Correspondence regarding efforts to build Bayshore Highway and Skyline Blvd.
The J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 3027 negatives and 3607 prints (both vintage prints and copy prints), 1924-1972, that depict commercial sites, residences, and other subjects in and around Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley in...
Account books, 1862-66; correspondence, 1860-67; receipts, 1859-66.
Account books, 1862-66; correspondence, 1860-67; receipts, 1859-66....
Written from Murphy's Bar, Calif. to Juan de Dios Sepulveda in San Francisco to obtain certified copies of documents in Spain concerning inheritance of family estate.
Letters from C.B. Lewis and R.D.S. Taylor, his publisher, concerning Lewis's book, Quad's odd.
Written from Sacramento, two appended to lettersheets of the second and third issues of Sacramento News-Letter, a fortnightly publication. Relate to his business, that of selling goods on commission.
Deals with accounts, filling orders, transport of goods, retaining customers and underselling competitors for the Navarro Mill Co.
Date books and diaries recording engagements of the Mackey Amusement Enterprises, handling bookings for theater, vaudeville, and talking pictures (actors performing scripts during silent film showings). Some volumes include accounts and addresses.
The early letters describe his activities while a member of the Isaac Ingalls Stevens' party to explore a route for the Pacific Railroad, life at Fort Vancouver, the collecting of specimens and gold washing. Later letters relate to his work...
Contains sketches, blueprints, and pastels (over 100) for residence of D. Virginia Atkins.
Articles delivered after Leidesdorff's death and previous to appointment of W.D.M. Howard as administrator. With this; receipt to Howard for nails left with Leidesdorff by Francisco Ramides (?) Jan. 4, 1848, witnessed by Ackerman.
This collection contains mounted blueprints of Highlands Public School, Redlands, California.
Consists of personal and professional certificates, including the birth certificate of Conrich's maternal grandmother; and materials concerning the surveying, construction, and improvement of Oakland Harbor, including copies of legislation (1910-1912, 1922), architectural plans, and other papers.
Personal and professional papers, including clippings, books, slides, bank statements, maps, architectural plans and blueprints for commercial and residential buildings, and typescripts of stories.
Consists of a typescript titled The Mammy Pleasant legend [1954], with photocopy; copies and clippings of Conrich's letters to editors, people who are ill, salesmen, and others, compiled by Conrich with introductory notes under the title, Man of letters [undated];...
This collection is comprised of correspondence, notes, and other material regarding J. Lloyd Eaton. It includes Eaton's handwritten notes and ratings on several science fiction and fantasy stories and anthologies as well as correspondence from a variety of booksellers. Eaton's...
The collection contains planning files for the program.
Describing overland journey from Missouri to California in 1850, experiences mining in Nevada City and farming on Skull Bone Ranch near Colusa. Also included are a few letters from his brother Henry who joined him on his farm in 1853.
Records comprise photographs, and photocopies of the photographs, of the opening and unpacking of the Ludwig Collection of illuminated manuscripts purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983.
Correspondence, reports from the architects and builders, legal and financial documents, blueprints and models, photos, printed matter and oral histories, dating 1960, 1964, 1968-1986, undated (bulk 1971-1974) concern the design and construction of the J. Paul Getty Museum (Villa).
The records comprise audio recordings, video recordings, and ephemera that document public events sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from 2006 to the present.
The records comprise inventories, lists, and accession records from the museum and library, listing J. Paul Getty's personal books and furniture in the museum, reference books in the library, and books purchased for the library of the J. Paul Getty...
The records comprise of press releases and press clippings, dating 1954-2006, issued by the J. Paul Getty Trust and J. Paul Getty Museum. The press releases are intended to inform the media and, by extension, the general public of Getty...
Temporary list of contents available.
Describe California in 1849 and concern property in Oakland; some to J.W. Denver re the condition of California Indians. Also photocopy of letter to James A. Garfield, protesting the liquor tax.
Collection mainly consists of clippings of magazine and newspaper articles by Oakland author J. Torrey Connor from the 1890's-ca.1930. Many of these were published in Los Angeles newspapers or in national publications. Also contains clippings from society pages about Connor,...
Collection consists of scripts and production material for various television specials featuring personalities such as Andy Williams, Barry Manilow, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Johnny Carson, Mitzi Gaynor, Perry Como, Shirley MacLaine, and Gene...
Letters written by him, mostly from the Yukon Territory, describing his work mining gold. Comments on weather, trip from Skagway to Dawson City, Dawson City, life in mining camp, difficulties with cooks, etc.
Papers relating to Futrell's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, and printed matter, relating to governmental administration in Poland, Polish foreign relations, and the Polish educational system.
Assignments to military duty in Zapopan and other places in the state of Jalisco.
Letters to Ken Pettitt, and poems by him.
Includes two items by Foley: "Indeed the name was Irish," a St. Patrick's Day address (with Adelle Foley) to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, delivered March 14, 1990; and the text of a reading at Cody's Books, Berkeley, June...
Contains letters and mss. poems. Letters discuss fellow poets Charles Bukowski, and Allen Ginsberg, Hirschman's work on the magazine "Phoenix," and his translation work.
Scrapbook of stories, articles and miscellaneous items by and about Jack London.
Correspondence, articles, clippings, ephemera, pamphlets, personal records
Nine letters to Frank Putnam (Nov.15, 1902 - Mar.7, 1905) relating to the controversy over publication of his story, The One Thousand Dozen, in the National Magazine. With these: carbon of a letter from Putnam to London, Feb. 23, 1905;...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collection contains the notice of the March 3, 1998 memorial at 439 Guerrero St. in San Francisco, a program, a printed email description of event from Jesse Beagle sent to Jack Foley, flyers, broadsides, obituaries, and related newspaper clippings.
Doug Ballinger and John (Jack) Rowan in front of Berkeley's Center for Independent Living, and Rowan on Telegraph Ave. carrying Christmas tree on his wheelchair.
Books and serials relating to a wide range of domestic and international cooperatives ranging from agrarian to financial to healthcare cooperatives, among others.
Also included: Manhattan [poem] written on a postcard addressed to Allan Joyce; and some notes on Whitman for Allan Joyce [1 l.]
Letters written from Boston and New York to a student friend at Berkeley.
Letters to Graham F. Mackintosh; letters to Donald M. Allen, with carbons of Allen's letters; Mss of poems, published and unpublished; galleys for Book of magazine verse; typescript and galleys for Language; typescript of Lament for the Makers; unpublished book...
Consists chiefly of typescripts and manuscripts of single and collected poems, all undated. Includes typescripts of 9 poems, including 3 signed by Spicer, and poems collected under the titles: Billy the Kid; The heads of the town up to the...
Letters, notes, reports, statements, and other material relating mainly to the Central Valley Project and to water problems in California.
Letters written by him, 1930-1948; a few letters to him, mainly on behalf of the Murder Club of Los Angeles; manuscripts of short stories, brief articles and poems by him; clippings re his paintings; obituary clippings; and miscellaneous personalia.
This collection includes material organized in four series: Private Papers, Personal Papers, Photographs and Printed Matter, and Ledgers and Accounts....
Includes personal and business papers belonging to David Jacks and the David Jacks Corporation presented to the Huntington Library by his daughter, Margaret Anna Jacks, April, 1958...
The DAVID JACKS PAPERS include correspondence, primarily business; legal and official documents in the form of leases, bills of sale, transfers of title, and court actions; financial papers; maps; clippings and printed materials; and photographs, photostats and prints. There are...
Holograph letter written at the Hermitage recommending a good plantation manager to Maj. Gen. Pillow.
Papers of Calvin Jackson (1919-1985), jazz pianist, composer, arranger, ensemble leader, and host of radio and television programs featuring jazz music and performers. The material consists of manuscript scores and instrumental parts for Jackson's own compositions, his arrangements of the...
This collection of Jackson County records consists of about 1600 items formerly held by the County Clerk's Office. They include licences, bills, receipts and certificates pertaining to ferries, peddling, road building, elections and liquor sales (1853-1891)....
Receipts, coroner's reports and fee bills; and bridge commissioner's report.
Clippings, leaflets, and miscellanea, relating mostly to relief work in World War I.
George Pullen Jackson (1874-1953) taught German at various institutions beginning in 1905, was a professor of German (1918-43) and emeritus at Vanderbilt University, President of the University Philharmonic Society in Grand Forks, North Dakota (1913-18), the founder of the Nashville...
Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) was born in Liverpool, England. He began publishing articles at age 16 while working as a clerk. He co-edited the in 1907 and edited , which he later bought out in order to edit his own literary...
The collection consists mainly of correspondence (both letters written to Jackson and his replies); manuscripts of a few books and articles; notes and research materials; royalty statements; clippings of his book review columns; and some photographs. They cover the period...
The papers consist of the following series:...
Speeches, memoranda, reports, orders, and printed matter, relating to American naval policy during the 1920s. Includes summaries of intelligence reports, received by the United States Embassy in France, 1917-1918.
Diaries, essays, and clippings, relating to relief work in Belgium carried out by the Commission for Relief in Belgium during World War I.
This collection consists of materials that document four NASA space programs during the years 1967 to 1988: Biosatellite, Magellan, Pioneer and Voyager. The materials were collected by Robert W. Jackson, who served as Recovery Controller for the Biosatellite program and...
Drafts of Jackson's articles, books, and papers; research notes; class lectures; and correspondence concerning his research interests in the Trans-Mississippi West and California mining, as well as his organizational affiliations.
Contains views of street scenes from various Mexican locations depicting peddlers, water carriers, children carring burdens on their backs, etc.; also included are a general view of Chihuahua, a cathedral in Mexico City, a palace and, a pottery market in...
views of eleven missions, featuring buildings, friars in mission gardens, cemeteries, etc.
Relating to his service as San Francisco agent for the Elk River and Arcata Mill and Lumber Companies and for the steamer Arcata, concerned with shipping along the coast and in Hawaii.
Typescript copies of two works by Jacobsen: "Family History," a short biography of his father, Jacob Christian Jacobsen, containing information on his arrival in Montana in 1889 from Denmark, farming in Montana, and growing potatoes in Idaho. And "Recollections," concerning...
Consists chiefly of letters from Stillman to family members, many of which are written to his son, John Maxson. Of particular interest is an 18-page letter describing Stillman's 1849 sea voyage to Calif. Includes letters written from Asia and Europe...
Mostly drafts and fragments relating to Holeman's service as Indian Agent in Utah, 1851-1853, including letters to Luke Lea, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, May 1 and 8-11, 1852, and May 14, 1853; to R.M. Halliday, February 1, 1853; and a...
Consists of personal and business correspondence of Leese and his partner Thomas Oliver Larkin regarding their ownership of the U.S.S. Eveline; Leese's personal and legal correspondence, including his naturalization papers; indentures for three Chinese workers; and documents pertaining to Leese's...
Writings, correspondence, press releases, campaign literature, serial issues, clippings, and memorabilia, relating to activities of the Libertarian Party in the United States, its efforts to secure positions on the ballot for its candidates in various states, its opposition to military...
Includes marriage certificate, passports, citizenship certificate, etc.
Complementary reports (one a continuous narrative, the other written as 22 daily entries) concerning an exploring expedition in the Southwest undertaken by Sedelmayr and twenty-four soldiers, from Busani, near Caborca, to the Gila-Colorado River area of Southern Arizona, then descending...
Correspondence, writings, printed matter, maps, and photographs, relating to cavalry tactics, logistics, and military transportation during and after World Wars I and II.
Relates to the arrest of J. F. de Jacobs by Soviet authorities.
Writings, correspondence, reports, and printed matter, relating to reconstruction in Korea after World War II, the Italian communist movement, the Philippine independence movement, and the Shanghai riot of May 30, 1925.
Dance and souvenir programs for Ted Shawn and his Men Dancers, 1934-1938, and for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, 1954-1955 and 1957-1958; publicity materials and dance programs, circa 1940-1949, for dancers Barton Mumaw and Foster Fitz-Simons; stylized drawings, circa 1936,...
Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946) was a song composer, and president of the publishing firm of Carrie Jacobs Bond & Son. The collection consists of music and poetry manuscripts by Carrie Jacobs-Bond, citations and tribute books in honor of her, scrapbooks, clippings,...
The Norman Jacobson papers, 1949-2002, document his professional career as a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of South Carolina. The bulk of the materials consist of Jacobson's scholarly writings...
Correspondence, reports, financial records, and photographs, relating to relief in Belgium during World War I and to the operations of the Foyer des Orphelins during and after the war.
Grover Jacoby was the editor of two national quarterly journals of poetry: and . The collection consists of material pertaining to the poetry journals and includes letters to the editor, reviews and comments, extracts from the two quarterlies appearing in...
The bulk of the collection consists of records of hearings conducted by the U.S. House of Representatives on the subject of migrant labor. The collectiona also includes publications from the WPA Division of Social Research and Farm Security Administration, with...
The collection includes WRA reports and other printed materials, periodical articles both by Japanese Americans and by others, field notes, internment camp newspapers and highschool yearbooks, clippings, and ephemera relating to the Japanese-American relocation. It contains materials pertaining to nearly...
The papers in this collection derive from Jacoby's activities both as a teacher and as a citizen acting in the cause of reform.
Jacques Collin's porfolio, sent to Vernon De Mars ca 1961, contains Collin's Curriculum Vitae and nine various projects. The projects include residences, urban planning, and art design.
Relates to the Eurasian nature of Russian civilization.
Orders, reports, correspondence, and memorabilia, relating to resistance activities of the Armée belge des partisans in Belgium during World War II.
Letters, mainly from fellow European physicists, many of them German, and written primarily in German; copies and/or drafts of his letters; documents and letters re professional appointments; personalia; reprints of papers; manuscript of Probability of Physics; material relating to his...
Collection consists of photocopies of orchestral scores for the television series, JAG which were composed by Steve Bramson. Included in the collection are scores for 200-plus episodes aired between 1996 to 2007.
Relates to political and economic conditions in and foreign relations of Latin America.
Correspondence, writings, clandestine literature, leaflets, serial issues, other printed matter, sound recordings, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to activities of Solidarnosc in Poland.
This collection contains correspondence, family journals, field notes, typescripts, manuscripts, poetry, artwork, photograph albums and published works
Depiction of Egyptian leaders Gamal Abdel Nasser and abd al-akim ?Amir.
Black & white and color photographs and negatives of gay pride parades and festivals in Long Beach and Los Angeles, 1984-2001.
Contains daily entries of requests, hearings, actions, and accounts of the municipal government of the capital of Veracruz, Xalapa. Reflection of city administration during early republic.
Relates to conditions in Lithuania during World War II, and to Polish émigré affairs. Includes writings of others.
Relates to historical events in Russia and Lithuania before, during, and after the Russian Revolution and Civil War; Poles in Lithuania; and agricultural developments in Lithuania, 1881-1939. Includes watercolor drawings and sketches of scenes and manor houses in Lithuania and...
Collection contains two interviews of James A. Donahue, President of the Graduate Theological Union. Audiocassette of interview from a radio program, KCBS radio 74.0 San Francisco, Calif., April 21, 2002, interviewer and program title unknown. A typed transcript of the...
Five-page typed letter from James A. Warren, to his son, David Warren (addressed as "Pete" in the salutation), written from Portland on April 21, after escaping the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Describes the progress of the fire and...
to his sister, Lucretia B. Bryant, Pittsfield Mass.
Written to the author's brother, John B. and his sister, Sarah A. Chase Stone, Michigan. Content consists chiefly of routine details of daily life (prices of goods, wages, Chase's daily activities, health and family matters, the mails, religion), with some...
Snapshots and some commercial photographs of shipboard scenes, British sites, family members, and social gatherings in Scotland and England. Includes views of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and one photograph of Mark Twain and his daughter Clara in London.
Collection of programs, posters, flyers, and ticket stubs for annual Mountain Play performances in Mill Valley, Calif., on Mount Tamalpais, some are in a scrapbook with comments made by James B. Roof. Several of the plays performed were written by...
Collection contains material related to James B. Simmons, Jr.'s political campaigns in Toledo, Ohio.
Receipts for property taxes, a road tax, a military poll tax, and Oakland city taxes. The property tax receipts are for Bailey's property in Clinton, Calif. Includes one receipt, dated Oct. 12, 1866, paid by R. Wainright for property in...
Four pocket notebooks, three bound in leather and one in paper, chiefly recording day-to-day purchases and expenditures for business conducted by Barnes in Boston and Calif., particularly purchases pertaining to gold mining and his financial investments in copper, silver, and...
Consists of bylaws, correspondence, policy statements, minutes, reports, publications, guidelines, and notes relating to the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council (1966-1971) and the Mayor's Committee to Restore the Haight-Ashbury (1970-1971). Includes clippings, publications, and materials about the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
For information on main collection, see collection-level record (search under call number: BANC MSS 71/295 c).
Contains 2 letters from Sacramento and Deadwood, Siskiyou County, Calif. describing the mail service, running a grocery in Sacramento, travel overland to Calif., gold mining, Diamond Spring and Hangtown, and talk of going to Oregon.
The collection consists of pre- and post-election letters 1885-1886 to James C. Nealon, who was nominated and elected to serve the position of Assessor of San Francisco from 1887-1890. The first letter is a handwritten draft of the announcement to...
Letter from James Canney in San Jose to John Bell. Accompanied by "Bell's Real Estate Circular" dated 1882. Canney invites Bell to come to California and describes the farm equipment business and the status of a Quaker colony in San...
Ledgers concern, in part, family orange groves in Ontario, California. Until 1921, compiled by James Cathcart Snodgrass; thereafter by Annie Evans Snodgrass.
Includes bibliographical references.
Annotated bibliography of his personal collection of Mormon books; photocopies of letters to him by Mrs. Josephine R. Secord, granddaughter of Sidney Rigdon (1955), and George G. Shurtz, 1960; photograph of "Kinderhook plate" in Chicago Historical Society museum.
Bequest of James D. Hart.
Chiefly correspondence between James D. Hart and Jesse S. Crisler (1984-1987), and including correspondence with others, all regarding an edition of the collected letters of Frank Norris, compiled and annotated by Crisler, and published by the Book Club of California...
