Finding Aid for the Bell-Muir Family Papers, Papers, 1860-1950
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Alight Tsai
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
© 2002
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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Finding Aid for the Bell-Muir Family Papers, 1860-1950
Collection number: 718
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff
- Encoded by:
- Alight Tsai
- Encoding supervision by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Text converted and initial container list EAD tagging by:
- Apex Data Services
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, February 2002
© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Bell-Muir Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1860-1950
Collection number: 718
Creator: Bell-Muir family
Extent: 30 boxes (15 linear ft.)
4 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Clark E. Bell (1881-1960) became agent and inspector of agencies for New York Life Insurance Company. He served as a member
of the San Marino, California City Council (1942-47) and as mayor (1947-52). Mabel Muir, was a niece of the naturalist John
Muir, and a prominent social and civic leader in San Marino. The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, ephemera,
photographs, and scrapbooks.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
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the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bell-Muir Family Papers (Collection 718). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Clark E. Bell was born in 1881; became agent and inspector of agencies for New York Life Insurance Company; served as member
of the San Marino (California) City Council (1942-47) and as mayor (1947-52); he died in 1960; his wife, Mabel Muir, was a
niece of the naturalist John Muir, and a prominent social and civic leader in San Marino.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence (some on microfilm), clippings, ephemera, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Bell-Muir Family--Archives.
Bell Family--Archives.
Muir Family--Archives.
Bell, Clark--Archives.
Container List
Boxes 34, 35
4 packages including scrapbooks.
Physical Description: (Unarranged).
Box 28
Red Cross Scrapbook belonging to Mrs. Clark E. Bell (Covering period July 2-10, 1942).
Scope and Content Note
Photographs. Military science commission ratings.
Box 29
Muir family genealogy, photographs, ephemera, chemistry book and scrapbook.
Box 30
Clippings, correspondence, ephemera.
Box 31
Bell-Muir letters (1907-1948).
Scope and Content Note
- Political ephemera, official programs of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles (1932), and a notebook.
- Paper bindings of: San Francisco; Lincoln, Nebraska; The New Home of Beta Theta Pi, Lincoln, Nebraska; and James Latimer Bruce.
Box 32
Letters: David Muir to Daniel Muir, and others (1869-1886). Microfilm.
Scope and Content Note
Microfilm is a negative of 151 letters: the letters in this box are photocopies, apparently from the film.
Note
(The original letters were donated to the Huntington Library in 1970 -- Phone call, Peter Blogett to Anne Caiger, October
1987)
Box 33
Correspondence.
Scope and Content Note
- Ida T. Yost to Emma K. Muir
- Mary Sangorn to Emma Kenaston Muir
- Orpheus Kenaston to Emma Kenaston Muir
- Letters to Emma Kenaston Muir
- Mrs. Almeda M. Yates to Mrs. Emma Muir and others.
