Includes 2 views of what is likely Yuma, Arizona, on the Colorado River. Images depict adobe structures, a large river in the background and, in one view, a paddle steamer on the near bank. Also includes 3 views of a...
To Marcelina L. de Alstrecoechoa [?].
Records for the E. Gill Nursery Company, located in West Berkeley from 1867-1944. Volume 1, a scrapbook, contains tipped in deeds, receipts, bills, indentures, membership cards, business cards, and estate records. Box 1 holds 3 daybooks. Box 2: 1 receipt...
The papers document Brown's life in Berkeley while he pursued his doctorate in education, specifically his political activism and campaign for Berkeley City Council. Included are subject files on various city agencies, community group newsletters, materials documenting the controversy over...
E. W. Melvin deeds and papers relating to land in Sacramento County, California, BANC MSS C-I 41, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Contains 2 letters discussing mining and local goings on.
Contains four pocket diaries covering his experiences after arrival in San Francisco from September 8, 1849 to September 26, 1850. Events described include: a trip up the Sacramento River on the Pantuxit to Sacramento; digging for gold as a member...
Includes agreement with Leland Stanford concerning photographic equipment and photographs, and letters from Muybridge to Stanford relating to his photographs of animal locomotion.
Part I: Photocopy and transcript of Muybridge letter, May 25, 1876; correspondence of Mrs. Janet Pendegast Leigh with George E. Nitzsche and others relating to Muybridge's work; articles about him; notes on his trial for murder.
Correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to his activities as chairman of the Subcommittee on Mental Health Information and Education of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Mental Health. Include letters from Glenn M. Anderson, Daniel Blain, Edmund G. Brown, Lawrence T....
Contains the papers of former executive vice chancellor of University of California, Berkeley, dean and professor emeritus at the Haas School of Business, and athletic director. Includes correspondence and papers regarding his book on China "A Glimpse at Some Flowers...
Professional quality landscapes and other views of nature in California and possibly other western states, taken by Earl C. Payne (1921-2006). Includes multiple views taken in Death Valley and Yosemite Valley. Other identified locations include Lake Tahoe, Pebble Beach, Point...
Phonotape also available.
Contents: Frank F. Tallman: Dynamics of Change in State Mental Institutions. Regarding his service as director of the Department 1949-1953 and innovations in state hospital policy and program. Appended: copies of vitae, speech, article, etc. Portia Bell Hume: Mother of...
Interviews with four men influential in the development of a new approach to the care and treatment of juvenile delinquents during the Warren administration, and the establishment of the California Youth Authority.
Interviewees are: Charles Irwin Schottland: State Director of Social Welfare, 1950-54. Comments also on his other social welfare work and government service including work for the California State Relief Administration; Lawrence Arnstein; Culbert Olson's administration; working relationship with Earl Warren;...
Interviews with Edmund G. Brown, Sr., Robert W. Kenny and Thomas H. Kuchel. Interviewers are: Edmund G. Brown, Sr. The Governor's lawyer. Views on Warren as Alameda Co. district attorney and as governor, and personal relationship with him; his own...
Draft of Earl Warren's autobiography, with a few letters about the draft from Merrell F. Small.
Photographs show a rally for Earl Warren, probably during his 1942 gubernatorial campaign. Postcard shows the Earl Warren family, and includes campaign related information.
Interviewees (photocopies of documentary material included with some of the interviews) include the following: Herbert Brownell. Earl Warren's Appointment to the Supreme Court. Includes Brownell's retrospective memorandum, Aug. 1975, as well as transcript of the interview. Comments on events leading...
Interviews with three sons and a daughter of Earl Warren. Notes by Mrs. Warren also included. Copies of photographs inserted. Discussion of family life in Oakland and in the Governor's mansion, Sacramento; views of him as a father and as...
Interviews (photographs inserted) include: Maryann Ashe and Ruth Smith Henley; Earl Warren's Bakersfield - comments by two members of his high school class; Omar Cavins: Coming of Age in Bakersfield - comments by another member of his high school class;...
Primarily comments on the Werdel delegation which contested the Earl Warren delegation in California's 1952 Republican presidential primary.
Interviews with several individuals active in Warren's political campaigns. Copies of photographs inserted; photocopies of letters, reports, clippings, speeches, etc., also included as documentary material supporting the interviews. Interviewees include the following: Stanley N. Barnes: Experiences in Grass Roots Organization....
Original interviews shelved as Phonotape 1094:9-19, A, C.
Writings, correspondence, research and subject files dealing with his career and interest in anthropology. Primary areas of interest covered in the collection are cultural anthropology, mythology, philosophy of science, comparative anatomy, brain physiology, animal behavior, human fossil history and zoography....
Contains correspondence between German immigrants in Calif. and their families in Germany. Also includes a copy of a birth and baptism certificate and a church dues bill.
Photographs chiefly of Tracy, California and its environs, amassed by Tracy mayor and historian Earle E. Williams. Most of the photographs originate with other families and individuals living in the Tracy region. The collection features persons and scenes from throughout...
Examples of sealed paper stationary (papel sellado), including some documents, many incomplete (mainly "diligencias matrimoniales").
Includes one 1905 3 ruble note, one 1909 5 ruble note, two 1000 mark notes from 1910, one 10000 mark note from 1922 and one bogus modern note (Calif.) meant as humor.
Scrapbook containing originals and photocopies of clippings, photographs, maps, pictures, letters and articles, relating to the history of the two counties, to water resources and to transportation.
Photographs show Bake Russell and other Bay Area pilots, airplanes, Crissy Field (San Francisco), other airfields, parachuters, the Carquinez Bridge, and aerial photographs. Other views show the crowd greeting Charles Lindberg at Alameda airport, and Barney Oldfield with Henry Ford...
Includes views of the first wooden building and an adobe unit, both in Monterey, Calif.
Collection includes views published in the Dec. 24th, 1853 (Vol. 2:2) Golden era. Scenes include Happy Valley (i.e. San Francisco) in 1849; Yerba Buena Cemetery, Oakland; Stockton; wrecks of the Independence, the Tennessee and the Lewis; burning of the Rassette...
Discussion of laboratory facilities, personnel, competition, and working atmosphere at Herbert Boyer's laboratory in the early 1970s; early work to purify restriction enzymes and plasmids and clone DNA; biosafety concerns; plasmid vector development, approval and certification, and conflicts surrounding dissemination...
Chapters I & II of Dr. Carothers' recollections, with topical outline for Chapter III.
Photos of gliders ordered from Otto Lilienthal, German aeronautical engineer and pioneer in aviation. All are shown on the ground. One photo shows Hiram Maxim, inventor and explosive expert, with a kite, and a frame for an extremely large kite.
Laurette Goldberg discusses her Jewish family background and education; harpsichord study with Gustav Leonhardt and Ralph Kirkpatrick; being on the faculty of San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of California, Berkeley; 1750 Arch Street; founding the Philharmonia Baroque...
