Guide to the Martin Wong Papers MSS.102

Fales Library and Special Collections

Collection processed by Jenny Hillyer. Updated by Joseph Gallucci, 2007. Accretion processed by Colin Wells, 2009.

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Finding aid was updated by Anna Björnsson McCormick to enhance description of Sign Language artworks Finding aid updated by Weatherly Stephan to reflect preservation rehousing of oversize material and reintegration of oversize series. Finding aid updated by Weatherly Stephan to clarify relationship with Miguel Piñero in biographical note , September 2020 , February 2021 , December 2021

Container List

Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Series VII: Personal Library, 1939-1992. 5 Linear Feet in 5 record cartons. Scope and Contents Series VII: Personal Library consists of nearly one hundred books from Wong's own personal collection, many of which served as source material for Wong's trademark images - firefighters, constellations, sign language, prison, and Chinatown, among others. Three items in this series also include drawings by Wong and by Daze on the inside cover; these items are marked with an asterisk. Arrangement This series is arranged alphabetically by author surname, with unidentified material following.
Box: 21	Folder : 1	Abbott, Jack Henry, with Norman Mailer. In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison. New York: Random House, 1981	1981
Box: 21	Folder : 2	Abrams, Richard I., and Warner A. Hutchinson. An Illustrated Life of Jesus: From the National Gallery Art Collection. New York: Bell Publishing, 1988	1988
Box: 21	Folder : 3	Amadon, Alfred Mason. The Fold-Out Atlas of the Human Body: A Three Dimensional Book. New York: Bonanza Pop-Up, 1984. NOTE: Pen & ink sign language and brick drawing by Wong, in front cover	1984
Box: 21	Folder : 4	Amiel, Leon, Ed. The San Francisco I Love. New York: Tudor Publishing, 1970	1970
Box: 21	Folder : 5	Amnesty International. Torture in the Eighties: An Amnesty International Report. London: Amnesty International Publications, 1984	1984
Box: 21	Folder : 6	Bannerman, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo. New York: Platt & Munk, [n.d.]	undated
Box: 21	Folder : 7	Beijing Summer Palace Administrative Office and the Department of Architecture of Qinghua University. Summer Palace. Beijing: Zhaohua Publishing House, 1981	1981
Box: 21	Folder : 7A	Berger, Melvin. Early Humans: A Prehistoric World. A Pop-Up Book. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988	1988
Box: 21	Folder : 8	Bernstein, Barry. Literature and Language: American Literature. Evanston, IL: McDougal, Littell, 1994	1994
Box: 21	Folder : 9	Bertinetti, Marcello and Angela Bertinetti. San Francisco. New York: Gallery Books, 1984	1984
Box: 21	Folder : 10	Betti, Silvio, Ed. Africa: Project Against Apartheid. Istituto Europeo di Design: 1988/89	1988, 1989
Box: 21	Folder : 10A	Boullet, Jean. Bizarre: La Galerie des Monstres. Paris: Societe pour la Creation et la Diffusion des Livres, 1961	1961
Box: 21	Folder : 11	Brown, Margaret Wise, and Edith Thacher Hurd. Five Little Firemen. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948	1948
Box: 21	Folder : 12	Cameron, Robert, and Robert E. Burger. Robert Cameron's Alcatraz: A Visual Essay. San Francisco: Cameron and Co., 1989	1989
Box: 21	Folder : 13	Camhi, Morrie. The Prison Experience: Photography. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1989	1989
Box: 21	Folder : 14	Carraher, Ronald G. Artists in Spite of Art. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970	1970
Box: 21	Folder : 15	Champlin, Charles. George Lucas: The Creative Impulse (The Star Wars Trilogy Collector's Edition). New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992	1992
Box: 21	Folder : 16	Chase, Alice Elizabeth. Famous Paintings: An Introduction to Art for Young People. New York: Platt and Munk, 1951	1951
Box: 21	Folder : 16A	Coleman, Joe. The Mystery of Wolverine Woo-Bait. New York: Joe Coleman, 1982. [OVERSIZE: in Box 25]	1982
Box: 21	Folder : 17	Colman, Elizabeth. Chinatown U.S.A. New York: John Day, 1946	1946
Box: 21	Folder : 18	Davidson, R. Theodore. Chicano Prisoners: The Key to San Quentin. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974	1974
Box: 22	Folder : 19	Davies, Nancy Millichap. San Francisco. New York: Gallery Books, 1990	1990
Box: 22	Folder : 20	Deluca, Chuck. Firehouse Memorabilia: A Collector's Reference. York, ME: Maritime Antique Auctions, 1989	1989
Box: 22	Folder : 21	DeNevi, Don. Alcatraz '46: The Anatomy of a Classic Prison Tragedy. San Rafael, CA: Leswing Press, 1974	1974
