Collection Dates: 1930 -- 1978
15 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
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University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
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Acquisition
Note: The author left his book and manuscript collection
to the University of Iowa upon his death in September 1986.
Access
and Restrictions:
Audio
Material: John O'Connor interviews Don Farran
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Related Materials
See the Carroll Coleman Papers for correspondence with Farran
Inventory
Series I: Coast Guard
Box 1
Instructional Films
"Aids to Navigation-Coast Guard"
"Boating Safety: Legal Requirements and Safety Equipment"
"Catalog of U.S. Coast Guard Films"
"Circumnavigation"
"Coast Guard Academy"
"Coast Guard Auxiliary"
"Coast Guard Cutter 'Abseca'"
"Coast Guard Cutter 'Azalea'"
"Coast Guard Cutter 'Courier'"
"Coast Guard Cutters Around the Continent" (2 folders)
"Coast Guard in Alaska"
"Coast Guard Lighthouses"
"Coast Guard Offshore Light Station"
"Conservation Planning for National Security" (4 folders)
"Firefighting Aboard Tankers"
Box 2
Instructional Films (cont.)
"Ocean Station Vessel Crew Training in Search and Rescue (2 folders)"
"Operation of Ocean Station Vessels During Search and Rescue (Ditching)" (2 folders)
"Port Security-Explosives Loading"
"Roles and Missions: Cooperation with Other Agencies"
"Rules of the Road for Boatmen"
"Search and Rescue-Pleasure Craft"
"75-Foot Pusher Barge and Navigation System"
"Standardization of Crew Training in Lesser Craft for Search and Rescue" (2 folders)
"Story of the Great Rivers"
"United States Coast Guard"
Miscellaneous
Administrative (4 folders)
Civilian Personnel
Compensation
Health
Personnel
Box 3
Miscellaneous (cont.)
Ratings and Awards
Travel Compensation
Series II: Correspondence
Albert, Eddie
Arnold, Edward
Blanding, Don
Block, Herb
Blotner, Fritz
Bodin, Ed
Bradley, Van Allen
Broidy, Steve
Bryan, Dorothy
Cameron, Betty
Chaddick, Henry
Child, Sargent
Coloring Books
CSS Publications
Cuyler, J.P.
Darling, Joe
Detroit Federal Theatre
Dodd, Mead, & Co.
Drake University
Dugan, Jimmy
Edwards, Ralph
Evans, Ken
Evans, Luther
Evans, Maurice
Family
Farrar, John
Ford, Anson
Fowler, Robert
Gebhard, Charlie
Gill, Glenda
Gray, Eddie
Gurstein, Jacob
Hunter Enterprises
Kay, Ernest
Kidder-Smith, G.E.
Krock & Brentano
Ladies Home Journal
Lamont-Clemens Inc.
Macmillan Co. Publishers
Marquis Publishers
McCown, Robert
McGee, John
McGuire, Marian "Mac"
McLaughlin, Lilian
Meyer, Edith
MGM
Mirisch, Walter
Moe, Henry Allan
Murphy, Pat
Murray, Jesse George
Navy
Nyuttens, Pierre (2 folders)
Orner, Faustina
Paluka, Frank
Roland Reed Productions
Royal Typewriter Company Inc.
Sardy/Sunny
Saturday Evening Post
Schlosser, Winifred
Seibert, Edgar
Shelton, William
Simson, Alec Buckingham
Smith, Kallie
Smith, Muriel
Theatre Guild
Tudie/Tom
Van Wormer, Grace
Vaughn, Harry
Wagner, Fernando
Wanger, Walter
Wheelock, John
Whit
Writers' Guild of America
Young, Harold
Young, Mike
Zara, Louis
Series III: Movies/Radio/TV/Plays
Movies
"American Heritage Series"
"Build Me a Road"
"Founding Fathers"
"Freedom Fair"
Motion Picture Program for LOOK Magazine
"Plan for Improving Management-Employee Relationship Through Production of Motion Pictures"
"Ribbon to the Sun"
"Sesquicentennial"
Box 4
Movies (cont.)
Simon Bolivar (5 folders)
"They Went Away"
Radio
"Headquarters Calling"
"Stormy Seas"
TV
"The Power and The Glory" (Additional materials located in Oversized Box 1)
Plays
"Dirt"
"No Angels Singing"
"Pan America"
"Protective Custody"
"Snows of Yester-Year"
"South-South-East"
Series IV: Navy
Instructional Films
"Amphibious Marines"
"Command of the Seas-Arctic"
"Command of the Seas-Pacific"
"Command of the Seas-Atlantic"
"Command of the Seas-United States"
"Command of the Seas" (2 folders)
"David Taylor Model Basin"
"Engineering Design and Construction of Navy Shore Establishments"
Box 5
Instructional Films (cont.)
