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Once I played God : as told to Ruth Cain : oral history
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The Soft Touch of Ole Blood and Guts: as told to Ruth Cain: oral history
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In this reminiscence by Ted Vautherine (as told to Ruth Cain), he remembers, at the age of 15, first meeting George Patton. He also remembers Patton asking him to move into the adobe on their land to watch over Patton's sister Ann. Vautherine talks about working on the ranch and his interactions with Patton and the Patton family.
mssHM 77958
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Oral history interview with Shelby Jacobs
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Shelby Jacobs worked at North American Aviation (later, Rockwell) in southern California for 40 years, from 1956 to 1996. Born in Dallas in 1935, Jacobs’ family moved to the Los Angeles area for employment opportunities. Finally settling in Val Verde, a community in the Santa Clarita Valley that was known as “the Black Palm Springs,” Jacobs excelled in high school academics and athletics. After putting himself through a few years of college, Jacobs found work at Rocketdyne, the Space Division of North American Aviation. He worked as an engineer, but eventually moved into the Executive Program Office, also known as “Mahogany Row.” Jacobs’ transcript details the challenges and discrimination he faced and overcame while working in aerospace and living in southern California. Despite obstacles, he continually persevered and demonstrated excellence. During the Apollo Program, Jacobs designed the camera system that captured the iconic stage separation of Apollo 6. Years later, as the footage received wider attention and acclaim, Jacobs emerged as a “hidden figure,” whose accomplishments were finally being recognized by the larger public. His story details how he was motivated to succeed in aerospace not by a love of engineering, but by his commitment to breaking barriers and demonstrating success in spaces where Black people had been largely absent.
mssHM 80611 (64)
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Impossible to forget : the Nazi camps fifty years after
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"Michael Kenna photographed Nazi concentration and extermination camps from 1988 to 2000, subsequently donating all negatives, prints and their respective rights to the French Government and the Caen Memorial. Kenna first visited the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France in 1986. Two years later he returned, still marked by the initial emotional impact, no doubt the key to his decision to develop a project about the Holocaust. Since then, he has repeatedly returned to Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Lublin-Majdanek, Ravensbruck, Buchenwald and many other camps to photograph their restless emptiness. Overwhelmed by the abomination of the gas chambers and by the inexpressible suffering of the victims, Kenna wanted to share a memory that he found impossible to forget. Knowing that a work of art can be an invitation to meditation, he went to the concentration camps to photograph what they had become: sites of contemplation. The photographs in 'Impossible to Forget' are directly opposed to the evil that continues to live in the camps, to nihilism and to revisionism; they are bearers of peace and compassion"--Publisher's description.
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Petition regarding the Stockton and Sonora Turnpike Road Company
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Petition by Eugene C. Kelty, Angeline Reynolds, Gibbard C. Reynolds, Herman Camp, and Chauncy Johnson of the Stockton and Sonora Turnpike Road Company regarding the construction of a turnpike from Stockton to Sonora. Sent to the Court of Sessions, Tuolumne County, California.
mssHM 74169
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William Henry Harrison, headquarters Camp Meigs, to Brigadier General Green Clay :
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Harrison reports during the War of 1812 that he has arrived at Camp Meigs and orders Clay to join him there, gives directions and instructions for Clay's movements and possible difficulties. He mentions that Black Hoof (Catecahassa, Cutthewekasaw), chief of the Shawnees at Wapakoneta, will furnish Clay with reliable guides.
mssHM 23008
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Nathan H. Rappaport letters to Ruth Proskauer Smith
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Two autograph letters written by Dr. Nathan H. Rappaport to Ruth Proskauer Smith, an American advocate for reproductive rights. The letters were written just after his release from prison and detail Dr. Rappaport's work and his vow to continue regardless of possible future incarceration; he also advises how to advocate and thanks her for the literature Mrs. Smith has sent him.
mssHM 84140