Series Descriptions
Box 1.
Series 1: Manuscripts of Ruth Finney. 1906-1974.
Physical Description:
1.00 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged by document type.
Books (including autobiography Journey From the Star), short stories, plays, musicals,
poetry, feature articles, columns, radio talks, speeches, and school essays.
Box 2.
Series 2: Diaries of Ruth Finney. 1906-1952.
Physical Description:
0.60 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Detailed accounts of experiences at San Jose Normal School and life as a newspaper
reporter. Discussion of current events, Washington social life, personal relationships,
prominent politicians and leaders.
Box 2. Folio Boxes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Series 3: Clippings of Ruth Finney. 1885-1973.
Physical Description:
2.40 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged by subject and chronologically within subject.
Collections of feature articles and columns written by Finney, articles written about R.
Finney or R. Allen, and articles gathered by Finney pertaining to subjects of research.
Patron is requested to use copies (Box 2) rather than originals (Folio Boxes 6, 7, 8, 9,
10) due to the fragility of the material.
Box 3.
Series 4: Correspondence of Ruth Finney. 1917-1978.
Physical Description:
0.40 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Incoming letters only.
Box 3.
Series 5: Scrapbooks of Ruth Finney. 1906-1979.
Physical Description:
0.20 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scrapbooks containing childhood essays; collected articles about Hiram Johnson;
retirement articles, pictures, letters; obituaries and tributes.
Box 3.
Series 6: Printed Material. 1924-1963.
Physical Description:
0.20 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged by subject.
Brochures used for the research of feature articles and Downieville book; magazines
containing articles written by R. Finney; genealogical material; handbooks of the
California Legislature.
Box 3.
Series 7: Ephemera. 1896-1966.
Physical Description:
0.20 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged by subject.
Colored drawings; legal documents; school records and certificates; programs and greeting
cards; press passes and invitations; keepsakes.
Box 4. Folio Box 5.
Series 8: Photographs. 1898-1965.
Physical Description:
1.40 linear ft.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Arranged by subjects.
Photographs of R. Finney, family members, friends, and colleagues, as well as photographs
of Downieville that Finney had selected for her autobiography.
Container List
Box 1, Folder 1
Journey From the Star.
April 17, 1973-July 8, 1974.
Physical Description: Correspondence and Manuscripts and Ephemera.
Note:
Documenting materials relating to
Journey From the Star.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 1, Folder 2
Journey From the Star.
April 17, 1973.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 1-4.
Subject:
Childhood Years; Sacramento High School Years; San Jose Normal School Years.
Box 1, Folder 3
Journey From the Star.
April 17, 1973.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 5-10.
Subject:
Argonaut Mine Disaster; Teapot Dome; Harding, Warren G.
Box 1, Folder 4
Journey From the Star.
April 17, 1973.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 11-15.
Subject:
Boulder Dam; Johnson, Hiram W.; Spies; Sacco-Vanzetti Case.
Box 1, Folder 5
Journey From the Star.
April 17, 1973.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 16-18.
Subject:
Elections; Political Conventions.
Box 1, Folder 6
Journey From the Star.
April 17, 1973.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 19-21.
Subject:
Scripps-Howard Washington Alliance Years; Public Utility Regulation; Roosevelt, Franklin
Delano; Old Age Pensions; New Deal.
Box 1, Folder 7
Journey From the Star.
April 17, 1973.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 22-26.
Subject:
"Washington Calling"; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; World War, 1939-1945; Farm
Relief; New Deal.
Box 1, Folder 8
Rogues and Riches.
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 1-5.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 1, Folder 9
Rogues and Riches.
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 6-10.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 1, Folder 10
Rogues and Riches.
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Chapters 11-13.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 1, Folder 11
"To G. H. from B."
1918.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 1, Folder 12
"Untitled."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 1, Folder 13
"The Bench."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 14
"The City of Reeds."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 15
"End of the Trail."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 16
"Home Free."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 17
"Johnson of California."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Johnson, Hiram W.
Box 1, Folder 18
"Journey Home."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 19
"The Ladies and the Law."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 20
"Lady Boss."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 21
"Out at Third."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 22
"Password."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 23
"The Promised Land."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 24
"Score One for the SP."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 25
"Shadow from the Bridge."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 26
"Showdown."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 27
"Small Skirmish in a Large War."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 28
"Traces in the Sand."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 29
"Turn of the Wheel."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 30
"Untitled."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 31
"Untitled."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 1, Folder 32
"Wedding Day."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 33
"What Did You Say?."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 34
"Worker in the Vineyard."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 35
"Year of the Tiger."
n.d.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Short story.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 36
Mister Pompadour.
ca 1930.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Play; co-authored with Martha Strayer.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 37
Mister Pompadour.
ca 1930.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Play; final version; co-authored with Martha Strayer.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 38
Now Is the Time.
ca 1967.
