Choy (Philip P.) collection of California and the West

Box 1, folder 1

Wells Fargo Historical Collection calendar/blotters 1946-1949

Box 1, folder 2

Bank of California National Association Bay Area history cards

Box 1, folder 3

San Francisco church & religious organization booklets & ephemera

Scope and Contents

First Congregational Church 1849-1874 Anniversary invitation

First Congregational Church "Parables in Modern Light" Sunday Evening Lectures program 1889

Calvary Presbyterian Church Christmas Day program 1887

Calvary Through the Years 1929

Chronicles of Calvary 1944

Louis H. Blumenthal - 3 Generations of Service to the Community 1877-1954 (Jewish Community Center 77th Anniversary Committee 1954)

Golden Jubilee Souvenir of the Sisters of Mercy San Francisco 1904

The Visitacion: Story of Visitacion Valley, San Francisco (Committee on Press and Publicity, Church of the Visitacion 1907)

Box 1, folder 4

San Francisco postcards

Box 1, folder 5

Henry Evans - Bohemian San Francisco (Porpoise Bookshop 1955)

Box 1, folder 5

Union Label Bulletin (San Francisco Labor Council 1904)

Box 1, folder 5

Official Map of Historic Points Showing Location of San Francisco Landmarks (Associated Oil Company 1935)

Box 1, folder 5

The Story of Lake Dolores and Mission San Francisco de Assis Compiled by George A. Merrill 1942

Box 1, folder 5

Mission Dolores program circa 1990s-2000s

Box 1, folder 5

Comstock Clipper reproduction postcards

Box 1, folder 5

The Belli Building pamphlet (1966)

Box 1, folder 5

printed sketches of San Francisco scenes (unsigned, circa 1960s)

Box 1, folder 5

The California Historical Society Presents...Life Styles & The Land (reprint from The Sense of Security; Security National Bank)

Box 1, folder 5

Robert H. Power - San Francisco Bay in the Summer of 1579 (Reporter Publishing Co. 1971)

Box 1, folder 5

San Franciscans for Responsible Elections mailer sent to Choy family 1983

Box 1, folder 6

memorial ephemera - President Garfield 1881 ; General Ulysses S. Grant 1885

Box 1, folder 7

miscellaneous bills, receipts, cancelled check

Scope and Contents

Includes blank receipt from Alexander Watson of 74 Montgomery Block, "Agent for Adolph Sutro" ; rest are from 1920s-30s.

Box 1, folder 8

The City, Booklets 1-6 (San Francisco Unified School District 1953-1954)

Box 2, folder 1

The Laws of the Town of San Francisco, 1847 (Friends of the Huntington Library, 1947)

Box 2, folder 1

Bernard R. Maybeck - Palace of Fine Arts and Lagoon, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915 (P. Elder and Co, 1915)

Box 2, folder 1

Official Guide of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, July Edition (Wahlgreen Co. 1915) [cover and outer pages missing]

Box 2, folder 1

Robert A. Reid - The Exposition (Panama-Pacific Exposition Co. 1915)

Box 2, folder 2

Souvenir-- Portolá: Public Work of San Francisco Since 1906. Supplement to Municipal Reports, 1908-9 (Neal Pub. Co., 1909)

Box 2, folder 2

Clay M. Greene - Park Development in San Francisco: Past, Present and Future (James H. Barry [1924])

Box 2, folder 2

Edward Morphy - The Port of San Francisco (Board of State Harbor Commissioners 1923)

Box 2, folder 2

Fred Brandt and Andrew Y. Wood - Fascinating San Francisco (San Francisco Chamber of Commerce 1924)

Box 2, folder 2

John J. Cuddy - The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco and the California It Centers (Californian, Inc. 1948)

Box 2, folder 2

What To Do And What To See in San Francisco (E.F. Clements circa 1950s- early 60s)

Box 2, folder 2

A Factful And Colorful Guide to San Francisco (Smith News Co. circa 1950s- early 60s)

Box 2, folder 4

Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. 396 May 1883

Box 2, folder 4

National Geographic v.136 n.5 November 1969

Box 2, folder 5

San Francisco [printed photo album, unidentified publisher, text possibly on missing pages] circa 1909

