creator: Mary A. Ribzinski

This sub-group documents Mary Ribzinski's training and work as a nurse in the X-Ray department at Mercy Hospital and in her role as a block plan leader for the Sacramento Civilian Defense Council during WWII. It includes nursing school group portraits, a photograph album and glass slide of nurse recruitment posters (1917); letters and postcards addressed to Mary from fellow nurses and regarding their assignments working for the Red Cross and U.S. military throughout the country and abroad during the war (1917-1918); letters addressed to the X-Ray Department at Mercy Hospital and to Mary Ribzinski, written by doctors who had worked at Mercy and been deployed overseas during WWII (1942-1945); and Sacramento Block Plan maternial, including ration booklets and tokens, letters from the Sacramento Civilian Defense Council, war bond signs and other ephemera. Also included are a nursing handbook; Mercy Hospital retrospectives (1975-1996); and a small tablecloth and ash tray from the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939).

creator: Adele C. Griffith

This subgroup is comprised of news clippings and ephemera from early theater performances (1920s, 1931-1932); ephemera from Sacramento High School including a theater program (1931) and Class of 1932 reunions (1957, 1987); newspaper clippings and ephemera from the Young Ladies' Institute (later St. Francis Institute), 1937-2003; Sacred Heart Church history and newsletters (1980-2000); staff portraits and newsletters from the California Employment Development Department (1971-1978) and docent notes and training guides from the California State Capitol Museum Volunteer Association (1982-1996).

creator: Joseph A. Griffith

The bulk of this subgroup is comprised of photographs of Sacramento and California locations taken by Joseph A. Griffith along with family portraits and cards. Most photographs are small format (1.5" x 2.5") and labeled with dates and names of those pictured. The photographs are ordered by Griffith's numbering and include views of family and friends posed at Sacramento locations (1929-1934), including Veterans of Foreign Wars parade downtown, McKinley Park, St. Joseph's Academy and Sacramento Junior College; other California locations include San Francisco, Berkeley and Vallejo, and Santa Clara University, Gold Canyon, Los Angeles and Kezat Stadium in San Francisco.

Physical Description: .1 Linear Feet(1 Archival Folder)

This subgroup is comprised of photocopies of letters written by Bert Griffith to Mary Ribzinski and Jennie Ribzinski from Hawaii, 1942-1945.

Physical Description: .5 Linear Feet(6 Archival Folders)

This subgroup is comprised of photographs of family and friends around Sacramento and Northern California, including portraits of Joe Ribzinski (1920) and Mary Lou Griffith (1962); George Stupak in uniform at McKinley Park and Capitol Park (1944); Frank and Elva O'Brien at the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939); and images removed from album showing parade on J Street "After the War" (circa 1920s). Other individuals and families pictured include Tony and Ada Myzek, Jack Snowden, the Goyette family, the Sweeney family, and the Fox family at 23rd and J Street in Sacramento (1932). Also included are 209 color Kodachrome 35mm slides with views of locomotives, Dorothy Clary and family at Northern California locations, 1962-1974.

Physical Description: .5 Linear Feet(8 Archival Folders)

This subgroup includes ephemera and other printed material from Sacramento establishments and events, (ca. 1880-2004; bulk 1960s).