This collection mainly consists of reprint articles and reports related to soil and erosion particularly in the areas of Israel and Palestine. Some of these reports or articles were authored by Lowdermilk, but the majority were authored by others. This...
Ethnographic portraits, snapshots and scenes of the Negritos of the Philippines: their customs; activities; dwellings, structures and other material culture; and natural surroundings. Specific subjects include basket weaving, a burial, scarification, and a group of hooded self-flagellants. Also includes portraits...
Autograph manuscript of Weare's unpublished autobiography (662 pages), and miscellaneous poetry, prose and letters.
The papers consist primarily of transcripts of speeches. The collection also contains biographical information, photographs, correspondence, laboratory notes, and course notes.
Some reflect politics in England. Include letters from John Gellibrand Hubbard, first Baron Addington; William George Spencer Scott, Earl Compton; Catherine (Glynne) Gladstone; Maria Georgina (Shirreff) Grey; John Hutton; Sir Edward Lee; William Henry Forester Denison, first Earl of Londesborough;...
The collection contains a diverse selection of documents relating to Marin County, California, as well as to business and household affairs in nineteenth century California. Primarily ephemera, documents include business and household reciepts and bills as well as legal documents....
Relate to the naval career of the British admiral. Include letters from Ignazio Thaon de Revel, Johann Friedrich Hach, Sir Alexander Ball, Sir Robert Grant and others.
Collection includes 2 photograph albums and various papers pertaining to the Wa Sung Athletic Club, a Chinese-American semi-professional baseball team based in Oakland in the 1920s and 1930s. One album, untitled, compiled by team manager Ed Bowen, contains action poses...
Include tax lists, leases, agreements to sell, and deeds, for land owned by Vitus Wackenreuder in San Francisco, 1859-1887; portion of a letter written by him, 1883; papers relating to his estate; land patent issued to his daughter, Mary Krause,...
By: Wagstaff, 375 Sanchez St., S.F.
A collection of letters and autographs presented to the University of California in April 1922 by Sam Bell Wakefield.
Letters of poet Diane Wakoski written primarily from New York City, mentioning her writing, and that of other poets. With these, mamuscripts of some of her poems, some unpublished.
Slides of trips to Cuba made in 1993-1994, organized by the Freedom to Travel / Travel Challenge program of Global Exchange of San Francisco. Pictured are American travelers en route to Cuba (via Cancun, Mexico) and visiting sites and events...
Letters to Henry Morse Stephens and Frederick John Teggart, and research notes, mainly on Bancroft Library materials, relating to the Danish West Indies.
Mainly correspondence between members of the Wall family in the East and in California, some describing Oakland and Berkeley. Included are letters by Benjamin P. Wall, a homeopathic doctor in Berkeley.
Includes an 1884 letter regarding Girdlestone's paper on vivisection. Others concern nationalization of land, economic conditions in Great Britain, and a self-characterization as "a thorough socialist."
Includes photographs of Joaquin Miller (by I.W. Taber), Ella Higginson (by Kirkpatrick of Whatcom, Wash.) Herman Whittaker (by Shaw & Shaw of Oakland), Herbert and daughter Alice Bashford and other family members, and a group portrait of N. Bashford, George...
Includes map, information booklet, telephone directory, badge and award from the wartime Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; wartime newspapers from Oak Ridge; and two oversized scrapbooks regarding his career in engineering at UCRL; copies of correspondence of UCRL...
Chiefly contains letters from Wallace G. Macgregor to his family in East Braintree, Massachusetts, concerning his activities as a chemist, working first in the gold mines of Big Bug, Arizona, and later traveling as a consultant to mines in Nevada...
Included is correspondence from 1963-1983, manuscripts of his novels, his autobiography, numerous plays in various stages, some with notes outlines, background materials, ideas for novels never written, and a few unpublished stories. There is much information in the shape of...
Wallace I. Matson papers, BANC MSS 2002/62 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Snapshot views taken in San Francisco shortly after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Images document destruction and damage to buildings and scenes in refugee and military camps. Noteworthy subjects include City Hall, the Flood Mansion and Fairmont Hotel on...
Contains correspondence and reports related to work done with various companies dealing with mining and metals including Peabody Coal, Kaiser, AMAX, Homestake and Diamond Shamrock. Also includes papers relating to The Club.
Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.
Contains documents concerning land grants and the sale of land in Wallowa County, Ore. Many contracts involve Shonts family members or businesses. Also includes Shonts family documents concerning the sale of land in Santa Clara County, Calif., Santa Cruz, Calif.,...
Photos show various stages of animation production, including views of technicians, musicians, voice creators, meetings, etc. Photographs relating to the following animated films are included: Alice in wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, Snow White, Cinderella, and The jungle book.
The bulk of items are literary manuscripts in the form of fragmentary working notes for Whitman's Specimen days & collect. Also includes correspondence or fragments of correspondence, miscellaneous notes, other papers related to his work, and a self-fashioned notebook containing...
Press photographs by Associated Press photojournalist Walt Zeboski documenting politician Willie Brown, chiefly during his tenure in the California State Assembly (1965-1995). Many other politicians and noteworthy figures are depicted with Brown, including Jerry Brown, George Miller, Maxine Waters, and...
Research materials concerning the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) impact and mass extinction, audio cassettes of KT public lecture series, course notes, meeting programs and notes, research papers, correspondence, and other material.
Contains 6 and a 1/2 class notebooks for arithmetic, history, and science. Also contains 4 and a 1/2 ledgers.
With remarkable attention to detail Walter Jones, in some 350 letters and postcards to his fiancee, Musidore Rowntree, describes mining operations, California political and social life, as well as his own personal life. He writes extensively of his work at...
Includes letters and a revised holograph manuscript of his story, Uncle Jack.
Contains unpublished writings by Walter C. Cambra concerning Bram Stoker's Dracula for the Bram Stoker Circle, many written in 1997 for the centennial. Titles include: "Selected Commentaries on Bram Stoker's Dracula," containing 7 essays; "Short Commentaries on Bram Stoker's Dracula,"...
Photographs show many views of wilderness areas and recreation areas in California, such as the Russian River, Sherwood, Harris Station, the Eel River, Hoopa Valley, Monterey, Mt. Shasta area, and unidentified forests (including logs and logging). A number of forest...
Notebooks and papers, mainly as member, San Francisco Fire Department, [ca. 1920]
This collection includes correspondence between Knight and his former research assistants (specifically Winston Saunders, Daniel Gordon, and Vitaly Kresin) and other colleagues concerning collaborations on experiments and research papers. Also included are notebooks, course materials, biographical information and research files.
Diploma from U.C. College of Pharmacy and 2 state licenses.
Letters, mainly written to Bertram Lloyd, concerning the publication of De la Mare's poems in an anthology. Corrected typescript of his book of poems, Stuff and Nonsense, also included.
Consists of materials gathered by Walter, Eunice and Edward Dodds in the course of leading Sierra Club outings to Hawaii, Mexico, and other locations from approximately 1968 to 1989. Files on trips consist of planning materials, camp menus; food lists;...
Consists primarily of correspondence relating to the Creation Research Society and plant breeding. Also includes articles and notes by Lammerts.
Includes works by F. Boucher, C.N. Cochin, Desrais, [J.H.?] Fragonard, H. Gravelot, J.M. Moreau (le jeune), J.B. Oudry, Richard, [J.?] Vernet, and A. Watteau.
Contains letters from Walter F. Vilas to his father H.M. Vilas or his brother Martin S. Vilas, describing his move from Ore. to Calif., the San Francisco earthquake, the help of the University of Calif. students following the earthquake, and...
The account book, 1909-1910, reflects the partnership of W.G. Francis and G.H. Givens in a teaming business. The portfolio contains miscellaneous bills and receipts, 1905-1906.
Specifications and blueprints, including floor plans, elevations, sections and details for buildings designed by Walter H. Ratcliff and his firm Ratcliff and Ratcliff.
Five daily journals contain manuscript notes of where Wiley was working that day and on what project. Eight letterpress copy books contain copies of thousands of letters about all aspects of mines and mining.
Regarding his interests in writing and in socialism. Manuscripts and clippings of some of his poems and articles included.
The collection contains photocopies of letters between Hilborn and ranking officials of national and local Jewish organizations, as well as copies of speeches, reports, awards and tributes, and various legal materials. In addition, the collection contains autobiographical and genealogical information...
Contains correspondence and research materials used to create a biography of Luther Burbank, including a copy of an unpublished manuscript written by Donald F. Jones titled "The Life and Work of Luther Burbank."
Consists of correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and other personal ephemera. Correspondents include his sister, Elizabeth Stephenson, A.A. Jones, Ruberto Bevan, Bertram Martin Adams, Allen L. Chickering (for Miller and Lux), Charlotte Anith Whitney and William F. Knowland. Letters from Walter Hughes...
Contains summaries, reports, studies, photographs, newsletters and clippings covering engineering and water resources development projects in California that Huber was involved with. Photographs are of dam projects in Calif. and of buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Collection of paper memorabilia, including an original bicycle trip diary, photographs, theater ephemera and other materials pertaining to the life of a Berkeley High School student in the 1940s.
The Walter Macarthur Papers contain materials of interest to researchers of the history of seaman's rights, maritime law, and labor movements. The bulk of the collection begins with Macarthur's service as U.S. Shipping Commissioner from 1913 to 1932, including substantial...
Notes, articles and publications concerning his interest and activity as a professor of English at U.C. Berkeley.
Concern Taylor's interest and activity as a mammalogist, conservationist, and curator of The U.C. Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (1909-1916).
Prints and paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, Earl Loran, John Haley, Harriet Fielding Whedon, and Micah Schwaberow.
The collection consists of research materials, correspondence, genealogies, and family photos relating to the Hertzmann, Koshland, and Loeb families. It was researched and compiled by Walter S. Hertzmann (b.1909 - d.1993) to document his and his wife's, Elizabeth Koshland Hertzmann...
The bulk of the collection pertains to the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and Johnson's work to save the building. Also included are professional papers documenting Johnson's career with American Forest Products Company and the Friden Calculating Maching...
Material relating to the publication of articles on mining devices and service as University Marshal; and manuscripts of ballads and articles. Included are letters from the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Engineering and Mining Journal, Allan H....
Two letters to A.B. Hanson, Jr., 1946, and uncorrected galley proofs of his novel, The City of Trembling Leaves.
Correspondence, both personal and relating to the California Division of Mines. Field notes, manuscripts and miscellaneous papers including reports, etc., for various scientific groups of which he was a member. Considerable material for Masonic orgnaizations, including Order of the Eastern...
Transferred from the Walter Wadsworth Bradley papers (BANC MSS C-B 406).
Concern his life and activities as a writer.
Contains four letters concerning Rube Goldberg being awarded the "The Silver Lady," including a letter from Goldberg thanking Winchell for his kind words.
Files include some correspondence, copies of student papers, class material, lecture notes, Mss, reprints of writings, research files, etc.
Pocket diaries kept by a clerk for Le Count & Strong, booksellers and stationers, San Francisco. In June, 1856, he left to return, via the Isthmus, to his home in New York State.
Includes wanted posters, correspondence about fugitives, and related material, much of which is accompanied by original photographs.
V. 1, receipts from guests, 1906 (with later school notes by Leona, daughter of John Grete, owner); v. 2-3, ledger and cashbook, 1913-1916; v. 4, check and deposit register, 1915-1916.
Bound volumes with the names of movies listed on the left hand page and dated entries on the right facing pages containing columns of dates and hours with numbers entered and totalled. It is unclear what the numbers represent. The...
Exterior and interior views of the Hutton house (built ca. 1896), taken Apr 14, 1988. The house was scheduled for relocation in Saratoga in 1989 or 1990 in connection with the State Highway Route 85 alignment project.
Warrant book containing stubs of warrants no. 1-341, issued and signed by Edwin D. Wheeler, June 14-Dec. 23, 1850.
This collection consists of a card file containing a Maidu word list and notes on River Patwin morphology, phonemics and phonetics compiled by Warren Arthur Snyder.
