Register of the Flower (Elsie) Collection, 1900-1968
Register of the Flower (Elsie) Collection, 1900-1968
Collection number: Mss45
Holt-Atherton Department of Special CollectionsUniversity Library
University of the Pacific
- Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
- University Library, University of the Pacific
- Stockton, CA 95211
- Phone: (209) 946-2404
- Fax: (209) 946-2810
- URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html
- Processed by:
- Don Walker
- Date Completed:
- November 1998
- Encoded by:
- Don Walker
BOX 1: FLOWER FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, 1900-1968
1.1: Edwin L. Flower corresp., 1900-1910 [23 items]
1.2: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1920-1930 [6 items]
1.3: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1930-1940 [10 items]
1.4: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1943 [9 items]
1.5: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1944 [5 items]
1.6: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1946 [3 items]
1.7: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1947-1948 [3 items]
1.8: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1949 [7 items; incl. Japanese Americans]
1.9: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1950 [32 items; chiefly "fan letters"]
1.10: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1951 [22 items; chiefly "fan letters"]
1.11: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1952 [2 items; incl. Japanese Americans]
1.12: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1953 [5 items]
1.13: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, Jul-Aug 1953 [6 items; incl. F. Hal Higgins on farm machinery history]
1.14: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1954 [8 items]
1.15: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1955 [3 items]
1.16: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1956-1957 [3 items]
1.17: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1958-1959 [5 items]
1.18: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1960 [4 items]
1.19: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1961 [6 items]
1.20: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1962 [15 items; incl. letter from Charles M. Weber III outlining his plans for re-creation of his grandfather, Capt. Weber, founder of Stockton's, home on Weber Point]
1.21: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1963 [15 items]
1.22: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1964 [12 items; incl. one letter from Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson's scty. on beagle "ear lift" episode she had complained about]
1.23: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1965 [10 items; incl. one letter from Lawrence Welk together w/ musical score, politely declining to play friend's composition she had sent]
1.24: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1966 [8 items]
1.25: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1967 [14 items]
1.26: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, 1968 [10 items]
1.27: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, n.d. c1940s [22 items]
1.28: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, n.d. c1960s [10 items]
1.29: Corresp. to Elsie Flower, n.d. [25 items]
BOX 2: ELSIE FLOWER RADIO SCRIPTS, 1945-1950
2.1: KGDM "City Journal," 1945 #1
2.2: KGDM "City Journal," 1945 #2
2.3: KGDM "City Journal," 1946 #1
2.4: KGDM "City Journal," 1946 #2
2.5: KGDM "City Journal," 1947 #1
2.6: KGDM "City Journal," 1947 #2
2.7: KGDM "City Journal," 1948 #1
2.8: KGDM "City Journal," 1948 #2
2.9: KGDM "City Journal," 1949 #1
2.10:KGDM "City Journal," 1949 #2
2.11: KGDM "City Journal," 1949 #3
2.12: KGDM "City Journal," 1950 #1
2.13: KGDM "City Journal," 1950 #2
BOX 3: ELSIE FLOWER RADIO SCRIPTS, 1951-1955
3.1: KGDM "City Journal," 1951 #1
3.2: KGDM "City Journal," 1951 #2
3.3: KGDM "City Journal," 1951 #3
3.4: KGDM "City Journal," 1952 #1
3.5: KGDM "City Journal," 1952 #2
3.6: KGDM "City Journal," 1952 #3
3.7: KGDM "City Journal," 1952 #4
3.8: KGDM "City Journal," 1953 #1
3.9: KGDM "City Journal," 1953 #2
3.10: KGDM "City Journal," 1954 #1
3.11: KGDM "City Journal," 1954 #2
3.12: KGDM "City Journal," 1955
3.13: KGDM "City Journal," n.d. #1
3.14: KGDM "City Journal," n.d. #2
BOX 4: NOTES & DRAFTS; PHOTOS; FINANCES
4.1: San Joaquin General Hospital, Stockton
4.2: Hubbard ms. on race & delinquency in Stockton
4.3: Mickelson ms. on submarine warfare, 1914-18 #1
4.4: Do. #2
4.5: Do. #3
4.6: Do. #4
4.7: Hospital for Escalon?
4.8: Misc. drafts [incl. essay on founding Haggin Museum, Stockton]
4.9: Unsorted photos [58 of people, incl. snapshot of Ina Coolbrith as old lady; 31 landscapes, bldgs. & interiors; largely unident.]
