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Guide to the James Norris Gillett Collection, 1880-1971

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/

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Descriptive Summary

Administrative Information

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Conditions of Use

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Preferred Citation

Access Points

Contents

Biography

Correspondents

Major Correspondents

Part I:

• James Norris Gillett
• Bank Of Eureka
• Barnett, John T.
• Bell, William J.
• Dodds, C. B.
• Gillett, Effie
• Gillett, Ethel
• Gillett, James Norris, 1860-1937
• Gillett, James Norris, Jr.
• Harriman, Henry R.
• Johnson, Hiram, 1866-1945
• Matson, William
• Pearsall, Clarence Eugene, 1863-1928
• Preble, E. A.
• Richardson, Friend W.
• Roberts, Guy
• San Francisco Fly Casting Club
• Sherman, Moses H.
• Shortridge, Samuel Morgan, b. 1861
• White, Harry
• Whitehorn, James
• Wilson, Rufus R.

Other Correspondents

Part I:

• James Norris Gillett
• Ach, Henry
• Aitken, A. D.
• Aitken, L. L.
• Alameda County Title Insurance Company
• Alisky, C. W.
• Allen, C. J.
• American Bar Association
• American Law Book Company
• American Legion Endowment Fund
• Amweg, Frederick J.
• Anderson, F. A.
• Andreasen, F. W.
• Andrews, Nora B.
• Anglo-American Exposition
• Anglo & London Paris National Bank (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Anglo London Paris Company
• "Anon De Plume"
• Anonymous
• Armentrout, Sue
• Armstrong, Allen H.
• Arneson, Nils
• Associated Sportsmen of California
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Atherstone, Thomas S.
• Auto Clearing House
• Backus, Samuel
• Bair, E. L.
• Baldwin & Stetson
• Ball, J. H.
• Bancroft-Whitney Company
• Bank of Italy
• Barbour, Henry
• Barnes, C. E.
• Barrett, Paul
• Barrett, W. J.
• Barrows, David Prescott, 1873-1954
• Bartlett, James W.
• Bartlett, Louis
• Bausman, Frederick
• Bayless, W. S.
• Beckwith, F. W.
• Bedford, L. E.
• Belcher Abstract & Title Co.
• Bennett, William S.
• Berkeley Chamber of Commerce
• Berkeley High School
• Bertram, Edward A.
• Bircher, D. O. (Mrs.)
• Blockinger, E. A.
• Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Bonner, E. C.
• Bontz, Helen
• Bontz, L. E.
• Bowman, Carrie
• Bowman, R. H.
• Boy Scouts of America
• Bradford, Charles F.
• Branstetter, L. P.
• Bridges, H. J.
• Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison
• Bronson, Roy A.
• Broussard, E. S.
• Brown, Alice
• Brown, Frank L.
• Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.
• Buena Vista Oil Company
• Burdett, Robert J.
• Burdick, E. G.
• Burgess, Robert Noble, 1878-.
• Burgess, W. C
• Burke, Hugh M.
• Burleson, C. M.
• Burman, John
• Burnham, Clark
• Burns, Rodney
• Buskirk, J. W.
• Butler, John
• "C"
• Calhoun, C. C.
• California Almond Growers Exchange
• California. Board of Medical Examiners
• California. Dept. of Investments.
• California. Dept. of State.
• California Development Board
• California. Highway Commission.
• California National Bank
• California. National Grange.
• California Optical Company
• California Painting and Decorating Co.
• California. State Board of Bar Examiners.
• California. State Prison at San Quentin.
• Californians Inc.
• Campbell, J. C.
• Campbell, James H.
• Campbell, Sterling
• Campe, George
• Cannon, Joseph
• Canon City, Colorado Senior High School Debate Association
• Carlin, Keith
• Carson, J. M.
• Cashman, W. E.
• Cavagnaro, Henry A.
• Chadwick, Edward W.
• Chamberlain, May, Denby and Webster
• Chandler, Harry
• Chandler, William E.
• Charles A. Davis & Co.
• Chesebro, H. E.
• Chessher, H. B.
• Civic League of Improvement Clubs and Associations of San Francisco
• Clark, E. T.
• Clark, Fred P.
• Clements, F. W.
• Collier, D. C.
• Commercial Law League of America
• Commonwealth Club of America
• Compton, H. T.
• Condon & Phelps
• Connelley, Anna D.
• Consaul, Charles F.
• Coonan, J. F.
• Coonan, J. F., Mrs.
• Cooper, Elizabeth
• Corbitt, Willis E.
• Creeley, Edward J.
• Crocker, William H.
• Crothers, George Edward, 1870 -
• Cryan, James
• Curry, Charles Forrest, 1858-1930
• Curtis, Jesse William, 1865-
• Cutler, F. A.
• Cutler, T. B.
• Cutten, Charles P.
• Cyrus Peirce & Company
• Damon, E. C.
• Darling, C. H.
• Davison, M. M.
• Dawson, Clyde
• DeArmour, D. A.
• Dean Witter & Co.
• Decarli, M. C.
• Del Ray, Ed.
• Del Ray, Gertrud
• Deneen, Gov. Charles
• Dennison, W. E.
• Dickinson, Agnes Goodwin
• Dietrick, James
