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Descriptive Summary
Title: Franklin Hichborn Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1869-1964,
Date (bulk): 1890-1940
Collection number: 1242
Creator:
Hichborn, Franklin, 1868-1964
Extent: 332 boxes (166 linear ft.)
13 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Franklin Hichborn (1868-1964) was a legislative reporter in Sacramento for the
San Francisco Examiner (1897-1951), a advocate for public ownership of public utilities, and a trustee for the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes
Foundation. Boxes 1-184 include correspondence, articles, speeches, reports, financial records, legal records, and clippings
related to California politics and the activities of journalist Franklin Hichborn, including the Francisco Graft prosecutions,
the Francis J. Heny campaign (1909) and Heney League, the Progressive and Reform movements, Rudolph Spreckles, and the water
and power campaign (1924).
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Franklin Hichborn Papers (Collection 1242). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Hichborn was born in Eureka, California, 1868; legislative reporter,
San Francisco Examiner, 1897; covered Sacramento for
Examiner until 1951; wrote
The story of the California Legislature of 1909 as well as subsequent editions in 1911, 1913, 1915, 1921; published
The system (1915); advocate for public ownership of public utilities; trustee, John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation; married
Mabel Houlton and had three daughters; died December 29, 1963.
Scope and Content
Boxes 1-184 include correspondence, articles, speeches, reports, financial records, legal records, and clippings related to
California politics and the activities of journalist Franklin Hichborn, including the Francisco Graft prosecutions, the Francis
J. Heny campaign (1909) and Heney League, the Progressive and Reform movements, Rudolph Spreckles, and the water and power
campaign (1924).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Hichborn, Franklin, 1868-1964--Archives.
Heney, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1859-1937.
Spreckles, Rudolph.
Journalists--California--Archival resources.
Law--Cases--Archival resources.
Progressivism (United States politics).
Public utilities--California.
California--Politics and government.
Box 1
Class No: 103/1/6/1
Miscellaneous; Tax Bill and Budget Hearing, January 18, 1921.
Box 1
Class No: 103/1/6/2
California, 1937-1938.
Box 2
Class No: 103/1/6/2
California.
Box 2
Class No: 103/1/6/2
New York Tax Exemption Report.
Box 3
Class No: 103/1/6/2
Power Companies.
Box 3
Class No: 103/1/6/2
Tax Relief.
Box 4
Class No: 103/1/6/2
Taxpayers and Property Owners Protective Association.
Box 2
Grant, Harry E. - “The Tax Situation in California.”
Miscellaneous California Legislature, v.d.
Box 4
Class No: 103/1/6/10/11
1933-34.
Box 5
Class No: 103/1/10/12
1935.
San Francisco Graft Prosecution
Box 5
Class No: 103/2/2/3
San Francisco graft prosecution before the Grand Jury fixing of gas rates.
Box 6
Class No: 103/2/2/4
San Francisco graft prosecution before the Grand Jury Home telephone (vol.1).
Box 6
Class No: 103/2/3
State of California
vs. Eugene Schmitz.
State of California
vs. Abraham Ruef
Box 7
Class No: 103/2/4
Rueff trial report on Alex Lathan and newspapers.
Box 8
Class No: 103/2/4
Newspapers, 1906-1907.
Box 9
Class No: 103/2/4
2 newspapers and clippings.
Box 10
Class No: 103/2/5
Calhoun case.
Box 11
Class No: 103/2/5
April 23, 1909.
Box 11
Class No: 103/2/5
May 4, 1909.
Box 12
Class No: 103/2/5
May 13, 1909.
Box 13
Class No: 103/2/5
May 12, 1909.
Box 14
Class No: 103/2/5
June 7, 1909.
Box 15
Class No: 103/2/5
November 15, 1909.
Box 15
Class No: 103/2/8
William J. Burns, Chief Investigator.
Box 16
Class No: 103/2/8
Card files of official letters and correspondence of W.J. Burns.
Box 17
Class No: 103/2/8
Financial Information (Check stubs, expense account statements).
Box 18
Class No: 103/2/5
Vote books.
Box 19
Class No: 103/2/9
Ford case.
Box 19
Ford trial, October 22, 1907.
Box 20
Class No: 103/2/9
Ford trial, October 18, 1907.
Box 20
Class No: 103/2/10
Glass case, July 15-16, 1907.
Box 21
Class No: 103/2/10
Glass case, July 17-19, 1907.
Box 21
Class No: 103/2/13
Murphy Name Plate Scandal.
Box 22
Class No: 103/2/15
Investigation expense accounts, etc., January-December 1909.