Box 2, folder 5

In Remembrance: Zum Andenken, En Mémoire, of the Midwinter International Exposition, San Francisco, Cal., 1894

Box 2, folder 5

Views of San Francisco and California (E.P. Charlton Co. 1905)

Box 2, folder 5

Law and Order in San Francisco, A Beginning (San Francisco Chamber of Commerce 1916)

Box 2, folder 5

American History Illustrated v.10 n.4 July 1975

Box 2, folder 5

A Picture Tour of San Francisco (Sunset Press [1928])

Box 2, folder 6

Ernest C. Mensch - The Golden Gate Bridge: A Technical Description in Ordinary Language 1935

Box 2, folder 6

California Highways And Public Works - San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge Dedication Number November 1936

Box 2, folder 7

Cliff House - Sutro Baths Acquisition Study (San Francisco Department of City Planning 1967)

Box 2, folder 7

A Trip Through Golden Gate Park (F.W. Woolworth 1937)

Box 2, folder 7

David Seifkin - Meet Me at the St. Francis (St. Francis Hotel Corp. 1992)

Box 6, folder 1

Jackson Square (San Francisco Department of City Planning 1971)

Box 6, folder 2

San Francisco history newspaper clippings 1970s-1980s

Box 3, folder 1

Old San Francisco - Illustrated by Will Wilke, Descprions by Edward F. O'Day, Reprinted from the San Francisco News

Box 3, folder 1

The Shakeable- Rebirth of S.F. Chinatown in 1906 (San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Congress 2006)

Existence and Location of Copies

Duplicate from Choy collection

Box 3, folder 1

Date Line - San Francisco (San Francisco Federal Savings & Loan Association 1960)

Box 3, folder 1

The Urbanist Issue 527: Unbuilt San Francisco September-October 2013

Box 3, folder 1

San Francisco Bay Architect's Review No.26 Fall 1982

Box 3, folder 1

Graphic Proof (Industrial Association of San Francisco 1926)

Box 3, folder 1

San Francisco Examiner Image November 26, 1989

Box 3, folder 2

New San Francisco Magazine v.1 n.1 (cover missing), v.1 n.3 1906

Box 3, folder 3-4

San Francisco Newsletter 1891-1937

Scope and Contents

v.29 n.6 August 24, 1878

v.43 n.7 February 14, 1891

v.55 n.26 December 25, 1897

v.57 n.25 December 24, 1898

v.63 n.25 December 21, 1901

v.107 n.10 September 5, 1925

v.108 n.52 December 25, 1926

News Letter and Wasp v.81 n.51 December 17, 1937 [cover missing]

Box 3, folder 5

Miles Bros. & George H. Lawrence earthquake panoramas clipped from newspapers 1906

Box 3, folder 6

San Francisco photo reproductions (most copied from Bancroft library)

Box 3, folder 7

two real photo postcards of orchards captioned "Blossom Time, California" and "California Blossoms"

Box 3, folder 7

two real photo postcards of Paiute Indians in Yosemite - "Leme" and "Ta-Bu-Ce" (AKA Maggie Howard)

Scope and Contents

With handwritten notes on their backs describing encounters:

Ta-Bu-Ce, Yosemite [card stamped Boysen Studio, Yosemite National Park] "Maggie makes baskets and bead belts and bracelets. I talked Chinese to her and she was very interested. The ranger had fun talking to her and getting her to talk to the guests. She is quite old."

