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Manley (Clyde) Photograph Collection
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Clyde Manley Photograph Collection
creator:
Manley, Clyde W., -1947
Identifier/Call Number: MS.033
Physical Description:
4.5 Linear Feet
8 boxes
Date (bulk): circa 1890-1930
Container: 1-8
Collection is open for research.
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Clyde Manley photographic collection. MS 33. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California,
Santa Cruz.
This collection contains glass plates and negatives of the Manley family in Hawaii during the early 1900s.
Also included are images of Clyde and Lucille with the Colorado College hiking group in the Rocky Mountains, and images of
the Manley's Ben Lomond, California home in Santa Cruz County.
The following biography was supplied by Clyde Manley's daughter, Virginia Manley Rusinak, on March 24, 2004.
My father, Clyde Manley, first went to the Hawaiian Islands around 1912. He had grown up on a Kansas farm and had been a student
at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. My mother, Hulda Lucille Cold, was from Cleveland. She was also a student at Colorado
College. After she graduated, she made the long trip to Hawaii to marry my Father. I, Virginia, was born in Honolulu in 1914.
For several years, my father worked at the YMCA in Honolulu and my mother taught in various private and public schools. When
my father got a job on Olaa Sugar Cane Plantation, we moved to the Big Island of Hawaii. Eventually, indignant over the way
the immigrant workers were being exploited by the plantations, he moved his family to California. By chance, my parents came
upon, for sale, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a 50 acre tract of land, a mile up a mountain gulch outside of the village of
Ben Lomond.
It had been partly cleared of giant redwoods and had some orchards and vineyards on it. The original house had burned down.
My parents first built a small house - two rooms, two open porches, no running water and no electricity. About this time my
parents adopted a baby girl and called her Eleanor.
My father had always been interested in photography and developed himself all the photos he took in the Colorado Rockies and
later in the islands, mainly Oahu and the Big Island of Hawaii and finally in the Sierra Nevadas. All his life, he was an
avid mountain climber.
When we lived on Olaa plantation, we made frequent trips to the volcano area. We were fascinated by the eruptions in Halemaumau
crater and loved the tree fern and ohia forests in what in now Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. I have happy childhood memories
of hiking across solid lava fields in Kilauea caldera and sitting on the edge of Halemaumau crater while my father took photos.
Shielding my face from the intense heat, I watched the waves and fountains of molten lava and heard the roar of explosions
and saw rocks being hurled into the space below me.
Stereoptican photos of the same periods and places are at the Bishop Museum on Honolulu.
Existence and Location of Copies
This collection contains digital files for some of the images, specifically numbers: 93-103, 105-114, 116-152. Please contact
Special Collections for more information.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hawaii -- Photographs
Colorado -- Photographs
Santa Cruz (Calif.) -- Photographs
Manley, Lucille Cold, -1969
Manley, Eleanor
Rusinak, Virginia Manley, 1914-2007