Eugene Acosta Marin Papers

This collection contains minutes, agendas, correspondence, conference materials, newspaper articles, newsletters, publications, and other items documenting Eugene Acosta Marin's personal and professional life from 1945 until his death in 1999. Researchers should note that descriptive terms shift over time and so are not uniform - for example, Mexican-American, Chicano/a, Hispanic, and Latino/a are all used to describe Americans of Latin American descent.

Series I: Administration (Boxes 1-7) includes biographical materials, curriculum vitae describing Eugene Marin and others, calendars, business cards that Marin collected and used throughout his career, and organizational files arranged in alphabetical order.

Series II: Education (Boxes 8-12) houses materials documenting bilingual education in Arizona and other areas of the United States, the Chicano Faculty-Staff Association at Arizona State University, conference information, meeting agendas, and minutes.

Series III: Government/Politics (Box 13) includes data collected from various city, state, county, and federal departments as well as campaign information from various sources.

Series IV: Correspondence (Boxes 14-18) includes a large volume of correspondence found throughout the collection. Most correspondence has been aggregated into this series and arranged chronologically. This series also represents many orphan documents collected by the donor including cards, handwritten notes, and letters to the editor.

Series V: Media (Boxes 19-32) documents a wide variety of topics in various formats, including brochures, pamphlets, surveys, circulars, flyers, proceedings, news clippings, reports, journals, news releases, and programs from various sources. Speeches, statements, and remarks are arranged by author. Duplicates and deteriorated clippings have been weeded; when necessary, an archival copy has been made.

Series VI: Photographs (Box 33) consists of approximately 670 photographs. The majority of the images were separated from their original boxes and folders during processing. All photographs found in the VESTA Club scrapbooks, however, remain in their original scrapbook form.

Series VII: Other Material (Boxes 34-38) includes artifacts, awards and certificates, maps, memorabilia, plaques, other personal papers, and oversized items.