Biographical 1847-1960
Preston: Membership and Selective Service cards, licenses, letterhead and business card, school work, paper route diary, and memorabilia circa 1911-1956
Preston: Schoolwork circa 1913-1919
Preston and Ariel: Schoolwork 1914-1917, undated
Preston and Ariel: Schoolwork circa 1911-1915
Preston: Diaries and calendars: film and theater, Pan Pacific Exposition memories (1917) 1916-1931
Sawyer family documents circa 1915-1962
William P. Belote: cards, biography; Notarial Record 1920-1925: F.D. McPherson and Wm. P. Belote circa 1920-1949
Diary: C.L Anderson 1847
Music book of Salome Lincoln, 1876; Autograph books of Gertrude Lincoln, 1881-1889; Property document Mary C. Johnson, 1907; School work Alice Williams, 1922 et al. 1876-1922
Frank Sawyer - business and household accounts book 1891-1897
Diplomas - Ariel and Preston 1913, 1915
Writings: notes and drafts for "Santa Cruz Yesteryears" column in Santa Cruz Sentinel circa 1920-1949
Writings: notes and drafts for "Santa Cruz Yesteryears" column in Santa Cruz Sentinel circa 1922-1941
Writings: notes and drafts for "Santa Cruz Yesteryears" column in Santa Cruz Sentinel circa 1940-1960
Correspondence 1888-1960
Preston Sawyer - outgoing. Unsent personalized holiday cards, returned mail, last day stamp for Lum, Alabama, and card from Camp Robinson 1925-1951
Preston Sawyer - Includes Japanese stamps and photo of Edward Ah Kee, Honolulu 1909-1916
Preston Sawyer 1917
Preston Sawyer - Correspondence on postcards. Includes soldiers' mail, photos 1916-1919
Preston Sawyer - Includes soldiers' mail from WWI, European theater and China (Hankow), with photographs, and other enclosures. Photos include U.S. military bases and camps. Vintage European post cards. 1918 "Female Tonic" advertisement 1918-1919
Preston Sawyer 1920-1922
Preston Sawyer - 1923 Photo of Preston and pilot from Tom Mix film (Bonny Doon) 1923-1929
Preston Sawyer - 1930 includes early photograph of Santa Cruz horse drawn fire engine #1 1930-1932
Preston Sawyer - Includes Teddy Roosevelt envelope. 1933-1934 Old Ironsides visit requests for cachet/postmarks 1933
Preston Sawyer 1934
Preston Sawyer -1936 Map of Santa Cruz County on Sentinel letterhead 1935-1938
Preston Sawyer 1939-1941
Preston Sawyer - Includes mail to Preston at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas 1942-1943
Preston Sawyer 1942-1945
Preston Sawyer - 1948 "Uncle Sam" birthday card. 1955 includes provenance for original Ox team photo 1946-1969, undated
Preston Sawyer - 1956 "I Like Ike" sticker 1956-1963, undated
Preston Sawyer - Pierce, Edwin. 1927 Admission Day enclosure 1912-1936
Preston Sawyer - Pierce, Edwin. 1939 Treasure Island Fair enclosures 1937-1942
Preston Sawyer - Pierce, Edwin 1943-1946
Preston Sawyer - Pierce, Edwin. 1950 Includes Pierce's handwritten will to Preston 1947-1960, undated
Preston Sawyer - Treverton Family 1926-1927
Preston Sawyer - Treverton Family 1928-1949, undated
Gertrude Sawyer 1902-1918
Gertrude Sawyer 1919-1954
Gertrude Sawyer from Preston at Camp Robinson, Arkansas 1942-1943
Gertrude Sawyer from Ariel 1951-1958
Gertrude Sawyer undated
Postcards: Incoming/Outgoing - Preston Sawyer. Includes correspondence between family members and Preston's postal exchange members. Partially sorted by national and international locations. circa 1915-1950
Postcards: Incoming/Outgoing - Preston and Ariel Sawyer. Includes correspondence by Preston's postal exchange members. Unsorted national and international locations circa 1915-1950
Frank Sawyer -1913 enclosure from San Francisco Tanning Co. 1920 enclosure - pamphlet "The Japanese in California". 1922 rent/eviction legal papers. circa 1905-1941
Correspondence: Ariel Sawyer, incoming and outgoing. 1922 from Tyrone Power. 1914-1962
Correspondence: Rice and Fields Families 1908-1952
