Finding Aid to the Bolton-Wilder-Brower Family Photographs, circa 1850-circa 1990
Finding Aid written by Chris McDonald
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Finding Aid to the Bolton-Wilder-Brower Family Photographs, circa 1850-circa 1990
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1999.001--PIC
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Chris McDonald
- Date Completed:
- August 1999; revised November 2010
© 1999, 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
Collection Title: Bolton-Wilder-Brower Family photographs
Date (inclusive): circa 1850-circa 1990
Collection Number: BANC PIC
1999.001--PIC
Collector:
Brower, Robert Weldon
Extent:
Number of containers: 8 boxes (11 albums, circa 2,800 photographic prints),
4 albums (circa 500 photographic prints), 8 oversize folders, 1 box (62
negatives), 60 negatives, and 1 box (3 ambrotypes) : chiefly b&w ;
various sizes.
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Bolton-Wilder-Brower Family Photographs collection
contains approximately 3,500 items, mostly photographs, dating from ca. 1850-ca.
1990. The collection pictures several generations of the Bolton, Wilder, and Brower
families, who settled in various regions of the San Francisco Bay Area from the
mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored
offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the
location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
RESTRICTED NEGATIVES. Use of negatives only by permission of the appropriate
curator. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to
the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
RESTRICTED AMBROTYPES. Use of ambrotypes only by permission of the appropriate
curator. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to
the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title
17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted
by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor
restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks.
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that
allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners.
Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without
permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively
with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection
materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
[Identification of item], Bolton-Wilder-Brower Family Photographs, BANC PIC
1999.001--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Bolton-Wilder-Brower Family Papers (BANC MSS 2003/104 cz)
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Bolton, Herbert Eugene,
1870-1953--Family--Pictorial works
Brower,
Marcus--Family--Pictorial works
Wilder, Alphonso
Eli--Family--Pictorial works
Wilder family--Pictorial
works
Pioneers--California--Los
Gatos--Photographs
Dams--California--Amador
County--Photographs
San Jose
(Calif.)--Pictorial works
Los Gatos
(Calif.)--Pictorial works
San Joaquin River
(Calif.)--Pictorial works
Jackson
(Calif.)--Pictorial works
Amador County
(Calif.)--Pictorial works
Bear River (Amador
County, Calif.)--Pictorial works
Photograph albums
The Bolton-Wilder-Brower Family Photographs were received as a gift from Robert
Weldon Brower in 1998.
Additions to the collection, received in 2000, were transferred from the Bolton
family papers (BANC MSS C-B 841).
The albums are arranged chronologically by families — Wilder-Brower,
then Bolton. The additional non-album material is arranged separately in the
same manner and placed in folders.
Some of the albums originally contained loose items. To prevent their loss or
misplacement, these items have been separated from the albums, foldered, and
shelved among the albums in the PIC boxes.
Additions are arranged in general family and subject groupings as received.
Processed by Chris McDonald in 1999 and 2010.
Herbert Eugene Bolton was born on the family farm in Wilton Township, Monroe
County, Wisconsin on July 20, 1870. The family later moved to nearby Tomah.
After teaching at various local rural schools, Bolton attended the State
University of Wisconsin where he studied under historian Frederick Jackson
Turner and received a Bachelor of Letters degree in 1895. He then attended the
University of Pennsylvania, where - under the guidance of John Bach MacMaster -
he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in history in 1899. In 1901, Bolton
became an instructor at the University of Texas and soon developed an interest
in the history of the Spanish Southwest, an era which until then was
little-studied by American historians. In 1909, Bolton accepted a position at
Stanford University, but was soon lured to the University of California,
Berkeley and its recently acquired library of Hubert Howe Bancroft. In 1911,
Bolton began his professorship at Berkeley, where he would teach for the
remainder of his career. Specializing in the history of Spanish colonial North
America, Bolton became one of the most pioneering and distinguished American
historians of his time. A prolific writer and field researcher, Bolton was also
a devoted mentor to countless students, many of whom became prominent historians
themselves. During his tenure at U.C. Berkeley, Bolton was Director of The
Bancroft Library (1916-1940), Chairman of the Department of History (1919-1940),
and Sather Professor of History (1931-1940). Bolton retired in 1944.
