Guide to the Jensen Family Collection
Special Collections & Archives
University Library
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8326
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
Biographical / Historical
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing 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
Accruals
2020
Preferred Citation
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual,
or see the
Citing Archival Materials
guide.
Processing Information
Mallory Furnier, 2020
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Albums (Books)
Paper records
Box 9, Item 1
Jensen, Manley Charles Junior Photograph Album
ca. 1880-1949
Box 10, Item 1
Jensen, Sara Haug Photograph Album,
ca. 1890-1915
Box 1, Folder 1
Portrait Photographs,
ca. 1900-1939
Box 1, Folder 2
Port Arthur Siege Postcards,
ca. 1907-1915
Box 2, Item 1
Norway, Philippines, and China Photograph Album,
ca. 1914-1917
Box 6, Item 3
de Gama, Elizabeth Bates and Grandson Morris Roderick Volek Junior
Photograph,
1915 June 20
Box 1, Folder 4
Great FOE Funeral Procession Photographs,
1916 December 3
Box 1, Folder 3
Philippines and China Photograph Album,
1916-1925
Box 3, Item 1
Philippines and China Photograph Album,
1916-1936
Box 4, Item 1
Dairen and Shanghai, China Photograph Album,
1917-1929
Box 1, Folder 5
Jensen, Manley Charles Photograph,
1918 December 7
Box 1, Folder 6
Jensen, Johan Waldemar Haug Photographs,
1920
Box 1, Folder 7
Shanghai Volunteer Company and Sino-Japanese War Photograph Album,
ca. 1920-1937
Box 1, Folder 8
Dinner Party Photograph,
ca. 1920-1939
Box 1, Folder 9
China Family Negatives,
ca. 1920-1940
Box 5, Item 1
China Photograph Album,
1923-1940
Box 1, Folder 10
Bridge Construction and Boats Photographs,
ca. 1925-1929
Box 6, Item 1
China Scenes Photograph Album,
ca. 1930-1939
Box 1, Folder 11
Family Photographs and Negatives,
ca. 1930-1941
Box 11, Folder 1
Nanking Jewellers Advertisement,
ca. 1930-1941
Box 6, Item 2
The Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai,
1932
Box 8, Item 9
Shanghai Incident,
The Illustrated London
News
,
1932 February 27
Box 11, Folder 2
Shanghai Club Bon Voyage Tiffin Menu,
1932 July 3
Box 5, Item 3
China and California Photograph Album,
1932-1941
Box 7, Item 1
Shanghai Society Clippings Scrapbook,
1933-1934
Box 1, Folder 12
Jensen, Manley Charles, Masonic Temple Photographs and Ephemera,
1934-1936
Box 1, Folder 13
Hangchow, China Trip Negatives,
1934 April
Box 1, Folder 14
Makanshan, China Negative,
1934 April
Box 1, Folder 15
Chapao Hills, China Trip Negatives,
1934 June
Box 8, Item 6
Masonic Portrait,
ca. 1934-1936
Folder 1
Shanghai Society Clippings,
1934-1937
Box 11, Folder 3
Jensen, Johan Waldemar Haug Correspondence,
ca. 1934-1941
Box 8, Item 4
Silver Jubilee Supplement
Shanghai Sunday
Times
,
1935 May 5
Box 8, Item 5
Silver Jubilee Special Edition,
Shanghai Evening Post
and Mercury
,
1935 May 6
Box 11, Folder 4
Macy, Alma Correspondence,
1935-1936
Box 7, Item 2
Shanghai Society Clippings Scrapbook,
1935-1936
Box 8, Item 7
Wedding Party Portrait,
ca. 1936
Box 11, Folder 5
Municipal Gazette,
1936 February 14
Box 11, Folder 6
The Cathay Cosmopolitan,
1936 May
Box 11, Folder 7
Grand Theatre Program and Ticket,
1936 July
31-August 2
Box 1, Folder 16
Cathay Theatre Program,
1936 August 13
Box 11, Folder 8
H.M.S. Kent St. Giles British School Visit,
1936 October 4
Box 11, Folder 9
Jensen, Johan Waldemar Haug Radiograms,
1936-1937
Box 7, Item 3
Shanghai Society Clippings Scrapbook,
1936-1937
Box 11, Folder 10
Christmas Greeting Cards,
ca. 1936-1941
Box 11, Folder 11
Shanghai Newspaper Clippings,
ca. 1936-1941
Box 8, Item 1
Shanghai Society Clippings Scrapbook,
1937
Box 1, Folder 17
Sino-Japanese Hostilities Around Shanghai,
The Shanghai
Times
,
1937
August-September
Box 1, Folder 18
[Chapei Fires] Photograph,
ca. 1937
Box 11, Folder 12
Shanghai Under Fire,
1937
Box 11, Folder 13
Oriental Affairs,
1937 September
Box 11, Folder 14
Oriental Affairs,
1937 October
Box 1, Folder 19
Sino-Japanese Conflict,
The China
Quarterly
,
1937 October 15
Box 11, Folder 15
Oriental Affairs,
1937 November
Box 11, Folder 16
Oriental Affairs,
1937 December
Box 8, Item 2
Shanghai Society Clippings Scrapbook,
1937-1938
Box 1, Folder 20
Family Negatives,
ca. 1937-1940
Box 1, Folder 21
Tsingtao and Tsingtao Riding School Negatives,
ca. 1937-1940
Box 8, Item 3
Shanghai Society Clippings Scrapbook,
1938
Box 5, Item 2
China Photograph Album,
1938-1940
Folder 2
General Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star Twenty-Third Triennial Assembly
Photographs,
1940 September
Box 1, Folder 22
San Rafael, California Negatives,
1940-1941
Box 1, Folder 23
Jensen, Sara Haug Photographs,
ca. 1940-1941
Box 1, Folder 24
Jensen, Manley Charles Junior Photograph,
ca. 1941
Box 1, Folder 25
Davis, Healdsburg, and Sunday Drill Negatives,
ca. 1941-1942
Box 11, Folder 17
United States Navy Comedy Correspondence,
ca. 1941-1945
Box 1, Folder 26
Ouray, Colorado Negatives,
1942
Box 11, Folder 18
The China Monthly,
1943
July-August
Box 11, Folder 19
Shanghai Municipal Council United States Court of Claims Case,
1946-1961
Box 11, Folder 20
Shanghai Municipal Council United States Court of Claims Case,
1946-1961
Box 11, Folder 21
Shanghai Municipal Council United States Court of Claims Case,
1946-1961
Box 11, Folder 22
Biesinger, Bruce A. Elder Card,
ca. 1947
Box 11, Folder 23
Jensen, Manley Charles Junior Correspondence,
1948 October 23
Box 11, Folder 24
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Shanghai, Orient of China
By-laws,
1949
Box 11, Folder 25
Masonic Correspondence,
1993-1994