Finding Aid to the Swett-Tracy Family Papers and Photographs
Lara Michels and student processing assistant Malayna Chang
The Bancroft Library
2023
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Swett-Tracy family papers and photographs
Creator:
Swett (Family : Swett, John, 1830-1913)
Creator:
Tracy (Family : Tracy, Frederick Palmer, 1815-1860)
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 91/206 cz
Physical Description:
18 linear feet
(9 cartons, 2 boxes, 8 oversize boxes)
Physical Description:
450 photographs
Date (inclusive): approximately 1698-1943
Date (bulk): bulk 1836-1937
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged into sub-groups by family member.
Biographical / Historical
John Swett was an only child born July 31, 1830 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, to Lucretia French (1804-1896) and Ebenezer
Swett (d. 1843). The couple were Congregationalists and were married in 1829. After Ebenezer's death, Lucretia married William
Berry in 1844. John Swett died August 22, 1913 in Alhambra Valley, near Martinez, California. During his life he was a close
friend of Sierra Club co-founder John Muir. In 1863 he was instrumental in founding the California Educational Society, which
would become the California Teachers Association, the largest teachers' union in the state of California. Running in 1863,
during the Civil War, as a National Union Party (Republican) candidate he was elected California State Superintendent of Public
Instruction and served until 1867.
He married Mary Louise (Tracy) Swett, also an educator, on May 8, 1862 in Sonoma, and they had 6 children: Emelie Tracy Young
Swett (1863-1892); William Russell Swett (1868-1868); Frank Tracy Swett (1869-1969); Walter Harper Swett (1871-1872); Helen
Swett (1875-1938); and John French Swett (1879-1945).
Helen Swett married Gregorio Artieda y Paris on 29 August 1912, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. She lived
in Contra Costa, California, United States in 1900 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1930. She died on 30
April 1938, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 63. Helen Swett was a social worker and served as President
of the Public Welfare League of Alameda County. She held the position of field worker in the department of sociology at Mills
College under Dr. Mary Roberts Coolidge.
Mary Louise Swett was the daughter of Frederick Palmer Tracy, one of the founders of the Republican Party in California. Tracy
was born in Scotland, Windham County, Connecticut in 1815 to Cyrus and Hannah Mason Tracy. He married Emily Stone around 1837.
He moved his family to San Francisco in the early 1850s and established himself as an attorney. Tracy died in Lowville, Lewis
County, New York and is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
Emily Scott was born in 1815 to Obadiah Stone and Waity Stone, of Thompson, Connecticut. She died in January 1892 in St Helena,
California and is buried with her husband Frederick Palmer Tracy at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. Emily
married Frederick P. Tracy on January 10, 1837 and together they had five children: Frederick Augustus Eugene, born July 18,
1838, and died February 23, 1839; Mary Louisa, born December 8, 1839, married John Swett, Esq., of San Francisco, California;
Frederick William, born February 9, 1842, died in San Francisco; Grace Emeline, born Mar 2, 1844, and died March 25, 1857,
in San Francisco; and Thomas Garnier, born August 23, 1845.
Preferred Citation
Swett-Tracy family papers (BANC MSS 91/206 cz), The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Lara Michels and Malayna Chang (Bancroft student processing assistant) in 2023.
Related Materials
John Swett papers (BANC MSS C-B 352), The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Tracy family papers (BANC MSS Z-Z 107), The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Helen Swett letters to her fiancé, Charles E. Schwartz : and other papers (BANC MSS C-B 353), The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Contents
The papers and photographs of the Swett and Tracy families, including materials on John Swett, Mary Tracy Swett, and their
children (especially Helen and Frank Swett) as well as materials on the family of Frederick Palmer Tracy and Emily Scott Tracy
(Mary Swett's parents). Much of the materials is related to John Swett, Helen Swett, and Frederick Palmer Tracy. Among the
materials relating to Frederick Palmer Tracy is correspondence relating to his role in the early California Republican Party
during the 1850s and 1860s and a range of materials relating to his Tracy family ancestors in colonial Connecticut. Prominent
among the Swett family materials are the work-related subject files of Helen Swett, a social worker in the East Bay and an
activist for a range of progressive causes in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Swett, John, 1830-1913
Swett, Mary Louisa Tracy, 1839-1919
Artieda, Helen Swett
Swett, Frank Tracy, 1869-1969
Parkhurst, Emily Tracy Y. Swett, 1863-1892
Berry, Lucretia French Swett, 1804-1896
Swett, Ebenezer
Tracy, Frederick Palmer, 1815-1860
Tracy, Emily Scott, 1815-1892
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Tracy, Cyrus M. ((Cyrus Mason)), 1824-1891
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Stanton, Henry B. ((Henry Brewster)), 1805-1887
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892
Gwin, William McKendree, 1805-1885
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Nicolay, John G. ((John George)), 1832-1901
Alameda County Birth Control League
Swett (Family : Swett, John, 1830-1913) -- Archives
Tracy (Family : Tracy, Frederick Palmer, 1815-1860) -- Archives
Swett (Family : Swett, John, 1830-1913) -- Photographs
Tracy (Family : Tracy, Frederick Palmer, 1815-1860) -- Photographs
Community Chest of Oakland (Calif.)