"Food Sanitation-Food Poisoning on Shipboard"
"Hydrographic Surveying Operations of the Navy Part I: Establishing Primary Control"
"Hydrographic Surveying Operations of the Navy Part II: Secondary Control and Hydrographic Development"
"Interviewing-Principles and Techniques"
"Introduction to the Preparation of Navy Correspondence"
"The Marine Rifle Platoon"
"Navy Port Terminal Management and Operation"
"Navy Relief"
"Pictorial History of U.S.M.C."
"Rehabilitation-The Patient"
"Sea Power for Freedom" (2 folders)
"Sea Power in the Atlantic"
"Seven Seas"
"Seventh Fleet" (6 folders)
Box 6
Instructional Films (cont.)
"Seventh Fleet" (1 folder)
"Sixth Fleet"
"Small Boat Disaster Prevention"
"Standardization" (3 folders)
"Standardization-Engineering Planning" (3 folders)
"Waves at Work"
"Utilities Conservation-Steam Generation" (3 folders)
"Your Job in the Navy"
"The Way Selection Works"
"Aviation Ratings"
"Communication and Detection Ratings"
"Construction and Mechanical Ratings"
"Deck Ratings"
"Engine Room Ratings"
"Unclassified Ratings"
Box 7
Miscellaneous
Accession List
Administrative (6 folders)
Appointment
Civilian Personnel
Contracts (2 folders)
Correspondence Courses (6 folders)
Naval Instructional Film Handbook
Photo Center
Proposals
Script Evaluation
Series V: Personal
Articles
"A Conversation with a Poet" by Don Farran, 1981
"Don Farran: An Impression of Iowa's Romany Poet" by Elmer Sandfrid Osberg, 1927
"The Rise and Fall of Horse Grove" by R.E. Lee Aldrich, 1958 (Contains notation concerning Farran's birthplace)
"Standing on the Corner" by Ken E. Berg, 1965
"What Has Happened to Them" 1971
"Who's Who In America" 1978-1979
Box 8
Biographical Sketch
International Instructional Film Offers
Interview-Federal Theatre Project (includes audio recording)
Journals
Newspaper Clippings (12 folders)
Box 9
Newspaper Clippings cont. (2 folders)
Readings
Books-Including works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Air Sea Safety Books
Magazines (5 folders)
Pamphlets
Box 10
Red point tokens
Resume
Retirement
Writers' Guild of America (2 folders)
Miscellaneous
Signed Book "Herblock on All Fronts" by Herbert Block, 1980
Diamond Ring Translator
Series VI: Poetry
"A Scarlet Saddle for Pegasus"
"Ballad of the Silver Ring" (2 folders)
"Between the Rivers"
"Brasilian Afternoon"
"Cabot"
"Collected Poems of Don Farran" (5 folders)
"From Among the Published Poems of Don Farran"
"Overmantle"
"Prairie Saga"
"Three Baby Cyclones" (2 folders)
"Iowa Poets"
Series VII: Short Stories and Books
Short Stories
"Always and Always"
"Another Sunday Afternoon"
"Bahia to Pernambuco"
"Bomb-Sight"
"The Catalytic Agent"
"Cidade Mulher"
"Gaucho Grande"
"Grandma Goes to Paris"
"Hollywood Sailor"
"If You Knew Didi"
"Incident in Foggy Bottom"
"The Last Novel"
"The Last Rebel"
"Little Nell"
"Meet Me at the Mayflower"
"Million-Dollar Patients"
"No Heroes"
"Passage to Para"
"Prairie Saga"
"Talking Pictures"
"Tico-Tico"
"Turismo Do Rio"
"When the Mutum Calls"
"Whistle Stop"
"The World Belongs to Doctors"
Books
"Curtain Rising"
"Fragments of Splendor"
Box 11
Books (cont.)
"Nazareth" (3 folders)
"Nic Jenson"
"Richard Bennett Memoirs" (4 folders)
"Snarl Street"
"Those Were the Days"
"Wings for Words" (2 folders)
Series VIII: WPA and the Federal Theatre Project
Federal Theatre Project
"Chicago Headlines on Parade"
"The Emperor's New Clothes"
Federal One
General Information
Interview
"The Nineteen-Thirties"
Work Projects Administration
"American Imprints Inventory" (3 folders)
Box 12
Work Projects Administration (cont.)
Bicentennial, 1976 (2 folders)
Depository
General Information-WPA
Historical Records Survey (2 folders)
Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies
"What is Past is Prologue"