Files, plans and blueprints related to construction projects of the State of California, Department of Public Works, Division of Highways.

Personal notes about the Russo-Japanese War; corrected typescripts in 2 notebooks were probably typed at a later date from handwritten diaries. Loose items include notes by someone trying to identify the material and about Russian visits to Japan in the...

Contains original journal (107 p.) of Aaron D. Riker's overland journey in 1852 from Champaign County, Ohio to California during the gold rush, his time in California, and his return home the next year via Nicaragua, Also contains color photocopy...

Letters describe his jewelry business and watch repair service; the growth of the city; the great fire of May 1851; his venture selling spring water in 1853. Some of the letters are contemporary copies.

This collection consists of some family documents, photographs, as well as some materials reflecting Aaron Rogat's interest in anarchism. Included is a a small amount of correspondence, including a letter Rogat wrote to members of the Furrier's Union in 1951;...

Contains research notes, mss. drafts, correspondence and photographs. Materials were gathered and created in preparation for publications on Sir Francis Drake's landing, narrow gauge railroading of the North Pacific Coast Railroad Company, and Tomales Township.

California gold rush miner diary (68 p. ; 33 cm,1849-1851), business receipts and correspondence (13 items, 1855-1868). Receipts include those for lumber, farm labor, a magazine subscription, and County of San Joaquin, Calif. tax payments. Correspondence (2 letters), envelope, and...

Includes studio portraits of A.B. Wilson, his immediate family (wife Vesta Ball Wilson, sons Harold Wilson, Bruce Wilson and Rolland Wilson, daughter Jean Wilson), other Wilson and Ball family members, and a few views of storefronts of Wilson's shops in...

Correspondence, manuscripts, course notes, and subject file concerning his interest and activity in economics at U.C. Berkeley.

Includes scrapbooks and envelopes of by-lines, 1953-1984 (cartons 1-4); miscellany, 1928-1983, including scrapbook, 1928-1931, and writings, correspondence, speeches, and photos, etc. (carton 5). Also includes clippings of Mellinkoff's editorials, 1975-1992 (cartons 6-7, Box 2), and working drafts of editorials, September...

1846 document regarding sale of land, signed by J.L. Sepúlveda, Mariano Roldán, Ignacio Coronel and Juan Domingo; declaration of martial law by Stearns, June 20, 1846; agreement with José R. Arguello regarding care of livestock, renewed by Juan Bandini for...

Statement, recorded for H.H. Bancroft, describes his voyage to San Francisco via Cape Horn in 1849, brief experience in the mines, and business activities in San Francisco from 1860. (6 l.).

Correspondence; papers re dispute with Harr Wagner over Joaquin Miller copyrights; papers re Miller estate; clippings; notes.

Letters written from Barker, a San Francisco businessman, to his family in Maine. Letters cover the Calif. Gold Rush years, and business trips back east to New York City and Boston. Also includes a map of Barker's properties in San...

Containing property documents including indentures, mortgages and tax payments in Mendocino County, Calif. Also includes articles written by Abner Raffety about traveling to Calif., and an eruption of Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii, and letters, one to the U.S. Attorney General...

This collection contains correspondence and cards mostly related to Abe's passing, newspaper clippings; materials related to the Alameda Times-Star and Morning News publications; photographs with friends, family, and prominent politicians; plaques; citations; memorial resolutions; certificates from various fraternal orders and...

This collection consists of letters that Abraham Haas, in Los Angeles, wrote to Fanny Koshland, in San Francisco, during their courtship in the 1880s.

The papers provide an in-depth look at the life of a career United States Air Force officer in the 1940's and early 1950's. Includes correspondence, military orders, and information on Hankin's time in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in...

The collection consists of correspondence, personal documents, and various autobiographical essays documenting Rabbi Abraham Haselkorn's experiences as a chaplain during World War II, especially his work with Jewish refugees and victims of the Holocaust. The collection also documents Haselkorn's stay...

Includes subject files, correspondence, manuscripts for publication, and notes concerning his work in the field of mathematics at U.C. Berkeley and as consultant to various agencies and companies. Includes correspondence with and about John von Neumann.

Materials used by Holtzman to write his published thesis, "The Townsend movement: a political study." Contains correspondence, legislative bills, newspaper articles and publications by the Townsend National Recovery Plan, Inc. including speaker's manuals, songbooks, pamphlets and newspapers.

Court transcripts, correspondence, FBI survellience, memorandum, briefs, and clippings concerning Isserman's disbarment and re-instatement to the legal profession during the 1940s. National Federation for Constitutional Liberties materials including action and form letters.

The collection consists of the papers, scrapbooks, and photographs of Oakland businessman and civic leader Abraham Jonas. The papers include some family documents, a small amount of correspondence, loose materials from Jonas' work with B'nai B'rith, Temple Sinai (Oakland, Calif.),...

Photographs show views related to the Spanish Civil War: buildings, people, streets, rubble, children, first aid, ambulances, signs, soldiers, refugees, schools, and other images of daily life during the war. Most were taken in or near Sagunto, Spain. Negatives (and...

Materials relate mainly to Californians. Appointment of D.W. Cheeseman as Treasurer, U.S. Mint, San Francisco; petitions for appointments from James Wilson, M.S. Slocum and prominent citizens of San Francisco; letter from George Burr to the Secretary of War, asking revocation...

Correspondence, including letters from Albert L. Barrows, Francis D. Blakeslee, James F. Cooke, Leland W. Cutler, Theophilus L. Haecker, Carl Holliday, Earl Lee Kelly, Oswald W.S. McCall, Daniel Nash Morgan, Amasa Junius Parker, George C. Pardee, James Rolph, Angelo J....

Chiefly concerning his legal practice, U.S. Attorney's Office, San Francisco.

Archive of handwritten and printed letters (approximately 1881-1901), receipts, invitations, and two typescripts (written by Honeyman after Miller's death in 1913): "Some Personal Recollections of Joaquin Miller" and "Some Reminiscences of Joaquin Miller." Correspondents includes A.V.D. Honeyman, Maud Miller (Joaquin...

Contains 6 letters of a captain of a whaling ship.

Poetry written by the Bravermans; songbooks and programs of the Workmen's Circle and Histadrut (the Israeli labor federation); clippings about Grodno, Poland (now Belarus); and letters from Braverman to his wife and children, together with letters from the Motles family,...

The property was a portion of the Rancho San Antonio or Peralta grant.

Abstract to property located in San Francisco at the corner of 24th Street and Alabama St. Originally made at the request of Benjamin Healey. Dated 1892 Jan. 18, and continued 1897 Sept. 7 and 1900 Jan. 16.

1890 abstract continued by San Jose Abstract Title and Trust Co., 1891-1920.

Originally prepared for Juanita Halsey. Some continued by San Jose Abstract Title and Trust Company.

Abstract of title for property in Santa Clara County, California, BANC MSS 67/109 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

SEE ALSO related collections: C-I 35 ; C-I 42 ; 89/130 c.

Documents abstracted date from 1853. Continued by John S. Rolls, Mar. 30, 1893 (20 p.)

Abstract of title for a portion of the Adeline and Market St. Homestead created by A.G. Laurie, Searcher of Records in San Leandro, California. Volume contains manuscript entries detailing the ownership history and chain of custody of Oakland lots spanning...

Volumes II and III of a five volume abstract of title prepared by A.G. Lawrie on behalf of Peter Thomson for property that was orginally part of the Rancho San Antonio owned by the Peralta family. The two volumes trace...

V. 1: for 50 vara lot no. 57, 1881: v. 2: for vara lot no. 46, 1894.

Abstract of title (ca. 288 p.) for lots primarily within the 50 Vara and 100 Vara districts, as well as water lots, in San Francisco, 1847-1859. This summarizes the transfer of deeds, as well as mortgages and legal actions, and...

Abstract for a portion of land within Northeast corner of "Section 22, Township 8 South, Range 2 West, Mt. Diablo Meridian," 1900-1916, which summarizes the transfers of deeds, as well as mortgages, taxes, and various legal actions. The transactions chiefly...

Abstracts for portions of land within the San Ysidro Rancho summarize transfers of deeds, as well as mortgages, articles of incorporation, and legal actions. Two vols. concern lot 5 and part of lot 4 (Sturla subdivision). An undated sketch map...

Shows the history of ownership to several lots in San Jose, Calif. Includes map.

Contains: 11 letters from A.C. Stevens to his sister Sarah A. Stevens of Solon, Maine; 1 letter, possibly from A.C. Stevens in San Francisco, to "Absent Friend"; and 1 letter from "Helen" in Orland (Maine?) to "Dear Friend". A.C. Stevens...

Includes portraits of native americans of the southwest, as well as pueblo scenes and a photograph of baskets.

A collection of microfilmed documents relating to the history of the Order of Saint Francis in the New World, including the exploration, settlement, and colonization of Mexico, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Manuscript of testimony (41 p.) requested by the representative of the owners of the Hacienda of Yramoco regarding the favorable decision granted the Indians of Santa Ana by the civil judge of Morelia [i.e. Morelia (Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico)]. Testimony...

Includes scientific papers written to Lorenzo Magalotti as secretary of the Accademia and miscellaneous letters.

The Acción Latina and El Tecolote pictorial archive contains photographic prints (black and white and color), contact sheets, slides, negatives, digital photographs, posters, and artists' prints related to the organization's work on behalf of the Latino community in San Francisco's...

This collection documents the work of Acción Latina and the organization's bilingual newspaper, El Tecolote. It includes oral histories; materials regarding its music festival, Encuentro del Canto Popular; event, exhibit, and project files; El Tecolote newspaper files; records related to...

Accounts for his sheep farm. At the end of the volume are birth dates of members of the Reynolds family.

Incomplete account book for the mission, with signatures of Carlos Castro and Fray Marcelino Marquínez.

Fragment of an account book relating mainly to payments for meat.

Daily record later used as a scrapbook; many pages covered with clippings from the New York Sun, 1894-1896.

Contains record prints of material in the of the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, selected by Professor L. B. Simpson....

Both sons served as clerks in London.

Account books of the United States Borax and Chemical Corporation, BANC MSS 81/141 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Accounts of a dentist, practicing first in Sacramento, and then in Suisun, Napa, and Sonoma, Calif. Includes names of clients and work performed as well as costs and payment. Ball makes gold fillings, upper and lower plates, and performs minor...

Chiefly describes Eli Mapel's overland journey to the Washington Territory and his subsequent settlement (after meeting with his father, Jacob, and his brother, Samuel), along with recollections of service in the Indian wars, 1855-1856. Endorsed: "Autobiography of Maple [or Mapel]...

A first hand account (40 p.) of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of April 1906, written by Edward I. De Laveaga. Accompanied by a small group of ephemera (permits to pass, permit to use electricity, and notice of chimney...

Included also: a letter from Carr to his wife, written from St. Catherine's, Jan. 27, 1850.

v. 1 - ledger, and record of subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, 1865-1906; v. 2 - subscription book showing accounts due, 1878-1880.

v.1 - Daybook, 1866-1870; v.2 - Journal, 1869-1870. Loose items (clippings etc.) removed from v.1 and v.2 constitute v.3.

V. 1: Cash sales, 1876-1877; v. 2: Journal (accounts), 1877-1878.

Accounts for liquor, clothing and sundries for members of the Mariposa Battalion under the command of Major James D. Savage, included.

V. 1 - journal, 1911; v. 2 - ledger, 1908-1911; v. 3 - letters and accounts removed from v. 2.

Presumably accounts for partnership of John T. Little and John F. Pope, whose advertisements under the name, John T. Little and Pope, appear in newspapers of the period. (Individuals and firms unlisted in San Francisco Directory, 1850)

Entries for sales in San Francisco, Sydney and Hobartown; some accounts with Daniel Gibb. Later used as a recipe book. Many pages missing.

Portions of account books for the estates of Bocas and Illescas. Contains: 1) José Miguel de Ávila's "Libro Vorador de esta Hazienda de Bocas, perteneciente al S.r D.r D.n Fra.co Espinosa, y Navarixo ... October 1, 1765-" (75 p.). These...

1 item housed in box with 90/191 through 90/206.

Entries in the handwriting of W.H. Taylor, deputy clerk; Josiah Gordon and A. St. Clair Denver. Includes a list of elected office holders, El Dorado co., 1850-1854.

This collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal documents from the years 1610 through 1916. Most of the letters, account books, invoices and documents pertain to business dealings, such as the loaning of money, payment of debts or the day-to-day...

The collection consists of a family Jewish Bible, printed and published by Isaac Leeser in 1859. The end pages of the Bible contain handwritten genealogical notes for many members of the Goldstein and Ackerman families from the 1850s - 1960s.

Photographs documenting Shasta County mining operations of the Greenhorn Mining Company from the 1920s to the early 1940s, when it was acquired by Acme Mining Company. Images include general views, strip mining activities and the associated pit, mine portals, dumps,...

The Greenhorn Mine is a copper mine located in Shasta County, California at an elevation of 2,749 feet.

Recollections concerning the pirate Hippolyte Bouchard; early governorships and revolts; experiences as a soldier in Monterey; participation in the 1827 expedition with Santiago Argüello north of Sonoma; American occupation in southern California, including Flores revolt, the battle of La Natividad,...

A survey of events leading up to the U.S. war with Mexico and part played by his father, William Maxwell Wood, U.S. Navy Surgeon, in the occupation of California.

Journal and related, material including a letter, school essays, a report card, and a newspaper concerning his trek overland and life in Oregon. Journal recounts travel by rail from New York City to Sacramento in 1871-72 and travel by ship...

Copies of Act in English and Hawaiian, each with certification by D.L. Naone, Speaker, and James N.K. Keola, Clerk, that the bill had passed its third reading before the House.

Comments on her involvement in volunteer work, as board member, trustee, chairman or president, of various organizations, including League of Women Voters, Stanford Hospital Auxiliary in San Francisco, Rosenberg Foundation, Stanford University Board of Trustees and KQED. Also includes information...

Comments on early interest in radical politics; work as executive director of International Labor Defense in Los Angeles on behalf of agricultural workers, minorities, etc.; membership in Communist Party and political campaigns on party ticket; decision to leave the party.

Photos show a theatrical folklore performance (in costume), dancing, wrestling, games, working in the fields, a general view of the Japanese relocation center, outdoor scenes, etc.

Photos show a theatrical folklore performance (in costume), dancing, wrestling, games, working in the fields, a general view of the Japanese relocation center, outdoor scenes, etc.

Student days at University of California, Class of 1913; work with Herbert Hoover on the Commission for Relief in Belgium; consultant work for California Raisin Growers Association; career with international banking house of Schroder; interest in world affairs and international...

A record of the ceremonial function held under the auspices of the University of Mexico on July 24, 1803, in honor of the first visit paid the University by Viceroy Iturrigaray and his wife, Doña María Inés Jáuregui y Aróstegui....

Records of pleas, petitions, trials, complaints, etc., heard or received by the cabildo.

A record of the decisions taken by the Junta Superior de Real Hacienda, January 3-December 19, 1794, on matters relating to royal revenue and expenditures in various parts of New Spain. The approximately weekly reports on these decisions include the...

Correspondence, notes, and financial materials concerning mines and mining in the western United States.

Thirteen disputations on Aristotles Physica.

Correspondence discusses Winans writing, other writers including Beat poets, and personal matters. Also includes manuscripts of poems and other writings by Winans sent to Kennedy.

Typed transcripts and notes made by F.M. Young of dispatches, September 4-29, 1851, published in the St. Louis Missouri Republican, October 6-November 30, 1851. Chambers, editor of that paper, acted as secretary for the U.S. Commissioners, David D. Mitchell and...

Describe his overland journey to California and his experiences mining on the Mokelumne River and in Sonora.

Banking and express records acquired from various sources (noted on folders),

Paintings titled: Moon and the movies -- Christmas night -- Ferry post office -- Four houses -- Storm -- City corner. Also includes one photo of a painting by Walt Kuben. Locations of paintings not identified.

Views of the buildings and gardens of the Allied Arts Guild studios in Menlo Park, Calif. Interiors and exteriors of the Spanish Mission style buildings are shown.

Includes two letters, 1697-1700, by Richard Adams, Chester, England, to his brother, Francis, in Boston re shipment of weaving equipment and wool to Massachusetts; diary of Mary Carver Adams, Oct. 1856, re her travels from Washington, D.C., to New York...

Approximately 500 items pertaining to Adams H. Johnson's life family business activities in Eureka, Nevada. Includes billheads and letters; data on mines and mills in eastern Nevada; some fraternal items; mining maps; legal documents; banking material; telegrams.

Concerning publications and teaching activities.

Letters, financial records, property tax records, and clippings relating mainly to his career as president of the Nevada Lava Stone Company, treasurer of the Nevada Gypsum Company, and to his livestock business, especially his partnership with W.N. McGill.

Discusses Louisiana Revenue Bill, and outlines his objections to the bill as it then stood.

Bandana promoting ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today). Printed design includes name of organization, plus repeated image of figure in wheelchair breaking free of shackles.

Pages 149-182 and 299-314.

Chiefly family correspondence, including a letter from his father, Aaron L. Lindsley. A few relate to Washington Territory politics.

Genealogical information for the Simon, Bloch and Steinman families; some family documents; and photographs. Photographs include one of Achille Bloch's butcher shop on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, portraits of Clara Steinman Bloch (wife of Achille Bloch), the Steinman family,...

The collection includes biographies; a few professional papers by Adele Solomons Jaffa; clippings; and photographs. The photographs include an 1893 portrait of Adele Solomons at her graduation from Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific, a 1902 portrait of Adele Solomons...

Collection of 16 letters (43 pages) + 7 manuscript drafts of the articles of agreement forming the "Adelphi Association," 24 pages + 4 manuscript accounts and 3 partially printed documents pertaining to the dissolution of the association in California. The...

The Kurt Herbert Adler papers, 1921-1990, consist of primary and secondary source materials relating to Maestro Adler's musical career, chiefly as conductor for the San Francisco Opera. The collection contains a small amount of correspondence, programs, and notes documenting Adler's...

Sweigert discusses his family background, education, early law career in San Mateo County, and his career as Attorney General of California, joining the bench in 1949, up to his appointment to the U.S. District Court in 1959. His talks extensively...