East Bay Housewives League
California Cooperative Council
Public Welfare League of Alameda County
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
Massachusetts and California Company
Republican Party (Calif.)
Republican National Convention (2nd : 1860 : Chicago, Ill.)
Education -- California
Public schools -- California -- History
Birth control -- History -- Alameda County (Calif.)
Social service -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Prohibition -- Alameda County (Calif.)
Political parties -- California
California -- Politics and government -- 1850-1950
Cooperative societies -- California
Women in cooperative societies
Families -- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Martinez (Contra Costa County, Calif.)
Alameda County (Calif.)
Family papers
Photographs
Carton 1, Folder 1-48
Correspondence and papers
1850-1919
Scope and Contents
Professional and personal correspondence (mostly with wife Mary); poetry; writings; business records; Swett Vineyards records;
publishing contracts; memorial materials.
oversize_box 1
Loose pages from disbound John Swett clippings scrapbook
1867-1871
oversize_box 2
Day Book from Swett family farm/vineyards
1850-1907
oversize_box 4, Folder 1
Copy of The Western Journal of Education (November 1912) containing a tribute to John Swett
1912
Mary Louise (Tracy) Swett
Carton 2, Folder 1-31
Correspondence
1851-1919
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from daughter Helen Swett, Emma Taussey, assorted members of the Tracy family, Mary Donnelly, and Clara Howe.
Carton 3, Folder 1-14
Correspondence
1897-1917
Scope and Contents
Assorted correspondence (incoming)
Carton 3, Folder 15
Calling cards
approximately 1870-1915
Carton 3, Folder 16-17
Manuscript (Notes, Life of F.P. Tracy) by Mary Louise Tracy
undated
Carton 3, Folder 18
Public School Trustee Certificate
1897
Carton 3, Folder 19
American Book Company payments to Estate of Mary Swett
1927-1930
oversize_box 4, Folder 1
Diplomas and certificates
1859-1898
Professional Subject files
Carton 4, Folder 1
Adoption Proceedings - legislation/correspondence
1937
Carton 4, Folder 2-10
Alameda County Housing Council for Girls and Women
1927-1937
Carton 4, Folder 11-16
American Red Cross
1912-1920
Carton 4, Folder 16A
Anti-Narcotic Magazine
1926
Carton 4, Folder 17
Alameda County Birth Control League and Mothers' Health Clinic
1927-1936
Carton 4, Folder 18
Business Women's Herald: Official Publication of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Oakland, Calif.
1930-1938
Carton 4, Folder 19-27
California Cooperative Council
1935-1937
Carton 4, Folder 28-29
Community Chest of Oakland
approximately 1930
Carton 4, Folder 30
Contra Costa County Social Services Department (Pauper Act)
1935
Carton 4, Folder 31-34
Cooperatives--assorted files
1935-1937
Carton 5, Folder 1-2
Cooperatives--assorted files
approximately 1935
Carton 5, Folder 3-4
East Bay Housewives' League
1914-1937
Carton 5, Folder 5
East Bay Residents with Organization and Social Affiliations list
approximately 1935
Carton 5, Folder 6
Legislature, California--Department of Institutions
1934
Carton 5, Folder 7
Library Council; Citizens' Library Council of California; Library Committee of Oakland
1935
Carton 5, Folder 9
The New Republic--No. 80 (Unemployment)
1914
Carton 5, Folder 10
The Peoples Foundation
1935
Carton 5, Folder 11-33
Public Welfare League--assorted files
1914-1937
Carton 6, Folder 1-41
Public Welfare League--assorted files
1914-1937
Carton 6, Folder 42
Resettlement Administration--Work in the Southwest
1937
Carton 6, Folder 43
Upton Sinclair Committee for Governor
1934-1937
Carton 6, Folder 44-45
Social Agencies--assorted pamphlets and other materials
approximately 1930-1937
Carton 6, Folder 1-3
United States government pamphlets
approximately 1930-1938
Carton 7, Folder 1-9
Notes, lectures, membership cards
1919-1937
Carton 7, Folder 18
Contra Costa County Horticultural Inspector tags
approximately 1910
oversize_box 4, Folder 2
Certificate from the University of California
1890
Lucretia Berry
1880-1899
Biographical / Historical
Mother of John Swett.