Bolton married Gertrude Janes in 1895. The Boltons had six daughters - Frances,
Helen, Laura, Eugenie, Gertrude, and Jane - and a son, Herbert, Jr. Herbert E.
Bolton died in Berkeley on January 30, 1953.
Marcus Theodore Brower was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1871. His family
later moved to San Jose, California, where his father, Theodore Marcus Brower,
established a print shop. After learning the print trade from his father, Marcus
opened his own printing firm, Marcus Brower & Co., in San Francisco in
1912.
In 1898, Marcus married Gertrude Wilder, daughter of Alphonso Eli Wilder, one of
the early founders of Los Gatos, California. Marcus and Gertrude had one child,
Theodore Wilder Brower, born in 1900. Moving to Berkeley shortly before World
War I, Marcus Brower lived there until his death on November 22, 1959.
Robert Weldon ("Bob") Brower was born in Berkeley, California in 1921. The son of
Laura Bolton Brower and Theodore Wilder Brower, Bob graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1943 and worked for the California Ink
Company. He is now retired.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Bolton-Wilder-Brower Family Photographs collection contains approximately 3,500
items, mostly photographs, dating from ca. 1850-ca. 1990. The collection pictures
several generations of the Bolton, Wilder, and Brower families, who settled in
various regions of the San Francisco Bay Area from the mid-nineteenth to the early
twentieth century. Especially prominent in the collection are the immediate families
of Herbert E. and Gertrude Janes Bolton, and Marcus and Gertrude Wilder Brower, as
well as that of their grandson Robert Weldon Brower, who compiled the collection.
Among the locations featured in the collection are various areas of Berkeley -
including many Bolton and Brower residences, and the University of California - as
well as family homes in San Jose and Los Gatos. The majority of the photographs are
snapshots taken by various relatives or friends of those pictured. Many of the
captions provided throughout the collection were supplied by Robert Weldon Brower.
The bulk of the material is contained in 15 albums. The collection also contains
postcards, negatives, and various ephemera. Manuscripts and other non-pictorial
material form a separate related collection, BANC MSS 2003/104 cz.
Many albums which were in a fragile, deteriorating, or otherwise at-risk condition
were disassembled and rehoused in order to ensure the preservation of their
contents. These are all shelved in boxes in the --PIC location. Four albums are
stored in phase boxes and shelved in the --ALB location.
Some of the albums in the collection originally contained self-adhesive note slips
affixed throughout their pages to identify various individuals and locations
pictured in the albums. Because the adhesive of such products is potentially
damaging to photographic material, these note slips were removed. In order to retain
the information contained in the notes, the album pages were photocopied prior to
the removal of the slips. The photocopies are foldered and shelved among the albums
in PIC Box 4.
Numerous unidentified individuals pictured in the collection are not included in the
following listing. All locations listed are in California unless otherwise stated.
Contents descriptions include references to related material – such as
negatives, photocopies, or loose items – located elsewhere in the
collection.
All individuals are, wherever possible, referred to by their proper names as opposed
to their common names or nicknames. "Ted" Brower, for example, will be listed as
"Theodore Wilder Brower." Middle names are often inserted to distinguish between
individuals who had the same first and last names. Wherever possible, women are
referred to by their maiden and, if applicable, married names (e.g. "Laura Bolton
Brower"), regardless of when they were photographed.
Albums
PIC Box 1
Volume 1. Wilder, Treat and Brower Families. circa 1865-1915.
Physical Description:
66 items: 60 photographic prints; 3 tintypes; 1 carte de visite;
1 clipping; 1 booklet (The Days Go Passing By, on Treat
family).
Alphonso E. Wilder, Julia Harkness Wilder, Gertrude Wilder Brower,
Henrietta Wilder Williams, Elmina Wilder Potter, Alden Potter, Hannah
Tibbetts, Theodore Brower, Clara Brower, Theodore Wilder Brower, Adna
Brower, Adna Treat, Jane Treat, Julia Treat Brower, Marcus Treat,
Gertrude Treat Willson , Julia Harkness Wilder.
