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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Griffin-Pierce, Trudy, 1949-2009; Pierce, Kieth |
Collection Name: | Trudy Griffin-Pierce and Keith Pierce Papers |
Inclusive Dates: | 1938-2009 |
Bulk Dates: | (bulk 1980-2008) |
Physical Description: | 17 linear ft. |
Abstract: | This collection is comprised of the papers of anthropologist Trudy Griffin-Pierce and solar astronomer Keith Pierce. The bulk of the material relates to Trudy Griffin-Pierce’s career as an anthropologist at the University of Arizona as well as her personal journals. Items include writings, correspondence, academic material as well as some personal material. Also included are some papers of Keith Pierce, primarily copies of his autobiography. |
Collection Number: | MS 499 |
Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://www.library.arizona.edu/speccoll |
Trudy Griffin-Pierce was born December 27, 1949 in South Carolina to Ben and Trudy Griffin. Due to Ben Griffin’s career as an Air Force officer, she spent her childhood travelling including living in Florida, Hawaii, England and California. When she was 16 her mother died suddenly of an aneurysm which became a pivotal experience in her life. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida State University in printmaking and fine arts. While she was a student there she wrote to the Navajo Tribal Chairman asking if she could join a traditional Navajo family as a daughter. After spending time in Many Farms, Arizona with her Navajo family who she maintained a relationship with for the rest of her life, she returned to Florida to finish her degree. She returned to Arizona and enrolled at the University of Arizona as a graduate student in fine arts but switched to anthropology and earned a Master of Arts in museum studies in 1970. She worked as a curator at the Indian Pueblo Culture Center as well as at the Kitt Peak National Observatory museum. There she met Keith Pierce who she married in 1979. She returned to the University of Arizona and earned a doctorate in anthropology in 1987.
Dr. Griffin-Pierce specialized in medical anthropology and native cultures with projects. She was an adjunct lecturer at the University from 1988 to 2003, assistant professor of anthropology from 2003 to 2008 and gained tenure as an associate professor in 2008. She authored six books including Earth is my Mother, Sky is my Father: Space, Time and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting (1992), Native Americans: Enduring Culture and Traditions (1996), The Encyclopedia of Native America (1995), Native Peoples of the Southwest (2000) which won the Alice Logan Writing Award in 2000, Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power: Naiche’s Puberty Ceremony Paintings (2007) which won the Southern Anthropological Society’s James Mooney Award in 2008 and The Colombia Guide to American Indians of the Southwest (2010). Dr. Griffin-Pierce was also an artist and did much of the art work for her books herself. She died January 6, 2009.
Austin Keith Pierce was born on October 2, 1918 in Tacoma, Washington to Tracy and Lucy Pierce. He was introduced early to telescopes as his father, a mathematics professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, who built telescopes at home. He attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, from 1936 to 1938 but eventually moved to Berkeley where he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science degree in astronomy. He married Mildred Buell in 1941 and had three children, Barbara, John and Ross. During World War II he worked on uranium isotope separation at the E.O. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory calutron in Berkeley as well as in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He returned to Berkeley in 1945 and earned his doctorate in Astronomy in 1948 under Dr. C.D. Shane.
After graduation he was recruited by Leo Goldberg from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to be a research assistant, he then moved to the McMath-Hulbert Observatory near Pontiac, Michigan. Dr. McMath found funding to develop the world’s largest solar telescope at Kitt Peak which Dr. Pierce helped site and design. He was appointed Associate Director in charge of the Solar Division which he held for 16 years. Dr. Pierce greatly contributed to work on the solar spectrum, especially the ultraviolet and infrared frontiers and was also a pioneer in the use of infrared and photoelectric detectors to make accurate measurements. At the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the McMath Solar Telescope in 1992 it was renamed the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope in honor of his contribution to the development of the facility. He died on March 11, 2005.
Papers, 1938-2009 (1980-2008). This collection consists primarily of the papers of Trudy Griffin-Pierce relating to her professional career as an anthropologist as well as her journals spanning 40 years. The bulk of the material consists of her writings, academic material including material from her graduate education and teaching career as well as correspondence, personal material and her personal journals. Also included is material from solar astronomer Keith Pierce primarily drafts of his autobiography as well as astronomy notes.
Personal journal volumes 50-104 located in Series V Boxes 9-16 are restricted until 2029.