Includes photos of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear (ship), Nome, cliff dwellings on King Island, Unalaska Island, native peoples (children of Port Clarence and a grave site, etc.) Also includes photographs of Eskimo boats.
Album comprised of snapshots of soldiers at the Presidio and Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Calif., and other unidentified locations. Images include training and maneuvers, horses, wagons, tents, barracks, artillery, cooks and camp kitchens, trenches, surveying, airplanes.
Chiefly copy photographs of photographs related to the history of Marin County, and of views of San Francisco during the gold rush, including reproductions of 1850s wood engravings, and portraits. Scenes in Marin County, San Rafael, and a few related...
Two pictorial lettersheets and one pair of images of a presentation loving cup and plate. Lettersheets are 1: "Great fire in San Fransisco [sic], M@y [sic] 4th, 1850" (Baird 96a, earlier state)-- 2: "Tremendous excitement!", a view of the hangings...
Primarily early (1860s-1880s) San Francisco views depicting churches, schools, commercial buildings, Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco wharves, and general street scenes. Several photographs of the Mission La Purísima Concepción (near Santa Barbara, California) are also present.
San Francisco views from its earliest years through the earthquake and fire of 1906. Includes panoramas, street scenes, buildings, the earthquake of 1868, Chinatown, preparations for war in the Philippines (1899), etc.
General view of Columbia and a view of townspeople gathered around a waterwheel.
Collection includes copy prints of a panorama of Oakland taken by A.H. Wulzen in 1879 (for originals, see BANC PIC 1908.001--fALB). Other photos show buildings, street scenes (including people and vehicles), residential areas, churches, hotels, and many businesses with signs...
Photos show San Francisco street scenes, events, buildings, etc.
Photographs show views of identified Oakland streets and corners including: 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, Broadway, Washington, and San Pablo. Views show businesses, houses, horse and wagon teams, pedestrians, etc.
Collection includes photographic copies of maps & paintings. Maps--aerial photos with roads and towns drawn over; one of the Berkeley campus site, captioned "Relief map of the site of the University of Calif., Berkeley, Cal. 1888," and one of San...
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes his education in Germany, interest in Chinese language and experiences in China, 1907-1914. A partial list of his works (including the Mongolian-English Dictionary) appended.
2 white cotton t-shirts with silk-screened logos in green ink commerating Earth Day 1990.
Collection contains professionally produced photographic prints taken by Arnold Genthe in San Francisco following the earthquake and fire of 1906. Views show refugee camps, Market St. (including the Monadnock, Call, and Crocker Buildings) and the Fairmont Hotel. Also included is...
Snapshots of damaged buildings and rubble in downtown Compton after an earthquake. Includes Marines on patrol, Stockwell Building, City Hall, Park Street and Tamarind Street. Also includes two photographs, in postcard format, of the business district after reconstruction.
Post earthquake views include business district, St. Patrick's Church, camp in park, unidentified church. Could be 1906 earthquake.
Includes views of damaged buildings and cracks in the ground.
Photos show the Inglewood Hotel (near Los Angeles, Calif.) in ruins, with bystanders.
Includes minutes, bylaws, event files, financial materials, membership rosters, newsletters, and photographs.
Includes snapshot photographs and sketchbooks ("black books") documenting the graffiti works of various artists and crews from the East Bay and elsewhere. Photographs depict graffiti in both public and private locations (e.g. walls, freight train cars, domestic interiors) in Oakland,...
Views include Balloon Dome (San Joaquin River), the trunk of a juniper, and two views of the East Bay hills from the Contra Costa side (in the San Francisco Bay Area.).
Consists of miscellaneous materials regarding the club and Alameda County gay candidates running for various political offices, including Tom Brougham, elected to the Peralta Community College District board of trustees. Contains nine club scrapbooks for the years 1982-1985 (in box...
East Bay Liberation Information Center records, BANC MSS 99/352 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Series of enlarged photographs, apparently from an educational exhibit, illustrating various stages of the water delivery system of the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), depicting the watershed region in the Sierra Nevada foothills, the Mokelumne River, Pardee Dam and...
Selected inventories and accounts; 1816 records refer to Napoleon Bonaparte.
Minutes from Annual meetings, Board of Directors meetings, Executive committee meetings, and House of Delegates meetings. Financial reports are included throughout meeting minutes. Also contains a couple of Easter Seal publications.
One postcard and one 8x10 photographic print.
Letters, 1852 - ca. 1870, to Charles B. and Hazen B. Eastman in Trinity Co., Calif., from their family in the East; reminiscences of Mrs. Lucy Ann Eastman Smith; miscellaneous papers (some relating to mining property) of C.B. Eastman and...
Chiefly stereographic views (PIC boxes 1-3) of numerous dams, dam construction sites, reservoirs and other subjects pertaining to hydraulic engineering, hydro-electric power and water-supply, as associated with Eastwood's career, primarily in the state of California. Among the identified dams and...
Includes 13 letters, May 25, 1862-Sept. 23, 1864, written by Col. Willard Gould Eaton, 13th Michigan infantry, from Tennessee, and a memorial brochure published for his regiment; 3 letters, May, 1906, from his daughter, Mrs. Vesta Daniels, to her daughter...
Letters written to various family members and mutual friends by Towl and/or Van Dusen, who are working their way to Calif. to work in the gold mines. Consists of photocopies of typed transcripts for letters from 1855-1859, covering a stop...
For personal and real property owned at an undisclosed location including: houses on Sudbury Street (let to D. Juguaham) and Union Street (let to Joseph Greenby and Philip Freeman), and a warehouse let to Joseph Barrell.
Five handwritten documents comprising a report file to the Bishop of Tlaxcala, processed in the ecclesiastical court of the Diocese of Tlaxcala, Puebla, concerning charges of abuse of the local Indians by a parish priest, Juan Larios. Document 1 (1572...
Interviews with Marcia Bandera, George Boucher, Mike Franziola, Ron Remington, Stan Popack, and Jeannie Block. The Bandera interview is not transcribed. Also included is a copy of the article "The economic impact of mining on the community of Elko, Nevada"...
Typescript, unpublished?, article (7 pages), by former mining engineer, Ed F. Browne, on the threat and troubles with labor unions. Includes two publisher rejection letters (3 pages). The article accuses federal and state officials of aligning themselves with socialists like...
Letters from Dunbar to his "sweetheart" and future wife, Maud Miller, in Santa Rosa, and to her brother, Edgar, during Dunbar's service with the First California Volunteers. Also includes a typed partial transcript of the letters, with additional information provided...
Ed Fletcher correspondence with Walter L. Huber and Francis P. Farquhar concerning Joseph J. Hill's History of Warner's Ranch and its environs, BANC MSS C-B 306, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Amateur photographs by Ed Sweeting documenting his travels throughout California, the Western and Southwestern United States, Mexico and perhaps elsewhere, chiefly in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. General topics include architecture, landscapes and indigenous persons.
