Guide to the Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families papers MS.R.049
Finding aid prepared by Alix Norton, 2012.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
(cc) 2012
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
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Note
Nonstandard finding aid on file.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families papers
Creator:
Smith, Helen
Creator:
Crellin family
Creator:
Kenyon family
Creator:
Stanley family
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.049
Physical Description:
1.2 Linear Feet
(2 boxes, 1 XOS folder, 1 OS folder)
Date (inclusive): 1889-1955
Abstract: This collection consists of papers and photographs of the Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families. The Kenyon and Crellin families
lived in Iowa in the late 19th century and moved west to Tustin, California at the turn of the 20th century, where Alta Kenyon
married Harry Stanley. The Stanleys, including Mr. S.W. Stanley, were involved in citrus farming in Tustin. This collection
includes programs, newspaper clippings, farming records, ledgers, brochures, postcards, school materials, and photographs
from Southern California and Iowa.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families papers. MS-R049. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine,
California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Helen Stanley Smith, 1971, 1972, 1974, and 1978.
Processing History
Processed by Alix Norton, 2012.
Historical Background
The Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families were citrus farmers who lived in Tustin, California in the early 20th century. Miss
Alta Kenyon was born in 1889 in Iowa to John Kenyon and Franc Hunt. In 1899, Alta, her cousins Chester and Perry Kenyon, and
her uncle, E.M. Crellin, moved to California and settled in the city of Tustin. Alta graduated from Santa Ana High School
in 1909 and attended the California School of Artistic Whistling before marrying Harry B. Stanley in 1913 in Tustin. Together
they grew citrus trees and were members of the Tustin Hills Citrus Association.
S.W. Stanley was the secretary for the Tustin Chamber of Commerce and kept minutes of their meetings from 1915 to 1917. He
and his wife were active members of the American and California Farm Bureau Federations. Their daughter, Helen Stanley, was
born in 1905 in Arkansas before they relocated to California. Helen later married William Smith and became a major Orange
County historian.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection consists of papers and photographs from the Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families, compiled and donated by
Helen Stanley Smith. Most of the materials are from the Orange County area in the early 20th century. The papers include report
cards, diplomas, commencement programs, and other school materials; as well as magazines, postcards, newspaper clippings,
brochures, records, and ledgers. The American and California Farm Bureau Federation and the Tustin Hills Citrus Association
records show the families' interest in farming and growing citrus trees. Also included are the meeting minutes and reports
from the Tustin Chamber of Commerce when Mr. S.W. Stanley was its secretary in the early 20th century.
The majority of the photographs in this collection show Orange County and other Southern California locales in the early 1900s,
as well as Iowa at the turn of the 20th century. Orange County photographs include the city of Tustin, where the family lived
and worked; Laguna Beach; San Juan Capistrano; and the Orange County Fair in the 1920s. Other locations represented in the
photographs are Los Angeles County, San Diego County, Mexico, and Iowa.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 2 series:
- Series 1. Papers, 1883-1964, 0.6 linear feet
- Series 2. Photographs, 1900-1959 and undated, 0.6 linear feet
Separation Note
The following materials were removed from this collection and cataloged separately in Special Collections and Archives:
MS-R038: Orange County School Yearbook Collection
The Audion, Tustin Union High School. Annuals for 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935.
Del ano, Associated Students of Santa Ana Junior College. Annuals for 1936, 1937.
The Ariel, Santa Ana High School. Student publication from December, 1908.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Orange County (Calif.) -- Archives
Orange County (Calif.)--Photographs.
Tustin (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Tustin (Calif.) -- Archives.
Fruit growers -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century
California, Southern -- Photographs.
Citrus fruit industry -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources
High schools -- California -- Orange County
Santa Ana High School (Santa Ana, Calif.)
Papers Series 1.
1883-1964
Physical Description: 0.6 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of personal and professional papers from the Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families. It includes school
materials, certificates, receipts, magazines, postcards, ephemera, ledgers, records, and reports.
