William T. Vollmann
A Guide and Inventory
Spec.rare.cms.347
Guide compiled by Kristen DiPietro.
INTRODUCTION
William T. Vollmann, 1959-, Santa Monica, California. Educated at Deep Springs College, Cornell University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Vollmann is a complex and innovative novelist and journalist who has often mixed the two genres, and who often includes autobiographical elements in the mix. He is also an artist and photographer, and has included this kind of work in his books. In addition, he is a maker of artists’ book, and distributes them through his own press, Cotangent Press.
This collection is a continuation of OSU's archival holdings for this author. It contains materials acquired in 2008-2010, but spanning the period from approximately 2000 to 2009. Included here are research materials, notes, correspondence and drafts associated with books such as Imperial, Europe Central, Kissing the Mask, Riding Toward Everywhere, Uncentering the Earth, and Poor People, as well as numerous articles. In addition, there are numerous reviews and interviews with the author. Books and proofs have been cataloged
independently and will be available via a search of the catalog.
Overview of the Collection:
| Repository: | Rare Books and Manuscripts Library |
| Identification: | Spec.rare.cms.347 |
| Creator: | William T. Vollmann |
| Title: | William T. Vollmann Collection |
| Dates: | approx. 2000-2009 |
| Quantity: | 25 manuscript boxes |
| Description: | Includes notes, complete and partial drafts of Vollmann's work (both books and articles), correspondence, maps, drawings, photographs and other artistic media |
Box and Folder Listing:
Box 1
- Folders 1-6: Imperial Draft #1 (ts)
Box 2
- Folders 7-11: Imperial Draft #2 (ts)
Box 3
Folders Numbered 12-17- Imperial Draft #2 cont. (ts)
- Imperial Draft #2 cont. (ts)
- Imperial Draft #2 cont. (ts)
- Yankee Enclave: The Colorado River Land Company and Mexican agrarian reform in Baja California, 1902-1944 by Dorothy Pierson Kerig, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine 1988
- Between the Peasants and the Leviathan: The Exploration and Spontaneous Seizure of American-Owned Agricultural Property in Mexico, 1934-1941 by John Joseph Dwyer Ph.D., Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998, William C. Widenor, Advisor
- Lower California: A Cruise The Flight of the Least Petrel by Griffing Bancroft
Box 4
Folders Numbered 18-26A- The Maquiladors (ts)
- Pages 274-423 on Mexico (ts)
- Imperial Review and relevant California Writings
- Review of Imperial by Donna Seaman, April 1, 2009
- Obituary for Edith Donlevy Karpen of California
- “The End of the Great Expectation” by William T. Vollmann for The Los Angeles Times
- Imperial - Letters
- Letter to Bill from Kara (ms)
- Letter to Senator Barbara Boxer from Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Stanley Sheinbaum, Marjorie Fassman, Clara Yust, Larry Yust, and others (ts)
- Letter to Paul Slovak and to Bill from Bruce Giffords, 7/11/08 (ts)
- Envelope (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Magdalen Powers, 19 April 2005 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Alice (ts)
- Note to Bill (ts)
- Letter to Paul Slovak from Bruce Giffords, 8/14/08 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Carla Bolte with list of Fonts for Imperial, 1 June 07 (ts)
- Note to Bill from Steve, 4/2 (ms)
- Letter to Paul Slovak from Bruce Giffords, 7/2/08 (ts)
- Letter to Paul Slovak and Bill from Bruce Giffords, 6/18/08 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Sean Wilsey, August 14, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Bruce from Maureen Sugden, May 8, 2008, with random pages of Imperial and cover options (ts)
- Letter from Sylvie et Jean Hubert (ms)
- Imperial - notes and resources
- Six pages of copied advertisements
- Nine pages of copies maps of California and Salton Sea
- “California Cultivator: Imperial Valley”, October 28, page 414
- Hard Traveling Migrant Farm Workers in America by Tony Dunbar and Linda Kravitz, title page and pages 20-21
- Mexicali Valley
- Imperial from Los Angeles Times, Nov 28, 1901 page 9
- Writings on lettuce strike
- “A Definitive Interpretation of the Blythe Intaglios” (cs. 13,000 B.C. – 2006) pages 71, 1497, 1429, 1431
- Colorado River Basin Region – R7
- California Death Index
- Estimated average 1985 cost and net return to growers in Coachella Valley
- Pattern of Legal and Illegal Immigration to the Unites States from Mexico, 1964-1974
- Two pages of handwritten notes (ms)
- Imperial - Misc.
- Construction of Hoover Dam brochure
- Manzanar National Historical Site, California brochure
- Welcome to the Tower leaflet
- Reclamation: Managing Water in the West, Hoover Dam English, from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation brochure
- Eastern California Museum, Independence, California: Preserving Inyo County’s Heritage brochure
- Jacumba Hot Springs Spa and Cabana Club brochure
- Pedro Coyote en: Le Salió El Tiro Por La Culata! Comic book
- Imperial County California City Map
- Café Cantante: El Gato Negro Un Nuevo Concepto en su nueva modalidad de Banda Jueves, Viernes y Sabados brochure
- El Centro map
- Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area map and information
- Random notes on Mexicali Valley (ms)
- Random collected notes (ms)
- Archivo Histórico, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Mexicali brochure
- Premio Binacional de Novela Joven 2006: Frontera de palabras/Border of words brochure
- Mediterranean Fruit Fly Impact on You brochure
- Arizona: California Desert District Yuma map
- Visit the Salton Sea California card
- Imperial County Historical Society Board of Directors Meeting, December 14, 2006
- Imperial - Articles
- Obituary for Patrick Macdonald Keys 1955-2007, September 2007, page 27
- “Oil: Congress weighs rebates, gas-tax break”, page A22, April 28, 2006
- “Costume Drama: Mary V. Dearborn” by René Steinke and “Smoke on the Water: David Bowman on Steve Erickson” by Steve Erickson, Bookforum, Feb/Mar 2005, page 43-44
- “Raul Anguiano’s art provided ‘a glimpse into the Mexican soul’” from Los Angeles Times, page B5
- “Sing Now, Die Later: The Ballad of Chalino Sanchez” by Sam Quinones, 8/23/2005
- “Imperial County’s unemployment rate tops out at 15.4% in February” by Laura Mitchell, page A6, Imperial Valley Press, Sunday, March 23, 2003
- Imperial Valley Press, Sunday March 23, 2003 pages B7-B10
- Combined
- “Harry Chandler Called by Death: Publisher, 80, Succumbs in Hospital Following Two Heart Attacks”
- “Harry Chandler, Long Publisher of ‘Times’, Dies: Heart Attack Caused End of Los Angeles Leader Active in Developing Southland”
- Combined
- Imperial County APCD
- Air Resources Board “Air Pollution: Particulate Matter Brochure” May 6, 2003
- Air Resources Board “ARB Fact Sheet: Air Pollution and Health” August 21, 2001 updated December 27, 2005
- “The Children’s Health Study” Air Resources Board Fact Sheet updated September 2004
- “Pesticide Foes Will Win If Those Who Know Do Nothing”
- “Water Pollution: Agriculture and Urban Sources The Coachella Valley” by J.J. Oertli and G.R. Bradford
- “Why Acreage Limitation Have Failed in California” by Robert Durrow
- Mountain Heritage: The Back Country’s Historical Digest, Voice of the Mountain Empire Historical Society, Campo, California, Volume 18, Number 4, Summer 2004
- “Just This Side of the Treacherous Border, Here Lies Juan Doe” by Charlie LeDuff from The New York Times, Friday, September 24, 2004, page A16
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, June 27, 2004
- The Sacramento Bee: Business, Sunday, September 10, 2006
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, September 19, 2004
- The Rain Shadow: we watch the water, The Owens Valley Committee, vol. 1, no. 1, winter/spring 2005
- Imperial Valley Press Online
- “Thanks: Celebration of the luncheon plaudits” by Linda Cady, 4/22/2003
- “Mendoza finds greed, arrogance ‘appalling’” by Rudy Yniguez, 11/21/2001
- “Mendoza beats Veysey for IID seat” by Darren Simon, 11/08/2000
- “Stella Mendoza names Woman of the Year” by Rudy Yniguez, 03/13/2001
- “Fox Theater: Rags, paper used to set fire, officials say” by Richard Montenegro”, 01/26/2001
- “Terrazas named El Centro mayor” by Laura Mitchell, 11/26/2002
- “Grogan asks for anti-Imperial Group action” by Laura Mitchell, 03/20/2003
- “Grogan plan to buy, fallow land defeated” by Laura Mitchell, 09/05/2002
- “Sheriff’s candidate” by Ernie Mendoza, 02/16/2002
- Deep Springs College brochure with essay “Some Thoughts on Neglected Water Taps” by William T. Vollmann (ts)
- Harper’s Magazine, October 2004
- National Geographic: The Great Grey Owl, February 2005
- Imperial Agriculture
- Appendix C – Mexicali Valley Cotton Production, 1912-1956
- United States Department of Agriculture: Bureau of Agriculture Economics, October 1940, page 29, 19, 23, 25, 40
- California Cultivator, January 13, 1910, San Francisco “Cotton in the Imperial Valley”
- Farmers Step Up Profits with “On the Farm” Storage: Sturdy, strong, fire-safe Quonsets enable farmers to take advantage of Government Price Support Program”, and “Imperial Farmers Battling for Mexican Labor Permits” by Joe Crosby, from California Farmer, April 22, 1950
- Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1900 title page
- California Blue Book on State Roster 1911 compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State, pages 84, 97, 108, 112, 575, 576, 578, 641-645, 664, 665, 671, 672, 674, 675
- California Agriculture and Irrigation, pages 130-133, 148153, 170-173, 177-182
- Imperial Valley writings (ts)
- Local Area Personal Income for Imperial County years 1969-2001
- Connection to IPEDB: California Crop Group years 1946-1997
- Coachella and Imperial Valleys Agricultural Land Use Study, 1978 district report, pages 8, 10-14, 16, 17 (ts)
- Energy Requirements for Agriculture in California, pages 9, 11, 40, 42, 64, 65, 91, 94
- Resources: The Natural Base pages 27, 76, 82, 83, 97, 110, 121, 271, 395
- Connection to IPEDB California Livestock Group year 1975-1992
- Imperial County 1984-2002 Land Use Summary
- Imperial County Population 1999
- California State Board of Agriculture pages 122, 178, 340-343
- County Rank, Total Value of Production and Leading Commodities, 2002
- California Ranchos and Farms 1846-1862, pages 88-93, map, and title page
- -A. Other Agriculture documents
- Food Technology published monthly by The Institute of Food Technologies, vol. 4, no. 10, October 1950, page 5
- Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture the Year 1875, pages 27, 48, 110, 111, nd title page
- United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Statistics 2001, title page and pages V-12 – V-17, V-36, VI-2, IX-2 – IX-8, IX-9, IX-13 – IX-17, IX-20, IX-21, IX-40, IX-41
- U.S. Census Bureau 1975, Series F 250-261, J 1-15, J 50-109, K1-183, K 256-285, K 303-329, K 496-531
- Statement of Subventions by County, Statement no. 32, pages 154-159, 164-168 Coachella Valley tables 1937-1953, pages 76-90, 112-120
- Food Technology Published by the Institute of Food Technologies, vol. IV, no. 12, December 1950, title page
- Two pages of advertisements for Taste Sells
- California Agriculture, vol. 4, no. 1, January 1950 title page and “Mechanized Agriculture engineering applied to farm problems enables 15% of the population to feed the nation with surplus for export” by Roy Bainer, page 4
- California Agriculture, March 1950, “Orange Fruit Sizes potassium applications increase size of fruit in long-term fertilizer studies” by E.R. Parker and Winston W. Jones
- Crops and Soils, vol. 3, no. 4, January 1951, table of contents
- Crops and Soil, page 4,” Look to the Soil for the Roots of a Free World!”
- Future of Irrigation by John R. Davis, pages 984-985
- “Dual Unit Compound Meter Manifold is Easiest to Install and Service” from Rockwell Water Meters
- “Need for Proper Irrigation and Drainage Practices” page 18
- The Western Fruit-Grower, April 1903, yearly page number 143
- Three pages of maps year 1919
- Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, pages 762-763, 806-809, 811, 364-365
- United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Statistics 1950, title page and pages 171-172, 193-205, 252-253, 307-309, 565, 571, 579, 581, 584-587, 595, 638, 641-643, 647
- United States Department of Agriculture: Agriculture Yearbook 1925, title page and pages 1-8, 13-21, 743-744, 870-875, 898-899, 1286, 1342-1346, 1356-1358, 1402-1403, 1405
- California Farmer, January 17, 1959, “American Farmer’s Rights Usurped by Farm Policies”
- Lettuce Growing in California by Stanley S. Rogers, pages 1-3 (ts)
- California Blue Book, or State Roster, pages 675, 677-680 (ts)
Box 5
Folders Numbered 26B-38- -B. His folder: F96, Inactive/Bad Address Sp 00 (ms)
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, Monday, December 30, 2002
- Borrego Sun, vol. 51, no. 24, November 21, 2002
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, Sunday, December 8, 2002, page A1, A8-A10
- His folder: Archivo Hist. –Mexicali (ms)
- Solicitud: Tarjeta de Identificacion de Comerciante Mexicano (Como Revendedor)
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area map
- Imperial Valley Press: Opinion, Sunday, July 24, 2005, A3-4, A9-10
- Stokes Homes house designs
- WWI Draft Reg. Card California Imperial Co. 1917-1918, 1894 Birthdate of the Albert Larson
- Bulletin 223, U.S. Department of Agriculture page 16
- Character of the Leaves of the Date Palm, page 5
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: New River
- Map of the Salton Sea
- Imperial Valley Press, vol. 1, no. 10, Imperial County, Saturday, June 22, 1901
- Salton Sea Truck Stop
- His folder: Imperial Labor/citrus (ms)
- The American Agriculture Wage Earner, page 95-114
- Country Gentleman, February, 1940
- Editorially Speaking by Jack Pickett, vo. 233, no. 1
- Editorially Speaking by Jack Pickett and “Farm Workers Oppose Chavez’ Unionization”, vol. 233, no. 2
- “Mexicans and Citizenship”
- Imperial Valley Press, March 19, 2003
- Este Viernes el 12 de Diciembre Gran Paro Económico Latino advertisement
- United Stated Department of Agriculture: Yearbook of Agriculture, 1931, pages 28-29, 41
- Improved Methods of Farming page 48
- “The Richest Producing Area in the World”
- Hard Traveling: Migrant Farm Workers in America, 5 random pages
- Hard Traveling: Migrant Farm Workers in America, “Agribusiness: Who’s Making the Money?”, pages 137-141
- California Agricultural Directory, pages 21, 23
- Brown and Boyd 1992, page 440
- Elliott History 1883, page 116
- California Cultivator, February 24, 1910
- “A Well Cultivated California Orange Grove”
- “The Greatest Factor in the Citrus Industry”
- “Riverside Methods”
- Combined
- Quick Frozen Foods: “The Magazine That Pioneered The Industry”, Nov. 1954
- Quick Frozen Foods, November 1954, page 32, 47, 128
- Page on trees and the citrus market
- Statistics of Fruits and Vegetables, page 725
- Seasonal Changes in Arizona and California Grapefruit, page 9
- “Shake-Harvested Grapefruit” from California Agriculture, September 1973, page 3-4
- His folder: Imperial misc. to do, mostly library (ms)
- Library catalogs: UCB Library Pathfinder
- Fall 2003 Calendar of Events and Exhibitions: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
- “Skeleton Key: The fetish of death goes to the core of Mexico’s identity” by William H. Beezley
- Two Room Use Paging Slips for books [Collins, CW] Imperial County, CA (1911) and Report to the 1958 Session of CA Legislature (ts/ms)
- Reference slip for Cahvilla 1907-14
- Handwritten notes on Imperial Valley (ms)
- Handwritten notes on mini, catalog, and manuscript collections (ms)
- The Bancroft Library slip for Imperial County, CA D.A.’s office letters, 1943 by Kenney, Robert Walker
- State of California Department of Transportation business card Deborah Dalton
- Handwritten note for Imperial County Declaration of Creation of County (ms)
- California State Archives slip for Papers of C.E. Grinky 1903-06
- Reference Service Slip for Port of Campo General Cerresp., 1919-1965 (ms)
- Reference Service Slip for Calixico Customs Office Incoming Office Corr. 1902-1916 (ms)
- Reference Service Slip for Calexico Customs Office Incoming Corr. Re: Smuggling, 1914-1922 (ms)
- Reference Service Slip for Calexico Customs Office Outgoing Corr. 1904-1916 (ms)
- Room Usage Paging Slip for Projections…Imperial County (ms)
- 2002 CLTA Directory page 23
- GLADIS Database 12/17/2003
- California State Archives: Local Government Records
- The BorderLink Project booklet
- Archivo Histórico 2003 brochure
- Motor Transport Museum Campo, CA brochure
- Border California Museum Association, San Diego and Imperial Counties, California and Baja California brochure
- California State Library brochure
- Four pages of handwritten notes and phone numbers (ms)
- Products, Inc. De Mexico business card for Ricardo Quintana Alvarez
- Community and Economic University Ken Wallis notes (ms)
- Oregon Historical Society Library Item Retrieval Request Form for Narr. of a Horseback Ride… by Anderson, William Marshall (ms)
- Handwritten notes (ms)
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, October 27, 2002
- His folder: Imperial Prints by WTV (ms)
- Photo: (Junk Print) Abandoned motel at Salton City
- Photo: Junk Print: Dead Fish at Marina Desert Shores (casualties of Salton Sea algal bloom)
- Photo: Dead fish at Desert Shores, Salton Sea
- Photo: sign of water pollution and a tire near a body of water
- Photo: birds flying over water
- Photo: 0-4 covered Rio Njevo, Mexicali; 5-6 dead fish at Desert Shores; 7-end New River trip with Jose
- Photo: Row 1: Salton Sea/N.R. (Ray trip); Row 2: S. Sea beach at North Shore; Row 3: end of New River trip with Jose; [Row 4: not for New River project]
- Photo: 0-12 New River trip with Jose; 13-end N.R. trip with Ray
- Photo: 1-23 New River trip with Ray (1-4 mouth of N.R. and Salton Sea with birds); 20-23 Ray with his home-smoked corvine; 24-end Beach at North Shore
- His folder: Imperial
- Addresses on envelope for William T. Vollmann and Will Luckman (ms)
- Imperial pages 211-223, bibliography information page, and title page (ts)
- Four pages of copies of photos for Imperial
- His folder: Imperial – Native American Sources
- Los Angeles Times Book Review. Sunday, November 23, 2003 R1-R2
- History of the Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians
- “The Virgin Mary: The Virgin of Guadalupe, Colonialism, and Remaking the Master Narrative” by Jordan A. Rothacker
- Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya brochure from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- Folder: Archivo Hist. – Mexicali
- Handwritten notes for the Colorado River Territory (ms)
- Terrenos Cucapás – Expropiación
- Two copies of Copiafor Depto. De Catastro, 12 diciembre de 1944
- Two copies of Asunto: Se ministran datos solioitados en el oficio Núm. 4938, de fecha 12 de diciembre de 1944
- His folder: Imperial Mexicali Sources (ms)
- Mexicali information from www.baja.com/lugares/info_mexicali.htm
- Page 20-27 of names and numbers about the persons, all recorded in Spanish (ts)
- El Valle de Mexicali (ms)
- Page of man sitting in a wicker chair with Hindi script over all of it
- Photocopy of handwritten poem “El Mexicalense” Corrido de Mario Juventino Cardenas, trans. Jeine Petree, Sept 2005 (ts/ms?)
