Guide to the Allan Ottley papers, ca. 1955-1979
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Guide to the Allan Ottley Papers, ca. 1955-1979
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Contact Information:
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Allan Ottley Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1955-1979
Box Number: 2212-2219
Creator:
Ottley, Allan R.
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Allan Ottley papers, California State Library.
Access Points
Ottley, Allan R.--Correspondence
Ottley, Allan R. John A. Sutter, Jr.: statement regarding early California experiences
Goodman, John B. (John Bartlett), 1901-1991--Correspondence
Hutchinson, W. H. (William Henry), 1910-1990--Correspondence
Sutter, John Augustus, 1826-1897
California--History--Sources
Shipping--California--History --Sources
Inland water transportation--California--History--Sources
Contents
The collection is organized into four series: Personal papers, including correspondence
focusing on Ottley's literary and political interests; Articles and speeches, comprised
of approximately thirty typescripts; Publications, documenting all phases of the
production of John A. Sutter, Jr.: statement regarding early California experiences; and
Research materials, consisting of notes and documents accumulated for an unpublished work
on California water transportation.
Biography
Allan Ottley was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1909 but has been a resident of Califonia
since he was 13. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School and Santa Barbara State
College and completed library school in Riverside. He worked in the Humboldt County
Library and the Sacramento City Library and, after serving with the Navy in the South
pacific, began his long association with the California Section of the California State
Library. Mr. Ottley has been active in many professional, cultural and civic
organizations throughout his life. He served on several committees of the California
Library Association; is a founding member and past-president of both the Sacramento Book
Collectors Club and the Sacramento County Historical Society; and was appointed by
Governor Pat Brown to serve on the Civil War Centennial Commission, the California
History Commission and the California Heritage Preservation Commission. His publications
include: John A. Sutter, Jr.: statement regarding early California experiences, John A.
Sutter's last days, and other publications for the Sacramento Book Collectors Club; and
Sidewalk history: pioneer sites of Old Sacramento for the Sacramento City Historic
Landmarks Commission, as well as numerous articles for such journals as the California
historian, Steamboat bill of facts, Proceedings of the Conference of California
Historical Societies, the Far Westerner of the Stockton Corral of Westerners, the
National republic, and the quarterly newsletter of the Book Club of California. A noted
speaker, Ottley has made many appearnaces at local historical groups and has lectured at
several California universities.
Correspondents
Major Correspondents
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Goodman, John B. (John Bartlett), 1901-1991.
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Hutchinson, W. H. (William Henry), 1910-1990.
Other Correspondents
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Birmingham, Alma.
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Bly, Anita.
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Bowler, Larry.
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Cranston, Alan MacGregor.
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Evans, Elliot.
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Gramm, Phil.
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Harlow, Neal.
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Hatch, Orrin, 1934-
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Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiye), 1906-
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Heckman, Marlin L.
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Heintz, William F.
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Kuchel, Thomas H.
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McMurtrie, Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford), 1888-1994.
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Mills, James.
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Paul, Rodman W. (Rodman Wilson), 1912-
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Price, Glenn W.
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Reynolds, Jack, 1935-
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Rodda, Albert.
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Shumate, Albert.
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Simon, Paul.
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Simpson, Edmund E.
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Sperry, Baxter .
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Sutter, Dolores Kason.
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Weber, Francis J.
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Wood, R. Coke (Reginald Coke)
Box Box 2212
Correspondence: John B. Goodman; William Henry Hutchinson
Literary: Alma Birmingham, Anita Bly, Elliot Evans, Neal Harlow, Marlin Heckman, William Heintz, Douglas McMurtrie, James
Mills, Rodman Paul, Glenn Price, Jack Reynolds, Albert Shumate, M.D., Edmund Simpson, Baxter Sperry (Mrs.), Dolores Kason
Sutter, Francis Weber, Msgr., R. Coke Wood
Political: Larry Bowler, Alan Cranston, Phil Gramm, Orrin Hatch, S.I. Hayakawa, Thomas Kuchel, James Mills, Albert Rodda,
Paul Simon
Box Box 2213
Untitled; Untitled: 1973; Cabbage Halts Steamboat; California; California Section; California's Pioneer Railroad; Collecting Californiana; Collecting
Free and Inexpensive Pamphlets; Early Sonora; Few Favorite California Books; Gold in Them Thar Files; Great Calaveras Skull
Controversy; Jedediah Strong Smith; Latrobe; Library: Gold Mine for Research; Local History and the Local Library; Mesick
vs. Sunderland and Brannan vs. Mesick Litigation
Box Box 2214
Olla Podrina; Pathfinder in the Wilderness; Pioneers of the Sacramento Valley; Private Papers in the California State Library;
Sacramento: Its Earliest Years; Sacramento's King Cabbage; Ship Indexes in the California State Library; Some Books on California;
Some Curious Anecdotes of Books and Book Collecting; Some Notes on Early Yolo County and Davisville; Some Notes on Yolo County,
Davisville, and the Great Yolo Gold Rush of 1894; Sources for Geneology in the California State Library; State Library and a Few By-roads of History; State Library and Its
California Section; Statement Regarding Early California Experiences; Two Pioneer California Humorists
Box Box 2215
John A. Sutter, Jr.-Correspondence and research materials.
Box Box 2216
John A. Sutter, Jr.-drafts, typescripts and proofs.
Box Box 2217
California water transportation
Box Box 2218
California water transportation
Box Box 2219
California water transportation; California National Guard Museum; Misc., William Muldrow.