Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9f59s0t0/entire_text/
[0244] Jacques Barzun Papers, ca.1900-1999, MS#1483
Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University, 6th Floor East Butler Library, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027
Description: Jacques Martin Barzun (1907-2012) was a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, contains correspondence with Charles Austin Beard, William Frank Buckley, Jr., Nicholas Murray Butler, Max Eastman, Milton Stover Eisenhower, T. S. Eliot, Granville Hicks, Hamilton Holt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Robinson Luce, Marshall McLuhan, Henry Louis Mencken, Norman Podhoretz, and Peter Viereck.
Finding aid:
http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079628/
[0244a] Ewing Cannon Baskette collection of print materials, 1902-1959, 02/Baskette
Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 346 Main Library (MC-522), 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Description: Ewing Cannon Baskette (1902-1958), a lawyer, librarian, and bibliographer, owned the largest private collection on civil liberties and freedom of expression in the United States. Series 1: Correspondence, 1821-1976, contains letters to Baskette from Harry Elmer Barnes, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, H. L. Mencken, and Wendell L. Willkie. Vertical file materials on topics including American heritage (Patriotism); Americans for Moral Decency; Anti-Communist Movements (conservatism, political right); Anti-Semitism; Bible (Fundamentalism); Catholic Church – Controversial Literature (anti-Catholic literature); Citizens for Decent Literature; Civil Rights; Communism – Russia; Communism – United States; Clarence Seward Darrow; Discrimination; Espionage; Eugenics and Birth Control; Fascism; National Organization for Decent Literature; Religion and state (Church and state); Sabotage; Scopes Trial; Sedition; Gerald L. K. Smith (McClanahan recall); and Unamerican activity investigations (Subversive activities).
Websites with information:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/collections_manuscript_collections.html
http://www.library.illinois.edu/administration/collections/about/special.html
Finding aid:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=33
Baskette collection finding lists:
http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2008-03/baskettecollecti00univ/baskettecollecti00univ_djvu.txt
http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2008-03/baskettecollecti00univ/baskettecollecti00univ.pdf
[0245] Cartoon Collection of Gene Basset, MS 90-22 [cartoons]
Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Wichita State University Libraries, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068
Description: An award-winning cartoonist, Gene Basset (1927- ) has been cartooning professionally since 1961. Basset's cartoons in this collection were originally submitted to The Scripps-Howard Newspapers in Washington, D.C., as editorial cartoons. The collection includes cartoons from March 16, 1963, to October 17, 1973.
Websites with information:
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/msub-b.html
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/mscrcol1.html
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/mscrcol3.html
Finding aid:
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/90-22/90-22-A.HTML
[0246] Gene Basset Editorial Cartoons, 1984-1992 [cartoons]
Location: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, 300 S Hull St, Athens, GA 30605
Description: Gene Basset (1927– ) was chief editorial cartoonist for Scripps-Howard Newspapers for nineteen years and an editorial cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal from 1982 to 1992. The collection consists of ink drawings, pencil sketches, negatives, and plates of editorial cartoons by Gene Basset from 1984 to 1992. Subject content relates to state and local (Atlanta-Fulton County) politics and feature such topics as public transportation, pension padding, and political corruption. Subjects of the cartoons include Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell, Newt Gingrich, Ku Klux Klan, Lester Maddox, Congressman Larry McDonald, Segregationist Zell Miller, Richard Nixon, Oliver North, President Ronald Reagan, Senator Talmadge, and Robert Welch, head of the John Birch Society.
Finding aid:
http://russelldoc.galib.uga.edu/russell/view?docId=ead/RBRL009GB-ead.xml
[0247] Gene Basset Papers, 1962-1969 [cartoons; partly digital collection]
Location: Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, 222 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
Description: Gene Basset (1927- ) is an American cartoonist primarily known for his editorial cartoons. In 1962, after a brief stint as the Honolulu Star Bulletin's first editorial cartoonist, Basset became the chief editorial cartoonist with Scripps-Howard newspapers. Original artwork for over 1,200 syndicated editorial cartoons and proofs. These cartoons were drawn by Basset while he was with Scripps-Howard. Subjects of the cartoons include American Independent Party, Ross Barnett, black racism, Dean Burch, civil rights, Communism, Everett Dirksen, Dwight Eisenhower, extremism, Barry Goldwater, gun control, Adolf Hitler, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, House Un-American Activities Committee, integration in schools, John Birch Society, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ku Klux Klan, Curtis LeMay, Lester Maddox, James Meredith, Nazism, Richard Nixon, race relations, racism, Ronald Reagan, Richard Russell, school desegregation, school prayer, Clay Shaw, John Stennis, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, White Power, white racism, and white supremacy.
Websites with information:
http://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/search?brand=ead;collection=ead;sort=title;titleAlpha=GG;
http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/ead/subj_list_from_db.htm
Finding aids:
http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/basset_g.htm
http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/print/basset_g_prt.htm
Digital exhibit: Draw Your Own Conclusions Political Cartooning Then and ?—Gene Basset:
http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/c/cartoonists/basset.htm
[0248] JD du P (Japie) Basson Collection
Location: Manuscripts Section, Special Collection Division, JS Gericke Library, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X5036, Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa
Description: Jacob Daniël Du Plessis Basson (1918-2012) was an advocate, politician, and writer. In 1950, Basson was elected to represent the National Party of the Namib constituency in parliament. Nine years later he was expelled from the party by Dr H.F. Verwoerd after he openly expressed opinions against apartheid. In 1985, he joined the National Party (NP) after the announcement that apartheid would come to an end. The collection consists of correspondence, books, articles, commission reports, newspaper clippings, speeches, parliamentary documents, information on South African and international politics and political parties, personal documents, pamphlets, journals, and cartoons from newspapers.
Websites with information:
http://blogs.sun.ac.za/news/2011/06/18/su-unveils-japie-basson-collection/
http://library.sun.ac.za/English/aboutus/collections/sc/Pages/manuscripts.aspx
[0249] The Private Collection of J. D. du P. Basson, 1917-1973, PV58
Location: Archive for Contemporary Affairs,