Guide to the Dick Yale Papers
Finding Aid Authors: Lucas Buresch.
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Guide to the Dick Yale Papers
1913/2002
Special Collections & University Archives
Overview of the Collection
Collection Title: Dick Yale Papers
Dates: 1913-2002
Bulk Dates: 1970-1990
Identification: MS-0541
Creator:
Yale, Richard B. (Dick), 1910-2004
Physical Description: 10.92 linear ft.
Alternate Extent Statement: 17 boxes
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: askscua@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
Biographical Information:
Richard B. (Dick) Yale was a historian, publisher, printer, photographer and bibliophile. Yale was born in Waynesfield, Ohio
on December 11, 1910. In 1931 Yale married his wife Juanita. During the 1930s Yale was a correspondent for the Associated
Press in Ohio. Yale came to San Diego during World War II, where he served with the Navy’s Radio and Sound Lab on Point Loma.
Yale worked as a photographer during the 1940s and early 1950s. He then pursued a career in printing and operated the Yale
Printing and Lithograph Co., at 330 “G” Street, during the 1950s-1960s.
From 1967 to his retirement in 1989 Yale was curator of the San Diego Union Newspaper Museum in Old Town San Diego State Historic
Park (2626 San Diego Avenue). The museum recreated a mid-nineteenth century newspaper pressroom, with working printing presses,
cases of letterpress type, and hand-cut wood type. Yale was a colorful character, often dressing in period nineteenth century
clothing, and was named the Honorary Mayor of Old Town.
Yale was a bibliophile and member of the Zamorano Club, with a special interest in the history of frontier printing and newspapers
in the old west, and wood type. He was a member of several historical associations, including the Westerners (San Diego Corral),
E Clampus Vitus (Clampers), Cabrillo Historical Association, First San Diego Courthouses, Inc., and the Pioneer Hook and Ladder
Firehouse Museum.
Yale’s wife Juanita died in 1991. Dick Yale died on December 29, 2004 at age 94, at a veterans home in Aurora, Colorado.
Access Terms
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Geographic Name:
Old Town (San Diego, Calif.)
San Diego (Calif.)--History
San Diego (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Topical Term:
American Western Life
Americana
Bibliography
Letterpress Printing
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park (Calif.)
Printing--History
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information:
Gift.
Processing Information:
Lucas Buresch, 2018.
Conditions Governing Use:
The copyright interests in these materials have not been transferred to San Diego State University. Copyright resides with
the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. The nature of historical archival and manuscript collections
is such that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Requests for permission to publish must be
submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted, permission
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation:
Identification of item, folder title, box number,
Dick Yale Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
Arrangement of Materials:
I. Fine Press Printing
II. Western Americana
III. San Diego History
IV. Personal Files
V. Photographs
Scope and Contents
The
Dick Yale Papers (1913-2002) includes material related to Dick Yale’s interests in the fine press printing, the history of printing and newspapers,
San Diego area history, and Western Americana. The collection consists of a wide variety of materials, including: fine press
ephemera, newspapers, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, films, printing artifacts and memorabilia. The collection
is organized into five series:
Fine Press Printing,
Western Americana,
San Diego History,
Personal Files,
Photographs.
The
Fine Press Printing (1930-2002), arranged alphabetically, series includes announcements, ephemera, and fine press keepsakes from bibliophilic
organizations, such as the Book Club of California, Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, and various academic libraries friends groups.
This series also includes two undated manuscripts by Dick Yale, “
California’s Pioneer Presses from Z to A and B!”, and “
History of American Wood Type and its Uses”.
The
Western Americana series (1913-2001), arranged alphabetically, includes material related to Yale’s interest in the American West, including
files on the Westerners, E Clampus Vitus (the Clampers), and manuscripts of essays and screenplays.
The
San Diego History series (1929-2002), arranged alphabetically, includes files and artifacts related Yale’s interest in San Diego area history.
