Collections Processed in the CFPRT

Collections Processed in the CFPRT

All collections listed below have been processed by students in the Center for Primary Research and Training and are open for research. 

African American Studies

• Jefferson Family Papers (Thomas Jefferson's "lost" grandchildren), 1861-1975. Collection 1218
• Debbie Louis Civil Rights Ephemera, 1949-1971. Collection 1111
• Helene V. Smookler Papers on School Integration, 1969-1985. Collection 1547
• Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Literature Ephemera, 1912-1964. Collection 923

African Studies

• James S. Coleman Papers (founder of African Studies Department at UCLA), 1975-1985. Collection 383
• Charles R. Nixon Papers (UCLA Professor of Political Science, studied African nations in the 1960s) Collection Number 582
• John Povey Papers (UCLA Professor and Director of the African Humanities Institute, specialist in African arts), 1958-1992. Collection 452

Art and Architecture

• John Corneby Wilson Austin Papers, (Los Angeles architect, Griffith Park Observatory) ca. 1890-1963. Collection 904
• Ayres and Feige Architectural Drawings (modernist architecture), 1939-1970. Collection 115
• Herbert M. Baruch Corporation Records (contractors for the Hollywood Bowl and many other buildings), ca. 1920-1949. Collection 1512
• Institute for Dance and Experimental Art (I.D.E.A.) Records, 1956-1994. Collection 1753
• J. Evan Miller Collection of Cinerama Theater Plans, 1922-1965 (bulk 1955- 1965). Collection 1546
• Simon Toparovksy Collection (designer and sculptor), 1995-2007 Asian American Studies. Collection 1734
• W. Eugene Dimon (Recreation Director of the Pomona Assembly Center for detained Japanese) Papers, 1942-1943. Collection 2010
• * Josephine Fowler (scholar in early Japanese and Chinese American communist activity) Papers, ca. 1930-2004. Collection 1801
• Ho Young Ham Papers (Korean nationalist and Hawaiian immigrant), 1873- 1984. Collection 697
• Collection of Material about Japanese American Internment, 1929-1956 (bulk 1942-1946). Collection 131
• Japanese American Project Oral History Collection, California State University, Fullerton, Oral Histories, 1966-1976. Collection 2067
• Kasai Family Papers (concerning Japanese American Citizens League), 1904- 1965. Collection 2010
• Shigeichi Kawano Papers (concerning Heart Mountain Relocation Center), 1942-1945. Collection 1251
• Steve Louie Asian American Movement Collection, 1930-1980 (bulk 1964- 1980). Collection 1805
• Constantine Panunzio Collection of Material on Japanese American Internment, ca. 1942-1943. Collection 1636
• Fuju Sasaki (mayor of Seabrook Farms, Japanese American community in New Jersey) Papers, 1944-1986 (bulk 1944-1954). Collection 1440
• Sumitomo Bank of California Photographs (images of Japanese Americans from 1887 to 1976), 1976. Collection 2010
• Yasui Family Papers (Japanese immigrant to Hawaii), ca. 1910-1946. Collection 2010

Education

• * Ethel M. Young (early childhood educator) Papers. Collection 970

Film, Theater, and Television

• Stanley Chase Papers (producer), 1925-2001 (bulk 1955-1989). Collection 1090
• Notes and Drafts for a Plea to George Bernard Shaw, by Edward Gordon Craig (actor, theatrical producer, director, stage designer), 1929-1931. Collection 170/512
• Edwin Bower Hesser (Hollywood photographer) Photographs, ca. 1925-1949. Collection 1071
• Gavin Lambert Collection of Books and Tapes (writer), ca. 1954-2004. Collection 1278
• George E. Lask Papers (theater director, creator of "Floradora Girls"), 1882- 1935. Collection 742
• Charles Laughton Papers (actor), 1930-1962. Collection 851
• Robert Luthardt Papers (production designer), 1900-1978 (bulk 1960-1975). Collection 2090
• Clete Roberts Papers (broadcast journalist and filmmaker), ca. 1910-1980. Collection 1288
• George Schaefer Papers (producer), 1951-1991. Collection 558