- His folder: Imperial Paul Foster report, 2007 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Paul, Jan. 19, 2007 (ts)
- Commentary on Imperial data (ts)
- CD: Imperial AgFiles 2007.01.19
- His folder: entered for Imperial (ms)
- CD: Articles 3/27/07, Mexico/Imperial
- “Land Official’s Death Laid to Grief for Son”, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 23, 1936
- “The Mexicans Who Went Home” by Jack Starr-Hunt, Los Angeles Times, Mar. 26, 1933
- “5 Mexican States Cleared of Chinese”, New York Times, Oct. 18, 1931
- “Big Mob Threatens to Loot Mexicali”, New York Times, Feb. 22, 1931
- “A New kind of Pioneering in Imperial” by Randall Henderson, Los Angeles Times, Apr. 11, 1926
- Abstracts for articles
- “Yankee Enclave: The Colorado River Land Company and Mexican Agrarian Reform in Baja California, 1902-1944”by Dorothy Pierson Kerig
- “Between the Peasants and the Leviathan: the Exportation and Spontaneous Seizure of American-owned Agricultural Property in Mexico, 1934-1941” by John Joseph Dwyer
- “Guillermo Andrade and Land Development on the Mexican Colorado River Delta, 1874-1905” by William Oral Hendricks
- “Selfish Interest”, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 27, 1925
- “ A Remarkable Room in Which Cotton Experts Meet” by A.W. Swanson, Los Angeles Times, Apr. 26, 1925
- “Water Users Make Protest”, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 15, 1920
- “Promise Aid in Water Crisis”, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16, 1924
- “Andrade Resigns railroad Position”, Los Angeles Times, Mar. 16, 1916
- “The Truth About the Imperial Valley”, Los Angeles Times, Jun. 20, 1915
- “Five Die in Explosion at Mexicali”, Los Angeles Times, Mar. 29, 1929
- “Cotton Association Meets”, Los Angeles Times, Apr. 6, 1929, page 1 and 2
- “Colonists to Mexico”, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 22, 1927
- “Potatoes to be Tried Below the Line”, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 1926
- “Rate Plan Put up to Mexico”, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 17, 1920
- “Southern Pacific Sells Big Tract”, New York Times, Jan. 18, 1914
- “International Claims are Still Unsettled”, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16, 1912
- “Arbitrate at Imperial”, Los Angeles Times, Jul. 27, 1904
- “Big Real Estate Deal at Imperial”, Los Angeles Times, Jun. 5, 1902
- “Agrarians Beat Colonists Refusing to Yield Lands”, Los Angeles Times, Apr. 18, 1937
- Company Unions, the Mexican Consulate, and the Imperial Valley Agricultural Strikes, 1928-1934 by Gilbert G. González, The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 53-73
- Harry Chandler and Mexican Border Intrigue, 1914-1917 by Lowell L. Blaisdell, The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 35, no. 4 (Nov., 1966), pp. 385-393
- Mexican Colonization versus American Interests in Lower California by Eugene Keith Chamberlin, The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 20, no. 1 (Feb., 1951), pp. 43-55
- The Chinese and the Economic Development of Northern Baja California, 1889-1929 by Robert H. Duncan, The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 74, no. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 615-647
- County Summary Highlights: 2002, pp. 210-225
- Page of notes (ms)
- Page of notes (ms)
- “Developing San Diego’s Desert Empire” by William O. Hendricks
- Two pages of notes (ms)
- His folder: Imperial Sources – Poverty (ms)
- California Civilian Unemployment Rate Ranked by County 1997-1999
- Civilian Labor Forces, Employment, and Unemployment – Updated 09/12/2001, Imperial County
- County Health Status Profiles 2001: Department of Health Services and California Conference of Local Health Officers, Public Health Week: April 2-8, 2001
- “County Estimates for People of All Ages in Poverty for California: 1997”
- “California Employment Development Department: Labor Market Information: Income in 1989 for California and Counties, 1990 Census”
- “U.S. Census Bureau Basic Facts Quick Tables: DP-4 Income and Poverty Status in 1989: 1990
- U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000, Table DP-1 – DP -4, Imperial County, California
- Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000
- Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
- Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000
- Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000
- U.S. Census Bureau, Imperial County, California
- County Snapshot: Imperial 2001
- California Labor Market 2000: Imperial
- County of Imperial: Housing Rehabilitation Program
- Imperial Valley Resources for the Homeless
- Imperial County Community and economic Development: Promoting Economic Development Throughout Imperial Valley
- California Center for Border and Regional Economic Studies: Bulletin, September 2002, vol. 3, no. 9
- Labor Ready: Dependable Temporary Labor
- Directions to Ground Breaking
- California Employment Development Department: Labor Market Information
- Selected Population and Housing Characteristics: 1990 Imperial County, California
- His folder: Imperial Chandler Sources (ms)
- Guillermo Andrade and Land Development on the Mexican Colorado River Delta 1874-1905 by William Oral Hendricks
- His folder: Archive Imperial Coachella (inal(?) Duroville) (ms)
- Hoover Dam brochure
- Coachella brochure
- A Community for 21st Century Business: City of Coachella brochure
- Bureau of Reclamation: A Brief History of the Yuma Area Office brochure
- Storm Water Pollution brochure
- Bureau of Reclamation: Recreation Areas brochure
- The Periscope: A Century of Change in the Coachella Valley, 2000, A Publication of the Coachella Valley Historical Society
- The Periscope, 1997, A Publication of the Coachella Valley Historical Society
- City of Festivals, Indo, CA brochure
- Coachella Valley: A guide to IOID Energy’s service in the Coachella Valley region, including a service area boundary map
- U.S. District Court Central District of California, docket as of July 24, 2003 7:36 pm
- United States District Court Central District of California: Civil Minutes – General, July 7, 2003
- “The STATE; Landfill in Thermal Told to Stop Open Burning of Waste; Prosecutors have called the process a safety and environmental hazard. A hearing to close the facility is postponed” by Hanah Cho
- San Manuel Band of Mission Indians tribal Overview
- “Norton launches charm offensive” by Robert Gemmell, March 29, 2002
- United States District Court Central District of California, July 17, 2003
Box 6
Folders Numbered 39-46- His folder: Imperial Misc. Agriculture (ms)
- El Pionero: Epresión de Mexicali y su Valle, Ano 6, Núm. 280, Mexicali B.C. Semana del 03 al 09 de Abril del 2004
- Coupons for Papa John’s Pizza and Wienerschnitzel
- Imperial Valley Press, Monday, April 12, 2004, pages A3-A6
- Imperial Valley Press, Sunday, April 11, 2004, pages A5-A8
- The El Centro Connection, November 25, 2002
- Imperial Valley Press, Sunday, April 11, 2004, A1-A2, A13-A14, A3-A4, A9-A10
- “Corporate Farm in California”, California Farmer, July 18, 1970
- Charts of Agriculture comparisons between 1941 and 1955
- Farm-Retail Spreads for Food Products, pages 1-3, 42, 53, 59, 122, 124, 127
- “Major Trends in California Agriculture” by Howard S. Reed, University of California, Berkeley, Ag. Hist., vol. 20, no. 4, Oct. 1946, page 252-255
- The Marketing and Distribution of Fruits and Vegetables by Motor truck, Technical Bulletin No. 272, October, 1931, United States Department of Agriculture Washington D.C.
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: Imperial Valley Agriculture 2001
- Folleto Information brochure 2003-2004
- Aero Fumigaciones Güero’s business card
- Tanques Industriales
- Xilitla Café brochure
- Birds of the Coachella Valley brochure
- Agricultural History: A Publication of the Agricultural Historical Society Edited at the University of Illinois by C. Clyde Jones, Editor, vol. XXXII, no. 3, July 1958, title page and pages 179-184
- Prospective Displacement of the Independent Family Farm by Large Farms or Estate management, and the Socio-economic Consequences by C.L. Holmes, Iowa State College, page 227-247
- “A land rich in lore, rich in cotton, poor in spirit” by Malcolm Margolin, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, October 12, 2003
- The Sacramento Bee, Friday, April 25, 2003, pages A3-A4, A25-A26
- “Sniper shootings suspects: Master and servant or partners in crime?”, Imperial Valley Press, Sunday, October 12, 2003, page A15
- His folder: Imperial Chinese Tunnels (ms)
- Compania de Luz Eléctrica de Mexicali, S.A., Abr 30, 1927, no. 14206, no. 14207
- Permiso no. 253
- Valley Lumber Company, S.A., no. 27499, no. 28024, no. 27465
- Ayuntamiento de Mexicali: Departmento de Agua no. 2440
- Note to Bill from ? (ms)
- Proceedings of the Asiatic Exclusion League 1907-1913 pages 4-7, 12-16
- Asia: The Journal of Culture and Commerce, November 1, 2002, vol. 1, issue 2
- Noche de la Chinesca brochure
- Asian Pacific Historic District of San Diego, Asian Pacific Historic Collaborative September 2002 brochure
- San Diego Chinese Historical Museum brochure
- “In Search of Gold Mountain” by Murray K. Lee
- Harper’s Magazine research guidelines
- Expo Caballos Celestiales brochure
- Asian Pacific Historic District of San Diego: A Walking Tour Map
- Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, June 6, 2001, pages B5-B6
- Chinatown: Angeles Walk LA Self-Guide Historic Trails
- San Diego Chinese Historic Museum brochure
- John Kwok: Line and Color, November 13, 2004-April 3, 2005 Chinese American Museum
- Postcard of Chinese American Museum
- Document in Spanish
- California Cultivator and Livestock and Dairy Journal, Los Angeles, San Francisco, vol. LIV, no. 3, January 17, 1920
- Pages 10-11 from 1907, respectfully submitted by A.E. Yoell, Sec’y-Treas. Asiatic Exclusion League)
- “Do You Know the Hudson” article by Ernest Braunton, pg 22, ‘S-n CA’ (his notes on the reference information)
- Correspondence from Candidates for Federal and State Offices and Farmers’ Co-Operative and Educational Societies of California on Asiatic Question title page and pages 4-5
- His folder: Imperial Laison fous(?) (ms)
- State of California Certification of Vital Record: County of Imperial for Albert Henry Larson
- Full Reconveyance page 289
- Two pages of notary documents for Request for Pioneer Title Insurance and Trust Co., Feb 11, 1927
- Book 102, page 128-129 of Official Records, Imperial County Records Bird E. Hobdy, County Recorder by D. Cole, Deputy
- Page 222-223 legal record document
- Dead of Trust page 151-152
- Page 31-32 legal record documents
- Page 237-238 mortgage for P.G. Johnson
- Page 287-288 record of Request of the Imperial Valley Title Company, Jan 16, 1928
- Page 132 legal record document
- Page 484-487 legal record documents
- Page 409-111 legal record documents
- Page 358 legal record document
- Page 33 legal record document
- Page 15A legal record document
- Page 3-4 legal record documents
- Page 45- 48 legal record documents
- Page 181 legal record document
- Page 5 legal record documents
- His folder: Imperial (ms)
- Pages for Imperial with notes on the pages (ts)
- Letter to Paul Slovak from Bruce Giffords, 8/4/08 with query for Bill (ts)
- The Community News, August 11, 2008
- About 20 pages of Imperial with notes (ts)
- His folder: Imperial newspapers (ms)
- Calexico Chronicle, Thursday, Sept 26, 2002, page 1-2, 11-12
- Imperial Valley Press, Thursday, June 7, 2001
- The Sacramento Bee, Tuesday, December 10, 2002
- “Assimilation and its discontents” by Frederick R. Lynch, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, July 6, 2003
- Imperial Valley Weekly, volume 97, no. 42, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2002
- Imperial Valley Press: Lifestyle, Thursday, May 13, 1999
- New York Times: National Report, Friday, January 17, 2003, page A11-12, A17-18
- “Economy: Hard-Luck Imperial County Nurtures Some…”, June 17, 2001
- “Down at Bottom of California” by Stuart Silverstein, Los Angeles Times, 6/17/01
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, March 2, 2003, page R1-2
- San Francisco Chronicle: Nation, Monday, May 10, 1999, “With human traffic from Mexico growing, angry ranchers are heading out – or riding herd” by Mark Shaffer and Dennis Wagner
- The Sacramento Bee: Capitol and California, Saturday, November 23, 2002, pages A3-4, A19-20
- His folder: Imperial Pioneer Bios (ms)
- Desert Dairies: Catalyst for the Development of Imperial Valley by Joseph J. Anderholt
- Folder: Pioneers (Incl. Finnell) (ms)
- Page 196-197 of Hist. SB6 SD 1883 by Elliott (his abbreviations for the title)
- Drawing of a county side with a ranch
- Imperial County, California “Imperial” page 31 (ts)
- San Bernardino and Riverside Counties page 436-437, 439-440
- Request for birth certificate for Hazel Deed born 1904 (ms)
- Three pages of names (ts)
- Selected results from internet research – Claude Finnell
- Articles from Imperial Valley Press
- “Death won’t delay plans for sugar cane plant” by Rudy Yniguez, Thursday, March 6, 2003
- “Sugar crop community envisioned” by Laura Mitchell, Friday, June21, 2002
- “Sugar cane can be profitable crop, field day presenters say”, by Laura Mitchell, Thursday, December 6, 2001
- “Farm bill raises sweet hopes” by Jennifer Saranow, Monday, February 11, 2002
- “Farmers see came as next lucrative crop” by Rita Chang, Thursday, October 30, 2003
- “Valley as industry has a storied past, uncertain future” by Aaron Claverie, Wednesday, May 14, 2003
- “E.C. council approves annexation involving 57 homes” by Rudy Yniguez, Thursday, June 6, 2002
- “Stories of the Past: Thursday, March 14, 2002”
- “Stories of the Past: Wednesday, January 21, 2004”
- Other News Articles Mentioning Claude Finnell
- “A cash crop? Imperial Valley farmers consider switching to fields of tropical grass for use in ethanol” by Frank Writer, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 April 2002
- “Imperial Valley Farmers Reap Bitter Harvest in Illegal Spraying” by Jim Schachter, Los Angeles Times, 7 October 1985
- “MWD Breaks Stalemate in Water Purchase Deal” by Bill Boyarsky, Los Angeles Times, 14 December 1988
- “ICC Offers Fuel-Price Relief for Independent Truckers”, Dow Jones News Service, 15 June 1979
- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and American Girl Mining Joint Venture Welcomes you to Tumco Townsite Historic Walk
- History of San Diego County, Part II – Narrative, page 382-384
- Desert Dairies: Catalyst for the Development of Imperial Valley by Joseph J. Anderholt
- His folder: Imperial Misc. Sources (ms)
- Using Microfilm Publication M595 “Indian Census Rolls” page 1-4
- How to Begin Genealogical Research
- “The Dawes Roll” M1186: Enrollment Cards of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914
- Form 15-6 Department of Commerce – Bureau of the Census Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930 Population Schedule
- Finding Los Angeles Naturalization Records
- Tract 281 and 282 T15/16S, R13E Tract 183, 184, 185, and POR> 186 T16S, R13E, Tax area Code 85-001 (ts)
- Two maps of Seeley, CA
- Letter to William Vollmann from Carl Calvert, October 12, 2003
- Seeley Townsite Company
- Estadisticas y Graficas 1929 de Tijuana 1979 cover, title page, page 10-11, 20-24, 27-28, 33-34
- Notes on newspapers and books (ms)
- Tijuana documents outline
- Mexico parking in the U.C. Border Station Parking brochure
- Three maps of Salton Sea area
- Imperial Valley press, Friday, April 13, 2001, page B7-8
- Two pages of Origen y UbicaciÓn
- Imperial Press, vol. 1, no. 9, Saturday, June 15, 1901
- Seven pages of maps of Mexicali region
- His folder: Imperial photos by Cally McCafferey (ms)
- Folder: Imperial Valley Photo June 2001 by Larry McCaffery
- (ms)
- Photo of man taking a picture of polluted water
- Photo of water pollution sign
- Photo of birds flying over lake
- Photo of close up of birds flying over lake
- Photo of birds flying over lake
- Photo of two men and a boat
- Photo of William T. Vollmann in a desert area
- Photo of road
- Photo of man and William T. Vollmann looking at a collapsed bridge in a lake
- Photo of ditch at side of the road
- Photo of desert plants
- Photo of William T. Vollmann and another man by an obelisk shaped construction in the desert
- Photo of rocks
- Photo of man taking a picture in the desert
- Photo of William T. Vollmann in the desert
- Photo of William T. Vollmann in the desert
- Photo of William T. Vollmann by a lake smiling
- Letter to Bill from Larry, 4-18-03, on printed photo of William T. Vollmann in desert (ms)
- Print of photo of William T. Vollmann in desert
- Print of photo of William T. Vollmann in desert
- Print of photo of man in desert
- Print of photo of William T. Vollmann by an obelisk shaped monument
- Print of photo of William T. Vollmann
- Print of photo monuments
- Print of photo of monument
- Print of photo of stone building
- Print of photo of plaque of mountain spring station site
- Print of photo of welcome sign to town
- Print of photo of U.S. Post Office Jacumba, Ca 91934
- Print of photo of William T. Vollmann near stone animal sculptures in a cave
- Print of photo of desert landscape
- Print of photo of desert
- Print of photo of desert
- Print of photo of desert
- Print of photo of desert with gate with sign of elevation 3000 feet
