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Martinez, Dean, DuCasse Family Papers and Photographs
BANC MSS 2023/251
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Martinez, Dean, DuCasse family papers and photographs
Creator:
Martinez (Family : Martinez, Xavier, 1869-1943)
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2023/251
Physical Description:
3 linear feet
(2 cartons, 2 flat boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1893-1978
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
, Spanish; Castilian
.
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase from Auger Down Books in 2023.
The Mexican-American artist Xavier Martinez and his extended family and social circle, which included his estranged wife Elsie
Martinez and her partner the artist and writer Harriet Dean, as well as his daughter, the muralist and artist Micaela Martinez
DuCasse and her husband Ralph DuCasse, were figures in the California art scene in the early part of the twentieth century.
Martinez, Dean, and DuCasse family papers and photographs, BANC MSS 2023/251, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Processed by Lara Michels and student processing assistants at the file level. Arrangement is nearly as received from seller.
Information from the seller's notes has been included in the scope and content notes throughout the finding aid.
Correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and personal papers of Xavier Martinez, Elsie Martinez, Harriet Dean, Micaela DuCasse,
and Ralph DuCasse, with emphasis on the the artists' careers and the artistic milieu of California and Paris in the 1920s
and 1930s, as well as Ralph DuCasse's military service in the Philippines in the 1940s.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Martinez, Xavier, 1869-1943
Martinez, Elsie, 1890-1984
Whitaker, Margaret Vandecar, 1868-1905
Dean, Harriet, 1892-1964
DuCasse, Ralph, 1916-2003
Mexican American artists
Artists -- California -- 20th century
Mexican American women artists