Physical Description: Manuscripts and Correspondence.
Note:
Musical; includes correspondence with producers.
Subject:
Prose.
Box 1, Folder 39
Collected Poetry.
1914-1918.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Subject:
Poetry.
Box 1, Folder 40
May 7, 1927.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Feature articles; includes a thorough explanation of why the articles were written, by
Robert Allen.
Subject:
Spies.
Box 1, Folder 41
1922-1927.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Argonaut Mine Disaster; Longworth, Alice Roosevelt; Boulder Dam.
Box 1, Folder 42
August 8, 1927-May 16, 1929.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Sacco-Vanzetti Case; Public Utility Regulation; Mooney-Billings Case.
Box 1, Folder 43
August 20, 1930-September 17, 1930.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
European Economic Issues.
Box 1, Folder 44
January 28, 1931-August 15, 1931.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Muscle Shoals Dam; Federal Power Commission; Public Utility Regulation; Unemployed;
Labor; St. Lawrence Waterway.
Box 1, Folder 45
June 26, 1931-February 19, 1934.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Public Utility Regulation; War Policies Commission; National
Recovery Administration.
Box 1, Folder 46
1934-1941.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
New Deal; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Old Age Pensions; World War, 1939-1945.
Box 1, Folder 47
August 19, 1942-October 29, 1945.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Women--Wartime Labor; World War II Industry Tour.
Box 1, Folder 48
"Chicago Calling."
October 1952.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Column in
Scripps-Howard News Magazine, Vol. 7, no. 1, pp.
3-11.
Subject:
Political Conventions.
Box 1, Folder 49
"Washington Calling."
April 13, 1945.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Column; draft copy.
Subject:
Politics--United States.
Box 1, Folder 50
First Radio Talk.
1929.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Broadcast over NBC.
Subject:
Farm Relief; Elections.
Box 1, Folder 51
Interview with Ruth Finney.
October 7, 1937.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Conducted by Janet Baird, San Francisco.
Subject:
Scripps-Howard Washington Alliance Years.
Box 1, Folder 52
Talk at San Francisco Press Club.
1946.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Speech.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Depression; Unemployed; Elections.
Box 1, Folder 53
1906-1913.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
School essays.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 1, Folder 54
1931-1953.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Downieville book research material.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 2, Folder 1
Ruth.
ca 1906.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Diary; calendar of birthdates of close members of Ruth Finney's family.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 2, Folder 2
A Line a Day.
January 28, 1916-December 31, 1917.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Diary; experiences at San Jose Normal School and operation of boarding house.
Subject:
College Years.
Box 2, Folder 3
August 23, 1918-December 27, 1919.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Sacramento Star Years.
Box 2, Folder 4
January 1920-December 1920.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Sacramento Star Years; McKechnie, Fred (Mac).
Box 2, Folder 5
January 1921-October 1921.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Sacramento Star Years; McKechnie, Fred (Mac).
Box 2, Folder 6
February 1922-December 1922.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Sacramento Star Years; Ku Klux Klan; Argonaut Mine Disaster.
Box 2, Folder 7
January 3, 1923-January 1, 1924.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Sacramento Star Years; San Francisco News Years; Sausalito, California; Harding, Warren
G.; Mooney-Billings Case; Alex Kels Murder Case; Scripps-Howard Washington Alliance
Years.
Box 2, Folder 8
January 5, 1924-December 19, 1924.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Scripps-Howard Washington Alliance Years; Boulder Dam; Teapot Dome; Johnson, Hiram W.;
Shortridge, Sam; Elections; Political Conventions; Coolidge, Calvin; La Follette, Robert
M., Jr.
Box 2, Folder 9
March 4, 1925-December 1, 1925.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Mellett, Lowell; Coolidge, Calvin; Raker Act; Hetch Hetchy Dam; Ku Klux Klan; Boulder
Dam.
Box 2, Folder 10
January 1926-December 1926.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Shortridge, Sam; Johnson, Hiram W.; Boulder Dam.
Box 2, Folder 11
The Excelsior Diary.
January 1927-December 1927.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Diary; includes newspaper assignments.
Subject:
Boulder Dam; Johnson, Hiram W.; Teapot Dome; Mellett, Lowell.
Box 2, Folder 12
January 1927-December 1927.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Diary.
Subject:
Sacco-Vanzetti Case; Boulder Dam.
Box 2, Folder 13
Date Book for 1928.
January 1928-December 1928.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Diary; includes newspaper assignments.
Subject:
Teapot Dome; Boulder Dam; Johnson, Hiram W.; Allen, Robert; Mellett, Lowell; Hoover,
Herbert.
