Inventory of the Myron Hubbard Hunt Collection, 1815-1957, bulk 1915-1932

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Inventory of the Myron Hubbard Hunt Collection, 1815-1957, bulk 1915-1932

The Huntington Library

San Marino, California

Contact Information

Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: lgarcia@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554

Processed by:: The Huntington Library staff

Descriptive Summary

Title: Myron Hubbard Hunt Collection,

Date (inclusive): 1815-1957,

Date (bulk): bulk 1915-1932

Creator: Hunt, Myron Hubbard

Extent: 4,156 pieces

Repository: The Huntington Library

San Marino, California 91108

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift of Rear Admiral Charles Boardman Hunt, May 12, 1958.

Access

Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information please go to following URL .

Publication Rights

In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials, researchers must obtain formal permission from the office of the Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the physical property rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances, the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights. Researchers may contact the appropriate curator for further information.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Myron Hubbard Hunt Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Biography

Myron Hubbard Hunt (1868-1952), prominent Southern California architect, was a native of Massachusetts, studied at Northwestern University in Chicago and the school of architecture at the Massachusetts School of Technology in Boston. In 1893 he married Harriette Hollond Boardman. They spent two years abroad while Hunt studied great architecture in Europe. Mrs. Hunt kept the journals of their travels. She was the granddaughter of Henry Augustus Boardman (1808-1880), Presbyterian clergyman in Philadelphia, author, and a director of the Princeton Seminary. After the return of the young couple from Europe, Hunt joined the architectural firm of Hartwell & Richardson in Boston, then went to Chicago with Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. During this latter period his wife spent long periods in North and South Carolina because of her delicate health. In 1903 the Hunts moved to California hoping her health would improve. Hunt entered a partnership with the leading architect, Elmer Gray, from 1903 to 1908, had his own office from 1908 to 1920, then joined H. C. Chambers. The important role that Myron Hunt played in the development of Southern California can be seen in the list of a few of the buildings he designed: The Huntington Library, the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, the Rose Bowl, the Pasadena Public Library, the Huntington Hospital, buildings at Occidental College and Pomona College, in addition to many other public buildings and private residences.

In 1913 Harriette Hunt passed away after a long struggle with tuberculosis, her last year spent in a sanatorium in Palm Springs. The two had four children: Rear Admiral Charles Boardman Hunt (donor of the collection); Harriet (Hunt) Bard (who married Philip Bard, son of Senator Thomas R. Bard); Hubbard Hunt (motion picture producer); and Robert Nichols Hunt (Santa Fe poet and editor of a volume of poems by Witter Bynner).

After his first wife's death, Myron Hunt married Virginia Pease (1871-1957), founder and principal of the Polytechnic Elementary School in Pasadena. She had been born in the town of Winnemucca, Nevada, and was left an orphan at an early age. She and her brother, Lute Pease (an editor of the Pacific Monthly Magazine, author, and Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist) were brought up in the home of their aunt, Mrs. Helen Webster. The children were well educated and Virginia (who originally had been called Caroline Virginia) became a teacher and community leader. After their marriage, both Myron and Virginia Hunt were prominent in all types of civic and philanthropic organizations-helping with civilian war work during World War I through the projects of the Army and Navy League, being on the boards of hospitals and schools as well as organizing the Block-Aid Committee to coordinate efforts to find work for the unemployed during the Depression and in the Pasadena Association working for local political betterment and the recall of the city board of directors in 1931. Both Myron and Virginia Hunt received the Arthur Noble Award for outstanding service to the community-Myron in 1927 "for more than 40 years [being] a forceful leader in the architectural development and civic life of Pasadena and the Southland" and Virginia in 1932 "for the woman who conceived of a way to fight the Depression...was founder and first principal of Pasadena's nationally known Polytechnic Elementary School, member of the board of California Junior Republic, La Vina Sanatorium, and the Huntington Hospital." These were builders of Pasadena!

