Scrapbooks of Photographs and Cartoons Dealing with the Spanish-American War from the Graupner Family Papers, 1898-1899

Processed by Terry Boom and Padma Rubiales.

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

1996

Scrapbooks of Photographs and Cartoons Dealing with the Spanish-American War from the Graupner Family Papers, 1898-1899

BANC PIC 1964.026--fALB and BANC PIC 1964.066--PIC

The Bancroft Library

University of California

Berkeley, California 1996

Finding aid and digital representations of archival materials funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Processed and encoded by:

California Heritage Digital Image Access Project staff in The Bancroft Library and The Library's Electronic Text Unit

Digital images processed by:

The Library Photographic Service

Finding aid completed:

June 1996

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Scrapbooks of Photographs and Cartoons Dealing with the Spanish-American War from the Graupner Family Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1898-1899

Collection Number: BANC PIC 1964.026--fALB and BANC PIC 1964.066--PIC

Creator: Graupner, Adolphus E. (Adolphus Earhart), 1875-1947

Extent: 2 scrapbooks: 1964.026: 100 cyanotype photographic prints and 39 cartoons in one album, 23 x 34 cm. 1966.066: 38 photographic prints in one album, 19 x 28 cm. 177 digital objects

Repository: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item] Scrapbooks of photographs and cartoons dealing with the Spanish-American War from the Graupner family papers, BANC PIC 1964.026--fALB and BANC PIC 1964.066--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Digital Representations Available

Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.

Related Collection

Title: Grapuner family papers,

Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-B 912

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the Graupner family papers (BANC MSS C-B 912).

Biography

Adolphus Earhart Graupner was born in Iowa in 1875. He was graduated from the University of California in 1897 and began his law career in San Francisco the same year, ultimateley becoming assistant district attorney and Superior Court judge. He was an active member of the American Legion and served as chairman of its rehabilitation committe, 12th district. Judge Graupner died in 1947.

Scope and Content

The first scrapbook (BANC PIC 1964.026) was assembled by Graupner in 1899. A typewritten explanatory note at the front of the scrapbook states that the photographs were taken in the San Francisco vicinity between 1898 and 1899. The photographs show detailed views of army camp life (drills, inspections, recreation, meals, military formations and weapons) and of volunteer troops preparing to go to the Spanish-American War. The explanatory note goes on to say that the cartoons came largely from San Francisco daily papers, although some of them are reproductions of cartoons published in newspapers from the east. There are typewritten captions and explanatory text throughout the album. Both are transcribed in the container list. The explanatory text is used to group the photographs in the list as follows:

No. 1-20. Camp Merritt
No. 21-30. 20th Kansas Volunteers
No. 31-36. 7th Regiment of California Volunteers
No. 37-45. The Astor Battery
No. 46-70. Troop "A" Nevada Volunteers
No. 71-88. The 14th Regiment of Regular Infantry
No. 89-96. At the Presidio
No. 97-99. The Red Cross Society
No. 100-138. Spanish and Austrian cartoons on the war

The second scrapbook (BANC PIC 1964.066) was assembled in 1898. It is unclear if it too was assembled by Graupner. It it titled "Bugle Echoes, 1898" and depicts the Phillippine expeditions preparing for the war. In addition to views of camps like those in the first scrapbook are views of several transport ships. There are handwritten captions throughout the scrapbook. These are transcribed in their entirety in the container list.

Container Listing - BANC PIC 1964.026-fALB

[No. 1-20. Camp Merritt]

Scope and Content Note

Camp Merritt was located in the City and County of San Francisco, in the district lying North of Golden Gate Park, and bounded by Fulton Street, First Avenue, Point Lobos Avenue, and Fifth Avenue. The Camp was named after General Merritt, the first Governor General of the Philippine Islands. Most of the Troops intended for the Phillipines were encamped there.

:1 Troops coming off the Oakland Ferry and marching to the Red Cross Headquarters

Scrapbooks of Photographs and Cartoons Dealing with the Spanish-American War from the Graupner Family Papers, 1898-1899

Scrapbooks of Photographs and Cartoons Dealing with the Spanish-American War from the Graupner Family Papers, 1898-1899

BANC PIC 1964.026--fALB and BANC PIC 1964.066--PIC

Container Listing - BANC PIC 1964.026-fALB

Container Listing - BANC PIC 1964.066--PIC