Frank and Frances Robinson files on Upper Newport Bay preservation 1970-2001

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Frank and Frances Robinson files on Upper Newport Bay preservation 1970-2001

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This collection consists Frank and Frances Robinson's research materials relating to issues surrounding the proposed land swap between Orange County, California and the Irvine Company that would have allowed the latter to develop the Upper Newport Bay. Included are court materials relating to the subsequent trial and electioneering and publicity as well as subsequent activities in the development of the Upper Newport Bay as a nature preserve.

32.3 linear feet; (29 boxes)

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6659232

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Robinson, Frances

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Robinson, Frank

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Biography Frank M. Robinson, born in 1926 in Chicago, is a novelist and former journalist. He was also a good friend of Harvey Milk. During his teen years, Robinson worked as a copyboy for the International News Service, later he became an office boy for Ziff-Davis, a science fiction publisher. He indulged his interest in comic books, particularly science fiction-themed comic books, while working there. Robinson was drafted into t...