Wilder home, San Jose; Potter home, San Jose; Wilder home, Greenlake,
Wisconsin; Brower home, San Jose; A to Zed School, Berkeley; Yosemite
Valley.
Abell's Art Gallery, Grass Valley, CA; N.A. Voss, Hays City, KS; W.F.
Eastman, Lincoln, IL; Phillips, Lafayette, IN; H.W. Shaw, Riverside, CA;
Andrew P. Hill, San Jose, CA; Imperial Photographic Gallery, San
Francisco, CA; Wright, San Jose, CA; St. Louis Art Studio, San
Francisco, CA; Frederick H. Bushnell, San Francisco, CA; Butler,
Brooklyn, NY; Sidney V. Webb; E.N. Baxter, Wawona, CA.
ALB
Volume 2. Brower, Treat and Other Families. circa 1885?-circa 1900?
Physical Description:
25 photographic prints.
Album contains mounted portraits inserted in album sleeves.
Marcus Theodore Brower, Adna Treat, Adna Brower, Clara Brower, Julia
Treat Brower, Theodore Marcus Brower, Florence J.B. Vosburgh, Mary
Burnham, Dr. Burnham, Everet Bailey, Willard Bailey.
J.B. Johnson, Hill and Watkins, Wright, Prof. Haussler, Rose and Co.,
C.C. Wright, Vaughan's, C.H. Wells, F.M. Harkness, Wilson, Charles Bohm,
Columbian Art Gallery, Storm.
PIC Box 1
Volume 3. Wilder, Tibbetts, Brower and Williams Families. circa 1870-circa 1950.
Physical Description:
96 items: 86 photographic prints; 9 cartes de visite; 1
tintype.
Hannah Tibbetts, Horace Tibbetts, Byron Tibbetts, Cynthia Tibbetts
Wilder, Mrs. Stanley Tibbetts, Tilly Tibbetts, Julia Harkness Wilder,
Elmina Wilder Potter, Alphonso E. Wilder, Theodore Brower, Julia Treat
Brower, Marcus Theodore Brower, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Adna Treat
Brower, Theodore Wilder Brower, Clara Brower, Laura Bolton Brower,
Robert Weldon Brower, Elisabeth Simonson Brower, Mary Ellen Brower King,
Tom Williams, Ileana Williams, John Nichols, Jo Schneider Young, Jane
Bolton Adams, Eugenie Bolton Johnson, Lenie Gozling, Sherry Freeman,
Linda Freeman.
Spink & Horton, Oshkosh, WI; Ely, Oshkosh, WI; Parker, Humboldt,
IA; R.V. Bingham; C.C. Belt, Terre Haute, IN; F.M. Harkness, Oakland,
CA; W.H. Morhiser, Springfield, MO.
PIC Box 1
Volume 4. Wilder, Brower, and Potter Families. circa 1880-circa 1935
Physical Description:
109 items: 59 photographic prints ; 48 postcards; 1 tintype; 1
clipping.
Julia Harkness Wilder, Alphonso E. Wilder, Cynthia Tibbetts Wilder,
Theodore Brower, Marcus Treat, Julia Treat Brower, Marcus Theodore
Brower, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Clara Brower, Theodore Wilder Brower,
Elmina Wilder Potter, Alden Potter, Clare Frances Pierce Harkness,
Hannah Webster, Mollie Noble, Mollie Stark.
Wilder home, San Jose; Brower home, San Jose; San Jose street scene; Lake
Tahoe; Truckee; Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Many postcards from Mexico, in color, featuring details of the murals of
Diego Rivera.
J.W. Hyde & Co., San Jose, CA; Grove, San Jose, CA; Andrew P.
Hill, San Jose, CA; Carruthers, San Jose, CA; Maude Stinson, Oakland,
CA; Golden West Art Gallery, San Jose, CA; Arnold Schroeder; Boyé, San
Francisco, CA.
ALB
Volume 5. Elmina and Alden Potter. circa 1895?
Physical Description: 111 photographic prints; 1 pamphlet on Central Valley
Project.(Loose material foldered separately in PIC Box
1.)