Consists primarily of letters from James D. Hart, as director of The Bancroft Library, to James L. Henry. The correspondence concerns the sale or donation of Henry's collections of material relating to 20th-century American authors to The Bancroft Library. Also...
Primarily California locations, including: Weaverville, Bodie, Mare Island, Berkeley, Petaluma, Columbia, Downieville, Fort Ross, San Francisco, Monterey, Palo Alto (Stanford Univ.), Sutter's Fort, Yosemite National Park, Oakland, and others. Also included are Bryce Canyon, Utah; Fort Churchill and Aurora, Nevada,...
Primarily social correspondence to Phelan from local and international figures, including thank you notes, congratulatory remarks, letters of introduction, and invitations. Also includes four letters from Albert Shaw, editor of the American Monthly, discussing articles submitted by Phelan; and three...
The Daniel James Collection contains James' correspondence, notes and drafts (1953-1969), including most of his "Dateline Latin America" columns and an unpublished work titled "Communism in Mexico." The collection also contains information files on Latin America and individual Latin American...
Contains letter reports and addresses about the ERP mission to Italy in 1948-1950. Includes report to United States Congress for extension of the ERP.
Include his last will and testament Oct. 10, 1844, witnessed by J. O'Farrel and William Blaisdell; statement by J.P. Leese for his widow, Nov. 1844, and by Antonio M. Pico, 1847, re the rancho she inherited.
Includes Perpetual Diary for the Pacific Coast (1 vol.), ca. 1875.
v.1 (1 portfolio) - letters written to his brother from Europe, 1862-1863; v.2 (in box) - scrapbook of clippings and related material re his campaign for congress, San Francisco, 1894.
Reports on irrigation projects, dams and power companies, in California, Arizona, Mexico, Utah and Texas, written while consulting hydraulic engineer.
Legal documents concerning disputes over the estate of James Donahue, who died in 1862 and left his estate to his wife, Mary Anne, and his four children: Peter, Margaret, Mary Jane, and William E.
Letters of March 20th and August 4th concern receipt of money.
Contains miscellaneous research correspondence, including letters from Paul Green, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Sydney Clark, written in response to inquiries from Sisson, as well as numerous letters from The Bancroft Library and Dr. James Hart concerning Sisson's many gifts to the...
Relates to conditions in the Philippines under Japanese occupation.
Business letters and diaries
Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.
Five letters (1847-1849) from Fair to William B. West, written from Chicago, concerning Fair's business dealings and preparations for Calif.; two cancelled checks signed by Fair (1874-1875); and a brief business letter (1875) from an unknown sender crediting Fair's account...
Correspondence relating to the California lumber firm of Pine and Houghton
Includes correspondence, printed and manuscript maps, financial records, reports, and related materials.
Correspondence, legal papers, appointments, petitions for land timber, deeds, contracts, business and military papers
Letters from member of the Donner Party to his brother-in-law, James W. Keyes, describing his journey to California and gold mining ventures there. Two of the letters were published in the Illinois State Register. Also included: letter from another brother-in-law,...
Collection contains speeches, working papers, articles, and reports including Agricultural Employers Labor Report and the Report on Environmental Assessment of Pesticide Regulatory Programs relating to his work at the California Chamber of Commerce.
Letter dated February 6, 1913 from State Librarian James L. Gillis to former Public Administrator Newton Spencer requesting authentification of James Marshall materials being offered to the library by John Sipp, plus envelope letter was sent in. Also included is...
James Graham Cooper papers, Archives, California Academy of Sciences
Letter dated April 14, 1853 from Secretary of the Treasury James Guthrie to R. P. Hammond introducing Edward F. Beale as agent appointed by the President to make certain military reservations available for removal and protection of California Indians.
Describe his voyage to California, his impressions of San Francisco, experiences mining in the Wachusett Valley, California.
Correspondence and receipts pertaining to business conducted and purchases made by James H. Borland. Includes two letters concerning receipt of an order from Huntington, Hopkins, and Co., Purveyors of Hardware, Iron, Steel, Etc., in Sacramento, Calif. Also includes two receipts...
Written to his wife, Easter Jane Pearce, both before and after their marriage, froim Douglass Flat, Calif., and Austin, Nevada, where he worked in mining. Include descriptions of everyday life and discussions of family matters. With this: biographical sketch of...
Statistical data on University of California, Davis sports compiled by Doan.
Papers relating to James H. Gardner and Louise Virginie Thouvenir Gardner, including passport, marriage license, letters and other items.
Includes agreement by Thomas H. Loehr, Jackson, Calif., to drop libel suit (witnessed by T.A. Springer); deed from Charles Marshall for property in Grass Valley; deeds from Caroline M. Robertson for property in El Dorado Co. (including canals and ditches);...
Photographs taken at a Bancroft Library reception, one with the Codex Fernández Leal hanging in background.
Diary, despatches and correspondence while in command of the army in the Concan.
Chiefly letters from and about his nephews, John O. and Thomas J. Oxley, California gold seekers and members of Crabb's illfated expedition into Sonora. Letters, 1852-1857, from Columbia, Calif.
Collection consists of a receipt book (1864), a bill of payment (1860) issued to Deering by Sather & Church, a receipt (1865) signed by Deering, and a letter (Sept. 19, 1887) to Deering in San Francisco, Calif. from his brother,...
This collection consists of fourteen outgoing letters from Henry James; one book review manuscript; one letter from William James; one letter from Henry James, Sr., and two letters presumed to be from Henry James, son of William James.
Reports, correspondence, and financial records, relating to the opening of the Danube River to navigation at the end of World War I, and to the political situation in Hungary at the time of the Hungarian Revolution.
Consists of businessman James Himrod's letters to his nieces, Minnie, Lizzie, Julia, and Anna Himrod, chronicling his 10 years of life in Sacramento, Colusa, and Truckee, Calif. Himrod describes his experiences with the weather and earthquakes, and the differences between...
Letterbook (volume) written from both ends. Contains copies (in his handwriting and mostly signed with initials) of letters as purser on U.S. naval vessels, Portsmouth, Perry and Constitution. Letters from the Portsmouth reflect service on the Pacific Coast, 1845-1847. The...
Two letters to his wife, Mary Jane. The first (2 p.) describes the scene at Portland, Maine, as his ship prepares to sail around the Horn to San Francisco. The second (4 p.), written after arriving at last in San...
Folder 1. Copies of items ascribed to or concerning Bull, as follows: a letter, Hermosillo, Mexico, September 3, 1843, from William Keith to Abel Stearns, introducing Bull as a visitor to Los Angeles en route to Oregon Territory; a letter,...
Two love letters (5 p.) on embossed stationery. In the first, the writer declares his love for Carrie; in the second, he laments that Carrie has not written to him or returned his affection.
Letters to him from D.K. Allen and others, re the gold mines of El Alamo, Baja California, and possible use of Smith's pulverizing machine.
Correspondence, receipts, and other papers, mostly pertaining to Smith and his wife Bettie's investments in mining companies and real estate in San Diego, Coronado Beach, Stockton, the San Joaquin Valley, and San Francisco. Much of the mining-related correspondence pertains to...
Concerning the publication of his books, Chamber Music and Dubliners.
Maps, reports, legal briefs, and other documents related to the Municipal Railway and California Street Cable Railway Company, Fresno Interurban Railway Company, Pacific Electric Railway System, the Key System Transit Company, and other systems, including similar systems in Palo Alto...
Family snapshots and studio portraits, largely unidentified. Includes locations and portraits from studios in Michigan and California. Albums, presumably of Keilty in his youth and his parents in their student days, include collegiate activities ca. 1907, and family and boyhood...
Correspondence, mainly relating to his book collecting; material concerning Horace, including copies of correspondence and of translations of Thomas Hamilton Breeze of the poetry of Horace and a bibliography; notebooks listing books belonging to him, 1874-1955.
Includes letter from Banking House of James King of William & Company; check endorsed to the company; copy of an article by King of William relating to the trial of James Casey in New York; letter from Mrs. King of...
The diaries, beginning August 10, 1864, record a journey from Chicago to Salt Lake City, a winter among the Mormons; on to Virginia City, Montana, as an employee of J.C. Rockfellow, 1865; life in western Montana to June, 1867; by...
Contains letters by Kherdian to James L. Henry; letters about him; clippings; and oversize items (galley, poster, broadside, etc.).
Collection of works by David Kherdian.
163 letters from Sterling to the Herons, dated 1908-1923, plus typed transcripts of same prepared by James L. Henry; 2 letters from Opal to Herbert Heron (1917); Herbert Heron diary; James L. Henry notes on Heron diary.
Manuscripts of seventy-one poems and two plays. Most of the works are in holograph; some unpublished. With these: bibliographic notes by James L. Henry.
:1 print of boy magician altered to read "The Grate [sic] Henry" -- :2 printed posted for Ovie the Magician performance -- :3 poster for performances at the Empire Theatre in Peterborough (Scotland?) which includes Chris Charlton, "conjuror to H.M....
Two letters from Gold to James L. Henry; manuscript of one short story by Gold; tear sheets of articles by &/or about Gold; reviews of Gold's work; bibliography on Gold compiled by James L. Henry.
Collector's notes on his Jack Kerouac collection, including book reviews, newspaper clippings, publication notes, and bookseller catalogs.
Collector's notes on his Steinbeck collection, with a small amount of ephemera and clippings about Steinbeck.
Contains collector's notes and bibliography concerning his collection. Includes short story and article by Kesey, as well as copy of screenplay to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Also, various clippings and ephemera regarding appearances by Kesey and reviews of...
Collector's notes on his Thomas Wolfe collection, including ephemera, periodical clippings, periodical issues, bookdealer catalogs, correspondence, etc.
Consists of James L. Henry's bibliography of Stafford writings, correspondence between Henry and Stafford, signed ephemera and clippings, published poems, articles, book reviews, biographical information.
Collector's notes on his Max Brand (F. Faust) collection, including publication notes on Max Brand publications and Western Story magazine, and some correspondence with book dealers and publishers.
Includes note-book with copies of songs and his own poems; cargo book mentioning various vessels; poem by W.H. Campbell, "The Dale at Mulegé", and receipts.
Three letters written by Sperry, including an 1852 letter describing his trip across the Isthmus of Panama; letters addressed to him and to his family from Asa Gray, William H. Holmes, John J. Hay and others; deeds and miscellaneous documents...
Diaries, clippings, and other papers, relating to his life farming in Illinois and California; drilling for oil in the vicinity of Santa Paula, California from 1887; and drilling for water in Hawaii, 1902, and in South Africa from 1902 to...
Primarily legal papers from the files of Samuel W. Holladay, attorney for California Academy of Sciences, pertaining to the litigation between Richard S. Floyd and other Lick trustees, and the directors of several institutions that received bequests from Lick's estate....
Letter of Dec. 6, 1977 concerns completion and particulars regarding publication of Allhands' autobiography, which includes a mention of Maxon in the chapter on Fort Davis. Two letters from Feb. and Oct., 1978 are written by Peggy Allhands, his wife,...
Miscellaneous items, mostly legal papers and receipts. Includes: shipping articles of the schooner Star, of San Francisco, containing a list of the crew members and their salaries, 1848 Aug. 8; papers relating to a case of non-payment involving the San...
Business papers, legal documents, personal papers, letters, receipts
Diary, 1854, of voyage, New York to California, via Nicaragua, on steamers, Prometheus and Pacific, and recollections (1905) of voyage and experiences in San Francisco and Mokelumne Hill. Notes of family and early life, California associates, mining ventures, Vigilance Committee...
Letters from friends in New York, including one from K.H. Dimmick reporting on politics in New York state; petition from Columbia Fusiliers for funds; copy of complaint and summons in case, U.S. vs. Niles Mills, J.W. Mandeville and John Warren;...
Include letters to E.D. Girdlestone re interpretation of Plato and on the freewill controversy.
Written to him from various mining camps.
Contents: Part I - letters (8) 1849-1851, to his mother and stepfather, Dr. & Mrs. J.L. Hornsby in Louisiana, concerning his activities as delegate to the California Constitutional Convention, legal practice with John B. Weller and business ventures. With these:...
Includes papers relating to ownership of Rancho Punta de Reyes (Marin County) 1851-1865, and accounts, 1876-1885.
For property in Marin County, including portions of Nicasio from James Black and Daniel Frink, and part of Rancho San Pedro, Santa Margarita y Las Gallinas from John Lucas.
Contains letters with family members in New York City while serving as the acting Purser aboard the SS Georgia at Panama describing Panama, Chile and other parts of Central and South America. Also includes passport, a cyanotype of the family,...
James Moffitt papers, Archives, California Academy of Sciences
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
List of convictions in the February Sessions, and a statement of disbursements made for the city jail.
Correspondence, legal and business papers, ephemera, photographs, diaries, scrapbook, poetry and miscellaneous personal papers.
Miscellaneous bills and receipts for hotels, medical services, household expenses, and bank transactions. Also includes 2 postcards to Mrs. J.N. Gillett from Emma M. North, and invitation, and a poem printed on satin.
Diary (70 p.) kept by Keeler on his sea voyage from New Haven, Conn. to San Francisco, Calif. aboard the bark Anna Reynolds. Brief entries describe weather, ship's coordinates, visits ashore, and prices. Includes many sketches and watercolor drawings and...
Includes 17 diaries written by James Parker growing up on a family farm near Chico, Calif. Records daily life of growing up on a farm and then on a career in teaching and school administration. Also includes photocopies of Luther...
Contains family correspondence, primarily to and from James Phelan Cuddy, concerning family and financial matters. Includes letters from James D. Phelan to Vivienne Cuddy concerning her financial upkeep. Also includes memorabilia and newspaper clippings, chiefly pertaining to James D. Phelan.
Correspondence, including letters from his son, James D. Phelan, and from George L. Duval; miscellaneous receipts; and powers of attorney made out to Phelan.
Papers accompanying his collection of books on guns and firearms. Sales catalogs (many from F. Theodore Dexter, antique firearms collector and dealer), lists and a few letters and drafts.
Chiefly letters to Brown as author of the pamphlet The family of Silas Silverthorne, which argued against free silver, and requests for copies of the pamphlet (1896); together with material relating to Brown's employment with United Railroads of San Francisco...
Contains correspondence and a few manuscripts of Purdy's work to his editor. Also includes reviews of Purdy's work.
Letters to his wife from London while attempting to secure British financial support for railroad and mining interests in California.
This collection consists of drawings, photographs, slides, professional papers and articles/press releases/tear sheets relating to the architectural career of James Ream. It includes work that he did when he was with the firm John Carl Warnecke & Associates, as well...
Description of mining on the Fraser River, life in San Francisco, and mention of the duel between Broderick and Terry.
James Rollin Slonaker papers, Archives, California Academy of Sciences
Chiefly routine mayoral correspondence, dealing with requests for permits, licenses, appointments, and employment. Other letters relate to various issues affecting the city, including the establishment of municipal railway and water systems, construction of City Hall and Opera House, Panama-Pacific International...
Assembled from various sources.
Written primarily from Sacramento, but include also letters from Panama, San Francisco and the mining country.
Written from Sacramento and San Francisco, describe voyage via Panama, illness during voyage, experiences mining and with the California legislature.
Contains receipts and correspondence of James Samuel Todd, and the love letters of Firgie Todd. Also includes a description of the papers with some biographical information.
Correspondence primarily concerned with his invention of the electrial typebar typewriter in 1913. Detailed letters to longtime friend, Mrs. Edgar Sherman, document his experiences with the realities of patent rights, royalities, production and marketing.
Data books related to soil and plant nutrition experiments conducted by the Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition.
School journals (1917-1925) Kept when a teacher of the deaf at California Institution for the Deaf and Blind in Berkeley. (5 v.)
Letters and accounts of the Constable of Big Oak Flat, including one letter from his wife signed Elviria Mecartea. With these are 4 copies of the Tuolomne County Democratic ticket for 1884, some with notes on verso by McCarthy. McCarthy...
James Walker's collection of photographs, mainly Civil War-related images. Contains photos of officers (including General Hooker, General J.W. Depayster(?), Lleut. Bulliad), and locations (including Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; Blackburn's Ford (Bull Run), Virginia; Anacotia Bridge). Contains four photos (two duplicates) of...
Naturalization certificate for his father, 1835; marriage certificate, 1857; genealogy and family history by his wife, Mary Elizabeth (Beattie) Walker; photographs of Walker's pencil sketches made during the Civil War.
Written by a young army officer, describing life at military posts in Louisiana and Michigan; experiences (1846-1848) in Mexico during the Mexican-American War; voyage around the Horn (Dec. 1848-July 1849) on the ship Mary and Adeline, via Rio and Valparaiso;...
To an unnamed correspondent, concerning the whereabouts of a Mr. Woodward in India and business transactions. Included is a letter from Thomas Saunders concerning Mr. Woodward.
Recounting his experience descending the Colorado River on a raft through the Grand Canyon after he and fellow prospectors were attacked by Ute Indians in Colorado.
Correspondence, manuscripts, illustrations, photographs, press releases, newspaper clippings, event posters, and financial records documenting the activities of the James White Review Association, (JWRA) from 1983 to 1999.
First letter, from New York, discusses his desire to return to Sacramento, commenting on steamship fares, and the gold rush on the Frazer River. The second and third letters find him writing from Sacramento. They are very newsy, mentioning a...
Certificates of appointments to California District Board of Agriculture, 1883, and to the Board of Trustees of the Northern Branch State Normal School of California, 1887; and papers relating to his leave of absence from the National Guard in 1888.
Correspondence
Papers relating to Marshall's estate, correspondence.
Includes: two letters by Alfred Jamison, one describing his voyage around the Horn in 1849, the city of Lima, and a bull fight; the other concerning his experiences gold mining in the Feather River area in 1851; and genealogical material...
Deed written by Peter S. Van Wyck for plot in Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco, of Mrs. Jane B. Hayes dated February 27, 1865. Copied from entry dated May 13, 1857 in Lone Mountain Cemetery Company book of records.
Two handwritten letters from Ellen D. Larnal in Thompson, Conn., dated Mar. 15, 1895 and Aug. 13, 1907, concerning Burnett's eligibility for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR); several legal documents and unofficial typed copies concerning Burnett's...