4.10: Binder of drafts
a-F. Hal Higgins. "When farm tractors first whipped the desert"
b-[untitled suite of excerpts from Stockton newspapers outlining Symphony history, 1926-1951]
c-misc. "City Journal" excerpts, incl.: A.B. Cohn; soldiers returning from WWII; the jeep; nursing in SJ Co.; Father Serra
4.11: Copperopolis notes
4.12: Flower Family Genealogy & Biographical info
4.13: Misc. drafts
4.14: 1962 calendar w/ annotations
4.15: Finances notes
4.16: Carl Wente. "The past, present and future of the Great Central Valley"
4.17: Poetry typescripts [by Elsie Flower?]
4.18: Foreign currency [1 Weimar Republic, Germany; 1 Japanese]
BOX 5: NOTES & DRAFTS; PHOTOS; FINANCES #2
5.1: Elsie Flower Guestbook, 1930-1934
5.2: Elsie Flower. untitled memoir on the making of KGDM's "City Journal"
5.3: Calaveras drafts
5.4: Calaveras photos [incl. people, bldgs., landscapes; b/w & color slides]
5.5: Draft on Rock walls
5.6: Draft on Dishes
5.7: Draft on State Mental Hospital, Stockton
5.8: Draft on Ben C. Wallace, Stockton moritician
5.9: Stockton notes
5.10: Draft on "blackouts" (1942)
5.11: Helen Weber Kennedy notes
5.12: Draft on Bret Harte
5.13: Xmas card list, 1966
5.14: "1906" Club (San Francisco)
5.15: Flower Family in New York
5.16: Draft on Columbia, Calif.
5.17: Notebook #1 [lt. blu canvas]
5.18: Notebook #2 (c1951) [blk leatherette]
a-national personalities, incl.: Frank Stanton, CBS; G. Bromley Oxnam, Methodist Bp.; Anna Louise Strong, Communist; A.L. Van Meter, tycoon
b-Stockton personalities, incl.: Edward D. Eldridge; Adelina Galgiani; John R. Simplot; Sperry family
c-Stockton places, incl.: Rural Cemetery; Public Library; Central Methodist; Stockton Symphony
5.19: Spiral notepads [6]
a-Tully C. Knoles, Pres. of College of the Pacific, Stockton
b-Stockton Asylum
c-California Missions
d-1962 expenses
e-Stockton City Govt. [sm. "Herald Square"]
f-Misc. notes [sm. Herald Square"]
5.20: Brad Davis ms. on California wheat
5.21: Harry T. Fee---3 essays on Calif. history topics
5.22: US Army organizational structure notes
BOX 6: PAMPHLETS & SCRAPS---SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
6.1: "Talk of the Town" 1:1 (1912) [a short-lived Stockton weekly news magazine]
6.2: Stockton Arts [incl.: Art League; Civic Theatre; Haggin Museum; Stockton Symphony]
6.3: Stockton Businesses [incl.: Hickinbotham Bros.; Hotel Wolf; Le Tourneau; Port of Stockton; Stockton Record]
6.4: Stockton Churches [incl.: Buddhist; St. Mary's Catholic; lst Christian; lst Congregational; Episcopal]
6.5: Stockton Clubs [incl. American Legion; Garden Club; Italian Gardeners' Society; Pan-Pacific; Pen Women; Philomathean]
6.6: Stockton Public Services [incl.: Cemetery; Community Center for the Blind; County Jail; Public schools; State Insane Asylum]
6.7: Peffer Family of Radio Station KGDM
6.8: San Joaquin County misc. clippings
6.9: Elsie Flower's KGDM radio show fan mail scrapbook
BOX 7: PAMPHLETS & SCRAPS---SOUTHERN MOTHER LODE; CALIF. LOCALITIES
7.1: Amador County
7.2: Calaveras County
7.3: Tuolumne County
7.4: Columbia
7.5: Copperopolis
7.6: Knight's Ferry
7.7: Murphys
7.8: Monterey Bay Area
7.9: San Francisco Bay Area
7.10: Missions
7.11: Other Northern California
7.12: Other Southern California
BOX 8: PAMPHLETS & SCRAPS---CALIF.; THE WEST; US; EUROPE; MISCELLANY
8.1: California---General
8.2: U.S.---Western States
8.3: U.S.---Eastern States & General
8.4: Europe (chiefly Netherlands, Gt. Britain & France)
8.5: Rockwell D. Hunt---Late Writings & Biographical Materials
8.6: Papillon Dogs
8.7: Souvenir Theatre Booklets---"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" & "John Brown's Body"
8.8: Diet & Health
8.9: "Survival Under Atomic Attack" (1950)
8.10: Misc. Pamphlets
8.11: Misc. Clippings