The Finding Aid of the Kellogg Family Papers 0067

Rob Strauss and Neelam Patel
The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was funded by the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and Archives
March 2019
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
speccollections@cpp.edu
909-869-3775


Title: Kellogg Family Papers
Creator: Kellogg, W.K. (Will Keith), 1860-1951
Creator: Kellogg Family
Identifier/Call Number: 0067
Contributing Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 14.71 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1885-2006
Abstract: The collection contains photographic negatives and prints, correspondence, and other materials related to cereal innovator W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg, his family, and the Kellogg Company.

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Conditions Governing Use

Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder# or item name], Kellogg Family Papers, Collection no. 0013, University Archives, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The materials in the collection were transferred from the Kellogg House to the University Library in 2010 and gathered from University Archives files.

Biographical / Historical

W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg, the cereal innovator who founded the Kellogg Company, was born on April 7, 1860 in Battle Creek, Michigan to John Preston and Ann Janette Kellogg. The large family included brothers John Harvey (born 1852) and Preston Stanley (born 1858). W.K. first entered the business world as a teenager, when he began selling brooms. He worked at his family's broom factory and later began working for his half brother Albert at a broom factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan. W.K. briefly moved to Texas to work at a broom factory in Dallas that was co-founded by the leader of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, but returned to Michigan after about a year.
Upon his return, W.K. enrolled in a business course in Battle Creek but switched to Parson's Business College in Kalamazoo so he could finish his education faster. After several months, W.K. received a certificate as a qualified bookkeeper and accountant. In 1880, W.K. married Ella Osborn Davis. They would have five children: Karl Hugh (1881), John Leonard (1883), Will Keith, Jr. (1885, died at the age of 4), Irvin Hadley (1894, died in infancy), and Elizabeth Ann (1888).
In 1880, W.K. began working at the Battle Creek Sanitarium where his older brother, John Harvey, had been the physician in chief since 1876. John Harvey had earned his medical degree from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City in 1875.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church had founded the Sanitarium in the 1860s as the Western Health Reform Institute. W.K. was responsible for various duties at the Sanitarium, including bookkeeping and janitorial duties. John Harvey, meanwhile, was experimenting with various health foods and remedies. One of those was to try and find a digestible substitute for bread. That is how the brothers stumbled upon flaked cereal. The brothers were boiling wheat as part of this effort but the wheat was forgotten. The brothers discovered, by putting the wheat through a roller, that it resulted in wheat flakes. W.K. took over responsibility for distributing the new product through the Sanitas Food Company. However, the brothers later got into a disagreement over a new factory and W.K. left the Sanitarium but remained with the Sanitas Food Company.
W.K. later began experimenting with corn instead of wheat and "Corn Flakes" were born. W.K. founded his own company in 1906 that began selling the cereal that was originally called "Toasted Corn Flakes." The company would become known as the "Kellogg Company" in 1922. One of the unique things about the cereal packaging was that Kellogg's signature appeared on each box and warned consumers to "beware of imitations."
The Kellogg Company continued to grow, building plants in other cities in the United States and internationally. However, W.K. continued his dispute with his brother, who maintained that he retained the sole right to use the Kellogg name for food products. After a bitter legal battle that lasted from 1910 to 1920, a court ruled in W.K.'s favor and furthermore that the Kellogg Company was entitled to any profits that John Harvey had made from the infringement of the Kellogg trade name. The brothers' relationship never recovered and John Harvey passed away in 1943.
W.K.'s first grandchild, W. Keith (Will Keith) II, was born in 1907. Over the next 14 years, eight more grandchildren would be born: Earl Landrum (1908) and Will Lewis (1910), the sons of Karl Kellogg; John Leonard Jr. (1911), the brother of W. Keith (Will Keith) II and son of John Leonard Kellogg; and Kenneth Stanley (1912), Eleanor Jane Curry (1913), Norman Williamson, Jr. (1914), John Harold (1916), and Elizabeth Ann Lincoln (1921), children of Elizabeth Ann Kellogg Williamson.
The family would experience tragedy when Kenneth Stanley fell from a second story window onto a concrete driveway, leaving him with permanent injuries. The accident was one of the factors in Kellogg establishing his philanthropic organization, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, in 1930. Its offices were originally located at the Kellogg Inn apartment building in Battle Creek.
In 1912, W.K.'s wife, Ella, died. Six years later, he married his second wife, Dr. Carrie Staines, who worked at the Sanitarium.
In the 1920s, Kellogg built a residence on Michigan's Gull Lake called "Eagle Heights" and it became a summer home for Kellogg and Carrie. In 1925, Kellogg also built a ranch in Pomona, California that would become his winter home and a place where he would buy and breed Arabian horses. Kellogg also started a tradition of holding Sunday horse shows that were attended by the public and celebrities. Kellogg deeded the land in 1932 to the University of California and it eventually became the home of what is now California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Kellogg also bought a villa in Dunedin, Florida in 1934 that he later made available for use by the military during World War II. In addition to the Florida residence, Kellogg allowed the use of his Eagle Heights estate in Michigan.
Along with the donation of land that became what is now Cal Poly Pomona, W.K. donated money to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to build the W.K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, which opened in 1932. Members of the Kellogg family would remain very involved with Cal Poly Pomona over the years. Norman Williamson, Jr. served as a co-chair of the Partners in Progress capital campaign in the late 1980s, which contributed to the growth of the university. He also served on the President's Council and was co-chair of the Hugh O. La Bounty Chair of Interdisciplinary Applied Knowledge, along with his cousin, W. Keith Kellogg II. W. Keith and his wife, Janet were also long time supporters of the university. W. Keith and Janet donated money to establish an art gallery on the Cal Poly Pomona campus that was later named after the couple in 1992. The couple also served on the Presidents Council and W. Keith served as general co-chair of the Partners in Progress capital campaign. The cousins both earned honorary degrees: W. Keith was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1994 and, the next year, Norman Williamson, Jr. was granted an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. Norman died on November 1, 2001. W. Keith died four years later on September 16, 2005.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs, including negatives, prints, and tintypes; correspondence; Kellogg Company advertisements; postcards; and other materials related to cereal innovator W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg, his family, and the Kellogg Company.
There is also correspondence with Lord Noel Anthony Scawen Lytton, primarily from W.K. Kellogg's grandson, Norman Williamson Jr. The correspondence discusses a visit by Lytton to the University in April 1978 and a donation of books to the university's Arabian horse collection. Lytton had been an early advisor to W.K. Kellogg on the Arabian horse breeding program and was scheduled to visit the university to commemorate the Arabian Horse Advisory Council's 25th anniversary.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into the following series: Series 1. Photographs; Series 2. Textual Materials; and Series 3. Graphic Materials and Realia.

