Guide to the Schott family papers SBHC Mss 112
Finding aid prepared by Beaudry R. Allen, 2017; latest revision by Zachary Liebhaber, 2022.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2017, 2018
Title: Schott family papers
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 112
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
8.68 linear feet
(3 document boxes, 1 carton, 4 flat boxes, 1 flat oversize box, 66 film reels)
Creator:
Kavinoky, Nadina R.
Creator:
Schott, Hermann F.
Creator:
Schott, Alice F.
Source:
Schott, David Robert
Date (inclusive): 1887-2011
Abstract: Papers generated in the course of activities of various members of the Schott and Kavinoky families from roughly 1900 through
the 2000s. Materials includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, home movies, personal items and artifacts.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research
Use Restrictions
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the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Schott Family papers, SBHC Mss 112. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Gift of David Robert Schott, 2016.
Scope and Content
The Schott Family papers consists of materials generated in the course of activities of various members of the Schott and
Kavinoky families from roughly 1900 through the 2000s. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, home
movies, personal items, artifacts, and an oral history conducted with David Robert Schott.
Especially well represented in the collection are materials related to the activities of Nadina Kavinoky, gynecologist, researcher
and activist in the field of women's reproductive health. Also represented in the collection are materials related to the
work of Hermann Schott, research biochemist, and community leader in Los Angeles, California (mid 20th century), and Alice
F. Schott, community leader and activist in Santa Barbara, California (mid 20th century).
Arrangement
The collection has been arranged into four series: Series 1. Nadina Kavinoky, Series 2. Alice F. Schott, Series 3. Hermann
Schott, Series 4. Family films.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Reproductive health
Gynecologists -- California
Biochemists -- California
Community activists -- California
Santa Barbara (Calif.) -- History
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Film reels
Oral histories (document genres)
Photograph albums
Schott, David Robert
Schott family -- Archives
Kavinoky family -- Archives
Series 1.
Nadina Kavinoky
1920s-2017
Scope and Content
This series contains family photographs, newspaper clippings, typescripts of autobiographies (both of Nahum and Nadina), her
medical articles, and lectures. Of particular note, her scrapbook includes clippings of many of the international conferences
she attended.
Biographical Note
Nadina Kavinoky (née Reinstein) was born into a wealthy family that had moved to Switzerland for University studies. Her mother
had come from a Catholic background whereas her father was Jewish. It seems the family practiced both Judaism and Greek Orthodox
Catholicism. The Reinsteins believed in education of both boys and girls, with the majority of her maternal side becoming
teachers and her mother receiving a degree in Medicine. Like many from the intelligentsia of the time, the Reinstein's second
language was French. The Reinsteins were heavily interested in western Liberal thought. In Nadina's manuscripts, she notes
her parents had met in one of the rebel youth groups against Tsarist Russia that developed in Western European universities.
At the age of four, Nadina's family moved to New York where her father started a pharmacy and her mother set up a general
practice inside their home in the German/Polish district of Buffalo. Nadina studied medicine at the University of Buffalo
but while studying abroad in Europe, met and married Nahum Kavinoky, a doctor from a wealthy Jewish family. Together they
had two daughters, Vita (David Schott's Mother) and Elsa. There are notes in these materials that allude to Nahum being previously
married and having another daughter in Russia.
By 1919, the family had moved to California and both set up practices. With the familial influence in medicine, Nadina was
heavily interested in the standards of community health. Her areas of interest were in birth control (and child spacing),
feminine hygiene, family health and from the 1960s on her interests expanded to nutrition, arthritis, gerontology, asthma/allergies,
and marriage health. As a proponent of overall better health conditions, and most notably for conception control without stigma,
Nadina served as Director of Mothers Clinics in Los Angeles County for twenty-five years. She sought to reinforce proper sex
education in classrooms and provide safe spaces for women to receive medical help without conflict. In addition to her practice,
she was a lecturer and author of many works in various medical journals regarding sexual education, birth control, and arthritis.
