Librarians, archivists, and many others have contributed to a legacy of over one hundred years of descriptive content in the creation of catalog records and archival finding aids that help researchers discover primary sources. The Hoover Institution Library & Archives Description team continuously publishes new and updates existing finding aids in the Online Archive of California.
Here is a summary of four finding aids recently published.
Michael J. Boskin papers
Dr. Michael J. Boskin is the Wohlford Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and advises governments and businesses globally. His archival collection contains correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, studies, and printed matter relating to economic conditions in the United States, and financial, trade, regulatory, and environmental policy during the presidential administration of George Bush. (View finding aid 94004)
Mikhail Sokolov papers
Mikhail Sokolov was a Russian Orthodox priest and former naval officer active in France in the interwar years and later in San Francisco. The Sokolov papers primarily relate to Russian military and naval history, particularly the fate of military school cadets and naval officers who emigrated after the 1917 revolution. The materials include lists of Russian émigré officers with dates of death and places of burial, papers related to the Kaiut-kompaniia, and photographs of the Russian battleship General Alekseev. (View finding aid 2022C20)
Henry Norbert Wolff diary
Lieutenant Henry Norbert Wolff served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in England and France during World War I. Wolff’s diary describes Army operations related to radio technologies, aviation, and intelligence gathering during World War I. (View finding aid 2021C46)
Robert Edward Edmondson papers
The largest known existing archive of propaganda created by 1930s isolationist provocateur Robert Edward Edmondson, a journalist and America First activist with a pronounced anti-Semitic, anti-New Deal agenda. The collection consists of approximately 375 handbills, broadsides, flyers, and newsletters primarily written by Robert Edmondson and published in New York. (View finding aid 2021C45)
In addition, here are several more collections that also opened for research:
- Varney family papers
- Takeshita and Teraoka family papers
- Kadoike Hiroshi papers
- Nagura Yuichi papers
- Miyawaki Noboru papers
- Douglas Aircraft Company Material Conservation posters
- Aikoku Fujinkai papers
- Shimazu Sōji papers
- Huang Chen-chiu papers
