William T. Golden papers, 1946-2008

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Series IV: Addition, 2019

Gift of Pam Golden

Files; photographs; prints; oral histories/interviews transcripts; cassettes; and books.



Box 31 Folder 1 American Museum of Natural History: board resolution, 5 March 2008


Box 31 Folder 2 American Philosophical Society, tribute by Frank Rhodes, 4 December 2009


Box 31 Folder 3 APS: CD labeled "Oppenheimer, APS, 11/16/45", 1 compact disks


Box 31 Folder 4 Atomic Heritage Foundation re. Crawford Greenewalt documentary, 2002-2006


Box 31 Folder 5 Columbia University: M.A., 24 January 1979


Box 31 Folder 6 Columbia University term papers


Box 31 Folder 7 Columbia University, term paper on Leonardo, 3 May 1977


Box 31 Folder 8 Columbia University: papers for science courses


Box 31 Folder 9 Cuba, correspondence (AMNH, AAAS, and science advisors), 1988-2002



Box 32 Folder 1 Cyclic Rate Control, patent for Machine Gun Firing Rate Control Mechanism, granted, 31 August 1948


Box 32 Folder 2 Einstein facsimile lent to American Museum of Natural History for exhibition 2002-08


Box 32 Folder 3 Miscellaneous


Box 32 Folder 4 New York Times, various


Box 32 Folder 5 Obituary and other notices (daughter Sibyl's file)


Box 32 Folder 6 Science Museum for New York City, study by Peter Caws, 1983-1985


Box 32 Folder 7 Shakespeare: the comedies (summer course, Oxford, 1987)


Box 32 Folder 8 and 9 U.S. Navy: Eniwetok trip


Box 32 Folder 10 and 11 Poetry


Box 32 Folder 12 Quotations


Box 32 Folder 13 Woodward Iron, cartoon


Box 32 Folder 14 Zuger, Miriam Troop, 1995-2000


Box 32 Folder 15 Rainy Day Reading (personal tributes)


Box 32 Folder 16 Navy Card, Prince Baudouin photograph, John V. Lindsay photos, business correspondence


Box 32 Folder 17 AMNH: Oral histories, 1996


Box 32 Folder 18 Truman Library, correspondence and oral history



Box 33 Folder 1 Einstein documentary, 2005 (WTG did not sign release)


Oral History:


Box 33 Folder 2 UJA/Federation oral history, 1989, 1989


Box 33 Folder 3 Cohen conversations/memoirs 1983-86 (transcript, index)


Box 33 Folder 4 to 9 Cohen conversations/memoirs 1983-86 (transcript)



Box 34 Folder 1 to 4 Cohen conversations/memoirs 1983-86 (transcript)


Box 34 Folder 4 Forbes magazine, 15 May 1961


Box 34 Folder 5 William T. Golden Tribute at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000


Box 34 Folder 6 and 7 Miscellaneous press clippings (fragile)


Box 34 Folder 9 Business correspondence, 1958


Box 34 Folder 10 Fountain, John. "This Man Was Talked to Death" correspondence, 1975-2008


Photographs & Prints:


Box 34 Folder 8 Photographs (2) and specimen stock certificate


Box 34 Folder 11 Photographs (contact prints)



Box 35 Photographs



Mapcase 15-H-11 Large portrait photographs of William T. Golden (3) and three reporductions of the Currier and Ives print "This Man Was Talked To Death"



Box 36 "Golden Corridor of Science" (album), 4 March 1998


Box 36 The Mitre Corporation. "DEW Line Trip to the Far North", August 1959


Box 36 Quasi-Stellar Sources and Gravitational Collapse (book)


Box 36 England, J. Merton. A Patron of Pure Science, 1982


Cassette Tapes:



Box 37 and 38 Interviews , 26 audiocassettes; 3 cartridges; continuous loop cartridges (cart)