This box contains the following: a yellow notepad with notes on the box contents; 2 journals for the State Bar of California (Vol. 39, No. 5 and Vol. 40, No. 5), dated 1964-1965; letter and certificate from State Bar Board of Governors regarding Barnes' end of term, dated October 1972 – January 1973; photographs of Barnes and colleagues, circa 1964-1968; Dicta: the lawyer's magazine (San Diego County Bar Association, volume xxiii, number 8), dated August 1976; Herman R. Erkes estate papers, 1979-1980; file on Annie Barnes' death, 1980; disciplinary board expense claims, 1970-1972; Wells Fargo Bank pamphlets and Westways cartographic map of California recreational areas, 1954, 1965; retirement papers and legal correspondence, 1969; correspondence, including letter from Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, 1963-1979; State Bar pamphlets and guides, 1970-76; mementos, including correspondence, 1963-1974; State Bar items on judicial selection, 1965-1979; file labeled "State Bar 1966 annual meeting", containing clippings and ephemera, circa 1983; wall calendars for 1967 and 1973; and family photographs from both the Barnes and Vehlow families.

This box potentially contains protected personal information. Some documents may be restricted and requests to view them may be denied.

This box contains the following: loose papers and writings of Barnes, including writing under what may be a pseudonym; Annette Vehlow Barnes' personal papers, 1969; 2 folders of humorous writings by Barnes; personal papers such as school and war records, 1926-1955; ephemera, religious tracts, inspirational quotes, jokes, postcards, 1920s-1960; South Pasadena High School ephemera and programs, 1922; Barnes' personal papers, 1935-1937; Correspondence between Albert and Annette, 1931-1937; personal and professional correspondence, 1922-1974; material for speeches; "Working papers: Homonyms and homophones", undated; pre-1950 correspondence; papers re: the Kiwanis club, circa 1942; correspondence, circa 1970s; and family photographs.

This box contains the following: clippings; correspondence; South Pasadena High School yearbook, 1922; essay about Constitution by Barnes, circa 1958; cookbook with recipes stuck into pages, circa 1941; Blackwell High School commencement book, 1927 (severely water damaged); Blackwell High School yearbook, 1928; Freemasons newsletter, April 1982; chart of "Chronological record of all Ventura County Elective Officers", undated; copy of "Jest for Lawyers" by Dennis Hartman, undated; memorial booklets for Annette Vehlow Barnes and her mother, Emma Louise Vehlow, 1970 and 1980; Correspondence between W.H. Barnes, Earl, and Daisy, August 18-19, 1927; cookbook, circa 1942; Annette Pearle Vehlow's diploma from Walnut High School, May 1923; Annette Vehlow's diploma from Kansas, 1919; California State Senate resolution for Emma Louise Vehlow's 100th birthday, March 5, 1969; incomplete Vehlow family tree, undated (rolled); German marriage certificate for Rienholt Ernst Friedrich Vehlow and Emma Louise Mary Frerking, 1896 (rolled); grammar school diploma for Daisy De Pue, 1892 (rolled).