30 incoming letters to R. Hoe & Co. from various California type foundries and related businesses located in San Francisco, including several from H. L. Tatum, San Francisco agent for R. Hoe & Co.

Floor plans and elevations by Miller & Colmesnic, n.d. (sheets numbered 2-7); 3 unnumbered sheets of details by Houghton Sawyer, 1914-1915.

V. 1: The greater torment (novel); v. 2 3: King Pandar (novel); v. 4: Short stories (1922 1931 and n.d.); v. 5: Four plays. Copies of portraits pasted in each volume.

Correspondence relating to Rachel Bubes' attempts to get her brother-in-law, Haim Stankkevich, and his family into the U.S. The collection includes copies of letters Bubes received from local legal and financial authorities, as well as a letter and telegram from...

Snapshots of the leavetaking of Jack London's yacht, the Snark, possibly in San Francisco or Oakland. London, George Sterling and others are pictured on deck.

Collection consists of a letter that Rahle [Pahle?] Abals sent to his brother-in-law, Isidore, from Stockton, California in 1858. Rahle congratulates Isidore on his recent marriage and provides news about businesses in San Francisco, Mokelumne Hill, and Stockton. The original...

Contents: inventory, with appraisal and physical evaluation, of Northern Electric Railroad Company, 1915; and report by T. Falch, assistant engineer, on prices and trends of railroad utilities, ca. 1935.

Stocks, plans clippings, registers of movement for various railroads in California such as the Central Pacific Railroad; California and Oregon Railroad; Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad; West Side Lumber Company Railroad; San Francisco-Sacramento Railroad; Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway and...

Views relate to trains and railroads in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Locomotives and stations of the San Francisco & Alameda Railroad and of the Sacramento Valley Railroad are pictured. Also shown is a time table of the...

Contains engineering drawings of railways in and around Oakland, Calif. of various subsidiaries and predecessors of the Railway Equipment & Realty Company including San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways, East Bay Street Railways, East Bay Transit Co., Key System, and Key System,...

Contains 12 brown line prints (46 x 38 cm) and 2 smaller black and white photostats of prints, drawn Sept. 1937, for a brewery operating in San Francisco. Prints include those for the brewery, bottling house, and warehouse. Includes plans...

Two postcards from a man to his mother written shortly after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 giving her assurances of his safety. Dated and postmarked from San Francisco on April 20, 1906 and April 24,1906, respectively.

Includes pictorial handbills, mostly woodcut prints, advertising various San Francisco productions of Ralph Chessé's Marionette Playhouse Club (566 Merchant St.) and the Blanding Sloan Puppet Theatre (718 Montgomery St.). Also includes handbill for the Puppet Players (688 Filbert St.), and...

snapshots and some professionally made views documenting the 2nd Ohio Infantry of the Ohio National Guard along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition (1916-1917). Pictured are soldiers, military camps and maneuvers. Also depicted are everyday...

Includes correspondence, teaching and research files.

Letters received, accounts and miscellaneous papers relating to his occupation as innkeeper on Calumet Island, Canada.

Fourteen letters giving commentary on current events, including the Lenny Bruce trials, the civil rights movement, radio station KPFA in Berkeley, writers, jazz musicians, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Includes a letter from Gleason's wife, Jean, to Hoffman.

The collection consists of Echo Lakes cabin owner files (arranged alphabetically by surname), Ralph King's general correspondence (arranged chronologically), and other materials relating to the Echo Lakes area and its residents, including files on the Highway 50 Association, the Echo...

Also, material on the salt industry, chiefly in the San Fransico Bay region; and miscellaneous notes and pictures received from W.P. Gregory.

Correspondence, notes, photographs and clippings relating mainly to Stephen Tyng Mather, and to collecting Mather papers for the Bancroft Library. Letters from Horace M. Albright, Herman Phleger and Merrill E. Prichard included.

Inscription to Phelps from Robert Shankland; TLS to Phelps from Horace Marden Albright concerning Shankland's biography of Steve Mather.

Love letters written from Corning and Bully Choop [?], Calif. to "Myrtie", wishing they could be together.

The cartons contain 3 folders of correspondence and newspaper clippings, 5 folders of patents, 1 folder of photographs, 7 reports on equipment and 10 notebooks. The 2 scrapbooks contain correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings and legal notices pasted in chronological order.

Contains correspondence, writings, course materials, research proposals, and miscellaneous papers.

Memoirs prepared by the family of Dr. Ralph Reynolds of San Francisco.

Notes and transcriptions of documents from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain concerning Mexico, ca. 1773-1796. Included as well is a guide to researching in the Archivo General de Indias written by Kuykendall.

Originals and photocopies of papers of Ralph Smith, the elder brother of Jedediah Strong Smith, born in New York and a farmer in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan; letters from his brothers Ira Smith and Peter Smith, 1842 and 1844, his...

Portraits of Hell's Angels motorcycle gang leader Ralph "Sonny" Barger, taken at his Arizona home. Other family members also appear in some photos.

Chiefly incoming correspondence, including several files of letters from Leo Eloesser, as well as correspondence from several federal agencies concerning Stackpole's involvement with various New Deal projects. Also contains outgoing correspondence, including letters written by Stackpole as Head of the...

Includes his statement prepared for the California Industrial Welfare Commission on fruit growing in the Saratoga area and labor problems pertaining thereto; a copy of the report of the Resolutions Committee, California Farmers, Inc., for the annual meeting 1958; copy...

Include 3 albums (v.1-3) of young men on hiking excursions in Marin County, Calif. between 1929 and 1931. Some views of trail maintenance work are present, and some are identified as "SCC" related. 2 additional albums (v.4-5), compiled on binder...

Assembled from various sources.

Letters written to him while a student and later professor of philosophy, by Sherwood Anderson, William R. Dennes, Eugène Jolas, Roger B. Merriman, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, Pavel Tchelitchew, Alice B. Toklas and Clement C.J. Webb.

Interviews conducted 1959 by Edna T. Daniel for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Photographs inserted. Mainly comments on teaching career at University of California; loyalty oath controversy; student government; conservation work with Save the Redwoods...

Snapshots of surf at Santa Monica, Magnolia Ave. (Riverside), a sailboat on San Francisco Bay, a woman on board the S.S. Pomona, the Post Office in Sacramento, the Court House in Santa Barbara, an adobe market in Santa Barbara, the...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Letters written to the Mexican Vice President, containing information on activities of the opposition party led by Bernardo Reyes, on political events, and government, and journalism, by Miguel Ahumada, Fernando Celada, Enrique C. Creel, Luis del Carmen Curiel, Manuel Garza...

Vol. 1: Diary, March 24, 1845 - October 16, 1852; Vol. 2: Diary, November 1, 1852 - July 11, 1857); Vol. 1-2 suppl., loose pages removed from vol. 1-2; Vol. 3: commonplace book, 1846 - December 12 [1854?]; Vol. 4:...

Official letters from the political chief at San Antonio de Bexar (now San Antonio) to the alcalde at Goliad, in the state of Coahuila and Texas (now Texas)

Items selected by Professor Donald B. Cooper from the city's architectural records. Reel 1: Materials relating to appointments, licensing, examinations and salaries of architects; repairs on buildings damaged by earthquakes and floods; documents concerning the construction and maintenance of the...

This collection contains a misc. assortment of personal and legal documents. Hill's personal documents include correspondence, speeches, and a few scrapbooks with his poetry. Most of the legal documents are land deeds, including ones held by his son, Lawrence V....

Consists of four letters and one document regarding the appointment of Ramos Arizpe as Deputy to the Mexican Congress in 1822, which show the positive reaction of several politicians in Coahuila and record the progression of events leading to his...

The records of Ramparts magazine and Scrimshaw Press contain materials collected by Frederick C. Mitchell from his own involvement in both organizations. The Ramparts material predominantly concerns the business side of the operation, with correspondence and reports relating to circulation,...

Snapshots of family life, outings, and ranch life in Marin and possibly Lassen Counties, California. Views include horses, livestock, hunting and trapping, a home in Oakland, Calif., automobiles, young men at track events and on hiking trips, and various other...

Chiefly snapshots of ranch and desert scenes in Arizona, with views from excursions in Mexico and New Mexico. Locations include a trip to the Montoya Mine, Saw Mill Canyon (Ajo Mountains, Arizona?), Estancia (New Mexico), Martin's Ranch (Cerro Colorado), San...

Includes abstract of title (incomplete) and correspondence.

Docket (originally dated August 29, 1844-October 8, 1845) concerning William Alexander Leidesdorff's request for land adjoining John Augustus Sutter's Neuvo Helvetia. Contemporary copy and translation by W.E.P. Hartnell. Includes diseno.

Sketch map (negative and positive photostats) of the Rancho San Rafael in the Altar Valley of Sonora, on a former gold-mining site; overlay tracing by Robert H. Becker; letter of presentation from Jacob N. Bowman (Berkeley, Calif., March 31, 1958);...

Papers relating to Randal F. Dickey's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Concerning a pump and other equipment and supplies for mine at Campo Seco, Calaveras Co., Calif.

Relating to the nomination for the National Register of Historic Places of the Sarah Seaver Randall House in Olema Valley. Copies of photographs, information on the Randall family, etc., included.

Contains the correspondence of Randall Henderson and the records of Desert Magazine, minutes and records of the Desert Protective Council, and information on the founding of Palm Desert, California.

Includes a few entries by his wife, Sarah Seaver Randall, and list of passengers in her handwriting. Miscellaneous accounts complete the volume. Typed transcript of the diary and biographical information on the Randall and Clifford families supplied by his granddaughter,...

Contains correspondence of the Randolph family in Virginia and California, including Thomas Lyman Randolph, Samuel N. Jones, Elisabeth Randolph Simonson, Daniel Lyman Randolph, Edward H. Simonson, Louisa Maria Randolph and Anne M. (Mathieu) Randolph, as well as other Randolph and...

Documenting his career with Castle & Cooke, Ltd., and with Matson Navigation Company.

Chiefly consists of Robinson's mathematical notes and writings in the areas of set and number theory, complex analysis, geometry, and combinatorics, with some correspondence. Includes his writings on the tiling of the plane.

Collection consists mostly of photographs relating to Raphael Weill's businesss as well as his family, friends, and acquaintances. Among the photographs are portraits of the following: Edgar Meyer, Judge Morrow, Sigmund Steinhart, John French Sloan, Edward Robert Taylor, Daniel J....

Includes photographs taken of Rapoport throughout his career. Also depicts many of Rapoport's colleagues in the University of California, Berkeley Department of Chemistry, as well as some of his students.

Artist unknown.

vol.1. ca. 1875-ca. 1906, general views of San Francisco, street scenes, individual buildings, Woodwards Gardens, Golden Gate Park, Chinatown, etc. -- vol.2. ca. 1860's-1907 general views, street scenes, mansions, Chinatown, businesses, etc. "Selleck's Photographic Gallery" sign appears in one of...