The San Diego area newspaper sports writer and Agua Caliente race track publicist Ken Bojens is also represented in this series.
The Bojens material includes: correspondence and photographs with J. Edgar Hoover at the Agua Caliente race track, a file
on the 50th reunion of San Diego High School’s Class of 1929 (1979), and two 16mm films (
Kickin’ It Around and
Grunts and Groans) attributed to Bojens.
The
Personal Files (1940-2001) documents Yale’s military service during World War II, and inclues personal correspondence, family history, etc.
This series follows Yale's arrangement of the files. Also included here is Yale's camera case and camera equipment, ca. 1950s-1960s.
The series of
Photographs (1940-1990), arranged alphabetically, includes a large collection of photos of events at Old Town San Diego State Historic
Park, Yale’s curatorship of the San Diego Union Newspaper Museum, photos of Westerners and E Clampus Vitus member events.
Yale’s work as a photographer in the early 1950s is represented by photos of Al Bahr Shriner events and members, photos of
professional baseball players from several southern California teams, and photos of Baja California. Also included here are
Yale’s photos of the Navy’s Radio and Sound Laboratory on Point Loma during World War II.
Fine Press Printing
1930-2002
Box 1, Folder 1
Book Club of California, Announcements
1980s-1990s
Box 1, Folder 2
Book Club of California, Keepsakes, Misc.
1930s-1980s
Box 1, Folder 3
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Early California Firehouses and Equipment
1961
Box 1, Folder 4
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Vignettes in California Medicine
1977
Box 1, Folder 5
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Early California Stock Certificates
1978
Box 1, Folder 6
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Mountain Passes and Trails of California
1979
Box 1, Folder 7
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
California Printing, Part 1-2
1981-1987
Box 1, Folder 8
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Breadbasket of the World
1984
Box 1, Folder 9
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Lithographic Views of California Towns
1985
Box 1, Folder 10
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Sports in California
1986
Box 1, Folder 11
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Portfolio of Book Club Printers, 1962-1987
1987
Box 1, Folder 12
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
California’s Wayside Inns
1988
Box 1, Folder 13
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Chinese Book Arts and California
1989
Box 1, Folder 14
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
California Avifauna
1990
Box 2, Folder 1
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Early California Trade Catalogues
1991
Box 2, Folder 2
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
California and the Civil War
1992
Box 2, Folder 3
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Hand Book Binding in California
1994
Box 2, Folder 4
Book Club of California, Keepsakes,
Treasures of the Book Club Library
2000
Box 2, Folder 5
Book Club of California,
Seventy Years: A Checklist of Book Club Publications, 1914-1983
1984
Box 2, Folder 6
Book Club of California,
California Flora
1995
Box 2, Folder 7
California Center for the Book
2002
Box 2, Folder 8
Fellowship of American Bibliophile Societies, Newsletters
2001-2002
Box 2, Folder 9
Grolier Club,
Publications in Print
1987
Box 2, Folder 10
Historical Society of Southern California
1988
Box 2, Folder 11
Huntington Library, Art Gallery, Botanical Gardens
1970s-1980s
Box 2, Folder 12
Occidental College Library
1970s-1980s
Box 2, Folder 13
Roxburghe Club of San Francisco
1970s-1990s
Box 2, Folder 14