Consists of correspondence, legal agreements, and mechanic's liens pertaining to a contract between Jane C. (aka Jennie) Burnett and S.C. Buzzell for the building of a house at the northeast corner of Broadway and Laguna.
Included is a letter to Henry Fothergill Chorley on receipt of his first book.
Materials relating to writer Allan Seager. Includes: correspondence between Seager and Sherman, ca. 1934-1947; correspondence between Sherman and Stephen Connelly regarding Connelly's dissertation on Seager, 1973-1974; writings by Sherman; writings by Seager, including typescript of his story "Pro Arte"; and...
Collection of books from the library of Janet Black, widow of Frank Norris.
Primarily correspondence of Peck and several family members, with some ephemera and business papers; together with correspondence and other papers of various Serbian relief organizations of World War I, including the Serbian Relief Society of California, of which Peck served...
Play scripts by Janice Marie Clark and related material. Includes: "Match Makers Ltd.", book and lyrics by Janice Clark, music by Arthurine Thornton, written for the U.C. Treble Clef play contest, April 26, 1923, and performed at the Oakland Auditorium...
The extended Blair-Janin-Jesup-Croghan family came to include numerous relatives in all parts of the U. S., many of them in frequent contact with each other. Most of the collection falls between 1850-1930; the earlier pieces are mainly land papers from...
Freiberg Mining Academy (1859-1860), mining and milling techniques, mining operations in the trans-Mississippi West (1861-1889), in Japan (1872-1873) and in Mexico (1876-1879, 1880, 1887-1889), Louis Janin's business and financial affairs, Janin family matters including Santa Ynez (Calif.) ranch...
Relates to Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Extracts published in Le Monde slave, 1924-1925.
Memoirs, photographic collages, other photographs, postcards, correspondence, police reports, printed matter, sound recordings, video tapes, and memorabilia, relating to political dissent and the peace movement in East Germany.
Relates to the need for food relief in Spain.
Three reports; one entitled Bericht über die im RWM Stattgefundene Aussprache über die Bulgarischen Verhandlungsergebnisse; the second, Lagebericht über die Verhältnisse in Südost; and the third, Lagebericht 1942 über die Verhältnisse in Ungarn, Rumänien und Bulgarien. Relates to economic conditions...
Press releases, statements, and speech transcripts, relating to proposals for disarmament and a nuclear test ban. Issued by officials and agencies of various governments, especially the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Soviet Embassy in the United...
The collection of pro-sex activist Jerry Jansen consists of materials from the Committee to Preserve Our Sexual and Civil Liberties, the 15 Association and the UnCut Parties, including videos, meeting minutes, newsletters, clipping files, conference materials and ephemera.
Relates to the activities of Belgian military forces in the Belgian Congo in the period immediately preceding independence, 1959-1960.
Meeting minutes, bylaws and constitution, correspondence, notes, printed ephemera and other records from the Janus Society of America (also known as Janus Society of Delaware Valley), a Philadelphia-based homophile organization founded in 1962. The Janus Society was an influential group...
Photograph album, 142 black/ white snapshots with handwritten captions, along with 10 loose b/w photos and other ephemera belonging to an American GI who apparently was in Japan after WWII, around 1946. Mostly Tokyo, also places like Kamakura. Includes images...
Eleven black/white photographs, 1901-1902, most with captions on the back, including scenes of Japanese rickshaws and people, Japanese station and hotel, orthodox church and museum in Irkutsk (Siberia), horse and cart carrying firewood, and railway water tower in Manchuria....
Photocopies of originals no longer extant. Correspondence, dispatches, instructions, reports, treaties, agreements, lists, and charts, relating to Japanese-Korean relations, and to the internal administration and foreign affairs of Korea. Includes reports of the Japanese Residency General (1906-1910) and Government-General (1910)...
Biographical sketches and photographs of Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, Foreign Minister Sabuto Okita, and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato, of Japan.
The Japanese American Archival Collection is comprised of approximately 2,100 original items, including letters and other textual documents, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, newsletters, art work, clothing and artifacts. The collection provides valuable insights into the history of Japanese American communities in...
Contents: V. l - minutes of committee meetings, memoranda, reports, press releases, interviews, lists of supporters, background material, etc.; V. 2 - drafts of summary sheet and pamphlet about the case prepared by the committee; V. 3 - press clippings;...
Consists of surplus copies of U.S. War Relocation Authority documents, including publications, staff papers, reports, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, and a few photographs. Also includes material collected and/or generated by the Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study, University of California,...
Snapshots of family life in San Francisco, during internment at Heart Mountain (Wyoming), and during the military service of a friend or family member. Many include an apparent young couple, Mitsi and Toshi. Chiefly snapshot portraits or group portraits, often...
The collection consists of publications and press releases by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), in addition to yearbooks and pamphlets created by Japanese American internees and advocacy groups, with an emphasis on the Manzanar and Minidoka internment camps.
Photographs document the Japanese American evacuation of World War II and its effects. Shown are children and adults at various relocation centers throughout the west. Includes one view of Eleanor Roosevelt visiting the Gila River camp.
The collection consists of correspondence, magazines, newspaper and journal articles clippings, and publications from the War Relocation Authority, religious groups, as well as civil liberties organizations. It also has a series of correspondence to and from Occidental President Remsen Bird's...
This collection of 222 photographs documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in Southern California during World War II and immediately thereafter, as captured by Los Angeles Examiner and wire service photographers. Much of the coverage documents scenes of: ...
Collection consists of materials collected by the Japanese American Research Project (JARP) related to the history of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States. Contains more than 100 groups of personal papers related to individuals and/or families, and these...
Three posed crowd portraits in the snowy streets of Atlin and at McKee Creek. Two include a sign reading : Mayor Kirkland / White men's rights without violence / General Ward. One view shows town in background, another shows the...
The album contains 190 black and white photographs documenting the wartime experiences of one Japanese soldier during his service in Manchuria in the 1930s. Included are scenes of barracks life, life in the field, portraits of friends and fellow soldiers,...
Collection contains a scrapbook, photographs, newpaper clippings, church directories and documents pertaining to the Japanese in Riverside, California in the 20th century.
Mary Oshiro was interned at the Tule Lake Relocation center beginning in 1942. She did watercolors of the camp and its surroundings, and worked as an artist and stencil cutter for the camp newspaper, the Tulean Dispatch.
7 letters, 1 manual, and 1 envelope. Materials concern commercial transactions, mostly relating to buying or selling of food.
Manuscripts, ephemeral printed matter, and maps, relating to various aspects of Japanese history, including Nagano prefecture local government during the Meiji period; the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895; pre-World War II domestic affairs; the post-World War II American occupation; the International...
The collection contains 16 assorted photographs ("coloured by hand" per description in English on envelope) showing method of Japanese paper making from the gathering and processing of the raw materials to the final bundling of the paper for shipment. The...
Includes images related to the publication of the anti-axist Japanese American newspaper DOHO.
Photographs depicting scenes of daily life, prominent personalities, and miscellaneous scenes in Japan, and from the Russo-Japanese War.
The Grunwald Center's collection of 40,000 works on paper includes 950 prints by Japanese Edo and Meiji period artists. The Center acquired many of these prints in 1965 from the Estate of Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959). Artists represented...
Papers and records arranged in the following subject areas: Age distribution, Athletic teams, Buddhist Reverends and Christian Minister lists, Community Activities Directory, Educational Personnel, Enlistee classification list, equipment list, High school enrollment, project chart, recreational activities list, Rules and Regulations,...
Age distribution, Athletic teams, Buddhist Reverends and Christian Minister lists, Community Activities Directory, Educational Personnel, Enlistee classification list, equipment list, high school enrollment, project chart, recreational activities list, Rules and Regulations, War Relocation Authority Personnel List, Ward Councilmen List.
Photograph album, containing about 170 black/white snapshots and a few postcard views, of the Japanese period in Saipan, 1914-1944. Includes a number of shots of the local Saipan population and scenery, but most of the photos are of Japanese adults...
Serial issues, reports, election campaing literature, and other printed matter, relating to various aspects of social, political and economic conditions in Japan, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the post-World War II Allied occupation of Japan.
This is a 36 page (unpaginated) booklet in English with printed photographs and illustrations with no publication information. It appears to have been printed in Japan (note style of romanization of Japanese place names) and highlights various aspects of Japan's...
This collection contains mimeographed church worship bulletins and newsletters.
Collection consists of Sunday worship bulletins and/or newsletters from churches in seven of the WWII internment camps. The bulletins and newsletters provide orders of worship for Sunday services, articles, announcements, notices of baptisms, mariages, deaths, and other items of interest...
The Japanese-Americans in World War II Collection measures 1 linear foot and dates from 1920 to 1995. The collection contains both contemporary and contemporaneous materials about the relocation of Japanese during World War II from the perspective of Japanese-Americans as...
The Jardine family collection consists primarily of personal and business correspondence between 1893 and 1941. The majority of the folders contain family letters, correspondence with friends, photographs, postcards, wedding invitations and poems. Also included are financial reports and statements from...
Edith Jarolim's project files for her two editions of Paul Blackburn's works, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PAUL BLACKBURN and THE PARALLEL VOYAGES. Included are photocopies of Blackburn's correspondence and manuscripts deposited in other libraries and Jarolim's correspondence with Blackburn's family...
Correspondence, military tactics book, camp newspaper, French currency, postcards, and personal items of identification, relating to activities of the 28th Engineer Regiment in France during World War I.
Ellis Adams Jarvis (1900- ) was a teacher in San Pedro (1924- ), and later served as a superintendent of Los Angeles City Schools (November 1956-January 1962). The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia and related printed material...
Clippings, periodicals, awards, audio tapes, video tapes, photographs, correspondence, news releases....
Ten letters (1844-1863) to and from O'Farrell, mostly concerning his work as a surveyor; together with a few miscellaneous documents. Correspondents include John A. Sutter, Washington Bartlett, Thomas O. Larkin, Lilburn W. Boggs, L. Quinton Washington, Mariano G. Vallejo, and...
Letters from Henry Dalton, Abel Stearns, James Van Ness, Ambrose J. Hooper, and others, mainly relating to business affairs and to purchase of lands. Also deed issued by James Black for a San Francisco lot.
The collection contains records relating to Jasperson's involvement with the Conservation Law Society of America, the Sierra Club Foundation, Save-the-Redwoods League and the Walnut Creek Open Space Foundation.
The Elisabeth Jastrow papers document the life and scholarship of this émigré archaeologist who left Germany due to the anti-Semitic policies of the Third Reich. The archive contains personal and professional correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, extensive research notes and photographic documentation...
Mainly letters of Ernest Jaudin and his brother, Ulysse, written from San Francisco to family in France, describing journey to California, life in San Francisco, the French colony there, business conditions, etc. Also includes copy of revised typescript, La Famille...
Typescript translation by Paul Blackburn....
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of papers on plague, immunity. Received from Reinhard S. Speck, MD....
Jay Eslick was born in Spokane, Washington on August 31, 1901, and in the 1920's became a drummer and bandleader in the Pacific Northwest. By 1928 he had joined a band in Tijuana and subsequently became a popular bandleader in...
The Mary Rutherfurd Jay collection documents Jay's career as a landscape architect, her lectures on gardens, and her involvement in the profession. Research notes and images on gardens around the world and architectural drawings form the bulk of the collection....
Inclusive dates: 1849-1952...
Souvenir programs from Jazz and popular music concerts including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Stan Kenton, Nat "King" Cole and Sarah Vaughan, Lionel Hampton, Jan Garber and The Mills Brothers, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians.
Contains 7 sets of legal documents of J.C. Beideman relating to land titles, services rendered and estate in San Francisco, Calif. Including a land dispute with John K. Moore.
Four letters of affection and devotion are addressed to Miss Violet Cole in Spanish Ranch, Plumas County, Calif. from J.C. Kastner and contain friendly greetings, news about planting flowers and the difficulty of trusting flower catalog descriptions, and advice not...
A San Francisco wholesale hat business.
Contains 3 letters between father and son. Discusses 1856 Walker invasion of Nicaragua.
Relates to demographic characteristics, and social, cultural and other organizations, of the Jewish community in Prague and surrounding areas. Includes charts.
Interview transcripts, speeches and writings, correspondence, and photographs, relating to governmental administration, economic planning and foreign policy in Poland.
Award winning costume designer Dorothy Jeakins has numerous theater and film credits to her name. The collection consists of costume designs for theater and motion picture productions created by Jeakins, which includes drawings of costume designs for theater and motion...
Printer's copy of The Quick Years. (1958) (box 1); Printer's copy of The Shattered Glass (1962) (original title, If Two Lie Together), with corrected galleys (box 2).
Contains high school yearbooks with signatures and notes, and a scrapbook covering school events for Balboa High School in San Francisco, Calif.
These are records from the Jean Field Committee, which was formed in 1951 to aid Jean Field in her child custody appeal case. Field lost custody of her children in 1950 based only on the contents of two letters...
Two typed transcripts, the second of which is incomplete, of depositions dated June 4, 1852 and Oct. 17, 1853, regarding the land claim of John A. Sutter; an admission ticket for the Grand Civic Ball held at the Hall of...
Business papers, certificates and correspondence
"Words, cliche, drawings, sketches, scribbles" of artist Jean M. Hill. She and partner Paul Studenski were killed in an automobile accident near Topeka, Kansas on August 31, 1973.
Two-volume, clothbound, holographic manuscript on the life of Leonardo da Vinci, in french, with 1884 date inscribed on the front of volume one.
Letter to his sister (January 19, 1778); and transcript of letter concerning money due him (July 3, 1783), With transcripts and translations.
This collection consists of home movies, feature films, shorts distributed for the home market, television shows and commercials, and audio tape reels. Approximately half of the collection consists of 16 mm. Kodachrome home movies that feature Crain in both her...
Research materials and correspondence for her books on early California artists: Edward Vischer's drawings of the California missions, 1861-1878; The first hundred years of painting in California, 1775-1875; San Francisco, 1806-1906, in contemporary paintings, drawings and watercolors; and an article:...
Includes letterbook describing mining in California and experiences as a gardener in Portland, Oregon, 1853-1858; letter concerning his trip from New York to Oregon via rail in 1883; letters from his brothers, one giving an account of his voyage around...
Originals and photocopies of documents relating to the family of Jedediah Strong Smith, one of the most remarkable figures of the Western fur trade era; an explorer in the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, California, and the Pacific Northwest, before...
Primarily portraits of Smith, Yetter, Helman and Isbell family members, with other individuals presumed to be friends and relations.
The papers include an account book, 1827-1839, with additional entries, 1867-1879, made by Bernhard Reichert, second husband of Smith's grandaughter-in-law, Eliza (Prescott) Jones, while living in Kansas; a family record, 4 p., written in an 1834 edition of the Bible;...
This collection consists of scripts of plays and musicals written by Clint Jefferies and recordings of performances of these pieces by Wings Theatre Company of New York City.
The collection contains three portfolios, with correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, magazines, and various pieces of ephemera related to Robinson Jeffers, such as announcements, broadsides, flyers, and handbills, as well as three large matted photographic portraits. The bulk of the correspondence...
Letters from Mabel Dodge Luhan and others, relating primarily to D.H. Lawrence and to writers and artists resident in Taos, New Mexico; Una and Robin - MS. by Mrs. Luhan; clippings; photographs, etc.
William Martin Jeffers (b.1876) left school at age 14 to work for the Union Pacific Railroad. He worked his way up the organizational ladder from call boy to vice-chairman of the board of directors (1946-1953). In 1942, Jeffers agreed to...
From the T.W. Norris Collection.
The Jefferson family papers consists of the scrapbooks of John Wayles Jefferson and Beverly Jefferson; photographs of John Wayles Jefferson, Anne Wayles Jefferson, and Beverly Jefferson; and other material of a genealogical nature of Carl S. Jefferson and his wife,...
Thomas Jefferson's private life...
The collection contains files (correspondence, financial and tax records, clippings, notes, website printouts, brochures, newsletters, mailings and other promotional literature) assembled by Hadden ,relating to various religious groups and leaders, mainly televangelists such as Jim Bakker (PTL), Jerry Falwell, and...
Berkeley-area counterculture newspapers, playbills, some correspondence related to San Francisco Mime Troupe.
Include letters from Frederick W. Coleman (re World War I), U.S. Senator Samuel M. Shortridge and others; mementos from international fairs held in San Francisco in 1894, 1915 and 1939, and in Chicago in 1893; passenger list and menu of...
Association with the Bear Valley Mutual Water Company in San Bernardino County; interest in water conservation, construction and maintenance of dams, canals and irrigation projects; cultivation of oranges; flood control; water levels; agriculture; forestry conservation; trips to Mexico.
Correspondence and memoranda, relating to German occupation policy in Yugoslavia, and to the Yugoslav resistance movements.
Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) who practiced primarily in England. Documents Jekyll's collaborative relationships with architectcs, especially Edwin Lutyens, through project records. Records include correspondence, photographs, drawings, and albums.
Speeches and writings, sound recordings of lectures, correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to education in the United States.
Consists of correspondence among the Reng family and business associates in China and Hong Kong.
The 17 cartons comprising this collection consist chiefly of reports and notes relating to mass transit in California, especially with Los Angeles Railway Corporation, Pacific Electric Railway Company, Ashbury Rapid Transit Lines, and Los Angeles Motor Coach Company. It includes...
Includes financial reports and applications before the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, 1959-1962.
Deeds, correspondence, and other documents (transcripts and originals) relating to the family's claim to Alcatraz Island. Portfolio contains map of San Francisco Bay showing location of Alcatraz, and a tracing of the map.
Collection consists of materials related to the professional career of production designer and art director George Jenkins. Includes research material, sketches, and floor plans. Research materials consist of location photographs, scripts, schedules, notes, color samples, and budget records. Sketches include...
Writings, notes, correspondence, minutes of meetings, ordinances, pamphlets, clippings, and data cards, relating to politics in Nigeria and particularly to the government of Ibadan, Nigeria. Includes drafts of a book, The Price of Liberty, by Kenneth W. J. Post, and...
Correspondence, lecture notes, class materials, reports, minutes of meetings, manuscripts and reprints of his papers, notebooks, research notes, etc. Relate to his teaching career at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Genetics and to his researches, particularly...