Manuscripts, photographs, clippings, course notes, correspondence, honors, and printed materials concerning her interest and activity in writing. Includes correspondence with Ben Belitt, Henry Roth, and others. Oversize folder contains degrees and certificates from the University of California (1918) and New...
Collection comprises the professional archive of freelance photographer Eddie Rocco. Based largely in the Los Angeles area (but working at times in Las Vegas, Texas, Mexico, Louisiana, and Florida, and on one 1959 trip to Cuba), Rocco chiefly photographed the...
Low-cost digitally printed poster reproductions of original comic drawings by San Francisco street artist Eddie Sanchez, chiefly satirizing the city's street life, with an emphasis on drug use and addiction, local and national politics and social issues, comic book characters,...
This collection contains biographical materials about Magnin including articles, clippings, and copies of speeches. A speech included is one Magnin delivered at the White House ecumenical worship service in 1973. It also includes notes and background information for Magnin's oral...
Contains correspondence, research notes and drafts for book on William Carter. Also includes original letters from William Carter to his wife Mary from 1856-1859 and research on the Carter family.
Album contains portraits and snapshots documenting the life and career of San Francisco newspaperman Edgar Gleeson. Photographs depict Gleeson, his journalist colleagues, friends, family and associates. Also includes views of San Francisco and other locations in California and elsewhere; a...
Views of Alaska, national parks and wilderness areas, and international travels. Some images were part of Sierra Club slide presentations. Among photographic prints are portraits of Edgar Wayburn and his wife Peggy, as well as snapshots taken during travels and...
Papers relating to Edgar Wayburn's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Correspondence, publications, family papers, and scrapbooks concerning Camp's career in California and his earlier years in North Dakota.
Correspondence and papers relating to Winchester's medical career and service as surgeon in the Civil War, and to the Elgin Mining Company, San Bernardino, California. Letters to Mrs. Winchester, and a biographical sketch, written circa 1928, included.
Snapshots include views of the Orphan Asylum, views of San Francisco possibly taken from the asylum grounds, and photographs of children. Although identified as the "Edgehill" orphan asylum, it is presumed to be San Francisco's Edgewood Protestant Orphan Asylum. One...
Articles and essays concerning various subjects, including her early life in San Francisco; trip to Europe in 1908 with her sister, Annette; the Stein family; the Community Music School in San Francisco; history of the Golden Gate Park and other...
Includes research correspondence, notes, and manuscript and typescript drafts for writings by Edith M. Coulter, including her 1927 thesis, "A guide to historical bibliographies", with an expanded version published by the University of California Press in 1935 as "Historical bibliographies,...
A few letters, drawings, notes, etc. by the Irish author, and clippings and book reviews about her and her work. With these: a postcard written by Violet Powell, Feb. 23, 1970, concerning her book about Miss Somerville and Violet Martin,...
Collection consists principally of typescript copies of Wharton's will and documents relating to the disposition of her estate.
Inventory of titles available.
Original drawings for editorial cartoons, likely produced for the Oakland Tribune, commenting on the Mexican Revolution. One drawing refers to the Mexican constitutional congress of 1917, in particular the new constitution's Article 33, allowing for the expulsion of unwanted aliens....
4 original editorial cartoon drawings by Charles Nelan executed for the New York Herald between 1898 and 1904. Nos. 1 and 2 comment on matters pertaining to the Spanish-American War, namely the inadequate health care provided by the U.S. to...
Typed transcripts of four letters, April 18-May 19[-21], 1849, from Edmund Park to his wife, Susan Maria Wilkins Park, describe a journey from St. Louis to Independence, Missouri, thence by a southern route toward California, ending on the Santa Fe...
Edmund G. Brown's appointment books from 1939 and scattered years in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Also included are a few notebooks with lists, a bank book, a booklet containing telephone numbers, a California State Bar membership card...
Title devised by cataloger.
Consists of research materials, reports, and course materials relating to Professor Pinney's career in the UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics.
Diaries: v. 1-2 (1889-1891); v. 3 (Oct. 1891-Mar. 1892) covering studies at Stanford University; v. 4 (May-Sept. 1898) covering journey from San Francisco to China with Professor John Fryer (with stops at Honolulu and various places in Japan) and teaching...
Contains letters, notes and business records relating to the Merchant's Retail Commercial Agency, mainly in Iowa; a few personal papers. Included also: book of sample form letters of the California Merchants Union and a book on auto repair written by...
Forms part of: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement collection.
Copies and drafts of manuscripts (including "Children to Her Arms" and "White Coal"), notes, clippings, some photographs, and a small amount of personal and professional correspondence. The volume is a scrapbook of clippings including reviews of her books and plays,...
Relating to his photographic work.
Includes snapshot and professional photographs documenting various aspects of the development of municipal water supply systems in Mexico -- e.g. watershed locations, construction, machinery, water treatment plants, etc. -- especially as pertaining to Mexico City and the career of Eduardo...
Correspondence, reports, publications, blueprints, maps, survey drawings, and ephemera related to civil engineering, municipal water supply issues, and the construction of the Túnel de Lerma in Mexico. Includes an inscribed copy of a dissertation, La Perforacion Del Túnel Atarasquillo -...
Recollections of growing up in Mormon-dominated Utah; her involvement in Utah Democratic politics; marriage to Judge James H. Wolfe; heading the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee; women prominent in Democratic politics, including women in the Roosevelt administration; move...
Childhood in South Africa and in California; studying and teaching art at the California School of Arts and Crafts; influential teachers including Xavier Martinez and Isabelle Percy West; commercial art work; studying and working with Hans Hofmann; artists, patrons, museums...
Rice discusses the experiences of an African American student at City College of New York, 1937-1941, and UC Berkeley, 1946-1954, including International House, Berkeley Fire Dept.; U.S. Air Force specialized business training; doctoral studies in India; racial discrimination in higher...
Contains letters written by L. Montagillard at French Gulch and G.E. Sloss at San Domingo, (Calaveras County) concerning mining operations including equipment and supplies.
Correspondence, 1882-1926; notes; patents, 1880-1933; memory album; high school recollections; a biography by daughter, Elizabeth Rix DeWolf and illustrated autobiographical data.
The papers include articles, two journals, and a draft of Colman's Ph.D. dissertation.
Collection consists of a small number of documents and many photographs documenting the history of the family of Edward and Cathryn (Scheeline) Bransten. The documents include a 1903 marriage certificate for Edward Brandenstein and Florine Haas and a photocopy of...
Compiled, Batopilas, Mexico, as a memorial to his wife from material she had assembled. Pasted in account book headed: Mina Sta. Tomas. Genealogical notes added. Blank bills, Miners' Exchange and Savings Bank, San Francisco, included.
Relate to personal, public, and business affairs in Honduras; letters, contracts, reports, etc. Included are personal letters from various presidents of Honduras, and from Porfirio Díaz of Mexico.
Written from Sacramento, San Francisco and Marysville to family and friends in the East. Concerning life at the gold mines and his trading ventures, with detailed information on types of equipment and provisions needed and the prices they could command.