Box 22
Class No: 103/2/14
Assembly Districts, 1909.
Box 23
Class No: 103/2/16
William Bottrill, May 1-April 15, 1909.
Box 24
Class No: 103/2/16
William Bottrill.
Box 24
Class No: 103/2/16
D.F. Cecil, June 30, 1906-March 31, 1907.
Box 25
Class No: 103/2/16
D.F. Cecil, April 1, 1907-July 23, 1908.
Box 25
Class No: 103/2/16
Edwin Emerson
Box 26
Class No: 103/2/16
William M. Farrell, November 7-June 7, 1907.
Box 26
Class No: 103/2/16
E.C. Lange, March 18-31, 1908.
Box 27
Class No: 103/2/16
J.G. Lawlor, December 6, 1906-October 31, 1907.
Box 27
Class No: 103/2/16
John McCarthy, January 4, 1907-December 3, 1908.
Box 28
Class No: 103/2/16
Peter M. McGee, October 22-November 25, 1908.
Box 28
Class No: 103/2/16
R.H. Perry, May 31-November 30, 1906.
Box 29
Class No: 103/2/16
R.H. Perry, December 1, 1906-August 31, 1907.
Box 29
Class No: 103/2/16
R.C. Schindler, June 28, 1907-May 26, 1908.
Box 30
Class No: 103/2/16
W.S. Schindler, August 13, 1907-May 23, 1908.
Box 30
Class No: 103/2/16
G.S. Spaulding, October 28, 1906-March 31, 1907.
Box 31
Class No: 103/2/16
G.S. Spaulding, April 1-July 31, 1907.
Box 31
Class No: 103/2/16
E.J. Wiskotchill, March 1-July 31, 1908.
Box 32
Class No: 103/2/16
E.J. Wiskotchill, August 1, 1908-August 27, 1909.
Box 32
Class No: 103/2/17
Trial jurors, 1909.
Box 37
Class No: 103/2/18/5
Graft in Bars, Houses of Prostitution, Dope Rings, and Alms Houses.
Box 38
Class No: 103/2/18/6
Golden and Sullivan, “The Bunko Kings.”
Box 38
Class No: 103/2/19
Chief of Police photographs.
Box 39
Class No: 103/2/19
Board of Supervisors.
Box 39
Class No: 103/2/19
Felix Paduvaris Case.
Box 40
Class No: 103/2/19
Personal statements.
Box 40
Class No: 103/2/19
Testimony of Fred P. Nicholas.
Box 41
Class No: 103/2/19
Tracings.
Box 42
Heney's campaign speech for Langdon.
Box 41
Class No: 103/3/2
Verification blanks.
Box 42
Class No: 103/3/3
Expense accounts.
Box 43
Class No: 103/3/5
Checkbook.
Box 43
Class No: 103/3/3
Account book.
Box 44
Class No: 103/3/7
Receipts.
Box 44
Class No: 103/3/10
Membership cards.
Miscellaneous Agriculture
Box 45
Class No: 103/4
California.
Box 45
Class No: 103/4
San Francisco.
Box 46
Class No: 103/4
California Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
Box 46
Class No: 103/4
California Producers and Shippers Association.
Box 47
Class No: 103/4
California State Board of Health.
California Railroad Commission
Box 47
Class No: 103/4
Press releases, March 30-May 9, 1922.
Box 48
Class No: 103/4
Press releases, May 10-June 23, 1922.
Box 48
Class No: 103/4
California Single Tax League.
Box 49
Class No: 103/4
California State Budget, 1923-1925.
Box 49
Class No: 103/4
Committee of 48, 1923-1924.
Box 50
Class No: 103/4
Committee on Civil Liberties.
Box 50
Class No: 103/4
[No further description available].
Box 51
Class No: 103/4
Attack on the initiative “People's Anti-Single Tax League.”
Box 51
Class No: 103/4
Commonwealth Club.
Box 52
Class No: 103/4
Direct Legislation League of California.
Box 52
Class No: 103/4
Economic Conditions, California.
Box 53
Class No: 103/4
California.
Box 53
Class No: 103/4
California, 1920.
Box 54
Class No: 103/4
California, 1922.
Box 54
Class No: 103/4
California, 1934 (Progressive Party).
Box 55
Class No: 103/4
California, 1936.
Box 55
Class No: 103/4
Massachusetts.
Box 56
Class No: 103/4
National, 1910.
Box 56
Class No: 103/4
San Francisco, 1920.
Box 57
Class No: 103/4
San Francisco, 1921.
Box 57
Class No: 103/4
Free Jury League, 1923-24.