History

• Board of State and Territorial Commissioners of the North, Central, and South American Exposition in New Orleans, meeting minutes, 1885-1886. Collection 170/157
• Thirteen Weeks on the Lord Warden (journal of a trip from England to Australia), by Henry Brooke, 1873-1874. Collection 170/588
• Log of the H.M.S. Samarang (British Royal Navy ship, surveying coastal areas in South America), by John Edward Davis , 1831-1834. Collection 170/336
• Samuel Dickenson Journal of Travels in Europe and Africa, 1758-1789. Collection 170/429
• Feldman Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts, ca. 1500-1950. Collection 960
• Narrative of her Captivity in Barbary [… et al.], by Elizabeth Marsh
  (Englishwoman captured by pirates), 1760-1795. Collection 170/604
• Propaganda Material from Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia, ca. 1847-1976. Collection 1274
• Collection of Socialist and Labor Movement Pamphlets and Books, 1886-1962. Collection 932
• My Journey from Sydney, by W. H. Stephens (traveler to Samoa, Tahiti, Honolulu, California, Mexico, and Panama), 1858-1859. Collection 170/11
• Flight and Wanderings of Emilio Aguinaldo (Philippine revolutionary leader), translation by Simeon A. Villa, 1899-1901. Collection 170/103
• A Trip to the West Indies, by Theodore Walker, 1908. Collection 170/684
• M. Wright (Irish surveyor in East New South Wales) Diary, Australia, 1847. Collection 170/296

History, American

• Allen Family Collection of Kennedy-Johnson Inaugural Ephemera. Collection 1751
• Walter E. Bennett Photographic Archive (first salaried photographer for Time Magazine), 1937-1983 (bulk 1952-1982). Collection 686
• Edward Butterworth Diary of a Trip from Boston to San Francisco, 1849-[1859?]. Collection 170/217
• Tour in the United States and Canada, by Jesse Collings, 1899. Collection 170/605
• Jonathan Friedlander American Orientalism Collection, 1875-2006. Collection 1314
• Hamilton V. Bail Harvard University Collection, 1643-1950 (bulk 1800-1940). Collection 1617
• Journal of a Trip from England to North America, by Frances Long Holt, 1872. Collection 170/135
• Collection of Material about Abraham Lincoln. Collection 2021
• * Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (pioneer in juvenile delinquency law), ca. 1894-1943. Collection 832

History, California

• Cuaderno de Cuentas dela Casa del J[os]e Amesti (merchant in Monterey, California) del ano de 1840 a 1850, 1840-1866. Collection 170/541
• California Land Claims, v. 1-24 and miscellaneous vols., ca. 1850s-1860s. Collection 170/136
• Robert Ernest Cowan Collection of Early California Manuscripts, 1550-1900. Collection 2048
• A Scotch Paisano: Hugo Reid's life in California (1832-1852), by Susanna Bryant Dakin, 1939. Collection 170/202
• Pioneer Data from 1832, by John Forster, 1878. Collection 170/78
• Matthew Van Benschoten Fowler (U.S. Customs inspector in San Francisco) Diary, 1851. Collection 170/102
• Jewelle Taylor Gibbs Research Material on the Police Beating of Rodney King 1993-2005 (bulk 1993-1994). Collection 1807
• N.J. "Bud" Goldstone Collection on Simon Rodia's Towers, 1959-2002. Collection 1317
• Dorothy Green Papers (environmental activist, founder of Heal the Bay in Santa Monica), 1963-2000 (bulk 1971-1993). Collection 1736
• Gilbert A. Harrison (materials relate to his time as a UCLA student and the editor of the California Daily Bruin) Papers, 1901-1966 (bulk 1934-1936). Collection 1810
• Norris Hundley Papers (water rights), 1794-2000. Collection 577
• The Spanish Missions of California and Their Influence Today, dissertation by James M. Keys, 1949. Collection 170/511
• Ana Begue de Packman Papers (Rancho family descendant), ca. 1845-1976 (bulk ca. 1880-1960). Collection 1491
• C.C. Pierce Photographs, ca. 1898-1934. Collection 1757
• Rancho San Pedro Property Documents, [1854?]. Collection 170/41
• Abel Sterns: California Pioneer, 1798-1871, masters thesis by Pearl Pauline Stamps, 1925. Collection 170/160
• Abel Sterns (cattleman) Letters, 1861-1865. Collection 170/590
• * Western States Jewish Archive, 1850-2000. Collection 1739
• Jake Zeitlin Papers (bookseller and promoter of Los Angeles culture), ca. 1926-1987. Collection 334

History, European

• Commonplace Book, by unknown student at Oxford, 1684-1720. Collection 170/53
• Collection of English Pamphlets, ca. 1700-1900. Collection 1800
• * Farrington Family (English) Correspondence, ca. 1760-1821. Collection 668
• Collection of French Political Broadsides, 1793-1871. Collection 530
• Collection of Pamphlets from the French Revolutionary Period, 1787-1806 Manuscripts in Incunabula. Collection 1515
• George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney Papers, 1775-1826. Collection 595
• Commonplace Book, by E. Stiff (Englishwoman), 1798-1807. Collection 170/52
• Charles Stuart de Rothesay Papers (diplomat and spy), 1779-1845. Collection 648

