Finding aid of the Holt-Atherton Special Collections Vertical (Subject) Files Collection, 1855-

Nicole Grady

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

University of the Pacific Library

3601 Pacific Ave.

Stockton, CA 95211

Phone: (209) 946-2404

Fax: (209) 946-2942

URL: http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections.html

Finding aid of the Holt-Atherton Special Collections Vertical (Subject) Files Collection, 1855-

Collection number: MSS 340

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

University of the Pacific Library

Stockton, California

Processed by:: Mia Watts
Date Completed:: 2019
Encoded by:: Nicole Grady

Descriptive Summary

Title: Holt-Atherton Special Collections vertical (subject) files collection, 1855-

Dates: 1855-2019

Collection number: MSS 340

Collector: Holt-Atherton Special Collections

Collection Size: 7.5 linear feet

Repository: University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Dept. of Special Collections

Stockton, California 95211

Abstract: The Vertical (Subject) Files Collection were collected over several decades by successive library staff. The collection includes such materials as correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, events flyers, promotional material, news clippings, photos, ephemera or research papers including interviews.

Physical location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English

Access

Collection open for research.

Publication Rights

Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred Citation

Holt-Atherton Special Collections vertical (subject) files collection, 1855-. MSS 340. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.

Biography / Administrative History

The mission of Holt-Atherton Special Collections is to collect, preserve, and provide access to manuscript collections made up of primary sources that focus on California, American history, and the University of the Pacific, as well as a specialized book collection.

Special Collections was first established as the California History Foundation in 1947, it later became the Pacific Center for Western Studies, and in 1977 Holt-Atherton Special Collections.

Scope and Content of Collection

The Vertical (Subject) Files Collection were collected over several decades by successive library staff. The collection includes such materials as correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, events flyers, promotional material, news clippings, photos, ephemera or research papers including interviews.

Arrangement

The Vertical Files collection contains subject files organized alphabetically by topic.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

California - History

Stockton (Calif.) - History

Stockton (Calif.) - Biography

San Joaquin County (Calif.) - History

San Joaquin County (Calif.) - Biography

SERIES 1: Biography Subject Files

BOX 1

Allen, Glenn (1860-1943; architect)

Bechthold Family

Brown, Lucy Dean & Benjamin E.

Budd Family

Campbell, William (d.1934)

Canlis, Michael (b.1917)

Carson, Sgt. James H. (d. 1853)

Coolbrith, Ina Donna (1841-1928)

Covello, Leonard (d. 1987)

Evans, General George Spafford (1826-1883)

Fisher, Alvin N. (1817-1863)

Flaco, Juan “Lean John” Brown (1799-1859)

Franzia Family

Gridley, Reuel (1829-1870)

Hearst, William Randolph (1863-1951)

Henderson, Milton Pierce (1834-1907)

Hickinbotham Family

Hillman, Raymond W. (b. 1943)

Holt, Benjamin (1849-1920)

Kale, Josephine

Kennedy, Helen Weber (1889-1983)

Kingston, Maxine Hong (b.1940)

Le Tourneau, Robert G. (1888-1969)

Lee, Dora Ames (1913-2004)

Lewis, Tillie (1896-1977)

Lick, James (1796-1876)

Lofthus, Ort

Logan, Joseph B. “Jack” (1826-1857)

Machado, Mike [incl. Campaign Mailings, 1995]

McFall, John J. (1918-2006)

Micke, William George (1874-1961)

SERIES 1: Biography Subject Files

BOX 2

Orvis, Charles Bruce (1858-1955) [1st veterinarian in San Joaquin County]

Perino, Carmen (1922-1997)

Pease, Howard (1894-1974)

Peffer, Edward (b. 1886)

Reimche Family

Ross, Sergt. Karl (d. 1918)

Rossi, Jean

Seghesio Family

Shima, George [Kinji Ushijima] (1864-1926)

Smith, James C. (d. 1900)

Stockton, Robert F. (1795-1866)

Swett, John (1830-1913) [incl. Letter from Panama-Pacific International Exposition Chief of the Dept. of Education James A. Barr]

Terry, David S. (1823-1889)

“In Re Neagle: A landmark in American Constitutional law”

“Lathrop: An Incident in American and Judicial History”

“The Belt-Terry Duel”

Tone (Jack) Family

Trahern, G. W. (1825-1909)

Weber, Charles M. (1814-1881)

Weber, Helen (1822-1895)

Willard, Alexander Hamilton (1778-1865)

Wolfe, Monte

SERIES 2 California Subject Files

BOX 1

African-Americans in California

Amador County, California – Description & Travel, and History

Astronomical Observatories

Atomic/Nuclear Industry

Auburn, California – Description & Travel

Benicia, California – Description & Travel and Historic Houses

Berkeley, California – History Protest (1969; undated)

Blind Education

Boats, Boating, and River Rafting

Building and Loan Associations (1932)

Butte County, California – Description & Travel and Housing/Real Estate

California Centennial Celebrations [incl. Bicentennial and Sesquicentennial]