This collection, dating from 1929 to 1973, largely relates to Jenkins' career with the California State Division of Mines and Mining and includes correspondence, biographical material, talks, and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is correspondence concerning his appointment as...
Conference papers, agenda, programs, and notes, relating to the Student-Faculty Conference of the YMCA-YWCA held in Asilomar, California.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, resolutions, clippings etc. of the organization formed to oppose dredging and development at the mouth of the Russian River near Jenner.
John Edward Jennings, Jr. (1906-1973) was a author, writing under his own name and the pseudonyms Bates Baldwin and Joel Williams. His publications include (1938), (1939), (1945), (1946), (1950), (1950) and (1954). Boxes 1-7 include galleys and typescript drafts.
Correspondence, personnel records, memoranda, speeches, logbooks, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to U.S. naval operations in World War II, the U.S.S. a historic telecast from the U.S.S. in August 1947, and the Military Assistance Group to Norway.
Relates to conditions in Russia during the Russian Civil War. Written by a White Russian Army colonel.
Correspondence, diary, reports, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to relief work in Siberia during the Russian Revolution, and among displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II.
Letters, reports, memoranda, and statistics, relating to agricultural production and public finances in northern Nigeria and to plans for agricultural development.
The collection documents the architectural work of Creston H. Jensen, with a focus on his ecclesiastical projects.
Research materials for PASSAGE FROM INDIA: ASIAN INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NORTH AMERICA by Joan Jensen, emerita professor of history from New Mexico State University. Jensen's book looks at Asian Indian immigration to the western United States and Canada; ethnic discrimination;...
Joseph Jensen (1886-1974) was a petroleum engineer and geologist for the Tidewater Oil Company and predecessors (1917-55). In 1927, he was appointed to the Water and Power Committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and personally participated in the...
This collection contains research notes on the lime industry in the Santa Cruz area, as well as the final draft of , Jensen's senior thesis.
Snapshots of ranch, east of Hayward, include ranchers using horse powered thresher and loading hay, and apricots drying in the sun.
Papers of a Black family in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Receipt for merchandise in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Accompanied by a letter written by Chauncey F. Black and a biographical sketch.
Typed transcripts (carbon) to John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State and President James Monroe. Written from various cities in South America, the letters report on political conditions and events. Originals in Library of Congress.
Drafts of Hart's manuscripts, including Vigilante girl (1910), In our second century (1931), Sardou and Sardou plays (1913), Vigilante time, The breadline, and writings on Edmond Rostand and other French authors; scattered personal correspondence (1879-1928); articles from the Argonaut; 34...
Three scrapbooks containing clippings of and about Hart's writing, women political figures in Wyoming, and other topics; together with typescripts, clippings, and other papers.
Diaries kept by the operator of the Mendocino Lumber Co. sawmill. The diaries comment on the weather, arrival of ships, sawmill operations, etc. Some accounts included also. The 1854 diary includes a brief account of his voyage via the Isthmus...
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, legal papers, printed materials
Papers of Professor Hall as teacher and scholar. Also included are books, photographs and memorabilia belonging to Professor Hall.
Papers consist of certificates of appointment as Southern Pacific Railroad Company land agent from 1875 and resolutions of the board of directors; three letters from Charles Crocker; miscellaneous clippings and personalia.
Correspondence is mostly incoming with some letters concerning publishing and politics. Also includes some political memorabilia with an article from an interview O'Connell did with Pat Brown in 1992.
Biographical material collected by Joseph Hodges relating to Jerzy Neyman consists of a piece included in "Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society," correspondence between E.S. Pearson and J.M. Hammersley relating to Hammersley's biography of Neyman, and a copy...
Concern the efforts of General González Ortega to recruit men and obtain munitions in the United States to oppose Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.
Description of life in San Leandro, California, education at Santa Clara College, his friendship with and work for John Nugent in Virginia City mining enterprises, return to San Leandro and involvement in Democratic Party politics.
The Jess Papers, 1941-2004 (bulk 1962-1997) document his life as an American assemblage artist and painter. The papers are divided into four series: Correspondence, Writings, General Files, and George Herms Papers and consist of correspondence, manuscripts, flyers, announcements, clippings, writings,...
Photographs and postcards, depicting President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover aboard the U.S.S. Henderson en route to Alaska.
Eighteen letters, describing Cameron's sea voyage to Calif. via Liverpool, New York, Jamaica, and Panama with brothers Tom and George, and a niece, who is also named Jessie; her first jobs in Sacramento as a cook and a dressmaker; marriage...
Collection consists principally of scrapbooks documenting Grayson's career as an actress and her involvement in many civic activities. Contains stills from motion pictures, including "The Little Foxes," "Syncopation," and "Cass Timberlane"; clippings about Grayson and reviews of movies in which...
Reports, pamphlets, and serial issues, relating to Jewish settlement in Palestine. Materials assembled for meeting in conjunction with the 16th Zionist Congress in Zurich, Switzerland.
Correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, and subscription records, 1934-1987; correspondence pertaining to the Conference on Jewish Relations, 1931-1956; and materials pertaining to the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.
Five original and thirteen photocopies of letters by the German communist leader Klara Zetkin, 1916-1932, relating to the communist and feminist movements in Germany; three letters by the German socialist leader Franz Mehring and his wife Eva, 1918, relating to...
Oakland Military Academy, Contra Costa Water Company, McCleverty and Noblett (Fashion Livery and Sale Stables), Oakland Gas Light Company.
Typescript and manuscript of Mankins' memoir, "Recollections of Early Days", detailing his experiences during the Gold Rush in the 1850s, and in the Visalia area during the 1860s and 1870s.
Correspondence and a contract concerning his activities and interests in publishing industry.
Jikihara was born in 1869 and was a native of Okayama Prefecture. He arrived in the United States and was a farmer and inventor in Southern California and later known as a hermit poet. He published and edited a poetry...
Correspondence.
Correspondence, newpaper clippings, subject files relating to Kiernan's work with and research on various labor unions.
Correspondence, papers and clippings relating to his activities as a California labor leader and member of the International Labor Defense and the Workers (Communist) Party of America; primarily his efforts to relieve striking miners in Colorado and Pennsylvania, and to...
This collection consists of the following films created by Tom Graeff: Toast to our brother. 1951 (opt sd., col. ; 16 mm. safety print); The Orange Coast College story. 1954 (DVD ; sd., col.); Island sunrise. ca. 1954 (si., col....
Mario Alberto Jiménez (1911-61) was a Costa Rican journalist. The collection consists of 19th and 20th century Costa Rican documents, correspondence, pamphlets on various subjects, photographs, post cards, and miscellaneous ephemera.
Two letters (5 p.) relating to St. Lawerence Island Eskimo Jimmie Otiyohok and life in Gambell, Alaska since Edward D Jones' last trip (1920's?).
Transcripts of conversations with foreign officials, memoranda, and reports, relating to Chinese foreign relations with the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Poland, and Czechoslovakia; the Sino-Japanese War; and the Korean National Council to the League of Nations, 1919.
Relates to conditions in Czechoslovakia under the communist regime, and to Czech émigré affairs. Photocopy.
Contains copies of Jitsuo Morikawa sermons, with the majority published in Sermons from Riverside, Riverside Church, New York, between October 1976 and October 1977. Also includes pamphlet, My Spiritual Pilgrimage, dated May 1973 and published by the American Baptist Churches,...
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Reports to friend in New York of economic conditions and political feeling in California.
Includes letters relating to mining in Tuolumne County.
For an undertaking and furniture business in Selma, California. v.1 - ledger, 1909-1915; v. 2 - trial balance, 1921-1922.
1848-1849 diary records voyage from Liverpool, England to New York, and his subsequent overland journey to California from New Orleans, describing encounters with Indians and concluding with a list of names of those whose graves he found along the way...
Relates to post-World War II reconstruction.
Personal and business correspondence and miscellany of J.O. Culver, of Calistoga, Napa County, Calif., pertaining to his roles as U.S. Army Paymaster and Post Office Inspector during the 1860s; together with a small amount of family correspondence (1887-1905) and miscellany....
For the chalking and coppering of bottom and the making of sails by Robert Wilson & Co., San Francisco.
Contains 6 letters written in 1955 covering Joan Didion's travels by train from New York, to Boston, to Quebec, to Chicago, home to Sacramento and at the University of California, Berkeley. Describes her encounters with other people aboard trains, life...
Contains article drafts, interview notes and scripts for radio programs, workshop plans and handouts, and research material relating to the women's movement. Also includes material relating to her political action in Berkeley movements including the New School Network for alternative...
Files from her work with the UC Davis Oral History Project and local history material including posters, newspapers, and several photographs.
Contains original mss. of poems, many unpublished, non-fiction, fiction, short stories, essays, plays, jazz critiques, reviews, movies, translations and prose, as well as his notes. Also includes personal papers containing correspondence from Amiri Baraka, Stokely Carmichael, Diane di Prima, Bob...
Contains manuscripts of "How to get married," and of two poems. Also includes three letters from Miller to friends.
Consists of letters, poems, ephemera, and miscellany written by or concerning Miller, his second wife, Abigail Leland Miller, and their daughter Juanita Joaquina Miller. Includes one poem by Edwin Markham. Manuscript letters and poems by Joaquin Miller are accompanied typed...
Includes 18 letters and 1 postcard, many to the California author Howard Sutherland concerning articles he was writing on Miller's books. Also includes 2 autograph manuscript copies of poems or portions of poems by Miller.
Papers, including manuscripts, compositions, (both manuscript and published), arrangements, transcriptions, correspondence, concert programs of the composer and pianist.
Diary, maps, posters, photographs, clippings, and booklets, relating to the Young Women's Christian Association in China, flood relief, the University of Peking, and internal problems in China from 1920 to 1928.
Written from Hand-Rolleri Mine near Placerville, concerning gold mining operations in the area.
Papers relating to Joe R. Momyer's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Scrapbook containing Bryan's reports, proposals for funding, description of campus facilities, and other materials regarding his tenure as Director for Special Services and project director for Handicapped Opportunity Program for Education (H.O.P.E.) at the University of California, Riverside.
Correspondence of the marine biologist, director of the Pacific Marine Station at Bodega, California, concerning Pacific Gas and Electric Company's proposed nuclear plant there; scrapbooks of clippings; miscellaneous articles and related papers, with information on effects of radioactivity on marine...
Contains correspondence, speeches, notes, publications and clippings concerning Hildebrand's career in chemistry, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Sierra Club.
Clark Coolidge (1939- ) was the producer of (a weekly hour of new poetry) at KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California (1969-70), the author of various books of poetry, and the co-editor of (1964-66). The collection consists of materials relating to the...
Appeals for stays of execution for certain Germans convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to death.
Consists of course notes and drawings from the K. B. Baugewerks Schule in Munich. All notes in German.
A signed autographed letter from Dreibelbis, Shasta City [Calif.], February 7, 1854, to an un-named addressee, written to suggest the examination of a possible route for a Pacific railroad (2 p.) Two enclosures are a manuscript map of his route...
Chiefly Photograph albums portraying specific events while McCone served with the Atomic Energy Commission and under various Presidents (1958-1965), highlights of his International Telephone and Telegraph career (1948-1977), and photographs of California Shipbuilding Corporation construction and launchings (1941-1961) along with...
John A. Moore's collection on evolution and creationism. Includes books, lab notebooks, papers and pamphlets. Part of the archival group Agricultural, Botanical and Natural Sciences.
Consists of journals (22 v.), correspondence, and case notes. Journals contain daily accounts of Robinson's expenses and activities, and include case notes of immigrants and resident aliens, mainly Chinese and Mexican, documenting names, nationalities, and immigration numbers assigned, as well...
Business papers, clippings, correspondence, mining information, notes and drafts, photographs.
Two letters written while seeking Congressional settlement of his accounts for transporting the mails from Placerville to Genoa, Nevada, 1856-1857.
v.1: Letters from C.R. Sessions, Standard Oil of California, and H. Bowman Hawkes; v.2: a copy of his doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering; v.3-8: proceedings of the annual University Faculty Seminars sponsored by Standard Oil Company of California, 1952-1957.
Ambrotype portrait of James Blair (or possibly John Blair) as a young man (ca. 1855-1860), and an album of portraits of Blair family members. Surnames of other friends or family members include McClure, Turney, Schooley, Alderson, Watt, Reynolds, and Ellis....
v. 1 (portfolio) includes letter from John Anderson to his wife and family, May 13, 1850, commenting on passage up the Sacramento River and impressions of California; two letters to his children, 1875; certificates of promotion for William B. Anderson,...
Correspondence re proposed legislation to enlarge Sequoia National Park. Include letters from the following: Horace M. Albright, Scott Ferris, California Civic League, William W. Hastings, Stephen T. Mather (U.S. National Park Service), James D. Phelan, Sierra Club (William F. Badè),...
Letters addressed to the British biologist from J.M. Dent, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, William P. Paterson, W.R. Sorley, Chalmers Watson, James Ward, J.T. Merz and others; manuscripts and corrected proofs of articles and portions of some of his books; and...
Contains 30 abstracts of title for land in Sacramento owned by Sutter.
Business correspondence, Sutter claim materials, miscellaneous papers. Much of the collection typescripts, photostats, and facsimiles.
Business papers, legal papers, estate matters, manuscript statement of events occurring in Sacramento, 1848-1850.
Two deeds for land in Sutterville, Calif. (1848 and 1849); a letter of introduction (Feb. 26, 1857) for Lord Calthrope, on his way to the mines; a military order (June 15, 1855) to Lt. Col. Richard T.C. Linton; a list...
Consists of eight drawings from two projects: the Oakland Bible Institute (1946) and the Gallo Wine Company's Call Me Joe store in Modesto, CA (ca. 1946).
Correspondence, personal balance sheet, New York State Legal documents
Contains letters from Jefferson Davis, as Secretary of War and others about Colonel John B. Harmon's appointment to the Board of Visitors at West Point Academy.
Includes letters from his father in Australia, relating to business, farming and gold mining there, and one from his brother William, concerning his experiences mining in California.
Materials created when Weller was U.S. Senator and as Governor of California.
Box 2824: Schedules, transfers, company documents; Box 2825: Schedules, transfers, company documents; Box 2826: Schedules, transfers, company documents; Box 2727: Photos, postcards, and calendars.
The John Belcher Collection consists of a single, typescript journal, "A Journey to California." Written and illustrated by John Belcher and his wife. The journal is a detailed account of the their journey by sea and rail from London to...
Copies of letters sent, october 4, 1844 - November 21, 1848, as commander, USS. Portsmouth, preparatory to sailing, en route, and from various stations on the California and Mexican coasts. A few notes and memoranda encluded. Some drafts in his...
Correspondence, notes, legal and business papers
Mainly written to Professor Rockwell D. Hunt, re his recollections of early California history. Also included: three cancelled checks.
Six letters from Bidwell, written from Chico, California, to Haskell (probably Edward Wilder Haskell), in Marysville, California. Letters concern Bidwell's political career, his defeat at the state convention, the campaign of 1867, and his speech regarding the inadvisability of a...
Business and personal papers, correspondence, certificates, contracts, receipts
Contents: Letters written by Bigler; letters from Indian Commissioner Oliver W. Wozencraft concerning an attack upon Indians in the Kings River area, and from Milton S. Latham; photoreproduction of letters from Harry Love relating to the arrest of Joaquín Murrieta;...
Contains documents related to Sawyer's work dealing with immigration, Chinese immigration in particular, including official forms, procedures, correspondence, and his experiences. Also includes papers regarding his career advancement, and a couple of letters to and from his daughter Josephine Sawyer...
Chiefly group portraits depicting John Birge Sawyer: with cadets and Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers at University of California, Berkeley; and with fellow officials of U.S. Immigration Service in Portland, Oregon and Hong Kong, China. One print (a photographic enlargement of...
Portrait of John Bolton Alvarado (1890s) and stereograph of John Bolton Alvarado accompanied by a man (possibly Juan Bautista Alvarado?) and two women in Yosemite Valley (1870s).
Record of experiences as a member of the Mormon Battalion in southern California; life in San Francisco; gold mining in 1848; return to Utah in July 1848; life in and near Salt Lake City. Entries are sporadic after 1856.
The papers reflect Bowring's service in London and on the Continent as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for the Kingdom of Hawaii, 1859-1871, negotiating treaties to safeguard the independence of Hawaii. Predominantly they consist of correspondence with Robert Crichton Wyllie...
Letters, Valparaiso, Feb. 25, 1849, and Aspinwall, Mar. 29, [1855?] on voyages to California; the rest from San Francisco.
Contents: Box 1 - Correspondence with criminologist E.O. Heinrich, 1920-1953.
The collection contains 70 letters written by John Brannan to his wife Mary from various ports around the world, including New York, Havana, Gibralter, Acapulco, Rio de Janeiro, and San Francisco. Included also are 30 letters to Mary from other...
Originally founded in Sacramento around 1856 by John Breuner, company became one of largest furniture stores and chains of the era.
Mainly relate to case, Sill vs. Reese, over ownership of lot on Kearney St., San Francisco. Include letters from Joaquin Torres, W.J. Reynolds and others, and questionnaire answered by Benito Diaz containing references to the Castro revolution. Also complaint in...
For a general merchandise store in Castroville, California. (v.1) Jan. 1867-May 4, 1869; (v.2) May 17, 1869-July 1873. (Miscellaneous clippings pasted over many entries in v.2).
Two copies of the same portrait of Burroughs at age 83, taken in Pasadena, Calif.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Half-portrait of J.C. Frémont, and group portrait J.C. Frémont, W.C. Rosencrans, N.P. Banks, J. Pope, O.M. Mitchel, J. Hooker, and G.G. Meade, all in uniform.
Correspondence
Materials concerning the Panama Canal and the French Canal Company. Include letters from General Victor Vifquain, U.S. Consul at Colón, and newspaper clippings of two articles by Klein.
Letter from Mrs. Jefferson Davis (?) in v. 2 (no. 3)
Mimeograph ms. for "Bear Valley Trip", 12 p. Holograph additions totalling 13 words. Privately printed, 21 copies. A pleasant, occasionally humorous and observant account of a Los Angeles resident's journey to and stay in the San Bernardino mountains.