Leme, Yosemite "His costumes are very spectacular and he sings and danced the Dance of the Acorn, Coyote, and Medicine Man."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Paiute Indians

Box 3, folder 8

photograph of Colombo Building, corner of Columbus Avenue and Washington Street circa 1980s

Box 3, folder 8

two small mounted prints of Muni buses and street traffic circa 1970s

Box 3, folder 8

photograph of Golden Gate Bridge circa 2000s

Box 3, folder 9

Mobile Carriage Company at Golden Gate Avenue & Gough Street - two mounted prints circa 1910-1920

Box 3, folder 10

earthquake & reconstruction photographs (17 prints) 1906-1907

Scope and Contents

From box labeled "Fine Historical Pictures of S.F. ; property of J. [James] M. Leonard"

Box 3, folder 11

commercial portraits (5 cabinet cards - Bradley & Rulofson etc.) 19th century

Scope and Contents

From box labeled "Fine Historical Pictures of S.F. ; property of J. [James] M. Leonard"

Box 3, folder 12

San Francisco photographs - street scenes, parades, ferries, etc. (36 prints - most or all copies of older images) circa 1910-1930

Scope and Contents

From box labeled "Fine Historical Pictures of S.F. ; property of J. [James] M. Leonard"

Box 3, folder 13

San Francisco photographs (19 prints, including images credited to Hecht, Waters, Moulin) circa 1910-1930

Scope and Contents

From box labeled "Fine Historical Pictures of S.F. ; property of J. [James] M. Leonard"

Box 3, folder 14

1681 Bird Street, Oroville California. Hogan, Photographer circa 1891

Box 3, folder 15

Los Angeles photographs (22 copy prints) circa 1883-1910

Box 4, folder 1

postcards - Vallejo, Napa

Box 4, folder 1

Daniel H. Bradley - Alameda County, California (Publicity Commissioners of Alameda County 1915)

Box 4, folder 1

Historic California - Sonoma, Benicia (American Institute of Architects, East Bay Chapter)

Box 4, folder 1

Napa Chamber of Commerce History of Napa Valley flier 1979

Box 4, folder 2

Master Plan of the City of Monterey 1939

Box 4, folder 2

Historic California - San Juan Bautista, Monterey (American Institute of Architects, Monterey Chapter)

Box 4, folder 2

Monterey's Adobe Heritage (Monterey Savings & Loan Association 1968)

Box 4, folder 2

A Short History of the Beach at Pajaro & Vicinity (Hare, Brewer & Kelley, Inc.)

Box 4, folder 2

Monterey, Carmel & Pacific Grove ephemera

Box 4, folder 3

(Sacramento County) Evidence Taken Before the Swamp Land Committee (California Assembly) 1861

Box 4, folder 3

Sherrill Halbert - In Re Dr. Morse's History (Sacramento Book Collectors Club 1965)

Box 4, folder 3

Golden Notes v.16 n.2-3 (Sacramento County Historical Society) July 1970

Box 4, folder 3

Historic Old Sacramento (City of Sacramento Redevelopment Agency)

Box 4, folder 3

The Legacy of Gold Mountain: A History of the Chinese in Sacramento (Discovery Museum 1994)

Existence and Location of Copies

duplicate from Choy collection

Box 4, folder 4

The Chinese of the Mendocino Coast - Mendocino Historical Review v.15 Winter/Spring 1990-1991

Existence and Location of Copies

duplicate from Choy collection

Box 4, folder 4

The Joss House at Mendocino (photocopied handout) 1960

Existence and Location of Copies

Duplicate from Choy collection.

Box 4, folder 5

Los Angeles Corral n.93 September 1969

Box 4, folder 5

Famous Southern California Scenes (B.R. Baumgardt & Co. 1899)

Box 4, folder 5

Hill's Official City Maps & Tourist Guide of Los Angeles, Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley Addition (Hill Map Company)

Box 4, folder 5

C.E. & Marilyn Parker - Orange County: Indians to Industry (Orange County Title Company 1963)

Box 4, folder 6

postcards - Oroville, Turlock, Calico Ghost Town, Yreka 1960s

Box 4, folder 7

The Covered Wagon (Shasta Historical Society 1966)

Box 4, folder 7

Shasta, Queen City of the North

Box 4, folder 7

Historical Map of Siskiyou Co. California (Siskiyou County Historical Society)

Box 4, folder 7

Gold Mining Areas & Trails & Roads of Whoa Navigation in Early Siskiyou Co. (Siskiyou County Museum)

Box 4, folder 7

Beautiful Amador County: Heart of the Mother Lode (Amador County Chamber of Commerce)

Box 4, folder 7

Wallace R. Hagman - The Chinese Cemetery at Nevada City, California (Cowboy Press 1998)

Existence and Location of Copies

Duplicate from Choy collection.

