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American Honda Motor Company. Automotive (non-Ford) publications collection, ca. 1919-2004 (bulk 1940-1960).

Title: Automotive (non-Ford) publications collection, ca. 1919-2004 (bulk 1940-1960).

An artificial collection that is ongoing, the Automotive (non-Ford) Publications collection is comprised of publications created by various automotive companies for employees or the general public. For the following accessions, each 0.4 cubic ft. or less, publications are wholly or primarily short runs of annual reports: DaimlerChrysler, 1945-1996, Acc. 1711; Renault, 1959, Acc. 1712; Packard Motor Car Company, 1932-1953, Acc. 1713; American Motors Corporation, 1953-1982, Acc. 1719; Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, 1947-1953, Acc. 1720; Kaiser Industrial Corporation, 1948-1961, Acc. 1721; Hudson Motor Car Company, 1927-1953, Acc. 1722; Willys-Overland Motors Inc., 1919-1952, Acc. 1723; Graham-Paige Motors Corporation, 1947, Acc. 1724; Studebaker Corporation, 1935-1960, Acc. 1725; Fiat, 1967, Acc. 1733. American Honda Motor Company, 1984-1991, Acc. 1715, is comprised of publications about Honda plants in the United States, marketing materials, and employee brochures. Saab-Scania, 1984-1985, Acc. 1732, is comprised of several 1984-1985 marketing pieces and a press kit. Pontiac Motor Company, 1920, Acc. 1743, holds one item, an employee guide. Oakland Motor Car Company, 1928-1930, Acc. 1744, includes three publications entitled: Instructions to Employees; Wage Incentive Plan; and Facts, Rules and Regulations. Toyota, 1991, Acc. 1757, holds two publications entitled: Toyota and Automobile Safety and Automotive Electronics. The largest accession in the collection, General Motors Corporation, 1933-2004, 1.2 cubic ft., Acc. 1706, is comprised of a broad range of publications that focus on employee benefits, General Motors product design, histories of various automobiles the company produced, marketing and outreach materials, and annual reports for 1990 and 2004. Researchers should note that material is added to this collection regularly. Description and dates in this record are as of 2004.

ArchivalResource: 7.2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56106847 View

Henry J. Kaiser Papers, 1873-1982

Title: Henry J. Kaiser Papers, 1873-1982

The Henry J. Kaiser papers contain personal and business correspondence, memoranda, speeches, and papers, covering the Oakland, New York, and Hawaii offices, principally from the period after World War II. Includes material on the Kaiser Industries Corporation, the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program, the Kaiser Shipyards at Richmond, Calif., other Kaiser industries, and Kaiser's closest associate, Eugene E. Trefethen.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 329 cartons, 194 volumes, 2 oversize boxes, 139 oversize folders; Linear feet: ca.480

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Kaiser, Henry J., 1882-1967. Henry J. Kaiser pictorial collection [graphic].

Title: Henry J. Kaiser pictorial collection [graphic]. ca. 1930-ca. 1976.

Includes pictures of various United States dams and dam construction, shipyards and ship building, various Kaiser corporations and construction projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Henry J. Kaiser and the Kaiser family.

ArchivalResource: ca. 75,000 items (photographic prints, negatives, and albums) : b&w ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83920756 View

Arthur J. Goldberg Papers, 1793-1990, (bulk 1941-1985)

Title: Arthur J. Goldberg Papers 1793-1990 (bulk 1941-1985)

Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, lawyer, secretary of labor, and diplomat. Correspondence, case files, certiorari memoranda, legal files, speeches and writings, subject files, reports, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating to Goldberg's career as a lawyer, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, secretary of labor, and United States representative to the United Nations.

ArchivalResource: 78,000 items; 296 containers plus 14 oversize plus 2 classified; 120.7 linear feet

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Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Papers, 1937-1961

Title: Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Papers, 1937-1961

Collection contains business and personal correspondence, speeches, subject files.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 8 cartons, 1 portfolio; Linear feet: 10

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Hancock, Lambreth. Lambreth Hancock autobiography : revised typescript (photocopy), [ca. 1986].