- Print of photo of road
- Print of photo of William T. Vollmann in front of rocky hill
- Print of Photo of William T. Vollmann near obelisk shaped monument
- Print of photo of landscape
- Photo of man grouped together
- Photo of men grouped together
- Old photo of town
- Photo of Brawley 1922 Imperial Valley Mid-Winter Fair
- Photo of Early History Landscapers 1903
- Photo of Ginned July 17, 1920 Brawley, Cal
- Folder: Imperial Valley Photo June 2001 by Larry McCaffery
Box 7
Folders Numbered 47-51- His folder: Mexico misc.
- Archivo Historico del Municipio de Mexicali 1903-2003 brochure
- The Sacramento Bee, Friday, May 23, 2003, page A7-A8 with articles “Report rebuts views on Latinos” and “$200,000 target set for Bush’s elite fund-raisers” by Sharon Theimer
- The Sacramento Bee, Friday, May 23, 2003, page B7-B8
- The Sacramento Bee, Friday, May 23, 2003, page A18, “Families plan to sue U.S. over immigrant deaths”
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 20, 2003 pg 33-34
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, December 1, 2002, page R7-R10
- Numbers and data for Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, and Tijuana, pages 13-27
- Baja California Resultados Definitivos VII Censo Ejidal 1970, title pages, LXXI map, table of contents, page 5, 9-10, 13-18, 21, 25-30, 33, 37, 41-42, 53, 57-59, 61, 63, 65, 77, 81, 85-87, 91-92, 95, 99
- Agricultural Geography of Latin America, Miscellaneous Publications No. 74
- Cuadernos Bajacalifornianos 5: Cronologia de Baja California Del Territorio y del Estado De 1500 a 1956, pages 1-7
- Cuadernos Bajacalifornianos 8: Cronologia de Baja California Del Territorio y del Estado De 1500 a 1956, pages 80-93
- Cuadernos Bajacalifornianos 10: Cronologia de Baja California Del Territorio y del Estado De 1500 a 1956, pages 66-73
- Cuadernos Bajacalifornianos 11: Cronologia de Baja California Del Territorio y del Estado De 1500 a 1956, pages 52-53, 68-71, 88-89
- Mexicali document (ts)
- Programas Base de Desarrollo Rural (Alianza Para el Campo), November de 2002 brochure
- Photocopy Request Form
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- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Liz Cruz-Kaegi, PhD, August 10, 2008 (ts)
- CK Quest Business Intelligence Research Project Maquiladora Mexico August 10, 2008 by Liz Cruz-Kaegi
- His folder: Imperial QSA (H2O Transfer)
- Palm Springs Desert Museum brochure
- VIA Facsimile and E-Mail, December 31, 2002
- Imperial Valley Press, Friday, December 27, 2002
- San Diego Union-Tribune, Wednesday, January 1, 2003, page A11-A18
- Imperial Valley Press, Friday, December 27, 2002, B3-B6
- El Centro Connection, September 23, 2002
- Imperial Valley Press, Wednesday, January 1, 2003, pages B1-B4, C1-C6, D1-D4
- Imperial Valley Press, Wednesday, January 1, 2003, page A1-A6
- Imperial Valley Press, December 29, 2002
- Imperial Valley Press, Thursday, January 2, 2003
- His folder: Imperial Maps used
- The Baja Adventure Book page 220
- Information Mexicali page 65
- Map de la Ciudad de Mexicali
- Compass Maps Victor Valley Barstow Mojave River Valley
- Baja California Map
- Mapa de la ciudad de Mexicali Mexicali City Map
- California’s Imperial Valley Street Map
- San Bernardino County
- Rand McNally Yuma/El Centro Imperial County California City Map
- United States: V – Western scale 1:4,870,000 San Francisco 1:1,000,000 – Los Angeles 1:1,000,000, 147-148
- His folder: Imperial Leaflets
- Imperial Valley Research Center brochure
- Brawley Business Directory and Visitors’ Guide
- CCBRES Bulletin September 2002, vol. 3, no. 9
- The Imperial Valley Symphony 2003 Fall Concert brochure
- Home Finder, August 30, 2005
- Memorias de Familia
- Chronological History of the Imperial Valley
- Education Materials from the National Archives
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, August 25, 2002, page7-10
- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and American Girl Mining Joint Venture Welcomed you to Tumco Townsite Historic Walk
- Today’s IID Our only business is serving you better brochure
- Riverside County Office of Education Migrant Head Start brochure
- Imperial Valley White Sheet, October 17, 2002 – October 23, 2002, vol 41, Week 42
- Imperial County Real Estate Magazine, October 2002
- Hot Springs Baja Map directions
- The Desert View Tower brochure
- The Gringo Gazette, May 2002, volume 7, number 10
- Valley Grower July/August 2002
- Valley Women Magazine, Fall 2002
- Congressional Record, Thursday, February 27, 2003 “House of Representatives Recognizing Cesar Chavez!”
- California’s 51st Congressional District
Box 8
Folders Numbered 52-55- His folder: Imperial Maquiladoras
- Primeros Auxilios Laborales brochure
- LLas extrabajadoras y extrabajadores de Flor de Baja Denunciamos brochure
- Notes (ms)
- Contenido de Celdas de Informacion 163-199
- “Tijuana-San Diego NGOs file border’s first CEC complaint against Mexico: Abandoned Metales y Derivados battery plant in the focus of the submission”
- “The CEC Petition for the cleanup of Metales”
- “The History of SOLA”
- “SOLA worldwide”
- “Uso de Sustancias Peligrosas en la Industria de Tijuana, B.C.” page 2-21 of 24 pages
- Two pages of notes (ts)
- “Update on Metales y Derivados” by Jonathan Treat, May 2, 2002
- “Largest Tijuana Industrial Parks in San Diego”
- Formosa Prosonic – Contact Us
- Maquiladora/Manufacturing in Mexico’s Border Region
- “FDA Registered Medical Device manufacturers”
- “Recollection of AO and the History of SOLA as written by Noel Roscrow (one of its founders)”
- Pages of yellow pages 41-42, 903-920
- Page of notes (ms)
- “Jewish Maquiladora Owners Scam Tijuana Workers” by Ernesto Cienfuegos
- “Who We Are” (ts)
- “Border health hazards. (pollution in Mexico due to maquiladoras)” by James Shields
- “UAW conventioneers get eye-opening tour Delegates visit homes of Mexican workers in Tijuana ‘maquiladoras’” by John Lippert
- “No Compre Medias “IFSA””
- “Se buscan…”
- Tu Familia es lo más importante de eso estamos seguros
- La Mejor Herramienta Para el éxito: de sus operaciones comerciales
- Niñas y niños de 6 a 12 años brochure
- “Are Baja California’s Maquiladora Plants Competitive?”
- Listado de Miembros
- “Maquiladora Workers Could Tip Mexico’s Next Election” by David Bacon
- “Your Connection to Mexico’s Low-Cost Labor Force”
- “U.S., Mexico get set for cleanup of toxic plant: [1,2,6,7 Edition]”
- Twin Plant News, vol. 19, no. 11, June 2004
- Toxinformer: Environmental Health Coalition, Volume 23, Issue 2, May 2004
- Notes (ms)
- Empleo
- Las extrabajadoras y extrabajadores de Flor de Baja Denunciamos
- Email to Terrie from Fred Lonidier, November 14, 2004 with color photos (ts)
- “Case Study of Working Conditions in Tijuana, Mexico: The Sanyo Maquiladora” by Matthew Price
- “The Decline of the Maquiladora” by Geri Smith, April 29, 2002
- “Factories leave Mexico to find cheaper labor” by Mary Jordan
- “The China challenge/Maquiladoras in Mexico are facing intense competition from Far East counterparts: [1,2,3 Edition]” by Dean Calbreath and Diane Lindquist, The San Diego Union-Tribune
- “Out of bounds/Golf club manufactures’ shift to China and Taiwan triggers tremors from Carlsbad to Tijuana: [1,2,3 Edition]” by Mike Freeman, The San Diego Union-Tribune
- “Mexican Workers Pay for Success; With Labor Cost Rising, Factories Depart for Asia” by Mary Jordan, The Washington Post
- “Hyundai lot site of rally for labor rights” by Mike Watson
- “40 Chinese workers found in Mexican maquiladora” (ts)
- Cittac: Centro de Información para Trabajadoras y Trabajadores, A.C. brochure
- Boletin Maquilero Tijuana, Baja California
- DIR Baja California brochure
- Programa gente joven de Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud Asociacion Civil
- Eventos mes de enero
- Manufactura de Calidad en circuitos electrónicos Surso de Entrenamiento
- Empleonuevo.com año 1, núm. 8, Febrero de 2004
- Equipos higiene y servicios, S.A. de C.V. EHYSER limpieza
- His folder: Imperial (ms)
- Los Angeles Times, Thursday, December 26, 2002, page C1-C2, C5-C6
- Los Angeles Times, Saturday, May 26, 2001, page B7-B8
- Imperial Valley Press, Sunday, July 4, 2004
- The Sacramento Bee, Monday, December 9, 2002
- Imperial Valley Press, Friday, July 2, 2004
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, Tuesday, January 7, 2003
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday, May 9, 2004, page R1-R2
- Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, January 8, 2003, Page B5-B6
- El Centro Connection, September 23, 2002
- The New York Times, Sunday, February 13, 2001, page 17-18
- San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, January 9, 2001, page A3-4
- Imperial Valley Press, Wednesday, October 23, 2002, page B1-B4
- Imperial Valley Press, Wednesday, October 23, 2002
- His folder: Imperial Island Empire (ms)
- Sealed envelope with something in it and notes saying 1947 Mexicali land use tapes (ms)
- Combined articles from ieep.com
- “Welcome to the Inland Empire”
- “Inland Empire Cities” part 1
- “Inland Empire Cities” part 2
- “Inland Empire Cities” part 3
- “Inland Empire Profiles”
- “The Fact Book”
- Southern California’s Ontario Visitors Guide, June/December 2003
- Viva Monthly, September 2005, vol. 2, no. 8
- California Official State Visitor’s Guide and Travel Planner 2003
- Four Inland Empire maps
- His folder: Imperial Island Empire cont. (ms)
- Pouch
- San Bernardino County map
- Murrieta-Temecula Area map
- Riverside-Moreno Valley Area map
- Hamlet-Paris Area map
- Lancaster-Palmdale Area map
- Orange County map
- Corona-Lake Elsinore Area map
- Pomona-Ontario Area map
Box 9
Folders Numbered 56-60- His folder: Imperial Water Docs (ms)
- Imperial County water use research to Kara Platoni from Robert Walsh, February 10, 2004
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, Friday, March 21, 2003, A3-A4, A21-A22
- 50 años de atencion al campo Aniversario de la Secretaria de Fomento Agropecuario 1953-2003
- Secretaria de Fomento Agropecuario Gobierno del Estado de Baja California Direction de Agricultura
- Tijuana (ts)
- San Diego County Water Authority
- The San Diego County Water Authority brochure
- Emergency Storage Project Building Water Reliability
- Calfed Bay-Delta Program brochure
- Water Rates: Water Authority Considers Alternate Structures, January 2000 fact sheet
- Regional Water Facilities Master Plan: Frequently Asked Questions, June 2003 fact sheet
- The Regional Colorado River Conveyance Feasibility Study, June 2002 fact sheet
- Quantification Settlement Agreement for the Colorado River, October 2003 fact sheet
- Seawater Desalination fact sheet, June 2003 fact sheet
- Water Conservation: A Way of Life in San Diego County, October 2003 fact sheet
- Two maps
- Table 9: Type I Study Lower Colorado Region Relative Tolerance of Crops to Salinity and Boron, page x-27 – x-28
- Imperial Valley: A guide to IID Energy’s service in the Imperial Valley region, including a service area boundary map
- Two maps of Yuma Area
- Discover the Colorado River
- A Century of Water for the West 1902-2002: Yuma Area Office Facts and Information
- 5th Annual Creating Paths to Partnerships, Thursday, November 13, 2003 brochure
- Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict in the West
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, Tuesday, July 6, 2004
- His folder: Imperial Water Docs cont. (ms)
- “Water officials endorse deal before Assembly committee: Environmentalists and districts are happy with the Imperial Valley pact” by Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee, Saturday, September 6, 2003, page A3
- San Bernardino: Works and Projects, “Lytle Creek Irrigations”, page 325-331
- United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, page 27-28, 83
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Soils: Soil Survey Around Imperial, California by Thomas H. Means and J. Garnett Holmes, title page, page 588, 598-601, 604-606
- El Pionero Expresion de Mexicali y su Valle: Semanario, Año 5, num. 255, Mexicali, B.C. Semana dell 11 al 17 de Octubre del 2003
- United States’ De Novo Part 417 Review of Imperial Irrigation Districts 2003 Water Order; Imperial Irrigation District Objection to the Part 417 Determinations and Recommendations made by Regional Director Robert W. Johnson, and Demand for Further Consultation
- Letter to Mr. Silva, by Robert W. Johnson, Aug 29, 2003 (ts)
- Imperial Valley District News Release, July 1, 2003
- United States’ De Novo Part 417 Review of Imperial Irrigation District’s 2003 Water Order: Imperial Irrigation District “De Novo” 2003 Part 417 Brief
- His folder: Imperial Water Docs cont. (ms)
- Via Oriente, numero 1, Zona Rio, Tijuana, BC (address), translated by Terrie Petree, September 2005
- El Centro Public Library Reads Grapes of Wrath During October 2002 calendar
- Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors, Meeting of October 22, 2002
- Printed power point (ts)
- Colorado River Basin page 260-267
- “Electronic Irrigation in Coachella Valley” vol. 210, no. 9
- Three maps of the Colorado River Basin
- Water Development by Rogers/Nichols, page 124-130, 142-144, 216-218, 254-256, 325-327, 375
- Agriculture History vol. 11, no. 4 (October 1937), “The Desert Land Act Since 1891”, page 266-277
- Six pages of charts on Salt River Valley)
- San Fernando Valley: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Water Quality Report for 2000
- “Imperial attitude: Desert farmers are their own worst enemies” , The Sacramento Bee, Sunday, June 2002
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: Water Conservation
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: El Centro Generating Station Repowering Unit 2
- Power Department Contacts, December 2001 brochure
- “Voice of the People: IID director defines water terminology” by Andy Horne
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: Power History
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: Water Conservation
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: Imperial Dam
- Imperial Irrigation District Annual Inventory of Areas Receiving Water, years 2001, 2000, 1999, two copies
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: Water Control Center
- Imperial Irrigation District, July 9, 2003
- The Yearbook of Agriculture 1955, page 247-651, 653-654, 320-327
- The Hoover Dam Contracts, page 30-40
- All-American Canal, page 325-335
- Annual Report of Financial Transactions Concerning Water Utility Operations of Special Districts of California: Fiscal Year 1970-71, page viii-ix, 52-55
- Water Resources Data for California Water Year 1975, page 30-32, 57-58, 65-67, 74-80, 82-85, 89-90, 92-101, 108-119, 124, 140-141
- Surface Water Records of California: 1962, page 38-54
- His folder: Imperial Salton Sea Sources (ms)
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: The Fig Lagoon Watchable Wildlife Area
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: Salton Sea
- Letter to WTV from Larry, 9-8-04 (ms)
- Borrego Sun, May 6, 2004, Page 1-2, 25-26
- “Developers offer plans to revive Salton Sea” by John Fleming, Friday, March 5, 2004
- H2O The Magazine of Waterfront Culture, vol. 7, no. 2
- New River Wetlands Project brochure
- Salton Sea Communities Street Maps
- Vialidad Encauzamiento Rio Nuevo
- Two pages of maps of Salton Sea are
- Imperial Irrigation District Fact Sheet: Salton Sea
- Map of Salton Sea (with soundings): Kym’s Guide Maps and Charts of Recreation Areas
- Map of Imperial County: Salton Sea area
- Letter to Bill from Michael Hemmingson, May 19, ,2003, with article “Go West, Old Man Where the American dream goes down the drain” by Clara Jeffery
- Two maps of Salton Sea area
- Boletín Inforamrivo: Coordinación de Communicación Social
- Salton Sea Water Quality Summary between 1/21/99-12/14/99
- Facts about the Sea: Sea Facts
- Secrets of the Salton Sea
- His folder: Imperial Salton Sea Sources cont. (ms)
- Three pages of Xeroxed images of the Colorado River
- “Imperial Valley or Salton Sea Region: Message from the President of the United States, relative to the Threatened Destruction by the overflow of the Colorado River in the Sink or Depression Known as the Imperial Valley or Salton Sea” from Southern Pacific Imperial Valley Claim, pages 91-95, 106-127
- “Salton Sea, California, Imperial Valley, Lower Colorado River”, Friday, January 18, 1907
- Page 8-17, 20-25?, 50 from Salton Sea, California
- Two copies of The Imperial…, “Truth about Salton Sea…Which Have Produced This Yellow Journal Wonder – Socalle…”Sea” Not Worrying Imperialities”, Saturday, August
- Department of Health Services: Chemical Monitoring Schedule California State Fair (System No. 34-026) Source – Well 1
- 1988 Summary Statistics: Water, Land, and Related Data U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, pages 3, 175-177, 180-181
- Glossary with entries for Irrigable Area for Service, Irrigable Area Not for Service, Irrigated Acreage, Full Irrigation Service Land, Supplemental Irrigation Service Land, Temporary Irrigation Service Land, Gross Crop Value, Administrative regions of the Bureau of Reclamation
- Colorado River Board, page 22 “ Sources of Water and Minerals”
- Salinity Problems – Lower Colorado River, page 19