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
1970s-2000s
Box 2, Folder 15
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Annual Meetings
1970s-1990s
Box 2, Folder 16
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Exhibition Catalogs
1970s-1980s
Box 3, Folder 1
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Exhibition Catalogs
1980s-1990s
Box 3, Folder 2
UCLA Clark Memorial Library
2001
Box 3, Folder 3
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
1980s-1990s
Box 3, Folder 4
Yale University Library, Publications
1990s
Box 3, Folder 7
Zamorano Club, Announcements
1970s-1990s
Box 3, Folder 8
A Zamorano Roster, 1934, Joint Meeting of Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs
1994 October
Box 3, Folder 9
Fine Press Printers, Announcements, Catalogs, Ephemera
1970s-2000s
Box 4, Folder 1-2
Fine Press Printers, Announcements, Catalogs, Ephemera
1970s-2000s
Box 4, Folder 3
Edwin Todd,
Nectar and Wormwood, Manuscript and Correspondence
1992-1994
Box 4, Folder 4
Herschel C. Logan, Printing Press Scrapbook
ca. 1980
Box 4, Folder 5
Wood Type and Typefaces
1970s-1980s
Box 4, Folder 6-7
Central Type Setting Company, San Diego
undated
Box 5, Folder 1
Western Printer and Lithographer, Los Angeles
1951-1973
Box 5, Folder 2
History of Printing in California
undated
Box 5, Folder 3
California’s Pioneer Presses from Z to A and B!, by Richard B. Yale, Manuscript
undated
Box 5, Folder 4
History of American Wood Type and its Uses, by Richard B. Yale, Manuscript
undated
Box 5, Folder 5
Roby Wentz, Calendar of Western Printing History
1977
Box 5, Folder 6
Duplicates of Type Specimen Books, American Type Founders Company
1934
Box 14, Item 1
Lightning Express Printing Plate
undated
Scope and Contents
Steel printing plate mounted on wood. 11x16.5 inches.
Box 14, Item 2
Printing Chase with Quions and Type
undated
Scope and Contents
12.5x17 inches.
Box 15, Folder 5
Fine Press Printing Broadsides, and Ephemera
ca. 1950s-2000s
Scope and Contents
Includes various examples of fine press printing, broadsides, and ephemera. 16x20 inches or smaller.
Western Americana
1913-2001
Box 5, Folder 7
The Arizona Ringer, An Original Screenplay, by Gene Gregston and Hank Zegler
1984
Box 5, Folder 8
The Ballad of Yankee Jim, by Frances Bardacke
1966
Box 5, Folder 9
Battle of San Pasqual
undated
Box 5, Folder 10
Henry H. Clifford
1966-1994
Box 5, Folder 11
Duke’s Hollywood Cowboys, John Wayne
1997
Box 6, Folder 1
Frontier Newspapers of the West, Manuscript
undated
Box 6, Folder 2-3
E Clampus Vitus
1960s-2001
Box 6, Folder 4
Harry Oliver’s Desert Rat Scrapbook
ca. 1960s
Box 6, Folder 5
Memoirs of a Massagie Man, by Bob Snowbear Specter, Manuscript
1995
Box 6, Folder 6
James Ohio Pattie
undated
Box 6, Folder 7
Pioneer Consolidated Mines Company, Stock Certificates
1913-1920
Box 6, Folder 9
Western Americana, Ephemera
1950s-2000s
Box 6, Folder 10
Westerners, Los Angeles Corral
1988-2001
Box 6, Folder 11
Westerners, San Diego Corral
1980s-2001
Box 7, Folder 1
Yankee Journalist at the Southwest Corner, USA, San Diego Herald
undated
Box 7, Folder 2
Yankee Journalist at the Southwest Corner, USA, San Diego Herald
undated
San Diego History
1929-2002
Box 7, Folder 3
Al Bahr Meter Newsletters, Al Bahr Shrine, San Diego
2001-2002
Box 7, Folder 5
Ken Bojens, Correspondence and Photographs with J. Edgar Hoover
1958
Box 7, Folder 6-7
Cabrillo Historical Association
1961-1998
Box 7, Folder 8
Camp Snitcher, Newsletter, Camp Marston, Pine Hills, CA
1928 July
Box 7, Folder 9
Richard Cerutti Research on Crespi and Serra Campsites and Old Trails of San Diego
1968
Box 7, Folder 10
Chronological History of San Diego, California, 1542-1990, by Richard B. Yale
1990
Box 7, Folder 11
James S. Copley, Remembrance and Library
1973-1983
Box 8, Folder 1
First San Diego Courthouses, Inc.