California State Fair

Calaveras Big Trees State Park – Description & Travel

Calaveras County, California – History [incl. 1942 General Election]

Calaveras County, California – Description & Travel

Calaveras County, California – Festivals, Etc. [incl. Jumping Frog Jubilee]

Central Valley [incl. New Melones]

Chinese Camp, California – History

Civil Defense

Coalinga, California – Description & Travel and Festivals

Coloma, California – History and Festivals

Columbia, California – Description & Travel and Festivals

Columbia Historic State Park – History and Description & Travel

Copperopolis, California – History and Festivals

Coulterville, California – History

Davenport, California – History

Description & Travel

Diablo Valley, California – Economic Conditions

Economic Conditions

Education, Schools & Teachers – History

El Dorado County, California – History and Description & Travel

Feather River, California – History and Description & Travel

Galt, California – Description

Grass Valley, California – History, Description & Travel, and Festivals

Gonzales, California – History

Gold Mines & Mining – Anecdotes & Facetiae [incl. Fiddletown]

SERIES 2 California Subject Files

BOX 2

Japanese in California & US [incl. Anti-Japanese brochures]

Japanese Americans – World War II Relocation Centers

Kings Canyon National Park

Lake County, California – History

League of Women Voters of California

Mariposa, California – History and Festivals

Merced County, California – History and Festivals

Migrant Farm Workers [incl. Farm Security Administration]

Mineral Industries & Mining – Periodicals

Missions (California) – Description & Travel

Mission San Juan Capistrano by Carol Agajan, 1955 (Mission Tour paper with original photos)

Mission San Juan Capistrano by Meredith Crosslin, 1942 (Paper with original photos)

Reminiscences of Mission Santa Cruz by Robert E. Blair, 1947 (student paper with original photos)

Modesto, California – Irrigation Districts (1959)

Modesto, California – Social Conditions (1952)

Mokelumne Hill, California – History

Mormons and Mormonism [incl. Welfare Plan/Program]

Mother Lode of California – Description & Travel

Mountain Ranch, California – History and Festivals

Murphys, California – History and Festivals

Native Sons of the Golden West Histories by Grand Historian

Newspapers (First)

Oakdale, California – Irrigation Districts (1946)

Parks & Recreation (California & National Park Service) [Misc. Brochures]

Politics & Government, 1933-39; 1972

Race Relations

“The Effects of the State Supreme Court Decision on the California Mixed Marriage Law,” 1951

“A Survey of the Non-White School Teachers in Northern California,” 1950

Rio Vista, California – Description & Travel and Housing/Real Estate

San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939

San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915

Santa Cruz, California – Fish Trade (1947) & Canners League of California (1949)

Seal & Flag of California (Official State Documents)

Sequoia National Park

Sierra Railway Company – History (1972)

Silver Lake, California – History

Songs & Music – History

Sonora, California – Description & Travel

“What Stage Line Was Held Up?” by Waddell Smith about John H. Shine

Stanislaus County, California [incl. Livingston Area]

Stanislaus River

SERIES 2 California Subject Files

BOX 3

Tuolumne County, California

Tuolumne County, California – Crime & Criminals

Trapper/Maritime Contemporaries (Ship Masters) [by Jim Norris, 2012]

United Farm Workers and Citizens for a Fair Farm Labor Law [incl. Proposition No. 14, 1974]

Waterford, California – Festivals

Watsonville, California – History [incl. Charles Ford Company]

Yosemite National Park

SERIES 3 San Joaquin County, California Subject Files

BOX 1

African-Americans in Stockton – History

Arts – Stockton

Banks & Banking – Stockton – History

Bridges – Stockton

Buddhists in Stockton

Buildings – Stockton

Businesses – Stockton [incl. oldest, jewelers, lumber, trade school, beverage, pharmacy, insect exterminating, dairy]

Carnegie, California – History

Cemeteries – Stockton

Chamber of Commerce – Stockton

Chicory Factory [River Mill] – History

Chinese in Stockton

Church Music – Stockton

Churches – Lockeford & Manteca

Churches – Stockton

Churches: Central Methodist – Stockton

Clubs – Stockton [Yosemite Club, Philomathean Club, Jesters Club, Ladies Auxiliary to California Pioneers, Associated Charities of San Joaquin County, Father Mathew Total Abstinence and Benevolent Society, San Joaquin Pioneer Hall Association, Scottish Rite Bodies of Freemasonry]

Commerce

Commerce – Stockton

Courthouse – History

Crime & Criminals – Stockton – History

California Youth Authority: O. H. Close School for Boys, 1966

San Joaquin County Probation Office (L. V. Peterson Hall Juvenile Detention Facility), [c. 1949]

Cultural Heritage Board – Stockton

Description & Travel and History

Description & Travel—Lodi

SERIES 3 San Joaquin County, California Subject Files

BOX 2

Description & Travel – Manteca

Description & Travel – Stockton (2 folders)

Economy

Education [incl. Teacher’s Examination, 1898-1903]

Elections (1930s; 1970)

Environment & Environmental Issues [incl. water, agriculture]

Fairs, Festivals, Conventions, etc. [incl. Woman’s Benefit Assoc. of the Maccabees, Calif. Assoc. of Electrical Contractors and Dealers, P.C.A.C.A., Stockton City Exemption Board, Lumbermen’s Club, Furniture Assoc. of Calif., Asparagus Festival, Film Festival, Powwow, Poetry, Diwali Night]

Famous People – Stockton

Filipinos in Stockton

Firemen – Stockton [lists: 1855, 1888, n.d.]

