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ROCKWELL HEREFORD PAPERS, 1916-1985 BIOGRAPHY Rockwell Hereford was born in 1902. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924. Hereford became manager of employee publications for United States Steel. He was interested in history and wrote pamphlets on the history of western industry, compiling them in a book, 100 Years West of the 100 Meridian. Hereford also wrote Whole Man, Henry Mauris Robinson, and a Half Century, 1890-1940. Robinson was a California banker and fiscal policy advisor to Herbert Hoover. Hereford died in 1988. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The papers were compiled by Hereford in the process of writing Whole Man, Henry Mauris Robinson, and a Half Century, 1890-1940 and are arranged into four subgroups: Manuscripts, Sources, Research, and Audio-visual materials. Manuscripts consists of three drafts of the book, each containing Hereford’s marginalia. Sources contains Hereford’s notes and copies used in preparing the manuscript. Folder date spans indicate Hereford’s notes and the original dates of copied materials. The materials are arranged by book chapter. The Research materials contain notes and copies made during early research on the book and are arranged alphabetically by archives or collection. The date spans again indicate the original dates of copied materials and Hereford’s notes. Audio-visual materials contain six folders of photographs, audiotapes, and one 16 mm. film. RELATED COLLECTIONS The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming also has a small collection of Rockwell Hereford papers documenting the history of western industry. FOLDER LIST Box Contents 1 Whole Man and a Half Century – Manuscripts Final Copy, 1982-1985 (8 folders) Critiqued 2 Annotated Copy, 1980-1985 (4 folders) 3 Bibliography Whole Man and a Half Century – Sources Chapter 1: The Maturing of America, 1969-1979 4 Chapter 3: Arizona’s Mineral Lure, 1965-1972 5 Chapter 10: Shipbuilding, 1937-1982 6 Chapter 14: Volunteer to International Negotiator, (2 folders) 7 Whole Man and a Half Century – Research Barber, John E. (Yale Library) 8 Correspondence and Notes with Various Archives, 1970-1976 Correspondence, 1982-1984 Historical Statistics of the U.S., 1885-1970 Correspondence and Notes, 1965-78 (2 folders) 9 Correspondence with archivists, 1966-1982 Huntington Library-Notes, 1965-1975 (2 folders) 10 Los Angeles Times (notes), 1919-1933 Chronology of Life, 1868-33 11 Staunton, W. F., Memoirs, 1860-1910 Whole Man and a Half Century – Audio-Visual Materials Family photographs, 1916-1940
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