Box 58
Class No: 103/4
Garrison, J.C.
Box 58
Class No: 103/4
Jones, Herbert C.
Box 59
Class No: 103/4
Journal of Electrical Workers.
Box 59
Class No: 103/4
League to Protect the Initiative, 1923-1924.
Box 60
Class No: 103/4
Revenue Bill, 1921.
Box 60
Class No: 103/4
Migrants.
Box 61
Class No: 103/4
National Electric Light Association, 1923. [2].
Box 62
Class No: 103/4
National Electric Light Association, 1923. [3].
Box 62
Class No: 103/4
“Progress,” 1923-1930.
Box 63
Class No: 103/4
Pacific Exposition [1].
Box 63
Class No: 103/4
Racing Initiative Measure.
Box 64
Class No: 103/4
Railroads.
Box 64
Class No: 103/4
Bonded Indebtedness, 1923.
Box 65
Class No: 103/4
City Charter, 1908 and 1928.
Box 65
Class No: 103/4
Pacific Gas and Electric Rates, 1928.
Box 66
Class No: 103/4
San Francisco Port and Harbor.
Box 66
Class No: 103/4
Southern Pacific.
Box 67
Class No: 103/4
Speech of Charles F. Dole. Subject: Lincoln.
Box 67
Class No: 103/4
Transcripts of Trial, McCarty
vs. Murphy.
Box 68
Class No: 103/4
Uncle Sam's Voters.
Box 68
Class No: 103/4
Charlotte Anita Whitney.
Box 69
Class No: 103/4
Edward I. Wolfe.
Box 69
Class No: 103/5/1/3/1
Fulsom Dam, 1927-1928.
Box 70
Class No: 103/5/1/3/2
California Fall River Irrigation District.
Box 70
Class No: 103/5/1/4
Klamath River.
Box 71
Class No: 103/5/1/5
San Francis Dam.
Box 71
Class No: 103/5/1/7
Nova Scotia.
Box 72
Class No: 103/5/1/7
Ontario.
Box 72
Class No: 103/5/1/8
Public Ownership.
Box 73
Class No: 103/5/1/8
Public Ownership, 1923-1924.
Boxes 73-74
Class No: 103/5/1/9
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Box 74
Class No: 103/5/1/10
Metropolitan Water District.
Box 75
Class No: 103/5/1/10
California State Irrigation Association.
Box 75
Class No: 103/5/1/10
Pennsylvania.
Box 76
Class No: 103/5/1/10
Hydro-Electric Company of California.
Box 76
Class No: 103/5/1/10
Nova Scotia.
Box 77
Class No: 103/5/1/10
Pacific Coast.
Box 77
Class No: 103/5/1/10
Rates.
Box 78
Class No: 103/5/1/10
Rates, Southern California.
Hetch-Hetchy Power Project
Box 78
Class No: 103/5/2/1/3
Commonwealth Club of California.
Box 79
Class No: 103/5/2/1/3
[No further description available].
Spring Valley Water Company
vs. San Francisco
Box 79
Class No: 103/5/2/2
Rate Suits, 1903-1906.
Box 80
Class No: 103/5/2/3
India Basin & Islais Creek Project.
Box 80
Class No: 103/5/2/5
Clippings on India Creek Basin, 1910 [2].
Box 81
Class No: 103/5/3/1
Water & Power Campaign Mailing Lists, 1922.
Box 81
Class No: 103/5/3/2
Water & Power Campaign , Federal Power Commission, 1922.
1922 Water & Power Campaign
Box 82
Class No: 103/5/3/2
Financial Statements (rough draft).
Before Senate Judiciary Committee, January 30-31, 1923
Box 82
Class No: 103/5/3/3
January 30, 1923.
Box 83
Class No: 103/5/3/3
January 31, 1923.
Box 83
Class No: 103/5/3/3
Canada.
Box 84
Class No: 103/5/3/3
Special Senate Committee Investigating Expenditures.
Box 84
Class No: 103/5/3/3
New York State.
Box 85
Class No: 103/5/3/3
News releases for California daily papers.
Box 85
Class No: 103/5/3/3
January-March 1922.
Box 86
Class No: 103/5/3/3
March-May 1922.
Box 87
Class No: 103/5/3/3
Views of prominent people on the power question.
Box 87
Class No: 103/5/3/5
Boulder Canyon Proj ect.
Box 88
Class No: 103/5/3/5
Colorado River Project.
Box 88
Class No: 103/5/4/1
Financial statements of California cities, rates, etc.