Box 2, Folder 14
January 1928-December 1928.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Boulder Dam; Teapot Dome; Johnson, Hiram W.; Allen, Robert; Hoover, Herbert; Muscle
Shoals Dam; Political Conventions; Smith, Al.
Box 2, Folder 15
January 1929-December 1929.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Allen, Robert; Johnson, Hiram W.; Federal Trade Commission; Mooney-Billings Case;
Marriage; Boulder Dam; Mexico.
Box 2, Folder 16
January 1930-December 1930.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Kahn, Florence; Federal Power Commission; Federal Trade Commission; Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Act; Boulder Dam; Means, Gaston B.; Doheny, Edward; Labor; Swing, Phil; Public Utility
Regulation; Muscle Shoals Dam; Mooney-Billings Case.
Box 2, Folder 17
January 1931-December 1931.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; Federal Power Commission; Hoover, Herbert; Pulitzer Prize
Committee; Finney, Reagh; Depression; Unemployed; St. Lawrence Waterway; Roosevelt,
Franklin Delano; Curry, John F.; "Washington Merry-Go-Round."
Box 2, Folder 18
January 1932-December 1932.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Allen, Robert; Longworth, Alice Roosevelt; Budget; Unemployed; Depression; Bonus
Expeditionary Army; Political Conventions; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano.
Box 2, Folder 19
January 1933-December 1933.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Women's National Press Club; Walsh, Tom; Inaugurations; Depression; Tennessee Valley
Authority; Federal Trade Commission; National Industrial Recovery Act; National Recovery
Administration.
Box 2, Folder 20
January 1934-December 1934.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Women's National Press Club; National Recovery Administration; Federal Trade Commission;
Public Utility Regulation; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Labor.
Box 2, Folder 21
January 1935-December 1935.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; National Recovery Administration; Death Sentence; Allen,
Robert.
Box 2, Folder 22
January 1936-December 1936.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Budget; Public Utility Regulation; Labor; Smith, Al; Bankruptcy; American Telephone and
Telegraph Company; New Deal; Allen, Robert; Lobbyists; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano;
Landon, Alf.
Box 2, Folder 23
January 1937-December 1937.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Budget; Inaugurations; Public Utility Regulation; Teapot Dome; Public Utility Regulation;
Roosevelt, Eleanor; Tax Evasion; Black, Hugo; Wage-Hour Bill; Bridges, Harry; Roosevelt,
Franklin Delano; Federal Power Commission; Labor; Mellett, Lowell.
Box 2, Folder 24
January 1938-December 1938.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Pacific Gas & Electric Company; Maritime Commission; World War, 1939-1945;
Mooney-Billings Case; Public Works Administration; Public Utility Regulation;
Mister Pomapdour;
Lady Boss;
Perkins, Frances; Michelson, Charles; Old Age Pensions; Labor.
Box 2, Folder 25
January 1939-December 1939.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Old Age Pensions; Mooney-Billings Case; Maritime Commission; Migrant Workers; Wage-Hour
Bill; World War, 1939-1945; Public Utility Regulation;
Mister
Pomapdour
.
Box 2, Folder 26
January 1940-December 1940.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Budget; Hetch Hetchy Dam; World War, 1939-1945; Elections; Transamerica Suit.
Box 2, Folder 27
January 1941-December 1941.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; World War, 1939-1945; Central Valley Project; "Washington
Merry-Go-Round"; Inaugurations; Labor; Transamerica Suit; "Washington
Calling."
Box 2, Folder 28
National Date Book.
January 1941-December 1941.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Diary; includes reporting assignments, national events and Robert Allen's libel suits.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Sweeney vs. Washington Merry-Go-Round; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano;
Lease-Land Bill.
Box 2, Folder 29
January 1942-December 1942.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Diary; war-related events, reporting assignments and family matters.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Sweeney vs. Schenectady Union Star.
Box 2, Folder 30
ca 1942-1944.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Loose-leaf diary.
Subject:
Chiang, Madame; World War, 1939-1945; Allen, Robert; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; World
War II Industry Tour.
Box 2, Folder 31
November 1920-November 1952.
Physical Description: Manuscripts.
Note:
Diary; reporting experiences during Presidential elections.
Subject:
Elections; Allen, Robert.
Box 2, Folder 32
1930.
Physical Description: Clippings and Correspondence.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles; photocopy of Pulitzer Prize Committee presentation.
Originals in 6:1.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; Boulder Dam; Federal Power Commission Investigation.
Box 2, Folder 33
1930.
Physical Description: Clippings and Correspondence.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles; photocopy of Pulitzer Prize Committee presentation.
Originals in 6:1.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; Boulder Dam; Federal Power Commission Investigation.
Box 2, Folder 34
"Chicago Called."
October 1952.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of column. Originals in 7:1.
Subject:
Politics--United States.
Box 2, Folder 35
"In the Offing."
1960-1970.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of column. Originals in 7:2.