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Trudy Griffin-Pierce and Keith Pierce Papers (MS 499). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Series I: Personal Files, 1961-2008 | |||||||||||
This series contains personal material associated with Trudy Griffin-Pierce. It includes calendars, personal notebooks and ledgers, receipts and correspondence related to her artwork. This series is arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
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1 | 1-2 | Artist work, 1978 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | Artist work, 1979-2006 | |||||||||
1 | 4 | Calendars, 1971-1989 | |||||||||
1 | 5 | Calendars, 1990-1999 | |||||||||
1 | 6 | Calendars, 2000-2009 | |||||||||
1 | 7-11 | Notes, 1978-2008, undated | |||||||||
1 | 12 | Professional record, 1976, 1980 | |||||||||
1 | 13 | School assignments, 1961-1965 | |||||||||
1 | 14 | Thankfulness notebooks, 1997-2002 | |||||||||
1 | 15 | Thankfulness notebooks, 2005-2008 |
Series II: Correspondence, 1938-2007 | |||||||||||
This series contains personal and professional correspondence including some correspondence between Trudy Griffin-Pierce’s parents, Ben and Trudy. This series is arranged alphabetically by last name with items in folders arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
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1 | 16 | A-P, 1982-2007 | |||||||||
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2 | 1 | Pierce, Ben and Trudy, 1944-1970 | |||||||||
2 | 2 | Kux, Claudia, 1988-1989 | |||||||||
2 | 3 | NHNZ, 2002 | |||||||||
2 | 4 | Pierce, Keith, 1938-1998, undated | |||||||||
2 | 5 | Washburn, Dorothy, 1998-1999 |
Series III: Writings, 1985-2009 | |||||||||||
This series contains published and unpublished writings. It is divided into 3 subseries, manuscripts, articles, and book reviews. The material is arranged alphabetically by title. | |||||||||||
Manuscripts, 1985-2007 | |||||||||||
This sub-series contains drafts of manuscripts. | |||||||||||
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2 | 6 | The Artist as Anthropologist: Achieving a Deeper Understanding of the Creative Process in the Constitution of Navajo Sacred Sandpaintings, 1991 | |||||||||
2 | 7-14 | Ben and Trudy, 1995-2001 | |||||||||
2 | 15 | Beyond the Scalpel and the Silver Bear: Bridging the Chasm between Biomedical Research and “Biocolonialism”, undated | |||||||||
2 | 16 | Black God: God of Fire, God of Starlight, 1995 | |||||||||
2 | 17 | Camel Dreaming, ca. 1992 | |||||||||
2 | 18 | Camels in the Outback, ca. 1992 | |||||||||
2 | 19 | Challenges to Developing Neuropsychological Instruments for Assessing Alzheimer’s Disease in American Indians and Alaska Natives, 2006-2007 | |||||||||
2 | 20 | Chiricahua Apache enduring Power: Naiche’s Puberty Ceremony Paintings, 1999-2007 | |||||||||
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3 | 1-2 | Cognition and Social Memory: The Role of Cultural Models in the Formation of Social Memory in Chiricahua Apache Prisoner of War Paintings, 2005-2006 | |||||||||
3 | 3 | Colombia Guide to American Indians of the Southwest, 2004-2008 | |||||||||
3 | 4 | Consensus and Variation in Depiction and Interpretation of Constellations in Navajo Sandpaintings, 1987 | |||||||||
3 | 5 | The Continuous Renewal of Sacred Relations: Navajo Religion, 1996, 2000 | |||||||||
3 | 6 | Creating a Culturally Appropriate Smoking Cessation Program with American Indians and Alaska Natives, 2006 | |||||||||
3 | 7-12 | Earth is my Mother, Sky is my Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting, 1985-1995 | |||||||||
3 | 13 | The Encyclopedia of Native America, 1992-1996 | |||||||||
3 | 14 | Hopi and Zuni Prayer Sticks: Magic, Symbolic Texts, Gifts, or Persons?, 1989 | |||||||||