Collection consists of reports, plans, drawings, photographs, and slides relating to Warren B. James' engineering work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the 1930s and the following other bridge projects in Northern and Southern California: San Gabriel School District...
Project files, including architectural drawings (on linen and tissue, and blueprints), specifications, and correspondence. Includes several files relating to projects done for the University of California, Berkeley.
Journal (Jan. 2-July 15, 1849) of passage, Boston to San Francisco, in bark Elvira; items of membership, New England Associated California Pioneers of '49 and a few family items.
Originals in the Hiram Johnson papers, C-B 581 Pt. III in the Bancroft Library.
Personal and business correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous publications relating to the activities and interests of attorney and U.C. Berkeley faculty member Warren Gregory, family members, and friends. Includes California bar exam questions with corresponding composition answer books. Agencies represented in...
Concerning banking and mining interests in the West. Diaries of December, 1879-December, 1886, describe trips to New York and business travels in Colorado, California, Washington, and particularly northern Idaho. A memorandum book evidently dates from 1886; an account book includes...
The Warren L. Hanna Papers contain materials related to Hanna's interest in the controversy surrounding the site of Sir Francis Drake's landing on the western coast of North America in 1579. The collection includes several drafts of Lost Harbor, Hanna's...
Photograph album documenting everyday life of Warren Lowe, a young Chinese American man residing in San Francisco, and his family, friends and associates, chiefly from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. Images, mostly snapshots, depict Warren and his siblings (Eddie,...
Consists of speeches made by Warren Olney III, with a small amount of correspondence, including letters to and from Thurgood Marshall. Other Olney material includes one speech by Warren Olney, Jr. and a letter to him from William D. Mitchell,...
Include: San Francisco City Directory listings for Olney family, 1867-1914; letter from Warren Olney to A.J. Ralston re San Francisco earthquake, 3 May 1906; Articles by Warren Olney. All materials are photocopies.
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Letters from Gelett Burgess, Edwin Emerson, James M. Hopper, Idwal Jones, Barbara Newberry (concerning Perry Newberry) and Martha Ewing-Newcome (concerning Isabel Fraser Chamberlain) Covering letter to James D. Hart.
Copies of photographs included. Copies of documentary material and clippings inserted of appended. Earl Warren Job Hunting at the Legislature, a brief interview with Horace Albright narrating an incident occurring in 1919; Earl Warren's Friend and Biographer, an interview with...
She recalls leaving her children in Iowa as she joined her first husband in the Richmond shipyards, her work as a welder there, her romance with her crew's leaderman, Ray Cathey, and the general spirit of the times, including her...
1: Portrait of one of the Washington brothers at about age 2, wearing a dress and holding a large cap. -- 2: Portrait of two brothers standing next to each other, in trousers and jackets buttoned to the neck, holding...
Accounts, Mar. 13, 1869 - Sept., 1882, for gold and silver mining and milling company in Mariposa Co., Calif.
Includes letters from Kimball Webster (1828-1916) concerning his journey from Oregon to Washington; and letter of John Broyles concerning white penetration of the area near Kendall, Wash.
Two letters to H.H. Bancroft, Seattle, 1884, by A.A. Denny and Charles Prosch, about the Post-Intelligencer; brief notes concerning the Seattle Chronicle and Puget Sound Weekly Argus; and clippings on Washington history from the Snohomish Northern Star, 1877-1879.
Includes reports on purchase of water in Owens Valley by Los Angeles, value of property of the Hillside Water Company in Inyo County, the All-American Canal in Imperial Valley, return waters from irrigation, damage to property in Needles, California by...
A graduate of the Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and attornbey for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, John B. Reilly talks about the Alameda County Public Defender's Office under Willard Shea; litigation and negotiation for Mokelumne...
Harold Raines, holder of a J.D. degree from the University of California, for many years Attorney for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, discusses the District's early years, water law and right of condemnation; negotations for Mokelumne River water, and...
Childhood in Arizona and southern California; Stanford University, B.A., 1964; Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 1967; U.S. Air Force, 1967-1972; contracts, military justice, other legal work; East Bay Municipal Utility District, 1972-1993: water rights, utilities and environmental law; preserving...
Residence, for a short time during World War II, of the artist and his family.
Exterior views of Spanish missions and their surroundings; some showing various stages of delapidation.
Watercolor sketches of scenery in the Sierra Nevada range, including views of Yosemite Valley and unidentified locations. Many sketches exhibit layout markings. Also includes design sketches for title page of artist's "A Sierra fantasy", and an illustrated ms. page. Each...
of the estate of William P. Barlow ;
Watercolors, likely all by the same artist, depicting parade floats promoting various fraternal organizations, including San Mateo Co. Druids.
Watercolors depict a single-masted American sailing ship (presemably the sloop Cyane, on which Meyers served) and various illustrations of people in a comical, cartoonish style. These include a self portrait of Meyers captioned "William loafing a bundle," a procession of...
Views depicts Acapulco (water, mountains, buildings, people), a mountain scene near Zumpango (including a horse, rider, and roadside cross), a mountain scene in western Mexico (showing huts, people, a roadside cross, etc.) and two scenes at the Chagres River, Panama...
Images include Spanish Church in Los Angeles; house in Sycamore Canyon, Ranch near Mesa, Spanish house, and Adobe House, Santa Barbara; and Powder House Village, Santa Cruz,
Includes one composite view of an overview of Excelsior's lumber-yard below a view of the yard's waterfront. Also pictured is a smaller waterfront operation, with wooded hills in background, and a view of a dock with a small steam train...
Contains circulars, press releases and correspondence during and after the Pacific Coast Longshoremen's Strike in 1934, of the Waterfront Employer's Union of San Francisco and the Waterfront Employers Association. Correspondence between the International Longshoremen's Association and the Central Coast Committee...
Views of the garden at the estate of Stanley McCormick in Montecito, primarily showing bridges, dams, pools, etc., along a creek.
Chiefly Yosemite views. Also includes San Francisco and vicinity and several California missions.
1: General view of Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point -- 2: Last View from Mariposa Trail -- 3: Outline of Cathedral Rocks, from the River at foot -- 4: Bridal Veil Falls from hillside -- 5: Cathedral Spires--full front view...
Provenance uncertain. Each bears an undated label on verso indicating the were from the estate of Caroline Polhemus.
1: Telegraph Hill -- 2: The Golden Gate, San Francisco -- 3: The Lower Yosemite Fall -- 4: Clark's Station--Near View (Taber) -- 5: Yosemite Falls -- 6: The Florida Hoisting Works -- 7: End of the Carson-Tahoe Lumber and...
Includes seven Yosemite views, San Francisco Bay Area views, and California mission views. Bay Area views include: launching of the U.S.S. Comanche, Mission Santa Clara and the Notre Dame Academy of San Jose, San Francisco's First Unitarian Church, and various...
Chiefly views of Yosemite Valley, with additional images of Seal Rocks (off San Francisco, Calif.), the Geysers (Sonoma County?), Downieville Buttes, and a rock arch on the Farallon Islands.
Photos show interiors (including decor and furniture) and the conservatory at the Darius O. Mills residence, presumably in Millbrae, Calif.
Stereographs (from Watkins' new series) show three California missions: San Buenaventura (#4638) -- San Carlos Borromeo (unnumbered) -- San Juan Capistrano (#4623). Cabinet card photographs (from Watkins' new cabinet series) are captioned: -- Tombstone, Arizona (#4913) [showing general view of...
Collection of 5 letters (16 pages) written by Watson Blanchard in Todds Valley, California, between January 20, 1864 (shortly after his arrival in California) and April 1865, to his mother, Martha Blanchard (3 letters), his brother Ruel Blanchard (1 letter),...
Includes typewritten dictation and draft of biographical sketch, partially in H.H. Bancroft's hand.
Correspondence, research notes, and other scientific and personal papers relating to his career as professor of botany, director of Lawrence Hall of Science and the Botanical Garden, and Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Affairs.
Includes a portrait of the Miller family: Wayne, Joan, Peter, Dana, David, Jeanette, 1974, and 2 snapshots of Wayne Miller in his studio (ca. 2003?).
Consists of works by and about Wayne T. Corbitt, including his notebooks, poems, short stories, plays, and performance works, as well as reviews of his work and interviews. Also includes a small amount of correspondence with colleagues and friends, and...
Transferred from the Wayne T. Corbitt papers (BANC MSS 2000/100 c).
Fourteen letters, primarily to his wife Maria, written from California, detailing his work mining. Also includes a few letters written by other family members.
Material relating to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Land Use Survey in Europe and Africa, 1938-1939, including copies of letters written by him, itinerary, log, photographs and preliminary reports; letters written from China, 1942-1943, while on a mission for the...
Collection includes correspondence, diaries and field notes, articles on soil erosion and land reclamation, reports, and many photographs documenting Lowdermilk's trips to the Middle East, Europe, and China.
Relating primarily to his literary work. Included are letters from Holbrook Blinn, Ina D. Coolbrith, Charles M. Gayley, David S. Jordan and Vincent Starrett; and photocopies of Morrow's letters to Starrett, 1915-1921, many of which refer to Ambrose Bierce.
Contains two copies of a printed broadside (8 1/2 x 11 in.) that was used for display purposes in business establishments located in Mount Shasta, California during the late 1960's.
Some relate to British politics. Also included is a holograph draft of a Preface, Mar. 15, 1878.
Two letters to W.H. Weathern, Farmington, Maine, from uncle, M.B. Reed, Denmark, Iowa, planning to leave for California, Apr., 1849; two letters to E.R. Weathern from friend, John L. Gilley, Indian Crick [sic.] and Grass Valley, Calif., 1852-1853.
Album of carte-de-visite studio portrait photographs of members of the Weatherwax family, pioneers of Placerville (El Dorado County, California), and other individuals. Identified subjects include Sarah Dorinda Laverty Weatherwax (her maiden name also spelled Laferty); Katie Letts Shelby (of New...
Kay Sekimachi discusses her family background, studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts, learning and teaching weaving techniques, exhibits and shows, and stimulus for innovation.
Collection of family portraits of the Charles M. Weber family of Stockton, Calif. and some of their Murphy relatives. Included are 12 half-plate daguerreotype views of Stockton and the exterior of the Weber home, taken for Weber by W.H. Rulofson,...
Typed and handwritten notes and transcriptions from various newspapers and government documents on topics relating to Pacific Coast shipping from the 1840s to the 1870s. The files appear to be related to an unpublished book project. Topics include the following:...
4 documents.
Business correspondence (1939), ledgers (1882-1903), scrapbook of clippings re Weaverville (1876-1885), and other materials.
Photograph album of snapshots documenting an unidentified woman's stay at the Weimar Joint Sanatorium for tuberculosis, likely in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Photographs depict her, some of her fellow patients (only identified by first name) and various visitors....
Contains the annual and special meeting reports with details of meetings of Board of Directors and principal stock holders including by-laws, financial operations, properties, and negotiations with labor unions. Also includes establishment of Isidor Weinstein memorial scholarship at the University...
Photocopies of diary of A.S. Welch; and letters by David Switzer. Also, photocopies of Welch letters as published in two newspapers.
A quarter-plate daguerreotype of Gilbert Cumming Weld, and a sixth-plate daguerreotype of his wife Elise M. Weld. Stereographs are portraits of Elise Weld's family, in various locations, after her marriage to Louis [Lewis?] Henry Newton. Stereographs taken in front of...
Photos from two exhibits at the De Young Museum, San Francisco (photos 1-5) -- Exhibition of Japanese materials, 1951; (photos 6-9) -- Exhibition of American-Indian materials, 1953.
Contains travel journals, legal documents and newspaper clippings. Journals are Emma Wellman's for trips to Japan in 1897, world trip in 1899-1900 and a trip to New Zealand in 1925-1926 and Jean Wellman's trip to Europe in 1889-1890. Legal documents,...
Formal portraits and snapshots of various members of the Bela Wellman family. Includes social gatherings, residences (including the Fruitvale district of Oakland, Calif.) and the Wellman, Peck & Co. store in San Francisco, Calif. Album also depicts Jean Howard McDuffie,...