Subject Matter

The most important subject is the life and architectural work of Myron Hunt, but quantitatively, the collection is weighted toward the story of Pasadena from 1903 to 1946. The papers are divided into four very divergent sub-groups

Subgroup Description

I. Boardman-Nichols Family Papers. 1815-1890

Physical Description: 40 pieces

Scope and Content Note

Journals, autograph albums, and correspondence of ancestors and family of Harriette Hollond (Boardman) Hunt

II. Hunt (Robert Nichols) Papers

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and poetry of son of Myron Hunt (with several items by his friend, the New Mexican author, Paul Horgan)

III. Hunt (Harriette Holland Boardman and Myron) Papers

Scope and Content Note

The major section of material on the early architectural and family life of Myron Hunt, his architectural sketch books (2 volumes made while in Italy in 1894), and 8 Japanese architectural plans for teahouses.

IV. Hunt (Virginia Pease and Myron) Papers

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, business papers, account books and scrapbooks relating mainly to civic and philanthropic organizations, such as California Junior Republic, Collis P. & Howard Huntington Memorial Hospital, La Vina Sanatorium, Pasadena Army & Navy League (community war service during World War I), Pasadena Association and Recall Election of 1931, Pasadena Block-Aid Committee (for relief work during the Depression), and 2 scrapbooks on the life and work of Myron Hunt

Some Important or Interesting Items

Box Box 1

Boardman, Henry Augustus. Autograph album of Yale College, Class of 1829 (with Catalogue of Graduates in the back). 1829

Box Box 1

Boardman, Charles H. Autograph album of Yale College, Class of 1859 (with engravings of faculty and graduates and autograph letters from each). 1859

Box Box 3

Horgan, Paul. Hymn and Chorale, The Eels, The Retreat (with dedications to Robert Hunt). 1925-1930?

Box Boxes 4-5

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journals and autobiography which show the early life and career of Myron Hunt. 1893-1913

Box Box 5

Hunt, Myron. Sketch books of Italian architecture made while in Europe. 1894

Box Box 5

Japanese architectural drawings for teachouses (8 plans)

Box Box 9

Hunt, Myron. Personal letters to Virginia (Pease) Hunt. (15 letters). 1915-1919

Box Box 12

Pease, Lute. To Virginia (Pease) Hunt. Letter to his sister re her forthcoming marriage. 1915, Mar. 13

Volume Vols. 10-11

Scrapbooks re Myron Hunt and his work (2 volumes plus loose addenda). 1903-1929

Arrangement

Section I - Boardman-Nichols Family Papers

Box Box 1

Boardman, Harriet Agnes (Nichols). Extract Book (i.e. Commonplace Book). 1859

Boardman, Harriet Agnes (Nichols). Extract Book (i.e. Commonplace Book). 1860

Boardman, Charles H. Autographs of Class of 1859, Yale College. 1859

Scope and Content Note

(volume of engravings of faculty & graduates with letters from each)

Boardman, Henry Augustus. Autograph album of Class of 1829, Yale College. 1829

Scope and Content Note

(includes Catalogue of Yale Class of 1829 at end of volume)

Box Box 2

Nichols, Harriet A. (Stanton). Extract Book (i.e., Commonplace Book). 1860

Nichols, Julia Francis. Selections in Poetry (i.e., Commonplace Book). 1854-57

Nichols, Julia Francis. Notebook of poetry. 1863

Nichols, Julia Francis. Diary in form of letters to family (from Europe). 1867

Nichols, Julia Francis. Diary (written in Sierra Madre, Calif.). 1899

Nichols, Julia Francis. Diary (written in Sierra Madre, Calif.). 1900

Nichols, Julia Francis. Diary (written in Sierra Madre, Calif.). 1901

Box Box 3

Memoir of Robert Nichols (1792-1862). [1862]

Nichols, Robert Charles. Diary (written in Bridgeton, N.J.). 1846-47

Nichols, Robert Charles. Diary (written in Bridgeton, N.J.). 1854-60

Nichols, Robert Charles. Diary (written in Bridgeton, N.J.). 1864-68

Correspondence of Boardman and Nichols Families

Boardman, Henry Augustus.

