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C.P. Gilmore papers, 1959-2020

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Gilmore, C.P. (Clarence Percy), 1926-
Title
C.P. Gilmore papers
Dates
1959-2020 (inclusive)
Quantity
7.45 cubic ft. (8 boxes)
Collection Number
12802
Summary
This collection contains the research and manuscripts for broadcast and magazine journalist C.P. Gilmore, dated from the 1960s and 70s. Gilmore wrote for Popular Science, Reader's Digest, and Consumer Reports.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

C.P. (Ken) Gilmore was a broadcast and magazine journalist. He wrote for Popular Science, Readers Digest, and Consumer Reports among others. He also wrote several different books. Before his career as a writer he worked as a radio and television engineer and program director.

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Content Description

This collection contains C.P. Gilmore’s research and articles from the early 1960’s through the 1970’s.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

This material was received from Elaine Gilmore in March 2021.

Processing Note

The collection was processed by Brittany Heye in March 2022.

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by C.P. Gilmore at the date of processing.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List
  • Description: Obituary, Bios, Photos
    Dates: 1968-2020
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: NYU magazine writing class
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Awards
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Heart, Artificial 207
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Master (Ken Gilmore bylines)
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: PS tearsheets
    Dates: 1964-1972
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Tearsheet N.Y.T.
    Dates: 1966-1974
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Tearsheets-RD
    Dates: 1966-1974
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Tearsheets-S.E.P
    Dates: 1963-1965
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Tearsheets-Misc
    Dates: 1960-1970
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Proposals
    Dates: 1983
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Correspondence
    Dates: 1958-1970
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: March of Dimes
    Dates: 1984
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Financial
    Dates: 1963-1969
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Orphan papers-1 and 2
    Dates: 1970-1977
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Astronomy Text Book
    Dates: 1977
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: New Directions in loudspeakers
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Oil for your car
    Dates: 1961-1963
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Electron Beam Machines
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Animal Navigators-We're learning their secrets
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Computers
    Dates: 1963-1965
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Fireworks
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Alley Cat
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Machines that Listen
    Dates: 1963-1964
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Air Rights
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Friendly Enemy Bombers-Test Air Defense
    Dates: 1963-1964
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Hurricane Control
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Things we Can't Help doing
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Exploring Planets
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Automatic Testing
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: 3 systems
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Color TV
    Dates: 1963-1964
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: 500000 jobs
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Underground files
    Dates: 1964-1965
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Worlds Fair
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Speaker Amplifier
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Lasers
    Dates: 1963-1964
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Lasers-Telephone review
    Dates: 1963-1964
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Biomech Popsci
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Cosmology
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Hovercraft
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Booster Heart
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Correspondence-Schools
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Humidifiers
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Portable Tapes
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Heart NYT
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Blackout
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Air Cond
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Overseas job
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Syncom
    Dates: 1961-1963
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Electronic kits PopSci
    Dates: 1961-1963
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Reconnaissance
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Blackout
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Jobs in computers
    Dates: 1961-1962
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Machines that read
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Junk man (sailing ships)
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Mission 66 story
    Dates: 1959
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Misc. manuscripts
    Dates: 1958-1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Jekyll Island
    Dates: 1958-1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Leprosy
    Dates: 1958
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Particle accelerator notes
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Satellites Learn to talk Project echo
    Dates: 1959-1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Capacitors
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Signal generators
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Thermoplaster tape
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: The Bridge
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Molecular electronics
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Ionized air
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Magnetic amplifiers
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: FCC
    Dates: 1958
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Cryogenics
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Originalities at science fair
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Microwave
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: ITT hobby
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Tube testers
    Dates: 1960-1961
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Russian translator
    Dates: 1960-1961
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Radio astronomy jobs
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: High Sch. Sci. fair
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Meters
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: TCP motor
    Dates: 1961-1962
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Transformers
    Dates: 1960-1961
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Teaching machines
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: FM Boom
    Dates: 1960-1961
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Printed Circuit Printer
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: 3 Systems (Listening Tests)
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Harmonic Distortion analyzer
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Intermodulation distribution
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Lasers
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Transistors in Hi-Fi when and why
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Square wave Generation
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Photography's new day
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Five Systems---"Dream Systems"
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Curves
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Ferrites
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: How to Adjust TV
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Faxsimile machines
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Better FM reception
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Siren Piano
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: To the Moon and outer Space
    Dates: 1960-1965
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: FM boom
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Aircraft for P.E.
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Ice Age-Sci and Mech
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Multiplexing
