Descriptive Summary
Biographical note
Scope and content
Conditions governing access
Reproduction
Preferred citation
Descriptive Summary
Title: Bolton (Arthur L.) family papers
Collection number: MSS.058
Repository:
California Academy of Sciences, Special Collections
55 Music Concourse Drive
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
Languages: Materials are in English.
Physical Description:
9.17 Cubic feet
9 records center cartons, 1 half-size archives box, 1 oversize axe
Date: undated
Abstract: This collection consists of materials collected by Arthur L. Bolton and his family. Series 1 relates to Arthur L. Bolton's
work in the sciences. Series 2-6 mostly relates to Arthur L. Bolton's personal life, family, and prose. They include correspondence,
writings, ephermera, photographs, and realia.
Language of materials: Materials are in English.
Location note: AR 8/H/4, AR 9/H/8, PR 2/D/3, PR 2/D/4, PR 6/E/2
Creator:
Bolton, Arthur L.
Biographical note
Arthur L. Bolton was born in San Francisco circa 1877 and died in Berkeley in 1958 at the age of 81. In the 1890s he studied
Ornithology at Stanford University under Leverett Mills Loomis, and spent field time in the Farallon Islands. In 1898 he journeyed
to Alaska, where he searched for gold and wrote prose. He served as the Superintendent of Grounds at the University of California
Berkeley from 1902-1905. Arthur L. Bolton at one time ran for mayor of Berkeley, was the Northern California Representative
for the State Board of Architects, and was a member of the California Academy of Sciences. He was an Honorary member of the
Poetry Society of England, and was a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. He married Mary Saylor Bolton (1879-1971)
and had three children; Eleanor Saylor Bolton, Arthur Jr., and Beatrice Mary Bolton. The family lived on La Loma Avenue, in
Berkeley California.
Scope and content
This collection consists of materials collected by Arthur L. Bolton and his family. Series 1 relates to Arthur L. Bolton's
work in the sciences. Series 2-6 mostly relates to Arthur L. Bolton's personal life, family, and prose. They include correspondence,
writings, ephermera, photographs, and realia.
Conditions governing access
Access is unrestricted.
Reproduction
All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.
Preferred citation
Arthur L. Bolton Family Papers, Special Collections, California Academy of Sciences Library, San Francisco, CA
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bolton, Dorothy
Loomis, Leverett Mills, 1857-
Oakland Museum of California .
Stanford University.
University of California, Berkeley.
Alaska.
Farallon Islands (Calif.)
Yukon
Field notes
Children's poetry
Photographs
Authors and publishers
Birds
California Academy of Sciences--Member
Children.
Families
French spoliation claims
Ornithology
Poetry
Short stories