John W. Hilton "Hardly Any Fences: Baja California in 1933-1959" Typescript
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Title: John W. Hilton "Hardly Any Fences: Baja California in 1933-1959" Typescript
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0025
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear feet
(1 archives box)
Date (inclusive): 1958 - 1979
Abstract: Manuscript of John Hilton's book
Hardly Any Fences: Baja California in 1933-1959 (1977), published as volume 38 of the Baja California Travel Series. Included are edited typescripts of individual chapters,
some of which were omitted from the published version, correspondence, examples of illustrations and miscellaneous production
materials. The collection is arranged in two series: 1) MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION MATERIALS and 2) TYPESCRIPTS.
Creator:
Hilton, John W.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains the manuscript for John Hilton's book
Hardly Any Fences: Baja California in 1933-1959 (1977) which was published by Dawson's Bookshop as volume 38 of their Baja California Travel Series. Included are original
typescripts for individual chapters, many of which were omitted from the published version. Also included in the collection
is correspondence regarding publication, some reproductions of Hilton's paintings used as illustrations in the book and miscellaneous
production materials.
The collection is arranged in two series: 1) MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION MATERIALS and 2) TYPESCRIPTS.
John Hilton, desert painter and author, attended school and worked in the Los Angeles area until the Depression when he moved
to the desert a few miles south of Indio. There he painted desert landscapes, wrote magazine articles and travelled extensively
in Sonora, Mexico. In 1950, he moved to Twentynine Palms where he continued to paint and write, often teaching art to supplement
his income.
Hilton's paintings soon gained popularity and he exhibited in the Grand Central Galleries in New York. During the 1950s he
had seven one-man exhibits and his work is included in many public and private collections.
John Hilton lived occasionally in the fishing village of Bahia de los Angeles, Baja California Norte, before the advent of
the paved highway and wrote about its people and the nearby places he visited. Although his stays extended over a period from
1933 to 1959, his accounts were written between 1958 and 1959.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
John W. Hilton "Hardly Any Fences: Baja California in 1933-1959" Typescript, MSS 0025. Special Collections & Archives, UC
San Diego.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hilton, John W. -- Archives
Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)--Description and travel
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION MATERIALS
Box 1, Folder 1
Correspondence 1975 - 1979
Box 1, Folder 2
Box 1, Folder 3
Miscellaneous production materials
Box 1, Folder 4
Newspaper clippings and biographical materials
TYPESCRIPTS
Box 1, Folder 5
Box 1, Folder 8
Box 1, Folder 10
Box 1, Folder 14
Box 1, Folder 16
Box 1, Folder 19
Box 1, Folder 20
Box 1, Folder 21
Box 1, Folder 22
Box 1, Folder 23
Box 1, Folder 24
Box 1, Folder 26
Box 1, Folder 27