To Mary I. Boardman. 1855, Dec. 4

Horn, James.

To Robert Charles Nichols. 1883, Sep. 12

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman)

To Julia Francis Nichols. [1890?]

Jones, R. Ralston

To Harriet A. (Stanton) Nichols. 1883, Nov. 18

McCoy, Maria T

To Harriet A. (Stanton) Nichols. 1850, Jan. 24

Nichols, Harriet A. (Stan(ton)

To Harriet Agnes (Nichols) Boardman. 1881-88

Physical Description: (3 pieces)

Nichols, Harriet A. (Stanton)

To Robert Charles Nichols. 1852, June 8

Nichols, Julia Francis

To Harriet Agnes (Nichols) Boardman. 1881, Nov. 10

Nichols, Julia Francis

To Robert Charles Nichols. 1867, Oct. 6

Nichols, Robert

To Robert Charles Nichols. 1851-52

Physical Description: (4 pieces)

Nichols, Robert Charles

To "Frederick". 1854, July 3

Nichols, Robert Charles

To Harriet Agnes (Nichols) Boardman. 1879-1880

Physical Description: (2 pieces)

Nichols, Robert Charles

To Robert Nichols. 1862, Jan. 26

Nichols, Robert Charles

To his children. 1858, Apr. 3

Scarborough, John

To Harriet A. (Stanton) Nichols. 1883, Nov. 9

Stewart, Ana C

To Robert Nichols. 1815, Oct. 21

Torrey, William

To J. W. Kaye. 1883, Nov. 29

Walsh, Emily Goodwin (Nichols)

To Harriet Agnes (Nichols) Boardman. n.d.

?, Claude

To Robert Charles Nichols. 1867, Aug. 22

?, Edgar

To Julia Francis Nichols. 1876, July 24

Ephemera

Physical Description: 5 items

Section II - Hunt (Robert Nichols) Papers

Box Box 3

Bard, Mary

To Robert Nichols Hunt. [1929?]

Horgan, Paul

Hymm and Chorale: [poem with introduction]. 1925, July 16

Horgan, Paul

The Eels: [poem]. [c.1930?]

Horgan, Paul

The Retreat. A Story. [c.1930?]

Hunt, Robert Nichols

Notebook. [c.1929?]

Hunt, Robert Nichols

[50 poems, mainly typewritten. c.1930?]

Hunt, Robert Nichols

Some Contemporary Aspects of Art and Criticism. [c.1929?]

Hunt, Robert Nichols

To Hildegard [Flanner?] (incomplete). 1929, Nov. 2

?, Frank

To Robert Nichols Hunt. [1929?]

Scope and Content Note

(See also oversize photograph of George [Kennedy?] at end of collection)

Section III - Hunt (Harriette Hollond Boardman and Myron) Papers (HM 27626(1-13)-27627(1-2))

Box Box 4

HM 27626 (1):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Europe). 1893, June-Aug.

HM 27626 (2):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Europe). 1893, Aug.-Nov.

HM 27626 (3):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Europe). 1893-1894

HM 27626 (4):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Evanston). 1897

HM 27626 (5):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Evanston, N.C.). 1899-1900

HM 27626 (6):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (S.C., Cal.). 1901-1904

HM 27626 (7):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Pasadena). 1904-1907

Box Box 5

HM 27626 (8):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Pasadena). 1907, May-Oct.

HM 27626 (9):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Pasadena). 1907-1910

HM 27626 (10):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Pasadena). 1910-1911

HM 27626 (11):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Pasadena). 1911-1912

HM 27626 (12):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Pasadena & Palm Springs). 1912-1913

HM 27626 (13):

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Journal (Palm Springs). 1913

Hunt, Harriette Hollond (Boardman). Autobiographical Sketch & Family History. 1900-1902

HM 27627 (1 & 2):

Hunt Myron. Sketch books of Italian architecture. 1894

Physical Description: (2 vols)

[Japanese Architectural Plans for Teahouses]. n.d.