Ratcliff discusses the architectural practice and principled philosophy of his father, Walter H. Ratcliff, exploring the relationship of the first two generations of Ratcliff architects to Bay Region architects such as Maybeck and Wurster. They discuss social planning, growth, and...

Six per cent mortgage bond (blank), 1890; with 60 semi-annual interest warrants, 1891-1920.

Handbills and promotional fliers promoting rave parties and nightclub events, chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. A few events in Portland, Oregon, in London (U.K.), and other cities are also represented. Most are colorfully illustrated with visual references to...

Primarily views of buildings and street scenes from Cuernavaca, Xochimilco, and other Mexican locations. Two appear to be San Francisco, Calif. views.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes correspondence, writings, and research materials relating to Colvig's publications.

Letters, cards and fragments with the signatures of politicians, actresses, well-known personalities such as William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan, Jules Verne, C.P. Huntington, and Nellie Melba.

Papers relating to Ray Sherwin's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Views of quarry, stone cutting and transportation, and of buildings built with Raymond granite.

Correspondence, course notes, subject files, reviews, and writings as professor of History at The University of California, Berkeley.

Include his annotated bibliography of housing, relief and health care for migratory farm labor in California, (1866-1939); scrapbooks of clippings on migratory farm labor in California, (1942-1973); and notes.

Relate to history of Raymond, Washington, and to the shipwreck of the Robert Bruce; with clippings, photographs of her husband, Leslie V. Raymond, and a few notes relating to Raymond and Pacific County Washington, by H.C. Votaw.

Correspondence regarding the Oppenheimer hearings, 1954; letters from Oppenheimer to the Department of Physics regarding teaching appointment; clippings and published articles on Oppenheimer hearings.

Contains a journal kept by Raymond Wallace in two notebooks of his hitchhiking trip around the western half of the United States from July to September, 1935 (forty pages of the first notebook are Wallace's notes from a chemistry course...

Correspondence, chiefly with Alfred Otis Larkin and Sampson Tams, and notes concerning Thomas Oliver Larkin and the Larkin Family. Data obtained from Samuel Hopkins Willey is included. With the above: Extract from a letter, July 5, 1846, from Captain Blake,...

Account of the career and benefactions of José de Torres y Vergara, Archdean of Mexico City Cathedral, founder of the Capuchin Convent of San José de Gracia in Querétaro, Inquisition and Holy Crusade dignitary, and University Chancellor. Written at the...

Log books, reports, budget data, correspondence, legal agreements, blueprints, photographs, etc. regarding the operations and equipment of the Radio Corporation of America's short wave radio station at Bolinas, California. The oversize rolls consist of three blueprints of the station.

Original documents on New Mexico, and several family collections, especially the papers of Manuel Alvarez, 1830-1862, reflecting his life as a fur trader, Santa Fe merchant, and U.S. consul, and papers of the Donaciano Vigil family, 1850-1898, long active in...

Photographs show views of facilites related to the Eberhardt and Aurora Mining Co. including the Eberhardt mine tunnel entrance, the Eberhardt Mill, transportation of logs by horses, etc. Other views show the hotel at Hamilton, Nev., a general view of...

Letters written to or about Pierson Barton Reading, mainly by members of the family, including letters from Richard Bland Lee and Fannie (Washington) Reading (one describing her voyage to San Francisco in 1856 from New York via Panama); letter, 1844,...

Accounts for the Guadalajara branch of the Royal Treasury, covering the periods April 1622-March 1623, 1714, and 1738; arranged in sections corresponding to treasury activities, and chronologically within sections. Each with table of contents, and signatures of treasury officials.

Two certificates for money received from the treasury at Guadalajara, signed by Juan Antonio López de la Paliza, José María Martínez del Campo, and Ramón Gutiérrez del Mazo.

Copies of royal decrees relating to the Philippines.

Deeds, survey descriptions, and company board of director meeting minutes.

Contains pamphlets, periodicals, posters and articles relating to Punk Culture.

Collection of 7 printed pamphlets and 8 manuscripts on astronomy, physics, optics, wine and fermentation, and other scientific topics.

Concerns the purchase or repair of footware. Also includes an engraving of Drew by R. Hicks from a painting by J. Moore.

Ott lived in Berkeley in 1891 according to the billing address.

From the Honeyman Collection.

Printed forms filled in.

Receipts and related account records for various materials (food stuffs, coal, hardware) and services provided by numerous San Francisco firms.

Receipts for potatoes (from Sim & Co. and Flint, Peabody, & Co.), for various metal goods (from Ackley & Co.), and for fees paid to the U.S. Custom House, San Francisco.

Printed forms, filled in.

V. 1 Comments on her brief career in motion pictures, 1912-1915; marriage to Griffing Bancroft in 1917; her father-in-law, Hubert H. Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family.

1.5 hour interview (not transcribed) regarding his studies at Chico State University and UC Berkeley, trying to get a job as a reporter, and being drafted at age 37 during World War II.

Partial copy of an oral history interview conducted by John Donofrio and Mimi Stein for the Bank of America.

Education at Harvard and recollections of George Santayana, Josiah Royce and Charles T. Copeland; teaching career at University of California, Berkeley, from 1920, and administrative duties on library and budget committees, on President's advisory committee and as chairman of the...

Recollections of early days in the vicinity of Sebastopol.

Van Hook discusses his Arkansas childhood; move to Richmond, 1943; Kaiser Shipyard worker, 1943-1945; Singing Shipbuilders gospel quartet, 1943-1946; postwar changes in Richmond; advice to younger generations.

First overland mail to California (in wagon train led by Col. Chiles, 1848); notes on early days in El Dorado Co.; James W. Marshall; sales and transfers to Sutter's Fort and Sutter's Mill; ferry on the American River.

With covering letter to Dr. George P. Hammond.

Recalls his family's relocation to California from Tupelo, Oklahoma in the early 1920s, the "Okie" stereotype, and his recollections of youth at Ferry Point.

Interviews with John H. Briones, William E. Colby, Herbert M. Evans and Frank Swett conducted by John M. Jencks and Ernest Lowe for radio station KPFA, Berkeley, 1964. With these: correspondence relative to the interviews and transcribing them.

Recollections of early years in Jewish community in Kiev; interest in Russian revolutionary movement; experiences as member of Menshevik faction of Social Democratic Party during the revolution and civil war. Photographs inserted. Included also: brief biographical sketch and list of...

Interviews with Milton Grunbaum, factory manager, and C.W. Lagoria, sales manager, of Levi Strauss and Company. Appended: clipping about the company from The New Yorker (Nov. 12, 1979).

Recollections of Mrs. John M. Jones of overland journey to California, 1846 with the Brown-Allen-Jones party; winter at the Chiles ranch; stay in San Jose; as settlers at Alamo.

Notes on journey from Massachusetts, via Independence, Fort Laramie, Salt Lake and the Carson River, to the Placerville area. Mention of conditions in the mines and San Francisco.

Discusses Point Richmond in the 1920's; Capt. Raymond Clarke and the Richmond-San Rafael Ferry Co.; labor disputes; the black population and racial tensions; World War II changes; bay pollution; Thoman Crowley and the Crowley Maritime Corp.; California bar pilots; the...

Recollections of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, John Henry Nash, John Swart, Bruce Brough, the Taylor brothers, Max Schmidt, Jr., and other members of the printing community; his printing career; various craftmen's clubs and their publications. Photographs inserted. Appended: photocopies of...

Early career in printing; move to San Francisco and establishment of the Grabhorn Press; printing anecdotes; views on other printers; collecting California and Japanese prints. Bound with this: Comments on Some Bay Area Fine Printers by Francis P. Farquhar (Apr....

Participation in Russian revolutionary movement, 1900-1917; experiences during the revolution; emigration to the U.S. in 1921. Photographs inserted.

Pennsylvania family background; education at St. Vincent College, University of Pittsburgh; postdoctoral research on restriction enzymes, Yale, 1963-1966; assistant professor to professor, University of California, San Francisco, 1966-1991; recombinant DNA research: collaboration with Stanley N. Cohen, biohazards controversy, development/diffusion of...

Professionally photographed views of new civic, commercial, and residential buildings (completed and under construction), street scenes, public monuments, and leisure and recreation views in Golden Gate Park and at Ocean Beach,

Account book of the Royal Treasury, arranged according to types of income or outgo, such as ecclesiastical tithes, royal fifths, sales taxes, fees for episcopal appointments, revenue from monopolies, donations and fines; payments of salaries, payments to conquistadors, quicksilver payments,...

Journal (sales ledger), November 1863-December 1865; daybook (expense journal), 1869, and ledger (general), 1871-1873. Includes, in general ledger, entries for California Pacific Railroad. Owners: J.W. Brickell, W.H. Krieger, Jeh. Jones, J.D. Hilton (see p. 130 of Journal).

Original records in the National Archives, RG 28.

Includes scattered signatures of judges.

Includes Claim No. 59, 1839, and Case No. 145, 1848. They concern claims made by American citizens against the Mexican government for seizure and deportation to Mexico from California.

The Bancroft Library holds related collections of Thomas O. Larkin material: BANC MSS C-B 37-45 and C-E 1-25.

A chart identifying the number of growth wings; a Stockton Record clipping of February 4, 1922 describing the tree, its history, and the chart; a note from the University of Arizona commenting that an error may exist in the commutation...

Includes names of clients, vessels, information on goods and prices.

Record of sermons preached, primarily in Stanislaus County, California, Jan. 1884-Apr. 1902, including information on text, date, place, number in congregation and comments on weather; at the end: record of funerals at Ione and Oakdale and of marriages at Ione.

Dated lists of ships, barks, etc., with national register, name of captain, latest port and length of voyage. Monthly summaries.

Certificates signed by C.W. Bush, deputy.

Case relating to complaint of air pollution from cement plant operating near Concord, California. Includes subpoenas, depositions, complaints etc. Signatures of various lawyers, sheriffs and judges.

Records for the trial of the murder of Marysville police officer John Sperbeck.

Album apparently assembled after death of Taizo Kato in 1924. Contains photographs of Taizo, including one autographed self-portrait, family and friends, both in formal portraits and principally in informal pictures on various outings in the Los Angeles area. Panorama (dated...

Records from Tai Chong, Chow Lee, Chong Lee, Sing Chow Lee and others (gambling houses).

Manuscripts, mock-ups, galleys, and advertising orders for issues 1-3 of the literary magazine published in Berkeley. With these, a few unpublished mss.

Material primarily concerns architecture in the American West in the 1960's and 1970's.

Mainly copies of mining laws, abstracts from minutes of meetings at which recorders for the mining districts were elected, claim notices, bills of sale, deeds of conveyance, powers of attorney, etc. Included occasionally are copies of records of the justice...