Letters from J. Wilson removed from first edition of Cruquius' Horace (1578) offer the volume to C. Cookson, and discuss Oxford University politics.
Letters concerning Canfield's life in California and his mining experiences. Included is an explanation of hydraulic piping.
Contains 11 letters from an Englishman in San Juan del Rio and Mexico City, Mexico, to his brother back in England describing life in Mexico and his work trying to run a textile business. Also includes a clipping about Cash's...
Ledger (1856-1862), account book (1861-1864), ledger of bonds and bills receivable (1866-1876), and a daybook (1877) of a real estate firm.
Includes letters by S. G. Haven, U.S. Postmaster General N. K. Hall, and Dennis Bowen, concerning the appointment; and letters by Chapin to his brother describing his voyage to California via Panama in l85l.
Correspondence of the Meussdorffer family and to the J. C. Meussdorffer Hat Mfg. Co.
Contents: Letter, Sept. 10, 1845, from Clar to George Bancroft, requesting disability pay, enclosing copy of statements by William Maxwell Wood, fleet surgeon, and John D. Sloat; reply from Bancroft; letter, Nov. 22, 1881, from James Alexander Forbes, to William...
Primarily correspondence addressed to his family describing his gold mining experiences, running a sawmill, and other events in his life in California. Also included are correspondence, clippings, sketches, and genealogical material pertaining to the Birdseye and Brewer families. Featured are...
Mainly papers as Sheriff of San Francisco. Includes court orders and receipts for sale of property.
The bulk of the collection covers the period Hays served as sheriff and consists chiefly of legal papers and documents pertaining to his activities as tax collector and agent of the Superior Court. Includes two ledgers of state and county...
Consists of correspondence and accounts receipts of various residents of Southern Calif., including Pio Pico and his Pico House Hotel in Los Angeles, John Forster, Stephen C. Foster, Jose Sepulveda, Abel Stearns, Thomas A. Garey, George Stoneman, and the law...
Letters from Van Wyck Brooks and Josephine W. Duveneck; and file of letters written to Short re John Steinbeck's sources for Tortilla Flat, including letters from Carol (Henning) Steinbeck and Elaine (Scott) Steinbeck.
Chiefly miscellany relating to Works' death, including typed minutes of a memorial meeting of the Supreme Court of Calif. (Oct. 8, 1928); a typed resolution of sympathy from the City Council of Los Angeles; a telegram of condolence from Hiram...
Business letters, legal instruments, accounts, scrapbooks, certificates
Letters written by him; clippings of his column from the San Francisco News; clippings about him.
Describe his activities in the U.S. National Park Service, Branch of Forestry, as fire control expert and as chief forester in the CCC program; his work relating to blister-rust control and other problems in national parks; his association with the...
Correspondence, business papers, legal papers, mining papers, miscellany.
Relating to his study of the San Francisco Bulletin, and of two of its editors, James King of William and his brother, Thomas Sim King. Included are correspondence, newspaper clippings (mainly transcripts), and a revised typescript copy of his paper...
Also included: accounts of an unnamed contractor, working in Oakland and Berkeley from 1908 to 1911.
Diary concerning his voyage to California via Nicaragua in 1852 and experiences as a miner in and around Volcano; letters relating mainly to activities in Volcano, with descriptions of mining camps and social events, and in San Francisco from 1863;...
One letter (ALS) from author John Dos Passos to Michael Heskett (Santa Barbara, CA) re 1920s literature, disagreeing strongly with the characterization of it being the 'lost generation'. Westmoreland, VA, Apr. 22, 1966. Also, photocopy of one letter (ALS), to...
Includes bills for sheriffs fees and lawyers fees.
Complaint about costs of shipping to California.
Chiefly personal correspondence of Jardine and his family, and business papers of Jardine, together with some family ephemera, postcards, telegrams, and a small amount of genealogical information. Includes correspondence of Jardine's wife, Mary G. Peck; their children, Catherine (who married...
Contain clippings documenting his activities as city attorney and police commissioner in Oakland, California, covering such matters as water problems, gambling, garbage disposal, etc. (v.1): 1896-1902; (v.2): 1903-1905. :
Concerning missionary work among the Choctaw Indians in present Oklahoma; four letters, 1858-1867, from Cyrus Byington, about the Choctaws and his work on a Choctaw grammar and translations from the Bible into that tongue; a copy of a contract, 1860,...
V. 1-2, diaries, 1876-1877, as Special Indian Agent, Cimarron, New Mexico; v. 3, diary, Jan.-Nov. 1878, as Farmer-in-Charge of the Jicarilla Apache Agency at Cimarron and as Navaho Indian Agent at Fort Defiance, Arizona, with miscellaneous accounts and memoranda at...
Statements by Evans, his wife Margaret P. (Gray) Evans, a Mrs. Dickinson, and Lionel A. Sheldon, concerning his contributions to education in Indiana and Illinois; Illinois politics before and during the Civil War; term as second governor of Colorado Territory;...
Consists of correspondence relating to politics, patronage, requests for assistance from former Union Army Soldiers, mining stocks, and family matters. Includes several letters from Miller to his wife, Mary, along with letters from Miller's brother, Clay, and Schuyler Colfax, who...
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Papers relating to Flannery's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Include letters of the British sculptor to Prince Hoare and others, mainly relating to the payment for General Simcoe's monument in Exeter Cathedral, and accounts, one with George Romney.
Relates to Llebaria vs. Peck, California District Court (3rd District), Santa Cruz, California. The litigation was over land in the Santa Cruz Mission orchard. Include: receipt for costs of court, demurrer to complaint, answer of defendant Henry W. Peck by...
Contains business and personal correspondence concerning his career as an accountant, attorney and lecturer at UC Berkeley. Also includes CPA certificates, speeches, teaching materials, legal documents, clippings and ephemera.
Business papers, certificates, checks, clippings, letters, calling cards, legal papers, pamphlets, menus, photographs
Include four letters from Lewis Gerstle and one letter from A. Wassermann written on behalf of Alaska Commercial Company, giving reports of company operations re fur trade and market conditions, and activities of its agents; also with these, a newspaper...
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Materials created when Downey was Governor of California.
Carbon copy of transcript of letter to the Monterey County Treasurer (Dec. 31, 1853) from Marvin in his capacity as California Superintendent of Public Instruction, transmitting a statement of state school money for 1853. Also includes a statement of each...
Business papers, receipts
Contains 2 letters describing living in San Francisco and California at the time of the gold rush.
Chiefly letters received by Tyler in the context of his ornithological studies in Calif. and the activities of the Cooper Ornithological Club. Includes a large group from Joseph and Hilda (Wood) Grinnell.
These volumes of photographs show the construction of various Howard buildings between approximately 1905 and 1910; in a few cases there are views of the site before the beginning of construction, but in some cases there are not even photographs...
Cyanotype proofs of plans, drawings, models, and completed buildings, with some black & white progress photographs of buildings under construction, architectural details, stonework, furnishings, etc. Vol. 1: the Hearst Plan for the campus, many views of Sather Tower, Wheeler Hall...
Bound in green cloth. Cover title: John Galsworthy's discussion with Sewell Stokes - ms. and proof
Record of voyage to California (Mar. 10 - Sept. 1, 1852) in company with John C. Morrill and James Fife, on ship, North American; experiences in California to Apr. 29, 1853, chiefly in Sacramento, including the fire (Nov. 2); mining,...
Letter from Daingerfield Fauntleroy, enclosing appointment as justice of the peace at San Juan Bautista by William Mervine. Also receipt signed by Gilroy.
Contains part of a collection of autographs of Episcopal Bishops from correspondence collected by Librarians of the John Gordon Wright Library at the Episcopal Theological School. Includes only Bishops from California, the location of the remainder of the collection is...
Correspondence signature, and clipping concerning his life and activities involved with writing and its publication.
Includes course notes from Landscape Architecture 1A (1939), and two drawings. Drawings consist of planting plans for the President's House on the UC Berkeley campus (1927).
Correspondence between John Beeckman, his wife Margaret, and other family members.
Some relate to his career as public school teacher in California. Included is letter from John H.C. Bonte.
Recorded in letterpress copybook, while he was acting manager of the wharfage and storage business of the Union Steam Navigation Co. at Shanghai, and as agent for several steamships. Accounts also included.
Contains letters from Williams to his wife Nettie while he was on the road. He describes Oregon, Washington and California as well as publishing his work "Yosemite and its High Sierra" (1914), payment problems with the Christian Science Monitor, and...
Collection of works by John Hawkes being acquired for The Bancroft Library.
Include agreement, in writing of W.A. Bartlett, between Albert Packard and Brown for the settlement of debts; receipt; and deed by J.D. Stevenson to Brown for property in New York of the Pacific.
Letters to his wife concerning his voyage to California via Panama in 1849, and his mercantile activities, mainly at Coloma; letters from his wife and family in New York relate to family and friends.
Chiefly portraits of British nobility of the seventeenth century, with some earlier figures depicted. Several queens, princes, bishops, and generals are included and some Holbein portraits from the Tudor era.
Title devised by cataloger.
Letter of Feb. 28 1933 to J. Paget Fredericks discusses a visit Paget Fredericks is to pay to Nash, with his drawings, and mentions a book that Nash plans to give to him. Letter of June 13 1934 to the...
One portrait each of Jean Hersholt and William A. Magee; 3 portraits of A. Edward Newton (2 inscribed photos of sculptural portraits, 1 photographic portrait) One portrait of John Henry Nash by Georges Pussin, dated 1928.
Contains cards, invitations, advertisements, announcements, keepsakes, catalogs, proofs, broadsides, programs, tributes, Easter cards, Christmas cards, stationery, letterhead, and labels.
English religious leader and cardinal.
Primarily letters responding to his reviews. Include letters from Thornton Wilder, John Steinbeck, Eugene O'Neill, Robinson Jeffers, and from motion picture actors (Janet Blair, Nanette Fabray, Betty Hutton, Charles Ruggles, Loretta Young, Vera Zorina).
Papers relating to John Hooper's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Association with Paul Elder; establishment of his own bookselling business; his collection of rare Bibles; publishing ventures; comments on collectors, libraries and authors, and famous people he knew; Bohemian Club.
blueprints for the H.I. Randall house in Berkeley. George T. Plowman and John H. Thomas. 1909. (13 sheets)
Diary (Mar. 25, 1852-Mar. 25, 1853) records Dr. Wayman's overland journey from Indiana to California and later experiences mining, mainly in the southern region; and letters (1852-1862) written to family while en route, Shaws Flat and Forest City, California and...
This record contains 6 copies of sketches for residences in Greenfield Terrace, Vallejo, Solano County, Calif.
Draft and finished copy of diary documenting Stickney's voyage from Newburyport, Mass. to San Francisco, Calif. via Cape Horn aboard the ship Annah, Dec. 1849-May 1850. Describes Christmas and music aboard the ship, the island of Juan Fernandez, and means...
Relate to his work as state supervisor, emergency farm labor, for the California Co-operative Extension work in Agriculture and Home Economics. Include copies of his letters, minutes of meetings, memoranda issued by his office, and circulars issued by the California...
The collection contains personal papers, correspondence, speeches and lectures, articles, video and audio cassettes, typed manuscripts of three of McNeill's books, and research materials on Maurice Blondel.
Correspondnence to family in Scotland describing his activity and surroundings while working in England (1848-1850), California (1850-1858), Chile (1859-1875), and South Africa (1887-1893) Some correspondence concerns the settlement of a family estate (1918-1919)
Include letters to Jones, deeds of sale, agreements, accounts and promissory notes.
This small collection contains a blue print of a residence for Dr. Frank Hinman of Woodside, California.
This record contains 11 blueprints of the Dr. Frank Hinman residence in Woodside, Calif.
Receipts of payment dated May-June 1855, made out to Bardwell for wheat purchased by him of various merchants, including I.H. Ham, Almy & Richards, Delabigne Co., Bob Brown & Co., A.H. Todd, and Bob of John Johnson; a shipping invoice...
Contains documents pertaining to land held in Contra Costa County and Oakland, Calif. Also includes letter and document pertaining to voyage to California.
Thirteen letters, plus corrresponding photocopies of typed transcripts, from a California gold miner to his wife, brother, and sister; addressed from various digging venues including Sarahsville, Hunts Hill, Volcano Hill and Eaton Rapids.
John L. Cooper's diary for the year 1852, and two-page document containing biographical information and highlights of diary.
Contains materials from a 1985 presentation and correspondence concerning the preservation of Mineral King now in Sequoia National Park, Calif.
Includes copy of the article, correspondence with magazine publishers and related material.
The diaries, 47 and 127 p., describe a journey to California in 1852 overland from Lockhart, Texas, via Eagle Pass to Mazatlán, by sea to San Francisco, thence to Stockton, Columbia, Sonora, and Mokelumne Hill, where Lane mined through 1853....
Letters from Lewers to his mother, Margaret Lewers, in Louisville, Kentucky, written on his voyage to California via Panama, and during his years in California. Includes typed transcriptions.
3 letters to Andre from his son; 1 letter to Jennie L. Bartholomee from S.H. Summers; 2 cartes d'visites; family tree of J. Lewis Andre.
Video tapes of Li's local television show, What's Going On, and notes and articles on city politics and community affairs in Davis, California during the 1980's and 1990's.
Research materials on demonstrations in or near the California State Capitol building in 1977; materials relating to the formation of sister city relationship between the City of Davis and Ukrainian city of Uman.
Research materials pertaining to the activities of the Unification Church in the United States during the 1960's and 1970's. Dr. Lofland's research in the cult provides a perspective on religious proselytization and conversion. The papers contain original notes, tapes, transcripts,...
Letters of the American historian and diplomat, written to Emory Washburn, David Douglas and Dr. John Brown.
Mainly records pertaining to his property (a portion of Rancho Petaluma), including deeds from Mariano G. Vallejo and others, abstracts of title, etc. Also included are a few records of the Sonoma Mountain Irrigation Company.
Transcripts of five letters describing experiences en route from Missouri to California.
Include letters written by John M. Lewis to his wife, Sophie Borel, 1898-1912 (most of them before their marriage); letters written by Mrs. Lewis, l898-1907, many commenting on family activities; letter to Lewis from Aylett R. Cotton, Sept. 24, 1906;...
The John M. Miller papers on Western Forest Entomology document his work with the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Bureau of Entomology in California and Oregon. Included are field diaries, notebooks, calendars, and reports. Also consists of...
Correspondence, research materials, syllabi, and reprints relating to Tucker's career as Professor of Botany.
Include two letters from John Marsh, one in 1832 describing his experiences in the Black Hawk Indian War and one in 1852; letters by Miguel de Pedrorena, William Lewis and Cesáreo Lataillade on business matters; letters by Mrs. John Marsh;...
Correspondence
Certificates, correspondence, diary and receipts
John Marshall Pierce was born on January 1, 1831 in Glasgow, MO. He traveled overland and arrived in Diamond Springs, CA in October of 1850. He spent the next 25 years mining and gambling in other parts of California as...
Writings, reports, and bulletin, relating to education in Botswana and Swaziland.
Documents and letters as Governor of California; with letters and petitions from Alex W. Hope, Rodman M. Price, Persifor F. Smith, San Francisco Bar (85 signatures), and others.
Contains letters to Meinecke, a miner, while serving in the Army in Missouri during World War II. Includes letters from his mother Ann Thompson, many discussing discharge from military because of the need for miners at home.
Accounts for wholesale and retail hat business in San Francisco.
Mainly decrees as alcalde and judge of San Luis Obispo. Include public notices re land, school and elections; letters from Walter Colton, A.B. Thompson and Wm. G. Dana; and inventory of documents handed over by Price to Charles Freeman in...
Correspondence; materials related to California State Fair wine judging, California viticultural areas, and Wine Scene Seminars and Tours.
Comments on experiences mining and on conditions in California.
Contains letters with his parents. Also includes writings on Cable Cars.
Larger album contains chiefly travel snapshots taken in Europe (Italy, France, England, etc.) and San Francisco during the 1910s. Smaller album contains travel snapshots taken in Eastern United States (especially New York and Washington D.C.) during a 1938 trip. Also...
Twenty-three letters written from Tuolumne County, to his wife, Anna, in Berkeley, describe his efforts to homestead on timber land: clearing land, building and furnishing a cabin; assistance of neighbors; attempts at finding outside work to supplement income. Also includes...
Mostly stories written by the radio engineer re the early days of radio and various radio pioneers for whom he worked.
Relates to the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt upon Adolf Hitler.
Include letters from San Francisco Chronicle literary editor, Joseph Henry Jackson, and from Irish authors, Frank O'Connor and Seán O'Faoláin. Some refer to book reviews O'Reilly wrote for the Chronicle.
Letters of John Paul Dart to his brother and sister
Collection contains correspondence, contracts, bills, and other records of Piper's Opera House mainly from 1884-1898. Business letters to Piper are from actors, theatrical agents and syndicates concerning bookings for performances at opera houses in Nevada, chiefly the Piper Opera House...
Diary kept daily while on journey to California aboard the ship Hannibal out of Boston on Nov. 21, 1849 and arriving in San Francisco on May 6, 1850. Dutiful log of activities aboard ship including helping with repairs, and a...
Brodie's journals and notes, with relevant letters, grouped as follows: (folder 1); J.A. Waldteufel to Herbert E. Bolton. Ukiah, California, October 20-29, 1917; March 11, 1919. 3 p. L.S. Concerns use of the Brodie Mss. and scrapbook by the California...
Checks, Oregon Pacific Railroad pass and photocopy of attorney's oath, Nevada, and certificate for expenses as candidate, Congressman at Large, Washington.
Contains 6 legals documents of John Q. Pearl and John H. Pearl for land in Santa Clara County, Calif.
Materials used by Hall in preparation of, and cited in, his book, Gone from the promised land: Jonestown in American cultural history, published in 1987. Includes correspondence, legal documents, clippings, transcripts of conversations and broadcasts (1954-1983), and ephemera collected and...
Contains speeches given by John R. May at the Chit Chat Club and the San Francisco Foundation, concerning charitable foundations and the government, the Hoopa Valley community, Jim Crow laws, on Bernard Shaw, on communication of the blind and deaf,...