- Southern Pacific Imperial Valley Claim: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Claims of the United States Senate on S. 4170, Thursday, January, 21, 1909, title page, 5-9, 11, 14-17, 76-79, 83-88
- Salton Sea Watershed: Water Quality Monitoring Program Inventory Assessment Final Report, April 2001
- The Salton Sea movie information
- Citizen’s Congressional Task Force on The New River: New River Wetlands Project brochure
- Draft Pre-Publication “Avian Disease at the Salton Sea” by Milton Friend for Salton Sea Science Office, La Quinta, CA, 92253
- Advertisements for Niland,, the extreme southern end of the Salton Sea
- Debunking the Myths: Restoration of the Salton Sea
- Sea Facts: Salt Problems
- Sea Facts: A Chronology
- Sea Facts: The History and Culture of the Sea
- Salton Sea Authority
- Sea Facts: The Colorado River Delta Connection
- Sea Facts: Salinity Reduction: What Won’t Work
- Sea Facts: The Geography of the Sea
- Sea Facts: Recreation
- Sea Facts: Facts About the Sea
- Sea Facts: Water Quality
- Sea Facts: The History and Culture of the Sea
- Sea Notes: A Newsletter of the Salton Sea Restoration Project
- Sea Facts: Fish and Wildlife
- Debunking the Myths: restoration of the Salton Sea
- Sea Facts: The Economy of the Sea
- “Time, money needed to save Salton Sea”
- “Sea: Wetlands touted for cleansing polluted New River”
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, Wednesday, March 9, 2005, page F1-F6, F9-F10
- The San Diego Union-Tribune, Wednesday, March 9, 2005, page A1-A2, A13-A14, A17-A18
- Salton Sea State Recreation Area map
- Local Birds of the Salton Sea and Imperial County
Box 10
Folders Numbered 61-64- His folder: Imperial Old Imperial Valley Press; Facsimiles (ms)
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 25, Saturday, October 4, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 2, Saturday, April 26, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 9, Saturday, June 14, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 3, Saturday, May 3, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 41, Saturday, January 24, 1903
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 42, Saturday, January 31, 1903
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 23, Saturday, September 20, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 10, Saturday, June 21, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 19, Saturday, August 23, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 39, Saturday, January 10, 1903
- The Imperial Press Holiday Edition, January 1903
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 37, Saturday, December 27, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 36, Saturday, December 20, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 35, Saturday, December 13, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 27, Saturday, October 18, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 30, Saturday, November 8, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 31, Saturday, November 15, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 33, Saturday, November 27, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 24, Saturday, September 27, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 16, Saturday, August 2, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 15, Saturday, July 26, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 1, Saturday, April 19, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 28, Saturday, October 27, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 32, Saturday, November 22, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 42, Saturday, January 31, 1903
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 22, Saturday, September 13, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 17, Saturday, August 9, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 47, Saturday, March 7, 1903
- Imperial Press, vol. I, no. 2, Saturday, April 27, 1901
- Imperial Press, vol. I, no. 3, Saturday, May 4, 1901
- Imperial Press, vol. I, no. 4, Saturday, May 11, 1901
- Imperial Press, vol. I, no. 5, Saturday, May 18, 1901
- Imperial Press, vol. I, no. 1, Saturday, April 20, 1901
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 29, Saturday, November 1, 1902
- The Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 51, Saturday, April 11, 1903
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 20, Saturday, August 30, 1902
- Imperial Press, vol. II, no. 21, Saturday, September 6, 1902
- The Imperial Press Holiday Edition, January 1903
- His folder: Imperial County Agriculture Commission Papers (originals) – with note to OSU: Although these are now available online, the documents here were the Commission’s sole originals. (ms)
- Weekly News Letter: United States Department of Agriculture, vol. II, no. 40, Washington D.C., May 12, 1915
- “California Cotton Production – 1916” by A.M. Nelson Development Agent Imperial County, El Centro, Cal.
- “Imperial Valley” by A.M. Nelson Development Agent Imperial County, El Centro, Cal., July 1, 1917
- Letter to Mr. Phil D. Swing, Chief Counsel Imperial Irrigation District, El Centro, Cal. From Development Agent, June 29, 1918
- Imperial County Publicity Commission “Increase in Live Stock, Crop Acreages and Property Values in Imperial County”
- Facts on Imperial County, California: The Third Fastest Growing County in the United States and the Richest Producing Area in the World, comparing 1910 and 1921
- To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Imperial County, California, 1921-1922
- Imperial Valley Crop for Year 1925
- Imperial County, California: The Third Fastest Growing County in the United States and the Richest Producing Area in the World, comparing 1910, 1923, 1924
- Facts on Imperial County, California, comparing 1910, 1923, 1925
- Facts on Imperial County, California, comparing 1910, 1925, 1926
- Imperial County, California: America’s Winter Garden, The Richest Producing Area per Acre in the World 1927 statistics, comparing 1910 and 1927
- Imperial County, California 1928 Statistics
- Imperial County, California 1929 Statistics
- Imperial County, California 1930 Statistics
- Imperial County, California 1931 Statistics: Crop and Livestock
- Imperial County, California 1932 Statistics: Crop and Livestock Values
- Imperial County, California 1933 Statistics: Crop and Livestock Values
- Imperial Valley, California 1934 Statistics: Imperial Valley has an Assured Water Supply Under Control: Crop and Livestock Values
- Imperial County, California 1935 Statistics: Crop and Livestock Values
- Imperial County, California 1936 Statistics: Crop and Livestock Values
- Imperial County, California 1937 Statistics: Crop and Livestock Values
- Imperial County, California 1938 Statistics: Crop and Livestock Values
- Imperial County, California 1939 Statistics: Crop and Livestock Values
- Imperial County, California 1940 Statistics: Crop and Livestock Values Office Copy
- Imperial County, California 1941 Statistics
- Imperial County, California 1942 Statistics
- Imperial County, California 1943 Statistics)
- Crop Statistics 1944
- Imperial County, California 1945 Statistics
- Imperial County Agricultural Commissioner El Centro, California: Agricultural Crop Report 1946, to The Honorable Board of Supervisors and the State Director of Agriculture from B.A. Harrigan Agricultural Commissioner Imperial County
- Imperial County Agricultural Commissioner El Centro, California: Agricultural Crop Report 1947, to The Honorable Board of Supervisors and the State Director of Agriculture from B.A. Harrigan Agricultural Commissioner Imperial County
- Imperial County Department of Agriculture El Centro, California, B.A. Harrigan Agricultural Commissioner, Annual Report for the Year Ending December 31, 1948
- Agricultural Crop Report: County of Imperial 1949: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner B.A. Harrigan
- Imperial County Department of Agriculture El Centro, California, B.A. Harrigan Agricultural Commissioner: Annual Report for the Year Ending December 31, 1950
- Imperial County Department of Agriculture El Centro, California, B.A. Harrigan Agricultural Commissioner: Annual Report for the Year Ending December 31, 1951
- Imperial County Department of Agriculture El Centro, California, B.A. Harrigan Agricultural Commissioner: Annual Report for the Year Ending December 31, 1952
- Imperial County Department of Agriculture El Centro, California, B.A. Harrigan Agricultural Commissioner: Annual Report for the Year ending December 31, 1953
- Agricultural Crop Report County of Imperial 1954: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner Claude M. Finnell
- Agricultural Crop Report County of Imperial 1955: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner Claude M. Finnell
- Agricultural Crop Report County of Imperial 1956: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Agricultural Crop Report County of Imperial 1957: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- 1958 Seed – Certified/Seed – Not Certified
- Agricultural Crop Report County of Imperial 1959: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner Court House – El Centro
- Agricultural Crop Report County of Imperial 1960: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner Court House – El Centro
- Agricultural Crop Report County of Imperial 1961: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner Court House – El Centro
- Agricultural Crop Report County of Imperial 1962: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner Court House – El Centro
- 1964 to the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the Imperial County and Charles Paul, Director of Agriculture State of California from Claude M. Finnell Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture – 1965
- Imperial County Agriculture 1966
- Imperial County Agriculture 1967
- Imperial County Agriculture 1968
- Imperial County Agriculture 1969: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1970: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1971: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1972: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1973: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- His Folder: Imperial County Agriculture Commission Papers (originals) cont. (ms)
- Envelope with writing “No Signature Required” on it (ms)
- Imperial County Agriculture 1973: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1974: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Field Crops 1974-1975
- Agriculture plus Geothermal: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1977: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1978: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1979: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1980: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1981: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1982: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1983: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1984: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1985: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1986: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1987: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County Agriculture 1988: Office of the Agricultural Commissioner
- Imperial County 1989 Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- Imperial County 1990 Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- Two receipts inside
- Two Copies of Imperial County 1991 Agricultural Crop and Livestock report
- Imperial County Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report 1992
- Imperial County 1993 Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- 1994 Imperial County Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- 1995 Imperial County Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- 1997 Imperial County Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- 1998 Imperial County Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- Imperial County 1999 Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- 2000 Imperial County Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- Imperial County Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report 2001
- Imperial County 2002 Agricultural Crop and Livestock Report
- Documents on People of California
- San Bernardino and Riverside Counties page 583-588
- California Biennial report of the State Controller for the Seventy-sixth Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1925, and the Seventy-seventh Fiscal Year, ending June 30, 1926
- Colorado River Basin Hearings before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation United States Senate Sixty-ninth Congress, October 26 and 27, 1925
- Census Bureau 1947 Table 3 – Selected Data for Metropolitan Areas and for All Counties, by State, page 78-80
- Map of California
- California Biennial Report of the State Controller for the Fiftieth Fiscal Year, Ending June 30, 1899, and the Fifty-first Fiscal Year, Ending June 30, 1900
- California Biennial Report of the State Controller for the Sixty-second Fiscal Year, ending June 30, 1911, and the Sixty-third Fiscal Year, ending June 30, 1912
- Local Area Personal Income: CA05 Personal income by major source and earnings by industry – Imperial, CA, 1969-2001
- Local Area Personal Income: CA35 Transfer payments – Imperial, CA, 1969-2001
- Household Incomes by County 1959-1989
- Local Area Personal Income: CA 25 Total full-time and part-time employment by industry – Imperial, CA, 1969-2001
- California Statistical Abstract 1988
- California Statistical Abstract 1975
- Annual Report of the State of California Budgetary Basis Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1993
- California County Statistics 1997
- California County information on Broker, Officer, Sales, and Totals
- Statement of Receipts into the State treasury, during the Sixth Fiscal Year – ending June 30 1855
- Statement of Receipts into the Treasury, for the Third Fiscal Year: ending June 30, 1952
- Expenses of Hospitals page 10-11
- A Tabular Statement: showing the amount of Revenue chargeable to each County for the preceding year, 1851, the aggregate amount of each abject of taxation, together with the tax due on the same
- Abstract of Property of all kinds, with the total amount of State Tax on the same, and Poll Tax, for the year 1852
- State Hospitals page 44-45
- Reports of the State Controller 1850-1860
- State of California enumerated by me, on the Sensus Ag’t for the county of _____ page 67-69
- “ Defense of the Earth” Rising Up Rising Down information compiled by Ben R. Westhoff – immigration Imperial
Box 11
No Folders- Imperial Valley Area Binder containing:
- Letter to Bill Vollmann from F. Ross Peterson, 11 August 2006 (ts)
- Email to F. Ross Peterson from Daina Zollinger, Monday, July 17, 2006 (ts)
- World War I Draft registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record for Frank Kunkel (ts)
- Hazel Deed
- Family Group Record for the Deed family (ms)
- Two pages of notes on Deed family (ms)
- Ancestry.com 1920 United States Federal Census Record for Frank Deed
- Ancestry.com U.S. Veterans Cemeteries, ca. 1800-2004 record for Clarence L. Deed
- Ancestry.com Social Security Death Index Record for Clarence Deed
- Ancestry.com California Birth Index, 1905-1995 Record for Clarence L. Deed
- Ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census Record for Hazel G. Deed
- Ancestry.com 1920 United States Federal Census record about Hazel Deed
- Ancestry.com edit marriage information for Mary K. Deed
- Ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census Record for Mary Deed
- Ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census Record for Mildred M. Deed
- Ancestry.com 1920 United States Federal Census Record about Mary Deed
- Ancestry.com 1900 United States Federal Census Record for George Kunkel
- Twelfth Census of the United States highlighted information for Luther, George, and Birdie Kunkel
- Ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census Record for George M. Kunkel
- Thirteenth Census of the United States 1910 Population highlighted information for George M. Kunkel
- Ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census record for Luther M. Kunkel [Luther M. Kimkel]
- Thirteenth Census of the United States 1910 Population highlighted information for Luther Kunkel and his family and the Volk family
- Ancestry.com 1920 United States Federal Census Record for Georgo M. Kunkel [George M. Kunkel]
- Fourteenth Census of the United States 1920 Population highlighted information for George and Virginia Kunkel
- Ancestry.com World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918 Record for George M. Kunkel
- Xeroxed copies of Registration Card for George M. Kunkel and Registration Report for Bertha Tracy
- Ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census record for Peter W. Kunkel [Peter W. Kimkel]
- Thirteenth Census of the United States 1910 Population for Luther M. Kunkel and Peter W. Kunkel
- Individual Record for Peter W. Kunkel
- Individual Record for Mary Kunkel
- 1870 Census Record for Peter W. Kunkel and his family
- Ancestry.com World War I Fradt Registration Cards 1917-1918 Record for Luther Melanchthon Kunkel
- Xeroxed copy of Registration Card for Luther Melanchthon Kunkel and Registration Report for Marron Patrice(?)
