Finding Aid to the Bohemian Club Collection 1872-2009 BASC 15

Series 1 Administrative 1891-1995 (bulk 1891-1970)

Physical Description: 15 folders

Scope and Contents

Materials include printed by-laws and member list booklets, annual reports, club membership dues, and a small amount of election material primarily from 1891 . Also present are notices to members from various committees, club services available, and notices about purchasing property in Sonoma County and erecting a new building in San Francisco .

Arrangement

Arranged by type and then chronologically.

box 1, folder 1

Constitution and by-laws 1973, 1976, 1995

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 2

Officers and Committees 1943, 1961-1970

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 3

Elections 1891 1894 1961 1891

Language of Material: English .

Membership 1894-1970

Physical Description: 3 folders

box 1, folder 4

Membership: Changes in membership, applicants 1960-1970

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 5

Membership: In memoriam 1894, 1910, 1919, 1964

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 6

Membership: Leather badge probably 1904

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 7

Notices 1891-1893, 1908, 1919, 1934, 1936, 1945, 1960-1965, 1967-1970, 1975, undated

Language of Material: English .

Operations 1961-1965

Physical Description: 3 folders

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Wine lists -- Specimens

box 1, folder 8

Operations: House and restaurant committee 1961, 1963-1964, undated

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 9

Operations: Statements and vouchers 1960-1962, 1967-1968, undated

Material Specific Details: Most signed by Harold E. Rhoades or H.E. Rhoades.

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 10

Operations: Wine Committee 1965, undated

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 11

Real estate 1892, 1894, 1916, 1930

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Bohemian Grove (Sonoma County, Calif.)

Annual reports 1891-1975

Physical Description: 3 folders

box 1, folder 12

Annual reports 1891, 1894, 1915, 1918, 1921

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 13

Annual reports 1933-1934, 1937-1938, 1959-1964

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 14

Annual reports 1966-1968, 1974-1975

Language of Material: English .

box 1, folder 15

Stationary probably 1918

Language of Material: English .

Series 2 Correspondence 1891-1969

Physical Description: 2 folders

Scope and Contents

This small series contains a correspondence to J.B. Levison and Antonio Sotomayor along with a few others. Of note is a letter from Edward F. O'day to Clay M. Green about the Grove Play St. John of Nepomuk and a copy of a letter from Dr. Samuel Johnson to A. Edward Newton regarding an upcoming dinner in honor of Newton. Many letters are on Bohemian Club letterhead.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sotomayor, Antonio, 1904-1985

Levison, J. B. (Jacob B.), 1862-1947

box 2, folder 1

Correspondence 1891-1892, 1989, 1905, 1921, 1935, 1960, 1968-1969, undated

box 2, folder 2

Typescript of letter from Dr. Samuel Johnson to A. Edward Newton undated

Language of Material: English .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940

Series 3 Bohemian Grove Camps 1960-1985

Creator: Ingold, Ernest, 1885-1977

Creator: Gelwicks, Louis E.

Physical Description: 6 folders

Scope and Contents

The Bohemian Grove Camps series contains printed material about the different camps in the Bohemian Grove in general, Dragon Camp and the Isle of Aves, but the bulk of the series is about the operations of the Aviary Camp, a camp which is almost exclusively made up of members of the chorus.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by name of camp and then chronologically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Bohemian Grove (Sonoma County, Calif.)

Sotomayor, Antonio, 1904-1985

box 2, folder 3

Aviary Camp 1960-1961

Language of Material: English .

box 2, folder 4

Aviary Camp 1967

Language of Material: English .

box 2, folder 5

Aviary Camp 1968-1970

Language of Material: English .

box 2, folder 6

Bromley, Dragon, Isle of Aves, Monkey Block 1960-1961, 1964-1965, 1968

Language of Material: English .

General

Includes Dragon Camp by Ernest Ingold, 1968 [signed by author] and The pleasant Isle of Aves: a camp in Bohemia, its people and its places , [1964]

box 2, folder 7

General [probably 1977], 1985, undated

Language of Material: English .

flat-box 10, oversize-folder 2

General - oversized 1970, 1977, 1979, 1982

Series 4 Events 1872-2009 (bulk 1900-1970)

Scope and Contents

The Events series makes up the bulk of the Bohemian Club Collection. The printed ephemera in this series promoted events held by the Bohemian Club between 1872-2009 (bulk between 1900-1970 ) and is comprised of posters, fliers, concert programs, art exhibition catalogs, dinner invitations, menus, and other printed materials. Also included in this series are a few typed lyrics to popular songs and Christmas carols.

Arrangement

Divided into two subseries: Series 4: Events; Subseries 4.1 Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs, 1872-2009; Subseries 4.2 Scrapbooks, 1873-1912. Arranged in chronological order within subseries.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Printing -- California -- San Francisco -- Specimens.

