Guide to the Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970
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Guide to the Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970
Collection number: BANC MSS 89/124 c
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1860 | Born May 1 in Chico, California to Dr. William Peregrine Tilden and Catherine Maria Hecox Tilden. |
1861 | Moved to Stockton where Dr. Tilden became resident physician of what is now the Stockton State Hospital. |
1864 or 1865 | Lost hearing and speech due to scarlet fever. |
1866 | January 25 entered the California Institution for the Education of the Indigent Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind in San Francisco, which later moved to Berkeley and then, Fremont, and became known as the California School for the Deaf. |
1869 | California School for the Deaf relocated to Berkeley. |
1873 | Dr. William P. Tilden died in May. |
1879 | Graduated from the California School for the Deaf and takes position as teacher there. |
1883 | Became interested in sculpture. |
1885 | Wrote Deaf Mutes and Their Education, published in the Overland Monthly. Modeled small statuette, Tired Wrestler. When this came to the attention of California School for the Deaf's board, they offered him the opportunity to study in New York and Paris. |
1887 | Spent eight months in New York studying art. |
1888 | Arrived in Paris; studied under deaf sculptor Paul Choppin, among others. |
1889 | The Baseball Player (plaster) accepted in the Salon. Assisted in inaugurating the first International Congress of the Deaf, in Paris. |
1891 | The Baseball Player (bronze) unveiled in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. |
1892 | Tired Boxer purchased by subscription of individual members of the Olympic Club, San Francisco. |
1894 | Exhibited Football Players (plaster) in Salon. Returned to the United States and accepted a position to develop the first Department of Modeling at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. Elected a member of the Bohemian Club. |
1895 | Bronze, Bear Hunt, arrived at the California School for the Deaf from the Chicago World's Fair. |
1896 | Married Elizabeth Delano Cole, also deaf, June 6, in her Oakland home. |
1897 | Admission Day monument unveiled in San Francisco. |
1900 | Daughter Gladys born, January 5. Football Players installed at the University of California, Berkeley. |
1901 | Resigned teaching position to set up his own studio in Oakland. The Mechanics unveiled in San Francisco. |
1903 | Received the commission in a national competition for a monument to the California Spanish-American War volunteer infantrymen. Son Willoughby born September 4. |
1904 | Received the commission for Oregon Volunteers. |
1905 | Spearheaded the organization of the California Association of the Deaf. |
1906 | California Volunteers unveiled. San Francisco earthquake and fire. Tilden temporarily in Portland, Oregon. |
1907 | Senator White statue completed. Junipero Serra monument installed in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. |
1910 | Elected president of the California Association of the Deaf. |
1912 | Twelve Stages of Man (bronze) bas-reliefs placed on McElroy Fountain in Lakeside Park, Oakland. |
1914 | Worked on model, Modern Civilization, for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. |
1915 - 1916 | Wrote novel, The Autobiography of a Dummy, later renamed The Gap. |
1918 | Moved his studio to 314 Hobart, Oakland. |
1920 | Became a machinist. |
1924 | Elizabeth filed for divorce. Went to Hollywood to work in the Hal Roach Studio fabricating animals for movie sets. Built new studio at 834 Channing Way, Berkeley. |
1926 | Divorce final. Finished The Bridge. |
1929 - 1930 | Assisted Brother Cornelius in the Art Department at St. Mary's College, Moraga, California. |
1931 | Created plaster bust of painter William Keith for the opening of the Keith Gallery at St. Mary's College. |
1934 | Mother, Catherine Maria Hecox Tilden Brown, died. |
1935 | Found dead in his studio, August 6. |
Series 1: Correspondence, 1867-1956.
Scope and Content Note
Incoming Family Correspondence, 1887-1935.
Brown, Aaron Hamer 1893-1934
Brown, Albert W. 1893-1901
Brown, Catherine Maria Tilden 1887-1934
Gradick, Dale ca. 1932
Ferrelet, Anne 1899-1902
Morton, Mary 1927-1928
Peyton, Anne DuPont 1901
Ridgely, Mary Tilden 1893-1894
Tilden, Augustus C. 1889-1931
Tilden, Charles A. 1898
Tilden, Elizabeth Delano Cole 1905-1934
Tilden, Gladys, 1900- 1905-1935
Tilden, Willoughby Lee [n.d.]
Townsend, Helen Tilden 1889-1934
Tilden, William P., II 1894
Outgoing Family Correspondence, 1867-1922.
Tilden, Elizabeth Delano Cole 1905-1922
Tilden, William P. and Catherine Maria 1867
Other Family Correspondence, 1886-1956.
Miscellaneous letters to Catherine Maria Hecox Tilden Brown 1888-1893
Catherine Maria Hecox Tilden Brown to William P. Tilden, II 1897
Letters from Aaron Hamer Brown 1930-1935
Letters from Augustus C. Tilden 1897
Charles A. Tilden to Catherine Maria Hecox Tilden Brown 1889-1891
Charles A. Tilden to William P. Tilden, II 1891
William P. Tilden II to Catherine Maria Hecox Tilden Brown 1893
Miscellaneous letters to Helen Tilden Townsend 1917
Gladys Tilden to Dale Gradick 1956
Letter from Dale Gradick to unidentified family member n.d.
