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CONTAINER LIST

Box 1

Correspondence (1919-1921)

Folder 1

Correspondence (1919-1920)

18 items
Folder 2

Correspondence (1921, Jan.-Apr.)

23 items
Folder 3          

Correspondence (1921, May-Sep.)

18 items
Folder 4          

Correspondence (1921, Oct.-Dec.)

21 items
Box 2

Correspondence (1922)

Folder 1

Correspondence (1922, Jan.-Mar.)

28 items
Folder 2

Correspondence (1922, Apr.-June)

24 items
Folder 3          

Correspondence (1922, Sep.-Oct.)

14 items
Folder 4          

Correspondence (1922, Nov.-Dec.)

17 items
Box 3

Correspondence (1923-1937)

Folder 1

Correspondence (1923, Jan.-May)

23 items
Folder 2

Correspondence (1923, June-1924)

16 items
Folder 3          

Correspondence (1925-1926)

2 items
Folder 4          

Correspondence (1928)

3 items
Folder 5          

Correspondence (1929-1930)

9 items
Folder 6          

Correspondence (1931-1932)

9 items
Folder 7          

Correspondence (1933)

16 items
Folder 8          

Correspondence (1934-1935)

8 items
Folder 9          

Correspondence (1936-1937)

10 items
Box 4

Correspondence (1938-1954)

Folder 1

Correspondence (1938-1939)

7 items
Folder 2

Correspondence (1940-1944)

21 items
Folder 3          

Correspondence (1950)

22 items
Folder 4          

Correspondence (1951)

17 items
Folder 5          

Correspondence (1952-1953)

13 items
Folder 6          

Correspondence (1954)

18 items
Box 5

Correspondence (1955-1962)

Folder 1

Correspondence (1955)

11 items
Folder 2

Correspondence (1956)

12 items
Folder 3          

Correspondence (1957, Jan.-Sep.)

18 items
Folder 4          

Correspondence (1957, Oct.-Dec.)

7 items
Folder 5          

Correspondence (1958, Jan.-Mar.)

11 items
Folder 6          

Correspondence (1958, Apr.-Nov.)

17 items
Folder 7          

Correspondence (1959-1962)

14 items
Box 6

Diaries (1893-1934)

Folder 1

Diary: Chicago World’s Fair (1893)

1 item
Folder 2

Diary: [Arizona] and return (1927)

1 item
Folder 3          

Diary: Trips driving around the West (1927)

1 item
Folder 4          

Diary: Includes trip to Lake Tahoe, Big Basin, and Yosemite (1928)

1 item
Folder 5          

Diary: Trip to the East (1932)

1 item
Folder 6          

Diary: Auto trip East, World’s Fair Chicago (1933)

1 item
Folder 7          

Diary: Mostly campaign trips (1934)

1 item
Box 7

Diaries (1935-1941)

Folder 1

Diary: Touring through New England, ancestor sites (1935)

1 item
Folder 2

Diary: Trip driving to Northwest and home (1936)

1 item
Folder 3          

Diary: Mentions many cars tried out (1937)

1 item
Folder 4          

Diary: Train to Ill. to pick up car (1937)

1 item
Folder 5          

Diary: Trip to New York and Florida (1938)

1 item
Folder 6          

Diary (1939)

1 item
Folder 7          

Diary: National Parks (1940)

1 item
Folder 8          

Diary: Train to Detroit (Mich.) to pick up DeSoto (1941)

1 item
Box 8

Diaries and notebooks (1947-1958)

Folder 1

Diary: Trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras to see daughter (1947)

1 item
Folder 2

Diary: Alaska trip (1948)

1 item
Folder 3          

Notebook: Alaska trip (1948)

1 item
Folder 4          

Diary: Driving to Victoria, British Columbia (1949)

1 item
Folder 5          

Diary: Western National Parks and sites (1952)

1 item
Folder 6          

Notebook: Itinerary and Expense (1954)

1 item
Folder 7          

Diary and notebook: New Zealand visit to family, Hartley Shaw’s stroke (1958)

1 item
Folder 8          

Notebook: Hannah Shaw’s genealogy research [undated]

1 item
Box 9

Subject files

Folder 1

Lucien Shaw (1869-1961)

Printed matter. 5 items
Folder 2

Lucien Shaw (1871-1933)

Re: Commissions, correspondence, and speeches. 19 items
Folder 3          

Lucien Shaw (1906)

Re: Hannah Shaw’s whereabouts during the San Francisco earthquake and fire. 9 items
Folder 4          

Lucien Shaw (1915-1933)

Miscellaneous. Included: Death certificate. 3 items
Folder 5          

Lucien Shaw’s death (1933)

Clippings. 32 items
Folder 6          

Lucien Shaw’s death (1933)

Sympathy letters. 28 items
Folder 7          

Lucien Shaw’s death (1933)

Memory book. 1 item
Folder 8          

Lucien Shaw’s death (1933)

Remarks and resolutions. 8 items
Folder 9          

Hartley Shaw (1889-1958)

Miscellaneous printed matter. Included: Certified Copy of Entry in the Register-Book of Deaths, New Zealand. 29 items
Folder 10      

Hartley Shaw (1900-1947)

Income taxes. 29 items
Folder 11      

Hartley Shaw (1958)

Clippings primarily related to Shaw’s death. Approximately 62 items
Box 10

Subject files

Folder 1

Hartley Shaw (1958)