1992-2001
Box 8, Folder 3
Julian Historical Society
undated
Box 8, Folder 4
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
1966-2002
Box 8, Folder 5
Old Town San Diego Dioramas, John Toigo
1983
Box 8, Folder 6
Old Town San Diego News Clippings
1960s-1970s
Box 8, Folder 7
Pioneer Hook and Ladder, Firehouse Museum
1981-1982
Box 8, Folder 8
San Diego High School Alumni, Class of 1929 50th Reunion
1929-1979
Box 8, Folder 9
San Diego Police: A Look Back, by Pliny Castanien
1980
Box 8, Folder 10
San Diego Press Club, Betty Johnston Correspondence
1993
Box 8, Folder 11
San Diego Union Newspaper Museum, Old Town San Diego
1970s-1980s
Box 9, Folder 1
San Diego Union/Tribune Type Faces
undated
Box 13, Item 1
Utility Pole Section with Glass Insulator
1971
Scope and Contents
"A Part of San Diego's History: Part of a pole removed by San Diego Gas & Electric Company in converting its lines to underground
in Old Town, May 13, 1971".
Box 13, Item 2
Big Brothers, San Diego County Ceramic Tile
undated
Box 13, Item 3
Fiesta de la Primavera, Old Town State Historic Park, Ceramic Tile
1970
Box 13, Item 4
Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, Ceramic Tile
ca. 1986
Box 16, Item 1
Kickin It Around, Paragon Pictures
undated
Scope and Contents
16mm black and white film. Leader is marked "Ken Bojens #6".
Box 16, Item 2
Grunts and Groans, Paragon Pictures
undated
Scope and Contents
16mm black and white film. Leader is marked "Ken Bojens #7".
Box 9, Folder 2
Dick Yale, Portraits
1970s-2000s
Box 9, Folder 3
Dick Yale’s 90th Birthday
2000
Box 9, Folder 4
Personal Correspondence
1970-2001
Box 9, Folder 5
Military Service Records
1940s-2001
Box 9, Folder 6
Yale Printing and Lithograph Co.
1954-1957
Box 9, Folder 7
Yale Family Genealogy
1960s-2000s
Box 9, Folder 8
Yale Family Photographs
ca. 1920s-1990s
Box 15, Item 1
Richard B. Yale, Honorary Mayor, Old Town San Diego, Wood Plaque
undated
Scope and Contents
9.5x17.5 inches.
Box 17, Item 1
Camera case and camera equipment
ca. 1950s-1960s
Box 9, Folder 9
Al Bahr Shriners, San Diego
ca. 1950s-1960s
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white photographs.
Box 9, Folder 10
Al Bahr Shriners, San Diego
ca. 1950s-1960s
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white photographs.
Box 10, Folder 1
Al Bahr Shriners, San Diego
ca. 1950s-1960s
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white photographs.
Box 10, Folder 2
Archaeological Excavations
1973
Scope and Contents
35mm color slides.
Box 10, Folder 3
Neil Armstrong, Homecoming, Wapaoneta, Ohio
1969-1971
Scope and Contents
4x6 color prints, 35mm color negatives, (1) 5x7 black and white print, autographed by Neil Armstrong.
Box 10, Folder 4
Baja California
ca. 1950s
Scope and Contents
4x5 black and white negatives, and 4x5 black and white proof prints.
Box 10, Folder 5
Baja California, San Luis Bay, Aerial Photographs
ca. 1950s
Scope and Contents
4x5 black and white negatives, and 4x5 black and white proof prints.
Box 10, Folder 6
Baseball Players
ca. 1950s
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white contact proof prints, and 120 format black and white negatives.
Box 10, Folder 7
Baseball Players
ca. 1950s
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white contact proof prints, and 120 format black and white negatives.
Box 10, Folder 8
Battle Reenactment, San Diego Harbor
ca. 1970s
Scope and Contents
35mm color slides.