Transcripts of excerpts from family letters 1886-1899
Incoming Correspondence, 1881-1935.
American Bronze Company 1892-1905
Barr, James Adam, 1863- 1912-1913
Bitter, Karl 1900-1931
Brown, W. E. 1889-1895
Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945 1912-1914
Caldwell, William A. 1912-1917
Cloud, James H. 1908-1917
Comstock, Sophia P. 1912-1915
Cornelius, Brother, b. 1877 1929-1935
Dallin, C. E. 1892
Daum, Hebe 1929-1933
Deering, F. P. (Frank P.) 1901-1916
d'Estrella, Theophilus Hope, 1851-1929 1908-1923
Dougherty, George 1892-1893
Dusuzeau, Ernest 1894-1905
Fay, Edward Allen, 1843-1923 1885-1912
Fletcher, Robert Howe, 1850-1936 1900-1912
Fox, Thomas Francis 1889-1935
Frankenheim, Samuel 1912-1928
Froehlich, Theo. A. 1884-1886
Gallaudet, Edwin Miner, 1837-1917 1894-1902
Gruet, Eugene, Jeune 1889-1910
Hanson, Olof 1905-1928
Hilton, Betty 1929-1930
Hodgson, Edwin A. 1906-1928
Houghton, Edward T. 1930-1933
Howard, Jaye Cooke 1910-1928
Jackson, James 1898-1907
London, Charmian Kittredge 1916-1921
London, Jack, 1876-1916 1916
Merriman School 1915-1916
Meyers, Wildey, Mrs. 1934
Mighels, Ella Sterling, 1853-1934 1908-1916
Milligan, L. E. 1912-1919
Olney, Warren, 1870-1939 1895-1910
Phelan, James D. (James Duval), 1861-1930 1895-1931
Poland, Reginald 1935
Polk, Willis, 1867-1924 1898-1920
Porter, George S. 1910-1925
Rand, Howard F. 1909
Regensberg, Oscar 1892-1913
Roberts, Arthur L. 1910-1928
Ruckstuhl, F. Wellington 1895-1919
Runde, Winfield S. 1908-1917
Redmond, Granville, 1871-1935 1900-1935
Stevenson, Elwood A. 1928-1935
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1902-1931
Town & Country Review 1934-1935
Troy, Edward E. P. 1903-1906
Veditz, George W. 1905-1928
Wilkinson, Warring 1884-1907
Aitken - Allen 1902-1932
Aitken, Robert Ingersoll, 1878-
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Alexander, Jacques
Allabough, B. R.
Allbert, Frederick
Allen, D.
Allen, Frank P.
Allen, Henry
Allen, Mark P.
Allen, Stanley P.
Anderson - Austin 1881-1934
Anderson, G. Walfrid
Anderson, Tom L.
Anger, Lou
Appleton & Company
Arnot, Raymond H.
Ashworth, George W.
Atkinson, F. F.
Atkinson, M. E.
Atlantic Monthly Press
Austin, George W.
Baeheberle - Bartholomew 1894-1935
Baeheberle, L. J.
Balis, Sylvia Chapin
Ballin, Albert
Banks, Edgar James, 1866-
Banks, May L.
Bard, Thomas R.
Barrett, Augusta K.
Barrett, Fernand
Bartlett, Paul Wayland
Bartnett, Francis
Bartholomew, Bruce
Beard - Benedict 1893-1933
Beard, Harrington
Beatty, John Wesley, 1851-1924
Beaumont, Gerald P.
Beck, James M. (James Montgomery), 1861-1936
Beck, Joseph A.
Be ll, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
Bell, Theodore A.
Benedict, W. F.
Benjamin - Bingham 1893-1928
Benjamin, Edward H.
Berry, Fred L.
Berry, George W.
Betts, O. A., Mrs.
Beymer, Lottie
Bigelow, C. B.
Bingham, Theodore A.
Black - Bruns 1890-1935
B lack, Joseph F.
Blake, Thomas J.
Bland,
Blodgett, Glen Walton
Bolles, Frank, 1856-1894
Bonnard (Henry) Bronze Company
Brandenstein, N. W.
Breck, M. B.
Briggs, William Ellery
Bright, Emily
Bruns, Margaret
Budd - Buxton 1894-1912
Budd, James H.
Burke, Bart
Burke, M. A.
Burkhardt, W. N.
Butet, Paul
Button, Fred L.
Buxton, A. C.
Caldwell - Century 1885-1935
Caldwell, George
Cambridge University Press
Campbell, Agnes Jean
Campbell, Edwin C.
Campbell, Ruth E.
Campbell, W. W.
Capelli, Anthony
Carelli, L. John
Carigan, John
Carpenter, N. H.
Century Company
Chandler - Cline 1901 -1935
Chandler, W. F.
Chapman, C. W.
Charles Scribners' Sons
Chicago Daily News
Choppin, P.
Christmas, Earle
Clapp, William H.
