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Joseph Talmage and Vera Jean Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1118
Abstract
The J. Talmage and Vera Jones Collection mostly covers the decades of the 1930s through the 1970s. The photos and documents in this collection are personal, family, and church involvement records ranging from the US Southwest to Singapore and Canada. The majority of the records are from or about J. Talmage Jones with some records produced or about his family, having most to do with their church activities and missionary work. The primary language of this collection is English and is largely...
Dates:
1913-2002
Macpherson Second-Wave Feminist Collection
Collection
Identifier: D-Mss-0985
Abstract
The Macpherson Second-Wave Feminist Collection includes feminist publications, newletters, newspaper clippings, newspaper/magazine articles, political writings, scholarly writings, addresses, reports, programs, directories, bibliographies, posters, and oversized materials related to the second-wave feminist movement, with a few excpetions of earlier materials. The Macpherson Second Wave Feminist Collection is an artificially assembled collection that has been added to the Ida Rust Macpherson...
Dates:
circa 1942-1999; Majority of material found in 1950-1985
Found in:
02 - Ella Strong Denison Library
Maps and ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0501
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 5 boxes of maps and travel brochures assembled by Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections from local history files and the G. William MacPherson collection. The collection is primarily made up of California state, regional, and street maps; as well as guides and brochures to California events and travel destinations, including museums, fairs, resorts, and areas of natural beauty. Also included in the collection are maps of the United States as well as other...
Dates:
1892-2007; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1955
William McPherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0524
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, photographs, account books and journals, land and tax records, manuscripts, scrapbooks, notes, transcripts, reports, newspapers, clippings, promotional materials, and ephemera, relating to the family, life, career, and intellectual pursuits of Orange County, California, avocado rancher and historian William McPherson (1885-1964). Family papers document the McPhersons' settlement in Orange County in the 1870s, and their involvement in local agriculture, first in the...
Dates:
1664/65-1970.; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1945
Moore-Fowler Collection of Pomoniana
Collection
Identifier: PC-0048
Abstract
This collection contains materials belonging to Edith E. Moore (’26) and C. Raymond Fowler (’50) primarily relating to student life at Pomona College. Materials include event programs and ephemera, photographs, postcards, class officer meeting minutes, and reunion materials for the Pomona College Class of 1950.
Dates:
1924-2002
Found in:
06 - Pomona College Archives
Marion Parks papers
Collection
Identifier: H1985.7
Abstract
The papers of Marion Parks, a talented and resourceful personality in Los Angeles during the early 1900s, relate to the history of Southern California. Parks described herself as "a California historian." Her principal contributions in this capacity were a series of still-useful booklets published while she was publicity writer for Security-First National Bank, and the organization of colorful historical pageants (in the Spanish style) in several California towns. Her local history files...
Dates:
1909-1940 (bulk 1926-1940); Majority of material found within 1926 - 1940
Poe Family Collection of Pomoniana
Collection
Identifier: PC-0032
Abstract
The Poe Family Collection of Pomoniana features materials belonging to alumni Arlo David Poe (’23), Nadine Lucille (Merriam) Poe (’24), and Joan (Poe) Lowry (’49) that highlight campus life and events at Pomona College from 1920 to 1949.
Dates:
1920-1949; Majority of material found within 1920-1927
Found in:
06 - Pomona College Archives
Vivian Ridler Double Crown Club Collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1080
Abstract
The Double Crown Club, a dinner club and society of printers, publishers, book designers, and artists, was founded in 1924 to promote the appreciation of good printing and the arts of the book. The club’s name refers to a size of paper. The collection comprises Club invitations and menus printed between 1927 and 1999; the menus and invitation cards are specimens of the work of some of the most distinguished British designers and presses. Also included in the collection are volumes that list...
Dates:
1927-2006
Ken Smith Nu Alpha Phi Collection
Collection
Identifier: PC-0027
Abstract
The collection contains Nu Alpha Phi memorabilia, such as photographs, scrapbooks, and banners; copies of the Oak Leaf newsletter; member correspondence; biographical files; fraternity histories and reminiscences; and planning documents regarding Nu Alpha Phi events, scholarships, and programs.
Dates:
1923-2010
Found in:
06 - Pomona College Archives
Peter Stanley Papers
Collection
Identifier: PC-0023
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence from Pomona College’s eighth president, Peter Stanley, as well as materials relating to his presidential inauguration and the Byron Dick Seaver Theatre Complex construction project.
Dates:
1972-2003
Found in:
06 - Pomona College Archives