Contemporary copies of documents relating to Domincans in Baja California and to their attempts to transfer a mission and establish a hospital in Pitic (Sonora) or in Tepic (Nayarit). Include letters and petitions from Fathers Tomás Ahumada, Domingo Barreda and...

Contains deeds, abstracts, indentures, agreements, U.S. land grants, records of taxes, and other transactions concerning property in Mendocino and Sonoma counties, along with related surveys, field notes, maps, and sketches. Records chiefly concern the acquisition of land by the Gualala...

Correspondence of Julián de Arriaga (Minister of the Indies), Viceroy de Croix, and Gaspar de Portolá, with supplementary documents, concerning promotions granted by the King to Portolá (from the rank of captain to that of lieutenant colonel), Miguel Costansó, and...

Journals, logbooks, and reports by Vitus J. Bering, A.I. Chirikov, Nikolai Golovnin, Sofron Khitrov, G.F. Müller, Grigorii Shelikov, Vice-Admiral Sanders, G.W. Steller, Sven Waxel, and Kharlam Yushin. From negative and positive photostats obtained in Leningrad for the University of Washington.

Includes deed from Victor Castro to William H. Gray; and abstract of title to a portion of the Rancho (documents abstracted dated from 1852-1861).

The bulk of the collection consists of Rector-Hirschman family correspondence between 1920-1986. It also includes genealogical materials and family photos. There are also materials related to Mabel and Ted Hirschman, including correspondence and financial records.

In Spanish. Volume is a typescript in journal form, edited in pencil, of drafts of accounts and reports written in January and February, 1912, concerning the opening of a stretch of the Southern Pacific Railroad between the Mexican cities of...

Historical and personal account of Alta California, including political history, 1769-1848; social life and customs of the Californios; biographical information on notable persons.

Reminiscences concerning his revolutionary activities, 1906-1913, in Texas and Mexico on behalf of the Partido Liberal Mexicano, working with Ricardo Flores Magón.

Consists of correspondence, writings, publicity materials, interviews, and miscellaneous personal ephemera from San Francisco Bay Area writer of lesbian erotica, Red Jordan Arobateau. Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence with friends, publishers, magazine editors, and noted individuals in the lesbian, gay,...

Includes portraits of the author, color snapshots and reproductions of his paintings as posters and postcards, as well as snapshots of his partner Dalila Jasmin at home and attending events.

Correspondence with musicians and friends, personalia, notebooks and diaries, mss. of some of his writings, clippings.

Collection includes general views of towns and other locations along the Redwood Highway (southwestern Oregon and northwestern California). Views show rural areas, Indians, parks, recreation, farms, monuments, coastline, forests, buildings, roads, bridges, logging, special events, mines, rivers and lakes, and...

Minutes, correspondence, and reports of the association, its officers and committees, and subject files on association activities, legislation and governmental actions, highway development, publicity, film and photographic materials.

Mainly records kept by Clyde Edmondson, the Association's first manager, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, programs, clippings and miscellaneous papers relating to the activities of the Assonciation and to redwoods, with letters by Edmundson, William J. Losh, George Christopher, Paul R....

Partial list of contents available.

Slides for a presentation entitled: "The redwood question: how much is enough?" The presentation was used by Redwood lumbering companies in the conflict over an expansion of Redwood National Park.

Items are captioned: "On 'The Avenue of the Giants' near Dyerville, California" and "Mill Creek Redwoods, near Crescent City, California"

Contains: No. 8 Redwood Trees, Santa Cruz Mtns. -- No. 9 Big Trees, Calaveras Grove [Calif.]

Family background, education in North Dakota; doctoral study at the University of Illinois; postwar library studies a the University of Chicago graduate library school; head of reference at Chicago's Newberry Library, late 1940s; to UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1950:...

Clippings of editorials from Mexican newspapers, most written under his pseudonym, Blas Urrea, relating to Mexican politics. With these: a few clippings about Cabrera.

The Williams' describe their family backgrounds, the racial climate in Richmond before and after World War II, their observations of the impact of the tremendous influx of people during the War years and changes in Richmond since then.

Discussion of his legal career in New York and, from 1929, in Los Angeles; the Los Angeles Jewish community; his philanthropic, educational and civic activities. With this (as v. 2): photocopy of his Autobiography (37 l.) commenting on his more...

Forms part of: Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley oral history collection.

Interviews conducted in Richmond, California, 1975-1977, by Ann Lage for the Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library as part of the Sierra Club History Series. Introduction by Phillip Berry; copies of photographs inserted. Comments on scientific studies at...

Forms part of: China scholars oral history series.

Photographs show refugee camp life after the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, Calif. Women cooking on stoves set up in the street, women washing in tubs, a man cooking over a fire on the ground, men sitting on...

The collection consists of a small amount of biographical material, correspondence, newspaper clippings, assorted pamphlets and exhibition catalogs, and photographs that document the activities Waldman undertook as director of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews. The oversize item is...

Hugh A. D'Andrade (b. 1938): Executive with Schering-Plough Corp., 1981-present; Schering-Plough alliances with Biogen and DNAX Research Institute; commercializing recombinant DNA technology at Biogen and DNAX; biotechnology in New Jersey; comments on BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization). David P. Holveck (b....

Includes Correspondence, subject files, conference files, Scrapbook of clippings, and printed materials. Subjects include: city planning, airport development, the growth of San Francisco, correspondence and reports concerning bridges, and San Francisco traffic survey reports.

Registers of marriages, 1781-1800, and burials, 1780-1828, with signatures of the mission friars and of the provincial examiners.

Registers of baptisms, 1775-1839, marriages, 1776-1850, and deaths and burials, 1775-1837, with signatures of the mission friars and of the provincial examiners.

Registers of baptisms, 1744-1868, marriages, 1744-1868, and deaths and burials, 1775-1805, and 1805-1828, with signatures of the mission friars and of the provincial examiners.

Registers of baptisms, 1769-1818, marriages, 1769-1817, and burials, 1773-1802, and 1803-1821, with signatures of the mission friars and of the provincial examiners.

Three volumes of handwritten voting records(?) for the San Jose area with clippings pasted over. Some of the text is readable. Clippings are primarily poems, cartoons, and political cartoons, with some news stories.

Civil War discharge papers, 1864 and 1866, and cancelled paycheck, Jan. 31, 1876, from the Caspar Lumber Co.

Photographs depict reinterment of Juan Bautista de Anza in the cathedral of Arizpe, Mexico, 1963. Also depicted are ceremonies, persons and a monument related to the event, as well as general views of Arizpe.

Handwritten manuscript (3 p.) with detailed description of the village Itzquintlan [i.e. Santiago Ixcuintla] in Nayarit, Mexico. Details include civil and religious history, fauna, and geography. Drawn in the bottom of the final page is a map showing direction and...

Original in: the Newberry library (Ayer collection no. 1038)

Documents relating to the recruiting of a company in Queretaro for service in Manila, including proclamation of the viceroy, Conde de Moctezuma, a list of soldiers in the company, and marching orders for the company, with signatures of the viceroy,...

In paper covers; with bookplate of H. Buxton Forman.

Journal of voyage around the Horn, from Thomaston, Maine. Descriptions of Rio de Janeiro and Talcaguana, Chile where the ship stopped for several days for repairs and refitting. Journal ends just before arrival in San Francisco.

Record of voyage of bark, Belvedere, with a company of 74 goldseekers (California Joint Stock Company?), "8 non-members together with 4 ladies and a little girl".

Consists of 7 oversize drawings, a printed portfolio (9 leaves), and an addendum containing text, 25 color photographs, clippings, and other ephemera. "The portfolio provides a brief explanation of each text, beginning with the cartographic and ending with the semantic/semasiographic....

Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as follows: Emelyn Knowland Jewett: My Father's Political Philosophy and Colleagues. Estelle Knowland Johnson: My Father as Senator, Campaigner, and Civic Leader. Paul Manolis: A Friend and Aide.

Snapshots of Berkeley, Calif. Primarily home interiors and family members, with one view of the University of California, Berkeley campus.

Contains photographs taken in Nome, Golovin, St. Lawrence Island, Siberia (incl. St. Nicholas), Teller, Pt. Barrow, Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, and Sitka. Includes photographs of settlements, native peoples, ship's crew and passengers. Captain Hamlet and Mrs. Churchill are identified in some...

Recollections of his early life; newspaper reporting; association with Hiram Johnson; California and San Francisco politics (including his terms as Congressman); contacts with organized labor and interest in public power.

Comments on education in Germany; teaching decorative design at Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, and drawing at Berkeley; lecturing on art history and on the art of the Panama Pacific International Exposition; establishment of the Art Department at Berkeley; museums...

Mainly relate to early history of Ventura County, with special mention of Tiburcio Vázquez, litigation for the Sespe Rancho, the murder of Thomas W. More in 1877, adobe houses in San Buenaventura, and San Nicolas Island. Partial transcripts of some...

Concerning art and artists of the San Francisco Bay area (particularly since 1910), the impact of the Panama Pacific International Exposition, various art schools and patrons.

Experiences with her husband, Vaughn B. McKeith, proving up a desert land claim at Grand View from 1905, later at Glenns Ferry, then in Owyhee County, with remarks on living conditions in the country, 1920 and later.

Notes his early life and legal training; connection of his family with canning industries (particularly olives); political activities-including association with the Progressive Republicans and various California governors; friendship with Arthur Brisbane; Los Angeles Bar Association and the State Bar; work...

Mrs. McLean's reminiscences of the early history of Berkeley, with related note from UC President Benjamin Ide Wheeler and note from UC Librarian J.C. Rowell.

Mainly concerning her husband, his work (especially the California Immigration and Housing Commission) and his great humanitarian interests.

Photocopy of a typed transcript of a tape-recorded interview conducted by Wesley Cook in 1967. Prefatory note by J.R.K. Kantor.

Concerning his early life and education, with notes on his father, a '49er; experiences as a conservationist, particularly in relation to Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks; Sierra Club: State Park Commission; practice, writing, lecturing and collecting in the...

Mainly concerning his activities in the Labor Movement and California politics and government.

Early years in San Francisco; the Fleishhacker, Dinkelspiel and Schwabacher families; UC Berkeley Department of Music, 1937-1941; Jan Popper and the Stanford University Department of Music, 1945; Schwabacher-Frey Printers and Stationers, 1905-1959; performing oratorio and opera; teaching young singers; thoughts...

Interviewees include: William J. Monihan, Elio Benvenuto, Emily Michels, Robert Brennan, Ethel Souza, William Justema, Louisa Jenkins, Maria Luisa Wolfskill, Mary Erckenbrack, Antonio Sotomayor, Paul Ryan, Micaela DuCasse, Mario Ciampi, Stephen DeStaebler, Charles Warren Callister, Vivian Cummings, Harold W. Cummings,...