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Alternators
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: 12 amplifier test
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Heath IM-10 kit report
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Sweep generator
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Radio Astronomy
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Near project
    Dates: 1959-1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Bell Electron cut off
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Multiplex MI
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Ultrasound
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Buckminster Fuller's wonderful Dome
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Patents
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Aid to the Arts
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: March 1971 p. 53-84, Cont. (Solar energy)
    Dates: 1971-1976
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Idiot savauts?
    Dates: 1978-1979
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: F-111
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Mariner
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Hand-writing a letter without sight by. Alma Cobb
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Detective
    Dates: 1970-1975
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Air Conditioners
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Pulsars
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Ice Ages
    Dates: 1973
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Solid Waste Disposal
    Dates: 1970-1975
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Electron Scanning Microscope
    Dates: 1969-1970
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: August
    Dates: 1974
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Birth Control Pills, ETC NY times
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Pill-CU
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Building Materials (Freelance piece)
    Dates: 1979
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Earthquakes
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Apollo 13 Inv.
    Dates: 1970-1975
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Lasers PS
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Metric System
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Computer problem
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Computer 198
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Med Schools
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Mine Fires
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: URB mobile
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Communication with the Public
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Forms
    Dates: 1974
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Benefits of Exercise
    Dates: 1970-1980
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Precision gap
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Watts
    Dates: 1959-1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Soldering Guns
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Electric cars
    Dates: 1967-1968
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Light
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Ball tape
    Dates: 1966-1967
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Integrated circuits
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: GI Bill
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: PE-Careers
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Malaria
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Home light
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Huachuca
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Shure Cart Ridge
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Dam Builders
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: New England Inventor
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Cosmology NYT
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Holography
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Railroads
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Medicare
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Battery-Prod Wonders
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Schizophrenia
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: New Batteries
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Beer
    Dates: 1966-1967
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Tape R.
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Mission 66-Perliminary Drafts
    Dates: 1985-1959
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Oil-additives
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Weather Satellites
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Speeches
    Dates: 1970-1980
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Reading Machines
    Dates: 1963-1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Tickle Talk
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Antifreeze
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Parachutes
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Lear
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Bonneville Salt Flats
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Tuner aviation?
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Mohole
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: TV Tape-EI
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Home Study Electric
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: TV Tape MI
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Safe Cigarettes
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: The Voice Makers
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Hi-Fi of the Future
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Bugs
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Congress Spending
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Electric Res. Sch
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Bioelectronics
    Dates: 1964-1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Krasher
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Compact speakers
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Wireless Power Translator
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Mailer
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Mother in Spks
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Weds Fan
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Talking Typewriters
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Geomagnetism
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Boondoggle Truce
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Building Codes
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Gasoline
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: UHF
    Dates: 1962-1963
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Cryogenics
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: FM Multiplex
    Dates: 1962-1963
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: He Helps Cops catch crooks with Photography
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: What Makes an Amp Good
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Record Making--The Battle against Surface Noise
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Bionics
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Space Plane
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Electronics
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Radar "invisible Shield"
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: A star is Invented
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Electrical Space Engines
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: What Makes an FM tuner sound good
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Citizens Band Radio
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: RACEP
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Laser-Pop Sci
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Way Out Microwave
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Lasers
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Bionics
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Art Forgery Detectives
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Harpsichord
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Bionic Computers
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Teaching Machines
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Electronics in Banking
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Fiber Optics
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Antique Cannons
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Far Out Records
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 8

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Subject Terms

  • Aeronautics.
  • Astronautics.
  • Automobiles.
  • Engineering.
  • Journalism -- 1960-1970.
  • Radio.
  • Television.

Corporate Names

  • Consumer Reports (Firm)
  • Popular Science Publishing Company.
  • Reader's digest.
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