First Unitarian Society Records, 1841-2017

Contents List

Container Title
Series: 1. General Files, 1927-1983
Scope and Content Note: This series primarily contains items that detail Forman's life and career, such as scrapbooks, advertisements, endorsements, awards and honors, lectures, audio materials, and correspondence, both and professional and personal. There is also correspondence with the University of Oregon, where Forman donated some of his papers and diaries in the 1960s.
Box   1
Folder   1
Address Book, undated
Box   8
Folder   1
Advertisement for Carnegie Hall Replacement in Life by Forman, 1957
Box   8
Folder   2
American Forum of the Air, with Forman, photograph, undated
Box   1
Folder   2
American Society of Magazine Photographers, 1977, undated
Box   1
Folder   3
Articles and Publications That Are About or Reference Forman, 1933-1978, undated
Box   5
Folder   1
Asia, miscellaneous photographs, undated
Box   1
Folder   4
Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay, India, 1958
Box   16
Audio Reels, undated
Physical Description: 19 audio reels (¼ in.) 
Box   8
Folder   2
Awards and Honors, 1958-1977, undated
Box   5
Folder   2
Baby Photographs (Forman's children), 1947, undated
Box   1
Folder   5
Biographical Information, 1927-1952, undated
Box   1
Folder   6
Book Jackets, 1964, undated
Box   1
Folder   7
Book Reviews, 1945-1952
Box   6
Camera, Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95A, circa 1955
Box   16
Cassette Tapes, undated
Physical Description: 2 audio cassettes 
Box   1
Folder   8
China, notes and articles, undated
Box   4
Folder   1
China, Shanghai executions, 1949
Box   5
Folder   3
Class Photographs, John Forman, 1951-1953
Box   5
Folder   4
Contact Prints, China, Yanan, Shaanxi, "Report From Red China", Eighth Route Army and Ming Ping (People's Militia), 1944
Box   1
Folder   9
Copyright, 1975-1977
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   10
China, 1972-1978, undated
Box   1
Folder   11
personal, 1930-1983, undated
Box   1
Folder   12
professional, 1933-1973
Box   8
Folder   3
Endorsements, 1960, undated
Box   1
Folder   13
Explorers Club, 1956-1978
Box   1
Folder   14
Film Proposal, "Massacre at Khurd Pass", undated
Box   5
Folder   5
Harrison Forman, photographs, 1953, undated
Box   8
Folder   4
Idea for an Article in This Week Magazine, 1957
Box   1
Folder   15
King of Morocco, 1956-1957
Box   4
Folder   2
Lectures, brochures, 1937-1957, undated
Box   1
Folder   16
Lectures, transcripts, 1937-1945
Box   8
Folder   4
Letter to the Editor of The Saturday Evening Post, 1957
Box   1
Folder   17
Lindbergh Photograph Information, undated
Box   8
Folder   5
Listings as Editor, 1951-1957
Box   1
Folder   18
Marco Polo, incl. comic book, 1947, undated
Box   1
Folder   19
Miscellaneous Publications and Clippings, 1959-1970, undated
Box   7
Negative Sleeves, Shanghai, 1942
Box   5
Folder   6
Negatives, undated
Physical Description: 7 safety film negatives 
Box   1
Folder   20
Newsletters, 1969-1973
Box   1
Folder   21
Notebooks and Notes, 1951-1961, undated
Box   1
Folder   22
Pencilled Portraits, 1949
Box   1
Folder   23
Photograph Collection Listing, undated
Box   5
Folder   7
President Manuel Quezón of the Philippines with Forman, photograph, 1940
Box   1
Folder   24
Press Credentials, 1943-1975, undated
Box   5
Folder   8
Press Photographs, undated
Box   1
Folder   25
Promotional Materials, 1933-1958, undated
Box   5
Folder   9
Propaganda, articles and cartoons by others, negatives, 1940, undated
Physical Description: 134 safety film negatives 
Box   1
Folder   26
"Sandstone Hollow", narrative for a film on China, 1971
Box   14
Scrapbooks, "Click Carter Thru Forbidden Tibet", cartoon strip with Jay Irving, 1938
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   11-15
Scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, and ephemera, 1931-1964
Physical Description: 7 volumes 
Box   1
Folder   27
Siberia and Mongolia, notes, 1964, undated
Box   4
Folder   3
Travel Brochures, 1959-1976, undated
Box   1
Folder   28
Travel Write-Ups, 1962-1975, undated
Box   1
Folder   29
University of Oregon, 1966-1978
Series: 2. Writings, 1933-1977
Scope and Content Note: This series includes Forman's writings in the form of clippings and manuscripts. The clippings are from magazines and newspapers, and contain either articles that Forman wrote and took pictures for, or articles by different authors in which Forman supplied the photographs. The manuscripts are mostly drafts of these articles with some occasional correspondence with an editor. For a detailed listing of Forman's clippings, see box 1, folder 30.