Clark, O. M.
Cline, Josephine
Coffin - Cole 1901-1935
Coffin, William A.
Cohn, Sam H.
Cokefair, Leo L.
Colburn, F. H.
Colby, Collins C.
Cole, ?
Cole, Walter D.
Connelly - Coolidge 1893-1928
Connelly, John, Jr.
Connick, Harris D. H. (De Haven), b. 1873
Cook, Ina L.
Coolbrith, Ina Donna, 1842-1928
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Coolidge, Jefferson
Cosgrave - Cramer 1896-1927
Cosgrave, J. H.
Cox, Elmer H.
Coxhead, Ernest, 1863-1933
Crafts, F. N.
Craig, H. S.
Cramer, A. E. H.
Creeden - Currier 1908-1931
Creeden, John B.
Crent, Sarah E.
Cross, L. T.
Crouter, A. L. E.
Cumming, J. M.
Currier, Charles C.
Currier, Enoch Henry
Daley - Day 1908-1931
Daley, James J.
Davidson, S. G.
Davis, John F. (John Francis), 1859-1930
Davis, May Belle T.
Davis, Robert H.
Davison's (Joseph K.) Sons
Day, Herbert E.
Dean - DeYoung 1893-1930
Dean, W. E.
Deem, Charles B.
DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959
Desperriers, Rene
DeLand, Fred
Dethlefsen, Carlton D.
Devoe, F. W.
DeYoung, M. H. (Michael Harry), 1849-1925
Dill - Downtown 1919-1931
Dill, Marshall
Dinning, Hector William, 1877-
Doane, C. H.
Donahue, Hynes & Hamlin
Doty, Douglas Z.
Doubleday, Page & Company
Downtown Association
Drake - Dutton 1891-1921
Drake, Frank B.
Drake, H. D.
Driggs, Frank M.
Duffield & Company
Durand, William Frederick, 1859-1958
Dutton, Arthur H.
Dwight, Timothy
Earle - Ewer 1910-1933
Earle, Lillie
Edgerton, Jane
Edloff, James P.
Edwards, John Paul
Egan, W. B.
Eggers, George William, 1883-
Elder (Paul) & Company
Eulalie
Evans, F. N.
Ewer, Evelyn Story
Farley - Foulkes 1885-1935
Farley, I. E.
Fence, Samuel T.
Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg), 1873-
Flanagan, Anna E.
Foulkes, Edward T.
French - Fuller 1885-1927
French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931
French, Richard Slayton, 1883-
French, W. M. R.
Freud, J. Richard
Fuller (W. P.) & Company
Gale - Gauterau 1900-1922
Gale, W. S.
Gallway, John
Gantenbein, C. U. (Calvin U.)
Gardiner, Henry
Gardner, Isaac B.
Garratt, W. T.
Gaskill, Varney W.
Gauterau, Standley
Gibson - Gilman 1891-1925
Gibson, F. P.
Gifford, C. T.
Gillemeau, Kate
Gillett, Philip G.
Gillis, Kenneth C.
Gilliams, E. Leslie
Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908
Globe - Goodall 1896-1933
Globe Brass & Bell Foundry
Goldberg, Isaac
Goldstone, M. A.
Goodall, George B., Mrs.
Grady - Gray 1900-1908
Grady, Theodore
Grafly, Charles
Gray, F. R.
Green - Gump 1894-1935
Green & Wickes
Green, S. D.
Greene, Charles S., 1859-1930
Greene, Francis Melbourne, 1867-
Gregory, Elizabeth
Gregory, Ernest
Grignola, John
Gump (S. & G.) Company
Haight - Hannan 1898-1933
Haight, James A.
Hale, Edith A.
Hall, Percival
Hall, William
Handley, R. P.
Hannan, E. E.
Harbour -Hays 1902-1933
Harbour, J. L.
Harris, H. B.
Harrison, Alexander
Hartley, J. Scott
Hartman, Edwin P.
Hartwell, Marian
Haskins, ?
Hass, Andrew
Hay, John, 1838-1905
Healy - Heyman 1898-1934
Healy, Timothy
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919
Heil, Walter
Henderson, Olive E.
Henderson, W. Brooks
Heppe, Ralph H.
Heyman, Henry
Hicks - Hinman 1896-1935
Hicks, Gilbert
Hill, Amos D.
Hill, George M.
Hill, Joseph
Hill, M. E.
Hirsch, R.
Hinman, Gladys
Hopkins - Hoy 1889-1919
Hopkins, Timothy, 1859-1937
Houghton, Mifflin Company
Howard, Charles Webb, 1831-1908
Howard, D. H.
Howard, John Galen, 1864-1931
Howard, Sidney Herbert
Howe, Frank M.
Howson, James W.
Hoy, William E.
Huddleston - Hutchinson 1905-1933
Huddleston, Robert B.
Hudspeth, B. F.
Humphrey, William F.
Hunt, Lyman M.
Huntington, Clara
Hurley, Edgar S.
Huron, Philip
Hurt, Alvin E.
Hutchinson, Hardy C.
