Guide to the Maude C. Pilkington Papers
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Guide to the Maude C. Pilkington Papers
Collection number: MS 61
The University Library
Special Collections and Archives
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
Contact Information:
- Special Collections and Archives
- University Library
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz, California, 95064
- Email: specoll@library.ucsc.edu
- URL: http://library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/
- Processed by:
- UCSC OAC Unit
- Date Completed:
- December 2003
- Encoded by:
- UCSC OAC Unit
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Maude C. Pilkington papers,
Date (inclusive): 1914-1964
Date (bulk): (bulk 1916-1934)
Collection number: MS 61
Creator:
Pilkington, Maude C.
Extent:
2 boxes, 1 flat
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: Includes biographical material, clippings, travel magazines, photograph albums of Maude Pilkington and her husband Richard
Lukens.
Physical location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection 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 permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Maude C. Pilkington Papers. MS 61. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Elliot Evans, 1971.
Biographical Note
Maude C. Pilkington was a journalist and travel writer who was born on January 22, 1888, and raised in the Seabright neighborhood
of Santa Cruz, California. After school she became a writer for the San Jose Mercury Herald, and in 1919, after a 10 year
courtship, she married Richard R. Lukens, captain of a ship in the service of the U.S. Geodetic Survey.
She continued her journalistic endeavors well into the 1930's, publishing travel narratives. In 1936 the couple bought a
home in Riverside, CA, where they resided after retirement. Captain Lukens died in 1964, followed by Maude on May 29, 1966.
Scope and Contents Note
Includes biographical material, travel magazines, photograph albums, and article clippings by and on Maude Pilkington and
her husband Richard Lukens.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Pilkington, Maude C.
Journalists--United States
Travel Writing
Women Journalists
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Lukens, Richard R., 1886-
Separated Material
Pilkington, Mary, "A Mirror For the Female Sex : Historical Beauties For Young Ladies", 1799.
Biographical, 1919-1964
Physical Description:
4 folders
Scope and Content Note
This series contains biographical material about Maude Pilkington, and her family.
Box-folder 1:2
Correspondence, 1916-1927
Box-folder 3:6
Bund Eisernen Kreuzes, nos. 3275 & 3276, 1914/15
Writing, 1919-1964
Physical Description:
8 folders
Scope and Content Note
This series contains writings of Maude Pilkington, under a variety of by-lines and name variations and her husband Richard
Lukens.
Box-folder 1:5
AAA Travel articles by Maude C. Lukens, Mar 1933, Apr 1934
Box-folder 1:6-9
American Motorist articles by Maude C. Lukens
Box-folder 1:8
Feb, Apr, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec 1931
Box-folder 1:10-14
Richard R. Lukens writings
Box-folder 1:11
Merchant Marine Bulletin,
April, Dec. 1931
Box-folder 1:12
Nautical Gazette,
Oct. 1934
Box-folder 1:13
Pacific Marine Review,
Oct. 1931
Box-folder 1:14
American Motorist,
Jun 1931, Jan 1932
Box-folder 2:1
Loose Clippings by Maude C. Pilkington, 1916-1925
Box-folder 2:2
Loose Clippings by unidentified authors, ca. 1916, n.d.
Box-folder 2:3
Loose Clippings on R. R. Lukens and Maude C. Lukens, ca. 1925-1957
Box-folder 2:4
Miscellaneous Clippings, ca. 1912, 1963
Box-folder 2:5
"Press Clippings, Kuskokwim River, 1920"
Slides, photographs, albums, 1919-1964
Physical Description:
8 folders
Scope and Content Note
This series contains slides, photographs and albums.
Box-folder 2:6
21 photographs, ca. 1912-1963
Box-folder 2:7
Lukens photograph album, 1938-1963
Box-folder 3:1
"Philippines" photograph album
Box-folder 3:5
Photograph album, starting w/ "Purdue University"
Scrapbooks, 1932-1940
Physical Description:
3 folders
Scope and Content Note
This series contains clipping scrapbooks.
Box-folder 3:2
The Ideal Scrapbook containing some newspaper clippings, ca. 1916
Box-folder 3:3
Scrapbook (cover only), containing 4 ocean-related newspaper clippings, 1925-1932
Box-folder 3:4
Scrapbook containing clippings by Maude C. Pilkington, ca. 1917
Other material, 1932-1940
Physical Description:
3 folders
Scope and Content Note
This series contains miscellaneous articles and one piece of realia.
Box-folder 2:8
Let's go to Chapel Point by James Alexander, in
American Motorist, July 1932
Box-folder 2:9
The Northern Barrage: Taking Up the Mines Pub. No. 4, Navy Dept.,
1920