Subject:
Politics--United States.
Box 2, Folder 36
"The National Round-Up."
April 10, 1934-May 2, 1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of column. Originals in 7:3.
Subject:
Labor; National Recovery Administration; Elections; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; New Deal.
Box 2, Folder 37
September 12, 1922-September 23, 1922.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 7:4.
Subject:
Argonaut Mine Disaster.
Box 2, Folder 38
February 23, 1927-June 4, 1963.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 8:1.
Subject:
Boulder Dam; Public Utility Regulation.
Box 2, Folder 39
August 2, 1923-August 4, 1923.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 8:2.
Subject:
Harding, Warren G.
Box 2, Folder 40
May 28, 1937-June 3, 1937.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 8:3.
Subject:
Roosevelt, Eleanor.
Box 2, Folder 41
ca 1927.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 8:4.
Subject:
Human Interest.
Box 2, Folder 42
ca 1921.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 8:5.
Subject:
Ku Klux Klan.
Box 2, Folder 43
1931-1938.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 8:6.
Subject:
Labor; National Recovery Administration.
Box 2, Folder 44
1930-1966.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:1.
Subject:
Mooney-Billings Case; Labor Disputes.
Box 2, Folder 45
September 1933-November 1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:2.
Subject:
National Recovery Administration.
Box 2, Folder 46
1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:3.
Subject:
Eccles, M. S.; Landis, James M.; Healy, Robert E.; Mathews, George C.; Pecora, Ferdinand;
Political Appointments.
Box 2, Folder 47
1928-1935.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:4.
Subject:
Hoover, Herbert; Shortridge, Sam; Political Candidates.
Box 2, Folder 48
1927-1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:5.
Subject:
Mellon, Andrew W.; Carew, John F.; Curry, John F.; Political Scandals.
Box 2, Folder 49
July 1, 1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:6.
Subject:
Racketeering.
Box 2, Folder 50
December 24, 1930-July 2, 1935.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:7.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; Federal Water Power Act.
Box 2, Folder 51
May 23, 1922.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:8.
Subject:
Sacramento Star Years; Days of Forty Nine.
Box 2, Folder 52
April 18, 1911-May 27, 1911.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:9.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 2, Folder 53
August 12, 1931.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:10.
Subject:
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
Box 2, Folder 54
June 22, 1927.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:11.
Subject:
Spies.
Box 2, Folder 55
July 1931-October 1931.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 9:12.
Subject:
St. Lawrence Waterway; Public Utility Regulation.
Box 2, Folder 56
October 19, 1927-March 9, 1930.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 10:1.
Subject:
Teapot Dome.
Box 2, Folder 57
February 7, 1931-August 5, 1931.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 10:2.
Subject:
Unemployed.
Box 2, Folder 58
August 22, 1942-August 25, 1942.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of feature articles. Originals in 10:3.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Women--Wartime Labor; World War II Industry Tour.
Box 2, Folder 59
1945-1967.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of collected articles. Originals in 10:6.
Subject:
Mooney-Billings Case; Frankfurter, Felix; Argonaut Mine Disaster; Churchill, Winston;
American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Box 2, Folder 60
September 1922-March 1971.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of collected articles. Originals in 10:7.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Retirement; Argonaut Mine Disaster; Marriage; Scripps-Howard Washington
Alliance Years.
Box 2, Folder 61
October 25, 1935.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Photocopies of collected articles. Originals in 10:8.
Subject:
Allen, Robert.
Box 3, Folder 1
1926-1927.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
From Hiram Johnson; five items.
Subject:
Tilson Amendment; Johnson, Hiram W.
Box 3, Folder 2
May 28, 1927-August 23, 1927.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
From Hiram Johnson; five items.
Subject:
Boulder Dam; Political Appointments; Swing-Johnson Bill; Willebrandt, Mabel Walker;
Coolidge, Calvin; Johnson, Hiram W.; Hoover, Herbert; Sacco-Vanzetti Case.
Box 3, Folder 3
September 27, 1927-June 15, 1928.
Physical Description: Correspondence and Manuscripts.
Note:
From Hiram Johnson; includes manuscripts of two of Hiram Johnson's speeches; seven items.
Subject:
Boulder Dam; Hoover, Herbert; Johnson, Hiram W.
Box 3, Folder 4
July 5, 1928-September 27, 1928.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
From Hiram Johnson; five items.
Subject:
Hoover, Herbert; Boulder Dam; Public Utility Regulation; Elections; Johnson, Hiram W.
Box 3, Folder 5
September 23, 1944-April 23, 1945.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
About Robert Allen during World War II; five items.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Allen, Robert.
Box 3, Folder 6
April 24, 1945-April 28, 1945.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
About Robert Allen during World War II; five items.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Allen, Robert.