Correspondence: Santa Cruz Sentinel. Includes news releases on war, politics, current and local events, requests and solicitations. "Ernie Pyle Copy". 1937: Santa Cruz County Herald newsletter. 1939: to "The only Democrat in the Sentinel office", Jimmy Hatlo panels, Holy City solicitation 1919-1939
Correspondence: Santa Cruz Sentinel 1940
Correspondence: Santa Cruz Sentinel 1941
Correspondence: Santa Cruz Sentinel. 1943 news on local boys in army and air force; 1944 article, "Betty J. Barrington Attends Naval Training School" 1942-1960, undated
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt and Benjamin Harrison 1888, 1915
Postcards - Santa Cruz County 1904-1946
Postcards - California circa 1907-1949
Postcards - California. San Francisco and Bay Area German Singing Societies circa 1909-1952
Postcards - Alabama-Washington DC circa 1904-1947
Postcards - Washington-Wyoming, and unsorted circa 1905-1959
Postcards - National, unsorted circa 1905-1960
Postcards packs and foldouts - National and international, unsorted circa 1874, 1915-1954
Postcards - National, unsorted circa 1904-1936
Postcards - National, unsorted circa 1905-1935
Postcards - National, unsorted circa 1906-1935
Postcards - National, unsorted circa 1905-1935
Postcards - National, unsorted circa 1905-1935
Postcards - National, unsorted circa 1908-1935, 1940-1959
Postcards - National, unsorted circa 1908-1935, 1940-1959
Postcards - Africa-France circa 1904-1929
Postcards - Gibraltar-Tahiti circa 1917-1930
Postcards - International, unsorted circa 1911-1949
Postcards - International, unsorted circa 1909-1938
Postcards - International, unsorted circa 1907-1954
Postcards - International, unsorted circa 1905-1940
Postcards - International, unsorted circa 1902-1934
Postcards - International, unsorted circa 1905-1924
Photographic material circa 1873-1960
Ariel Sawyer circa 1910-1950
Preston Sawyer circa 1891-1907
Preston Sawyer circa 1902-1933
Preston Sawyer circa 1907-1945
Preston and Ariel Sawyer circa 1905-1919
Frank Sawyer circa 1900-1920
Gertrude Fields Sawyer with Adelaide Gardner Fields and Elizabeth Stancliff Gardner. Ariel, Preston and other family members circa 1900-1930
Josephine Clifford circa 1919
Edwin Fields circa 1940
Eliza Adelaide Gardner Fields circa 1906-1915
Florence Edna Fields, infant 1898
Clara Fields Rathke circa 1920-1930
Clara Gardner (aka Hawthorn, Leibbrandt and Holmes), son Clyde circa 1880-1910
Eva Viola Gustafson Fields, Edwin Wilfred Fields circa 1880-1889
James Kingsley Fields, Adelaide Gardner Fields circa 1900-1915
Wilbur M. Gardner, Eva [?] Gardner circa 1880-1890
Family friends circa 1890-1929
Family friends circa 1920-1950
Miscellaneous family photographs circa 1920-1930
Sawyer Family: Preston, Ariel, Frank, Gertrude. Fields Family: Eliza, Edwin, Esther, Clara circa 1910-1933
Fields and Sawyer family groups. Sawyer homes and businesses. Alice Williams. Santa Cruz residents and friends including Fridley, George, and Hale families circa 1912-1933
Preston, Ariel, Family groups circa 1910-1939
Preston - includes class photos circa 1899-1950
Ariel Sawyer circa 1915-1950
Preston Sawyer circa 1901-1950
Preston Sawyer and Edwin Pierce - Treasure Island, San Francisco 1939
Bepp, Ogawa and Takao Family reunion 1950
Weeooray Tribe, children, local scenes including Cowell ranch, Pogonip, lime kilns. Other California events and travel photos: Salinas Rodeo (1926), Santa Barbara/Paso Robles (1920's), Rose Bowl Parade (1940's) circa 1917-1949
Weeooray Tribe, children, local scenes circa 1922-1953
Weeooray Tribe, children, local scenes circa 1930-1949
Weeooray Tribe, children, local scenes circa 1930-1949
Weeooray Tribe, children, local scenes circa 1920-1950
Weeooray Tribe, children, local scenes circa 1920-1950
Richard Headrick "The Little Minister" circa 1920-1930
Oversize: Preston portraits, Santa Cruz scenes - some taken by Preston circa 1910-1940