Ebenezer Swett
approximately 1843
Carton 7, Folder 22
Inventory of estate and speech on immigration
approximately 1843
Frederick Palmer (F. P.) Tracy
1830-1857
Carton 7, Folder 48
F. P. Tracy journal
1836-1839
Carton 7, Folder 21-26
Correspondence between F.P and Emily Tracy
1839-1849
Carton 7, Folder 27-34
Emily Tracy--Correspondence and other materials
approximately 1840-1890
Carton 7, Folder 37-66
F.P. Tracy assorted correspondence and business records
1840-1880
Carton 8, Folder 1-
F.P. Tracy assorted correspondence and business records
1840-1880
Carton 7, Folder 23
F. P. Tracy's Oregon Project (includes Daniel Webster correspondence)
1839-1846
Carton 7, Folder 24
F. P. Tracy letter to parents from Dudley, Massachusetts
1836
Carton 7, Folder 25
Correspondence from Cyrus M. Tracy to brother
1853-1854
Carton 7, Folder 26
Massachusetts and California Company correspondence to F. P. Tracy
1849-1851
Carton 7, Folder 27
F. P. Tracy assorted correspondence and other materials
1849-1860
Carton 7, Folder 28
Letter from J.G. Whittier to F. P. Tracy
1841
Carton 7, Folder 29
Assorted letters to F. P. Tracy
1841-1842
Carton 7, Folder 30
F. P. Tracy, letter of introduction
1846
Carton 7, Folder 31
Physician's advice to F. P. Tracy
1846
Carton 7, Folder 32
F. P. Tracy letter from Reverend Stanton
1846
Carton 7, Folder 33
Letter from Prague to F. P. Tracy (name of author indecipherable)
1846-11-18
oversize_box 4, Folder 1
Letter from the Massachusetts Abolition Society (regarding the financial condition of the Society)
1848
Carton 7, Folder 34
Massachusetts and California Company correspondence and "Basis of Agreement" to F. P. Tracy
1849
Carton 7, Folder 35
F. P. Tracy, miscellaneous letters and documents
Scope and Contents
1853 letter from "B. Pike" of Salem, Massachusetts; invitation to dine at the home of Senator Seward; 1849 letter from David
Dudley Field' an 1835 certification from John McKinstry to Mr. Tracy that some "Universalists" from Southbridge in Worcester
County kept "spirituous liquour" in a chest in an old house not far from the meeting house; a recommendation for Mr. Cummings
sent to F.P. Tracy from Daniel Webster in 1849.
Carton 7, Folder 36
Handwritten copies of letters from Dr. E. H. Robbins to Mr. Speaker Robert Charles Winthrop (1849); Mr. Josiah Hayden's letter
to Robert Charles Winthrop (1849); Henry B. Stanton's letter to John Van Buren (1849); and John Van Buren's letter to Col.
Benton enclosing Mr. Stanton's letter (1849)
1849
Carton 7, Folder 37
Letter of attorney of Francisco Guerrero appointing F. P. Tracy and Robert Ridley as his attorneys
1851
Carton 7, Folder 38
Letters from F. P. Tracy to Daughter Mary Louise Tracy
1851-1860
Scope and Contents
One letter is partly in Spanish.