3 | 15 | How Navajo Sandpaintings Accomplish the Work of Healing, undated | |||||||||
3 | 16 | Learning to see what is Really There: Reconstructing Cultural Models with Navajo Chanters, undated | |||||||||
3 | 17-18 | Microsoft Encarta articles, 2001-2002 | |||||||||
3 | 19 | Mirindi Mick, the Magical Camel, 1992 | |||||||||
3 | 20 | Native Peoples of the Southwest, 1999-2000 | |||||||||
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4 | 1 | Navajo Ceremonial Sandpainting: Sacred, Living Entities, 1991 | |||||||||
4 | 2 | The Navajo Nation and the Unites States Today, 2006-2007 | |||||||||
4 | 3 | Navajo Sandpaintings of the Heavens, undated | |||||||||
4 | 4 | Navajo Stars: Variation in one domain of Cultural Knowledge, 1987 | |||||||||
4 | 5 | North America essay, 2001 | |||||||||
4 | 6 | Photographs as Foci for Informant Interviews in Two Cultures, 1989 | |||||||||
4 | 7 | Recording and Using Sacred Knowledge: When an Anthropologist and Navajo People work together, 2007 | |||||||||
4 | 8 | The Sacred Sky: Native American Star Knowledge, undated | |||||||||
4 | 9-10 | Time, Self and Society, 2000-2004 | |||||||||
4 | 11 | Treasure Mapping, 1991 | |||||||||
Subseries: Articles, 1988-1992 | |||||||||||
This series contains published copes of articles. | |||||||||||
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4 | 12 | The American Anthropological Association on Session “Visions of the Sky: Studies in North American Ethnoastronomy”, 1988 | |||||||||
4 | 13 | Cosmological Order as a Model for Navajo Philosophy, 1988 | |||||||||
4 | 14 | The Hooghan and the Stars, 1992 | |||||||||
Subseries: Book Reviews, 1988-2009 | |||||||||||
This series contains published copies of book reviews, | |||||||||||
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4 | 15 | Desert Indian Women: Stories and Dreams, 2002 | |||||||||
4 | 16 | Living Life’s Circle: Mescalero Apache Cosmovision, 1993-1998 | |||||||||
4 | 17 | The Multicultural Southwest: A Reader, 2002 | |||||||||
4 | 18 | Navajo Medicine Bundles or Jish, 1988 | |||||||||
4 | 19 | Surviving the Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples, 2003 | |||||||||
4 | 20 | Voice in Clay: Pueblo Pottery from the Edna M. Kelly Collection, 2002 | |||||||||
4 | 21 | Weaving Women’s Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family, 2009 |
Series IV: Academic Files, 1976-2008 | |||||||||||
This series contains material related to Trudy Griffin-Pierce's academic career including graduate school notes, teaching material such as lecture notes as well as material from different projects and conferences. | |||||||||||
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4 | 22-24 | Alzheimer’s Disease research, 2007-2008 | |||||||||
4 | 25 | Anthropology 206, 1994 | |||||||||
4 | 26 | Anthropology 206, 1998, 2001 | |||||||||
4 | 27-28 | Anthropology 206 Honors, 1994 | |||||||||
4 | 29 | Anthropology 413, 1980 | |||||||||
4 | 30 | Anthropology 476, 1981 | |||||||||
4 | 31 | Anthropology 478, 1983 | |||||||||
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5 | 1 | Anthropology 483, 1982 | |||||||||
5 | 2 | Anthropology 600, 1980 | |||||||||
5 | 3 | Anthropology/History 148, 1995 | |||||||||
5 | 4 | Appointments, 1981-2008 | |||||||||
5 | 5 | Arizona Lecture Series, 2002 | |||||||||
5 | 6 | Art History 112, 1997 | |||||||||
5 | 7 | Art History 233, 1971 | |||||||||
5 | 8 | Clara Lee Tanner talk, 1991-1992 | |||||||||
5 | 9 | Colloquium in honor of Susan Phillips, 2004 | |||||||||
5 | 10 | Colorado River Indian Tribes lecture, undated | |||||||||
5 | 11 | Dancing of the Dreaming symposium, 1994 | |||||||||
5 | 12 | Death and Dying conference session abstracts, undated | |||||||||
5 | 13 | Departmental correspondence, 2006-2008 | |||||||||
5 | 14 | Dissertation defense notes, 1987 | |||||||||
5 | 15 | Dissertation notebooks, 1985-1986 | |||||||||
