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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Jensen Family Collection
Creator:
Jensen Family
Identifier/Call Number: OCH.JFC
Physical Description:
12.12 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1880-1994
Abstract: The
Jensen Family Collection documents the lives of Manley Charles
Jensen, his wife Sara Ludavica Haug, and the early years of their children Johan Waldemar
Haug Jensen and Manley Charles Jensen, Junior. Manley C. Jensen, Senior was an American born
in San Francisco, but his career took him initially to the Philippines and then to Dairen
and Shanghai, China. He worked for Standard Oil for a number of years, before returning to
the United States in the early 1940s. While living abroad he met his Norwegian wife, and the
two married in the Philippines. Photographs document Jensen's career, family trips around
China, Europe, India, and the United States, and masonic activities. Photographs and a
number of scrapbooks created by Sara Haug Jensen document the social scene in 1930s
Shanghai.
Language of Material:
English, Norwegian
Manley Charles Jensen was born in San Francisco, California on July 14, 1880 to John J.
Jensen and Edith F. Barten. Sara Ludavica Haug was born in Kragero, Norway in February 1880
to John W. Haug and Elizabet Haltermann. Manley and Sara met in the Philippines and married
in Manila on August 14, 1915 at Cathedral Church of Saint Mary and Saint John. Sara gave
birth to their son, Johan Waldemar Haug Jensen, in Manila on September 7, 1916. The family
left the Philippines in 1917 and moved to China, living and working in KiuKiang [Jiujiang],
Wuhu, and Shanghai from 1917-1919. Manley went to Dairen around May 1919 to work for
Standard Oil Company of New York, and then later worked in Shanghai as a representative of
the U.S. government in the Municipal Council of the International Settlement as a public
works director and other related positions. Manley worked with the Shanghai Municipal
Council and the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, and was involved in masonry in both China and the
Philippines. Manley and Sara's second son, Manley Charles Jensen, Junior, was born April 30,
1924 in Shanghai, China. The family went on a trip around the world in 1927. In 1936 Johan
left China to attend college in California. The rest of the family moved to the United
States by late 1941. Sara passed away in Ouray, Colorado in 1942, while Manley Senior died
in Ohio in 1957.
The Jensen Family Collection contains photograph albums, loose photographs, ephemera, and
clippings that document the family's life in China, early married life in the Philippines,
and to a lesser extent time spent in California, Norway, and other locations visited during
the family's 1927 world tour. Photographs taken in the Philippines include images of Manila,
Boso-boso, Baguio, Luzon, Mindanao, Cotabato, Zamboanga, Iloilo, and a funeral procession of
an unnamed individual. Early China photographs document Manley Charles Jensen's work with
Standard Oil maintenance and construction in Dairen, including photographs of structures and
fellow employees. Other photographs of structural construction projects were possibly taken
in Shanghai as part of Jensen's Shanghai Municipal Council Public Works Department work.
There are also photographs from Jensen's American Masonic Temple and Shanghai Volunteer
Corps participation, and Johan and Manley Junior's scouting activities. Other photographs
taken in China document social networks and daily life in the Shanghai International
Settlement in the 1920s and 1930s, including parties, picnics, dogs, horseback riding, and
visits to parks, Jessfield Zoo, and beaches. Sara Haug Jensen's clipping scrapbooks of
Shanghai social life include names and photographs of many residents.
There are also photographs from trips on the SS Tenyo Maru, SS Shinyo Maru, Bohemia, and
Pacific Danmark, and a small number of publications and photographs related to Sino-Japanese
conflicts in 1932 and 1937. In the late 1930s Manley Junior attended school in Tsingtao, and
photographs document some of the time spent in the area, including at Strand Beach and St.
Giles British School. Other photograph locations in China include Peking, Jijiks, Manchuria,
Hankou, Hangzhou, Wuhu, Kiukiang, Guizhou, and Chapao Hills.
Photographs taken in the United States include images of Berkeley, San Francisco, and
Banning, California, Indiana, and Colorado. There are also records documenting the case
against the United States government for payment of salary and pension funds for American
citizens formerly employed by the Shanghai Municipal Council.
In photograph albums Sara is sometimes referred to as Tommy, and Manley Charles Jensen
Junior as "Bobby." Collection materials are arranged chronologically.
This collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Johanna Jensen Santi, 2018
2020
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual,
or see the
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guide.
Mallory Furnier, 2020
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Albums (Books)
Paper records