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