- Ancestry.com Social Security Death Index Record for Hazel Deeds
- Accession/Serial #: 975151 BLM Serial #: CASF 0013184, Patentee: Albert B. Webster
- Accession/Serial #: 1049358 BLM Serial #: CAS 0017921, Patentee: Albert B. Webster
- Albert Henry Larson
- Family Group Record for Albert Henry Larson (ms)
- Ancestry.com Minnesota Naturalization Records Index, 1954-1957 Record for Albert Henry larson
- F.R.’s Answer to C. of C. Hints ’36 Battle Line from Oakland Tribune, Saturday, May 4, 1935
- Newspaper Archive San Diego Co. for Larson
- Oakland Tribune, Monday Evening, Feb 1, 1926
- Oakland Tribune, Friday, Oct. 18, 1946
- Wilber/Wilbur Clark
- Page of notes on Wilber Clark (ms)
- Family Group Record for John Clark (ms)
- Ancestry.com 1880 United States Federal Census Record for Wilbur Clark
- Individual Record for Wilbur Clark
- 1870 Census Record highlighted information for Wilbur Clark
- Imperial-Los Angeles-Tulare County CA Archives Biographies for Clark, Wilbur by F.C. Farr
- Tulare Co 1880 Census-Township information for Clark, John
- Ancestry.com 1920 United States Federal Census Record for Wilbur Clark
- Fourteenth Census of the United States 1920 Population highlighted information for Wilbur Clark and his family
- Ancestry.com California Death Index, 1940-1997 Record for Margaret S. Dickinson
- History of Imperial County by Finia C. Farr with list of biographies
- Imperial County Biographies
- Accession/Serial #: 182060 BLM Serial #: CALA 0004267, Patentee: Wilber Clark
- Oakland Tribune, Mon, Sept 6, 1971, page 22
- WF Holt (William Franklin Holt)
- Family Group Record for James Holt (ms)
- Family Group Record for William Franklin Holt (ms)
- Page of notes for James William Holt (ms)
- Family Record Group for William Franklin Holt and Fannie Jones
- Ancestry.com for William Franklin Holt
- Ancestry.com for James William Holt
- Ancestry.com for Levi Holt
- Ancestry.com for Laura Jane Holt
- Ancestry.com for James Holt
- Ancestry.com 1870 United States Federal Census record for William F. Holt
- 1870 Census Record highlighted information for James Holt and Holt siblings pages 21-22
- Ancestry.com 1930 United States Federal Census Record for Eather C. Holt
- Ancestry.com 1920 United States Federal Census Record for Permelia K. Holt
- Fourteenth Census of the United States 1920 Population highlighted information for William F. Holt
- Ancestry.com California Death Index, 1940-1997 Record for Permelia Catherine Holt
- Ancestry.com 1930 United States Federal Census Record for Permelia C. Holt
- Ancestry.com 1930 United Stated Federal Census Record for Permelia C. Holt
- Fifteenth Census of the United States 1930 Population Schedule for Eather and Permelia Holt
- Twelfth Census of the United States highlighted information for William Holt and page 233
- Ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census Record for W.F. Holt
- Ancestry.com California Death Index, 1940-1997 Record for William Franklin Holt
- Independent Journal, Saturday, Nov. 24, 1951, page 3
- Utah History to Go “Utah’s Many Ghost Towns a Testimony to Broken Dreams and Faded Glory” by Will Bagley, 8/25/2002
- Ancestry.com search result for Heart Throbs of the West, William Franklin Holt
- Ancestry.com search results for California and Californians, vol.2, William Franklin Holt
- BLM GLO Records for William F. Holt
- Accession/Serial #: 156138 BLM Serial #: 0001540, Patentees: Cecelia Corwin, Sidney J. Ulrey and William F. Holt
- The United States of America signed by William H. Taft 8/10/1910 for patent number 883813 for William F. Holt seven page description and Accession/Serial #: CACAAA 059677 BLM Serial #: CACAAA 059677, Patentee: William F. Holt
- John C. Hay by Leonard G. Thompson
- Search for Holt Family Coat of Arms and Family History, could not get info
- Passenger list of First Class Passengers from the Titanic highlighted name Mr. W. F. Holt
- “A History of the Imperial Valley…Part III” with information on W.F. Holt
- Schurz.com, Imperial Valley Press, information on the paper
- “The Winning of Barbara Worth and The Dreams of Irrigation” by Milford Wayne Donaldson
- El Centro information on W.F. Holt
- History of Holtville
- Oakland Tribune, Saturday Evening, April 22, 1905
- Ancestry.com Search Results for California and Californians, vol. 2, William Franklin Holt
- City of El Centro Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau
- IID General History
- Leroy Holt
- Family Group Record for Leroy Holt (ms)
- Ancestry.com 1880 United Stated Federal Census Record for Leroy Holt
- Individual Record for Leroy Holt
- 1880 Census Record highlighted information on the Holts
- Ancestry.com 1920 United Stated Federal Census Record for Leroy Holt [Leon Hobb]
- Fourteenth Census of the United States 1920 Population highlighted information on the Holts
- Accession/Serial #: 473046 BLM Serial #: CALA 0001538, Patentees: Jannet Smith and Leroy Holt
- The United States of America signed by Woodrow Wilson 15/5/1915 for patent number 473046 for Jannet Smith and Leroy Holt
- Census Year 1870 information on the Holts
- L.M., W.F., and Leroy Holt: misc articles
- The History of San Diego by Richard F. Pourade
- Imperial County History, Chapter XII: Journalism
- Imperial County History, The History of Imperial County California edited by F.C. Farr
- Imperial County History, Chapter 1: History of Imperial County
- Imperial County History, Chapter 1: History of Imperial County (continued) More About the County
- Luther M. Holt
- Family Group Record for Luther M. Holt (ms)
- Family Tree Maker Online: Genealogy Library: Social Security Death Index Search Results for Shirley Holt
- Ancestral File for Luther M. Holt, his siblings, and his brother Alfred Converse Holt’s descendents
- Ancestral File for Alfred Converse Holt
- Accession/Serial #: CACAAA 072346 BLM Serial #: CACAAA 072346m Patentees: Dagget Land Co. and Luther M. Holt
- Newspaper Archive with information on L.M. Holt
- Oakland Tribune, Friday, August 9, 1935 page 38
- Oakland Tribune, Saturday Evening, September 17, 1921
- Oakland Tribune, Saturday Evening, May 26, 1921
- Oakland Tribune, Thursday Evening, October 2, 1919
- The Fresno Weekly Republican, Friday, November 10, 1893
- Ancestry.com Family Trees 23 matches for Luther M. Holt
- Ancestry World Tree Project: Descendents of John Butterfield and Abigail Morse
- Ancestry World Tree Project: Holt Family Tree for Alfred Converse Holt
- Ancestry World Tree Project: Holt Family Tree for Adeline L. Hurlburt
- 1879 History of Dallas County, Iowa
- History for The Press-Enterprise Company
- Virtual Library on Island Empire History: Etiwanda Excerpted from Chapter 6 in The Life of George Chaffey: A Story of Irrigation Beginnings in California and Australia by J.A. Alexander (Melbourne: Macmillan and Co., 1928), pp. 33-38
- An illustrated history of southern California
- Other Holts
- The Oasis Tenth Annual Volume published by the students of Imperial Valley Union High School under the auspices of the Classes of ’22 and ’23 Imperial, California
- Charles Wilbur Clark 15 Feb 1866 Iowa, slip of paper (ms)
- Notebook Santa Monica, Dec. 2006 (ms)
- Notebook CA Aug. 2005 (ms)
- Notebook July 08 (ms)
- Notebook Imperial Valley Dec. 2001-2002 (ms)
- Examination book CA Sonca 7/07 (ms)
- Notebook CA-Mex, Dec. 2007 (ms)
- Notebook Chief Joseph Sept 2006 (ms)
- CD: Imperial Highway pdf 11/18/08
- CD: Imperial Book Layout Power House Books 10.7.08 (ts)
- CD: Imperial pdf 1/8/09 (ts)
- Homemade cover for CD with CD in it: Disk DXD version of inserts to Imperial 1st pass (7/08). One or two typos were not caught in this version but are fixed on hard copy.
- Viking changes (e.g. copy editor’s marks of m-dashes) do not appear. But copy-editor’s textual changes DO show up – WTV (ms)
Box 12
Folders Numbered 65-71- Uncentering the Earth draft 1
- Uncentering the Earth draft 1 (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth draft 1 (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth draft 2 (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth draft 2 (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth draft 3 (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth draft 3 (ts)
Box 13
Folders Numbered 72-80- Uncentering the Earth draft 4: Uncorrected pages (cont.), with letter to William T. Vollmann from Jessica Fjeld (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth draft 4: Uncorrected pages, with letter to William T. Vollmann from Jessica Fjeld (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth notes (ts)
- 5/27/2005 comments for Uncentering the Earth from Manuscript Editor Mary Babcock, and Publisher W.W. Norton (ts)
- Combined
- Uncentering the Earth questions list with page numbers, 7/16/05 (ts)
- Letter to Nancy Palmquist from Mary, June 23, 2005 (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth Diagram Texts (ts)
- Orthographic Notes Bibliography (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth title page (ts)
- Published Titles in the Great Discoveries Series (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth letters
- Letter to Nancy Palmquist from Mary, June 23, 2005 with:
- Questions for Uncentering the Earth (ts)
- Uncentering the Earth title page (ts)
- Published Titles in the Great Discoveries Series, list of (ts)
- List of Books by William T. Vollmann (ts)
- Pages from Uncentering the Earth (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Jesse Cohen, June 1, 2005 (ts)
- Note to Copy Editor Jesse Cohen from William T. Vollmann (ts)
- Email chain between Jesse Cohen and Nancy Palmquist, September 12, 2005 (ts)
- Poor People draft 1 (ts)
- Poor People draft 1 (ts)
- Poor People draft 2, with questions on the draft (ts)
- Poor People draft 2, with questions on the draft (ts)
- Poor People draft 2, with questions on the draft (ts)
Box 14
Folders Numbered 81-86- Poor People draft 3 (ts)
- Poor People draft 3 (ts)
- Poor People draft 4 (ts)
- Poor People draft 4 (ts)
- Poor People draft 5 (ts)
- Poor People draft 5 (ts)
Box 15
Folders Numbered 87-98- Poor People marked pages only (ts)
- Poor People chapter: Natalia’s Children (ts)
- Poor People printed photos for the book #1
- Poor People old first pass (ts)
- Poor People printed photos for the book #2
- Poor People pages with edit marks
- Two pages of HarperCollins explanation sheets (ts)
- Page iv, vii-x, xvii, 29, 39, 41, 48, 67, 93, 95, 115, 127, 156, 194, 255, 274, 317-440 (photo pages) (ts)
- Poor People: His folder
- Email to Brian Woods from Steve Jones, January 24, 2007 (ts)
- “Profil Vollmann Ne Perd Pas Le Nord” from Le Figaro Magazine, Samedi, 14 octobre 2006
- “Why are you poor?” by Douglas Brinkley from Boston Sunday Globe, March 4, 2007
- Postcard to Mr. Vollmann from Gina (ms)
- Business card for Open Society Institute for Jonathan Hulland
- Postcard to Bill from Sabira, July 2007 (ms)
- Page of drawn panels (ms)
- Note to Margie (ms)
- Notes on reading chapters choices (ms)
- Photo series notes (ms)
- Notes (ms)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Peter Shattuck, February 5, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Bill Pierce, October 26, 2006 9ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Deborah E. Wiley (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Chris ?, 17 June 2006 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from ?, 30 Jan 07 (ts)
- Letter to Roberto Trujillo from Bill, February 21, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from John Erik Riley, 08.01.2007 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Tom Burke and SLS, March 6, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Chris, 17 August 2006 (ts)
- Poor People articles
- William T. Vollmann “Histoire de pauvres: Qui sont les délaissés de nos societies et comment vivent-ils? Des portraits servis par une prose incisive” (ts)
- “Un essai de William T. Vollmann Les pauvres!: Le romancier américain a, depuis vingt ans, sillonné la planète
pour voir la misère en face. <
> publie, en exclusivité un extrait de sa terrible enquête” (ts) - “Les fusils” William T. Vollmann (ts)
- “Ice T. entretien avec William T. Vollmann” by Alexandre Thiltges
- “Why are you poor? William Vollmann asked people that question. His goal: to show the destitute as they see themselves” (ts)
- Pourquoi êtes-vous pauvres? By William T. Vollmann (ts)
- Two copies “Show Me the Moneyless: William T. Vollmann traveled around the world to speak to the underprivileged about their lives” by Walter Kirn, The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, March 18, 2007
- Williamette Week, March 14, 2007 (ts)
- Poor People letters
- Email correspondence between Marie-Catherine Vacher and Susan Golomb, September 12-15, 2008 (ts)
- Email correspondence between Susan Golomb, Marie-Catherine Vacher, and Casey Panell, October 1, 2008 (ts)
- Email to Dave from Priscilla Juvelis, November 20, 2008 (ts)
- Email to Susan and Sacey from Estelle Lemaître, October 1, 2008 (ts)
- Email correspondence between Casey Pannell, Miriam Bridenne, William T. Vollmann, and Marie Riber, October 1, 2008 (ts)
- Card to Bill from Ron and Kay, 3/3/07 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Millicent (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Millicent 10/2 (ms)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Helen Moore, august 1, 2008 (ts)
- Poor People itinerary two copies (ts)
- Poor People descriptions and misc.
