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951
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951
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Title: Jerome A. Hart papers and scrapbooks
Date (inclusive): 1817-1955
Collection Identifier: MS
951
Creator:
Hart, Jerome A. (Jerome Alfred), 1854-1937
Contributing Institution:
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014
(415) 357-1848
reference@calhist.org
URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Library and Archives, North
Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San
Francisco, CA 94105. Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the
copyright owner. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original
materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational
purposes.
[Identification of item], Jerome A. Hart papers and scrapbooks, MS 951, California
Historical Society.
Photographs shelved as MSP 951.
Organized into the following series: Series 1: Jerome A. Hart papers; Series 2: Ann
Clark Hart papers; Series 3: Scrapbooks.
The legacy finding aid attached to this record may not accurately reflect the
contents of the collection. Additional materials may have been added to the
collection and container locations may have changed since the description was
written.
Hart was editor of the California periodical, the
Argonaut; and an author.
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 account and membership books (1878-1907)
of Argonaut Publishing Company; a small number of opera and theater programs; and 46
scrapbooks (1880-1917) containing clippings of Argonaut editorials and articles
dealing with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, women's suffrage in Calif.,
and other topics.
Includes papers of Hart's wife, Ann Clark Hart, also an author. Her papers consist of
correspondence (1917-1946); bills and receipts; papers relating to club and alumni
activities; a diary (1922-1923); deeds and a will (1848-1858) of her father, William
Squire Clark; a manuscript of Point (1937) with related correspondence; and
household financial records. Includes a small amount of material pertaining to her
work to preserve San Francisco cemeteries.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog:
Hart, Jerome A. (Jerome Alfred),
1854-1937--Archives.
Hart, Ann Clark,
1871-1956--Archives.
Argonaut (San Francisco,
Calif.).
American literature--California--San Francisco.
Authors, American--California--San Francisco.
Scrapbooks.
Women authors, American--California--San Francisco.