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Inventory of the Grace Nicholson Papers, 1822-1951, bulk 1902-1948
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Container List

 

Imcomplete list of Boxes I-XI.

Box I

Alliot, Hector. 1907-1908

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

American Anthropological Assoc. (by George Grant MacCurdy) 1904

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Ashmore, Lida S. (re Sun Yat Sen & conditions in China) 1923

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Baldwin, Anita M. 1921

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Barker, John. 1908

Physical Description: 2 pieces. (Sorcerer of Tejon, Indian rainmaker tale)
 

Barrett, Samuel Alfred. 1906

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Bradford, Mary M. (Chetmache Indians & basket designs) 1906

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Brady, John Green. 1902

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Bridgman, Frederick Arthur. 1925

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Brizard, Paul A. 1902-1906

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Brundage, Avery. 1943-1949

Physical Description: 12 pieces.
Box II

Canyon Tom. 1911

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Captain Jack (Ah Chi Ca). 1903

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Cartier, Jacques. 1942-1946

Physical Description: 12 pieces.
 

Chanler, Robert W. 1924-1925

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Cheney, Russell. 1926

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Clausen, Mabel. (Attorney for Grace Nicholson) 1943-1944

Physical Description: 5 pieces.
 

Coffee, Herbert A. (Indians of Southwest, relics) 1903-1908

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
 

Daggett, John. (Klamath River Indians, baskets) 1905

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Davis, Edward H. (Mesa Grande Indian 1908-1910

Physical Description: 3 pieces. s)
 

Doolittle, Harold L. 1940-1948

Physical Description: 9 pieces.
 

Douglas, Frederick Huntington. 1925-1950

Physical Description: 58 pieces.
 

Dunton, W. Herbert. 1914

Physical Description: 1 piece.
Box III

Ferguson, John Calvin. 1929-1937

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Floyd, Harry C. (Inyo Co. Indians). 1902-1912

Physical Description: 9 pieces.
 

Frame, S.R. (Klamath River Indians). 1908-1911

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
 

Gibbon-Stocken, H.W. (Blackfoot Ind.). 1911

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Gilchrist, Harriett M. (Coarse Gold, Calif. Indians) 1915-1917

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Goddard, Pliny Earle. 1918-1925

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Gordon, George Byron. 1904-1918

Physical Description: 10 pieces.
 

Green, George G. 1940-1943

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Guerra, Josefa de la. 1918

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Hague, Marian. 1942

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Han, Yu-Shan (Chinese seals). 1945

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Hard, Charles Frederick. 1945

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Harrison, Carter Henry. 1909

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Harry, Margaret (Klamath River Ind.). 1910

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Hartman, Carrol S. 1904-1911

Physical Description: 8 pieces.
 

Harvey, W.F. (Indians of Calif.). 1911

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
Box IV

Henderson, Sarah J. (Clatsop Indians). 1911

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Heye, George Gustav. 1918-1950

Physical Description: 23 pieces.
 

Hickox family (Elizabeth, Louise, & Luther, Klamath River Indians). 1908-1947

Physical Description: 12 pieces.
 

Hinkle, Jesse (Tule River, Calif. Reservation). 1902

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Hodge, Frederick Webb. 1926, 1946

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Holmes, Burton. 1926, 1933

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Holmes, William Henry (Smithsonian). 1902-1915

Physical Description: 7 pieces.
 

Hoover, Herbert. 1949

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Horton, Elizabeth R. (Cree dolls). 1898

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Hubbell, J.L. (Navajos). 1903

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Hudson, Grace Carpenter. 1926-1936

Physical Description: 58 pieces.
 

Ihnen, Wiard Boppo (Chinese art). 1943

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

James, George Wharton. 1902-1906

Physical Description: 9 pieces.
 

Johnson, Hiram Warren. 1935

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Johnson, John M. (Calif. Ind. baskets). 1907

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Keith, Elizabeth. 1927-1928

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Kelley, Caroline Tyler. 1925

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

King, William Benjamin Bash. 1919, 1922

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Krause, Gretchen. 1911

Physical Description: 14 pieces.
 

