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Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver Knudsen Papers LSC.1153
Finding aid updated by Kelly Besser, 2021. UCLA Library Special Collections Finding aid last updated 2021 March 29. Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 1 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections Title: Vern Oliver Knudsen papers Creator: Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974 Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1153 Physical Description: 28.25 Linear Feet(57 document boxes, and 8 map folders) Date (inclusive): circa 1922-1980 Abstract: Vern Oliver Knudsen (1893-1974) was a professor in the Department of Physics at UCLA before serving as the first dean of the Graduate Division (1934-58), Vice Chancellor (1956), Chancellor (1959). He also researched architectural acoustics and hearing impairments, developed the audiometer with Isaac H. Jones, founded the Acoustical Society of America (1928), organized and served as the first director of what is now the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center in San Diego, and worked as a acoustical consultant for various projects including the Hollywood Bowl, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Schoenberg Hall, the United Nations General Assembly building, and a variety of radio and motion picture studios. The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, galley proofs, and other material related to Knudsen's professional activities. The collection also includes the papers of Leo Peter Delsasso, John Mead Adams, and Edgar Lee Kinsey. Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information. Language of Material: English . Restrictions on Access Portions of this collection are restricted. Consult finding aid for additional information. COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access. Restrictions on Use and Reproduction Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Vern Oliver Knudsen papers (Collection 1153). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Provenance/Source of Acquisition Gift of Morris Knudsen, 1975 and 1979. Gift of James Knudsen, 2004 and 2005. Processing Note Processed by Frank Glover, 1979. Additions to collection (boxes 45-65) made by Julia Morton, with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli, in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), 2010. The processing of this collection was generously supported by Arcadia funds. UCLA Catalog Record ID UCLA Catalog Record ID: 1973009 Biography Vern Oliver Knudsen was born in Provo, Utah, on December 27, 1893; BA, Physics, Brigham Young University, 1915; worked at Western Electric, later known as the Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1918; PhD, Physics, University of Chicago, 1922; professor, Department of Physics, UCLA; served as first dean of the Graduate Division, UCLA, 1934-58; became Vice Chancellor at UCLA, 1956; Chancellor, UCLA, 1959; researched architectural acoustics and hearing impairments; developed audiometer with Isaac H. Jones; founded Acoustical Society of America, 1928, and served as president, 1933-35; organized and served as first director of what is now the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center in San Diego, California; acoustical consultant for various projects, including the Hollywood Bowl, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Schoenberg Hall, the United Nations General Assembly building, and a variety of radio and motion picture studios; published two books, Architectural acoustics and Acoustical design in architecture; died, May 13, 1974. Biographical Narrative Vern Oliver Knudsen was born December 27, 1893 at Provo, Utah, the youngest child of Scandinavian immigrant parents. At Brigham Young University (1911-1915), he was influenced by Professor Harvey Fletcher to study physics. After graduating with a B.A. in physics, he fulfilled a missionary obligation for the Mormon Church. During World War I, he studied
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 2 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 parasitic earth currents in relation to transatlantic telegraph communications and in 1918, he joined Harvey Fletcher at Western Electric, which later became known as the Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he worked on the development of amplifiers and oscillators, increasing his knowledge of the emerging technology of vacuum tubes which Fletcher and his colleagues were using in studies in hearing. Knudsen began graduate studies at the University of Chicago as a student of A.A. Michelson in 1915. Knudsen's doctoral research applied the vacuum tube techniques to a study of the sensibility of the ear to small differences of intensity and frequency. Robert A. Millikan, Chairman of the Physics Department at Chicago, introduced him to Dr. George E. Schambaugh, a foremost otologist. Knudsen and Schambaugh together investigated the sensitivity of pathological ears to small differences in loudness and pitch, and ten cases of diplacusis, the condition in which the same tone is heard at a different pitch in each ear. This led to later investigations of normal and impaired hearing with Drs. Isaac H. Jones and Norman A. Watson. Receiving the Ph.D. in Physics magna cum laude in 1922, Knudsen turned down offers from the University of Chicago and the Bell Telephone Laboratories, to accept the position of Instructor at UCLA, or rather the University of California Southern Branch, as the campus near central Los Angeles was then known. Here began Knudsen's close professional and personal lifelong relationship with Leo P. Delsasso, at that time a sophomore student who served as assistant to the department chairman. Knudsen confronted the lack of research space and equipment, and conducted studies of architectural acoustics and of hearing impairments. He and Dr. Jones developed the audiometer to assist in their research. Acoustics became a major emphasis of the UCLA Physics Department, and a reverberation chamber was to be one of the department's major facilities when the university moved to the Westwood campus in 1929. The work done here resulted in major experimental and theoretical research programs throughout the world. Knudsen was consulted on the acoustics of hundreds of structures, eventually to include major radio and motion picture studios, the Hollywood Bowl, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and Schoenberg Hall, as an indication of his local contribution, but also on a wider scope, to include the United Nations General Assembly Building in New York. His two textbooks on architectural acoustics have become standard references on the subject. In 1928 Knudsen joined with Professor F.R. Watson (father of Norman A. Watson), Wallace W. Waterfall (a former student of Professor Watson) and Dr. Harvey Fletcher (of the Bell Telephone Laboratories) in founding the Acoustical Society of America. Knudsen served as president of the Society (1933-1935) and was honored by it in many ways. When UCLA began offering advanced degrees, Knudsen was a prime mover and first Dean (1934-1958) of the Graduate Division. The offering of graduate degrees by public universities was an innovative idea at that time. Students who did doctoral research under Knudsen included Norman Watson, Edwin Fricke, Richard Bolt, Robert Leonard, Richard Frick, and Isadore Rudnick. Other students who came under Knudsen's influence were W.A. Munson, Robert Watson, Cyril Harris, John Munier, Ludwig Sepmeyer, Waldo Lyon, Walter Rosenblith, Harper North, Paul Veneklasen, and Dah You Maa. During World War II, Knudsen, on leave of absence from academic and research duties, helped to organize and served as first director, of what is now the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center at San Diego. With the aid of Leo Delsasso and excellent scientists and staff recruited in a minimum of time, much early research on the propagation of sonar signals was accomplished. Knudsen became Vice Chancellor of UCLA in 1956 and Chancellor in 1959, a position which he held one year before reaching the mandatory age of retirement. "Retirement" for Knudsen meant a renewal of his research and consulting activities, finally reversing the increasing administrative demands which he had regretted since first becoming dean. Also renewed were his concerns with many causes such as environmental quality and, above all, his campaign against noise pollution. In addition to the Acoustical Society, Knudsen participated in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Los Angeles Building and Safety Commission, the California Institute for Cancer Research, the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Bowl Association, and the Hope for Hearing Foundation. He received great satisfaction in seeing the new physics building at UCLA named in his honor. Dr. Knudsen died May 13, 1974, at the age of eighty. He was survived by his widow, three children, and two grandchildren. Scope and Content Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, galley proofs, and other material related to the professional activities of Vern Oliver Knudsen, physicist, acoustical consultant, and administrator at UCLA. The collection also includes the papers of Leo Peter Delsasso, John Mead Adams, and Edgar Lee Kinsey. Expanded Scope and Content This collection of Vern Knudsen papers, ca. 1922-1980, contains correspondence, manuscripts, galley proofs, and other material relating to the activities of Dr. Knudsen during his 52 years' association with UCLA.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 3 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 The arrangement is roughly chronological, but reflects the file-keeping practices of Dr. Knudsen and his staff over several distinct periods; for example earlier material of subsequent interest had in many cases been pulled from original files, rearranged, and interfiled with later material, whereas other earlier material was stored as originally arranged. Material from a given time span or on a particular subject may therefore often be discovered scattered through-out the collection. Obvious instances of this are cross-referenced in the register. A chronological file of Dr. Knudsen's speeches, an alphabetical file of committees and organizations, and material relating to two published books and two unpublished books by Dr. Knudsen comprise separate and distinct parts of this collection, as do files maintained separately by Leo Delsasso and a small amount of material originally belonging to John Mead Adams and E. Lee Kinsey. These other three men were also physics professors at UCLA. Dr. Knudsen's personal, scientific, and administrative careers were so frequently indistinguishable from one another that it would have served no purpose to separate his papers into those categories or to separate the material accumulated by his colleagues. In particular, the inclusion in this collection of extensive files of Leo Delsasso reflects the close and lifelong collaboration of these two men. Approximately one box of early Physics Department records, however, mostly deriving from the period when Dr. Knudsen was Chairman of the Department (1932-1938), has been removed intact from this collection and transferred to the University Archives. The records relate to budgets, equipment and students, 1925-1941 (RG 39). This collection comprises material that was a gift of Morris Knudsen, a son of Vern Knudsen, in 1975, and material that was a gift of James Knudsen, a grandson of Vern Knudsen, in 2004 and 2005. Additional papers relating to Dr. Knudsen's research and acoustical consulting, especially those generated prior to or independent from his career at UCLA, have been presented to Brigham Young University by Dr. Knudsen's family. There is a three-volume transcript of an interview of Dr. Knudsen by Mr. James V. Mink which is also available in the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. (Call number: 300/101). Another copy of this transcript is available in the UCLA Physics Library. Organization and Arrangement Arranged in the following series: Correspondence and papers, 1920s-1974. Acoustical consulting correspondence and papers, 1928-1976. British mission notes, 1942. National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders, 1938-1942, 1956. National Research Council: Committee on Undersea Warfare, 1944-1952. Graduate Division, University of California, ca. 1929 - ca. 1963. Dedication of Knudsen and Kinsey Halls, 1963-1964. Chancellorship (Congratulatory and get-well correspondence), 1959-1960. Architectural Acoustics (Book), ca. 1929 - ca. 1932. Acoustical Designing in Architecture (Book), ca. 1948 - ca. 1957. Noise (Unpublished Book), 1949-1955. Acoustics For Better Living (Unpublished Book), ca. 1970 - ca. 1971. Speeches, Public Letters, Lecture Notes, 1920s-1973. Committees and associations, 1925-1980. Leo P. Delsasso papers, 1959-1963. John Mead Adams notebooks 1901-1926. Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers), ca. 1922 - ca. 1973. Biographical Materials and Awards, 1928-1974. Related Material Teacher, researcher, and administrator [oral history transcript] / Vern O. Knudsen, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1966-1969. Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA. Subjects and Indexing Terms Architectural acoustics. Physicists -- United States -- Archives. Adams, John Mead Delsasso, Leo Peter
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 4 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Kinsey, Edgar Lee University of California, Los Angeles -- History Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974--Archives. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Undersea Warfare. United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee. University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Physics--Faculty
Correspondence and Papers 1920s-1974
Correspondence and Papers (Alphabetical by subject or name) 1920s - ca. 1969 Scope and Contents note Includes material regarding personal, technical, departmental, university, and professional activities. Correspondent files, apparently created in the late 1950's but including that earlier material which had been of continuing interest.
box 1, folder 1 A - K miscellaneous 1922-1925 box 2, folder 1 Academic Senate 1934 box 2, folder 1 Administrative Committee (Italian Professor) 1936 box 2, folder 1 Administrative Staff (Minutes) 1934 box 2, folder 1 Allison & Allison, Architects 1927-1928 Scope and Contents note Regarding Royce Hall.
box 2, folder 2 American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific Division) 1946-1956 Scope and Content Additional material regarding the American Association for the Advancement of Science may be found in Committees and Associations, "American Association for the Advancement of Science," Box 20 Folder 14.
box 47, folder 1 American Association for the Advancement of Science 1934-1954 Scope and Content Includes material regarding American Association for the Advancement of Science award for "The Absorption of Sound in Gases" and material on science education.
box 47, folder 2 American Association for the Advancement of Science (Scientific Monthly) 1935, 1949 box 47, folder 3 American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (Report of Round Table on Physical Problems Related to Deafness) 1933 Scope and Contents Round table held at the University of Chicago.
box 2, folder 3 American Institute of Architects 1949-1951 box 2, folder 4 American Society for the Hard of Hearing 1933-1936 box 2, folder 5 Aperiodic Microphone Firing Error Indicator 1944 Scope and Contents note Research notes.
box 5, folder 12 Assali, Nicholas S. 1964 box 2, folder 1 Audiometry 1938 Scope and Contents note Postcard.
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box 46, folder 1 B (Alphabetical by name) 1927-1949 box 5, folder 13 Ballantine, Stuart 1932-1933 box 46, folder 2 Banegal, Hope 1931 box 5, folder 14 Barnett, Samuel Jackson ca. 1928 - 1934 box 5, folder 15 Becket, Welton 1964 box 2, folder 6 Bell Telephone Laboratories (Publications Department) 1926-1951 box 5, folder 16 Beranek, Leo L. 1959-1960 box 5, folder 17 Bolt, Richard Henry 1933-1956 General note Additional material is filed under "Bolt Beranek & Newman," Box 5 Folder 16. Letter of 1947 March 24 added to this folder 2010.
box 6, folder 1 Bourgin, D.G. 1936, 1940 box 6, folder 2 Bruderlin, Henry H. 1936 box 6, folder 3 Burris-Meyer, Harold 1934-1969 box 6, folder 4 Burris-Meyer, Harold ("An Inquiry into the Educational Potential of Non-Verbal Communication." Proposal, Third and Sixth Interim Reports) 1966, 1969 box 47, folder 4 Cannon, David H. 1956 Scope and Content Contains one business letter.
box 46, folder 3 Chukar (Bird): memorandum for ornithologists 1970 August 10 box 6, folder 5 Cremer, Lothar 1935, 1947, 1964-1965 box 8, folder 9 Dean George Dudley, School of Architecture. 1966 box 55, folder 14 Device for detecting gaseous impurities (witnessed description) 1939 May 31, 1943 June 10 box 47, folder 5 Distinguished alumni award, University of Chicago club of Greater Los Angeles 1971 Scope and Content Includes personal correpondence with Gustave Arlt regarding higher education.
box 47, folder 6 Elliot, Graham 1956 July 10 box 6, folder 6 Fenn, Paul 1964 box 50, folder 4 Foreign Press Awards (second biennial, UCLA Department of Journalism) 1960 Scope and Contents Includes 1 photograph, 7 photocopies of photographs available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File, a program, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Includes an image of Vern O. Knudsen presenting an award to the only woman to whom one was granted.
box 6, folder 7 Free, E.E. (Columbia Broadcasting System Studios) 1935 box 46, folder 4 G 1929-1947 box 2, folder 7 Golden Gate International Exposition (of 1940) 1937 box 2, folder 8 Golden Gate International Exposition (of 1940) 1938 Scope and Contents note Includes one photograph. Additional related material in this collection will be found in Leo P. Delsasso's papers.
box 6, folder 8 Grossman, Ernst 1934-1937 General note This material was formerly filed in the "National Noise Abatement Council" folder.
box 47, folder 7 Gruen, Victor 1961 March 15 box 6, folder 9 Harris, Cyril M. 1945-1964 box 2, folder 9 Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning (Journal) 1930-1947 box 6, folder 10 Henderson, Malcolm C. 1965
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box 6, folder 10 Hewes, Henry (American National Theatre and Academy) 1955 box 6, folder 11 Hunt, Frederick V. 1933-1963 box 2, folder 10 I miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 47, folder 8 International Congress of Architects (Budapest) 1930 Scope and Contents Regarding Knudsen's paper on Architectural Acoustics, presented to the XII International Congress of Architects in Budapest, Hungary, September 7-14, 1930. Includes letters of introduction. Includes photocopies of 2 photographs (originals can be found in the University Archives Knudsen Vertical File).