Box 3, Folder 7
April 30, 1945-May 13, 1945.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
About Robert Allen during World War II; includes letters from George S. Patton and
Eleanor Roosevelt; five items.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Allen, Robert.
Box 3, Folder 8
June 5, 1945-July 3, 1945.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
About Robert Allen during World War II; includes Allen's evacuation papers; four items.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Allen, Robert.
Box 3, Folder 9
July 13, 1917-August 11, 1922.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers and politicians; includes letters from friend
Dorothy K. Hensley; five items.
Subject:
Barlardi Case.
Box 3, Folder 10
September 19, 1922-September 21, 1922.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; five items.
Subject:
Argonaut Mine Disaster.
Box 3, Folder 11
September 23, 1922-September 24, 1927.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; five items.
Subject:
Argonaut Mine Disaster; Human Interest.
Box 3, Folder 12
October 19, 1927-June 9, 1929.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; includes a cable from Frank J.
Hogan and a letter from Louis D. Brandeis; five items.
Subject:
Teapot Dome; Hoover, Herbert; Brandeis, Louis D.
Box 3, Folder 13
June 12, 1931-January 24, 1938.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; includes letters from Louis D.
Brandeis and Finello La Guardia; five items.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation.
Box 3, Folder 14
August 21, 1942-February 15, 1943.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; five items.
Subject:
Women--Wartime Labor; World War II Industry Tour.
Box 3, Folder 15
April 2, 1951-January 8, 1953.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; five items.
Subject:
World Movement for World Federal Government; California Legislature.
Box 3, Folder 16
March 24, 1954-June 6, 1963.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; five items.
Subject:
Boulder Dam.
Box 3, Folder 17
June 6, 1963-December 12, 1966.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; includes letter from Edmund G.
Brown; five items.
Subject:
Johnson, Hiram W.
Box 3, Folder 18
June 17, 1969-April 15, 1978.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
Business letters from editors, readers, and politicians; five items.
Subject:
Retirement.
Box 3, Folder 19
Academy Series Compositions.
October 1906-December 1906.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Puzzles, poems, essays written during childhood.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 3, Folder 20
Lincoln and Progressionism: Governor Hiram W. Johnson.
1910-1927.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Collected articles.
Subject:
Johnson, Hiram W.; Boulder Dam.
Box 3, Folder 21
March 16, 1965-April 13, 1965.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Retirement articles, pictures, letters from friends and VIPs.
Subject:
Retirement.
Box 3, Folder 22
Ruth Finney Allen Obituaries and Tributes.
March 20, 1979-June 13, 1979.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Obituaries and articles; letters of condolence to Robert Allen.
Subject:
Obituaries.
Box 3, Folder 23
Handbook California Legislature.
1913-1915; 1923.
Physical Description: Printed Material.
Note:
Lists members of Assembly and Senate, rules and committees.
Subject:
California Legislature.
Box 3, Folder 24
1929-1934.
Physical Description: Printed Material.
Note:
Feature article research material.
Subject:
Old Age Pensions; Women--Wartime Labor; World War II Industry Tour; National Recovery
Administration.
Box 3, Folder 25
1942-1963.
Physical Description: Printed Material.
Note:
Downieville book research material.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 3, Folder 26
Hearings Before the Select Committee on Investigation of Charges Against Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana United States
Senate
.
1924.
Physical Description: Printed Material.
Note:
Senator Burton K. Wheeler research material.
Subject:
Political Scandals; Wheeler, Burton K.
Box 3, Folder 27
"Spies on Our Trail."
January 1929.
Physical Description: Printed Material.
Note:
Feature article; in
Plain Talk, vol. VI, no. 1, pp. 65-72.
Subject:
Spies.
Box 3, Folder 28
"Why January 20th Inauguration?."
January 20, 1937.
Physical Description: Printed Material.
Note:
Feature article; in
Inaugural Program of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, pp. 29-30.
Subject:
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Inaugurations.
Box 3, Folder 29
"Washington Lobbies" in
The American Mercury.
March 1948.
Physical Description: Printed Material.
Note:
Feature article; in The American Mercury, vol. LXVI, no. 291, pp. 286-293.
Subject:
Lobbyists.
Box 3, Folder 30
n.d.
Physical Description: Printed Material.
Note:
Feature articles; Finney family tree and background history.
Subject:
Finney, John W.; Morrison, Richard D.
Box 3, Folder 31
1901-1904.
Physical Description: Ephemera.
Note:
Drawings from newspaper coloring contest.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 3, Folder 32
1896-1929.
Physical Description: Ephemera and Legal Documents.
Note:
Passport, birth certificate, certificate of baptism, marriage certificate of John and
Mary Finney.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 3, Folder 33
1902-1929.
Physical Description: Ephemera.
Note:
School records and certificates; marriage announcement; school diplomas; report cards.
