Creator:
Ackerman, Forrest J
Inclusive Dates:
1884- 2009
Abstract:
Papers of the American science fiction author, editor, agent, collector and fan. Biographical material, Ackerman Agency
records, correspondence, Famous Monsters files, fanzines, financial material, legal material, memorabilia,
Perry Rhodan files, photographs, printed material, recordings of varous types, and writings by Ackerman, his
wife Wendayne, and others
Type of Material:
Address books.
Advertisements.
Audiocassettes.
Badges.
Bibliographies.
Business cards.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Calendars (documents)
Booksellers' catalogs.
Civil court records.
Comic books.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Character toys.
Drawings (visual works)
DVDs.
Fanzines.
Film stills.
Floppy disks.
Galley proofs.
Genealogies (histories)
Indexes (reference sources)
Interviews.
Invitations.
Itineraries.
Layouts (printed matter)
Legal documents.
Limited editions.
Lists (document genres)
Magazines (periodicals)
Manuscripts for publication.
Newsletters.
Notes (documents)
Obituaries.
Permissions.
Phonograph records.
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
Poetry.
Postage stamps.
Posters.
Programs (documents)
Reviews (documents)
Sales catalogs.
Scrapbooks.
Screenplays.
Scripts (documents)
Short stories.
Sound recordings.
Speeches (documents)
Tape reels.
Tax records.
U-matic.
VHS.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Videocassettes.
Visitors' books.
Subject:
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Famous monsters of filmland.
Metropolis (Motion picture : 1927)
Perry Rhodan (New York, N.Y.)
Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
Spacemen.
Voice of the imagination.
Literary agents.
Authors.
Editors.
Novelists.
Science fiction
Popular culture
Radio, television, film
Amateur films.
Authors, American.
Cinematography -- Special effects.
Editors -- United States.
Esperanto -- Study and Teaching.
Esperanto -- Societies, etc.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Fan magazines.
Fan mail.
Film festivals.
Horror films.
Lesbian pulp fiction.
Lesbians in literature.
Literary agents.
Monsters in mass media.
Monsters in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Novelists, American.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Science fiction -- Periodicals.
Science fiction -- Societies, etc.
Science fiction conventions.
Science fiction fans.
Science fiction, American.
Science in popular culture.
Space flight -- Fiction.
Space flight in art.
Vampires -- Fiction.
Creator:
Harris, Frank, 1855-1931.
Inclusive Dates:
1895- 1973
Abstract:
Collection includes
correspondence, legal papers, printed material, clippings, and photographs of Frank Harris. Irish-American author, and of his lawyer and
literary executor, Arthur Leonard Ross.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Legal documents.
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Lawyers.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- British
Authors, American.
Irish Americans.
Lawyers.
Creator:
Bason, Frederick T.
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Correspondence, clippings, photographs, manuscripts (includes signed photo of Somerset Maugham) of the British bookseller, collector and diarist.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Booksellers and bookselling.
Literature -- British
Booksellers and bookselling -- England.
Diarists -- Great Britain.
Creator:
Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959.
Inclusive Dates:
1867- 1966
Abstract:
Papers of the American humorist, journalist, author. Collections contains
correspondence, 1892-1959; typescript mss. of articles, books, poems,
speeches, and stories; notebooks; photographs; and memorabilia, including
clippings, drawings, genealogical material, reviews, a scrapbook, and a
subject file relating to Orville and Wilbur Wright, of whom Kelly wrote a
number of articles and books. Correspondents include, among others, George Ade, Sherwood
Anderson, Norman Angell, Newton D. Baker, Nicholas Biddle, Margaret Bourke-White,
Bruce Catton, Winston Churchill, Irvin S. Cobb, Homer Croy, Warren G. Harding, Arthur
Hosking, John T. McCutcheon, André Maurois, H.L. Mencken, William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), J. B. Priestley, Clarence Rook, Theodore Roosevelt,
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ida Tarbell, Booth
and Susanah Tarkington, Albert Payson Terhune, Harry S. Truman,
Wendell Willkie, P.G. Wodehouse, Orville
Wright, and Art Young.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Juvenilia.
Manuscripts for publication.
Notebooks.
Photographs.
Photoprints.
Reviews (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Authors.
Humorists.
Journalists.
Biography
Journalism
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Humorists, American.
Journalists -- United States.
Creator:
Hier, Frederick P.
Inclusive Dates:
1842- 1941
Abstract:
Lawyer for Walt Whitman and his secretary, Horace Traubell.
Collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, clippings and
photographs.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Biographers.
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Creator:
Pohl, Frederik, 1919-
Inclusive Dates:
1917- 1969
Abstract:
Correspondence (1934-1968); manuscripts by Pohl and others (1947-1965); legal and financial papers (1917-1964); and published material. Correspondents include Forrest J Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Judith Merril, Clifford Simak, many others. Collection also includes a large selection of fanzines and convention material.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Fanzines.
Manuscripts for publication.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Subject:
Authors.
Editors.
Novelists.
Science fiction
Radicalism
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Editors -- United States.
Novelists, American.
Science fiction fans.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction -- Societies, etc.