History, Western United States

• Cave Johnson Couts (Officer of the 1st U.S. Dragoons on the Western frontier and Mexico) Diary, 1849. Collection 170/101
• Journal of a Campaign through the South Western and Western Prairies in the Months of May and June 1833, by Edward Worrell (U.S. Army surgeon). Collection 170/119

Latin American Studies

• * Collection of Manuscripts Relating to Famine, Chalco, Mexico, 1741. Collection 170/654
• * Records of the Haciendas Santa Maria Buenavista and San Geronimo in Central Mexico, ca. 1500-1700. Collection 170/469
• Byron McAfee Papers (ethno historian and Nahuatl linguist), 1553-1964. Collection 339
• Collection of Mexican Pamphlets and Other Printed Material, 1719-1887. Collection 1365
• Mexican Proclamations Issued during the Mexican-American War, 1807-1864 (bulk 1846-1848). Collection 997
• * Notarial Contracts from Colonial Puebla de Los Angeles (New Spain/Mexico, ca. 1580). Collection 170/383
• Peruvian Manuscripts, ca. 1600-1800. Collection 1070
• Political Newspapers from Buenos Aires, 1812-1851. Collection 1812
• 1/2 Snap Shot at Mexico (typescript of travelogue to Mexico), by Everett Pomeroy (author, Catholic American), 1900. Collection 170/567
• Collection of Material about Tulancingo, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1540-1875. Collection 2073
• Donna M. Wilson Collection of Brazilian Slides by John S. Stiles, Jr., ca. 1954- 1956. Collection 1750

Linguistics

• Linguistic-Psychological Studies of Genie (pseudonym) Research Materials, 1895-2003 (bulk 1970-2003). Collection 800

Literature

• The Shelter of the Cloth (typescript of unpublished novel set in Mexico around 1871), [1950], by Raphael Fabian Bennett. Collection 170/395
• Albert and Charles Boni, Inc. Records (publisher), 1916-1974. Collection 1462
• Edgar Bowers Papers (poet), 1868-2003 (bulk 1920-2000). Collection 565
• Broadside Ballads from England, Ireland, and the United States Collection, ca. 1770-1865. Collection 605
• Bob Brown Papers (poet), 1844-1960. Collection 723
• Maria Edgeworth (Anglo-Irish novelist, 1767-1849) Library
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Collection, 1827-1954. Collection 1595
• Peter H. Lee. Collection of Books and Letters from Wallace Stevens, 1940-1963. Collection 146
• Commonplace Book, M.G. Lewis (writer) 1801-1811?. Collection 170/341
• Alfred Edwin Longeuil Lectures (UCLA Professor of English), 1962-1965. Collection 1489
• Henry Miller (writer) Papers, ca. 1920-1980. Collection 110
• Gabriela Mistral (pseudonym of Alcayaga Lucila Godoy, first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945). Collection, 1930-1950. Collection 311
• Commonplace Books, by Lady Sydney Morgan (writer), ca. 1800-1810. Collection 170/198
• Alexander Pope Letter to William Fortescue, 1735 June 22. Collection 170/332
• Kenneth Rexroth Papers (poet), 1853-1986 (bulk 1950-1975). Collection 175
• The Child's Arabian nights, by W. Heath Robinson (illustrator), [1903?]. Collection 170/448
• The Yellow Count (unpublished typescript), by Alberto Muller Schaertlin, 1935-1939. Collection 170/454
• Jake Zeitlin on D.H. Lawrence Manuscripts, 1933-1981 (bulk 1933-1955). Collection 1353

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Near Eastern Studies

• Exhibit Collection of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts, 1492-1848. Collection 1656
• Noyan Garemani. Collection of Persian and Arabic Manuscripts and Books, ca. 1514-1899. Collection 453
• Gelpke Collection of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts, ca. 1447-1902. Collection 1658
• 'Ilmiyah Collection of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts, 1539-1893. Collection 1654
• Iraq Out-of-Country Voting Program Ephemera and Posters, 2004-2005. Collection 454
• Rouhollah Richard Karubian. Collection of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts, 1510-1930. Collection 1183

Political Theory

• British Political Texts from the Nineteenth Century, 1757-1901. Collection 274
• Alan J. Silver Collection of Books by and about Thomas Paine

Science, Medicine, and Technology

• Willard E. Goodwin Papers (founder of UCLA Urology Department of the Medical School, nephew of Elmer Belt), 1842-1998 (bulk 1915-1998). Collection 573
• Alexander Kolin Papers (UCLA professor emeritus of biophysics who corresponded with Albert Einstein), 1929-1990. Collection 966
• Judd Marmor Papers (UCLA Professor of Psychiatry), 1923-2001. Collection 1795

* Collection currently being processed.