Collection of ca. 600 pages of original and carbon-copy letters, memos, and telegrams originating from the El Paso, Texas office of John J. Egan, Superintendent of the Wells Fargo office there, documenting business activities across the Mexican North, the Pacific...
Nine bound volumes of various printed forms with handwritten entries: 5 letterpress volumes of receipt copies for way-bills and money orders, 2 volumes of way-bill passing registers, 1 volume of a delivery receipt book, and 1 daily balance volume.
Photographs show finished buildings (designed by Welton Becket), construction scenes, plans, architects' drawings, public buildings and institutions (hotels, hospitals, schools, churches, etc.), and many projects at the University of California Los Angeles campus. Most projects seem to be in Southern...
Contains correspondence (1949-1955), writings (1916-1955), and a few personal and family papers, including photographs (1922-1972). Oversize folder: certificate of merit for service during World War II, signed by Harry Truman, March 1, 1948.
Contains manuscript and typed letters, mostly from Wendell P. Roop, a student in the Physics Department at the University of California in Berkeley to his father, a businessman in Kansas City, Mo. Describes his activities and interests in school and...
Preferred citation: Werner K.G. Möbes clippings and other assorted miscellany pertaining to his work, Bibliographie der Tauben, BANC MSS 92/833 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Snapshots from a Panama Canal trip. Includes Calif. desert, Joshua Trees, Grand Canyon, etc.
Views of the West. Views of rodeos and festivals: grandmother and child, women peering through cyclone fence, and portrait of little girl, at White Mt. Apache Tribal Rodeo, 1970; man thrown from bull, Papago Tribal Rodeo, Sells, Ariz., 1969; Crow...
Wells Wallis West (1836-1924) autobiography, Lake Port, California, March 1921-February 1922. Account of childhood in Illinois; overland journey to California (1853) via Ft. Laramie and Salt Lake City; mining near Ione City and at Michigan Bar; Civil War experiences as...
Consists of letter to a prospective investor along with a company prospectus, an article on the mining area and an order blank for stock.
Two variant panoramic group portraits of class of 1938 students of West Lake School, Oakland, Calif.
Views relating to oil industry of Taft area in Kern County. Depicted are oil fields, individual rigs, blowouts, business districts, buildings, and supporting industries. Includes photos of the Standard Oil Co. facilities (machine and blacksmith shop, farm, pipelines, bunk houses,...
Biographical sketch of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Westbrook, Lorena, Texas, by John W. Hall, 1886; two letters, 1886, by Mrs. Westbrook to Hall and H.H. Bancroft concerning her desire to write a biographical account of Bancroft; narrative by Mrs. Westbrook,...
Views from California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nebraska, and Wyoming, chielfy in national parks and national forests.
Manuscripts, typescripts, music score, illustrations, printed material concerning Jack London, George Sterling, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Helen Hunt Jackson, John Muir, Ina Coolbrith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Warren Stoddard, Edwin Markham, Stewart Edward White, Gertrude Atherton,...
Includes the towns of Fernie, British Columbia, and Coal Creek (Yukon?). Races, fishing, and other recreational and family life scenes are depicted. Also pictured are logging, mining, parades & carnivals, an avalanche, and general street and landscape views.
Organizational and other records [kept during a part of 1896-1897 by W.D. (Big Bill) Haywood], including minutes of weekly meetings at Silver City, August, 1896-September, 1898, financial records, register of members, membership cards, transfer cards, and other materials.
3 folded, mounted prints: reproductions of architectural drawings by Bernard Maybeck and/or Julia Morgan depicting various views and details of the proposed Western Hills cemetery.
The prairie on fire, Nebraska; The Truckee River (from a photograph by C. E. Watkins); A Valley in the Sierra Nevada (from a sketch by Fred. Whymper), and The Summit of the Sierra Nevada mountains (from a drawing by Nahl...
The collection contains the indexes for the oral histories, as well as biographical information for those people preliminarily interviewed for the project: Celia Yerusalimski Alperth; Bassya Maltzer Bibel; Philip Bibel; Eugene Block; Lilan Friedman Cherney; Zena Sheinkman Druckman; Rose Hartman...
The "San Francisco Jews: Old Traditions on a New Frontier" was a special traveling exhibition prepared, in 1976, by the Western Jewish History Center. It was created in commemoration of the United States' bicentennial, and it was developed with the...
The Western Jewish History (WJHC), Newsletter Collection consists primarily of newsletters related to various Jewish congregations, temples, lodges, and community groups located in the western region of the United States. The materials also include directories, brochures, dedication books, program event...
This collection, consisting of materials from various sources, documents the evolution of Zionist thought in the San Francisco Bay Area. It includes correspondence; pamphlets; newspaper clippings and small publications; and photographs and posters. In addition, the collection contains the proposed...
Correspondence and documents principally relating to Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Also included are titles and deeds relating to the purchase of property in San Francisco and Jenny Lind, Calif. Correspondence documents conflict between the government of Mexico and the Western Land...
Concerns Indians warfare, fur trade, freight and freightage, description of Rocky Mountains, actions and defenses, real estate, and overland journeys to the Pacific. Each item individually cataloged. Search under title: Western Miscellany; or call number: BANC MSS P-W 10:1-8.
To prospective investors containing prospectus and stock application.
Photographs document many aspects of logging and lumbering operations in California, including views of hand-logging, mills, lumber, horses hauling logs, tools and equipment, and logging camps. Various lumber companies are identified.
Photographed by Sierra, S[an] F[rancisco]. Name blind-stamped in photograph.
Postcards show many California locations, including: Coalinga; Hanford; Hayward; missions San Gabriel, San Xavier, and Santa Inez; Modesto; Oakland; Roseville; the Crocker Mansion, San Francisco; and the Hotel Montgomery and Market St., San Jose. Other views show Phoenix, Arizona; Goldfield,...
California postcards show buildings in Eldridge, Lake Chabot in Oakland, San Francisco views, San Rafael, Mt. Tamalpais, and various nature scenes. Other postcards are from Garrison, Montana (Blackfoot Indian family portrait) and Portland, Oregon. One shows a mule posing as...
Disbound promotional album for Western Sky Industries, including photographs, interior and exterior diagrams, maps pertaining to the company's locations in Hayward, San Leandro, and Richmond, California. Photographs are black and white and include interior factory workspace shots as well as...
Contains conference programs and reports; also newsletters and directories.
Great Bear Rocks, Purgatory River, Col. -- The Churches of San Miguel and St. Guadaloupe, Sante Fe, New Mexico -- Mill Creek Fall (Oregon) -- Morris and Front. View of Portland's Great Flood 1894 ⁰́₃ Ashland (Oregon) from Ropers Hill...
Doll figures printed on sugar bag fabric, as promotional items for the Western Sugar Refinery. Dolls represent various characters from Mother Goose, national types, etc., including Little Miss Muffet; Frog Who Went A-Wooing; Tommy Tucker (2 copies); Trili, Swiss girl...
Small format snapshots.
Photographs show Colorado scenery, general views of Colorado towns, and railroads. Utah views focus on Salt Lake City and show the Mormon Tabernacle and general views. California views include many from San Francisco: some from the California Mid-Winter Exposition, views...
Contains scrapbook, blank telegrams, sign, publications, correspondence and photographs. Scrapbook includes clippings and photographs of Western Union employees, equipment, and of Western Union in general. Also includes telegram and reports from United Nations Conference in San Francisco in 1945; papers...
Elevators, machinery, and modern renovations in Los Angeles buildings.
Includes four portraits of Tina Modotti, two nudes (believed to have been modelled by Miriam Lerner Fisher), and two photos of Mexican clay statuettes.
Letters, publishers' agreements, Mss. of a few articles, and army papers (1918-1921).
Primarily relate to Bard's oil and property dealings in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties. There are also materials on crimes related to land claims, and relating to Bard's political career as a United States Senator. Hutchinson's book on...
Script (33 leaves), the original of which appears to have included minor ms. revisions & notations. Perhaps an actor's copy. The playbill is for a performance (ca. 1975) featuring Diane Di Prima and several of her children.
Contains 15 letters by Allison Wheeler and 5 letters by Alfred Wheeler, from San Francisco, Calif., back east to New York, many to their sister Caroline Garner Chapman. The letters concern Allison's travel to Calif. by ship, life in Calif....
Title from printed title page.
His poem, submitted to Bernard Rosenthal and Andrew Hoyem. Set in portfolio, with handdrawn map, suggestions for photographic illustrations, and notes.
A transcript of Whidbey's letter with notes concerning the author, other members and the vessels on Vancouver's voyages of discovery. Covering letter from J. Pearson & Co. (London) Ltd., included.
Notice requesting meetings for selection of delegates to state convention, ca. 1854 and a bill from the Siskiyou Chronicle to the Independent Party, Yreka, for the printing of tickets, 1857.
Five letters concerning preparation of articles on Cuba and other subjects for the London Times written on stationery of the American office of The London Times.
Contains office files relating to their political and public relations campaigns.
Letters, mainly from the Whitcomb brothers - Clement Godfrey, Byron and J. Baker - to family in the East. Includes description of Panama in 1851; life in mining communities of Yuba Co.; mines and water ditches; stage coach robbery by...
Henry Hyer Whiting correspondence with William G. McAdoo, 1932-1938. Contains Whiting's files, mainly as Northern California campaign manager for McAdoo. A few letters to and form others included. Also, copies of correspondence with John W. Preston concerning federal judgeships for...
Copies of original Mss. or transcript: (1) Letters of Peter H. Burnett and Henry H. Spalding to J.S. Griffin of The Oregon American, 1848; (2) Overland diary of Sidney Smith with Farnham's party, 1839; (3) Sketches of early Oregon history...
Typed transcript compilation made for the Whitman National Monument by Olaf T. Hagen, U.S. National Park Service, 1941-1942.
Contains ledger books for Whittier, Fuller, & Co. for various business transactions including invoices, accounts, correspondence, freight, stable costs, etc. Also contains some loose miscellaneous ephemera, including catalogs and receipts. Some of the ledgers come from subsidiaries and previous business...
Scrapbook contains photographs, clippings and ephemera pertaining to the police department in Whittier, Calif.; the career of officer Merle Crum; and crime and criminals in the greater Los Angeles area. Photographs depict police officers, crime scenes and murder victims.
Includes building exterior, staff, workers engaged in sorting walnuts, and one business letter.
Includes views of downtown Berkeley and residences in the Berkeley View Terrace and Hillside areas.
Family portraits, snapshot photographs, photograph albums, and some memorabilia documenting the lives of various branches of a San Francisco Jewish family. The collection centers around the families of Alvin Davis (1888-1967) and his wife Vera Metzger Davis (1893-1988), and that...
The bulk of materials date from the 1930s through the 1950s and provide a snapshot of a San Francisco Jewish family's life before, during, and after WWII. The collection includes correspondence, planners, journals, and scrapbooks that illuminate the family's social...
Concern mining experiences, teaming, and life in Sacramento.
Soliciting help on the ore prospects of land bought on speculation now up at public auction.
Contains nine typescripts of general fiction stories.
Prints depict six bird species of North America: 1. Peregrine falcon; 2. Golden eagle; 3. Goshawk; 4. Eaglets; 5. Barn owl; 6. Canadian geese.
Contains letters and transcripts of poems.
Contains six calligraphic and hand-painted volumes of poetry written and bound by Wilder Bentley the Younger. Four of the volumes are from a series titled, "The triumph of the Antichrist" (Books I-IV). One bound volume is titled "Utchat, prophetic poems,...
Notes by Mrs. Augusta Miner Wilder, letters from family and friends, and tax receipts of Jonas Wilder for property in Coloma, included.
Regarding Perleberg's Rundbrief, and German/American relations.
Views of nature and wilderness; mostly mountain landscapes. Primarily Dinosaur National Monument and a few in Kings Canyon National Park. Some portraits are also included.
Professional hand-colored photographs documenting numerous wildflowers found in Yosemite National Park, accompanied by typescript captions that include common and Latin names of the plants, locations where they were found, and the date photographed. Many images appear to be of plant...
Many photographs relate to wildlife (possibly related to Bailey's scientific career and on U.S. Biological Surveys) showing animals in traps, in the wild, etc. Other nature photographs show detailed views of plants and views of rock formations and topography. Photos...
Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.
Letters from R.G. Aitken and W.W. Campbell regarding equipment for Lick Observatory, and from Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Grinnell, W.F. Durand, the California Academy of Sciences, Frank M. Russell and others; papers relating to his patent for an improvement on...
Include correspondence; manuscripts of writings and speeches; clippings and personalia, relating to his career as California superintendent of schools and of banking. Copy of Jeanette A. Vanderpol's dissertation, Will C. Wood Chief of Schools, 1953, also included.
Assembled from various sources as noted on folders.
Bequeaths her property to her daughter, Margaret Lovelace, wife of Sir Richard Lovelace, and their children.
Contains photocopies and transcriptions of 5 letters from Cather to her friend Masaryk, 1923-1935, and photocopies of letters from the Czech consulate general. Cather's letters discuss her works and life. Includes a photocopy of a 1933 article by Dennis Halac...
With explanatory note by Nellie B. Pipes, Oregon Historical Society. Includes letters by Joseph Gervais, Xavier Laderoute, Etienne Lucier, et al., with news of the Willamette settlements and hope of religious assistance.
Includes correspondence, legal and financial records, laboratory day books, drafts of writings and speeches, and research materials.
Letter and portion of letter, September 18 and October 23, 1879, giving information on early French Canadian settlers in Oregon, some of whom went to California in the Gold Rush, and his own overland journey to Oregon, 1844.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Account books reflecting W.A. Carter's business as sutler and post trader at Fort Bridger, Wyoming.
Business letters received, alphabetically arranged, mostly for the 1870's and 1880's; legal papers, especially an 1838 agreement for carrying on a sutlership in the Cherokee Nation, Tennessee; papers reflecting employee concerns in the Fort Bridger area from about 1860 and...
Thirty diary volumes authored by an American globetrotter from 1899 to 1911, and five boxes of postcards to embellish the narratives. Included also is a chronology of Grubb's life derived by Jane Malmgren Bogard and drafts of a reminiscence of...
Photographs show a vacation in Iceland, aerial views of San Francisco (from a hot air balloon), the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 scenes (Marin County...
In three letters to his aunt and cousin Clementina and William Wall of Kentucky written from Placerville, William A. January describes life changes, the Temperance movement, fashion, newly married life, politics, newspapers, and frustrated attempts to see his friend and...
Includes receipts, accounts, and financial correspondence from George Hyde, John B. Montgomery, John A. Sutter, John C. Fremont, and others.
Subject files dating from approximately 1980 to 2020 of William A. Lester Jr., professor in the graduate school of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Files are in rough alphabetical order and are primarily related to Lester's research in...
Includes correspondence, manuscripts, bibliographies, research materials and notes relating to Professor Shack's pioneering work with the Gurage People of Ethiopia, as well as research material and original manuscripts for his book Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the...
Scrapbooks concerning: teaching at UCB (1895-1920); teaching at elementary and secondary level institutions; his education at Yale University; travel around the world; and miscellaneous materials concerning invitations, theater programs, Bohemian Grove (1937-1938), Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Tokyo (1926-1927), presentation...
Kept by Carter primarily in his capacity as sutler and post trader at Fort Bridger; many of the letters and entries are by his wife and sons-in-law, James Van Allen Carter and Maurice Groshon. The first letterbook, a photocopy of...
Mainly business records, including accounts for supplies to the California Battalion and other U.S. forces. Many used in settlement of his estate.
Includes the following groups of material: 1-2: Oregonia, newspaper clippings, 1901-02. 3: Letters of condolence, 1946. 4: Stanford clippings, 1901-25. 5: English clippings and invitations, 1907-1937. 6: War and peace, clippings. 7-9: "The English government at work, 1327-36"; correspondence, 1930-45,...
The William Alfred Tenney papers document his work as a Congregational Church pastor in Northern California and Oregon. Includes correspondence, typescripts of articles and sermons, clippings, and church pamphlets. Also includes research materials compiled in the 1960s by Tenney's nephew,...
Letters written by two brothers, William and Charles Allen, who were in the shipping business in San Francisco. They operated schooners throughout San Francisco Bay and to Stockton, and later engaged in coastal shipping, usually transporting lumber.
Title supplied by cataloger.
This collection contains materials related to the professional career of University of California Berkeley and Harvard economist and regional planner, William Alonso. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, writings--including his seminal dissertation, UC Berkeley and Harvard course materials, notes and...
Views of the Sierra Nevada wilderness from various locations, taken by Alsup during numerous trips. Also includes photographs printed by Alsup from the negatives of other photographers, including former Sierra Club president Lewis Clark, Pete Starr, Glen Dawson, Ted Bartholomew,...
Papers in Marin County case of Charles Spencer Compton and Donald Davidson against Richardson over a debt, 1853-1855; letter to W.H. Davis, concerning his arrival in Sausalito and the death of Henry Hill from cholera.
Correspondence of the judge relating to political appointments and legal questions. Letters from H.W. Johnson, Robert M. Clarke, Erwin W. Owen, George S. Walker and others. Obituary clipping and memorial included.
Chiefly personal letters, 1864-1882, from William Ashburner to William H. Brewer, some of which relate to the California Geological Survey. Also includes letters, 1864?-1902, from Mrs. Ashburner.
Cover his voyage from England to New York in 1844; visit to England and return to the United States (1851); voyage to California via the Isthmus of Panama (1853); experiences gold mining in Tuolumne County and in vicinity of Nelson's...
Papers relating to the voyages of the ship Sarah Parker, including log of voyage from San Francisco to New York, 1854-1855; letters of Gardner describing voyage with San Francisco as destination, ending in Rio de Janeiro where the ship and...
begun, Aug. 12, 1852, in Maine; last entry a poem, 1899, written in San Francisco. Records trip to California, 1853 via Panama; association with his father, Jefferson Lake, in saw mill near Sacramento; events in Sacramento in the 1850s and...
Records travels in New York, Canada and the Midwest, then overland via the Mormon Trail, Salt Lake and the southern road to Los Angeles. Throughout California Lorton was in the company of various parties associated with Death Valley. Three diaries...
Collection of 6 stenographers notebooks containing the manuscript autobiography of William B. Meek, a famous California stagecoach driver. Includes a 7th notebook containing information on other stage lines and transportation routes. The autobiography was written in the early/mid-1930s, a few...
Includes 2 commercial drawings of San Francisco banks: (:1) interior of Hibernia Bank, with text: Service and Safety; (:2) depiction of 2 pirates burying a treasure chest and separate image of facade of Smith & Jones Company bank, with text:...
Notes for Botany II. At end of volume, genealogies of the Bancroft, Putnam, King and Midgely families. With this, clippings re the Bancroft and Wells families.
Contains vinyl record albums, photographs, postcards, periodicals, comic books, etc., relating broadly to the issues of non-heterosexual sexuality and gender expressions in popular media and entertainment. Includes materials concerning Christine Jorgensen, Margaret Cho, Robert Goulet, Marlon Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Ramon...
Include letter (May 27, 1875) to actor Harry Kemble commenting on his performance in Sweet & Short, with mention of other contemporary actors and plays; and an enclosure of a license (Mar. 3, 1873) issued by Donne as Examiner of...
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Approximately 80 letters written to Admiral William Branford Shubrick in Washington, D.C. from family, friends, and associates both before and just after the Civil War. One letter is dated March 14, 1837, but the remainder are dated December 28, 1861...
Private papers of Rear Admiral Shubrick primarily concerning the Mexican-American War and his tour as commander of the Pacific Squadron. Materials include a ledger of memoranda of his time in the Pacific Squadron, correspondence from his wife and daugher, a...
Contains 16 letters from the San Francisco agent for the Singer Manufacturing Co., sent to Singer headquarters in New York. Discusses the business in San Francisco during the time of the Civil War including an industrial fair to be held...
Papers relating to William Bronson's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Includes photographs used in the production of William Brooks Dublin's booklet Benicia: Where the Past Meets the Present. Includes views of Benicia, Calif. and its environs.
Tranferred from the William Byron Rumford papers: additions (BANC MSS 85/51 c).
Letters (14) 1939-1946, from California Representative, Jerry Voorhis, with copies of some of his speeches from the Congressional Record.
Includes published and unpublished poems, short stories, story fragments and an unpublished novel, "The Sword of Zagan."
Manuscript drafts, with comments and some correspondence, of Gordon's mystery novels, including "Flawed," "The Chinese Jars," "The Ugly Dwarf," "King of the Bottom," "Fractured Lives," "The Halls of Power," and "Unfinished." Also included is one manuscript for a short story...
Includes copies of correspondence with Professor Robert E. Heizer and José L. Morales. Also include copies of his notes on materials re Indians of the West in the Archives des Affaires Etrangères in Paris, and a segment of a catalog...
Contains copy of letter from Robert Pepper to poet William Carlos Williams and Williams' response. Also includes script and correspondence from a Radio Program done in New Zealand following Williams' death.
Bulk of album documents documents Carney's service in the United States Air Force during World War II in Europe, including portraits and snapshots of Carney and other soldiers on duty and during leisure time. Includes aerial combat scenes. Other photographs...
Formal and snapshot portraits of blues artists taken primarily at various festivals and other concerts around the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s. Among the more noteworthy performers are Etta James, Brownie McGhee, Percy Mayfield, Carla Thomas, Bo Diddley,...
Include letters written by Ralston; correspondence with members of the Japanese Embassy to the Treaty Powers, 1872-1873 and letter from Daniel Coit Gilman.
letter to George Davidson, Jan. 26, 1874.
The William Chinowsky papers contain materials related to his professional career as a Physics Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. These include course materials, subject files and administrative materials related to the Physics Department and the university.
Contains letters from his father, mother and sibilings was well as a few letters from other family members and friends written to him from mostly San Francisco, Calif. while he was in Chicago, Ill.
Letterpress copies of business and personal correspondence, Feb. 25, 1860 - Nov. 25, 1879.
Commercial prints reproducing watercolor paintings by William Corlett, each featuring a different building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley: South Hall, Sather Gate and Sather Tower (Campanile), Wheeler Hall and Sather Tower, Doe Library, International House, California...
Correspondence relates to various matters, including advice to a young writer and a letter of introduction for another. Included also is an autograph on lined paper.
Diaries, letters, wills, and ephemera belonging to 3 generations of the McClure family. The 2 diaries belong to William D. McClure: the first, 1850, describes his journey from Ohio to California to prospect for gold. Letters to his mother, Jane...
Miscellaneous letters, assembled from various sources.
Consists chiefly of seven letters from Woodrow Wilson to Denman concerning the events leading to Denman's resignation from his post as chairman of the U.S. Shipping Board in 1917. Denman disagreed with General George W. Goethals, general manager of the...
Materials created when Dennison was Governor of California.
Interviews conducted by Willa K. Baum for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Portrait photograph pasted in. Notes on his family (California pioneers) and early life; transfer of engineering interest from mining to water; water problems,...
Papers relating to William E. Colby's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Correspondence, financial reports and files, and writings concerning the first American Mount Everest Expedition in 1963.
Slides documenting various mountaineering and other activities of William E. Siri. Includes photographs pertaining to the American Mount Everest Expedition (AMEE) of 1963. Not all activities depicted pertain to the Sierra Club. Box 1: Bolivia (204 slides); Bear Creek Spire...
Contain correspondence, reports, project files and subject files for Spangle's consulting jobs in San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, Santa Cruz, Alameda and Sacramento counties.
Contents: military appointment paper issued by Col. G. McDowell, 1844; letters from Victor Prudon and William L. Maury, 1847; diary of overland journey from Missouri to California, 1846; and a few travel notes.
Autograph, 1918; letter to George Higgins Moses, April 15, 1925; three letters to George Sylvester Viereck, 1924-1929, with a typescript copy of Viereck's article on Borah for Liberty Magazine, corrected in Ms. by Borah. (16 l.)
Include correspondence, legal documents, accounts, speeches, and newspaper clippings. Correspondence includes letters between his stagecoach company and the Postmaster General regarding mail routes in San Benito county and letters dealing with cases and politics. Legal documents include work done on...
