Donald Cooksey [?] portrait, Director of Lawrence Radiation Lab

This collection is composed primarily of materials documenting George Everson's work with Philo T. Farnsworth's television company and Everson's personal life. The first section of the collection houses business correspondence that Everson wrote and received in his capacity as Farnsworth Television Inc.'s secretary; clippings, articles, and photographs documenting Philo T. Farnsworth and the history of television; and a manuscript of Everson's The Story Television: The Life of Philo T. Farnsworth.

The next section of the collection houses materials documenting Everson's personal and professional life outside of his connection with Farnsworth, including the twelve years (1942-1954) that he spent working at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. These materials include items showing E. O. Lawrence, his brother John Lawrence, and their families; an unpublished manuscript describing Everson's career at Lawrence; and information about other prominent people working at Lawrence during the time Everson was there, including the Nobel Prize winning scientist Luis Alvarez.

Also included in this collection are a 66-page Autobiography of George Everson (edited by Jay L. Faulkner), information (including annotated photographs, personal correspondence, and newspaper clippings) about the individuals mentioned in the Autobiography, and a scrapbook assembled by Mrs. Don C. Bryant Sr. during her tenure as President of the California Inventors Hall of Fame showing the early years of Farnsworth's work and television's development.