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Englander (Wilhelmina Hihn) Collection
MS.217
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box 1, Folder 1-4, Box 3
Family papers 1817-1996
This series contains personal materials related to the personal and business affairs of
Wilhelmina Hihn Englander and her relatives in the Hihn family. Included are birth
certificates, death certificates, diplomas, and other certificates; membership cards for
various organizations; licenses for marriage and other life events. Materials related to
real estate, wills and testaments, divisions of estates, deeds, and land information are
also included. Also included is
Short Report of Siege and Blockage of the Royal
Prussian Army in Erfurt
by Georg Friedrich Hühn, written in German and
published in 1817.
Names included in this series are Wilhelmina "Billie" Hihn Morrison Vidak Englander,
Kathryn (sometimes spelled Katherine) Bothwell Hihn McGeoghegan, John Thomas
McGeoghegan, Harriet Hihn, Jack Eulice Hihn, Phyllis (sometimes spelled Phillis)
Goddard, and Eulice William Hihn.
Orgnizations named in this series include Order of the Eastern Star (Idlewild Chapter),
Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem, Young Women's Christian Association of San Jose,
and the International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots (AFL-CIO).
Box 2, Folder 1-4, Box 3
Photographs circa 1890-1990
This series contains photographs of the Hihn family, including Wilhelmina "Billie" Hihn
Englander, F.A. Hihn, Kathryn Bothwell Hihn, Louis William Hihn, Eulice William Hihn,
Harriet Hihn, and Jack Eulice Hihn. Photographs include formal portraits mounted on
cardboard, snapshots, and some negatives.
box 1, Folder 5
Correspondence 1910-1996
This series contains correspondence sent to and from Hihn Englander, as well as other
collected correspondence from her family members. Some collected corerspondence includes
letters from F.A. Hihn to Eulice William Hihn and his wife Kathryn "Kit" Hihn.
Correspondents include Wilhelmina's brother Jack, Hihn family business stakeholders, her
family members while she was a child ("Billie"), and later letters to UCSC Librarian
Stan Stevens in the 1990s. Types of correspondence in this series include cards,
letters, notes, telegrams, postcards, and some empty envelopes.
box 1, Folder 6-8
box 1, Folder 9, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5
Ephemera and artifacts circa 1910-1980s
This series contains collected ephemera and artifacts, including postcards showing
photographs and illustrations of Santa Cruz and surrounding areas; tourist brochures;
reports from the city of Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz County Historical Trust, and the
California State Fair and Exposition 100 Year Club; loose pages from Hihn Englander's
1927 Santa Cruz High School yearbook, pieces of sandstone and wood, clothing labels, a
piece of a Masonic trowel, an apron, a large piece of black lace cloth, and a table
linen used by F.A. Hihn.
Box 5 contains a Masonic sword made of silver, gold, and ivory, measuring 35 inches
long, which belonged to Hihn Englander's father. The sword is engraved with Eulice
William Hihn's name on the ivory handle, was manufactured by the Henderson Ames Co. of
Kalamazoo, Michigan in approximately 1913, and includes a leather scabbard.