Bolt Family Papers, c1880-1973

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Summary

Title:
Bolt Family Papers,
Dates:
c1880-1973
Creators:
Robert B. Bolt
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Bolt Family Papers, Mss159, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Scope and content:

The Bolt Family Papers are arranged in seven series. Series I consists of biographical materials, including sixteen boxes of family diaries (1893-1973); Series II contains family and business correspondence (1887-1957); Series III consists of eleven Bolt family scrapbooks(1913-1952); Series IV consists of the writings of Richard Arthur Bolt (1900-1960), while Series V contains Bolt Family memorabilia; Series VI contains various public health writings not by Dr. Bolt; and Series VII contains the family's substantial photograph collections, which include 17 boxes of images of China, Japan and Korea (1911-1916), Germany, Austria and Hungary (1933), as well as California (1899-1904) and elsewhere.

Biographical / historical:

The scion of this distinguished family, Dr. Richard Arthur Bolt (1880-1959), was an authority on child health care. Bolt was Medical Director of the U.S. Indemnity (Tsing Hua) College, Beijing (1911-1916); Chief of the Bureau of Child Hygiene, Cleveland (Ohio) Department of Public Health (1917-1918); Instructor, Case Western Reserve University (1916-1920); Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University (1920-1925); Consultant to the U.S. Children's Bureau (1924-1937); Assistant Professor, University of California (1925-1929); Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University (1929-1945); and, Lecturer in Maternal and Child Health, University of California (1945-1948). Bolt studied child health in Germany (1933) and was a member of the White House Conference on Children (1939). He was author of numerous monographs on public health topics. On domestic and overseas trips Dr. Bolt took many photographs that he later used to illustrate public and academic lectures.

Bolt's wife, Beatrice French Bolt (1881-1974), a graduate of Stanford University (1905), was a socialite with many friends in the fields of medicine and literature. A gracious hostess, whose home became a gathering place for people of prominence, Mrs. Bolt was also a meticulous diarist and record keeper. She accompanied her husband to China, Germany and elsewhere.The Bolts had four children: Elizabeth, Robert, Marion Jane and Richard Henry.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Physical description:
47 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Holt Atherton Staff; rev. by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Date Prepared:
© 1998
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: October 1998.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Bolt Family Papers, Mss159, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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