Comments on early life in Berkeley; student days at University of California, Berkeley, 1916-20, and recollections of faculty; teaching at Miss Ransom and Miss Bridges School for Girls, Piedmont, Calif.; tours of duty with The Marine Corps during World War...

Louis Weintraub discusses his family background in New York and El Paso, education at the University of Pennsylvania and U.S. Army service, being Western Regional Consultant of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, the merger of Federation of...

Background in journalism; grant writing at Center for Independent Living, Berkeley, CA, 1973-1976; assistant to director Ed Roberts at California State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1976-1982; input into federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and amendments; cofounding of World Institute on...

Includes views of adobes and other buildings. Pictured are houses occupied by the Hinke family, a frame house occupied by Kennett, a store built by Bernardino Vasquez (presently known as Colombo House), the Washington Hotel, the Trescony adobe, Jacob Escobar's...

Photographs of various adobe buildings throughout California. Mostly residences, but includes some missions.

Professional papers of University of California, Berkeley geologist. Collection includes correspondence and manuscripts of writings, as well as files related to his research and teaching activities; participation in university and departmental affairs; involvement in professional science organizations.

Letter file binder (30 x 27 cm) containing fifty handwritten letters and telegrams addressed to Adolfo Hegewisch, president of the Quintera Mining company, from various interested parties in a dispute involving operations and transactions concerning the Quintera Mining Company located...

Contents: Letters, some addressed to his wife, Mary (Sprague) Miller, by John H. Finley, Felix Frankfurter, Joseph C. Grew, Franklin D. Lane, William Phillips, Mark Sullivan, Archibald MacLeish (for U.S. Library of Congress), Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harlan...

Typed transcript of Bandelier's journals, August 20, 1880-December 31, 1885, when he was laying the foundation for the archeology of the Southwest, from the original manuscripts in the Museum of New Mexico at Santa Fe (reels 1-2); and of pictorial...

The collection consists of a diary Adolph Mack kept during his journeys to Asia and Europe, entitled "Mack's Zigzag Tour."

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, subject file, and scrapbooks concerning Oko's family and career, Drake's landing in California, Drake's life, and the Drake Navigators Guild.

Collection contains materials related to Oko's interest in yachting and Marin County real estate. It includes scrapbooks containing clippings and photographs related to San Francisco nightlife, the Press Club, Aquatic Park, the 1939 World's Fair, Mayor Rossi's Milk Campaign and...

With the above: 1888, Aug. 30 Moss, George. Corrected notes on the Sutro Library ... for Mr. Sessions.

Contains: 1 letter from R.H. Cross to A.T. Leonard thanking him for material on San Miguel Rancho; 3 newspaper clippings on the same subject; 1 auction catalog from Butterfield & Butterfield of Sutro's collection (1939); and 1 acknowledgment from the...

Correspondence and papers detailing Adolph Sutro's involvement with San Francisco streetcars, beach improvements at Sutro Heights (the Cliff House), and road construction. Includes several labor reports, 1890, for work at the beach at Sutro Heights; typed draft articles of incorporation...

Collection contains slides and photographic prints pertaining to Wilson's activity as a printer (including photographs of his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francsico, Calif.); his travels; and his friends, family and associates. Also contains material related to the work of...

stamped "Dinner to Mayor Roger D. Lapham, St. Francis Hotel, December 10, 1947."

Manuscripts of her poems and related correspondence with magazine editors.

Manuscripts and correspondence chiefly relating to Stoutenburg's work as a poet. Principal correspondents include David Slavitt (aka Henry Sutton), Virginia Elson, James Dickey, and her publishers, Curtis Brown Ltd. and Viking Press, with a few letters from others, including Thomas...

Financial statement of the customs-and-tax office for Aguascalientes District, recording receipts from taxes and listing also other receipts and expenditures, notably for pensions.

Radio scripts with emendations.

Sinton discusses her childhood in San Francisco, Calif.; studies at the San Francisco Art Institute; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; thoughts on travel, teaching, and nature of creativity.

Ledger of abstracts of deeds, titles, bonds, covenants, mortgages, and records of legal actions in the Potrero Hill area of San Francisco, Calif. Entries are mostly grouped by original claim, many including sketch maps; transactions within each claim are listed...

1. Admonition to the Duke of Lerma, minister of Philip IV, by his secretary, Antonio Pérez, then in exile in France, advising him to continue in office, for the benefit of the people. [N.p., n.d.] 312 p.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Prints consist of views and advertising text for the following clipper ships, primarily sailing to or from San Francisco: David Crockett, Richard S. Ely, Flying Mist, Hornet, Andrew Jackson (two cards), Pocahontas, Prima Donna, Sumatra, and Volunteer. Several of the...

Advertising cards promoting various attractions of real estate in the El Cajon Valley area of San Diego County, Calif. Rectos printed with images of El Cajon Village, (El Cajon?) High School and Meridian Grammar School, a eucalyptus grove, irrigation of...

One item shows an attack on an emigrant train, with pioneers defending themselves against Indians. The other shows a mailcoach being attacked by Indians. Anheuser Busch products visible in both images.

Collection consists of approximately 175 applications to the Advisory Pardon Board of California from prisoners at Folsom and San Quentin prisons. The files, dating from 1916 to 1922, are arranged alphabetically by prisoner surname. Each file consists of a description...

Contains office files, periodicals, book publications, etc.

Contracting polio, 1952, family and childhood, Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts, 1969-1973; Center for Independent Living, Berkeley, 1973-1976; organization of disabled women's groups; Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 sit-in; Keys to Introducing Disabilities in Schools Project (KIDS); advocacy for women,...

Contains correspondence (letterpress copybooks) and accounts of Alfred E. and Charles E. Tilton as dealers in wine and spirits; as Tilton & Molony (real estate brokers as well); as Tilton & McFarland, dealers in safes. Chiefly with Ladd & Tilton,...

Discusses Fla.

California forester: mapper of wildland vegetation and soils : oral history transcript from a tape recorded interview conducted 1985 by Ann Lage for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1986. With an introduction by...

Aerial photographs of regions in Mexico, presumably taken in the course of mining engineering studies. Identified views include various locations in the states of Veracruz-Llave, Puebla and Hidalgo. Also includes photographs of many unidentified locations, also presumably in Mexico.

Collection consists of two sets of views taken over California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. The first set, numbered 1-54, contains 49 images, with 5 missing. These images are of the Sierra Nevada (including Hetch Hetchy and the Tioga Pass,...

of John H. Lewis;

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes 11 before and after aerial views of Westwood, Hancock Park, area east of Beverly Hills and downtown Los Angeles. Three photographs are of unidentified streets.

20230825 uncataloged

Views of the damsites show the sites of the dams (drawn in), with geographical markers and elevations labeled.

Photos are primarily aerial views of bears and other wildlife (possibly in Alaska?). Mary Ellen Leary is shown in a helicopter and a plane, talking with officials, and with a camera. Some photos show the U.S. Army Arctic Test board.

Growing up in San Francisco, 1920-1937; SF Junior College, UC Berkeley, 1937-1942; MIT Radiation Laboratory, design and development of radar, 1942-1945; General Precision Laboratories, research engineer, 1945-1949; UC Berkeley: 1949-1963, research and teaching, Director, Institute of Engineering Research; 1963-1972, Dean...

Posters promoting domestic air travel in Mexico via Aeronaves de México (now known as Aeroméxico), each poster illustrated with a female "conozca" dressed in attire traditional to a specific region. Posters present for the following states: Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja...

Religious verses, in the form of quintillas, purportedly written by a repentant sinner on the verge of death.

Photograph album of snapshots depicting everyday activities of various members of an unidentified African American family and their friends and associates in Oakland, Calif. and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. A woman identified with the initial "B." appears...

Includes group portraits of African American freemasons, some wearing hats with logo for Jacob Ladder Int'l Masons, Oakland, Calif. Also includes exterior and interior views of Golden Gate Commandery No. 16 Knights Templar building on Sutter Street in San Francisco....

Greeting cards, cartoons and caricatures portray stereotypes of African Americans.

Press photographs documenting the work of African Americans at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California during World War II. Also includes one photograph of shipyard worker and soloist Marcus Hall, protege of Roland Hayes, singing at the christening of the...

Posters promoting African American cultural events and political issues, particularly in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Chiefly snapshots, mounted to leaves formerly bound in an album, depicting numerous African American soldiers stationed in Oahu, Hawaii in the years immediately following World War II. Many men are posing next to, or driving, trucks or jeeps marked "138TC"...

This collection of photographs of African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area consists almost entirely of press photographs collected by James Abajian. Many of the photographs have captions provided by the press photographer or news agency. The great majority...

Photographs of various African-American authors taken during their visits to the University of California, Berkeley, including Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Al Young, Daphne Muse, Mary Helen Washington, and Huey Newton. Also pictured are professors Barbara Christian, Paule Marshall...

Collection shows family life, friends, and activities of one or more African-American families in the East Bay. Identified locations include Oakland, Richmond, San Pablo, San Francisco, etc. Photographs of Barber family members show Charlotte E. Barber as a child in...

Discusses his family background and education at the University of California, 1904-1907. He also speaks of his experiences as Graduate Manager, as secretary to U.C. President Wheeler, and as the first university comptroller, 1913-1919. He was appointed to the Board...

Diaries and manuscripts of folk tales.

Contains Agard family history, a small amount of correspondence and documents of Joseph J. Agard and his son Arthur F. Agard. Correspondents include Donald Bertrand Tresidder.

Portraits of Joseph J. Agard (ca. 1836-1904) from a boyhood daguerreotype (ca. 1849) to years as a Union Civil War officer to old age, and family portraits of his wife and his children Arthur Floyd Agard (1875-1957) and Mertha Agard...

Consists of certificates and letters of appreciation given to Heyman for her work for the city of San Francisco and her volunteer endeavors.

Album of Agnes M. Donnelly includes photographs of babies and children, mothers with newborn infants, of Agnes Donnelly and friends and family, and of her cousin James O'Neill, rector of the Church of the Holy Family in Glendale. Other photographs...

Typescript copy of Jean Racine's Phédra; correspondence concerning Tobin's activity and interest in writing; drafts of Tobin's poetry and translations of works by other authors. Includes letters to and from Agnes Albert concerning the collection, 1980, and a list of...

Re transfer of stock in Las Chuscas Silver Mining Company (San Antonio District, Baja California)

Positive photostat of the agreement recorded in Plumas Co., Calif., Nov. 10, 1854 in which he agreed to relate his experiences; Bonner to record them and prepare the manuscript for publication; Davis was to advance money for publication; and they...

Career as professor, University of California, with comments on College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics, and Giannini Foundation; his research and publications on marketing, farm management, cooperatives, etc. Photographs inserted. Appended: list of publications. With this: tributes to Mary...

Collection shows laborers from various ethnic groups (Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Italian, "Hindu") working in the following locations: Sacramento (including Japantown), San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Los Angeles, Gilroy, and Merced. Photos show laborers in the fields, but also focus on...

Photographs and a small number of postcards relating mainly to agriculture. Collection includes pictures of Tuolumne River (?) flood of 1938; dams; a series of photos documenting a truck accident; farming equipment.

Includes military diary, 1812-1813; official correspondence with Mexican officials; orders, proclamations; accounts; personal correspondence relating to the revolutionary period in Mexico; official documents while emperor. Also included are papers relating to his family and to the settlement of his estate,...

Letterpress copybook of correspondence between Agustín Flores, owner of a hide and bone company in San José del Cabo, Baja California, Mexico, and various relatives and businesses between the years 1909 and 1916. Loose correspondence inserted in front, and interleaved...

Psychiatrist and advocate for gay medical causes in the early AIDS epidemic / Richard Lee Andrews, M.D. AIDS clinician and medical educator / James M. Campbell, M.D. Dermatologist treating the first Kaposi's sarcoma patient diagnosed in San Francisco / James...

Journalist of the early AIDS epidemic in San Francisco / Michael J. Helquist. The AIDS Home Care Program of Visiting Nurses & Hospice of San Francisco / Jeannee Parker Martin. Nurse coordinator of UCSF's first AIDS clinic / Helen K....

Charting the epidemiological course of AIDS / Selma K. Dritz. Public Health Director : the bathhouse crisis, 1983-1984 / Mervyn F. Silverman ; interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1992 and 1993.

Cartons 1-3: correspondence, agenda and minutes of meetings, press releases, charts, work programs and schedules, progress reports, etc.; cartons 3-13; task force reports, staff reports and related material; cartons 13-14; drafts of sections of the final reports; carton 15; printed...

Contains log book, householder's questionnaires, correspondence, bulletins, scrapbook and ephemera relating to protecting the Pacific Coast in Brentwood Heights, Los Angeles, Calif. during the beginning of World War II. Log book contains entries of activities done while on watch. Householder's...

Photographs show commercial passenger aircraft of Pan-American Airways and Qantas, both in flight and on the ground. Also shows loading and unloading. Locations include Australia and the United States.

Includes snapshots of Al Leong and his friends taken during their service in the U.S. Army, mostly in post-World War II Japan. Includes photographs of U.S. soldiers at base and in various urban and tourist locations. Also includes snapshots of...

1. Vocabulario de la lengua Maricopa. 1876. [19] p. 25 cm. Obtained at Pima Indian Agency.; 2. Vocabulario de la lengua Apache-Chiricahua. 1876. [18] p. 26 cm. Obtained at Camp Bowie, Arizona; accompanied by linguistic note.; 3. Vocabulary of the...

Includes list of words in the Cowitchin dialect, 1876, compiled at the Cowitchin Mission, Vancouver Island; religious texts and list of works in Cowichan, copied by Pinart June 6, 1880, from the papers of T.B. Seghers; Vocabulaire de Tchinkitane ......

Prayers, instructions, psalms, and hymns in the Micmac language, and Micmac ideograms, probably copied from the manuals of Abbé Pierre Maillard and Rev. Christian Kauder.

Original documents written in or pertaining to the native languages; vocabularies compiled by or prepared for Pinart; and copies of manuscripts and published works, mainly religious in character, made by Pinart.

Includes 2 posters promoting the Annual Cesar E. Chavez March in Sacramento, Calif. Both posters depict Chavez; 2010 poster also depicts Rojas.

Concerns publishing matters, teaching, reading tours and domestic news. Also includes comments about current events occurring around him including the People's Park confrontation in 1969.

Photographs document construction of the Al Zampa Memorial Bridge (the third Carquinez Bridge), especially various activities of the iron workers.

Snapshots and professional views of aviation in and above Alameda, Oakland, other San Francisco Bay Area locations and beyond. Includes views of the development and early years of the Alameda Airport (later acquired by the U.S. Army and known as...

Comments on his father, state senator Arthur H. Breed, Sr.; association with Earl Warren; Alameda Co. politics; service as state assemblyman and state senator; controversial issues during his time in office, such as public health, health insurance, etc. Copies of...

Includes correspondence, resolutions, promotional material, signatures, and census statistics from an organization created to block passage of a charter that would restructure the local government of Alameda County, California.

The Views of Alameda County, California album contains 25 photographs taken circa 1913 by the Cheney Photo Adv. Co. E.S. Cheney, president of the company, may be the photographer. Views include downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt, the Claremont Country Club, the...

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Study of law at University of California, Berkeley, class of '32; working in Alameda County district attorney's office from 1933; administration of the office and highlights of more important cases; impressions of Earl Warren as district attorney, attorney general and...

Include deeds and other documents.

The eight series in this collection consist primarily of files created by Works Progress Administration workers while conducting research for a California literature project sponsored by the Alameda County Library. The project resulted in eight volumes of reference works on...

Box 1: correspondence, mainly concerning the organization of meetings with other clubs; accounts; applications for membership; and minutes of the California Motorcycle Day Committee, June-July 1914. Box 2: accounts; donations and subscriptions; and miscellany.

Includes photographs of oil wells and other oil field structures in the hills near Livermore, Alameda County, Cailf. Appearing in most photographs are oil field workers and unidentified oil officials, possibly affiliated with the Atlantic and Western Oil Co. Clippings...

Includes photographs of oil wells and other oil field structures in the hills near Livermore, Alameda County, Cailf. Appearing in most photographs are oil field workers and unidentified oil officials, possibly affiliated with the Atlantic and Western Oil Co. Clippings...

Includes citizens' pledges to contribute to county expenses; documents of justice court (Oakland) and district court; abstracts relating to the waterfront of Oakland; miscellaneous receipts and documents.

Includes certificate and articles of incorporation, copy of by-laws, minutes of meetings, secretary's reports, subscription lists, lists of directors and board members.

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Snapshots of a young lady and friends.

Contains letter of thanks for campaign fund raising dinner hosted by the Meyers and another letter about his son Robin's death.

Publicity photographs of U.S. Senator Alan Cranston taken during his political career, chiefly portraits and scenes of the senator at work.

The Alan Dundes papers, 1952-2008, document Dundes' professional work and instruction in the field of folkloristics.

The collection contains flyers, mailings, newsletters, and various publications from local and national Jewish and other religious organizations. It also includes personal notes and correspondence.

Chiefly commercial tourist views of Japan and Egypt from the late 19th century. Hand-colored photographs from Japan include group and individual portraits of Japanese women, possibly courtesans, modeling kimonos and other articles of traditional attire, or posing in everyday scenes...

Collection contains correspondence and subject files related to the professional career of Alan K. Browne, Senior Vice President at Bank of America and President of the San Francisco Bond Club.

The collection contains Volume 17 of Long Shot (1995); an anthology of Jewish writing entitled It's the Jews: A Celebration of New Jewish Visions; the first issue of Davka: Jewish Cultural Revolution (Winter 1996), which contains Kaufman's poem, "Who Are...

Photos show buildings in disrepair; a horse and wagon, and Nez Perce Indians in Idaho; a general view of Seattle; ships (in Seattle?) and people leaving Seattle for Alaska; dogs headed for the Klondike, etc. One photo shows Howard V....

The papers contain correspondence, articles, and subject files relating to Probert's career and writing. Oversize folder 1 contains mining diagrams; oversize folder 2 contains maps of Mexico.