Clippings
Box   1
Folder   30
Clipping Inventory, undated
Box   1
Folder   31
Accent on Youth, "Welcome to Thailand", 1969
Box   1
Folder   32
American Square Dance, "Square Dancing in Thailand", 1976
Box   1
Folder   33
Américas, "The Emeralds of Muzo", 1969
Box   4
Folder   4
Andean Air Mail and Peruvian Times, "A Yankee Whaler in Peru", 1956
Box   4
Folder   5
Andean Air Mail and Peruvian Times, "Henry Meiggs and the Central Railway of Peru", 1957
Argosy
Box   1
Folder   34
"Die, But Do Not Kill", 1956
Box   1
Folder   39
"How Opium is Used", 1947
Box   1
Folder   35
"Igorot House of Courtship", 1957
Box   1
Folder   36
"Miracles of Chinese Ingenuity", 1947
Box   1
Folder   37
"Rangda: Queen of Evil", 1960
Box   1
Folder   38
"So You Want to Go to Europe?", 1959
Box   1
Folder   36
"Thirty Million Modern Cavemen", 1947
Box   1
Folder   39
"What-A-Man Sultan!", 1947
Box   4
Folder   6
Asia, "Just Tibetans", 1933
Box   1
Folder   40
Aviation, "China Spreads Her Wings", 1936
Box   1
Folder   41
Blue Book, "Go Back! They'll Kill You!", 1935
Box   1
Folder   42
Camera, "Far Out Forman", 1973
Box   1
Folder   43
Canadian Geographical Journal, "Butter Gods of Kum Bum", 1948
Box   1
Folder   43
Canadian Geographical Journal, "China's Moslemia", 1948
Box   1
Folder   44
Canadian Mining Journal, "The Mayor of Romantic Alta", 1950
Box   1
Folder   45
Caravan, "Off-Trail Caravan Through the Far East", 1952
Box   1
Folder   46
Catholic Digest, "The Gold of Tibet", 1951
Box   1
Folder   47
Cavalcade, "Millions More of Us Will Die", 1961
Box   1
Folder   48
Cavalcade, "Where the Fish Are Larger Than Fictions", 1961
Box   1
Folder   49
China Mail, "Harrison Forman Repeats Charges: Hong Kong 'Bit Hot Under Collar'", 1941
Box   1
Folder   50
China Window, "Editor's Report", 1974
Box   1
Folder   50
China Window, "In the Great Hall of the People", 1974
Box   9
Folder   1
Collier's, "A Million Starve", 1944
Box   9
Folder   1
Collier's, "Some Like It Hot", 1956
Box   1
Folder   51
Cosmopolitan, "Harry Binghams of Bangkok", 1952
Box   1
Folder   52
Cosmopolitan, "Marrying Around: Tibet", 1934
Box   1
Folder   53
Everybody's Digest, "The Year We Adopted a Daughter", 1951
Box   9
Folder   2
Everybody's Weekly, "Diamond-Diggers of Martapura", 1955
Box   9
Folder   2
Everybody's Weekly, "With the French Commandos in Indo-China", 1951
Explorers Journal
Box   1
Folder   54
"Afghanistan", 1970
Box   1
Folder   55
"Mohenjo-Daro", 1968
Box   1
Folder   56
"Nomad Camp in Hindu Kush Mountains", 1960
Box   1
Folder   57
"North of the Hindu Kush", 1971
Box   1
Folder   58
"Persepolis", 1969
Box   2
Folder   3
"Portfolio of Mongolian Scenes", 1965
Box   2
Folder   3
"Portfolio of Timbuktu Scenes", 1964
Box   1
Folder   59
"Portfolio of Tunisian Scenes", 1967
Box   2
Folder   1
"Rotorua Geyser Area", 1973
Box   2
Folder   2
"Ruins of Zimbabwe", 1972
Box   1
Folder   56
"Samarkand", 1960
Box   2
Folder   3
"Stone Buddha of Bamiya", 1961
Box   2
Folder   4
Flying Colors, "The Emeralds of Muzo", 1977
Box   2
Folder   5
For Men Only, "Fighting Farmers of Hopei", 1957
Box   2
Folder   6
Fury, "Ordeal By Fire", 1956
Box   2
Folder   7
Gold!, "Gold Mine in Tipuani", 1976
Box   2