Artists -- California -- San Francisco -- 19th century.

Exhibitions -- California -- San Francisco

Exhibition catalogs.

Broadsides--Specimens

Menus -- Specimens

Subseries 4.1 Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1872-2009

Physical Description: 30 folders

Scope and Contents

Programs, posters and invitations for many types of events including dinners, performances, art exhibitions, carnivals, concerts, plays and musicals.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

box 2, folder 8

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1872, 1878, 1881, 1883-1884, 1887, 1890

Language of Material: English .

box 2, folder 9

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1891

Language of Material: English .

box 2, folder 10

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1892-1893

Language of Material: English .

box 2, folder 11

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1894-1899

Language of Material: English .

box 2, folder 12

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1900-1904

Language of Material: English .

box 3, folder 1

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1905-1907

Language of Material: English .

box 3, folder 2

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1908

Language of Material: English .

box 3, folder 3

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1909

Language of Material: English .

box 3, folder 4

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1910

Language of Material: English .

box 3, folder 5

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1911

Language of Material: English .

box 3, folder 6

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1912

Language of Material: English .

box 4, folder 1

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1913-1914

Language of Material: English .

box 4, folder 2

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1915-1917

Language of Material: English .

box 4, folder 3

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1918-1919

Language of Material: English .

box 4, folder 4

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1920

Language of Material: English .

box 4, folder 5

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1921

Language of Material: English .

box 4, folder 6

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1922-1923

Language of Material: English .

box 5, folder 1

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1924-1928

Language of Material: English .

box 5, folder 2

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1929-1931

Language of Material: English .

box 5, folder 3

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1932-1933

Language of Material: English .

box 5, folder 4

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1934-1937

Language of Material: English .

box 5, folder 5

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1938-1941, 1943, 1945-1951, 1953

Language of Material: English .

box 5, folder 6

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1960-1963

Language of Material: English .

box 6, folder 1

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1964-1965

Language of Material: English .

box 6, folder 2

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1966-1968

Language of Material: English .

box 6, folder 3

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1969-1974

Language of Material: English .

box 6, folder 4

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs 1975-1980, 1982, 2009

Language of Material: English .

box 6, folder 5

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs undated

Language of Material: English .

flat-box 10, oversize-folder 1

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs - oversized 08/04/1917

Material Specific Details: The Young China periodical- one page mounted on stiff board. Program for Bohemian Club "Imperial Chinese Aquatic Sports" held on April 4th, 1917. Other name for periodical: Shao nian Zhongguo chen bao.

Language of Material: English .

flat-box 10, oversize-folder 3

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs - oversized 1892-1893, 1908, 1910, before 1915, 1919, 1921, 1923-1924, 1927, 1929-1930, 1932-1933, 1938

Language of Material: English .

flat-box 10, oversize-folder 4

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs - oversized 1961-1963, 1965, 1968-1970, 1975, 1977

Language of Material: English .

box 6, folder 6

Posters, fliers, invitations, menus, and programs: Non-Bohemian Club events 1892, 1922, 1924, 1967, undated

Material Specific Details: Contains related to non-Bohemian Club events by other clubs or Bohemian Club members.

Language of Material: English .

Subseries 4.2 Scrapbooks 1873-1912

Creator: Bayley, George Blake, 1840-1894

Creator: Phelan, James D. (James Duval)

Physical Description: 2 boxes

Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains 3 scrapbooks containing largely Bohemian Club Jinks notices, invitations, fliers, and posters. Other materials include annual reports and newspaper clippings.

box 11

Scrapbook of George B. Bayley 1873-1894

Language of Material: English .

box 12

Scrapbook of James D. Phelan 1879-1895

Material Specific Details: This scrapbook originally came from the Thomas Wayne Norris Collection. Thomas Wayne Norris was an avid collector of Californiana.

Language of Material: English .

box 12

Scrapbook of James D. Phelan 1892-1912

Language of Material: English .

box BASC Photos: Box 3

St. Patrick at Tara, Bohemian Club Forest Play, photo album 1909

Creator: Moulin, Gabriel, 1872-1945

Material Specific Details: Photographs of the production of the Grove Play St. Patrick at Tara : a forest play by Henry Morse Stephens. Photographs by Gabriel Moulin. Album in cound in black morocco faded to brown with Phelan Collection bookplate, No. 1410 and presentaion inscription: "For Mrs. Hearst with kind regards. From H. Morse Stephens, September 1909". Photographs are annotated with quotes from the play and names of people.

Series 5 Scripts 1920-1976

Physical Description: 10 folders

Scope and Contents

This series contains typed and printed scripts for Bohemian Club Grove Plays and other dramatic performances including several "Low Jinks" and the Cremation of Care .