The Norma Alarcón papers document her contributions to Chicana feminist literature, scholarship, pedagogy, and publishing, as well as her interdisciplinary work in Ethnic and Women’s Studies. The collection includes biographical information and personalia; correspondence; materials related to the Third Woman...

Photoprints, negatives and a few postcards encompassing many Pacific state locations. Alaska: includes two panoramas mounted on cloth, many photographs of Alaskan scenes, mining sites and glaciers. Many photos related to the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 including expedition equipment...

Many scenic views and photographs of passengers on the S.S. Buford (which bears "San Francisco Chamber of Commerce" painted large on side of ship). Locations and natural attractions depicted include Nome, Juneau, Seward, Wrangell Island, Unalaska, Teller, Ketchikan, Pribiloff Island,...

Photographs show Alaska scenery and towns of Skagway (including Red Cross hospital), Fort Wrangel (totem poles), White Pass, and Sitka (Russian trading post, Episcopal Church, etc.) Alaska views also show men and women fishing. and native American men, women and...

Miscellany includes views of Alaska and Yukon towns, gold miners and gold mining.

Census data for Unalaska; baptismal records at Sitka, 1805-1819; translation of a petition by inhabitants of Unalaska for the removal of Ivan Laduigin, an objectionable character, 1878; translation and Russian text of an undated Chief's Address to Sea Otter Hunters.

Views of Alaskan landscapes, the upper Yukon river, Alaskan Boundary Survey team members, native Alaskans, Camp Davidson and 40 Mile Creek, Alaska during the 1889-1891 survey.

Album of snapshots and professional-quality photographs chiefly depicting construction of the Alaska Central Railway. Locations include Seward (founded as the terminal for the railway) and Valdez. Views of dog sleds, sawmills, railroad cuts, and lines of track are present. Album...

Preliminary finding aid available; individual items also indexed in pictorial card file.

Detailed construction photographs of the building, of the complete exterior and interior, including offices with people, from Sept. 1906 through March 1908. The building stood at the N.E. corner of California and Sansome Streets, San Francisco.

Photographs, most taken or collected during 1929-1931 patrol duty on U.S. Coast Guard cutter Northland. Shows towns and settlements visited, native peoples, ships and other members of the expedition, wildlife (walruses, seals and sea birds in particular), etc. Includes some...

Views mostly in and around Nome, but some other places in Alaska; includes photographs of Alaskan natives.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Photographs show a village, interiors of huts, canoes, a papoose, and totem poles in the Yakutat Bay region of Alaska.

Town views and mining activity. Includes Grand Forks (Gold Hill, El Dorado Creek).

Photographs show the construction of railways, flumes, power plants, dams (Salmon Creek Dam), etc. Also pictured are workers' housing, camps, construction equipment, explosives, and many examples of electrical machinery (crushers, etc.). Most photographs are from Alaska, a few are from...

Captioned: Gold miners and their Dog Teams, Dyea Trail, Alaska -- Transfer Point at St. Michael's en route to Dawson City, Alaska -- Prospectors Returning to Camp, 62 [degrees] Below Zero, Alaska -- Searching for the Dead after Snow Slide...

1. McCrary, George Washington, 1835-1890. Letter as Secretary of War to H.H. Bancroft. Washington, D.C. December 3, 1878. 1 p. L.S. 27 cm. Concerning papers formerly belonging to the Russian American Fur Company. 2. Thompson, Richard Wigginton, 1809-1900. Letter as...

Translations from the Russian of articles by Alexander Petrovich Sokolov and Peter Simon Pallas, extracts taken from the transcribed journal of James Douglas [BANC MSS P-C 11], and notes on Alaska trade digested, 1877, from the commercial correspondence of Agapius...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Concerns Ivan Petrov's writings regarding Alaska and its Russian occupation, publications regarding Indians of Alaska and archeology, Captain Roald Amundsen and the crew of Gjoa, 1959 Alaska elected officials signatures, canonization of Father Herman, Russian orthodox Church in Alaska, the...

Mss. in English, Russian, French, German, Latin, and Alaskan dialects. Box 1 contains sketch maps and drawings of Alaskan terrain with legends in French, Russian, and English; ethnological notes on the Aleuts and others; and miscellaneous reference notes, mainly bibliographical....

From Leslie Potenzo ;

Includes photographs of scenery, people, streets and businesses, mining activities, shipping, railroads, and fishing industry, some of interiors of a processing plant. Two photographs show tomatoes and melons growing in hot houses. Photographs taken in Juneau, Tanana, Seward, Fairbanks, but...

Includes studio portraits and other photos of Eskimos and their caches and igloos near Cape Douglas, Alaska. Also included are views of the Salmon Lake area (Leland's camp), dredges of Three Friends Mining Co., Tanana Lumbering Company, hydraulic mining at...

Includes photos relating to Gjoa expedition lead by Roald Amundsen and numerous views of Alaska towns (unidentified) and their native and new inhabitants. A number of portraits, some including Amundsen, are present. Several photos of the Gjoa ship and Amundsen's...

210 photographs including Juneau, businesses, ships, glaciers, sled dogs, and eskimos and their homes. Dawson (Yukon) views include: street scenes, hotles, the Chilkoot Pass, the Good Samaritan Hospital, doctor's office interior, etc. Also views of gold and mining operations and...

Clippings mostly from San Francisco newspapers, some in Russian. Two letters from Honcharenko, 1877 and 1909, concern material he supplied to the Bancroft Library.

This collection consists of 46 photographic prints (23 stereographs, 21 "PIC" size, and 2 "A" size) of views from Alaska to Mexico, circa 1859-1902. Includes work by various photographers: American Stereoscopic Co., W. B. Ingersoll, C. W. Woodward, Continent Stereoscopic...

Includes views of Sitka (including the Bay, and the exterior and interior of the Russian Orthodox Church), Juneau, the Muir Glacier, and various unidentified harbor scenes.

Includes sea-planes and other small planes in and around Juneau, gold mining equipment, hydraulic mining, an aerial view of Juneau, Alaska-Juneau Gold Mill, an Eskimo village and dwellings, Eskimo Indians fishing, in kayaks, drying fish, and doing other daily tasks.

Views include towns, street scenes, glaciers, mountains and landscapes, mining scenes, steamboats and trains, sled dogs, native persons, and totem poles.

Small format professional photographic prints depicting various aspects of gold mining in the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mine. Views show miners at work in mines and mining equipment. Scenes of Alaska Gastineau Mill are also included.

Chiefly snapshots recording sites related to the Alaska gold rush. Locations include Kotzebue Sound, the Kobuk River, Reilly Camp (or "Reillyville"), and Nome. Includes views of miners and ship's passengers and crew, eskimos and their elevated burial platforms, river steamers,...

Snapshots and professional photographs of salmon catches, native Alaskans, reindeer, landscapes, coastlines, towns, and numerous views of ships, shipwrecks and ships in ice. Also present are several views of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle, 1908), the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,...

Photos include views of Fort Wrangle, Sitka, Juneau, Jakutat Bay, glaciers, Indian villages and settlements, totem poles, groups of people (tourists?), a Russian block house in Sitka, a photo of Madonna from the Greek [Russian] Church in Sitka, etc.

Photographs show Dawson patrols (men in furs) at Fort MacPherson; a Sunday School picnic, a midnight ball game in Fairbanks, a mining camp and other mining scenes, marathon race runners in Fairbanks, Mrs. Willis high diving into the Chena River...

Photographs show the Yukon river, Sitka (including the Greek [Russian] church), an Indian dance house, a ship loading at a dock, Taku Glacier, and other scenes.

Photographs show construction scenes at the exposition site in Seattle, Wash. Pictured are interior and exterior views and finished buildings including: agriculture, hospital, auditorium, chemistry, fisheries, mines, cascades, powerhouse, etc. Also includes many views of construction equipment.

American author.

Mainly correspondence and manuscripts of his novels and short stories. Some royalty statements, contracts and financial papers also included.

Adelson writes to President W. Wilson on Oct. 5, 1918 to offer his services as mediator in the controversy between the United States and Russia. As qualifications he states that he was Russian-born and his lineage comes from the most...

The collection consists of family documents, including immigration documents and correspondence from 1938 and 1939, as well as family photographs and some family ephemera.

Correspondence and accounts (journals, ledgers, ships' accounts, etc.) of mercantile and shipping enterprises, chiefly in San Francisco. Papers for firms, Crosby and Dibblee, Dibblee and Hyde, included.

Chiefly portraits of multiple generations of Elkus and Britton family members, including Albert Elkus Sr., Bertha Elkus, Louis Elkus, Albert Elkus Jr., Fred Elkus, Cordelia de Young Elkus, Amelia Morange de Young, Rosetta Kahn Katten, Jonathan Britton Elkus and George...

Relates mainly to the clothing store in Sacramento founded by his father, Louis Elkus. Collection includes ledgers, trial balances, tax records, rental property accounts for real estate in Sacramento and Oakland, insurance policies, etc. Also included is material concerning the...

Letters of the French paleontologist, some addressed to Stanislas Meunier.

Accounts relating mainly to property in San Francisco. Many pages blank.

Consists of draft letters and notes from Albert Mundhenk's trip abroad to Germany and France to study art. He describes his trip across the United States from California to Washington, D.C. and aboard the S.S. Munchen to Germany, including a...

Includes portraits and snapshots of Albert J. Johnson, his colleagues and friends, and many of the filmmakers whom he interviewed at festivals or was otherwise acquainted with. A large portion of the collection documents Johnson's travels abroad. Also depicted are...

Architectural drawings, folded, previously stored in letter-file boxes numbered 1-75.

Regarding his social engagements.

Typed transcript, with notes by Charles Kelly, of Thurber's original ledger in the possession of R.T. Thurber, Richfield, Utah.

Written from Monterey and Castroville, Calif.

Research in bacteriological warfare and, later, on air ions.

Collection contains two letters to Randolph Valliere, one from Joe E. Brown, and another from Sargent Shriver. Includes signed and printed acknowledgements (1932-1964) of birthday and Christmas greetings from Miss Harriet Banks to Herbert Hoover, as well as a letter...

Collection contains correspondence, manuscript materials and other writings, biographical information, subject files relating to his work in pharmacy and botany and the professional societies to which he belonged. Also includes some information on the College of Pharmacy in San Francisco,...

Letters written to Ina Coolbrith, Ina Cook and George Sterling, 1906-1909; letters to him from Samuel L. Clemens, Harrison Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Frank Millet, Charles Rollo Peters, Richard Savage and Ina Coolbrith; MSS of two poems; clippings of his poems...

Collection includes matriculation papers from the University of Vienna, an undated photograph of Albert and Pauline Steiner, taken in Vienna, and two portfolios of drawings, dated 1900-1902.

Contains research and experiment notebooks, reprints, and a scrapbook of letters upon Ulrich's retirement from the Soils and Plant Nutrition Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Contains 142 handwritten letters of correspondence between Alberto Beltrán, a Mexican artist, and Emmanuel C. Montoya, a Mexican American printmaker living in San Francisco, California. 119 letters are from Beltrán to Montoya; 23 letters are Montoya's replies to Beltrán, consisting...

An account of operations in Lingayen Gulf, Philippines during World War II; written by an ensign, U.S.N.R.

Album of samples of machine embroidery, lace and other types of needlework, displaying styles and techniques as taught professionally in Mexico in the 1920s. Also includes Quiroga's 1924 diploma from la Escuela de Arte Industrial Corregidora de Querétaro, on which...

Clippings describe a trip from Albany, New York to Alaska. Photos show only the Alaska portion of the trip, focusing on Indians, other inhabitants, scenery, glaciers, views of Sitka, etc.

Locations include: Mexico City, Teotihuacan, Mitla, Taxco, Cuernavaca, etc. Views depict street vendors, churches, pyramids, outdoor markets, buildings built by Zapotec Indians, and touristic views. Ca.30 postcards and other ephemera are included.

Chiefly groups of family and friends at picnics and other leisure outings, photographed by amateur photographers. Individuals pictured include Captain and Mrs. J.C. Ayres, the Mizner family, R.S. Rodman, and members of the Carroll, Hooker, Adams, McAllister, McFarlane, Eldridge, Atherton,...

An album of snapshots, primarily of San Francisco Bay Area scenes but also depicting numerous locales in Northern and Southern California. Includes domestic scenes of family, friends, pets, family vegetable garden and orchard, as well as civic events and local...

Photographs show California scenery, mining, historic buildings in the Monterey area, and other historic sites.

Costume drawings for opera productions. Also includes 2 brief letters from the artist, dated 1880, his printed calling card with a note on verso, and a cabinet card portrait of tenor Anton Schott in costume for the role of Joseph.

Photographic reproductions of 4 paintings by William Hayes Hilton depicting scenes from early California, perhaps related to the artist's personal experiences as a miner and rancher.

Chiefly snapshots of locales and family activities in Hawaii, California, Norfolk (Virginia), Fort George Island, and Cape Vincent (New York). Includes some professional photographs of the U.S.S. Bennington, its crew, the victims of its explosion in San Diego, Calif., and...

Album of clippings of wood engravings from various French travel journals and other publication sources depicting Mexico during France's campaign for the Second Mexican Empire under Maximillian. Scenes depict cities, villages and topography throughout Mexico; various military activities; and a...

Includes snapshots and prints taken or acquired during a trip to Mexico. Includes those on the excursion (including several women sightseers), churches and historic buildings, local peoples, cityscapes, city street scenes, etc.

Collection mainly consists of landscape views of various Pacific locations including Alaska (Skagway, Sitka, etc.), Washington, Oregon, California (Yosemite, San Francisco and Mt. Lowe, near Pasadena). Sitka views include a number of photographs of the "Greek Church" and photos of...

Album includes mainly views of Hawaii, especially Honolulu and Oahu (some Hilo). Many views of the Consulat de France (Hawaii) foreign diplomatic staff, and the residences of Paul Neumann and the Herbert family. Some of A. Vizzanova's cottage (Chancelier de...

Title supplied by cataloger.

An album of photographs of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, with news clippings and ephemera pasted in. Many clippings relate to attorney George Mara, the Democratic Convention of 1920, and events in Bridgeport, Conn. Also included are short inspirational verses...

Collection contains commercial photographic prints taken in San Francisco during and after the disaster of 1906. The views show cityscapes (including several sections of a panoramic view from atop Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill), fires burning, earthquake and fire damage, refugees...

Contains posed photographs of natives (horseback rider, fisherman, aloha girls), Queen Liliuokalani and Princess Kiolani, and various buildings (Palace, Princess Ruth's residence and various hotels).

Album contains snapshots and professional views which appear to be from a (train?) trip across the western United States, including Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, and "home to Cincinnati, Ohio." Portraits of Alaskan Indians, Nez Perce...

Includes views of lakes, rivers and mountains in Idaho.

The Fiesta de Los Angeles was started in 1894, discontinued for the Spanish American War (1898?) and reinstituted as the Fiesta de las Flores in 1901.

Views include snapshots of friends or family of the unidentified compiler, scenery in Oregon, Nevada, and numerous California locations (including Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, and other Sierra Nevada places), people swimming, and two views of a car wreck. Some postcards included.

Views from an unidentified Mexican city in the hills show a bull fight, market streets with vendors selling produce, buildings, street scenes, women doing chores, men in large hats and serapes, children, plazas, railroads, and other scenes from everyday life....

Includes 24 photographs from Los Angeles Metropolitan area, showing dirigibles, and photographic equipment used by F.M. Huddleston.

Includes many views in San Francisco, Yosemite, and other California locations. Some photographs of Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, and some East Coast and western Canada views.

Chiefly professionally photographed views of China and Japan. Many are in and around Hong Kong, with a few of Canton. A view of beheaded pirates is present. Japanese scenes, some of which are hand-colored, include views as well as posed...

Views of cabins, leisure activities (swimming, badminton, horseshoes, etc.), and wooded environs of a small resort in California's Feather River Canyon (Butte County.)

Views of the buildings, grounds, students, and faculty of St. Matthew's Military School.

Views of Hawaii include Oahu College, Oahu scenery, water sports (including surfing), and agriculture. Views from a road trip to Eureka, Calif. show fishing, countryside, the car and road, Views of Stanford University show buildings, snapshots of students, football games...

Contains four photographs of buildings and grounds of Alcatraz Island when it served as a military prison. Also present are views of Fort Winfield Scott, a residential building at Fort Mason (Black Point), other views of San Francisco Bay, and...

Manuscripts, notes, subject files, correspondence, lecture notes, course outlines, and photographs concerning his interest and activity in ornithology and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.

Primarily relating to the proxy fight of 1964. Box 1: primarily meeting minutes and founding documents. Box 2: primarily correspondence, subject files, and some financial information. Card file boxes: proxy cards.

Professionally produced idyllic rural views of a house, stables or barns, rolling hills, cattle, and horses on the Magee family's Alder Farm in the Fruitvale area of Oakland, California. Some family members are depicted. Images of oak groves, eucalyptus lined...

Three letters, l930, to George Wilson Knight commenting on Shakespearian productions; 1941 letter addressed to Jack Spicer.

Declining an invitation.

Include drafts of Oratorios and sketches.

Charter membership certificate for Aleph Zadik Aleph's Monterey Bay Chapter, Number 355 in Santa Cruz, California.

Contains minutes; photographs; membership lists; newsletters and yearbooks; and programs and convention material relating to the sports, oratory, religious, community service, social, and cultural committees.

Manuscript documents by Malaspina and others containing information on logistics, organization, and scientific activities of the Malaspina Expedition to the Pacific Coast of America. References to astronomical observations, cartography, natural history, and scientific instruments as well as logistical information regarding...

Contains manuscript drafts, research notes, and publication files for Zwerdling's books, The Rise of the Memoir, Virginia Woolf and the Real World, and Improvised Europeans. Also contains course materials and professional activities files.

Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of Annie Montague Alexander, concerning the establishment, work with and gifts to the Museum of Vertebrae Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley. The bulk of the letters are from Joseph Grinnell, the first...

Indentures, promissory notes and related papers, originals and copies, concerning the La Junta grant in New Mexico upon which Barclay's Fort was built; and papers relating to the settlement of Barclay's estate under the administration of William Kroenig and Moritz...

