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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Photographs of lunar surface, satellite antennas, and spacecraft likely used for Hibbs and Albert Frank Eiss book, The Earth-Space Sciences: Investigating Man's Environment, Laidlaw Bros., River Forest, Illinois, 1971.
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Arranged alphabetically by subject, the series contains brochures, correspondence, research materials, notes, publications, photographs, scripts, and clippings that document Hibbs' involvement in television and media projects, the Arms Control Study Group (ACSG) of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), Eyes on Earth and the Geosphere Project, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration's (UMTA) Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (MARTS), and the World Space Foundation's (WSF) Shuttle Sail Deployment Experiment (SSDE). The Biosphere 2 subseries is especially rich as Hibbs served on the Project Review Committee and exchanged experiment data and correspondence with crew member Roy L. Walford during its two year operation.
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Arranged chronologically, the series contains correspondence, drafts, outlines, notes, and ephemera that document Hibbs' extensive public speaking engagements. Hibbs spoke on a wide range of topics to varied audiences, including professional organizations, educators and students, JPL and Caltech employees, and community groups. Topics include exploring the solar system and Earth, the future of technology and space exploration, JPL projects and history, as well as personal travel. Hibbs maintained a folder of correspondence with his agent, Bill Cooper Associated, Inc., which is located in this series. In addition to general discussions regarding speeches and presentations, the miscellaneous correspondence includes potential television and film consulting requests. Hibbs frequently gave slide show presentations, many along with his speeches. Therefore, the drafts are often of the technical direction of the slide programs or the dialog to accompany the images.
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This collection documents the personal life and career of Albert R. Hibbs (1924-2003) as a manager and scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the relationships between JPL, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the development of the solar system exploration programs. Hibbs' consulting work for television and radio programs, Biosphere 2, and Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (MARTS) are also documented. Although the collection arrived at The Huntington in disarray, original order of the materials was maintained when possible and the arrangement reflects Hibbs' general organization by correspondent, subject, or format of materials. The collection is divided into ten series: Audio Visual Materials, Consulting Files, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Notebooks, Personal Files, Photographs and Negatives, Presentations and Speeches, Publications and Writings, Teaching Files, and Oversize. The bulk of collection materials date from 1931 to 1999 and consists of audio and video tapes, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs, publications, speeches, and writings. As the collection is arranged by both subject and format of the materials, researchers should be aware that materials are often dispersed through the series. For example, materials related to specific subjects are frequently represented in the JPL and Notebooks Series; similarly, Hibbs' friendship and collaboration with Roy L. Walford is documented in the Correspondence and Aging Research and Writings subseries of the Personal Series, in the Space Biospheres Ventures subseries of the Consulting series, as well as in the Audio Visual Materials Series. Correspondence is also dispersed throughout the series. AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science ABMA: Army Ballistic Missile Agency ACDA: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (United States) ACSG: Arms Control Study Group AIA: Aircraft Industries Association AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ARC: Associated Retirees of Caltech/JPL CAB: Civil Aeronautics Board COSPAR: Committee on Space Research (ICSU) CRAF: Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby CSIOP: Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal DSN: Deep Space Network DTMF: Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency ESA: European Space Agency FWHA: Federal Highway Administration GALCIT: Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology HAC: Hughes Aircraft ICSU: International Council of Scientific Unions IDRC: Industrial Development Research Council, Inc. IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IGY: International Geophysical Year IRAS: Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite JBIS: Journal of the British Interplanetary Society JEA: Joint Endeavor Agreement JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory LDASE: Large Deployable Antenna Shuttle Experiment MARTS: Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (UMTA) MWOA: Mount Wilson Observatory Association NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NGC: New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars NSTA: National Science Teachers Association OAST: Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (NASA) ODAP: Orbital Data Acquisition Program (USAF) OSF: Office of Space Flight (NASA) PCC: Pasadena City College SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar SEP: Solar Electric Propulsion SFOF Space Flight Operations Facility (JPL) SPFPAD: Spacecraft Performance and Flight Path Analysis Directorate SSDE: Shuttle Sail Deployment Experiment SSPS: Space Solar Power System STM: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy STS: Space Transportation System SURF: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Caltech/JPL) TIROS: Television Infrared Observational Satellite TACIT: Theater Arts at California Institute of Technology TSPD: Technology and Space Program Development UCLA: University of California-Los Angeles UMTA: Urban Mass Transportation Administration USAF: United States Air Force USC: University of Southern California USNR: United States Naval Reserve VOIR: Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar VPMA: Volunteer Professionals for Medical Advancement (Caltech) WAC: Without Attitude Control WESCON: Western Electronic Show and Convention WSF: World Space Foundation
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The series consists of notes and is divided into three subseries, Appointment Books, Miscellaneous, and Technical Notes. Within the subseries, materials are arranged by format and chronologically or alphabetically. The Appointment Books, maintained by Hibbs, contain brief personal and work related schedule notes. The Notebooks and Steno Books constitute the bulk of the Miscellaneous subseries. The Notebooks contain diverse notes on a variety of topics ranging from the space program to finding an apartment. An early Steno book was labeled "phone notes" and the entries throughout the books are detailed, personal, handwritten notes taken during phone conversations, meetings, or conferences. Each entry is typically prefaced with the date, participants, and the subject of discussion. The Steno Books are full of notes on a wide range of topics, including Morgantown, space studies and exploration, microscopes, and the development of medical technologies such as tissue cultures, hearing implants, and neurobiology. Other topics include the space shuttle, solar system exploration and solar sailing, lunar programs, the deep space network, asteroids, "Why Explore Space," Earth sciences and applications, analytical instrumentation, the space lab and space station, LESS Workshop, EEIS (End to End Information System), global habitization, atmospheric research, materials processing, and oceanography. In addition, JEA (Joint Endeavor Agreement), ESA (European Space Agency), Venus balloons, CRAF (Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby), Explorer proposals, SCORE, TSPD (Technology and Space Program Development), OAST (Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology), and Mars are topics during the 1980s. Technical notebooks contain notes of a technical, mathematic, and/or scientific nature. Notebooks labeled "Deal 1" and "Deal 2" reference the Explorer 1 and 2 launches attended by Hibbs. Explorer program material is also located in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Series, however it is primarily published and promotional records. Hibbs' attempts at designing microcomputers for various functions are also documented in the Technical Notes subseries.
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