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.
Conditions Governing Access
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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Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.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