Carton 7, Folder 39
F. P. Tracy, oath of Notary Public
1850-1852
Carton 7, Folder 40
Letter from H. B. Stanton to F. P. Tracy
1852
Carton 7, Folder 41
Letter from F. P. Tracy to Franklin Pierce on California politics and a mass meeting in San Francisco and other matters
1852-08-14
Carton 7, Folder 42
Correspondence of George William Curtis to F. P. Tracy
1852-1857
Carton 7, Folder 43
Letters from F. P. Tracy to William M. Gwin and Colonel Johnson regarding the Pacific Railroad
1853
Carton 7, Folder 44
Indenture between Harvey S. Brown and F. P. Tracy for land in San Francisco and deed from Joaquin Carrillo to Francis A. Fabens
and Frederick P. Tracy
1852
1857
Carton 7, Folder 45
Letter from F. P. Tracy to John Greenleaf Whittier regarding death of Senator David Broderick in a duel
September 17, 1859
Scope and Contents
Includes handwritten letter and typed transcription
Carton 7, Folder 46
Letters from Leland Stanford to F. P. Tracy regarding Republican politics in California just before the election of 1860
August 6, 1859
April 19, 1860
Carton 7, Folder 47
Letter to F. P. Tracy regarding stolen overcoat incident
1850
Carton 7, Folder 49
F.P. Tracy Day Book (Massachusetts Abolition Society)
1842-1843
Scope and Contents
Financial records.
Carton 7, Folder 50
Hand-drawn political cartoon entitled "A Slaveholders argument" (drawn by E.D. Tracy, Nassau County, Florida Territory, Summer
of 1844)
1844
Carton 7, Folder 51
Letter from Horace Greeley to John Greenleaf Whittier regarding F. P. Tracy as contributer to publication
January 22, 1846
Carton 7, Folder 52
F. P. Tracy's State Department credentials (for Paris) signed by James Buchanan
1846
Carton 7, Folder 53
Invitations to F. P. Tracy in Paris
1847
Carton 7, Folder 54
Authorization for F. P. Tracy to carry US government "Dispatches" to San Francisco
1849
Carton 7, Folder 55
Power of attorney (Augustin Bernal to F. P. Tracy); letter of attorney (Domingo Feliz to F. P. Tracy)
1851
Carton 7, Folder 56
Deed of Land (Rinaldo R. Taylor to William H. Hayden)
1850-05-14
Carton 7, Folder 57
F. P. Tracy--Notary Public oath
1853
Carton 7, Folder 58
F. P. Tracy--materials relating to his masonic activities
1848-1864
Carton 7, Folder 59
Letter written by F. P. Tracy on behalf of his son, William, to "Aunt Taylor"
1854
Carton 7, Folder 60
F. P. Tracy Republican State Convention advertisement
1858
Carton 7, Folder 60-61
F. P. Tracy assorted letters and business records
1849-1859
Carton 7, Folder 64
Mechanics Institute shares (F. P. Tracy)
1858-1859
Carton 7, Folder 65
Property lease (J. H. Pierdy to F. P. Tracy) for land in Alameda)
1858
Carton 7, Folder 66
F. P. Tracy speeches and sermons
approximately 1840-1859
Carton 7, Folder 67
Inventory of F. P. Tracy's property
1860
Carton 7, Folder 68-69
Materials on the 1860 Republication National Convention
1860
Scope and Contents
F. P. Tracy was a California delegate to the Republican Convention. Includes: dinner menu for the Complimentary Banquet to
the California Delegates to the Republican Convention at the Adams House, Chicago, Illinois, May 18th 1860 (includes some
handwritten notes from Frank Swett); a note from A.A. Sargent requesting Tracy's presence at a speech at a Republican ratificaion
meeting; a handwritten copy of a letter from F. P. Tracy to Abraham Lincoln (August 10, 1860) and a response acknowledging
receipt by Lincoln's private secretary, John G. Nicolay; a fragment of a letter by F. P. Tracy. Includes some photographic
copies in print and negative form. Negatives separated for cold storage.