Collection includes two letters written to Mary "Mollie" Martin (sister of Wagstaff's wife, Jennie), dated April 21, 1863 from La Grange, Tennessee and March 15, 1864 from Scottsboro, Alabama, while serving in the Civil War as part of the 103rd...

Include papers of William P. Alexander, pioneer missionary to the Sandwich Islands (letters and journals); letters written by his wife, Mary Ann (McKinney) Alexander; and papers of their son William DeWitt Alexander, including letters from Hiram Bingham, James Dwight Dana,...

Papers relating to Alexander Hildebrand's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Contains six photographs (5x7, b&w) of people and sacred sites in India taken in 1987-1989. Also includes a 1979 copy of six typescript pages from a 97-page appraisal of the Tibetan Art and Library of Theos C. Bernard done by...

Diary, 1855-1886, kept while engineer on U.S. Revenue cutter Bear, New York to Valparaiso and the Arctic; related vouchers and accounts; and letters from the U.S. Dept. of Treasury written by W.E. Chandler, G.S. Boutwell and others, and from the...

A few days out of Monterey, Calif. en route to Mazatlan. Describes his recent visit to Hawaii, remarking in particular on the "civilizing influence" of American missionaries, including observations on King Kamehameha and other members of the royal family. Of...

Contains a small amount of personal and business correspondence from Poniatoff's years at Ampex, chiefly concerning company business, research, and personnel matters. Correspondents include Dr. Gordon Havstad, James W. Havstad (of the Sanborn Company in Mass.), Harrison Johnson (of the...

Photographs, pamphlets, maps and manuscripts, including his military service record in 1879. Mainly relate to his military service in Russia from 1847, and his participation in the battle of Petropavlosk in 1854.

Correspondence (mainly copies), reports, legal papers, maps, etc., concerning agriculture, mining, and oil interests in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.

The collection contains personal papers, financial and immigration records, and photographs of Fred and Alice Levin Wetzlar and of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Frankenbusch. The materials relate to the Wetzlar's and Frankenbusch's experiences after the Nazis came to power and...

In volume 1 are 162 letters and telegrams received, including many concerning the work of the commission: 73 from George Gibbs, 1864-1868, affording sidelights on affairs in Washington, D.C., during the Johnson Administration; 34 from Sir John Rose, 1864-1871; 20...

Includes letters to Albert Stebbins and clippings of Taylor's Precis India Californicus.

Included are letters written by Ina D. Coolbrith, Emma F. Dawson, Charles C. Dobie, Joseph H. Jackson, Ella Sterling Mighels, Douglas Tilden, Charles B. Turrill; and clippings about Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, Gelett Burgess, Bret Harte, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles...

Concerning events in Hawaii and his writings.

Petition by Alexander Willard, an American, asking for an extension of a year for working the mines of the Copper Co. in the Nacozari district of Moctezuma. Referred to higher authority by prefect Martinez on May 31. Order from Pesqueira...

Originally part of the Foot Collection.

Includes correspondence, administrative papers, lecture notes and materials on the Benedictine Abbey at Cluny.

Two letters (2 p.) presumably by Alexandre Dumas, père. One is addressed to Monsieur Merle, rue Blanche, [Paris?]; the other is a brief note addressed simply to "Cher Maitre."

Includes general views of the region, churches, dwellings, cemetery, inhabitants, wildlife, hunting, etc.

Part of a collection of manuscript materials associated with the Franciscan missions in California. For other items in the collection, search under title: California mission miscellany, 1630-1830.

Correspondence, Mss. of articles and talks, lecture notes, and clippings, re his teaching career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the establishment of the School of Education. Included are letters from Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Milicent W. Shinn, C.E. Brooks,...

Assembled by Kniazeff, documenting Russians and Russian organizations, primarily after the revolution, in California. Includes albums of Russian boy scout activities in Harbin, China, and some family albums (from Russian, China, and California). Also included: one envelope of unprinted negatives.

Course outlines and materials, student theses, reports, writings by economists, records from the Departamento Autónomo de Prensa y Publicidad.

Newswire photographic prints documenting "Red Purge" trial of suspected communist Alfonso Townsend in Corona, Riverside County, Calif. Prints depict Townsend, Corona City Hall, Justice McCauley, a jury selection scene, and sheriff's deputies.

Contains letters and telegrams from Hall McCallister and other business associates. Also includes legal notes.

Stereograph views of construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, taken in various unidentified locations. Scenes include a valley with a river in the distance (77?), construction cars and lumber along a river or other body of water (234), a graded...

Papers relating to Cumming's term as governor of Utah Territory, 1857-1861, including commissions, letters received, letterpress copies of letters sent, and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and printed documents; letters by his wife Elizabeth Wells (Randall), and two letters by his...

Chiefly commercial photographs by Alfred Greene (of Berkeley and Oakland), and by his son Max W. Greene (of Los Angeles). Includes public buildings, iron work, street scenes, portraits, and Greene family portraits and snapshots. Includes several photographic studio interiors.

Letter, Jan. 1, 1853, from Alfred Hall and his family on arrival at Olympia, Wash. Ter.; promissory note, 1862, from Alleck [sic] C. Smith to William Wright; letters, 1866-1867, from James H. Wilbur and William Wright at Ft. Simcoe.

The collection consists of biographical material relating to Alfred Henry Jacobs and his father, Julius Jacobs, including Julius' 1863 certificate as an "Exempt Fireman of the Fire Department of the City and County of Sacramento" and an illuminated In Memoriam...

The Alfred James Waterhouse papers, 1890-1944 contain, primarily, correspondence from and to Waterhouse. Of note are letters to and from his daughter, Ruth Waterhouse Bush, detailing their estrangement and reconciliation. Other correspondents include Harry E. Bush, Edmund Vance Cooke, Mary...

Album contains snapshot photographs of leisure activities involving Alfred James Waterhouse and his family, especially his daughter Dorothy Waterhouse. Also includes photographs of Waterhouse homes and other residences. Joaquin Miller is pictured in two photographs. Includes many photographs of family...

Volume 1-2: letterpress copybooks, kept while U.S. Consul in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1902-1904, containing some reports on political situations; volume 3: miscellaneous papers pertaining mainly to his consular activities in Dublin and Bordeaux, 1904-1910.

Contains articles, notes, and mathematical proofs concerning Alfred L. Foster's work as a mathematician and his study of universal algebra.

Contains research notes on vocabularies of the Guaraní, Guayakí, Mataco, and Toba tribes of South America. Also includes small amount of draft articles and postcards of South American Indians. Most materials are not dated.

Letters concern a privateering scheme in San Francisco during the Civil War. With transcripts and related notes by Elisabeth Coe Adams.

Contains correspondence, academic diplomas, awards, lectures, clippings, short stories, 3 videocassettes of Hopkins' dramatic performances, etc.

Deeds and mortgages for property in Napa County.

Papers relating to Alfred W. Baxter's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Typescripts of articles relating to agricultural problems and foreign colonization ventures in Mexico.

Consists of operational, financial and historical reports and a reference binder on Mexican mining, as well as maps and diagrams. The collection focuses on the history and operations of the Sociedad Cooperativa Minero Metalúrgica Santa Fe de Guanajuato including a...

Contains 6 letters, 1 postcard, and 4 envelopes from Alice B. Toklas to Prentiss Taylor, and 4 carbon copies of letters from Prentiss to Alice.

Includes typed transcript (contemporary draft and final copies) of tape-recorded interviews conducted in Paris, November 28-29, 1952, relating primarily to Gertrude Stein's early life and the Stein family, and to Toklas' own family and upbringing in San Francisco. Also includes...

Sixteen letters (23 pages) from Alice B. Toklas to Anne Low-Beer, mainly written from Paris, describing daily life, visits with mutal friends, distress at the publication of Gertrude Stein's biography in 1957, travels, expressing friendship, etc. Typed transcripts available for...

Correspondence concerning the life and activities of Toklas while in the United States and Europe.

Collection contains biographical files; correspondence; writings; and photographs.

Papers of and relating to the family and forbearers of Alice Bucquet McCully (1921-2020). Included are family trees and general family histories and notes on the Easton, Taylor, Howard/Hayward, Shafter, and Bucquet families. Also included are the following materials created...

Of Alice Q. Howard ;

Letters, postcards, brochures, and ephemera related to the life of Alice Eastwood, the longtime curator of botany at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. One handwritten letter and one postcard are from Eastwood herself and addressed to a...

Includes portrait and snapshot photographs of Alice Eastwood. In the snapshots Eastwood is depected dining outdoors with friends, posing with a group before a flight to Stockholm, and exiting an airplane. Also depicted in some of the snapshots are Frances...

Include letter from James P. Shaw, director of the Hunters Point Project Committee; letter from Miss Griffith to Catherine Bauer Wurster concerning the first Telegraph Hill Neighborhood House in San Francisco, built by Bernard R. Maybeck; and copy of her...

The collection consists of some biographical materials, Alice Grossman's personal documents, including her World War II service discharge documents, a scrapbook with original letters and photographs, a small amount of correspondence, and a loose photograph. The scrapbook documents the time...

Consist of letters relating mainly to education in early Santa Clara, manuscripts of her writings, and a few newspaper clippings.

Letters of appreciation, clippings, mementos and photographs relating to service as army nurse in Base Hospital No. 30 in France, during World War I.

Materials from the estate of Alice Lorraine Andrews of Berkeley, California, daughter of Allie Newell, and grand-daughter of George Baker Newell. Alice Andrews was the owner of the Lola Montez House in Grass Valley, California, 1933-1970s. Boxes include guest registers...

Collection consists of four volumes of sheep ranch, household and personal accounts kept by Alice M. Kennedy Lynch at Tierra Redonda Ranch in San Luis Obispo County, California, which was owned and operated by James and Alice Lynch. Volume 1...

Notes for chapters of contemplated biography; research notes; transcripts of letters from circa 1844-1867, by Reading and to him, including some from John A. Sutter and John Bidwell; 5 photostats from his journal of detail maps showing his route from...

Describes living in San Francisco, Calif. including a description of a fire.

Two photographic portraits of author Alice MacGowan. The earlier portrait, depicting MacGowan standing, is date-stamped 1926 but is likely a reproduction of a portrait taken approximately 1900, if not earlier. This print also bears the stamp of photographer Boyé, although...

The collection includes autobiographical materials relating to political and social activist Alice Sachs Hamburg; short writings by Hamburg; an invitation to a dinner at which Hamburg and five others were honored by Congressman Ron Dellums; and a transcript for an...

Contains Alison Owings' files related to to her book, "Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans," which is a compilation of oral histories surveying a wide variety of Native people about aspects of contemporary life. Materials include audio copies of 39...

Relating primarily to work of San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, financial documents, inter-office memoranda, meeting minutes, clippings, materials regarding San Francisco 1906 earthquake: supplies, refugee camps, U.S. Army general circulars.

Transferred from the Allan Temko papers (BANC MSS 2006/125).

Audio Visual materials transferred to the A/V Collections of The Bancroft Library.

24 letters to or from Allen A. Hall, United States ambassador to Bolivia. Includes correspondence with Secretary of State William Henry Seward, and with Bolivian officials. Subjects include political situation and events in Bolivia. Typed transcript included in each folder.

Includes diaries of Oliver Allen, 1853-1880, concerning life in Point Reyes and Petaluma, construction of saw mills at Bolinas, the Pioneer Paper Mill at Daniel's Creek, and dairying in Marin County; and papers of his son, Charles D. Allen, including...

Program from memorial at Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, April 20, 1997; poems written for Ginsberg by Neeli Cherkovski, Ivan Argüelles, Jake Berry, Jack Foley, Stephen Ronan, Clive Matson; and copies of newspaper clippings on Ginsberg.

Relating mainly to the founding of the American Ornithologists' Union and its publication, The Auk. Drafts of constitution, minutes of the first meeting, form letters and miscellaneous papers pertaining to the Union included.

Correspondence relating to his book, A Concordance to Euripides, with the holograph Ms. of the work; Mss. of miscellaneous articles; lesson plans; his notes for a class taught by Prof. Isaac Flagg, at Berkeley, 1896.

Chiefly scenes from performances of the Magic Theatre.

Correspondence, drafts, clippings, notes, covers, announcements, and designs for publications concerning the works of such writers as Jane and Robert Grabhorn, Gertrude Atherton, William Caxton, Joseph Conrad, Euripides, Henry James, Thomas Mann, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton,...

This collections contains the papers of Dr. Robert L. Allen, activist, writer, editor and educator.

Papers reflect the Alliance for Technology Access' role in promoting access to computers and education for children with disabilities. Collection includes articles and press releases; conference programs; financial and progress reports, including 1990-91 annual report; grant applications to the US...

The collection consists of a copy of Alma Lavenson's oral history, an interview with her, genealogical material and family history, catalogues and publicity of her photography exhibitions, and photographs of Alma growing up and of her family.

Snapshot photographs pertaining to Bivens family members and other African Americans in Texas and California, chiefly depicted in domestic scenes and leisure outings. Identified individuals includes James Almaryne Bivens of Waco, Texas, who captioned one photo "myself", and Myrtle Bivens...

Concerns the feelings and activities of a ship captain's wife.

Journal, 1858-1866, as Mrs. George W. Beam, a settler on Whidbey Island, Washington Territory. Intermittent entries recording pioneer life in Puget Sound area. Mention of Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Bozarth (neighbors), Major Haller, Samuel Hancock and others.

Legal file concerning Estrada Sosa's complaint against Cristobal García, a free Black, including record of money and goods provided to García.

Letters addressed or transmitted to the Archbishop, and copy of a document issued in his name, as follows.

Contains 3 letters to a friend back home communicating the doings of other members of their company of miners and business in San Francisco. By 1853 Hill has become a police officer in San Francisco, William Gill has returned to...

Snapshots and portraits depicting Native Americans of New Mexico and perhaps other Southwestern U.S. locations; snapshots of formal views of Albuquerque, Taos Pueblo, Isleta Pueblo, buttes, landscapes and other topics in New Mexico and perhaps elsewhere; Compton family portraits and...

:1 Alonzo J. Doolittle in miner's clothing with two leather gold pokes (1/4 plate daguerreotype) -- :2 Alonzo J. Doolittle in patterned waistcoat (1/6 plate daguerreotype by Wm. C. North) :3 Alonzo J. Doolittle (close variant of :2, lacking case)...

Documents relating to the investigation of Alonzo W. Adams' conduct as collector of foreign miners tax, California. Include deposition of Jules Carlo, miner, before the Senate investigative committee, signed also by J.J. Warner and David F. Douglass; the license to...

Contains 147 items of correspondence, legal documents and shipping documents concerning early California history. Following is a list of persons, ships and subjects related to the collection.

Include order from Thompson to José Bolcoff for payment to William Blackburn, duplicate receipt for refunded military contribution, and letter from Bolcoff.

For the most part in Pinart's handwriting or with his library press-mark. Items cataloged individually and can be searched under title.

Includes photos of the following missions: Altar, Caborca, Oquitoa[?], Pitiquito, San Ignacio, and Tubutama. Views of chapels and exteriors and interiors of missions, with emphasis on architectural details.

Chiefly snapshots documenting multiple generations of the Alsing family of Oakland and other Bay Area locations. Identified family members include H.P. Alsing, A.A. Alsing, Alvin Alsing, Rudi Alsing, Lea Alsing, Henry Alsing, L.N. Alsing, Walter Alsing, Clara Alsing and James...

Include power of attorney; letter announcing arrival of ship Eureka from Hongkong; and receipt for quicksilver to be delivered from New Almaden.

The Robert Altman photograph archive contains photographs Altman took, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area but also in New York, Washington D.C., and elsewhere, beginning in the late 1960s and continuing into the 1980s. The collection includes photographs of...

The papers of Julia Cooley Altrocchi including correspondence, manuscripts, galley proofs, clippings, broadsides, publications and artifacts.

Includes clippings of news stories.

The Luis W. Alvarez papers include correspondence, research files, diaries, reports, and notes documenting Professor Alvarez's accomplishments as a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a research associate at the Lawrence Berkeley...

Three typescript letters, two in Spanish and one in English, from the president of Mexico, Alvaro Obregón, to the governor of Texas, Pat Neff, containing a series of requests for the release of 8 Mexican nationals imprisoned in Texas including...

Photographs show views of San Francisco, Calif. some following the earthquake and fire of 1906, including: churches, city hall, the Tivoli Opera House, the Palace Hotel, mansions, street scenes, homes, temporary office and business structures (tents), and some views of...

Includes state bills, subject files, news releases, and speeches while member of the California State Senate.

Copies of genealogy charts for the Alviso family.

Papers collected by H.H. Bancroft for his history of California. Primarily Alviso family documents relating to the sale of cattle, tallow and hides and to early government in San Jose. Also included are miscellaneous papers of Juan B.R. Cooper, M.G....

California business man, banker, mayor of San Francisco. Correspondence; autographs; badges and invitations relating to memorial services for U.S. Grant and William McKinley.

Some general correspondence, including letters from Gladys S. Doyle, Richard A. Gleeson and James D. Phelan; letters and cards of sympathy received after the deaths of her uncle, Senator Phelan, and her father, Francis J. Sullivan; and clippings, mainly obituaries.

Subject files, manuscripts, pamphlets, clippings and correspondence relating to Kidd's activities at The University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to A.M. Robertson's publishing business. Correspondents include authors George Sterling, Clark Ashton Smith, Charles Warren Stoddard, Ina Coolbrith, Grace Hibbard, David Starr Jordan, and Louis A. Robertson. Newspaper clippings concern Robertson and his...

Commercial photographs documenting various parks, projects and employees of the Oakland Park Dept., including Joaquin Miller Park, Lafayette Park, Lakeside Park, Children's Fairyland, Peralta Park and Oakland City Hall Plaza. Individuals depicted include O.P.D. landscape architect A.M. Sourdry and O.P.D....

The papers contain Tommasini's Christmas keepsakes for 1955-1980 (including correspondence), speeches, general correspondence, and subject files pertaining to printing conferences and other printing topics.

Letters and forms directed to the Jackson, California station, from various agents, concerning freight and sale of tickets.

Includes record of marriages by a justice of the peace, 1873-1893; certificates of election or appointment to public office; posted bonds for public officials; declarations of intention to become citizens; documents in various legal transactions and court cases, including writs...