box 2, folder 11 International Language League 1946 box 2, folder 11 Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale (Turin, Italy) 1936 box 47, folder 9 Johns-Manville Research Center 1929-1950 Scope and Contents Regarding acoustical materials and tests.
box 2, folder 12 Journalism, UCLA Graduate Department 1949-1950 box 2, folder 13 Ka - Kj miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 47, folder 10 Kerr, Clark 1956, 1960 Scope and Content Contains 3 letters, one of which is undated.
box 47, folder 11 Kerr, Clark, Charles Hitch, and Robert Sproul 1947-1974 Scope and Content Includes correspondence regarding Vern O. Knudsen's salary.
box 2, folder 14 Kl - Kz miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 Scope and Contents note Includes Alfred A. Knopf letters (2).
box 47, folder 12 Knudsen children Robert and Morris 1966-1971 box 1, folder 2 L - P miscellaneous 1922-1925 Scope and Contents note Includes Harvey B. Lemon letters (3) and Dayton C. Miller letter (1).
box 3, folder 1 Lab - Lau miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 3, folder 2 Law - Laz miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 6, folder 12 Lawlor, Reed C. 1963 box 3, folder 3 Lea - Lew miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 6, folder 13 Lefler, Anna B. 1964 Scope and Contents note Concerns an historic audiometer.
box 3, folder 4 Library (University of California) 1926-1945 box 3, folder 5 Library (University of California) 1946-1947 box 3, folder 6 Library (University of California) 1948-1950 box 3, folder 7 Lic - Lit miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 6, folder 14 Lindsay, R. Bruce 1968 Scope and Contents note Regarding Max Mason, pioneer in underwater acoustics.
box 3, folder 8 Llo - Lor miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 3, folder 9 Los - Loy miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 3, folder 10 Luc - Mac miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 46, folder 5 M 1926-1949
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box 6, folder 15 McAllister, James A. 1964 box 3, folder 11 Medical School, UCLA 1946-1948 General note Related material in this collection may be found in Box 17 Folder 8.
box 6, folder 15 Miller, Nicholas P. 1964 box 3, folder 11 Moray Radient Energy Device 1932 box 6, folder 16 Munson, Wilbur A. 1927-1964 box 6, folder 17 North, Arthur T. (Reprint, "The Orchestra Shell of the Hollywood Bowl") 1929 box 46, folder 6 P 1936-1948 box 6, folder 18 Obert, Leonard 1933-1936 box 3, folder 11 Oceanography (Scripps Institute of) 1949 Scope and Content Related material may be found in Correspondence, "Sverdrup et al. (Scripps Institute for Oceanography)," 46 Folder 9.
box 6, folder 18 Pegram, George B. (Department of Physics, Colorado University) 1933 box 3, folder 12 Pet - Poi miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 6, folder 19 Pinkler, Andrew G. 1954-1955 box 3, folder 13 Pol - Rhi miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 50, folder 5 Portrait appraisal (stolen from Knudsen Hall) 1964 December 11 box 6, folder 20 Powell, Alan (Reprints re Aerodynamic Sound) 1958, 1963 box 46, folder 7 R and S (Includes Schoenberg, Schreimer, Seashore, Shanbaugh) 1932-1953 box 46, folder 8 R, S, and mixed (Includes Anne Rowe regarding American Physicists) 1926-1950 box 1, folder 3 R - Z miscellaneous 1922-1925 box 6, folder 21 Reger, Scott N. 1935 box 6, folder 22 Rettinger, Michael 1934 box 6, folder 23 Roberts, William H. 1930-1935 box 3, folder 14 Rosamond Dry Lake Absorption Tests 1940 Scope and Content For related photographs, see Photographs: Propagation of sound in air, Rosamond Dry Lake, Box 47 Folder 28.
box 7, folder 1 Rosenblith, Walter A. 1942-1965 box 3, folder 14 Rosenfield, Isadore 1935 box 7, folder 2 Rudnick, Isadore 1939-1956 box 7, folder 3 Ruskin, Lewis J. 1964 box 47, folder 13 Sabine, Paul E. 1927-1942 box 7, folder 3 Satow, T. 1930-1931 box 7, folder 4 Saunders, Frederick A. 1932-1940 box 3, folder 14 Scudder, K.J. 1936 box 7, folder 5 Sepmeyer, Ludwig W. 1933-1965 box 7, folder 6 Shephard, Wayne W. 1942 box 3, folder 14 Sibley, Catherine 1940 Scope and Contents note Script for TV program.
box 7, folder 6 Sivian, L.J. 1930-1947 box 3, folder 16 Son - Sou miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 3, folder 15 Sonar Research 1937-1946 box 3, folder 17 Sound Muffler and Automobile Air Conditioner 1936 box 4, folder 1 Spa - Spr miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 47, folder 14 Sproul, Robert (Sabbatical 1948) 1948 box 4, folder 3 Sta - Ste miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956
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box 4, folder 2 Standardization Committees 1931 Scope and Contents note Reports.
box 7, folder 7 Statham Instruments, Incorporated 1964-1968 box 55, folder 13 Statham Instruments (business correspondence) 1963-1971 Scope and Contents Includes material regarding the search for a Statham Instrument Planning Director. Includes material regarding a Nevada gaming license. Includes photographs of Louis D. Statham holding a DeBakey artificial heart.
box 7, folder 8 Steinberg, John C. 1935-1939 box 7, folder 9 Stern, Isaac 1964 Scope and Contents note One letter.
box 7, folder 10 Stewart, G.W. 1925-1939 box 4, folder 4 Sut - Tak miscellaneous 1920s - ca. 1956 box 46, folder 9 Sverdrup et al. (Scripps Institute for Oceanography) 1940-1948 Scope and Content Includes material regarding the academic status of Robert Siple Arthur. Additional material relating to the Scripps Institute for Oceanography may be found in Correspondence, "Oceanography (Scripps Institute of)," Box 3 Folder 11.
box 4, folder 5 Teachers Insurance 1928-1945 box 4, folder 5 Telephone Company (Southern California) 1928-1939 box 4, folder 5 Twenty-Nine Palms Earth Current Measurement Tests 1926 box 4, folder 5 United Research Corporation 1930 box 4, folder 6 United States Naval Training Station, San Diego 1940 box 4, folder 7 United States Navy Electronics Laboratory 1946-1948 box 4, folder 8 University Buildings 1945-1947 box 4, folder 9 Veneklasen, Paul S. 1938-1945, 1954 box 4, folder 10 Warner, Arthur Howard 1933-1955 box 4, folder 11 Watson, Floyd Rowe 1925-1946 box 4, folder 12 Watson, Norman Allen 1932-1935. box 4, folder 13 Watson, Norman Allen 1936-1950, 1956. General note Related material in this collection will be found in Box 5, Folders 6 and 9.
box 55, folder 15 Westwood Savings and Loan Association (business meeting minutes) 1964 box 2, folder 11 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1936-1953 box 45, folder 11, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1930-1971 box 45, folder 10 box 55, folder 16 Last will and testament, personal and financial papers and correspondence 1956-1969 Scope and Content Includes 1957 will. Includes partial obituary for Vern O. Knudsen's mother with photograph. Includes correspondence relating to a car. Includes correspondence relating to health insurance. Includes gastronomical article about Vern O. Knudsen's son, Robert.
box 7, folder 11 Wilson, J. Gordon 1935-1938 box 4, folder 14 Withdrawals (for military reasons) 1941-1942
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box 7, folder 12 Woodbury, F.R. 1934, 1940 General note Additional material in this collection will be found in "F.R. Woodbury, Acoustical Engineer, Portland, Oregon," Box 1 Folder 12.
box 7, folder 13 Young, Robert W. (and reprints) 1941-1946 1964, 1965 box 7, folder 13 Yust, Walter 1949 box 7, folder 13 Zand, Stephen J. 1934 box 46, folder 11, Miscellaneous correspondence 1928-1949 box 46, folder 10 Scope and Content Folder 10 includes a letter to Vannevar Bush and correspondence with Hans Reichenbach regarding Philosophy of Science. Folder 11 includes correspondence in German with Ferdinand Trendelenburg from 1939, 1941, and 1949; correspondence with the University of Utah President regarding an offer that Vern O. Knudsen succeed him; and a letter from Rogers H. Galt of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Also included is a 1940 letter regarding the University of California, Davis Chemistry Building: the accompanying oversized architectural drawing may be found in Box 65.
box 46, folder 12 Miscellaneous correspondence 1949-1960 Scope and Content Includes a personal letter from John M. Abrams, a letter from Harry James Orchestra praising the Flamingo Loung and Knudsen's report on Flamingo Lounge acoustics, personal letters, material regarding the Utah Conference on Higher Education, and a letter of congratulation regarding Vern O. Knudsen's Vice-Chancellorship from University of Utah Vice President G. Homer Durham.
box 65 Oversize architectural drawing: University of California, Davis Chemistry Building (for "Miscellanious correspondence," Box 46 Folder 11) 1940 Correspondence and Papers (Academic Duties and Committees) 1932-1961 Scope and Contents note Regarding specific University of California Activities. Related material can be found under "Correspondence and Papers (Alphabetical by subject or name) 1920s-1969: Academic Senate," Box 2 Folder 1.
box 7, folder 14 Academic Employees (Departmental List) ca.1956 ca. 1956 Scope and Contents note Roster.
box 7, folder 15 Architects and Engineers (Acoustical consulting for UC Berkeley buildings) 1956-1961 1956-1961 box 7, folder 16 Editorial Board 1932-1961 1932-1961 box 7, folder 17 University Extension (Selection of Vice President and/or Director) 1956 1956 Correspondence and Papers (Chronological) 1961-1974 Scope and Contents note After Dr. Knudsen's retirement, correspondence and papers were accumulated chronologically. The greater part still concerned university matters, especially of an honorary nature. There was a greater diversity, however, and much of the material indicated a renewed concern with technical research and with a variety of other causes and personal interest. Note that post-1961 correspondence with individuals, including Isaac Stern, can be found in "Correspondence and Papers (Alphabetical by subject or name) 1920s-1969.
University of California, v.d. box 7, folder 18 1961 box 7, folder 19 1962 box 8, folder 4 1965 (January-June)
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box 8, folder 6 1965 (July-December) box 8, folder 8 1966 Miscellaneous box 50, folder 1 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, including family, acoustical consulting, and personal 1960-1964 Scope and Contents Miscellaneous, including family correspondence, acoustical consulting correspondence, and personal correspondence.
box 50, folder 6 Personal correspondence and papers (Includes letter from Vannevar Bush) 1922-1959 Scope and Contents Includes V.O. Knudsen's own list of historically interesting contents for Box 50, Folders 6-9. Includes passport photographs. For a similar photograph, see "Photographs: Portraits of Vern O. Knudsen," Box 47 Folder 27. Includes an award of honorary membership in the Audio Engineering Society from 1949 October 28. For additional awards material, see "Awards," Box 55 Folder 1.
box 50, folder 7 Confidential correspondence regarding academic appointments 1961-1963 box 50, folder 8 Newspaper clippings 1922-1949 Scope and Content For additional clippings, see also the series Clippings.
box 50, folder 9 Miscellaneous personal correspondence, including Nitze, Hammond, and Shafor 1940-1972 Scope and Contents Inlcudes several 1959 get-well notes.
box 7, folder 20 1963 (January-April) box 7, folder 21 1963 (May-September) box 8, folder 1 1963 (October-December) box 49, folder 1 Letters of recommendation 1963-1965 box 8, folder 2 1964 (January-June) Scope and Contents note Includes Lewis Mumford holographic note dated 1964 February 2.
box 8, folder 3 1964 (July-December) box 8, folder 5, 7 1965 (July-December) box 49, folder 2 1965-1966 box 8, folder 10 1966 box 8, folder 10 1967 box 49, folder 3 1967 box 8, folder 11 1968 box 49, folder 4 1968 Scope and Content Includes letter from architect Charles Lawrence, 1968 April 12, regarding a model for Vern O. Knudsen's house in Palisades.
box 8, folder 11 1969 box 49, folder 5 1969 box 8, folder 12 1970 box 49, folder 6 1970 box 8, folder 12 1971 Scope and Contents note Includes Ralph J. Bunche letters (2).
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box 49, folder 7 1971 box 8, folder 13 1972 box 49, folder 8 1972 box 50, folder 3 Bills, receipts, financial correspondence 1972-1974 box 8, folder 13 1973 box 49, folder 9 1973-1974 Scope and Content Includes some letters of condolence to the family of Vern O. Knudsen.
box 8, folder 13 1974 Research Material (Annotated) ca. 1929-1961 box 47, folder 18 "Acoustical problem of the Great Hall of the People" ca. 1960 Scope and Contents Material regarding Peking, China (also known as Beijing). From the Abstract. Zhur. Fizika, p. 36, No. 10 [1960]. By Ma Da-you.
box 47, folder 19 "Architectural Acoustics in the USSR" and newspaper clipping 1949, 1961 Scope and Contents Clipping is entitled "Modernistic theatre built in Kremlin for Party and Parliament meetings."
box 47, folder 20 "Modern theory and practice in building acoustics" 1946 Scope and Contents By Norman Fleming and William Alexander Allen. Vern O. Knudsen's annotations on pages 17, 20, and 34.
box 47, folder 21 "Noise and motor driving" 1939 Scope and Contents Excerpt from the article by Arthur Hedley.
box 47, folder 22 "On the reverberation in closed rooms" ca. 1929 Scope and Contents English translation of "Uber den Nachhall in geschlossenen Raumen" by K. Schuster and E. Waetzmann. From Ann. d. Physik, 1 671(1929)
box 50, folder 2 Architectural acoustics (articles not written by V.O. Knudsen) 1956-1959 Acoustical Consulting Correspondence and Papers 1928-1976 Scope and Content Additional materials relating to Vern O. Knudsen's acoustical consulting may also be found in "Committees and Associations" and "Correspondence and Papers."
box 51, folder 1 List of major acoustical consulting projects 1928-1973 box 51, folder 2 List of acoustical consulting files given to Edward Dennis Rowley 1976 November 19 Scope and Contents Includes a list of 152 project folders, 70 project drawing envelopes, and 39 individual rolled drawing sets. List includes acoustical consulting projects not found in this collection.
box 1, folder 4 1929 May 28 - 1930 March 10 box 1, folder 5 1930 March 12 - 1931 June 4 box 1, folder 6 1931 June 24 - 1933 July 25
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box 51, folder 3 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1929-1941 Scope and Contents Includes a November 26, 1929 letter to Vern O. Knudsen that has been scanned.
box 54, folder 2 Arizona State Fair Coliseum : Contracts paid in full 1964 box 51, folder 4 Associated State Capitol Architects (Arizona State House and Senate Buildings) 1957-1959 Scope and Contents The architects forming this partnership are Place & Place and Lesher & Mahoney.
box 54, folder 1 Barrienbrock and Murray, Kleigman and Leizer (Santa Monica Municipal Auditorium) 1955 Scope and Content Santa Monica Municipal Auditorium is also known as Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Barrienbrock et al.'s estimate exceeded available funding for the project. Welton Becket later designed the auditorium. Includes report and data. Includes issue of Progressive Architecture, May 1969. Vern O. Knudsen is quoted regarding acoustics of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, page 151. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 64.
box 51, folder 5 Becket, Welton (Hawaiian Village Dome Convention Hall) 1956, 1965 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 58.
box 54, folder 2 Becket, Welton (Los Angeles Music Center) : Contracts paid in full 1964-1965 Scope and Content Correspondence regarding a disagreement about Vern O. Knudsen's fee.
box 51, folder 6 Berkeley Public Schools (Gutterson and Corlett) 1940-1953 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 58.
box 51, folder 7 Bodmer, Louis (San Diego Municipal Auditorium and Mission Beach Bath House) 1947-1948 Scope and Contents The Municipal Auditorium is located in the Federal Building, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 59.
box 51, folder 8 Burran, James A. Jr. (Clovis High School Music Building) 1957-1958 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawinga are in Box 59.
box 51, folder 9 Burton, Harold W. (General Service Studios Sound Stage) 1947 box 51, folder 10 Cain, Nelson and Wares 1961 Scope and Contents A preliminary inquiry. Vern O. Knudsen wrote "Closed?" upon this file.
box 51, folder 11 California Commission (Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island) 1938 box 51, folder 12 California State Office Building No. 2, auditorium. J.E. Standton and William F. Stockwell, Architects. 1956-1958 box 54, folder 2 Cow Palace (State of California) : Contracts paid in full 1964 box 51, folder 13 Disney Productions 1947 Scope and Contents Tests done with Leo Delsasso of the noise and vibration of IBM computer machines near workrooms. Includes correspondence, data, and notes.
