Photographs from the Edmund G. Brown papers, 1905-circa 1990, bulk 1958-1988

Summary

Extent:

5 cartons, 3 boxes, 2 oversize folders, 1 album, 1 portfolio 111 digital objects (111 images)

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains images related to Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown's political and public career, as well as his personal life and family. It includes portraits, press photographs, snapshots and some political cartoons about Pat Brown. The bulk of the images are of Pat Brown during his two terms as Governor of California, the election campaigns leading to the governorship, and of conferences of the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs.

Biographical / historical:

Edmund G. Brown was born in San Francisco on April 21, 1905, to Ida and Edmund Joseph Brown. He married Bernice Layne in 1930 and they had four children: Barbara Brown [Casey] (born July 13, 1931), Cynthia Brown [Kelly] (born October 19, 1933), Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938), Kathleen Lynn Brown (born September 25, 1945).

After graduating from law school in 1927, he started his political career by unsuccessfully running for several political positions. He won the race for District Attorney of San Francisco in 1943, a position which he served for seven years. In 1950, he was elected as Attorney General of California, and held that position until he successfully ran for Governor of California in 1958.

Major policies enacted during his two terms as governor, from 1959 to 1967, included the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the Fair Employment Practices Act (FEPA), the Rumford Fair Housing Act, the California State Water Project and other infrastructure projects.

After his political career, he remained in the public eye through public appearances and speaking engagements. In 1980 he started the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Government Affairs, which in 1987 became the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs, a non- partisan public policy center.

Edmund G. Brown died on February 16, 1996, in Beverly Hills, California.

Sources consulted:‘The Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs,’ website, retrieved January 29, 2014. “California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown,” Fire of Life Films, 2012. Brown children names and birthdates taken from Wikipedia website, retrieved January 29, 2014.

Acquisition information:

Received as part of the Edmund G. Brown papers (BANC MSS 68/90), as a gift from Brown, December 1967.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Note:

Approximately 2200 photographic prints, approximately 221 negatives, 15 transparencies, 22 political cartoons and 1 drawing.

Numerous portraits (approximately 230) of Edmund G. Brown were transferred to the Bancroft Library Portrait File, including 24 oversized items shelved as ffPOR. The majority were received with the Brown papers and added to the Portrait File soon after the collection was acquired by the library.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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