Preferred citation: Renée Renouf Hall collection of materials relating to Hubert Stowitts and to the dance, BANC MSS 85/24 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Correspondence, articles, clippings, and assorted printed material pertaining to the dance.

Contains publications with articles on dance written by Renée Renouf Hall; also includes Renouf family papers (16th - 19th century).

Interviews with Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Roderic B. Park and Louise Taylor on the process of reorganizing UC Berkeley's Dept. of Biology and other science departments into the Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Dept. of Integrative Biology...

Unusually informative report, with two letters to Bancroft.

Consists of mounted photographs of company operations, a map of Calaveras County showing the properties of the company, and a sketch map of the Valentine group of mines.

Consists of statistics, graphs and charts on vessels entering San Francisco Bay area harbors including tonnage, and items imported and exported.

Contemporary copies. Originals of 2 of the documents are contained in the John Wilson Papers (C-B 420).

Includes maps and charts.

Thomas Savage's report, written in 1879, with detailed information about his trips in California securing copies of manuscripts and archives and dedications from pioneers; portions of the manuscript of Literary Industries; copy of story from San Francisco Bulletin, Apr. 27,...

Documents relating to the career of Dr. García Vallecillos, native of Algeciras, Spain, attorney and judge of the Real Audiencia, Alcalde mayor of Sololá Province, Guatemala, and defender of the Spanish régime in the closing days of the Viceroyalty of...

Two variant copies, illustrated.

Includes copies of reports of Edward F. Haas and Major S.A. Cheney, and tables on flood gages and precipitation, with particular reference to the flood of 1911.

Incomplete transcript of 1728 report prepared by Rivera, Governor of Tlaxcala and subsequently Governor of Guatemala, on the basis of his 1724-1728 inspection of the northern frontier presidios. It is divided into three main parts, in compliance with Viceroy Casafuerte's...

Typed record of first trial for murder of Robert Junior, an Indian. Each volume indexed. Signed by Fred J. Brownlee, official court recorder.

Interviewees and titles of interviews, as follows: Earl C. Behrens: Gubernatorial Campaigns and Party Issues: A Political Reporter's View, 1948-1966. Richard Bergholz: Reporting on California Government and Politics, 1953-1966. Sydney Kossen: Covering Goodwin Knight and the Legislature for the San...

Clark discusses maintaining inventory of state mines and mineral resources; editing California Division of Mines' gold districts of California, a report on 342 districts, published 1969; California mines and people in mining.

Record of amounts of water used, location, crops, condition of ditches, type of soil, and name of person ordering the water.

Views and accompanying Historic American Engineering Records reports on three Los Angeles bridges: the First Street Bridge, Sixth Street Bridge, and Ninth Street Viaduct (Olympic Boulevard Viaduct). Accompanied by reports on an additional five bridges which were determined not to...

Two identical views of San Francisco from the bay, each surrounded by 24 portraits of prominent men of the city. The portraits on each print are of different men.

Collection includes one photograph of Frederic Remington. Other items include many scenes featuring Indians, camps, exploration of the West, etc.

Reproductions of pen and ink drawings of various California missions (San Buenaventura, San Carlos, San Diego de Alcala, San Fernando Rey, San Juan Bautista, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey, Santa Clara, and Santa Inés).

Collection contains images (used as plates?) relating to "Life of the Late Rear-Admiral John Drake Sloat of the United States Navy", and a reproduction of a bust of Columbus.

Brief biography and family backround, work experience, Republican politics 1948-1972 and personal observations on women in politics. Also includes supporting documentation in separate box.

Letterpress copies of correspondence of the Union State Central Committee and the Union Republican State Central Committee. C-A 105 includes minutes for two meetings laid in at end.

Discusses his childhood; Navy career during World War II; his career at U.S. Borax & Chemical Corporation.

Scripts and related material; carbon copy of dissertation.

Correspondence, notes, and clippings concerning Cole's lengthy investigation into the life and California works of Italian-born sculptor, Felix Peano.

Correspondence with various U.S. Army officers (including General W.C. Brown), Adjutant General's Office and various offices of the War Dept.; notes and drafts (including "Battle of Infernal Caverns"); photographs of the forts.

Included is supportive material for nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.

Contains research materials, including photostat copies from microfilm, typed transcriptions, and some translations, chiefly from a variety of sources in the collections of The Bancroft Library. Includes Shaffer's notes, drafts, and clippings related to her M.A. Thesis, presented to the...

Roughly sorted preliminary notes, drafts, manuscripts and bibliographies compiled chiefly by the Federal Writers' Project, Oakland.

Manuscript and plates for his book, The Churches of Mexico, 1530-1810; card bibliography on Latin American architecture, especially the colonial period; negatives of buildings (some with architectural detail) in Mexico, Spain, Portugal, California, and the United States.

Notes, articles and clippings re Spanish-Mexican families in California and land grants.

Documents and articles realting to the career of California educator John Swett. Swett was principal of San Francisco's Rincon School, served as State Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1862-1867, and became City Superintendent of School in 1889.

Whinnery discusses his family background and early education at the University of California, Berkeley; his early career at General Electric; his return to Berkeley as a graduate student, lecturer, and associate professor; his years as Dean of the College of...

Includes portraits of Max C. Eastman and some of his fellow petroleum engineers, as well as photographs of oil fields, offices and other property of the Reserve Oil and Gas Company of San Francisco, Calif. Includes many photographs of the...

Elevations and floor plans.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Views of the Mauran-Rhodes residence in Santa Barbara, "Mon Désir." Home located at 325 E. Valerio.

Set of drawings (blueprints) for residence at 828 Contra Costa Ave., Berkeley, includes: site plan, front elevation, north elevation, south elevation, rear elevation, section, basement and foundation plan, first floor plan, second floor plan, attic plan.

Views of opulent country mansion of William C. Ralston, depicting exterior, interiors and estate grounds.

Photographs of two residences, one much more lavish than the other and captioned "New Residence of President Brigham Young."

A file on an inquiry, carried out by Aguileta as alcalde mayor and judicial official of San José del Parral, into the official conduct and services of Vega, former justicia mayor and captain of that mining settlement, and of Vega's...

Part of a collection of certificates, diplomas, and similar documents, primarily from California.

Discusses family life in San Francisco; business interests; other Jewish community leaders; Jewish charity activities (Jewish National Welfare Fund, Federation of Jewish Charities, Jewish Family Service Agency, etc.); formation of and changes in San Francisco Jewish Bulletin. Also included: brief...

Includes coffe mug illustrated with 2 printed images: logo for Restore Hetch Hetchy (depicting view of Hetch Hetchy Valley with no reservoir), and image of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir bordered by text: Hetch Hetchy / Yosemite's Buried Treasure. Also includes t-shirt...

The records include petitions, research, legal documents, publicity, photographs and other materials related to Restore Hetch Hetchy itself and environmentalism in general. Also contains correspondence of key figures in the organization including the notebooks of former Executive Director, Ron Good.

Includes a brief history of the planting of eucalyptus in the region, a list of nurseries supplying the young plants, details on the cultivation of the trees, description of area, tables on expenditures, results of planting and names of species...

The collection consists of correspondence; cantorial materials; musical arrangements, compositions and programs; biographical materials; certificates and honors; some of Rinder's writings and speeches; items from Rinder's tenure at Temple Emanu-El; and photographs. The correspondence consists of general correspondence as well...

Includes carte de visite portraits of unidentified individuals.

Removed from: Rudolph Blaettler's copy of Sterling's Lilith; a dramatic poem (F855.2.S6035 1926 c3).

Written as Superintendent, American Eagle Mine, concerning employment.

Correspondence (7 letters, handwritten and typescript) between authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror concerning their writing and published efforts.

Correspondence, manuscripts of writings on agricultural subjects and on E.W. Hilgard, and miscellaneous papers, relating to his work with the tenth U.S. Census and the College of Agriculture, University of California.

The collection consists of personal correspondence sent to Dr. Rhea Blue by friends and colleagues over the course of her life. The collection is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Correspondence from unidentified authors has been filed chronologically at the end of...

Correspondence of California pioneer Daniel Rhoads and his wife with family, including account of overland journey from Missouri in 1844 and information on farming in Santa Clara County near San Jose.

Retrospective interviews about philanthropist, community leader, and environmentalist Rhoda H. Goldman (1923-1996) with twelve individuals who discuss: leadership in Congregation Emanu-El's capital funds drive, Jewish Community Endowment Fund, and Mayor Dianne Feinstein's Committee for a Holocaust Memorial; Mount Zion Hospital...

Contains the administrative records and materials from the open mike meetings. Administrative records include correspondence, scheduling, agreement with the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, grant paperwork, signups and biographies on steering committee members. Open mike meeting materials include flyers,...

Printed brochure for investors, circa 1907; report by A.F. Stevens on the Company's property; miscellany, 1910-1916; correspondence with U.S. Enders, 1909, and F.W. Perkins, 1913, reflecting operational and financial problems.

The Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund Records document a history of charitable giving to nonprofit organizations working in the areas of the environment, Jewish affairs, Israel, population, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Reminiscences concerning his career in public health, specializing in child hygiene; his experiences at the Tsing Hua College in China, 1911-1912; work in Europe in chld welfare during World War I; organization of the Alameda County Health Center, 1919; and...

Materials relating to the life and work of German chemist Nobel Laureate (1902), Emil Fischer. Includes photographs, a three volume carbon typescript of the English translation of Fischer's autobiography.

Field notes, correspondence, drafts of reports and papers, and other materials related to Bachenheimer's research in India as a Fulbright scholar working with University of California Berkeley professor David Mandelbaum. Materials contain information on social structures, homes, agriculture, irrigation, kinship,...

Letters of information to George Gibson of the Quartermaster Dept. Include report on trip through Mexico en route to California, provisions available in San Francisco, army establishments in Oregon, changes in California, conditions at Benicia.

Early poems, short stories, "experimental dramas," miscellaneous correspondence with Edna Webster and publishers, and high school memorabilia (diploma). Several of the literary manuscripts were written for Edna Webster or Linda Webster. Most are undated but are known to have been...

Contains notebooks, writings, correspondence and other papers that Brautigan left with his friend Dwain Richard Cox. Also includes photographs of Brautigan, his family, and of a trip he took; some writings of Tanikawa Shuntarō. Writings and correspondence were not sorted...

Includes professional portraits, snapshots, proofs and cover mock-ups for several of Brautigan's works.

Miscellaneous papers, including two commissions as Judge of the Superior Court of California for Amador County. (1896 and 1902) signed by James H. Budd and Henry T. Gage; and his last will (Apr. 19, 1899).

