Guide to the John "Sky" Dunlap collection MS.R.021
Finding aid prepared by Carole McEwan, 2012.
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Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: John "Sky" Dunlap collection
Creator:
Dunlap, John
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.021
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
(2 document boxes, 1 slim box, 1 OS folder)
Date (inclusive): 1868-1957
Abstract: This collection consists of the papers of John William "Sky" Dunlap, Orange County, California journalist, publisher, and
owner-operator of the Pacific Clipping Service. Included are photographs, correspondence and newspaper clippings. Dunlap's
collection includes issues of approximately 440 early newspapers from Orange County (100 titles), other locations in California
(161 titles), other states of the U.S. (133 titles), and countries outside the U.S. (44 titles). The earliest Orange County
item in the collection is an issue of the
Pacific Weekly Blade dated December 23, 1886.
Language of Material:
English
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Gift of Velma F. Dunlap, 1971, via Don Meadows.
John William "Sky" Dunlap was an Orange County, California journalist, publisher, and owner-operator of the Pacific Clipping
Service. Dunlap, born March 8, 1912, was nicknamed "Sky" because of his height: he was 6'8" tall. He married Velma Bishop
in 1934 and the couple started an independent newspaper in Orange County called
The Globe. He died on November 15, 1968 in Santa Ana, California.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection consists of the papers of John "Sky" Dunlap, Orange County, California journalist, publisher, and owner-operator
of the Pacific Clipping Service. Included are photographs, correspondence and newspaper clippings. Dunlap's collection includes
issues of approximately 440 early newspapers from Orange County (100 titles), other locations in California (161 titles),
other states of the U.S. (133 titles), and countries outside the U.S. (44 titles). The earliest Orange County item in the
collection is an issue of the
Pacific Weekly Blade dated December 23, 1886.
box 1
Box 1 circa 1868-1957
Series Scope and Content Summary
Photographs: Sunday globe staff (1946), Dunlap with State Controller Thomas Kuchel (1947) and with Governor Culbert Olson
(1939-43); news photographs, including the old newsroom; clippings, correspondence, ephemera; Bowers Museum Foundation; Bowers
Museum Indians; Arroyo Grande Watershed Project, 1957; Sta-Hi Corporation. Product description, newsletters, misc.; Sunday
School Advocate. Nov. 14, 1868 issue; American Institute of Architects, Orange Co. Chapter. Committee on the Preservation
of Historical Buildings.
box 2