Box 4, folder 7

Lee Family Ranch House, A Folk Arts & Visitor Center (Trinity County Arts Council)

Existence and Location of Copies

Duplicate from Choy collection.

Box 4, folder 7

Lincoln County Driving Tour & Walking Tours of Alamo, Caliente, Panaca & Pioche (Lincoln County Commissioners)

Box 4, folder 7

First Stanislaus County Centennial Celebration, La Grange, Calif. 1948

Box 4, folder 7

California Mining Journal - Gold Show & Rodeo Official Program, Auburn June 1934

Box 4, folder 7

Las Calaveras (Calaveras County Historical Society v.53 n.1) October 2004

Box 4, folder 7

Pony Express Courier (Placerville) v.3 n.11 April 1937

Box 4, folder 7

Tuolumne County Gold Centennial (Tuolumne County Chamber of Commerce) 1948

Box 4, folder 7

Kenneth M. Castro and Doris Castro - Murphys, California Short History and Guide 1972

Box 4, folder 8

Western Mining News v.1 n.2 Christmas 1933

Box 4, folder 8

offprint from California Mining Journal May 1968

Box 4, folder 8

The Elephant As They Saw It: A Collection of Contemporary Pictures and Statements on Gold Mining in California (Centennial Supplement to the Journal of Mines and Geology for October 1949) 1953 edition

Box 4, folder 8

Louise E. Taber - Gold Rush Days v.1 n.1 1936

Box 4, folder 8

Robert Neil Johnson - Gold Diggers Atlas (Cy Johnson & Son 1971) 1972 edition

Box 4, folder 8

Land Laws of the Mining Districts (Johns Hopkins University Studies 1884)

Box 4, folder 8

Aubrey Neasham - Sutter's Sawmill (California Historical Society Quarterly article) 1947

Box 4, folder 8

Book Club of California Letters of the Gold Discovery no.2-4 1948

Box 5, folder 1

E Clampus Vitus patch

Box 5, folder 1

China and California: The Impact of 19th & 20th Century Chinese Art & Culture on California (University of California Davis Art Department 1966)

Existence and Location of Copies

Duplicate from Choy collection.

Box 5, folder 1

California 200 (California Bicentennial Commission [1969])

Box 5, folder 1

Peter Thomas Conmy - The Constitutional Beginnings of California (Native Sons of the Golden West 1959)

Box 5, folder 1

John F. Davis - The History of California (reprint from The Pacific Ocean in History) 1915

Box 5, folder 1

California Historical Landmarks (State of California Department of Natural Resources 1960)

Box 5, folder 1

California Centennials (California Centennials Commission 1948)

Box 5, folder 1

California Centennials Official Newsletter v.1 n.4 July 1948

Box 5, folder 1

Life in California in 1849 (California Historical Society Quarterly article) March 1941

Box 5, folder 2

Redwood Manufacturers Company Illustrated Catalogue v.1

Box 5, folder 2

Phillip Pierce - Ghost Town Directory of the West (Pierce Publishing 1964)

Box 5, folder 2

William B. Secrest - Joaquin, Bloody Bandit of the Mother Lode (Saga-West Publishing Co.1967) 1970 edition

Box 5, folder 2

Motorland v.91 n.1 January 1970

Box 5, folder 2

1971 Wagon Train (Highway 50 Association) January 1970

Box 5, folder 3

newspaper clippings re: mining, labor, politics, etc. 1850-1870

Box 4, folder 7

Oscar Lewis - Hot Springs Hotel, Calistoga (E Campus Vitus reprint of Book Club of California article)

Box 4, folder 8

Five Cent Gulch (Conference of California Historical Societies 1969)

Box 5, folder 4

Virginia City postcard book (Reno-Tahoe Specialty, Inc. 1988)

Box 5, folder 4

Virginia City Nevada (Nevada Historical Society)