Physical Description: (8 pieces)

Section IV - Hunt (Virginia Pease and Myron) Papers - Correspondence

Additional Note

Relating mainly to civic and philanthropic organizations in which they were active

Box Box 6

A - C. 1915-1935

Physical Description: (205 pieces)

Box Box 7

D - F1. 1915-1938

Physical Description: (315 pieces)

Box Box 8

Fo - Hunt, Myron to A - F. 1915-1946

Physical Description: (159 pieces)

Box Box 9

Hunt, Myron to G - Z. 1915-1946

Physical Description: (176 pieces)

Box Box 10

Hunt, Virginia (Pease). 1917-1938

Physical Description: (613 pieces)

Box Box 11

Hunter - N. 1915-1946

Physical Description: (144 pieces)

Box Box 12

O - Sp. 1915-1945

Physical Description: (155 pieces)

Box Box 13

St - Z. 1915-1957

Physical Description: (188 pieces)

Section IV - Hunt (Virginia Pease and Myron) Papers - Business papers

Additional Note

Relating chiefly to various civic and philanthropic organizations in which Virginia (Pease) Hunt and Myron Hunt were active

Box Box 14

(1) California Junior Republic. Articles of Incorporation, Trustees, etc. 1927-1946

Physical Description: (10 pieces)

(2) California Junior Republic. Contributors. 1926-1928

Physical Description: (19 pieces)

(3) California Junior Republic. Financial Statements. 1922-1929

Physical Description: (13 pieces)

(4) California Junior Republic. Reports. 1928-1945

Physical Description: (9 pieces)

(5) California Junior Republic. Clippings, misc. 1928

Physical Description: (12 pieces)

(6) Collis P. & Howard Huntington Memorial Hospital. 1935; 1945-46

Physical Description: (59 pieces)

Box Box 15

(1) La Vina Sanatorium. 1937-1946

Physical Description: (35 pieces)

(2) Pasadena Army & Navy League. Arcadia War Camp Community Service Clubs. 1918-1919

Physical Description: (22 pieces)

(3) Pasadena Army & Navy League. Financial Matters. 1918-1919

Physical Description: (31 pieces)

(4) Pasadena Army & Navy League. Officers, Committees, and Workers. 1917-1919

Physical Description: (45 pieces)

(5) Pasadena Army & Navy League. Organization & Minutes of Meetings. 1917-1919

Physical Description: (34 pieces)

(6) Pasadena Army & Navy League. Pasadena War Camp Community Service. 1918-1919

Physical Description: (14 pieces)

(7) Pasadena Army & Navy League. Reports. 1917-1919

Physical Description: (20 pieces)

(8) Pasadena Army & Navy League. San Pedro Soldiers & Sailors Canteen. 1918-1919

Physical Description: (27 pieces)

(9) Pasadena Army & Navy League. Woman's Section (knitting). 1917-1918

Physical Description: (38 pieces)

(10) Pasadena Art Institute. 1943-1946

Physical Description: (31 pieces)

Box Box 16

(1) Pasadena Association. Committees. 1932-1933

Physical Description: (13 pieces)

(2) Pasadena Association. Directors. 1931-1937

Physical Description: (10 pieces)

(3) Pasadena Association. Directors' Meetings. 1931-1938

Physical Description: (175 pieces)

(4) Pasadena Association. Inter-Organization Coordinating Committee. 1933-1938

Physical Description: (22 pieces)

(5) Pasadena Association. Members' Meetings. 1931-1936

Physical Description: (40 pieces)

(6) Pasadena Association. Membership Lists. 1931-1938

Physical Description: (30 pieces)