- Two copies of “Why Are You Poor?” advertisement/description for Poor People (ts)
- Note to Bill from Michael attached to a review of Poor People (ms/ts)
- Poor People description (ts)
- Noh partial draft #1 (ts)
Box 16
Folders Numbered 99-112- Noh partial draft #1 cont. (ts)
- Noh partial draft #2 (ts)
- Noh partial draft #3 (ts)
- Noh partial draft #4 (ts)
- Noh pamphlets in Japanese his numbering 3-10
- Japanese theater documents and magazines
- Kasuga Taisha
- “On the 45th anniversary of my Stage Career” by Umewaka Rokuro
- “Noh: Pathos Behind the Mask” Sunday, February 8, 2009 from Japan Society of Northern California
- Yozakura-noh 2002 “Noh performed by bonfire light at Yasukuni Shrine”
- Kanazawa Noh Museum brochure
- Kabuki, January 2008
- Kabuki, September 1998
- Magazine in Japanese
- Essay “The Mask is Most Important Always” by William T. Vollmann (ts)
- Diagrams of faces and masks for Noh
- Hairline Diagram of Woman Masks, page 209 (ts)
- Figure 4.1 Horizontal and Vertical Facial Features Required for Recognition of the Gender of the Human Face (ts)
- Two drawings of faces (ms)
- Japan Maps
- Japan’s First World Cultural HeritageHōryūji Head Temple, Shōtoku Sect map
- The Golden Pavilion: Rokuon-Ji Temple
- Porotokotan map
- Sea of Japan map
- Drawn map of Japan (ms)
- Four maps of Fujian Province
- Temple Documents
- Shō-Ren-Nin
- Hogonin
- Inside the Red Mansion documents
- Combined
- Letter to Editor/Producer from David Yoo (ts)
- “Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China’s Most Wanted Man” by Oliver August and other printings, summaries, and reviews of the article
- Review of “Inside the Red Mansion” by William T. Vollmann (ts)
- Combined
- Noh Notes
- Notes on a Japanese theater text in Japanese (ms/ts)
- 20 pages of notes for on Noh, Women, Masks, etc. (ms)
- Latitude and Longitude marks with rough diagram of Japan? (ms)
- Notes on terms and definitions (ms)
- Japanese Writings
- Two pages of texts written in Japanese
- One page of text handwritten in Japanese (ms)
- Asian Newspapers/ Articles
- “Tensions rise over N. Korea’s test threat: Japan warns of possible sanction: South fires warning shots at North troops” by Hans Greimel from the Sacramento Bee, Sunday, October 8, 2006
- “Takachiho: Caving in to the gods” by Chris Bamforth from The Japan Times, Friday, July 29, 2005
- “Matsuo Basho: Walking the path of a legendary poet” from The Japan Times, Friday, July 1, 2005
- Asian porn
- 2005 Rainbow Channel: 24 hour adult Channel time table
- Two Xeroxed pages of a Japanese porno
- Small porn pamphlet (inside Kannon book) with copies of pages 17-18
- Playboy Entertainment for Men: Japan, No. 379, September 2006
Box 17
Folders Numbered 113-120- Noh cover page
- Ainu documents
- “Tokyo eatery an Ainu specialty” by Takuya Asakura, The Japan Times, Wednesday, May 16, 2001
- International news, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, January 13, 2000, information on Ainu
- Japanese book with papers between pages 26-27
- 1999 Information Access Company, December 13, 1999, “Indigenous peoples confab calls for Ainu law revision”
- 2000 Inter Press Service, May 15, 2000, “Rights-Japan: Discrimination defies the law”
- The Ainu Museum information documents
- Information on Mizoram
- Cultural Survival: The Ainu Oral History Project by Isola Brown
- His folder: Archive (ms)
- Letter to Bill Vollmann from Tom, 27 February 2006 (ts)
- 29 pages of notes on photos for/of Japan, Noh, Cambodia, Yemen, Madagascar, Mexicali, homeless people, Lisa, Russia, and misc. (ms)
- His folder: Cited in Noh book (ms)
- Transgender Tapestry, Issue 112, Summer 2007
- His folder: Noh entered (ms)
- Japanese flier 11/28/2006
- Six Japanese texts
- Two maps of Japan, labeled in Japanese
- The Japan Times , Sunday, January 29, 2006, page 15-16
- The Japan Times , Thursday, January 19, 2006, page 17-18
- The Japan Times , Friday, August 25, 2006, page 23-24
- The Japan Times , Tuesday, July 11, 2006, page 3-4
- The Japan Times , Tuesday, January 24, 2006, page 17-18
- The Japan Times , Friday, October 2, 2004, page 11-12
- Two Japanese pamphlets
- His folder: Original Art Found on Vollmer’s Inventory Sheet (ms)
- Purple paint with words cut into the paint (ms)
- Diagram with texts indicating different routes the Pretty route and the fast route (ms)
- Painting (ms)
- Diagram of the five main gender specific facial measurements for Noh mask (ms)
- His folder: draft and sources ready for OSU (ms)
- Photo of The Great Buddha
- Business card for The Nogami Memorial Institute for Noh Studies Hosei University for Nishino Haruo director professor
- Business card for Kishio Shoko editor Monthly The Subaru Shueisha Inc.
- Post card of Shizuka Mikata
- Combined
- Japanese text number 11, his numbering
- Post card of Shizuka Mikata
- Noh: An Introduction to Noh, published by Hinoki Book store (ts)
- Japanese book number 91, his numbering
- Letter to Bill (ms)
- Letter to Vollmann-san from Jeff Clark (ts)
- “The Mask is Most Important Always” page 1-32 with post-it notes at different sections with notes on them (ts/ms)
- Four pages of typed notes on the text (ts)
- The Garden of Sho-ren-in and The History of Sho-ren-in on the other side
- Questions forwarded to Bill Vollmann about Noh (ts)
- Pages 1103-1108 about Noh (ts)
- 44th Osaka International Festival 2002: Festival Noh
- “The Noh mask effect: vertical viewpoint dependence of facial expression perception” from The Royal Society 2000 (ts)
- His folder: draft and sources ready for OSU cont. (ms)
- Kissing the Mask draft 8/08
- Notebook: Japan, May 2005 – Noh (ms)
- Notebook: completely in Japanese (ms)
- Notebook: Japan, January 2008 (ms)
Box 18
Folders Numbered 121-127- Riding Toward Everywhere draft 1 with edit notes (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere draft 1 with edit notes (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere draft 2 (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere draft 2 (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere draft 3 (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere draft 3 (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere draft 4 (ts)
Box 19
Folders Numbered 128-140- Riding Toward Everywhere draft #5, 11/06 (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere draft #6, Sept 2006 (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere partial draft (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere chapter “Diesel Venus” (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere printed photos from a little laser printer so the quality is not great, about 40-50 pages (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere articles
- “King of the Road” by J.R. Moehringer, January 27, 2008 from The New York Times
- “Union Pacific seeks bond funds for overhaul of Sierra route” by Melanie Turner, Sacramento Business Journal , February 8, 2008
- Combined
- “On the hobo life: Adventurous nonconformist gets real as train hopper” by Carolyn See
- “Piètres mystères et train d’enfer” about Riding Toward Everywhere
- Three pages of Praise for Riding Toward Everywhere
- The New York Times Book Review Paperback Best Sellers, January 18, 2009
- “Letter From a Freight Train: Catching Out Never steal anything but a ride” by William T. Vollmann page 70-78 from Harper’s Magazine , January 2007 (ts)
- Harper’s Magazine , January 2007
- “Mysterious brotherhood may have deadly foothold on the rails” by Kim Murphy, 1997
- Riding Toward Everywhere letters
- Note to Millicent Bennett from David Koral, 1/23/08 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Tamika Talbot, April 10, 2009 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Steve Simpson, 23, March ’08 (ms)
- Envelope to William Vollmann from Design Tech
- Postcard to Bill from Steve, 8/1 (ms)
- “Trainhopping: It’s stupid, illegal, dangerous – and I can’t wait to do it again” by David Puketza, June 7, 2007
- Email to editor from Richard Milan, February 1, 2007 about Bill Vollmann’s “Catching Out” (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere misc
- Page of notes on Freight Trains (ms)
- Itinerary for Riding Toward Everywhere (ts)
- His folder: To William Vollmann from Fred Starner (ms)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Fred, Feb 1 ’08 (ms)
- Review from Dan (ts)
- Negative review from Chris (ts)
- Printed photos from Fred Starner (ts)
- Directions to Palos Verdes Country Club
- Royal Hobo Proclamation “Official Certificate of Appreciation” presented to Fred Starner (ts)
- “Recapturing spirit of riding the rails: folksinger performs music of hobo culture” by Lynn Van Matre, Chicago Tribune, Thursday, June 1, 2000
- His folder
- Differential Personality Inventory for Bill Vollmann, with note to Millicent from Bill on the back
- HarperCollins Art Log from Millicent Bennett to Cindy Achar, June 25, 2007
- Captions to appear with photos (ts)
- 64 pages of printed photos (ts)
- His folder
- HD: HarperCollins , job number 15967, 11/5/07
- Paper accompanying CD from Tracy Pitz to Michael Siebert, 10/31/2007 (ts)
- List of images (ts)
- Printed pictures for Riding Toward Everywhere (ts)
- Second copy of printed pictures for Riding Toward Everywhere (ts)
- Folder
- Prints of photos from North Market Street Graphics (ts)
- His folder: Riding Toward Everywhere 77-34565, 8/6 (ms) CD:
Riding Toward Everywhere, final ms
- Paper accompanying CD to Millicent (ts)
- His folder: Riding Toward Everywhere, 77-34565, 8/6 (ms)
- CD: Vollmann 1
- CD: Vollmann 2
- CD: Vollmann 2A
- CD: Vollmann 2B
- CD: Vollmann 2C
- CD: Harper-Ecco Vollmann: Riding Toward Everywhere of links, fonts, word files, Vollmann comp order, Vollmann layouts (ts)
- Paper accompanying CD: Harper-Ecco
- Notebook: Freight Trains Nov 2006 (ms)
Box 20
Folders Numbered 141-148- Middle East Documents
- Envelope with writing: Secret interview in Kabul – status of women in one man’s family (ms)
- List of questions (ms)
- Interview notes (ms)
- The American Friends Service invitation to “Afghanistan: A Human Rights Focus” December 10th (ts)
- Republic of Yemen official document in Arabic (ts/ms)
- 77 of 252 Documents from The Economist, November 10, 2007 “Iraq’s Kurdish leader in a bind; Iraqi Kurdistan
- 89 of 252 Documents from Newsweek, September 24, 2007 “What They Are Missing”
- September 25, 2008 “Iraq Passas Provincial Elections Law” by Erica Goode
- 39 of 152 Documents from The Washington Post, November 5, 2007 “Kurdistan’s Hope for Talks”
- The New York Times “Giving Proper Burial to Holy Books” by Douglas Frantz
- “How to Speak in Eye Wreck” by Mark Peters from The Front Books, March 2007
- Los Angeles Times “Face to Face With the Taliban” by Karl F. Inderfurth, September 23, 2001
- Envelope with writing: Secret interview in Kabul – status of women in one man’s family (ms)
- Middle East Notes
- Page 1-11 of notes (his numbering) (ms)
- Page 20A-21 of notes (his numbering ) (ms)
- Page 100-109 of notes (his numbering) (ms)
- Page xx and yy of notes (his ordering) (ms)
- Notes on Amma Sualca (ms)
- Eleven pages of notes on Kirkuk (ms)
- Five pages of notes on Kurds (ms)
- Four pages of notes on Deacon Israel and Christian churches (ms)
- Two pages on notes on Padjak, guerrilla women and suicide bombers (ms)
- Three pages of other notes on Middle East (ms)
- Middle East letters
- Letter to Bill from Mark (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Mary, 4/16/08 (ts)
- Notebook on Middle East (ms)
- Notebook on Middle East (ms)
- Notebook: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia 2000 (ms)
- Europe Central articles and texts
- Culture L’Événement Vollmann from Le Point, 30 août 2007, page 88-89
- Russian Document inside Russian article from 2000
- The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia
- “Little Pig Thatrical Concern: Europe Central Takes Its Place Beside Mahagonny in the Pantheon of Brilliant Local Theater” by Kate Dobbs Ariail
- “Zoya” from Europe Central, Viking 2005 by William T. Vollmann
- “Operation Magic Fire” from Europe Central, Viking 2005 by William T. Vollmann (ts)
- “Roman Historique” by Boris Sneff from 24 Heures
- March 25, Oct 2007, from Livres page 37
- Russian newspaper from 2007 with article about William T. Vollmann
- Europe Central misc
- Note in Russian to Alexei Guernan from Ival Lipchia (ms)
- Russia/Germany Map diagram (ms)
- Page 1-10 of text on Slavic countries (ts)
- All Art Is Propaganda draft #1 (ts)
- All Art Is Propaganda draft #1 (ts)
- All Art is Propaganda draft #2 (ts)
Box 21
Folders Numbered 149-164- VIVM draft (ts) (not clear what the letters stand for)
- VIVM draft (ts) (not clear what the letters stand for)
- Invisibility (ts)
- Nulick/Distemper (ts)
- Widow’s Weeds with envelope (ts)
- Under the Volcano (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Jeanette, October 10, 2006 with pages from Under the Volcano (ts)
- Afterward of Under the Volcano (ts)
- Cartoon (ts)
- The Answer (ts)
- Data on Nakedness and Related Traits in Hungary by Thomas A. Sebeok (ts)
- Star of Paris (ts)
- Mothers and Children photograph descriptions
- Mothers and Children (ts)
- Aboriginal Mother and Children (ts)
- Frightened Mother and Child (ts)
- Inuk Mother and Children, Nunavut (ts)
- Malaysian Mother and Child (ts)
- Kosovar Albanian Mother and Child (ts)
- Iraqi Mother and Child (ts)
- Mother with Photograph of Her Dead Child (ts)
- Guardian of Amiriya Shelter (ts)
- Woman of the Burned Land (ts)
- Malaria (ts)
- Book of Candles
- Sample Book of Candles photographed with envelope for Priscilla (ts)
- Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. Book of Candles add (ts)
- Notes on Book of Candles (ms)
- Analogy for the Spirit poem by Jim Bridwell (ts)
- Short Autobiographies
- Autobiography of time in Afghanistan (ts)
- Memories of William T. Vollmann with note to Bill, 7/10/08 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Sean, November 5, 2007 with California Essay by William T. Vollmann (ts)
- Child Labor
- Letter to William from Bob Roe, April 8, 2008 (ts)
- Child Labor Photo Essay (ts)
- Child Labor Photo Essay – Industries and Locations (ts)
- Child Labor Photo Essay: Background and Statistics (ts)
- Photo Essay on Child Labor possible story angles (ts)
- Child labor Photo Essay – Story Angles: Background and Statistics (ts)
- Notes on Child Labor (ms)
- “The Final Months of a Year of Firsts” by Steve Bogdan (ts)
- “Kay Brockman Bishop and Dutch Snyder” (ts)
- Condé Nast Portfolio: Business Intelligence, May 2007 (ts)
- Misc Writings
- Pages 28, 31, 33-35 of writing about Charlotte, Johnson, and Anita (ts)
- Page 11 with writing on Grapes of Wrath (ts)
- “1: I Think I am Rich” (Thailand, 2001) pages 18-23, 25, 29, 36, 41, 56 (ts)
- “3: Natalia’s Children” (Russia, 2005) pages 68-69, 75, 81, 99 (ts)
- “4: Everything You Should Do By Yourself” (China, 2002) pages 103-106, 111, 117-118, 120, 125, 151 (ts)
- “10: Accident-Prone-ness” page 158, 166, 174 (ts)
- “13: Estrangement” page 175, 177, 181 (ts)
- “14: Amortization” (USA, 1993, 2005; Japan, 2000; Philippines, 1995) page 186, 188 (ts)
- “15: Crime Without Criminals” (Kazakhstan, 2000) page 193-195, 198, 203-206, 208-209, 215 (ts)
- “16: Snakehead Fear” (Japan, 2001) page 219, 228, 232, 247, 250-251, 253-254, 260, 270-271, 281, 292-296 (ts)
- “22: I Think You Are Rich” page 308 (ts)
Box 22
Folders Numbered 165-170- Women misc writings
- Essay “A Woman of Valor: Strong, vigilant, resourceful, and submissive to no one – the author’s ideal woman first appeared to him in a comic book” by Michael Chabon, from Allure, May 2004, page176, 179, and last page (ts)
- “Gender Identity and Phantom Genitalia” by Sandra Blakeslee from San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, April 13, 2008 page 9-10 (ts)
- “Welcome to America, Jerk!” by Gez Devlin, 1989 (ts)
- Women Magazines
- Newbeauty Anniversary Issue, Volume 4, Issue 1, Winter-Spring 2008 (ts)
- Instyle, January 2008 (ts)
- Women Magazines cont
- Sactown Magazine special anniversary issue, Dec/Jan 07/08 (ts)
- Harper’s Bazar, January 2008 (ts)
- Allure magazine, January 2008 (ts)
- Writings on the President
- Letter to John Mozes from WTV with manifesto “Proposal for a Promise Archive” (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Casey and Ann (ts)
- End page of event notice in the Main Library in San Francisco in the Koret Auditorium, Wednesday, December 10, with question about how to advise Obama with Afghanistan by Sandra Schwartz
- From Ann Laffeter of Les Inrockuptibles: questions about America and its leaders
- “The Roots: <
>” - PowerHouse Books, Spring/Summer 2009 Catalog
- Between pages 18-19
- Letter to William Vollmann from Edwin Frank, 1/13/08 (ms)
- Between pages 18-19
- Bed Assembly Instructions
- Articles
- “American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age” by Pete Davis, 1919, with descriptions
- “Claude Lanzmann, écrivain et cinéaste; La question n’est pas celle du Document, mais celle de la vérité” by Guerrin Michel from Le Monde, 19 janvier 2001
- “William T. Vollmann on Writing with Ingetrity Bending Genres, and Humanizing Villains”
- Priscilla Juvelis – Rar Books Catalogue 38: Contemporary Boos Arts – Mostly New Arrivals
- Priscilla Juvelis – Rare Books Catalogue 36 – Recent Additions Contemporary Book Arts
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Jeff Bursey, 27 February 2008 (ts)
- Review of William Vollmann, Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader, by Jeff Bursey, 1-22-2008
- Interview #2 Pattern Recognitions (2000) by Larry McCaffery
- We’ve Been Down That Road Before (2001) by Larry McCaffery
- Envelope from Ryu (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Dwight, January 2, 2007 (ts)
- “William T. Vollmann’s new book “Poor People”, will be published in April” by Anthony Swofford
- Newspapers
- Two copies of BookForum, Feb/Mar 2009, Volume 15, Issue 5
- Two copies of New York Times Book Review, January 14, 2007
- SN&R, September 28, 2006, page 77-92
- The Sun, Wednesday, December 13, 2006, page B1-B4
- The New York Times, Thursday, May 17, 2007, page B5-B8
- The New York Times Editorial/Letters, Friday, April 6, 2007, page A19-A20
- The New York Times, Thursday, February 22, 2007, page B1-B12
- Three Copies of Los Angeles Times Opinion, Sunday, June 3, 2007
Box 23
Folders Numbered 171-178- Magazines
- Vice Magazine: The Second Annual Fiction Issue, vol. 14, no. 12, “Absinthe” by William T. Vollmann page 40-42
- BestLife, March 2009, “My Highland Fling: A Toast to my boon companion and blithe spirit single-malt Scotch whisky” by William T. Vollmann page 66-68
- AIB NYC: A Bookfair for the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, September 29, 2007, Book of Candles
- Note to Bill from P (ms)
- Planet premiere issue, Fall 2001, Vollmann’s World interview from Lauren R. Fritz, page 66-69
- While You Were Sleeping Magazine, August/September 2004, An Interview with William T. Vollmann by Daniel T. Lukes, page 46-49
- Magazines (cont.)