5 | 16 | Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles of Diabetic Patients through Native Practitioners, 2004 | |||||||||
5 | 17 | Film requests, 1996-2003 | |||||||||
5 | 18 | Indian Pueblo Culture Center, 1976 | |||||||||
5 | 19-20 | INDV 102, 2000-2002 | |||||||||
5 | 21 | INDV 102, 2008 | |||||||||
5 | 22 | Junior Faculty Professional Development leave, 2003-2007 | |||||||||
5 | 23 | ‘Learning to see what is Really There’ Making Neuropsychological Instruments Culturally Important, 2006 | |||||||||
5 | 24 | Miscellaneous class essays, 1981-1982 | |||||||||
5 | 25 | Miscellaneous class notes, 2003, 2008, undated | |||||||||
5 | 26 | Mountain Lions and other animals, 1989-1992 | |||||||||
5 | 27-28 | Native American art lecture notes, undated | |||||||||
5 | 29 | Navajo Code Talker documentary, 1994 | |||||||||
5 | 30 | Navajo medical lectures, 1993-1994 | |||||||||
5 | 31 | Navajo papers, 1981-1983 | |||||||||
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6 | 1 | The Navajo Philosophy of Healing, undated | |||||||||
6 | 2 | Navajo Philosophy of life program, 1999 | |||||||||
6 | 3 | Navajo Sandpaintings of the Heavens, 1987-1989 | |||||||||
6 | 4-6 | Notes, 1985-2008, undated | |||||||||
6 | 7 | Preliminaries notebook, 1984 | |||||||||
6 | 8-15 | Sandpaintings, undated | |||||||||
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7 | 1 | Sandpaintings, undated | |||||||||
7 | 2 | Statement of Accomplishment and Objectives on Research, Teaching, and Service/Outreach, 2007-2008 | |||||||||
7 | 3 | Student evaluations, undated | |||||||||
7 | 4 | Tonga notebook, 1985, 1989 | |||||||||
7 | 5-6 | Tonga research, 1984-1989 | |||||||||
7 | 7 | Undergraduate class notes, undated | |||||||||
7 | 8 | Visual Prayers: The Paintings and Drawings of Native American Prisoners of War slides, undated | |||||||||
7 | 9 | Walking in Beauty: The Dennys, a Family of Navajo Chanters, 2007 |
Series V: Keith Pierce Files, 1964-1982 | |||||||||||
This series contains the material of Keith Pierce with drafts of his autobiography making up the majority of the material. Also included are his notes on astronomy and some memos from the Kitt Peak National Observatory. | |||||||||||
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7 | 10 | Biographical data, undated | |||||||||
7 | 11-14 | The Illustrated Autobiography of Austin Keith Pierce, undated | |||||||||
7 | 15 | Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1964-1966 | |||||||||
7 | 16 | Miscellaneous, 1970, 1982, undated | |||||||||
7 | 17-18 | Notes, undated |
Series VI: Journals, 1967-2008 | |||||||||||
This series contains the personal journals of Trudy Griffin-Pierce. They detail her life from her time on the Navajo Reservation as an adopted daughter until her death in 2009. She includes all aspects of her life, personally and professionally. Volumes 1-2 are not included in this collection. Volumes 50-104 are restricted until 2029. | |||||||||||
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8 | 1 | Volume 3, 1967-1968 | |||||||||
8 | 2 | Volume 4, 1968 | |||||||||
8 | 3 | Volume 5, 1968 | |||||||||
8 | 4 | Volume 6, 1968 | |||||||||
8 | 5 | Volume 7, 1968 | |||||||||
8 | 6 | Volume 8, 1968 | |||||||||
8 | 7 | Volume 9, 1968-1969 | |||||||||
8 | 8 | Volume 10, 1969 | |||||||||
8 | 9 | Volume 11, 1969 | |||||||||
8 | 10 | Volume 12, 1969 | |||||||||
8 | 11 | Volume 13, 1969 | |||||||||
8 | 12 | Volume 14, 1969 | |||||||||
8 | 13 | Volume 15, 1969-1970 | |||||||||
8 | 14 | Volume 16, 1970 | |||||||||
8 | 15 | Volume 17, 1970 | |||||||||
8 | 16 | Volume 18, 1970 | |||||||||
8 | 17 | Volume 19, 1970 | |||||||||
8 | 18 | Volume 20, 1970-1971 | |||||||||
8 | 19 | Volume 21, 1971 | |||||||||
8 | 20 | Volume 22, 1971 | |||||||||
8 | 21 | Volume 23, 1971-1972 | |||||||||
