Finding Aid to the Louise Taber Family Papers
Lara Michels and Malayna Chang (student processing assistant)
The Bancroft Library
2023
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Louise Taber family papers
Creator:
Taber, Louise, 1884-1946
Creator:
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912
Creator:
Taber, Charles Austin Mendell, 1824-1911
Creator:
Taber (Family : Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912)
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 96/59 c
Physical Description:
9.25 linear feet
(7 cartons, 4 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1859-1942
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
.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Louise Taber family papers were gifted to The Bancroft Library by Ruth McLean Cuneo, via her daughter Doris Maslach, on
July 24, 1995.
Biographical / Historical
Louise Taber was born in 1884 in Oakland to Isaiah West and Annie Taber. Beginning in 1915, Louise Taber worked for the Examiner
and, later, the Chronicle, writing sketches of early San Francisco. In the mid-1920s, she began a series of radio programs,
including "California Memories" and "Gold Rush Days. " She died in 1946.
Processing Information
Processed by Lara Michels and Bancroft student processing assistant Malayna Chang in 2023.
Content Description
Principally materials relating to Louise Taber including transcripts of her radio broadcasts, correspondence and scrapbooks
regarding opera, theater and her career in radio and as an author of San Francisco histories. Also contains diaries (1859,
1885) and other papers of her father, I.W. Taber, as well as of her uncle, C.A.M. Taber, a geologist.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Taber, Louise, 1884-1946 -- Archives
Families -- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Opera--California--San Francisco
Radio programs
Radio scripts
Carton 1
Louise Taber radio show scripts
1925-1935
Carton 2
Louise Taber radio show scripts
1935-1940
Carton 3
Louise Taber radio show scripts
1940-1943
undated
Carton 4, Folder 1-5
Louise Taber radio show scripts
undated
Carton 4, Folder 6-9
Louise Taber opera scrapbooks
1898-1902
Carton 4, Folder 10-11
Louise Taber opera scrapbooks, loose materials
1898-1902
Carton 4, Folder 12-17
Louise Taber scrapbooks on her radio shows
1936-1942
oversize_box 3
Louise Taber (or Taber family) scrapbook on dramatic and musical arts
approximately 1875
oversize_box 4
Louise Taber scrapbook (with some materials on Taber's 1911 book
The Flame)
approximately 1910-1911
Carton 5, Folder 1-17
Louise Taber correspondence
approximately 1906-1946
undated
Carton 5, Folder 18-28
Louise Taber assorted printed and other materials
approximately 1895-1946
Carton 6
Lousie Taber opera song books
approximately 1890-1925
Carton 7
Louise Taber opera song books
approximately 1890-1925
oversize_box 1
Louise Taber opera song books
approximately 1890-1925
oversize_box 2
Louise Taber opera song books
approximately 1895-1925
Carton 5, Folder 29
Louise Taber photographs
1920-1945
Scope and Contents
Also includes one cabinet card photograph of Susie Loring (daughter of Frank Loring).
Carton 5, Folder 30
Charles Austin Mendell Taber publications and biographical fact sheet
1882-1905
Carton 5, Folder 31
Isaiah West Taber notebook diaries
1859
1885
Carton 5, Folder 32
Isaiah West Taber assorted documents
1871-1876
Carton 5, Folder 33
Isaiah West Taber obituary
1912
Carton 5, Folder 34
Taber Studios booklets
approximately 1900-1903
Carton 5, Folder 35
Isaiah West Taber Southern Exposition (Louisville, KY) medal
1884
Carton 5, Folder 36
Issue of Table Talk magazine with article on I.W. Taber
1896
Carton 5, Folder 37
Isaiah West Taber letters to G.F. Winslow (photocopies)
1906-1911
Carton 5, Folder 38
Isaiah West Taber assorted documents
1882-1905
