Guide to the Kuchel family papers MS.R.029

Machine-readable finding aid created by Adrian Turner, 2001.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
(cc) 2001
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine 92623-9557
spcoll@uci.edu

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Geographical (By Place)--California--Los Angeles AreaSocial Sciences--PublishingArts and Humanities--Art--Graphic Arts


Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Kuchel family papers
Creator: Kuchel family
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.029
Physical Description: 1.1 Linear Feet (2 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1860-1940
Abstract: This collection comprises Anaheim-related printed ephemera, photographs, and clippings gathered by the Kuchel family, owners and publishers of the Anaheim Gazette, and documenting the family's publishing activities and other local commercial publishing. Other materials in this collection record the meetings of the Anaheim City Trustees and the Anaheim Water Company Board of Trustees. The majority of materials in this collection are printed ephemera from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, primarily printed for Anaheim companies and citizens. These include stationery, business and calling cards, corporate and public notices, flyers, broadsides, advertisements, tickets, and labels for wine, liquor, and other products. Some of these items were printed by the Kuchels' Anaheim Gazette press.
Language of Material: English .

Access

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

Kuchel Family Papers. MS-R29. 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 Lutetia and Thomas H. Kuchel, 1965-1966.

Processing History

Processed by Adrian Turner in 2001.

Biography

The Kuchel family of Anaheim published Orange County's first newspaper, the Anaheim Gazette, for 90 consecutive years. Henry Kuchel, editor of the Gazette, was born in 1859 and arrived in Anaheim in 1860 with his German immigrant family. His father, Conrad Kuchel, was one of the original fifty colonists of Anaheim in 1857. He owned several vineyards in the area, as well as the first meat market in Anaheim. With his brother Charles, Henry purchased the Gazette in 1887 after working extensively in the newspaper publishing business in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Henry married Lutetia Kuchel of Texas in 1894. She assisted Henry in running the Gazette and continued to write for the newspaper after Henry's death in 1935.
Their youngest son, Thomas H. Kuchel, practiced as a lawyer in Anaheim before he was elected as a Republican to the California state Assembly. He was elected to the California State Senate in 1940 and served until 1945. Beginning in 1953, he served in the United States Senate and was elected again in 1956 and 1962. He died in 1994.

Collection Scope and Content Summary

This collection comprises Anaheim-related printed ephemera, photographs, and clippings gathered by the Kuchel family, owners and publishers of the Anaheim Gazette, and documenting the family's publishing activities and other local commercial publishing. Other materials in this collection record the meetings of the Anaheim City Trustees and the Anaheim Water Company Board of Trustees. The majority of materials in this collection are printed ephemera from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily printed for Anaheim companies and citizens. These include stationery, business and calling cards, corporate and public notices, flyers, broadsides, advertisements, tickets, and labels for wine, liquor, and other products. Some of these items were printed by the Kuchels' Anaheim Gazette press.
The collection also contains photograph portraits of Henry Kuchel and an assortment of newspaper clippings concerning the Kuchel family and the Gazette. A scrapbook of Gazette clippings records the meetings of the Anaheim City Trustees from 1894 to 1898, and a bound volume of holograph minutes records the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Anaheim Water Company from 1872 to 1882. The minutes were published in the Gazette.
The printed ephemera provide a record of early Orange County business and cultural history. Among the business-related printed ephemera are illustrated business cards for the city livery and stables, banks, grocery stores, vineyards, and hotels. Announcements range from family wedding invitations and city concerts to grand balls hosted by the Native Sons of the Golden West.
Printed ephemera are arranged by material format (e.g., business cards, stationery, tickets). Within this arrangement, material is grouped topically by function or purpose.

Separation Note

The principal Kuchel gift included a complete run of original copies of the Anaheim Gazette from October 29, 1870 through February 19, 1960, totaling 4,426 issues of the newspaper, which was microfilmed by the UC Irvine Libraries following the donation. The Kuchels also donated issues of the Anaheim Daily Herald.
Extensive coverage of the Gazette is represented in UCI holdings. For locations of microfilm holdings (1870-1871, 1874-1964), consult the UC Irvine Libraries' online catalog. Scattered coverage of the original issues from 1880-1971 can be found in a related collection stored in UC Irvine Special Collections and Archives, the California Newspapers Collection (Collection number MS-R70).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Anaheim (Calif.) -- Archives
Advertisements -- California -- Anaheim.
Ephemera -- California -- Anaheim.
Photographic prints -- California -- Anaheim.
Broadsides -- California -- Anaheim.
Business cards -- California -- Anaheim.
Publishers.
Wine labels -- California -- Anaheim.
Stationery -- California -- Anaheim.
Kuchel, Henry
Kuchel, Lutetia
Kuchel, Thomas H.
Kuchel family -- Archives
Anaheim Gazette Printers

box 1, folder 1-2

Correspondence and notes

box 1, folder 1

Historical and genealogical ca. 1920-1930

box 1, folder 2

Miscellaneous, and undated 1896-1935

box FB-016, folder 2

Oversize material, undated.

Physical Description: 1 item.
General Physical Description note: no content
box 1, folder 3

Los Angeles Vineyard Society deed, with seals and signature of Conrad Kuchel 1860

box 1, folder 4

Minutes of the Anaheim City Trustees 1894-1898

General note

Newspaper clippings of minutes pasted into scrapbook, with holograph annotations of meeting dates and index.
box FB-016, folder 1

Minutes of the Anaheim Water Company Board of Trustees, . 1872-1882

General note

Bound volume of holograph minutes.
box 1, folder 5-6

Newspaper and magazine clippings

box 1, folder 5

Anaheim Gazette, facsimiles 1870 October 29

box FB-016, folder 2

Anaheim Gazette, supplement 1880 January 31

box 1, folder 5

Caricatures and illustrations, undated

box 1, folder 6

Events and family-related news, and undated ca. 1895-1961

box 1, folder 7

Photographs, including portraits of Henry Kuchel, and undated. 1912

Physical Description: 9 items.
General Physical Description note: no content
box 1, folder 8-16

Printed ephemera

box 1, folder 8

Anaheim Gazette ad file forms, undated

box 1, folder 9

Business cards and calling cards, undated

box 1, folder 10

Business card scrapbook, and undated 1877

box 1, folder 11

Wine and liquor labels, undated

box 1, folder 12-15

Stationery, notices, flyers, broadsides, advertisements, and announcements

box 1, folder 12

Business, and undated ca. 1860-1930

box FB-016, folder 2

Oversize material, and undated 1877

Physical Description: 5 items.
General Physical Description note: no content
box 1, folder 13

City, school, and public services, and undated 1877-1940

box FB-016, folder 2, box FB-017, folder 1

Oversize material, and undated 1880-ca. 1930

Physical Description: 4 items.
General Physical Description note: no content
box 1, folder 14

Private clubs and social organizations, and undated 1882-1933

box 1, folder 15

Weddings and private gatherings, and undated 1883

box 1, folder 16

Tickets 1878-1932