Ingolls - Ives 1892-1933
Ingolls, Reba A.
Irby, Jonathon S.
Ives, Halsey C.
Jackson - Jenks 1892-1933
Jackson, C. A.
Jackson, W. F.
James, Juliet Helena Lumbard, 1864-
James, Laurence
Jenkin, Joseph H.
Jenkins, Maston
Jenks, Livingston
Jerome - Jung 1888-1926
Jerome, Eugene M.
Jewett, Josephine A.
Johnson, Hiram, 1866-1945
Jones, C. P.
Jung, Fred H.
Kaufman - Kenner 1903-1931
Kaufman, A.
Kaufmann, S. H.
Kays, James C.
Keaney, William
Keith, Mary McHenry
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
Kelly, W. A.
Kelsey, H. C.
Kemp, Charles B.
Kenner, Marcus L.
Kent - Kyne
Kent, Alfred L.
Kerry, Charles
Kersey, Vierling, 1890-
Kieve, Arnold
Kilgarif & Beaver
King, Henry Safford
Kitchner, R. S.
Kyne, Peter B.
Lacer - Lawson 1901-1933
Lacer, E. B.
Lafayette-Savay, N.
Lamar, Thomas
Lane, Franklin K.
Larkey, A. S.
Larson, George C.
Latimer, L. P.
Lavenson, A. S.
Lawson, Andrew C. (Andrew Cowper), 1861-1952
Leake - Lohmeyer
Leake, W. S.
Leonau, A.
Lester, Isabel M.
Lester, William M.
Lewis, Beatrice
Lewis, John M.
Lewis, Phillips Frisbee
Lewis, ?
Limerick, J. Arthur
Literary Digest
Lockie, Henry
Lohmeyer, Edw.
Long - Luddy 1906-1928
Long, J. Schuyler
Lounsbury, Theodore I.
Lowe, Theo.
Lucas, D. A.
Luddy, D. S.
Mackey - Marquis 1901-1929
Mackey, E. Spencer
Maginnity, H. J.
Manning, J. F.
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art
Marquis (A. N.) Company
Marsh - Maynard 1887-1934
Marsh, Charles R.
Marshall, Catherine
Martin, J. R.
Martin, Norma
Mastick, Van Fleet & Mastick
Mathews, Henry E.
Maxwell, Everett Carroll
Maynard, R. E.
Medallic - Mitchell
Medallic Art Company
Meier, J. L.
Melone, Drury
Mercier, Henry
Meredith, George S.
Merriam (G. & C.) Company
Merritt, Frank Clinton, 1889-
Metcalf, Victor Howard, 1853-1936
Milford Granite Company
Miller, Chester H.
Millet, F. D.
Mitchell, John H., 1935-1903
Mitchell, William Donald
Monroe - Monumental 1891-1934
Monroe & Cook
Montillie, H.
Montin, Katherine J.
Monumental News
Moore 1895-1928
Moore, Frederick A.
Moore, H. H.
Moore, Hubert U.
Morley - Myrick 1905-1935
Morley, Grace, 1900-
Morrow, Nathaniel Field
Moss, Edgar A.
Mott, Frank K.
Muir, D.
Mullins, C. T.
Murphy, Thomas R.
Murray, J.
Myrick & Deering
MacGregor - McCullough 1892-1933
MacGregor, R. P.
MacMonnies, Frederick
McAdoo, William Gibbs, 1863-1941
McCarthy, W. R.
McCullough, J. S.
McDonald - McPike 1897-1922
McDonald, R. D.
McGlashon, C. F.
McKenzie, Harry A.
McKim, Mead & White
McLaren, John, 1846-1943
McPike, Henry Clay, 1857-
Nathan - Norris 1897-1933
Nathan, Milton A.
National Association of the Deaf
National Commercial Bureau
Nelli, Guido
Nelson, W. H.
Newsom, Sidney, 1848-1908
New York News Agency
Neylan, John Francis, 1885-1960
Nicely, Alphonso S.
Nicholson, C.
Norris, Howes, Jr.
O'Brien - Overland 1887-1932
O'Brien, John F.
O'Brien, Meredith
O'Brien, Willis
Oddie, Clarence M.
O'Donnell, Frank
Older, Fremont, 1856-1935
Olson, Edward P.
Olympic Club of San Francisco
O'Neil, Thomas F.
Osterkamp, F. E.
Oswald, John Clyde, 1872-1938
Outcault, Dick
Overland Monthly
Pach - Partridge 1903-1927
Pach, Alexander L.
Palmer, L. A.
Parcells, Frank M.
Pardee, George Cooper, 1857-1941
Pare, A. S.
Patigian, Haig, 1876-1950
Patrick, Fred L.
Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930
Peet - Petis 1899-1935
Peet, Isaac Levin
Peixotto, Edgar D.
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford, 1869-
Pendelton, Emmet
Pennell, Thomas W.
Perkins, C. B.
Perkins, George Clement, 1839-1923
Pery, E. C.
Petis, Charles Rolla
Phelps - Pississ 1896-1928
Phelps, William Howe
Phillips, Henry
Phillips, Randall
Piccirilli Brothers
Pierce, Josephine
Pilling, Roy
Piper, Helen S.