Documents relating to arbitration proceedings between John B.R. Cooper and Luis A. Argüello. Letters, accounts and memorandum of suggested settlement, also signed by Antonio J. Cot, relating to dispute between Argüello, the owner, and Cooper, the captain, of the schooner...
Letters from Panama describe his trip across the Isthmus and his difficulty securing passage to California. Letters from California contain description of San Francisco and of experiences gold mining and store-keeping.
Revised Mss. and printers' copies of books Indian Hero-Legends, Folk Tales and Fairy Stories, and Mythic Tales of the Wyandots. Some notes and sketches relating to illustrations for the books included.
Relating primarily to his literary career during the time he was in the Dominican Order as Brother Antoninus. Includes correspondence, manuscripts of poems, speeches, and other writings. Includes material on Robinson Jeffers, biographical and autobiographical material, personalia, bibliographies and bibliographical...
The collection includes extensive correspondence and subject files from Knowland's careers in journalism and politics, as well as personal correspondence. Also included are scrapbooks, drafts of speeches, and letters from constituents regarding contemporary political issues. Carton 498 includes papers of...
1: California missions, ca. 1900 -- 2: Russian Orthodox Convent of Our lady of Vladimir, 1950-51 -- 3: Knowland in Taiwan -- 4: Uncaptioned album of Knowland in Asia -- 5: Album in honor of Knowland visit to "Free National...
Photographs from the life and career of William Fife Knowland. Includes a few scenes from his childhood in California, some military photographs from the World War II era, and numerous photographs relating to his political career, campaigns for the U.S....
Drawings signed by artist: Bill Simpson.
Includes original drawings for gag cartoons on various subjects. Also includes clippings of Simpson's published cartoons from various sources, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Oakland Post Enquirer and the Winged Acorn.
Binder's title, "Montana Penitentiary." Two letters from Wheeler as U.S. Marshal, giving a brief history of the penitentiary; papers concerning prisons in Arizona and California; letter from H.N. Alexander to H.H. Bancroft, Yuma, 1877, enclosing letter from Governor John P....
Correspondence, research notes, manuscripts of writings and speeches primarily related to his research in low temperature calorimetry and the third law of thermodynamics; also includes files related to the building of the Low Temperature Laboratory at the University of California,...
One letterpress copybook containing ca. 200 letters signed by Wm. Freeborn, F. A. Wheeler or Henry Allen, concerning the California sugar industry. One holograph document, signed, from Cope & Boyd, Attorneys at Law, to Wm. Freeborn, conveying their opinion regarding...
Mainly congratulatory letters to the British author on the publication of his book, Joseph Vance, and letters of condolence to Mrs. De Morgan on his death in 1917. Include letters from his father, Augustus De Morgan, Henry Sidgwick, Sir Philip...
13 original letters and photostats of a letter. Written from New Orleans, Chagres, New Granada, Panama, San Francisco, Sutter's Mill, and Sacramento. Describing voyage on schooner, Crescent City; conditions on the Isthmus; voyage on steamer, Panama; and life in California,...
7 letters and 7 items, including a letter from his sister, Adeline. Other letters from prominent Californians discuss topics such as land, livestock, family, court cases. Two letters are addressed to Dana's son, Carlos. Also included is a deed to...
Letters to Wood as Deputy Clerk of the California Supreme Court.
Scrapbook (1 v.) includes biographical sketch of William Gambel, doctor-naturalist, written by his nephew; letters written by Gambel (who also spelled his name Gamble) to his mother from Santa Fe and from Pueblo de Los Angeles (1841) describing hardships of...
Includes self-published items including some of his own poetry and haiku. Also includes eviction papers from 1993 and 1997.
Includes a brief letter from John Gannon stating that Benjamin Miller had been acquitted of murder on July 11, 1863, a longer letter to P.J. Shafter discussing Miller's San Francisco trial, and a short note.
Contains 2 letters describing the gold mining successes and failures near Poverty Bar on the American River and elsewhere in California after his friend Searle has left the mines. Letter of December 19, 1851 includes a postscript by Els Wallace.
Early history of his family; the Seminole wars; Democratic editor in St. Louis; journey to Oregon With Frémont, 1843; adventures in Oregon and return overland, 1844; Missouri politics, 1845-1846; service under Doniphan in New Mexico, and against the Plains Indians,...
Papers related to Glen's interviews with Scientists.
Letters from Dana in Santa Barbara; testimony concerning a shipment of goods; agreement with Victor Linares regarding a lease.
Materials relating to his career as composer and conductor.
One box; letters, sheet music, speeches and photographs related to William Grant Still. The letters are written by Stills and addressed to Adrian Michaelis, producer and programmer for the Standard Oil Company sponsored radio programs The Standard Hour and Standard...
Concern his career in the U.S. Coast Survey in the East from 1846 and on the Pacific coast from 1854.
Primarily family correspondence (some letters in Welsh) but include 32 letters from E.H. Griffen and his wife, Emily (Oregon pioneers), and letters, 1891-1892, from the San Marcos Land Company, San Diego Co., and Bardsdale Lands, Ventura Co., California.
Contains research materials used for a book, Missing in the Minarets: the search for Walter A. Starr, Jr., about a climber who in 1933 while climbing alone in the Minarets Wilderness of California. Includes Sierra Club bulletins, photocopies of personal...
Primarily letters writtten to Brewer from men who had been associated with him on the California Geological Survey, including James G. Cooper, James T. Gardiner, Josiah Whitney, Vitus Wackenreuder, R.D. Cotter (regarding mining experiences in Montana), and others; and letters...
Chiefly concerning the Geological Survey of California and its publications. A few related letters from others included.
Pocket notebooks, various sizes, in slip cases. Records of the Geological Survey of California, 1860-1864.
Pocket notebooks, various sizes, in slip cases. Notes, observations, etc., on the Geological Survey of California.
Typescript copies of Brewer's correspondence; used by Francis P. Farquhar in preparing Up and Down California ... (Yale Univ. Press, 1930), with a chronology of the Geological Survey of California and explanatory notes by Farquhar.
Records and field notes kept by Brewer while he was a member of the California Geological Survey.
Letters written to his wife at the Presidio in Monterey, providing vivid descriptions of San Francisco following the earthquake and fire and of the relief efforts.
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Includes some family snapshots and views of survey parties in the San Francisco Bay Area and various Yosemite region locations. Bulk of collection focuses on the survey of the Hetch Hetchy valley prior to and during dam construction.
Contains 77 letters written at Haywood, Virginia, June 12, 1834-June 12, 1846, to Foote's nephew William A. Carter. Three letters by his widow, M.M. Foote, 1847-1848, and letters by Henry W. Davis and John Johnson (n.d. and 1884), relate to...
Pocket diaries (3 v.); originals in private possession.
Letters describe Hardy's pioneering days of Hardyville (now Bullhead City), Arizona and Prescott, Arizona, including the construction of the first dwellings, skirmishes with Native Americans, gold and silver prospecting, and mention of the Cariboo gold rush and the assassination of...
Preferred citation: William H. Maas letters received while editor of the London Daily Chronicle, BANC MSS 73/33 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
William H. Meyers' journal, BANC MSS C-F 92, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Illustrated entries for his journal, July-Sept. 1842, recorded while in Chile and Peru with the U.S. Sloop of War, Cyane (variants of those written in his journal, C-F 92, q.v.); two letters, 1843 and 1844, describing further voyages to Hawaii,...
Commemorative scrapbook from approximately 1963 relating to the life and career of San Joaquin County sheriff William H. Reicks. Consists mostly of clippings related to criminal cases and investigations in the San Joaquin Valley of California, clippings relating to Reick's...
Personal intimate letters written by William H. Shockley to his fiance May Bradford just following the couple's engagement. All but one item in the collection is dated in December 1907. At the time, Shockey was working as a mineral surveyor...
Contains the correspondence of a Berkeley, California family through the early twentieth century. The bulk of the letters are while William H. Staniels Jr. was serving in the Aviation Section, Sargent Signal Corps during World War I, and love letters...
Transcript made by Jacques M. Downs of a portion of the original manuscript in the Rhode Island Historical Society Library. Concerning experiences in San Francisco and the mines.
Views, primarily of the University of California, Berkeley, campus, including Sather Gate and Sather Tower; one lantern slide produced from a photograph of the class of 1872; some views of the city of Berkeley.
Contains papers and photographs relating to William H. Young's personal and professional life.
The collection contains photocopies of William Haas' naturalization papers, photocopies of a marriage license and a marriage certificate for William Haas and Bertha Greenebaum; a German book with a photograph pasted to the front inside cover of Koppel and William...
Album contains carte de visite portraits of multiple generations of the family of California civil engineer William Hammond Hall, incluiding Hall himself; his mother Anna Maria Hammond Hall; his sister Mary Buchanan Hall (aka Mollie Buchanan Hall); his uncles and...
Includes etchings of Chinatown and Mission Dolores in San Francisco, an etched portrait of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and paintings of trees and landscapes in the Berkeley Hills, of the mouth of the Russian River, and the rotunda of the Hibernia...
Letters written to family in the East, describing voyage to California via the Isthmus of Panama, and mining near Mokelumne Hill.
Contains 10 letters; 1 from Harris to his wife while in Santa Catalina Island, Calif., 5 from friend Capt. Frank "Gus" Gregory in Santa Catalina and San Pedro, Calif. and 4 from John Hevblow. Letters relate to life in Calif....
Contains mostly deeds along with a smaller number of other related real estate legal documents such as bills of sale, receipts, tax sales, account sheets, etc. for property transactions involving William Heeser. Also contains a small amount of similar materials...
Also include some notes from the Lyman and Milton Stewart papers in the Biola College Library, transcribed by Dr. G.T. White for his history of Standard Oil of California, and later given to Prof. Hutchinson for his use.
Includes portraits of Ute high chief Ignacio; Apache chiefs Garfield, Pouche Te Foya and Sanches; and Pueblo Indians Jose Jesus and wife.
Diaries (1866-1867) record his "bullwacking" experiences in the West, including journeys to Salt Lake and California, and East to Omaha. Diary (1873-1874) records experiences with the Hayden Survey, chiefly in Colorado.
Contains business and family correspondence. Business correspondence includes letters from John Conness and Adolphus W. Greely and receipts to A. Cohn & Co. Family letters prior to 1859 describe his work installing telegraph lines for the railroad in the Midwest,...
Contains correspondence, subject files, writings, clippings, tributes, and ephemera. Correspondence includes letters to wife Ella, daughter Stella Knight Ruess, and other family members and some professional correspondence including some while working for H.H. Bancroft and Co. Subject files include items...
Mainly letters written to him from his brother-in-law, Caleb Gardner, describing Vera Cruz in 1847; from H.A. Lake re business in Honolulu; from Charles A. Hill, describing Valparaiso; and from partners in mining ventures in Tuolumne County and near Santa...
Contains 139 documents including personal papers, military correspondence, ledgers and receipts of a U.S. Army officer in charge of a garrison protecting settlers from Indian raids in Humboldt County, California. Includes a typed index to the corresponding documents (numbered sequentially).
Nine cartons of material (manuscripts, letters, clippings, etc.) assembled by Smyth in volumes; one carton, miscellaneous unbound papers.
Mainly letters to his father. Some concerning his law practice and saw mill at Mokelumne Hill, 1854-1855. A few letters from his father and other members of the family in the East.
Plates 7 and 8 from Hogarth's 12-print series of engravings Industry and idleness. Aimed at young apprentices, the series satirically illustrates the consequences of industriousness versus those of idleness as portrayed in the parallel lives of two fictitious apprentices, Tom...
Military passes to Oakland, 1906; World War II ration books; badges.
Papers of a Mormon bishop.
Chiefly writings by Mercedes Gardner, including scripts for the "Scooter" radio show broadcast in 1940s-1950s in Sacramento, California, "Menelik," an unpublished historical novel, and short stories, plays, and poetry. Also includes family history, personal correspondence, and Philip family materials.
Some documents signed as Governor of California. Also miscellaneous college papers, letter of recommendation and teaching contract.
Chiefly letters from members of the Frémont family; many received while General Frémont was Governor of Arizona.