Letters written by a Union soldier from Louisiana during the Civil War describing his day-to-day experiences and complaints. One letter speaks of the siege of Vicksburg, and another on July 4th of the rebel surrender. Also contains his discharge certificate,...
Personal and business papers of John R. Sharpstein; genealogical and historical documents concerning the Sharpsteen, Crittenden, and Johnson families; and papers of William C. Sharpsteen. Papers of John Sharpstein include correspondence and other material relating to his 1874 appointment by...
Letters written from Tombstone, Arizona, San Francisco, Unalaska and Yukon River area, Alaska; those from Alaska written when he went gold prospecting.
Contains the letters of a gold miner in Rough & Ready (Nevada County), then Iowa Hill (Placer County) and Lost Camp (Placer County), Califonia to his wife back east.
Includes bonds for administrators and guardians signed by Benjamin Buckelew, Williams S. Clark, Timothy Murphy, et. al., accounts and receipts, and material reganrding litigation over Rancho Corte de Madera and guardian James McCormick.
Written from the trapper's rendezvous; brief account of his experiences of the past year and plans for the next.
Include autobiographical note, untitled poem, poem "To a Mockingbird," and clipping re the Indian poet.
Photocopied typed transcripts of 35 letters between Johan Lindtner and his wife, Henriette, written in 1874, while Lindtner was on tour through the Midwest, first with a German opera company and then with a travelling circus; his wife was living...
Mainly letters from John S. McLean to Griffen B. Halsted describing his life and travels in Florida in 1849; letter to him from his cousin, John T. McLean, Feb. 24-26, 1849, concerning his proposed journey to California. With these: certificate...
Documents the life experiences of "Jack" Service, a member of the United States Foreign Service who was posted to China during the 1930s and 1940s, and later accused of "losing China to the Communists." As one of the "Old China...
Tapes 1-8: recording of East wind rising by Relman Morin; tapes 9-18: recording of Golden inches by Grace Service; tapes 19-27: recording of Goodbye to old Peking by John Seymour Letcher; tapes 28-31 recording of Not without the Americans (excerpts)...
Consists of 98 letters, chiefly from Sherburne, written in San Francisco and other parts of Calif. and Nevada to his mother and his sister, Marion, in Boston. The letters discuss family concerns, Sherburne's attempts to establish himself financially in San...
Correspondence and subject file concerning agriculture and politics.
Some are recommendations for schoolmasters for the local school.
Letters received by Day from Steinbeck: three typescript letters signed, John, three typescript letters signed with a typescript signature, John, and one handwritten letter signed, John.
Includes 2 letters from John Steinbeck to Anne Dare; 1 letter to Norma Beatly (Photocopy); 2 letters to Joseph Fontenrose; 1 letter to Robert S. Vance; an essay, Argument of Phalanx (photocopy); a document regarding transfer of literary rights from...
Correspondence from John Steinbeck to Katherine (Trina) Groves, the daughter of Steinbeck's Stanford professor William Herbert Carruth, from whom he took Verse Writing and Prosody in the spring of 1923. This correspondence was written in the 1960s regarding Steinbeck's work...
: Argument of Phalanx; letters Feb. 23, 1938; Feb. 2, 1949; Aug. 26, 1958; Dec. 22, 1944; first theatrical production of Of Mice and Men (reprint).
Letter from Ladd & Tilton to Apperson at Oregon City, and a copy of a contract with the Hinckley Company of San Francisco, 1865, for building a steamboat.
Mainly the papers of John T. Bell, many relating to his Civil War experiences, including army reports and orders, signed by E. D. Townsend and others, and a diary, Nov. 1864 - May 1865, describing Sherman's march to Savannah; account...
Personal and legal correspondence, legal documents, and legal briefs relating to civil suits, particularly estate and probate cases, handled by Doyle, his law partners, and their associates in other firms. Most of the suits concern the San Francisco Bay Area,...
Chiefly letters to Malone from friends, including Thomas B. Shapter and Nicholas Bowden.
Bills and receipts, mainly from business establishments in Santa Cruz, California.
Letters to his family prior to sailing and on voyage, New York to San Francisco, on bark, Belvedere, as member, Cayuga Joint Stock Company; letters to his family from California describing his experiences in the mines and stock raising. Also,...
Mainly correspondence, including letter from A.D. McDonald.
Correspondence, leases, legal materials, notes and drafts, pamphlets, tax receipts
John Thomas Howell papers, Archives, California Academy of Sciences
Includes his application for Mexican citizenship, 15 Jan. l846, with supporting testimony by José Abrego, William E. P. Hartnell, David Spence, and Manuel Castro, and signatures of Ambrosio Gómez, Manuel Díaz, and Nicanor del Castillo; letter of same date by...
Tapes contain Tunney's radio reports to his California constituency about state, national, and international political issues in the United States Senate, political speeches, campaign advertisements, and related recordings.
British physicist.
Contains project cards, drawings, and photographs for residences in Stockton and San Joaquin County as well as drawings for the Stockton City Hall and student works. Personal papers consist of Clowdsley's student work from the University of California, Berkeley. Office...
Photographic portraits of legislator John V. Tunney.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and personnel records regarding Mr. Velton's work with the Disabled Students Program, University of California, Berkeley and the California State Department of Rehabilitation.
Business papers of Allyne & White, chiefly San Francisco billheads and receipts; stock certificates; correspondence and other material pertaining to the purchase and ownership of Rancho San Vicente in Santa Cruz County, Calif., by the Stanfords (1855-1869), along with some...
The John W. Borden ephemera collection consists of ca. 964 items collected by Mr. Borden during the 1960s through the 1990s. During these years he was an active amateur letterpress printer and participated in serveral clubs with a focus on...
Portraits and other photographs of John W. Butterworth. Some taken during Butterworth's employment as a police officer in San Francisco at the time of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Also pictured is San Francisco police chief Jeremiah Dinan, as well...
Scattered personal and business correspondence (1825-1879); an appointment book (1873); two scrapbooks of newspaper articles written by Dwinelle, covering his travels in Europe and the American South and West (1849-1870); a scrapbook of clippings concerning the water supply issue in...
Bound vol. (132 p.) serving successively as a daybook for Farren's Boston mercantile transactions, a logbook/diary recording his voyage to San Francisco aboard the ship Reindeer (Dec. 1849-Apr. 1850), and an account book containing scattered entries during his early employment...
Chiefly unbound "publicity scrapbooks" (1930-1968) containing newspaper clippings and ephemera related to the John W. Geary PTA and its activities; together with correspondence, minutes, reports, rosters, flyers, programs, newsletters, and other papers. Includes a small amount of material pertaining to...
The records of the John W. Geary School PTA begin in April 1930. Included are correspondence, minutes, flyers, programs, newsletters, and scrapbooks. The most revealing and complete materials from the early days of the school are the publicity scrapbooks which...
Diary (110 p.) kept by Griffith on his voyage from New York to San Francisco via Mexico aboard the bark Mara and the schooner Dolphin (May-July, 1849); and a vol. (36 p.) of reminiscences (undated) by Griffith describing the same...
Fourteen letters and 16 pages of a diary which was written on the overland journey from Michigan to California.
Letters describe his experiences in California, including bee keeping near San Diego; impressions of San Francisco and Eureka.
Diary of John W. Watts, recounting his overland journey from Mo. to Calif. in 1850, his brief stay in Calif., and his return home in 1851; with an inverted second half of the vol. serving as a diary of his...
Concerning the Roosevelt Progressive Republican League of California (of which he was president), the Progressive and Republican Parties and the election of 1912. Chiefly carbon copies of League organizational papers and letters sent or pertaining to the Afro-American Council, C.L....
Four folios containing Jones' lectures written to accompany display of his Pantoscope during his tour of eastern cities. The lectures describe travel along the Emigrant Trail between the Missouri River and San Francisco, detailing scenery, life on the trail, encounters...
Back of a card on Terry notes for Mr. Klette in folder 1 not on film; complete with this exception.
Includes biographical notice; appointment to Regents; honorary degree; Joseph LeConte letter applying for professorship and recommending his brother John, and his letter of acceptance, 1868; D.C. Gilman letter offering books to the University of California, 1872, and letter re legal...
Papers relating to the U.S. occupation of California, including letter by Livingston to R.B. Stockton, letters from William Speiden and James Biddle, documents relating to the U.S. Frigate Congress, copy of Stockton's Address to Californias, etc.
Collection contains correspondence and financial records pertaining to the operation of the Original Amador Mine, Plumas Eureka Mine, Seaton Mine, Sierra Buttes Mine and Uncle Sam Mines.
Stereographs show the Sierra Buttes mine, and the Plumas Eureka mine. Other photoprints show Plumas Eureka miners and related subjects; the original Amador mine; etc.
Approximately 1000 botanical drawings, most in pen and black ink on paper, of the structural parts of angiosperms and some gymnosperms, by Arthur Monrad Johnson. Many of the illustrations have been published in the author's scientific publications, such as his...
Sound recordings of interviews, and promotional literature, relating to American philanthropy and business investment in Poland, and to the Torf Corporation. Interviews conducted by Elena S. Danielson.
Letters from family and friends, poll tax receipts.
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, diplomatic dispatches and instructions, and printed matter, relating to the Russian Railway Service Corps in Siberia, the Inter-Allied Technical Board, and the Trans-Siberian Railroad during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Photocopy.
Accounts, business and personal correspondence, diaries, photographs....
The collection mainly contains correspondence from Charles H. Johnson, a Civil War Union soldier, Michigan Cavalry, 1st Regiment (Vol), Co. M, to his mother, 1858-1866, as well as some later correspondence, a few photographs, and miscellany, including a cookbook with...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Relates to territorial settlements at the Paris Peace Conference.
Relates to proposals for free enterprise economic development in Cuba and other socialist countries.
Frederick Johnson (b.1904) was a anthropologist and curator of the R.S. Peabody Foundation. He became chairman of the Committee on Radioactive Carbon 14 set up by the American Anthropological Association. Johnson later became president of the Radiocarbon Dates Association. The...
George Perry Johnson (1885-1977) was a writer, producer, and distributor for the Lincoln Motion Picture Company (1916-23). After the company closed, he established and ran the Pacific Coast News Bureau for the dissemination of Negro news of national importance (1923-27)....
Correspondence, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the history of the Bohemian Club, and the membership of Herbert Hoover in the club.
Papers of Gerald Woodrow Johnson, physicist and specialist in the fields of nuclear policy and atomic energy. Johnson served as associate director for testing at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory during the 1950s and was active in the development of underground...
Letters to Thomas L. Carpenter, Andrew Gross, and others; with a letter from Henry M. Teller, president of the Colorado Central Railroad, 1872, together with circulars. A satirical broadside and other printed items reflect the debacle in which the Emma...
Includes correspondence; reports; speeches; statements and press releases; scrapbooks; clippings; and printed materials, including government documents. Most materials relate to Johnson's career as governor of California, 1911-1917, as U.S. Senator from California, 1917-1945, and to his leadership of the Progressive...
The collection consists primarily of materials pertaining to World War I and World War II. World War I is delineated in letters from the young Johnson to his girl, Elizabeth Alpers (1918). Photographs form the bulk of the collection. These...
Project files and research files compiled by J. W. Johnson during his career as Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and as a professional consulting engineer.
Speeches, press releases, reports, memoranda, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to uranium mining and the development of nuclear energy in the United States.
The collection consists of programs, fliers, and magazines pertaining to theater, music, and dance.
Argentine newspaper and magazine issues, clippings, and photographs, relating to the presidency of Juan Perón of Argentina, especially its overthrow, and to the death of Eva Perón, wife of Juan Perón.
Relate mainly to his difficulties, while governor of California, with the 1856 Vigilance Committee.
Clippings, diary, correspondence, photographs, unemployment booklet, deeds, receipts, greeting cards, promisory notes....
Circulars, memoranda, proclamations, clippings, and miscellanea, relating to regulation of the civilian population in German-occupied Norway during World War II, war damage insurance in Norway during World War II, and the postwar Soviet-Norwegian dispute over the establishment of military bases...
Photographs, postcards, medical pamphlets and certificates, and miscellany, relating to American military hospitals during World War I, and especially to the military hospital at Camp Kearny, California.
Martha Ennis Johnson (d. 1984) was the associate dean of financial aid at UCLA before she became the director of the Venice Service Center in Los Angeles. She was also an author who wrote , short stories and a one-act...
The papers include correspondence, memoranda, observations, data, lantern slides, drawings, lecture notes and manuscripts of scientific papers documenting Johnson's life and career. The collection includes material documenting SIO expeditions including Gulf of California (1939), MidPac (1950), Capricorn (1952), and Eastropic...
The collection consists of manuscripts for the book "Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast," photographs, and scrapbooks.
The collection consists of 35 copy negatives selected from three albums of photographic prints related to the Sea Scouts and their activities in Aquatic Park, San Francisco including activities aboard Sea Scout Ship and landscape features of Aquatic Park between...
Drafts and clippings of news stories, notes, and photographs, relating to activities of the Marine Corps in the South Pacific during World War II.
American architect. Architectural drawings, study models, photographs, brochures, and miscellaneous papers, the bulk of which relate to the Franklin Square building, Washington, D.C., a project by John Burgee Associates with Philip Johnson. The collection also includes models and brochures for...
Documentation of the early and later career of architect Philip Johnson, especially representative of his early work, particularly his Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and a number of little known, never constructed projects. The collection consists of photographs,...
This collection includes 10 letters and 24 items of mail art created by Ray Johnson.
Reynold B. (Rey) Johnson's papers are comprised of International Business Machines (IBM) company documents, newspaper clippings, project ideas and drawings, and photographs from his thirty-seven years with IBM. Of particular note is Johnson's involvement in the development of magnetic disk...
Chiefly concerning conservation of the Yosemite area, including campaign, 1913, against Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Material relating to Sequoia, General Grant and other national parks and to forest reserves included. A few printed items: reports, circulars, copies of laws, etc., with...
Three letters, now in fragile condition, were written by Sanford D. Johnson to various members of his immediate family. S. Johnson (also signed by Sophia Johnson) writes to Daniel Johnson of Gardiner, Maine on July 23, 1833. Sanford Johnson writes...
Writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, studies, technical reports, journal articles, and other printed matter, relating to physics, nuclear and other energy sources, nuclear weapons, laser technology, the Strategic Defense Initiative, arms control, and scientific policy in the United States during the...
Concern his life and activities as a writer.
Diary, correspondence, and photographs, relating to activities of the 31st Infantry Regiment in Siberia.
Memoirs, reports, and journal article, relating to education in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
The photographs arrived at the Huntington in 1924 when, after persistent negotiations, she sold some 1200 glass plate negatives and her "catalogue set of blue prints" to Henry E. Huntingotn and his library for several thousand dollars.* In her correspondence...
Patrick Johnston, Democrat, was a member of the California State Assembly from 1980-1990 and a State Senator from 1991-2000. The Patrick Johnston Papers consist of 38 cubic feet primarily representing Johnston's activities during his twenty years of service in the...
Relates to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Published (University Park, Pennsylvania, 1967).
Verna Johnston's papers contain her notes, writings, clippings, correspondence and photographs pertaining to California and Alaskan ecology. She has arranged most of the papers in alphabetical subject files. Johnston's photographs are also organized in an alphabetical filing system that lists...
Project files; correspondence.
Depicts scenes along the upper Yangtze River as part of a survey undertaken by the Commission.
Minutes, agenda, and memoranda, relating to agriculture and rural development in Taiwan.
Annual reports, minutes, financial records, newsletters, other issuances, printed matter, and photographs, relating to secondary school and university education in economics in the United States.
A British experimental theatre group founded in 1974 by Max Stafford-Clark, David Hare, and David Aukin, the Joint Stock Theatre Group was dedicated to developing new writing for the theatre. Workshops set up by William Gaskill and Max Stafford-Clark resulted...
Relates to the organization of the German defense ministry, army, and paramilitary organizations, and to the transfer of their administration to Allied control at the end of World War II.
Photographic work for Life Magazine, Scienfific American, and other magazines. Also work for various corporations, including oil, high tech, wine industry, and lumber companies.
Contains the typescripts of short stories many of which appeared in the WPA and Sutro Library sponsored publication "Golden Mountain: Chinese Tales Told in California." The stories were gathered by Jon Lee in San Francisco's Chinatown in Chinese and translated...
Newspaper editorial, relating to proposals for American military intervention in Mexico. Published in the El Paso Morning Times.
The Oswald Jonas memorial collection combines the papers of the Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) with the papers of Oswald Jonas (1897-1978), a distinguished Schenker pupil and loyal disciple. Added to these are the papers of Moriz Violin (1879-1956),...
Typescript of work published in THE FLOATING BEAR....
Annotated typescripts....
Correspondence, books, pictures, newspaper copies.
Typed copies of family and business correspondence dated 1829-1887. Correspondents include Peter Burnett, Ferdinand C. Ewer, Horace Greeley, charles Sumner, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Includes a few original letters and receipts, along with a stock certificate.
Part I. Letters, case files, and other papers relating mainly to activities in San Francisco from about 1849 as an attorney and claim agent.
Certificate of sale of property and papers in two cases in the District Court.
Newspaper clippings and related material, mainly concerning his career as Alameda County supervisor from 1898, containing information on election campaigns, controversy on use of funds for road work, incorporation of Fruitvale, proposed new roads, county taxes, sale of his property,...
Letters describe Rensselaer's life at the "State University"; letter, Dec. 16, relates experiences at the inauguration of Governor Booth, Dec. 8, 1871.
Collection consists of material related to Jones' career as an architect. Includes architectural plans and drawings, presentation boards, company chronology files, building specifications, travel sketches, doodles, ephemera, and publications by and about Jones....
Adrienne Jones (b.1915) worked as office and managerial worker, cattle rancher, and with youth groups. She is also a free-lance writer and novelist. The collection consists of Jones' manuscript drafts, galley proofs, books, related papers, correspondence with editors and publishing...
The accession consists of 133 color photographic prints made by geologist Alan Jones from his original color negatives or slides. Most of the images are photographs taken on SIO Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953). The accession includes 149 35mm slides taken on...