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box 51, folder 14 Eddy and Deasy (Porterville Memorial Auditorium) 1954-1955 box 51, folder 15 Elks (Benevolent and Protective Order, Visalia Lodge No. 1298) 1963 box 51, folder 16 Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI (Bodman, Longley, Bogle, Armstrong and Dahl) 1974 April 16 Scope and Contents Letter written on Vern O. Knudsen's behalf by his assistant, Vern C. Plane.
box 51, folder 17 Fox and Ballas (Montana State University Music Building) 1951-1954 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 59.
box 54, folder 2 Grace Cathedral (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) : Contracts paid in full 1961 November 7 box 54, folder 3, Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium (Frank Lloyd Wright) 1962,1964 box 54, folder 4 Related Material A memorial booklet about the Grady Gammage Auditorium was included in this collection. It may now be found in the UC Los Angeles Special Collections Stacks under the title "Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium." Scope and Content Grady Gammage Auditorium is located at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Includes acoustical report, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and the working specifications book from March, 1962.
box 54, folder 2 Gruen, Victor (Fox Plaza) : Contracts paid in full 1964 box 51, folder 18 Gruen, Victor (Midtown Plaza Shopping Center, Rochester, NY) 1960-1961 box 51, folder 19 Gruen, Victor (Southdale Development Garden Court and Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN) 1954-1955 box 51, folder 20 Gruen, Victor (Tishman Wilshire Comstock Apartments) 1962 Scope and Contents Testing a humming noise in an apartment.
box 51, folder 21 Hamill, Samuel Wood (Ford Bown Oceanside Band and Choral Shell) 1949-1950 Scope and Content Ford Bowl, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
box 51, folder 22 Hamill, Samuel Wood (San Diego Civic Theater) 1963 box 51, folder 23 Hardison and DeMars (University of California, Berkeley Student Center) 1958-1963 Scope and Content Material regarding the University of California, Berkeley Student Center-Auditorium can be found in "Acoustical Consulting: Contracts paid in full," Box 54 Folder 2. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 59.
box 51, folder 24 Harrison, William H. (Fullerton Union High School Speech-Arts Music Building) 1955-1956 box 51, folder 25 Hollywood Bowl 1926-1929 Scope and Content Related material may be found in "Loye, Donald P. (Hollywood Bowl and Pigrimage Theatre noise survey)," Box 52 Folder 5. Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 59.
box 51, folder 26 Honolulu Memorial Auditorium (Merrill, Simms & Roehrig and Adrian Wilson & Associates) 1960 Scope and Content Honolulu Memorial Auditorium is within the Honolulu Convention Center.
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box 51, folder 27 Hope, Frank L. and Associates (San Diego Convention Building) 1962-1963 box 51, folder 28 Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver, WA 1956 box 51, folder 29 Hughes, A.L. (Washington University) 1936 box 51, folder 30 Hunt, Myron and H.C. Chambers (Wilshire Elementary School auditorium and South Los Angeles Junior High School) 1935-1936 box 51, folder 31 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC (General Services Administration) 1965-1972 box 51, folder 32 Jubilee Auditoriums, Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1958 Scope and Content Contains a commemorative booklet including "An Appreciation" by Richard J. Neutra and "An Appreciation" by Vern O. Knudsen.
box 52, folder 1 Lemmon, Mark (First Presbyterian Church, Wichita Falls, TX) 1956-1961 Scope and Content Another of Mark Lemmon's architectural efforts, St. Luke's Methodist Church, is referenced in Box 53 Folder 2.
box 52, folder 2 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York Philharmonic Hall (Max Abramovitz) 1963 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 60.
box 52, folder 3 Lincoln High School, San Francisco, CA (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) 1949-1953 Scope and Contents No Subnote Content Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 60.
box 52, folder 4 Lippincott, Roy A. (Shell Development Lecture Hall, Emeryville, CA) 1958 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 61.
box 52, folder 5 Loye, Donald P. (Hollywood Bowl and Pilgrimage Theatre noise survey) 1958 Scope and Contents Includes letters recieved from John Lambie.
box 54, folder 2 Manitoba Cultural Center : Contracts paid in full 1964 box 52, folder 6 McCoy, Ernest (Kern County Court House) 1956, 1959 Scope and Contents Includes congratulatory letter regarding Vern O. Knudsen's chancellorship. Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 61.
box 1, folder 7 Medical Dental Building, Vancouver box 52, folder 7 Mendelsohn, Eric (Park Synagogue, Cleveland, OH) 1948-1952 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 61.
box 52, folder 8 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1929-1930 box 52, folder 9 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (sound stages) 1928-1929 box 1, folder 7 Metropolitan Studios, Hollywood. box 1, folder 7 Minwax Corporation, Los Angeles. box 1, folder 7 Minwood Insulating Company, Kalamazoo. box 52, folder 10 Mirsky, Sylvian (Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, CA) 1946
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box 52, folder 11 Modesto Junior College Gymnasium (Kenneth R. Kaestner and Associates) 1974 April 15 Scope and Contents Contains one letter signed by Vern O. Knudsen's assistant, Vern C. Plane.
box 52, folder 12 Morrison Auditorium, Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) 1948-1950 Scope and Contents San Francisco, CA. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 61.
box 1, folder 7 National Acoustic Plaster Company, Los Angeles. box 1, folder 7 National Chemical and Manufacturing Company, Chicago. box 1, folder 7 Nephi Plaster Manufacturing Company, Chicago. box 52, folder 13 Neutra and Alexander (Los Angeles County Hall of Records Building) 1956-1957 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 61.
box 52, folder 14 Neutra and Alexander (Orange Coast College Speech Arts Building Auditorium) 1955 Scope and Content Contains only one letter from Alfred Boeke of Hutchison, Kinsey, Boeke, congratulating Vern O. Knudsen on the acoustics of the constructed auditorium. Architects' full names are Richard J. Neutra and Robert E. Alexander.
box 52, folder 15 Neutra and Alexander (University of Nevada, Reno Campus, Fine Arts Building) 1958, 1960 Scope and Contents No Subnote Content Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 62.
box 52, folder 16 Neutra, Richard J. (Reno-Sparks Auditorium and Convention Hall) 1960-1961 Scope and Contents Includes 2 photographs. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 62.
box 52, folder 17 North Seattle High School, WA (Naramore et al.) 1958 Scope and Contents Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson, Architects
box 1, folder 7 Ojai Presbyterian Church. box 52, folder 18 Palace of the Soviets (Amtorg Trading Corporation, New York) 1934, 1935 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 62.
box 64 Pahlavi Palace, Iran 1967 November 27-30 Scope and Content 5 architectural drawings labeled A2, A3, A4, A5, and A8 of "Palace and environs for Her Royal Highness Princess Shams Pahlavi."
box 52, folder 19 "The Papago Freeway: A Report Prepared for the Arizona Highway Department" 1968 June box 1, folder 7 J. & D.B. Parkinson, Architects (Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles) box 52, folder 20 Paramount Publix and Paramount Famous Lasky 1928-1930 Scope and Contents Regarding theater and sound stage.
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box 1, folder 7 Pasadena Hospital Association box 54, folder 5 Phoenix Cultural Center Concert Hall (Charles Luckman) 1967-1968 box 52, folder 21 R.C.A. Photophone 1929-1931 box 52, folder 21 R.K.O. Theatre 1929-1931 box 52, folder 21 Ramona High School Auditorium, Alhambra 1929-1931 box 1, folder 7 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Hollywood box 52, folder 22 Roosevelt High School, Fresno, CA (Lake and DiLuck) 1951-1953 Scope and Contents No Subnote Content
box 53, folder 1 St. John's Cathedral, Spokane, WA (Whitehouse, Price and DeNeff) 1954-1961 Scope and Content Includes reference to work done on Spokane Cathedral including the chapel and assembly hall. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 63.
box 1, folder 8 St. Louis Brick & Clay Company box 53, folder 2 St. Luke's Methodist Church, Houston, TX (Mark Lemmon) 1957-1958 Scope and Contents No Subnote Content
box 1, folder 8 St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle box 1, folder 8 St. Monica's Catholic Church, Santa Monica box 1, folder 8 St. Thomas' Church, Hollywood box 1, folder 9 San Bernardino High School box 54, folder 2 San Diego International Sports Arena : Contracts paid in full 1964 box 53, folder 3 San Diego State College Music Classroom Building (Frank L. Hope) 1966 December box 1, folder 9 San Francisco Stock Exchange box 1, folder 9 Santa Ana, First National Bank of box 1, folder 9 Santa Ana, Francis Willard Junior High School Auditorium box 1, folder 9 Santa Barbara School for Boys box 1, folder 10 Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, Los Angeles box 1, folder 10 Scripps College box 1, folder 10 Security-First National Bank, Los Angeles box 1, folder 10 Security Trust and Savings Bank, Los Angeles box 53, folder 4 Seidler, Harry (Sydney Opera House, Australia) 1956 Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to collaboration in an architectural competition for the Sydney Opera House.
box 1, folder 10 Simons Brick Company, Los Angeles box 1, folder 10 Simpson Brothers Plasterer, Los Angeles box 1, folder 10 Sixth Church of Christ Scientist, Portland box 1, folder 10 South Pasadena High School Auditorium box 53, folder 5 Southwest Seattle High School, WA (Naramore et al.) 1955-1957 Scope and Contents Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson, Architects
box 1, folder 10 Southern Counties Gas Company of California box 1, folder 10 Sterling Electric Motors Company, Los Angeles box 1, folder 11 Third Church of Christ Scientist, Dallas box 1, folder 11 Thirteenth Church of Church of Christ Scientist, Hollywood box 1, folder 11 Three Forks Portland Cement Company, Hanover, Montana box 1, folder 11 Torfoleum [insulating material] box 1, folder 11 Union Fibre Company, Winona, Minnesota box 1, folder 11 Union Liberal Church of Pasadena
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box 53, folder 6 United Artists 1928 box 53, folder 7 United Nations Building (Wallace K. Harrison) 1948-1950 Scope and Content Includes a reference to Richard Bolt.
box 53, folder 6 Universal Pictures 1928 box 53, folder 8 University Christian Church Chapel, Seattle, WA (Naramore et al.) 1958 Scope and Contents Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson, Architects
box 53, folder 9 University of California, Berkeley, Alumni House (Clarence W. Mayhew) 1957 May 29 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawing is in Box 63.
box 53, folder 10 University of California, Berkeley, Classroom Building, Office Building (Weihe, Frick and Kruse) 1949-1952 Scope and Contents Weihe, Frick and Kruse, Architects. Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 63.
box 54, folder 2 University of California, Berkeley Student Center-Auditorium (DeMars and Reay) : Contracts paid in full 1964 Scope and Content Material regarding Hardison and DeMars and the University of California, Berkeley Student Center may be found in "Hardison and DeMars (University of California, Berkeley Student Center)," Box 51 Folder 23.
box 53, folder 11 University of Washington Music Building (Whitehouse and Price) 1947-1950 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 63.
box 54, folder 2 Washburn University (Van Doren, Hazard, Stallings, Schnacke) : Contracts paid in full 1964 box 54, folder 2 Wahington State University Multipurpose Coliseum (John Graham) : Contracts paid in full 1964 box 1, folder 12 West Coast Theatre, Long Beach, California box 1, folder 12 Westwood Methodist Church, Los Angeles box 54, folder 2 Wichita Cultural Center, Wichita, KS : Contracts paid in full 1963 box 1, folder 12 Wilshire Boulevard All Souls Church, Los Angeles box 53, folder 12 Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Clark County Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV) 1957-1963 Scope and Content Oversize architectural drawings are in Box 63.
box 53, folder 13 Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Los Angeles County Criminal Courts Building) 1966 box 54, folder 2 Wilson, Adrian and Associates (Anaheim Convention Center and Oxnard Community Center Auditorium) : Contracts paid in full 1964, 1966 box 1, folder 12 Winnemucca Grammar School (Nevada) box 1, folder 12 Wood Conversion Company, Cloquet, Minnesota box 1, folder 12 F.R. Woodbury, Acoustical Engineer, Portland, Oregon General note Additional related material in this collection will be found in "Correspondence and Papers: Woodbury, F.R.," Box 7 Folder 12.
box 1, folder 12 Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles box 1, folder 12 Wrigley Dance Hall, Santa Catalina Island
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box 1, folder 12 Zellerbach Paper Company, Los Angeles box 58 Oversize architectural drawings (for "Becket, Welton" and "Berkeley Public Schools," Box 51 Folders 5-6) box 59 Oversize architectural drawings (for ""Bodmer, Louis," "Burran, James A. Jr.," "Fox and Ballas," "Hardison and DeMars," "Hollywood Bowl," Box 51 Folders 7-25) box 60 Oversize architectural drawings (for "Lincoln Center" and "Lincoln High School," Box 52 Folders 1-3) box 61 Oversize architectural drawings (for "Lippincott, Roy A.," "McCoy, Ernest," "Mendelsohn, Eric," "Morrison Auditorium, and "Neutra and Alexander," Box 52 Folders 4-13) box 62 Oversize architectural drawings (for "Neutra and Alexander," "Neutra," and "Palace of the Soviets," Box 52 Folders 15-18) box 63 Oversize architectural drawings (for "St. John's Cathedral," "University of California, Berkeley," "University of Washington," and "Wilson, Adrian," Box 53) box 64 Oversize architectural drawings (for "Barrienbrock and Murray, Kleigman and Leizer" and Pahlavi Palace, Box 54 and Box 55) 1967 November 27-30 British Mission Notes 1942 June 2-10 Scope and Contents note Two handwritten notebooks and supplementary material in which Dr. Knudsen kept a record of his trip to Great Britain to study and discuss wartime research.