Title: Lambreth Hancock autobiography : revised typescript (photocopy), [ca. 1986].

Describes his years working for Henry J. Kaiser, first in California and later in Hawaii; life at Lake Tahoe; various ventures of Henry J. Kaiser; other members of the family.

ArchivalResource: 140 l. in portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214710682 View

Edgar F. Kaiser Papers, 1886-1981

Title: Edgar F. Kaiser Papers, 1886-1981

The bulk of the papers were transferred to The Bancroft Library by Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. and consist primarily of corporate files from Kaiser's tenure as president and chairman of the board of Kaiser Industries Corporation. Also included are records from his earlier career as vice president and general manager of Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. and Kaiser Company, Inc., followed by those from his tenure as president of Kaiser Motors Corp. and general manager of Kaiser-Frazer Corporation's automobile plant at Willow Run, Mich. Also included are personal papers given by Kaiser's family.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 500 cartons, 32 volumes, 9 oversize folders, 1 box; Linear feet: circa 600

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George F. Hodges Collection, Bulk, 1940-1945, 1927-1978

Title: George F. Hodges Collection Bulk, 1940-1945 1927-1978

This collection contains materials related to the family of George F. Hodges, with a significant contribution of materials from his daughter, Grace Evelyn Wahrer (nee Hodges). Many of the materials relate primarily to the Hodges’ experience in the WWII home front in San Jose. Hodges was active in the San Jose community and in the San Jose Defense Council as a Senior Precinct Warden. Included in this collection are photographs of the Wahrer family, recipes, a substantial assemblage of play and concert programs, posters and ticket stubs, and newspaper clippings from attended shows, as well as magazines, newsletters, newspaper clippings of the “When Santa Clara County Was Young” column, and various other ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet; (1 box)

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Barnes, Bertram S. Bertram S. Barnes papers, 1932-1969.

Title: Bertram S. Barnes papers, 1932-1969.

Collection contains Bertram S. Barnes' subject files for the water resource projects he worked on in the Midwest and West, which contain correspondence, reports (some by Barnes), government documents, hydrograph sheets, drawings, and maps. Collection also contains reports written by Barnes, papers and reprints of articles written by Barnes, government documents, and miscellaneous printed materials. Three oversized U.S. Weather Bureau hydrologic map compilations are in this collection as well.

ArchivalResource: 7.92 cubic ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71151866 View

William Ross Aiken Papers, 1944-2007, (bulk 1955-1996)

Title: William Ross Aiken Papers 1944-2007 (bulk 1955-1996)

Professional papers regarding inventions and patents, with some personal papers. Of particular interest are Aiken's original research journals. The collection contains photographs, photographic negatives, and a biography of Kurt von Tauchendorf, Aiken's patent attorney, written jointly by Aiken and von Tauchendorf.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet

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Building together for a better world : the story of the Kaiser Industries.

Title: Building together for a better world : the story of the Kaiser Industries. 1960.

ArchivalResource: 21 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8178715 View

Macgregor, Wallace, 1917-1995. Wallace MacGregor papers, 1963-1995.

Title: Wallace MacGregor papers, 1963-1995.

Contains correspondence and reports related to work done with various companies dealing with mining and metals including Peabody Coal, Kaiser, AMAX, Homestake and Diamond Shamrock. Also includes papers relating to The Club.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 oversize folder (.65 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122315205 View

Brenneis, Jon. Jon Brenneis photograph archive [graphic].

Title: Jon Brenneis photograph archive [graphic]. ca. 1946-ca. 1988, bulk ca. 1950-ca. 1985.

