Michael Zinman collection of atomic energy, 1938-2014.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Zinman, Michael, creator.

Language:

English

French

Japanese

Welsh

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb.

Civil defense.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan).

Nuclear disarmament.

Antinuclear movement.

Genre:

Photographs

Pamphlets

scrapbooks

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Michael Zinman, 2016.

Physical Description:

2 boxes (2.5 linear feet)

Place of Publication:

1938-2014.

Language Note:

The bulk of the material is in English with a few items in Welsh, French and Japanese.

Biography/History:

Native New Yorker, Michael I. Zinman, is a private collector who attended Cornell University before transferring to New York University (NYU). He dropped out of NYU to join his father's merchant exporting company. He left his father's business in 1968 to start the Earthworm Tractor Company, a heavy, earthmoving equipment brokerage firm. In the 1970's he created the Hadyn Foundation to function as the formal underwriter of a one hour live classical music broadcast on WQXR FM. Zinman purchased a three-volume octavo edition of John Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America in 1958 and thus began his affinity for collecting. He collects a wide variety of material including early American imprints, trade bindings, canvassing books, World's Fair publications and ephemera, and books relating to atomic energy and the atomic age.

Summary:

This collection of reports, correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, fliers, course materials, press release, scrapbook, maps, poster, typescript, articles, memorabilia, and a diary was collected by Michael Zinman, and relates to the development, use, and aftermath of the atomic bomb. The collection is a mix of government material and personal accounts of soldiers who witnessed the aftermath of the bombings. There is also a considerable amount of campaign literature for nuclear disarmament. There are letters to Lewis Strauss from Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi regarding the discovery of uranium fission and a letter from Leo Szilard discussing the rejection by the U.S. Patent Office of a patent for nuclear transmutation apparatus.

OCLC:

1525682775