Relates to the case William Nelson vs. George Nelson held in the California Supreme Court, San Francisco re claims on the estate of William J. Nelson who died intestate in l855. Include statement of facts in the case, brief and...
Collection of Stockton ephemera contains receipt letterhead for grocer J. Sarles, an envelope from bookseller and stationer George Kroh, and an envelope addressed in manuscript to William Jeremiah Sarles Hickox in Stocton. Also includes W.J.S. Hickox's passbook from the Stockton...
Two portraits of William Tormey (PIC folder); one printed panoramic view from Berkeley, one panoramic group portrait of California Municipal League, 1912, one banquet portrait of dinner for J. Daniels by S.F. Chamber of Commerce, 1913 (AX box).
Contains correspondence, course notes, personal journals, research notes, administrative files and photographs.
Contains correspondence, manuscripts of writings, photographs, printed documents, and original examples of fingerprints reflecting the origins and early years of the science. Includes several portraits of Herschel.
Include letters by Dorothy (Fish) Kerr and her husband, William John Kerr; copies of her poems and paintings; a paper by Dr. Kerr relating to the history of the Kerrydale Ranch in Humboldt County; clippings relating to their activities; and...
Correspondence, invoices, and inventory records of Lt. Colonel William Jones, commanding Company I of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, California Volunteers during the American Civil War. Includes invoices for clothing, camp and garrison equipage for the Company while stationed at Camp...
Contains correspondence, technical reports, writings, notes, and lectures.
Sketches in pencil, ink and charcoal. Most unidentified, some views in Yosemite. Also contains a Joaquin Miller poem, "Some Little Song", and various notes.
Contains poems by William Kimberley Palmer, autographed, and a collection of autographed letters. Signatures include those of Ray Stannard Baker, Katherine Lee Bates, Nicholas Murray Butler, Royal Cortissoz, Josephus Daniels, Walter Prichard Eaton, Bernard Fäy, E.H. Jeans, Robert Underwood Johnson,...
Chiefly letters, received while Private Secretary to President R.B. Hayes, from General and Mrs. Frémont, concerning Frémont's Governorship of Arizona Territory, Judge Charles Silent and others associated in land and mining ventures in Arizona, Colorado and Mexico.
Photographs of ferryboats, chiefly large steamers of the San Francisco Bay Area. Each album contains photographic prints and postcards of multiple ferries. Additional material in PIC box 1 and AX box 1 also depicts a wide range of ferries. Those...
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Includes correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and computer files.
Volume 1 includes views of Sitka, Unalaska, the Russian Mission on the Yukon River, native Alaskans, canoes and paddle wheel steamers, and numerous views of camps and coastlines. Volume 2 includes shipboard scenes, Kodiak, St. Michael, the Apollo Mine on...
Contains William L. Jolly's chemical research files, class lectures and demonstration materials, research notebooks, seminars, and reprints. Chemical research files consist primarily of notes, correspondence, drafts and reprints of articles by Jolly.
Photographs depict U.C. Berkeley campus and San Francisco's North Beach and Chinatown districts. Berkeley campus views are studies of the Hearst Mining Building, the Campanile (Sather Tower), and the old Chemistry Building.
Includes letter to T.S. Jesup, U.S. Quartermaster Dept., concerning shipment of volunteers (Stevenson's Regiment) to California, and letter to Ogden Hoffman relating to arrest of Mr. Dillon, French Consul, San Francisco.
Letters to friends and relatives in Maine mainly while serving as a minister in Camptonville and Eureka concerning family matters, living conditions, Indians, and a trip to Santa Cruz.
Vol. 1 and v. 2: Abstracts of title and related papers for two properties in Oakland, Calif. The first, dated 1887, for land on Central Ave. (or West Twelfth St.) near Linden, contains loose title papers relating to Oliver's purchase...
1 letter, 1 postcard, 3 photographs.
Written from Honolulu, mainly to Simon Greenleaf, describing his work as a judge and as commissioner to quiet land titles, with information on the judiciary system in Hawaii, the framing of land codes, the foreign and native population, the effects...
Mainly letters, 1897-1899, written to Locke from the London office of the Pacific Borax and Redwood's Chemical Works, Ltd. concerning the processing and sale of borax; scrapbook of clippings re borax 1883-1897; genealogical information on the Locke family.
Reporting, after voyage around the Horn, to his father in Connecticut, on conditions in California. Company about to be disbanded, lumber cargo disposed of and ship now wholly owned by Robert Morgan.
The William M. Banks Papers contain his proposals for the changes in the African American Studies Department at U. C. Berkeley in the late 1960's. Also included are personal correspondence and research materials for his book, Black Intellectuals: Race and...
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, articles, transcripts of radio broadcasts, alphabetical subject files, autobiographical materials, photographs and news clippings.
Includes diaries and cash account and payroll records, some pertaining to the Little York Gold Washing and Water Co., 1873-1875, whose ledgers Maguire subsequently used to record his own mining activities, 1895-1918, in his Liberty Hill Mining Co.
William Maltman collection of documents relating to his management of the Coabortita gold and silver mining company in Mazatlan, Mexico, BANC MSS 84/147 m, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Thirty three letters (101 pages), 2 original 3-cent postage envelopes with Wells, Fargo & Co. logo postmarked from Sacramento and San Francisco addressed to Mrs. William Maltman, Nevada City, Calif, and 1 drawing of a cemetery enclosure by Chauncey Ford...
Four folders (46 documents): the first two contain 17 deeds, the second two contain 29 miscellaneous documents, all relating to mining in and around Nevada City, California, and especially to E.P. Marselus and William Maltman's Manzanita Mining Company and the...
Relating mainly to his career as army officer, particularly service with 1st cavalry, California Volunteers, 1861-1866, in engagements against hostile Navajoes and Apaches in New Mexico. Included are copies of two letters from James H. Carleton, to Christopher Carson and...
Include holograph manuscript of his story, The Virgin of Loreto (1925) and galley proof of North of Suez (1930).
Holograph manuscripts for his novels, Casuals of the Sea and Command. With these, letter, Feb. 3, l928, to a Mr. Gaige concerning the writing of Command.
Incomplete record of voyage around the Horn from Baltimore, Md., on ship, Jane Parker (not in correct order on film).
Two handwritten letters from an Irish man working as a teamster in San Francisco to his brothers in Philadelphia. In the first letter, dated March 30, 1855, he writes of the recent "breaking of the Banks...one of the banks started...
Letters and documents as colonel in the Peruvian Army.
Albums include views from trips to Shanghai (1880s-1900s), Peking, Hang Kow, environs of Kun Kuang, Yangtze River and other locations. Depicted are streets, parks, palaces, walls, temples, social events, western style banquets, antiquities, tombs, etc. Portraits, including a group portrait...
Account of his arrival in California in 1911 from Russia, Mennonite religion in California, additions to memoir, vita for William Neufeld and correspondence with Robert Johnson.
Includes a biographical sketch of Byers; and copies of Byer MSS in The Bancroft Library, with Lane's explanatory notes.
William Norris Dakin diaries, BANC MSS 94/25 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Experiences recorded while travelling throughout Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, as an ore-buyer for the Texas Mining and Smelting Company. Contain detailed descriptions of villages, people, food, and customs. Illustrated with pen and ink and watercolor sketches by the author.
Published with title: The overland journal of William North Steuben / edited by Harry E. Rutledge. Tokyo : Sheridan A. Sims, 1996.
Serial and ephemeral publications containing contributions by Brautigan.
Collection of eleven letters spanning three years in the travels of William O. Armsted, as he makes his way from Ohio to California, and then to various mining locations, including Gold Creek, Rough & Ready, and Nevada City. There are...
Typed transcripts of letters written mainly from Sacramento and Shasta, describing his voyage to California, economic conditions there, experiences gold digging, the city of Sacramento, and his law practice.
Photographs and other material documenting the personal life, family history and career of Judge William P. Gray. Photographs depict Gray throughout his life. Also depicted are Gray's wife Elizabeth Polin Gray; his grandfather, Judge Algernon Sidney Gray; his father, Judge...
Correspondence, legal agreements, and manuscripts of writings of an American residing in Mexico, relating mainly to attempts to contruct a railroad from Vera Cruz to Campeche, and to Mexican politics and property. Include letters from Frank L. Polk, Walter Q....
Papers relating to Stebbins' lawsuit against the San Francisco Manufacturing Company concerning the construction of the state prison at San Quentin; with accounts and payrolls.
Daily record of trip to California from Alabama (from New Orleans to Chagres on brig, Pedraza; from Panama to San Francisco on brig, Copiapó); experiences in California including the "Stanislaus diggins," visit to Major Savage and view of Yosemite Valley,...
Title supplied by cataloger.
The collection includes administrative materials; correspondence; articles; manuscripts; typescripts; proofs; translations; research materials; indexes; subject files; maps; and writings by others related to Popper's career as a Professor of Semitic Philology and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley.
Letters relate mainly to his journey to California in 1850 and experiences in the mines; papers are primarily concerned with his medical career.
Collection of four letters (9 pages; dated April 8, 1851, September 21, 1851, April 28, 1853, and November 11, 1853) describing William R. Duval's time in Jacksonville, Tuolumne County, California. In addition to writing of life as a prospector, these...
Photographs show parties at San Simeon and Santa Monica: William Randolph Hearst with friends and sons, some in costume.
Includes deeds of conveyance for mining claims, 1856-1862, in Sierra County, and miscellaneous receipts and accounts.
Correspondence and a disbound binder containing archaeological field notes, pencil drawings of petroglyphs, photographs, and news clippings. The materials were compiled by William Sanford, an amateur archaeologist in Owens Valley, California. Along with his friend, Charles T. Forbes and several...
Most of the materials in the collection date from 1955, with the majority relating to the 1960s and early 1970s. There is very little concerning Schofield's earlier activities or his work on the Forest Practice Act. The collection includes materials...
Notes on his family and early life in New England; medical training; voyages around Cape Horn; experiences in Tahiti, as head of the U.S. Hospital, 1841-1843; California in 1850; medical practice in Petaluma.
Images of Hearst and companions on the beach and elsewhere, in or near Lido, Italy. The personal letter to his secretary, Joseph Willicombe, is written across the versos of the 8 photographs. He comments on the pictured family members and...
Mainly relating to Oakland land holdings of William Reed (1811-1905). Includes a photocopy of a biographical sketch of William Reed, one photo-reproduction of portraits of Hannah and William Reed, a marriage license between Nellie Reed and R. Mayan, and a...
Concerning Renton's role in lumbering on Puget Sound, especially the Port Blakely Mill Company, from 1852-1853.
117 letters written primarily to his wife, Charlotte, mainly from Sacramento, where he ran a miners' variety store and collected plant material for his New York horticultural gardens. Comments on voyage from New York to California via the Isthmus of...
Contains writings by William Roth. Also includes small amounts of correspondence and teaching materials.
Newspaper clippings, letters, etc., dealing with Davis' political, social and business activities in Alameda County during the period, 1869-1912, including his work on behalf of the University of California and his run for Governor of California.
Letters from A.S. Daggett, James Wilson and Henry Clarke Corbin.
Contains biographical information, correspondence, playscripts, and a paper entitled "Academic Support of Intercollegiate Athletes."
v.1: Letters received, including one from Victor Howard Metcalf; v. 2: scrapbook containing advertising cards, some photographs, clippings and autographs; v.3: scrapbook, mainly of clippings relating to Harlow's activities as sheriff, Alameda County.
Letters written to his family in the East, relating mainly to his voyage to California in 1849; his visit to Coloma and lessons in gold mining; experiences as an artist, doing portraits of J.A. Sutter, Jonathan D. Stevenson, and Walter...
Contains materials relating to Mailliard's service as U.S. Congressman and as ambassador to the Organization of American States (1974-1976).
Papers and some materials from Rouverol's attempts to create an updated voting machine after the 2000 presidential election; Axicon Gear Company papers; and other inventions and hobbies.
The bulk of collection consists of various forms of real estate legal documents of William S. Sharon including deeds, mortgages, conveyances, and trusts. Includes a $1,000,000 mortage of Sharon's with the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society. Also includes a number...