Financial materials, correspondence, minutes, and notes concerning R.C. Downs, his superintendency of the Down's Mining Prospect, Lincoln Gold Mining Company, various water works, Keystone Mine, and State Compensation Insurance Fund.

Two bound volumes (one largely blank) and a few loose documents, all legal documents.

Records of the Amador Mining Company of Amador County, California, including administrative records, correspondence, and financial records dating mostly from 1867 to 1872.

Original art prepared by Amalgamated Lithographers of America Local no. 17, of San Francisco, for production of ephemeral material promoting and reporting on the union's labor strike of 1959-1960. Each "pictorial" (i.e. paste-up) includes illustrations (drawings, photographs and/or prints) and...

Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number 1977.003

Depicts members of the group during film making and stills from various identified productions.

Photographs show many views from the Los Angeles, Calif. area: San Gabriel Mission, family activities (picnicking, pets, etc.), Laurel Canyon, West Lake Park, the garden and conservatory of amateur horticulturalist and Standard Oil executive J.C. Harvey (many detailed views of...

Studio and informal portraits of Ambrose Bierce, his friends (including Herman Scheffauer), and other related views.

Contains 16 handwritten letters from Ambrose Bierce to his niece Lora in Berkeley, California. Also includes the original mailing envelopes, newspaper clippings, and a typescript letter to Ambrose Bierce from Sam W. Davis, editor of the The Daily Herald newspaper...

Contains 13 handwritten letters from Ambrose Bierce to his friend and editor, Silas Orrin Howes. Eleven are addressed to Howes in Galveston, Texas, and two to Howes in New York City. The earlier letters deal with numerous literary issues and...

Views of Forest (also called Forest City, Calif.) show the main street with buildings and inhabitants (one building bears a sign reading "daguerrean room"); local citizens showing a variety of dress in front of a house; miners, trestles, ore carts,...

Drafts, revisions and fair copies of published and unpublished works. v. 1-4: Histoire du XV siècle (v. 1-2, France; v. 3, Italy; v. 4, Portugal); v. 5-7: Marie Stuart en France; v. 8: Henry 2[sic], duc de Montmorency; v.; 9:...

Letters of her brother, Ralph Keeler (1840-1893), and clippings regarding his work and lectures in v.1. Clippings concerning various events and individuals (some poets) in v.2. Some photographs included. Items in v.1 pasted over accounts in former cash book, and...

Copy photograph of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane in flight, probably over San Francisco Bay. Taken in 1937, some months prior to Earhart's disappearance while piloting this plane during a round-the-world flight. Photographic image redproduces autographs on the original of...

Diaries kept by Gertrude Stein's mother during residences in Vienna, Paris and Oakland.

Includes coins from United States, Spain, France, Great Britain, Mexico, Chios, Netherlands, Saxony, the Vatican, Austria, Germany, the Central American Republic and Guatemala. Also includes pre-Columbian copper "hoe" or "axe" pieces from Ecuador.

Chiefly portraits of presidents of the association, from the years 1916-1997. Also includes some group portraits and paste-ups for publication....

Includes materials documenting the work of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division. The materials date from the founding of the organization in 1910 to approximately 2020. Included are files relating to the organization's governance, its annual...

Records of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic (A.A.R.I.R.) in California from 1920-1922; consisting primarily of correspondence, press releases and clippings at the state, district council, and branch levels, documenting its various activities, such as recruitment...

Portraits show various identified personalities, many of them military figures.

Includes correspondence, communications, and other materials relating to Locals 101, 120, and 109 of the American Communications Association. In addition, the collection includes materials, mainly newspapers, produced by other telephone worker unions, as well as files relating to the ACA-CIO...

Part of a collection titled Western Miscellany.

Includes letters to Henry M. Stephens from Ephraim D. Adams, Clyde A. Duniway and James D. Phelan; copy of report of secretary-treasurer, 1904; announcements and programs of meetings; and proceedings of the 1907 meeting.

Collection of posters and other graphic material promoting various events -- e.g. exhibitions, concerts, powwows, demonstrations -- and other themes pertaining to Native American culture, history and politics.

The American Indian Community History Center records document the efforts of the Community History Project to collect and preserve the history of the San Francisco Bay Area urban American Indian community. The collection also documents the work of one of...

Chiefly photographs documenting the San Francisco Bay Area urban Indian community and related organizations, events and activities, with an emphasis on the Intertribal Friendship House (I.F.H.) of Oakland. Majority of collection depicts I.F.H. administration, social activities, cultural events, education efforts,...

The collection documents the activities of the American Jewish Congress' Northern California Division from 1960 through the mid-1980s. It contains minutes (1960-1982, incomplete), financial records, membership records, annual reports, articles, programs, newsletters, press releases, clippings, correspondence, briefs and published material,...

Panoramic portraits of members of the American Library Association in front of Doe Library at the University of California in Berkeley, at Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, and in Riverside.

Letters, manuscripts and documents relating to American literature. Each item cataloged individually. Search under title: American literary miscellany.

Professional photographs depicting locomotives of various manufacturers located in the eastern United States.

Documents relating to the El Tajo and La Leona (a.k.a. La Prieta Leona) mines and the Parral Silver Mining Company located in Chihuahua, Mexico. Documents include production and expense figures, acts of incorporation in New York, sales of percentages of...

Reel 1: no. 4195-1689; Reel 2: no. 78415-78491.

Contains typewritten carbon copies of mostly English language correspondence (8 letters, 33 p.) concerning relief efforts after a large earthquake struck Guatemala City. Includes correspondence between the chairman of the Red Cross Canal Zone Committee sent to Guatemala, Samuel W....

Items captioned: 48th Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union held at the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. Oct. 21-24, 1930 -- American Ornithologists' Union, Ottawa, Canada. Oct. 13th, 1926.

10 items concerning poetry and poets in the United States. Each item cataloged separately. See individual records for collection content.

List of voters (1867) and poll list (1869).

The American Seedless Raisin Company Records (formerly the Franklin P. Nutting Papers), 1894-1956, contain materials related to the raisin industry in California during the first half of the 20th century. The collection includes administrative correspondence, legal documents, and material...

Representative blueprints of buildings (exterior and interior), machinery necessary for refining lead and zinc, and some buildings in the company town. Many of them have cost estimates broken down by supplies needed. Some constitute revisions of plant and/or machinery.

Collection includes by-laws, correspondence, programs, meeting minutes, workshop materials, travel grant reports, documents concerning the founding of the Society, etc.

1) Portland, Or. cable road incline -- 2) Mt. Lowe Ry. on summit of Echo Mountain. Pasadena in the distance -- 3) Method of transporting a wire rope in mountainous country.

Two group portraits of employees in San Francisco, Calif. One large group portrait of men and women workers, ca. 1900, is posed in a company facility with wire cable and other products displayed. A smaller banquet group portrait pictures the...

Four volumes containing a typescript, with occasional manuscript edits, of a cookbook published in 1984, "The American table," by Ronald Johnson. Presented to Dorothy Neal, the dedicatee of another Johnson book, "The book of the green man," it is inscribed...

v. 1: Brokers' reports, 1927-1931; v. 2: Brokers' reports, 1932-1934; v. 3: Special report on California banks, n.d.

The American Veterans Committee, San Francisco Area Council records document the activities of the California chapters of the organization. Included are meeting minutes, publicity, correspondence, newsletters, and organizational records. The collection also includes papers relating to the AVC's national conventions...

Promotional photographs depicting vineyards of the American Vineyard Co., which specialized in the production and packaging of raisins in Fresno and Kings counties of California's San Joaquin Valley. Photographs illustrate various aspects of the raisin trade, including picking and curing...

American war posters, handbills, and broadsides created during the era of the First World War.

American war posters and other war-related ephemera from various United States governement agencies or private publishers. Broad catagories present include: bonds and war finance, civil defense, civilian participation (food supply, health and safety, labor, non-combatant service, rationing and conservation, war...

Views of Santa Fe, New Mexico; California; Utah; and Colorado. Includes a view of Pasadena; a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco; miners and hydraulic mining scenes in the Iowa Hill region (Placer Co.) and Butte County, Calif.; the Yosemite Valley;...

1: letterpress copybook, 1904-1909, kept by James Neel, treasurer, re membership dues, contributions to special funds, annual meetings.

Scenery and views of nature, trees in Olympic National Park (Washington), Mt. Jefferson in Oregon, Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming) and one view of San Francisco, Calif. (by P. Jones.) Apparently images were intended for a Parnassus Press publication entitled:...

Members of the family included Oakes (1804-1873), his brother Oliver (1807-1877), Oliver's son, Frederick Lathrop (1835-1893), and Oliver (1831-1895), the son of Oakes. Dictations by Frederick Lathrop Ames, W.L. Chaffin, and G.H. Campbell; letters by George H. Morrison, W.L. Chaffin,...

Correspondence, press releases, and pamphlets relating to Pinchot's political interests, including activities of the America First Committee. Duplicates from the Pinchot Collection in the Library of Congress.

Amateur views documenting University of California, Berkeley; California; the American West; and the personal activities of Amos W. Elliott.

Paintings, prints and drawings by Amy Kasai, documenting her experiences in Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Works depict internees, camp grounds, and surrounding landscapes at the Fresno Assembly Center, Tule Lake Relocation Center, and Jerome Relocation Center (Arkansas)....

Includes Christmas card, original drawing on postcard, exhibition announcement, and a postcard for the film "Ana Hatherly, a mão inteligente" by Luís Alves de Matos.

Photographic prints of engraved silver menu. One print depicts cover text: Dinner to Hon. William Sharon by his old friends of the Comstock Lode. Palace Hotel. Feb. 8th 1876. San Francisco. A.A. Selover [guest]. Other print depicts menu items.

Mainly correspondence as sub-prefect of Santa Barbara; several letters to the Justice of the Peace of San Luis Obispo. Petition by John F. Smith for land in Santa Barbara included. Oversize folder includes a decree by then-governor Pio Pico requiring...

Mainly kept by George Chase, Recorder.

Minutes of meetings, list of members in good standing and roll book of members.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, committee and financial reports, accounts and records of mutual benefits.

A miscellany, mostly from the Santa Fe New Mexican, 1883: "Ancient Santa Fe" (discusses old Fort Marcy and the Alameda) and "Reminiscences of Ft. Union. The Alvarez Grant." Dictation of Samuel A. Dittenhofer (Navajo Sam), who came to New Mexico...

Typescript of the book co-authored by Francis Feeley and Tatiana Baklanova-Feeley. Photographs of each interviewee accompany the typescript. Included are transcripts (manuscript and typescript) of many of the original interviews conducted in 1993-1994 with residents in San Francisco, Paris, and...

Views of the Cook Road crossing of Dry Creek, Ione vicinity, Amador County, Calif.

Views of the Rawson Road crossing of Red Bank Creek, Red Bluff vicinity, Tehama Co., Calif.

Letter from R.T. Leonards, promoter, encloses prospectus for the company.

Views of the Philippino Insurrection include scenes from army camps, mass burials, dead and wounded soldiers, and photos of troops. Views from Japan show the cities Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Kyoto, as well as rural scenes. Many of these feature gardens,...

Dictation, recorded for H.H. Bancroft, concerns his voyage to San Francisco via Panama in 1849, and business activities including work as agent for Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (13 l.).

List of contents available.

1. North Africa and Asia, primarily unidentified. --2. Egypt, Uganda, Aden, Palestine, West Africa, South Africa, mainly 1926; photographic prints and post cards. --3. India, Ceylon, Japan; primarily postcards. --4. Britain, France, Italy, India; primarily postcards. --5. France, Morocco; postcards....

Grouped roughly by geographical location.

To his wife and daughter, mainly concerning insurance matters.

Relate to the Dr. Groves California Association, organized in Philadelphia to go to the California mines. Includes letters from members of the association and others applying, the agreement by which the company was formed and the agreement by which a...

Received in conjunction with the Andrew Drips papers (BANC MSS P-W 37).

Deed for property at Pacific and Kearney Streets in San Francisco.

Studio portraits of Dr. Andrew E. Johnson of Healdsburg, Calif., his wife Callie, and their two children. Also includes snapshot of George A. Johnson (relation unknown) of Santa Rosa.

Letters between Alfred Andrews, his wife Julia, son Leighton, and various family members and friends about domestic matters mostly dating from 1882. In 1888, the correspondence resumes in which Julia Andrew's letters describe her convalescence in Santa Monica, Calif. at...

Consists of a photocopy of a typed transcript of Andrew Hogin's journal, March 26-Oct. 18, 1849, describing his journey from New York to Calif, as well as photocopies of typed transcripts of two letters written by Hogins from Coloma, Calif....

Letters addressed to him relating to the design of book-plates for him, written by Alfred Cossmann and a Mr. Schmitz. Also included: a bibliographical note concerning books illustrated by Cossmann and a prospectus for Cossman's book, Alfred Cossman's Exlibris und...

Letter to his brother, ALS, Oroville, October 24, 1855, concerning his life and activities (recently engaged in the daguerrean business); partial cover cancelled, Sacramento, November 13, 1857; and one quarter dollar 1871 gold piece.

Dictation, recorded for H.H. Bancroft, concerns his arrival at San Francisco in 1850; experience in the mines; business activities at Benicia, Sacramento and San Francisco; service as mayor of San Francisco from 1875.

Autograph letters, signed, by Andrew Jackson: letter of 1828 Feb. 3, from the Hermitage, to Colonel William Robison, Oak Grove, Westmorland Co., Va., regarding Jackson's political opponents, with remarks on Henry Clay; and letter of 1838 Sept. 19, from the...

Contains accounts, correspondence and scrapbooks. Accounts relate to the schooner, Julis Pringle and Moulder's private accounts. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings and printed items concerning San Francisco, Calif., state and local schools, politics including the American Civil War and Moulder's European...

Payson settler of 1850; surveys in Utah Territory and Carson Valley; fortbuilding at various southern settlements, 1853; stock-raiser and merchant. Notes on his service as County and Deputy U.S. Surveyor, interest in stock raising and bee culture, trading ventures and...

In 1896, zoologist Andrew Jackson Stone, made an expedition to the Cassiar District of British Colombia. In 1897, financed by the American Museum of Natural History, he left Seattle early in July for Fort Wrangell, Alaska on what was to...

Eleven handwritten letters from a Union army soldier to various family members [likely living in Greeneville (i.e. Norwich) Connecticut]. Two of the letters are from his time of service in an artillery unit during the Civil War and the siege...

Relates to his work with the U.S. Land Office as surveyor in California, Nevada, Montana, and New Mexico.

Mainly papers re litigation in Marin County, including complaint of Bethuel Phelps concerning cattle at Rancho Punta de los Reyes and affidavit of James King of William. A few papers (1857-1892) relating to the settlement of Randall's estate also included.

Original drawings of Alaskan scenery, including landscapes, fishings boats and other maritime subjects, Native American material culture, and portraits. Also includes sheets of hand-written text pertaining to the history and description of Alaska. Most of the works were used as...

Letters, July 30, 1946 and Dec. 30, 1947, commenting critically on the reindeer program and giving other news of Alaska.

Concerning military and political events in Chihuahua. Include letters from Eulogio V. Salazar and Generals Manuel Avila Camacho, Marcelo Caraveo, Juan Andreu Almazán, Calixto Contreras and others.

Dictation of Mrs. Theodore Schultze, with information on her journey from Siskiyou County, California, to Idaho, 1862, with a pack train; journey through Oregon; profiteering by ferry and bridge owners at Lewiston; experiences as the first woman at Millersburg and...

V. I: Correspondence, memoranda and clippings regarding the preservation and development of the island for park use; earlier records (1950-1951) of the Angel Island Foundation (correspondence, minutes of meetings, articles of incorporation, and a copy of a 1947 report by...

Snapshots and professional portrait photographs, many depicting grounds, buildings, staff and activities of Angel Island Immigration Station. Immigrant groups depicted include Japanese, Chinese and perhaps Indian, all depicted in traditional attire. Also includes a few scenes depicting various immigrant groups...

Letter concerning local administration, documents relating to the minting of tlacos (small copper coins) to remedy a shortage of small change, and a request that Alejo García Conde, newly appointed Governor Intendant, immediately assume his duties in Durango.

Snapshots and other photographs of camps and works of the "Angels' Brigade" on railroad bridge construction and mine tunnels. Many images show federal and revolutionary troops in transit, and a few show General Pancho Villa and other leaders. Identified locales...

Letter (20 p.) written from Fort Douglas, Utah, 27 Sept. 1879, describes a trip taken with her husband by railroad from Ogden, Utah, to San Francisco, and return. Letter (23 p.), 16-29 May 1892 from aboard the Steamer Mexico and...

22 letters written by various members of the family of N.L. Angier. Includes 13 letters (April 12 - October 28, 1850) from Dr. N.L. Angier to his wife, Elizabeth, written during his overland trip to California and his early days...

Contains artist, institution, and client files; correspondence; press materials; art fair documentation; and business records.

Documents selected for microfilming by Engel Sluiter from the Angola section of this archive, pertaining to the slave trade, mainly with the West Indies and Hispanic America.

Papers contain incoming and outgoing correspondence, subject files, committee files, autiobiographical information, writings, reprints and materials concerning French mathematician Maurice Frechet.

Description of mining in Maripsa, with record of amount mined and comments on prices of provisions. Diary ends with return to San Francisco (Apr. 1853)

Contains project files and architectural drawings. Also includes Willis Polk projects completed by McSweeney and architectural drawings for St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco.

of Ann Lage

The collection contains Ann Cohn's oral history describing her experiences growing up with her parents, as well as some photographs.

The files are records of the Guild's committee and national affairs work from its founding through 1976. Correspondence concerns the Vicksburg Project, Southern Regional Council, and reports from the Mississippi contested elections.

The collection includes a letter from Tillie Olsen about poetry translations; Freeman's curriculam vitae; and course materials for classes she proposed and/or taught at University of California, Berkeley in 1973 and 1974: Comparative Literature 40A and 40B, Women in Literature.

Correspondence and scrapbook containing invitations of a young woman in Mamaluke Hill, El Dorado Co., Calif.

The papers include correspondence, writings, and materials concerning the U.C. Berkeley Department of Physical Education and Espenschade's research and professional activities.

