Blanche Ellsworth Papers, 1909-1997

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Summary

Title:
Blanche Ellsworth Papers
Dates:
1909-1997
Creators:
Ellsworth, Blanche, 1902-1997
Abstract:
This collection contains materials produced by Blanche Ellsworth (1902-1997) who was an English professor at San Francisco State College for forty years. Materials consist of files, correspondence, student newspapers, and publications produced by Ellsworth during her tenure at San Francisco State between 1926 and 1966.
Extent:
4.60 Cubic Feet (10 manuscript boxes)
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Blanche Ellsworth Papers, Accession uarch.1970.01, San Francisco State University, J. Paul Leonard Library, Special Collections and Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The materials in this collection were produced by Blanche Ellsworth (1902-1997) who was an English professor at San Francisco State College for forty years. This collection consists of files, correspondence, student newspapers, and publications produced by Ellsworth during her tenure at San Francisco State between 1926 and 1966.

Biographical / historical:

Blanche Wilson Ellsworth (1902-1997) was a professor of English at San Francisco State from 1926 to 1966. President Archibald Anderson appointed her to the English Department in 1926, where she taught half of the English courses offered and earned $1,800.00 per year. At the time of her retirement, Ellsworth had served one of the longest tenures and shaped the visual identity of the campus for a period of forty years. Ellsworth produced booklets for all of the Colleges departments that document San Francisco State College during the Great Depression. She sponsored the Bay Leaf student newspaper during the early 1930's, including the first three issues of the Golden Gater ever to be awarded All-American rating by the National Scholastic Press Association. Her work expanded so much that she was allowed to offer a one-unit course on mimeographing so that students could learn as they assisted in this work. Ellsworth, with her mimeograph machine, became San Francisco State's unofficial historian and public relations director.

Acquisition information:
Donated to Special Collections by Blanche Ellsworth on August 7, 1970, accession uarch.1970.01
Processing information:

Items transferred to new housing and processed to be used in the University Archives and Historic Collections. This material has been consolidated from "Faculty Information: Ellsworth, Blanche" in the old archival schema and material from remote storage in June 2016.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject or creator by Helene Whitson. Each folder contains an inventory listing its contents.

Physical location:
Collection is available on site
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Special Collections and Archives Staff and revised by Luca Facchin
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-02-11 19:26:02 +0000 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the University Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the University Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the University Archives 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 reader. Some published materials may be in the public domain now.

The collection includes unpublished drafts of manuscripts and articles by third-party authors, including students and other scholars. By accessing the collection, researchers agree to respect the intellectual rights of these individuals and to refrain from citing or publishing from materials without the permission of the authors.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Blanche Ellsworth Papers, Accession uarch.1970.01, San Francisco State University, J. Paul Leonard Library, Special Collections and Archives.

Location of this collection:
1630 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722, US
Contact:
(415) 405-5549
specialcollections@sfsu.edu
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