box 4, folder 15 Notebook 1942 June 2-20 box 4, folder 16 Notebook 1942 June 22-July 10 box 4, folder 17 Supplementary material v.d. National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders 1938-1942, 1956 Scope and Contents note Correspondence and papers regarding defense research activities and ear plugs (Ear Stoppers or Ear Defenders). Additional material about standardizing measurements of underwater sound may be found under'Committees and Associations' and 'American Standards Association.' Additional Ear Defenders material may be found in "Manuscripts and/or Reprints: Ear Defenders," Box 35, Folders 8-10.
box 4, folder 18 University. Committee on Scientific Research of the University Defense Council box 5, folder 1 Personnel. Records re security clearances General note Restricted under the Information Practices Act (California civil Code, Chapter 709)
box 5, folder 2 Contracts box 5, folder 3 Purchasing box 5, folder 4 Travel box 5, folder 5 General Correspondence box 5, folder 6 Norman A. Watson, correspondence General note Related material in this collection may be found in Box 4, Folders 12 and 13.
box 5, folder 7-8 Reports: "Ear Defenders" box 5, folder 9 Report: "Research on Ear Defenders" [by] V.O. Knudsen [and] N.A. Watson 1942 box 5, folder 10 Ear Defender Patent box 55, folder 3 British Joint Services Mission report "Ear Defenders" 1954 box 55, folder 4 Ear Defenders manuscripts and notes undated box 55, folder 5 Ear Defenders correspondence with Charles H. Beeler of The Defender Company 1938-1939 box 55, folder 6 Defend Ears correspondence with Carey P. McCord 1938-1941 box 55, folder 7 Ear Defenders correspondence with Paul H. Cullen of Mine Safety Appliance Company 1940-1941
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 19 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders 1938-1942, 1956
box 55, folder 8 Defend Ears correspondence with William P. Yant of Mine Safety Appliance Company 1939-1941 box 55, folder 9 Ear Defenders correspondence with Mine Safety Appliance Company 1938-1941 box 55, folder 10 Defend Ears patent correspondence with William H. Maxwell 1938-1941 box 55, folder 11 Ear Stoppers correspondence with David H. Cannon of Cannon and Callister Law Offices 1938-1939 box 55, folder 12 Ear Stoppers patents, agreements ca. 1938-1940 National Research Council: Committee on Undersea Warfare 1944-1966 Scope and Contents note Correspondence and papers. Additional related material in this collection will be found in Leo P. Delsasso's papers.
box 5, folder 11 National Research Council: Undersea Warfare Scope and Content Includes a booklet relating to World War II undersea and submarine warfare of 1941, issued in 1951 for the Office of Scientific Research and Development: "Subsurface Warfare: The History of Division 6 National Defense Research Committee. Prepared under the direction of John T. Tate." Division 6 was formerly known as Division C-4.
box 26, folder 9 Undersea Warfare, Committee on. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council 1965-1966 box 26, folder 7 Oceanography Panel (Committee on Geophysical Sciences of the Joint Research and Development Board) 1947 Scope and Contents note This material was removed from a ring binder and placed with the committee files.
box 48, folder 11, Oceanography Panel (Committee on Geophysical Sciences of the Joint Research and box 48, folder 10 Development Board, Washington, D.C.) 1944-1950 Scope and Content Includes correspondence with Vannevar Bush.
Graduate Division, University of California ca. 1929 - ca. 1963 Scope and Contents note Material probably brought together in 1963 to provide background for the Graduate Division commemoration.
Copies of Early Reports, undated box 8, folder 14 1929-1935. Scope and Contents note Includes photographs (2) and chart of departments (2 copies).
box 8, folder 15 1936-1938. box 9, folder 1 1939-1946. box 9, folder 2 Material pertaining to graduate education 1957-1962 box 9, folder 3 Reprints pertaining to graduate education undated box 9, folder 4 Graduate Division commemoration 1963 February 12 Scope and Contents note Includes draft, notes, and copy of a speech: "Reminiscences of a Dean Respecting the Early History of the Graduate Division."
box 9, folder 5 Graduate Academy of the Arts and Sciences, first meeting 1963 April 7 Scope and Contents note Includes welcoming address.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 20 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Dedication of Knudsen and Kinsey Halls 1963-1964
Dedication of Knudsen and Kinsey Halls 1963-1964 General note Additional related material in this collection will be found in Leo P. Delsasso's papers.
box 9, folder 6 Arrangements and invitation lists box 9, folder 7 Correspondence and papers pertaining to the dedication box 9, folder 8 Speeches 1964 May 16 Scope and Contents note Copies and related correspondence. This file was probably created for Dr. Knudsen by Dr. Delsasso's office.
box 9, folder 9 Dr. Knudsen's speech 1964 May 16 box 54, folder 9 Dedication ceremony photographs, correspondence, clippings 1963-1964 Scope and Content Relevant material may also be found in "Correspondence and papers pertaining to the dedication," Box 9 Folder 7.
Chancellorship (Congratulatory and get-well correspondence, clippings, etc.) 1959-1960
box 54, folder 6 Letters of congratulation on being appointed Chancellor 1959 July box 54, folder 7 Get-well and congratulatory correspondence 1960 box 54, folder 8 Newspaper clippings, articles, letters 1959-1960 Architectural Acoustics (Book) ca. 1929 - ca. 1932 Scope and Contents note Manuscripts, galleys, proofs, etc., of a book by Dr. Knudsen, published by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 1932.
Drafts and Manuscripts of Separate Chapters:
box 9, folder 10 Preface, Contents, Equations, Legends for Figures, and Style Sheet box 9, folder 11 Index box 9, folder 12 Chapter 1. Introductory box 9, Chapter 2. "Physical Acoustics - Nature of Sound" folder 13-15 box 10, folder 1 Chapter 2. draft dated 1929 July 10 box 10, folder 2 Chapter 2. (continued) Scope and Contents note Supplementary material labeled "Elementary Physical Acoustics."
box 10, folder 3 Chapter 3. "Nature of Hearing" box 10, folder 4 Chapter 4. "Nature of Speech and Music" box 10, folder 5 Chapter 5. "Reverberation of Sound in Rooms" box 10, folder 6 Chapter 6. "Absorption of Sound - General & Theoretical Considerations" box 10, folder 7 Chapter 7. "Absorption of Sound - Methods of Measuring Reverberation" box 10, folder 8 Chapter 8. "Absorption of Sound - Measurements, Coefficients of Sound Absorption & Other Properties of Acoustical Materials" box 10, folder 9 Chapter 9. "Insulation of Sound - Noise in Buildings & Out-of-Doors" box 10, folder 10 Chapter 10. "Insulation of Sound - Fundamental Principles" box 10, folder 11 Chapter 11. "Insulation of Sound - Methods of measurement" box 10, Chapter 12. "Insulation of Sound - Insulation Data" folder 12-13 box 11, folder 2 Chapter 13. "Insulation of Sound - Calculation in Buildings" box 11, folder 3 Chapter 14. "Amplification of Sound" box 11, folder 4 Chapter 15. "Acoustics of Auditoriums - General Considerations" box 11, folder 5 Chapter 16. "Acoustics of Auditoriums - Shape"
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 21 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Architectural Acoustics (Book) ca. 1929 - ca. 1932 Drafts and Manuscripts of Separate Chapters:
box 11, folder 6 Chapter 17. "Acoustics of Speech Halls - Noise, Loudness, and Reverberation" box 11, Illustrations folder 7-10 box 11, folder 11 Sales and Complimentary Copies box 11, folder 12 Pender's Handbook (copy) box 12, folder 1 Handbook Material box 12, folder 2 Parts 1-3 Second Drafts of Separate Chapters: box 12, folder 3 Chapter 2. "Physical Acoustics - Nature of Sound" box 12, folder 3 Chapter 5. "Absorption of Sound - Nature of Absorption" box 12, folder 3 Chapter 6. "Absorption of Sound - Methods of Measurement" box 12, folder 4 Chapter 7. "Absorption of Sound - Measurements, Coefficients of Absorption, and Other Properties of Acoustical Materials" box 12, folder 4 Chapter 8. "Insulation of Sound - Noise in Buildings and Out-Of-Doors" box 12, folder 5 "Insulation of Sound - Theory and Measurement" box 12, folder 6 "Reverberation of Sound in Rooms" box 12, folder 6 "Acoustics of Speech Halls - General Considerations" box 12, folder 7 "Acoustics of Music Rooms - Fundamental Principles and Considerations" box 12, folder 7 School Buildings box 12, folder 7 Chapter Headings box 12, folder 7 "Acoustics of Architectural Interiors - Theory and Fundamental Principles of Design" box 12, folder 7 Articulation Test Recording Sheet General Physical Description note: (2 copies)
box 12, folder 7 Open Air Theatres box 12, folder 8 Cut dummy for Architectural Acoustics box 12, Chapters 5-6. "The Absorption of Sound" folder 9-10 Scope and Contents note Source material and correspondence.
box 12, folder 11 Chapters 9-11. "The Insulation of Sound" box 13, folder 1 Page-proofs, pp.vii-304 box 13, folder 2 Page proofs, pp.305-617, and incomplete set of duplicate pages. box 13, folder 3 Copy used for inserting changes for the fourth printing. box 13, folder 4 Cuts. box 14, folder 1 Cuts (oversized).
box 44, folder 1-2
Galleys 1932 Acoustical Designing in Architecture (Book) ca. 1948 - ca. 1957 Scope and Contents note Manuscripts, galleys, proofs, etc., of a book by Dr. Knudsen and Cyril M. Harris, published by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, in 1950. The book has also been refered to as Acoustical Design in Architecture. See "Publication rights for Acoustical Designing in Architecture," Box 48 Folder 4, for material regarding the transferral of publication rights to the Acoustical Society of America.
Material and correspondence for proposed 1957 revision 1957
box 43, folder 11 1957 Scope and Contents note Revisions (Articles, reviews, correspondence).
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Galleys
box 14, folder 2 Dr. Knudsen's file copy with his corrections box 14, folder 3 Duplicate set box 14, folder 4-5 With corrections box 44, folder 3-6 Galleys 1950 General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
Manuscript
box 43, Typescript draft 1948 folder 12-13 Scope and Contents note Typescripts with holograph notations.
box 43, folder 7 Table of contents box 43, folder 8-9 Tables box 43, folder 10 Appendices box 15, folder 1 Tables and Appendices box 15, folder 2 Cuts box 15, folder 3 Cuts, continued box 15, folder 4 Chapters 1-8 (in part) box 15, folder 5 Chapters 8 (continued)-13 (in part) box 15, folder 6 Chapters 13 (continued)-20 box 43, folder 1-6 Chapters 14-20 Scope and Contents note Drafts. Typescript with holograph notations. Correspondence.
Noise (Unpublished Book) 1949-1955
box 45, folder 1 Research and correspondence for Noise (Book for John Wiley and Sons) 1950 Scope and Content Knudsen's own folder also contained Das akustische Trauma, by L. Rudei and W. Furrer.
box 45, folder 2 Chapter 1: How Noise is Measured 1950 Scope and Content Draft, manuscript, and research material.
box 45, folder 3 Chapter 2: Some Common and Uncommon Noises 1949 Scope and Content Draft, manuscript, and research material. Includes correspondence with astronomer J. Hugh Pruett regarding meteorite noise.
box 45, folder 4 Chapter 3: Traffic Noise 1955 Scope and Content Draft, manuscript, and research material: aircraft, industrial, and traffic noise.
box 45, folder 5 Chapter 4: Industrial Noise 1954 Scope and Content Draft, manuscript, and research material on industrial and vehicle noise.
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box 45, folder 6 Chapter 5: Noise in Buildings ca.1950 Scope and Content Draft, manuscript, and research notes (includes notes for Chapter 6).
box 45, folder 7 Chapter 6: What Noise Does to Man 1950 Scope and Content Manuscript and correspondence about further planned chapters and publication timing.
Acoustics For Better Living (Unpublished Book) ca. 1970 - ca. 1971
box 45, folder 8 Notes, research material, and correspondence for book draft 1970-1971 box 45, folder 9 Working drafts Speeches, Public Letters, Lecture Notes 1920s-1973 Scope and Contents note Numbered in chronological order. Some are technical lectures. The majority relate to administrative and ceremonial functions. Manuscript and note card formats.
box 16, folder 1 "Researches concerning quantum theory" ca. 1920s Scope and Content This speech is labeled #1 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 1 Lecture Notes for Physics 1B 1926 box 56, folder 2 Lecture Notes for Physics 114B: Theory of Sound and its Applications 1940, 1961 Scope and Content Includes material on electronic musical instruments.
box 56, folder 3 Lecture Notes for Physics 260: Military Acoustics ca. 1940 box 56, folder 4 Notes on Mechanics of Wave Motion (from Michelson) 1922 box 56, folder 5 "Recent Developments in Nuclear Physics" (Physics Seminar) 1933 November 6 box 16, folder 1 Relativity ca. 1920s Scope and Content This speech is labeled #2 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 1 "Wave Mechanisms -- a Review of Four Lectures by E. Schrödinger" ca. 1925 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #3 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 1 "Artificial Aids to Hearing" 1934 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #4 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 6 Incomplete speech drafts "Recent Trends in Physics" and "Indeterminacy and Free Will" ca. 1934 box 56, folder 7 "The Quest of God Through [...]" undated Scope and Content Damaged speech draft. Presented at the UCLA Roger Williams Club in November.
box 16, folder 1 "Certain Scientific and Engineering aspects of a Social Science Research Foundation" 1935 March box 16, folder 2 "Recent Developments in Artificial Aids to Hearing" 1935 April 17 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #5 within its containing folder.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 24 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Speeches, Public Letters, Lecture Notes 1920s-1973
box 16, folder 2 "Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics" 1935 May 24 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #6 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 2 "Recent Developments in Acoustics" 1935 June 25 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #7 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 2 "Making good with a graduate degree" 1936 March 31 box 16, folder 2 "Recent Progress in Acoustics" (presented to S.M.P.E.) 1937 May Scope and Content This speech is labeled #8 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 3 "Audiometry in Routine Otological Practice" 1938 January 24 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #9 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 3 "New Advances in the Design of Hearing Aids" 1938 January 25 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #10 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 3 "Scientific Research Under New Regimes in Europe" 1939 January 23 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #11 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 3 "Scientific Research Under New Regimes in Europe" Scope and Contents note Draft. This speech is labeled #12 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 4 "Scientific Research in Germany" 1939 Spring Scope and Content This speech is labeled #13 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 4 "The American Scholar Today and Tomorrow" 1939 April 5 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #14 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 4 "Cooperation in Research" (Among Colleges and Universities of the Pacific Southwest) 1940 November 9 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #15 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 5 "American Science in National Defense" (Address before University Associates) 1941 February 20 Scope and Contents note Includes background notes, clippings, and letters. This speech is labeled #16 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6 "Pre-War Observations and Post-War Possibilities" 1944 June 22 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #17 within its containing folder.
