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Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
GSC.675
Item Type
Representation(s)
Extent
1.3 MB
Scope and Content
A copy of the PDF of the Deed of Gift between Diana Wilmar of Fox/Wilmar Productions and the Hanford History Project, signed on 19 March 2026. This was received from Meghann Stevens, Curator at the Hanford History Project to illustrate the transfer of rights, including copyright, to the Hanford History Project. This includes the tapes of the unfinished documentary *The Promise and the Peril* about James Acord.
Notes
This is retained for copyright and use reference, in combination with other HHP correspondence.
This document is not available for public view.
Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
FWC.648.667
Item Type
Representation(s)
Extent
158 KB
Scope and Content
A 9-page PDF titled "James Acord: Nuclear Artist" from the November 2002 issue of Nuclear News, as published by the American Nuclear Society (ANS). No author is noted.
Critical Stakeholders
Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
JGC.356.357.358.435.544
Item Type
Representation(s)
Dated Event
PDF variant created
Extent
21 KB
Creator(s)
Scope and Content
A .doc letter draft from James Acord to "Brittany," dated 19 February 2010.
This letter concerns: (1) Acord's congratulations on Brittany's career in Portland; (2) Acord's cat Sneezey and her suffering from smoke inhalation; (3) Acord's trip to Barcelona, the lecture he gave, and his many interviews.
This file was last modified on 19 February 2010.
Notes
A PDF was generated from the original file.
Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
JGC.356.357.358.435.543
Item Type
Representation(s)
Dated Event
PDF variant created
Extent
20 KB
Creator(s)
Scope and Content
A .doc letter draft from James Acord to "Brittany," dated 17 May 2010.
This letter is a happy birthday note with a statement of confidence in Brittany's future in Chicago.
This file was last modified on 17 May 2010.
Notes
A PDF was generated from the original file.
Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
JGC.356.357.358.435.538
Item Type
Representation(s)
Dated Event
PDF variant created
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24 KB
Creator(s)
Scope and Content
This brief .doc letter draft concerns Acord's 66th [and last] birthday, and the activities of the day.
This file was last modified on 19 October 2010.
Notes
A PDF was generated from the original file.
Critical Stakeholders
Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
JGC.356.357.358.435.536
Item Type
Representation(s)
Dated Event
PDF variant created
Extent
25 KB
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Scope and Content
A .doc letter draft from James Acord to Peter Bevis (Fremont Fine Art Foundry), dated 12 October 2009.
This letter concerns mostly discussion of who owns *Calamity Jane's*, a former Georgetown, Seattle, WA bar and restaurant. This additionally suggests that Bevis meet him at the *Two Bells* to have a burger, and discuss some bronze sculptures that Acord wishes to cast.
This file was last modified on 12 October 2009.
Notes
A PDF was generated from the original file.
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Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
JGC.17.346
Item Type
Representation(s)
Extent
2 pamphlets, 8.5" x 3.625" (closed)
Scope and Content
Two pamphlets from the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR), located at Washington State University, Richland, WA. As noted in the pamphlets, this, and specifically the National Human Radiobiology Tissue Repository (NHRTR) which is a part of the USTUR, is a "centralized facility for the storage of tissues, solutions, histopathology slides, tissue blocks, and related materials from persons... with documented intakes of radium, americium, plutonium, uranium, or other radioactive elements."
James Acord has written on the cover of the blue pamphlet: "Karen Gay Silkwood (19 Feb 1946 – 13 Nov 1974) and I, J. L. Acord (1974 – ?) both have hard and soft tissue in here (my little finger and Karen's femur, lung, and brain.[)]"
Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
JGC.17.334.337
Item Type
Representation(s)
Extent
1 ticket, 3" x 5.625"
Scope and Content
A ticket for "rave" called "(R)eply, (E)rase, (C)opy" at the Kennington Oval, London between 19–22 February 1998. The front of this ticket has the text "A NIGHT OF LIFE... DEATH... AND TRAVELLING" with an image of a topless woman in a red cross hat holding a gun. James Acord wrote around the text, to Push Button (the Galores' cat), "Button — This is the party that I met the grey cat at. He/she picked me out of 200."
Notes
This was sent belatedly from James Acord to Janet and Edward Galore in late 1998, with additional materials.
Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
JGC.17.327.333
Item Type
Representation(s)
Extent
3 sheets, 10.75" x 8.5", stapled, with envelope
Scope and Content
Three sheets torn from a 1995 American Science & Surplus catalog (Skokie, IL.) stapled at the corner, with a note from James Acord at the top: "Janet — has small bottles — Jim." This includes the mail order form and envelope.
Notes
Sent from James Acord to Janet Galore on 27 June 1995, with additional materials.
Collection Assignment
Full Expanded ID
JGC.17.327.332
Item Type
Representation(s)
Extent
2 sheets, 10.75" x 8.25", corner stapled
Scope and Content
two sheets, four page article torn from the July 1995 issue of Technology Review, an article by Stephen Strauss titled "Cybersickness: The Side Effects of Virtual Reality." This contains an illustration by Rob Schuster. Both sheets are stapled together at the corner.
Notes
Sent from James Acord to Janet and Edward Galore on 27 June 1995, with additional materials.