Collection contains rough drafts for a television program, , which attempted to locate missing persons. Also contains photographs, as well as clippings and publicity materials relating to Archdale Jones....
Includes letters from W.F. Bliss, Galen Clark and John Muir.
Collection consists of television and motion picture scripts related to the career of actress Carolyn Jones. Includes 18 bound volumes of motion picture scripts including, The bachelor party, Desiree, Marjorie Morningstar, The seven year itch, and The tender trap, and...
Actress Carolyn Jones was best known for her role as the ghoulish Morticia in the television series . The collection consists of scripts and scrapbooks related to her acting career.
Relate mainly to his activities in San Francisco as lawyer, businessman, proprietor of the Portsmouth House, property owner, and member of the town council. Included are letters; accounts; contracts for street and property improvements; deeds; and petitions and other papers...
Correspondence, notes, pamphlets, clippings, and photographs, relating to M. N. Roy and the communist movement in India.
The Jones and Conger families were among the pioneers of California and Nevada. Thomas Conger became state senator in California. Conger's son-in-law, John P. Jones, became senator in Nevada and was the founder of Santa Monica. Jones' son, Roy Jones,...
Relates to British military activities during World War II.
Relates to German propaganda and espionage activities in Mexico during World War II. Photocopy.
Professor of medical physics and physiology and assistant director of Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Letters written to Jones and copies of letters by him; manuscripts of speeches and papers; minutes of meetings of various University and Laboratory committees...
Correspondence, writings, reports, memoranda, clippings, leaflets, and other printed matter, relating to student radicalism, primarily at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Herbert C. Jones Collection documents the home files of Senator Herbert C. Jones. This collection is divided into eleven series, and a total of nine linear feet, in eight manuscript boxes (1-8), two pamphlet boxes (9 and 11), and...
Business correspondence, initiatives and referendums, legislation, scrapbooks, maps, newsclippings, and other papers, relating to Jones' career in the California State Senate and to State political activity after his term of office....
The collection primarily contains correspondence to Herschel Jones (1861-1928), editor of the and collector of Americana. Correspondents include Charles Evans Hughes, Charles H. Mayo, Thomas Nast, Robert E. Peary, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lillian Russell....
The Holway Jones Papers consist largely of Sierra Club Board of Directors' Minutes (1907-1982) and related materials....
Writings, correspondence, reports, research files, studies, and printed matter, relating to public finance and postwar reconstruction in Germany, 1945-1951, and to American relations with Indonesia and other areas of East Asia.
Idwal Jones (1888-1964) was a journalist, and author of short stories, articles and books. The collection consists of correspondence and ephemera, manuscripts, galley proofs, page proofs, and first editions of works by Jones including , , , , , ,...
Photographs, drawings, printed matter, and miscellanea, relating to activities of the Japanese Army in China during World War I, especially to the siege of Tsingtao, 1914; to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905; and to the palace of Kaiser Wilhelm II...
Documents collected by Frank Golder relating to John Paul Jones' career as Admiral in Russian Black Sea Fleet during the war against the Ottoman Empire. Includes copies (photostats and typed transcripts) of correspondence from Jones to Prince Grigori A. Potemkin,...
Materials relating to the wine trade between England and France between the 16th-18th centuries; research data on apprenticeships, taverns, ports, and volumes of trade in paper and microfilm.
This collection documents the activities of graphic artist and transgender activist Jordy Jones in San Francisco primarily during the years of 1992 to 2002. The collection has an emphasis on Jones� political activism and personal activities with queer and transgender...
The collection consists primarily of materials Jones used for her teaching and research.
The Kathleen B. Jones papers document Jones’ professional career as a Professor, Associate Dean at San Diego State University and as activist-scholar within the greater community. This collection provides researchers with documentation of some of the activities and the contributions...
Photograph and a copy of the marriage license of Mary Green Jones, an ex-slave; and a letter written by L. J. Jones, son of Mary Jones, relating to her reminiscences of slave life in Mississippi.
Press releases, clippings, speeches, orders, maps, a diary, and photographs, relating to Allied military activities in the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, and to General Joseph W. Stilwell.
The papers of R. T. Jones include research notes and drawings, correspondence, patents, articles, reports, photographs, and other materials. ...
Combined flag of the Central Powers (Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Turkey) during World War I.
Collection consists of television scripts, screenplays for produced and unproduced motion pictures, and stage plays related to the career of actress and singer Shirley Jones. Contains numerous projects including the television series The Partridge family. Also includes treatments and story...
The Sybil Eliza Jones Papers are organized into five series: Plays, Music, Scrapbooks, and Course Outlines and Lessons.
Holograph letter written at camp near Black River.
Two letters to A.L. Bancroft & Company enclose letters from Kate Harlan and Henry C. Jones with the Lewis data. An accompanying printed prospectus (1884) is for the Dallas Female College, of which W.K. Jones was "President and Proprietor."
Bible autographed by President Herbert Hoover.
The William Carey Jones Papers comprise the professional correspondence and research files of William Carey Jones, 1854-1923, administrator, professor, and founder and first director of the School of Jurisprudence at the University of California. The papers include extensive materials relating...
His papers contain field notebooks when Willis S. Jones was superintendent of Claremont Domestic Water Company and consulting engineer Vail Company, legal cases on water rights and supply, maps of Southern California, photographs of San Gabriel Valley, rainfall and...
Minutes of meetings, bylaws, membership lists, and accounts, relating to the promotion of telegraphy in Belgium.
Photographs of caricatures depicting officials of the Comité national de secours et d'alimentation, and of the Comité provincial de secours et d'alimentation du Limbourg, Belgian relief organizations during World War I.
Relates to activities of the Belgian army during the German offensive of May 1940.
Prospectus, notes, sound recordings and transcripts of interviews, photocopies of East German secret police reports, and printed articles and clippings, relating to the East German dissident movement, and to Asian and Latin American immigration to Great Britain, Germany and the...
The Jordan Papers span 1861-1951, although the bulk of the collection dates between 1891 and 1929. Very few items pre-date Jordan's connection with Stanford University and there is very little material after the severe stroke he suffered in the summer...
Correspondence, writings, pamphlets, leaflets, clippings, and photographs, relating to pacifism and the movement for world peace, disarmament, international relations, American neutrality in World War I, American foreign and domestic policy, civil liberties in the United States, problems of minorities in...
Holograph letter of a personal nature in which Jordan mentions being made a Knight of the Order of the Rising Sun in Japan. Also signed by Jessie Knight Jordan....
Black and white photograph Mr. and Mrs. Jordan sitting near a pond. The photograph was originally laid in Jordan's DOAYS OF A MAN (1922; QL31.J6 A3)....
Relates to alleged advance knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor by American intelligence officers.
Bulletins, photographs, memorabilia, and mimeographed material, relating to United States Army activities in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Depicts a bust of Prime Minister Ignacy Paderewski of Poland, made by N. Tregor, 1941.
Letters from Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Manuel Avila Camacho and his brother Maximino, touching upon educational needs and funds for roads in the state, on illiteracy and on effects of World War II on Mexico. Some with notes of Cerdán's replies.
Correspondence and memoranda of the governor of Veracruz and related clippings re efforts to obtain aid for victims of a cyclone and floods in the area, Sept. l944.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Mainly correspondence relating to his political party, El Partido Liberal Evolucionista, to political events in Mexico, and to the assassination of Francisco I. Madero and J. M. Pino Suárez. Include letters from Miguel Salvador Macedo, Francisco I. Madero, Isidro Mendicuti...
Mainly letters of Florence Orr Jorgensen to her mother, 1924-1925, describing her travels in Europe.
Include three European travel diaries, 1924-1925, kept by California artist Virgil W. Jorgensen, with mention of his Italian relatives, members of the Ghirardelli family; 1954 European travel diary of his wife, Florence Orr Jorgensen; and letters to her from her...
Contains family photographs, including portraits, vacation snapshots, photos of pets, etc., from California (Laurel Brook, Yosemite, Sonoma Co.,) and other U.S. locations. Virgil William Jorgensen (California artist), Florence Orr Jorgensen and James Wallace Orr appear in several photos. Some family...
Correspondence (personal and financial), legal materials, clippings, gift cards, scrapbook, and invitations concerning the life and activities of the Jorgensen family of which Angela Ghirardelli Jorgensen was a member. Also includes litigation materials concerning Norman Littell.
Miscellaneous documents relating mainly to José Amesti, including a copy of his baptismal record; his request for a permit to leave Lima on the Margarita for Panama, 1809; certificate by Cesáreo Lataillade, 1847, re Amesti's nationality; Mexican passport, 1848, signed...
Papers as alcalde of Los Angeles, relating to marriage permits for Julian Vargas and Salvador Armijo.
Copies of letters (v.1: cartas despachadas a la corte; v.2: cartas escritas a particulares) written while Spanish governor on the island of Elba, containing reports on his activities there, remarks on the garrison at Porto Longone, comments on expenditures, commerce...
Documents signed as Viceroy of Mexico: one concerning the ownership of Rancho Bejarano near Horcasitas (1804); and a letter of Juan Francisco Domínguez requesting a copy of laws regulating the sale of liquor on feast days, with draft of Domínquez's...
Documents as Juez de Paz of San Luis Obispo. Include letter from José M. Bonilla; proclamation concerning unregistered cattle brands and irrigation water; and land grant to Victor Linares.
Include letter from San Francisco lawyer, F.P. Tracy, relating to the confirmation of title to Mallacomes y Plano de Agua Caliente; copy of decree of confirmation for the property; and typed transcript of letter from Berreyesa to the editor of...
Contents: Letters and promissory note by José D. Peralta; letters from Victor Castro, Joaquín I. Castro and others.
Contents: Letters and documents by Figueroa as Governor of Alta California; diary of expedition from Monterey to Fort Ross and vicinity, Aug. 9 - Sept. 12, 1834; and letter from J.B. de Jesus Perez concerning abuses of Indians in Santa...
Correspondence as an official of Querétaro, Mexico.
Relate to politics in Mexico. Some correspondence of Jesús Camarena also included.
Include letter from Dávila to President Venustiano Carranza, Dec. ll, l9l4, requesting weapons and ammunition for use in fighting revolutionaries, and official typed transcripts made by the Secretaría de Guerra y Marina of documents relating to politics in Oaxaca, 19l9-19l9,...
Letters written as Governor of Alta California to Macario Castro, and letter from F.M. Calleja, Viceroy of Mexico, concerning Russian deserters and illicit Russian trading in California. In Spanish.
Letter to Manuel Castañares, 1845, describes conditions in California pertaining to the revolt of the Californians. Also certificate concerning appointment of Francisco Figueroa.
Mainly correspondence and papers as governor of Alta California. Letters from Ignacio Martinez, Tiburcio Vasquez, and others included.
Mainly public notices as alcalde and juez de paz of San Luis Obispo. Letter from Walter Colton included.
The collection includes drafts of poems, publications and photographs.
Papers as military commandant at Monterey. Include regulations concerning army personnel entering pueblos of San José and Branciforte, and appointment of corporals of the Guard at San Jose. In Spanish.
Report, 16 January 1824, to Antonio Narbona from Palm Springs, on his activities in Alta California, and on the expedition undertaken with José María Estudillo to locate a trail to the Colorado River, and on the conditions that forced them...
Documents relating to Gastañeta's career, including expediente concerning trial to clear him of charges of collaboration with Hidalgo's insurgents, April 8-June, 1811, and army commission, January 6, 1813.
Papers of José Yrineo Magallanes and his sons, Mariano, Francisco and Juan, relating to the sale, inheritance, or transfer of lands and estates mainly in Tlaltenango and Jérez, province of Zacatecas, Mexico.
Business papers, correspondence, land grant materials, legal papers, Mission Dolores accounts, receipts, promissory notes, tax assessments.
Deeds, leases, printed court documents, maps, and other documents and papers of the widow of Salvador Espinoza, concerning the ranch in Monterey County granted to him in 1837.
Collection consists of four [4] p. folders, each with a mounted hand printed screen miniature reproduction of a print by Albers. Three of the folders are prospectuses for portfolios by Albers; the fourth is published in commemoration of Albers' 88th...
The papers span twenty years and cover aspects of Andrews' professional life (notes, correspondence, committee affairs) and of his social life (correspondence, invitations), but almost totally missing are any personal aspects. The collection does afford some interesting glimpses of the...
Correspondence, bills and other papers of Rowe and his associates
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor: A short history and guide to the collections (1969) -- California Dept. Parks & Recreation - Museum Collections Oil Painting Inventory, by artist (1987).
Correspondence.
Diary (Nov. 8, 1849-Jan. 27, 1851?) of voyage from Boston to San Francisco and experiences in the Southern mines; list of passengers and crew of the Euphrasia, Captain Charles Buntin, master; certificate of membership, Sons of Temperance, Sonora, Calif.
Includes letter 20 May, l856, written to his brother from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, describing traveling in Nicaragua in the wake of Walker's expedition, and his interest in Honduras, especially in its silver. Also included are portions of the manuscript of his...
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) [copy of three paragraphs to W.C. Beaumont, Nov. 17, 1910] (2 l. ; 26 cm.).
Collections includes manuscripts of Williamson's writings and speeches, research files, and correspondence relating to his career at Sunset. Also included are editions of the Sunset Western Garden Book.
Personal papers; papers relating to the administration of his wife's estate; two mining leases 1918 and 1920, in the Robinson Mining District White Pine County, Nevada; smelting contract, 1919.
Diary (May 1846-May 1849) beginning when Eastland was a 14-year-old schoolboy, written from home in Nashville, Tenn. and New Orleans, La., where his father, Thomas B. Eastland, was a political figure; continuing through the Mexican War, in which Joseph Eastland...
Primarily the papers of Joseph G. Baldwin, including correspondence (1838-1865), family letters, legal papers, typescript of his "Flush times of California" and other writings; miscellaneous papers. Also includes correspondence of Robert M. Lester and Cornelia Baldwin Gray (1922-1949) relating to...
Correspondence , articles and ephemera related to Peter J. Shields.
Collection of material relating to early telephone lines in the mining country of California. Include chronological record of early telephone lines in Northern California and Nevada; map showing lines; copies of newspaper articles; and clippings.
1905 volumes contain account of travels in South America, around the Horn, to San Francisco. Remaining diaries describe his life in San Francisco.
Contains 3 letters from a Calif. gold miner to his sister Augusta Davis in Maine describing life in and around the Calif. gold mines.
Primarily legal papers relating to the estate of William A. Leidesdorff, which Folsom purchased from Leidesdorff's mother, Anna Maria Spark, and to Folsom's suit against Mrs. Spark after she refused to accept the agreement she made to sell the estate...
Papers relating to Joseph LeConte's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, Folsom estate materials, Leidesdorff estate materials, legal papers, Pulgas Rancho materials
Letters and accounts relating to duties as quartermaster and customs collector in San Francisco and to business affairs. Report of discovery of gold in California. A few papers concerning property in San Francisco. Some data pertaining to the Folsom estate.
Contains correspondence, legal documents and clippings, concerning land and construction throughout the state of California. Also includes clippings from election fraud cases in 1894.
Correspondence, clippings, certificates, personal papers, speech material, photographs
Letter written by Joseph Moore to Mr. Sutro on Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works stationary telling him that Mr. Sharon had agreed to sell two water engines for $50.00 "provided the smallest one is still at the hotel."
Business and personal papers of Joseph Mora Moss, including receipt, record, and ledger books, photographs also papers of Joseph Mora Moss III.
Accounts of owners of a steam-powered marble sawmill on Battery St.
As agent of the Accessory Transit Company, protesting William Walker's seizure of a box of gold from the steamer San Carlos. Signed before the American minister to Nicaragua, John H. Wheeler, and confirmed by William Walker; with additional note by...
Letter written by Joseph P. Wheeler of Sacramento, dated the 28th of an unknown month in 1854, to his brother-in law Samuel Lafayette Brown with a note to his sister Martha (Wheeler) Brown. Wheeler apologizes for not writing sooner, and...
A collection of printed books with illustrations by Joseph Pennell, and other works related to his career.
Papers pertaining to relocation and internment of Japanese and Japanese-American residents of Calif. during World War II. Consists of records of the San Francisco chapter of the Japanese American Citizens' League and the Buchanan Street YMCA (Jan.-June 1942), including some...
Contains 2 letters to his brother about his son's departure and experiences mining gold in California, other family member news and life in Westerly, R.I. Also includes genealogical information.
Joseph Richard Slevin papers, Archives, California Academy of Sciences
Consists of over 50 years of correspondence, reports, articles, and printed materials concerning the development of Calif. during the first half of the twentieth century, chiefly documents from the various organizations to which Knowland belonged, with some personal material. Includes...
Four letters from Joseph S. Pike in Columbia and Albany Flat, Calif. are to his father Joseph F. Pike, apparently in West Chelmsford, Mass. The letters mention health, weather, and lack of fortune. In one Pike mentions that he is...
Photos of Bohemian Grove, Bohemian Club banquets, and various Grove plays, taken by Gabriel Moulin, especially the 24th, Wings, by Joseph S. Thompson, produced in 1925. Some photos of Thompson and his staff at Pacific Electric Manufacturing Corporation, of which...
Photocopies of letters and documents in various repositories.
Copies of letters as Lieutenant, 3d Regiment of Artillery, U.S. Army and assistant commissary of subsistance at Sinaloa, Ceralvo and Monterrey.
Includes letters from Sam Davis, discussing financial matters and his campaign for Nevada state controller in 1910, from Miriam Michelson, some of which refer to her writing efforts, and from Gustav Eisen; legal and financial papers; fragmentary MSS for some...
Joseph W. Mailliard papers, Archives, California Academy of Sciences
Include letters from Mr. and Mrs. Francis Marion Smith, relating primarily to the shipment and sales of borax to concerns in the East, and to the marketing of California prunes and bricks; articles of agreement with Israel Lawton, l885-l886, re...
Correspondence
Obituary and resolutions passed by the Society of California Pioneers and by the University of California Pioneers and by the University of California College of Dentistry.
Contains mining claims, a document outlining a partnership at a mining claim, accounting record of music students and clipping of 4th of July Celebration performance.