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box 16, folder 6 Commencement Address 1944 August 12 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #18 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6 "Some Technological Aspects of Music" 1944 September Scope and Content This speech is labeled #19 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6 "Industrial and Population Trends in the West" (Western College Association) 1945 March 31 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #20 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6 "Science in War and Peace" 1945 June 17 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #21 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 6 "Now it Can Be Told" (Scripp's College ; Y.M.C.A.) 1945 November 19, 1946 February 5 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #22 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 7 Mid-Winter Clinical Lecture 1946 January 28 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #23 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 7 "Keeping the talkies silent" (Letter) 1929 January 28 box 16, folder 7 Remarks to Graduate Students, Graduate Club 1935 March 29 box 42, folder 6 "The Influence of Professional Groups on College Curricula." Proceedings of the Western College Association Meeting at Mount St. Mary's College. Los Angeles 1946 March 30 Scope and Contents note 1 manuscript. 4 copies of Proceedings. About graduate education.
box 16, folder 7 "Truth for Humanity's Sake" (University Religious Council) 1946 April 2 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #24 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 7 "Sequelae of Wartime Research" (Southern California Science Teachers Association) 1946 December 7 Scope and Contents note Note cards and manuscript copies. This speech is labeled #25 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 7 "Professional Training" (State Ways and Means Legislative Committee) 1947 February 14 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #26 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 8 "Recent Developments in the Field of Sound" (Engineering Department) 1948 February 2 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #27 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 8 Association of Graduate Students 1948 March 5
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box 16, folder 9 "Welcome to Cyclotron Physicists" ca. 1950 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #28 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 8 "The Acoustical Spectrum: Sound -- Wanted and Unwanted" (Correspondence and reprint regarding keynote address February 5-8, 1952) 1951-1952 Scope and Content Speeches given for the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the Institute of Industrial Health: Inservice Training Course in Ann Arbor,MI. Lectures presented include "The Acoustical Spectrum," "The Acoustical Spectrum After Dinner," "Sounds in the Ocean," and "Summary."
box 16, folder 9 "This I Believe" (WCBS Radio Broadcast) 1953 March 30 Scope and Contents note Includes related correspondence. This speech is labeled #29 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 9 "Democratic Processes in Higher Education" (Utah Conference on Higher Education) 1953 September 13-15 Scope and Content Also see "Democratic Processes in Higher Education," Box 42 Folder 5. This speech is labeled #30 within its containing folder.
box 42, folder 5 "Democratic Processes in Higher Education" 1953 August - September Scope and Contents note Draft. Correspondence. Handwritten Manuscript. Copy of Proceedings of the Utah Conference on Higher Education, Utah State Agricultural College (September 1953). Also see "Democratic Processes in Higher Education," Box 16 Folder 9. Relates to graduate education.
box 16, folder 10 "Man's Right to Knowledge in the Atomic Age" 1953 December 11 Scope and Contents note Includes two copies and related correspondence. This speech is labeled #31 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11 "Getting Qualified Science Teachers in the High Schools, From the Point of View of the Graduate School" (A.A.A.S.) 1954 December 30 Scope and Contents note Includes related correspondence. This speech is labeled #32 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11 Arnold Schoenberg ca. 1955 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #33 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 9 "Higher Education in Our Democracy" Commencement address 1955 Scope and Content At Scripps College 1955 June 10. Includes correspondence and research material.
box 16, folder 11 The California Institute for Cancer Research (Los Angeles Women's Guild) ca. 1956 General note Correspondence in this collection re this speech will be found in box 22, folder 11. This speech is labeled #34 within its containing folder.
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box 16, folder 11 "The Importance of Science and Mathematics in Our Culture" (Orange Coast College) 1956 March 15 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #35 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11 Honors at Entrance Reception (Kerckhoff Hall) 1957 October 1 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #36 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 11 Comments on Time and Eternity (Moody B.I. Film) (University Affiliates) 1957 November 11 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #37 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 12 Material and correspondence ca. 1957 Scope and Contents note re a speech about the need for increased emphasis on scientific research and education.
box 16, folder 13 The Fourth Annual Samuel Goldwyn Awards for Creative Writing 1958 May 15 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #38 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13 "Academic Distinction of UCLA" (UCLA Alumni Officers) 1958 September 20 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #39 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13 Midwinter Exercises 1959 January 28 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #40 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13 Western Data Processing Center Dedication 1959 January 29 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #41 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 10 "Designing the Indoor Acoustical Environment" 1959 February 2-3 Scope and Content Proceedings of Conference on Designing the Indoor Environment, page 37.
box 56, folder 10 "Acoustical and Structural Environment" 1959 February 2-3 Scope and Content Proceedings of Conference on Designing the Indoor Environment, Workshop Summary, page 85.
box 16, folder 13 Eleventh Annual Industrial Engineering Institute 1959 February 6 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #42 within its containing folder.
box 16, folder 13 Foreign Student Conference Luncheon 1959 February 18 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #43 within its containing folder.
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box 16, folder 13 Introduction of Dr. James A. Pike (Convocation) 1959 March 4 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #44 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1 Charter Day Luncheon Report (Beverly Hilton Hotel) 1959 March 23 Scope and Contents note Note cards and manuscript. This speech is labeled #45 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1 Charter Day Report on UCLA 1959 March 23 Scope and Contents note Note cards, manuscript, and carbon copy. This speech is labeled #46 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1 Welcome to California Club Conference 1959 March 30 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #47 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1 Message for Brochure, Thirteenth International Spring Festival 1959 May 3 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #48 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1 Graduate School of Business, Seminar on Profit Renegotiation 1959 May 18 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #49 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 1 Orientation Hello 1959 September 21 Scope and Contents note Note cards and manuscript. This speech is labeled #50 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 2 "Dynamic UCLA" (Kiwanis Club, Westwood Village) 1959 October 9 Scope and Contents note Includes "Certificate of Appreciation" presented to Dr. Knudsen. This speech is labeled #51 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 2 Twelfth Annual Technical Conference of the Institute of Geophysics, "Message for the Opening Session" (delivered by Acting Vice Chancellor Dodd) 1959 November 5 Scope and Contents note Note cards, manuscript, and note card excerpts for Dr. Dodd's Official Welcoming Address. This speech is labeled #52 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 2 "The Chancellor's Congratulations and Charge to the Home-Coming Queen" 1959 November 18 Scope and Contents note 3 copies. This speech is labeled #53 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 2 Dykstra Hall Dedication 1959 November 19 Scope and Contents note Note cards and 3 copies. This speech is labeled #54 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 3 Sixth Annual Edward A. Dickson Journalism Day, "Welcome" 1959 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #55 within its containing folder.
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box 17, folder 3 George Washington Carver Day Luncheon (Beverly Hilton Hotel) 1960 January 5 Scope and Contents note Note cards and copy. This speech is labeled #56 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 3 Mid-Year Graduation Observance 1960 January 28 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #57 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 3 University Affiliates Dinner (The Cal Club) 1960 February 15 Scope and Contents note Note cards, manuscript and carbon copy. This speech is labeled #58 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4 Charter Day Anniversary Ceremony 1960 March 18 box 17, folder 4 Charter Day Luncheon 1960 March 18 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #59 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4 Chancellors Report, Charter Day 1960 March 18 Scope and Contents note Note cards, manuscript, press release, and copy. This speech is labeled #60 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4 "Peacetime Uses of Space" - Introduction of Leston Faneuf 1960 March 23 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #61 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4 RCA West Coast Electronic Center, Van Nuys - Dedication Speech 1960 April 6 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #62 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 4 Rotary Club Address 1960 April 28 Scope and Contents note 2 copies. This speech is labeled #63 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5 Samuel Goldwyn Awards - Introduction of Samuel Goldwyn 1960 May 4 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #64 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5 "The Challenge of Disarmament," Conference at the Law School, Welcome 1960 May 7 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #65 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5 Festival Oriental Music and the Related Arts 1960 May 8 Scope and Contents note Printed Program containing dedication to Dr. and Mrs. Knudsen and Dr. Knudsen's remarks. This speech is labeled #66 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5 Hippocratic Oath Ceremony 1960 June 9 Scope and Contents note Manuscript and 2 carbon copies. This speech is labeled #67 within its containing folder.
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box 17, folder 5 Chancellor's Farewell to the Graduates 1960 June 10 Scope and Contents note 2 copies. This speech is labeled #68 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 11 "A Message From Vern O. Knudsen" ca. 1960 Scope and Content Public address in Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly.
box 56, folder 12 "Introduction to Seminar on Acoustics for Science Writers" 1960 Scope and Content At the 60th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Francisco, CA. Speech includes note on pronunciation of 'acoustics' for students of R. A. Millikin. Includes correpondence regarding other speakers and papers.
box 17, folder 5 "Impaired Hearing" 1961 March 20 Scope and Contents note Lecture for a Physics class. This lecture is labeled #69 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5 "Reminiscences as a Chancellor of UCLA" 1961 April 24 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #70 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5 Suggestions for "From Chancellor's Desk" ca. 1961 June 21 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #71 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 5 A "summing up" at retirement time 1960 July box 56, folder 13 "The Role of the All Nations Fair in Promoting International Understanding Through Inter-Cultural Communication in Los Angeles County" (Speech and Correspondence) 1961-1962 box 17, folder 6 "Acoustics and Music" (Schoenberg Hall) 1962 March 8 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #72 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 6 Words Spoken at the Funeral of Leah MacKay 1962 March 20 Scope and Contents note Note cards and 3 copies. This speech is labeled #73 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 6 Shephard Ivory Franz - Dedication of Franz Hall 1962 October 26 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #74 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 6 Introduction of Simon Ramo for Man of Hope Citation 1962 November 24 Scope and Contents note Includes biographical data on Dr. Ramo. This speech is labeled #75 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 14 "Reminiscences of a Dean" 1963 February 12 Scope and Content Hardcover commemorative book for the 25th anniversary of doctorate awards at UCLA. Includes 2 vinyl audio recordings inside cover.
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box 17, folder 7 Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology Ceremonies ca. 1963 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #76 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 7 "Acoustics of Music Rooms" (Research Group, UCLA) 1965 March 9 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #77 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 7 "Acoustics of Music Rooms" (Professional Women's Group) 1965 May 15 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #78 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 7 "From Architectural Acoustics to Molecular Physics" (Hughes Research Laboratory) 1966 December 1 Scope and Contents note Note cards and related material. This speech is labeled #79 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 7 "Sound - the Good and the Bad" (UCLA Spring Lecture Series) 1967 May 1 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #80 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8 Welcome to the American Association for Engineering Education Meeting at UCLA and Press Conference 1967 June 16 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #81 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8 "The Conception, Gestation, and Birth of the UCLA Medical School," Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Dinner 1968 May Scope and Contents note Includes related material dated 1947. Additional material in this collection will be found in Box 3 Folder 11. This speech is labeled #82 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8 A Tribute to Ralph Bunche at the Dedication of Bunche Hall 1969 May 23 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #83 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8 Harvey Fletcher (Governor of Utah's Appreciation Dinner) 1971 March 3 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #84 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 8 Eulogy for Willhelmena Dickson 1971 March 9 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #85 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 9 Response following presentation of University of Chicago's Alumni Association (Los Angeles Chapter) Distinguished Alumnus Award to Gustave Arlt 1971 April 27 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #86 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 9 Response at Triological Society National Meeting 1971 May 25 Scope and Content Includes letter of thanks from Victor Goodhill, 1971 June 9.
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box 17, folder 9 Margaret Eames (eulogy) undated Scope and Content This speech is labeled #87 within its containing folder.
box 17, folder 9 Professor Leo P. Delsasso - Teacher, Administrator, Benefactor (Acoustical Society Meeting, Los Angeles) 1973 November 2 Scope and Content This speech is labeled #88 within its containing folder.
box 56, folder 15 "Life Begins at 80 -- Or Does It?" ca. 1973 Committees and Associations 1925-1980 Scope and Contents note Correspondence, papers, and printed material representing Dr. Knudsen's interest and participation in a large number of professional, technical, and academic organizations throughout his career.
Acoustical Materials Association 1933-1949 box 17, folder 10 Correspondence and reports 1933-1943 box 17, folder 11 Various bulletins and 1 report: "A Study of Improved Techniques for Sound Absorption Measurements by the Reverberation Room Method" 1934-1941, 1949 Acoustical Society of America 1928-1980 box 18, folder 1 Application forms (blank) and by-laws Chicago Meeting December 1929 box 18, folder 3 Related correspondence, B - P box 18, folder 4 Related correspondence, S - W Correspondence and Papers 1951-1964 box 18, folder 2 1961-1964 box 18, folder 5 1947-1950 box 18, folder 6 1951-1958 box 48, folder 2 Cleveland newspaper article and "News Notes" undated Scope and Content Newspaper article includes photograph of Vern O. Knudsen with Dayton C. Miller and Paul E. Sabine during the sixth semi-annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
box 18, folder 7 Executive Council 1929-1936, 1944, 1951 Editorial Policies (Journal) 1929-1935 box 18, folder 8 1929-1933 box 18, folder 9 1934-1955 box 18, folder 10 Letters to Members and Fellows 1929-1957 Los Angeles Meetings 1930, 1947 box 18, folder 11 December 1930 box 18, folder 12 December 1947 Meetings 1929-1956 Scope and Content Material relating to the 60th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America may be found in Speeches, Box 56 Folder 12.
box 18, folder 13 1929-1934 box 18, folder 14 1935-1956 Membership 1929-1951 box 19, folder 1 1929-1930 box 19, folder 2 1933-1951 box 19, folder 3 Organization 1928-1929 Printed Programs 1929-1965 box 19, folder 4 1929-1935
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box 19, folder 5 1936-1947 box 19, folder 6 1948-1961 box 48, folder 3 Acoustical Society of America and Second International Commission on Acoustics Congress 1956 June 17-23 Scope and Content Meeting program from Cambridge, MA, notes, and article.
box 19, folder 7 1962-1963 box 19, folder 8 1964-1965 box 19, folder 9 Radio Broadcasts 1934-1935 Standardization Committee 1930-1955 box 19, folder 10 Reports on Terminology ca. 1931-1933 box 19, folder 11 1930-1931 (August) box 19, folder 12 1931 (September-November) box 19, folder 13 1931 (December) - 1932 box 19, folder 14 1933-1934 box 20, folder 1 1947-1955 box 20, folder 2 G.A. Sutherland, correspondence 1930-1931 General note Additional correspondence with Sutherland in this collection will be found in Box 1 Folder 3.
box 20, folder 3 Treasurer 1930-1941, 1953 box 20, folder 4 Tribute to Dr. Erwin Mayer 1964 Wallace Waterfall, Correspondence 1929-1968 box 20, folder 5 Copies for Dr.Knudsen 1929-1948 box 20, folder 6 1929-1934 box 20, folder 7 1935-1968 box 20, folder 8 Gordon S. Watkins, correspondence 1932-1952 box 48, folder 1 Journal publications and correspondence 1929-1949 box 48, folder 4 Publication rights for Acoustical Designing in Architecture 1980 February 5 Scope and Content Letter to Florence Knudsen requesting the tranfer of publication rights for Vern O. Knudsen and Cyril M. Harris's book, Acoustical Designing in Architecture, to the Acoustical Society of America. Signed by Margaret Knudsen, daughter and conservator.