Receipts, statements, etc. 16 items
Folder 2

Hartley Shaw (1958)

Sympathy letters. 16 items
Folder 3          

Hartley Shaw (1958)

Will. 3 items
Folder 4          

Hartley Shaw [before 1958]

Speeches. 9 items
Folder 5          

Fern W. Shaw (1893-1938)

Primarily issues of Los Angeles High School IDEA and yearbook. 12 items
Folder 6          

Fern W. Shaw (1895-1896)

Los Angeles High School Lyceum issues. 8 items
Folder 7          

Fern W. Shaw (1896-1938)

Primarily clippings related to Los Angeles High School. 23 items
Folder 8          

Miscellaneous printed matter (1899-1942)

The Quarterly Historical Society of Southern California, 1942 and Students’ Handbook. 2 items
Box 11

Photograph albums

Folder 1

Photo album #1: Hannah Shaw’s (1911-1921)

Dinuba house, Madary house, Lebec Hotel, and Shaw extended family. 1 item
Folder 2

Photo album #2: West family (1845)

Extremely fragile. 1 item
Folder 3          

Photo album #3: West and Shaw family (1915-1949)

Dorothy and Evelyn Shaw, Mt. Lowe, 1915, college years, G & G West 50th anniversary, Alaska trip, and wedding photos. 1 item
Folder 4          

Photo album #4: Shaw family (1918-1920s)

Dorothy Shaw, Rose Parade float, ships in San Pedro, and school friends. 1 item
Box 12

Photograph albums

Folder 1

Photo albums #5: Hannah Shaw’s (1900-1923)

Political campaign, Deputy District Attorney, and city of Wilmington. 1 item
Folder 2

Photo album #6: Shaw family (1924)

Primarily cases Shaw presided. 1 item
Folder 3          

Photo album #7: Shaw family (1929-1930)

Primarily cases Shaw presided. 1 item
Box 13

Photograph albums

Folder 1

Scrapbook #1: Hartley Shaw’s (1900-1923)

Political campaign, Deputy District Attorney, and city of Wilmington. 1 item
Folder 2

Scrapbook #2: Hartley Shaw’s (1924)

Primarily cases Shaw presided. 1 item
Folder 3          

Scrapbook #3: Hartley Shaw’s (1929-1930)

Primarily cases Shaw presided. 1 item
Box 14

Photographs

Folder 1

Caleb Atwood West and Mary Ann West with daughter [before 1854]

Case in two pieces. 1 item
Folder 2

Calvin [Henderson] [undated]

1 item
Folder 3          

(Hartley Shaw’s cousin) [before 1888]

1 item
Folder 4          

Edwin A. Hartley and Ruth Palmer Hartley (Parents of Hannah Hartley Shaw) [undated]

Damaged. 1 item
Box 15

Photographs

Folder 1

Hartley Shaw [before 1958]

2 items
Folder 2

Henry Silas West [before 1862]

2 items
Folder 3          

Jesse West and wife [before 1861]

1 item
Folder 4          

Isabel van Dyke (Frost) Jones and Wiley Jones [1865]

1 item
Folder 5          

Miscellaneous [undated]

5 items
Folder 6          

Mary West and unidentified man [before 1881]

Case in two pieces. 1 item
Folder 7          

Nina J. West [undated]

Case in two pieces. 1 item
Folder 8          

William Newell West [before 1888]

2 items
Box 16

Miscellaneous

 

Los Angeles High School [before 1936]

Program for The Quest for the Golden Fleece and poster entitled The Passing Bell Has Rung. 2 items
 

Henry West fan chart [undated]

 

Hartley Shaw’s passport (1946)

Included: Vaccination certificates. 1 item
 

Printed matter related to genealogy (1929-1963)

The Magazine of American Genealogy no. 1, 7, 11, 16¸ 23, 25; The Bulletin of the California State Society of Sons of the Revolution vol. IX, no. 3; The Mayflower Quarterly vol. 27, no. 2 and vol. 28, no. 1, 3, and 4; and Genealogy and Local History, Catalogue 230. 11 items
Box 17

Photo album #8: Shaw family (1929-1940)

Family photographs, trips to Yosemite, Bishop, Death Valley, Crater Lake, and British Columbia. Cataloger’s note: Originally, album #5. 1 item
Box 18

Scrapbook (1929-1934)

Toronto road trip and other camping trips in California. Primarily postcards. Cataloger’s note: Originally, album #6. 1 item
Box 19

Scrapbook (1880s-1929)

Primarily mementos related to Hartley and Fern W. Shaw. Cataloger’s note: Originally, album #7. 1 item
Box 20

Scrapbook (1881-1929)

West family and friends, Hartley in bicycle gear at USC, and justices at Catalina, 1926. Cataloger’s note: Originally, album #8. 1 item
Box 21

Scrapbook (1935-1936)

Train to Detroit and drive home from the East coast and trip to British Columbia, 1936. Cataloger’s note: Originally, album #9. 1 item
Box 22

Scrapbook (1940-1949)

Trip to Hoover Dam, National Parks trip, Alaska, and Honduras. Cataloger’s note: Originally, album # 13. 1 item
Box 23

Scrapbook (1929-1932)

Trip to Toronto, Seattle to Vancouver, and East with Dorothy. Cataloger’s note: Originally, album #14. 1 item
Box 24

Scrapbook (1923-1934)

Primarily cases Shaw presided. 1 item
 

Oversize folder: Merchant of Venice: [play] [undated]

1 item