Subject:
Sacramento High School Years; San Jose Normal School Years; Marriage.
Box 3, Folder 34
1915-1958.
Physical Description: Ephemera.
Note:
School commencement and inauguration ceremony programs; greeting cards.
Subject:
Sacramento High School Years.
Box 3, Folder 35
1916-1966.
Physical Description: Ephemera.
Note:
Press passes; invitations.
Subject:
Scripps-Howard Washington Alliance Years; Sacramento Star Years.
Box 3, Folder 36
1920-1944.
Physical Description: Ephemera.
Note:
Keepsakes.
Subject:
Scripps-Howard Washington Alliance Years; Sacramento Star Years.
Box 4, Folder 1
Kodaks.
1898-1941.
Physical Description: Photograph Albums.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Finney, Mary; Downieville, California; Childhood Years.
Box 4, Folder 2
1897-1929.
Physical Description: Photograph Albums.
Subject:
Downieville, California; Finney, Reagh; Finney, Ruth; Finney, Mary; Childhood Years;
Residence.
Box 4, Folder 3
1912-1916.
Physical Description: Photograph Albums.
Subject:
Roosevelt, Theodore; Johnson, Hiram W.; Finney, Ruth; Childhood Years; Downieville,
California; Sacramento High School Years.
Box 4, Folder 4
Stamp mill at Telegraph mine after the snow slide.
ca 1902.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 5
Ox team that hauled machinery to Telegraph mine. JWF standing at rear next to wagon. On wagon, Mary L. Finney, Ruth and Reagh.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 6
Sacramento High School graduation day 1916. In front of house where we kept our first boarders.
January 1916.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 7
Main Street.
ca 1902.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 8
Tommy Cleghorn and his fiddle.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 9
Store on the right, and livery stable next to it, with Armory Hall above.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 10
Main Street.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 11
Bridge connects Main Street and Jersey Flat. White building beyond shed is where Finneys lived.
n.d.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 12
Fire bell.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 13
School house.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 14
Snow drifts in front of Sierra Hotel.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 15
County hospital and poor house. Flume is carrying drinking water from the ditch.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 16
Sierra County landscape after snowfall.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 17
Sierra County court house.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 18
Presenting gift to retiring superintendent of Press Gallery.
ca 1929.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 19
Stage coach carrying supplies to Downieville.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 20
Bridge connecting Main St. and Durgan Flat.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 21
Mail service to Sierra County mines by horse.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 22
Boarding the stage coach to Nevada City.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 23
Downieville along the Yuba River. Dam in foreground.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 24
Masonic Temple. Entrance to Finney home at right.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 25
Downieville scenes.
1903-1941.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Includes aerial views, buildings, floods, gold mines.
Box 4, Folder 26
Mary L. Finney and Ruth Finney, Chicago, Ill. 1899.
1899.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 27
Clyde Seavey wearing stove pipe hat and Irwin Engler measuring prize winning beard.
1922.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 28
Ruth Finney is second from the left.
1922.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 29
Sacramento Star staff during "Days of Forty Nine" celebration.
1922.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 30
Morrison home in Steubenville.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Residence.
Box 4, Folder 31
Sawmill where reporters worked during Jackson mine disaster.
1922.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 32
GOP national convention Kansas City, 1928.
1928.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 33
Senate Teapot Dome hearing.
1927.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 34
Ruth Finney with unidentified co-workers.
ca 1925-1926.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Scripps-Howard Washington Alliance Years; Finney, Ruth.
Box 4, Folder 35
Gaston B. Means testifying before Senate Public Lands Committee.
ca 1928.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Teapot Dome; Means, Gaston B.
Box 4, Folder 36
Charles Michelson between Borah and other heads of investigation.
ca 1927.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Teapot Dome; Michelson, Charles; Finney, Ruth.
Box 4, Folder 37
In front of Washington Star office, 1322 New York Ave. N. W.
1933.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Journey From the Star.
Box 4, Folder 38
Mexican scenes.
July 6, 1929-July 28, 1929.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Visited Vera Cruz, Mexico City, Puebla, and Taxco.
Box 4, Folder 39
Factory scenes.
1942.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Tour of war factories given to women journalists.
Box 4, Folder 40
Portrait.
1956.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Autographed photo of governor of California; includes accompanying letter.
Box 4, Folder 41
Press conference--California's Central Valley Project.
October 18, 1950.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Includes accompanying letter.
Box 4, Folder 42
Play cast.
ca 1916.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Class play
Emperor What For Whi.
Box 4, Folder 43
Snow on the Allen Lawn.
March 1934.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
1525 28th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Box 4, Folder 44
Reagh, Ruth, and Mary Finney Chicago, about 1900.
1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Finney, Reagh; Finney, Mary L.