Folder   8
Gold!, "The Gold Runners of Macao", 1977
Box   2
Folder   9
Harper's Monthly Magazine, "I See the King of Hell", 1937
Box   9
Folder   3
Holiday, "The Story of Tea", 1948
Box   2
Folder   10
Horticulture, "The Canal a Million Farmers Built", 1977
Box   2
Folder   11
Irregulars, Partisans, Guerillas, "Tunnel Warfare", 1954
Box   2
Folder   12
Katholischer Digest, "Gold in Fülle", 1951
Box   2
Folder   71
Liberty, "China's Flying Colonel", 1934
Life
Box   9
Folder   5
"Bladder Boats Bob on Northwest China's Rivers", 1937
Box   9
Folder   4
"Camera Overseas: Buddhists", 1937
Box   9
Folder   4
"Camera Overseas: Chinese Communists to the Rescue", 1937
Box   9
Folder   4
"Chinese Outfought the Japanese as Shanghai Blazes", 1937
Box   9
Folder   4
"Maharajkumari from Manhattan", 1963
Box   9
Folder   5
"Tibet Takes on Red China", 1959
Box   2
Folder   13
Look, "Color Photos From Inside Russia", 1941
Box   9
Folder   6
Look, "Kiddin' at the Keys", 1946
Box   9
Folder   6
Malayan Monthly, "Diamond Diggers of Martapura", 1955
Box   2
Folder   14
Male, "Blitzkrieg in Poland", 1957
Box   2
Folder   15
Maupintour Guide, "U.S.S.R. Eastern Europe", 1976
MD
Box   2
Folder   16
"Caravan Crossroads", 1965
Box   2
Folder   17
"Road of Riches", 1972
Box   2
Folder   16
"Shattered Shangri-La", 1975
MD en Español
Box   2
Folder   18
"La Carretera de Birmania", 1973
Box   2
Folder   18
"Ruta de la Opulencia", 1973
Box   2
Folder   18
"Shangri-La", 1967
Box   2
Folder   19
Medical Times, "A Surgeon's Diary of His Visit to China", 1975
Box   2
Folder   20
MediGuide, "Come to 'Waltzing Matilda' Country", 1972
Box   2
Folder   21
miscellaneous newspaper articles, 1944-1952, undated
Box   2
Folder   22
Modern Man, "Sex Comes to Bali", 1957
Box   2
Folder   23
Natural History, "Lola", 1971
Box   2
Folder   24
Natural History, "The Sakais of Malaya", 1957
Box   2
Folder   25
New York Times, various articles, 1938-1945
Box   2
Folder   26
New York Times Sunday Magazine, various articles, 1934-1950
Box   2
Folder   27
Newsweek, cover photograph, 1954
Box   2
Folder   28
Odyssey, "Zagreb", 1976
Oggi
Box   9
Folder   7
"È Tutto Cinese, Anche il Fuoco", 1974
Box   9
Folder   8
"L'Asia Vista Dal Cielo", undated
Box   9
Folder   8
"Le Due Porte Dell'India", 1971
Box   9
Folder   7
"Non Vanno in Vacanza Ma Si Divertono", 1974
Box   9
Folder   7
"Per Portare Via Le Montagne È Bastata La Fede Nel Lavoro", 1974
Box   9
Folder   8
"Un Paese Ricco di Bellezze Artistiche e Naturali", 1970
Box   4
Folder   7
Orbit, "Tahiti: Paradise Lost?", 1970
Outdoor Adventures
Box   2
Folder   29
"Britain's Foreign Legion", 1956
Box   2
Folder   30
"I 'Shot' Headhunters on Formosa", 1956
Box   2
Folder   31
"My Journey to the Woman Living Buddha", 1957
Box   2
Folder   32
Pageant, "Around the World in 14 Days", 1959
Box   2
Folder   32
Pageant, "The Magic of Samarkand", 1960
Box   2
Folder   33
Photography, "How to Make Money with Your Camera", 1953
Box   10
Folder   1
Picture Post, "Why Meddle in China?", 1946
Box   2
Folder   72
Popular Flying, "Bob Short: Air Hero of the Shanghai War", 1934
Box   2
Folder   34
Reader's Digest, "I See the King of Hell", 1937
Real
Box   2
Folder   35