Air Pollution Committee 1954-1958 box 20, folder 9 1954 February-August box 20, folder 10 1954 September box 20, folder 11 reprints 1954 (October-December), 1958 Alexandria Graduate School (Egypt) 1960-1962 box 20, folder 12 Report: "Science in the Universities in the United Arab Republic" 1960 box 20, folder 13 Related material 1960-1962 box 20, folder 14 American Association for the Advancement of Science 1955-1965 Scope and Content Additional material regarding the American Association for the Advancement of Science may be found in Correspondence: Box 2 Folder 2 (regarding the Pacific Division), Box 47 Folder 1 (regarding "The Absorption of Sound in Gases" and the AAAS award), and Box 47 Folder 2 (regarding Scientific Monthly).
American Institute of Physics 1962-1965 box 20, folder 15 General correspondence 1962-1965
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box 20, folder 16 Correspondence and papers concerning the Institute's project: "History of Recent Physics in the United States" 1964 Scope and Contents note Includes correspondence of Dr. W. James King, Project Director, and interview with Dr. Harvey Fletcher. Additional Fletcher material in this collection will be found in Box 1 Folder 1.
box 48, folder 5 Interview of Vern O. Knudsen by Leo P. Delsasso and W.J. King 1964 May 18 Scope and Contents American Institute of Physics Oral History Project. Interview regarding early history of Physics and Vern O. Knudsen's early research. Includes biographical information.
box 21, folder 1 American Institute of Planning. Fresno, California 1964 June 5 American National Standards Committee 1969-1973 Scope and Contents note Earlier related material in this collection will be found under "American Standards Association" and "American Standards Institute."
box 21, folder 2 1969 January-July box 21, folder 3 1969 October-December Scope and Contents note Includes publication Specifications for Audiometers.
box 21, folder 4 1970 April-June box 21, folder 5 1970 August-November Scope and Contents note Includes publication "Methods for the Calculation of the Articulation Index."
box 21, folder 6 1971 January-April box 21, folder 8 1972 January-April box 21, folder 7 1971 August-December box 21, folder 9 1972 August-November box 21, folder 10 1973 January-May Scope and Contents note Includes publication: Martin Sonn, Psychoacoustical Terminology.
box 21, folder 11 1973 August-November American Standards Association 1932-1966 General note Subsequent related material in this collection will be found under "American Standards Institute" and "American National Standards Committee." Additional related material will be found under "Foreign Standards Committees."
box 21, folder 12 1932-1946 Scope and Contents note Includes publication: F.H. van den Dungen, Remarques sur les Vocabulaires d' Acoustique (1936).
box 48, folder 6 Measurement standardization for underwater sound (United States Navy) 1944-1945 box 21, folder 13 1947 January-November box 22, folder 1 1947 December box 22, folder 2 1948-1950
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box 22, folder 3 1965 January-August Scope and Contents note Includes publication: The Effects of Shock and Vibration on Man.
box 22, folder 4 1965 November-1966 July American Standards Institute 1939-1968 Scope and Contents note The "American Standards Association" became the "United States of America Standards Institute" in 1966. Material was filed under the heading "American Standards Institute." Later related material in this collection will be found under "American National Standards Committee."
box 22, folder 5 1966 September-1967 box 22, folder 6 1968 box 22, folder 7 Architectural and Musical Acoustics Symposium. Cambridge, Massachusetts 1956 box 22, folder 8 Audio Engineering Society, Awards Committee 1964-1965 box 22, folder 9 Building and Safety Commission 1939-1947 box 48, folder 7 Audio Engineering Society 1954 April Scope and Content Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. Directory of members. Vern O. Knudsen listed pages 15 and 32. Award of Honorary Membership in the Audio Engineering Society, 1949 October 28, may be found in "Personal correspondence and papers," Box 50 Folder 6.
box 48, folder 8 California Fund for Music 1962 California Institute for Cancer Research (CICR) 1954-1974 box 22, folder 10 Examination of Financial Statements 1954 March 31 Scope and Contents note Financial statements dated June 30 for 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969 (2 years), and 1972 (2 years) will be found filed by date in the following material.
box 22, folder 11 1954-1956 General note A related 1956 speech by Dr. Knudsen will be found in Box 16 Folder 11 (speech no.34).
box 22, folder 12 1957-1960 box 22, folder 13 1961 box 23, folder 1 1963 January-May box 23, folder 2 1963 June-December box 23, folder 3 1964 January-June box 23, folder 4 1964 July-December box 23, folder 5 1965 January-April Scope and Contents note Includes publication: A National Program to Conquer Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke.
box 23, folder 6 1965 May-December box 23, folder 7 1966 January-April box 23, folder 8 1966 May-December box 23, folder 9 1967 box 23, folder 10 1968 January-May box 23, folder 11 1968 June-December Scope and Contents note Includes Science magazine (September 1968).
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box 24, folder 1 1969 January-March box 24, folder 2 1969 April-December box 24, folder 3 1970 box 24, folder 4 1971 box 24, folder 5 1972 box 24, folder 6 1973-1974 box 24, folder 7 Electronic Music, Committee on 1963-1965 Emeriti, National Committee of the, Incorporated 1961-1967 box 24, folder 8 1961 box 24, folder 9 Information circulars related to Dr. D. Michael Marandini and the California Institute for Advanced Study (CIAS), filed with the Emeriti papers for 1961 box 24, folder 10 1962-1964 box 24, folder 11 Publication: "Planning Manual for Policy and Program Development" 1964 General Physical Description note: Removed from original binder.
box 24, folder 12 1965 February-May box 24, folder 13 1965 June - 1967 Emeriti Association, UCLA 1967-1972 General note Additional related material in this collection will be found in Leo P. Delsasso's papers.
box 24, folder 14 1967 box 25, folder 1 1968-1972 Faculty Research Lecture Committee 1962-1964 box 25, folder 2 1962-1963 box 25, folder 3 1964 Foreign Standards Committees 1937-1950 Scope and Contents note This was not the name of an organization, but a file heading used by Dr. Knudsen to describe activities primarily involving the American Standards Association and various foreign agencies.
box 25, folder 4 1937-1939 Scope and Contents note Includes publication "Mitteilungen des Deutschen Akustischen Ausschusses" (1939).
box 25, folder 5 1947-1950 box 25, folder 6 Friends of the Santa Monica Mountains 1964-1966 box 25, folder 7 Hope for Hearing Research Foundation 1964-1967 box 48, folder 9 Hollywood Bowl Association 1960-1961 Institute for Creative Arts 1963-1966 box 25, folder 8 1963-1964 November box 25, folder 9 1964 December - 1966 Institute of Geophysics 1944-1961 box 25, folder 10 1944-1945 box 25, folder 11 1946 box 25, folder 12 1947 January-September box 25, folder 13 1947 October-December box 25, folder 14 1948-1953 box 25, folder 15 List of Technical Papers 1960 box 25, folder 15 Appointment of Director 1961 Music, Administrative Committee. Appointment of Professor 1961-1963 box 26, folder 1 1961 box 26, folder 2 1962-1963 Scope and Contents note Includes Journal of Research in Music Education (Fall 1959).
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box 26, folder 3 Manuscript: Roy Harris, "Requested Prospectus for the Music Department of the University of California, Los Angeles" 1961 Noise Abatement Commission, Los Angeles 1940-1945 box 26, folder 4 National Noise Abatement Council 1941-1945 General note Correspondence with Dr. Ernst Grossman has been removed to Box 6 Folder 8.
box 26, folder 5 1940 box 26, folder 6 1941, 1944 box 26, folder 8 Research Group (UCLA) 1963-1965 United States Government Agencies 1925-1945 box 26, folder 10 Bureau of Standards 1925-1937 box 26, folder 10 Coast and Geodetic Survey 1933 box 26, folder 10 Documents, Superintendent of 1927-1930 box 26, folder 10 Education, Office of 1935 box 26, folder 10 National Park Service 1936 box 26, folder 10 Navy Department 1933-1945 box 26, folder 10 Patent Office 1933 box 26, folder 10 Public Health Service 1940 box 26, folder 10 Public Roads, Bureau of 1930 box 26, folder 10 State Department 1939 box 26, folder 10 War Department (Signal Corps Laboratories) 1940 box 26, folder 10 Weather Bureau 1933-1935 Leo P. Delsasso Papers 1959-1963 Scope and Contents note Files created when Dr. Delsasso was Chairman of the Physics Department at UCLA. Includes much earlier material regarding UCLA and outside contract research which was often conducted in collaboration with Dr. Knudsen.
box 26, folder 11 Appointments 1925-1959 Scope and Contents note Contains correspondence re Dr. Delsasso's salary, sabbatical, war leave, loyalty oath, etc.
box 26, folder 11 Blue Shield 1961 Scope and Contents note Includes membership roster.
Building and Campus Development Committee 1958-1963 Scope and Contents note Material re Major Capital Improvement Program.
box 26, folder 13 1956 November-1957 January box 26, folder 14 1957 February box 26, folder 15 1957 March-October box 27, folder 1 1958-1959
Class of , UCLA 1925 Scope and Contents note Material re Dr. Delsasso's undergraduate class.
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box 27, folder 2 1925-1950 Scope and Contents note Includes graduation program (1925) and photographs of 25th class reunion (1950).
box 27, folder 3 1955 Scope and Contents note Material re Dr. Delsasso's chairmanship of the 30th class reunion.
box 27, folder 4 Disaster Preparedness and Laboratory Safety 1951, 1959-1963
Emeriti Association, UCLA
box 27, folder 5 1966-1969 box 27, folder 6 Membership Committee 1971 box 27, folder 7 Fu, Sandra Lok. Alien employment 1968 Scope and Contents note Restricted under the Information Practices Act (California Civil Code, Chapter 709).
box 27, folder 8 Hitchcock (Alfred) Science Theater 1963 box 27, folder 9 Hope for Hearing Research Foundation 1965, 1967
Kinsey Memorial
box 27, folder 10 Edgar Lee Kinsey personal papers 1924-1951 Scope and Contents note Includes original documents and photographs, probably used by Dr. Delsasso in preparing Dr. Kinsey's memorial.
box 27, folder 11 Memorial written by Dr. Delsasso 1961 box 27, folder 12 Copies of Dr. D.S. Saxon's correspondence re memorial contributions 1964-1965
Knudsen and Kinsey Halls (Dedications) 1964 May 16
box 27, folder 13 Dr. Delsasso's preparations box 27, folder 14 Speaker preparations box 27, folder 15 Copies of "Luncheon Talks" and "Dedication Ceremonies" box 28, folder 1 Knudsen Gold Medal. Awarded by the Acoustical Society of America 1967 April 20 Scope and Contents note Includes copy of Dr. Delsasso's statement in the Congressional Record.
Miscellaneous Publications Scope and Contents note Printed material and reports originally stored in Dr. Delsasso's files.
box 29, folder 11 William Henry Bragg, "The Carbon Atom in Crystalline Structure" (lecture) 1924 box 29, folder 11 Ernest Rutherford, "The Natural and Artificial Disintegration of the Elements" (lecture ) 1924 box 29, folder 11 "Dedication of the University of California at Los Angeles" 1930 box 29, folder 11 Martin B. Barmatz and Isadore Rudnick, "The Velocity of Sound in the Immediate Neighborhood of the Lambda Transition of Helium" undated
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box 29, folder 11 A. Einstein, "Dispersion of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases" undated Scope and Contents note Removed from folder bearing notation "personal copy of V.O. Knudsen/ file with course material for Physics 214."
box 30, Physics 266-A Term Papers 1948 folder notebook Scope and Contents note Includes a list of papers (9), apparently submitted for Dr. Carl Eckart's class.
box 30, folder 1 "Inauguration of Clark Kerr as the Twelfth President of the University of California" 1958 September 26 Scope and Contents note 3 copies of program.
box 30, folder 1 Virginia Richard, "The Origin and Development of Graduate Education at UCLA" 1933-1964 (1965) Scope and Contents note Booklet.
box 30, folder 1 Sigma Pi Sigma Newsletter 1963 October box 30, folder 2 Louis B. Slichter, "Response, Acceptance and Address of the Evening: A Glimpse at the Geophysical Scene" 1966 Scope and Contents note 2 copies of reprint.
box 30, folder 2 "Values and Visions: a Report of Six Years of University Growth, 1958-1964" 1964 Scope and Contents note Brochure.
box 30, folder 2 "Unity and Diversity: the Academic Plan of the University of California, 1965-1975" ca. 1964 Scope and Contents note Brouchure.
box 30, folder 2 LHS Octagon 1968 May 20 Scope and Contents note Dedication of the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California.
box 27, folder 16 Dr. Knudsen's photograph and letters of appreciation (May 16, 1964)
Lyon, Waldo K. Arctic Ice Researcher and Explorer General note Additional related material in this collection will be found in box 3, folder 10.
box 28, folder 2 Copies of awards and newspaper clippings 1946-1962 box 28, folder 3 Waldo K. Lyon letter from the North Pole to Dr. and Mrs. Delsasso 1970 November 20 box 28, folder 3 Life magazine article 1958 September 1 box 28, folder 3 Saturday Evening Post article 1948 box 28, folder 4 Memorial Resolutions. Correspondence as chairman of the Committee on University Emeriti Relations 1970-1971 Scope and Contents note Includes University of California publication In Memoriam, December 1970.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 40 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Leo P. Delsasso Papers 1959-1963 National Research Council. Committee on Undersea Warfare (Spitzer Committee) 1947-1948
National Research Council. Committee on Undersea Warfare (Spitzer Committee) 1947-1948 General note Additional related material in this collection will be found in box 5, folder 11.
box 28, folder 5 1946 December-1947 August box 28, folder 6 1947 October-1948 June box 28, folder 7 Graphs re undersea research
Navy Department. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Scope and Contents note Correspondence and papers re Research and Inventions.
box 28, folder 8 Depth Charge Direction Recorder, patent applied for 1946 July 11 box 28, folder 9 Optical Sound Bearing System, patent applied for 1946 July 12 box 28, folder 10 Undersea Warfare Symposium 1946 September 17-18 box 28, folder 11 Depth Determination by Triangulation 1949 box 28, folder 12 Rotating Hydrophone Audio Torpedo Detector 1949 box 28, folder 13 Submarine Signal Company 1949 box 28, folder 13 ONR publication: Donald Ross, "Directory of Acousticians in Western Europe" (1965) box 28, folder 14 Physics-Biology Building Recommendations. University of California, Southern Branch 1925-1928 box 28, folder 15 Physics Department, UCLA. History. Miscellaneous papers 1931-1934 Scope and Contents note Includes [1930] newspaper clipping showing J.M. Adams, E.L. Dodd, S.J. Barnett, L.B. Loeb, Vern O. Knudsen, H.W. Edwards, J.W. Ellis, E.L. Kinsey, Leo P. Delsasso, and J.A. Kaplan.