Includes 12 ALS and one 4 p. fragment from Kenyon to his family, plus one letter, n.d., written by his landlady, Lizzie A. Lardner, to his family following his sudden death. Letters of 1849 include description of ocean voyage to...
A handwritten journal in a composition book with 44 pages. Includes diary style entries, technical notes, and two sketches documenting the drilling of wells in Garberville, Humboldt County, California as part of the expansion of the town's water services. The...
Family members on lawn in foreground; others, possibly domestic help, in background and on porch.
Both letters discuss gold mining in Red Dog, Calif. and the second mentions the American Civil War.
Chiefly San Francisco Bay Area society portraits, including portraits related to opera "Fol de Rol" fundraiser events.
Describe the life of a Quaker in Pennsylvania. Included also is a letter written by his wife, Anne.
Papers concerning insurance, banking, and probate. Also includes Edward Coke Hill's high school and univerity diplomas and two official federal judge presidential appointment certificates.One appointment certificate is signed by Calvin Coolidge and the other by Herbert Hoover. Also includes a...
Relate mainly to his painting. One written on the death of William Morris.
Letterbooks, diaries, and papers concerning his service as Superintendent, Collins Overland Telegraph Company, and Assistant Engineer for the Western Union Telegraph Company's Russian Extension. Testimonials for Civil War service as telegrapher are included.
Early letters, many from Arizona Territory, describe his military career, and life as a civilian employee of the quartermaster. He speaks of some brief mining activity. In the 1870s he began farming in Solano County, Calif. and those letters contain...
Written while commanding the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Northland on her annual patrol duty in Arctic waters. Comments on various rescue operations, visits to native villages and remote settlements, medical aid rendered, etc. With these: copy of an article (typescript)...
Contains 4 letters found in presentation copy of "Types, borders and miscellany of Taylor & Taylor," concerning book.
Custom made scrapbook (58 p.) containing a collection of newspaper clippings, book reviews, poems, correspondence and typed notes mostly related to the publication and promotion of a book on vegetable gardening in California written by Edward Du Bois Flint titled,...
Consists primarily of documents pertaining to Edward Gerrick's work experience as an engineer, mostly in the state of Washington. Includes list of projects worked on for the Works Progress Administration of Wash., Dec. 2, 1938, recommendations for commission in the...
Include letter to his father, John Kentfield, describing his sea voyage to New York in 1867; marriage license, 1879; and letter to his wife, 1888.
Two volumes in the Public Archives of Canada, made up of letters received from various persons, 1820-1872, and letters from John Tod, 1826-1874, mostly reflecting affairs of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Letters from Hale, mainly relating to his duties as magazine editor. With a few clippings and photographs of Hale.
Papers of Edward F. Adams assembled by his son Frank and papers of Frank Adams. Carton 1: papers of Edward F. Adams: correspondence, 1894-1930, undated; writings, 1850-1928, undated; speeches, 1905-1920, undated. Carton 2: papers of Frank Adams: correspondence, 1902-1946; Commonwealth...
Correspondence concerning O'Day's research on the Empire Mines and Grass Valley history and the writing of the article, "Grass Valley and the Empire, Notes on a Community and a Mine" for William Bowers Bourn II. The collection includes eight letters...
Include: The Essence of Humanism; Convictions of a Free Thinker (English and French); Reflexions (English and French); Memories (containing recollections of professorial career at University of California, Berkeley); and his translation of Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Symposium.
Diary, July 1-16, 1853, while pausing in Colorado on overland journey to California.
Assembled from various sources.
Mainly relating to his publication of the Poems and Letters of William Isaac Roberts in 1811. Include letters from Mary Cockle, S. T. Coleridge, Robert Hartley Cromek, Isaac D'Israeli, Francis Douce, Charles Fox, John Gwilliam and Robert Southey.
Certificates awarded by the school examiners, Morgan County, Ohio, and the Boards of Education, Los Angeles and San Diego Counties, California.
Relates to the Mexican Land Company and the Metlaltoyuca Land Company, corporations established in Mexico under the laws of the Territory of New Mexico.
Collection consists primarily of family correspondence, especially letters between Edward Lambe Parsons and Bertha Brush Parsons during their courtship (in the 1890s) and marriage. The collection also includes a substantial clutch of letters written by Edward Lambe Parsons to his...
Includes photographs of Edward Lambe Parsons and Bertha Parsons; some group photographs; photographs, mainly interior, of Old St. Luke's Church, San Francisco; photograph of sketch elevation of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, 1928; 2 photographs taken at the 1930 Lambeth Conference....
Cartoons by Edward L.G. Steele, chiefly clippings from various print sources, also original ink drawings and watercolors. Subject matter is broad, including much caricature and other forms of social and political commentary. Sources of clippings include San Francisco News Letter...
Enclosing bill of exchange for one thousand dollars.
The collection contains a copy of "A Personal History of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire in 1906," which Edward Livingston wrote in 1941. The collection also contains a scrapbook about the Livingston Brothers store and the Livingston family, as...
Correspondence with California's Governor H.H. Markham, legal documents, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, 1886-1894, concerning Adolph Sutro and the coastal lands around the Cliff House, Sutro Baths, and the Seal Rocks, San Francisco. Includes nine views (ca. 1870-1895?) of the beach...
Three letters (3 p.) addressed to Mr. Bruce. Two of the letters are written by Edward Marjoribanks, accepting dinner invitations. The third letter is by an unidentified writer. The Marjoribanks letters are on letterhead of the Treasury S.W., 12 Downing...
Includes articles, correspondence, reviews, and speeches related to both the first and second publication of Miyakawa's novel Tule Lake, and his work on behalf of redress and reparations for Japanese Americans. There are materials related to the Japanese American experience...
Includes views of Folsom Prison and the California State Prison at San Quentin, depicting the grounds and buildings of both institutions. Folsom views include general grounds, entrance, mess hall, cell house, quarry and a group portrait of the warden and...
Photographs of San Francisco, including street scenes, Alcatraz Island, Cliff House, and the 1915 Exposition.
Contains an essay by Newton "The books of my boyhood" from the Ladies Home Journal, Nov. 1927; 2 post cards, 6 photographs, 6 clippings, and 4 letters (1928-1935), one containing a list of Newtoniana for sale by Charles Sessler.
Consists of article and manuscript drafts and research notes.
Microscope slides of forensic evidence, photographs of documents relating to court cases, etc. Also includes many family snapshots.
Papers pertaining to the inventions of E.O.C. Ord II. Including patents, original drawings and diagrams, advertising material and instructions on use of the "Gold-Pan-Batea", an improved Gold Pan leading to the formation of the California Gold Pan Company and its...
Contains professional correspondence of E.O.C. Ord with other U.S. military and government officials including U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, General Horace Porter, and General U.S. Grant. Correspondence covers the gold rush and frontier years, the American Civil War, Reconstruction,...