Includes dictations by Ladd, his wife, Caroline Ames (Elliott) Ladd, and T.B. Wilcox; typed drafts and printer's copy of the published biographical sketch; and copy of letter from L.S. Hatch of The History Company to Ladd, July 11, 1888.
Two items removed from the Allan Seager papers.
Included mimeographed copy of his play, Jim Dandy, Feb. 21, 1947; letter to Dore Schary, Jan. 22, 1952; and speech delivered at meeting of The Friends of The Bancroft Library, May 8, 1977.
Contains two letters from Saroyan, 1979 Feb. 13 and March 3; copy of a sketch of Saroyan with his annotation, 1979 March 3; copies of six letters from Avakian, 1977-1980; and photocopy of a clipping from the New York Times,...
9 letters and postcards to Christopher Rand, editor of The Coast, 1938-1939. Comments on stories submitted for publication and on other works in progress.
Collection includes personal and business correspondence, typescripts, annotated drafts, original drawings, family photo albums, and audio materials.
Contains research notes, articles, conference proceedings, email correspondence, and some records of the School of Public Health, particularly regarding a capstone course for the program.
Contains various materials collected by William Schwartzman about the violinist Isaac Stern, including newspaper clippings; copies of photographs; and a letter Stern sent to the cantor of San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El, Reuben R. Rinder (1946).
William Scovil Anderson papers, BANC MSS 2015/177, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Contains 11 letters mostly to and from William Sharp while attending California Military Academy in Oakland. Topics include the entertainment scene in San Francisco, describing happenings in The Dalles, Oregon, discussing the outcome of the presidential election in 1888, discussing...
Two letters written, one signed as Fiona Macleod, to William Meredith in 1897 about the publication of Sharp's writings and those of Mona Caird. Also includes two clippings and a letter by Edith Wingate Rinder, after Sharps death, about William...
Written from Mariposa and Hawkinsville, California, describing mining experiences, prices of goods, etc.
Papers relating to William Siri's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Contains the documents of a Surveyor and Land Attorney in Trinity County, including deeds, mining claims, indentures, abstract of title, survey maps, letters, drawings and charts
Items saved from the Sproule Mansion in San Francisco, including letters from Stephen Birch, W.D. Duke, William H. Crocker (for the Community Chest of San Francisco), Frank P. Deering (concerning the Bohemian Club), John Lawson, Paul Shoup, and Horace D....
Includes typescript biography, 1888; information about Wilson's connection with mining in Nevada, 1888; manuscript biography signed by Wilson, 1887; and letter to Hubert Howe Bancroft with list of Wilson's heirs.
Bill file regarding legislation introduced in the California Assembly concerning topics such as indigent, medical services, judges, taxation, housing, veterans, local authority, search and seizure, roads, education, courts, discrimination, health and safety.
Majority of photographs were collected by William T. Reid and show buildings, grounds, students and activities of the Belmont School, and include some family portraits and snapshots. Materials from the Christine L. Reid papers include two lithographs from the U.S.P.R.R....
Contains two letters from William Reynolds to his wife Julia and one letter from Julia to William. William describes San Francisco during the gold rush and asking her to meet him in Calif. Julia talks of their infant son and...
Recollections of overland journeys to California, 1852 and 1853 (after return via Panama for the rest of his family); experiences with his sons in the mines; life in Nevada County.
Mainly letters from Coleman to his father, Francis W. Page (his brother-in-law), H.D. Bacon and Samuel Gaty relating to family and financial matters, some referring to the failure of Page, Bacon and Company. Also included: accounts with Samuel Gaty, 1859-1861;...
Collection of three letters (11 pages; dated June 27, July 28, and August 25, 1855) from prospector William T.J. Harris to Miss Margaret W. Sheets in Libertyville, Jefferson County, Iowa, describing his life in Nevada County (Yuba and Montezuma), California....
The collection contains legal documents and court files; historical notes; biographical and genealogical material; minutes; invoices; reports; receipts; photographs; interviews, including one with William Tornheim; correspondence, including some with Robert E. Levinson; membership certificates; newspaper clippings and articles; and Freemason...
Mainly correspondence as California Secretary of State. Letters from William J. Shaw, H.W. Halleck, Lewis W. Sloat and others. Also promissory notes from Antonio M. Pico.
Include letter from Jacob S. Taber concerning business in San Francisco, 1868; receipted bills from the Auzerais House in San Jose, 1869; and invitations.
The collection contains materials related to the professional career of anthropologist William W. Elmendorf. It includes correspondence, manuscripts, research material and ethnographic notes, card files, course materials, subject files, conference materials and audiotapes and sound disks related to his work...
Contains 44 letters written while fighting for the Union during the Civil War, mostly from West Virginia. Many of the letters are to David Hanes. A few of the letters are written by his brother Thomas Hibbs.
Contains two letters concerning Chinese immigration laws.
Mainly concerning his son's education and management of family property in Santa Barbara Co., Calif. Some mention of his own activities and legal practice. Three letters addressed to his daughter-in-law, Ida.
Includes cards from Annie J. Cannon, Philip Fox, E.B. Frost, Johannes F. Hartmann, Annibale Riccò, Joel Stebbins, Harold Knox-Shaw and other astronomers. Cards depict Lick Observatory and other observatories in the United States and abroad.
Include notes on a conversation with French historian François Guizot, and letters, some relating to the Franco-German war of 1870, from Albert, duc de Broglie, Charles Gavard, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans, comte de Paris, Marie-Isabelle Francesca...
A series of reminiscences relating to various topics: the Lyman family and other families settling in Napa Valley and the Lyman ranch; his wife, poet Helen Hoyt; his student days at the University of California, class of 1906; his teaching...
Contains sympathy resolutions to Crocker's widow from several Boards of Directors that he served on.
Original cartoon drawings executed for publication in the California Pelican, and clippings of various published cartoons from this source. Also includes later original woodcut prints, chiefly portraits, subjects of which include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Irving Israel, Stanley Koppel, Roy Ragle, John...
Photographs show family scenes and everyday life of the Hassid family: vacations (many California locations), pets, babies, etc. Includes telegraphs notifying family members of various deaths.
Bound reprints of UCB biochemist (3 v.) Reviews of his writings (1 v.)
Photos taken in Yukon Territory, some of Bonanza Creek Gold Mining Co., where Williams served as an engineer. Depicted are hydraulic mining scenes, picknicking, cabin of Arthur B. Curtiss, Williams himself as well as Curtiss and his wife.
Contains board minutes, Correspondence, alumni association minutes, brochures, reports on the college by outside agencies, and other records relating to Williams College in Berkeley, Calif.
Includes two group studio portraits of a party including Samuel C. Evans, Jr., his father Samuel Cary Evans, his mother, siblings and his friends, taken during their visit to the Hawaiian Islands in 1888.
Charles E. Williams discusses his family background and childhood in Florida and California, war-time service for Lockheed Aircraft, Sonoma years working as a cook and culminating in the opening of Williams-Sonoma, which later relocated to San Francisco. He discusses cooking,...
Seventeen speeches, given by Brown between 1985 and 1990, considered particularly important by speechwriter and researcher Joanne Murphy. Some are fully written texts and a few are notes in outline form; often includes information about the audience. Also included are...
Letters, programs and clippings, including: TLS from Bennett Cerf, Random House, Inc. to Foster (March 24, 1937); 2 TLS and 2 postcards (one signed) from Saroyan to Foster (1934? and an exerpt from a letter to Foster from Glenn Wessels...
Studio portrait photographs of John F. Willis and, presumably, his wife Marcella Moran Willis.
Views primarily of California, but including scenes from Alaska to Mexico. A miscellany of historic views, including San Francisco Bay Area; Los Angeles area; mining and mining towns in California and Mexico; vineyards; early aircraft and balloons; boxing; railroads; U.S....
Items include a letter written by C.G. Harrison to Fred on Nov. 18, 1863 about buying and selling bonds, hunting, provisioning for a trip to California, and family life and a deed between J. Travis and B.F. Channell for interest...
Mainly from printing firms and stationery stores in San Francisco, Sacramento and Chico.
Letters concern Wilson's activities as a book dealer. Correspondents include M. Walter Dunne (The Cambridge Society, New York); H. W. Cake (Calumet & Hecla Mining Co., Lake Linden, Michigan); O. C. Davison (Oliver Iron Mining Company, Iron Mountain, Michigan).
Papers refer primarily to three generations represented by: Virigina Perry Wilson, a retired teacher in the Napa intermediate school; her mother, Ethel Brodt Wilson, a California poet; and her grandmother, Helen Tanner Brodt, a California artist who was active from...
Collection includes many family pictures and portraits. Members of the family pictured include Ethel Brodt Wilson, Harry and Arthur Wilson, Marilla Hemenway Wilson (first woman doctor in Oakland), and others. Family pictures include recreational activities, camping, and home life. The...
Include abstracts of title for Daley's Scenic Park Tract and a portion of the Peralta Rancho; journal, ledger and accounts for the Scenic Park Realty Company; deeds and agreements relating to the sale of property, some involving Sheridan Downey; and...
Collection includes photographs of the Santa Inés Mission in Solvang, Calif., a coastal scene, a Victorian interior, a woman playing a guitar, two portraits (one taken in Japan), the Alma store.
Chiefly snapshots depicting Charles Plymell with friends and other associates, including Breath Cox and William S. Burroughs. Also includes several low-quality printouts from scans of photographs not present in collection (depicting Charles Plymell, Tom Wolfe, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence...
Photos show various facilities of the Italian Vineyard Company including buildings, tanks, loading grapes, etc. A group portrait of the Office of Price Administration Wine Board shows H. Wente and H.O. Lanza, among others. Views of Guasti show the San...
Relating primarily to Jones' researches and his novels and articles concerned with wine and wineries, gastronomy, etc. Included also are clippings, articles, and biographical data, and promotional material for The Vineyard, and Vines in the Sun.
Two wine labels, accompanied by a New Year card (with visiting card inserted) from Mrs. Richard Raul (Madie D. Brown) Emparan directed to [George P.] Hammond, Director of The Bancroft Library, 1946-1965. Wine labels depict the buildings of Lachryma Montis,...
25 wine labels.
Interviews with R. Vince Garrod and Emma Stolte Garrod. Recollections of local vintners and their wineries around the turn of the century. With this: newspaper clippings re the Garrod family.
Education at UC Davis; Gallo laboratories; Foppiano Vineyards; Beringer Vineyards: winemaking techniques, private reserve program, vineyard management, Beringer vineyards, other Beringer brands, Myron Nightingale.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to his conservation interests in the Butano Forest near Santa Cruz. Also contains a few miscellaneous family items.
Photographs of residences in the Santa Cruz mountains show homes of the Rodgers family in Santa Cruz, Big Basin, Boulder Creek, and their Summerland farm. One view show's W.S. Rodger's printing room for the Boulder Creek newspaper "Mountain Echo". Collection...
Contains certificates and identification, correspondence, documents, material from 1906 and 1908 calendars, and a bound business ledger.
Contains correspondence, reviews of Van Hagen's books, and information on the National Amateur Athletic Federation.
Collection of surveying diaries, papers, and other family papers and photographs.
Studio portraits of various members of Winn family. Includes Sara Louise Winn (later Mrs. Brainard), Katherine Reed, Katherine E. Winn, copy photographs of General Albert Maver Winn and Gustavus Adolphus Winn, Agnes Turner Hilsee, Joseph Warren Hilsee, Charles Sydney Mercier,...
C folder 1: Arnold Genthe portrait of George Sterling, inscribed by the poet: For Janet with love from George; mounted with a typescript poem "Rainbow's End", also inscribed by the poet: For Janet, George Sterling. PIC folder 1: William Dassonville...
Letters to Pierce, some relating to financial matters.
Scenes of Florida, including Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Fort Marion, Tampa, and Key West; also views of the Bahamas, and Havana, Cuba.
Photographs produced by sculptor Erwin Winterhalder, probably taken to document and/or promote his work. Sculptural pieces are all figurative statues and decorative reliefs, and include portraits, religious and mythological figures, animals, crucifixes, etc. Includes views of Winterhalder's studio (or multiple...
