BOX 1: WHITSELL SCRAPBOOKS #1
1.1: STAFF RESEARCH
-Entry for Leon Otto Whitsell. Who's Who in California, vol. 1, 1942-1943, pp. 977-978.
1.2: "SCRAPBOOK #17: EXCERPTS FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES PETERS" [101pp.]
1.3: "SCRAPBOOK NO. 3"
1.4: "SCRAPBOOK HISTORY NO. 10 LEON O. WHITSELL ROMANCES OF THE RANCHOS"
1.5: "SCRAPBOOK THE KNAVE ARTICLES [Oakland Tribune] NO. 13"
1.6: "SCRAPBOOK NO.16" [sample of clipping titles & other entries provided below]
-"Forest Fires in California" from Wm Ham Hall, San Francisco to C.C. Young, Governor of Cal., Sept. 19, 1928 [6 pp.; 2 copies]
-Biographical Sketch of Leon O. Whitsell. November 27, 1928, pp.8-9
-To President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Paul R. Cowles, Oakland, Cal., 11-17-33 [copy], pp. 21-22
-Harley W. Brundige, President of the State Railroad Commission statement in answer to charges of Senator Hiram W. Johnson, 8-26-26
-Notes: Conservation/California Forests ...,p. 64
Box 2: WHITSELL SCRAPBOOKS #2
2.1: "SCRAPBOOK NO. 34" [sample of clipping titles & other entries provided below]
-columns titled "Lee side of LA" by Lee Shippee
-"The Lancer" by Harry Carr
-"Skylines of the City" [Sacramento] by John Bruce
2.2: "SCRAPBOOK A30: THE KNAVE NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS"
2.3: "SCRAPBOOK NO. 31: CALIFORNIA HISTORY"
Box 3: WHITSELL SCRAPBOOKS #3
3.1: "SCRAPBOOK XXX: HISTORY" [sample of clipping titles & other entries provided below]
-"Research Party Clears Moot points in Death Valley History"
-"Tournament of Roses, 1939"
-"California's State Hall of Fame, John Bidwell"
-"Steamships Once Ran on Mighty Colorado"
-"Santa Cruz" by Rev. Thomas J. McKeon
-"Early History of Orange Told at Lions Club"
-"Medal of 1750 found at site of Carmel Mission"
-Letter: Guy J Giffen to Leon Whitsell, S.F.
-Letter: To Whitsell, Oct. 10, 1933 regarding Whitsell's research
-"1st hit-run is traced to 1855"
-"San Francisco Firsts"
-"Early Days in Los Angeles
-"Works of Art Still Adorn Many S.F. Walls Today"
-"The Great Debate of the Constitutional Convention of 1849"
-"White men came to Napa in 1831"
-"Plumas named by Explorer"
-"Cortez' Soldiers first in Butte"
-"Historic spots found in Modoc"
-Letter: E. E. Bennett, Union Pacific Railroad Co. Law Dept to Hon. Leon O. Whitsell, California RR Commission, 2-24-37
-Invitation to La Fiesta de Los Angeles 150th Birthday, 9-4/13-31
-Letter: Elizabeth Lynch to Whitsell re old bell used by vigilantes in Petaluma
-Letter: A.C. Joy, PG & E to Whitsell, 3-31-37 re Petaluma bell
3.2: "SCRAPBOOK NO. 42" [sample of clipping titles & other entries provided below]
-"Los Angeles in 1857"
-"Three survivors of Covered wagon party join in reunion" (Garner families)
-"Last of Donner Party Dies here"
-"Silver Dollar Tabor to lie Beside Wife"
-"Local Authority tells about origin of S.B. Street Names," Santa Barbara (3-17-35)
-"The Knave," Oakland Tribune (1934-1935) [over 50 articles]
3.3: "SCRAPBOOK NO. 50: DUELS OF EARLY CALIFORNIA" [incl. series of articles in chapters by Evelyn Wells]