(7) Pasadena Association. Organization and By-laws. 1931-1932

Physical Description: (9 pieces)

(8) Pasadena Association. Miscellaneous. 1931-1932

Physical Description: (6 pieces)

Box Box 17

(1) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Campaign Directors and Committee. 1931

Physical Description: (6 pieces)

(2) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Campaign Expenses and Financial Statements. 1931-1932

Physical Description: (9 pieces)

(3) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Campaign Meetings. 1931

Physical Description: (17 pieces)

(4) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Candidates. 1931

Physical Description: (5 pieces)

(5) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Petitions. 1931

Physical Description: (9 pieces)

(6) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Platform. 1931

Physical Description: (4 pieces)

(7) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Precinct Workers. 1931

Physical Description: (16 pieces)

(8) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Press releases and speeches. 1931

Physical Description: (16 pieces)

(9) Pasadena Association. Recall Election. Report of Harry Calvin. 1931, Dec.28

Physical Description: (1 piece)

(10) Pasadena Association. Clippings. 1931

Box Box 18

(1) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. History and Organization Plan. 1931-1932

Physical Description: (7 pieces)

(2) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Officers, members, committees. 1931-1932

Physical Description: (41 pieces)

(3) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Plans and preliminary surveys by organizations. 1932-1934

Physical Description: (93 pieces)

(4) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Publicity. 1932

Physical Description: (7 pieces)

(5) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Reports. 1932

Physical Description: (55 pieces)

(6) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Miscellaneous. 1932-1934

Physical Description: (8 pieces)

Box Box 19

(1) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Financial Papers. Subscriptions. 1932

Physical Description: (12 pieces)

(2) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Financial Statements. 1932-1933

Physical Description: (36 pieces)

(3) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Work Committee Desk Book). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (1 piece)

(4) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (A - Cha). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (37 pieces)

(5) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Churches). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (176 pieces)

Box Box 20

(1) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Ci-O). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (217 pieces)

(2) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Pa-Pasadena Civic). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (103 pieces)

(3) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Pasadena Community Playhouse). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (95 pieces)

(4) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Pasadena Day Nursery-Pasadena Home for the Aged). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (50 pieces)

(5) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Pasadena Hospital). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (84 pieces)

(6) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Pasadena Preventorium). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (50 pieces)

(7) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (Po - V). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (82 pieces)

(8) Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Requisitions (W - Y). 1932-1933

Physical Description: (93 pieces)

Account books

Volume vol. 1

Pasadena Army & Navy League. Donations and Guarantee Funds. 1917-1919

Volume vol. 2

Pasadena Army & Navy League. Guarantee Fund. 1917-1919

Volume vol. 3

Pasadena Army & Navy League. Day Book, San Pedro. 1917-1919

Volume vol. 4

Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Account Book. 1932-1933

Volume vol. 5

Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Cash Receipts Journal No. 1. 1932

Volume vol. 6

Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Cash Receipts Journal No. 2. 1932-1933

Volume vol. 7

Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Cost reports. 1932-1933

Volume vol. 8

Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Treasurer's reports. 1932-1933

Volume vol. 9

Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. Block-Aid Fund. 1932-1933

Scrapbooks

Volume vol. 10

Scrapbook re Myron Hunt. 1903-1920

Volume vol. 10a

Addenda to above 1903-1920

(loose material laid in Vol. 10)

Volume vol. 11

Scrapbook re Myron Hunt. 1921-1929

Volume vol. 12

Scrapbook re Pasadena Association and Recall Election. 1931-1932

Volume vol. 13

Scrapbook re Pasadena Association and Recall Election. 1931-1932

Volume vol. 13a

Addenda to above 1931-1933

(loose material laid in Vol. 13)

Volume vol. 14

Scrapbook re Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. 1932

Volume vol. 15

Scrapbook re Pasadena Block-Aid Committee. 1932

Oversize oversize

Photograph of George [Kennedy?]. [c.1930?]

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