Collection includes liberty bond posters, Red Cross material, badges, banners, flags, and ephemera.

Correspondence, organizational literature, speeches, testimony, writings, government publications and newspaper clippings related to the disability rights and independent living movement by the president of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the National Paraplegia Foundation, Anna Fay. Correspondents include federal, state,...

Correspondence with Amos P. Catlin and David R. Sessions for The History Company.

Two handwritten copies of a poem titled, "The Scarlet Shoes", and one handwritten copy of a poem titled, "Subjective", all signed by Branch. Includes a photocopy of an original newspaper clipping from an unidentified newspaper containing a book review (circa...

Description of her life as a domestic in California, with information on wages paid, and also her attempts to earn a living as a telegraph operator. Some entries in German.

Arrival in San Francisco, 1852; experiences as physician; work with the People's Party in San Francisco as police judge, 1856-1860, and mayor, 1863-1867.

Typed transcript of Books A (1847-1869) and B (1869-1877); also ms. (photocopy) of Book B, part III.

The collection consists of family papers, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs relating to Anne Ackerman Finnie, her parents, Louise Sloss and Lloyd Ackerman, and her grandparents, Bertha Greenwald and Leon Sloss, Sr. Among the materials in the collection relating to Louise...

Correspondence relating to Hopi Indians includes letters from H.C. Diehl commenting on litigation involving the Hopis and Navajos, proposed Hopi cultural center, etc.; from the recipient of a scholarship fund donated by Miss Avakian; and from other Hopi Indians.

Papers pertaining to Martin's activities for woman suffrage, feminism, social hygiene, and pacificism. Also included are materials relating to her U.S. Senate campaigns in Nevada in 1918 and 1920. Correspondents include: Dean Acheson, Jane Addams, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Mary...

Papers pertaining to Martin's activities for woman suffrage, feminism, social hygiene, and pacificism. Also included are materials relating to her U.S. Senate campaigns in Nevada in 1918 and 1920. Correspondents include: Dean Acheson, Jane Addams, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Mary...

Letters describe her activities and travels related to post-war relief in Poland.

Assorted original, translated, and printed materials pertaining to the Armenian community in California.

Contains a large number of bookplate samples from various artists and notable persons around the world including some of Anne M. Danielsen's own works. Includes pamphlets, booklets, literature, clippings, and other ephemera related to bookplate collecting, two engraved printing plates,...

The papers include drafts for Macpherson's Ph.D. dissertation and research materials regarding Alexander von Humboldt, correspondence, photographs of travels, clippings, etc.

The collection consists of photographs of members of Anne Raphael's family and photographs that document her work as an actress, in addition to copies of her and her son's drawings and paintings. The collection also has a one-page family history...

Mainly photographs collected during her research on Robert Louis Stevenson, including areas in Napa County. Also includes photographs on forestry and redwoods primarily from Save the Redwoods League.

The manuscript portion of the collection consists of Anne Salz Perlman's papers, and includes personalia; her poetry, short stories, newspaper articles about army wives, and other writings; publishing and personal correspondence; materials related to professional activities; collaborations with her husband,...

Seattle background and family; studying jewelry-making, New York City, 1945; Far Eastern studies, University of Washington, 1946-1957; move to Berkeley and UC Berkeley library job; contact with northern California designer craftsmen; establishing home, studio, and gallery on Hyde Street, San...

Contains correspondence, writings, clippings, reviews, and related material regarding Rosenshine's art and interest in psychoanalysis. Significant correspondents include Flora Arnstein, Constantin Brancusi, Erich Fromm, Allen Ginsberg, Henri Matisse, Henry Miller, Lewis Mumford, Paul Padgette (her literary executor), Chris Rambo, Evelyn...

Title devised by cataloger.

Views of Portugal and various parts of Africa. Includes hunting photographs, Masai and Kavirondo people and villages, and views of Mombasa, Entebbe, Lake Victoria, Uganda, Lake Nakuru, Zanzibar, Mozambique, and South Africa. Taken on safari in British East Africa during...

Copies of reports for Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe, and White Pine counties. Each includes "detailed report of receipts and expenditures."

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Includes a few letters to Lawton Kennedy; birth announcements, wedding invitations, Christmas cards, with photographs by Adams, printed by Lawton Kennedy.

Nineteen typescript letters, signed by Adams, on his personal letterhead stationery writing in his capacity as a Director and Board member of the Sierra Club. Most are addressed to Philip S. Berry in his capacity as Secretary and then President...

Typewritten note, with manuscript edits, on the photographic postcard of Ansel Adams' Moonrise, Hernandez, NM, with autograph of Ansel Adams. Adams describes the actions and camera settings he took to capture the image.

4 letters with envelopes

6 letters, 6 postcards, 1 photograph.

Papers relating to Hall's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Mss. of lectures, book reviews and articles relating to accountancy; reports as member of C.P.A. firm of Lester Herrick & Herrick, including statement of accounts, 1906-1909, of San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, report on accounting procedures for the...

Contains correspondence concerning the Blake House, business letters, California history, and about opposition to Women's Suffrage in 1911 most notably regarding California and New York State; miscellaneous items for the Golden Gate International Exposition; two scrapbooks on Blake's service and...

Materials concerning agrarian reform in Mexico.

Compilations of an anthology of French poetry and of a short dictionary of French proverbs and colloquial expressions: (v. 1-2) Anthologie; (v. 3) Proverbes et locutions; (v. 4) Receuil de proverbes et locutions; (v. 5) Mon Zoo (a description of...

Six brief letters from the Earl of Shaftesbury to various individuals.

Contains Anthony Boucher's book review files and other related information on typed 3 x 5 cards with some manuscript notations. Files are arranged by author for each genre or form. Cards on Boucher's own works are filed separately. Also includes...

Comprises ephemera and miscellanous materials related to the life and career of Anthony Boucher. Includes issues of periodical publications that contain articles written by or about Boucher, miscellaneous files, galley proofs of several books with which Boucher was associated (not...

Original large-format photographs, most of the images of which are reproduced in Anthony's book Summer of Love : Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (published in 1980). Images document people, places, events and street scenes associated with the counter-culture movement of the...

Chiefly photographs from Gertrude Anthony's time (1919-1922?) as a teacher in Armenia, Greece, and Turkey.

Banking business in Philadelphia, New York, and Paris; railroad interests; views on silver, government operation of railroads, capital and labor, etc.

The Anthony P. Morse papers including correspondence, notes, writings, and publications.

of Anthony Tusler;

Family and background, Ottumwa, Iowa; anthropology at Northwestern, Melville Herskovits; Ph. D. at UC Berkeley, Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie; first travel to Mexico; marriage to Mary LeCron, 1938, and trip to Austria; research with Sierra Popoluca, 1940-1941; teaching at Syracuse...

Family and community, Minnesota; education, University of Minnesota, Radcliffe; influence of Ruth and Wilson Wallis, others, and work with life histories, Pomo Indians, Makah Indians, Poston War Relocation Camp; to Northern Rhodesia, 1946, Max Gluckman, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, rain shrine work;...

Publicity materials, brochures and clippings pertaining to the Anti-Monopoly League of California and a chain-store license tax bill on the 1936 state ballot.

Compilation of six articles, three by William Tornheim, the others by Miss Mabelle Hust; edited by Mrs. Lois Cox.

Contains views of antique motorcars, and an aerial view of exhibition buildings and grounds.

Doyle discusses his family background, Bishop, California; Stanford University and Harvard Law School; the McCutchen firm in the 1930s; partners and clients, office space and equipment, customs, changes in the firm and in antitrust law; major cases: Bank of China,...

Clippings of reviews of Epopeia maldita are accompanied by a letter from Cértima to America[?] Cardoso.

Miscellaneous letters, received by the Mexican general, from Maximino Avila Camacho, Ignacio M. Beteta, and Ignacio García Téllez.

A miscellany of various authors in several languages copied in manuscript from the printed Antologia de vari autori, Milano, 1816. Contains: Antologia di Shakspeare... Milano, 1817; and Sofocle. Accompanied by a printed text: Il manuale d'epitteto [Epictetus, Manual] tradotto da...

Chiefly portraits of William Everson, including images when he was Brother Antoninus. Includes snapshots of book signings and Everson's 67th birthday party.

Illustrations, cartoons, and caricatures by Antonio Arias Bernal, presumably for publication in Mexican newspapers or magazines.

Skeletal diary 1829 Nov. 7 - 1830 April 25, of a trading and exploratory journey from New Mexico to California and back, enclosed in letter, Santa Fe, May 14, 1830, from José Antonio Chávez, Jefe Político of New Mexico, to...

Letter from Trinidad Rodríguez to Cordero, requesting protection for the Indians in San Juan de Sultó, Huejotitán, March 22, 1819. Also letter of Cordero to Angel Pinilla for dispatch of requested documents, Los Alamos, February 21, 1820.

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Letters from Santa Anna to Agustín de Iturbide and to his lawyer Joaquín Alcalde; documents by Santa Anna and Alcalde, relating to his trial in October 1867, containing biographical information; communications from Ignacio Mejía and Juan C. Doria; copy of...

Contains 8 letters of acknowledgment concerning expulsion of Spaniards from Mexico, holidays, elections, and an invasion of Veracruz from Havana, Cuba.

Contains 3 letters concerning the election of Manuel Gómez Pedraza as President of Mexico and the protest by the population in Verzcruz.

Documents relating to litigation over land near Guerrero on the Río Grande in the state of Coahuila, involving López and Romualdo Flores. Include petitions; papers relating to a survey; the final settlement, and the fine imposed on López; letter (June...

Letters selected by Alfred B. Thomas from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville.

Letters written by the viceroy from Mexico to Francisco Pangua, guardian of the College of San Fernando, re sending religious with ships sailing to San Diego and Monterey and on voyages of exploration along the coast of California.

Contains one handwritten letter and one telegram addressed to Antonio Maria Pico. The letter is addressed from San Francisco on October 13, 1853 from J. Domingo Marks and concerns Rincon Point. The telegram, also from San Francisco and dated February...

Includes briefs, findings, correspondence, and reports on water use by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in Inyo County between 1972 and 2001. Also includes copies of historical legal documents on the conflict over water between Inyo County and...

Collection consists of original drawings by Sotomayor in two categories: caricature portraits and set and theme designs for balls and other major parties. Drawings have been numbered in three series: 1987.001.1: 36 caricature portraits in pastels (some with gouache additions)...

Albums contain press clippings of various caricatures and cartoons, as well as individual pages from the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner newspapers.

Membership records; correspondence and related papers; minute books; account books.

Contains request for specimens of fungi by C.G. Lloyd of the Lloyd Library and correspondence with collector W.H. Henderson in Sacramento, Calif.

Evidently a preliminary draft of Appendix VII of the above work, much abbreviated, entitled, "Razon de la construccion del Mapa particular de la California y del general de la America Septentrional, Asia Oriental, y del Mar del Sur intermedio. Traduccion...

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Correspondence, research materials and publications by Donald Appleyard, a professor in the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design.

A consulting engineer's description of proposed bus routes for the Bridge Bus Lines Corporation, in Marin County, containing detailed list of stops, maps, schedules, transfer points, estimated saving in time over other methods of transportation, and estimated expenditures.

Copies of the applications with supporting documents, including snapshots, for the following: Yucaipa Adobe; Sycamore Grove Monument; Stoddard-Waite Monument; Santa Fe and Salt Lake Trail Monument; Mormon Trail Monument; Daley Toll Road Monument; Yucaipa Rancheria; Holcomb Valley; Garces-Smith Monument; Lugonia...

Thomas Wagstaff's appointment of Hawes as treasurer. A copy of the biography of Wagstaff and letters patent included.

Interviews with three members of Reagan's staff. Copies of photographs and of documentary material inserted. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as follows: Winfred Adams. Strategies for Republican Elections, State Government Management, and Water Resources, 1963-1976. Comments on his work as...

Photographs depict buildings affiliated with the public school system of Oakland, Calif. In addition to various elementary, junior high, and high school classroom buildings, the collection also includes images of janitor's homes, annex buildings, vocational schools, and the Chabot Observatory.

Comments on her mother and father, Rosalie and Sigmund Stern and the Meyer, Stern and Haas families; growing up in San Francisco and in Atherton; marriage to Walter Haas; her community services; family's support of Stern Grove; her interest in...

Biographical notes on the career of Francisco Segura, jurist and secretary general for the state of Morelos, containing references to Governors Jesus Preciado and Carlos Pacheco and other officials.

A compendium of Spanish and Mexican laws, some relating to Indians and the measurement of land in the New World, and including a copy of José Berní's treatise on Spanish jurisprudence, 1773.

A collection of data on the history of Lower California, with emphasis upon missions, Indian disturbances, and the biographies of political administrators, covering in a few instances events in northern California.

Reports of Lodge No. 30 of Baja California to the Masonic Supreme Council, with a history of the lodge, 1869-1871, lists of officers and members, and a financial statement.

Notes written for H.H. Bancroft's History of California commenting on various subjects : lands (particularly relating to the missions and ranchos of Alta California), roads, municipal government, census records, Indians of California, secularization of the mission, the Padres-Hijar colonization scheme,...

Notes on world geography with emphasis on North America, particularly Mexico; touching upon waterways, topography, population centers, natural resources, climates, and various matters.

Album of bound original charcoal drawings by Sergio Sánchez Santamaría. Many images feature an anthropomorphic coyote figure in revolutionary campesino attire with sombrero and sarape -- a theme common in the artist's work -- carrying a rooster, wielding a machete...

Minutes; financial statements; membership lists; newsletters; press releases; posters and fliers; holiday planning outlines; scripts for pageants and plays, including a script for the original Purim plays "The Chocham of Shushan Oz" and "Raisins in the Basement," and Sara Shendelman's...

Contains correspondence between Dr. Aquila B. Massey and Anne R. Massey, concerning Dr. Massey's overland journey to California in 1849 during the gold rush, and his work as a doctor during the American Civil War in Nashville, Tenn. Also includes...

Statement, recorded for H.H. Bancroft, concerns his voyage to San Francisco via Panama in 1851, gold mining to 1853, and his several businesses. (2 l.).

Contains office files, Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) records, and Environmental Impact Reports for Arc Ecology's work, primarily monitoring the closure and redevelopment of military bases in the San Francisco Bay Area. The bulk of the materials are for Hunter's Point...

Draft of manuscript of her reminiscences as descendant of the Bandini family, covering childhood at the Guajome Rancho with its Indians, early memories of San Diego, and recollections of her great-aunt Arcadia Bandini Stearns de Baker. With many illustrative photographs.

Consists of correspondence and accounts. Most of the correspondence is with owners F. Korbel & Bros. Co. including letters between Francis, Anton and Joseph Korbel and the railroad superintendent Vaclav Zaruba. The accounts concentrate with local businesses in Arcata and...

Education in England, Cambridge; pre-war work in Africa, Rhodes-Livingstone Museum history, museum collections, infrastructure; conversation with Betty Clark about family and the museum in wartime; WW II in Somaliland, Yavello, Gondar campaign, ancecdotes; 1947 Pan-African Congress and subsequent congresses; work...

Photograph album documenting the social and leisure activities of Archeleen Scrutchings (1927-2021) and her African American milieu during her years attending Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. Images depict friends and fellow students; Archeleen's colleagues in Pocatello's African Methodist Episcopal...

Reports of the 1973 and 1974 archeological investigations at Champoeg and of the search for complementary historical materials relating to the site (now Champoeg State Park). The 1973 report includes history of the settlement, reconstruction of building techniques, some biographical...

Slides show excavation, artifacts, and members of the original Calico Site field staff: Dr. Thomas Clements, Dee Simpson, Dr. Louis Leakey, and others.

Photographs, taken by Archibald J. Treat, include views of Yosemite, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, Marin and El Dorado counties, Azalea Lake, Calif., the 1st California Regiment returning from the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, informal family groups, fishing,...

History of the Livermore family; Horatio Livermore and across the plains by wagon train, 1850s; mining and entrepreneurship in Gold Rush California; building the first PG & E unit at Folsom; Norman and Caroline Livermore and the acquisition of public...

Photographs show buildings designed for the Treasure Island 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco.

Contains a typewritten account (3 p.) by an unidentified architect of two buildings being constructed for the A. Schilling company at Folsom and Second Streets in San Francisco shortly after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Includes descriptions of the new...

Childhood in rural Japan, 1953-73; campus demonstrations over treaty rewrite between Japan and US; neck broken in judo competition; second degree architect license; opens architecture office from home; more professional freedom with driver's license; social life as a young person...

List of views included in report.

1 set of architectural drawings; 1 set of general specifications and 1 of specifications for mechanical work (plumbing, heating, and electrical).

With these: autobiographical notes (1 l., typescript), and a list compiled by M.H. White, Sept. 19, 1947, of projects and/or buildings completed by Maybeck.

The drawings show: sewage piping of the East Yard; dry docks 4-6, marine railways 1-3; electrical distribution system; and piping map of the East Yard.

Copies of articles, pamphlets, programs, etc. Ephemeral material.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes a photograph of a drawing for Montecito beach cottages by Myron Hunt, the First Church of Christ (Berkeley, Calif.) by Bernard Maybeck, a house by Green and Green, and various Southern California homes in the Spanish mission style. Includes...

Includes designs for an adobe rancho, sketches of various homes and other projects, designs for remodeling, and some items related to Golden Gate International Exposition. One item is by Charles F. Maury.

Joseph Esherik discusses his Quaker background, his mentor uncle Wharton Esherick, and his education at the University of Pennsylvania; his wartime experience; his early clients in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute...

Includes views of the St. Xavier Apartments, Pacific Heights, the Banca Italiana, the Alfred Lilienfeld & Co. building, I. Magnin & Co., Jos. Fredericks and Company, Hotel Brillant, and other businesses.

Architectural views showing interiors and exteriors, architectural models, furniture, etc.

Selected documents concerning the organization and activities of limited companies interested in the North American West. An analytical card index to the companies, with notes on the character, place, and time of their operations, is available. A more complete description...

