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Brown (Kirby) Collection on California Faience
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California Faience documents approximately 1900-1930

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Fourteen folders of materials original to California Faience operations and Kirby Brown's research material. Includes business cards, letterhead, advertisements, partnership agreement, shop floor plans, pottery shapes, examples of California Faience tileworks.
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Photographic slides

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Two folders, California Faience pottery, shop, employees created and/or collected by Peter Monsour.
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Photographs

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Five folders, company photographs, sculptors Jane Fauntz and Benny Bufano, pottery shapes and numbers.
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Research material

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Brown's research, California Faience and California Porcelain shape numbers and tile stamp signatures.
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California Faience catalogs 1-6

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West Coast Porcelain Manufacturer's catalog of Thomas Gotham vases approximately 1926-1927

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Preliminary corpus of California Faience and California Porcelain approximately 2005

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Print out of digital images of California Faience pottery

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Hearst Castle tile survey 2001

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Two folders
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Deer Creek pottery tile gallery 2006

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Print outs of website.
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Print out of digital images of California Faience pottery approximately 2007-2018

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Three folders
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Raw photo notes and piece measurements approximately 2007-2009

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Unpublished article on California Faience markings

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Research material, artists list and information

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Artist files A

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Files on Martha Barter Anderson, Valenti Angelo, AP Walkingman, Alexander Archipenko
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Artist files B

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Files on Carleton Ball, Douglas R. Baugh, Georgia Crittenden Bemis, Bernadette, Agnes Berne, Muriel Blank, Harry Bloxham, Vivian Bolton, E.L. Bradley, Elizabeth Brown Bragdon, Jane Bragdon, Jean Brainard, Kirby Brown, Beniamino Bufano, Roger Noble Burnham.
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Artist files C

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Files on Brents Carlton, Adele S. Chase, Warren Dewitt Cheney, Annelies Christian, Margaret Clayes, Marjorie Perry Close, Alice Coffee, Ruth Cravath
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Artist files D

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Files on Taxile Doat, Arthur Wesley Dow, M.H. Dunn.
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Artist files E

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Files on Charles Warren Eaton, Grace Emerich, Jeanie Ennis, Mary Erckenbrack.
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Artist files F

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Files on Jane Fauntz, Lynn Forney McMurray, Edwin A. Frediani, Frank Freeman, Stephanie Friedman, Mary Fuller.
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Artist files G

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Files on Fay Gaer, Jean Gardner, Mildred Geisendorfer-Schroeder.
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Artist files H

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Files on Annelies Hanlein, Michael Hartnett, Margarette "Peggy" Calder Hayes, Edith Harvey Heron
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Artist files I

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Files on Dorothy Randall Irwin
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Artist files K

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Files on Valerie Kaun, Kay Kinney, Torleif S. Knaphus
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Artist files L

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Files on Richard Lawthorne
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Artist files M

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Files on Battista Marchetti, Marion Martin, Jacomena Maybeck, Virginia McBride, Thelma Frances Pedersen McEneany, Robert McKusick, Helen Millar, Julia Morgan, Emma Lavine Mulkey
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Artist files N

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Files on Bernice Narron
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Artist files O

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Files on Agnes Offield
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Artist files P

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Files on Herione (Chase) Palmer, Pat Patterson
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Artist files R

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Files on Lillyann (Leland) Reiling, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Albert Rosenthal, Avrum (Bill) Rubenstein
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Artist files S

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Files on Yolanda (Newby) Samuels, David Schalchli, Marguerite (Jauch) Schieve, Amy Schirmer, Joseph Marsh Sheridan, Hidemaro Shibuya, Esther Shirey, Walter Steilberg, Richenda Sterick, Claire Stewart
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Artist files T

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Files on Eleanor Tamsette, Frances (Tatara) Tatarian, Walter Karl Titze, Loralin Toney, Stella Loveland Towne, Gemma Blanche Traversi
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Artist files V

Physical Description: 1 sound cassette

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Files on Mitch Van Bourg, Sophie Van Bourg, Beth Vilas, Billy Vier
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Artist files W

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Files on Vivian Wall, Jack Washburn, Ralph Williams, David Wilson, Florence Wykoff, Beryl McCarthy Wynnyk
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Correspondence A-W

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Foldered by last name or name of organization. Thirteen folders of correspondence with Peter Monsour.
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Research files

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Brown's research on location of California Fiaence tile projects.
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California Faience documents

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Brown's research on California Faience organizational history, includes correspondence and photocopies of deed of sale. Four folders.
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California Faience tile and pottery research

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Brown's research on California Fiaence tiles, numbering system, signature, markings and inventories. Ten folders.
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West Coast Porcelain

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Four folders
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Hearst Castle research

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Twenty four folders
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Research and correspondence with museums, ceramic societies, arts organizations

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Thirty three folders
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Other pottery company files

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Twenty five folders
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References

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Photocopies and some original articles making references to California Faience, William V. Bragdon, Chauncy Thomas or associated ceramic artists.
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Photocopy of California Faience sales ledger (photocopies) and summaries

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Thomas Gotham files

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Brown's research on Thomas Gotham, including genealogy, biographical material, and articles. Six folders.
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Chauncey Thomas files 1877-1948

Scope and Contents

Brown's research on Chauncey Thomas, primarily photocopies and computer print outs of genealogicial and biographical information. Also includes some original material: yearbooks, correspondence, photographs, personalia, notebooks on the ceramic arts and glaze notes; dating 1877-1938.
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Glaze files

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Original notes, calculations and correspondence about glazes. 11 folders
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Glaze files

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Original notes, calculations and correspondence about glazes. 17 folders
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Ceramic supply catalogs and brochures

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William V. Bragdon files

Scope and Contents

Brown's research on William V. Bragdon; photocopies and some originals. Includes biographical material, lectures and articles written by Bragdon, correspondence, photographs, and chemistry books; dates from 1904-1961.
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California Faience daily expense record 1916

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California Faience factory ledgers 1946-1950

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California Faience ledgers 1915-1919

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California Faience signatures

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California Faience markings: matte glazes

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California Faience markings: types

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California Faience photograph album 1915-1950

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Original photographs of factory and tile shop.
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William V. Bragdon and Emily Kauffeld honeymoon album 1914

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Bragdon family photograph album

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Glaze samples

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Glaze samples on fired tiles stored in three boxes stored inside of archival box.
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Bayley's Chemists' Pocket Book 1902

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Belonging to William V. Bragdon.
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Chauncey Thomas' notecards in box

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