Box 4, Folder 45
Portrait.
ca 1928.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Mary L.
Box 4, Folder 46
Ruth Finney presented with wedding gift by Senate Press Gallery Standing Committee.
1929.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Senate Press Gallery; Washington Star Years.
Box 4, Folder 47
Portrait.
September 17, 1914.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Mary L.; Finney, Ruth; Finney, Reagh; Childhood Years.
Box 4, Folder 48
Mary L. Finney and Ruth Chicago.
ca 1899.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Mary L.; Finney, Ruth; Childhood Years.
Box 4, Folder 49
R. F. 1916 H. S. grad.
1916.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Sacramento High School Years.
Box 4, Folder 50
Portrait.
ca 1899.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Childhood Years.
Box 4, Folder 51
Portrait.
ca 1899-1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Childhood Years.
Box 4, Folder 52
Portrait.
1914.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Mary L.; Finney, Ruth; Childhood Years.
Box 4, Folder 53
Mary L. Finney family portrait.
1915.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Caption on verso.
Box 4, Folder 54
Portrait.
ca 1932-1934.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Scripps-Howard Washington Alliance Years; Finney, Ruth.
Box 4, Folder 55
Allen house and houses of neighbors.
October 1932.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
1525 28th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Box 4, Folder 56
Allen apartment.
ca March 1929.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Hammond Court Apartments.
Box 4, Folder 57
Portrait.
ca 1939-1940.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Elaine.
Box 4, Folder 58
With Elaine.
ca 1939-1940.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Elaine.
Box 4, Folder 59
Portrait.
1912-1961.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth.
Box 4, Folder 60
With Newton Minow, FCC Commissioner, 1961 or 1962.
ca 1961.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Caption on verso.
Box 4, Folder 61
With Janet Baird (R), interviewer.
October 7, 1937.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Baird, Janet.
Box 4, Folder 62
With Robert Allen and Joe Montoya.
1965.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Allen, Robert; Montoya, Joe M.
Box 4, Folder 63
With Sen. Clair Engle, D-Calif.
January 19, 1961.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Engle, Clair.
Box 4, Folder 64
Ruth Finney, 2nd from left in front of Sacramento Star during Days of Forty Nine celebration, 1922.
1922.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Sacramento Star Years; Days of Forty Nine.
Box 4, Folder 65
Portrait.
n.d.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Autographed.
Box 4, Folder 66
Portrait.
ca 1940.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Autographed.
Box 4, Folder 67
Portrait.
June 9, 1929.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Letter to Finney from Supreme Court justice Brandeis.
Box 4, Folder 68
Family.
ca 1894-1961.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
Unidentified friends and relatives.
Box 4, Folder 69
Portrait.
ca 1902.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
See also 5:4.
Box 4, Folder 70
Portrait.
ca 1914.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Johnson, Hiram W.
Box 4, Folder 71
At dedication of Mather Air Force Base.
ca 1914.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Johnson, Hiram W.
Box 4, Folder 72
At dedication of Mather Air Force Base.
ca 1914.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth.
Box 4, Folder 73
With Gertrude Rose.
1914.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Rose, Gertrude.
Box 4, Folder 74
At dedication of Mather Air Force Base.
ca 1914.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Johnson, Hiram W.
Box 5, Folder 1
Aerial view of Downieville.
1903.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 5, Folder 2
Aerial view of Downieville.
1903.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 5, Folder 3
Portrait.
ca 1900.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Childhood Years.
Box 5, Folder 4
Portrait.
ca 1902.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Note:
See also 4:69.
Box 5, Folder 5
Portrait.
ca 1920.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Mary L.
Box 5, Folder 6
Mary L. Finney, her brothers and sisters.
ca 1905.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Mary L.
Box 5, Folder 7
Portrait.
ca 1920.
Physical Description: Photographs.
Subject:
Finney, Mary L.
Box 6, Folder 1
1930.
Physical Description: Clippings and Correspondence.
Note:
Feature articles; Pulitzer Prize Committee presentation. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:32
and 2:33.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; Boulder Dam; Federal Power Commission Investigation.
Box 7, Folder 1
"Chicago Called."
October 1952.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Column. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:34.
Subject:
Politics--United States.
Box 7, Folder 2
"In the Offing."
1960-1970.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Column. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:35.
Subject:
Politics--United States.
Box 7, Folder 3
"The National Round-Up."
April 10, 1934-May 2, 1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Column. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:36.
Subject:
Labor; National Recovery Administration; Elections; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; New Deal.
Box 7, Folder 4
September 12, 1922-September 23, 1922.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:37.
Subject:
Argonaut Mine Disaster.
Box 8, Folder 1
February 23, 1927-June 4, 1963.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:38.
Subject:
Boulder Dam; Public Utility Regulation.
Box 8, Folder 2
August 2, 1923-August 4, 1923.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:39.