First page titled Jackson, Amadore [sic] Co., Cal. Inserted note reads:
Donated to the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley – by way of
Robert Brower. Compliments of Forbes Mill Museum, 75 Church St., Los
Gatos, Ca. 95032. [signed] Mary B. Foster, Curator.
Album primarily pictures vicinity of Jackson, California, including
scenes of the construction of a redwood flume.
Elmina Wilder Potter, Alden Potter, Cynthia Tibbetts Wilder, Charles
Page, R. Ellis, Nelson Eckert.
PIC Box 2
Volume 6. Gertrude Wilder Brower Snapshot Album. circa 1895-circa 1910.
Physical Description:
152 photographic prints.
Album inscribed Gertrude Brower.
Gertrude Wilder Brower, Alphonso E. Wilder, Cynthia Tibbetts Wilder,
Henrietta Wilder Williams, Elmina Wilder Potter, Marcus Theodore Brower,
Theodore Wilder Brower, Hannah Webster, Cynthia Webster, Julia Harkness
Wilder.
San Jose (including Brower & Son Printers); Sweetwater Dam;
Pasadena; Catalina Island; Mission Santa Barbara; Monterey (Hotel Del
Monte); Pacific Grove (including 17 Mile Drive); Mission San Carlos
Borromeo (Carmel); Shasta Springs; Saratoga; Mt. Lowe; Tijuana,
Mexico.
PIC Box 2
Volume 7. Brower, Nash and Nichols Families. circa 1890-circa 1990.
Physical Description:
64 items: 60 photographic prints; 2 clippings; 1 death notice; 1
U.S. War Department classification notice.
Robert Weldon Brower, Mary Ellen Brower King, Marcus Theodore Brower,
Gertrude Wilder Brower, Theodore Wilder Brower, Laura Bolton Brower,
Wallace Wynn, Telford Hamilton, Walton Hedges, Norman DuBoise, Weldon
Nichols, Muriel May Barton, Robert Barton, John Nichols, Susanna Brower,
Joan Brower Arthur, Christopher Arthur, Robin Adair, Jane Schneider.
Berkeley; Saratoga; Austin, Texas.
Frederick H. Bushnell, San Francisco, CA; C.C. White, San Jose, CA; Fred
Hartsook, San Francisco, CA; Maude Stinson, Oakland, CA; Jarrell;
Colbourn; Bernice Robertson (also as Bernice Robertson Burnly); H.C.
Capwell Co., Oakland, CA; J.F. Hink & Son, Berkeley, CA; DeVaux,
Berkeley, CA.
PIC Box 2
Volume 8. Laura Bolton Brower Snapshot Album. circa 1910-circa 1925.
Physical Description: 302 photographic prints; 1 album cover.
(Photocopied pages of album with original captioned inserts are
provided in folder, PIC Box 3.)
Album cover stamped with initials L.B.
Laura Bolton Brower, Theodore Wilder Brower, Robert Weldon Brower,
Herbert E. Bolton, Gertrude Janes Bolton, Herbert E. Bolton, Jr.,
Eugenie Bolton Johnson, Frances Bolton Appleton, Gertrude Bolton
Coleman, Helen Bolton Schneider, Jimmy Schneider, Herb Schneider, Ruby
Kidder Schneider, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Elmina Wilder Potter, Julia
Treat Brower, Weldon Nichols, Tom Williams, Evelyn May, and Janes and
Abercrombie family members.
Bolton homes in Berkeley; World War I ruins in Europe (?); Carmel;
University of California, Berkeley; Mariposa Grove; Monterey Bay;
Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel); Mission San Juan Capistrano;
Mission Santa Ines; Signal Hill; Long Beach; San Diego; Lake Tahoe; Pt.
Reyes; San Jose Country Club.
PIC Box 3
Volume 9. Theodore Wilder Brower Snapshot Album. circa 1910-circa 1920.
Physical Description:
205 photographic prints; 1 album cover.
Album cover inscribed Ted 'Reckles' [sic] Brower.
Theodore Wilder Brower, Laura Bolton Brower, Marcus Theodore Brower,
Gertrude Wilder Brower, Herb Schneider, Ruby Kidder Schneider.
