzer Committee)
1947-1948
General note
Additional related material in this collection will be found in box 5, folder 11.
box 28, folder 5
1946 December-1947 August
box 28, folder 7
Graphs
re undersea research
Navy Department. Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and papers
re Research and Inventions.
box 28, folder 8
Depth Charge Direction Recorder, patent applied for
1946 July 11
box 28, folder 9
Optical Sound Bearing System, patent applied for
1946 July 12
box 28, folder 10
Undersea Warfare Symposium
1946 September 17-18
box 28, folder 11
Depth Determination by Triangulation
1949
box 28, folder 12
Rotating Hydrophone Audio Torpedo Detector
1949
box 28, folder 13
Submarine Signal Company
1949
box 28, folder 13
ONR publication: Donald Ross, "Directory of Acousticians in Western Europe"
(1965)
box 28, folder 14
Physics-Biology Building Recommendations. University of California, Southern Branch
1925-1928
box 28, folder 15
Physics Department, UCLA. History. Miscellaneous papers
1931-1934
Scope and Contents note
Includes [1930] newspaper clipping showing J.M. Adams, E.L. Dodd, S.J. Barnett, L.B. Loeb, Vern O. Knudsen, H.W. Edwards,
J.W. Ellis, E.L. Kinsey, Leo P. Delsasso, and J.A. Kaplan.
Research Contracts
Scope and Contents note
"Target Seeking Devices" (Acoustics Research) and "Project Mogul" (Sound Research). Administration of contracts between UCLA
Physics Department and U.S. War Department.
box 29, folder 3
1951-1952
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs (12) taken at "White Mountain" base camp.
box 29, folder 4
Apportion ledgers
1949-1969
box 29, folder 5
"Secret" and "Confidential" Classifications. Security clearances and receipt forms
1952-1956
box 29, folder 6
Senate Committee on Emeriti Relations
1970
box 29, folder 7
University of California Exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco
1940
General note
Related material in this collection will be found in box 2, folders 7 and 8.
Miscellaneous Notes
Scope and Contents note
Personal records kept by Dr. Delsasso
re foreign travel, faculty recruitment, etc.
box 29, folder 8
Note cards and spiral notebooks (2)
1959-1960 February 3
box 29, folder 9
Spiral notebooks (3)
1960 May 25 - 1961 August 28
box 29, folder 10
Spiral notebooks (3)
1961 June 12 - 1963 June 3
John Mead Adams Notebooks
1901-1926
General note
Dr. Adams was a member of the UCLA Physics Department, 1919-1944.
box 30, folder 3
Physics 3
1901-1902
Scope and Contents note
Laboratory notes. Mead's undergraduate studies. Harvard University.
box 30, folder 4
Roentgen Rays
1906 July 7
Scope and Contents note
Laboratory notes. Mead's doctoral research, Harvard University.
box 30, folder 5
Reading
1926 July
Scope and Contents note
Mead's abstracts of various journal articles.
box 30, folder 6
Humorous verse
Scope and Contents note
Single page.
Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers)
ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
General note
Given to the UCLA Archives, January 1979.
See Miscellaneous Publications within the Leo P. Delsasso Papers for additional articles.
box 31, folder 1
"The Absorption of High Frequency Sound in Oxygen Containing Small Amounts of Water Vapor or Ammonia"
1936 April
Scope and Contents note
2 copies of manuscript with figures, and 1 reprint
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (April 1936).
box 48, folder 12
"The Absorption of Sound" (American Institute of Physics)
ca. 1933
Scope and Content
Draft and manuscript. Includes a letter to the American Institute of Physics.
box 48, folder 13
"Absorption of Sound in Air" (Data)
1932-1933
Scope and Content
Origninal raw data, graphs of plotted data. Includes correspondence with Kneser and discussion of early results. This important
data may have supplied several papers.
box 31, folder 2
"The Absorption of Sound by Acoustical Plaster"
1932 December
Scope and Contents note
1 copy of manuscript and 1 reprint, California Plasterer.
box 31, folder 3
"The Absorption of Sound in Air, in Oxygen and in Nitrogen--Effects of Humidity and Temperature"
1933 October
Scope and Contents note
1 copy of manuscript with many pages of revision by hand. Figures. Galley Proofs.
JASA reprint -- autographed to Professor B. M Varney, with compliments of V.O. Knudsen. Copy of manuscript of paper by Hans O.
Kneser, "The Interpretation of the Anomalous Sound-Absorption in Air and Oxygen in Terms of Molecular Collisons" with handwritten
note from V.O.K. to file it here.
box 31, folder 4
"The Absorption of Sound in Carbon Dioxide and Other Gases"
1938 January
Scope and Contents note
3 copies of manuscript with a few pages of handwritten notes and calculations. Figures. 1 reprint from
JASA with handwritten "To Professor E.L. Kinsey Compliments of V.O. Knudsen.
box 31, folder 5
"The Absorption of Sound in Gases"
1935 April
Scope and Contents note
3 copies of manuscript. Figures. Galley Proofs. 1
JASA reprint.
box 31, folder 6
"The Absorption of Sound in Gases"
1935 June 14
Scope and Contents note
Various draft manuscripts. 1 reprint from
Science.
box 31, folder 7
"The Absorption of Sound in CO
2, N
2O, COS and in CS
2, Containing Added Impurities"
1934 January
Scope and Contents note
Many handwritten pages. 3 copies of typewritten manuscript. Figures. Galley Proofs. 1 reprint from
JASA.
box 31, folder 8
"The Absorption of Sound in Oxygen as Influenced by the Presence of Other Gases"
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten copy of paper abstract to be given at a meeting. This folder also contains copy of the paper by A. Einstein,
"Dispersion of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases." "Dispersion of Theory of Sound" by H.O. Kneser. "Sound Absorption
in Plyatomic Gases" by H.O. Kneser. No reprints.
box 31, folder 9
Acoustic Properties of Rooms
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript. Correspondence with Hazeltine Electronics Corporation. Galley proofs. No reprint.
box 32, folder 1-2
Acoustical Designing in Architecture. New York: Join Wiley & Sons
1949, 1950
Scope and Contents note
Two folders containing correspondence with Wiley and with Cyril Harris, co-author. Folder 2 includes letter from Ray Eames,
1949.
box 32, folder 3
"Acoustical Design of the Theater"
1948 November
Scope and Contents note
No Manuscript. 3 copies of reprint from
Architectural Engineering. One envelope of slides.
box 32, folder 4
"Acoustic Problems in the Heating and Ventilation of Buildings"
1931 December
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript. Figures and Galley Proofs. 2 reprints (one very cut up) from
Heating, Piping and Airconditioning.
box 32, folder 5
"Acoustical Terminology"-- American Standards Association
1936 October
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript and one reprint.
box 32, folder 6
"Acoustic Design of Architectural Interiors"
1924 October
Scope and Contents note
No manuscripts. 4 reprints from
The Architect and Engineer.
box 32, folder 7
"The Acoustics Design of School Buildings"
1928
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 4 reprints from
The National Association of Public School Business Officials.
box 32, folder 8
"Acoustics in Comfort and Safety"
1949 July
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 3 reprints from
JASA.
box 32, folder 9
"Acoustics in the Design of Auditoriums"
1927 September
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript and Figures. 1 reprint from
The Architectural Forum.
box 32, folder 10
"Acoustics of the Grady Gammage Auditorium"
1965 September
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 1 reprint and photocopy thereof from
Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Acoustics.
box 32, folder 11
"Acoustics of Music Rooms"
1962 August
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 photocopies of reprint from
Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Acoustics.
box 32, folder 12
"Acoustics of Large Auditoria"
May 1951
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript and correspondence. 2 reprints from Proceedings of Building Research Congress. Papers presented in Division 3
and record of discussion.
box 33, folder 1
"Acoustics of Music Rooms"
April 1931
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript -- handwritten and typed. Correspondence with various people who attended the 4th International Congress on Acoustics.
Program of the Congress. 1 reprint from
JASA.
box 33, folder 2
"American Standards Association had Broad Program for Measuring and Labeling Sounds"
1936 April
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 reprints from
Industrial Standardization.
box 33, folder 3
"Analysis and Correction of Hearing Defects"
1925 January
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 1 reprint from
Northwest Medicine, and 1 copy of
Northwest Medicine.
box 33, folder 4-5
"Architectural Acoustics"
1963 November
Scope and Contents note
2 folders of manuscript material. 1 folder of correspondence. 1 folder of photos. 1 reprint with "To Dr. L.P. Delsasso,
11/21/63, Compliments of V.O.K." in handwriting. 1 folder with copy of
Scientific American.
box 34, folder 4
"Artificial Aids to Hearing"
1935 January
Scope and Contents note
Copies of 3 manuscripts. 1 reprint. See Symposium on the Eighth Nerve, Laryngoscope.
box 34, folder 5
"Atmospheric Acoustics and the Weather"
ca. 1935
Scope and Contents note
1 copy of manuscript only. No reprints. Manuscript has note in VOK's handwriting: "For Science" about 1935 or 1936.
box 34, folder 6
"The Attenuation of Audible Sound in Fog and Smoke"
1948 November
Scope and Contents note
1 handwritten copy of manuscript. 2 typewritten copies. Figures, correspondence and one reprint from
JASA.
box 34, folder 7
"Audiometry"
1937
Scope and Contents note
1 copy of booklet (Faculty Publications--1937). Figures for manuscript. Three copies of manuscript.
box 34, folder 8
"Audiometry and the Prescribing of Hearing Aids"
1936 July
Scope and Contents note
Reprint from
Laryngoscope. No manuscript.
box 34, folder 9
"Audiometers and their Place in the School Program"
Scope and Contents note
1 copy of manuscript only.
box 34, folder 10
"Audion Bulb Circuits in Otologic Practice"
1925 October
Scope and Contents note
2 reprints from
Archives of Otalaryngology.
box 34, folder 11
"Basic Principles Underlying Tests of Hearing and Artificial Aids to Hearing"
Scope and Contents note
1 copy of reprints from
Laryngoscopy (n.d.--reprinted by Jenkel-Davidson Optical Company).
box 34, folder 12
"Bone Conduction"
1931 April
Scope and Contents note
1 copy of reprint from
Archives of Otolaryngology. 1 copy of manuscript "Studies in Bone Conduction." Auditory Charts filled out by hand by VOK.
box 35, folder 1
"Community Noise"
1956 July
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts. 2 copies of reprint from
Noise Control.
box 35, folder 2
"Control of Sound in Buildings"
ca. 1927
Scope and Contents note
Typed and handwritten manuscript. 1 reprint with cover missing. Paper was presented at the meeting of the National Association
of Building Owners and Building Manager, Chicago 1927, as per letter to Dr. Fletcher May 18, 1927 (this in VOK's handwriting).
box 35, folder 3
"Deafness, a Social, Economic and Medical Problem"
1937 July
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 3 reprints from
California and Western Medicine.
box 48, folder 14
"Defense Against Noise"
1942 February
Scope and Content
In National Safety News.
box 35, folder 4
"Diffraction of Sound by an Array of Rectangular Panels"
1964 December
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript. Figures. Many handwritten notes. Reprint from
JASA.
box 35, folder 5
"Diffusion and Absorption of Sound in a Model Reverberation Room"
1971 September
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript and reprint,
7th International Congress on Acoustics.
box 35, folder 6
"Diffusion of Sound by Helium Filled Balloons"
1968 September
Scope and Contents note
Two reprints,
6th ICA.
box 35, folder 7
"Directional Measurements of Early Reflections in Auditoriums"
1971 September
Scope and Contents note
Two reprints,
7th ICA.
box 35, folder 8
Ear Defenders
1944
Scope and Contents note
Copy of the January 1944 issue of the
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, containing article. 1 reprint. Correspondence
re patent on the Ear Defenders (ear plugs) and two copies of the patent application. Brief typed description of the research
and development work on the Ear Defenders for the National Defense Research Committee. Related material may be found under
the "National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders" series.
box 35, folder 9
Ear Defenders
1939 February, 1965 January-February
Scope and Contents note
Two reprints from the
National Safety News (1939 February). Clipping from the
UCLA Alumni Magazine (1965 January-February)--"The Earplugs of Dr. Knudsen." Related material may be found under the "National Defense Research
Committee and Ear Defenders" series.
box 35, folder 10
Ear Defenders
ca. 1940s - 1950s
Scope and Contents note
Two folders containing correspondence on patent and marketing of the Ear Defenders (much of it between VOK and Mine Safety
Appliances who manufacture the Ear Defenders and still do) during the 1940s and 1950s. Related material may be found under the "National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders" series.
box 36, folder 2
"An Ear to the Future"
1939 July
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript in various stages. 1 reprint from
JASA.
box 36, folder 3
"Education and Training for Oceanographers"
1950 June 23
Scope and Contents note
No Manuscript. Two reprints from
Science.
box 36, folder 4
"Noise --The Now Pollutant: It Can Be Abated"
ca. 1968
Scope and Contents note
Two copies of manuscript.
Speech, ca. 1968.
box 36, folder 5
"Die Einstelldauer der Schwingungsenergie in Sauerstoff"
1934-1935
Scope and Contents note
2 reprints from
Annalen Der Physik 21.
box 36, folder 6
"Electroacoustical Instruments as Applied to the Problems of Impaired Hearing"
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript, abstract and handwritten draft of abstract.
box 36, folder 7
"The Effect of Audible and Subaudible Vibrations on the Acuity of Hearing"
1929 November
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 reprints from
Archives of Otolaryngology.
box 36, folder 8
"The Effect of Humidity upon the Absorption of Sound in a Room, and a Determination of the Coefficients of Absorption of Sound
in Air"
1931 July
Scope and Contents note
Manuscript and figures. 1 reprint from
JASA.
box 36, folder 9
"Facts and Theories about Audition"
1925 December
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 1 reprint from
Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. There seems to be no other reprint of this paper among VOK's paper still being kept in the Physics Department.
box 36, folder 10
"From Architectural Acoustics to Molecular Physics"
1962 July-August, September-October
Scope and Contents note
Draft manuscript and others. 1 reprint from
Sound.
box 36, folder 11
"Functional Tests of Hearing"
1924 September
Scope and Contents note
1 reprint from
The Laryngoscope. Has handwritten note on it: "Please return to V. O. Knudsen. This is one of two survivors!"
box 37, folder 1
"Germany's War on Noise"
1936 September
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten manuscript. Galley Proof
Heating & Piping (September 1936). 1 copy of
Zeitschrift des Vereines Deutscher Ingenieure with translation of the article.
box 37, folder 2
"Getting the Most from Acoustics"
Scope and Contents note
1 typewritten copy of manuscript.
box 37, folder 3
"The Golden Age of Hearing Aids"
1939 November
Scope and Contents note
1 typewritten copy of manuscript. 1 copy of
The Volta Review.
box 37, folder 4
"Hearing Aids Today and Tomorrow"
Scope and Contents note
1 typewritten copy of manuscript and copy of letter to a W.P. Wherry, M.D., Omaha, Nebraska, with a note in handwriting "File-Hearing
Aids" (n.d.).
box 37, folder 5
"The Hearing of Speech in Auditoriums"
1929 November
Scope and Contents note
Hand-and typewritten draft. 1 copy of manuscript. Galley proofs. 1 reprint from
JASA.
box 37, folder 6-7
"Hearing with the Sense of Touch"
1928
Scope and Contents note
Copies of manuscript and draft. Lots of figures. 1 reprint from
The Journal of General Psychology 1.
box 37, folder 8
"Hearing in Auditoriums Effects of Reverberation"
1926 September, 1927 January
Scope and Contents note
1 typed copy of manuscript. 1 reprint from
The Architect and Engineer.
box 38, folder 1
"Hearing better in the presence of noise"
1925 July 31
Scope and Contents note
Includes typed copy of manuscript, copies of
Science.
box 38, folder 2
"History of the UCLA Physics Department"
Scope and Contents note
Folder containing material for, what turned out to be, an abortive project. No one, besides V.O.K. and a few "old-timers"
were interested.
box 48, folder 15
"How Sound is Controlled"
1931 October
Scope and Content
In Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning, a publication of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers.
box 38, folder 3
"Insulation of Vibration"
1928 June, 1938 September
Scope and Contents note
Copy of typed manuscript of speech presented at American Physics Society. Handwritten manuscript. Notebook. Copy of a "description
of device or contrivance which the writer proposes to submit for letters patent" which VOK must have printed by hand while
on board the S.S. American Banker. It is witnessed by the Ship's Surgeon. Hand written notes on two sets of "American Banker"
letterhead titled "Beds for Steamships, Motorships, Airplanes, Trains, etc., where Vibration is an Annoyance".
box 48, folder 16
"Introduction" to Outdoor Noise and the Metropolitan Environment: Case Study of Los Angeles with Special Reference to Aircraft
1970
box 38, folder 4
"Interfering Effect upon Speech of Tones and Noise"
1936
Scope and Contents note
Typed copy of manuscript. Galley Proofs. 1 reprint from
Physical Review, vol.26.
box 38, folder 5
"Keeping the Talkies Silent"
Scope and Contents note
1 typewritten copy of manuscript. No indication as to where this was published or, if a speech, where it was given or when.
box 38, folder 6
"Measurement and Calculation of Sound Insulation"
1930
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of article which appeared in
JASA, vol.2 (1930).
box 38, folder 7
"Measurements of a Single Helium-Filled Balloon"
1968 September
Scope and Contents note
2 reprints from
Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Acoustics, Tokyo.
box 38, folder 8
"Measurement of Reverberation Using the Thermionic Tube Oscillator as a Source"
1926 November
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscript. 1 reprint from
Journal of the Optical Society of America.
box 38, folder 9
"The Measurement of Sound Absorption in a Room"
1928
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typed manuscript. Figures. 1 reprint from
The Philosophical Magazine, vol.5.
box 38, folder 10
"Model Testing of Auditoriums"
1970 February
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts and drafts and correspondence. 1 copy of
JASA reprint.
box 39, folder 1-2
"Modern Acoustics and Culture"
1936
Scope and Contents note
1 tied-up package labelled (in VOK's handwriting) "Cuts for UCLA Academic Publication no.8960." 1 folder with manscript drafts,
figures, etc. 1 reprint of Faculty Research Lecture, UCLA.
box 39, folder 3
Model Studies of the Effects on Motore Vehicle Noise of Shapes and Arrangements of Buildings Along Urban Streets. III--"Roadside
Barriers"
1973
Scope and Contents note
2 typed copies of paper given at the Los Angeles ASA Meeting.
box 39, folder 4
"Noise, the Bane of Hearing"
1955 May
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten draft, typed manuscript.
1 reprint from Noise Control.
box 39, folder 5
Paracusis. The sole remaining reprint from The Laryngoscope
1926 September
Scope and Contents note
Copy of letter to F.R. Watson
re preparation of this paper.
box 39, folder 6
"The Physicist in the New World"
1943 April
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 reprints from
American Journal of Physics.
box 40, folder 1
"A Plan for Group Testing of the Hearing of School Children"
1926 September
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 reprints from
Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology with handwritten notes for preparion of paper by VOK.
box 40, folder 2
"Plaster and Acoustics"
1931 September
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript, no reprint. Other lists show this appeared in
California Plasterer.
box 40, folder 3
"The Propagation of Sound in Air and Water"
ca. 1946
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten manuscript. Type manuscript. Lots of reprints pertaining to the same subject. Pages of what appears to be a
chapter from a book because it has the same title and VOK as author. No title or date of publication.
box 40, folder 4
"The Propagation of Sound in the Atmosphere"
1946 July
Scope and Contents note
2 reprints from
JASA.
box 40, folder 5
"Proposed Standards for the Measurement of Noise"
ca. 1934
Scope and Contents note
Typed manuscript. Article apparently appeared in
American Standards Magazine. Correspondence is dated 1934.
box 40, folder 6
"Quiet and Air-Conditioned Buildings"
ca. 1936
Scope and Contents note
Typed outline, and outline of chapter and section titles. Correspondence with John Wiley & Sons, 1936. This was going to
be a small book (200-250 words) but apparently it never materialized.
box 40, folder 7
"Quiet Buildings"
1926 September
Scope and Contents note
Typed manuscript. 1 reprint from
Pencil Points.
box 15, folder 7
"Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics" (Journal Article) Manuscript and cuts
1934 January
Scope and Content
An article by Dr. Knudsen published in the January 1934 issue of Reviews of Modern Physics (Lancaster Press, Incorporated).
Originally filed with Dr. Knudsen's speeches. For reprints, see "Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics," Box 40
Folder 8.
box 15, folder 8
"Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics" (Journal Article) Galleys and draft (original title: "Progress in Architectural
Acoustics")
box 40, folder 8
"Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics"
1934
Scope and Contents note
For manuscript and galleys, see "Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics," Box 15 Folders 7-8. 2 reprints from
Reviews of Modern Physics, one autographed to Mr. L.P. Delsasso and one to Professor E.L. Kinsey. 1 copy of the journal itself.
box 40, folder 9
"Recent Progress in Architectural Acoustics: Geometric and Wave Acoustics in the Design of Rooms"
1947 November-December
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 reprints from
American Journal of Physics.
box 40, folder 10
Reminiscences: I. "Noise" II. "Sound Stages"
1970 August
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 1 reprint from
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.
box 40, folder 11
"Report of an Investigation of Ten Cases of Diplacusis"
1923
Scope and Contents note
Typed copy of manuscript. 1 reprint from
Transactions of the American Otological Society, autographed to Florence T. Knudsen. Handwritten notes on the physical characteristics of Diplacusis.
box 40, folder 12
"Resonance in Small Rooms"
1962 July
Scope and Contents note
Large collection of manuscript material, photos of figure, etc. Galley proofs.
2 reprints from
JASA, one autographed to Dr. Lee Kinsey and one to Mr. L.P. Delsasso.
box 40, folder 13
"Reverberation Room Acoustics -- Effects of Various Boundary Conditions"
1967 November
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 reprints from
JASA.
box 40, folder 14
"Review of Architectural Acoustics during the Past Twenty-Five Years"
1954 September
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten and typed copy of manuscript. Galley proofs. 2 reprints from
JASA.
box 41, folder 1
"Science in Music"
1940 October
Scope and Contents note
1 typed copy of manuscript. 1 copy of
California. Published by the U.C. Alumni Association.
box 41, folder 2
"Selective Amplification in Hearing Aids"
1936 January
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 1 reprint from
JASA.
box 41, folder 3
"The Sensibility of the Ear to Small Differences of Intensity and Frequency"
1922 September
Scope and Contents note
Original form of thesis, accepted by Gale and Michelson. Duplicate of corrected copy of thesis sent to
Physical Review (September 1922). Handwritten manuscript. Various notes. Bound copy of dissertation with L.P. Delsasso's name in his (LPD's) handwritting.
Another copy of same with (in VOK's handwriting) "Only Remaining Copy."
box 41, folder 4
"Sensibility of Pathological Ears to Small Differences of Loudness and Pitch"
1922
Scope and Contents note
1 bound copy and one stapled set of pages of reprint from
Transaction of the American Otological Society. Note in VOK's writing "Only Copy."
box 41, folder 5
"Some Cultural Applications of Modern Acoustics"
1938 January
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 reprints from
JASA.
box 41, folder 6
"Some Practical Aspects of Architectural Acoustics"
1940 April
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript. 2 reprints from
JASA 11.
box 41, folder 7
"Sound Waves and Rhythms"
1948 December
Scope and Contents note
Typed manuscript. Correspondence. 1 reprint from
The Scientific Monthly.
box 41, folder 8
Symposium on the Eighth Nerve
1935 January
Scope and Contents note
Proceedings were written up in
Laryngoscope 45 (January 1935) and included the papers "Basic Principles Underlying Tests of Hearing," "Diagnosis of Hearing Impairments," and "Articifial
Aids to Hearing." Manuscripts. Articulation Lists of Consonants. Issue of
The Laryngoscope.
box 41, folder 9
Sonotone Audiometer. Contains two pamphlets on Model no.1
Scope and Contents note
1 copy bound, typewritten instructions for operating Model no.6 (Contents of this envelope came from Prof. Emeritus Norman
Watson, and has handwritten note on it from V.O.K. to "File with Reprints").
box 41, folder 10
"The Teacher and the Problem of Deafness"
1939 January
Scope and Contents note
1 reprint from
Health News.
box 41, folder 11
"Underwater Ambient Noise"
1948 November 15
Scope and Contents note
Two reprints from Sears Foundation:
Journal of Marine Research VII. Correpondence with Elmer Belt
re VOK sending him a reprint. Large collection of draft manuscripts and correpondence with Alford and Emling, co-authors.
box 42, folder 1
"Vacuum Tube Hearing Aids"
1937 February
Scope and Contents note
Typed copy of manuscript. Reprint from
Caduceus.
box 42, folder 2
"What Audiometry Can Now Mean in Routine Practice"
1938 August 13
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten Notes. Typed copy of rough draft and of finished manuscript. Reprint from
Journal of the American Medical Association.
box 42, folder 3
"What's New in Acoustics?"
1947 November
Scope and Contents note
Handwritten Notes. Typed copy of manuscript. Reprint from
Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning.
box 42, folder 4
What You Hear Can Hurt You
1961 February
Scope and Contents note
No manuscript.
Two issues of
Think.
box 42, folder 7
Complete list of publications of Vern O. Knudsen
Biographical Materials and Awards
1928-1974
Scope and Content
Additional material may be found in the Vern O. Knudsen Papers Collections File (including UCLA Emeritus Faculty file updates,
award ceremony pamphlet, letters of condolence, and results of researcher investigation). Also see an American Institute
of Physics Oral History Interview of Vern O. Knudsen under "Interview of Vern O. Knudsen by Leo P. Delsasso and W.J. King,"
Box 48 Folder 5.
box 47, folder 15
Biography and biographical forms
ca. 1967-1969
Scope and Contents
Related material may be found in the Vern O. Knudsen Papers Collection File.
box 47, folder 16
Eulogies for Vern O. Knudsen by Gustave Arlt and Chancellor Young
ca. 1974
box 47, folder 17
Obituaries and correspondence, Vern O. Knudsen memorial service
1974
box 55, folder 1
Awards
1937-1971
Scope and Contents
Contains award certificates.
Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Chicago Club of Greater Los Angeles may be found in Box 47 Folder 5.
Award of Honorary Membership in the Audio Engineering Society, 1949 October 28, may be found in Personal correspondence and
papers, Box 50 Folder 6.
Photographs
ca. 1935 - 1964
Scope and Content
Additional photographs of Vern O. Knudsen are available in the Vern O. Knudsen Papers Collections File and in University Archives.
box 47, folder 23
Acoustical baffle chamber (Los Angeles Times)
1964
Scope and Contents
Contains 15 photographs and a photocopy of a photograph available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File. See 1964
Los Angeles Times article "Noise reaches level where citizens want it stopped" in Box 57 Folder 5.
box 47, folder 24
Chancellor's conference with Robert Rogers
1960
Scope and Content
Contains 1 photograph and a photocopy of a photograph available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File.
box 47, folder 25
Events with Vern O. Knudsen
ca. 1937-1964
Scope and Content
Contains photocopies of 16 photographs available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File.
box 47, folder 26
Knudsen family photographs
1954-1963
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of a trip to Europe and photographs of Vern O. Knudsen and Leo P. Delsasso. Contains 20 photographs
and 9 photocopies of photographs available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File.
box 47, folder 27
Portraits of Vern O. Knudsen as a young man and as chancellor
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of 18 photographs available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File. Includes 1 unretouched passport
photograph. Similar material may be found in Personal correspondence and papers, Box 50 Folder 6.
box 47, folder 28
Propagation of sound in air, Rosamond Dry Lake, CA
1935 February 12
Scope and Contents
Contains 5 snapshots of Vern O. Knudsen and others performing experiments at Rosamond Dry Lake. For related material, see
Rosamond Dry Lake Absorption Tests, Box 3 Folder 14.
box 47, folder 29
ROTC Day
1952
Scope and Content
Contains 2 photographs and 1 photocopy of a photograph available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File.
Clippings
1928-1973
Scope and Content
Additional clippings may be found in the Chancellorship series, the Dedication of Knudsen and Kinsey Halls series, "Correspondence
and Papers (Chronological): Newspaper Clippings" in Box 50 Folder 8, and the Vern O. Knudsen Papers Collections File.
box 57, folder 1
1928-1959
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Knudsen says good acoustics are important in school rooms" 1928-1929 "President's administrative advisory conference
discusses All-U affairs at day-long meeting" "UCLA appoints Dean 1st Vice Chancellor" 1956 "The Knudsen award" 1934 "Westwood
couple entertains" 1937
box 57, folder 2
1959
Scope and Contents
Includes: Clippings regarding Vern O. Knudsen crowning the Homecoming Queen. "Huge computer center dedicated at UCLA" "Many
for, some foes to Krushchev visit" Material honoring Charles A. Malik. Italian language newspaper article featuring Vern
O. Knudsen.
box 57, folder 3
1960
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Danger in noise" "The unearthly din of civilization" "Schools endangering world position of U.S., says veteran
educator" "Applied Arts due for shakeup" "UCLA lab construction marked by ceremonies" "Voice in new UCLA center" in The
Church News, an official organ of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. "RCA electronics center at Van Nuys dedicated"
box 57, folder 4
Relating to retirement
1960
box 57, folder 5
"The UCLA story"
1961-1962
box 57, folder 5
"Chancellor greets 600 at musicale"
1963
box 57, folder 5
"Graduate Division celebrates anniversary"
1963
box 57, folder 5
"Knudsen urges study of rights and wrongs"
1963
box 57, folder 5
"Noise reaches level where citizens want it stopped"
1964
Scope and Contents
For additional photographs, see Box 47 Folder 22.
box 55, folder 2
Press release "America lags in designing quiet homes, apartments"
1965 February
box 57, folder 5
"Hope for hearing research foundation"
1965
box 57, folder 5
"Professors make sound behave"
1966
box 57, folder 5
"It sounds as good as it looks"
1966
box 57, folder 5
"Knudsen, former chancellor, prof given country's top acoustic award"
1967
Scope and Contents
Gold Medal award
box 57, folder 5
"Two-level orchestra solves sound problem"
1967
box 57, folder 5
"Balloons round out musical pleasures"
1967
box 57, folder 5
"UCLA models probe theater acoustics"
1967
box 57, folder 5
"Ears join eyes, lungs, and skin in pollution"
1967
box 57, folder 5
"The roar can kill you"
1967
box 57, folder 5
"UCLA models probe sound problem"
1967
box 57, folder 5
"UCLA 50 years old, starting new era"
1969
box 57, folder 5
"Minis may concern musicians"
1969
Scope and Contents
Includes photograph of Vern O. Knudsen firing a pistol next to several women wearing miniskirts.
box 57, folder 5
"City's new little theater passes the pistol test"
ca. 1969
box 57, folder 5
"Noise problems today are worse than before"
1971
Scope and Contents
Letter to the editor written by Vern O. Knudsen and others.
box 57, folder 5
"Clamor against noise rises around globe"
1972
box 57, folder 5
"Sometimes noise is not pollution but a coccoon that provides solace"
1973
box 57, folder 5
"Why does this man shoot pistols in Thomas Hall?"
1973
box 57, folder 5
"Noted Utahn, acoustics expert visits"
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