- PowerHouse Books, Spring/Summer 2006 Catalogue
- Transfuge: Le Magazine de Littérature Étrangèe, no. 12, septembre-octobre 2006, “Ice T. entretien avec William T. Vollmann, page 76-78, “Les Fusils” by William T. Vollmann, page 79
- Outside Magazine, July 1999, “A Very Short History of Nunavut: It may be cold, it may be impossibly vast and empty, but in its first hours of existence, Canada’s newborn Inuit territory proves that there’s nothing so liberating as home rule” by William T. Vollmann, page54-64, 128-129
- Envelope to William T. Vollmann
- Letter to William from Rob Turner, February 6, 2007 (ts)
- Sactown Magazine, Feb/Mar 07
- Sactown Magazine, December/January 06/07
- Business card for Sactown Magazine for Rob Turner
- Request Letters
- Envelope to Jan Weed from HarperOne (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Michael G. Maudlin, November 9, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Clif Croce (ms)
- Handwritten letter (ms)
- Card to Mr. Vollmann from Mory Aebisches, Feb 19, 2006 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Soheyl Dahi, April 4, 2005 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Gary Groth, October 20, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Alex Kasavin with samples for Star of Paris (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Josh Malbin (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Jason Loeffler, June 29, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Miriam Markowitz, 31 October 2007 with essay “A Lie That Tells the Truth” by Joel Agee (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Paul Slovak, October 25, 2004 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Alexis Gargagliano, March 24, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Marshall Weber, Booklyn, August 2, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann, 01/26/2006 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Wade Kuhn (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Jom Feast (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Maggie, 25-26 April 2005 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Miriam (ts)
- Letter to Bill from John Moriarty, 15 November 2006 (ms)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from David Koral (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Meg Storey, December 18, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Priscilla Juvelis, August 4, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Nicole, with story “Not Seeing Eye to Eye” (ms)
- Letter to Bill, July 31, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Rob (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Bettina Strauss, January 19, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Vance Morgan, June 23, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Alex Thiltges, 17 mai 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to Mr. William T. Vollmann from Rebecca Saletan, 17 April 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William from Justine, April 3, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Ben George, May 29, 2008, with information of essays in May 2009 Ecco Press (ts)
- Letter to Bill from David (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Fred Sasaki, October 17, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Françoise Palleau-Papin, August 18, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, October 14, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, July 23, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Eric Simonoff, January 24, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Paul Slovak from Eric Simonoff, January 24, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Jill Schoolman, October 12, 2007, with “Yalo” by Elias Khoury, January 10, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Harold Augenbraum, December 17, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Angela von der Lippe, August 23, 2007 (ts)
- Envelope to Jan Weed from HarperOne (ts)
- Misc Letters
- Letter to Bill from Millicent, 3/1 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Dan (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Millicent, 12/7/06 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Millicent, 11/27 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Millicent, 8/29 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Millicent, 4/12 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Sean, June 2, 2008 (ts)
- Envelope to William Vollmann from Joan Mellen
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Ron Kolm, 5/13/07 (ms)
- Note to Bill from David L. Ulin, May 29 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Margarita Donnelly, 3/13/06 (ms)
- Postcard to Bill from George (from Austria), 31.5.07 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from David, 31st October 2008 (ms)
- Envelope to Bill
- First page turns for Star of Paris
- Postcard to Bill from Sindd, 9/18/06 (ms)
- Postcard to Bill from R. Tochigi? (ms)
- Envelope to William T. Vollmann from Benoit Laudier (ms)
- Envelope to William Vollmann from Riverhead Books (ts)
- Postcard to William from Zlata Siliale (ms)
- Card in Russian to Bill (ms)
- Card to Bill from Ben Bush (ms)
- Postcard to Bill from Larry, 10/6/06 (ms)
- Envelope to William T. Vollmann from Zlata Siliale
- Letter to William from Zlata (ms)
- Letter to Bill from William Pierce, 1/19/07 (ms)
- Card to Bill from Ron (ms)
- Card to Bill from R. Tochigi (ms)
- Card to Bill, 10/10/06 (ms)
- Card to Bill from Sandra Petree (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Benoit Laudier (ms)
- Envelope to Bill Vollmann from Harper’s Magazine
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Miriam (ts)
- Letter to Bill from David, 16 Sept 2006 (ms)
- Envelope to William T. Vollmann
- Letter to Bill from Miori Toury (?)
- Card to Bill from Hillary (ms)
- Card to Bill from Ron (ms)
- Note to Bill from N?oko (ms)
- Note to Bill from Mark (ms)
- Postcard to Bill from Gez Delvin (ms)
- Postcard to Bill from Mom and Dad, Oct 12 (ms)
- Note to Bill from Steve, 2/8 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Lydia and Chris, March 6, 2008 (ms)
- Envelope to William T. Vollmann from RT Smith
- Letter to Bill from RT Smith, 3/7/08 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from ?, April 20, 1990, with “Not To Live” by John Berryman on the back (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Priscilla Juvelis, 2/6/08 (ms)
- Note to Bill from Jeff, 3/6/08 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Gez Delvin, 2/23/08 (ts)
- Envelop for Mr. Vollmann
- Letter to Bill from Alex Thintges, 30 mai 2007 (ts)
- Ordre de paiement à destination de l’étranger from Crédit du Nord (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Gaetan Husson, 21 March 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Gaetan Husson, 14/06/07 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Radhika, March 19, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Steven P. Link (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from John Erik Riley, April 11, 2007 (ts)
- Envelope: Archive
- Letter to William Vollmann from Asya Muchnick, January 29, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Michael, March 29, 2004 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Jill Bialosky, 13 June 2006 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Sam, 13 March (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Robin Desser, March 18, 2004 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from ?, November 14, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Margie Weinstein, April 3, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, April 18, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, February 13, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Pannell, September 11, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from ? (ms)
- Letter to William from Martin, July 27, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Margie, July 17, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Dr. Rob Borofsky, April 14, 2005 (ts)
- Letter to Letters Harper’s Magazine from Jerry McCarthy, Dec. 20, 2006 (ms)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Susanna Lea, 25 March 1998 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Chase (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Bill Wasik, October 10, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Chris, 1/17/07 (ms)
- Note to Bill from Tom (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Jorn Weisbrodt (ts)
- Two copies of letter to William T. Vollmann from Carmen Balagué Sierra, 23 July 2007 (ts)
- Postcard to William from Selina? (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, October 24, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ts)
- Email to Casey Panell from Millicent Bennett, April 9, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey panel, February 13, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Katja Scholtz, august 25, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Miriam (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Sean McDonald, October 24, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, January 29, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, January 17, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Lydia and Chris, Dec. 18, 2006 (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Priscilla Juvelis, August 24, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Jordan, 3/8/06 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Mom and Dad, August 14, 2003 with post-it note on back of last page (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Bill Plumley, October 24, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from R. Tochigi (ts)
- Letter to George Minkoff from Priscilla Juvelis, January 14, 2009 (ts)
- Email correspondence between Priscilla Juvelis and Chris Martin about William T. Vollmann between December 17-18, 2008 (ts)
- Two copies of letter to Bill from Priscilla Juvelis, December 11, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Nicole Rudick, January 14, 2009 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Priscilla Juvelis, 9/2/08 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Chris Barsanti, February 13, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William from Nicole Rudick (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, October 21, 2008 (ts)
- Note to Bill from Michael (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Alex Thiltges, 15 décenbre 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Garson from William T. Vollmann (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Frank, 25 August 2008 (ms)
- Letter to David from Priscilla Juvelis, December 11, 2008 (ts)
- Note to Bill from Tene? 8/4/08 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from ?, 11/18/08 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to Bill from ? (ts/ms)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann form Hath Marthugn????? (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to Priscilla from Dave, March 22, 2009 (ts)
- Letter to Chuck from Bill (ms)
- Letter from Jacob, 5/27/2008 (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to Casey and Susan from Marie-Catherine, September 23, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Chris from Priscilla Juvelis, November 20, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Jonathan Crowe, October 20, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Priscilla from George, October 14, 2008 (ts) with note to Bill from P on it (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, March 31, 2009 (ts)
- Note to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann form Tamika Talbot, April 10, 2009 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Paul (ms)
- Letter to Bill from Bill Plumley (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Michael Hemmingson, March 24, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Tom Bouman, 15 February 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William from Guy Walter, 29 October 2007 (ms)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Josh Malbin (ms)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Casey Panell, November 7, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William from Jay O’Berski, 7 December 2007 (ts)
- Email correspondence between Jacob J. Dickinson and Catherine, 9 April 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Robert J. Elster with Vollmann’s International Who’s Who of Authors and Writers entry (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Tom Bouman, March 12, 2008 (ts)
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- The American Academy of Arts and Letters invitation to The Annual Ceremonial, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (ts)
- Envelope from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Two copies of ticket to The American Academy of Arts and Letters Ceremonial and Exhibition, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (ts)
- The American Academy of Arts and Letters invitation to The Annual Ceremonial, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (ts)
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Ceremonial Program, Wednesday, May 21m 2008
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Ezra Laderman, October 18, 2007 (ts)
- Draft for Madison Smartt Bell and William T. Vollmann Each to Receive $250,000 From the American Academy of Arts and Letters with note to Bill from Jane (ts)
- The New York times, Friday, November 30, 2007 pages B1-B2, B31-B32, “An Award That Keeps On Giving” page B2
- VIII International Literary Festival of Sarajevo
- Sarajevo, 06-10, Juni 2007 program
- Sarajevo, 06-10, Juni 2007 program cover with portrait drawn on it
- VIII International Literary Festival of Sarajevo (June 7-10 juin 2007) around William T. Vollmann itinerary (ts)
- Three copies of the 8th European Literary Encounters in Sarajevo itinerary (ts)
- William T. Vollmann Sarajevo speech, June 2007 (ts)
- Sarajevo 06-10 Juni 2007 program cover
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Jean Marie Laclaventine, Jorge Semprun, Nicole Du Roy, Francis Bueb, 14 December 2006 (ts)
- International Forum on the Novel 08
- International Forum on the Novel 08, Monday, 26 May- 1 June 2008 round table itinerary (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann form Guy Walter, October 29, 2007 (ts)
- The International Forum on the Novel “Novel and Reality”
- Email to Casey Panell from Miriam Bridenne, Friday, December 15, 2006 (ts)
- Four copies of William T. Vollmann in Paris, June 10-June 15 itinerary (ts)
- Events
- The 13th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 26-27, 2008 invitation (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Maret Orliss, November 12, 2007 (ts)
- Vagabond Books invites you to the UCLA Festival of Books Saturday and Sunday April 26th and 27th (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Margie (ms)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Margie Weinstein, July 6, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Barbara K. Bristol, September 30, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Barbara K. Bristol, January 18, 2008 (ts)
- Making a nomination 2008 Whiting Writers’ Awards with recipients of the Writers’ Awards 2007-1985 (ts)
- National Book Foundation finalist announcement (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from David Steinberger, April 9, 2009 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Harold Augenbraum, January 28, 2008 (ts)
- National Book Foundation Finalist Announcement, September 8, 2006 (ts)
- The Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Joseph Pickett, October 30, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Jason D. Butler, October 13, 2006 (ts)
- Pen USA’s 18th Literary Awards Festival, December 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Susan from Jamie Wolf, October 8, 2008 with RSVP to dinner reception and tribute page purchase information (ts)
Box 24
Folders Numbered 179-183- Events cont.
