Manuscripts
Tony LeVier papers
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Tony LeVier papers
Manuscripts
The collection is chiefly made up of correspondence written to test-pilot Tony LeVier from fans, fellow pilots, and retired pilots, etc. There are also invitations to give talks, attend events, as well as letters supporting his SAFE endeavor. Some notable authors include: Congressman Barry Goldwater and the National Air and Space Museum. The correspondence does include numerous letters by LeVier. Besides correspondence, the collection includes printed material (most about LeVier and his career), talks given by LeVier, an obituary of LeVier, material about Lockheed, and transcripts of testimony LeVier gave before the House Subcomittee on Investigation and Oversight. Additional material was received in October 2017 and has been integrated with the original collection received in May 2013.
mssLeVier papers
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Marion DeVries Papers
Manuscripts
This collection chiefly contains letters written to United States Congressman from California and United States Court of Customs Appeals judge Marion DeVries (1865-1939), between the late 1890s and 1925, chiefly expressing gratitude for a favor rendered or to ask for his political support. Of note are two letters; the first was written by A. F. Hector to Marion DeVries, dated Mar. 3, 1900 discussing mining in Mono County, California; the second was written by William H. Metson to Marion DeVries, which talks about the relationship between Mexico and the United States.
mssDeVries papers
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Photographs - LeVier, Tony and Unidentified Men Prepare for Flight On Dry Lake
Manuscripts
Archival materials related to the personal life and engineering career of Clarence (Kelly) L. Johnson at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, consisting of correspondence, papers and reports, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings and articles, speeches, technical drawings, notebooks, and ephemera. Some specific subjects include: the Lockheed Corporation, the U-2 plane, and Amelia Earhart.
mssJohnson, Clarence papers
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Gustavus F. Jocknick Papers
Manuscripts
The collection, which is arranged chronologically, contains mostly correspondence from Gustavus F. Jocknick to his friend John Wilkin. In the first two letters, which are written from San Francisco, Jocknick talks about San Francisco and his life in California. In his letters of 1860, Jocknick talks about his attempt to find work in New Jersey, the news of the upcoming war, and secession, the possibility of enlisting in the army, Abraham Lincoln, James G. Bennett and Nehemiah Perry. In his letters from 1861 to 1865, Jocknick talks about the impending war, his decision to enlist, William H. Seward, John C. Ten Eyck, Nathaniel Banks, and the election of Abraham Lincoln; he also talks about his enlistment in the 3rd Regiment of New York Cavalry under James Van Alen and John Mix. Jocknick also talks much about the movements of the armies and possible battles and mentions specifically: George McClellan, Charles P. Stone, Ambrose Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin F. Butler, August V. Kautz, G. T. Beauregard, George Mead, and Winfield Scott Hancock. Jocknick also mentions the Emancipation Proclamation and his fellow soldiers' reaction to it which were mostly negative. After the war, Jocknick began working as a clerk at the Office of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C. In his letters from this time (1865-1876) he talks about his job and duties as well as James Harlan and President Andrew Johnson. He also talks about the presidential election of Ulysses S. Grant, and the possibility of William Tecumseh Sherman running for president. In his letters after 1876, May 2, Jocknick is living in Ouray County, Colorado, as a farmer and talks about his life in the West as well as the Ute Indians, land and possible gold and silver mines. There is one letter by Jocknick in 1886 (written from San Diego) to the Pension Bureau. It includes three items regarding his pension. The last item in the collection is an incomplete letter by Jocknick's son Clifton to his brother Sidney Jocknick. In this letter (written circa 1922) Clifton talks about living in Southern California, and real estate prices and problems in Los Angeles and Pasadena.
mssHM 72615-72667
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Tony Newhall collection of rock concert posters
Visual Materials
The Tony Newhall collection of rock concert posters consists of 62 offset lithographed concert posters produced from 1966 to 1967 for the Bill Graham concert series at the Fillmore Auditorium (later Fillmore West) in San Francisco, California. Bill Graham was a concert promoter who ran the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California, and the Fillmore East in New York City. Graham's concerts were originally designed to promote local-based San Francisco musicians such as the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. His influence in promoting artists spread to the wider popularization of rock music during the late 1960s and 1970s counterculture movement. A total of 289 posters were created for the entire concert series spanning from 1966 to 1971; this collection contains the first 62 prints of the series. Tony Newhall assembled the collection by acquiring pieces from concerts he attended at the Fillmore Auditorium, from purchases made through vendors in the Bay Area, and through receipt of 20 prints from Bill Graham directly when he interviewed him as a student in Stanford. Images on the prints by artists Wes Wilson, Peter Bailey, Bonnie MacLean, and John H. Myers exemplify graphic design during the early years of the psychedelic era. Many of the printmakers also incorporated photographs taken by Edmund Shea, Gered Mankowitz, and Herb Greene of the musical performers in their prints. The concert posters include visual motifs of Art Nouveau-inspired curvilinear forms, illegible and fluid block lettering styles, and usage of vibrant optics and colors.
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James Alvin Bell papers addenda
Manuscripts
This small collection contains 14 letters between James Alvin Bell and Augusta Anna Hallock Elliott and two notes by Bell. Most of the correspondence in personal in nature and in them, Augusta talks about her personal life, her teaching job, etc. There are brief mentions of the Civil War. In one letter by Bell, dated 1862, Nov. 28, and written from Belle Plains, Virginia, he goes into more detail about life as a soldier, and talks about McClellan, Burnside, and President Lincoln. Many of Augusta's letters have poems and watercolors on them.
mssHM 82523-82540