Contains speech writings, publications, reports, photographs, scrapbook, notes, subject files and clippings and other materials related to the career of Trudeau. Includes his work with the Scandinavian Festival, the East Bay Regional Park District and issues related to parklands and...

Papers relating to Richard Cellarius's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Diaries, (1934-1977), and unpublished verses.

Engineering files relating to power plant projects, mainly in Hawaii (circa 1950-1964); a small amount of professional correspondence; subject files on topics relating primarily to the construction of steam power plants; a few publications by Powell and others on engineering...

Four brief letters written to R.H. Greg, William Rathbone, Lord Willoughby De Eresby and J.A. Novello.

Letters from Richard Dering to his brother Henry Thomas and his sisters Elizabeth and Francis discuss a return from the Sandwich Islands, offers of jobs aboard ships, and a description of the Farallones including a possible job at the light...

Concerning his poem, The Oak. A signed typescript copy of the poem included.

Includes photographs depicting various San Francisco Bay Area locations and subjects, including buildings and other landmarks on the campus of University of California, Berkeley; Skyline Boulevard and other streets in the East Bay hills after unusually heavy snowfall; and Golden...

Includes poems (manuscript and clippings) and letter to him from Thomas Mathews Blagg (May 18, 1900).

Contains the business records of Richard Garvey including correspondence discussing crops, mines and other ranch business, account records of household related items, and legal documents including land documents and a petition to keep the Garvalia post office. Also includes some...

Title devised by cataloger.

v. 1-3, journals, Sept. 1852-Jan. 1864, describing arrival in San Francisco after voyage from Boston, move to Marysville and employment in lumber business, trip to East and return via Panama, June-Nov. 1858; v.4-5, letterpress copy books of personal letters, 1878-1880...

Materials relating to an interview with Richard Graves by the Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office. Most are about his unsuccessful campaign for California Governor in 1954. Includes typescript copies of speeches by Graves.

v. I. Newspaper clippings of reviews of the work of the Armenian American author.

The papers include correspondence with California governor, George Deukmejian, letters from other American political figures, information about Pacific Gas and Electric Company, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Four undated letters regarding his writing activities and one autograph.

Contains unpublished manuscripts, chapbooks, printed educational material, poems, drawings, leaflets, flyers, and other materials related to Krech's creative works and poetry reading performances. Includes an advertising poster for a 40th anniversary poetry reading of Annus Miraculum at Moe's Books in...

Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of the Butano Forest Associates; notes, ephemeral promotional material, and clippings relating to the effort to preserve the forest of redwood trees in San Mateo County, Calif.

Signed, "Podgers."

Photographs of various climbing techniques taken at Yosemite National Park, Calif., and perhaps elsewhere. Also included is a letter written by Leonard describing army training film for "high angle climbing."

Papers relating to Richard M. Leonard's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Letters received, accounts and papers relating to his work as inkeeper at Bryson, Canada, and to his interests in mining, particularly in the Grand Calumet Mining Company of Ottawa, Ltd.

He discusses family background; Jewish Welfare Federation; Jewish Community Federation; influencing changes in the United Jewish Appeal and the Jewish Agency; Jewish Endowment Fund; activities on behalf of Israel and other political activities.

Views of Mount Shasta area including Black Butte summit and McCloud in Siskiyou County.

Materials relating to the Telegraph Avenue Co-op Center Council of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, Inc., 1980s. Oversize folder contains floor plans, sections and designs for a proposed health food co-op store, as well as maps of Berkeley neighborhoods.

Includes course materials, research files, project consulting files, and reprint publications.

Contains manuscripts and outgoing correspondence dealing with crime, criminal justice, and penology. Also includes Korn's poetry, a chapbook of poetry "Two Voices", laminated photographs of Korn in academic regalia, pamphlets, ephemera etc. Correspondents include his friend and publisher Robert Hawley.

Consists of letters from Richard Rolfe (Realf) to Sophie M. Smith written during the Civil War and Smith's comments on the letters. Also includes photocopies of letters written by Realf to other individuals during the Civil War, newspaper clippings and...

Montana dwellings: Medicine lodge (:1); Cactus covered roof no. 1 (:2).

Letters written to and by Floyd, president of the James Lick Trust; accounts; some minutes of meetings, memoranda and reports of the Lick Trust; photographs, specifications and blueprints of Lick Observatory (some mounted in a scrapbook); clippings; legal papers in...

Papers relating to Richard Searle's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Contains 2 letters of a miner's account of prices, conditions, lack of mail, large numbers of people coming to California for gold, and his eventual success while working a claim of another miner.

Material on elections and political issues, primarily at the state and local level, but including Presidential campaign information. Largely focuses on Democratic Party politics in Oakland and Berkeley from the late 1940s to early 1960s. Includes Democratic State Central Committee...

3 poems.

20 letters from R.V. Dey to his mother and sister in New York describing early life in San Francisco. He includes an an account of Digger Indians (July 30, 1855), a steamship outbreak of cholera (Sept 18, 1855),an account of...

The Papers of Richard Walker document his nearly forty-year career as a Professor of Geography at U.C. Berkeley. Included are records of his work with Faculty for Human Rights in El Salvador and Central America (FACHRES) in the early 1980s,...

Correspondence (including a significant number of letters to and from U.C. Berkeley colleague, David Rynin), course notes and syllabi, newspaper clippings, lecture notes, articles, research notes and manuscripts.

Scrapbooks labeled "California Scrapbook No.1" and "No.2," contain newspaper clippings concerning California life which have been pasted over the original entries in the day books.

Printed forms filled in.

1848 diary with sparse entries re life in Boston, with some accounts; memorandum of his voyage from New York to San Francisco via Panama in 1849, with mention of his tending store for J.L.L. Warren at Mormon Island, noting prices...

Photographs of boxing matches, with boxers and dates of fights given. Advertising sign in background indicates a San Francisco location.

Includes portraits of Hermann Kopp, Howard P. Short (as a young man taken in Central House, Calif.), Koluholsky[?], and Prof. Carl Schmidt. One small photo of the Laboratories de L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes from Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), Germany, is also present.

Photographs show views of deluxe train cars, the Super Chief on its maiden journey, the Denver Zephyr, scenes along the Santa Fe railroad line, dignitaries on board the train, etc. Some views show aspects of life on the rails: reading,...

Description of Jewish rites and ceremonies, evidently prepared for the instruction of inquisitors.

Bound volume of manuscripts by, and collected by, Joseph Ritson, Joseph Frank, and others.

Contains the supporting textual documentation relating to Rosalie Ritz, her career as an artist, and the court cases which she documented. Includes copies of incomplete typescript drafts she was preparing for a planned publication titled "Trials: Art, Media and the...

Includes two views of streets, one lined by palms and pepper trees, the other with a canal at one side; and one photo of avocado harvest.

Contains correspondence, notice of locations of mining claims, proof of labor in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, marriage licenses, deeds, crop mortgages and tax records for the county of Riverside, Calif.

Collection includes a photo-catalog of the Rix Compressor and Drill Company and several loose photos depicting post-1906 earthquake rubble of the company (located in San Francisco, near Market St.), an office interior, and Mechanical Engineers Association dinner in 1910. The...

Records of legal proceedings, kept by the alcalde of Santa María del Oro and Indé in the state of Durango. Include complaints, testimony and judgments rendered.

With index.

Reel 1: Chronology. Chronology of events through the first four weeks of the occupation at Wounded Knee, the declaration of an independant Oglala Nation and the armed struggle with U.S. Marshalls. Includes Dennis Banks, a director of AIM; Carter Camp;...

Letters from E.A. Dickson, C.H. Rowell, and G.E. Mowry; and documents and clippings relating to the organization and activities of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League in California.

Mainly letters to Allen with a few from him concerning his duties as Quartermaster at Benicia. Include several from H.W. Halleck, some pertaining to civil fund expenditures and to the printing and circulation of the California Constitution.

3 prints are portraits of journalist, editor, biographer and critic Robert Allerton Parker. 3 prints depict a sculpted portrait of Parker.

Photocopy of original manuscript letter discussing real estate business concerns, transactions, and propositions in "Yerba Buena" [i.e. San Francisco], "Benicia City" [i.e. Benicia], and Sacramento, California including the sale of lots and a two-story hospital to care for miners. The...

Historic buildings and locations in California. Focus is chiefly Northern California, with many locations in the Gold Country and Sierra Nevada towns as well as Napa and Mendocino counties, the Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen vicinities, etc. Also, copy photographs...

Collection includes pictures of the Barton family, their house, R.G. Barton Vineyard, etc. Also includes portraits of Laurette Taylor, John P. Sousa, Elsie Janis, Paderewski, Robert Barton, and the Lampers Club of Fresno, Calif. Outdoor scenes (Fresno area?), and interior...

V. 1,- 1954-Mar. 16, 1956; v. 2, Aug. 1955-Jan. 3, 1957; v. 3, Jan. 4, 1957-Mar. 9, 1958; v. 4, Mar. 11, 1958-May 20, 1959; v. 5, May 21, 1959-Oct. 16, 1960; v. 6, Oct. 17, 1960-Apr. 22, 1962; v....

Large collection of photographs of political cartoons drawn by Robert Bastian. Subjects focus on the politics of the 1960's including the Vietnam War, President Nixon, Kent State University, the United States economy, the Daily Californian (U.C. Berkeley's student newspaper), KQED,...

Include letters from William Henry Bateson, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, Frederic William Farrar, Helen Gladstone, Arthur Gray, David Masson, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, William Bruce Robertson, Herbert Stephen, Charles William Stubbs, Howard Overing Sturgis and William Aldis...

Regarding publication of a collection of his poems.

Refusing an invitation.

Original gouache paintings by Robert C. Stebbins used to illustrate the field guide Western Reptiles and Amphibians (by Robert C. Stebbins, most recent ed. published 2003). Includes paintings of salamanders, newts, toads, frogs, turtles, geckos, lizards and snakes. Also includes...

Campbell was a fur trader in the American West, ca. 1825-1835.

Mainly letters from William A. Bolinger concerning the sale of a mine in Plumas County.

Contains correspondence, corrected galleys, final manuscripts (some with annotations) and original copies of poems, publications and newspaper clippings chiefly related to the works of Activist poets. Also contains business correspondence of Woolmer/Brotherson Publishers, Inc., from numerous authors and publishers related...

Contains mostly research and writings for Harlan's books on John Henry Nash, David Hall & William Strahan, and William Doxey. Also includes several copies of various articles, keepsakes, book reviews, and interviews by Dr. Harlan concerning Anton Roman, George Labon...

The papers relate primarily to the publication of the Book of the Fair and the Book of Wealth. Include correspondence with Hubert Howe Bancroft and his wife and children, and with Francis B. Graves, Edward H. Mitchell and Charles O....

Includes photographs of Dollar Steamship Lines steamers and other vessels, exterior and interior, and portraits of Robert Dollar and family.