Selected documents concerning the organization and activities of limited Scottish companies interested in the North American West. Includes files on Scotish Ontario Gold Mining Syndicate, Ltd.; Scottish Mexican Oil Company, Ltd.; Oregonian Railway Company, Ltd.; Mexican Prospecting Company, Ltd.; Hawaiian...

Copies of documents made for H.H. Bancroft from originals housed in various California repositories. Most materials date from 1846 to 1850.

Extracts and copies of documents (273 volumes and loose papers) assembled in the U.S. Surveyor General's Office, San Francisco. Made for H.H. Bancroft by and under the direction of Thomas Savage, 1876-1877. Originals destroyed in 1906 fire.

Provincial State Papers, Benicia, 1770-1821. Vols. I-II; register of Brands and Marks, 1828-1834; Mexican Archives, Lower California, 1847-1848, Vols. I-II; state papers, Benicia, 1773-1829, Vol. I; Cuaderno de actas de elecciones de Diputados al Congreso general y á la Diputación...

Copies and extracts of documents selected by E.F. Murray for H.H. Bancroft.

Extracts, made for H.H. Bancroft by Thomas Savage and others, of letters, etc., 1772-1849, of Catholic missionaries in California.

This volume contains extracts and transcripts made in 1877 for H. H. Bancroft from records at that time in the Archives of the Bishopric of Monterey and Los Angeles. Included are excerpts from the Libros de Patentes from the following...

Collection of note cards containing bibliographic information. These cards were an unfinished, unidentified project, not directly related to the Bancroft Library's collection of microfilm from the Archivo General de Indias. Carton 11 contains Adele Kibre's notes and two pieces of...

Topics deal with Spanish exploration and settlement on the frontiers north from Mexico City, including the Provincias Internas, the Californias, New Mexico, and Texas; and maritime explorations and foreign intrusions into Spain's Pacific waters. (Transcripts and prints).

Topics dealt with emphasize Spanish exploration and settlement on the frontiers north from Mexico City, including the the Californias, New Mexico, and Texas; and maritime explorations and foreign intrusions into Spain's Pacific waters. (Documents are transcripts and/or record prints.)

This collection contains microfilm of selected documents concerning military reports, appointments of officers, trials, and descriptions of commerce and government, collected under the direction of George P. Hammond. They refer to Mexico in general but there is a strong emphasis...

Selected and copied by Thomas Savage.

Original documents and contemporary copies, emanating from or relating to the California missions. Include correspondence, circular letters, reports, accounts, a few padrones, and one book of marriages.

Primarily views of the arctic cruise of the revenue steamer Bear in 1886. Contains views of whaling ships, native dwellings and villages, sled dogs, snapshots and portraits of native people (including children), native costumes, totem poles, graveyards, group portraits of...

Clippings, notes, photocopies of articles, photographs, etc.

Photographs show patients, staff, and facilities of the Arequipa Sanatorium, situated in Fairfax (Marin County), California, including exterior and interior views, grounds, activities (pottery, basket weaving, etc.), dormitories, lounges, etc.

Records span the years from its beginning in 1911 throughout the operation and closure of Arequipa Sanatorium in 1957/58. Contains a small amount of administrative, financial, and medical files, as well as the correspondence of Dr. Philip King Brown, and...

Include papers of Santiago Argüello, many relating to his army career and to his property in Baja California; José Ramón Argüello and Luis A. Argüello.

The documents, primarily from the T.W. Norris and the Cowan Collections, include 1792 census record for Monterey, San Jose and some of the missions; copy of a report, 1797, re Indians of the Colorado River area; an order, 1801, re...

Collection comprises the administrative and financial records of the Argonaut Mining Company of Jackson, California, from 1890 to 1984, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1893 to 1948.

Contains administrative and financial records of a California mining company.

Depicts dedication ceremony on May 2, 1965 (crowd surrounding decorated playground), and a group of people playing chess.

Include crew list, freight list, accounts, receipts, etc.

Contains correspondence, materials on Parkinson's civic engagement, journals, notebooks on art and writings, theatre production files, design files, set designs and drawings, exhibit files, and photographs and slides.

Protect the Earth [caricature depicting pollution, waste, war, and overpopulation] -- San Francisco Bay [caricature depicting industrial development of the Bay for profit].

The Arif Press was founded in Berkeley, California in 1971. The Arif Press records consist of four series, including project files, correspondence, general press files, and personal.

This collection contains project files for books, menus, letterhead and other materials published by Arif Press. Subjects include culinary arts, poetry, literary works, Berkeley history. Project files include correspondence, invoices, mock-ups, notes, specifications, biographies, bibliographies and book plates. Includes works...

Photographs of Arizona desert country made during the U.S. military exploration for roads under General McDowell, Clarence King, and James T. Gardiner. Includes views of Fort Mojave (Arizona), Mojave Indians, surveyors' camps, scenery of the Granite Moutains, the town of...

Snapshots chiefly of Hopi (and perhaps other pueblo tribes) and Navajo Indians. Some views identified as Oraibi (Ariz.) and Mishongnovi. Includes some family groups, dances, and ceremonies. Multiple copies of some images are present.

Arizona, views along the Apache Trail, Point Lobos, Grass Valley, etc.

Scrapbook shows travels (by train) through Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, the Canadian Rockies, rural Washington and the Columbia River, Utah, and California. Views from the American Southwest show Indian groups, pueblos, a Hopi reservation, and scenes of the Snake Dance. Indian...

Includes minutes, memoranda, reports, correspondence.

Photographs depict landscapes of Arizona desert near the Castle Hot Springs resort area in Yavapai County. Subject matter includes general desert views, various types of cactus and other desert plants, Castle Hot Springs resort and the Grand Canyon. One photograph...

A collection of dictations from settlers in Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, taken by an agent of H.H. Bancroft.

A collection of dictations from settlers in Apache, Gila, Mohave and Yuma counties in Arizona Territory, taken by an agent of H.H. Bancroft.

A collection of dictations from settlers in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, taken by an agent of H.H. Bancroft.

A collection of dictations from settlers in Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, taken by an agent of H.H. Bancroft.

A collection of dictations from settlers in Pima County, Arizona Territory, taken by an agent of H.H. Bancroft.

Concerns such topics as railroads, land tenure, mines and mineral resources, Indians of North America, stocks, armed forces, Abraham Lincoln, and Indian warfare. Each item cataloged separately. Search under title Arizona miscellany.

Photographs show homes, many with Indians in front of them. Other photos of Indians also included, showing Havasupai, Apache, and Mojave Indians (some on reservations). Also includes missions in Tucson and on an Indian reservation. Some photos related to Dr....

This collection contains materials collected on various toxic hazard campaigns and public advocacy committees, primarily in Arizona, by Michael Gregory of Arizona Toxics Information. Includes a wide variety of materials on subjects such as hazardous waste management facilities and the...

Photograph shows a group of trappers at Tombstone, Az. with the prey they caught to earn the bounty offered by Cochise County. Accompanying letter gives number of each type of animal caught, and other information about the event.

Includes view of a street scene in Tucson, the San Xavier Mission near Tucson, a group of miners near a hay bale house at Catactive, and views of the Gila Bend Reservoir and irrigation channel.

Photographs of Arlena McZeal taken from her childhood in the 1920s to the 1960s, with an emphasis on her adult social life and her activities associated with the Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.). Includes snapshots and formal portraits of...

The collection consists of photographs and documents relating to Arlene Kaplan's parents, who were from Germany before, during, and after the Nazi era. The collection contains various photographs and photographic albums of Kaplan's parents, as well as family documents, and...

Letters, subject files, speeches and clippings, relating mainly to his activities connected with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, California Board of State Harbor Commissioners, Progressive Party, prohibition, and Plymouth Congregational Church, Oakland, California.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Mainly predictions re events during World War II by members, Clarence D. Brenner, Charles L. Camp, George R. Stewart, Ronald N. Walpole, Joseph H. Jackson, C.S. Forester and others. Included is a letter from C.H. Wright, Mar. 2, 1946.

Collection includes accounts, 1942-1972, and minutes, 1940-1943; accounts, 1942-1973, membership lists, and minutes, 1941-1983, of its Ladies' Chapter; and minutes, 1943-1967, for its Men's Chapter. Also included are accounts and minutes, 1923-1940, for its predecessor, the Berkeley-Oakland Branch, and some...

Includes group and individual portraits (some cyanotypes and cabinet cards), and an oil painting on board by N.T. Mirov.

Personal (predominately financial) concerning bills and receipts, insurance, property, press releases, and his library; professional (correspondence, writings, and subject file) concerning his interest and activities in astronomy and associated organizations, academic agencies of the University of California while a professor,...

Contains original, corrected typescript and printer's corrected copy of Soledad brother, along with a heavily annotated copy of the paperback, publicity, and reviews. Includes a corrected typescript of Armstong's, My brother, George, which was published as The dragon has come,...

Letters and postcards from the British playwright to Ronald Hayman regarding his work in the theater; and the fourth typed draft of his play, The Journalists.

The Daniel Israel Arnon Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts of his writings, grant files, laboratory notebooks, experimental data, drawings for slides, research notes, lectures and speeches, awards and honors, and biographical information, which document his distinguished career at U.C. Berkeley.

The Flora J. Arnstein Papers document the career of a San Franciscan alternative educator and writer.

Papers relating to Arnstein's interest in various public health issues such as raw milk, child care centers (including speeches he made and a statement to the California State Board of Health); material on the San Francisco Social Hygiene and Health...

Wanted poster offering reward for arrest of Torahiko Yoshimizu (pictured), Hattaro Terada, L. Shiraish and O. Kuma, all of whom are suspected in the beating and murder of foreman John Kyne in Betabel, near Gilroy (Santa Clara County, Calif.). Also...

P. 5-7 and 1-22 of two incomplete records of arrivals and departures of vessels.

Postcards of scenic views and attractions around Arrowhead Springs, Calif. Subjects include Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel, Penyugal Hot Spring, Cold Water Canyon, and the Spanish bayonet plant (yucca glauca).

Early years in Missouri and Texas; contracting polio at age three; receiving master's degree in literature from Columbia University; leaving teaching to pursue acting; rejection from Neighborhood Playhouse due to disability; moving to Portland, Oregon; joining the Family Circus Theater;...

Childhood in Italy and emigration of family to California in 1905; early interest in art and move to San Francisco in 1914; career as artist, book illustrator (including work for Grabhorn Brothers), printer and author. Appended: copies of documentary material,...

Mainly concerning his long association with the University at Berkeley, as professor and chairman, Philosophy Dept., as chairman, Art Dept., as assistant dean of College of Letters and Science, as member of many key academic and administrative committees, and, after...

Concerns personal and family history and development of interest and activity in parks and conservation.

Artwork by Daniel Moore, as well as photographs of performances by the company. Includes performances of Bliss apocalypse and The walls are running blood.

Growing up in California in Japanese household; her parents' farm; internment during World War II; study of art; her career as an artist; community involvement, particularly in public school art programs; service on city and state art commissions and panels....

Illustrated posters created by Art Hazelwood, pertaining to various local and national political topics, including Hoover Institute, Earth Day, "Save our post office", Hospitality House (San Francisco), homelessness and housing rights, John Priola (San Francisco Art Institute) and a few...

Includes correspondence, minutes, financial records, clippings, and notes. Also contains a small amount of ephemera from Bay Area artists and artisans. Scrapbooks include clippings and printed matter, additional club records, and photographs. Oversize folder contains a presentation copy of the...

Include and account of the founding, roster of members and copies of minutes of meetings.

Interviewees include: Allen F. Breed, Theory and Practice in Juvenile Justice (tapes 1-3); and Raymond K. Pocunier, Administering Your Prisons (tapes 4-6).

Chiefly artwork for his Leaves of life, including many nudes; one drawing with revolutionary slogans; and one portrait of Ferlinghetti.

The works illustrate something of the process of artistic composition. Many drawings experiment with the same theme; others are of people.

Two items attached to an album page, one a note signed by "A Ward," and the other a "Free and unsolicited pass" for an Artemus Ward show. Written below the note, on the album page, says that it was an...

Correspondence with publishers, contracts, and royalty statements, concerning the publication of his history textbooks; and financial papers. Letter from Claude B. Hutchison included.

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Contains correspondence, Eaton's journals, reports and maps from his time in China. Also includes reports on oil in southern California, Utah and Wyoming and mineral resources in Oregon, a narrative about China written by his wife Emily Churchill later in...

Includes correspondence, lecture notes, course materials, and research files documenting Professor Kip's career in the UC Berkeley Department of Physics. Research files include materials relating to his experimental work in paramagnetic and cyclotron resonance.

Contains writings by Pinto, chiefly manuscript and typescript autobiographical accounts and related correspondence in both English and Portuguese, concerning his experiences as a Portuguese immigrant and world traveler. Includes portions of his "Episodes of an immigrant in the USA," and...

Papers relating to Blake's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Correspondence, papers, articles, publications, and ephemera related to Brayfield's work as an author and professor of psychology. Includes correspondence (personal and official), articles, and two scrapbooks pertaining to the loyalty oath controversy at the University of California at Berkeley and...

Papers concerning promotion of oil company in Montana, 1919-1925, and the 1925 session of the California Legislature.

Contains Chamberlain's vita, ca. 1909, and an undated draft of unknown authorship concerning Chamberlain's suitability for superintendent of schools in Pasadena, Calif. Includes three letters by Chamberlain to E.C. and C.C. Boynton of Boynton and Esterly regarding his interest in...

Record of voyages on various British ships, from England around the Horn to Vancouver, and return to England via California, Mexico and Peru.

Scrapbook of clippings from California newspapers of his political and editorial writings, 1917-1937; scrapbook compiled by his granddaughter containing letters from him, clippings of articles, family snapshots and obituaries, 1932-1937; and some manuscripts of his religious writings.

Engineer. Some materials relate to the Sacramento River Irrigation District; some to oil pipelines.

Two bound memorandum books of an ornithologist covering the period of time he spent searching for gold in during the Klondike gold rush. Dated entries are in pencil and contain details of his observations and activities. Both diaries contain information...

Collection of research notes, correspondence, library and auction catalog descriptions, etc., relating to The Foliophiles, Inc. Includes extensive notes on the location and contents of various copies of leaf books issued by Foliophiles: Printed pages from English literature (1925); Printed...

Photobook documenting construction of a primitive kiln, and forming and firing of pottery, in an unidentified outdoor location, possibly in California. Two potters are depicted throughout volume. A few pieces of finished pottery are also depicted.

Views of White's Shoe Shop of Spokane, Washington. Subjects include exterior and interior views, shoemakers at work, boots and other types of shoes, cobbler's forms, manufacturing and repair equipment, leather and other materials, and packaging.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley letters and autograph fragments, BANC MSS 74/57 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Notes, reprints, and papers relating to his teaching career as associate professor of mathematics, University of California, Berkeley. Some papers of B. C. Wong included.

Contains letters written by Arthur Rodgers to his family, discussing the sinking of the ship Brother Jonathan on its way to Oregon, spiritualism, the effect of the Civil War on Tennessee, attending the California State Normal School and teaching school,...

Include drafts of the following papers and lectures: Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Simoneau - A California Friendship; Conquista y Colonización; La Renovación del Pacto de Familia en el Año 1779; an introduction to The First Geographical Description of New...

Photocopies of letters, with typed transcripts. Later letters express his views on American politics, slavery, and the Civil War.

Includes materials relating to land acquisitions of the Western Pacific Railroad at Quincy, Calif. and in Plumas Co.

Kept while chief engineer, Western Pacific, based at Quincy, Calif.

Articles relate to wilderness trips, forestry, preservation, and Marshall's founding of The Wilderness Society. Many are written by his brother, George Marshall.

Drafts of treaties (one signed by Meriwether) signed by the witnesses (including Richard S. Ewell) with the Capote and Moache bands of the Utes. With names of chiefs signing.

Comprises 15 articles of agreement, followed by list of officers and crew; Elisha Snow, commander.

Signed by members of the party.

Transcripts by A. Pinart, in Russian, of "The River Mednaia, Described by Serebrennikov, 1847-1848" (7 p.); "Information about the Chukchi, from the Notes of Captains Shishmarev, 1821" (14 p.); "Expedition to the Aleutian Islands of Captains Krenitsin and Levashev, 1764-1769";...

Photocopies.

Photocopy of signed draft, with additional article, Jan. 16, 1847, of surrender of the California forces to Colonel J.C. Fremont.

Part of a collection of transcriptions of 7 documents relating to the Mosquito Question, collected by Alphonse Louis Pinart.

Custom wooden box containing trays of various objects used in child development assessment testing by Nancy Bayley at the Harold E. Jones Child Study Center, University of California, Berkeley. Objects include dolls, wooden blocks and peg boards, mirrors, diagrams, key,...

Career as artist, illustrator and printer, including work on Federal Art Project and association with Grabhorn Press. Photographs inserted. With this: a few pages from two books he illustrated and printed.

Elliott discusses her family and early education in Detroit; career as first woman designer, Ford Motor Co.; teaching career at the University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley, and College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, Calif.; marriage to Roy Elliott;...

Volume includes index.

Views of exteriors of prominent homes in California. A few interiors are also included.

A collection of celebrity cartes de visite and other portraits from Europe and the United States including actors, actresses, royalty, literary figures, military officers, and some unidentified people.

Views of artists working on murals for the World's Fair of 1939-1940 held in New York.

Files comprised chiefly of the "chronicles" (i.e. papers delivered, chiefly by members, at Arts Club meetings), 1937-1958. Also includes: Record of membership and meetings, 1935-1946 (Stephen C. Pepper); "The Early Years of the Arts Club (1935-1940)," by Edward W. Strong,...

Photograph album documenting 1977-1978 activities of University Jazz Band of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, in which Arturo "Tony" Moreno was a percussionist. Includes scenes of a few concerts, musicians on a bus, and band members partying. Album also contains...

Collection includes dummies of seven covers for "The lark" (pen & ink) by Ernest C. Peixotto; a drawing by W.W. Fawcett to illustrate Carolyn Wells' parodies of "The Purple cow;" eight relief print posters for "The Lark" and an original...

Albums prepared by Justine Jones Fixel with text and color photographs documenting her paintings and constructions. Artwork depicted dates from 1946-2002. Much of the text is autobiographical, chiefly regarding her influences and the inspirations for her artwork.