As a side note, she was associated with a study regarding the sexual health of people over the age of fifty.
box 1, folder 1
Birthday greetings (70th)
1958
box 2, folder 2
Diploma (Nadina Kavinoky) University of Buffalo
box 1, folder 3
Family correspondence
1930s-1990s
box 1, folder 4
Family photographs and clippings
circa 1920s
box 1, folder 5
Family photographs
1950s, 1982
box 1, folder 6
Genealogy research (Robert and Beatrice Kavinoky)
1973, 1977, 1996, 2011
box 1, folder 7
Home photographs (tapestry, painting)
undated
box 1, folder 8
"I Think Back," Nahum Kavinoky's autobiography, multiple typescripts
undated
box 1, folder 9
Bob Kavinoky memorial
2012
box 1, folder 10
Elsa Kavinoky, portrait
undated
box 1, folder 11
"My Five Identities," typescript
1969
box 1, folder 12
Nadina portraits
1920s-1960s
box 1, folder 13
News clippings (Kavinoky and Reinstein families)
circa 1950s-1980s
box 1, folder 14
Oral history interview on Nadina Kavinoky with David Robert Schott and Connie Schott, transcript
2017 April 13
Access Restrictions
Transcript of interview has been deposited at the UCSB Library, Department of Special Research Collections and is open for
research.
Scope and Content
Oral history interview with David R. Schott and Connie Schott conducted at the Schott Residence in Santa Barbara on April
13, 2017.
box 1, folder 15
Passports, immigration, death and marriage certificates (Nadina Kavinoky, Nahum Kavinoky)
1930-1955
box 1, folder 16
Property and assets
1938-1943
box 1, folder 17
Julia Reinstein (clipping)
undated
box 1, folder 18
Reinstein family: "History of the town of Cheektowaga"
1969
box 1, folder 19
The Society of Former Political Prisoners and Members of Exile Settlements, photograph
1929
box 1, folder 20
"The Weakly BAA"
1934-1936
box 2, folder 1
"Autobiography of an Arthritic Physician" by Nadina R. Kavinoky, M.D.
1967 April 18
box 2, folder 2
Birth control news, clippings
1964
box 2, folder 3
"Marital Health and Sexual Problems of Older Patients" by Nadina R. Kavinoky M.D. and Ralph G. Eckert PhD., typescript
1969 July 10
box 2, folder 4
"Let's talk about Osteoarthritis: What I did about it, What you can do" by Nadina Kavinoky, M.D.
1969 January 15
box 2, folder 5
"Medical problems of family life outline of lectures delivered at the School of Medical Evangelists to senior medical students"
by Nadina R. Kavinoky M.D.
1929-1943
box 2, folder 6
"Premarital medical examination" by Nadina R. Kavinoky M.D., "The physician and the medical aspects of the National Conference
on Family Life" by Nadina R. Kavinoky M.D. (reprints)
1948, 1954
box 2, folder 7
Sex education, clippings
1968-1969
box 2, folder 8
Southern California Association of Marriage Counselors, Directory
1965-1966
box 2, folder 9
"Psycho-somatic phenomena: another cause of Asthma" and "Stand-in for your child", typescripts by Nadina R. Kavinoky M.D.
undated
Series 2.
Alice F. Schott
1962-2015
Biographical Note
Alice F. Schott (1881-1971) wife of German immigrant Max Schott, moved to Santa Barbara with her husband in 1920, where she
quickly made her mark as a community leader and philanthropist. President of the Woman's Club from 1927 to 1928, she would
go on to purchase, with her husband, a complex of buildings--named the Alhecama Center--which served as the adult education
center for the city of Santa Barbara. In 1980, the center moved to new headquarters, and was renamed the Alice F. Schott Continuing
Education Center.
A founding member of Planned Parenthood in Santa Barbara, Schott remained involved in women's health issues her entire life.
As a major supporter of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Schott served on the board of that organization, as well that of
the Lobero Theatre Foundation.
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art currently holds the Alice Florence Schott Collection, a collection of early wooden, cloth,
paper mache dolls, and toys amassed over her lifetime.
