Register of the Frank B. and Josephine Whitney Duveneck collection

Finding aid prepared by David Jacobs
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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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

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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.

 

Biographical File 1955-1966

Scope and Contents note

Bibliography, clippings, and correspondence, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1

Bibliography n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Holograph
box 1, folder 2

Clippings 1960-1966

box 1, folder 3

Correspondence relating to the award of an honorable mention to Josephine W. Duveneck by the Lane Bryant Annual Award committee 1955

 

Correspondence 1941-1974

Scope and Contents note

Letters of Frank B. and Josephine Whitney Duveneck, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 1, folder 4

Elkus, Marjorie 1948

box 1, folder 5

Hoover, Herbert 1941

box 1, folder 6

Kingman, Ruth 1974

 

Speeches and Writings 1942-1978

Scope and Contents note

Autobiography, letters to the editor, speeches, and writings, arranged by the names of the Duvenecks and therein chronologically by title
 

Duveneck, Frank B.

box 1, folder 7

Letter to the editor, New York Times, . 1942 April 12

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
box 1, folder 8

Letter to the editor, The Nation, . 1942 May 9

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
 

Duveneck, Josephine Whitney

box 1, folder 9

Speech on Quakerism n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 1, folder 10

Writing on progressive education n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Holograph (incomplete)
box 1, folder 11

Writing on relocation of Japanese Americans n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Holograph (incomplete)
box 1, folder 12

Speech to California Federation for Civic Unity, . 1948(?)

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 1, folder 13

Poem, . 1957

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 1, folder 14

Life on Two Levels, autobiography, . 1978

Scope and Contents note

Typescript (incomplete)
 

Subject File 1936-1974

Scope and Contents note

Bulletins, clippings, Congressional hearings transcripts, correspondence, leaflets, maps, minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, reports, and serial issues, arranged alphabetically by subject
box 1, folder 15-16

American Friends Service Committee

box 1, folder 17-20

Civil rights--United States.

Scope and Contents note

Includes material relating to the California Federation for Civic Unity and the Council for Civic Unity of San Francisco
box 2, folder 1-3

Civil rights--United States. (Contd.)

box 2, folder 4-5

Education--United States

box 2, folder 6

Housing--United States

 

Indians of North America

box 2, folder 7

Correspondence, . 1937-1958

Scope and Contents note

Letters neither to nor from Frank B. and Josephine Whitney Duveneck, and relating to the American Association on Indian Affairs and the California Indian Defense Committee. Correspondents include E. Raymond Armsby, Charles de Y. Elkus, and Oliver La Farge
box 2, folder 8

Maps

box 2, folder 9

Printed matter

box 3, folder 1-7

Printed matter (Contd.)

box 4, folder 1-5

Printed matter (Contd.)

box 5, folder 1-2

Printed matter (Contd.)

 

Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

 

Correspondence, largely involving Frank B. Duveneck's efforts on behalf of evacuees 1942-1944

box 5, folder 3

General

 

Evacuees

box 5, folder 4

General

box 5, folder 5

Takahashi, Shozaburo

box 5, folder 6-8

Printed matter

box 6, folder 1

McCarthy, Joseph

box 6, folder 2-7

Migrant agricultural workers--United States

box 7, folder 1-2

Migrant agricultural workers--United States (Contd.)

 

Private Camp Integration Study Group

box 7, folder 3

Correspondence, largely involving Josephine Whitney Duveneck 1964-1970

box 7, folder 4-5

Minutes and reports

box 7, folder 6

Southern Tenant Farmers Union

box 7, folder 7

United Farm Workers of America (UFWA)

box 8, folder 1-4

United States. Farm Security Administration.

General note

See also Migrant agricultural workers--United States
 

Photographs 1954

Scope and Contents note

38 prints depicting the members of a convention of the California Federation for Civic Unity, American Indian arts and crafts, migrant agricultural workers and their children, and a neighborhood improvement program
box 8, folder 5

1 print depicting the members (including Josephine Whitney Duveneck?) of a convention of the California Federation for Civic Unity, Asilomar, California 1954

box 8, folder 6

3 prints depicting American Indian arts and crafts n.d.

box 8, folder 7

3 prints depicting living facilities in a camp for migrant agricultural workers n.d.

box 8, folder 8

16 prints depicting an educational program for the children of migrant agricultural workers n.d.

box 8, folder 9

10 prints depicting migrant agricultural workers and their children n.d.

box 8, folder 10

5 prints and 2 sheets of contact prints depicting a neighborhood improvement program in Menlo Park, California n.d.