Series Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 2 subseries:
- Personal Papers, 1883-1964
- Professional Papers, 1915-1964
Personal papers,
1883-1964
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists of school materials and other personal documents from the Stanley, Kenyon, and Crellin families. The
report cards, commencement materials, diplomas, and albums are from elementary and high schools in Tustin, Santa Ana, San
Diego, and Iowa. Receipts and other materials are included from the U.S. Treasury Department, Tustin Hardware Company, Southern
California Edison Company, Irvine Walnut Association, Fairhaven Cemetery Association, Tustin Packing Company, and Lutz Company.
Magazines such as
Life are included from the early 20th century. This subseries also contains postcards from Tustin and Santa Ana, some including
personal written messages.
box 1, folder 2-3
Commencement materials,
1909-1935
Scope and Content Note
Commencement programs and announcements from Tustin Grammar School, Tustin Union High School, San Diego High School, and Santa
Ana High School.
box 1, folder 4
Tustin Elementary School,
1931
box 1, folder 5
Santa Ana High School,
1909
box FB-070, folder 7
Tustin First Presbyterian Church,
1930
School albums, clippings, and other material,
1908-1912
box 1, folder 6
California School of Artistic Whistling,
1912 and undated
box 1, folder 7
Santa Ana High School,
1908-1909
box 1, folder 9-10
Receipts, checkbooks, and other material,
1911-1962 and undated
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Historical Sketches and Programme,
1898
box 1, folder 12
Postcards,
1913-1921 and undated
Professional papers,
1915-1964
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists of papers from the professional lives of the Kenyon, Stanley, and Crellin families. Most of the material
is related to farming and citrus growing, which was the families' main business interest. Brochures, clippings, programs,
and reports of the American and California Farm Bureau Federation are included, as well as payment records from the Tustin
Hills Citrus Association. This subseries also contains the business ledger of S.W. Stanley, as well as reports and meeting
minutes from the Tustin Chamber of Commerce when he was its secretary.
box 1, folder 13-14
Farm Bureau records,
1941-1946
box 2, folder 1-3
Tustin Hills Citrus Association ledgers,
1959-1964
box 2, folder 4
Ledger of S.W. Stanley,
1916-1925
box 2, folder 5-6
Tustin Chamber of Commerce reports and minutes,
1915-1917 and undated
Photographs Series 2.
1900-1959 and undated
Physical Description: 0.6 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of photographs from Southern California, Mexico, and Iowa from the early and mid-20th century. It includes
mostly black-and-white prints, with some color prints of the Crellin house in Tustin circa 1959. Most of the photographs depict
buildings and landscapes in the locales mentioned above, with some portraits and group portraits included. Some black-and-white
panoramas of Orange County are included as oversize material.
The Orange County photographs include scenes of the Orange County fair, Tustin, Laguna Beach (Arch Beach), Santa Ana, Newport
Beach, Irvine Ranch, Orange County Park, the San Juan Capistrano mission, and Santa Ana Canyon. In particular, the Tustin
photographs show the Crellin house on Tustin Ave., schools, and the town of Tustin circa 1900. Also included in this series
are photographs of Redondo Beach, San Fernando Valley, Catalina Island, the San Diego mission, Old Town San Diego, La Jolla,
Warner Hot Springs, Point Loma, Hotel del Coronado, Tijuana (Mexico), and Iowa. Typed and handwritten captions for the Iowa
photographs and most of the California photographs are included.
Series Arrangement
This series is arranged by locality, with notes on the photographs at the end of the series.
box 2, folder 7-10
Orange County,
1900-1959 and undated
1900-1920
box XOS 1, folder 1
Oversize material,
undated
Physical Description: 3 panoramas.
box 2, folder 11
Los Angeles County,
1903-1915 and undated
box 2, folder 12
San Diego County and Mexico,
1913-1919 and undated
box 2, folder 16
Photograph notes,
undated
