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  • Title: Frank B. and Josephine Whitney Duveneck collection
    Date (inclusive): 1936-1974
    Collection Number: 88031
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 8 manuscript boxes (2.0 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Pamphlets, leaflets, reports, bulletins, newsletters, statements, Congressional hearings, serial issues, and clippings, relating to the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II; social problems in the United States, especially in California, and especially with reference to migrant farm workers, sharecroppers, blacks, and American Indians; race relations in the United States; and progressive education programs. Collected by Frank B. and Josephine Whitney Duveneck. Includes a few letters written to the Duvenecks.
    Creator: Duveneck, Josephine Whitney, 1891-1978
    source: Duveneck, Frank B.
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Frank B. and Josephine Whitney Duveneck collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    1886 Birth of Frank B. Duveneck, Florence, Italy
    1891 Birth of Josephine Whitney, Brookline, Massachusetts
    1913 Marriage of Frank B. Duveneck and Josephine Whitney
    1920s Josephine Whitney Duveneck serves on the Palo Alto City Council
    1924 Purchase of Hidden Villa Ranch, Los Altos, California, which later becomes a summer camp for children and a youth hostel
    1942-1945 Both Duvenecks are active on behalf of evacuated Japanese Americans
    1978 Death of Josephine Whitney Duveneck
      Publication of Life on Two Levels, the autobiography of Josephine Whitney Duveneck
    1985 Death of Frank B. Duveneck

    Scope and Content Note

    Received in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1988, with an increment in 1998, the Duveneck collection reflects the lifelong social activism of Frank B. Duveneck and Josephine Whitney Duveneck. The causes taken up by the Duvenecks included the plight of migrant farm workers in the United States; the promotion of racial equality in American society; concern for the status of American Indians; and the defense of Japanese Americans who were relocated during World War II. In addition, the Duvenecks devoted time to running an integrated summer camp for children and were active in the Society of Friends (Quakers).
    The collection includes material relating to these issues. Of particular interest are those documents relating to the relocation of Japanese Americans, including government publications, letters of protest, and Frank B. Duveneck's personal correspondence with evacuees (see SUBJECT FILE). The collection also includes numerous publications and photographs documenting the living conditions of migrant agricultural workers and Indians in the United States (see SUBJECT FILE and PHOTOGRAPHS), as well as material pertaining to Josephine Whitney Duveneck's activities as a member of various civil rights organizations in California (see SUBJECT FILE).

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Education -- United States
    Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
    World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
    Indians of North America
    United States -- Social conditions
    United States -- Race relations
    African Americans
    Migrant agricultural laborers
    Sharecropping
    Land tenure -- United States
    Duveneck, Frank B.