Stanford University, Manuscripts Division

Loose manuscripts of papers from the 1980 Chinese American Studies Conference. Includes papers rejected for the conference.

The William Abrahams Papers include material on books that Abrahams edited under his own imprint for such presses as the Atlantic Monthly Press, Holt Rhinehart and Winston, and E. P. Dutton. The papers contain working drafts, typescripts, research notes, and correspondence. Financial reports and correspondence relating to his service as literary trustee are also present, along with research files on both Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. Additionally, a collection of the books Abrahams edited during his distinguished career, and the texts he co-authored with historian Peter Stansky are available.

Contains material related to Ackland's Witness; the life story of George Daisley, including original typescripts, research notes, correspondence, and photographs, 1953-2008.

There are awards, keepsakes, and reproductions of Adams' photographs, as well as two Adams photographs by George Waters of Ansel Adams, 1946-1947, 1974, and 1979. Ephemeral publications and objects including a tee-shirt and coffee can decorated with Adams' photos complete the collection.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies. After having begun in sales at Amphenol in the early 1960s, Stephen J. Zelencik started working for Fairchild Semiconductor in 1964-5, migrating to Advanced Micro Devices in 1970 at the request of founder Jerry Sanders, who had left Fairchild to start AMD the year before. He was AMD's first outside salesperson, eventually serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Executive. Zelencik retired from AMD in 2003. This small collection contains 12 VHS videotapes and 1 DVD-R related to AMD, as well as a set of slides from Amphenol.

The Aguilar Papers and Photographs include the personal and professional materials of Laura Aguilar and occupy 2.75 linear feet. The collection traces through correspondence with mentors and friends both Aguilar's artistic development and her struggle with dyslexia. Her professional achievements are detailed in the series on exhibitions and published works. The print series includes original prints of three of Aguilar's photographic series: Latina Lesbians, Plush Pony, and Clothed/Unclothed.

The collection consists of loose papers and volumes of general accounts. The first group in the series of loose material consists of sundry papers and documents from 1888 to 1897, and were originally found together as such. The second group contains three numbered subseries, which are also in their original order; these are headed accounts. The subject matter of these accounts is varied and with no obvious order other than chronological; the papers have been listed with their numbers preserved as they were numbered in the envelopes in which they were found. The series are H-1 to H-30, I-2 to I-17, and 1-629. These papers are dated from 1890 to 1939; some numbers are missing, which the donor stated at the time the collection was presented to this library. There is a rough progression in date, and the subjects include: individual accounts and collections, legal documents, (bills of sale, contracts, charters), correspondence, and statements. The third group of papers are financial reports from Unalaska and date from 1936 to 1940 and the last group consists of annual financial reports and lists of stockholders of the Alaska Commercial Company.

This collection consists of reports and articles by Philippines based journalist Albert Ravenholt. The materials include typed or mimeographed articles, newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, publications, press releases and other materials.

33 French documents, dating from the 13th to 17th centuries, pertaining primarily to property and monetary transactions, including among other items records of sale, marriage contracts, rental contracts, expense records, and a will; also several documents issued by feudal authorities. Many of these documents are in regional dialect. 10 Spanish documents relating to property in or near Cordoba, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. One political document from the Council of Basel, ca. 1420.