Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the Haskett Family Photograph Collection
h1995.3
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: Haskett Family Photograph Collection
Creator:
Haskett Family
Dates: 1897-1943
Extent: 12 feet 17 boxes
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Honnold/Mudd Library.
800 N. Dartmouth Avenue
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
Claremont University Consortium
Claremont, California 91711
Abstract:
The Haskett Collection contains family papers, correspondence, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, slides, blueprints, and
ephemera. Varying widely in their subjects and unified by their passing to Jon Haskett. These documents pertain to the past
three generations of the Haskett and Baker families. The families both arrived in California in the late 19th century and
were united by the marriage of Clara Beymer Baker to William Blair Haskett, both of Pasadena, California. The materials in
the collection date from 1861 to 1928, with the bulk of the collection between 1880 and 1919.
Of noted interest is the variety of nineteenth and early twentieth century photography found in the collection, including
southwestern U.S. views, portraits of American Indians, European stereoscopic views, and Matthew Brady’s Civil War Generals
carte de visite set.
Collection Number: h1995.3
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Physical Location: Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont University Consortium.
This collection is open for research.
For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact Special Collections Library staff.
[Identification of item], Haskett Family Photograph Collection. Special Collections, Honnold Mudd Library, Claremont University
Consortium.
Acquired in 1995.
Arranged and Processed by Byte Managers
No addition to the collection is anticipated.
The Haskett Family Collection contains personal letters, photographs, ephemera and other memorabilia documenting three generations
of the Haskett/Baker Family of Pasadena, California. Both families arrived in Southern California in the mid-nineteenth century.
The Haskett family moved from Arkansas; the Blair family came from Wisconsin.. The collection covers the period from 1860
to 1920. The bulk of the collection covers the period from 1880-1920. offers researchers a glimpse into the lives of different
generations of one family.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Haskett collection contains family papers, correspondence, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, slides, blueprints, and
ephemera, from 1861 to 1928. The bulk is between 1880 and 1919. Notable holdings include photographs in reproduction by Matthew
Brady, George Fiske, and Abel Briquet, letters between William Blair Haskett and his wife Clara while he was stationed at
Army bases in California and Arizona in 1918-1919, the diary of John Myers recording his travels between St. Louis and California
by train in 1902, and WWI ephemera. The bulk of the collection covers the period from 1880-1920. offers researchers a glimpse
into the lives of different generations of one family.
Series 1. Haskett family correspondence, photographs, and ephemera
Series 2. Photographs
Subseries 2.1 Civil War
Subseries 2.2 Photographs taken by the Haskett family
Subseries 2.3 California, Southwestern States, and Mexico
Subseries 2.4 Photographs of Art
Subseries 2.5 Photographs of Europe
Subseries 2.6 Portraits
Subseries 2.6 Photo Albums
Series 3. Ephemera
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection
Barker, George (American and Canadian photographer, 1844-1894)
Bierstadt, Charles (American photographer, 1819-1903)
Bierstadt, Edward (American photographer, 1824 - ca. 1907)
Brady, Mathew B. (American photographer, 1823-1896)
Briquet, Abel (French photographer active in France and Mexico, 1850s-1911)
Fiske, George (American photographer, 1835-1918)
Myers, John
Upton, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-
Watkins, Carleton -- 1829-1916
California History -- 1850-1950
California views -- stereocards -- 1800-1950
photographic techniques
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
World War, 1914-1918
Western Americana history-- 1800-1950
scrapbooks