:1 ninth-plate ambrotype of Edward P. Reed, dated 1859 -- :2 sixth-plate ambrotype of Clara Winegar Reed, "just married, 1859" -- :3 sixth-plate ambrotype of Edward P. and Clara Reed, ca. 1860-1865 -- :4 portrait of Edward Cambridge Reed, 1871...
Contains over 50 letters of Edward P. Reed, written home to members of his family, particularly his parents and Ellen, one of three sisters, in Homer, N.Y. He recounts his voyage to California aboard the clipper, South Carolina, which left...
Contains copy of his dissertation, "The martyrs of Córdoba (850-859)," in English; an annotated and corrected copy of "Heterii et sancti Beati ad Elipandum Epistola" in Latin; and an annotated and corrected copy of "España sagrada," tomo 11, tratado 34,...
Notes and clippings re Indians of North America and Mexico that include information on miscellaneous California and Mexican tribes and on Choctaws, Coahuilas, Delawares, Hualapai, Otoes and Pimos. Also included is material relating to Yosemite Valley.
Letter, 1863, to Adjutant General, State of New York, concerning for service of J.C. Lemmon; copies of dispatches and notes from official Civil War records; copies of accounts of Canby's murder by the Modoc Indians, from various publications.
Autographs of his regiment in the Massachussetts volunteers, 1863; autobiographical sketch, 1864; diaries, letters to family and letterpress copybook describing his arrival in San Francisco in 1869, his social and business life there, his career as mining consultant in Salt...
Manuscript correspondence containing brief letters and typescript poems (some with annotations) between two San Francisco politicians. Some of the letters are addressed to Phelan in his capacity as Senator and from Taylor in his capacity as mayor of San Francisco....
Letters from Taylor to the Manchester Guardian relating to a review of his book, one discussing possible improvements. Also includes typed poems signed by Taylor, and manuscript notes.
The collection consists of material relating to E.R. Levy of Folsom, California and his family. Included are biographical materials, business correspondence, legal documents regarding Levy's business and real estate, legal documents pertaining to the settlement of Levy's estate in 1927-1928,...
Vol. 2, addenda, includes letters from Ina D. Coolbrith, 1886, 1925; Daniel Coit Gilman, 1883; Martin Kellogg, 1884; Robert E.C. Stearns, 1883; Robert U. Johnson, 1890.
Edward S. Holden (Director of Lick Observatory) writes to Charles W. Irish (Surveyor General of Nevada) with instructions and suggestions on viewing the upcoming 1889 solar eclipse. Letters include a copy of Holden's pamphlet, sent to Irish by Holden, "Suggestions...
of Ken Harrison;
The collection contains photographs, documents, and newspaper clippings relating to Edward and Rose Rubin, their business, and to members of Edward's family. The collection includes a receipt made out to Harris Rubin for a donation that he made, in 1917,...
Concerning legal documents to be signed for a settlement, windmills and mines.
Chiefly snapshots pertaining to the life and career of disability rights activist Ed Roberts, taken primarily during his association with the World Institute on Disability. Also includes photographs of his family, friends, various disabled persons and groups, politicians, Institute staff...
Mss. of a few articles, reprints etc.
Letters written by him, including one to his son Hubert re his drawings of the California missions, containing an index of mission and rural views, 1861-1878; receipt to W.H. Davis; a manuscript booklet with title "Presidios of upper California" containing...
Family photographs of Edward W. Gee and Mabel Gee. Includes 2 group portraits of the Gee wedding in a single large oval frame (C box). Also includes a plexiglass business sign for Edward W. Gee Realty, located at 1405 Taylor...
Correspondence relates mainly to his collection of railroadiana. Includes some Northern Pacific Railroad ephemera.
The Edward W. Strong papers contain documents related to his career at U.C. Berkeley, particularly his time as Chancellor from 1961-1965. Also included are materials on the Free Speech Movement and Students for a Democratic Society, as well as writings...
Edward W. Strong recalls his student days at Stanford University and Columbia University, and his career at the University of California, Berkeley. Included is an interview with his wife, Gertrude Dowsett Strong.
Five handwritten letters (6 p.), two on Weston letterhead stationery from Carmel, Calif., and two postcards from Santa Monica, Calif., to his friend Alfred Honigbaum in San Francisco. In one letter Weston writes of being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (the...
Edward Weston letters to Jake Zeitlin, BANC MSS 73/152 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Snapshots and studio portraits related to the extended family of affluent San Francisco banker and businessman Edward Whiting Hopkins. Vol. 1. (1868-1927) features many studio portraits of Helen Hopkins Taylor, daughter of Edward Whiting Hopkins, from childhood through late adulthood,...
A collection of manuscripts and printed items relating to Nelson's work as a conservationist and naturalist in Alaska, Arizona and Mexico. Includes correspondence with relatives and articles written by Nelson, as well as articles written about Nelson; materials collected by...
Mainly correspondence with Edward Sapir concerning kinship terms and American Indian linguistics. Also included are letters from Hubert Gregory, William Egbert Schenck and Herbert L. Mason.
Includes three letters, 1852-1856, written by John Edwards, Jr. to his family from the California mines; letter to John Edwards, Sr. from John Root of Sacramento, Sept. 18, 1855; and memorandum of agreement between John Edwards, Sr. and Anthony Power,...
Contains letters from various writers in California. Other groups of letters from the Grabhorns collection can be found by searching under Irma Grabhorn-Engel or Edwin Grabhorn.
Letters from Henry Ulke and Max Albright concern entomology and collecting.
Correspondence, clippings, agreements, subject file concerning labor negotiations on the Pacific Coast.
v. 1-6: Daybooks and ledgers for general merchandise store in Indian Valley and Marion, Plumas County, 1861-1869. Ranch accounts, Genesee Valley, 1865-1869, included in v. 6.
Relating chiefly to his work as secretary and stock salesman for the Fallon Nevada Oil Company; some papers concern the allied Churchill County Oil and Gas Company.
transmitting a letter (not included) to Governor Pardee from Emerson regarding a recent decision to execute a Folsom prison convict, serving a life sentence, to death for attempted escape. Solicits further comment from Lafler, and indicates that Emerson has also...
Contains correspondence, family history documents and a manuscript about mining in Rhodesia. Most of the correspondence is between Edwin and Augusta in 1893 to 1894 when Edwin was in Mexico and his family was in Oakland. There is also correspondence...
Primarily T.E. Hecht copies of San Francisco scenes photographed by George Fardon, I.W. Taber, and others. Also some originals, including Bradley and Rulofson portrait of Emperor Norton, snow scenes on Nob Hill, Warner's Cobweb Palace, interior of an unidentified office;...
Consists of correspondence, reports, and research files pertaining to Dr. Lennettes's research in the field of clinical virology for the California Department of Public Health and United States Government agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department...
Diary, Mar. 22, 1820-Jan. 9, 1823, while a member of Major S.H. Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mts., and while writing the official narrative; journal notes and narrative, 1824-1827, for service as army surgeon in Minnesota and Iowa; miscellaneous geological,...