Separated Materials

The following items have been removed from the collection and added to the Special Collections and Archives Rare Books Collection.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation. I'll Invest My Money in People: A Biographical Sketch of the Founder of the Kellogg Company and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Battle Creek, MI: W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 1987.

Processing Information

The collection was processed in March 2019 by Rob Strauss and Neelam Patel.

Related Materials

Battle Creek Sanitarium Collection, MSS 263, Special Collections, MSU Libraries, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Butler, Mary. The Best to You Each Morning: W.K. Kellogg and the Kellogg Company. Battle Creek, MI: Heritage Publications, 1995.
I Have a Famous Name. VHS. Directed by Hansjurgen Rosenbauer. Pomona, CA: Cal Poly Pomona, 1995.
John Harvey Kellogg Papers, 00013, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.
The Kellogg Brothers. DVD. A & E Home Video. Burlington, VT: A & E Home Video, 2005.
The Kellogg Dream. DVD. Directed by Joe Burnham. Pomona, CA: Cal Poly Pomona, 1983.
Legacy: The Life of W.K. Kellogg. VHS. Directed by Michael Debiak. Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Writing and Video Co., 1990.
Markel, Howard. The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017.
Parkinson, Mary Jane. The Kellogg Arabian Ranch: The First Sixty Years: A Chronicle of Events, 1925-1985. Pomona, CA: Cal Poly Kellogg Unit Foundation, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1984.
Parkinson, Mary Jane. The Romance of the Kellogg Ranch: A Celebration of the Kellogg/Cal Poly Pomona Arabian Horses, 1925-2000. Pomona, CA: W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2000.
Powell, Horace B. The Original Has This Signature--W.K. Kellogg. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956.
Stanford, Linda Oliphant. W.K. Kellogg and his Gull Lake Home: From Eroded Cornfield to Estate to Biological Station. Hickory Corners, MI: W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, 1983.
Williamson, Norman. An Intimate Glimpse of a Shy Grandparent, W.K. Kellogg. N.p.: n.p., 1999.
W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center Records, Collection no. 0062, W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch Records, W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library, Collection no. 0019, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library Photograph Collection, Collection no. 0018, W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The First Twenty-Five Years: The Story of a Foundation. Lansing, MI: Speaker-Hines & Thomas, 1955.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Kellogg, W. K. (Will Keith), 1860-1951
Kellogg Family
Kellogg Company
Photographs