Collection includes many caricatures of political and other figures, some French. Also includes portraits of Indians of Port Orford, Oregon; a view of San Francisco Chinatown; and other unidentified portraits.

Includes letters, 1861 & 1863, from Asa and Henry E. Adams to family in the East, written from Honey Lake Valley, Calif., concerning the "Sagebrush War."

Mounted photographs, clippings and miscellaneous papers, with explanatory notes.

Written to family in Maine concerning mining experiences in the vicinity of Columbia and Yreka, California. Some letters written by his brother, Charles, and other relatives.

Consists of manuscripts of Heydon's writings and correspondence with friend Maude Horn. Manuscripts include "Po-pa-gie," a retelling of a Native American tradition, "Alaska Yukon ballads," about life in the Yukon, "My pearl," "The sourdough's lament," "The mastodon," and others. Also...

Photographs show general and detailed views of the Burlingame train depot (Calif.), relating to its restoration and conservation.

Series of original prints (woodcuts, lithographs and serigraphs) advocating human rights, social justice and other causes as they pertain to various contemporary events and situations in Mexico -- e.g. unjust treatment of illegal Mexican immigrants in the U.S.; the violent...

Documents in a law suit, agreements, and reports, relating to various mining properties in California.

Topics covered include family, Idaho Falls, and education, University of California, Berkeley; Kaiser companies industrial and labor relations, 1952-1957; Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 1957-1992: Health Plan Manager, regional manager, Southern California, 1957-1970, to Oakland CA Central Office of KPHP/KPH,...

Views of natural features and scenery, members of the survey party and their camps. Locations include the Sierra Nevada range of California and Nevada and numerous sites in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Several Central Pacific Railroad views are included.

Includes views of Mount Diablo, Calif., from the west and south, Ransom's Point, and chimney of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey protecting copper bolt where Mt. Diablo base and meridian lines cross.

Includes: two letters; clippings of articles written by and about him; Mercury Theatre program; obituary clipping.

Letter from Benjamin Ashurst to Mr. [Ambrose?] Philips regarding the purchase of tickets to a performance; and letter from W[illia]m Ayerst to "Sir" (possibly Ambrose Philips) regarding the papers of the late Mr. [Thomas?] Harrison. Includes related manuscript, apparently relating...

Mainly letters and invitations relating to his career as U.S. Senator from Arizona.

Photographs mainly taken in China but include other Asian locations (esp. Japan). Photographs show many touristic views: Buddist monks and temples, other buildings, rural scenes, boats, street scenes (including beggars smoking opium), landscapes, wild animals, etc. Many portraits of Chinese...

Includes a bridal portrait, wedding and funeral groups, an American Legion gathering, and the Filipino Methodist Church congregation in San Francisco.

Assay records for mines in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California, 1877-1878, BANC MSS C-G 233, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Interviews with four California legislators who held leadership roles during the Brown and Reagan administrations. Copies of photographs inserted. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as follow: William Bagley. Some Complexities of Social Progress and Fiscal Reform; James R. Mills. A...

Collection of 6 individual assignats in various amounts and one uncut sheet of 20 assignats in the amount of 50 sols from 1793; watermarks and embossing in the center of each specimen. A specimen from 1791 includes a cameo portrait...

Four letters from 1879 and one from 1883, all discussing the details of membership reunions. Three letters are signed by the Association's secretary, Francis D. Clark, and the fourth by Senior Vice-President H.G. Gibson. One letter has been annotated with...

Of James E. Sisson;

Collection of various business and advertising cards (including two advertising postcards), mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area. Includes Roos Bros Clothing at 31-37 Kearny St., San Francisco; Sing Fat Co., Inc. (with illustration of store) at corner of California...

BANC PIC 2017.074--PIC: Excursion train A.A. Denny No. 1, Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad -- BANC PIC 2017.075--PIC: Portland, Oregon and Mt. Hood -- BANC PIC 2017.076--PIC: San Bernardino street fair near the court house -- BANC PIC 2017.077--PIC: Twelve...

California views that focus on parks show maps and document trips in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Many photos show wilderness areas, presumably in California. Photographs that show scenes outside of California include views of Zion Canyon (Utah), Mt. Assiniboine...

Biographical sketches of John Jacob Astor (1763-1848), William Backhouse Astor (1792-1875), John Jacob Astor II (1822-1890), and William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919); concerns the establishment of the family fortune through the fur and China trade and through real estate operations in...

Includes copies of articles of incorporation and by-laws; financial records; notes on meetings of board of directors, publications, memberships, etc.; and correspondence, including letters from George O. Abell, Louis Berman, Louis G. Henyey, Hamilton M. Jeffers, Gerald E. Kron, John...

Account of political developments in Panama, 1848-1868. Stresses the population increase caused by the California Gold Rush, diminution of ecclesiastical civil powers, relations between foreigners and Panamanians, whites and Negroes, and the Conservative-Liberal conflict.

Two letters: March 30, 1863 ; December 13, 1875

Includes snapshots, portraits and press photographs taken of George Atcheson, Jr. throughout his career, including during his service in pre-World War II China and post-World War II Japan. Also includes photographs of associated figures such as Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek,...

Bound volume containing club meeting minutes beginning with the founding of the Athenian Club in Oakland, California, dated April 14, 1883 to February 17, 1894. Includes a separate typescript alphabetical index of member's names and their corresponding entries in the...

Interview with found of the Athenian School in Danville, California, a college preparation private school founded in 1965 by Brown. Also included is an interview with Edwin Ellis, hired in 1966 as Dean of Students. He worked at the school...

Handwritten and typed minutes of meetings for the Athenian Club, Aug. 14, 1893-July 7, 1910, mostly concerning activities, financial matters, and rules.

Correspondence includes letters from publishers and friends. Contracts and accounts; manuscripts of various novels and stories; copies of stories published in magazines and papers; clippings. Correspondents include Mary R. Beard, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Max Eastman, Fannie Hurst, Joseph Henry...

Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

Collection consists primarily of reports submitted to or prepared by Atkins, Kroll & Co. on mining properties, chiefly in California & Nevada. Also contains files of Atkins' personal correspondence, ca. 1898-1907, much of which is addressed to his family in...

Mainly papers of various members of the Atkins family in Ohio, relating to family matters, land holdings and the anti-slavery movement from 1836-1850. A few papers of Mary (Atkins) Lynch, including some pertaining to the Benicia Young Ladies Seminary, and...

Three cartes de visite albums contain portraits of friends and relations, some unidentified. Many are by San Francisco photographers. Includes some tintypes. Loose photoprints consist of portraits. three views in Tahiti, and an unidentified (Calif.?) view.

Chiefly family portraits and snapshots of the Atkinson family (of Colorado Springs and Los Angeles), with some views related to their construction business. Construction photographs are chiefly related to the Pardee Dam and Coolidge Dam projects.

Contains personal and business related items pertaining to three generations of the Atkinson family including Lynn Samuel Atkinson, Sr., Lynn Samuel Atkinson, Jr., Mary Atkinson, and Thelma Atkinson. The bulk of the collection compiled by Lynn Atkinson, Jr., are scrapbooks...

From University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Includes views of vehicles, machinery, and job sites employing Atlas engines. Includes pumps and other machinery, tractors, steam shovels, dredges, etc. Sites include oil fields, Grand Coulee Dam, Kaiser Paving Co. facilities, the Colorado River Aqueduct, Casalco Dam, San Francisco...

Photographs show the interior of the Atlas Insurance Co. office in San Francisco (in ruins), Sacramento St. from in front of the Atlas building, and a view downtown taken from near the office.

Correspondence and related papers chiefly concerning the open insurance liability of the Atlas Insurance Company, and the situation for insurance companies generally following the San Francico earthquake and fire of 1906. Includes telegrams and letters describing the earthquake and fire,...

Relates to Clinton E. Clarke's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Early experiences with disability; attendant at Cowell Hospital Residence Program, UC Berkeley, 1967-1971, with reflections on John Hessler and Ed Roberts; the Rolling Quads; politics of 1960s, refusing draft induction; disabled students' relationship with the Dept. of Rehabilitation; mechanical problems...

Notes his own background and blindness; social prejudice problems; voluntary agencies and services; government agencies and personnel; employment agencies for the blind; schools, housing and miscellaneous problems. Copies of correspondence and documents added.

David Pesonen discusses his childhood, his education at the University of California, Berkeley School of Forestry, and the Law School (Boalt Hall). Then he elaborates on various environment issues, including Bodega Bay and Harbor and the Nuclear Power Plant proposed...

Growing up in Oakland, Calif.: his family, his grandfather's practice in Hawaii, summers at Soda Springs Ranch; education at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School; law practice in the 1930s and 1940s, Chickering & Gregory law firm;...

Moorman discusses family, education, and interest in environment; Sierra Clubs Atlantic and Southeast chapters, 1960s; legal cases as attorney in Justice Department's Lands Division, 1966-1969; attorney for Center for Law and Social Policy, 1969-1971: early use of the National Environmental...

Wilson discusses his education at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Hastings Law School; his career as a lawyer; participation in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif., political life, especially as Chair of the Oakland Economic Development Commission, and as Oakland...

Youth in Massachusetts, undergraduate study at UC Santa Cruz; disabling accident, 1972; law studies at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, 1973-1976; work with the Center for Independent Living, Disability Law Resource Center, Disabled Women's Support Group, 1974-1976; establishing the Disability Rights...

Material for a contemplated editing of the diaries of Alfred Doten.

Notes re California, Arizona and Nevada history, with some ms. of articles.

Correspondence re the adoption of the metric system in the United States; manuscripts and related notes and clippings concerning California and the California missions; letters and notes on the English language; and a few papers of his father, Wells Drury.

Works, and subject file concerning his interest and activities associated with California history.

Correspondence, promotional material, and clippings, relating to the need for a large modern reflector for Lick Observatory; the University of California Alumni Association; and work for the Statewide Committee on Higher Education. Include letters from Newton B. Drury, Robert G....

Selective service prosecution statistics, including the Robert Whitehorn case files. Statistics on civil disobedience arrests and dispositions as well as clippings concerning the sit-ins and mass arrests of Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrators in the Broadway Auto Row, Oakland...

Contains two ms. notes from meetings of the Auburn Grays (one is signed by Wm. H. Sullivan, Acting Orderly Sgt.). Also includes correspondence between Thomas E. Stephens, Captain, Company C, 184th Infantry, Calif. National Guard, and Mrs. C.H. Fulweiler of...

Correspondence relating to membership and activities of the association, to the publication of the Gull, and to preservation of bird life in California; bird lists; minute book no. 3, 1930-1944; and miscellaneous accounts, 1926-1940.

Slides and scripts are for nature education talks (e.g. "Welcome to the world of ants"). Other views show nature education programs for children. Most in Berkekely or other California locations.

Includes correspondence, subject files, minutes of meetings, publicity files, evaluations, news releases, publications of the Society, and financial records. Most materials date from the 1970s.

Collection mainly contains family portraits, many taken in Germany. Mainly Auerbach family, but also many of Fanny Brooks (Eveline's mother).

Correspondence with contributors, manuscripts, mock-ups, corrected proofs, mailing lists, accounts, and samples of ephemeral printing.

The collection includes a voting guide and political card from 1892 when August Helbing ran as a Republican candidate for the supervisor of San Francisco's 12th Ward. The collection also has a photocopy of an obituary for Helbing that appeared...

Interviews with several individuals acquainted with Vollmer's contribution to subject of police reform. Copy of photograph inserted. Interviewees discuss the evolution of the School of Criminology, UC, Berkeley and contacts with O.W. Wilson, Volmer's role in advising younger criminal justice...

Concerns Vollmer's involvement with police work including helping English, Canadian and Japanese police study the U.S. system of police work, about Samuel Chapman, Hentze's son and his studies in police work, and about Vollmer's health. Also includes two letters from...

Includes snapshots and many group portraits of police, and police-related scenes, especially in Berkeley and in China, India, and Japan. Also present are inscribed studio portraits of friends and colleagues and many snapshots that may be family members or groups...

Concerning business affairs in San Francisco and the Limantour case. Included is a letter from his brother Ignace in Mexico.

Also included is a holograph draft of his article, My Philosophy of Life.

Two handwritten letters (5 p.) from husband on his way to, and in, California to his wife in New York. One letter, dated Feb. 15, 1853, written on board the steamer Georgia, is a very brief account due to the...

Diary, Feb. 11 - Aug. 17, 1849 of a trip to California on the bark Isabel. Included is a letter, Mar. 30, 1879, from J.R. Hardenberg, a fellow passenger on the trip.

Statements concerning himself, his wife Mary Ellen, and daughter Eva; and five letters to H.H. Bancroft, 1883.

Contains notes and drawings on geological formations of the area along the Santa Ynez mountain range on the coastline of Santa Barbara County, Calif.

Commission signed by Henry S. Handy, Windsor [Ontario], Sept. 26, 1839, and regulations and pay of the North Western Army on Patriot Service ... issued by the Grand Eagle Chapter of Upper Canada on Patriot Executive Duty. With explanatory note...

Contains 13 diaries given to a woman only known as "Aunt Lulu" living in Berkeley, California, from her niece Jane as New Years' gifts. Everyday has an entry usually covering the weather, health, visits, and local happenings.

Papers relating to Aurelia S. Harwood's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Transcripts of letters, photocopies of clippings, photographs, etc., used in the preparation of her books on the Army of the Pacific, the California Column, Kirby Benedict, and Maj. Gen. James H. Carleton.

Six photographs of San Francisco, mainly of the Bay; five of Honolulu; two of Niagara Falls. The majority of the photographs are of Australia and New Zealand.

Albums of commercial photographs promoting tourism and travel in Australia. Vol. 1 photographs depict views of various cities, including Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Hobart, as well as local fauna such as kangaroos, koala bears, the duck-billed platypus, etc....

California court cases, containing legal points and authorities, arranged alphabetically.

Scrapbook of newsclippings and advertisements regarding the nine-day charity event, beginning Oct. 23, 1879 at Mechanics' Pavilion, San Francisco, featuring booths and performances representing literary authors.

Three unidentified views: a view through over trees to a lake with low mountains beyond, a large stone home or inn among trees (with low mountains beyond), and a path in the woods with birch or aspen trees. All are...

A few signatures of musicians and authors included also.

V.1 : Poems gathered from various sources, mounted and annotated by Joseph C. Rowell.

Autographs of Lawrence Barrett, Struthers Burt, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Samuel Hull, William Hull, Thomas Jefferson (facsimile), Louis Kossuth, Alexander H. Stephens, John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and William H. Taft.

Judgment in suit brought by Juan Fernández Munilla and Juan Ignacio Briones against Tomás López de Ecala for damages to their property near Querétaro, Mexico due to Ecala's damming a river for irrigation. Signed for the King by Francisco Cerda...

Documents relating to a general inspection of conditions in Nueva Vizcaya conducted in compliance with a royal order by Sierra Osorio, Governor and Captain General of that region, and subsequently a member of the Council of the Indies.

A collection of decrees, land deeds, petitions, declarations, reports, notifications, etc., relating to the establishment and implementation of the rights claimed by Mexico City over its public lands. Primary attention is given to the 1690 proceedings conducted by the Real...

A series of court papers, addressed to the Royal Audiencia in Mexico City, which sum up a case presented by Sr. Arechavala, who identifies himself as a merchant of the city. He is seeking to sell off or rent a...

Die-cut paper pins issued by Auxilio Social assistance agency of Spanish government. Front of each pin illustrated with emblems pertaining to Spanish heraldry, geographical regions, historical figures, patriotic themes, historic events, material culture, flora and fauna, etc. Back of each...

Photograph album chiefly containing snapshots documenting everyday lives of the Armenian-American Avakian family of Fresno and Los Angeles Counties. Most images pertain to Marion Avakian (1916-2000), his wife Alice Maxwell Avakian (1916-2000), their children, friends and other family members. Most...

Contains schedules of theater bookings, photographs and other miscellaneous items. Photographs include professional shots of Avil and Grimm seperatly and one while portaying their character's the Zulu Kids in black face.

Description of voyage from New York to San Francisco via Panama; travels in California, with account of the New Almaden quicksilver mines; life in Santa Cruz.

Includes two portraits of A.W. Von Schmidt; 4 prints depicting Von Schmidt dredges in Australia; one print depicting the 1877 shipwreck of the Frank Jones off of Fort Point in San Francisco Bay; an unidentified group portait; and an unidentified...

Consists of writings by Ward, correspondence, Commonwealth Club of California meeting minutes, subject files, newspaper articles and scrapbooks; primarily focusing on California wetlands.

Correspondence with Herbert E. Bolton, Carl O. Sauer, Arthur Woodward and A.M. Huntington and note book entry concerning discovery of the 16th century battle axe.

Contains business papers, account books, time books, manufacturer's advertisements, photographs, and architectural magazines featuring Cederborg's work. Includes bids, estimates, bills, contracts, receipts, correspondence, and photographs related to Cederborg's work as a contractor on residences, churches, commercial buildings, and fraternities. His...

Programs, newspaper clippings, flyers, posters, and small quantity of feedback on AXIS Dance/Kids.

Contains typescript and handwritten personal letters of Aya Tarlow sent to friends. Some of the letters include verses and poems. Also includes a few separate poems, cards, drawings, etc.

Tarlow's extensive personal photograph collection, comprehensively documenting her life from childhood to her later years in Sedona, Ariz. In addition to many photographs of Tarlow and her family, others depicted include David Meltzer, George Herms, Wallace Berman and Ringo Starr.

Snapshot and portrait photographs pertaining to Ayako Tomooka Fujii and her husband Tadao Fujii; Ayako's siblings Masataka and Fred Tomooka; Ayako's parents Toyokichi and Yone; other Tomooka family members, friends, associates and their Japanese-American milieus in both California and Arizona....

Legal documents concerning the activities of members of the family.

Photographs show Aztec stone relief carvings in Xochimilco, and Santa Cruz, Mexico.

Burial records of Aztec Indians from the villages of Tepepan, Tecpan, and Tepetenchi, located in the Mexican region of Xochimilco. The records were kept in leather-bound volumes by Spanish Jesuit priests and each entry lists name, date, location and additional...