by Doug Nichols | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans |
While I continue with my task at hand, scanning the newly donated Hans Halberstadt scrapbooks, I couldn’t help but take a little time to put together a collection of the comics Hans pasted inside the pages of his information-dense collection of ephemera. The...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene, McDougall, John, Piller, George, Selberg, Charles, Uyttenhove, Henri, Visconti, Edward |
A recent gift to the Archive has me dumbfounded. It’s existence was something I had speculated about in a vague way, but never dreamed of finding proof for. Much less, having the proof come directly to me as a donation to the Archive. Yet here we are. Tucked...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 17, 2020 | Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, Boyd, Andrew, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, Duff, John, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Magay, Daniel, McDougall, John, Northern California, Piller, George, Schools/Clubs, Snyder, Al, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Uyttenhove, Henri, Zold, Ferenc |
At some point I will outgrown my available storage. It’s not in any way imminent, but down the road it will be something to deal with. Storage space wasn’t a consideration when I began to purchase relatively low cost university annuals on Ebay. Now that...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog Post, Boyd, Andrew, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Fencers, Nadi, Aldo, Northern California, Schools/Clubs, Stanford, Uyttenhove, Henri |
In going about my daily Archiving routine, I’m beginning to recognize that small obsessions can take over my focus. Sometimes for days, sometimes longer. Not that they’re out of line with my uber-goals, but they can cause me to veer off topic. Henri J....
by Doug Nichols | Dec 23, 2019 | Blog Post, Bower, Muriel, Bradford, Vinnie, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, Craus, Polly, De Jong, Duris, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Jan York, Marki, Ferenc, Mitchell, Maxine, Mori, Torao, Nadi, Aldo, Okawa, Heziburo, Piller, George, Romary, Uyttenhove, Henri, Vince, Joseph |
Driving around Southern California may not seem like much of a Holiday, especially when traveling alone, but a recent weekend outmatched all my expectations. The plan was to make four different stops in hopes of collecting fencing history. All four planned stops...
by Doug Nichols | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches U - Z, Vince, Joseph |
Every now and again I rummage through material I’ve collected for this Archive and get reminded of people and things that I haven’t turned my full attention to. Just before Thanksgiving, it was the files in my office related to the Joseph Vince Fencing...
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