http://www.prwatch.org/files/rtw_group_research.pdf
[0447a] California and Western Manuscript Collection, ca. 1760-1973, M0119
Location: Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Green Library, Stanford University, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Description: Small collections and miscellaneous single items pertaining to various periods, persons, and phases of California history (1760-1963). Includes letters, journals, diaries, reports, financial and legal documents, pictures, and maps. A copy of American Citizen, San Rafael, May 15, 1936 [a right-wing newspaper]; a letter, typed papers, and a pamphlet by Franklin Hichborn; letters by Hiram W. Johnson; and Personal Recollections of Thomas H. Benton by Edward Dobyns (1882).
Finding aids:
http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/c4/tf7w1006c4/files/tf7w1006c4.pdf
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7w1006c4/entire_text/
[0448] California Biography Collection, 1827-2001, BIO COLL [ephemera collection]
Location: California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-4014
Description: The collection consists of ephemeral items relating to people widely known and relatively unknown in California. Files on Luther Burbank, Dwight D. Eisenhower, William Randolph Hearst, Herbert Hoover, Senator William Knowland, General Douglas MacArthur, John Francis Neylan, Richard Milhous Nixon, Dr. Paul Popenoe, and Ronald Reagan.
Finding aids:
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/chs/bio_coll.pdf
http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/xk/kt8199s2xk/files/kt8199s2xk.pdf
[0449] California Ephemera Collection, 1841-2001 (bulk 1880-1980), CA EPH [ephemera collection]
Location: California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-4014
Description: The collection consists of a wide range of ephemera pertaining to the state of California and each of its constituent counties, excluding the City and County of San Francisco. Types of ephemera include: advertisements; brochures; folders; programs; leaflets; pamphlets; announcements; guides; maps; tickets; invitations; newsletters; constitutions and bylaws; surveys and reports; directories and listings; fliers; badges and ribbons; ballots; dance cards; invitations; catalogues; report cards and syllabi; journals and journal articles; and newspaper clippings. Files on America First Committee of California, Inc., California Crusaders, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Christian Nationalist Crusade, Eugenics Society of Northern California, Greenback Party, Ku Klux Klan, Loyalty oaths, San Francisco Bay Region School of Anti-Communism, and Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Inc.
Finding aid:
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/chs/ca_eph.pdf
[0450] California Ephemera Collection, 1860- , Coll. 200 [partly digital collection; ephemera collection]
Location: Department of Special Collections, Manuscripts Division, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Description: Collection consists of broadsides, clippings, brochures, and other ephemeral materials relating to California. Subjects include: abortion, birth control, Luther Burbank, William Randolph Hearst, Japanese in California - Pre World War II, Hiram Johnson, David Starr Jordan, William Fife Knowland, Robert Andrews Millikan, John Francis Neylan, Paul Popenoe, Ronald Reagan, UNESCO - Los Angeles. Los Angeles Public School controversy, and others. Documents relating to Japanese in California - Pre World War II include Assembly bill no. 78: an act to regulate the ownership or possession of land by aliens, January 8, 1909; Campaign Committee of Asiatic Exclusion League of California, August 9, 1910; Men and women! Protect your homes from loathsome Oriental diseases! ca. 1910; Our Japanese question, ca. 1910; White or Jap: which? 1908; Anti-Jap Laundry League report for 1911, January 11, 1912; Will the Japanese predominate? June 1909; Does the savings justify the risk? ca. 1910; Check the Japanese industrial invasion, January 1912; Jap-laundry patrons: attention! ca. 1910; In the interest of peace with Japan patronize white industries only, June 1913; and Can we count on you? 1908.
Finding aid:
http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/ng/tf5f59p0ng/files/tf5f59p0ng.pdf
[0451] The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection [digital collection]
Location: University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Description: The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection brings together a selection of documents and images from the holdings of four repositories at the University of California: the University Archives, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; the University Archives, Young Research Library, UCLA; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego; and the Office of the Secretary of the Regents, Oakland. The collection comprises more than 3500 pages of electronic text, more than 30 pictorial images, and 15 audio clips, which document the controversy (1949-1951) that damaged the University during the McCarthy Era. Contains letters from Robert Donner to Helen R. MacGregor, Private Secretary to Governor Earl Warren, September 20, 1950; to John Francis Neylan, June 22, 1950; and to Neylan, October 12, 1950; a letter to the Editor, Life Magazine, from Jack B. Tenney, October 25, 1950; a letter from John Francis Neylan to Sidney Hook, November 28, 1950; statements of John Francis Neylan, ca. 1949, 1949, and February 28, 1950; and a letter from George W. Robnett to John Francis Neylan, April 12, 1950.
Reference:
David Farrell and Kathryn M. Neal, "California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection Debuts … and Wins a James Madison Freedom of Information Award," Bancroftiana 132 (Spring 2008), p. 10, http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/bancroftiana/ucb/text/bancroftiana_132.pdf.
Websites with information:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/loyaltyoath.html
Finding aid:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/loyaltyoath/
[0452] California Political Publication and Ephemera Collection, 1936-1989 (bulk 1964-1974), MS-R14
Location: Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, University of California, Irvine, P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557
Description: This collection comprises political publications and ephemera distributed in California from 1936 to 1989. Materials document the activities of California and Orange County legislators, politicians, and officials. The majority of the materials relate to Orange County, California. The collection includes newsletters and news releases, campaign pamphlets and newspapers, campaign posters, and several sample ballots as well as distributions from political associations such as Young Americans for Freedom. Contains materials relating to Barry Goldwater, Alf M. Landon, Ronald Reagan, John G. Schmitz, James B. Utt, and Young Americans for Freedom.
Websites with information:
http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=14352&sid=178380
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=u000034
Finding aids:
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/uci/spcoll/r14.pdf
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5580068c/
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5580068c/entire_text/
[0453] California Republican Assembly Records, 1936-, Collection 2039
Location: Special Collections, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Description: The California Republican Assembly (CRA), a statewide volunteer organization, was founded in 1934. The CRA furnished Republican candidates with preprimary endorsements as well as financial and volunteer support. The assembly wielded a major influence on modern American politics by serving as a model for other party auxiliaries, such as