Box 86
Class No: 103/5/3/3
Statistical data for Special Senate Committee Investigation.
1924 Water and Power Campaign
Box 89
Class No: 103/5/4/4
Ledger.
Box 89
Class No: 103/5/4/3
Articles on water and power.
Box 90
Class No: 103/5/4/3
Articles on water and power, author unknown.
Box 90
Class No: 103/5/4/3
Bureau of Power and Light.
Box 92
Class No: 103/5/4/3
Water power in the province of Ontario, Canada.
Box 91
Class No: 103/5/4/3
Marshall Plan 1924.
Box 91
Class No: 103/5/4/3
Water and Power Act Reports (June 28-October 28, 1924).
La Follette Campaign, 1912
Box 92
Class No: 103/6/1
Nominations campaign [2].
Box 93
Class No: 103/6/1
Nominations campaign [3].
Box 93
Class No: 103/6/1
Miscellaneous Expenditure Sheets.
Box 94
Class No: 103/6/2/1
Vouchers Paid.
Box 94
Class No: 103/6/2/1
Bills for Campaign Literature.
Box 95
Class No: 103/6/2/2
Contribution Letters.
Box 95
Class No: 103/6/2/2
Publicity.
Box 96
Class No: 103/6/2/5
Circulars from National Headquarters.
Box 96
Class No: 103/6/2/6
La Follette Correspondence, G-I, 1924.
Box 97
Class No: 103/6/2/6
La Follette Correspondence, N-R, 1924.
La Follette Campaign, 1924
Box 97
Class No: 103/6/2/7
Women's Division.
Box 98
Class No: 103/6/2/7
Women's Division correspondence.
Box 98
Class No: 103/6/2/13
Miscellaneous [1].
Box 99
Class No: 103/6/2/3
Counties (Card File).
Box 99
Class No: 103/6/2/9
Cancelled checks, old letters.
La Follette State Finance Committee
Box 100
Class No: 103/6/2/9
Checkbook.
Box 100
Class No: 103/6/2/10
Cancelled checks.
Box 102
Executive and workers (card file).
Citizens' League of Justice
Box 103
Class No: 103/6/4
Correspondence, 1908.
Box 103
Class No: 103/6/4
Correspondence, 1908-1909.
Box 104
Class No: 103/6/4
Citizens' League of Justice.
Progressive Voters' League
Box 105
Class No: 103/6/3
Correspondence, I - Z.
Box 106
Class No: 103/6/3
Financial Reports.
Box 106
Class No: 103/6/3
Young, C.C.
Box 107
Official records of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (5 vols.).
Box 107
Class No: 103/6/5/1
Amendment.
Box 108
Class No: 103/6/5/1
Anti-Saloon League.
Box 108
Class No: 103/6/5/1
1918 campaign.
Box 109
Class No: 103/6/5/1
Catholic.
Box 109
Class No: 103/6/5/1
Labor.
Box 110
Class No: 103/6/5/1
Legislative Session, 1919.
Box 110
Class No: 103/6/5/1
Pemberton/Hichborn correspondence.
Box 111
Class No: 103/6/5/1
Petitions.
Box 112
Class No: 103/6/5/2
D - E.
Box 114
Class No: 103/6/5/2
N - P.
Box 114
Class No: 103/6/5/2
T - V.
Box 115
Class No: 103/6/5/2
W - Z.
Box 115
Class No: 103/6/6/1
A - K, 1917 [5].
Box 116
Class No: 103/6/6/1
A - K, 1917 [6].
Box 116
Class No: 103/6/6/1
No signature, 1917 [7]
Box 117
Class No: 103/6/6/1
No signature, 1917 [8]
Box 117
Class No: 103/6/6/2
Investigators' Reports [11].
Box 118
Class No: 103/6/6/2
Investigators' Reports [12].
Box 118
Class No: 103/6/7/1
American Social Hygiene Association.
Box 119
Class No: 103/6/7/1
American Vigilance Association.
Box 119
Class No: 103/6/7/2/1
Investigation, San Francisco.
Box 120
Class No: 103/6/7/2/1
California.
Box 120
Class No: 103/6/7/4
Correspondence, K - Z, 1914 [1].
Box 121
Class No: 103/6/7/4
Correspondence, K - Z, 1914 [2].
Box 121
Congressional Records 1919.
Heney Club Correspondence, 1909
Correspondence, 1909-1938
Box 124
Class No: 103/7
1909, I - O [2].
Box 126
Class No: 103/7
1911, O - Z [8].
Box 127
Class No: 103/7
1912, M - Z [7].
Box 128
Class No: 103/7
1914, He - K.