Box 10, Folder 9
Desert Resort and Landscapes
ca. 1970s
Box 10, Folder 10
E Clampus Vitus, Squibob Chapter
1972 May
Scope and Contents
35mm color slides.
Box 10, Folder 11
Old Town San Diego, Copy Photographs
1960s-1970s
Scope and Contents
35mm slides, and (1) 8x10 black and white print, presented to Dick Yale by the Kiwanis Club of Old San Diego, 1963.
Box 10, Folder 12
Old Town San Diego, Copy Photographs
1960s-1970s
Scope and Contents
4x5 black and white negatives.
Box 11, Folder 1
Old Town San Diego, Photographs ca. 1880s-1910s from the C.C. Pierce Collection, Huntington Library
1967
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white prints.
Box 11, Folder 2
Old Town San Diego, Photographs
1970s-1990s
Scope and Contents
8x10 and 4x6 black and white and color photographs; 35mm color slides; 35mm and 4x5 negatives.
Box 11, Folder 3
Old Town San Diego, Photographs
ca. 1970s
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs, 35mm negatives.
Box 11, Folder 4
Old Town San Diego, Photographs
ca. 1970s
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs, 35mm negatives.
Box 11, Folder 5
Old Town San Diego, Photographs
ca. 1970s
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs, 35mm negatives.
Box 11, Folder 6
Old Town San Diego, Photographs
1980 May
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs, 35mm negatives.
Box 11, Folder 7
Old Town San Diego and Point Loma, Photographs
1978 September
Scope and Contents
35mm color slides.
Box 11, Folder 8
Old Town San Diego, Printing Press Delivery
ca. 1970s
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs.
Box 11, Folder 9
Old Town San Diego, San Diego Union Newspaper Museum
ca. 1970s
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs.
Box 11, Folder 10
Printing Presses
undated
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs.
Box 11, Folder 11
San Diego, New Town, Horton’s Addition, Copy Photographs
undated
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white photographs.
Box 12, Folder 1
San Diego Union Newspaper Offices
undated
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white photographs.
Box 12, Folder 2
Solvang, CA
1970s
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs, 35mm negatives.
Box 12, Folder 3
U.S. Navy, Radio and Sound Laboratory, Point Loma, San Diego
1940s
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white photographs.
Box 12, Folder 4
U.S. Navy, Radio and Sound Laboratory, Point Loma, San Diego
1940s
Scope and Contents
8x10 black and white photographs.
Box 12, Folder 5
Westerns, Los Angeles Corral, Events and Meetings
1970s
Scope and Contents
5x7 and smaller color photographs; 35mm color slides; 35mm negatives.
Box 12, Folder 6
Western Ghost Towns and Mining Sites
1970s
Scope and Contents
4x6 color photographs, 35mm color slides.
Box 12, Folder 7
Unidentified Photographs
undated
Scope and Contents
Various formats, 8x10 and smaller black and white and color prints, 35mm color slides.
Box 12, Folder 8
Unidentified Photo Negatives
undated
Box 12, Folder 9
Photo Negative Log Book
1951-1953
Box 13, Item 1
Panoramic Aerial Photograph of Baja California Coast
ca. 1950s
Box 15, Folder 1
Newspapers
Scope and Contents
Includes photographic reproductions of various issues of the San Diego Union newspaper (11x14 inches); reproductions of the
Waynesfield Chronicle printed by Yale Bros. Inc., 1996; and reproductions of The Illustrated San Diego Herald (1953).
Box 15, Folder 2
Dick Yale Portraits
1970s-1980s
Scope and Contents
Includes 16x20 or smaller black and white photographic prints; one photo-collage; and one pastel sketch.
Box 15, Folder 3
San Diego Photographs
1950s-1970s
Scope and Contents
Includes 16x20 or smaller black and white prints.
Box 15, Folder 4
Unidentified Photographs
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes 11x14 or smaller black and white photographs.