Contains genealogical information on the Falkenberg, Murphy, and Dunne families. Includes a copy of the 1875 map of the Murphy-Dunne ranches in San Martin, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy, California.
Gift of Josephine Miles.
Collection consists of typescripts of Rowan's poems, manuscript notebooks, issues of periodicals in which her poems were published (1908-1909), other publications, ephemera, some correspondence, a few photographs, and three scrapbooks containing clippings of printed illustrations. Includes Rowan's copy of the...
Consists of correspondence, typescripts of fiction and articles by Ober, and miscellaneous personal papers. Most of the material dates from Ober's tenure as society editor of the newspaper New York World. Letters received include courtesy notes from interviewees such as...
Includes: two letters, 1913, addressed to Juanita Goldmann; clippings; issues of magazine articles containing articles written by her, etc.
Letters written by Joshua H. Corwin of Mount Hope, NY to his father and brother during the Mexican War. Corwin was a private in Light Company, Second Regiment, U.S. Artillery. The letters relate his voyage out, his experiences at Corpus...
Contains drawings for mining equipment used in the gold rush town of Dayton, Nevada.
Consists of Vincent's diary (ca. 100 p.), dated July 20, 1846 to Nov. 25, 1847, along with secondary material prepared and collected by Christopher D'Amanda. The diary describes Vincent's voyage from Elmira, New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn...
Contains 30 letters written by Joshua Spriggs to his 2-year-old grandson Eddie Leroy Tye about his time in Calif. and Or. The letters describe his account by sea through Panama to San Francisco, the harbor and city of San Francisco...
Include letters from Sir William Reynell, 3rd baronet Anson; Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, and Sir William Milbourne James.
Four letters (1841-1845) to Belden's sister, Eliza M. Bowers; and an autobiographical account (1878, 70 p.) written for the Bancroft Library, describing Belden's journey to Calif. and his subsequent life there.
Clippings from Virginia City and other newspapers, 1879-1880, when Harlow was a printer with the Territorial Enterprise, and an Assemblyman from Storey County. Also letters from Wells Drury, 1879, and from W.H. Pratt, 1885.
Account books, business papers, correspondence, photographs
Correspondence and receipts
Diary (Jan. 1-Nov. 20, 1858), reminiscence (undated), and newspaper clippings (1858-1935) relating to the shipwreck in 1858 in Polynesia of the clipper Wild Wave, of which Knowles was master, en route from San Francisco, Calif., to Valparaiso, Chile; a copybook...
5 letters written by McLellan from California to his family in Maine. Also includes a signed document assigning power of attorney for McLellan to his brother, Hugh D. McLellan. Also includes a letter written to Col. Hugh D. McLellan from...
Versatile character actor Allyn Joslyn's acting career spanned from the 1920's to the1970's. The collection documents Joslyn's professional accomplishments as an actor and entertainer, and includes scripts for motion pictures, television, radio, and stage; press clippings focused on Joslyn's career;...
The collection consists of photocopies of typescripts of historical essays by Joslyn which have been bound in three parts: ...
This record group contains correspondence, 1949-1962; court transcripts and other legal documents, 1952-1955; clippings, 1953-1956; and telegrams, 1955, related to Jost's application for citizenship and the legal appeal process. It also contains papers presented by Jost at various conferences on...
V.1 contains his account of a whaling voyage from New Bedford, Mass., around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and return (Aug. 1846-May 1849) autobiographical notes; reflections on his whaling experiences; moral precepts; Illinois diary (May 3, 1852-Mar. 23, 1853)...
Part of a collection of Chinese business records from Nevada County, Calif.
Description of voyage from San Francisco to Panama on steamship, Colorado, crossing the Isthmus and voyage to New York on steamship, Arizona.
Record of journey from Iowa (Apr. 10-Aug. 5, 1850) with additional note (Feb. 2, 1851) concerning Placerville, Sacramento and the mines.
The accession consists of a journal kept aboard R/V Baird on Leg B of Capricorn Expedition. Its first annotation is made from Kwajaleni. The journal is kept in two hands and records scientific events, navigational information, weather, and information about...
Account of voyage on the bark Belvedere from New York City via Cape Horn, stopping over in Callao; description of San Francisco; experiences mining gold around Agua Fino; and return to San Francisco.
Record of a voyage (June 25, 1844-February 15, 1846) on the Charles Phelps; sojourn at Lahaina; and transfer, August 16, 1846, to the ship, Drome, Captain Steel. The journal ends March 7, 1847, when near home. The Charles Phelps sought...
Diary, Apr. 27-Sept. 26, 1846, of overland journey from Andrew Co., Missouri, to California. Records births and deaths (including those of his father and sister-in-law) en route and arduous crossing of the Sierra Nevada. Mentions other emigrant parties. Part of...
Records include field studies, graduate and undergraduate programs, student participation, and various University of California, Berkeley offices whose activities contributed to the Journal, published in 3 vols. from Dec. 1969 through May 1972.
Typescript transcription of journal titled "Notes connected with Clallum Expedition fitted out under the command of Alex. R. McLeod, Esq., Chief Trader at Fort Vancouver on the 17th of June, 1828, by Frank Ermatinger, Clerk." The expedition was to avenge...
Related materials, received by The Bancroft Library in 1965, are shelved as BANC MSS C-F 226.
Typescript copy.
Diary of overland journey by wagon train from Illinois to California, by way of South Pass, Hudspeth Cut-off, Humboldt Sink and Carson River. Diary ends in the Carson Valley before crossing the Sierra Nevada. Miscellaneous pencilled remarks and quotations at...
Daily accounts of a voyage from Boston, Mass., to San Francisco, Calif., via Cape Horn, by an unnamed narrator aboard the brig Wellingsley. Written as letters to his wife, Gussy, these entries describe the weather, sailing conditions, various locations, and...
Daily record, Mar. 22-Aug. 11, 1849 (first entry off the coast of Brazil) of voyage as a member of the Providence Mining Company. Earlier accounts, poems, etc., included. Newspaper clippings pasted on some pages.
Diaries kept by a doctor in Switzerland during and after World War I, commenting on the effects of the war on his country, changing economic conditions, and the international political scene. With these: loose clippings removed from the journals.
Letter to Gaston Bergery, 1940, relating to the Vichy regime in France; and writings and lectures, 1973-1979, relating to structure and ideology in political science, world economic conditions, and Marxist ideology.
Memoirs entitled Politicke Uspomene (1965), relating to political developments in Yugoslavia during World War II; pamphlet entitled ta nas Kota Svada sa Hrvatima? (ca. 1932), relating to the nationalities question in Yugoslavia; and an interview of D. Jovanovic by Alex...
Diaries, notes, clippings, and photographs, relating to the Panmunjom negotiations to end the Korean War.
The Arnold Joyal papers measure 1.5 linear foot and date from 1940 to 1996. The papers predominantly cover Joyal's professional life and are arranged into two series: Personal and Professional. ...
This collection includes correspondence, photographs, articles, dance notebooks, artwork, scrapbooks, sheet music and music pieces of dancer Joyce Berry-Kanitz. Part of the archival group History of the Arts.
Contains business correspondence including issues of embezzlement by politicians, the Drainage Claims Act, railroad taxes, Chinese railroad workers, and requests for references concerning positions and parole.
Notebooks, photographs, proceedings, journals, and correspondence pertaining to such civil engineering issues as fire protection and land use.
for water from J.S. Hay to the Idaho Hotel (Regan Bros. proprietors) May 1, 1875, printed by Kane & Cook, 412 Commercial Street, Silver City, Idaho.
Collection of letters between Juan B. Cantua and his attorney Hamilton Gay Howard relate to Cantua's efforts to revive his grandfather Vincente Cantua's claim for reimbursement for property (horses, cattle, guns, and supplies) taken by the United States Army in...
Letters and documents by Manuel Fernández Leal, Adolfo Díaz Rugama and others relating to litigation over irrigation rights to water from Tepotzotlán River for his Hacienda de Xuchimanga in Mexico.
Includes the following: C-B 1, nos. 175, 244; C-B 3, no. 274; C-B 4, no. 309; C-B 7, no. 341; C-B 9, no. 217; C-B 12, no. 264a; C-B 14, no. 49; C-B 29, nos. 108, 253, 378, 393, 436,...
Mainly proclamations relating to procedures for claiming land, and documents issued as Governor of California, with a few letters to and from Alvarado. Mostly in Spanish.
Part I: Naturalization papers; letter from Robert J. Elwell concerning the Joaquín Solis Revolt; documents relating to land claim for Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo, Monterey County, and to boundaries of Rancho de Punta de Quintin, Marin County; agreements...
Letters to the Count of Sessa and the Count of Cabra, with a copy of the letter to Cordoba from the Viceroy of New Mexico.
Letters by the Jesuit missionary, written from Mexico and Baja California, relating mainly to his missionary efforts and to the founding of the Nuestra Señora de Loreto Concho Mission in Baja California.
Includes petitions from heirs re dividing the estate; statement from commissioners Timothy Murphy and James Miller appointed by the probate court re feasibility of selling the property; accounts with signatures of William Carey Jones, James Black, Samuel C. Childs and...
Incomplete file relating to evaluation of the estate of the Marqués de Ayza, Mexico and Bolaños, 1792; and a letter to the magistrate of Mexico City regarding abuses in the taverns (pulquerías), Mexico, January 18, 1793, both signed by the...
Official communications as viceroy of Mexico. Include letter to the bishop of Guadalajara concerning pensions for librarians, 1818; letter concerning funds allotted to certain deputies for a voyage to Spain, 1820; printed circular communicating a royal decree on the establishment...
The collection of Paraguayan politician, journalist, jurist, and historian Juan Silvano Godoi (1850-1926) contains his personal papers, manuscripts, articles, speeches, letters, diaries, photographs, legal documents and miscellaneous publications. Part of the archival group Hispanic and Latin American History & Culture.
The collection presently consists of one series, Series I Artwork, made up of digitized images of 137 works of art spanning the years from 1983 through 2006.
Documents and maps, 1841-1861, for Rancho Tulucay; military discharges, 1836-1837; some correspondence; family genealogies.
The collection consists of correspondence and book lists sent between Judah and Felter at Pacific School of Religion, the seminary libraries participating in loaning the books, and representatives in the camps coordinating the book collections in their respective camps. The...
Collection consists of some 140 miscellaneous pamphlets from the collection of The Reverend Dr. Moses Gaster, Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Great Britain. Includes Jewish sermons, Order of Service, commentaries, etc. Pamphlets are chiefly from England in...
Depicts medical and relief work in France during World War I.
Materials collected by Ralph Judd relating to the history of cross-dressing in the performing arts. The collection is focused on popular music and vaudeville from the 1890s through the 1930s, and on film and television: it contains few materials on...
Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, memoranda, minutes, statements, press releases, notes, printed matter, and audio-visual material, relating to American domestic politics and foreign policy, anti-communist movements, the Chinese Civil War, American foreign policy toward China, the question of United States...
Papers relating to Judith Kunofsky's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Two essays on the history of handball, titled: Early history of handball courts in San Francisco (5 leaves); and Handball history in the United States (12 leaves), covering the years ca. 1854-1902.
The collection consists of 36 single-item cataloged letters, 23 of which deal with the Judson Family, while the remaining 13 have to do with the Civil War. In addition, there are 5 letters, 5 bills and receipts, and 1 broadside...
Contains photocopies of newspaper clippings, dating from 1876 to 1950, relating to the history of Chinese Americans in San Francisco's Chinatown, with emphasis on the specific areas of early immigration, slavery, prostitution, crime, and women.
Relates to camp life and work.
Series of reports, relating to the economic reconstruction of Yugoslavia after World War II.
Bound typescript (255 p.) of dissertation by Warren Ramsey on the life and works of the French poet, Jules Laforgue, which was the winner of the MLA-Oxford Award. This was returned by the award committee in order to make corrections...
Written late in life, feature reminiscences and discuss mutual friends.
Includes holograph letter (1882) from H.J. Carr to Alexander Hill concerning Moore's photograph; and a poem (1877).
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1988.044--PIC)
66 architectural drawings consisting of 48 pencil drawings and 3 blue line prints by Julia Morgan of elevations, floor plans, and architechtural details for the Bend, and Bridge houses at William Randolph Hearst's Wyntoon estate, McCloud, California. Included are 10...
This collection contains architectural drawings and plans, office records, photographs, correspondence, project files, student work, family correspondence, and personal papers from the estate of California architect Julia Morgan, who practiced in San Francisco during the first half of the twentieth...
Julia Morgan practiced architecture in California during the first half of the twentieth century. The architectural drawings and plans, office records, photographs, correspondence, project files, student work, and personal papers created by or belonging to Julia Morgan in this collection...
Collection of architect and engineer Walter T. Steilberg, who worked for Julia Morgan in the 1920s and 1930s, including vintage photographic prints of Morgan projects and Steilberg's published and unpublished recollections of Morgan and her practice.
Collection consists primarily of scripts for television series (1952-54) related to the career of writer and musician, Al Julian. Includes annotated drafts of scripts for The hunter and Man against crime co-written by writers including Joseph C. Ellis, Burton Benjamin,...
Contains correspondence regarding literary publications and business ventures. Also includes a prospectus promoting Hawthorne Silver and Iron Mines, Limited, the venture for which Hawthorne was convicted of fraud.
Includes correspondence, typescripts of his writings, reminiscences, and scrapbooks. Also included are papers of his wife, Edith Garrigues Hawthorne.
Papers consist primarily of records involving Julian Levi's work with the South East Chicago Commission and the Hyde-Park/Kenwood Chicago redevelopment projects.
Correspondence mainly concerns the development of the University of California's modern poetry collection in the Library at Berkeley. Also included are typescripts by poet Jean Osiris.
This collection includes correspondence from Vinter Hansen to Tracy and Helen Crawford, photographs, and publications of her work
Reports, memos, agendas, clippings, and correspondence created while Partansky was a Davis City Council member and mayor.
Letters and enclosures addressed to Arriaga, Spanish Minister of Marine Affairs and the Indies, concerning the repair of Philippine fortifications and munitions for various parts of the empire.
Contains scrapbook, correspondence, fencing documents, and writings. The scrapbook covers his professional career as a fencing instructor for the U.S. Army in Europe, France, Toronto, Canada, San Francisco and as a professor at U.C. Berkeley. Correspondents include Marcel Marceau and...
Letters concern lithographs Hollinshead ordered. Included also: receipt signed by Jump in payment for a sketch, June 22, 1865.
Collection made by Ms. Junck, includes a scrapbook and loose forms, advertising, illustrations, pamphlets, handbills, newspaper clippings and official notices from departments of public health and hygiene, from cities and states in the United States and Canada....
Market reports, investment evaluations, management studies, etc. made by Quantum Science Corporation. 16 mm sound film, I.M. CLONE, which describes a day in the life of a business executive in the year 2000.
Incoming correspondence, original calligraphy examples, printed ephemera, and photographic reproductions of various calligraphic styles, 4th century to present, with emphasis on contemporary calligraphers, particularly Fritz Knedel, Rudolf Koch, Oscar Ogg, Alfred Riedel, and Raymond DaBoll....
Lo's B. A., M. A., and Ph. D. theses, manuscripts on Chinese naval history and leaders, including material on or by K'anf Yu-Wei, a philosopher and reformer of the late 19th and 20th centuries, and part of the Lo family...
Press releases, bulletins, position papers, resolutions, and periodicals, relating to the socialist youth movement in West Germany, especially to the 1973 Jungsozialisten national congress.
Mainly bound typescripts of texts of the plays. Many have programs pasted in.
Part I: Letters, reports and diary. (Diary in portfolio)
Collection consists of five facsimile copies of letters from Serra written in Sept. and Oct. 1774; a handwritten copy of another letter from Serra, written in May 1774 addressed to and copied by Pedro Fages on June 4, 1774, with...
Newspaper and magazine clippings, printed matter, writings, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to the career of F. M. Juras and to cultural activities of Lithuanians in the United States. Photocopy.
Correspondence, reminiscences, personnel records, orders, memoranda, log books, clippings, photographs, and art objects, relating to American naval aviation, naval operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II, postwar American-Japanese security cooperation, and American national security interests in the Pacific...
Collection consists of radio and television series scripts related to the career of writer and producer Ed Jurist. Includes scripts for numerous productions including the radio series Alrich family and The Jonathan Winters show, and the television series Bewitched (1969-71),...
Collection consists of material related to career of the composer Walter Jurmann. The bulk of the collection was collected by Yvonne Jurmann after the composer's death in 1971 and includes songs from European and American films, other popular songs, newspaper...
Collection consists of material related to career of the composer Walter Jurmann. The bulk of the collection was collected by Yvonne Jurmann after the composer's death in 1971 and includes songs from European and American films, other popular songs, newspaper...
Rating sheets by Wheaton Hale Brewer evaluating works of fiction and non-fiction being considered for annual literary award by the Club.
Record of cases tried at Yankee Jims and elsewhere in Placer Co., 1965-1874. Other judges presiding were W.C. Knight, Thomas Dodds, R.T. Kelly, John N. Findley, and James Harrison.
Collection consists of original "Star Trek" scripts. Scripts include production materials such as shooting schedules, cast lists, title sheets, special photographic effects lists, and credits. Most of the scripts have Justman's name or initials on the front cover and minor...
Copies of correspondence with state and national political figures, including: Herbert Hoover, Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, Richard Nixon during his presidential campaign and then presidency, J. Thomason Phelps of the state Public Utilities Commission, and Congressman William S. Maillard.
Six letters to Clark's sister, Janie, and family, in Platteville, Wis., describing Clark's life in gold mining country in Georgetown and Mount Gregory, Calif., beginning shortly after Clark arrived via an overland journey. The letters describe climate, landscape, housing, provisions,...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence with Ivan J. Donaldson, regarding Carleton E. Watkins photographs in Oregon, and copy of Johnson's paper, Carleton E. Watkins, Pioneer Pacific Coast Photographer.
This record contains blueprints (21) of the Claus Spreckles Annex on Market Street in San Francisco.
Accounts for a mill, mining timbers and lumber business.
Printed matter and photocopies of government documents, relating to Kurds in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states. Consists mainly of photocopies of British Foreign Office dispatches from the period between 1836 and 1924.