Pissis, Albert
Pomeroy - Porter 1896-1926
Pomeroy, Hugh R.
Pomeroy, John
Poole, Marjorie
Pope, Alvin E.
Porter, E. C.
Prather - Putnam's 1887-1929
Prather, W. L.
Probasco, Ramsey
Putnam's (G.P.) Sons
Ralph - Raymond 1894-1932
Ralph, Brother
Rand, McNally & Company
Randall, H. E.
Randolph, Hollis N.
Randolph, Lee F.
Rankin, ?
Raymond, W. H.
Reckwig - Reynolds 1906-1932
Reckwig, Charles Wesley
Reed, Fred E.
Reed, Walter D.
Reeves, Alfred
Regan, John T.
Reynolds, Julia Cleveland
Rice - Ritter 1909-1926
Rice, Alice
Rice, Charles J.
Richards, John E., 1834-
Richardson, William Symmes
Rines, George Edwin
Ritter, William C.
Robbie - Rogosin 1899-1931
Robbie, William
Robertson, A. M. (Alexander Mitchell), 1855-1934
Robertson, W. W.
Robinson, Ronald S.
Robinson, Warren
Rocklin Granite Company
Rodgers, Arthur, 1848-1902
Rogosin, S.
Rolph - Russell 1898-1933
Rolph, James, 1869-1934
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Rosenthal, A. J.
Rosenthal, Mildred
Runde, C. H. G.
Russell, Howard Hyde
Russell, Jonathan A.
Sabott -Schroenwerk 1892-1935
Sabott, Joseph
Saint Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
San Francisco Art Association
Saper, Isaac Newton
Saxton, John G.
Scheller, Victor A.
Schmid, R.
Schmittkind, Henry T.
Schmitz, ?
Schnier, Jacques Preston, 1898-
Schroenwerk, M.
Scott 1901-1921
Scott, H. W.
Scott, Irving Murray, 1837-1903
Scott, James Walter
Scott, Joseph
Scott, W. R.
Seavey - Severson 1910-1935
Seavey, Clyde Leroy, 1874-1943
Seffens, Jay W.
Selig, Isadore
Sevenson, Grant
Shea - Simpson 1894-1934
Shea, W. D.
Sherman, Edwin Allen, 1829-1914
Shibley, Kate S.
Shinn, Millicent Washburn, 1858-1940
Shortridge, Samuel Morgan, 1861-1952
Sierichs, H. W.
Silligo, H. G.
Simmons, Furnifold McLendel, 1854-1940
Simpson, Emmette W.
Slade - Snell 1900-1919
Slade, S. E.
Smith, F. W.
Smith, Herbert M.
Smith, J. L.
Smith, Susan T.
Snell, Henry B.
Spanton - Spreckels 1890-1931
Spanton, Essie
Spafford, A.
Spreckels, Alma
Stafford - Swig 1895-1929
Stafford, William
Stanton, ?
Stead, A. R.
Steele, Eva L.
Steele, Rufus, 1877-1945
Stoermer, George S.
Strobridge, Idah Meacham, 1855-1932
Superior, Sister
Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Swig, ?
Taft - Terry 1895-1930
Taft & Pennoyer
Taussig, Rudolph J.
Taylor, Edward Robeson, 1838-1923
Templeman, Frank
Terranove, Anthony
Terry, Howard L. (Howard Leslie), 1877-1964
Thomas - Townsend 1891-1933
Thomas, William W.
Thompson, Richard T.
Thompson, Robert M.
Thompson, Ruth
Thomson, Gordon
Tiffany & Company
Timberlake, J. B.
Ti pton, J. W.
Tompkins, Elizabeth Knight, 1865-
Townsend, Mary V.
Trask - Tucker 1893-1913
Trask, John Ellingwood Donnell, 1893-1913
Traver, Charles Warde
Troy, Hortense
Troy White Granite Company
Tucker, Horace
Upham - Vollmer 1889-1933
Upham, I. O.
van Coenen Torchiana, H. A.
Vedders, Elihu
Vickery, Atkins and Torrey
Vinson, Emery E.
Virkus, Fred Adams
Vollmer, August, 1876-1955
Wadlin - Waugh 1904-1933
Wadlin, Horace Greeley, 1851-1925
Wagner, Harr, 1857-1936
Wagoner, W. J.
Walker, John Brisben
Walker, S. T.
Walters, Max D.
Wann, J. W.
Ward, Clarence R.
Ward, J. Q. A.
Ward, Stuart Richardson, 1894-
Washburn, Oliver Miles, 1873-1958
Water, W.
Watson, J. C.
Waugh, Alfred K.
Webb - White 1895-1919
Webb, U. S.
Weill, Raphael, 1837-1925
Wells, Archie G.
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927
White, Lucy
White, Nellie
White, Stephen Mallory, 1853-1901
Wilbur - Wilson 1888-1926
Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 1875-1949
Willey, F. R.
Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943
Williams, Job
Williams, L. C.
Williams, M. E.
