Register of the San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook, 1893; 1898-1910

Processed by Daryl Morrison; revised by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
University Library, University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
Phone: (209) 946-2404
URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
© 1998
University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.



Register of the San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook, 1893; 1898-1910

Collection number: Mss162

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

University Library

University of the Pacific

Contact Information

Processed by:
Daryl Morrison; revised by Don Walker
Date Completed:
1994; 1998
Encoded by:
Don Walker
© 1998 University of the Pacific. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook,
Date (inclusive): 1893; 1898-1910
Collection number: Mss162
Creator:
Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository: University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
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], San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook, Mss162, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Biography

This scrapbook of newspaper clippings from San Francisco and Stockton papers offers few clues as to who created it, other than that it was pasted in a Crane Plumbing Company catalog and that the articles chosen reflect a Stockton woman's interests. The scrapbook has been styled "San Francisco Earthquake Scrapbook" because approximately one-third of all pages in the book are devoted to this topic.

Scope and Content

Identified in gold letters as "Crane Company. Plumbing, Gas, Steam, and Water Supplies, 1893" at 23 & 25 First Street, San Francisco, California, this 275 pp. illustrated catalog of plumbing supplies describes, lists and provides sizes and prices of fittings and equipment. The newspapers clippings pasted over the Crane Catalogue pages are mostly unidentified and undated. There are over 96 pages on the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Other topics include articles on Presidents' wives, President and Mrs. Mckinley, Queen Victoria, lectures, woman suffrage, society news, religion and the afterlife, food and beauty aids.

 

BOX 1: SCRAPBOOK

 

-President and Mrs. McKinley [11 pp.]

 

-U.S. Presidents' wives [portraits; 5 pp.]

 

-"An Oakland man who served as a private with Pres. McKinley" [5 pp.]

 

-Mrs. Benjamin Fay Mills, wife of celebrated divine [1 pg.]

 

-Queen Victoria's Jubilee & death(1901) [8 pp.]

 

-King Edward VII & family [3 pp.]

 

-Religion and the After Life [2 pp.]

 

-Queen Louise of Denmark

 

-Rev. Anna Howard Shaw [3 pp.]

 

-Woman Suffrage [2 pp.]

 

-Vanderbilt family [2 pp.]

 

-Col. Henry Steel Olcott, Theosophist [4 pp.]

 

-Queen Victoria's death [2 pp.]

 

-George H. Howison, Prof. Philosophy at UC Berkeley [2 pp.]

 

-Golden Gate Park Museum (SF) [2 pp.]

 

-St. Patrick's Seminary Menlo Park (1898)

 

-Misc. articles about British Empire [2 pp.]

 

-Mark Twain (1904) [2 pp.]

 

-Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany [2 pp.]

 

-Mrs. Leland Stanford's death

 

-Stockton Children's Home proposal

 

-SF Chronicle prophecies for 20th century (1904) [4 pp.]

 

-Worcester (Mass.) National Amateur Regatta [2 pp.]

 

-Queen Victoria crowning

 

-King Edward VII opens parliament

 

-"Gari Melchers great painting, The Supper at Emmaus"

 

-Stockton Agricultural Pavilion fire (1902) [3 pp.]

 

-Capt. Charles Weber, founder of Stockton, bronze statue

 

-Mac Turk on Club Life [7 pp.]

 

-SF Earthquake & Fire [96 pp.]

 

-Home Remedies and Beauty Aids [4 pp.]

 

-Stockton new YMCA building [2 pp.]

 

-Pope Pius X lst mass at Vatican [2 pp.]

 

-Household hints & recipes [18 pp.]

 

-Beauty aids [16 pp.]

 

-Poultry husbandry [3 pp.]

 

-Recipes [14 pp.]

 

-Hygiene, health & recipes [12 pp.]