Chiefly snapshots documenting the early years of the marriage of Winton S. Turner, an African American soldier stationed in Germany, and Ilse Krings, a German shop manager from Frankfurt. Images depict everyday family and social life of the Turners --...
Mainly regarding publication and production of his plays.
Chiefly snapshots pertaining to various mining operations in Mexico, inclulding such locations as Cieneguillas and Santa Barbara (Chih.). Also includes slides and a few snapshots pertaining to the Mexican Revolution.
Compiled for a presentation of the Western Fairs Association. Includes many slides of news clippings from Pauline Davis scrapbooks. Some slides of fairs, and some slides of Davis family photographs and personal slides.
Withrow was a California artist known nationally and internationally. She was founder and first president of the San Francisco Society of Women Artists.
Included are letters written by Bynner; MSS of poems; a preface to a Chinese anthology; translations of Chinese poems and corrected galleys for The Jade Mountain.
Two letters to A.L. Bancroft & Company enclose letters from Kate Harlan and Henry C. Jones with the Lewis data. An accompanying printed prospectus (1884) is for the Dallas Female College, of which W.K. Jones was "President and Proprietor."
Part of a collection of Chinese business records from Nevada County, California.
Concerning his study of judicial documents relating to the Canary Islands under Spanish rule. With copy of Prof. Borah's reply, July 1, 1955.
Title devised by cataloger.
Professional photographs of the Sonoma County residence of John N. Bailhache, popularly known in its day as "Sotoyome Castle". Bailhache family members, including John N. Bailhache, are depicted posing in each view. One view shows a broader expanse of Rancho...
Views of Costa Rica depicting a variety of subjects, including railroads (Northern Railway, Limón Railway), mining (Montezuma Gold Mine), agriculture (Bearsem Nest), and naval scenes near Puntarenas. Also includes a view of the photographer's gallery, depicting many framed copies of...
Collection includes family genealogy; a copy of a 1980 newspaper article about the family reunion of the Cohen and Dan families; a business card for the San Francisco Show Case Company, the business of Henry Cohen, Wolf Cohen's son; and...
A lithograph print probably from a plate used to produce De Pue and Company's 1879 Atlas of Yolo County, California. The print includes four images of Madison, Yolo County: one of Wolf Levy's General Merchandise storefront; one of Hilliker's Hotel,...
Photocopies with explanatory notes. Include biographical sketch of George Wolfe; typed transcript of marriage certificate of Ellen Jones and George Wolfe; obituary of Kinzy Witten Jones, a relative; family photographs; and personal papers.
Contains samples of selected working drawings and printed works, including illustrations and designs of books, journals, broadsides, logos, Christmas cards, and book covers and jackets. Also includes a small amount of correspondence relating to his designs, especially with attorney and...
Photograph shows figures in front of a house, with a horse and wagon team in foreground. Manuscript note on verso reads: Left to right Ab Wolford, Lewis Davis, Grandma Wolford, Helen Wolford, Maggie Wolford, Milton Wolford, Driver - "Minthorn" or...
Contains family trees for the Judell and Wollenberg families.
View of Puerto Mexico, terminal of the Tehuantepec National Railway, and Salinas Cruz of the the Veracruz Railway. Focus on facilites and the regional produce shipped by the Wolvin Line shipping company.
Anne Dettner discusses her San Francisco family and 19th century forebears, her education at the University of California and Stanford, the Great Depression and serving as California Director of the National Youth Administration during the New Deal, her career in...
Title devised by cataloger.
Views of women operating machinery.
Portraits of contemporary activists represented in Women of the Resistance mural in San Francisco's Balmy Alley: 1. Payal Jangid. 2. Naomi Wadler. 3. Anielka Martinez. 4. Sophie Cruz. 5. Mari Copeny. 6. Ahed Tamimi. 7. Bana al-Abed. 8. Malala Yousafzai....
View shows flumes in an eroded landscape, with miners holding shovels and mining pans, several gentlemen in top hats, and two ladies, apparently visiting the site. Geographic location is unspecified, but is almost certainly in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
Interviewees include: Joyce Maupin: Women Workers in San Francisco during World War II; Mary Jean Potts: Working in War Industry; Rosanne Hannah: Serving as a USO Social Director During World War II; Beatrice Rizzolo: Women in the U.S. Marine Corps...
This collection contains Women's American ORT, San Francisco Chapter newsletters; scrapbooks; event programs; photographs; monthly bulletins from the San Francisco, Nob Hill and New Victorian chapters of the Women's American ORT (1947-1995); Women's American ORT Gala booklets; Women's American ORT...
Volume 1, 1944-1961 ; volume 2, 1961-1963.
Devlin discusses her family background; her journalism studies at the University of California, Berkeley; her career as a journalist; broadcasting.
Contains correspondence, including fundraising letters and letters to subscribers; board meeting minutes; Womyn's Braille Press (WBP) constitution; newsletters; organizational brochures, literature catalogs of taped and braille titles produced by WBP; information written for volunteers; and feature articles about the WBP.
Tourist groups, apparently on organize bus trips, travelling throughout the west on two trips in 1935 and 1936. Views include natural scenery, roadside attractions, tent camps, local festivals such as the Texas Centennial, and tour group members. Locations include Colorado;...
Contains correspondence with politician Franck Havenner and immigration papers concerning Wong Way's nephew and son's admitance into the United States. Also includes a broadside in Chinese to elect Franck R. Havenner mayor of San Francisco and a list of campaign...
Views document trips to East Asia, including Hawaii, Borneo, Singapore, Bali, Java, Malasia, Japan, Cambodia, and India. Includes leisure, sightseeing, street scenes, native people, transportation, and art.
Bulk of collection is records of the Northern California Section of the Society of American Foresters. There is a small amount of material from the Bay Area Chapter of the Society. There is a wide range of materials, including Metcalf's...
Include information on members, accounts, applications for membership and suspensions, reports of committees of the benevolent association. V.1: Sept. 15, l9l9 - June 26, l922; v.2: July 3, l922 - Apr. 7, l924. With these, in portfolio, loose items removed...
Research materials relating principally to tabulations of demographic information for census records in Mexico and Spain. Includes field notes, tablulations, computer tapes and printouts.
Borah discusses his life and career in Latin American studies, including his research and writings.
Notes, transcriptions of original documents and photocopies from various repositories in Spanish speaking countries concerning Spanish America, and particularly the native American population.
Letters written by Lewis Allen also included.
Correspondence, application forms, handbills, and assorted doctrinaire literature relating to Klan activities in the United States.
Contains 4 volumes including a meeting book, ledgers and transfer book for a mining company in California.
Photographs show various views of Woodward's Gardens, including: the entrance gate, the museum exterior and interior including visitors and statuary, a greenhouse, animal scenes, walkways, children riding camels, etc.
Photos show entrance to Woodward's Gardens and children riding camels in the gardens.
Hammond's working files, including correspondence with contributors and editors, typescripts of background information, specimen copies of a few of the final published versions of individual items, and photo reproductions of original documents.
Langan Swent discusses his family and youth in Tayoltita, Mexico; studies at Stanford and at the University of California, Berkeley; service in Africa, Italy, and France during World War II; San Luis and Homestake mining companies; ventures in Missouri, Michigan,...
Working notes, abstracts and related materials used by Hill in researching and writing his history of Warner's ranch.
Views of construction of the California State Livestock Pavilion in Daly City (San Francisco County), Calif., taken by Works Progress Administration staff between 1937 and 1940.
Huneeus discusses the Chilean winery Concha y Toro in 1960s; Seagram worldwide wine businesses; California wineries; Noble Vineyards, Concannon Vineyards, Souverain Cellars, Franciscan Estates; winery marketing practices, yeast fermentation, and health aspects.
Includes views of tanks, artillery, tractors, etc. in Germany during World War I. One folder labeled "Dance at False Dawn" shows a number of people appearing to be hanged.
Preston discusses her Mississippi childhood; move to Richmond, 1942; shipyard welder, 1942-1945: daily schedule, training program; press operator, Treasure Island, 1946-1966; North Richmond residence; North Richmond Baptist Church.
Contains two printed tickets to the Exposition for Chicago Day (No. 21795, Oct. 9, 1893) and Manhattan Day (No. 11076, Oct. 21, 1893).
Includes two drawings identified as Virginia City, and 1 photograph of a Berkeley, Calif. fountain presumably designed by Worth Ryder.
Contains correspondence, clippings, a scrapbook and announcements related to the Wortham family of Montana and Texas. Scrapbook was Dennis Wortham's.
Includes letter to Frederick Logan Paxson, and letters from Henry Cabot Lodge and Charles Francis Adams.
Two handwritten letters from the resident physician at the state insane asylum in California to the sister of an inmate named Levi [French?]. One letter (4 p. ; Feb. 27, 1862) assures French that her brother is doing well and...
Consists chiefly of research data gathered by Ralston for a U.S. Dept. of Agriculture study on wartime farm production adjustments in California, 1941-1942. Also includes a short report on the Japanese American vegetable growers with related material, and miscellaneous agricultural...
Dr. W. R. "Reg" Gomes retired in 2007 from his position as Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) at the University of California. His responsibilities included being the chief executive officer responsible for all oversight activities in agriculture,...
Family photographs such as portraits of family, friends, and others by various (often unidentified) photographers and many likely by Cedric Wright, as well as snapshots of family life and Wright's youth (BANC PIC 1977.067--PIC box 1). Many photographs by Wright...
Exterior photographs of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley.
Wright Morris correspondence with John Aldridge, 1956-1983, BANC MSS 88/171 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Agreement, constitution and records kept by Thomas Hills, together with two letters to his brother, Richard Hills (Oct. 3 & Nov. 27, 1849), with an explanatory note by Joseph Lawrence Hills accompanies these papers.
Recollections of childhood in San Quentin; her husband, John Kenneth Turner; participation in Mexican revolutionary movement, 1908-1911; Jack and Charmian London; Carmel friends and acquaintances; writing career; residence in Mexico. Photographs inserted. With this: clippings concerning Mrs. Duffy from El...
Primarily manuscripts of poems (typescript) gathered into leaflets, with illustrated covers. Some with notes to William Everson on verso of title page.
Letters and documents (originals and copies) of Fr. Duran in various collections in the Bancroft Library. With bibliography prepared by Helen H. Bretnor.
Mainly typescript copies of his writings relating to the preservation and utilization of food, and to wine and wine-making.
Manuscripts of articles, speeches, etc., on California history, social life, etc.
Included are a typescript copy of his unpublished biography of the American Revolution war hero, General Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox; and a typescript copy of his story, Twenty or the Torch.
Includes correspondence, manuscripts, diaries of Sierra trips, of the late UC professor, relating in part to food processing.
Contains materials relating to the civil rights struggle mostly in Mississippi in 1964-1965 including: correspondence from Tom Rowe; pamphlets for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and other civil rights organzations; clippings; and a SNCC...
Draft of campaign speech, Sectionalism. ([1856] [8] leaves; 32 cm.)
Collection includes biographical material, correspondence, project files, research materials, writings, lecture notes, subject files and clippings related to Mackie's work as an agronomist at the University of California Berkeley. Major subjects include beans and a variety of grains and cereals.
Exhibition-sized copy photographs of San Francisco and Oakland views, including street scenes, churches, commercial buildings, theaters, hotels, Chinatown, residences, and the earthquake and fire of 1906. These views were produced as a set of exhibition prints of uniform size, copied...
Correspondence, documents, records, and receipts pertaining to construction, decoration, and furnishings at William Randolph Hearst's Wyntoon estate, along the McCloud River in Siskiyou County, California. Principal correspondents include F.C. Stolte & Co. and W.A. McClure.
Views of guests at Wyntoon, the Phoebe Hearst estate on the McCloud River, Siskiyou County, California, riding horseback. Includes one view looking down through the forest on the main house, and one view of a stag strung up.
Views of Wynton, Phoebe Apperson's Hearst's estate in Siskiyou County, California, including building exteriors & interiors, swimming pool, tennis court, and unidentified indiviuals. Kitchen staff, other household staff, guests, and possibly family members are pictured. Buildings appear to be those...