Personal Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Wood, Arthur Bernie, 1921-1986
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content: A. Bernie Wood Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
label: Date
content: 1942 - 1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0962, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains resumes and business cards, an obituary and in memoriam pamphlets, the Central High School Reunion Yearbook (1977), a self-portrait, and other miscellaneous materials. The resumes and business cards provide a good overview of Wood's career. The correspondence, 1942-1945, 1972, consists of a letter of recommendation for Wood and Naval Air Reserve Training Command letters detailing Wood's work for the Photographic and Printing Department and his submission to the United States Navy's "Beneficial Suggestion Plan" of an invention for controlling the lens aperture of a camera process. Wood's idea was filed on July 29, 1946 (US Patent Serial No., 686, 833), but it is unclear whether this invention was pursued by the United States Navy. The self-portrait of Wood is black crayon on mat board depicting Wood in his naval uniform, circa 1940s. An oversize black-and-white photograph of Wood can be found in box 23. Other miscellaneous materials include a Frank Lloyd Wright Day proclamation and invitation, October 1956; an article, photograph and campaign button related to Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937 and 1936 GOP candidate for United States President; a voter registration card; American Academy of Art School brochures and photocopies of the "two fisted double barreled Mickey Mouse Horse" named Cynthia drawn by Wood.