Pan Pacific International Exposition; Fair and San Francisco Golden Gate Park circa 1915, 1939
Fairs and parks circa 1935-1945
Pan Pacific International Exposition circa 1915
Pan Pacific International Exposition circa 1915
Collectible photographs of famous people - signed and unsigned. Includes Susan B. Anthony, Charles Lindbergh circa 1880-1950
Folios - Associated Oil Company - San Francisco bridges and California circa 1934-1935
Assorted United States and international photos including Europe, Philippines, Greece etc. circa 1916-1949
Rolled hand colored prints: San Lorenzo River, Mt. Toro in snow, taken by Preston 1927, 1932
Travel albums: #1 - California scenes including: San Jose, Sacramento, San Juan Capistrano, Catalina Island, Long Beach, Coronado Beach; New Orleans, LA; Kentucky, New York, Illinois, and Tijuana, Mexico circa 1910-1920
Travel album #2 - Mt. Shasta, CA; Oregon and Washington; British Columbia, Canada circa 1928-1938
Travel album #3 Yosemite; Ships and steamers, the Empress of Japan, includes passengers on board circa 1910-1939
Travel album #4 Vintage postcards - battleships, California missions, San Francisco, PPIE, Yosemite; "Angel of Grief", Stanford, CA circa 1915-1920
Single album page: residences, ostrich farm - possibly Southern California circa 1910-1920
Album - San Francisco, Pan Pacific International Exposition, residents circa 1915-1926
Albums - Mrs. F.F. Fugle family; Sarah Starr family 1873-1877
2 scrapbooks - "The Original 1915 Boys Club San Francisco" (1912-1915). Clippings and photographs circa 1912-1930
Daniels Family album. Carte de viste's of Sarah D. Simon, Elmer Arthur Watson, et al. Enlargement of Sarah Rowland circa 1874-1885
Albums: #1 Gustafsen Family (related to Sawyers); #2 travel album, San Francisco and Washington state. #3 Men at work: railroad, carpenters, motorcycles, miners, California and Hawaii Sugar Refining Bldg.; Contra Costa irrigation project - dredger "Samson" 5/4/1913, canal construction; Mt. Quarry crusher plant; American River, Yosemite (1913-1930) circa 1890-1940
Santa Cruz Ox Team in parade, Frank C. Jordan, CA Secretary of State, Tom A. Hayes, unidentified. Mesa Verde, CO circa 1915-1945
Glass plates - mostly Capitola, 1890-1910 and Pan Pacific International Exposition; Lantern slides - Boy scouts, camping (some hand colored); miscellaneous metal engraving plates for newspaper circa 1890-1950
Glass plates - Santa Cruz, Capitola, Pan Pacific International Exposition circa 1880-1920
Glass plates - Santa Cruz, Capitola, Calaveras Co.; miscellaneous metal engraving plates for newspaper. Inventory enclosed for Capitola glass plates. circa 1880-1920
Glass plates - early Santa Cruz scenes. Inventory enclosed. circa 1880-1920
Glass plates - early Santa Cruz scenes circa 1880-1920
Glass plates - Del Monte, Father Tree Big Basin; Santa Cruz residents and scenes. Note to Preston re: Penniman circa 1880-1920
Metal plates - Santa Cruz Sentinel and Santa Cruz News, editor of Santa Cruz News, local scenes circa 1880-1920
Metal engravings on wood blocks and metal printing plates for Santa Cruz Sentinel circa 1920-1950
Metal engravings on wood blocks for Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz scenes, casino, San Lorenzo River, Moose Club building fire, Ideal Fish Restaurant, News Business Office circa 1920-1950
Printing plates for Santa Cruz Sentinel, and metal engravings on wood circa 1920-1950
Viewmasters and miniature souvenir films circa 1948-1960
Envelopes, stamps - national and international 1912-1959
Preston Sawyer diary entries on postcards; Santa Cruz County postcards and postmarks; stamp dies and miscellaneous postmarks circa 1912-1959
Envelopes - Santa Cruz businesses 1914-1962
Envelopes - Santa Cruz residents circa 1900-1955
Envelopes - national and international. Includes special postmarks: first, last, commemorative circa 1911-1939