box 1-2, 4-10

Series 1: Photographs circa 1855-2010

Scope and Contents

The series contains photographic prints, negatives, and tintypes of members of the Kellogg family; the family of Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg's son-in-law, Norman Williamson; the Kellogg Company and its location of Battle Creek, Michigan. There are also photographs related to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, which sits on the land that used to be Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg's ranch.

Arrangement

The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
box 4

Arabian Horse before 1980

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 4

The Ark after 1922

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek, Michigan circa 1880-1940

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek - Dime Church 1876

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek - The Haskil Home 1909

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek - Jefferson Ave circa 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek - Main Street 1868

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek - M.E. Cornell Standing beside the Prophetic Chart before 1893

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek - The "Stage" circa 1900-1940

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek - Ward Building #3 circa 1920-1940

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek Sanitarium before 1940

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Battle Creek Sanitarium - Red Onion Restaurant circa 1915

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Birthplace of W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg after 1860

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Cal Poly Pomona before 1980

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 4

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Aerial Photographs before 1980

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Funeral of Kellogg, John Harvey 1943

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 1

Gravesite of John Harvey Kellogg after 1943

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 1

Gravesites of Kellogg Family Members before 2010

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 4, box 8

Gull Lake Estate - Eagle Heights (Manor House) circa 1926-1940

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives and photograph album)
box 4

Gull Lake - Wendell Smith Residence circa 1943-1950

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Kellogg Bird Sanctuary after 1926

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Kellogg Company - Advertising circa 1904-1954

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 4

Kellogg Company Branch Plants after 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - Australia after 1923

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - Lockport after 1926

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - London, Ontario, Canada after 1923

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - Manchester England after 1937

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - Mexico after 1950

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - Omaha after 1940

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - South Africa after 1947

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - Sweden after 1928

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 5

Kellogg Company Branch Plants - The Netherlands after 1928

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Exteriors after 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Interiors after 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Interiors - Drawing of W.K. Kellogg "Flaking" Cereal Off a Roller circa 1898

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel after 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - 25 yr. Club Picnic 1937

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Andrew Ross and Unidentified Individuals circa 1908-1914

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Branch Manager's Convention 1911

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Charles Peterson, W.K. (Will Keith), and Edward Huon after 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Corn Flake Office 1911

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Dining Room after 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Group of Women on Corn Flake Office Steps 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Harold McEvoy of Great Britain and Unidentified Individuals circa 1940-1950

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Party for Miss Bessie circa 1910-1911

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Company - Personnel - Womens' Party at Corn Flake Office 1911

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Experimental Farm and Forest after 1931

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5

Kellogg Family - Ann Janette before 1893

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 5, box 6

Kellogg Family - Carrie Staines and Kellogg Family before 1948

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 1

Kellogg Family - Elizabeth Ann Williamson circa 1900-1960

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 6, box 9

Kellogg Family - Elizabeth, John Leonard, and Karl circa 1892

Physical Description: (Photographic negative and print)
box 6

Kellogg Family - Ella Davis before 1912

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)

Scope and Contents

Ella Davis was the first wife of W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg.
box 1

Kellogg Family - Ella Davis and Siblings circa 1880-1890

Physical Description: (Photographic prints on cardboard)

Scope and Contents

Ella Davis was the first wife of W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg.
box 6

Kellogg Family - Ella Eaton before 1920

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)

Scope and Contents

Ella Eaton Kellogg was the wife of John Harvey Kellogg.
box 6

Kellogg Family - Gertrude Florence Howe circa 1914-1934

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)

Scope and Contents

Gertrude Florence Howe was the niece of W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg.
box 1, box 9