Comment on his work and work of other writers; art and literature, politics, etc. Copies of poems, essays and other works frequently included as enclosures.

Contains summaries of 9 interviews with California Democratic politicians used for Hennings' doctoral thesis, "James D. Phelan and the Wilson Progressives of California." Interviewees include: Mrs. Henry Hyer (Ethel Robertson) Whiting; Thomas M. Storke; Eleanor Wilson McAdoo; John B. Elliott;...

Drawings throughout. Diary begun, Apr. 3, 1849, on journey to California as a member of the Fremont Association of New York. Landing at Galveston from the ship, Benjamin R. Milam, the party proceeded overland via the Tucson cut-off. Subsequent volumes...

The papers include letters from Duncan to John Allen Ryan, typescript copies of poems by Duncan, and holographs and typescript copies of poems by a variety of poets.

Include letters addressed to John Martin, Werner Vordtriede, Cid Corman; manuscript of an untitled poem; and photocopy of a typescript of A Play With Masks, a masque Duncan wrote for a gathering of friends, and a ticket for a Duncan...

Includes eight notebooks containing drafts of poems, journal entries, prose sketches, writings in early stages, dream fragments, etc., covering the years 1940-1969; and letters to him, circa 1938-1941, from Harvey Breit, Nicolas Calas, Lawrence Durrell, Mary Fabilli, Charles Henri Ford,...

Box 1. Letters written by Duncan, primarily to Robin Blaser, with a few addressed to Jack Spicer; a few letters written to him; Christmas and birthday cards designed by him and Jess Collins, sent to Blaser; copy of his 1961...

Primarily materials relating to Cowan's Collection of rare Californiana, purchased for the University of California by Collis P. Huntigton in 1897. Includes correspondence; newspaper clippings; invitation for a reception for Phoebe A. Hearst's loan collection, 1916; and list of items...

Concerning the MSS. and illustrations for his Weird Tales.

The poems, in typescript and manuscript, were assembled about 1939, with a view to publication, a project afterwards carried out under the title Always Comes Evening; the Collected Poems of Robert E. Howard (Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1957) The accompanying papers...

Correspondence, notes, and drafts relating to Bell's research on Jane and Robert Grabhorn and the Grabhorn Press. Includes correspondence with Jane Grabhorn and others associated with the Press; excerpts from the diaries of Jane Grabhorn; and reminiscences of William Saroyan...

Correspondence chiefly concerning Burke's study of the Olson papers and acquisition of the papers by the Bancroft Library.

Roughly sorted.

Four letters (4 p.), three of which concern copies of Charles Lamb's Elia (1823) and The last essays of Elia (1833) being offered to Williams by MacGarvey; the fourth is from Bronson and concerns a copy of "Mrs. Atherton's article."

Includes letters to William Mervine and Henry Augustus Wise; and letter from William Brown Ide concerning proclamation of the Bear Flag Republic.

Includes letter to Curtis H. Page; photocopy of last will; manuscripts of seven poems and of his preface to the work of Sidney Cox; and miscellaneous items initialled by Frost or relating to him and his work.

Consists of 19 letters and telegrams, of which many refer to Frost's lecture tours and to trips to California. With these: notice of funeral service for Elinor Frost, Apr. 22, 1938.

In the Long Night (A.ms.S, 1943) and Name Unnamed (A.Ms.S, 12/20/35). With these: poem by Wilfrid Gibson, The Golden Room, with note in Frost's handwriting at end (A.ms.S, 4/20/45).

Most photographs show Robert Frost's homes in England; Derry, New Hampshire; and in Ripton, Vermont. The Vermont photographs focus on the countryside in the surrounding area. Three photographs show scenes at a San Francisco event in honor of the 90th...

Recollections of her long years of service with Robert G. Sproul in the University of California, from the comptroller's office to the presidency. With this: documentary material supporting the interview, including reprints of his inaugural address, memorial tributes, etc.

Albums show launchings of the U.S. William W. Campbell, October 29, 1943 (Permanente Metals Corp.) and of the S.S. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, November 27, 1942 (California Shipbuildings Corp.). These show shipyards, launching ceremonies, and related social events. Loose photographs include...

Interviews with various university officials and friends of Robert Gordon Sproul.

Files kept while member of the National Parks Advisory Board concerning the redevelopment of old Sacramento and the preservation of the San Francisco Mint. Include correspondence, clippings, reports and related materials.

Contains mostly correspondence, some on letterhead stationery, between McFarland, other railroad enthusiasts and organizations, and railroad companies. Most of the letters concern the buying and selling of railroad photographs. Also includes some railroad ephemera, a brochure for The Western Pacific...

Collection includes manuscripts, unedited and edited, of the book, AMERICAN COMMANDER IN SPAIN: ROBERT HALE MERRIMAN AND THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE, as well as clippings, and other miscellaneous documents, chiefly photocopies, relating to the Merriman and the book.

Contains handwritten and typescript correspondence to an antiquarian bookseller and poetry publisher in California and his wife. Includes letters and publications from Archibald Hanna, the curator of the Western Americana collection at Yale University concerning book collecting, publishing activities of...

Contains correspondence, campaign materials, speeches, manuscripts, clippings, paintings, photographs and other printed ephemera. The collection focus on political campaigns and political reform in New Mexico and the United States including documents concerning Kefauver's and Hubert Humphrey's bid's for president, the...

Consists of land deeds, land patents, mortgage records, court records, a ranch brochure and other business documents from Blossom's ranch.

Correspondence, notes, research materials and publications related to Prof. Kerner's research and teaching in history at U.C. Berkeley. Primarily material on Slavic countries, Russian and Soviet history and diplomacy, and Eastern Europe. Focus is on the late 19th and early...

Two handwritten letters of a personal nature from Robert K. Reid, the superintendent the state asylum, to his cousin containing references to the cool relationship between them and some details of Reid's recent financial difficulties.

Discussion of poetry, particularly influence of magic; other poets; etc. Also included: letter from Gerrit Lansing to Bialy, May l3, l968, with copies of two of his poems; and Robert Duncan's letter, Dec. 9, l982, to the director of The...

Contains research files, upublished typescripts, correspondence, and photocopies mostly concerning the writings of I.N. Choynski, a prominent San Francisco Jewish journalist. Includes Robert L. Singerman's unpublished typescript of selected excerpts from I.N. Choynski's columns, writing under the pen name of...

Martha Usinger correspondence, ca. 1974-ca. 1996; a draft version of Usinger's autobiography; manuscript on Usinger's ancestry; bibliography of Usinger's writings, 1969; correspondence re the Usinger memorial fund; reviews of Usinger's writings.

Primarily Usinger's papers as a professor of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. Includes correspondence, drafts and other materials relating to Usinger's publications; materials relating to grant proposals; Martha Usinger correspondence; research materials, including field notebooks; photographic materials; and...

Includs photographs for his book "Robert Leslie Usinger : autobiography of an entomologist;" many childhood pictures and snapshots of Usinger; many portraits, especially groups of entomologists at meetings and events in various places; also photographs of outings, including Galapagos Islands.

Includes correspondence, writings, teaching materials, grant proposals, and biographical materials.

Confidential memoranda and character sketches, together with notes mainly concerning European diplomacy. Microfilm of manuscripts in the Library of Congress.

Include letters written by him to his mother and father, to James M. Barrie, to Jules Simoneau and to others; a letter from his father; and letters, reminiscences, papers, etc., about him, assembled from various sources.

Typed transcripts of briefs, and other materials, as attorney with Austin Lewis, for three cases appealed to the California District Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Includes case of Charles Alden vs. Pacific Coast Lumber and Mill Company.

Correspondence, reports, biographical information, and photographs (of Los Alamos) concerning his career and activities with the University of California as an accountant, treasurer, and consultant.

Concerning his stay in Mexico, 1906-1907; quotations from notes made by William Marshall Anderson on Mexico in 1865-1866, included.

Collection contains copies of Hunter's published articles and letters to the editor, correspondence, ephemera, and printed pamphlets from organizations he was involved with. Items from his life in Liverpool (bulk 1870's-1880's) include writings about English politics, income tax, London and...

Letters, reports, reprints and maps of the consulting engineer, relating to hydro-electric power developments in Colorado, Mexico and California, and to irrigation in Colorado.

Includes photographs of engineering projects to which Robert McF. Doble contributed: the Guanajuato Canal Project in Mexico, the New New Century Dam and Gore Canyon project in Colorado, the San Miguel Canal Project (also in Colorado), and various other hydro-electrical...

Correspondence with William Haller, the Renaissance Society of America (W. J. Bouwsma, William Nelson and Rensselaer W. Lee), and the New York Public Library (George Freedley); manuscripts and reprints of his writings; notes concerning John Milton and other authors, and...

Included in: History of science and technology collection

Includes last will and testament, diplomas from Transylvania University, Kentucky, business correspondence, and letters to his daughter Ann (Mrs. William Anderson Scott) With notes and correspondence of William Anderson Scott concerning the Nicholson family and property in Ireland.

Letters received while editor of the Chicago Daily News and the Ben Franklin Monthly, mainly concerning articles and reviews written for the publications, from Bruce Rogers, James Guthrie, James Weldon Johnson, D. B. Updike, Thomas A. Boyd, Clarence Darrow, Paxton...

The column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Clippings of "Riptides," a column O'Brien wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle between 1939-1952. Columns for 1950 are lacking. Consists of 8 volumes.

Chiefly letters to Robert Ferry in Milwaukee, Wis., from various members of his family, mostly involving family matters. There are two letters from his brother Phil written from Pasadena, Calif.: one from Oct. 12, 1915, details Phil's ideas and sketches...

Letters concern Mrs. DuBois' property in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington.

Ledgers record the business of Pierce's drinking water delivery company in San Francisco; also, a copy of letter from Helen L. Grant concerning her grandparents and the business operation.

Negative microfilm of typed transcripts of 22 letters, describing overland journey to California in 1849; mining at the Agua Frio Mines, Mariposa County, 1850-1852; and farming on Texas Ranch, 1852-1859.

Correspondence, including letters from Paul C. Aebersold, Charles S. Cameron, Horace R. Gaither, Alan Gregg, Hugh F. Hare, Bertram V.A. Low-Beer and Shields Warren; manuscripts of papers; and notes relating to his teaching career and to his studies of the...

Contains grammar of several Uto-Aztecan languages including but not limited to Hopi, Tubatulabal, Numic languages, Takic (or Luisenic) languages and Piman languages. Grammar includes words for animals, plants, body parts, actions, and numbers 1-5. Not every language is represented for...

Includes portraits of various members of the Sibley family, and family travel in Europe. Views the Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939-1940, San Francisco, and the World Power Conference, 1936, Washington, D.C. Photos of family events and banquets (including the family...

