Talisman Press archives, 1958-1969.

Lohf, Kenneth A

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Kenneth A. Lohf : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86100392 ...

Greenwood, Robert, 1926-

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Baird, Newton D.

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Morgan, Dale L. (Dale Lowell), 1914-1971

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Author and historian of the Amercian West. From the description of Scrapbook, 1916-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122630659 Dale L. Morgan (1914-1971), Western historian, was born in Salt Lake City and educated at the University of Utah. He was state superintendent for the Utah Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (1940-42) and information specialist with the Office of Price Administration during World War II. As a Guggenheim Fellow for 1947-48, Morgan...

Gilbert, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)

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In 1857 the San Francisco Board of Education established Minns' Evening Normal School for current and prospective teachers in the city. Named after its principal, George W. Minns, the institution was formally established as the first California State Normal School by the State Legislature in 1862. A decade later, the Legislature voted to move the Normal School to San Jose, and the school relocated to its new home on Washington Square prior to the fall term of 1872. After a fire dest...

Tweney, George H.

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Drysdale, Amy Horn.

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Woodbridge, Hensley Charles, 1923-....

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Collector and researcher. From the description of Collection, 1929-1959. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49479476 ...

London, John, merchant

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Dillon, Richard H.

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Richard Hugh Dillon was born Jan. 16, 1924 in Sausalito, CA; AB (1948), AM (1949), and BLS (1950), UC Berkeley; asst. librarian (1950-53) and librarian (1953-79), Sutro Library, San Francisco; author of many articles and books on California, including: California trail herd (1961), The legend of Grizzly Adams (1966), Fool's gold : the biography of John Sutter (1967), Humbugs and heroes : a gallery of California pioneers (1970), and Delta country (1982). From the description of Papers...

Crosby, Alexander L.

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Active in union affairs of Local 3, New York City of the American Newspaper Guild in the late 1930s and early 1940s. On staff of the Labor Press and served several years as its unit chairman. He also served a term as vice-president of the Newark Guild, was a member of the New York Executive Committee, and was active in union negotiations. From the description of Alexander L. Crosby papers, 1933-1944, (bulk 1941-1942). (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat ...

Hanna, Archibald, 1916-2010

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Gay, Theressa

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Historian and lecturer in Stanford's History Department from 1945 to the early 1960's. Major research area was the California Gold Rush period. From the description of Theressa Gay papers, 1946-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500088 Biographical Note Theressa Gay was born on Febrary 3rd, 1894 in Illinois. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin. She moved to Wyoming shortly after gra...

Paul, Rodman W. (Rodman Wilson), 1912-1987

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Paul earned his Harvard AB in 1936. From the description of Examination papers in history, May 1936. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511752 Biography Rodman Paul was born November 6, 1912 in Philadelphia and grew up near Boston. He was educated at Milton Academy (preparatory school) and Harvard, where he received the degrees of AB (1936), AM (1937) and PhD (1943). He served in the US navy reserve from 1943 th...

Bretnor, Helen Harding

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Jean-Nicolas Perlot was born in Belgium in 1823. He emigrated to California during the gold rush, worked as a gold miner in California, 1851-1857, and later settled in Oregon, where he worked as a landscape gardener. Perlot returned to Belgium in 1872 and spent the remainder of his life there. His autobiography, Vie et aventures d'un enfant de l'Ardenne, was published in Belgium in 1897. Helen Harding Bretnor worked as a public services librarian at the Bancroft Library, 1943-1967. Her English t...

Nathan, Leonard, 1924-2007

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Leonard Nathan (1924-2007) was an award-winning American poet, essayist, teacher, and critic. Born in El Monte, California, he served in the United States Army as a combat engineer in World War II and afterwards attended the University of California Berkely (UCB) on the GI Bill. While at UCB he met his future wife, Carol, and George Hochfield, who became a lifelong friend and colleague. Nathan received his BA (1950) and Master's (1952) in English (1950), followed by a Ph...

Nasatir, Abraham Phineas. (1904-1991).

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Abraham Phineas Nasatir was born in Santa Ana, California, on November 24, 1904. His parents were Lithuanian Orthodox Jewish immigrants, and his father instilled in him an early dedication towards scholarship, both religious and academic. This led Nasatir to graduate from high school at age fourteen, and he received his bachelor's degree from Berkeley in 1921 when he was barely seventeen years old. A year later he completed his master's thesis and quickly pursued his doctorate in history. His me...

Nunis, Doyce Blackman

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Kelly, Charles, 1889-1971

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Western historian and writer. From the description of Utah's black Friday : History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122494427 From the guide to the Utah's black Friday : History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, 1969, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Charles Kelly (1889-1971) was a writer of Western history and a collector of Western lore. From the description of Charles Kelly collection of Western...

Giffen, Helen S. (Helen Smith), 1893-

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Johnson, Kenneth M., 1928-

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Retired United Methodist minister living in Lake Junaluska (Haywood Co.), N.C. From the description of Sermons, 1951-2002. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 84491894 Retired Methodist minister from the Durham, N.C. area. From the description of Sermons, 1951-1977. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 48633463 Retired United Methodist minister. From the guide to the Kenneth M. Johnson Sermons, 1951-2002, (David M. Rubens...

Stanford, Anna

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Talisman Press

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Talisman Press was a fine press operated by Robert Greenwood and the late Newton Baird from approximately 1958 to 1969. After publishing 'Talisman' magazine for only a short time, they turned to publishing two to three books a year on subjects of Western American history, American literature, and bibliography. The business began in the San Jose area but moved to Georgetown in 1962. After they stopped printing books in 1969, Greenwood and Baird continued as book dealers until retirement in Januar...