http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5580046q No online items Processed by David Zlotnick. 409 McLaughlin Hall Berkeley, California, 94720-1720 Phone: (5) 642-3604 Fax: (5) 642-9180 Email: itslib@uclink4.berkeley.edu URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/itsl 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. NS 3563 1
Collection number: NS 3563 Berkeley, California Contact Information: 409 McLaughlin Hall Berkeley, California, 94720-1720 Phone: (5) 642-3604 Fax: (5) 642-9180 Email: itslib@uclink4.berkeley.edu URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/itsl Collection Processed By: David Zlotnick Date Completed September 2002 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Harmer E. Ephemera, Date (inclusive): 1931-1964 Collection number: NS 3563 Creator: Davis, Harmer Elmer, 1905-1998 Extent: 1 carton Repository: The Library Berkeley, California 94720-1720 Abstract: [Abstract text] Language: English. Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Harmer E. Ephemera, NS 3563,,,. Acquisition Information Donated to the library by the, September 2002 Biography NS 3563 2
Harmer E. Davis, born July 11, 1905 in New York was a professor of Civil Engineering (eventually becoming professor emeritus) and founding director of the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering (ITTE), now known as the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), at the. He attended U.C. Berkeley and received a B.S. and subsequent M.S. in Civil Engineering. Upon completing the M.S. degree, he began his 43-year career of research, teaching, and administration at Berkeley as an Instructor in the Department of Civil Engineering. He died December 24, 1998 at the age of 93. Scope and Content of Collection The collection consists of one carton containing approximately 70 items, chiefly antiquarian book dealers' catalogs, leaflets, and advertisements, along with newspaper clippings, personal notes, and other book ephemera assembled by Harmer E. Davis between 1931 and 1964. 1 Book Announcements, 1932-1950 Physical Description: 12 items Scope and Content Note Published book announcements, 1932-1950 2-5 Dawson's Book Shop, 1931-1943 Physical Description: 32 items 2-4 Catalogs, 1931-1945 Physical Description: 26 items 2 1931-1937 Physical Description: 8 items 3 1938-1942 4 1943-1945 5 Catalogs, Special List & misc., c1942-1943 Physical Description: 6 items 6 Misc. items, 1940-1975 Physical Description: 7 items 6 Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Harmer E. Davis, Dec. 1940 6 Notice of change of ownership from Archetype Press, June 1940 6 Band Concert at the Lake Program Guide, Summer 1975 6 Memo to Will Hamilton Physical Description: 1 leaf Mss. 6 An Evening of Classic American Humor and Song Campfire Circle, 1975 Physical Description: 3 leaves photocopy 6 Where to Look in the Bible 6 Christmas Card from Max and Dorothea Radin 7 Newspaper clippings, 1938-1964 NS 3563 3
Container List 7 Bookman's Notebook, 1942 Physical Description: 2 articles 7 The Press Democrat, July 25, 1964 7 Daily Californian, "Editorial Page" 7 Charter Week Edition, "Hail to the Chief", 1956 7 Statewide University (Vol. 20, No.1), 1956 7 Notes for Bibliophiles, 1938 (May 8, May 22, Aug. 14) Physical Description: 3 articles 8 Quarterly News Letter of the Book Club of California, 1936(Mar., June, Sep., Dec.) 1937(Mar., June) Physical Description: 6 items 9 Various catalogs, 1932-c1950. Physical Description: 20 items 9 9 9 Rare California, Catalog of a Collection of Unusual and Important Books. Fifty Books of the Year, An Exhibition of American Bookmaking William P. Wreden Rare Books Physical Description: 3 catalogs 9 George Fields, Bookseller & Publisher Physical Description: 4 catlogs 9 Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc. Physical Description: 2 catalogs 9 The Colt Press Physical Description: 6 catalogs 9 Roy Vernon Sowers Physical Description: 2 catalogs Various literature, 1935-1966. Physical Description: 16 items Cantique Spirituel (poem excerpt), C.F. MacIntyre, 1954 Christmas in Plymouth 1621, Ruth and James Hart, 1960 The Facts About Shakespeare, Pages 163-166, William Allan Neilson and Ashley Horace Thorndike, 1936 An Exhibition of the Work of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, 1942 The True Ballad of the Galloping Horse, William Henry Davenport, 1935 The Ballad of the Horseshoe Nails, C.F. MacIntyre, 1953 Portfolio of Art, Folio The University of California Press, 1940 Standards of Measurement and Nursery Rhymes, Chauncey D. Leake, 1959 NS 3563 4
Container List Geriatric Magazine The Pert and Sassy Blue Jay, vol. 19, pp. 784-785, Nov. 1964 Why not a Jaunty Cane?, vol. 20, pp. 997-998, Dec. 1965 Incentive to Vigor, vol. 21, Feb. 1966 Aeschylus at Gela, vol. 21, pp. 3-4, Mar. 1966 Spectrum, Swing and Feel Young!, vol. 21, pp. 298, 209 & 212, May 1966 Age and Memory, vol. 21, May 1966 Older but not Old, vol. 21, June 1966 NS 3563 5