Kroeber, Alfred L. 1906-1909

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
Box V

Lan-fang, Mei. 1929-1930

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Lee, S.L. (Indian weapons). 1906-1909

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Lewis, C.B. (Santa Cruz Island). 1904

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Little, Berthe A. (Navajo school). 1907-1909

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
 

Loomis, Jean (China, art, society). 1919

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Lukens, Glen. 1941-1942

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
 

Lummis, Charles Fletcher. 1903, 1919

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

MacCurdy, George Grant. (see Amer. Anthrop. Assoc., Box I) 1904, 1907

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

McLeod, E.L. (Calif. Indians). 1905-1908

Physical Description: 24 pieces.
 

Mardis, G.W. (Arizona Indians). 1906

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Mason, Otis Tufton. 1902-1906

Physical Description: 10 pieces.
Box VI

Merriam, Clinton Hart. 1902-1915

Physical Description: 6 pieces.
 

Merriam, J.E. (St. Thomas Is., W.I.). 1923

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Mitchell, J.T. (Calif. Indians). 1916-1919

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Moon, Carl. 1931-1943

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
 

Moore, Marion A. (Navajos). 1907

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Muir, John (re Sitka Jack). 1902

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Nelson, Evaline (Calif. Indians). 1915-1925

Physical Description: 20 pieces.
 

Nicholson, Grace correspondence. 1904-1947

Box VII

Nicholson, Grace correspondence. 1902-1948

 

Noel, John. 1926-1932

Physical Description: 8 pieces.
Box VIII

Padillo Nervo, Luis. 1944

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Pasadena Art Institute. 1924-1948

Physical Description: 24 pieces.
 

Peterson, C. (Wash. Ind., Neah Bay). 1905, 1908

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Pieters, Alexander A. (Korean art). 1914-1931

Physical Description: 6 pieces.
 

Poland, Reginald. 1931-1938

Physical Description: 17 pieces.
 

Preckel, Jennie (Calif. Indians). 1911-1912

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
 

Pride, I.V. (Calif. Indians). 1903

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
 

Pushman, Hovsep. 1932-1948

Physical Description: 40 pieces.
 

Putnam, Esther Orne. 1915

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Putnam, Frederick Ward. 1907-1914

Physical Description: 8 pieces.
Box IX

Randolph, Minnie C. (Calif. Ind.). 1914

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Riley, Alice. 1926

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
 

Roomer, Katherine. 1938-1948

Physical Description: 12 pieces.
 

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. 1918

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Rowland, Earl D. 1949-1950

Physical Description: 13 pieces.
 

Sauerman, Frank P. 1902-1903

Physical Description: 7 pieces.
 

Scott, Hugh Doggett. 1948

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Sharp, Joseph Henry. 1918-1941

Physical Description: 27 pieces.
 

Sheets, Millard. 1946-1950

Physical Description: 3 pieces.
Box X

Skiff, Frederick James Volney. 1902

Physical Description: 2 pieces.
 

Smith, William Alden. 1902

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Spiegelberg, A. F. (N.Mex. Indians). 1906

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

Taylor, Jessie McLeod (Calif. Indians). 1903-1917

Physical Description: 19 pieces.
 

Townsend, J. R. (Cheyenne Ind. shield). 1916

Physical Description: 1 piece.
 

U.S. Dept. of Interior. Indian Field Service (Oregon, Utah, Calif.). 1905-1930

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
 

U.S. Dept. of Interior. Office of Indian Affairs (Calif.). 1902, 1910

Physical Description: 4 pieces.
Box XI

Walska, Ganna. 1943-1949

Physical Description: 11 pieces.
 

Watkins, Mary B. (Calif. Indians). 1906-1913

Physical Description: 23 pieces.
 

Willoughby, Charles Clark. 1903-1918

Physical Description: 17 pieces.
 

Wright, Nellie (Calif. Indians). 1911-1913

Physical Description: 13 pieces.
 

Complete list of Boxes XII-XVII.

Box XII

Grace Nicholson Biographical Material.

Physical Description: 23 pieces
 

Nicholson Family Papers. 1822-1948

Physical Description: 20 pieces.
 

Gifts by Grace Nicholson to Organizations. 1904-1946

Physical Description: 18 pieces.
 

Deed and other documents re: Purchase of property at 46 Los Robles. 1896-1914

Physical Description: 52 pieces.
 

Papers re: Construction of Building at 46 Los Robles.

Physical Description: 106 pieces
Box XIII

Indian Legend: The Beginning of the World (Calif.).

Physical Description: 1 piece
 

Indian Reservations & Organizations (Calif.).

Physical Description: 4 pieces
 

Indian Traditions, folklore.

Physical Description: 14 pieces
 

Karok Indian Customs: Klamath River Tribes.

