Finding aid to the Nelson C. Hawks papers, Kemble MS 3

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Table of contents

Diaries and scrapbooks 1855-1896

Box 1, Volume 1a

Journal! by N.C. Hawks 1855 January 1-1855 December 31

Box 1, Volume 1b

Diary, edited by Nelson C. Hawks 1855 January 1-1856 August

Box 1, Volume 2

Daily journal for the year of our Lord 1862 1862

Box 1, Volume 3

Daily journal for 1863 1863

Box 2, Volume 4

My book, for 1867 1867-1869

Scope and Contents

Includes a preface, written in 1867, and household accounts and daily journal entries for the year 1869. Journal entries for the year 1867 were never written.

Box 2, Volume 5

Journal, 1870 1870

Box 2, Volume 6

[Journal], 1871 1871

Box 2, Volume 7

Journal for 1872 1872-1880, 1888

Scope and Contents

Includes monthly journal entries for the years 1872 and 1873; daily journal entries for the pivotal year 1874 (during which Hawks moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco to manage the Pacific Type Foundry); and yearly summaries for the years 1875-1880. One of Hawk's children added daily journal entries for 1888 April 22-23.

Box 2, Volume 8

1882. Home plan and other memoranda. N.C. Hawks. Journal for 1883. 1882-1883

Box 3, Volume 9

Home memorandum expense etc., 1884 1884

Box 3, Volume 10

Home journal and expense, 1885 1885

Box 3, Volume 11

[Journal], 1886 1886

Box 3, Volume 12

Home journal, 1887-88 1887-1888

Box 3, Volume 13

Home journal, 1889-1893 1889-1893

Box 3, Volume 14

[Journal], 1894-1896 1894-1896

Box 5

Scrapbook of news clippings about Hawk's Iron Stand, etc. 1869-1883

Scope and Contents

Includes news clippings (1870-1873) about Hawk's Iron Stand, a composing stand patented in 1869, and Hawk's printing business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Also includes accounts for Hawk's Iron Stand (1869-1870) and the California Bracket Stand (1883).

Box 5

Scrapbook of news clippings about Nelson C. Hawks 1874-1896

Scope and Contents

Includes news clippings about Hawks and the various San Francisco printing establishments he managed or owned between the years 1874 and 1894. Also includes articles about the California Press Association and Hawk's California Camera Company, established after he retired from the printing business in 1896.

Correspondence and business records 1872-1885

Box 6

N.P. Hawks ledger 1872

Scope and Contents

Contains customer accounts for Hawk's Rural Press (Delafield, Wisconsin) for the year 1872. Approximately 130 specimens printed by the Rural Press, including billheads, broadsides, advertisements, certificates, and election tickets, are pasted in.

Box 7

Pacific Type Foundry letter book 1875 June 10-1876 September 16

Scope and Contents

Contains copies of business letters written by Hawks as manager of the Pacific Type Foundry.

Box 4

A.P. Luse letters to N.C. Hawks 1876 February 9-1881 December 1

Scope and Contents

Bound volume of business letters written by A.P. Luse of Marder, Luse & Co. to Hawks.

Box 7

N.C. hawks letter book 1882 February 16-1885 December 6

Scope and Contents

Contains copies of business letters written by Hawks as the owner of N.C. Hawks & Co. and superintendent of Palmer & Rey.

Publications and miscellany 1857-1918

Box 4

Young America, Delafield, Wisconsin, edited by N.C. Hawks 1857 January 20-1858 September 8

Explanation of the point system of printing type with specimens in the office of the Island City Press, Alameda, California , by Nelson C. Hawks 1918

Location of Materials: In slipcase on

General Note

Housed in custom slipcase.

Box 4

Proof of first type set on point widths undated

Box 4

Carte de visite portrait Nelson C. Hawks, by Abell's Art-Studio Car 1870s

Collection Contents

Diaries and scrapbooks

Correspondence and business records

Publications and miscellany