Carton 7, Folder 70
Garnier Tracy--Civil War letter and conduct report
1861
Carton 7, Folder 71
Materials relating to F. P. Tracy's estate
1860-1861
Carton 8, Folder 1
Assorted property deeds
1852-1869
Carton 8, Folder 2
Autographs
approximately 1800-1850
Carton 8, Folder 3
Printed page with "Compliments of Ralph Keeler"
approximately 1850
Carton 8, Folder 5
F. P. Tracy handwritten autobiography
approximately 1830-1860
Carton 8, Folder 6
F. P. Tracy handwritten will (drafted in Connecticut)
undated
Carton 8, Folder 7
Notes-Life of F. P. Tracy [as a circuit preacher]
approximately 1835
Carton 8, Folder 8
Agreement between F. P. Tracy and the Mission Delores Railroad Company for the construction of a railroad in San Francisco
1859
Carton 8, Folder 9
Handwritten draft obituary of F. P. Tracy and Letters Testamentary for F. P. Tracy's will
1860-1861
Carton 8, Folder 10
Fragment (possibly autobiographical) regarding time in Paris during the Revolutions of 1848
1848
Carton 8, Folder 11
Contributors to monument to F. P. Tracy (including Leland Stanford) and news items
1865-1912
Carton 8, Folder 12
Two letters to Sam Williams, editor of San Francisco Bulletin (one from Sam Bowles and the other from John Godfrey Saxe)
1869
Carton 8, Folder 13
Letter from Bret Harte to Sam Williams, editor of San Francisco Bulletin
December 9, 1875
Carton 8, Folder 14
Frederick Douglass letter to Abigail Bush
June 12, 1885
Carton 8, Folder 15
Document with notarized signature of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
1862
Carton 8, Folder 16
Discharge document for Wallace More (from 105th Regiment, Illinois Infantry)
1865
Carton 8, Folder 17
"An Adventure in the Army"
approximately 1861-1865
Scope and Contents
Handwritten account by a solder of an incident near Morganza, Louisiana during the Civil War. The incident appears to be an
ambush of a rebel encampment. There is no author noted on the document and no date. The document was filed with F.P. Tracy's
papers.
Box 2
F. P. Tracy handwritten notes on European history
approximately 1850
oversize_box 1
F. P. Tracy disbound scrapbook of "Old Autographs and Letters"
1838-1848
Scope and Contents
Letters of: George Washington Lafayette (1848); George William Curtis (1854); Gregory Yale (1860); Henry Brewster Stanton
(1858); Charles Francis Adams (1848); the U.S. House Committee on Foriegn Affairs (regarding Oregon) (1838); Daniel Tracy
(1708); John P. Hale (1848); Benjamin Perley Poore (1846); Senator Isaac Hill (1834); and others. Also includes some cut autographs.
oversize_box 3
Scrapbook of F. P. Tracy's Letters from Europe 1848 (Press Correspondence)
1848
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings of letters written by F. P. Tracy as foriegn correspondent for a Norwich, Connecticut newspaper while
in Europe during the Revolutions of 1848
oversize_box 4, Folder 1
F. P. Tracy's diplomas and certificates
1854-1860
Emily (Stone) Tracy
1838-1888
Carton 8, Folder 18-19
Letters from F. P. Tracy to Emily Tracy
approximately 1839-1859
Carton 8, Folder 20
Assorted Tracy family correspondence (mostly to and from Emily Tracy)
approximately 1840-1880
Scope and Contents
Some letters are fragments.
Carton 8, Folder 21
Fragment of letter from F. P. Tracy about coming to California regarding his being in and her coming to California
1849
Carton 8, Folder 22
Letter from a Stone family member (name undecipherable) to Emily Tracy
January 29, 1838
Carton 8, Folder 23
Letters to Emily Tracy upon the occasion of F. P. Tracy's death
1860-1861
Carton 8, Folder 27
Diary, fragments
1884-1888
oversize_box 3
Clippings scrapbook
approximately 1840-1880
Emilie Tracy Y. Parkhurst
undated
Carton 8, Folder 28
Memory of Emily Tracy Y. Parkhurst by Agnes Manning
undated
oversize_box 4, Folder 1
Issue of The American Home Journal (June 1890) containing an article by Emilie Swett on John Swett
1890
Genealogical research on the Tracy and Swett families, documents relating to colonial Connecticut, and assorted other materials
1698-1920
Carton 8, Folder 29
Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut, one letter to Constable of Plainfield and one letter to the sheriff of the county of
New London or his Deputy directing action against persons injuring a crop of grain on lands they claimed
July 1701
Carton 8, Folder 30
Census of Mohican Indians at New London, Connecticut
1754-1755
Carton 8, Folder 31
Commission from Connecticut Governor Tallcott to Solomon Tracy appointing Tracy Cornet of the Troop and other Tracy family
papers from the 18th century
1698-1787
Carton 8, Folder 32
Mary Louise Tracy's letter describing F. P. Tracy's geneaology and life's work
1861
Carton 8, Folder 33
F. P. Tracy's genealogical research
1845-1897
Carton 8, Folder 34
Tracy genealogy--early account
approximately 1750-1800
Carton 8, Folder 35
F. P. Tracy--Town records of Norwich, Connecticut
approximately 1844
Scope and Contents
Handwritten copy made by F. P. Tracy of the Town Records of Norwich from 1681-approximately 1726.
