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State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Archives Division.
816 State Street, Madison, WS 53706

  • Lovely, Robert A.Collection, 1980-1985.
    0.2 c.f. and 85 videotapes.

    Materials produced by Robert A. Lovely at WHA-TV, Madison, Wis., concerning acid rain in Wisconsin and the Adirondacks of New York, including a finished broadcast videotape produced in 1980 and aired on the "MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour," accompanied by a script and by tapes containing raw footage, including interviews, accompanied by transcripts of the interviews, all produced in 1985.
    This collection is unprocessed.
    Finding aids: Case file.

Swarthmore College Peace Collection (PA). Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

  • SHAD Alliance. Records, 1978 1983
    1 linear ft.

    The SHAD Alliance papers consist of printed materials: minutes of committee meetings, leaflets, pamphlets, press releases, serial publications, newspaper clippings, flyers, and reference material from other antinuclear groups. There is very little correspondence. Includes 58 photographs. Individuals most active include: Jacob Aftel, Bruce Birnberg, John Breitbart, Ken Gale, Barbara Kropf, Barbara Padjack, Esther Pank, and Sharon Persinger. Organized in 1978, the SHAD Alliance (Sound-Hudson Against Atomic Development) was a coalition of more than 20 groups in southern New York State concerned about nuclear proliferation and the possibility of nuclear accidents. Nonviolence and safe energy alternatives were promoted. The New York City chapter (N.Y.C. SHAD) was the largest and most active affiliate. Three serials were published: Fallout Forum, N.Y.C. SHAD Newsletter, and New Rising Sun. Activity seemed to peak around 1979-1980, then decreased sharply. The SHAD Education Task Force committee attempted to carry on SHAD's work; it changed its name to Last Chance in 1981. SHAD's central office was closed in 1982. Reference files include material from these organizations: Con Ed Rate Withholding Coalition, Manhattan Project, various groups protesting the Indian Point, Seabrook, and Shoreham nuclear reactors, and WESTPAC, the Westchester Peoples Action Coalition.

    Subject: Manhattan Project (Organization) Indian Point Nuclear Power Station (N.Y.) Seabrook Nuclear Power Station (N.H.) Shoreham Nuclear Power Station (N.Y.) Westchester Peoples Action Coalition. Last Chance (Organization) Antinuclear movement -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources. Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources.
    Finding aid: Note: Connect to finding aid.
    Subset of materials: Finding aid http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG100-150/dg142shad.htm

  • WIN magazine records, 1966-1983.
    15.25 linear ft.

    Magazine published from Jan. 1966 until Oct. 1983; started by New York Workshop in Nonviolence; sponsorship taken over in Sept. 1966 by Committee for Nonviolent Action; CNVA merged with War Resisters League in fall 1967 and WRL assumed financial responsibility but did not control editorial board or staff.

    Chiefly published and unpublished mss. for magazine articles and poems including articles promoting liberal and radical causes including disarmament, draft resistance, war tax refusal, and other pacifist concerns, and civil rights, women's liberation, and environmental protection; together with minutes of its editorial board (1968-1983) and staff (1974-1982), correspondence, administrative files, subject file, and photos relating to protests and demonstrations in support of nonviolence. Correspondents include Maris Cakars, Ann Morrissett Davidon, Ralph DiGia, Larry Gara, Neil Haworth, Ed Hedemann, Grace Hedemann, Marty Jezer, David McReynolds, James Peck, Igal Roodenko, and Wendy Schwartz. Gift of WIN magazine, 1973, 1978, and 1983. Finding aid in the repository.
    Finding aid: Photos are described in: Guide to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 2nd ed., p. 75.

University of Missouri-St. Louis Library, Western Historical Manuscript Collection.
St. Louis, MO

  • Mallinckrodt, Edward, 1878-1967. Papers, 1798-1981.
    35.5 linear ft.

    Industrialist, scientist, and philanthropist in St. Louis, Mo.; director, vice-president, and board chairman of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works (later name, Mallinckrodt, Inc.), first manufacturer of fine chemicals west of the Mississippi River.

    Correspondence, legal papers, biographies, genealogies, master's thesis, publications, mss. of writings, reports, reagent catalogs, drawings, plans, regulations, surveys, scrapbooks, chemistry formulas, pamphlets, photos, glass slides, and other papers, relating to Mallinckrodt's family history, interests, career with Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, and other topics. Includes material about photography; travel; ballistics; brown bears; conservation, including work in preserving natural areas in upper New York State, Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah, and Tucker Prairie in Missouri; endowments to many individuals and institutions, particularly Washington University and Harvard University; and operations of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, including production and sale of pharmaceuticals, continued research on ether, production of uranium for the first nuclear reaction in 1942, and operation of a uranium plant for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission beginning in 1955; together with Paul A. Krueger's A Company in Transition (1967), still photos of a film depicting the first surgical operation for which ether was employed, and extensive correspondence with Carl S. Cate reflecting Mallinckrodt's efforts to help his German relatives recover from the effects of World War II.

    Gift of Doris Bausch Wheeler, 1984, Paul A. Krueger, 1984, and Patricia A. Hicks, 1986.
    Finding aids: Finding aid in the repository.

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