Physical Description: 10 pieces
 

Karok Indian Legends: Klamath River Tribes.

Physical Description: 15 pieces
 

Paiute Indian Notes.

Physical Description: 1 piece
 

Pomo Indian Notes.

Physical Description: 1 piece
Box XIV

Indian Baskets: Grace Nicholson Collection.

Physical Description: 5 pieces
 

Indian Bibliographical Notes.

Physical Description: 8 pieces
 

Indian Notes: Lists of Articles.

Physical Description: 31 piece
 

Indian Notes: Miscellaneous.

Physical Description: 60 pieces
 

Notes on North American Indian Baskets.

Physical Description: 31 piece
 

Notes on Indian Crafts (except baskets).

Physical Description: 23 pieces
Box XV

Indian Notes. 1901-1913

Physical Description: 22 Notebooks.
Box XVI

Indian Notes. 1918-1923 & undated

Physical Description: 11 Notebooks.
 

Grace Nicholson Diaries. 1906-1935

Physical Description: 11 Notebooks.
Box XVII

Notes on Orient.

Physical Description: 9 Notebooks
 

Miscellaneous Notes (Grace Nicholson).

Physical Description: 7 Notebooks
 

Oriental Art: Notes & memos.

Physical Description: 26 pieces
 

Travel Notes: Orient.

Physical Description: 8 pieces
 

Misc. manuscripts articles.

Physical Description: 10 pieces
 

Notes on U.S. coins.

Physical Description: 1 piece
 

Pasadena Art Institute: mostly mimeographed material.

Physical Description: 35 pieces
 

Ephemera.

 

Other miscellaneous materials (in Rare Book Department)

 

Photograph albums.

Physical Description: 12 albums.
 

Boxes of photographs.

Physical Description: 3 boxes
 

Boxes of negatives.

Physical Description: 2 boxes
 

Other unclassified photographs.

 

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.

Physical Description: 3 pieces
 

Personal momentos.

Addenda

Box 1.

Correspondence

 

American Folklore Society

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1906

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Barker, John

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1913

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Caldwell, Eleanor Baird

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1914-15

Physical Description: 8 items.
 

Dennington, Fanny M.

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1929, 1937

Physical Description: 4 items.
 

Duhring, Herman L.

 

Documents. 1876

Physical Description: 2 items.
 

Edwards, Douglas L.

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1934

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Garland, Hamlin

 

To Grace Nicholson. c.1939

Physical Description: 2 items.
 

Gibbons, John H.

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1939

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Hall, Manley P.

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1945

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

James, Dudley

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1925

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Loomis, Jean

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1920

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Miller, Lillian May

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1930,1935

Physical Description: 17 items.
 

Nicholson, B. W.

 

Document. 1830-1831.

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Nicholson, James B.

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1901-1936

Physical Description: 23 items.
 

Powell, Henry

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1935

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Reeve, Elizabeth

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1948

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Sargent, Homer E.

 

To C.S. Hartme1910 n.

Physical Description: 2 items.
 

Sargent, Homer E.

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1908-1920

Physical Description: 46 items.
 

Sauerwein, Frank P.

 

Biographical notes. 1902.

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Simms, Stephen C.

 

To Grace Nicholson1917 .

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Smith, Alice

 

To Mary A.Nicholson. 1845-1847

Physical Description: 3 items.
 

Smith, Richard

 

To James Blackie. 1843

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Smith, Richard

 

To Mary A.Nicholson. 1850-1856

Physical Description: 8 items.
 

Udall & Ballou

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1903

Physical Description: 2 items.
 

Waller, Arthur J.

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1930

Physical Description: 1 item.
 

Yokoyama, K.

 

To Grace Nicholson. 1929

Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 2.

Indian (American). Articles & clippings

Box 3.

Misc. photographs [moved to Photo Archives 1995]

Box 4.

Grace Nicholson Says..

Box 5.

Chinese art. Articles & clippings

Box 6.

Tibetan art. Articles & clippings

Box 7.

Korea. Siam. Early Pasadena. Closing of Business (G. Nicholson). Early California. Bells. Trip to Orient

Box 8.

Japanese art. Articles & clippings.

Box 9.

News Clippings--Grace Nicholson Gallery. Ephemera

Box 10.

Misc. printed items

Box 11.

Misc. ephemera items. Pasadena history.

Scope and Content Note

Also: 3 Indian scrap books.