A few letters to Sibley, including letters from Stanley E. McCaffrey and Frank M. Jordan; miscellaneous papers relating to his work for the California Alumni Association and the East Bay Regional Park District; and manuscript of a biography of Sibley,...

Consists of personal, academic and professional correspondence of Robert Spira during his time as associate professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University (1964) and assistant professor of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee (1964-1967).

Record A.Ms., (July 28-Oct. 5, 1849) for U.S. Topographical Engineers' survey under command of Captain William H. Warner (killed by Indians, Sept. 26) Exploration of the northern Sierra Nevada, chiefly along the Lassen Cut Off, for a possible railroad route.

Included in: History of science and technology collection.

Papers relating to Golden's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Includes letters from A.L. Bancroft, John B. Elliot, Jerry Giesler, Thomas J. Mooney and Earl Warren; clippings and miscellaneous papers.

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Consists of Berdecio's personal and professional papers, spanning his career from the 1930s through the 1990s, as well as articles, photographs, books and Taller Gráfica Popular print materials. Also, concerns Berdecio's work on the restoration of the "Hidalgo Libertador" mural,...

Photographs were taken during Robertson's European trip in 1963 and at his retirement in 1969. European locations include Budapest and Moscow. Other photos are of official functions of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union: meetings, congresses, etc.

Letters to Robert Duncan discussing Duncan's poems, his own work, news of mutual friends, etc. Typescript manuscript of his own poems also included.

Correspondence of Robin and David Kinkead.

Included: manuscript of his novel, Laughter out of the Ground, and of his poem, The Mending of a Continent.

Contains diary entries, correspondence, writings, artwork, and legal documents of Robin Leigh. Also includes records of the BlackMan's Art Gallery, consisting of history of the gallery, catalogs and press releases.

Letters from Jeffers and Mrs. Jeffers to various persons, including George Sylvester Viereck and Cyril Clemens; holograph MSS of three poems; his statement for the International Mark Twain Society Symposium for G.B. Shaw; clippings of poems (some signed); typed copy...

Manuscript correspondence (12 items) consisting of small love-letter notes written on paper and scraps of envelopes. Two of the notes appear to be poetry. One of the poems is written on a full sheet of paper. Also includes a small...

Nine addressed to Frederic I. Carpenter; one to Alfred A. Knopf; one to Thomas R. Smith.

Personal and professional correspondence arranged alphabetically (circa 1932-1985); professional files; files from WIlliam's career at the University of Michigan; files from William's career at UC Berkeley; and some personalia. The UC Berkeley files document William's work in the Virus Lab...

Correspondence, clippings about the history of the "California farmer and journal of useful sciences", and film transparencies. "California farmer" was an early California newspaper devoted to agriculture.

Photos captioned: R.C. Luesley's burro pack train in a mountain pass, loaded with merchandise for his store at Silverton, San Juan [Colorado] -- Pike's Peak, 14,336 feet high, from Pike's Peak Ave, Colorado Springs -- Manitou and Pikes Peak, Colorado.

Box 1 contains the diary (1873-1874) of M.E. Olmstead Wood, and the correspondence of Winfield Scott Rodgers and his two wives. Box 2 contains incoming letters, A-Z. The volume is an assessment book for Santa Cruz County (circa 1877-1880) and...

Strong discusses his Vancouver, Washington background; training and work in dance and theater, Seattle and New York, and choreography in postwar Paris; with Charlotte Winston Strong, founding Tiburon Vintners, 1959; Windsor Vineyards, 1962, Alexander's Crown and Chalk Hill; Sonoma Vineyards,...

His research notes and manuscripts of articles and of a projected book relating to the Kaweah Cooperative Colony Co.

Consists of correspondence and ephemera pertaining to Ellsworth's membership in the Save the Redwoods League (1920-1951) and the Sierra Club (1916-1952).

For expedition from Mission San Juan Bautista to Sierra Nevada Mountains (vicinity of San Joaquin River) in search of runaway Indians, Signed at Mission San Juan Bautista, May 6, 1828.

1) Br. Mus. Add. Ms. 18287. Rodrigo de Vivero. Relación. 1609; 2) Discursos de D. Rodrigo de Vivero, Conde de Orizaba: a) Pt. I, pp. 1-125. Transcripts from Vol. X of Muñoz Coll. in Madrid; b) Pt. II, pp. 1-60....

Included in: History of science and technology collection.

Papers relate primarily to Lapham's work with the National Defense Mediation Board and the National War Labor Board.

The collection is primarily made up of typescripts of articles, lectures, and book reviews. There are small quantities of personalia and subject files.

Preferred citation: Roger Ingpen collection of material relating to Percy B. Shelley, BANC MSS 72/237 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Correspondence and subject file for his interest and activity in Democratic Party politics particularly in California. Included are despositions from H. Robert Haldeman and Caspar W. Weinberger for Democratic State Central Committee vs. Committee for the Preservation of the Democratic...

Relate primarily to his activities in Democratic party politics in California. Also included are photostats and typed transcripts of correspondence between William Kent (Kent's father) and Theodore Roosevelt.

Contains approximately 1300 printed announcements from a wide variety of art museum and gallery venues located mostly in the San Francisco Bay area and other areas in California, Washington, and Oregon. Also includes a lesser amount of announcements from various...

Includes photographs taken by Roger Sturtevant of the Temple Players' (of San Francisco's Congregation Emmanu-el) 1928 production of S. Ansky's The Dybbuk. Many photographs are portraits of the play's lead actress Carolyn Anspacher. Also includes later portraits of Anspacher.

Map and photographs are of Camp Douglas, Utah Territory showing buildings and grounds of the camp.

Contents of notebooks and scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, correspondence and exhibition notices. Also includes audiocassettes and a reel-to-reel audio tape.

Includes announcements of programs, notes on illumination and fireworks for the Bohemian Grove plays, blueprints of Bohemian Grove buildings, copies of plays, notices and papers re midsummer encampments, membership lists, and other materials.

Notes and articles concerning visual education, compiled while teaching at University of California, College of Engineering; and policy books for guidance of new instructors of the Ordnance Unit, Research Officers Training Corps, 1923-1928.

Interviews conducted 1960 by Amelia R. Fry for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Part of a series on University history. Photographs inserted. Comments on his grandfather, James Sinclair of Hudson's Bay Company fame and his...

Contains some biographical material and reproductions of cartoons, some for the 1912 and 1928 political conventions.

Mainly deeds and other legal papers pertaining to land and property of the Doane, Hall and Winslow families in Massachusetts and New York. With these: South Carolina paper money, 1777; 2 deeds to John W. Park, 1846-1850, for land in...

Views of Roma Wine Company employees, winemaking facilities and company offices, presumably in Fresno and/or Lodi, Calif.

Collection contains research and writing materials, biographical information, and material regarding Bohemian Grove performances.

Include manuscripts of his book, Tom Stoppard; original holograph draft; typescript with revisions by Stoppard; revised typescript; printer's copy; and galley proofs. Also included: postcard and letter, 1976, from Stoppard to Hayman.

Contains letters, reports, and memos regarding Friends of the Earth (FOE) staffing, budget and Brower's dismissal and subsequent lawsuit against FOE. Also includes clippings regarding dismissal.

Dunckel commenting on the establishment of the General Electric Theater program and Reagan's role in tours promoting the program. Copy of photograph inserted and copies of documentary material appended.

Contains materials related to Rivlin's scientific research work including two bound volumes of his published articles, notes on scientific topics, lecture notes, notebooks, correspondence with other scientists and colleagues, book chapters and drafts, conferences, organizations, etc. Includes a significant amount...

Includes ribbons, buttons and other items promoting or otherwise pertaining to Mount Moriah Baptist Church, an African American church in Los Angeles, Calif.

Include letters to her friend, Carrie Laidlaw; clippings and programs concerning her career as singer and voice teacher; announcement and foreword for her book, Sixty Years of California Song.

Mainly papers of law firm, Rosborough & Berry, 1855-1861, and of A.M. Rosborough as Siskiyou County judge, 1857-1868. Includes court records, bills, letters and other documents. Also account book of A.M. Rosborough as special Indian agent. A few papers of...

Mainly deeds for land in Alameda County, California.

Personal correspondence, together with papers and items copied in various foreign archives. Materials accumulated during Hill's long career as Latin American historian, teacher, and archivist.

Photographs relating to the life and career of Hill, pertaining primarily to his work as an historian and archivist of Latin America. Included are photos from his college days at Eureka, Illinois, family portraits and snapshots, and an album of...

Includes letter from Maria Rose, writing from Conneautville, Pennsylvania (April 13, 1852) to her husband about feelings of him being away; and letter of William G. Rose writing from Sacramento (July 25, 1852) about his experience on board an unnamed...

Contains Rose Kuper's lecture notes from Hans Hofmann's art school lectures. Also includes letters from Hofmann to Kuper, drafts of translations done by Theodore Kuper of Hofmann address and article, gallery catalogs, clippings on Hofmann, and course flyers for the...

Contains research notes for articles on Italian-American relocation and internment during World War II and information on exhibit "Una Storia Segreta" about Italian-American relocation. Also includes biographical information on Rose Scherini and a copy of her article "Executive Order 9066...

Exterior and interior views of residence at 150 Lake, Oakland, Calif.

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

The collection consists of family correspondence, providing information about the family's history, involvement with the arts, and friendships, featuring letters from Abraham Rosenberg, Alice Greenbaum Rosenberg, Louise Rosenberg, Ernest Bloch, Isaac Stern, Oscar Weil, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Imogen Cunningham,...

Includes photos of Rosenshine's miniature sculptures (grotesques, masks, etc.) mainly from the 1920's and several from the 1960's. Some sculptures are portraits of her friends and associates such as Florence Wills, Jane Heap, Malcolm Smith, Nianco, Rebecca West, Heywood Broun,...

Interviews with residents of the Bay Area, primarily Richmond and the East Bay, about their wartime experiences during World War II. The interviews attempt to uncover how and why people from different backgrounds came to the Bay Area, what they...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes studies of rocks, plants, views of waterfalls and wilderness scenes. Sierra Nevada locations include: Mono Lake and Pyramid Lake areas, Saline Valley (Inyo mountains), Walker Pass, Cherry River, and others.

Letters to Elizabeth Ross from her brother, Benjamin, and her cousin, Robert T. Dyer. Some relate to mining in Auburn and Volcano, Calif.

Includes one letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to his brother William, n.d.; six letters from Christina Rossetti to various correspondents, l88l-1888, including one to Jefferson Davis, Jan. 9, l88l; and five letters from William Michael Rossetti to various correspondents, 1875-1907,...

From various members of the family, including one, Nov. 27, 1865, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; two by Christian G. Rossetti - June 6, l882 re her writing, and Dec. 29, l89l, to Katherine Aspinell; and two, l899, by William M....

