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Title: Gulick family photographs
Date (inclusive): 1895-1967
Date (bulk): (bulk 1895-1921)
Collection number: MS-R026
Creator:
Gulick family
Extent:
0.6 linear feet (2 boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: The collection consists of 383 photographs relating to the Gulick family of Orange
County, California. A family album contains 214 photographs. Images are mostly of the
Gulick family branches, extended relatives, and family friends. Other photographs depict
family homes and properties and other locales in Orange County, California and elsewhere
in the United States. Items date from circa 1895 to 1967; the majority are from 1895 to
1921. Formats include albumen and silver gelatin prints and one tintype.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Gulick Family Photographs. MS-R26. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Gift of George A. Gulick in memory of Quinn and Jessie Gulick in 1971.
Full processing by Laura Clark Brown in 1997. Previously processed by Special Collections
staff in circa 1972. Formerly assigned the collection number 1 Hb-001-0.
The following is a brief biographical sketch of the Gulick family members depicted in or
associated with the collection. The biography's organization roughly mirrors the
arrangement of the photographs in the container list.
Quinn and Jessie Gulick, the primary collectors of these photographs, were the son and daughter-in-law of James Harvey Gulick
and Laura Palmer Gulick. The donor, George Gulick, was the son of Quinn and Jessie Gulick.
James and Laura Gulick migrated from Kansas in 1887. The first branch of the Gulick
family to come to California, they first lived in Newport Beach, then moved to Villa Park
and Olive where they purchased a ranch. In later years, when all the children had left
home, James and Laura Gulick sold the ranch in Olive and moved to Santa Ana.
James Gulick was the only son of Martin and Annis Gulick. Martin and Annis Gulick resided
in Plainview, Illinois, and they later followed James to California, living on First
Street in Tustin. They had four children: Olive and Hattie Gulick (who resided at home),
Alice Gulick Gooch and Sadie Gulick Humiston. Mary Jane Gulick Phelps, James Harvey
Gulick and Eleanor (Nell) Gulick Davidson were their three stepchildren.
Eleanor Gulick married Colin Davidson and also migrated to California, residing in
Tustin, Trabuco Canyon, Pomona and Hemet. The Davidson children were Sue (married John
Willson), Laura (married Ivo Palmer), Elizabeth (Lelia), Harry (died in teens), and Annis
(died in teens).
Alice Gulick married John Gooch and migrated from Plainview, Illinois with Martin and
Annis Gulick. The Gooches eventually settled in National City, where John Gooch was an
exterminator contractor. Florence Gooch, their only child, died at the age of seven.
Sadie Gulick married Arthur Humiston from Aurora, Illinois. They were the last Gulicks to
move to California.
Helen Gulick, daughter of James and Laura Gulick, married William M. Huntley, who became
the first mayor of Tustin. Annie Trickey was William Huntley's stepsister.
Reverend Harlan P. Carson, a cousin of the Gulicks on the Welch side of the family,
resided in Scotland, South Dakota. He was Superintendent of Home Missions, Synod of South
Dakota, and later Financial Secretary of Huron College from 1909. One of his children,
Bessie, married a fellow missionary, William M. Barrett, whom she met while serving in
Korea.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The collection consists of 383 photographs relating to the Gulick family of Orange
County, California. A family album contains 214 photographs. Images are mostly of the
Gulick family branches, extended relatives, and family friends. Other photographs depict
family homes and properties and other locales in Orange County, California and elsewhere
in the United States. Items date from circa 1895 to 1967; the majority are from 1895 to
1921. Formats include albumen and silver gelatin prints and one tintype.
The collection is organized in three series based on the primary families or other
subjects depicted in the photographs. Within each series, people and places depicted are
listed in alphabetical order under the various groupings of family branches and general
locations. The lists do not have a one-to-one correspondence with the photographs. For
example, a person may appear in numerous photographs within the album, but the name is
listed only once. Known dates are given, but undated photographs may also exist in the
same series or grouping of photographs.
James Gulick was the half brother of Alice Gulick Gooch, the photographer of a small
collection of Orange County photographs also held by Special Collections. The Gulick
collection also adds background to the Huntley Family Collection. The Edna Phelps
Collection contains photographs, family history, and correspondence on the Gulicks.
GAR Official Roster (Santa Ana, California, 1932) transferred to Orange County pamphlet
collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Gulick family--Photograph collections.
Orange County (Calif.)--Photographs.
Orange County (Calif.)--Archival resources.
California--Photographs.
Photographic prints--California--Orange County--19th century.
Tintypes--California--19th century.
Index Terms Related to this Collection
Gulick, Quinn.
Gulick, Jessie.
Gulick, George A., former owner.