Westerners Foundation Records, 1957-1975

Summary

Title:

Westerners Foundation Records,

Dates:

1957-1975

Creators:

Language:

English.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Westerners Foundation Records, Mss246, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Scope and content:

The Westerners Foundation Records include: articles of incorporation, by-laws, correspondence and manuscripts (1957-1975).

Biographical / historical:

Westerners Foundation was created (1958) by the Westerners, an organization for study of the American West. The Foundation was technically an entity apart from the Westerners with offices at the College of the Pacific (Stockton, Calif.) and in Chicago. Philip A. Danielson of Chicago and Dr. Robert E. Burns, Leland D. Case, and Dr. Reginald R. Stuart of the College of the Pacific were the original trustees. The Westerners Foundation grew out of a need to facilitate the publication of a collection of essays, This is the West, written by Westerners, and to provide a repository for royalty funds. The Foundation also planned to publish books and a newsletter, facilitate communications and workings of the Westerners, help start new chapters, and provide western history scholarships. The Westerners Foundation started with an endowment fund of $10,000. By the 1970s most of the publication programs planned by the Westerners Foundation were carried on by the Pacific Center for Western Studies under its own name, or by Westerners International.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Physical description:

0.25 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by Daryl Morrison; rev. by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker

Date Prepared:

© 1998

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: 1994; 1998.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Westerners Foundation Records, Mss246, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:

University of the Pacific

University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library

Stockton, CA 95211, US

Contact:

(209) 946-2404

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