8 | 22 | Volume 24, 1972 | |||||||||
8 | 23 | Volume 25, 1972 | |||||||||
8 | 24 | Volume 26, 1972 | |||||||||
8 | 25 | Volume 27, 1972 | |||||||||
8 | 26 | Volume 28, 1972-1973 | |||||||||
8 | 27 | Volume 28a, 1973 | |||||||||
8 | 28 | Volume 29, 1973 | |||||||||
8 | 29 | Volume 30, 1973 | |||||||||
8 | 30 | Volume 31, 1973 | |||||||||
8 | 31 | Volume 32, 1973 | |||||||||
8 | 32 | Volume 33, 1973-1974 | |||||||||
8 | 33 | Volume 34, 1974 | |||||||||
8 | 34 | Volume 35, 1974 | |||||||||
8 | 35 | Volume 36, 1974 | |||||||||
8 | 36 | Volume 37, 1974 | |||||||||
8 | 37 | Volume 38, 1974 | |||||||||
8 | 38 | Volume 39, 1974-1975 | |||||||||
8 | 39 | Volume 40, 1975 | |||||||||
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9 | 1 | Volume 41, 1975 | |||||||||
9 | 2 | Volume 42, 1975 | |||||||||
9 | 3 | Volume 43, 1975-1976 | |||||||||
9 | 4 | Volume 44, 1976 | |||||||||
9 | 5 | Volume 45, 1976 | |||||||||
9 | 6 | Volume 46, 1976 | |||||||||
9 | 7 | Volume 47, 1977 | |||||||||
9 | 8 | Volume 48, 1977 | |||||||||
9 | 9 | Volume 49, 1977-1978 | |||||||||
9 | 10 | Volume 50, 1978-1979 | |||||||||
9 | 11 | Volume 51, 1979-1980 | |||||||||
9 | 12 | Volume 52, 1980 | |||||||||
9 | 13 | Volume 53, 1980 | |||||||||
9 | 14 | Volume 54, 1981 | |||||||||
9 | 15 | Volume 55, 1981 | |||||||||
9 | 16 | Volume 56, undated | |||||||||
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10 | 1 | Volume 57, 1982-1983 | |||||||||
10 | 2 | Volume 58, 1983 | |||||||||
10 | 3 | Volume 59, 1984 | |||||||||
10 | 4 | Volume 60, 1984-1985 | |||||||||
10 | 5 | Volume 61, 1985-1986 | |||||||||
10 | 6 | Volume 62, 1986-1987 | |||||||||
10 | 7 | Volume 63, 1987-1988 | |||||||||
10 | 8 | Volume 64, 1988 | |||||||||
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11 | 1 | Volume 65, 1988-1989 | |||||||||
11 | 2 | Volume 66, 1989-1990 | |||||||||
11 | 3 | Volume 67, 1990 | |||||||||
11 | 4 | Volume 68, 1990-1991 | |||||||||
11 | 5 | Volume 69, 1991 | |||||||||
11 | 6 | Volume 70, 1991 | |||||||||
11 | 7 | Volume 71, 1991 | |||||||||
11 | 8 | Volume 72, 1991-1992 | |||||||||
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12 | 1 | Volume 73, 1992 | |||||||||
12 | 2 | Volume 74, 1992 | |||||||||
12 | 3 | Volume 75, 1992-1993 | |||||||||
12 | 4 | Volume 76, 1993 | |||||||||
12 | 5 | Volume 77, 1993 | |||||||||
12 | 6 | Volume 78, 1993-1994 | |||||||||
12 | 7 | Volume 79, 1994 | |||||||||
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13 | 1 | Volume 80, 1994 | |||||||||
13 | 2 | Volume 81, 1995 | |||||||||
13 | 3 | Volume 82, 1995-1996 | |||||||||
13 | 4 | Volume 83, 1996 | |||||||||
13 | 5 | Volume 84, 1996-1997 | |||||||||
13 | 6 | Volume 85, 1997 | |||||||||
13 | 7 | Volume 86, 1997-1998 | |||||||||
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14 | 1 | Volume 87, 1998-1999 | |||||||||
14 | 2 | Volume 88, 1999-2000 | |||||||||
14 | 3 | Volume 89, 2000-2001 | |||||||||
14 | 4 | Volume 90a, 2001 | |||||||||
14 | 5 | Volume 90, 2001 | |||||||||
14 | 6 | Volume 91, 2001-2002 | |||||||||
14 | 7 | Volume 92, 2002 | |||||||||
14 | 8 | Volume 93, 2003 | |||||||||
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15 | 1 | Volume 94, 2003-2004 | |||||||||
15 | 2 | Volume 95, 2004-2005 | |||||||||
15 | 3 | Volume 96, 2005 | |||||||||
15 | 4 | Volume 97, 2005 | |||||||||
15 | 5 | Volume 98, 2005-2006 | |||||||||
15 | 6 | Volume 99, 2006 | |||||||||
15 | 7 | Volume 100, 2007 | |||||||||
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16 | 1 | Volume 101, 2007-2008 | |||||||||
16 | 2 | Volume 102, 2008 | |||||||||
16 | 3 | Volume 103, 2008 | |||||||||
16 | 4 | Volume 104, 2008 |
Series VII: Oversize, 1994-2008 | |||||||||||
This series contains oversize calendars from the personal series. | |||||||||||
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17 | 1 | Calendars, 1994-2008 |