Prospectus, Compact and By-Laws of the Eureka Association of the City of Stockton, 1871 (Eureka Fire Engine Company No. 2)

Floods – Stockton

French Camp, California – History

Galleries & Museums – Stockton [incl. Haggin Museum, Holt Memorial Hall, SJC Historical Museum, etc.]

Highways (Crosstown/Highway 4/I-5)

Historic Houses

Historic Houses & Housing – Stockton [incl. original neighborhood housing brochures]

Historic Landmarks – Stockton

SERIES 3 San Joaquin County, California Subject Files

BOX 3

Historic Landmarks – Stockton [cont.]

St. Mary’s Church

Hotel Stockton

Sperry Building

Superintendent’s Home (Stockton State Hospital)

Weber Primary School

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Hurrle-Weston Home

Benjamin Holt Home

Newell Home

County Jail (Cunningham’s Castle)

Old County Courthouse Site

Santa Fe Depot

Weber Point

Wagner Leather Company Engine

Wong Mansion

Engine House No. 3

Miner Levee

Edeard B. Condy Home

El Dorado Elementary School

Charles E. Owen Home

Bank of Stockton

Moses Rodgers Home

Luther Burbank School

Nippon Hospital

California Building

Fox California Theater (Bob Hope Theater)

Holt, California – History

Hospitals – Stockton [incl. Stockton State Hospital/Insane Asylum and SJC Medical Society]

Indochinese in San Joaquin County

Italians in San Joaquin County

Italian Gardeners Society Picnic Micke Grove 1949, 1954-1955

San Joaquin County Italian Guide and Directory 1927-1928/Guida Italiana Contea di San Joaquin

Japanese in San Joaquin County [incl. Anti-Alien Land Bill and Stockton Assembly Center]

Jews in Stockton

Lathrop, California

Libraries

Linden, California – History

Lockeford, California – History [incl. Union League]

Lodi, California – History and Festivals

Manufactures & Manufacturing – Stockton [incl. Caterpillar Tractors]

Mexican-Americans in Stockton

Mokelumne River – History

Mountain House, California

Newspapers – Stockton – History

Photographers

Pioneers

Politics & Government

Politics & Government – Stockton

Politics & Government – Stockton (1861-1865) [Civil War]

Population – Stockton

Port of Stockton

Postal Service

Periodicals & Newsletters

Collagraph (December 2008)

Delta Rag (August 2007)

Discover… (Nov/Dec 1989, Jan/Feb 1990, May/June 1999)

Keeping Families Safe (November 2006)

El Mercado (July 1999, February 2001)

On the Town (Summer 1999, Fall 1999, Winter 1999/2000, Spring/Summer 2000)

The Prompter (June 2008)

YMCA Newsletter (Fall 2007)

SERIES 3 San Joaquin County, California Subject Files

BOX 4

Private Schools – Stockton – St. Mary’s High School

Printers – Stockton

Public Welfare – Stockton

Radio Broadcasting – Stockton – History

Railroads – Stockton

San Joaquin Delta – History

San Joaquin Delta College

San Joaquin Valley – Description & Travel

Race Relations – Stockton

Policies of Segregation in Stockton Hotels, 1947

Minority Group Relations at Edison High School, 1950

Attendance, Behavior, and General Characteristics of Ethnic Groups in Stockton’s Recreation Area, 1949

The People Discuss Miscegenation, 1947 [incl. Filipino]

Recreational Activities & Facilities – Stockton

Red Cross, Junior Chapter – Stockton (1941)

Redevelopment Projects – Stockton [incl. Urban Renewal]

Restaurants, Lunchrooms, etc. – Stockton

Ripon, California – History

Rough & Ready Island, California – Stockton

Schools – Stockton [incl. Funds & Scholarships and Periodicals]

Sikhs in Stockton

Sister City Association – Stockton

Sports – Stockton [incl. Casey at the Bat (Baseball)]

Steamboats – History

Stockton Athletic Hall of Fame (1965)

Stockton Women’s Suffrage Group for 75th Anniversary Celebration (1995)

Stockton’s Response to the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

Street Railways – Stockton

Strikes & Lockouts – Stockton (1914; 1937)

Synagogues – Stockton – Temple Israel

Super Collider (1986-1987)

SERIES 3 San Joaquin County, California Subject Files

BOX 5

Terminous, California – History

Theater – Stockton [incl. Fox, Stockton, Yosemite (Yo Semite), and Civic Theatre]

Tomatoes – Marketing

Tracy, California – Description & Travel

Transportation

Veterans – Stockton

Women in Stockton

Woodbridge, California – History [incl. Woods School]

Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) – Stockton – History