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Carpenter (Ford A.) Papers
MSS 0273  
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MANUSCRIPTS

Box 1, Folder 1

General Billy Mitchell as I Knew Him - Typescript with laid in letters and ephemera 1944

 

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS

Box 1, Folder 2

Four voyages to New York from Los Angeles via Panama 1935 - 1937

Box 1, Folder 3

Flying Vancouver's route of discovery August 3-17, 1937

Box 1, Folder 4

June Four O'Clock in the Gardens of the Los Angeles University Club 1943

Box 1, Folder 5

Retreat on Huntley Hill (Los Angeles) 1941

Box 1, Folder 6

Loose photographs - Includes probable images of Carpenter

 

SMALL BOOKS PUBLISHED BY CARPENTER

 

Carpenter, Ford A

Box 2, Folder 1

"Dahlias" - Photo album of still flowers 1930

Box 2, Folder 2

"The Day Before Christmas: Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six Years Ago" 1936

Box 2, Folder 3

"Intimate Glimpses" - Photos with text 1934 - 1935

Box 2, Folder 4

"One Drop of Honey" 1931

Box 2, Folder 5

"Opido: A True Story of the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California" - Uncorrected draft

Box 2, Folder 6

"Pennsylvania Spring" 1931

Box 2, Folder 7

"The Poet Visits the Scientist" - Memory book 1931

Box 2, Folder 8

Masefield, John, "Adventure On! Companion" 1936

 

WRITINGS

 

By Carpenter

Box 2, Folder 9

"An American Aborigine's View of Wealth" - Reprint and original carbon copy 1930

Box 2, Folder 10

"The Barometer is Rising" - Reprint 1932

General

Written while Carpenter was Manager, Department of Meteorology and Aeronautics, Los Angeles Chamber.
Box 2, Folder 11

"Biographical Sketch for Malcolm Logan Project" 1931

Box 2, Folder 12

"The Call of the Gypsy Swimmer" - Carbon copy

Box 2, Folder 13

"Days of Murrietta" 1930

Box 2, Folder 14

"A Flying Excursion Among the Clouds: An Illustrated Address on Clouds and Weather" - Brochure for lecture

Box 2, Folder 15

"The Gold and Silver Lights: The Last Hours of Elizabeth Bonte Goodrich" - Carbon copy

Box 2, Folder 16

"Indianapolis, Indiana" - Carbon copy 1931

Box 2, Folder 17

"Los Angeles After the Olympics are Over" - Carbon copy 1933

General note

-Written as Manager - Department of Meteorology and Aeronautics Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Box 2, Folder 18

"A Man's Study of the Material Instinct in Woman and its Effect on the Child" - Carbon copy 1933

Box 2, Folder 19

"Old Haunts Revisited" - Typed manuscript 1933

Box 2, Folder 20

"On Coming Home from Grandma's" - Carbon copy

Box 2, Folder 21

"Prejudices" - Reprint 1939

Box 2, Folder 22

"The Rib," "The Cabin-Boy and the Carpenter," "The Poodle Dog and the Meerschaum Pipe" - Carbon copy

Box 2, Folder 23

"She Wanted to Play the Harp" - Carbon copy

Box 2, Folder 24

"The Story of a Late Breakfast in Washington Territory, Autumn of 1884" - Carbon copies

Box 2, Folder 25

"The Sunset Club Meeting" - Carbon copy

Box 2, Folder 26

"Swinging Round the Circle with the Naval Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives" - Carbon copy 1930

Box 2, Folder 27

"Traditional Honesty as an Element of Efficiency" - Carbon copy 1933

General note

-Written as manager - Department of Meteorology and Aeronautics, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Box 2, Folder 28

"What Flying Means to National Business and National Defense," presentation introduction of Ford Carpenter. Typescript carbon copy 1935

 

By Others

Box 2, Folder 29

Carpenter, Charlotte, "A Mother's Reminiscences of Her Children" 1893

Box 2, Folder 30

"PHOTGRAPHING RED SNOW IN NATURAL COLORS," gallery proof for printed section 1912

Box 2, Folder 31

Warnack, James W., typescripts of unpublished poems

Box 2, Folder 32

Miscellaneous stories - Carbon copies

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Box 2, Folder 33

Carpenter's office and weather instruments

Box 2, Folder 34

Ford Ashman Carpenter - in uniform and at work

Box 2, Folder 35

Aerial views of Chicago and cloud formations

Box 2, Folder 36

Washington State and other miscellaneous locations

Box 2, Folder 37, Oversize FB48101

The Fairy Tree, framed

Box 2, Folder 38, Oversize FB48102

Carpenter in uniform, a top building, framed

Box 2, Folder 39, Oversize FB48103

Framed portrait in air officer uniform 1938

Box 2, Folder 40, Oversize FB48104

Carpenter at California Club, 1930; Home in Los Angeles; Portrait in uniform

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Oversize AB-16-C01

Frederico Georgi painting of Ford Carpenter, [35" long, 27" wide] 1932

Box 2, Folder 42

Lecture tours - Brochures 1932 - 1936

Box 2, Folder 43

Miscellaneous correspondence

Box 2, Folder 44

Letter from Carpenter regarding spatula

Box 2, Folder 45

News clippings 1930 - 1947

Box 3, Folder 1

New Guinea lime spatula - Milne Bay, Trobriand Islands

General note

Carving on head of spatula