Fremont Ackerman worked as an engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana. He later established his own business as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Southern California area. The collection consists of field books, maps, drawings, correspondence, and business papers related to Fremont Ackerman's work with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana and his activities as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Los Angeles region.
The Assembly Select Committee on Genetic Diseases was established on February 10, 1977 to assess and further the State government's involvement in progressing research on genetic diseases afflicting Californians. The work of the committee was heavily focused on evaluating research programs for systemic lupus erythematosus, more commonly known as lupus. The committee was dissolved at the end of the 1989-1990 legislative session. The collection consists of four file folders of Hearing Files from 1977 to 1978.
7.7 Linear Feet (10 boxes, 2 oversized folders 275 digitized images) and 4.0 unprocessed linear feet
Creator
Bonner, Mitchell I.
Abstract Or Scope
This collection comprises approximately 3,000 photographs and slides taken by Mitchell Bonner between 1975 and 2001, as well as printed ephemera collected by him through 2015. The images document Iu Mien, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, and Cambodian community social and cultural events throughout Northern California, primarily the San Francisco Bay area. The emphasis is on Laotian American communities. The ephemera includes programs, posters and flyers from cultural, religious, and popular culture events, refugee publications, pamphlets and brochures from refugee assistance agencies, and other materials related to social services, education, and refugees. The collection also includes a small amount of material documenting other Asian American communities in California, including Burmese, Thai, Filipino, and Tibetan.
This collection comprises the papers of Erwin Chemerinsky, American lawyer, scholar, and founding dean of the UC Irvine School of Law. The papers consist of professional, scholarly, and personal materials documenting his life and career, including publications, teaching materials, case and research files, files related to special projects he worked on, audio and video recordings, media and publicity materials, correspondence, and college and early professional papers. Materials are in analog and digital formats.
This collection consists of approximately 825 individual film titles primarily of independent and experimental shorts of such film artists as Arthur Lipsett, Rautis, Norman McLaren, Peter Foldes, Alan Septoff, David Perry, Kathy Strickland, Pat Sullivan, Paul Dopff, Baur, Dick Corben, Rene Jodoin, Patricia Marx, Charles Fischer, Scott Bartlett, Robert Swarthe and John Mayer, Dave Fleischer, James W. Horne, Frank Olvey and Robert Brown, Norman Gollin, Bill Norton and Steve Rosen, Venezia, Leonard Henny, Rick Friedberg, Mary Ellen Bute, James Glover, Ben Van Meter, Russell Kingston, Kevin Rafferty, Bruce Green, Peter Spoecker, Robert Swarthe and John Mayer, Len Lye, Paulmichel Mielche, Howard Lester, Walerian Borowczyk, Rob Thompson, Stuart Kusher, David Brain, Chuck Menville and Len Janson, Larry Secrist, Christopher McCulloch, Dick Harber, Ryan Larkin, Leonard Lipton, Paul von Shreiber, Robert Green, Bud Fisher, Jerry Fairbanks, Paul Golding, Tom Desimone, and Libby. The collection also includes the following full length features: Animal crackers (1930), Citizen Kane (1941), Hell's angels (1930), Killing of a Chinese bookie (1976), Nosferatu (1921), Opening night (1977), Phantom of the Opera (1925), Reefer madness (1936), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), The lady from Shanghai (1947), The navigator (1924), The passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Woman under the influence (1974). The bulk of the collection consists of 16 mm. safety prints with a small number of 35 mm. safety prints.
61.2 Linear Feet (153 boxes and 15 oversize folders) and 2.6 unprocessed linear feet
Creator
Derrida, Jacques
Abstract Or Scope
This collection is comprised of manuscripts, typescripts, recordings, photographs, and an extensive clippings file documenting the professional career of Jacques Derrida and providing comprehensive documentation of his activities as a student, teacher, scholar, and public figure. In addition, Derrida's files on the 1988 controversy regarding Paul de Man's World War II-era writings are also included. Best known for the development of "deconstruction," Derrida was trained as a philosopher, but his work engages and transverses numerous other discourses such as literature, politics, law, religion, psychoanalysis, and ethnography. Ranging from his early work as a student to his recent seminars, the material in the archive spans from circa 1946 to 2000. The collection contains numerous pages of notes and written reports that reflect Derrida's academic training under the tutelage of figures such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. His commitment to teaching is documented by a full collection of teaching notes for the multitude of seminars that he has taught over the course of his career. The more public side of Derrida is also well represented by notes, working drafts, final drafts, and other materials related to his vast published output. With the exception of the photographs, the collection contains no material that might be described as "personal," such as private correspondence. The vast majority of the materials are in French.
Collection includes photographs, negatives, and postcards for a wide variety of northern California locations and events, including dam construction, logging, mining, food processing, and community buildings and activities.