• Dines, Thomas A.
• Dinkelspiel, Henry G. W.
• Dixon, Robert V.
• Dr. Nathan Tucker Asthma Specific
• Dollar, Robert, 1844-1932
• Dorais, L. P.
• Dorrance, C. E.
• Down Town Association (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Downey, Stephen W.
• Downing, Warwick
• Dowsey, James L.
• Drobisch, Walter E.
• Duisenberg, Walter
• Dulany, H. Rozier
• Dunlap, Frank E.
• Dunn, Kate B.
• Dunn, W. H.
• Durgin, T. E.
• East Bay Water Company
• Elks (Fraternal order). Oakland Lodge No. 171 (Calif.)
• Ellis (?)
• Ellis, F. E.
• Ellis, W. R.
• Elviage, R. T.
• Emmons, E. A.
• Erzgraber, Therese
• Esch, John
• Eureka Chamber of Commerce
• Eureka Guard Company "A"
• F., W. W., Mrs.
• Farrington, E.
• Federal Mutual Liability Insurance Company
• Ferrari, B., Mrs.
• Fidelity and Deposit Company
• Finger, H. J.
• First National Bank of Eureka
• First National Bank of Pleasanton
• Fisher, C. A.
• Fitzhugh, William M.
• Flaherty, Thomas
• Flanigan, Mollie
• Flint, M. H.
• Foley, Daniel J.
• Foltz, Clara Shortridge
• "A former admirer"
• Foster, Harry W.
• Free, A. M.
• Funston, Frederick, 1865-1917
• Gates, Ida B.
• Georgeson, F. W.
• Gibbs, A. W. J.
• Gill, Joseph S.
• Gillett, Bruce
• Gillett, F. A.
• Gillett, F. L.
• Gillett, H. K.
• Gillett, I. W.
• Gillett, Isabella
• Gillett, L. C.
• Gillett, Louis H.
• Gillett, T. R.
• Gillett, Thomas Wayman
• Glynn, Theresa C.
• Goode, M. H.
• Goodwin, Henry P.
• Gosslin, William G.
• Grandi, F. L.
• Graves, C. W.
• Green, Charles E.
• Green, Lyman
• Griffiths, W. B.
• Gunther, Robert
• H. H. Buhne Co.
• Hadley, J. A., Dr.
• Hadsell, Dan
• Hall, A.
• Hall, Josephine A.
• Halsey, T. N.
• Hammond, A. B.
• Hanson, D. W.
• Harding, Warren G., Senator
• Harper, H. T.
• Harrington, D. M.
• Harrington, John Lyle
• Harrison, Gregory A.
• Hart, James
• Haskell, Arnold
• Hastings Clothing Co.
• Hatfield, George J.
• Hathaway, W. L.
• Hatton, George
• Hayes, E. A.
• Hayes, J. O.
• Hayes Street Improvement (Eureka, Calif.)
• Helmke, F. M.
• Henderson, F. B.
• Henry, John L.
• Henshaw, Frederick William, d.1929
• Herbst, Edward
• Herrick, Frank
• Herrick, Samuel
• Herrin, William F. (William Frandlin), 1854-1927
• Hersch and McNulty
• Hettman, Walter E.
• Hill, Louise T.
• Hill, W. W.
• Hinrichs, H. Stanley
• Hodge, Clare
• Hofius, J. C., Mrs.
• Holmes Collection Agency
• Hook, George H.
• Horst, E. Clemems
• Howard, John C.
• Hubbard, C. B.
• Humboldt County Clerk
• Humboldt Fish and Game Club
• Humboldt Times
• Hunter, F. Donald
• Hunter, G. W.
• Hutchinson, G. D.
• J. R. Mason & Co.
• Jenks, E. A.
• John Smallwood Typewriting and Mimeographing
• Johnsen, A. J.
• Johnson, George C.
• Johnson, George W.
• Jones, Edgar
• Jones, F. M., Mrs.
• Jordan, Frank
• Juster and Baird
• Kahn, Florence P.
• Kaplan, J.
• Keeling, Herbert V.
• Kehoe, William
• Key System Transit Company (Oakland. Calif.)
• Kiesel, Fred W.
• Kildale, L. B.
• Killingsworth, W. M.
• Knight, Charles E.
• Knowland, Joseph Russell, 1873-1966
• Kountz, WilliamH.
• L., F. B. (?)
• Lamberson & Lamberson
• Landis, J. B., Judge
• Lea, Clarence F.
• League of Loyal Americans
• Leeds, Walter R.
• Leonard, F. A.
• Leeper, L. V.
• Levasseur, William H.
• Lincoln Highway Association
• Lindley, Hervey
• Lineberger, Walter F.
• Longworth, Nicholas
• Loomis, Francis B.
• Lord-Hanson Co.
• Los Angeles County Sheriff
• Louderback, Harold
• Lund, George N.
• Lurie, Louise N.
• Lutgens, Harry
• Lyders, Eric
• Lynch, Ruth
• McBean, William
• McCauley, T. N.
• McConaghy, W. J.
• McCormick, Charles R.
• McDonough, Peter
• McDonough, Thomas
• Mace, Delos A.
• McGowan, Blaine
• McGowan, Frank
• McLachlan, James, 1852-
• McLaughlin, Charles E.
• McMechan, John
• McNab, J.
• McNeil, B. N.
• McPike, H. H.
• Madden, Martin B.
• Madeley, Fred Y.
• Madison, F. D.
• Magell, J. R., Mrs.
• Mahan, L. E.
• Martin, Lou
• Maryland Casualty Company
• Mathews, P. W.
• Matson Navigation Company
• Mays, Edwin
• Meadows, C. W.
• Meckel, Albert C.
• Mellman, Fred B.
• Mills, Susan B.
• Minor, T. H.
• Miocene Oil Company
• Mockel, C. V.
• Monroe, A. J.
• Monson, Walter
• Moore, W. S.
• Moran, Nathan
• Morgan, L. C.
• Morris-Noble Co.
• Morrow, William W., 1843-1929
• Moseley, D. W.
• Motion Picture Utility Corporation
• Municipal Railway Carmen's Annual Ball
• Murphy, James L.
• Murphy, Neal
• Murray, George D.
• Nason, Arthur G.
• National Cyclopedia of American Biography
• National Geographic Society (U. S.)
• National Highways Association
• National Reclamation Conference