Tomales Bay, Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel), Monterey Bay.
PIC Box 3
Volume 10. Robert Weldon Brower Childhood Photographs. 1921-circa 1925.
Physical Description:
147 photographic prints; 1 album cover.
Album cover inscribed Robert Weldon Brower.
Robert Weldon Brower, Laura Bolton Brower, Theodore Wilder Brower,
Gertrude Wilder Brower, Marcus Theodore Brower, Herbert E. Bolton,
Gertrude Janes Bolton, Julia Treat Brower, Julia Harkness Wilder, Jane
Bolton Adams, Tom Williams, Herbert E. Bolton, Jr.
PIC Box 3
Volume 11. Brower Family. circa 1865-circa 1970 (bulk 1940s-1960s)
Physical Description:
130 items: 112 photographic prints; 6 cartes de visite; 7
tintypes; 5 postcards; 5 35mm slides.
Robert Weldon Brower, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Marcus Theodore Brower,
Theodore Wilder Brower, Laura Bolton Brower, Elisabeth Simonson Brower,
Susanna Brower, Penelope Brower, Beth Brower Weber, Patricia Brower,
Joan Brower, Mary Ellen Brower King, Clyde King, Herbert E. Bolton,
Gertrude Bolton Coleman, Frances Bolton Appleton, Mrs. G.M. Simonson,
Florence Bartlett, Theodore Brower, Julia Treat Brower, Clara Brower,
Adna Treat, Hobert Treat, Charles Treat, Henrietta Wilder Williams,
Walter Williams.
Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Altos, Lake Tahoe, Silver Lake (Lassen Co.),
Orange Grove, San Jose, various locales in Mexico.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, 1915).
J.F. Hink & Son, Berkeley, CA; Imperial Photographic Gallery, San
Francisco, CA; Runnion's Gallery of Art, Indianapolis, IN; J.F. Ryder,
Clevealand, OH; Chapala; M.A. Potts, Indianapolis, IN.
PIC Box 3
Volume 12. Herbert E. Bolton and Family. circa 1893-circa 1969.
Physical Description: 49 items (excluding various ephemera): 41 photographic
prints; 4 typescript documents on Herbert E. Bolton; 2 reproductions
of drawings of Herbert E. Bolton; 2 magazines (Westways, 10/1969;
Calfornia Monthly, 2/1951); ephemera (various clippings, notices,
etc.)(5 copy negatives taken from prints contained in
album; shelved in BANC PIC 1999.001: 4-8 – CNEG).
Herbert E. Bolton, Gertrude Janes Bolton, Frances Bolton Appleton, Laura
Bolton Brower, Helen Bolton Schneider, Gertrude Bolton Coleman, Eugenie
Bolton Johnson, Jane Bolton Adams, Herbert E. Bolton, Jr., Theodore
Wilder Brower, F.E. Bolton, E.L. Bolton, Wayne Bolton.
University of California, Berkeley; Bolton home, Berkeley.
Fred Hartsook, San Francisco, CA; Richardson Photographers, Wausau, WI;
The Elliots; Fisher.
PIC Box 4
Volume 13. Jane Bolton Adams Album No. 1. 1924-1926.
Physical Description: 149 photographic prints. (Photocopied pages of
album with original captioned inserts are provided in folder, PIC Box
4.)
Album was compiled by Jane Bolton Adams, while she was a student at
Oakland's University High School.
Jane Bolton Adams, Eugenie Bolton Johnson, Helen Bolton Schneider, Laura
Bolton Brower, Frances Bolton Appleton, Gertrude Bolton Coleman, Herbert
E. Bolton, Gertrude Janes Bolton, Herbert E. Bolton, Jr., Robert Weldon
Brower, Theodore Wilder Brower, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Jimmy Schneider,
Ted Appleton, and several schoolmates of Jane Bolton Adams.
Bolton homes (Greenwood Terrace and Cedar St.), Berkeley; Brower home,
Berkeley; University High School, Oakland.
ALB
Volume 14. Jane Bolton Adams Album No. 2. 1929-1933.