Research Contracts Scope and Contents note "Target Seeking Devices" (Acoustics Research) and "Project Mogul" (Sound Research). Administration of contracts between UCLA Physics Department and U.S. War Department.
box 28, folder 16 1946-1947 box 29, folder 1 1948 box 29, folder 2 1949-1950 box 29, folder 3 1951-1952 Scope and Contents note Includes photographs (12) taken at "White Mountain" base camp.
box 29, folder 4 Apportion ledgers 1949-1969 box 29, folder 5 "Secret" and "Confidential" Classifications. Security clearances and receipt forms 1952-1956 box 29, folder 6 Senate Committee on Emeriti Relations 1970 box 29, folder 7 University of California Exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco 1940 General note Related material in this collection will be found in box 2, folders 7 and 8.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 41 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Leo P. Delsasso Papers 1959-1963 Miscellaneous Notes
Miscellaneous Notes Scope and Contents note Personal records kept by Dr. Delsasso re foreign travel, faculty recruitment, etc.
box 29, folder 8 Note cards and spiral notebooks (2) 1959-1960 February 3 box 29, folder 9 Spiral notebooks (3) 1960 May 25 - 1961 August 28 box 29, folder 10 Spiral notebooks (3) 1961 June 12 - 1963 June 3 John Mead Adams Notebooks 1901-1926 General note Dr. Adams was a member of the UCLA Physics Department, 1919-1944.
box 30, folder 3 Physics 3 1901-1902 Scope and Contents note Laboratory notes. Mead's undergraduate studies. Harvard University.
box 30, folder 4 Roentgen Rays 1906 July 7 Scope and Contents note Laboratory notes. Mead's doctoral research, Harvard University.
box 30, folder 5 Reading 1926 July Scope and Contents note Mead's abstracts of various journal articles.
box 30, folder 6 Humorous verse Scope and Contents note Single page.
Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973 General note Given to the UCLA Archives, January 1979. See Miscellaneous Publications within the Leo P. Delsasso Papers for additional articles.
box 31, folder 1 "The Absorption of High Frequency Sound in Oxygen Containing Small Amounts of Water Vapor or Ammonia" 1936 April Scope and Contents note 2 copies of manuscript with figures, and 1 reprint Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (April 1936).
box 48, folder 12 "The Absorption of Sound" (American Institute of Physics) ca. 1933 Scope and Content Draft and manuscript. Includes a letter to the American Institute of Physics.
box 48, folder 13 "Absorption of Sound in Air" (Data) 1932-1933 Scope and Content Origninal raw data, graphs of plotted data. Includes correspondence with Kneser and discussion of early results. This important data may have supplied several papers.
box 31, folder 2 "The Absorption of Sound by Acoustical Plaster" 1932 December Scope and Contents note 1 copy of manuscript and 1 reprint, California Plasterer.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 42 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 31, folder 3 "The Absorption of Sound in Air, in Oxygen and in Nitrogen--Effects of Humidity and Temperature" 1933 October Scope and Contents note 1 copy of manuscript with many pages of revision by hand. Figures. Galley Proofs. JASA reprint -- autographed to Professor B. M Varney, with compliments of V.O. Knudsen. Copy of manuscript of paper by Hans O. Kneser, "The Interpretation of the Anomalous Sound-Absorption in Air and Oxygen in Terms of Molecular Collisons" with handwritten note from V.O.K. to file it here.
box 31, folder 4 "The Absorption of Sound in Carbon Dioxide and Other Gases" 1938 January Scope and Contents note 3 copies of manuscript with a few pages of handwritten notes and calculations. Figures. 1 reprint from JASA with handwritten "To Professor E.L. Kinsey Compliments of V.O. Knudsen.
box 31, folder 5 "The Absorption of Sound in Gases" 1935 April Scope and Contents note 3 copies of manuscript. Figures. Galley Proofs. 1 JASA reprint.
box 31, folder 6 "The Absorption of Sound in Gases" 1935 June 14 Scope and Contents note Various draft manuscripts. 1 reprint from Science.
box 31, folder 7 "The Absorption of Sound in CO 2, N 2O, COS and in CS 2, Containing Added Impurities" 1934 January Scope and Contents note Many handwritten pages. 3 copies of typewritten manuscript. Figures. Galley Proofs. 1 reprint from JASA.
box 31, folder 8 "The Absorption of Sound in Oxygen as Influenced by the Presence of Other Gases" Scope and Contents note Typewritten copy of paper abstract to be given at a meeting. This folder also contains copy of the paper by A. Einstein, "Dispersion of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases." "Dispersion of Theory of Sound" by H.O. Kneser. "Sound Absorption in Plyatomic Gases" by H.O. Kneser. No reprints.
box 31, folder 9 Acoustic Properties of Rooms Scope and Contents note Manuscript. Correspondence with Hazeltine Electronics Corporation. Galley proofs. No reprint.
box 32, folder 1-2 Acoustical Designing in Architecture. New York: Join Wiley & Sons 1949, 1950 Scope and Contents note Two folders containing correspondence with Wiley and with Cyril Harris, co-author. Folder 2 includes letter from Ray Eames, 1949.
box 32, folder 3 "Acoustical Design of the Theater" 1948 November Scope and Contents note No Manuscript. 3 copies of reprint from Architectural Engineering. One envelope of slides.
box 32, folder 4 "Acoustic Problems in the Heating and Ventilation of Buildings" 1931 December Scope and Contents note Manuscript. Figures and Galley Proofs. 2 reprints (one very cut up) from Heating, Piping and Airconditioning.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 43 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 32, folder 5 "Acoustical Terminology"-- American Standards Association 1936 October Scope and Contents note Manuscript and one reprint.
box 32, folder 6 "Acoustic Design of Architectural Interiors" 1924 October Scope and Contents note No manuscripts. 4 reprints from The Architect and Engineer.
box 32, folder 7 "The Acoustics Design of School Buildings" 1928 Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 4 reprints from The National Association of Public School Business Officials.
box 32, folder 8 "Acoustics in Comfort and Safety" 1949 July Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 3 reprints from JASA.
box 32, folder 9 "Acoustics in the Design of Auditoriums" 1927 September Scope and Contents note Manuscript and Figures. 1 reprint from The Architectural Forum.
box 32, folder 10 "Acoustics of the Grady Gammage Auditorium" 1965 September Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 1 reprint and photocopy thereof from Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Acoustics.
box 32, folder 11 "Acoustics of Music Rooms" 1962 August Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 photocopies of reprint from Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Acoustics.
box 32, folder 12 "Acoustics of Large Auditoria" May 1951 Scope and Contents note Manuscript and correspondence. 2 reprints from Proceedings of Building Research Congress. Papers presented in Division 3 and record of discussion.
box 33, folder 1 "Acoustics of Music Rooms" April 1931 Scope and Contents note Manuscript -- handwritten and typed. Correspondence with various people who attended the 4th International Congress on Acoustics. Program of the Congress. 1 reprint from JASA.
box 33, folder 2 "American Standards Association had Broad Program for Measuring and Labeling Sounds" 1936 April Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 reprints from Industrial Standardization.
box 33, folder 3 "Analysis and Correction of Hearing Defects" 1925 January Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 1 reprint from Northwest Medicine, and 1 copy of Northwest Medicine.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 44 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 33, folder 4-5 "Architectural Acoustics" 1963 November Scope and Contents note 2 folders of manuscript material. 1 folder of correspondence. 1 folder of photos. 1 reprint with "To Dr. L.P. Delsasso, 11/21/63, Compliments of V.O.K." in handwriting. 1 folder with copy of Scientific American.
box 34, folder 4 "Artificial Aids to Hearing" 1935 January Scope and Contents note Copies of 3 manuscripts. 1 reprint. See Symposium on the Eighth Nerve, Laryngoscope.
box 34, folder 5 "Atmospheric Acoustics and the Weather" ca. 1935 Scope and Contents note 1 copy of manuscript only. No reprints. Manuscript has note in VOK's handwriting: "For Science" about 1935 or 1936.
box 34, folder 6 "The Attenuation of Audible Sound in Fog and Smoke" 1948 November Scope and Contents note 1 handwritten copy of manuscript. 2 typewritten copies. Figures, correspondence and one reprint from JASA.
box 34, folder 7 "Audiometry" 1937 Scope and Contents note 1 copy of booklet (Faculty Publications--1937). Figures for manuscript. Three copies of manuscript.
box 34, folder 8 "Audiometry and the Prescribing of Hearing Aids" 1936 July Scope and Contents note Reprint from Laryngoscope. No manuscript.
box 34, folder 9 "Audiometers and their Place in the School Program" Scope and Contents note 1 copy of manuscript only.
box 34, folder 10 "Audion Bulb Circuits in Otologic Practice" 1925 October Scope and Contents note 2 reprints from Archives of Otalaryngology.
box 34, folder 11 "Basic Principles Underlying Tests of Hearing and Artificial Aids to Hearing" Scope and Contents note 1 copy of reprints from Laryngoscopy (n.d.--reprinted by Jenkel-Davidson Optical Company).
box 34, folder 12 "Bone Conduction" 1931 April Scope and Contents note 1 copy of reprint from Archives of Otolaryngology. 1 copy of manuscript "Studies in Bone Conduction." Auditory Charts filled out by hand by VOK.
box 35, folder 1 "Community Noise" 1956 July Scope and Contents note Manuscripts. 2 copies of reprint from Noise Control.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 45 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 35, folder 2 "Control of Sound in Buildings" ca. 1927 Scope and Contents note Typed and handwritten manuscript. 1 reprint with cover missing. Paper was presented at the meeting of the National Association of Building Owners and Building Manager, Chicago 1927, as per letter to Dr. Fletcher May 18, 1927 (this in VOK's handwriting).
box 35, folder 3 "Deafness, a Social, Economic and Medical Problem" 1937 July Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 3 reprints from California and Western Medicine.
box 48, folder 14 "Defense Against Noise" 1942 February Scope and Content In National Safety News.
box 35, folder 4 "Diffraction of Sound by an Array of Rectangular Panels" 1964 December Scope and Contents note Manuscript. Figures. Many handwritten notes. Reprint from JASA.
box 35, folder 5 "Diffusion and Absorption of Sound in a Model Reverberation Room" 1971 September Scope and Contents note Manuscript and reprint, 7th International Congress on Acoustics.
box 35, folder 6 "Diffusion of Sound by Helium Filled Balloons" 1968 September Scope and Contents note Two reprints, 6th ICA.
box 35, folder 7 "Directional Measurements of Early Reflections in Auditoriums" 1971 September Scope and Contents note Two reprints, 7th ICA.
box 35, folder 8 Ear Defenders 1944 Scope and Contents note Copy of the January 1944 issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, containing article. 1 reprint. Correspondence re patent on the Ear Defenders (ear plugs) and two copies of the patent application. Brief typed description of the research and development work on the Ear Defenders for the National Defense Research Committee. Related material may be found under the "National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders" series.
box 35, folder 9 Ear Defenders 1939 February, 1965 January-February Scope and Contents note Two reprints from the National Safety News (1939 February). Clipping from the UCLA Alumni Magazine (1965 January-February)--"The Earplugs of Dr. Knudsen." Related material may be found under the "National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders" series.
box 35, folder 10 Ear Defenders ca. 1940s - 1950s Scope and Contents note Two folders containing correspondence on patent and marketing of the Ear Defenders (much of it between VOK and Mine Safety Appliances who manufacture the Ear Defenders and still do) during the 1940s and 1950s. Related material may be found under the "National Defense Research Committee and Ear Defenders" series.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 46 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 36, folder 2 "An Ear to the Future" 1939 July Scope and Contents note Manuscript in various stages. 1 reprint from JASA.
box 36, folder 3 "Education and Training for Oceanographers" 1950 June 23 Scope and Contents note No Manuscript. Two reprints from Science.
box 36, folder 4 "Noise --The Now Pollutant: It Can Be Abated" ca. 1968 Scope and Contents note Two copies of manuscript. Speech, ca. 1968.
box 36, folder 5 "Die Einstelldauer der Schwingungsenergie in Sauerstoff" 1934-1935 Scope and Contents note 2 reprints from Annalen Der Physik 21.
box 36, folder 6 "Electroacoustical Instruments as Applied to the Problems of Impaired Hearing" Scope and Contents note Manuscript, abstract and handwritten draft of abstract.
box 36, folder 7 "The Effect of Audible and Subaudible Vibrations on the Acuity of Hearing" 1929 November Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 reprints from Archives of Otolaryngology.
box 36, folder 8 "The Effect of Humidity upon the Absorption of Sound in a Room, and a Determination of the Coefficients of Absorption of Sound in Air" 1931 July Scope and Contents note Manuscript and figures. 1 reprint from JASA.
box 36, folder 9 "Facts and Theories about Audition" 1925 December Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 1 reprint from Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. There seems to be no other reprint of this paper among VOK's paper still being kept in the Physics Department.
box 36, folder 10 "From Architectural Acoustics to Molecular Physics" 1962 July-August, September-October Scope and Contents note Draft manuscript and others. 1 reprint from Sound.
box 36, folder 11 "Functional Tests of Hearing" 1924 September Scope and Contents note 1 reprint from The Laryngoscope. Has handwritten note on it: "Please return to V. O. Knudsen. This is one of two survivors!"
box 37, folder 1 "Germany's War on Noise" 1936 September Scope and Contents note Handwritten manuscript. Galley Proof Heating & Piping (September 1936). 1 copy of Zeitschrift des Vereines Deutscher Ingenieure with translation of the article.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 47 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 37, folder 2 "Getting the Most from Acoustics" Scope and Contents note 1 typewritten copy of manuscript.
box 37, folder 3 "The Golden Age of Hearing Aids" 1939 November Scope and Contents note 1 typewritten copy of manuscript. 1 copy of The Volta Review.
box 37, folder 4 "Hearing Aids Today and Tomorrow" Scope and Contents note 1 typewritten copy of manuscript and copy of letter to a W.P. Wherry, M.D., Omaha, Nebraska, with a note in handwriting "File-Hearing Aids" (n.d.).
box 37, folder 5 "The Hearing of Speech in Auditoriums" 1929 November Scope and Contents note Hand-and typewritten draft. 1 copy of manuscript. Galley proofs. 1 reprint from JASA.
box 37, folder 6-7 "Hearing with the Sense of Touch" 1928 Scope and Contents note Copies of manuscript and draft. Lots of figures. 1 reprint from The Journal of General Psychology 1.
box 37, folder 8 "Hearing in Auditoriums Effects of Reverberation" 1926 September, 1927 January Scope and Contents note 1 typed copy of manuscript. 1 reprint from The Architect and Engineer.
box 38, folder 1 "Hearing better in the presence of noise" 1925 July 31 Scope and Contents note Includes typed copy of manuscript, copies of Science.
box 38, folder 2 "History of the UCLA Physics Department" Scope and Contents note Folder containing material for, what turned out to be, an abortive project. No one, besides V.O.K. and a few "old-timers" were interested.
box 48, folder 15 "How Sound is Controlled" 1931 October Scope and Content In Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning, a publication of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers.
box 38, folder 3 "Insulation of Vibration" 1928 June, 1938 September Scope and Contents note Copy of typed manuscript of speech presented at American Physics Society. Handwritten manuscript. Notebook. Copy of a "description of device or contrivance which the writer proposes to submit for letters patent" which VOK must have printed by hand while on board the S.S. American Banker. It is witnessed by the Ship's Surgeon. Hand written notes on two sets of "American Banker" letterhead titled "Beds for Steamships, Motorships, Airplanes, Trains, etc., where Vibration is an Annoyance".