Box: 22	Folder : 22	Drimmer, Frederick. Until You Are Dead.: The Book of Executions in America. New York: Windsor, 1992	1992
Box: 22	Folder : 23	Du Bois, William Pene. The Forbidden Forest. New York: Harper & Row, 1978	1978
Box: 22	Folder : 24	Duggan, Moira. New York City. New York: Gallery Books, 1990	1990
Box: 22	Folder : 25	F. Rolin & Co. African Ivories. New York: F. Rolin & Co., 1978	1978
Box: 22	Folder : 26	Flying Saucer News. Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. New York: Flying Saucer News, 1955	1955
Box: 22	Folder : 27	Flying Saucers from Other Worlds. Oct 1957. Evanston, IL: Palmer Publications	1957
Box: 22	Folder : 28	Freed, Leonard. New York Police. Paris: Centre Nationale de la Photographie, 1990	1990
Box: 22	Folder : 29	Gelman, Woody, and Barbara Jackson. Disaster Illustrated: Two Hundred Years of American Misfortune. New York: Harmony Books, 1976	1976
Box: 22	Folder : 30	Genthe, Arnold, and John Kuo Wei Tchen. Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown. New York: Dover, 1984	1984
Box: 22	Folder : 31	Gibbon, Dave, Ted Smart, and Edmund Nagele. San Francisco: A Picture Book to Remember Her By. New York: Crescent, 1978	1978
Box: 22	Folder : 32	Gnagy, Jon. Learn to Draw With Jon Gnagy. [1945?]	1945
Box: 22	Folder : 33	Gross, Steve, and Susan Daley. Old Houses. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1991	1991
Box: 22	Folder : 34	Hall, Douglas Kent. In Prison. New York: Henry Holt, 1988	1988
Box: 22	Folder : 35	Hall, George N., and Thomas K. Wanstall. FDNY: New York's Bravest. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984	1984
Box: 22	Folder : 36	Hall, George N., and Thomas K. Wanstall. FDNY: New York's Bravest. Mill Valley, CA: Squarebooks, 1984	1984
Box: 22	Folder : 37	Harris, Bill, with Louise Houghton. California: A Picture Memory. New York: Crescent Books, 1990	1990
Box: 22	Folder : 38	Haycox, Ernest. Man in the Saddle. New York: Triangle Books, 1941	1941
Box: 22	Folder : 39	Hibbert, Christopher. Versailles. New York: Newsweek, 1972	1972
Box: 22	Folder : 40	Hoefer, Hans. Stoned Images. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978	1978
Box: 22	Folder : 41	Hogg, Ian V., John Weeks, and Joseph J. Schroeder. Pistols of the World. Northfield, IL: DBI Books, 1982	1982
Box: 23	Folder : 42	Hollander, Zander. The Complete Handbook of Pro Hockey: 1980 Season. New York: Signet, 1979. NOTE: Pen & ink drawing of weeping Christ figure by Wong, in front cover	1979
Box: 23	Folder : 43	Important Chinese Ceramics From the J. M. Hu Family Collection. New York: Sotheby's, 1985	1985
Box: 23	Folder : 44	Johnson, Paul C., Ed. Beautiful California. Menlo Park, CA: Lane, 1963	1963
Box: 23	Folder : 45	Karp, Walter. The Smithsonian Institution. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1965	1965
Box: 23	Folder : 46	Katsui, Mitsuo, and Toshifumi Kawahara, Eds. World Graphic Design Now: Computer Graphics. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989	1989
Box: 23	Folder : 47	Klepsch, Marvin, and Laura Logie. Children Draw and Tell: An Introduction to the Projective Uses of Children's Human Figure Drawings. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1982	1982
Box: 23	Folder : 48	Krell, Dorothy, Ed. Beautiful California. Menlo Park, CA: Lane, 1969	1969
Box: 23	Folder : 49	La Venus de Milo [Chinese language text]	undated
Box: 23	Folder : 50	Liberty: A Centennial History of the Statue of Liberty in Post Cards. New York: Madison Square Press, 1986	1986
Box: 23	Folder : 51	Liu, Lawrence G. Chinese Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Scope and Contents Graffiti art by Daze on front cover.	1989
Box: 25	Folder : 51	Liu, Lawrence. Chinese Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Scope and Contents Graffiti art by Daze on front cover.	1989
Box: 23	Folder : 52	Loyd, Chuck. The Gang Rape. New York: Spade Classics, 1972	1972
Box: 23	Folder : 53	Lynch, Edie. With Glory I So Humbly Stand. New York: Vantage, 1982	1982
Box: 23	Folder : 54	Maass, Robert. Fire Fighters. New York: Scholastic, 1989	1989
Box: 23	Folder : 55	Madigan, Paul J. Institution Rules and Regulations, United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California. [no publ. Information]	undated
Box: 23	Folder : 56	Manas, John H. Flying Saucers and Space Men: A Scientific and Metaphysical Dissertation in Interplanetary Traveling. New York: Pythagorean Society, 196-?	196-
Box: 23	Folder : 57	Mattern, Jimmie. Cloud Country, Book Two: Hawaii to Hollywood. Pure Oil Company, 1936	1936