• National United Americans
• Nelson, H. C.
• New York Life Insurance Company
• Newell, Albert
• Newton, Phillip
• Nickerson, J. C.
• Nixon, Cora J.
• Norris, Clair
• Norris, Gertrude
• Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
• Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company
• "Noted Californians"
• Nuzum, George W.
• Nyce, Peter Q.
• Oster, Frank F.
• O'Sullivan, Charles
• Oxnard, Henry
• Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Association
• Pacific Finance Corporation
• Paine, Archie
• Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
• Parke, E.
• Paskus, Martin
• Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
• Perkins, George C. (George Clement), 1839-1923
• Pettengill-Merryman Co.
• Peveler, J. R.
• Phares, Clifford
• Phillips, E.
• Pinkham, Charles B.
• Pioneer Furniture Store
• Pittman, Key
• Plummer, J. A.
• Poindexter, Miles, 1868-1946
• Pollak, A.
• Pratt, James W.
• Prevatt, Preston
• Proir, D. H.
• Puter, L. F.
• Quill, Harry
• Quinn, John F. (Dunsmuir, 1907)
• Quinn, John F. (Eureka, 1934)
• Ralston, Lillian
• Ralston, William Chapman, 1826-1875
• Rathbone, E. J.
• Raymond, Albert, 1864-
• Recorder Printing and Publishing Company
• Redwood Empire Association
• Reeder, Bertha
• Reid, John S.
• Republican National Committee (U. S.)
• Rhodes Scholarships
• Rice, Jennie Pickett
• Rice, R. H.
• Richards, R. A.
• Ricks, H. L.
• Riggs National Bank of Washington D. C.
• Ritter, J. K.
• Robbins, Lloyd McCullough, 1875-1955
• Rolph, James, 1869-1934
• Ronsaville, May
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
• Root, Elizabeth Jane
• Root, John M.
• Ross, Ida M.
• Ryan, Pierce H.
• Sabin, Mary E.
• Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
• Sage, W. A.
• Salvation Army
• San Francisco-Alameda County Bridge Commission
• San Francisco Art Leather Company
• San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
• San Francisco chronicle
• San Francisco Tax Collector's Office
• Sanborn, Lamoreux & Party
• Sanders, Everett
• Savings Bank of Humboldt County
• Schreiner, C. T.
• Schuyler, Karl C.
• Scott, George W.
• Searl, Albert
• Sequoia Union High School
• Sespe Light and Power and Company
• Shepard, A. D.
• Sherman, James S.
• Short, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1862-1920
• Short, John Douglas
• Shoup, Paul, 1874-1946
• Silva, Maude
• Sisemore, L. C.
• Slump, C. B.
• Smith, Crowder
• Smith, Fred
• Smith, Samuel C.
• Smith, William A.
• Solinsky, F. J.
• Sonntag, Charles P.
• Soule, C. P.
• Spradling, J. W.
• Spurrier, S. M.
• Spurrier, W. W.
• Stabel, F.
• Standish, Miles
• Staton, P. A.
• Steen, Mabel
• Steinhauer, May
• Stewart S. Lowery & Co.
• Stiles, Ben A.
• Stoddard, A. H.
• Storey, H. M.
• Stratton, F. S.
• Stutchul, Ken
• Studebaker Bros. Company of California
• Sturm, Joseph
• Swan, Floyd G.
• Swan, H. N.
• Swan, Lydia
• Swing, Phil D.
• Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
• Terry, Wallace T.
• Thomas, A. L.
• Thomas, William
• Thompson, Frank
• Thorp, H. P.
• Tibby, B. W.
• Tindolf, Wiley
• Tisdale, Charles L.
• Trollness, H. T.
• Tyrell, John R.
• Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929
• Union Safe Deposit Bank
• United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
• United Spanish War Veterans
• United States. Dept. of Justice.
• United States. General Land Office.
• United States. Government Printing Office.
• United States. Office of the United States Attorney Southern District of California.
• United States. Shipping Board.
• United States. Treasury Dept.
• United States. War Department.
• United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
• University of California, Berkeley. Associated Students.
• Utah Oil Refinery Company
• Van Fleet, William C.
• Van Velser, Leroy W.
• Veale, R. R.
• Voorheis, E. C.
• Waggoner, W. W.
• Waite, George W.
• Walker, A. Lincoln
• Wallace & Ames
• Ward, Willis C.
• Warne, J. T. B.
• Waste, William Harrison, 1868-
• Watson, James E.
• Watterson, W. W.
• "A well-wisher"
• Wells, Sam
• Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Company
• Western Union Telegraph Company
• Wheeler, Minerva
• Wheeler, W. R.
• Whitaker, George E.
• Whitney, Parker
• Wm. Cavalier & Co.
• Willis, W. G.
• Wilson, E. W.
• Wilson, Frank S.
• Wilson, Horace
• Winter, George.
• Wisconsin State Society
• Woodman, S. M. M., Mrs.
• Woodworth, Marshall B.
• Woolery, M. D.
• Worthly, Gerald L.
• Wright, Howard E.
• Yates, Richard
• Young, C. C.