Envelopes and postmarks - Fairs (1923-1947), war related (1940-1944), general interest (1940-1963) circa 1923-1963
Post and stamp - brochures, product stamps, etc. circa 1916-1951
Pan Pacific International Exposition 1915
Fairs and Expositions 1935-1940
Golden Gate International Exposition; San Francisco World's Fair 1939-1940
San Francisco and Bay area - scrapbook pages, photographs from San Francisco newsletter series, 1880-1891; cable car woodcuts circa 1920-1950
Missions - photographs, art circa 1914-1950
Railroads - maps, timetables 1922-1956
Missions - photographs, art circa 1910-1950
Vintage advertising - Santa Cruz County: business cards, brochures, booklets, receipts 1903-1941
Santa Cruz: Vin Taylor - airman visit 1924-1930
Vintage advertising - Santa Cruz County: announcements, merchant receipts, business cards. Twin Lakes Moon newsletter (1924) circa 1924-1954
Vintage advertising - Santa Cruz County: business greeting cards, calendars, directories, receipts 1938-1952
Santa Cruz: event announcements and commencements for Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz High School, religious and social groups 1922-1955
Santa Cruz High School Trident - newsletter 1927-11-25
Santa Cruz Sentinel: advertising, subscriber receipts and requests, press passes, business receipts, weather log (rainfall Boulder Creek 1888-1932). Includes art work from Leo Cotton, Los Angeles Examiner artist, 11/6/1931 circa 1921-1953
Clippings: obituaries, genealogical write-ups for local residents of Santa Cruz County. Great Register County of Santa Cruz, 1873 (domiciled inhabitants) circa 1873-1950
Santa Cruz Sentinel: "New Pictorial", and "Timely Events" - posters (1936-1940). Printed material: The Carmel Pine Cone, Feb. and Aug. 1934 1934-1940
Santa Cruz Sentinel: clippings circa 1950-1966
Santa Cruz school bond poster, 1959 ("See the O'Neill Site - Then Vote Right"), Cottage For Rent signs. Collectible art and souvenir prints, national and international subjects circa 1908-1959
Santa Clara County: accessor's records, tickets, receipts, landmark brochure 1909-1962
San Francisco: tickets, brochures, programs 1915-1955
Vintage advertising - California: brochures, programs, cards circa 1920-1955
Vintage advertising - national: brochures, merchant passes circa 1880-1954
Vintage advertising - International: brochures, decals, maps, commemoratives circa 1905-1953
Boy scouts and clubs circa 1929-1953
World War I: Sierra Madre newsletter, soldiers' mail, postcards circa 1916-1918
World War II: advertising, soldiers' mail, ration books, photographs circa 1939-1943
Annotated photo processing envelopes from Santa Cruz studios circa 1910-1952
Art and greeting cards circa 1910-1950
Collectible art and souvenir prints, national and international subjects circa 1915-1945
Pan Pacific International Exposition, Golden Gate International Exposition, miscellaneous Californiana circa 1915-1940
Unsorted ephemera undated
Realia circa 1905-1956
3 American flags with 48 stars (ca. 1912-1949), Boy scout patches and uniform, projects. Pennants, banner and plaque, Golden Gate International Exposition circa 1920-1950
Assorted charms and souvenirs: tiles and plaques, swizzle sticks, paper Polaroid glasses, auto trading cards, name pins, Santa Cruz County Fair buttons, advertising tweezers, miniature brass fireman's hat circa 1920-1956
Childrens' books, toys and games circa 1910-1950
Japanese fans, Ipana box, commemorative ribbons (1898-1948), Glenwood School diploma (1898), automobile stickers 1898-1948
Buttons, baseball memorabilia, whistle, burl wood souvenir, Pik-Pak viewer, glass postcard, silver match holder, keys and charms, political business cards, and other souvenirs circa 1916-1950
Scrapbooks: Santa Cruz County articles and clippings. Includes scrapbook regarding the ship, Boomerang. National and some international articles circa 1905-1929