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Adolph Sigmund Oko, Jr. papers : additions, 1929-1965.
BANC MSS 68/39 c box 1; BANC MSS 68/39 c carton 1; BANC MSS 68/39 c carton 2; BANC MSS 68/39 c carton 3; ...
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Title:
Adolph Sigmund Oko, Jr. papers: additions, 1929-1965Adolph Sigmund Oko papers
Creator/Contributor:
Oko, Adolph Sigmund, Jr, 1904-1963, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Drake Navigators Guild (San Francisco, Calif.)Abstract:
Correspondence, photographs, clippings, subject file, and scrapbooks concerning Oko's family and career, Drake's landing in
California, Drake's life, and the Drake Navigators Guild.
Date:
1929 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJr -- Oko, Adolph Sigmund -- 1904-1963 -- Archives
Drake, Francis -- approximately 1540-1596
Drake, Francis -- approximately 1540-1596 -- Travel -- California
Drake, Francis -- approximately 1540-1596
Drake Navigators Guild (San Francisco, Calif.)
Discovery and exploration, English
Travel
California -- Discovery and exploration -- English
California
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Adolph Sigmund Oko, Jr. papers : additions, BANC MSS 68/39 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift of Gladys Zemple Oko; 1967.
Related collection: Adolph Sigmund Oko, Jr. papers, approximately 1934-1963 (BANC MSS C-B 920).
Portraits transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1968.013--B and possibly BANC PIC 1967.003--POR).
In English.
Captain Adolph Sigmund Oko, Jr. was the captain of the S.S. Kefalos in 1948, one of the first ships to smuggle arms to Israel
during the War of Independence and, subsequently, an important vessel that rescued slightly over 7,700 Jewish refugees from
the Balkans and transported them to Israel in two voyages the same year. Oko was born December 12, 1904, in New York to Adolph
Sigmund Oko, who became a celebrated biographer and Spinoza scholar associated with Hebrew Union College, and Rose Susan Weisinger,
an unmarried couple. Oko resided in Point Reyes Station, California, where he conducted a real estate business. Oko was president
of the Drake Navigators Guild and promoted research on Drake's landing in California. Oko almost single-handedly rehabilitated
the Inverness Yacht Club. Oko died in 1963 of a heart attack at the age 58.
Container list available in the library.
Type:
Photographs.Albums (Books)
Scrapbooks.
Clippings.
Archives.
Physical Description:
print
5.65 (3 1 3
Language:
English
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BANC MSS 68/39 c box 1
BANC MSS 68/39 c carton 1
BANC MSS 68/39 c carton 2
BANC MSS 68/39 c carton 3
BANC MSS 68/39 c oversize volume 1-2
BANC MSS 68/39 c oversize volume 3
BANC MSS 68/39 c
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the
Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.