Physical Description: 333 photographic prints. (Loose material and
photocopied pages of album with original captioned inserts are provided
in folder, PIC Box 4.)
Album compiled by Jane Bolton Adams.
Jane Bolton Adams, Frances Bolton Appleton, Eugenie Bolton Johnson,
Gertrude Janes Bolton, Herbert E. Bolton, Helen Bolton Schneider, Laura
Bolton Brower, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Herbert E. Bolton, Jr., Theodore
Wilder Brower, Robert Weldon Brower, Ted Appleton, Frank Negus, and
several friends and pupils of Jane Bolton Adams.
New Almaden Quicksilver Mines; Bolton home, Berkeley; University of
California, Berkeley; Inverness; Los Gatos; Yosemite Valley; Newman;
Colusa; Concord; Carmel; Sonora; Santa Cruz Mountains; and Niagra, NY.
ALB
Volume 15. Jane Bolton Adams Album No. 3. 1940-1941.
Physical Description: 216 photographic prints; 1 letter.(Loose material
and photocopied pages of album with original captioned inserts are
provided in folder, PIC Box 4.)
Album compiled by Jane Bolton Adams, while she was a teacher at Punahou
School, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her sister Gertrude Bolton Coleman taught
at the same time at Kamehameha School, also in Honolulu.
Jane Bolton Adams, Gertrude Bolton Coleman.
Honolulu and other locales in Hawaii.
Other Material
A Box, folder 1
Childhood Portraits of Marcus Theodore Brower and Gertrude Wilder Brower. circa 1873-circa 1880.
Physical Description:
2 photographic prints, in cloth frame.
A Box, folders 2-3
Wilder Family Photographs. circa 1885-circa 1990.
Physical Description:
34 photographic prints.
Elmina Wilder Potter, Alden Potter, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Henrietta
Wilder Williams, Hannah Webster, Teddy Ashford, Julia Wilder.
Quilt brought to California by Cnythis Tibbetts Wilder from
Wisconsin.
Wilder home, San Jose; Mission Santa Barbara.
Parker, Humboldt, IA; Maude Stinson, Berkeley, CA; Alisky, San Francisco,
CA; Maxwell & Mudge, Fresno, CA; Andrew P. Hill, San Jose, CA;
Swaney, Los Gatos, CA; Grair [?] Studio, San Francisco, CA; Columbian
Art Gallery, San Jose, CA; Carruthers, San Jose, CA; McIntire; Cann, San
Jose, CA.
B, folder 1
A Box, folder 4
B, folders 2-5
Amador County Bear River Dam Scrapbook. 1902
Physical Description:
12 loose leaves, and cover: 72 photographic prints; 2 clippings;
1 etching (Afternoon, California St., by Frederick
Robbins).
Elmina Wilder Potter, Alden Potter (engineer at Bear River Dam); Hoyt
Potter.
Bear River Dam (incl. Residences, construction scenes, flume, surrounding
scenery); Mount Shasta; Shasta Springs; Lamont Rowlands residence (The
Hermitage), Picayune, Mississippi.
A Box, folder 5
Silhouette Cut-Out of Theodore Wilder Brower, PPIE. 1915
Physical Description:
1 cut-out, by Beatrix Sherman.
A Box, folder 6
A Box, folder 7
A Box, folders 8-14
Brower and Bolton Families Snapshot Album (unbound). circa 1925-circa 1946.
Physical Description: 34 leaves (293 photographic prints). (Folder 8
contains photocopied pages of album with original captioned
inserts.)
Robert Weldon Brower, Theodore Wilder Brower, Laura Bolton Brower, Mary Ellen Brower King, Elisabeth Simonson Brower, Susanna
Elizabeth Brower, Marcus Theodore Brower, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Henrietta Wilder Williams, Julia Treat Brower, Elmina Wilder
Potter, Herbert E. Bolton, Gertrude Janes Bolton, Jane Bolton Adams, Eugenie Bolton Johnson, Helen Bolton Schneider, Jimmy
Schneider, Tom Williams, Henrietta Wilder Williams, Herbert E. Bolton, Jr., Reece Clark, Gladys Clark, George M. Simonson,
Ted Appleton, Evelyn Nash Nichols, Weldon Nichols, John Nichols, Mary Ann Nichols, Frank Negus.
