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Ava Helen Pauling

Correspondence

• Letter from Linus Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. September 4, 1945.
• Letter from Linus Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. , September 7, 1945.
• Letter from Edward Condon to Linus and Ava Helen Pauling. May 21, 1956.
• Letter from Ava Helen Pauling to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. September 23, 1960.
• Letter from Linus Pauling to Dag Hammarskjold. February 16, 1961.
• Letter from Ava Helen Pauling to Jacqueline Kennedy. July 15, 1961.
• Letter from Ava Helen Pauling to Albert Szent-Györgyi. April 7, 1965.

Pictures and Illustrations

• Ava Helen Miller and Linus Pauling, Oregon Agricultural College Graduation Day, Corvallis, Oregon. 1922.
• Linus and Ava Helen Pauling in England. 1948.
• Portrait of Ava Helen Pauling. 1950.
• Ava Helen Pauling. 1950s.
• Ava Helen and Linus Pauling's passport photo. 1951.
• Linus and Ava Helen Pauling working on "An Appeal by American Scientists to the Government and Peoples of the World". 1957.
• Linus and Ava Helen Pauling standing outside Dr. Albert Schweitzer's mission hospital, Lambéréne, Gabon. 1959.
• Linus and Ava Helen Pauling demonstrating in the streets for peace. San Francisco, California. 1960s.
• Ava Helen and Linus Pauling riding a ski lift at the seventh annual Pugwash Conference. Stowe, Vermont. 1961.
• Group portrait of participants at the Oslo Conference. 1961.
• Linus and Ava Helen Pauling speaking at a peace rally. 1961.
• Ava Helen and Linus Pauling speaking at a peace rally. November 7, 1961.
• Linus and Ava Helen Pauling speaking with an unidentified woman at the Nobel Hall, Oslo, Norway. 1962.
• White House Dinner Menu. April 29, 1962.
• Linus and Ava Helen Pauling at a Nobel Peace Prize celebration held for them by the Caltech Biology Department. December 1963.
• Linus and Ava Helen Pauling at a torchlight procession, Oslo, Norway. December 1963.
• Ava Helen Pauling participating in the Marathon to Athens Peace March, Greece. May 1964.

Published Papers and Official Documents

• Certificate of marriage for Linus Pauling and Ava Helen Miller. June 17, 1923.
• Excerpts from "U.S. Signatures to the Appeal by American Scientists to the Governments and People of the World." January 15, 1958.
• Signature form: "An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons." January 15, 1961.
• "Oslo Statement." May 7, 1961.
• "Hostages for Peace Pledge." May 6, 1972.
• "Prospects for global environmental protection and world peace as we approach the twenty-first century." August 22, 1990.

Manuscript Notes and Typescripts

• Ava Helen Pauling's Lambaréné, Africa travel diary. July 1959.
• "Statement by Professor Pauling." August 27, 1959.
• "The Australian and New Zealand Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament and Festival of the Arts." November 1959.
• "Women and Peace." 1960.
• Notes by Ava Helen Pauling. January 30, 1960.
• Linus Pauling Note to Self re: a death threat made against him. June 1960.
• "Women and Progress Towards Peace." 1961.
• "An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons" (first draft). January 6, 1961.
• "Notes on Meeting." February 23, 1961.
• List of Oslo Conference participants. April 10, 1961.
• "Opening Address." May 2, 1961.
• "Note to Self" [re: meeting with Gunnar Jahn]. November 21, 1962.
• Notes. October 10, 1963.
• Itinerary for Linus and Ava Helen Pauling's Nobel trip to Norway. December 1963.
• "Response by Linus Pauling." December 10, 1963.
• "Note to Self." May 2, 1967.
• "Russell's Work for Peace." March 5, 1970.
• "Why I am a Unitarian." September 18, 1977.
• "An Episode that Changed My life." 1980s.

Newspaper Clippings

• "Women's Apathy 'Incomprehensible': Nobel Prize Winner's Wife Supports World Peace Cause." October 5, 1959.
• "Pauling Sees Better Climate for Peace." August 17, 1964.
• "Ava Pauling, 77, wife of scientist." December 8, 1981.

Audio Clips

• "Women's Club." 1960.
  1. The Importance of a Testing Ban. (3:55)
  2. The Grim Realities of Nuclear War. (1:37)
  3. Pressing for a Peace-time Economy. (1:31)
• "Linus Pauling, Crusading Scientist." 1977.
• "Talk of the Nation." January 19, 1996.
  1. The Paulings' Peace Work. (0:36)

Video Clips

• "No More War!" 1960.
  1. Petitions Against Nuclear Weapons. (1:20)
• "Linus Pauling, Crusading Scientist." 1977.
  1. Encouragement from Ava Helen. (1:06)