Part II:

• James N. Gillett, Jr.
• Allen, Bruce
• Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-
• California. State Prison at San Quentin. Dept. of Education
• California. State Prison at San Quentin. Furniture Dept.
• Cook, W. Coburn
• Dickinson, Phillip P.
• Engle, Claire, 1911-1964
• Gros, Robert
• Hatfield, George J.
• Library of Congress. Copyright Office
• Mulvany, Robert F.
• North, Hart
• Oakland Junior Chamber of Commerce
• Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868)
• Peterson, Emmett J.
• Shugart, Howard E.
• Smithsonian Institution. Astrophysical Observatory
• Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
• United States. Atomic Energy Commission
• University of California. College of Letters and Sciences.
• University of California. Office of the Chancellor.
• Warren, Earl, 1891-1974

Part III:

• Gwendolen Gillett (Mrs. James N. Gillett, Jr.)
• Blair, Roy W.
• Bursch, James Frederick, 1894-
• California. State Library
• Carter, Joseph L.
• Chandler, Norman
• Citizens for a Residence for California Governors
• Copley, James S.
• Dirksen, Everett S.
• Finch, Robert H., 1925-
• Grunsky, Donald L.
• Ketchum, William M.
• Knight, Goodwin, 1896-1970
• Kuchel, Thomas H.
• Library of Congress. Copyright Office.
• Lobner, Kneeland
• McClure, Richard N.
• Mathews, Francis B.
• Moore, Celia
• Motion Picture Alliance
• Mrak, E. M. (Emil Marcel), 1901-
• Munger, Bob
• Murphy, George, 1902-
• Nichols, E. E.
• Nixon, Edward
• Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-
• Reed, Carlyle
• Schrade, Jack
• Schultz, W. A.
• Stevens, Bob
• Tarnowsky, E. R.
• Torrance, Calif. Office of the City Clerk.
• United States. Office of Student and Youth Affairs.
• University of California, Davis. Library.

Material Transferred from the Collection

• 1 account book, photographs, sample periodicals, scrapbook, specimen newspapers

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