The Jon Brenneis archive consists of approximately 124,000 photographs spanning his forty-year career as a professional photographer. Based in Berkeley, Calif., Brenneis's worked encompassed the San Francisco Bay Area and ranged across the United States and sometimes internationally. He photographed for Life Magazine in the late 1940s and 1950s, and was a frequent contributor to Time and Fortune magazines. His work ranges from human interest stories to popular culture to politics, but his documentary and promotional work for Bay Area corporations and industries is voluminous and significant. His clients included Chevron and Standard Oil, Crown Zellerbach paper company, Kaiser Industries and Kaiser Permanente, the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, Bank of America, and numerous others. His work documenting science and the high tech industry from the mid-1950s through the 1980s is particularly noteworthy. Major clients included Hewlett-Packard and IBM, but Brenneis also documented scientific work (particularly nuclear physics) at the University of California, Berkeley and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. Other University of California subjects on both the Berkeley and Davis campuses are also numerous. Brenneis{u2019}s photographs frequently appeared in Scientific American, and this diverse work covered medicine, nuclear physics, lasers, computers, micro-electronics, fiber optics, windmill generators, barn owls, primates, and rice culture in California, among many other topics.

ArchivalResource: 57 boxes (negatives), 14 boxes (photographic prints), 3 oversize boxes (photographic prints), 1 box (transparencies) ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775011558 View

Kaiser, Henry J., 1882-1967. Henry J. Kaiser papers, 1873-1982.

Title: Henry J. Kaiser papers, 1873-1982.

The Henry J. Kaiser papers contain personal and business correspondence, memoranda, speeches, and papers, covering the Oakland, New York, and Hawaii offices, principally from the period after World War II. Includes material on the Kaiser Industries Corporation, the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program, the Kaiser Shipyards at Richmond, Calif., other Kaiser industries, and Kaiser's closest associate, Eugene E. Trefethen.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 329 cartons, 2 oversize boxes, 194 volumes, 139 oversize folders (circa 480 linear feet)Carton 34, folder 16 ("Eagle Mountain Development"): 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 2836) and positive.Carton 34, folders 17-18 ("Kaiser Corp. Inc., Fontana Steel Plant"): 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3344, 109 frames) and positive.Carton 63, folder 25 ("Steel, Report on Soaking Pits, March 27, 1951"): 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3418) and positive.Carton 287 (misc. items): 2 microfilm reels : negative (BNEG Box 1511:1-2)Carton 288, folder 26 ("Shipyards-Richmond-Yard 3-Employee Handbook"): 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 1532)Carton 289, folder 24 ("Steel, Fontana, Description of Plant"): 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3345) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36169847 View

Kaiser Industries Corporation. Hilda Marjanne, 1943-[ongoing].

Title: Hilda Marjanne, 1943-[ongoing].

ArchivalResource: items in folder : ill., photos. ; 22 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21869711 View

Eugene E. Trefethen, Jr. Papers, ca. 1930-1980

Title: Eugene E. Trefethen, Jr. Papers, ca. 1930-1980

Collection contains correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, company publications, printed matter, proposals and specifications, and other miscellaneous materials relevant to Kaiser's many business interests.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 58 cartons; Linear feet: 73.75

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf187001s4 View

Kaiser, Henry J., 1917-1961. Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. papers, 1937-1961.

Title: Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. papers, 1937-1961.

Collection contains business and personal correspondence, speeches, subject files.

ArchivalResource: 8 cartons, 1 portfolio (10 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83388197 View

Kaiser, Edgar F. (Edgar Fosburgh), 1908-1981. Edgar F. Kaiser papers, 1886-1981.

Title: Edgar F. Kaiser papers, 1886-1981.

The bulk of the papers were transferred to The Bancroft Library by Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. and consist primarily of corporate files from Kaiser's tenure as president and chairman of the board of Kaiser Industries Corporation. Also included are records from his earlier career as vice president and general manager of Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. and Kaiser Company, Inc., followed by those from his tenure as president of Kaiser Motors Corp. and general manager of Kaiser-Frazer Corporation's automobile plant at Willow Run, Mich. Also included are personal papers given by Kaiser's family.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 500 cartons, 1 box, 32 v., 9 oversize folders (ca. 600 linear ft.)Microfilm: 104 reels ; 16 mm.Copy of Ivory Coast material, 3 folders from Carton 328 : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3234, 406 frames) and positive.Copy of v. 18, "Summary of land acquisitions, 1942-1946" : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3292) and positive.Copy of Shipbuilding-Northwest, Oregon Shipbuilding-Additional Facilities Estimates, Plan I and II, 1941 (Carton 62, folder 10): 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3318, 112 frames) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84650891 View