Box 129
Class No: 103/7
1915, E - F.
Box 131
Class No: 103/7
1916, L - R.
Box 132
Class No: 103/7
1917, N - S.
Box 134
Class No: 103/7
1919, N - R.
Box 137
Class No: 103/7
1921, G [2].
Box 138
Class No: 103/7
1921, P - R.
Box 140
Class No: 103/7
1922, C [1].
Box 141
Class No: 103/7
1922, D [3].
Box 143
Class No: 103/7
1922, I - J.
Box 144
Class No: 103/7
1922, M [2].
Box 145
Class No: 103/7
1922, S [1].
Box 146
Class No: 103/7
1922, T - V.
Box 147
Class No: 103/7
1923, D - G.
Box 148
Class No: 103/7
1923, R - S.
Box 150
Class No: 103/7
1924, L - M.
Box 152
Class No: 103/7
1925, G - H.
Box 154
Class No: 103/7
1927, H - M.
Box 155
Class No: 103/7
1928, P - Z.
Box 156
Class No: 103/7
1930, A - G.
Box 157
Class No: 103/7
1931, K - R.
Box 158
Class No: 103/7
1938 [4].
Box 159
Class No: 103/7
April-September 1915.
Box 160
Class No: 103/7
January-July 1926 [1].
Box 160
Hichborn to J.C. Garrison, 1925-26.
Box 161
Class No: 103/7
Hichborn to J.C. Garrison, 1928-1930.
Box 161
Hichborn to John R. Haynes, September-December, 1926.
Box 162
Class No: 103/7
Hichborn to John Randolph Haynes, 1927.
Box 162
Hichborn to Herbert C. Jones, 1925.
Box 163
Class No: 103/7
Hichborn to Herbert C. Jones, 1926.
Box 163
Hichborn to Charles K. McClatchy, October 1930-1932, 1934.
Box 164
Class No: 103/7
Hichborn to John F. Neylan, 1913-15; 1920-23.
Box 164
Hichborn to R. Spreckels, July-December 1930.
Box 165
Class No: 103/7
Hichborn to R. Spreckels, 1931/1932, 1934, 1936, 1938.
Box 165
Hichborn to Herbert C. Jones, 1935-37.
Box 166
Class No: 103/7
Herbert C.Jones, 1938-40.
Box 167
Class No: 103/7
V.S. McClatchy, 1927, 1910-1924.
Box 168
Class No: 103/7
1906-1908, C [1].
Box 169
Class No: 103/7
1909, A - H.
Box 170
Class No: 103/7
January-April 1921.
Box 171
Class No: 103/7
1932-1933.
Box 171
[Miscellaneous] Correspondence.
Scope and Content Note
R.H. Young, 1917-1919, 1924.
Sara Young, 1921.
S.W. Young, 1919.
Walter L. Young, 1923.
Box 172
Class No: 103/9
Hichborn.
Articles, Addresses and Published Letters
Box 174
Class No: 103/9
Artie Samish.
Box 174
Class No: 103/9
1924 Water & Power Campaign, (rough draft).
Box 175
Class No: 103/9
Hichborn.
Box 176
Class No: 103/9
Hichborn, Plain Talk, May (Book).
Box 177
Class No: 103/9
The Case of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings (Book).
Box 177
Class No: 103/12
Correspondence.
Box 178
Class No: 103/12
State and National.
Box 178
John Randolph Haynes Initiative.
Scope and Content Note
(Loose items from the scrapbook on the initiative)
Box 179
Los Angeles (Translation, 1935).
Box 179
Ronald Ray Schmidt, Responses of Non-Negro Renters and Owners in Los Angeles and Orange Counties to the Respect to Ethic Change,
1965.
Box 180
The Political Reform Movement in Los Angeles, 1900-1909.
California Politics, 1891-1939
Box 182
Anton Wagner,
Los Angeles (in German).
Box 183
The Quest for Good Government in Los Angeles, 1890-1910, by Clodius.
Box 183
Los Angeles County, California.
Box 184
Heilman, Grace.
Early History of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles, 1949.
Scope and Content Note
(Original draft)
Part 1, chapters 1-8.
Box 336
Registration Book for Occidental Hotel, 1904.
Boxes 337- 338
Class No: 103/5/4/1
Water and Power Campaign, 1924.
Scope and Content Note
Campaign financial reports etc.
Boxes 339 - 344
Card index to Hichborn correspondence.
Box 345
Marine View Terrace Tract. San Mateo Company, California. 3 architectural drawings.
Physical Description: One oversize folder (4 items total).