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W. Sherman Savage collection

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    W. Sherman Savage Collection

    Manuscripts

    The papers concern Savage's writing and research on African American history, especially in the California and trans-Mississippi West, his retirement from Lincoln University in 1960 and his subsequent teaching at Cal State LA. There is also material about his efforts to secure a publisher for his major study, Blacks in the West. The papers in this collection represent only the latter portion of Savage's career as an historian and educator. Unfortunately, according to Savage himself, his earlier papers were destroyed by a tenant who was leasing the Savages' home after his retirement from Lincoln University (carbon copy of letter to Dr. Michael R. Winston, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, July 14, 1974, Box 7, folder 10). Some notable items include correspondence in 1969 and 1970 between Sherman Savage and various representatives of the University of Nebraska's educational television station in the course of developing a television series on African-Americans in the West (see Savage to Larry Long, Box 6, folder 53 and University of Nebraska, University Television to Sherman Savage, Box 7, folder 42); multiple drafts of Sherman Savage's major publication, Blacks in the West (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976), Boxes 1 through 3. Note: Many of the materials are in rather poor physical condition because of the deteriorating paper upon which the letters or manuscripts were produced or because of previous circumstances of storage.

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    Memoirs of W. Sherman Savage

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    Typescript memoir of historian W. Sherman Savage, with some small pencil corrections. The memoir contains the following chapters: Chapter I. Growing up on the Eastern shore of Virginia; Chapter II. The Effort to Secure an Education; Chapter III. Beginning of my teaching career; Chapter IV. The Early Years at Lincoln University; Chapter V. The Reorganization of the College after 1921; Chapter VI. Development of Lincoln after 1931; Chapter VII. Developing the Department of History; Chapter VIII. Research; Chapter IX. California State College and Various Summer Schools; Chapter X. The Work of Research and Writing.

    mssHM 48340

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    Sherman Fung photograph collection

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    This small group of items include 52 photographs of Y.C. Hong and other members of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, including Kenneth Y. Fung. In one series of photographs, the group is up at Mt. Lowe. Also included are family photographs of Y.C. Hong and his children, and 12 photographs of San Francisco, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. There are also two handwritten notes, presumably by Sherman Fung, about some of the photographs. Some of the items are photographic postcards.

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    Sherman Fung photograph collection

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    This small group of items include 52 photographs of Kenneth Y. Fung, Y. C. Hong, president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, and other members of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. In one series of photographs, the group is up at Mt. Lowe. Also included are family photographs of Y.C. Hong and his children, and 12 photographs of San Francisco, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. There are also two handwritten notes, presumably by Sherman Fung, about some of the photographs. Some of the items are photographic postcards.

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    Walter Savage Landor correspondence

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    The collection consists of 110 letters from Walter Savage Landor; 95 are to his sister, Elizabeth Landor, and 15 are to his niece, Sophy Landor. There are also 35 letters from Elizabeth Landor to Walter Savage Landor and three from Sophy Landor to Walter Savage Landor. The collection also contains correspondence to and from Sophy Landor and others (98 pieces) about the affairs of Walter Savage Landor from 1858 and after. There are also a few manuscripts, and press clippings of Landor's poems and about the libel case, Yescombe v. Landor in 1858.

    mssHM 31656-31909

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    Isaac Sherman papers, (bulk 1848-1881)

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    Personal papers of Isaac Sherman, including his correspondence, legal, financial, and political papers

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