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8 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) University of California, Berkeley.
Hannah Arendt papers, 1898-2006
25,000 items. 95 containers plus 1 oversize. 38 linear feet. 8 digital files (2.28 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, educator, and political philosopher. Correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, subject files, transcripts of trial proceedings, notes, printed matter, and digital video files pertaining to the writings and academic career of Hannah Arendt.
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Glenn T. Seaborg papers, 1866-1999
370,000 items. 1,016 containers plus 1 oversize and 4 classified. 407.6 linear feet. 14 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Nuclear chemist, public official, and educator. Journals, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, telephone and appointment logs, scientific research, speeches, writings, photographs, biographical material, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting Seaborg's work as a nuclear chemist who codiscovered numerous chemical elements, as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, California, and as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971.
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The Seth MacFarlane collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan archive, 1860-2004
595,000 items. 1,705 containers plus 1 classified and 38 oversize. 19,163 digital files (242.63 MB). 690.6 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Astronomer, author, and educator (Carl Sagan). Author and television producer (Ann Druyan). Correspondence, memoranda, scripts, notes, subject files, course files, articles, book drafts and resource material, reports, organization files, biographical material, clippings, printed matter, slides and transparencies, photographs and negatives, electronic files, and other material documenting Sagan's career as a scientist and educator and the collaboration of Sagan and Druyan on articles, books, television shows, movies, and other projects.
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Charles H. Townes papers, 1898-2014
129,250 items. 468 containers plus 2 classified and 4 oversize . 187.2 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. 98 digital files (6.38GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Physicist, astrophysicist, and educator. Correspondence, computation notebooks, technical memoranda and notes, patents, teaching files, astronomical observations, grants and projects, subject files, legal files, speeches, writings, biographical material, awards, printed matter, photographs, digital files, microfilm, and other papers relating to Townes's career beginning in 1948.
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Louis Simpson papers, 1922-2011
66,000 items. 212 containers plus 1 oversize. 84.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author. Correspondence, working drafts of various poems and writings, administrative material regarding publishing and publications, reviews, translations, interviews, memorabilia, and subject files related to Simpson's career as an author and professor.
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Elizabeth H. Blackburn papers, 1932-2015
150,000 items. 408 containers plus 51 oversize. 171.4 linear feet. 74,795 digital files (904.96 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Molecular biologist, biochemist, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, laboratory notebooks, research files, notes, charts, speeches, writings, teaching files, organization files, biographical material, photographs, transparencies, slides, negatives, clippings, printed matter, and other material in both physical and digital formats documenting Blackburn's career as a scientist and educator.
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W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection, 1936-1991
7 boxes 4.5 linear feet.. manuscripts: 115 folders.. 239 sound discs (35 hours) : analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 12 in.. 170 photographic prints : black and white ; various sizes.. 24 drawings.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The California Folk Music Project of the California Work Projects Administration (WPA) was conceived and directed by Sidney Robertson Cowell and co-sponsored by the Music Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Music Division, Library of Congress from 1938 to 1940. Additional support was provided by the New Music Society of California and the Society of California Pioneers. The resulting collection of sound recordings, photographs, correspondence, field notes, and drawings documents the musical culture, including religious music and folk song, of many ethnic and English-language performers in northern California. The collection includes the documentation of the music of Anglo Americans, Armenians, Assyrians, Basques, Croatians, English, Finns, Hungarians, Icelanders, Italians, Norwegians, Russian Molokans, Scots, Portuguese, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Spaniards and Spanish Americans from 1938 to 1940. The sound recordings were deposited in the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1940. The collection also includes a few instantaneous sound discs made by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Missouri and Iowa for the Farm Security Administration in 1936-1937, and includes folk music research, writing, photographs, and technical drawings and sketches of the musical instruments, generated by Cowell and by the WPA staff who worked for her, plus related documents to 1991.
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Brahna Trager papers, 1924-1990
10,000 items. 32 containers . 12.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Home health care administrator, health care policy analyst, and author. Correspondence, writings, speeches, reports, conference material, and printed matter relating to Trager’s work in home health care. Also includes drafts of her fiction writing and related correspondence.
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