Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the Robertha J. Wells Papers
MS 51
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: Robertha J. Wells papers
Dates: 1906-1971
Collection number: MS 51
Creator:
Wells, Robertha J.
Collection Size:
.2 linear feet
(1 box + 1 oversized box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Robertha J. Wells Papers include education material, certificates, programs, employment records, ephemera, and photographs
documenting Robertha J. Wells, Earle Keikikane and the Wells family.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Robertha J. Wells Papers must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
Robertha J. Wells papers , MS 51, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 08/16/2013.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Robertha J. Wells Papers include education material, certificates, programs, employment records, ephemera, and photographs
documenting Robertha J. Wells, Earle Keikikane and the Wells family. The papers include diplomas, programs, and term papers
documenting Robertha J. Wells education career, certificates, ephemera, and employment records related to Earle Keikikane’s
career as a sailor and two poems written by Keikikane, and 15 photographs mostly of Wells’ mother and father, Robert E. Wells
and Anna Abigail Jenkins Wells, in Bakersfield, California and Pasadena, California in the 1900-1910s.
Series I. Robertha J. Wells
Series II. Earle Keikikane
Series III. Photographs
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Wells, Robertha J.
African Americans -- Freemasons -- California -- History.
Berkeley (Calif.) -- History.
African Americans -- Freemasonry -- California -- History.