Manuscripts

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Description: Pink quilted robe decorated with paint and ornaments, and two large rolled posters featuring poetry, paintings, and drawings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1970s-1980s
Call number: mssLeong
Provenance: Gift of Leslee See Leong, February 2020.
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Manuscripts

Primarily cards featuring original paintings and drawings created for members of the Leong and See families, including some cardboard dolls. A few pieces appear to be by Ruth Wong.

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Paintings and drawings, and several large-scale cards created for Gilbert Leong and other members of the See and Leong families. Also includes a kite made from a brown paper bag.

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Unique items created by Tyrus Wong including a bookplate designed for Florence See, flashcards, a comical book for Gilbert Leong about his childhood, and cards and letters for members of the Leong and See families featuring original drawings.

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Tyrus Wong

Manuscripts

Primarily original artwork by Tyrus Wong, who attended art school with Gilbert Leong in the 1930s and remained a close family friend. Includes items personalized for Gilbert and other Leong family members such as cards, booklets, and posters, as well as some drawings, paintings, and a kite. For Tyrus Wong's Dragon's Den menus, see Box 19.

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This collection consists of material created by and related to The Planetary Society since its beginning in 1980 and up to 2016. It contains Board of Directors correspondence, memorandums, and meeting minutes; material related to public relations, events, fundraising and membership; copies of The Planetary Report (not a complete set); NASA photo files; material related to the Solar Sail and the Mars Rover program; NASA and space exploration in general; Apollo reports; the Hubble Telescope; and US and Russian cooperation in space (including Planetary Society staff's trips to Russia). The collection also contains photographs and negatives; video cassette tapes and film; clippings; T-shirts, posters, badges, stickers, memorabilia; artwork; and miscellaneous material. There is material both about and by: Carl Sagan (including his 265-page curriculum vitae), Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Buzz Aldrin. There is artwork by space artists Ron Miller, Michael W. Carroll and Mark Paternostro among others.

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