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Title: Emil T. Bertelsen family papers
Dates: 1907-1972
Collection Number: SFH 551
Creator/Collector:
Bertelsen, Emil T., 1889-1923
Extent: 2 boxes
Repository:
San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
San Francisco, California 94102
Abstract: Papers of Emil T. Bertelsen, his wife Florence Volz, her second husband Louis Grundwick, and Florence’s son-in-law Albert
A. Baker, Jr.
Language of Material: English
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Emil T. Bertelsen family papers. San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
Gift, 2018-77.
Biography/Administrative History
Emil Bertelsen, son of German immigrant Adolph F. Bertelsen, was born in 1889 and married Florence Volz in 1913. An accountant
for a San Francisco lithography company, Emil died in 1923, and Florence married Louis (Lars) Grundwick, a San Francisco candy
maker. Emil and Florence had one daughter, Lucille, who married candy company executive Albert A. Baker, Jr. in 1953.
Scope and Content of Collection
One box includes a scrapbook compiled by Emil Bertelsen, featuring Schmidt Lithograph printing samples, as well as a small
amount of records documenting Bertelsen’s position as a liaison between Schmidt Litho and the local war effort 1914-1918;
as a member of Modern Woodmen of America; and, as an elections inspector in Alameda, 1916-1917. It also includes material
relating to Bertelsen’s war time YMCA activities, clippings relating to family and friends in Alameda, ephemera of German-American
associations, some photographs, printing samples from other companies, and other ephemera. Florence Volz report cards, diplomas
and a baptismal certificate are included, as are chain letters, comic valentines, and a Schmidt Litho map of the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition, 1914.
A second box includes a family photograph album compiled by Emil and Florence, dating 1907-1917, which includes snapshots
of the Presidio, Fort Point, Golden Gate Park, Land's End, Goat Island, Ocean View, Sloat Boulevard, the Schmidt Lithograph
offices, Modern Woodmen picnics, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, as well as photographs of family and friends
at various places in Marin, Napa, Sonoma, San Jose, Sacramento, and Alameda. Photographs of various Southern California locations
visited on Emil and Florence's 1913 honeymoon are included, as well as a 1908 trip to Oregon. Photographs of the construction
of the Bertelsen home in Alameda, 1914 are included. Most photographs are captioned in handwriting by Emil.
The box also holds one folder of Emil Bertelsen personal papers, 1911-1920; a folder of news clippings, 1918-1920; and a folder
of ephemera, 1914-1921, all loose items removed from the large scrapbook. Box includes one folder of photographs of Grundwick’s
Confectionery, San Francisco, c. 1937; one folder of ink and pencil cartoons and drawings, c. 1919-1928 by Carl Hugo Beetz,
a nephew of Florence’s; two folders of material relating to the Golden Nugget Candy Company, San Francisco, c. 1940-1972,
of which Albert Baker, Jr. was general manager and special partner; and five folders of issues of candy trade journals, 1959-1969
which feature articles mentioning Albert Baker and Golden Nugget, including Western Confectioner, Western Confectioner and
Tobacconist; Candy Industry and Confectioners Journal; and Good Packaging.
Confectioners -- California -- San Francisco
Cartoonists -- California
Printing -- California -- San Francisco
Commercial printing -- California -- History -- 20th century
Offset lithography
Candy industry -- California
German Americans -- California -- History
World War, 1914-1918 -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Grundwick, Louis
Baker, Albert A., Jr.
Beetz, Carl Hugo
Bertelsen family
Golden Nugget Sweets Ltd. (San Francisco, Calif.)
Grundwick’s Confectionery (San Francisco, Calif.)
YMCA (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History
California -- Biography
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Alameda (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Photograph albums
Scrapbooks