Container List

Box 1: Papers

1.1: Biography

1.2: Death

1.3-5: 80th Birthday testimonials December 28, 1971

1.6-8: Jedediah Smith Society

1.9: Financial Correspondence and Records

1.10: Speeches, Messages, Articles (Misc), Programs

1.11: Invitations, Souvenirs: World Wars One and Two

1.12: The Mechanization of Agriculture and the Grain Trade in the Great Central Valley of California by Reynold M. Wik, 1974

1.13: Plans for Atherton Island, April 1950

1.14: 1966 Attempt at Novel

1.15: Stockton Opera Association, 1969-1976

1.16: Michael Warren Atherton

1.17: Marietta Atherton Correspondence

1.18: Atherton Family

1.19: Marietta Atherton

1.20: Holt Family

1.21: Places named for Atherton

1.22: Haggin Museum

1.23: San Joaquin First Federal Savings and Loan, 1971-1973

1.24: Atherton Honorary Doctorate of Laws from University of the Pacific, May 26, 1972

1.25: University of the Pacific

1.26-32: Clippings c.1930-c.1985

Box 2: Papers

2.1: Correspondence with American Legion

2.2: 1973-4 American Legion Convention and Resolutions

2.3: Publications “The Legion News” Sept. 15, 1925

2.4-8: American Legion Magazines and Publications

2.9: Stockton Legionnaire 1955

2.10: 1940: Selective Service and Training Bill

2.11: Personal Correspondence concerning G.I. Bill

2.12: G.I. Bill: Misc Reports, Minutes, and Addresses

2:13: 1967: G.I. Bill Committee Reunion (American Legion Convention)

2:14: G.I. Bill Misc.

2.15: Politics – general

2.16: Prison and Parole Papers

2.17: Guest list and letters – dinner from General Adler 1955

2.18: Senate Campaign Scrapbook 1958

2.19: Various books, reports, and government publications

2.20: Objects: medals, campaign bottle caps (Atherton and Bob Monagan), Lyndon Johnson pen used to sign American Legion act, 1966

Box 3: Photographs

3.1: Military: World War I

3.2: Military: World War II

3.3-4: American Legion

3.5: Atherton with others (includes photos with General Henry “Hap” Arnold, Stanley McCaffery, Coke Wood, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Sam Rayburn)

3.6: Portraits

3.7: Marietta Atherton

3.8-11: Family photographs

3.12: Homes

3.13-14: Trips

3.15: Photo Album: Atherton’s Spring 1944 Pacific Island trip as commander of American Legion

3.16: Photo Album: 1944 Capture of Admiralty Islands booklet presented to Atherton

3.17: Photo Album: Alameda to Pearl Harbor aboard U.S.S. Princeton, 1952

3.18: Photo Album: American Center Exchange Brisbane, Australia, c.1945

3.19: Photo Album: Japan Trip 1958

3.20: Photo Album: c.1944

3.21: Photo Album: College of the Pacific Death Valley Trip, 1943

Box 4: Trips

4.1: Misc Trips 1944-45

4.2: 1953 Trip to Europe

4.3-4: 1960-1 Trip around the World

4.5: 1963 Trip to Hawaii

4.6: 1974 Trip to Russia

4.7: Other Trips – Itineraries, Accounts, Passports

Box 5: Oversized materials

5.1: Photo Album: The American Red Cross in the Southwest Pacific 1944

5.2: Photo Album: Brazil, 1944

5.3: Photo Album: Europe and Panama, c.1944-c.1962

5.4: Photo Album (Loose): c.1944

5.5: Awards, Citations, Certificates, 1951 drawing of residence

Scrapbook 1: American Legion, September-December 1943

Scrapbook 2: American Legion, December 1943-January 1944

Scrapbook 3: American Legion, January-September 1944

Scrapbook 4: American Legion, 1932-1934

Scrapbook 5: American Legion, 1930s-1940s

Scrapbook 6: American Legion, 1943-1944

Scrapbook 7: California Prisons Terms, and Paroles 1935 (includes account of Atherton being taken hostage while at San Quentin)