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Finding Aid to the Patrick J. Rafferty Mission Inn, Riverside, California Collection
BANC PIC 2019.035
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Patrick J. Rafferty Mission Inn, Riverside, California collection
Creator:
Rafferty, Patrick J.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 2019.035
Physical Description:
37 photographs
in 3 boxes
: lantern slides and glass negatives
; sheets 22 x 17 cm or smaller
Date (inclusive): approximately 1900-1920
Abstract: Professionally-photographed views of the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., taken by various photographers, chiefly at the
turn of the 20th century.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Patrick J. Rafferty Mission Inn, Riverside, California photograph collection was given to The Bancroft Library by Peter
W. Shott in 2018.
Patrick J. Rafferty’s collection on Riverside’s Mission Inn is the result of a life-long passion for the historic hotel.
He first saw the inn at age seven, on a visit to his grandmother who lived nearby. As a teen in the 1970s he began spending
significant time exploring the property. He endeared himself to generations of inn managers, staff, family members (e.g. Miller
family member Roberta Richardson), and fellow “Friends” by learning as much as he could, not only about the architecture and
guestrooms, but also the magic shop, book bindery, music room and stained glass studios. As the youngest member of the Artifacts
Committee, under the leadership of Esther Klotz, the teenage Patrick was actively involved in securing, preserving and restoring
art and artifacts from the Mission Inn's collection. His first professional position with the inn was as Executive Housekeeper,
at age 20, overseeing a staff of six along with 20 guestrooms, 137 apartments and multiple public spaces.
The Mission Inn and its history became the focus of Patrick Rafferty's collecting. He amassed historic postcards, ephemera,
photographs, and other artifacts over decades, while pursuing a career in the hospitality industry as a manager of properties
in San Francisco and Hawaii.
[Identification of item], [Collection Title and call number], The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2019.
Collected professionally-photographed views of the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., taken by various photographers, chiefly
at the turn of the 20th century. Negatives record both interiors and exteriors. One negative depicts owner and developer Frank
A. Miller. Two negatives are of Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker and his ox-drawn wagon, perhaps during his tour of the region
in 1909. Lantern slides are of the Mission Inn, other points of interest in Riverside, and various locations throughout California:
Lake Tahoe, Pasadena, Mariposa Big Tree Grove, Los Angeles, Mission Santa Barbara, San Juan Capistrano, Mission San Gabriel,
Mission San Fernando, Echo Lake, Mount Shasta, and the Ostrich Tree on Cypress Point, Monterey.
Future additions are expected, which will include Mission Inn photographic prints, slides, postcards, and ephemera.
Additions expected.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hotels -- California -- Riverside
Architecture, Spanish colonial -- Influence -- Photographs
Rafferty, Patrick J.
Mission Inn