Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Charles Tenney Jackson and Carlotta Weir Jackson papers
- Dates:
- 1922-1954
- Creators:
- Jackson, Charles Tenney, 1874-1955
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 1 document case
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Charles Tenney Jackson and Carlotta Weir Jackson papers. San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History Center
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection includes two items. One is Charles Tenney Jackson's unpublished (and final) autobiographical work, The Cloudcapped Towers (1954), with his corrections and annotations (204 pages.) The second item is his wife Carlotta "Lottie" Aite Weir Jackson's scrapbook, which includes news clippings and a few letters and chiefly documents her radio work in Miami, Florida with WIOD and WQAM as well as her theatrical performances, and the couple's travels in New Orleans, North Carolina, Mobile, Washington, DC, Kingston, Jamaica, and Havana. The Cloudcapped Towers appears to continue C. T. Jackson's autobiographical The Buffalo Wallow (1953); his travels take him from the Midwest to San Francisco. The Cloudcapped Towers closes with Tenney's account of the 1906 earthquake and fire (which he had described in his 1910 novel, The Day of Souls) and his subsequent removal to New Orleans.
- Biographical / historical:
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Charles Tenney Jackson was born in St. Louis, Missouri but grew up in Nebraska. He became a printer and journalist and worked at various times in Chicago, Milwaukee and San Francisco. He left that city after the 1906 earthquake, and was living in New Orleans by 1910, when his novel set in San Francisco, The Day of Souls, was published. He was awarded second prize, O. Henry Memorial Award for short stories, 1921. He married Carlotta Weir in 1919 in Chicago, and they lived in New Orleans until moving to Miami, Florida about 1930. Charles died in Coral Gables in 1955, and Carlotta in Florida in 1958.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1922-1954
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours.
- Terms of access:
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
- Preferred citation:
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Charles Tenney Jackson and Carlotta Weir Jackson papers. San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History Center
- Location of this collection:
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San Francisco Public Library100 Larkin StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102, US
- Contact:
- (415) 557-4567