oversize_box 1
Book--Copy of "Graphic Illustrations, with Historical and Descriptive Accounts, of Toddington, Gloucestershire, The Seat of
Lord Sudeley"
1840
oversize_box 7
Tracy family genealogical materials (in large volume)
approximately 1839-1855
Scope and Contents
Volume created by F. P. Tracy containing glued documents and correspondence regarding Tracy family genealogy and pedigree
oversize_box 8
Genealogical Tables of the family of Tracy and its allied branches by F. P. Tracy (2 volumes)
1856
Carton 8, Folder 36-38
Swett family genealogy
1789-1842
Carton 8, Folder 39-41
Genealogies of the French family, the Sage family, and the Lane family
undated
Carton 8, Folder 42
Family recipes
approximately 1880-1920
Carton 8, Folder 43-45
Family postcards
approximately 1890-1920
Carton 8, Folder 46
Assorted printed materials
approximately 1890-1920
Carton 8, Folder 47
Copies of the Sierra Educational News
1911-1913
oversize_box 4, Folder 1
Published picture book on Santa Barbara
undated
oversize_box 4, Folder 3
Assorted newspapers: The American (January 14, 1899); American Home Journal (June 1890); The National Intelligencer (February
8, 1825)
1825-1899
oversize_box 4, Folder 4
Assorted newspapers: The Boston Gazette (11/15/1743 and 9/6/1743; 10/30/1744 and 05/29/1744; 9/14/1742; 03/12/1770)
1742-1744
1770
oversize_box 4, Folder 5-6
Assorted newspapers: Herald of Cooperation newspaper
1932-1934
oversize_box 4, Folder 7
Assorted newspapers: Point Richmond Progress newspaper
1935-02-15
oversize_box 4, Folder 8
Assorted newspapers: The People's Advocate
1842-1843
oversize_box 4, Folder 8
Assorted newspapers: The Free Soil Pioneer
1848-07-22
Scope and Contents
Published by the Norwich Free Soil League. Editor, F. P. Tracy.
oversize_box 4, Folder 9
Tracy family genealogical charts
undated
Carton 8, Folder 48
Diary of an unidentified author
approximately 1885
Box 1, Folder 1
Notecards with drawings (biology/zoology) by unidentified author
approximately 1860-1890
Box 1, Folder 2-8
Assorted teaching notes (creating by either John Swett or Mary Swett)
approximately 1850-1890
oversize_box 5
Emily Tracy photo album
approximately 1870-1890
Scope and Contents
Portraits of Tracy family members.
oversize_box 6
Swett family photo album
approximately 1870-1890
Carton 9, Folder 1-2
John Swett photographs
1850-1910
Carton 9, Folder 3
John Swett and students at San Francisco's Rincon School
1855
Carton 9, Folder 4
Mary Louisa Tracy Swett
approximately 1860-1910
Carton 9, Folder 5
Lucretia (French) Swett Berry
approximately 1884
Carton 9, Folder 6
John French Swett
approximately 1885-1894
Carton 9, Folder 7-10
Helen Swett
approximately 1880-1937
Carton 9, Folder 11
Helen Swett on Sierra Club outing to Mt. Williamson
1903
Carton 9, Folder 12
Outdoor portrait of Swetts, Parkhursts, Uphams, and Muirs (in Martinez)
1893
Carton 9, Folder 13
Print of outdoor portrait of Parkhursts and Swetts
approximately 1910
Carton 9, Folder 14
Frederick Bourne Tracy
approximately 1900
Carton 9, Folder 15
Frederick Palmer Tracy oil portrait (unframed)
undated
Carton 9, Folder 16
Miriam Coleman and Myrta Wallace Swett
1899
Carton 9, Folder 17
Ada Kellam
approximately 1910
Carton 9, Folder 18
August Drahms
approximately 1900
Carton 9, Folder 19
Mrs. G.E.P. Forbes
approximately 1890
Carton 9, Folder 21-23
Assorted other photos (family, friends, scenery)
1870-1910
Carton 9, Folder 24
Boys on Glorietta Swim Team
1905
Carton 9, Folder 25
Assorted places (including the Swimming Club, Alahambra Valley on Upham's Farm)
approximately 1900-1910