Box 5, folder 4

Eventful Eureka Nevada

Box 5, folder 4

(Wyoming) Facts & Fantasy of Uinta County's Past 1987

Box 5, folder 4

Oregon Historical Quarterly offprints

Box 5, folder 4

Leadville, Colorado postcard

Box 5, folder 4

Janice K. Duncan - Minority without a Champion: Kanakas in the Pacific Coast 1788-1850 (Oregon Historical Society 1972)

Box 5, folder 5

The Pacific Tourist: Williams' Illustrated Trans-Continental Guide of Travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, Containing Full Descriptions of Railroad Routes ... a Complete Traveler's Guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads (Henry T. Williams 1877)

Box 5, folder 6

George A. Crofutt - Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide: Over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, Their Branches and Connections, by Rail, Water and Stage Vol. 2 1879-1880 (Overland Pub. Co, 1879)

Box 5, folder 7

Beadles Monthly vol.2 n.7 [cover missing] August 1866

Box 7, Folder 1-12

photographic negatives - San Francisco architecture, ships

Scope and Contents

5" x 7" glass negatives

1. Fire Tug David Scannell

2. [unidentified vessel, same as #3]

3. [unidentified vessel, same as #2]

8" x 10" glass negatives

4. [Taft and Pennoyer building, northwest corner of Clay and 14th Streets, Oakland]

5. 194. [Gladstone Apartments, 700 Polk Street, San Francisco]

6. [Grattan School, 185 Grattan Street, San Francisco]

7. [unidentified three-story building on corner, sign for "Broadway Garage" to right]

8. 138 [13S?]. [Sherman, Clay & Co. building, 161 Kearny Street, San Francisco]

9. [Goodfriend Hotel, 225 Powell Street, San Francisco]

10. [unidentified two-story building, probably municipal]

11. A40. [Cargo ship Colin H. Livingstone at dock. Completed in October 1920 and renamed in 1925]

8" x 10" film negatives

12.1 [Joshua Hendy Iron Works, 75 Fremont Street, San Francisco]

12.2 large building at 351 Geary Street, San Francisco]

12.3 [unidentified five story building, address is 1051-1055, probably San Francisco]

12.4 [Baldwin Hotel at 321 Grant Avenue and adjacent buildings, San Francisco]

12.5 1920. [700 Polk Street, San Francisco, same building as glass negative #5]

12.6 550 Leavenworth [later caption, Colonade Apartments, 550 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco]

12.7 [office interior, name printed on door is "James H. Vinter"]

Box 8, Folder 1-9

photographic negatives - Monterey

Scope and Contents

Nine 8.25" x 6.5" glass negatives, many cracked and repaired with tape. Enclosed are scraps of paper reading "Pillsbury, Cypress, Monterey" and "J. Fox Antiques, Porterville, CA." One plate is captioned "Cypress Point, Monterey. Pillsbury's Pictures No. 8171."

Box 8, Folder 10

photographic negative - unidentified town

Scope and Contents

8" x 10" glass negative numbered 10350 in caption. Aerial view of town with railroads, factories, hills in background - possibly East Bay?

Box 9

lantern slides

Scope and Contents

Views of San Francisco, nature, lakes, Big Trees, Yosemite, Southwest/Grand Canyon, etc. published by Underwood & Underwood, Southern Pacific Railroad, George Kanzee, and Chas. Beseler.

Box 9

stereographs

Scope and Contents

J.J. Reilly - Views of American Scenery

-Geyser Springs (5 cards)

-San Francisco (9 cards)

-C.P.R.R. (5 cards)

Carleton Watkins

-Watkins' New Series/Central And Union Pacific Railroads 77, 2759, 2767, 4204, 4242 (5 cards)

-Pacific Coast Views (1 card with no number or caption, view of Geyser Hotel, Sonoma County, matches copy numbered 1584)

C.W. Carter – Of Utah Scenery (2 cards)

Continent Stereoscopic Company – 1087 A Bee Ranch in California (1 card)

Keystone View Company – 13720, 16718, V27203, V32589 (4 cards, views of Taos Pueblo, Sioux, Eskimo, Blackfoot Indians)