Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Emerson, Rebecca
- Abstract:
- The Rebecca Emerson Papers include photographs, correspondence, legal documents, and ephemera that document the activities of Rebecca Emerson and the Prince family in Texas.
- Extent:
- 3.25 linear feet (7 boxes)
- Language:
- Languages represented in the collection: English
- Preferred citation:
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Rebecca Emerson papers, MS 43, African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Rebecca Emerson Papers include photographs, correspondence, legal documents, and ephemera that document the activities of Rebecca Emerson and the Prince family in Texas. The papers are organized into four series: Rebecca Emerson, Prince family manuscripts, Clem Emerson, and Curtis Parrish. The bulk of the papers are 1048 photographs that document Emerson’s family and friends beginning in the 1910s through the 1970s. The photographs have been organized roughly by location, documenting Emerson’s time living in San Antonio, Texas in the 1920s, with various photographs of Emerson and friends at the San Antonio missions, San Pedro Park, Brackenridge Park, and flooding in downtown San Antonio; a trip to Colorado in 1923; assorted portraits of Emerson and her family and friends; and hunting, fishing, and assorted photographs while she was living in Alaska in the 1940s. Also included in the Rebecca Emerson series is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings Emerson kept while living in Alaska, assorted legal documents including her birth and marriage certificates, Alaska hunting and fishing licenses, an application to leave Alaska, and an assortment of 1955 brochures from the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
The Prince family series includes mostly correspondence related to the family’s activities in Texas in the 1860-1880s. The correspondence includes a letter requesting Richard Prince’s father to go to Indianola, Texas after a stabbing, letters from a teacher to Lizzie Prince about the schooling of her children, a letter from Ike Prince to his father Henry Prince about his work in Refugio, Texas. The series also includes Henry Prince’s school report card and register as an elector of DeWitt County, Texas in 1867, and Mattie Onderdonk’s application to enter Alaska in 1943. The Clem Emerson series consists of his discharge papers from the Department of the Army in 1949. The Curtis Parrish series includes two letters of recommendation for Curtis Parrish.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Sean Heyliger, 06/11/2013.
- Arrangement:
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Series I. Rebecca Emerson 1.1. Photographs 1.2. Scrapbook 1.3. Legal documents 1.4. Ephemera Series II. Parrish family manuscripts Series III. Clem Emerson Series IV. Curtis Parrish
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
- Terms of access:
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Permission to publish from the Rebecca Emerson Papers must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
- Preferred citation:
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Rebecca Emerson papers, MS 43, African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
- Location of this collection:
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659 14th StreetOakland, CA 94612, US
- Contact:
- (510) 637-0198