- Lyceum Agency envelope
- Proposal for William Vollmann for MFA Program in Creative Writing (ts)
- Email correspondence between Miriam Feuerle, Ronnie Scott, William T. Vollmann February 4-5, 2008 (ts)
- Envelope to William T. Vollmann
- The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Cathy McKenna (ts)
- Rules and Conditions 2007 Award (ts)
- The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007 (ts)
- HRG North America for Condé Nast Publications, 9 April 08 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Diana Braunschweig, May 3, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William from Nicole Antebi, June 6, 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from John Wronoski, 15 June 2007 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Linda Schacht Gage, 26 July 2007 (ts)
- Time Tables for travel to Norway, 25 mars 2006 (ts)
- Letter to David Martin from Jefferson Hack, Friday, 31st March (ts)
- October 2006 itinerary for Japan (ts)
- Letter to Mr. Vollmann from Jessica, November 22, 05 (ms)
- Invitation to the 70th Birthday and the publication of The Way it Wasn’t from the files of James
Laughlin, Tuesday, November 14, 2006 (ts)
- Note to Bill from Thomas, 10/27/06 (ms)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Peter Shattuck, March 10, 2007 (ts)
- Email to Paul Slovak from Hillary Frey about William T. Vollmann, April 06, 2006 (ts)
- Letter to Smith Emtrant from Helen Marcus, July 29, 1999 (ts)
- Card to William from John DeBeers, March 27, 2007 (ms)
- Harper’s Magazine Christmas Party, Thursday, December 18 (ts)
- March Author Events from booksmith.com (ts)
- Letter from Sarah, 15 February 2006 (ts)
- The Bear Valley Irrigation Company Album: Southern California Landscape Photographs by Herve Friend, 1891, January 13 through March 11, 2006 (ts)
- Note to Bill from Miriam (ms)
- Letter to William Vollmann from James Warner (ts)
- Letter to Priscilla from Peter Kraus, June 14, 2007 (ts)
- Invitation to the Dedication of the First National Monument, Sunday, March 30, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to Bill from Dave Eggers (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Genevieve Field, July 13, 1998 (ts)
- Folder
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Michael J. Bandler, October 12, 2007 (ts)
- Description of William Tanner Vollmann (ts)
- U.S. Department of State United States of America Grant Agreement Terms and Conditions(ts)
- Health Information for Travelers to Serbia, 10/15/2007 (ts)
- Announcement: U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesman “ Worldwide Caution, October 9, 2007 (ts)
- American Corner Kragujevac Presents: An Evening with William T. Vollmann, Tuesday, 30 October (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Michael J. Bandler, September 18, 2007 (ts)
- U.S. Speaker and Specialist Program Trip Report Guidelines (ts)
- Itinerary Monday, October 22-Wednesday, October 31 (ts)
- Tax Information (ts)
- Accident/Illness Medical Claim Form (ts)
- Accident and Sickness Program for Exchanges Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs United States Department of State: Health Benefit Plan, 2007-2008 (ts)
- Folder: William Vollmann 7/22/08-7/26/08 Writing the Memoir: Transforming Truth into Art
- Envelope with ID card for William Vollmann from the California State University Fresno Association, Inc. (ts)
- Essay pages 1-24 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Lisa Dennis, May 1, 2008 (ts)
- Letter to William Vollmann from Melanie Harbin, May 27, 2008 (ts)
- CSU Summer Arts Course Catalog, June 13- July 26 (ts)
- “A Bloody Nose in the Outfield” by William T. Vollmann (ts)
- Summer Arts California State University housing and meals ’08 (ts)
- Lyceum Agency envelope
- Speeches
- Short speech for receiving an award (ms)
- Speech for award given for Poor People (ms)
- Boston University Speech 4/06 (ts)
- Library Speech, April 18, 2007 (ts)
- Library
- Four or five inchoate questions for Bill Vollmann (ts)
- Airline ticket from VIE to ORD (ts)
- Photo essay (ts)
- Riverside Municipal Museum’s Heritage House and Gift Shop brochure
- Forty-seven pages of misc notes (ms)
- Nine pages of stapled notes on Pakistan (ms)
- Note to Bill from Bob (ms)
- Introduction by William T. Vollmann, 2008 (ts)
- Illustration of window and a person in looking in it (ms)
- Priscilla Juvelis Rare Books Catalogue 43
- Questions from Mathieu Perreault of La Presse (ts)
- Information for William T. Vollmann Portfolio, December 16, 2008 (ts)
- In an envelope:
- Return envelope to the Editor for International Biographical Reference Series (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Robert J. Elster (ts)
- International Who’s Who of Authors and Writers entry for William T. Vollmann (ts)
- The Europa Biographical Reference Series flier (ts)
- Misc
- "Vollmann Review" in Bookends: The Newsletter of the Friends of the Library, Summer 2007 (Sacramento State University)
- In an envelope:
- Return envelope to The Editor for International Biographical reference Series (ts)
- Current entry for William T. Vollmann (ts)
- International Who’s Who of Authors and Writers entry for William T. Vollmann (ts)
- The Europa Biographical Reference Series (ts)
- State by State: 50 Writers/ 50 States DVD
- Perseus Books Group Author Order Form (ts)
- Questions for a magazine in Columbia (ts)
- Two pages of HarperCollins Publishers Spring 2009 Author Remainder Order (ts)
- Essay on Sheena the Queen of the Jungle (ts)
- Page 358 of a misc text (ts)
- Deep Spring College postcard (ts)
- Note from Tom Luddy for Telluride Film Festival (ts)
- Four pages of misc text (ts)
- Letter to Kim from Luca, 3 June 2005
- Richiesta di trasferimento internazionale di denaro (ts)
- The Europa Biographical Reference Series order form (ts)
- Palm Springs Desert Resorts City Map 2005 (ts)
- Priscilla Juvelis Rare Books Catalogue 42: Contemporary Books (ts)
- Seattle Art Museum: Spain 1492-1819, October 16, 2004-January 2, 2005 (ts)
- Laguna Beach: A Resort for All Seasons, Visitors Guide 2005 (ts)
- Picture of book by Bill on top of Jazz guitarists amp during a show (ts)
- Illustration with text at a wake (ms)
- HaperCollins Publishers Fall 2008 Author Remainder Order (ts)
- Misc cont.
- Name tag for William T. Vollmann for Strauss Living
- Envelope
- Thirty pages of misc notes (ms)
- Forty-One pages of misc notes (ms)
- Wish list of trips (ms)
- Bills with list (not in any particular order) (ms)
- The Bounty, a page for a book review (ts)
- “Judge inspects migrant camp, weighs its future” by Gillian Flaccus
- Adding no flavor of its own…Accent (ts)
- Pure Spraying Chemicals: Fruit-Grower, St. Joseph, Missouri page 33
- Motor Transport Museum News, vol. 5, no. 3, Fall 2003
- Notes on an HT napkin (ms)
- Notes from Sosnko (ms)
- Postcard
- M. Collins, A. Archer, Take Big Plunge Ye ole PoleCat
- Poem to my girlfriends “If I Were Santa” Christmas 2006 (ts)
- The Booksmith Author Trading Cards #19: William T. Vollmann, Monday, Sept 27
- Two copies of the Booksmith Author Trading #908: William T. Vollmann, Wed. March 14
- Business card for Araceli Cabadas for Prudential California Realty
- Polaroid of art
- Video checklist (ts)
- HarperCollins Publishers invoice claims (ts)
- National Deadline: Ongoing – The Writers Emergency Assistance Fund (ts)
- “The Dawes Roll” M1186 Enrollment Cards of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 (ts)
- Vollmann-Drew Roundtable Questions (ts)
- Works in the Vollmann-Drew powerpoint presentation (ts)
- HarperCollins Trade Division – Book Schedule and Specifications for Riding Toward Everywhere with post-it to Bill from Millicent (ts/ms)
- Four pages of photo captions (ts)
- Email to David Koral from Cindy Archer, October 19, 2006 (ts)
- HarperCollins Art Log (ts)
- Folder
- Page of explanations from William T. Vollmann (ms)
- 2005 Highlights (ts)
- Pictures of pigs (ts)
- Consumer Price Index (ts)
- Suhrkamp Verlag-Insel Verlag order form (ts)
- Envelope with note on it (ms)
- Note of removed notebook, 10/22 (ms)
- Centrum Experience: High School Writers in Residence Project, April 12-17, 2005
- Notebook of lined paper (ms)
- EDTA misc pages (ms/ts)
- Summer of Love Art of the Psychedelic Era, May 24-Spetember 16, 2007
- Notebook for William T. Vollmann 4-13-07 (ms)
- Notebook 1995 France-England, CA and 1997 Malaysia for Royal Family (ms)
- Notebook for Colombia 2000 (ms)
- Notebook 1997 Jamaica, Royal Family, Freight (ms)
Box 25
Folders Numbered 184-196- Riding Toward Everywhere cover option (ts)
- Envelope
- The Fate of the Art (ts)
- Map of a UC-Berkeley campus (ts)
- Dinner Party Feb 14, 2007 (ts)
- The Fate of the Art schedule (ts)
- Imperial Cover Options/Samples (ts)
- Imperial Chapter 2 (ts)
- Imperial Cover Options (ts)
- Poor People
- Poor People table of contents and photos (ts)
- Poor People cover (ts)
- Author Bio (ts)
- Praise for William T. Vollmann(ts)
- Description of a poem
- Poor People table of contents and photos (ts)
- Nine Large Photos for Imperial (ts)
- California Newspapers
- Sacramento News and Review, Thursday, January 27, 2005
- Mexicali Aniversario, Edicón Colleccionable 6-18
- Imperial
- Imperial Layouts (ts)
- Postcard to Bill (ms)
- Imperial Art Log – WTV’s supplied (ts)
- Illustration Credits for Imperial (ts)
- Letter to Paul Slovak from Bruce Giffords, 1/7/09 about Bill (ts)
- Letter to Paul Slovak from Bruce Giffords, 1/20/09 about Bill (ts)
- Note to William from Tami (ms)
- Imperial Layouts (ts)
- Imperial Art Layouts (ts)
- Va VA Voom (ts)
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Envelope to William T. Vollmann from American Academy of Arts and Letters (ts)
- Envelope to Vollmann, William T. from American Academy of Arts and Letters (ts)
- Business card for Amy Grace Loyd from Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
- Card with seat number “4” for American Academy of Arts and Letters
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Ceremonial pamphlet, Wednesday, May 16, 2007
- Cards of notes
- William T. Vollmann inducted to AAAL, May 16, 2007 (ts)
- William T. Vollmann about Europe Central (ts)
- William Charvat Collection of American Fiction: The William T. Vollmann Collection (ts)
- Two blank cards (ts)
- Cardboard (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Edmund White, March 2, 2007, American Academy of Arts and Letters (ts)
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, Members and Award Winners Ceremonial, May 16, 2007 list of people in picture
- Letter to the Members of the Academy and 2007 award winners from Virginia Dajani, October 29, 2007 about the photograph (ts)
- Picture of American Academy of Arts and Letters Members and Award Winners
- Envelope to William T. Vollmann from American Academy of Arts and Letters (ts)
- Imperial Cover (ts)
- Riding Toward Everywhere cover art (ts)
Also included with this collection, but cataloged separately:
- Central Europe, French translation of Europe Central Actes SUD, New York, 2007 (National Book Award 2005 sheet)
- The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane, Penguin Books, 2008 (Advance uncorrected proofs. Not for sale!)
- The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon, Other Press, New York, 2009 (Advance uncorrected proof – not for sale: It should be quoted without comparison against the finished book; letter to William T. Vollmann from Corinna Barsan, December 1, 2008 inserted in the front cover (ts))
- The Boat by Nam Le, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 5/2008 (Advance Reader’s Edition)
- Greed by Elfriede Jelinek, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2007 (Advance uncorrected proof: this is an uncorrected galley for review purposes only. Please check against the finished book before quoting for publication. Letter to William from Amy Scholder, December 4, 2006 Inserted between pages 90-91 (ts))
- The Red Parts: A Memoir by Maggie Nelson, Free Press, New York, 2007 (Advance uncorrected proofs – not for sale; letter to William Vollmann from Maggie Nelson, September 11, 2006 inserted between pages xiv and the title page (ts))
- The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani, Penguin Books, New York, 2007 (Advance uncorrected proof. Not for sale!; letter to William Vollmann from Kathryn Court, September 13, 2006 inserted between pages 156-157 (ts))
- My Dreams Out in the Street by Kim Addonizio, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007
- Advance uncorrected reader’s proof from Simon & Schuster
- Business card for Marysue Rucci for Simon & Schuster inserted in the front cover (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Marysue Rucci with “Praise for Little Beauties” inserted in the front cover (ts)
- The Suitors by Ben Ehrenreich , Counterpoint Press, New York, 2006 (Advance reader’s edition; letter to William T. Vollmann from Amy Scheibe, November 2, 2005 inserted in the front cover (ts)
- The Artful Edit: On the practice of editing yourself by Susan Bell , W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2007 (Advance reading copy. Not for sale. Letter to William T. Vollmann from Jill Bialosky, 13 March 2007 inserted in the title page (ts))
- The Mistress’s Daughter: A Memoir by A.M. Homes , Viking Press, 2007 (Advance uncorrected proofs – not for sale)
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, Random House Publishing Group, New York, 2005
- Advance uncorrected proofs: please for not quote for publication without checking against the finished book
- Business card for Barbara Fillon from The Random House Publishing Group taped to the front of the book (ts)
- Business card for Michael Scharf from Publishers Weekly clipped to the front cover (ts)
- Slips of paper inserted between pages 94-95, 110-111, 140-141, 196-197, 206-207, 212-213, 236-237, 238-239, 244-245, 246-247, 248-249, 256-257, 262-263, 266-267, 268-269, 274-275, 276-278, 286-287, 296-297, 364-365
- The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer, Random House, New York, 2007 (Advance reader’s edition. Not for sale)
- The Lazy Boys by Carl Shuker, Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006
- Bound Galley – Not for sale
- Business card for Roxanna Font from Avalon publishing group inserted between pages 14-15 (ts)
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Roxanna Font, May 17, 2006 inserted between pages 170-171 (ts)
- Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2005
- Advance reading copy not for sale, hardcover publication December 2006
- Letter to William T. Vollmann from Michael Pietsch, October 17, 2005 inserted at the Title Page (ts)
- Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen, Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, London, 2007 (Advance uncorrected galley first English translation. Letter to William Vollmann from Martin Riker, July 19, 2007 inserted in the cover (ts))
- The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You’ll Never Read by Stuart Kelley, Random House, New York, 2006
- Advance uncorrected proofs: please do not quote for publication without checking against the finished book
- Letter to William Vollmann from David Ebershoff, December 7, 2005, inserted between pages x-xi (ts)
- Exit A by Anthony Swofford, Scribner, New York, 2007 (Advance reader’s edition)
- Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann, Ecco, 2008 (Uncorrected proof not for sale. Note to Bill from Millicent inserted in the front cover (ms))
- Poor People by William T. Vollmann, Ecco, 2007 - two copies (Uncorrected proof, not for sale. Note to Bill from Millicent inserted in the cover in the second copy (ms))
- Vanilla Slim: A Complicated Pimp in the Empire of Lust by Bob Armstrong (Letter to William Vollmann from Bob Armstrong, June 20, 2005 inserted in the front cover (ts))
- Portraits by Arne Svenson (Letter to William from Arne Svenson in the front of the binder (ts); CD in the back of the binder)
- Agni Magazine number 65, Boston University (Return envelope to Agni Magazine inserted between pages140-141)
- Falling Through the Architect by K.M. Ross, The Writers Group, New Zealand, 2005
- The Garbageman and the Prostitute by Zack Wentz, Chiasmus Press, Portland, 2005
- Drawing of semi-naked man with an animal headdress and an ax over the title page with notes to Bill from Zack and K.B.
- Letter to Bill from Zack inserted in the back cover (ms)
- 580 Spilt: a journal of arts and letters, issue 7 2005 (Letter to William T. Vollmann from Michelle Simotas inserted between pages 60-61 (ts))
- A Public Space 04 2007
- Note to William Vollmann from Brigid Hughes, March 14, 2006 inserted between pages 88-89 (ts)
- Note to Bill from Brigid inserted between pages 88-89 (ms)
- Back flap of the journal moved to page 89 marking article “Too Late” by William T. Vollmann
- Ecco, Amistad, Avon, Harper Paperbacks, Rayo, HarperLuxe, HarperMedia, winter 2008 (Note to Bill from Millicent inserted between pages 4-5 (ms))
- La camicia di ghiaccio by William T. Vollmann, ALET, 2007
- Tin House: Off the Grid, volume 9, number 3
- Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 2006 (News from TOR/FORGE inserted in front cover page (ts))
- Alone With War/ Seule Avec la Guerre a film by Danielle Arbid
- America in Crisis #141 a film
- Battlefield a film
- Bo Gritz Te Government: How To Take’em on & Win! A film
- Roman Karmen a film
- Rehm HR2 3-6-07 Vollmann-Poor People WAMU American University-Washington DC 20016 tape