Finding aid to the Jerome A. Hart papers and scrapbooks, MS 951

California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014
(415) 357-1848
reference@calhist.org
1999


Title: Jerome A. Hart papers and scrapbooks
Date (inclusive): 1817-1955
Collection Identifier: MS 951
Creator: Hart, Jerome A. (Jerome Alfred), 1854-1937
Extent: 19 boxes, 17 flat boxes, 16 oversize volumes (24.5 linear feet)
Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014
(415) 357-1848
reference@calhist.org
URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jerome A. Hart papers and scrapbooks, MS 951, California Historical Society.

Separated Materials

Photographs shelved as MSP 951.

System of Arrangement

Organized into the following series: Series 1: Jerome A. Hart papers; Series 2: Ann Clark Hart papers; Series 3: Scrapbooks.

Additional collection guides

The legacy finding aid attached to this record may not accurately reflect the contents of the collection. Additional materials may have been added to the collection and container locations may have changed since the description was written.

Biography

Hart was editor of the California periodical, the Argonaut; and an author.

Scope and Contents

Drafts of Hart's manuscripts, including Vigilante girl (1910), In our second century (1931), Sardou and Sardou plays (1913), Vigilante time, The breadline, and writings on Edmond Rostand and other French authors; scattered personal correspondence (1879-1928); articles from the Argonaut; 34 account and membership books (1878-1907) of Argonaut Publishing Company; a small number of opera and theater programs; and 46 scrapbooks (1880-1917) containing clippings of Argonaut editorials and articles dealing with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, women's suffrage in Calif., and other topics.
Includes papers of Hart's wife, Ann Clark Hart, also an author. Her papers consist of correspondence (1917-1946); bills and receipts; papers relating to club and alumni activities; a diary (1922-1923); deeds and a will (1848-1858) of her father, William Squire Clark; a manuscript of Point (1937) with related correspondence; and household financial records. Includes a small amount of material pertaining to her work to preserve San Francisco cemeteries.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog:
Hart, Jerome A. (Jerome Alfred), 1854-1937--Archives.
Hart, Ann Clark, 1871-1956--Archives.
Argonaut (San Francisco, Calif.).
American literature--California--San Francisco.
Authors, American--California--San Francisco.
Scrapbooks.
Women authors, American--California--San Francisco.