Bolton homes in Berkeley (Cedar Street, Greenwood Terrace, Buena Vista Way); Brower home, Berkeley; Schneider home, Los Gatos;
Sunset Co-op Lumber Mill, Grey Eagle; Inverness; Drakes Bay; Pyramid Lake; Quincy; Mono Lake; Sonora Pass; Lake Tahoe; Feather
River; Los Altos; Piedmont; Virginia City, Nevada.
A Box , folder 15
B, folder 6
Loose Leaves from Unidentified Albums. circa 1900-circa 1905.
Physical Description:
4 leaves (9 photographic prints).
All the photographic prints are contained on one leaf, inscribed From
Laura's Scrapbook. The other leaves, from a different album, only
contain captions (which may refer to photographs found elsewhere in the
collection).
Theodore Wilder Brower, Gertrude Wilder Brower, Marcus Theodore
Brower.
A Box, folder 16
A Box, folder 17
A Box, folder 18
Pictorial Material from Fran Adams (husband of Jane Bolton Adams). circa 1900-circa 1958.
Physical Description:
54 photographic prints; 10 postcards; 2 tintypes.
Fran Adams, Herbert E. Bolton, Jr., Laura Bolton Brower, Robert Weldon Brower, Mary Ellen Brower King, Grace Mildred Bolton,
Edwinna Rose Bolton, Roy Bolton, Ed Vincent, Winnie Clara Vincent, Francis Kranig, Helen Kranig, Elmina Wilder Potter, Alden
Potter, Theodore Wilder Brower.
Japan, during World War II; Panama Pacific International Exposition (San
Francisco, 1915); Camp Snider, Washington; Mills Field Air Show, 1929;
USS Marathon; Yosemite Valley; Mariposa Grove; Santa Maria.
A Box, folder 19
Canonical Inquiry Concerning Sainthood for Father Junipero Serra. 1948
Physical Description:
1 photographic print of Inquiry members; 2 photocopies of print;
1 page listing names of members; 1 letter from Diocese of Monterey
regarding photographer.
Herbert E. Bolton, Reverend Edward Crews, Reverend Lucian Arvin, Very
Reverend James Dowling, Reverend James Bolger CSSR, Monsignor Michael
Sullivan, Bishop Aloysius Willinger CSSR, Reverend Joseph O'Brien
SJ.
Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel).
A Box and CNEG, folder 20
Display Case for Exhibition of H.E. Bolton Material. undated
Physical Description:
2 photographic prints; 2 copy negatives (shelved in BANC PIC
1999.001:26-27 – CNEG)
Photographs picture exhibit case displaying various material related to
career of H.E. Bolton. Exhibit probably located in Doe Library, U.C.
Berkeley. One negative has no print available.
A Box and AX, folders 21 (A); 1-2 (AX)
Miscellaneous Pictorial Material. 1850s-circa 1915?
Physical Description:
31 photographic prints; 1 postcard booklet, Petrified Forest
Park of California; 1 reproduction of etching (?), signed by James
MacNeill Whistler (in poor condition – folded and
stained) (AX).
Bulk of photographs are from circa 1915, and do not picture any
individuals.
Includes a reproduction of a daguerreotype portrait originally taken in
the 1850s picturing Jacob P. Leese, Thomas Larkin, W.D.M. Howard, Talbot
H. Green (?), and Sam Brannan.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, 1915); Cliff
House (San Francisco); Yosemite Valley.
CNEG
Additions
PIC Box 5
PIC Box 6
Additions circa 1900-ca.1980.
Physical Description:
circa 250 photographic prints.
Photographic material supplementing that found in albums.
Jane Bolton Adams; Frances Latham Bolton; Gertrude Bolton; Bolton,
Abercrombie and Janes families; Aunt Lula and cousin Gertrude
Abercrombie; Bolton family reunion at Bolton Grove; Frances Bolton
Appleton; Ted and his activities.
NNEG Box
NNEG (5x7)
NEG (Strip)