Manuscripts
Jay Martin papers: Nathanael West Materials
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West, Nathanael. To Jo Conway. 6 letters. Also: letter from Jo Conway to Jay Martin
Manuscripts
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Farrell, James T. [Notes re: Nathanael West]. 5 pages. Also: letter (3 pages) from Farrell to Jay Martin
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Jay T. Last Collection of Food: Fruit and Vegetable Labels
Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last Collection of Food: Fruit and Vegetable Labels contains over 9,000 printed produce labels from the 1870s to the 1970s, with the majority of items dating from 1890 to 1950. The collection is comprised mainly of color lithographs. Materials are arranged in two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or less) and large-size items (more than 11 x 14 inches). Small-size items are described broadly at the series level; large-size items are fully inventoried and all printers, artists, and publishers are indexed by name. The collection includes over 30 large-size product labels for produce. Small-size labels number approximately 8,350. Materials include barrel and can labels as well as multiple kinds of box labels. While the collection is primarily American, it does contain a small quantity of foreign produce labels. Most notably, Boxes 9-11 contain Spanish citrus labels, while other boxes and binders have fruit and vegetable labels from Australia, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand. Also of note are three boxes of Blue Goose brand labels produced for American Fruit Growers, Inc. Other A.F.G. labels can be found throughout the collection, but Blue Goose items were isolated by the collector to create a comprehensive look at the brand. PLEASE NOTE: Most California citrus labels collected by Jay T. Last are in the finding aid for the Jay T. Last Collection of Food: California Citrus Box Labels. Overall the collection identifies produce growers and merchandisers, reveals advertising trends and consumption habits, and provides a resource for studying the history of American fruit and vegetable production, including the canning, packing, and shipping industries that evolved in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many labels predictably depict colorful images of fruits or vegetables, but pictures of women, children, animals, flowers, and views of farms, orchards, and vineyards also sold the product. As graphic materials, these labels offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Martin Eli Weil papers
Visual Materials
The collection contains correspondence; project and business records; reports; contracts; notes and research files; appointment books; drawings, including approximately 2920 rolled drawings; approximately 5000 photographs, chiefly snapshots depicting work in progress; material samples, including approximately 2000 fragments of wood or other surfaces containing paint samples; and 46 media files documenting the career of Martin Eli Weil. The materials date from 1964 until 2009, the year of Weil's death, with the bulk of the material relating to 428 projects on which Weil worked as a restoration architect and consultant from the time he arrived in Southern California in 1979 until 2008; some of these projects were undertaken as part of larger projects, such as jobs Weil performed while under contract to various municipalities. Of the 428 projects, 406 were included in Weil's project records, found in his filing cabinets; 22 projects are represented in the collection only by either photographs, drawings, or materials samples (objects), without any other project documentation. Rolled drawings comprise both original drawings by Weil and reprographic copies of drawings by original and prior restoration architects that Weil used in his work. The collection documents the wide range of work Weil performed, comprising historic structures reports, microscopic paint analysis, tax act and historic landmark certification, environmental impact and seismic structures analysis, and other restoration and rehabilitation work on structures. Major projects represented include Hollyhock House and other Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in Barnsdall Park as well as Storer House; the El Capitan Theater and Bullock's Department Store in Pasadena; residences including David O. Selznick's home (Joelson Residence); and work Weil undertook as a consultant for the cities of La Verne, San Gabriel, Porterville, and Monrovia, California. Also included are papers reflecting Weil's work as the Restoration Services Director for the Restoration Services Division of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Canada from 1971-1978; research and teaching materials from his work as a faculty member at the University of Southern California from 1981-2009; documentation of Weil's writings, chiefly as a columnist for the Larchmont Chronicle; correspondence, writings, and research files relating to Weil's community involvement, chiefly his work to support creation of a Historic Protection Overlay Zone in Harvard Heights; and 68 drawings from his Master's thesis project. The materials in the collection are grouped into series designated by the archivist as suggested in the Standard Series for Architecture and Design Records: A Tool for the Arrangement and Description of Archival Collections, developed by Kelcy Shepherd and Waverly Lowell (2010).
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G. Joseph Sills, Jr. Papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains the research materials and correspondence of G. Joseph Sills (1931-2000) concerning the events surrounding th Battle of Little Big Horn and Custer's Last Stand. The collection has been divided into two boxes: one containing his correspondence with various historians and National Park Service personnel, one holding his research and writings. The correspondence extends chronologically from Sills first visit to the Little Big Horn Associates annual conference in 1984 through his death in the summer of 2000. Chief correspondents include historians Brian Pohanka, Ronald Nichols, and Francis B. Taunton. A summary of the sixteen years of exchanges between Sills, Pohanka, and Nichols has been compiled by Pohanka and is at the end of this finding aid. The research Sills collected contains notes made while investigating the Battle of Little Big Horn at the National Archives and other pertinent archives. Much of his research was documented by hand on yellow legal pads and is contained herewith. The collection also contains photocopies of other manuscript materials with Sills' annotation. Intensely focused on the events surrounding Custer's Last Stand, the collection revolves around not only George A. Custer, but several of his subordinates as well (Myles Walter Keogh, Frederick William Benteen, and Marcus A. Reno). In addition, there are a number of articles--both published and unpublished--written by Sills' colleagues and correspondents. Lastly, Sills' various lectures and essays are included in this collection. These writings range from esoteric jottings on scraps of paper to final, typewritten drafts. The largely undated material in this box is arranged alphabetically and grouped into (1) notes and research, (2) secondary literature, and (3) Sills' writings, manuscripts, and ephemera.
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