"Big Fish of Lake Titicaca", 1955
Box   2
Folder   36
"Damnedest War I Ever Saw", 1952
Box   2
Folder   37
"Hide-and-Seek War in Malaya", 1953
Box   2
Folder   38
"Nightmare in Tibet", 1952
Box   2
Folder   39
"Tin Can Ace of Okinawa", 1960
Box   2
Folder   40
Resident and Staff Physician, "A Surgeon's Diary of His Visit to China", 1976
Box   2
Folder   41
Restaurant Digest, "Some Like it Hot", 1956
Safari
Box   2
Folder   42
"Bali Bears Its Teeth!", 1957
Box   2
Folder   43
"Diamond Diggers of Borneo", 1956
Box   2
Folder   44
"Great Grave of Angkor", 1957
Box   2
Folder   45
"Horse Fishing in Afghanistan", 1957
Box   2
Folder   46
"Rifle Men of the Khyber Pass, 1956
Box   2
Folder   47
"Through the Red Ring Around Nasan", 1957
Box   2
Folder   48
various articles, 1956
Box   2
Folder   49
Salvant Universal, "Gran Diccionario Enciclopedico", Indonesia, Johannesburgo, and Juliaca, 1972
Box   2
Folder   50
Saturday Review, "Four Men's Stories", 1957
Box   2
Folder   51
Secretary, cover photograph, 1975
See
Box   10
Folder   2
"Famine in China", 1950
Box   10
Folder   3
"Mao Wants All of Asia!", 1951
Box   10
Folder   3
"Operation Starvation", 1956
Box   10
Folder   2
"Opium: Big Business in Asia", 1950
Box   10
Folder   3
"Pirates, God, and Gunpowder", 1955
Box   10
Folder   2
"World War III in Asia?", 1951
Box   10
Folder   4
Sportsman Pilot, "DC-2's Become Movie Stars", 1937
Box   10
Folder   4
Star Weekly, "He Has Found His Garden of Eden", 1957
Box   10
Folder   4
Stern, "Schlechte Zeiten", 1951
Sunday Mirror Magazine Section
Box   10
Folder   5
"Cao Dai: A Crusade Against Communism", 1954
Box   10
Folder   5
"Hindu Mystics Who Walk On Fire and Suffer No Burns", 1951
Box   10
Folder   5
"Romantic Bali's New Terror Reign of the Masked Demons", 1951
Box   10
Folder   5
"Tons of Gold That Aren't Worth A Nickel", 1948
Box   2
Folder   52
TEMIK Aldicarb Pesticide, "Technical Information", 1975
Box   10
Folder   6
Today, "Flivver Planes for Farmers", 1935
Box   10
Folder   6
Today, "Trippe Around the World", 1935
Travel
Box   10
Folder   7
"Arrows of the Mountain Gods", 1933
Box   10
Folder   7
"Filming the Blitzkrieg", 1939
Box   10
Folder   7
"On the Road to Lhasa with a Living God", 1938
Box   2
Folder   53
Travel Agent, "Agent Sees Tourism Growth As Step to World Peace", 1975
Box   2
Folder   53
Travel Agent, "Tipperary to Timbuktu: Tours Led By Explorer", undated
Box   4
Folder   8
Travel Trade, "New Worlds to Conquer", 1968
True
Box   2
Folder   59
"Ballenas!", 1956
Box   2
Folder   54
"Bazaar in Kabul", 1954
Box   2
Folder   54
"Beyond the Hindu Kush", 1954
Box   2
Folder   56
"Blood in the Khyber", 1954
Box   2
Folder   56
"City Under the Gun", 1954
Box   2
Folder   57
"Diamonds of Martapura", 1954
Box   2
Folder   59
"Dragons of Komodo", 1957
Box   2
Folder   54
"Fabulous Angkor", 1954
Box   2
Folder   55
"Gold Smugglers' Paradise", 1957
Box   2
Folder   56
"Gunmakers of Kohat Pass", 1954
Box   2
Folder   57
"Gurkha", 1954
Box   2
Folder   58
"Inca Emeralds", 1955
Box   2
Folder   57
"Indo-China's Impossible War", 1954
Box   2
Folder   55
"Kingdom of Whoppers", 1957
Box   2
Folder   58
"Johore's Devil of Sultan", 1954
Box   2
Folder   59