Kellogg Family - Janet R. (Jean) before 2005

Physical Description: (Photographic negative and print)
box 6

Kellogg Family - John Harvey before 1944

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 6

Kellogg Family - John Harvey and Ella Eaton before 1928

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 6

Kellogg Family - John Harvey and George Bernard Shaw 1936 February 7

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 6

Kellogg Family - John Harvey at Seminole Indian Baby Contest before 1944

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 6

Kellogg Family - John Harvey and S.S. Kresge before 1944

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 6

Kellogg Family - John Leonard and Family before 1944

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 6

Kellogg Family - John Preston before 1881

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 1, box 6

Kellogg Family - Josiah and Hannah Smith circa 1855

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives and prints on cardboard)

Scope and Contents

Josiah and Hannah Smith were W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg's grandparents.
box 6

Kellogg Family - Karl Hugh and Family before 1956

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 1

Kellogg Family - Karl Hugh and John Leonard circa 1883

Physical Description: (Photographic prints on cardboard)
box 6

Kellogg Family - Laura E. Bracket before 1954

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)

Scope and Contents

Laura E. Bracket was the sister of W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg.
box 6

Kellogg Family - Lucy Cordelia Stanley before 1923

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)

Scope and Contents

Lucy Cordelia Stanley was W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg's aunt.
box 6

Kellogg Family - Montage of Will Keith Kellogg's Relatives before 1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 1

Kellogg Family - Nellie Kellogg Van Schaick 1973

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 6

Kellogg Family - Preston before 1930

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 6

Kellogg Family - Smith Moses before 1928

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 1, box 6, box 9, box 10

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) circa 1880-1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives, prints, and tintypes)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) and Dog before 1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) and Dr. Roland Hill Harris before 1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) - Father's Home before 1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) - Fishing with John Leonard and Unidentified Individual before 1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) In Front of The Inn/Kellogg Foundation Office before 1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) At Gull Lake Estate circa 1925-1930

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) and John Leonard before 1952

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith), John Leonard and California Institute of Technology President Robert Andrews Millikan before 1952

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 1, box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) and John Leonard, Jr. circa 1921-1925

Physical Description: (Photographic negative and print)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) at Meetings before 1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) with nurse Helen Abbott at Michigan Community Health Project (MCHP) Book Project Meeting circa 1943

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith), Preston, Florence Agnes, and Unidentified Individuals before 1930

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith), Preston, and Unidentified Individuals at Gull Lake before 1930

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) and Siblings 1866

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7, box 10

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) with Siblings and Nephews circa 1921

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives and print)
box 7

Kellogg Family - W.K. (Will Keith) and Unidentified Individuals before 1951

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 1, box 7, box 9

Kellogg Family - W. Keith (Will Keith) Kellogg II circa 1938-2005

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives and print)
box 1

Kellogg's Original Plant circa 1906

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 7

Kellogg Inn after 1925

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 1

Lytton Family - Clarissa and Anthony, Earl and Countess of Lytton circa 1960-1985

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 7

McPhee, Julian and Resolution in his Honor Regarding Kellogg Foundation before 1967

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 7

Photography by Staines, Carrie - Battle Creek before 1948

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 9

Sadler, William before 1969

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 7

Student Engineers' Picnic at Gull Lake Estate circa 1928-1940

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Unidentified Individuals before 1950

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Unidentified Individuals at Cal Poly Pomona before 1977

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 1

Unidentified Woman before 1960

Scope and Contents

A note on the back of this photograph says this woman may be Helen Dupre, "who developed tuberculosis and spent her last years in a Denver sanatorium."
box 7