box 48, folder 16 "Introduction" to Outdoor Noise and the Metropolitan Environment: Case Study of Los Angeles with Special Reference to Aircraft 1970 box 38, folder 4 "Interfering Effect upon Speech of Tones and Noise" 1936 Scope and Contents note Typed copy of manuscript. Galley Proofs. 1 reprint from Physical Review, vol.26.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 48 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 38, folder 5 "Keeping the Talkies Silent" Scope and Contents note 1 typewritten copy of manuscript. No indication as to where this was published or, if a speech, where it was given or when.
box 38, folder 6 "Measurement and Calculation of Sound Insulation" 1930 Scope and Contents note Photocopy of article which appeared in JASA, vol.2 (1930).
box 38, folder 7 "Measurements of a Single Helium-Filled Balloon" 1968 September Scope and Contents note 2 reprints from Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Acoustics, Tokyo.
box 38, folder 8 "Measurement of Reverberation Using the Thermionic Tube Oscillator as a Source" 1926 November Scope and Contents note Typewritten manuscript. 1 reprint from Journal of the Optical Society of America.
box 38, folder 9 "The Measurement of Sound Absorption in a Room" 1928 Scope and Contents note Handwritten and typed manuscript. Figures. 1 reprint from The Philosophical Magazine, vol.5.
box 38, folder 10 "Model Testing of Auditoriums" 1970 February Scope and Contents note Manuscripts and drafts and correspondence. 1 copy of JASA reprint.
box 39, folder 1-2 "Modern Acoustics and Culture" 1936 Scope and Contents note 1 tied-up package labelled (in VOK's handwriting) "Cuts for UCLA Academic Publication no.8960." 1 folder with manscript drafts, figures, etc. 1 reprint of Faculty Research Lecture, UCLA.
box 39, folder 3 Model Studies of the Effects on Motore Vehicle Noise of Shapes and Arrangements of Buildings Along Urban Streets. III--"Roadside Barriers" 1973 Scope and Contents note 2 typed copies of paper given at the Los Angeles ASA Meeting.
box 39, folder 4 "Noise, the Bane of Hearing" 1955 May Scope and Contents note Handwritten draft, typed manuscript. 1 reprint from Noise Control.
box 39, folder 5 Paracusis. The sole remaining reprint from The Laryngoscope 1926 September Scope and Contents note Copy of letter to F.R. Watson re preparation of this paper.
box 39, folder 6 "The Physicist in the New World" 1943 April Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 reprints from American Journal of Physics.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 49 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 40, folder 1 "A Plan for Group Testing of the Hearing of School Children" 1926 September Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 reprints from Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology with handwritten notes for preparion of paper by VOK.
box 40, folder 2 "Plaster and Acoustics" 1931 September Scope and Contents note No manuscript, no reprint. Other lists show this appeared in California Plasterer.
box 40, folder 3 "The Propagation of Sound in Air and Water" ca. 1946 Scope and Contents note Handwritten manuscript. Type manuscript. Lots of reprints pertaining to the same subject. Pages of what appears to be a chapter from a book because it has the same title and VOK as author. No title or date of publication.
box 40, folder 4 "The Propagation of Sound in the Atmosphere" 1946 July Scope and Contents note 2 reprints from JASA.
box 40, folder 5 "Proposed Standards for the Measurement of Noise" ca. 1934 Scope and Contents note Typed manuscript. Article apparently appeared in American Standards Magazine. Correspondence is dated 1934.
box 40, folder 6 "Quiet and Air-Conditioned Buildings" ca. 1936 Scope and Contents note Typed outline, and outline of chapter and section titles. Correspondence with John Wiley & Sons, 1936. This was going to be a small book (200-250 words) but apparently it never materialized.
box 40, folder 7 "Quiet Buildings" 1926 September Scope and Contents note Typed manuscript. 1 reprint from Pencil Points.
box 15, folder 7 "Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics" (Journal Article) Manuscript and cuts 1934 January Scope and Content An article by Dr. Knudsen published in the January 1934 issue of Reviews of Modern Physics (Lancaster Press, Incorporated). Originally filed with Dr. Knudsen's speeches. For reprints, see "Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics," Box 40 Folder 8.
box 15, folder 8 "Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics" (Journal Article) Galleys and draft (original title: "Progress in Architectural Acoustics") box 40, folder 8 "Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics" 1934 Scope and Contents note For manuscript and galleys, see "Recent Developments in Architectural Acoustics," Box 15 Folders 7-8. 2 reprints from Reviews of Modern Physics, one autographed to Mr. L.P. Delsasso and one to Professor E.L. Kinsey. 1 copy of the journal itself.
box 40, folder 9 "Recent Progress in Architectural Acoustics: Geometric and Wave Acoustics in the Design of Rooms" 1947 November-December Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 reprints from American Journal of Physics.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 50 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 40, folder 10 Reminiscences: I. "Noise" II. "Sound Stages" 1970 August Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 1 reprint from Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.
box 40, folder 11 "Report of an Investigation of Ten Cases of Diplacusis" 1923 Scope and Contents note Typed copy of manuscript. 1 reprint from Transactions of the American Otological Society, autographed to Florence T. Knudsen. Handwritten notes on the physical characteristics of Diplacusis.
box 40, folder 12 "Resonance in Small Rooms" 1962 July Scope and Contents note Large collection of manuscript material, photos of figure, etc. Galley proofs. 2 reprints from JASA, one autographed to Dr. Lee Kinsey and one to Mr. L.P. Delsasso.
box 40, folder 13 "Reverberation Room Acoustics -- Effects of Various Boundary Conditions" 1967 November Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 reprints from JASA.
box 40, folder 14 "Review of Architectural Acoustics during the Past Twenty-Five Years" 1954 September Scope and Contents note Handwritten and typed copy of manuscript. Galley proofs. 2 reprints from JASA.
box 41, folder 1 "Science in Music" 1940 October Scope and Contents note 1 typed copy of manuscript. 1 copy of California. Published by the U.C. Alumni Association.
box 41, folder 2 "Selective Amplification in Hearing Aids" 1936 January Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 1 reprint from JASA.
box 41, folder 3 "The Sensibility of the Ear to Small Differences of Intensity and Frequency" 1922 September Scope and Contents note Original form of thesis, accepted by Gale and Michelson. Duplicate of corrected copy of thesis sent to Physical Review (September 1922). Handwritten manuscript. Various notes. Bound copy of dissertation with L.P. Delsasso's name in his (LPD's) handwritting. Another copy of same with (in VOK's handwriting) "Only Remaining Copy."
box 41, folder 4 "Sensibility of Pathological Ears to Small Differences of Loudness and Pitch" 1922 Scope and Contents note 1 bound copy and one stapled set of pages of reprint from Transaction of the American Otological Society. Note in VOK's writing "Only Copy."
box 41, folder 5 "Some Cultural Applications of Modern Acoustics" 1938 January Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 reprints from JASA.
box 41, folder 6 "Some Practical Aspects of Architectural Acoustics" 1940 April Scope and Contents note No manuscript. 2 reprints from JASA 11.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 51 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Publications by Vern O. Knudsen (Manuscripts and Reprints of Papers) ca. 1922 - ca. 1973
box 41, folder 7 "Sound Waves and Rhythms" 1948 December Scope and Contents note Typed manuscript. Correspondence. 1 reprint from The Scientific Monthly.
box 41, folder 8 Symposium on the Eighth Nerve 1935 January Scope and Contents note Proceedings were written up in Laryngoscope 45 (January 1935) and included the papers "Basic Principles Underlying Tests of Hearing," "Diagnosis of Hearing Impairments," and "Articifial Aids to Hearing." Manuscripts. Articulation Lists of Consonants. Issue of The Laryngoscope.
box 41, folder 9 Sonotone Audiometer. Contains two pamphlets on Model no.1 Scope and Contents note 1 copy bound, typewritten instructions for operating Model no.6 (Contents of this envelope came from Prof. Emeritus Norman Watson, and has handwritten note on it from V.O.K. to "File with Reprints").
box 41, folder 10 "The Teacher and the Problem of Deafness" 1939 January Scope and Contents note 1 reprint from Health News.
box 41, folder 11 "Underwater Ambient Noise" 1948 November 15 Scope and Contents note Two reprints from Sears Foundation: Journal of Marine Research VII. Correpondence with Elmer Belt re VOK sending him a reprint. Large collection of draft manuscripts and correpondence with Alford and Emling, co-authors.
box 42, folder 1 "Vacuum Tube Hearing Aids" 1937 February Scope and Contents note Typed copy of manuscript. Reprint from Caduceus.
box 42, folder 2 "What Audiometry Can Now Mean in Routine Practice" 1938 August 13 Scope and Contents note Handwritten Notes. Typed copy of rough draft and of finished manuscript. Reprint from Journal of the American Medical Association.
box 42, folder 3 "What's New in Acoustics?" 1947 November Scope and Contents note Handwritten Notes. Typed copy of manuscript. Reprint from Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning.
box 42, folder 4 What You Hear Can Hurt You 1961 February Scope and Contents note No manuscript. Two issues of Think.
box 42, folder 7 Complete list of publications of Vern O. Knudsen
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 52 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Biographical Materials and Awards 1928-1974
Biographical Materials and Awards 1928-1974 Scope and Content Additional material may be found in the Vern O. Knudsen Papers Collections File (including UCLA Emeritus Faculty file updates, award ceremony pamphlet, letters of condolence, and results of researcher investigation). Also see an American Institute of Physics Oral History Interview of Vern O. Knudsen under "Interview of Vern O. Knudsen by Leo P. Delsasso and W.J. King," Box 48 Folder 5.
box 47, folder 15 Biography and biographical forms ca. 1967-1969 Scope and Contents Related material may be found in the Vern O. Knudsen Papers Collection File.
box 47, folder 16 Eulogies for Vern O. Knudsen by Gustave Arlt and Chancellor Young ca. 1974 box 47, folder 17 Obituaries and correspondence, Vern O. Knudsen memorial service 1974 box 55, folder 1 Awards 1937-1971 Scope and Contents Contains award certificates. Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Chicago Club of Greater Los Angeles may be found in Box 47 Folder 5. Award of Honorary Membership in the Audio Engineering Society, 1949 October 28, may be found in Personal correspondence and papers, Box 50 Folder 6.
Photographs ca. 1935 - 1964 Scope and Content Additional photographs of Vern O. Knudsen are available in the Vern O. Knudsen Papers Collections File and in University Archives.
box 47, folder 23 Acoustical baffle chamber (Los Angeles Times) 1964 Scope and Contents Contains 15 photographs and a photocopy of a photograph available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File. See 1964 Los Angeles Times article "Noise reaches level where citizens want it stopped" in Box 57 Folder 5.
box 47, folder 24 Chancellor's conference with Robert Rogers 1960 Scope and Content Contains 1 photograph and a photocopy of a photograph available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File.
box 47, folder 25 Events with Vern O. Knudsen ca. 1937-1964 Scope and Content Contains photocopies of 16 photographs available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File.
box 47, folder 26 Knudsen family photographs 1954-1963 Scope and Contents Includes photographs of a trip to Europe and photographs of Vern O. Knudsen and Leo P. Delsasso. Contains 20 photographs and 9 photocopies of photographs available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File.
box 47, folder 27 Portraits of Vern O. Knudsen as a young man and as chancellor undated Scope and Contents Includes photocopies of 18 photographs available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File. Includes 1 unretouched passport photograph. Similar material may be found in Personal correspondence and papers, Box 50 Folder 6.
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 53 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Biographical Materials and Awards 1928-1974
box 47, folder 28 Propagation of sound in air, Rosamond Dry Lake, CA 1935 February 12 Scope and Contents Contains 5 snapshots of Vern O. Knudsen and others performing experiments at Rosamond Dry Lake. For related material, see Rosamond Dry Lake Absorption Tests, Box 3 Folder 14.
box 47, folder 29 ROTC Day 1952 Scope and Content Contains 2 photographs and 1 photocopy of a photograph available in University Archives Knudsen Vertical File.
Clippings 1928-1973 Scope and Content Additional clippings may be found in the Chancellorship series, the Dedication of Knudsen and Kinsey Halls series, "Correspondence and Papers (Chronological): Newspaper Clippings" in Box 50 Folder 8, and the Vern O. Knudsen Papers Collections File.
box 57, folder 1 1928-1959 Scope and Contents Includes: "Knudsen says good acoustics are important in school rooms" 1928-1929 "President's administrative advisory conference discusses All-U affairs at day-long meeting" "UCLA appoints Dean 1st Vice Chancellor" 1956 "The Knudsen award" 1934 "Westwood couple entertains" 1937
box 57, folder 2 1959 Scope and Contents Includes: Clippings regarding Vern O. Knudsen crowning the Homecoming Queen. "Huge computer center dedicated at UCLA" "Many for, some foes to Krushchev visit" Material honoring Charles A. Malik. Italian language newspaper article featuring Vern O. Knudsen.
box 57, folder 3 1960 Scope and Contents Includes: "Danger in noise" "The unearthly din of civilization" "Schools endangering world position of U.S., says veteran educator" "Applied Arts due for shakeup" "UCLA lab construction marked by ceremonies" "Voice in new UCLA center" in The Church News, an official organ of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. "RCA electronics center at Van Nuys dedicated"
box 57, folder 4 Relating to retirement 1960 box 57, folder 5 1961-1973 box 57, folder 5 "The noise haters" 1961 box 57, folder 5 "The UCLA story" 1961-1962 box 57, folder 5 "Chancellor greets 600 at musicale" 1963 box 57, folder 5 "Graduate Division celebrates anniversary" 1963 box 57, folder 5 "Knudsen urges study of rights and wrongs" 1963 box 57, folder 5 "Noise reaches level where citizens want it stopped" 1964 Scope and Contents For additional photographs, see Box 47 Folder 22.
box 55, folder 2 Press release "America lags in designing quiet homes, apartments" 1965 February box 57, folder 5 "Hope for hearing research foundation" 1965 box 57, folder 5 "Professors make sound behave" 1966 box 57, folder 5 "It sounds as good as it looks" 1966
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 54 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153 Biographical Materials and Awards 1928-1974
box 57, folder 5 "Knudsen, former chancellor, prof given country's top acoustic award" 1967 Scope and Contents Gold Medal award
box 57, folder 5 "Two-level orchestra solves sound problem" 1967 box 57, folder 5 "Balloons round out musical pleasures" 1967 box 57, folder 5 "UCLA models probe theater acoustics" 1967 box 57, folder 5 "Ears join eyes, lungs, and skin in pollution" 1967 box 57, folder 5 "The roar can kill you" 1967 box 57, folder 5 "UCLA models probe sound problem" 1967 box 57, folder 5 "UCLA 50 years old, starting new era" 1969 box 57, folder 5 "Minis may concern musicians" 1969 Scope and Contents Includes photograph of Vern O. Knudsen firing a pistol next to several women wearing miniskirts.
box 57, folder 5 "City's new little theater passes the pistol test" ca. 1969 box 57, folder 5 "Noise problems today are worse than before" 1971 Scope and Contents Letter to the editor written by Vern O. Knudsen and others.
box 57, folder 5 "Clamor against noise rises around globe" 1972 box 57, folder 5 "Sometimes noise is not pollution but a coccoon that provides solace" 1973 box 57, folder 5 "Why does this man shoot pistols in Thomas Hall?" 1973 box 57, folder 5 "Noted Utahn, acoustics expert visits" undated
Finding Aid for the Vern Oliver LSC.1153 55 Knudsen Papers LSC.1153