Scope and Content
This series contains correspondence and clippings related to the Alice Florence Schott Doll Collection at the Santa Barbara
Museum of Art and The Santa Barbara City College Adult Education Center, as well as personal correspondence.
box 2, folder 10
Adult Education Center, Santa Barbara City College
1981 August 12
box 2, folder 11
Correspondence
1962 September 17
1995 July 20
box 2, folder 14
Helen L. Pedotti
1970s-1980s
box 2, folder 15
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
2010
box 2, folder 16
Santa Barbara Magazine
1988 December
Series 3.
Hermann Schott
Biographical Note
Hermann F. Schott (1904-1996) son of German Jewish immigrants Max and Clara Schott, attended Santa Barbara High School and
went on to to study at Cal Tech, where he met his wife Vita Kavinoky. Earning his Ph.D. in biochemistry, Schott would go on
to work in the field of cancer research, publishing papers on the subject. In addition to his work in biochemistry, Schott
published in the field of symbolic logic.
Philanthropist and community leader in the city of Los Angeles, Schott founded a cooperative housing project and grocery,
a credit union, in addition to other community resources. A humanitarian as well as a community learder, Schott worked to
bring to the United States refugees from Nazi Germany during World War II.
Scope and Content
This series contains some personal correspondence, clippings related to Linus Pauling and Santa Barbara history, a Schott
family geneolgy, multiple drafts of a mathematical paper and accompanying tables, graphs and notes, and two Hewlett-Packard
calculators, including printer, program cards, thermal papers, sales and support information, and manuals.
Related Material
Hermann Schott July 18, 1904-December 2, 1996. Compiled by Max and Dave. Santa Barbara, Calif.: s.n., 1997. UC Santa Barbara Library, Special Collections, CT275. S34497 H47 1997.
box 4, folder 1
"Escalation: An expansion of iterated exponentiation" by Hermann F. Schott, typescript
undated
box 4, folder 2
"Escalation: An expansion of iterated exponentiation" by Hermann F. Schott, typescript with handwritten notes
undated
box 4, folder 3
"Escalation" manuscript, with notes
undated
box 4, folder 4
"Escalation" manuscript, with notes
undated
box 4, folder 5
"Escalation" notes
undated
box 4, folder 6
"Escalation" typescripts with handwritten notes
undated
box 4, folder 7
"Escalation" IMTEC program cards
undated
box 4, folder 8
Tables, graphs, notes, and print-outs
undated
box 4, folder 10
Letter to Mom from Caltech
undated
box 4, folder 11
Linus Pauling, clippings
undated
box 4, folder 12
"A Santa Barbara holiday", Harper's New Monthly Magazine
1887
box 4, folder 13
Schott family geneology (chart 3)
undated
box 4, folder 14
Hewlett-Packard HP-41CV calculator, sales and support information and correspondence
1992-1993
box 5
Hewlett-Packard HP-65 and HP-41C calculator, peripheral printer, stand, and program cards, memory modules, thermal paper,
and manuals
undated
flat-box 6-10
Schott family photograph albums
early 20th century
Physical Description: 5 linear feet (5 flat boxes)
Scope and Content
Nine Schott family photograph albums belonging to Max Schott, Alice F. Schott, Helen Schott, Alice Schott, Clara Schott, Catherine
Anne Schott, and Hermann Schott. Locations include Europe and the United States. Many of the photographs are accompanied by
captions.
Series 4.
