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William Eshelman Collection, 1940-2004 William Eshelman Collection, 1940-2004 Overview of the Collection Creator Eshelman, William Title William Eshelman Collection Dates 1940-2004 (inclusive) 1940 2004 Quantity 27 boxes Collection Number OLPbESH Summary The collection consists of William Eshelman’s work with the WWII CPS Fine Arts at camp in Waldport, Oregon; his continued work in pacifism, and his career as a librarian and printer in California. Repository Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives Aubrey R. Watzek Library 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. Portland, OR 97219 Telephone: 503-768-7254 Fax: 503-768-7282 [email protected] Access Restrictions This collection has no restrictions and is open for research. Languages English Biographical Note William Robert Eshelman was a pacifist, librarian, printer and editor who actively participated in preventing censorship, ending racial segregation and protesting the Vietnam War. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on August 23, 1921. His family moved to California in 1926. He graduated from Whittier Union High School in 1939. He enrolled in Pasadena Junior College intending to be a mechanical engineer. He transferred to Chapman College to major in Philosophy. He served as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service camp no. 56 at Waldport, Oregon. He joined the Fine Arts Group founded by poet William Everson. He co-founded the Untide Press in 1943 with William Everson, actor Kermit Sheets and artist Kemper Nomland. The name, Unite Press came from the journal "the Untide" the group published as a challenge to the official CPS camp journal "The Tide". He became the Assistant Camp Director in 1945. He was discharged from the CPS camp in 1946. He worked with J. H. Batteigger Company in Los Angeles as a wholesale refrigeration equipment jobber. He was promoted as the Sales Promotion Manager at the company in 1947. Meanwhile, he joined the Rounce and Coffin Club. In 1948, he continued his education. He enrolled at the University of California to pursue M.A. in English Literature. He graduated from UCLA in 1950. In 1951, He received his Bachelor in Library Science form UCLA Berkeley. In the same year, he took job as Serials Librarian at Los Angeles State College. Between 1959 and 1965 he worked as a Librarian. The faculty of L.A. State College elected him to the Academic Senate, the first librarian to serve on that body. While he was editor of the California Librarian, the magazine earned the H. W. Wilson Library Periodical Award for the best state or regional journal. Eshelman was librarian and professor of bibliography William Eshelman Collection, 1940-2004 1 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv19537 at Bucknell University from 1965 to 1968. He joined other librarians in protest against Vietnam War. Eshelman was the editor of Wilson Library Bulletin from 1968 to 1978. In California, he chaired the Librarian Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee. The committee opposed censorship efforts of lawmakers, initiated the Fiske study of self-censorship in school libraries. He joined the national journals in their efforts to support the desegregation of public libraries in the South. He was appointed president of Scarecrow Press from 1979. He retired in 1985. Eshelman edited and transcribed the correspondence between librarian and writer Lawrence Clark Powell and William Everson. The correspondence is titled ‘Take Hold Upon the Future’. Scarecrow Press published it in 1994. Scarecrow Press published his autobiography, ‘No Silence’ in 1997. Eshelman served on the editorial board of Choice Magazine, published by the American Library Association (ALA). He was also a member of the ALA Council and the ALA Committee on Accreditation. William Eshelman passed away on 9 August 2004 at his home in Portland, Oregon, aged 82. Content Description The collection consists of Eshelman’s work on documenting the Fine Arts at Waldport camp and correspondence and documentation relating particularly to Civilian Public Service; it includes published materials, notably of the Untide Press; contains correspondence of William Everson with Lawrence Clark Powell and Edwa Everson; also includes Eshelman’s correspondence with Kermit Sheets, Kemper Nomland, Vladimir Dupre, Glen Coffield, Lawrence Clark Powell, William Everson, Tom Polk Miller, Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster; this collection also contains his poetry, speeches, cassettes, photos relating to CPS camps, bookplates, small press journals “little magazines”, library related and personal materials. Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives andamp; Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives andamp; Special Collections. Preferred Citation The William Eshelman Collection, Lewis andamp; Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives andamp; Special Collections, Portland, Oregon. Administrative Information Arrangement Items are arranged in series. Location of Collection Special Collections William Eshelman Collection, 1940-2004 2 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv19537 Detailed Description of the Collection The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection. SERIES 1: CPS Correspondence. Container(s) Description Dates Box Folder 1 1 Everson's letters to Edwa with index 1943 1 2 Edwa Letters Transcript 1943-1944 1 3 Everson- Edwa letters- PJ's Analysis January 21, Profiles of Nomland, Siemons, Untide, Scott, Sheets, 1943- November Hackett, Harmon, Row, Keeton, Mills 2, 1943 1 4 Powell-Everson Letters 1946 Correspondence Photocopies and Typed 1 5 Powell-Everson Letters 1947 Correspondence Photocopies 1 6 Powell-Everson Letters 1947 Correspondence Typed 1 7 Powell-Everson Letters 1949 Correspondence Photocopies 1 8 Powell-Everson Letters 1950 Correspondence Photocopies 1 9 Powell-Everson Letters 1951 Correspondence Photocopies 1 10 Powell-Everson Letters 1952 Correspondence Photocopies 1 11 Powell-Everson Letters 1953 Correspondence Photocopies 1 12 Powell-Everson Letters 1954 Correspondence Photocopies William Eshelman Collection, 1940-2004 3 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv19537 Container(s) Description Dates 1 13 Powell-Everson Letters 1956 Correspondence Photocopies 1 14 Powell-Everson Letters 1958 Correspondence Photocopies 1 15 Powell-Everson Letters 1959 Correspondence Photocopies 1 16 Powell-Everson Letters 1964 Correspondence Photocopies 1 17 Powell-Everson Letters January 4, 1966 Correspondence Photocopies 1 18 Powell-Everson Letters March 27, 1967 Correspondence Photocopies 1 19 Powell-Everson Letters 1968 Correspondence Photocopies 1 20 Powell-Everson Letters 1969 Correspondence Photocopies 1 21 Powell-Everson Letters 1970 Correspondence Photocopies 1 22 Powell-Everson Letters 1971 Correspondence Photocopies 1 23 Powell-Everson Letters 1972 Correspondence Photocopies 1 24 Powell-Everson Letters 1973 Correspondence Photocopies 1 25 Powell-Everson Letters 1974 Correspondence Photocopies 1 26 Powell-Everson Letters 1975 Correspondence Photocopies 1 27 Powell-Everson Letters 1976 Correspondence Photocopies William Eshelman Collection, 1940-2004 4 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv19537 Container(s) Description Dates 1 28 Powell-Everson Letters 1977 Correspondence Photocopies 1 29 Powell-Everson Letters 1978 Correspondence Photocopies 1 30 Powell-Everson Letters 1979 Correspondence Photocopies 1 31 Powell-Everson Letters 1980 Correspondence Photocopies 1 32 Powell-Everson Letters 1981 Correspondence Photocopies 1 33 From Eshelman 1943-2004 Correspondence 1 34 From Eshelman to Fran and Bob April 2, 1944- Correspondence October 13, 1944 1 35 From Eshelman to Dupre January 12, Correspondence 1993-January 22, 1996 1 36 From Fran and Bob Carey December Waldport Correspondence 28, 1944- September 9, 1946 1 37 From Glen Coffield 1931-1956 CPS Correspondence includes Postcards 1 38 From Warren Downs 1946-2003 Correspondence 1 39 From Vladimir A. Dupre 1944-1996 Correspondence includes Postcards 1 40 From Everson July 11, 1945- Correspondence September 26, 1945 1 41 From Everson to Eshelman June 23, 1946 William Eshelman Collection, 1940-2004 5 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv19537 Container(s) Description Dates Correspondence 1 42 Everson to Sheets February 26, Correspondence 1943- June 2, 1944 1 43 From Clayton James Undated Correspondence 1 44 From Morris Keeton 1943 Correspondence 1 45 From Tom Polk Miller November 1945- Waldport Correspondence May 2000 1 46 From Kemper Nomland 1943 Correspondence 1 47 Shirley Osredkar's Correspondence December 1945- About Glen Coffield April 1998 1 48 From Martin Ponch 1945-1946 Correspondence 1 49 From Kermit Sheets 1943-1989 Correspondence 1 50 From Joyce Lancaster Wilson to Kermit Sheets June 28, 1945- Correspondence January 1946 1 51 B: General Correspondence Undated Miscellaneous CPS and Waldport related 1 52 C: General Correspondence Undated Miscellaneous CPS and Waldport related 1 53 D: General Correspondence Undated Miscellaneous CPS and Waldport related 1 54 E: General Correspondence Undated Miscellaneous CPS and Waldport related 1 55 F: General Correspondence Undated Miscellaneous CPS and Waldport related William Eshelman Collection, 1940-2004 6 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv19537 Container(s) Description Dates 1 56 G: General Correspondence Undated Miscellaneous CPS and Waldport related 1 57 H: General Correspondence
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