Marshall Stimson Papers: Finding Aid
Summary report prepared by Huntington staff; encoding finding aid created by Diann Benti in August 2017
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Marshall Stimson Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1893-1951
Collection Number: mssStimson papers
Creator:
Stimson, Marshall, 1876-1951.
Extent: Approximately 932 pieces in 11
boxes, 13 volumes, and 1 case.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection consists of the papers of Los Angeles lawyer Marshall Stimson (1876-1951).
Includes materials related to California and national politics (including Hiram Johnson and the Progressive Party "Bull Moose"
Convention of 1912),
Homer Lea, the League of Nations, and World War II. The collection also contains the diaries of Stimson's wife, Mary Gordon
Stimson.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Marshall Stimson Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Provenance
Gifts of Mrs. Marshall Stimson, November 1953; Gordon Stimson, June 22, 1971,
November 16, 1971, April 24, 1972, June 15, 1973, and Mrs. Thompson Webb, Jr.,
Gift, June 22, 1989.
Biographical Note
Marshall Stimson (1876-1951), a Los Angeles lawyer, was active in civic affairs and was
instrumental in the development of the Los Angeles Harbor. He was director of the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and active in reform movements in state and local
governments. Stimson was prominent in Republican politics and organized the
Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League of California (1907) and the Progressive Party
in California (1912). He was also active in supporting the League of Nations and the
United Nations.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including 25 diaries and
notebooks), documents (including 5 account books), photographs, and 9 scrapbooks
related to the life and activities of Marshall Stimson. The collection includes
radio addresses of Marshall Stimson and the manuscript of his published
autobiography titled
Fun, Fights, and Fiesta in Old Los Angeles. There are materials
related to California and national politics, including Hiram Johnson and the
Progressive Party "Bull Moose" Convention of 1912. There are also materials related
to Homer Lea, the League of Nations, and World War II. The collection also contains
the diaries of Mary Gordon Stimson, wife of Marshall Stimson.
Arrangement
Arranged by document type.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Johnson, Hiram,
1866-1945.
Lea, Homer,
1876-1912.
Stimson, Marshall,
1876-1951 -- Archives.
League of
Nations.
Lawyers -- California -- Los Angeles --
Correspondence.
Presidents -- United States -- Election
-- 1912.
Progressivism (United States politics)
-- History -- Sources.
Radio addresses, debates,
etc.
World War, 1939-1945.
California -- History
-- 20th century -- Sources.
California -- Politics
and government -- 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)
-- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
United States --
Politics and government -- 1901-1953.
Forms/Genres
Diaries -- California.
Letters (correspondence) --
California.
Scrapbooks -- California.
Additional Contributors
Stimson, Mary Gordon.
Box 1
Correspondence
1912-1950s
Physical Description: 314 items
Includes 6 letters from the Bull Moose Convention, 1912, but otherwise is chiefly dated from the 1940s and 1950s.
Box 4
Autobiography:
Fun, Fights, and Fiesta in Old Los Angeles
Physical Description: 3 items
Gift of Gordon Stimson, the Stimson's son, April 20, 1972.
Two drafts and final typescript.
Box 5
Diaries and Notebooks.
1926-1950
Physical Description: 25 items
Subject files and scrapbooks
Box 2
Subject files
This box includes materials related to the League of Nations, President Wilson, etc.; miscellaneous; Memory Snapshots: Prizefighters
to Presidents (1885-1936);
politics in California: Taft and Hughes election; and radio addresses, magazine articles, etc.
Box 3
Subject files
This box includes manuscripts by Stimson, materials related to the Talent Will Case, 1912-1915; war papers: correspondence,
radio addresses, etc., pertaining to World War II;
the William Allen White Committee; and Wendell Wilkie (1944).
Rope case
Scrapbook including files on General Homer Lea: biographical papers, addresses, clippings, correspondence, photographs, etc.
Scrapbooks (containing chiefly political interest, material on Hiram W. Johnson, etc.)
Gift of Gordon Stimson, the Stimsons' son, April 20, 1972.
Financial and real estate
Gift of Gordon Stimson, the Stimsons' son, June 10, 1973.
Ledger 1
Trustee ledger.
1921-1934
Ledger 2
Transfer Clients ledger.
1927-1932
Ledger 3
Clients and trust ledger.
1929-1940
Ledger 4
Trust account and client's ledger/
1940-1947
Ledger 5
Mortgage ledger and real estate.
Approximately 1928-1947
Box 6
Check stub books.
1903-1908
Physical Description: 17 items
Box 7
Check stub books.
1916-1929
Physical Description: 21 items
Box 8
Check stub books.
1929-1940
Physical Description: 19 items
Box 9
Check stub books (1941-1951); Miscellaneous household account books (1913-1944).
1913-1951
Physical Description: 30 items
Box 10
Miscellaneous deeds, notes, agreements.
1915-1941
Physical Description: 3 items
Box 11
Diaries of Mary (Gordon) Stimson (1892-1904), with transcription; ephemera
Physical Description: 26 items
Gift of Mrs. Thompson Webb Jr., the Stimsons' daughter, June 22, 1989.