Family films
circa 1940s-1960s
item V9387/F1
A-frame
Scope and Content
Family playing at beach shore next to construction of a triangular shaped home; kids swimming in backyard pool; horseback
riding
item V9402/F1
Beach [house] discards
Scope and Content
Footage of Max watching a train pass; Footage of point of view from train's front; Flowers
item V9401/F1
Ben and Max at Gorm[?] Ranch
item V9371/F1
Big Sur (Pfeiffer Redwood State Park; Ventana Public Camp)
item V9361/F1
Boat - Dr. Belington's 18' with ced.
item V9368/F1
Bret, Eric, and Craig
Scope and Content
Children/infant playing with buckets of water near the harbor shoreline/on a lawn. Camera makes a 360 degree tilt at one point,
fun experiment
item V9367/F1
Bret, Eric and Craig at Gramma and Grampa's soon after Craig's first birthday
item V9392/F1
Bret- newborn, Gramma Edi, Eric-newborn
item V9396/F1
Bret II Eric 6 months [?]
item V9379/F1
Colt and Strick (breakfast ride CHS [?])
item V9370/F1
Connie and pups ; Jackie 4th birthday
Scope and Content
Title on white leader: Jackies (?) birthday IV + Connie + puppies
item V9365/F1
Connie, Dave, Dogs Jumping, Ellie and Frank's wedding
item V9388/F1
Cottage 2 ; Hermann, Allie, Jared [?], Max
item V9385/F1
Craig 3, Shannon, Guy, Dev
Scope and Content
Baby footage, caring for horse, trimming horse, family BBQ, farming, herding cows
item V9386/F1
Crestwood
Scope and Content
Community rennovating buildings/farming; public pool; rodeo; footage of mountains
item V9369/F1
David's races
Scope and Content
Automobile racing around a track
item V9347/F1
Easter egg hunt; Al and Connie choosing pup
1950
item V9347/F1
Easter egg hunt at Peake's; LA Grange ; Lido, Bee, and Larry, 9 1/2, Ricky 7 1/2, Karen 5 1/2
1955
item V9344/F1
Family playing at the beach in Carpinteria
1943
item V9397/F1
Flowers and horses
Scope and Content
Flowers, some horses, and footage of an old man reading a newspaper
item V9350/F1
Guadalupe rodeo
1953 September 13
item V9404/F1
Hawaii visit - Dave and Connie
item V9384/F1
Highway 1
Scope and Content
Big Sur coastline, nature, mountains
item V9391/F1
Hill-Airport-Fisher-LaPa 3-24'
Scope and Content
Boating; footage in an airplane; overhead shots of islands/snowy mountains; transporting boats on land
item V9357/F1
Israel, Newport, Xmas in Tucson ; Eric's birthday
1971
item V9353/F1
Klamath Falls
1958-1959
Scope and Content
Kids swimming; horses; riding horses; plane footage
item V9354/F1
Klamath Falls
1960 February
item V9355/F1
Klamath Falls
1961
Scope and Content
Mixture of home, rodeo and plane footage
item V9378/F1
Klamath Falls
Scope and Content
Mixture of rodeo and home footage; Children celebrating a birthday; riding tractor bicycles, swimming, some slow motion rodeo
footage
item V9399/F1
LA Harbor Good Shots 34' [?]
item V9383/F1
Mares, Colts, Shannon, Dave, Clint, and Eric KF 59
Scope and Content
On housing: "KF 59 Shannon + (?) Eric Clint Colts (?)"; Kids playing; kids playing with snake; horses
item V9389/F1
Max and Alan at Griffith Park zoo
Scope and Content
Footage of the now closed and deserted Griffith Park Zoo; rare footage
item V9364/F1
Max, Dave, and Hermann on horseback
item V9375/F1
Max, Johnson's Lucky, and Hawk
item V9372/F1
Maxie's fifth birthday; Sals[?] party
item V9345/F1
Max['s] birthday; Puppet show, fireplace, kids
1945
item V9394/F1
Mother and Papsie, cousins, children
item V9352/F1
OM[A]? ; D and C ; Children with Dean, Oma, Dean, Elena Bday 12/18/66 ; Xmas ; Park and kids
1956-1967
item V9376/F1
Ralph cry [?]
Scope and Content
Baby flipping through a book
item V9395/F1
V turns hose on M
Scope and Content
Kids playing with hose on lawn; adults mingling; major shrinkage
item V9346/F1
Xmas and Bryans ; Christmas and birthday
1947
item V9407/F1
144-Waller etc.
Scope and Content
Scrap of film; two children standing in front of the camera staring into the lens