Letters written mainly to his sister commenting on his ventures into politics, the University of California at Berkeley in 1875 and his law career. Also included: a mining deed from James W. Oates for part interest in coal mines in...
One snapshot transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1974.054--PIC)
Includes autograph poem: To Young California. (Published, 1914; with autograph note, 1917).
Letter of 17 March 1850 - 8 May 1850 written while enroute to San Francisco to a Mr. Allen in Ohio, has the character of a letter-diary and describes the voyage from Cape St. Lucas to a port south of...
Contains 2 letters from a pastor to a friend in San Francisco, comments on the San Francisco economy and taxes versus those in Hawaii, business negotiations and about Maui, Hawaii.
Chiefly COPY photographs used in the production of various publications by Egenhoff. Includes many images of California's Franciscan missions used in her book Fabricas; a collection of pictures ... Many photographs are of early drawings of the missions by Edward...
Includes indentures; surveyor's plat of military reservation by George C. Potter, 1864; letters (one by Richard Coulter Drum) and papers re military possession of Point San Jose.
Photographs depict Cairo, markets, mosques, Nile boats, pyramids, the Sphinx of Giza, temples, local families, bedouins, etc.
Feebook, 1864-1879, of Edward Hall Smith, Justice of the Peace, White Oak Township, El Dorado County (later used as a commonplace book) and a commonplace book containing record of voyage to California, via Nicaragua, 1854, family records, recipes and poetry.
Consists of pamphlets, clippings and booklet on the history of the Hellman-Ehrman family and the Ehrman Mansion in Lake Tahoe; an Ehrman family tree by Joseph Ehrman III from 1978; a copy of a letter from Sidney M. Ehrman from...
Photographs are arranged in the following categories: aircraft, animals (zoo, farm, pets), art shows (street art fairs), buildings (interiors and exteriors of San Francisco business and public buildings), cable cars, children (various ethnic backgrounds), churches, Fisherman's Wharf and the San...
Pictures relating to California, mainly San Francisco Bay Area history, include: views of 1906 earthquake, interior of I.W. Taber photographic studio, Woodward's Gardens, portraits, and various scenes, Two daguerreotype portraits, one encased and embossed "E. Long," [Enoch Long?] and the...
Company records; some correspondence.
Letters by Eloin concerning the purported destruction of various Mexican towns by French troops, and the Battle at Huaniqueo; draft or copy of letter by Maximilian, congratulating General Bazaine on the fall of Oaxaca; notes and observations on a proposed...
Five bound volumes with entries for various business transactions common to real estate activities including lists of property for sale, daily cash accounts, property management including rental income, real estate transactions, agents, commission fees, etc. Prominently noted in 3 of...
Includes floor plans, side and front views and molding detail of Mrs. Anne Wohler's home at 2025 Sacramento St., San Francisco, California.
Records from the Company's offices at Reedsport Ore., Southern California and San Francisco. The company wound up its business and closed its San Francisco office, June 30, 1958.
Includes oversize panoramic view of a mill, and photos of the interior of the mill, probably in California; various vessels (including the Siskiyou the Lassen, and the El Capitan) and oversize prints of oxen hauling logs, and of men in...
Portfolio of hand-made stencil (pochoir) prints by Dr. Atl, most of which represent volcanoes and mountains of Mexico. Includes one print of a nude woman resembling Nahui Olin (María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca).
Scrapbook of newsclippings (ca. 1904-1911) and some correspondence about the creation of the state highway along El Camino Real, linking the California missions. Lantern slides of El Camino Real, missions before and after restoration, and of related prints and documents....
Account of journey from New Orleans via Mexico to California; descriptions of San Francisco and of fires there; experiences mining around Sonora; Indians, Mexicans, French and Chinese in California; crime and criminals and formation of Vigilance Committees; gamblers and gambling;...
The El Dorado County Convention of Teachers' records includes minutes of meetings, Placerville, California, May 26-30 and December 15-19, 1862 and June 29-July 3, 1863; a constitution; and a list of members.
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Mainly documents relating to cases in justice court, Diamond Springs.
Box 1: Letters, l862-l929, written by him, chiefly to family members, relating primarily to his service in the U.S. Army, l86l-1903. Include letters written during Civil War, l86l-l865; from Pacific Northwest and Alaska, l866-l870, with extensive comments on life and...
Political pamphlet defending the constitution of 1824 and combating reactionist plans of Cuernavaca and Orizaba.
Includes correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and grant materials.
First two pages missing.
Proposal by The Old Los Angeles Company (originally formed by Albert Ehringer, Robert J. Morris and John P. Wilson) to lease the development of the historic district then named El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, specifically to "restore...
Prints depicting Glaubitz's heroic comic figure El niño burro and other of the artist's characters in various scenes.
Snapshots depicting scenes of family life in El Verano, Calif., with a few taken in San Rafael and San Francisco, Calif. Chiefly depicts 2 brothers, Bobbie and Frankie, during their childhood. A few scenes include their father. Another includes an...
The collection contains oral history notes and transcripts created by Elaine Dorfman, by students in her oral history methodology classes, and others; audiovisual materials; miscellaneous correspondence; miscellaneous notes related to oral history activities; newspaper clippings; obituaries; and materials for oral...
Description of his train journey from St. Louis to California and impressions of Santa Rosa and Berkeley. References also to the University of California.
Letters regarding books published by the Roycroft Shop in East Aurora, New York.
Letters, March-May 1849, written from Panama on his way to California, describe conditions there; letters thereafter written from San Francisco, San Jose and Hornitos.
Contains 5 letters written by William Elder to various family members: 1827 Sept. 23, from Florida N.Y. to his sister in Scotland, describing life in America, geography of upstate New York, his teaching. 1837 Feb. 23, Florida N.Y. to Sarah...
Portraits of San Francisco artist and drag performer Jerome Caja, taken by Eldon L. Allison during Gay Pride Parade festivities, in 1990 or 1991. One image depicts Caja in leopard skin lingerie, sprawled on a bench, perhaps on Market Street,...
Contains research materials for Eleanor Fowle's book on Alan Cranston titled "The Senator from California." Also includes papers relating directly to Senator Alan Cranston, including correspondence, press releases, clippings, ephemera, campaign materials, chiefly concerning his 1958, 1964, 1966, 1968, and...
Writings, talks, correspondence with students, and iterations of her journal entries (Possibly used in her writings) from Swent's time teaching English as a Second Language in the 1970's. Also includes 13 audiocasettes of a 1982 interview with early aviator Gordon...
Photographs taken in Berkeley, San Francisco, the Bay Area, elsewhere in California, and in during travels in the Western United States, Mexico, Guatemala, China, and Europe. Includes some photographs of the photographer's sister, folk singer Malvina Reynolds.