Box: 23	Folder : 58	Mauricheau-Beaupre, Charles. Versailles. Monaco: Les Documents d'Art, 1949	1949
Box: 23	Folder : 59	Mauskopf, Norman. Dark Horses. Altadena, CA: Twin Palms Publishers, [n.d.]	undated
Box: 23	Folder : 60	McCarty, Cara. Information Art: Diagramming Microchips. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990	1990
Box: 23	Folder : 61	McDowell, Jack, Ed. San Francisco. Menlo Park, CA: Lane, 1969	1969
Box: 23	Folder : 62	McNally, Tom. Fishing for Boys. Chicago: Follett, 1962	1962
Box: 24	Folder : 63	Merchants Association of New York. New York the Wonder City. Chicago: Curt Teich, 1939	1939
Box: 24	Folder : 64	Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945	1945
Box: 24	Folder : 65	Miller, H. Tatlock, and Loudon Sainthill. Undoubted Queen. New York: Doubleday, 1958	1958
Box: 24	Folder : 66	Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, Irma Simonton Black, and Jessie Stanton. The Taxi That Hurried. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946	1946
Box: 24	Folder : 67	Mitchell, Lucy Sprague. A Year in the City. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948	1948
Box: 24	Folder : 68	Monkhouse, Richard, and John Cox. 3-D Star Maps. New York: Harper & Row, 1989	1989
Box: 24	Folder : 69	Moorhouse, Geoffrey. The Great Cities: San Francisco. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1979	1979
Box: 24	Folder : 70	Navy Exchange Photographic Services Center. The Keel: Recruit Training Command. Great Lakes, IL: Walsworth Publishing, [n.d.]	undated
Box: 24	Folder : 71	New York State Special Commission on Attica. Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica. New York: Bantam, 1972	1972
Box: 24	Folder : 72	Obenzinger, Hilton. New York on Fire. Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1989	1989
Box: 24	Folder : 73	Page, Lou Williams. A Dipper Full of Stars: A Beginner's Guide to the Heavens. Sacramento: California State Department of Education, 1959	1959
Box: 24	Folder : 74	Peery, Rex, and Arnold "Swede" Umbach. Wrestling. New York: Sterling, 1980	1980
Box: 24	Folder : 75	Perkins, D. M. Deep Throat. New York: Dell, 1973	1973
Box: 24	Folder : 76	Perkins, Peter, and Richard Reinhardt. Chinatown, San Francisco. Berkeley: Lancaster-Miller, 1981	1981
Box: 24	Folder : 76A	Pienkowski, Jan. Robot. New York: Delacorte, 1981	1981
Box: 24	Folder : 77	Preston, Andrew. San Francisco: A Picture Memory. New York: Crescent Books, 1990	1990
Box: 24	Folder : 78	Rasmussen, Henry. Fire Trucks: American Fire Fighters on the Street. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1987	1987
Box: 24	Folder : 79	Reed, Eli, and Fouad Ajami. Beirut: City of Regrets. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988	1988
Box: 24	Folder : 80	Ridpath, Ian, Ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Space. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979	1979
Box: 24	Folder : 81	Riekehof, Lottie L. The Joy of Signing: The Illustrated Guide for Mastering Sign Language and the Manual Alphabet. Springfield, MO: Gospel, 1987	1987
Box: 24	Folder : 82	Smith, Dennis, and Jill Freedman. Firehouse. New York: Doubleday, 1977	1977
Box: 25	Folder : 83	Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. Fine Oriental Miniatures, Manuscripts and Islamic Works of Art Including the Fraser Album. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980	1980
Box: 25	Folder : 84	Sotheby's. Contemporary Art, Part I. New York: Sotheby's, 1993	1993
Box: 25	Folder : 85	Spooner, Peter, et. al. BIOkinetic. Normal, IL: Illinois State University, 1989	1989
Box: 25	Folder : 86	Stephen, R.J. Fire Engines. New York: Franklin Watts, 1986	1986
Box: 25	Folder : 87	Swinglehurst, Edmund. San Francisco. New York: Mayflower Books, 1979	1979
Box: 25	Folder : 88	Tanizaki, Junichiro. In Praise of Shadows. Trans. Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker. New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1977	1977
Box: 25	Folder : 89	Toda Granada. Barcelona: Escudo de Oro, 1972	1972
Box: 25	Folder : 89A	Viktor IV. XXXX IV Logbook Pages. Copenhagen: Brondum, 198-?	1985
Box: 25	Folder : 90	Yim, S. Y., Ed. A Century of Cantonese Opera. Hong Kong: The Regional Council, 1989	1989
Box: 25	Folder : 91	Unidentifiable movie script: "Fade in: Ext. - Old City of Jerusalem."	undated
Box: 25	Folder : 92	Chinese-language texts (2)	undated
Box: 25	Folder : 93	Library List of Wong Personal Library prior to processing	undated
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Series VII: Personal Library, 1939-1992. 5 Linear Feet in 5 record cartons.

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