Subject:
Harding, Warren G.
Box 8, Folder 3
May 28, 1937-June 3, 1937.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:40.
Subject:
Roosevelt, Eleanor.
Box 8, Folder 4
ca 1927.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:41.
Subject:
Human Interest.
Box 8, Folder 5
ca 1921.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:42.
Subject:
Ku Klux Klan.
Box 8, Folder 6
1931-1938.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:43.
Subject:
Labor; National Recovery Administration.
Box 9, Folder 1
1930-1966.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:44.
Subject:
Mooney-Billings Case; Labor Disputes.
Box 9, Folder 2
September 1933-November 1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:45.
Subject:
National Recovery Administration.
Box 9, Folder 3
1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:46.
Subject:
Eccles, M. S.; Landis, James M.; Healy, Robert E.; Mathews, George C.; Pecora, Ferdinand;
Political Appointments.
Box 9, Folder 4
1928-1935.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:47.
Subject:
Hoover, Herbert; Shortridge, Sam; Political Candidates.
Box 9, Folder 5
1927-1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:48.
Subject:
Mellon, Andrew W.; Carew, John F.; Curry, John F.; Political Scandals.
Box 9, Folder 6
July 1, 1934.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:49.
Subject:
Racketeering.
Box 9, Folder 7
December 24, 1930-July 2, 1935.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature arrticles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:50.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; Federal Water Power Act.
Box 9, Folder 8
May 23, 1922.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:51.
Subject:
Sacramento Star Years; Days of Forty Nine.
Box 9, Folder 9
April 18, 1911-May 27, 1911.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:52.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 9, Folder 10
August 12, 1931.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:53.
Subject:
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
Box 9, Folder 11
June 22, 1927.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:54.
Subject:
Spies.
Box 9, Folder 12
July 1931-October 1931.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:55.
Subject:
St. Lawrence Waterway; Public Utility Regulation.
Box 10, Folder 1
October 19, 1927-March 9, 1930.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:56.
Subject:
Teapot Dome.
Box 10, Folder 2
February 7, 1931-August 5, 1931.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:57.
Subject:
Unemployed.
Box 10, Folder 3
August 22, 1942-August 25, 1942.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Feature articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:58.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945; Women--Wartime Labor; World War II Industry Tour.
Box 10, Folder 4
April 7, 1885-February 9, 1971.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Downieville book research material.
Subject:
Downieville, California.
Box 10, Folder 5
March 22, 1944-May 14, 1945.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
World War II research material.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945.
Box 10, Folder 6
1945-1967.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Collected articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:59.
Subject:
Mooney-Billings Case; Frankfurter, Felix; Argonaut Mine Disaster; Churchill, Winston;
American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Box 10, Folder 7
September 1922-March 1971.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Collected articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:60.
Subject:
Finney, Ruth; Retirement; Argonaut Mine Disaster; Marriage; Scripps-Howard Washington
Alliance.
Box 10, Folder 8
October 25, 1935.
Physical Description: Clippings.
Note:
Collected articles. Fragile. Use photocopies in 2:61.
Subject:
Allen, Robert.
Box 11, Folder 1
July 1, 1972-August 27, 1974.
Physical Description: Correspondence.
Note:
From Regional Oral History Office, UC Berkeley; regards publication of
Journey From the Star.
Subject:
Childhood Years.
Box 11, Folder 2
October 24, 1946-July 24, 1948.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Elections; Politics--California; Hetch Hetchy Dam; Central Valley Project; Public Utility
Regulation; Boulder Dam; Warren, Earl.
Box 11, Folder 3
July 3, 1948-December 23, 1949.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Warren, Earl; Public Utility Regulation; Politics--California; Central Valley Project;
Federal Power Commission; Political Scandals.
Box 11, Folder 4
November 25, 1937-December 19, 1939.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; Wage-Hour Bill; Old Age Pensions; National Recovery Act;
Mooney-Billings Case; Boulder Dam; Politics--California; Labor Disputes.
Box 11, Folder 5
January 4, 1940-February 9, 1943.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Raker Act; Hetch Hetchy Dam; Politics--California; World War, 1939-1945; Migrant Workers;
Public Utility Regulation; Central Valley Project.
Box 11, Folder 6
January 4, 1950-December 31, 1951.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Central Valley Project; Downey, Sheridan; Public Utility Regulation;
Politics--California.
Box 11, Folder 7
January 30, 1953-December 27, 1957.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Engle, Clair; Public Utility Regulation; Central Valley Project; Nixon, Richard; Warren,
Earl; Politics--California; Elections.
Box 11, Folder 8
January 10, 1958-June 8, 1962.
Physical Description: Scrapbooks.
Note:
Feature articles.
Subject:
Public Utility Regulation; Elections; Politics--California; Budget.
