Overview of the Collection
Administrative History:
Access Terms
Administrative Information
Arrangement of Materials:
Scope and Contents
Overview of the Collection
Collection Title: The Papers of Robert Whitaker
Dates: 1885-1918
Bulk Dates: 1901-1917
Identification: M000006
Physical Description: 1.25
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Sutro Library, California State Library
1630 Holloway Avenue
5th floor
San Francisco, CA, 94132-4030
URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/about/sutro_main.html
Email: sutro@library.ca.gov
Phone: 415-469-6100
Administrative History:
Robert Whitaker was a pastor, pacificist, political acitivist, and writer. He was born
in 1863 in Padiham, Lancashire, England, and died in Los Gatos, CA in 1944. In 1869 he
moved with his family to the United States. After attending Andover Newton Theological
School, Whitaker served as a missionary in Mexico from 1887-1888. He went on to hold
several pastorates in the western United States including Oakland, CA, Seattle, WA, and
Los Gatos, CA.
Whitaker was heavily involved in Socialist and Labor organizations and was acquainted
with other agitators such as Eugene Debs, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, and Fanny Bixby
Spencer. He spent considerable energy agitating for Socialist causes and to this end
founded several presses such The Progressive Publishing Company, U.F.I. Press, and
Whitaker and Ray, Co.
Access Terms
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Personal Name:
Whitaker, Robert,
1863-1944.
Topical Term:
Activists
Pacifists
Poetry
Socialism
Administrative Information
Processing Information:
Processed by Sutro library staff.
Conditions Governing Use:
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators
of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please
email
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is open for research. Please page materials three business days in
advance of your visit by email:
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Robert Whitaker Papers, 1885-1918, M000006, Sutro Library,
California State Library, San Francisco, Calif.
Related Materials:
Collection of Robert W. Whitaker, 2003-11-01. Graduate Theological Union Archives,
Berkeley, CA.
Information about related materials is available at
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/gtu/whitaker.pdf
Arrangement of Materials:
The collection has been divided into six series: Series I. Nonfiction; Series II.
Fiction; Series III. Lectures and Sermon Outlines; Series IV. Flyers; Series V.
Periodicals; Series VI. Poetry/Verse,
Scope and Contents
This collection contains sermon outlines, fiction and nonfiction essays, articles,
flyers, and poetry.