"Villa Marino" Residence in Dunedin, Florida circa 1934-1945

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 1

Williamson Family circa 1920-1950

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 1

Williamson Family - Beth, Norman, Ken, and John circa 1917

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 1

Williamson Family - Camping at Sherman Lake 1925

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 1

Williamson Family - Gull Lake 1923

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 1

Williamson Family - Gull Lake Cottage 1923

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 7

Williamson Family - Elizabeth and Family circa 1900-1920

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

Williamson Family - Herbert B. circa 1943

Physical Description: (Photographic negative)
box 1, box 7

Williamson Family - Kenneth circa 1915-1980

Physical Description: (Photographic negative and prints)
box 1

Williamson Family - Kenneth and Eleanor 1912

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 1

Williamson Family - Kenneth and Harold 1912

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 7

Williamson Family - Kenneth - Skull X-Rays 1913-1916

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 1

Williamson Family - Norman, Jr. circa 1915-1992

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 1

Williamson Family - Norman, Jr. and Eleanor circa 1920

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 1

Williamson Family - Norman, Jr.; Eleanor; Kenneth; and John 1918

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 1

Williamson Family - Norman, Jr. and John circa 1914-1920

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 1

Williamson Family - Norman, Jr.; Kenneth; and Eleanor circa 1917-1920

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 1

Williamson Family - Norman, Jr.; Kenneth; and John 1931

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 2

Williamson Family - Norman, Sr. before 1968

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 2

Williamson Family - Norman, Sr. and Kenneth 1913 May

Physical Description: (Photographic prints)
box 2

Williamson Family Cottage 1926

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 2

Williamson, Norman Jr.; Hugh and Gwen La Bounty; Ron Simons; and Jess Marlow circa 1983

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 2

Williamson, Norman, Jr., Keith Kellogg, and Joan Greenway before 1988

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 2

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Camp after 1930

Physical Description: (Photographic print)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Ballroom after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Boiler Room after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Coffee Shop after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Dining Room after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Hotel Room after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Lobby after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Office after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Outside after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Peterson Block where Hart Hotel Now Stands after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Hotel - Sitting Room after 1929

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 7

W.K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology after 1931

Physical Description: (Photographic negatives)
box 2-3, 11-12

Series 2: Textual Materials circa 1880-1993

Scope and Contents

The series contains a marriage certificate and other documents related to the Kellogg family, two scrapbooks with photographs and clippings about the Kellogg family and Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg's residences, and correspondence with Lord Noel Anthony Scawen Lytton, primarily from W.K. Kellogg's grandson, Norman Williamson Jr. The correspondence discusses a visit by Lytton to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in April 1978 and a donation of books to the university's Arabian horse collection. Lytton had been an early advisor to W.K. Kellogg on the Arabian horse breeding program and was scheduled to visit the university to commemorate the Arabian Horse Advisory Council's 25th anniversary. There is also correspondence between Norman Williamson, Jr. and Slater Hollis, the dean of the College of Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and photocopies of correspondence between Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg and H.H. Reese, who had worked as the manager of the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch.

Arrangement

The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
box 2

Booklet - A New Way of Living by the Kellogg Company 1932

box 2

Clipping and Photograph (Photocopies) - Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg's Touring Car - "The Ark" after 1922

box 2

Correspondence - H.H. Reese and Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg (Photocopies) 1928

box 3

Correspondence - Lord Noel Anthony Scawen Lytton 1976-1985

box 2

Correspondence - Norman Williamson, Jr. and Slater Hollis 1983

box 2

Draft of Writing about W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg by Norman Williamson, Jr. circa 1983

box 2

Envelope Addressed to Kenneth Williamson before 1980

box 2

Holiday Card - Mr. and Mrs. W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg 1935

box 2

Last Will and Testament of W.K. (Will Keith) Kellogg (Photocopy) 1949 September 30

box 2

List of Kellogg Company Shareholders (Photocopy) after 1927

box 2

Marriage Certificate - Norman Williamson and Elizabeth Williamson 1911

box 2

Obituary and Remembrance Card - Norman Williamson and Elizabeth Williamson 1966-1967

box 2

Pamphlet - "Healthier Living Through Better Cereal" Conference (Photocopy) 1993

box 2

Pomona Telephone Directories (Photocopies) 1925-1930

box 11, box 12

Scrapbooks with Clippings and Photographs Related to the Kellogg Family circa 1880-1993

box 2, 10, 13-14

Series 3: Graphic Materials and Realia circa 1912-2006

Scope and Contents

The series contains Kellogg Company cereal bowls, boxes, and recipe cards; Kellogg Company advertisements; and postcards of the Kellogg Company and other historic Southern California landmarks.

Arrangement

The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
box 2

Kellogg Company Recipe Cards after 1922

box 10

Kellogg's Advertisements circa 1912-1950

box 13

Kellogg's Cereal Bowl 2006

box 14

Kellogg's Cereal Boxes circa 1963-1995

box 2

Postcards - Gay's Lion Farm circa 1925-1942

box 2

Postcards - Kellogg's circa 1950-1970

box 2

Postcards - Hotel La Playa circa 1917-1922

box 2

Postcards - Norman Williamson with Illinois Cavalry circa 1925