Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Frame (Walter C.) California Essays,
Date (inclusive): 1976-1979
Collection number: Mss170
Creator:
Walter C. Frame
Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Frame (Walter C.) California Essays, Mss170,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Biography
Attorney Walter Clay Frame (1905-1980) graduated from the University of
California Law School (1930) and practiced law in San Francisco from 1931 to
1942. In the latter year he joined the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service as a Naturalization Examiner serving in San Francisco until 1943. He
was then transferred to Sacramento to cover cases in northern California
counties from Solano to Siskiyou. Travelling up and down valley towns often by
public transportation on trains and buses, he interviewed hundreds of
applicants for citizenship. After the war he practiced law practice in
Sacramento until 1977. Active in history organizations, Frame was president of
the Sacramento County Historical Society (1960) and the Conference of
California Historical Societies (1965).
Scope and Content
This collection of approximately 65 typescript reminiscences and essays
written by Walter Frame (ca. 1976-1979) are told from a very personal view
point. Mr. Frame wanted to document a lifestyle that was quickly disappearing.
Subjects include: family reminiscences; railroads; ferries; trollies; ethnic
groups; women; early California history; California cities and towns especially
Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento; and, California small town and country
life.