Include diary of Valdimir Romanov giving account of the company's offices in Sitka, Kodiak and Unalaska, ca. 1831 (19 p.) and a statement of the commercial assets of the company for 1831, delivered to the shareholders Aug. 23, 1832 (18...

This collection consists of microfilm of records held at the National Archives and Cyrillic transcripts of portions of the microfilm made for Robert J. Kerner. The original documents were held at Sitka, and were transferred to the U.S. State Department...

correspondence, including letters from C.N. Hackett, Helen C. ham, R.B. Haselden, Lewis M. Knapp, Charlton M. Lewis, James M. Osborn, Henry Suzzallo, C.M. Torrey and Benjamin Ide Wheeler: notes on Restoration drama; material re Dryden, including notes and Mss. and...

Contains papers relating to U.S. relations in Central America, specifically in El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti including newsletters, political buttons, slides and audio tapes presentations on El Salvador in the early 1980s, and information on labor rights. Slide shows are...

Daily expenditures, Sept., 1896-Aug., 1904, and Sept., 1906-Oct. 1926, for Alfred Rotchy, chemist, and his family in Chicago, Vancouver (Wash.) and Antioch (Calif.)

39th Parallel astronomical and triangulation station, which was the primary U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey station in the Sierra Nevada. Includes views of the mountain peak, survey instruments, and the station cabins constructed near the summit. One station office interior...

Contains incoming correspondence and accounts of lumber and building supply company in Antioch, Calif. Letters are from wholesale distributors, and lumber yards and mills.

Reel 1: David Pesonen and Edmund G. Brown, Sr. debate concerning Proposition 15, 1976 election -- Reel 2: Bettina Aptheker: Free Speech Movement and the Burns Committee -- Reel 3: Eli Katz: Free Speech Movement, the Burns Committee, and Steady...

Chiefly accounts but also including 1 loose page containing the minutes of the meeting to dissolve the association at Sacramento on Oct. 4, 1849. Initialed by C[harles] B. B[urrell, Treasurer.].

Diaries, 1910-1911; correspondence; reports made for the Federal Land Bank of Berkeley regarding irrigation companies in California and Utah, 1921-1933; clippings, postcards, personal items, reports and data on irrigation and water supply, federal highway project in Colorado.

Contains a scrapbook, writings on his travels and ministry, and video and audio cassettes of lectures and sermons. The scrapbook includes materials on his unsuccessful run for the Berkeley School Board in 1961, his election as a bishop, and photographs.

Contains correspondence, materials relating to attending college, and documents about collecting property after leaving internment. Also includes a photograph of Japan Day in 1939, a couple of drawings one at the Heart Mountain Camp and one by his sister Grace...

Contains items used in Roy Thomas's course work at the University of Calif., Berkeley in Black Cinema, including scrapbooks. African Americans' covered are Stepin Fetchit, William Marshall, Oscar Micheaux and Clarence Muse, among many other famous African Americans in movies.

Five handwritten letters (11 p.) to the founder and owner of the Fisk Hotel discussing business matters affecting the hotel, gold mining, and shipping cost reductions. Three of the letters are from family members in Silver Mountain, California, including two...

Collection includes annual report, reservation form for the 78th annual festival, letter from Gladys Cooper, as chair of the annual festival, to Gerald W. Henderson. Also includes 1 envelope addressed to Henderson and 2 notes by him to Gabrielle Enthoven.

Four journals that document the early life and overland journey to the California gold fields of Royal T. Sprague. Vol. 1 begins on Sprague's 21st birthday and concerns his teaching experiences in Potsdam, N.Y. and Zanesville, Ohio. Vol. 2 begins...

Collection of royal decrees, viceregal orders, and related documents, mainly copies, originating in Spain and Mexico and concerned principally with the University of Mexico or its relations with other educational institutions. Corresponds substantially in content with the main portion of...

Concerning books and articles published by Houghton Mifflin & Company and the Atlantic Monthly, of which Scudder was editor. Some pertaining to John C. Fremont.

Papers as president of lumber companies such as Wolf Creek Timber Co., Plumas Co., California, and Elk Lumber Co., of Oregon, which companies were based on timber acquired by Mr. N.P. Wheeler of Pennsylvania.

Incomplete file (copies and originals) of documents concerning Rubí's inspection of frontier presidios. Include letter from Julián de Arriaga notifying Viceroy Cruíllas of Rubí's appointment as inspector; correspondence of Rubí with Paraja and Huejuquilla presidios; and Rubí's letter and report...

v.1-2: Original congratulatory cartoons drawn by members of the National Cartoonists Society and presented to Goldberg upon his winning the Pulitzer Prize, 1948. -- v.3: Congratulatory cartoons presented with the Banshees' award. -- v.4: Cartoons presented for Goldberg's 80th birthday,...

Letters written to Rubio concerning farming operations on haciendas near Querétaro.

Contains correspondence between Lawrence Fixel and friend Ruby Riemer, including typescripts of poems and other works, copies of published works and reviews.

Photocopy.

Includes 18 letters from Sauter to Harrison, a letter from Viola Sauter to Harrison; cards from Viola and Rudolf Sauter to Mr. & Mrs. Harrison; carbon typescripts of Harrison letters; related materials.

Include letters from H.D. Austin, Elizabeth (Altrocchi) Chiostri (re a visit by Porfirio Díaz to Guadalajara in 1908), Renato Fucini, C.H. Grandgent, Richard T. Holbrook, Mario A. Pei (as editor of Italians in America), H.L. Koopman, Charles W. Lemmi, Pio...

Letters by Sterling, first drafts and fair copies of many poems, a few letters to him, including some from Mary Austin, Douglas Fairbanks, etc.

Includes research notes and photographs, correspondence, reprints, W.W. I materials, personal miscellany.

Letters to Schevill from scholars in Romance languages and others from: A.Alonso, D.Barrows, R.Beer, H.A.Beers, J.C.Cebrian, G.Chinard, G.Cirot, W.L.Cross, W.Entwistle, A.Farinelli, J.Fitzmaurice-Kelly, J.Ford, L.Hanke, W.M.Hart, P.Hazard, F.Kruger, A.Kuersteiner, E.Merimee, G.Morley, H.Oertch, K.Pietsch, K.Rand, H.E.Smith, J.Steinbreicher, H.M.Stephens, G. Stimming, G.A. Thayer,...

Two letters (4 p.) concerning troop movements, discipline, and the physical ability of the 11th Regiment.

The letters, written to his wife in Detroit, Michigan, describe his voyage from New York to California via Panama, with a stop in Los Angeles, and his stay in San Francisco to test a magnetic device for separating gold from...

Aerial view above Nob Hill depicting ruins of San Francisco following the earthquake and fire of 1906.

Photos show exteriors of adobe buildings of Hartnell School, built by William E. P. Hartnell.

Views of adobe ruins.

Notes concerning the family and early San Francisco; newspaper clipping concerning a celebration by survivors of Stevenson's Regiment in New York, October, 1896, and obituary notices for Adolph G. Russ, June 25, 1902.

Russ House, menu, 1863, and blueprints, 1st and 2d floor plans; Brooks & Rouleau, Abstract of title (1869) 50 vara lot 263; C.V. Gillespie, Abstract of title (1881) 100 vara lot, 230; Joseph Clement, Abstract of title (1878; continued to...

Records of fruit grower Russell B. Blowers and Sons in Woodland, California. Contains ledgers, time books, shipping records, agent's price catalogues, lists of shipments, receipts, and other material related to marketing of California fruit by Sgobel and Day, agents in...

The Russell De Valois papers include correspondence, writings, course materials and research notes from his tenure at UC Berekely as well as his time as a student.

Original photographs compiled to illustrate Day's unpublished memoir Glory in My Hand. Includes World War II scenes documented by Day during his military service as a war photographer: U.S. Army soldiers during naval passage to Europe; various locations in London;...

Scenes of every day life in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif., touring and outdoor activities in California, and family photographs. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Russell are pictured in front of their home at 331 Alcatraz, Oakland; other people shown outside several...

Correspondence, writings (poems, stories, essays, etc.), diaries, artwork, small-press books, and photographs. Includes manuscripts by Helen Adam, James Alexander, Robin Blaser, Paul Blackburn, Richard Buckle, Victor Coleman, Robert Creeley, Wesley Day, Samuel R. Delany, Thomas M. Disch, Harold Dull, Lewis...

Plan and specifications as Oakland City Engineer.

Diary of World War I soldier from Douglas, Nebraska with dated entries and pencil sketch cartoon drawings depicting his experiences as a private in the Army Signal Corps (Company E, 405th Telegraph Battalion). The bound diary (15 x 9 cm)...

Album contains snapshots of a small group of United States soldiers in World War I, taken during leisure time at various locations in France and Germany, including Blois sur Loire, Chaumont sur Loire, Tours, Toul, Fort Gondreville, Sorcy, Creue, Conflans,...

Experiences with the White Army on the southern and Siberian fronts; emigration to China, and to the U.S. in 1923. Photographs and maps inserted.

Experiences during World War I and with the White Army; life as a refugee in Shanghai; Japanese occupation of Shanghai during World War II; removal to the Philippine Islands in 1949 and refugee camp at Tubabao; arrival in San Francisco,...

Bancroft discusses her early interest in gardening; architecture studies at the University of California, Berkeley; historic houses and gardens in Walnut Creek, Calif.; tour of the garden of cacti and succulents; working with the Garden Conservancy.

Documents the placement of the statue, repairs, and controversy over its replacement after vandalism.

The collection contains an original letter from and a photocopy of a memorial service for Egon Frey, a cousin; and programs, including one for a piano concert given by Hephzibah Menuhin (1928) and two for the Distribution of Annual Awards...

Box contains song cards created by local artists for screen projection in the Barndoor Canteen, a U.S.O. facility in Carmel, California. Scrapbook contains clippings, letters of appreciation, and handwritten comments from soldiers who visited the U.S.O. Also included is a...

Correspondence with the U.S. District Court (Southern District of California) and the Tulare County Board of Trade concerning the Kaweah Cooperative Colony.

Collection of individual poems written by ruth weiss. Production methods and sizes vary; most are holograph in silver ink on colored cardstock; some contain illustrations by Paul Blake.

Consists of posters, flyers, magazines, and promotional materials including a group of materials relating to the European Book Festival's 1998 Prague Project: A Beat Generation Fest. Posters and flyers relate to Weiss' public appearances, including some in California, but mostly...

Contains typescript non-fiction essays and transcriptions of family members accounts concerning various historical aspects of the José de Jesús Vallejo family in California, Mission San Jose, and California history.

This collection portrays a cross-section of poetry and related activities in the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s to the early 1990s through a broad array of manuscripts, mostly unpublished, and local periodicals. It offers material for researchers...