Guide to the Pierce Family Albums
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Guide to the Pierce Family Albums
Collection number: MS 208
The University LibrarySpecial Collections and Archives
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
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- UCSC OAC Unit
- Date Completed:
- November 2004
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- UCSC OAC Unit
© 2005 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Pierce Family albums
Dates: 1900-1918
Collection number: MS 208
Creator:
Pierce, Walter S. family
Collection Size:
2 flats
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection contains one photograph album of the Walter S. Pierce family's life in San Francisco, one album of the family's
summer camping expeditions in the Santa Cruz mountains, and one scrapbook documenting Edwin Pierce's 1904-06 summer adventures
in Marin and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Also included are thirty seven loose photographs of the family's Grand Tour
of Europe.
Physical location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Piece Family albums. MS 208. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Purchased in 1963.
Walter S. Pierce was born in Massachusetts in 1842. By 1880 he had moved to San Francisco with his first wife Lucille and
was making his living as a music instructor. He prospered and by 1905 was the proprietor of the Walter S. Pierce Piano Manufacturing
Company in San Francisco. His son, Edwin was born in 1891, and daughter Ruby was born in 1894. Upon the death of his first
wife, he married Minnie E. Miller.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains one photograph album of the Walter S. Pierce family's life in San Francisco, one album of the family's
summer camping expeditions in the Santa Cruz mountains that includes a diary by Edwin Pierce of his activities with the 1915
Boys Club of San Francisco, and one scrapbook by Edwin Pierce of his 1904-1906 summer adventures in Marin and clippings of
the 1906 earthquake ruins. Also included are thiry seven loose photographs of the family's Grand Tour of Europe.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Boys Club of San Francisco
Camping--California--Santa Cruz Mountains
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906
Pierce, Walter S. family--Archives
Pierce, Edwin
box-folder 1:2, 2:2
box-folder 1:2
Family camping album 1904-1918
Physical Description: Black leather album, 30 x 25 cm.
Scope and Content Note
This album contains photographs of the Pierce family camping expeditions in the Santa Cruz mountains, as well as photographs
and a diary by Edwin Pierce documenting his involvement with the 1915 Boys Club of San Francisco camping trips to Boulder
Creek and Felton areas.
box-folder 2:2
San Francisco family album 1900-1913
Physical Description: Black leather album, 30 x 25 cm.
Scope and Content Note
This album contains photographs of the Pierce family and their daily life in San Francisco. Included are photographs of family
members and friends, Santa Cruz beaches, Half Moon Bay, Mount Tamalpais, 1906 San Francisco earthquake ruins, Admission Day
parades in San Francisco, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition.
box-folder 1:1
Series 2 Scrapbook, 1904-1906