Williams, W. R.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Wolgamot - Wright 1901-1925
Wolgamot, Emery F.
Wood, Henry Trueman, 1845-1929
Woodrow, W. L., Mrs.
Woodward, Benjamin
Wores, Theodore, 1858-1939
Work, Herbert
Wright, John
Young - Zander 1895-1927
Young, C. C.
Zander, Annie W.
Initials only 1908-1909
Unsigned 1889-1921
Parts of letters ca. 1905-26
Illegible 1886-1930
Cards 1914-1933
Invitations 1894-1931
Unidentified correspondence 1934
Correspondence neither to nor from, 1891-1933.
Alger - Gorham 1891-1933
Alger, R. A. to Olof Hanson
American Bronze Co. to James D. Phelan
Barr, James to E. M. Gallaudet
Churchman, Elizabeth to Mary Ridgely
Clara Consolidated Gold & Copper Mining Co. to Stockholders
Dern, George H. to W. G. McAdoo
Fisk, Leon A. to James W. Howson
Flanagan, W. C., Mrs. to Oakland Tribune
Gage, Lyman J. to Barton Sewell
Gage, Lyman J. to George S. Dougherty
Gallaudet, E. M. to James A. Barr
Globe Brass & Bell Foundry to James D. Phelan
Gorham Manufacturing Company to James D. Phelan
Hartman - Otis 1893-1933
Hartman, Ed to Munroe Jacobs
Hutchinson, Charles L. to George Dougherty
Jenks, Livingston to L. E. Milligan
Jenks, Livingston to James D. Phelan
Julius, E. Haldeman to Mrs. Wildey Meyers
Kelsey, H. C. to Carleton Dethlefsen
Kent, Alfred L. to James A. Barr
Lohmeyer, Ed. W. to Isadore Selig
Marquart, E. J. to W. G. McAdoo
McDonald, Isabel to Isadore Selig
McPike, Henry C. to James D. Phelan
Milligan, L. E. to L. C. Williams
Otis, George B. to James D. Phelan
Regensburg - Wright 1891-1931
Regensburg, Oscar to Isadore Selig
Richardson, Lyman to Oakland Silent Athletic Club
Selig, Isadore to Hiram W. Johnson
Selig, Isadore to Oscar Regensburg
Shelby, Eugene to Thomas R. Murphy
Stanhope, ? to New York Herald
Troy, Edward E. P. to R. M. Easly
Veditz, George to James W. Howson
Veditz, George to Olof Hanson
Weeks, Edward to Mrs. Wildey Meyers
Wright Oral School to Alvin E. Pope
Unidentified correspondence 1910-1923
Outgoing Correspondence, 1884-1935.
To Cornelius, Brother 1929-1935
To London, Jack & Charmian Kittredge 1916-1917
To Meyers, Wildey, Mrs. 1930
To Aitkin - Coxhead 1895-1935
Aitkin, Robert H.
A. D. C., editor
Benjamin, Edward H.
Brown, Walter
Bruns, Margaret
Calder, A. Stirling
California School for the Deaf
Cohen, Charles J.
Coolidge, Calvin
Cosgrave, J. H.
Coxhead, Ernest
To Davis - Executive 1900-1934
Davis, ?
Deaf Mutes' Journal, editor
d'Estrella, Theophilus
DeYoung, M. H.
Domestic Laundry Company
Duffy, Margaret C.
Edoff, J. P.
Executive Committee for Reception of Returning United States Volunteers
To Fox - Gonzalez 1905-1933
Fox, Thomas Francis
France, Minister of
Frankenheim, Samuel
Fleishhacker, Herbert
Gaillard, Ami
Gardner, I. M.
Gibson, F. P.
Gifford, C. T.
Globe Brass & Bell Foundry
Goldstone, M. A.
Gonzalez, Frank J.
To Hannon - Knights 1911-1930
Hannon, Walter
Hanson, Olof
Hays, W. H.
"Hew to the Line, editor"
Houghton Mifflin Company
Humphrey, W. F.
Kemp, Charles B.
Kent & Kenner (Alfred L. & Marcus L.)
Kersey, Vierling
King, Howard Safford
Knights of Columbus
To LaCrosse - Long 1913-1935
LaCrosse, E. L.
Laskey, Jesse F.
Lester, W. M.
Live Oak Publishing Company
Literary Digest
Long, Dr.
To Mahoney - Oakland 1906-1932
Mahoney, T.
Marsden, Martin
Mendocino County Tax Collector
Milligan, L. E.
National Fraternal Society of the Deaf
Oakland Tribune
O'Brien, Willis
To Pardee - Putnam's 1918-1930
Pardee, S. E.
Parents of Donald ?
Petrovich, Vladmr
Phelan, James Duval
Porter, George
Putnam's (G. P.) Sons'
To Ralph - Ruckstuhl 1910-1930
Ralph, Brother
Randolph, Lee F.
Reed, F. E.
Reed, Walter D.
Regensburg, Oscar
Roberts, Arthur L.
Rolph, James, Jr.
Runde, Winfield S.
