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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Henry Raup Wagner Collection
Creator:
Wagner, Henry Raup
Creator:
Axe, Ruth Frey
Creator:
Streeter, Thomas W.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.223
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1837-1970
Abstract: Henry Raup Wagner, 1862-1957, was an avid book collector and author. He settled in California with his wife, Blanche Henrietta
Collet, circa 1917. In the 1890s, he started collecting books on Spanish history, metallurgy, and mining. He also amassed
collections on Ireland, Mexico, and the American West. Wagner died in 1957 March 28. The
Henry Raup Wagner Collection includes publications and correspondence by or about Wagner and 19th Century Mexican and Chilean newspapers collected by
Wagner. The collection also includes duplicate pages, maps, and book illustrations from Wagner's
Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan De Fuca, printed in 1933. The material in this collection was created from 1837 to 1970.
Language of Material:
English
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This collections includes publications and correspondence by or about Henry Raup Wagner and 19th Century Mexican and Chilean
newspapers collected by Wagner. The collection also includes duplicate loose pages, maps, and book illustration from Wagner's
special edition of
Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan De Fuca, which was printed in 1933 by Fine Arts Press, Santa Ana, California.
Henry Raup Wagner, 1862-1957
Wagner was born on 1862 September 27 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Law degrees
from Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut.
Wagner worked for and represented the Guggenheim's mining interests in the United States and Latin America from 1898 to circa
1921.
He lived in Mexico from circa 1906 to 1915, spending the last five years in Mexico City. He then spent two years in Chile
before returning to the United States and deciding to retire from business and focus entirely on scholarly research and writing.
In 1917, he married Blanche Henrietta Collet and settled in California.
Wagner began to collect books in the 1890s to support his interest in Spanish history, metallurgy, and mining. He amassed
collections on Ireland, Mexico, and the American West, especially the state of California. He eventually sold his collection
of American midwest and southwest material to Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Wagner's collection
on California was sold to the Huntington Library located in San Marino, California. He also donated most of his personal papers
to the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wagner served as president of the Historical Society of Southern California, a trustee of the Southwest Museum, and as an
active member of the Zamorano Club. He was also one of the founding members of the Friends of The Bancroft Library. The rejuvenation
of the California Historical Society in 1922 was due largely to his influence.
Wagner died on 1957 March 28.
His published works total more than 175 titles and include:
Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements, 1926
Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America in the Sixteenth Century, 1929
The Grabhorn Press: a Catalogue of Imprints in the Collection of Henry R. Wagner, 1938
Bibliographies: The Plains and Rockies , 1920
The Spanish Southwest (1924)
References:
The Bancroft Library. "Guide to the Henry Raup Wagner Papers, 1912-1957." Accessed 2011 May 26.
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6779n8g9 .
Hammond, George P. and Jerry E. Patterson. "Henry Raup Wagner, 1862-1957."
The Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume 37, pages 486-494, 1957 November.
Biographical note prepared by Eloise Nelson, Braun Research Library intern, 2011 June 6. Finding aid completed by Anna Liza
Posas, 2013. Final processing of collection and publication of finding aid made possible by a grant from the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
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Donation on behalf of Henry Raup Wagner, 1933-1957 and gift of Ruth Fay Axe, 1970 April 23 and circa 1973.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is
given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Blanche Collet Wagner Papers, 1930-1939, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.222.
Henry Raup Wagner Collection, 1837-1970, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.223; [folder number] [folder title][date].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Remembrances of Jose Toribio MedinaProspectus
Bibliography
Henry Tenaux Company: A Bibliography
Chile -- Newspapers
Photostats
Articles
In the Port of Monterey, 1833 Ayuntamiento
Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan De Fuca
Maps
Publications
Mexico -- Newspapers
West (U.S.) -- History
Southwest, New -- History
Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America
Bound for Sacramento
Zamorano Club