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60,661.
Sgovio (Thomas) papers 1938-2008
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution
Collection Number:
87038
Description:
Memoir, relating to imprisonment in Soviet forced labor camps also known as the gulags; photocopies of Soviet arrest records
and summaries of judicial proceedings, and of United States Federal Bureau of Investigation reports on interviews after repatriation;
and 44 original
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Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution
Collection Number:
75063
Description:
Correspondence, speeches and writings, clippings, photographs, and printed matter, relating to World War II, communism, forced
repatriation of Russian prisoners to the Soviet Union following World War II, the Katyn forest massacre, unreported deaths
of Soviet cosmonauts, and the efforts
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Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution
Collection Number:
83031
Description:
Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, studies, testimony, legal documents, printed matter, and photographs,
relating to U.S. government domestic policy during the presidential administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford,
labor relations, investigations of the United Mine Workers,
...
Contributing Institution:
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Collection Number:
GoodsteinDL
Description:
The David L. Goodstein papers illustrate Goodstein's contributions to experimental condensed matter physics and physics education.
The collection consists of correspondence, research notes, notebooks, and writings. The papers cover his early career at the
University of Washington but primarily comprise of
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60,665.
Quaker Collection 1691-2023
Contributing Institution:
Whittier College - Wardman Library
Collection Number:
Quaker Collection
Description:
The Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends or simply Friends, are a religious group that emphasizes individual
relationships with God, abolitionism, pacifism, international volunteer work, and other socially progressive causes. On April
4, 1887, a group of
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Contributing Institution:
San Francisco Public Library::San Francisco History Center
Collection Number:
SFH 684
Description:
The artificial collection consists of ephemera pertaining to the state of California and each of its counties, excluding the
City and County of San Francisco, collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. Dating from
1850 to
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Contributing Institution:
Claremont Colleges::Honnold/Mudd Library
Collection Number:
H.Mss.1122
Description:
Assembled by Barbara Drake (1940-2020), a Gabrieleño/Tongva Elder, educator, and community advocate, this collection contains
Drake's educational materials, personal files, and research materials. Drake was a founding member of numerous organizations
including Mother Earth Clan, Cultural Keepers, the Chia Café
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Contributing Institution:
Whittier College - Wardman Library
Collection Number:
Maugham Collection
Description:
William Somerset Maugham was a queer playwright and author known for his raw depictions of wartime and working-class life.
He served as an ambulance driver during World War Two and was a member of the British Secret Service. The W.
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Contributing Institution:
Whittier College - Wardman Library
Collection Number:
Baldwin-Hunnicutt Collection
Description:
Clyde F. Baldwin, a Whittier resident, traveled with twenty-one other men in north-western Alaska on a gold hunting expedition
from 1898 to 1899. Anna Hunnicutt lived in the Alaska territory as a missionary of the Whittier Friends Church for much
...
Contributing Institution:
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Collection Number:
GoodsteinJR
Description:
The Judith R. Goodstein papers illustrate Goodstein's contributions to historical research, the history of science, and her
role as the first University Archivist at Caltech. The collection consists of correspondence, research notes, lectures, and
writings. The papers cover some of
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Contributing Institution:
Whittier College - Wardman Library
Collection Number:
Hoffman Collection
Description:
Lola B. Hoffman was a Whittier College alumna from the class of 1923 and the author of the popular children’s book, California Beginnings (1933),
among others. The Hoffman Collection is made up of Hoffman’s personal library, revealing her wide array of interests on a
variety of subjects.
Contributing Institution:
Huntington Library::Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
mssBedinge
Description:
A collection of material related to the English poet Edward Bedingfeld.
Contributing Institution:
Whittier College - Wardman Library
Collection Number:
Whittier Collection
Description:
Whittier was generally regarded as the most well-known Quaker in America, prompting the founders of Whittier city to select
him as the namesake of their new town. The Collection emphasizes the poet’s life as a demonstration of one particularly well-known
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Contributing Institution:
Whittier College - Wardman Library
Collection Number:
Nixon Collection
Description:
United States politician Richard Milhous Nixon served as a member of the House of Representatives, the Senate, as Vice President,
and as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He had close ties to Whittier College and the city of
...
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Cruz::Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number:
MS.132.Ser. 1
Description:
Series 1: Music Manuscripts contains complete autograph music scores, sketches, revisions and fragments produced by Harrison
during his seventy five years of writing music.
Contributing Institution:
Whittier College - Wardman Library
Collection Number:
West Collection
Description:
Mary Jessamyn West (1902-1984) was an American writer with Quaker roots. She was the cousin to the 37th President of the United
States, Richard Milhouse Nixon. West lived in Whittier and Yorba Linda, attended Whittier College as a student, and
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60,677.
College Collection 1830-2023
Contributing Institution:
Whittier College - Wardman Library
Collection Number:
College Collection
Description:
Whittier College was founded in 1887 as Friends’ College by a group of Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends.
In 1895, the first classes were taught under the official name “Whittier College”, and the College was accredited
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Contributing Institution:
UC San Diego::Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number:
RSS 1225
Description:
The UC San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) collection documents the activities of the experimental
music and art research unit. Materials include: subject files, photographs, publications and writings, event materials, and
produced works.
60,679.
Macneil (Sayre) Papers 1736-1957
Contributing Institution:
Huntington Library::Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
mssMacneil
Description:
This collection contains the papers of law professor Sayre Macneil, chiefly consisting of correspondence related to academic
and legal matters (1869 to 1948), and papers of his family including documents related to the Arügello family (1875 to 1975)
and the
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60,680.
Kresge College records 1965-2006
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Cruz::University Archives
Collection Number:
UA.106
Description:
This collection documents the history of Kresge College from its inception to the early 2000s, and primarily comprises early
college planning documents, administrative records and correspondence, event-related ephemera, and recordings of commencements,
lectures, and other events on DVD, VHS, and
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