San Diego Scrapbook Collection MS-0419
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA 92182-8050
askscua@sdsu.edu
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & University Archives
Title: San Diego Scrapbook Collection
Identifier/Call Number: MS-0419
Physical Description:
11.50 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1896-1940
Language of Material:
English
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Most of the eleven scrapbooks in this collection date from the early twentieth century and depict San Diego life through the
various photographs, news clippings, and ephemera items within each one. Where discernible, the scrapbook creator has been
noted; however, the creator is unknown in most scrapbooks. Any discernible named persons, places, events, and/or activities
are summarized in the description of each individual scrapbook.
This collection is open for research.
Some of these materials are in the public domain. However, the nature of historical archival and manuscript collections means
that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained
in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections,
San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. Permissions is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner
of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained
in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The
user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright
and publication rights of reproduced materials.
This collection is an artificial collection of scrapbooks related to San Diego which were found in a larger collection of
unprocessed ephemera, donated by John and Jane Adams in 1989. Some scrapbooks were also part of the artificial San Diego Memorabilia
Collection and were removed because of format.
Louise Patterson Scrapbook, MS-0409
G. Hamilton Hammon Scrapbook, MS-0408
San Diego Photograph Collection, MS-0222, especially Albums and Family Pictures
Identification of item, folder title, box number, San Diego Scrapbook Collection, Special Collections and University Archives,
San Diego State University Library.
9999-150
Subjects and Indexing Terms
San Diego (Calif.)
San Diego (Calif.)--History
Photograph albums
box 1, item 1
Item 1 1908-1920
Creator: Unknown; San Diego family
Named Persons: Carrie Barrucks, Fanny McIntyre, Isabel Klugel, Olive Hawley, Helen Vesey, and W. O'Farrell.
Description: Photographs of various San Diego locations, including Logan Heights School, San Diego Rowing Club, Coronado,
Japanese Tea Garden, Palomar Mountain. Photographs of family camping trips to Yosemite in 1908.
box 1, item 2
box 1, item 3
Item 3 1908-1922
Creator: Unknown
Description: Includes family photographs; Navy ships; photo strips with people occasionally wearing props, such as cowboy
hats and parasols; a Washington School kindergarten class photo; scenes of beach life and the ocean at Ocean Beach, La Jolla,
and Seal Beach; Mission Cliff Gardens, and Balboa Park. Also includes several images taken in Upland and Los Angeles. Many
of the people in the photographs are only identified by first names, however there are two nurses identified as Mrs. West
and Mrs. Young. One young man appears to be in the military.
box 2, item 4
box 3, item 5
box 4, item 6
Item 6 1896-1919
Creator: Unknown (Relative of Fannie M. McKoon?)
Named Person: William Barron, Beatrice Harrden, Fannie M'Koon, Myra Elizabeth Conklin
Description: Contains newspaper clippings, magazine articles, postcards, publicity about the town of Borrowash, England within
roughly the first half of the scrapbook, which also includes family photographs. The second half of the scrapbook contains
clippings, postcards, photographs, and ephemera related to members of the McKoon (also M'Koon) family. Fannie McKoon lived
at Fanita Rancho, which was named for her by the builder and her husband, Hosmer Perkins McKoon, in El Cajon. Before Fanita
Rancho, the family seems to have lived at a residence built by Irving Gill at the corner of Albatross and Ivy. Clippings relate
to the family's involvement in Christian Science in San Diego, the Wednesday Club, and also include editorials written by
Fannie regarding the temperance movement in San Diego and attendance at the Women's Suffrage Convention, 1896.
box 5, item 7
Item 7 circa 1930-1940
box 6, item 8
box 7, item 9
Item 9 circa 1928-1932
Creator: Private John S. Reamy, Radio Detachment, American Legation, U. S. Marine Corps
Description: Scrapbook of Marine stationed in Peking, China and various points in Southern California including San Diego.
Contains newspaper and magazine clippings, theatre programs and tickets for shows for soldiers in China, YMCA materials, handwritten
songs, sketches, and ephemera.
box 8, item 10
Item 10 circa 1932-1945
Creator: Mary (or May) Hewitt
Description: Scrapbook contains yearbook pictures, handbooks, and commencement programs from Coronado High School (including
an issue of student-produced magazine The Echo). Marriage announcements, theater programs, souvenirs, ticket stubs, postcards,
invitations to Hotel del functions, stamps, greeting cards, and brochures from San Diego are also included. Movie memorabilia
is also included, including an autographed picture of Errol Flynn. Of note is a poster for a magic show to be held in Russ
Auditorium.
box 9, item 11
Item 11 circa 1918-1919
Creator: Hugh Thurston Dunbar, Utah 145th Field Artillery
Description: Dunbar was stationed at Camp Kearney; his scrapbook documents camp life and his tour of duty in southern France
through photographs, news clippings, letters, song sheets, special military orders, leave slips, and uniform patches. In addition
to many photos of Camp Kearney and its operations, there are photos of places and events around San Diego, including the Coronado
swimming pool and tent village, battleships, and the military presence in Balboa Park during WWI. Of Interest is a picture
of the camp in quarantine for scarlet fever, January 1918.