Ruckstuhl, F. Wellington
To Safety - Spilvado 1917-1933
Saftey Valve, editor
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Club & Memorial Museum Endowment Committee
San Francisco Examiner
Solberg, Thorwald
Spilvado, Ruth Crawford
To Thompson - Vinson 1910-1935
Thompson, R. F.
To whom it may concern
Town & Country Review
Trask, J. D.
Vinson, Emery E.
To Ward - Young 1895-1927
Ward, ?
Wilkinson, Warring
Wilson, Woodrow
Wores, Theodore
Young, C. C.
To unidentified persons 1884-1935
Parts of letters n.d.
Series 2: Conversations, ca. 1915-1933.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
With the Alameda County Pension Dept. ca. 1931
About art n.d.
With the Berkeley Welfare Society ca. 1931-1933
About the Cole estate n.d.
At the Keith commemoration 1931
With Frederick MacMonnies ca. 1915
With Marjorie Poole n.d.
About property n.d.
Miscellaneous - unidentified speakers and topics n.d.
Series 3: Personal and Family Papers, 1887-1970.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Sketch of Douglas Tilden's life 1917
Autobiographical notes for Who's Who 1928
Chronology ca. 1932
Obituary and funeral address 1935
Family clippings ca. 1901-1936
Writings of Catherine Maria Hecox Tilden Brown 1892, 1910
Diary n.d.
Diary 1903, [1930]
Bills and receipts - French 1887-1894
Bills and receipts ca. 1902-1920
Tilden - Cole wedding 1896
Divorce ca.1910-1925
Address book n.d.
Miscellaneous notebook n.d.
Articles about Douglas Tilden 1897-1970
Lawsuits: Tilden vs. Grady ca. 1905
Miscellaneous ca. 1887-1933
Pension ca. 1930s
Property - Franklin Street, Oakland n.d.
Property - Channing Way, Berkeley 1912-1935
Property - Webster Street, Oakland ca. 1907-1909
Property - repairs after the 1906 earthquake n.d.
Scrapbook - about sculptors ca. 1885-1935
Series 4: Associations, 1876-1968.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Bohemian Club—announcements 1920-1931
Bohemian Club—miscellaneous ca. 1894-1934
Bohemian Club—sketch of proposed building n.d.
California School for the Deaf—workbook n.d.
California School for the Deaf—clippings ca. 1876-1968
California School for the Deaf—investigation of n.d.
California School for the Deaf—miscellaneous n.d.
Independence League of the Deaf ca. 1910-1915
League of Elect Surds 1910
Order of Americans ca. 1906-1908
National Federation ca. 1906-1913
California Association of the Deaf—constitution and by laws ca. 1910-1934
California Association of the Deaf—finance ca. 1908-1913
California Association of the Deaf—membership ca. 1910
California Association of the Deaf—miscellaneous 1906-1931
California Association of the Deaf—publications 1913-1932
The Nugget 1919
National Association of the Deaf 1909-1917
The Tilden plan 1900-1920
Series 5: Sculpture, 1889-1970.
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Abbe de l'Epee ca. 1912-1928
Admission Day Monument 1896
Balboa n.d.
The Baseball Player 1889
Bear Hunt - manuscript, transcript & index 1915-1949
Bear Hunt—clippings ca. 1895-1959
Bear Hunt—miscellaneous ca. 1895-1930
Bear Hunt— Tilden Association for the Promotion of Art 1921
Burnham Plan ca. 1898-1906
California Volunteers ca. 1900-1915
Football Players ca. 1900
General Bidwell ca. 1907-1919
Grant Memorial 1902
McElroy Fountain 1910-1912
McKinley Memorial ca. 1901-1903
Mechanics Monument (Donahue Fountain) ca. 1898-1970
Modern Civilization 1915
Mormon Battalion Memorial 1916
Oregon Volunteers 1902-1906
Pioneer Mother ca. 1908-1916
Smith, F. M. Borax ca. 1933
Sullivan, Fire Chief ca. 1908-1922
Tired Boxer 1890-1892
Tympanum - St. Louis expo ca. 1904
Valentine Memorial 1899
White, Stephen M., Senator ca. 1906
Sketches, 1894-1935.
Abbe de l'Epee ca. 1907
Bohemian Club - Judgement of the Owl ca. 1932
The Bridge 1926
Ceres Drawn By Lions 1894-1935
Collage 189 4-1935
End of Day 1894-1935
Ephphatha 1894-1935
Goddess of War Watching Hercules Holding a Conflict-Torn World at a Distance 1894-1935
Gold and Pioneers 1894-1935
Inventions 1894-1935
Invictus 1894-1935
Manila Monument 1894-1935
Miscellaneous sketches ca. 1916
Oakland Chess and Checker set ca. 1931
People 1927-1932
Rebuilding of San Francisco 1894-1935
Sculptor/Crucifix 1894-1935
Seal of Oakland 1894-1935
Serpents ca. 1933
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1894-1935
Tilden crest ca. 1930
Women—Mothers—Womanhood 1894-1935
Architectural ornamentation 1894-1935
Designs ca. 1919-1934
Designs— California Association of the Deaf 1910
Designs—No Thank You 1917
Hollywood ca. 1917-1931
Miscellaneous ca. 1893-1905
Sketch book 1892
Tools and equipment n.d.
