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Finding Aid for the Rosemary Biles collection about Ralph J. Bunche, 1948-2003
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Title: Rosemary Biles collection about Ralph J. Bunche
Date (inclusive): 1948-2003
Collection number: 1853
Creator:
Rosemary Biles
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Clippings and ephemera related to the career of Ralph J. Bunche.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Rosemary Biles, 2009.
Processed by Joanna Black, with assistance from Megan Hahn Fraser, October 2009.
[Identification of item], Rosemary Biles collection about Ralph J. Bunche (Collection 1853). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
6689367
Rosemary Biles served as a nurse to Ralph J. Bunche, Undersecretary General of the United Nations, during his final illness
in 1971. She remained friendly with his family after Bunche's death.
The Rosemary Biles Collection about Ralph J. Bunche consists primarily of newspaper and magazine clippings, publications,
ephemera and photographs of and relating to the career and death of Bunche. Included are clippings about Bunche's retirement
from the United Nations, ephemera from the opening of Ralph J. Bunche Memorial Park, official United Nations photographs of
Bunche, and first day covers of commemorative stamps. The bulk of the material is dated 1971.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Biles, Rosemary.
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971--Archives.
Statesmen--United States--Archival resources.
Clippings and ephemera.
Remembering Ralph Bunche [oral history transcript] / Charles H. Matthews, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1973. Available at
the UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Ralph J. Bunche Papers (Collection 2051).
Available at the UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Brian Urquhart Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche (Collection 364).
Available at the UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.