Collection consists of transcripts of 10 taped interviews with Vietnamese refugees, conducted Jan.-Aug. 1977, by Eleanor Swent in connection with her work teaching English as a second language. Biography of interviewer, description of project and participants and photocopy of her...
Mining and trading in Mariposa County, California; account of bear hunt in which he was wounded; description of return trip to Kentucky via Panama. Note by his brother, Robert, appended to letter, June 16, 1851.
Deed for farm land in Sandwish, Mass.
Election returns, Santa Cruz County, BANC MSS C-A 111, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photographs show electric railways and signals in California and Washington, in particular, those in Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Pugent Sound (Washington), Los Angeles, Richmond, etc. Some show railway of the Key Route. Views show track, signals, track maintenance, train cars, and...
Cartons 1-3: Project exhibition files including newspaper articles, show lists, postcards related to Electric Works and Trillium Press. Carton 4: Unsorted newspapers.
Views of neon signs produced by the Electrical Products Co. (Epco), 1920s-1950s, Federal Sign & Signal Corp., 1950s-1970s, and Ad Art. Many signs are for businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area, but other California and Nevada areas also pictured....
Photographs documenting construction of the Elephant Butte Dam along the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico. Photographs depict dam construction, the construction camp and the developing town of Elephant Butte. Also pictured are an earthen dwelling, dam construction workers, and...
Collection includes correspondence, legal documents (including a subpoena to appear at Baca's murder trial for Josepha Armija, dated April 18, 1885), clippings, printed items, and a tintype portrait of Baca, circa 1881.
Letters written from Sierra, Kern, and Tuolumne Counties to his family in the East, concerning conditions and life in California mining country and various jobs he held. Letter of l882 from Tuolumne speaks of poor prospects in mining due to...
Notes on religion, philosophy, psychology, mythology and Greek literature dating from student days at Bonn and Munich; official letters and statements written while Rabbi at Landau, Germany, 1862-1866; manuscripts, many fragments only, of his writings, including sermons and prayers.
Includes two letters to his attorney, Reuben H. Lloyd (one concerning proposed sale of Lake Tahoe property) and printed copy of map of Santa Anita Rancho.
The collection contains copies of engravings for bookplates, photographs of Kanarek's painted portraits and other works, exhibition notices, newspaper clippings, and sketchbooks.
This collection contains various materials Rabbi Elias Margolis collected, including correspondence (some with Judah L. Magnes); family and personal documents (photographs, passport, certificates); academic papers; presentations and writings; a scrapbook; and clippings. The collection also contains a bible in Hebrew,...
The collection includes Elie and Stella Tennenbaum's personal and professional documents, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs. The personal documents in the collection, as well as the correspondence from Europe, China and the United States, reveal the transient life of Jewish refugees...
Contains the working files for Egenhoff's publications and subject files on various mining topics.
Contains diary, correspondence, scrapbook, photographs, two helmets, and bike banner for Spirit of Fun cross country tandem biking trip. Also includes galley and correspondence relating to 1996 edition of book Bicycle Built for Two; speeches given on tandem biking by...
Describe her railroad trip with her young children from Elmira, N.Y. to Washington Territory, with comments on her fellow passengers, many of whom were immigrants; the Indians of Nevada and California, food prices and hotels; voyage north from San Francisco...
Includes letters from Sara Bard Field, Janet Flanner, Marino Marini, Henri Matisse, Darius Milhaud, Henry Moore, Alice B. Toklas and Bruno Walter, with occasional copies of Mrs. Haas' letters; and letter from Michael Stein to Thérèse Jelenko, July 31, 1922,...
Contains some letters from German Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn and his wife Luise regarding, among other things, the creation of a Museum of Architecture, a photograph of Erich Mendelsohn, and pamphlets entitled "A Museum of Architecture" and "Church Art Today."...
Re her voyage from Germany to San Francisco via Cape Horn on the Reform. Later letters from San Francisco and Sonoma. With these a few letters from family and friends in Germany. Elise Wiehe was later to marry Theodore H....
Include journals (original and augmented copy) describing his trip across the plains from Missouri to California in 1850; manuscripts of his writings; scrapbook of clippings containing articles written by him, and about him and Fresno County; loose clippings; miscellaneous notes,...
Letters to him written from Bruneau Valley, Idaho, by Michael Rock, 1891. (2 p., 20 cm.) and by David B. Hyde, 1892 (1. l., 28 cm.) Concerning the estate of John Lane.
Letter from J. Ross Browne re position as official reporter of Constitutional Convention, 1849; draft of report on Committee on Finance of Convention; letters from H.W. Halleck and W.G. Marcy; certificate of membership in San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, reminiscences...
Contains field notes, diaries, census data, manuscripts and correspondence relating to Colson's work among the Gwembe Tonga and Plateau Tonga in Zambia. Also includes field notes concerning the Makah Indians of Washington state.
Professional papers of UCB statistian and astronomer.
Originals in: the Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague.
Many of the prints and paintings relate to California, and, in particular, to San Francisco.
Includes a commonplace and address book, approximately 1930-1957; some letters by Julia Morgan also included.
Paschal family background; youth, education; student experiences at Wellesley College, and University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. dissertation; professor of Economics and Sociology at Marietta and Eureka Colleges; work experience, sexual discrimination, views on being a career woman in the 1930s, 40s...
Views of Weaverville, Sacramento River at Redding, Shasta and a Karok Indian deer dance.
Diary, v.1, 1854-1868, describes her life as a schoolgirl in Milton, New York; travels in N.Y. and eastern U.S., including a description of conditions at Auburn prison; work as a governess in Louisiana and elsewhere; descriptions of slave life and...
The collection consists of an oral history, a scrapbook, and identification cards relating to Zierer's experience during and after the Holocaust and her relocation to the United States. The collection also contains materials from Zierer's career with Education Continentale.
The collection contains correspondence from Elkan and Henrietta Moscowitz Voorsanger; correspondence and materials relating to Elkan and Henrietta's work in Europe during and after World War I; a photograph album holding photographs of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in...
Letters mainly to Eleanor and Henry Elkins in New Hampshire from their niece C.G. Elkins and other family in California and in Farmington, Minn. Those written from Nicolaus (Sutter Co.), Hurleton (Butte Co.), describe children, family, home affairs, the large...
Genealogical material; a memorial book for Louis Elkus; a diamond jubilee book and other materials from B'nai Israel, including a testimonial booklet for Albert Elkus; certificates of appreciation for and speeches by Albert Elkus from B'nai B'rith's David Lubin Lodge;...
Contains manuscripts of her articles, plays and stories, family photographs, scrapbooks, and unmounted clippings and articles. Scrapbooks include two containing clippings of her poems, articles and stories written for various newspapers and magazines, one scrapbook with manuscripts of her poems...
Letter to J.C. Rowell. Ap. 30, 1898. 1 p.-Crowned poet-laureate Poetry to her sister Music. 3 p. - The first inhabitant of this "Silver City." 1891. 4 p. - Our dead. Decoration day. 1891. 4 p. - Requiescat. 2 p....
