Chapman (Ron) Papers and Photograph Collection, 1880-2010, bulk 1970-2010

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Summary

Title:
Ron Chapman papers and photograph collection
Dates:
1880-2010, bulk 1970-2010
Creators:
Chapman, Ron, 1943-2019
Abstract:
The collection consists of materials collected and created by Ron Chapman, including photographs, slides, negatives, early and modern business cards, maps, business invoices and correspondence, and many different examples of Stockton-related ephemera.
Extent:
11 linear feet
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

Ron Chapman papers and photograph collection. MSS 344. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of materials collected and created by Ron Chapman, including photographs, slides, negatives, early and modern business cards, maps, business invoices and correspondence, and many different examples of Stockton-related ephemera. The ephemera includes promotional items from Stockton businesses, flyers, restaurant menus, Stockton Chamber of Commerce materials, event tickets, and a variety of other items.

Biographical / historical:

Ronald H. Chapman was born on November 4, 1943. He graduated from Stagg High School in Stockton, California, and after serving in the U.S. Army, worked for Johns-Manville. After the plant closed, he began a second career with the Stockton Police Department as Senior Evidence Technician beginning in 1982; he worked for the SPD for the next 27 years.

After his retirement in 2009, Ron volunteered as a historian for the SPD. His work was important, discovering and preserving artifacts and documentation which would have been otherwise lost or forgotten. He was also a moderator and contributing member of the Stockton History Facebook group.

He collected postcards, Stockton-based ephemera, trade cards (early business cards), maps, vintage photos, including early Stockton photographers and studios, which are a part of the collection. Chapman was also a photographer; he documented many Stockton construction and demolition projects, buildings, signs, businesses, air shows at the Stockton Metropolitan Airport, as well as many other views of Stockton.

Ron Chapman died on May 21, 2019.

Arrangement:

Collection is organized into six series: 1. Photographs; 2. Trade Cards; 3. Business Cards; 4. Stockton Promotional Materials and Ephemera; 5. Maps; and 6. Stockton Businesses Invoices, Checks, and Correspondence

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Don Romero
Date Prepared:
© 2013
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid created by Don Romero. Date of source: November 30, 2021.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Ron Chapman papers and photograph collection. MSS 344. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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