Arrangement

Chronological.

box 6, folder 7

So this is Bohemia, or, Turning back the system 1920

Language of Material: English .

box 6, folder 8

Cremation of Care 1922

Language of Material: English .

box 6, folder 9

The horses behind, or, The jockey's trap, Low Jinks 1965

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 1

Seems like ain't is by Dan Gilson, Low Jinks 1969

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 2

Armada, Grove play 1974

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 3

Circus, Low Jinks 1976

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 4

A poem to the paradoxy undated

Language of Material: English .

Series 6 Publications 1902-2008

Scope and Contents

This series contains printed matter of several kinds, including newspaper clippings about the Bohemian Club, two Bohemian Club publications, one being a full run of the Nightly Hoot , a newspaper printed by letterpress in Bohemian Grove during the 1910 Summer Encampment. In the Typescripts subseries there is an account of a new member's week at the Bohemian Grove in 1912 .

Arrangement

Series 6: Publications: Subseries 6.1 Newspaper clippings, 1912-2008 , bulk: 1912-1934 ; Subseries 6.2 The Nightly Hoot, a journal of revenge , 1910 ; Subseries 6.3 Bohemian Club Library Notes , 1958-1999 ; Subseries 6.4 Publications by Bohemian Club members, 1913-1927 ; Subseries 6.5 Typescripts, 1902 , 1912 . Arranged in chronological order within subseries.

Subseries 6.1 Newspaper clippings 1912-2008 (bulk 1912-1934)

Physical Description: 6 folders

Scope and Contents

The Newspaper Clipping subseries contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings regarding press for the Bohemian Club, some programs of club events and newspaper obituaries for Joseph D. Redding .

box 7, folder 5

Newspaper clippings 1912-1913

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 6

Newspaper clippings 1917-1919

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 7

Newspaper clippings 1922, 1925-1926

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 8

Newspaper clippings 1932-1934

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 9

The Press Democrat 1964

Language of Material: English .

box 7, folder 10

Newspaper clippings 1981, 1987, 2008

Language of Material: English .

Subseries 6.2 The Nightly Hoot, a journal of revenge 1910

Physical Description: 1 folder

Scope and Contents

Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 25, 1910)-v. 1, no. 13 (Aug. 7, 1910). Published during the Bohemian Club's 1910 summer encampment.

box 7, folder 11

The Nightly Hoot serial July 1910 - August 1910

Language of Material: English .

Subseries 6.3 Bohemian Club Library Notes 1958-1999

Physical Description: 6 folders

Material Specific Details: Published by the Bohemian Club. Documents the Bohemian Club's history. Letterpress. Issues Nos.1-106 Lacking No.4

box 8, folder 1

Bohemian Club Library Notes 1958-1978

Material Specific Details: Nos.1-39, lacking No.4.

Language of Material: English .

box 8, folder 2

Bohemian Club Library Notes 1979-1986

Material Specific Details: Nos.40-51.

Language of Material: English .

box 8, folder 3

Bohemian Club Library Notes 1987-1990

Material Specific Details: Nos.52-64.

Language of Material: English .

box 8, folder 4

Bohemian Club Library Notes 1991-1993

Material Specific Details: Nos.65-77.

Language of Material: English .

box 9, folder 1

Bohemian Club Library Notes 1994-1996

Material Specific Details: Nos.78-93.

Language of Material: English .

box 9, folder 2

Bohemian Club Library Notes 1997-1999

Material Specific Details: Nos.94-106.

Language of Material: English .

Subseries 6.4 Publications by Bohemian Club members 1913-1927

Creator: Lynch, Jeremiah, 1849-1917

Creator: Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg), 1873-1948

Creator: Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951

Creator: Palmer, Kate B (Author)

Creator: Greene, Clay Meredith, 1850-1933

Creator: Harvey, James Clarence, 1859-1917

Physical Description: 5 folders

box 9, folder 3

The spirit of woman in Bohemia 1913

Material Specific Details: "A playlet written and staged by Kate B. Palmer at a dinner given at their home by her husband to some of his bohemian friends on the eleventh day of September nineteen hundred and thirteen." Privately printed. Philopolis Press.

Language of Material: English .

box 9, folder 4

Lady Isis in Bohemia 1914

Language of Material: English .

box 9, folder 5

The lure of traffic: A melodrama of the social evil in six acts and nineteen scenes 1914

Language of Material: English .

box 9, folder 6

The call of the man child, or, Miss Bartholdi off her perch 1916

Language of Material: English .

box 9, folder 7

More little tales retold; A little tale retold 1926-1927

Language of Material: English .

Subseries 6.5 Typescripts 1902, 1912

Scope and Contents

One folder with two typescripts: 1. Two drafts of "Christmas 1902" with envelope labeled "Stafford paper".

2. "A week in Arcadia: being a contemporary diary of a new member of the Bohemian Club while spending the week of August 5th, 1912 at the Bohemian Grove on the Russian River."

box 9, folder 8

Typescripts 1902, 1912

Language of Material: English .