Collection contains primarily correspondence from Ella Mighel to her brother, Dudley Haskell. The bulk of the correspondence takes place during the late 1920s and discusses Mighel's daily affairs, her family memories, publishing problems and hopes, and her activities with the...
Correspondence, clippings, and photographs concerning her life, writings, and family.
Contains notebooks, published and unpublished poems, and manuscripts for published and unpublished works. Also includes segments from numerous poetry publications of her published poems. Segments include the cover and the relevant pages of poetry.
The Ellen K. Shaffer papers portray a chronology of Shaffer's life from her early childhood in Leadville, Colorado; college years in California; employment with Dawson's Book Shop; service in the Women's Air Corps; librarian position at the Free Library of...
Papers document Ellen Lieber's work on behalf of Disability Rights in the San Francisco Bay Area. Included in the collection are newsletters and publications produced by various Bay Area agencies concerned with Disability Rights as well as Lieber's own correspondence...
Contains 6 letters discussing Susanville and Black Rock (Walker Plains), Calif. and a murder in Susanville, Calif.
Contains correspondence written between George W. Ellery, and his wife, Mary Goddard Ellery, William Ellery, Richard Henry Dana Jr., E.T. Channing, and David Wood. Correspondence concerns William Ellery's schooling, his early career aboard ship, a poem on the death of...
The collection consists mainly of Elliot Burstein's handwritten sermons and lectures from the 1920s through the 1960s. The sermons are arranged mostly in chronological order (by decade), but there is a small set of subject files as well. The subject...
The collection consists of the research files of scholar and curator Elliot Evans on California portrait painter William S. Jewett. Included are files of correspondence between Evans and a range of other scholars, curators, and Jewett relations on Jewett's biography,...
The certificate, which was filled out on 16 Mar. 1920, contains symbolic Freemason imagery, and states that Elliot Navon was recognized as a "regular Master Mason."
The collection includes a brochure with biographical information about Ellis B. Kohs, a score for Kohs' "Three Chorale-Variations on Hebrew Hymns," and a libretto for his "Amerika," based on the Franz Kafka novel.
Describe his ship journey to Pacific Coast and some mention of his prospects gold mining.
Photographs of redwoods.
Consists of correspondence and professional papers regarding Elmer E. Brown's activity as secretary of the California Council of Education's Committee on the Course of Study for Elementary Schools. Correspondence primarily consists of communications with superintendents and educators in Calif. and...
Contains 242 p. diary in German script by Leo Eloesser describing his voyage in 1861 and 1862 to San Francisco via England, New York and Panama; poems in German by Leo Eloesser; typescript copy of letter in English by Arthur...
Consists of corrected typescripts of stories, articles, radio scripts and poems, many never published. Drafts of published works are "Susanne: an intriguing comedy in three acts," and "The lie detector man." Corrections made in author's own hand reflect multiple stages...
Box 1: Actors and actresses; dramatists; theaters; miscellaneous.
Includes Alaska views (ca. 1900-1928), California views and the Panama Pacific International Expostion (1915), snapshots and postcards of travels in Mexico (1922-23 and 1940) and Europe (1924), studio portraits and snapshots of Elsa McGinn, her husband John L. McGinn, and...
Six picture postcards with scenes from the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire all addressed to a young woman, Elsie A. Chapman, living at 1315 8th Street in Eureka, California. Five of the six depict scenes from the city and...
Diary of 1910 with printed cover "Department of the Interior, U.S. Indian Service" describes travels north from San Francisco to visit California Indians and speak with their chiefs, details about the Indians and their problems (alcohol, physical abuse, etc.) Indian...
Correspondence exchanged between the two friends include ten original typescript letters addressed to Dr. Michel, a library administrator, nine carbon typescript responses from him, and one handwritten letter addressed to Michel from a friend of Slaughter.
v. 1: God's Waif (her experiences as an actress in Ireland, 299 l.)--v. 2: Hinges of Custom (data on myths and legends, 310 l.)--v. 3: I Gave up Thinking (her return to America, 284 l.)--v. 4-5: I Knew a Lovely...
Includes annotated typescripts of "Over These Hills," an unpublished novel written by Margret Whitaker (a pseudonym of Elsie Martinez), and of "The Settler," written by her father, Herman Whitaker. Materials by Elsie Whitaker Martinez include short stories, notes, and fragments...
Mainly unidentified portraits and snapshots. Areas pictured include: Mexico, Hawaii (including funeral of Liliuokalani), & California.
Contains articles, publications, and files. Includes materials concerning his interest and activity in the development of an improved tonometer for measuring interlocular pressure within the human eye.
A collection of 13 letters from Elisha Ely written from San Francisco, Geyserville, and Clarville, California. In addition, there is a separate grouping of 10 letters written by Douglass Ely, a brother of Elisha Ely, from the Colorado Springs and...
Photographs show mine and town views around Ely, Nevada.
Portraits and ephemera (programs and promotional items) related to the career of San Francisco based actress, singer, dancer, comic, and "electrical fencing" performer. Some items promote "The Victorines" (with sister or partner Myrtle?) or "Victorene and Belmont" "Victorine and Walters"...
Collection includes postcard with Kline's photograph from Jarbidge, Nev. (1910); part of an article written about a trial in Jarbidge; a eulogy; and a membership certificate for Sam Friedenberg, who was on the Advisory Board of the Pacific Coast University...
Letter that Emanuel Wotiz wrote and sent to members of his family in Strakonitz (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now in the Czech Republic) when he was stationed at Camp Floyd, in Cedar Valley, Utah Territory. The...
Pages 1-2 lacking. Description of Panama, en route to San Francisco with stop at Acapulco; comments on the gold mines and life near Placerville at Mountain House, an inn. Interspersed are stories and articles written by her, mainly of a...
Includes correspondence, publicity, and financial records.
Papers relating to Bronimann's career as an engineer, consisting primarily of maps, plans, diagrams, tracings, sketches, blueprints, etc., of mines, mining camps, roads and railway routes in Chihuahua and other northwestern Mexican states. Included also are reports with related correspondence...
Includes group portraits, copy photographs of portraits, several laboratory interiors, and building exteriors, probably taken in Germany.
Miscellaneous correspondence, biography, writings, etc., relating to Fischer and his family.
Letters relate to activities as socialist and labor union organizer, mainly in San Francisco and Vallejo.
Contains manuscripts, correspondence, a diary, legal documents, ships logs, news clippings and other memorabilia. Topics of manuscripts include San Francisco, the Yukon, the outdoors and Jack London. Correspondence includes 6 letters from Jack London, 6 letters from Charmain London after...
Correspondence, army records, photographs, clippings and papers relating to his experiences as a soldier of fortune with Pancho Villa in Mexico and as officer in World War I. Include letters from Sherburne G. Hopkins, Keith Wakeman, Julio Mitchell, Atkins McLemore,...
Informal portraits of Clark Ashton Smith taken outdoors near his cabin in Auburn, Calif. