Guide to the Margaret Wentworth Owings Papers
Guide to the Margaret Wentworth Owings Papers
Collection number: BANC MSS 86/71 c
The Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, Berkeley
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- Processed by:
- Elizabeth Stephens
- Date Completed:
- April 2004
- Encoded by:
- James Lake
Linear ft.: 9.6 linear ft.
- Selected printed materials have been transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library.
- Some Photographs have been transferred to Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (cataloged as BANC PIC 1992.057--PIC).
- One fabric cap has been transferred to the Objects Collection of The Bancroft Library.
Series 1: Correspondence 1934-1992
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Adams, Ansel, 1902-, and Virginia 1959-96
Adams, Jeanne and Michael 1984-94
Allen, Durward Leon, 1910- 1971-93
Ames, Evelyn Perkins and Amyas 1963-95
Baer, Morley 1985-90
Barker, Eric 1963-73
Bassett, Chuck and Dory 1958-93
Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941 1934-39
2 scrapbook pages ca. 1941
Breeden, Paul M. 1970-95
Brett, Jim and family 1987-94
Brooks, Paul 1964-87
Brower, David Ross, 1912- 1965-90
Burden, Jean 1968-84
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1959-63
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 1952-63
Carter, Lewis A. 1970-77
Challinor, David 1988-92
Chickering, Sherman 1969
Chisholm, Hugh Joseph, 1913- 1951-66
Cranston, Alan MacGregor 1973-95
Cunningham, Imogen, 1883-1976 1961-83
Dunne, Phillip and Amanda 1991-95
Durrell, Gerald Malcolm, 1925- 1972-79
Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977 1970-77
Feeley, Helen 1966
Fleming, Margaret Eddy (Mrs. Guy L.) 1965-68
Gilliam, Harold 1968-94
Gilpin, Laura 1959-70
Goodall, Jane, 1934-, and Hugo Van Lawick 1971-95
Gordon, Elizabeth 1993-95
Hobart, Helen S. and James 1966-89
Irwin, Jeanne n.d.
Jaicks, Nancy 1993-94
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912- 1965-84
Kauffman, Karin Strasser 1987-93
LaBastille, Anne 1978-80
Lindsay, George, 1916-, and Geraldine 1967-93
Livermore, Norman B. ("Ike") 1964-83
Marshall, Charlotte and John 1962-65
McCabe, Charles, 1915- 1963-64
McLaughlin, Sylvia 1994-95
Moore, Henry, 1898- 1966
Morgan, Edward P., 1910- 1969-91
Morgan, Wendy (Mrs. Edward Morgan) 1965-85
Mott, William Penn 1971-86
Moynihan, Daneil P. 1985-88
Newell, Gordon 1958-63
Newsom, William A. 1993-95
Newton-John, Olivia 1994-95
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 1976-84
Olson, Sigurd G., 1899- 1963-82
Orr, Robert T. 1959-95
Panetta, Leon E. 1992-95
Partridge, Roi, 1888-1984 1979-82
Phelps, Lyon 1962-77
Polk, Benjamin n.d.
Polk, Emily DeSpain 1973-94
Priestly, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894- 1968-84
Redford, Robert 1985-95
Reeves, Martha 1972-95
Ripley, Sidney Dillon, 1913- 1970-71
Rockefeller, David, 1915-, and Peggy 1942-95
Rockefeller, Diane Rowan and David, Jr. 1988-95
Rockefeller, Laurance S., 1910-, and Mary 1965-87
Rockefeller Family 1981-93
Roosevelt, Nicholas, 1893- 1959-82
Schaller, George 1993-95
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909- 1966-92
"Memo to the Mountain Lion" n.d.
Steinbacher, John 1984-95
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-65 1954-90
Trocmé, Patricia and family 1963-95
Turner, Ted 1988-95
Weld, Phillip S. and Anne 1975-92
Whitaker, Francis 1963-95
Winter, Paul 1977-91
Yeates, William and Carol Fulton 1993, n.d.
A-Z miscellany 1959-91
Political figures 1936-93
Unidentified n.d.
To Nathaniel Owings 1983
Unidentified 1989, n.d.
Series 2: Speeches and Writings 1964-1995
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Subseries 2.1: Speeches, Addresses, and Talks 1964-1995
"Our State Park Redwoods through which a Major Freeway is Being Routed," statement at Joint Meeting of California State Park Commission and California Highway Commission Jan 24, 1964
"Tule Elk - Space to Roam" Oct 15, 1964
"Human Response to Wilderness," 9th Biennial Wilderness Conference, San Francisco Apr 3, 1965
Parks and Greenbelt Panel, Governor's Conference on California Beauty, Los Angeles 1965
State and National Open Space Panel, American Society of Landscape Architects, Yosemite May 10, 1966
"The California Dilemma: Is Conservation a Freedom or a Discipline-," National Audubon Convention, Sacramento, Calif. Nov. 14, 1966
"This Moment of Time," The Tule Elk Banquet, Los Angeles, Calif. Mar 4, 1967
Anna Head School Commencement Address, Oakland Jun 9, 1967
"Innovation and Action for the Under-thirties," Panel discussion, Berkeley 1967
"Other Lives, Other Beauty," First meeting of Friends of the Earth, Aspen, Colorado 1969
Mountain Lion Hearing, statement Mar 31, 1971
"A Commitment in Defense of Natural Systems," North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference Mar 1972
Animal Protection Institute Conference Oct 1972
"In Defense of Nature," California Tomorrow Conference Apr 24, 1973
"Endangered Species, A World View," American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference, San Francisco, Calif. Mar 1, 1974
"The California Sea Otter," Endangered Species Symposium, Washington, D.C. Jun 12, 1974
"Historical Aspects of the California Sea Otter and Its Relation with Man," Symposium University Extension, University of California, Berkeley Dec 6-8, 1974
Bradford College Commencement Address, Haverhill, Mass. 1975
Joseph Wood Krutch Medal, acceptance speech Humane Society of the United States, San Francisco 1980
National Audubon Award Acceptance Speech Nov 3, 1983
Nathaniel A. Owings Award, presentation speech, American Institute of Architects Apr 11, 1987
Profiles in Excellence interview 1992
"A Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Tor House Foundation" 1995
Subseries 2.2: Writings 1965-1993
Scope and Content Note
Not Man Apart, introduction 1965
"They're Still Shooting the Tule Elk," Audubon Magazine 1965
"The Sea Otter," from The Edge of Knowledge, Sierra Club Books 1970
"Endangered Species: A World View," Pacific Discovery, Vol. 28, No. 1 1975
"The California Sea Otter -- Its Endangered Position," for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory Newsletter 1975
"California Sea Otter -- A Valiant Return," Zoo View, Vol. 10, no.3, Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association 1976
"The Southern Sea Otter," Monterey Life 1980
"The Lion in Monterey County" Apr 1980
"Storms and the Sea Otter," The Barnyard News 1980
"The Perils of the Southern Sea Otter," The Humane Society News Feb 7, 1981
"The Native's Return -- The California Sea Otter," for California Geographic Magazine 1981
"San Nicolas Island," Otter Raft, November Nov 1986
"The Story of the Southern Sea Otter" Fall 1993
"Nerve Song of Africa" n.d.
Poetry 1970, n.d.
Cards 1981-93
Series 3: Environmental and Wildlife Work 1950-1996
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Subseries 3.1: Boards and Committees 1950-1995
Scope and Content Note
African Wildlife Leadership Foundation
McIlvaine, Robinson and Alice 1973-90
Minot, Francis 1968-72
Train, Russell E., 1920-, and Aileen 1965-89
Board of Directors 1970-79
Kenya 1966-76
Tanzania 1969
California State Park Commission
Administration 1963-72
Appointment certificates 1966-68
North Coast Redwoods 1965-95
Picacho Peak 1968
Photos and scrapbook pages 1963-69
Related material and clippings 1963-67
Committee to Save the Sea Lions 1957-60
Conservationists for Governor Brown 1966
Friends of the Sea Otters
Administration 1969-95
General Correspondence 1987
Kenyon, Karl W. 1968-94
Mattison, James A., Jr. 1968-76
Norris, Ken 1973-86
Reed, Nathaniel P. 1972-95
Scheffer, Victor B. 1960-81
Grunsky Bill, Senate Bill 442 1967-71
Sea Otters and the Grunsky Bill, scrapbook 1969-70
Endangered Species Act 1976-95
Oil tanker port at Moss Landing 1980
Marine Mammal Protection Act 1975-90
Kelp harvesting 1988-90
Abalone and shellfish 1981-84
San Nicolas Island colony 1986-88
Offshore oil drilling 1963-89
Alaska oil spill 1989-90
"Sea Otters and the Oil Threat," position paper 1990
Alaska and Native exemptions 1993-94
Surinam otters 1979-81
"Wildlife Rescue; Alternative to Extinction" by Ada and Frank Graham, Jr. 1970
Marine Patrol Boat, the Bluefin 1993
Sea Otters ca. 1970
Related material 1971-87
Mills College
Mountain Lion Preservation Foundation
Administration 1987-94
Hornocker, Maurice 1973-95
Wildlife Research Institute 1985-91
Koford, Dr. Carl 1966-87
Leopold, A. Starker 1959-86
McMillan, Ian I. 1959-91
Removal of Bounty 1962-89
Removal of Bounty, scrapbook pages ca. 1960-70
Reports 1962-88
Articles 1969-92
Legislation 1971-84
Jim Dutcher book and film 1990
Florida panther 1986-88
Organizations 1971, n.d.
Photographs n.d.
Clippings 1970-87
National Audubon Society, Rachel Carson Memorial Fund 1964-84
National Park Foundation 1968-70
Point Lobos League 1950-51
Sempervirens Fund of Conservation Associates 1968-71
Small Wilderness Area Preserves 1970-76
Subseries 3.2: Affiliated Organizations 1963-1995
Scope and Content Note
Acoustic Thermography of Ocean Climate (ATOC) 1994-95
Americans for Alaska 1978
Committee for the Preservation of the Tule Elk 1963-70
Fund for Animals 1973-76
Institute for Resource Management Conference 1985
Peregrine Fund 1978-90
Santa Cruz Predatory Research Group, Peregrine falcon release, photographs 1988-89
White House Conference on Natural Beauty 1965
Subseries 3.3 : Related Material 1962-1996
Scope and Content Note
Dolphins and porpoises 1975-76
Peregrine falcons 1973, n.d.
Whales 1966-74
Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen 1990-96
Durwood Allen, papers 1962-85
Sylvia Earl n.d.
E. Raymond Hall 1963-81
Series 4: Personal Papers 1913-1995
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Family Correspondence
Owings, Nathaniel Otis and Page R. Allen 1992, n.d.
Wentworth, Frank Wesley 1913
Wentworth, Jean Pond 1960-64
Owings, Jenny n.d.
Owings, Kim 1961, n.d.
Owings, Wendy n.d.
Stevenson, Natalie Owings ca. 1960s
Millard family n.d.
Awards
Department of Interior, Citation for Conservation Service 1975
American Motors Conservation Award 1980
Miscellaneous 1950-88
Miscellaneous 1964-83
Poems with special connotations n.d.
Art of MWO, ideas for layout n.d.
Margaret Owings, clippings 1933-84
Margaret Owings, clippings 1966-75
Margaret Owings, encapsulated clipping 1975
Scrapbooks, clippings and other material related to Margaret Owings n.d.
Nathaniel Alexander Owings, related material includes photos, speech, edited magazine, information about his Kachina collection, home in New Mexico, and clippings 1962-95