"Jumping the Tigers of the Rio Parana", 1956
Box   2
Folder   58
"The Railroad that Couldn't be Built", 1955
Box   2
Folder   60
TWA Ambassador, "New Worlds to Conquer", 1959
Box   2
Folder   60
TWA Ambassador, "The Posse of Patpong", 1960
Box   2
Folder   61
Vacations Unlimited, "The Whoppers of Titicaca", 1970
Box   2
Folder   62
Weekend Book of Travel, "The Dawn of Nothingness", 1946
Box   10
Folder   8
Weekend Magazine, "Bangkok Boxing Ignores Fouls", 1957
Box   10
Folder   8
Weekend Magazine, "Pato Isn't Pat-A-Cake", 1956
Box   2
Folder   63
Woman with Woman's Digest, "Martial Merry-Go Round in Tibet", 1949
Box   2
Folder   63
Woman with Woman's Digest, "Polygamy in Short Creek Valley", 1951
Manuscripts
Box   2
Folder   64
"A Nation with Zest", undated
Box   2
Folder   65
abstracts, undated
Box   2
Folder   66
Australia, undated
Box   2
Folder   67
"Banaue Rice Terraces", 1957-1959, undated
Box   2
Folder   68
"Bishop of Ruteng" ("Vicariate of Manggarai"), undated
book proposals
Box   2
Folder   69
"Let's Get Away From It All", 1965-1968
Box   2
Folder   70
"New Worlds to Conquer", undated
Box   3
Folder   1
"One Hundred Off-Trail Attractions in America", 1950-1951
Box   3
Folder   2
"Brooding Peshwar", undated
Box   4
Folder   9
"China That Was", 1972-1973, undated
Box   3
Folder   3
"Dragons of Komodo", undated
Box   3
Folder   4
"Emeralds of Muzo", undated
Box   3
Folder   5
"Fabulous Khartoum", 1968-1969
Box   3
Folder   6
"Fabulous Ruins of Angkor", undated
Box   3
Folder   7
"Frozen Ghost", undated
Box   3
Folder   8
"Gold Runners of Macao", undated
Box   3
Folder   9
"He's Made A Million At Poker", 1977
Box   3
Folder   10
Indochina, undated
Box   3
Folder   11
Indonesia, undated
Box   3
Folder   12
"Judo: For the Gentle Sex", 1959, undated
Box   4
Folder   10
"Jump-Off to the Antarctic", undated
Box   3
Folder   13
"Jungle Utopia", 1963, undated
Box   3
Folder   14
"Kaifeng Jews", 1964-1965
Box   3
Folder   15
Khyber (Khurd) Pass, 1958, undated
Box   3
Folder   16
"Land and People of Malaysia", 1957, undated
Box   3
Folder   17
"Land and People of Nigeria", undated
Box   3
Folder   18
"North of the Hindu Kush", undated
Box   3
Folder   19
"Pato", 1968-1977, undated
Box   3
Folder   20
"Peking Opera", undated
Box   3
Folder   21
"Posse of Patpong", undated
Box   3
Folder   22
"Raiders in the South Pacific", undated
Box   3
Folder   23
"Rajah's Art School", undated
Box   3
Folder   24
"Red Flag Canal", undated
Box   3
Folder   25
"San Blas Indians", undated
Box   3
Folder   26
"Shah Shihyi Commune", undated
Box   3
Folder   27
"Siam Trains Women Doctors", undated
Box   3
Folder   28
"Skiing at Three Miles Up", 1964, undated
Box   3
Folder   29
"Square Dancing in Bangkok", undated
Box   3
Folder   30
"Tahiti's Motorized Wahinis", undated
Box   3
Folder   31
"Tons of Gold in Tibet!", undated
Box   3
Folder   32
untitled manuscript, undated
Box   3
Folder   33
"Whales", undated
Box   3
Folder   34
"Whoppers of Titicaca", 1967
Box   3
Folder   35
"Women of Tibet" ("Was it the Altitude?"), undated
Box   3
Folder   36
"Yama-King of Hell", undated
Box   3
Folder   37
"Your Beautiful Beaded Sweater", undated
Box   3
Folder   38
"Zimbabwe", 1976-1977