Foundries ca. 1890-1929
Inventions n.d.
Sketch n.d.
Series 6: Writings, 1884-1935.
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Arrangement
Published, 1885-1934.
Deaf-mutes and Their Education May 1885
Virgil Williams' Art Notes To a Deaf-mute Pupil March 1887
The Artist's Testament April 1888
What Should an Art School Be? March 1892
Art, and What California Should Do About Her May 1892
George B. Goodall Jan. 1896
The Poverty of Fortune Aug. 1897
Specifications For a Model of a Grant Memorial 1902
Tilden Offers Another Suggestion (letter to the editor) Aug.1904
Some Thoughts on Sculpture Nov. 1904
Tribe of Fools Dec. 1904
Tribe of Fools June 1905
How the Deaf Uphold the Law 1905
More of the 'Original' Discoverers of Gold in California (letter to the editor) 1905
Tribe of Fools April 1907
Tribe of Fools/Russian Story May 1907
The Order of Americans (letter to the editor) Oct. 1907
Tilden Submits Ideas For the Federation Plan March 1908
Tilden Submits Ideas for the Federation Plan #3 1908
Sherlock Holmes II Supports Mr. Phil Morin ca. 1909
The Political Outlook ca. 1909
The Political Aftermath ca. 1909
A Racy Letter About Lake Tahoe Dec. 1909
Deaf Mutes and the World of Pantomime ca. 1910
Announcement of the American Federation of the Deaf 1912
Federation Sept. 1912
Federation News (American Federation of the Deaf) 1913
Let There Be Light 1913
A Tribute[to James D. Phelan] 1914
A Tribute to Ernest Dusuzeau July 1917
The Value of Art To the Deaf 1917
Pertaining to Deaf Artists July 1919
The Separation of the Deaf and the Blind 1923
A Letter From Tilden (letter to the editor) April 1926
Madmen and Children Feb. 1927
Commerce Provides Cash For the Arts (letter to the editor) Oct. 1927
California and Theophilus d'Estrella Nov. 1929
Prayer of the Deaf Alumni ca. 1932
A Successful Man April 1933
War on Human Wolves (letter to the editor) Dec. 1933
Letters to the editor ca. 1933
Obituary for Dr. Long Jan. 1934
Chisel Marks n.d.
Letter to San Francisco Examiner n.d.
Onward or Backward n.d.
An Open Letter to the President of the National Association of the Deaf n.d.
[Oriental Immigration] (letter to the editor) n.d.
A Sculptor on Birth Control n.d.
Tribe of Fools n.d.
Zenoisms—cartoons n.d.
Zenoisms— Count Caglistro n.d.
Zenoisms— Julius Cloud, Act IV, Scene III n.d.
Zeno Answers Dr. Meyer n.d.
Zeno With Aesop's Spectacles ca. 1910
Zenoisms 1885-1935
Unpublished, 1884-1935.
Untitled - after Dante's Divine Comedy ca. 1884
How the 'Oregon' Was Sunk 1890
A Brief History of Our Recent Monumental Undertakings ca. 1906
What It Has Cost California to Educate Her Deaf ca. 1906-1907
Zeno Reviews the E. A. Fay Essay ca. 1912-1913
The Autobiography of a Dummy 1915
The Autobiography of a Dummy 1915
The Autobiography of a Dummy #2 1915
The Autobiography of a Dummy #3 1915
The Gap 1915
The Gap 1916
The Tilden Plan ca. 1905-1915
Bread Upon the Waters n.d.
Bread Upon the Waters 1919
The Liar 1921
The Dreamer ca. 1921
Notes on McFadden's Famous Sculptors 1925
Untitled (San Francisco Art Institute opening) ca. 1925
Theophilus d'Estrella, a Romance 1930
Record of the California Association of the Deaf After 25 Years ca. 1932
California Association of the Deaf Awards 1933
Scenarios 1933
Untitled re: Cubism ca. 1935
A Few Recollections and Etc. n.d.
Notes in Parkman n.d.
Our Thanksgiving n.d.
Principles of Success in Art n.d.
Scientific Spirit and the Education of the Deaf in America n.d.
The Tilden Plan n.d.
Miscellaneous - re: Art n.d.
re: California Association of the Deaf
re: California School for the Deaf n.d.
re: Chess n.d.
re: the deaf n.d.
re: Deaf Jews in California n.d.
re: Helen Keller n.d.
re: Old age pensions? n.d.
re: James D. Phelan n.d.
re: Poetry n.d.
re: The Tilden plan n.d.
re: Willis Polk n.d.
re: Women n.d.
Miscellany n.d.
Scrapbook of art collected by Douglas Tilden n.d.
Three Tilden medals:
Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)
Series 7: Scrapbooks, 1860-1935 [1970].
Scope and Content Note
1860-1890
1891-1896
1896-1901
1902-1914
1914-1935