Guide to the Jensen Family Collection

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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

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 8, Item 8

Taiyo Toots, ca. 1933

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