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Jack Fleming prison ephemera collection, 1796-2001 (bulk 1900-1999).
BANC MSS 2005/240 c oversize folder 1; BANC MSS 2005/240 c oversize folder 2; BANC MSS 2005/240 c box 1; BANC MSS 2005/240
c box 2; ...
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Title:
Jack Fleming prison ephemera collection, 1796-2001 (bulk 1900-1999)Creator/Contributor:
Fleming, Jack, creator, collector.Creator/Contributor:
Manson, Charles, 1934-2017, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Oppenheimer, Jacob, -1913Abstract:
Ephemera, correspondence, and other materials relating to California prisons, the Tom Mooney case, Black history and the Ku
Klux Klan. Also includes a box of letters and cards sent to Charles Manson following an incident in 1984 in which Manson was
set on fire by a fellow inmate at the California Medical Facilty in Vacaville.
Prison ephemera, prison related correspondence, prisoner correspondence, prisoner artwork on cards and envelopes, souvenir
prison postcards, articles, a death row inmate autobiographical account of Jacob Oppenheimer, miscellany, etc., mostly concerning
prisons in the United States. Includes one postcard with handrawn art from a German prisoner of war being held in Canada (1943).
Also includes two newspapers devoted to prison topics, The Youth Companion (March 12, 1885), and Prison Focus (Winter 1999).
Also includes one copy of the Columbian Centinel (February 18, 1824), a newsletter, McQuillon's Corner (2004), and a community
newsprint publication about Massachusetts prison life featuring prisoner's writings (1972?). Oversize items include wall calendars
from San Quentin Prison (1991, 1994-1995) and Pelican Bay Prison (1995), prisoner artwork depicting a group meeting, and a
poster (1978?) protesting solitary confinement in Canada.
Date:
1900 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us--- -- n-us-mi -- n-cn--- -- e-gx---Manson, Charles -- 1934-2017 -- Correspondence
Mooney, Thomas J -- 1882-1942
Oppenheimer, Jacob -- -1913 -- Biography
California State Prison at San Quentin.
California State Prison at San Quentin -- Calendars
Folsom Prison.
Pelican Bay State Prison (Calif.) -- Calendars
Michigan State Prison.
Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet, Ill.)
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Prisons -- California -- History
Prisons -- United States -- History
Prisoners -- California
Prisoners -- United States
Prisoners -- Correspondence
Prisoners' writings, American
Prisoners as artists -- United States
Prisons -- California -- Calendars
Prison administration -- United States
African American prisoners
Women prisoners -- United States
Prisoners of war -- Canada
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Correspondence
Capital punishment -- California
Solitary confinement -- Canada
Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Collection processed at folder level in 2008 and 2014.
Jack Fleming prison ephemera collection, BANC MSS 2005/240 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift; of Jack Fleming; in 2003.
Additions (box 3): Purchase; from San Francisco Public Library; 20140122.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2005.187).
In English with some Spanish.
Type:
Ephemera.Newspapers.
Posters.
Calendars.
Drawings.
Postcards.
Souvenirs.
Physical Description:
print
3.25 (1 3 2 1
Language:
English
Spanish
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2005/240 c oversize folder 1
BANC MSS 2005/240 c oversize folder 2
BANC MSS 2005/240 c box 1
BANC MSS 2005/240 c box 2
BANC MSS 2005/240 c box 3
BANC MSS 2005/240 c carton 1
BANC MSS 2005/240 c oversize box 1
BANC MSS 2005/240 c
BANC MSS 2005/240 c
Origin:
No place, unknown, or undeterminedCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF SITE: Advance notice required for use.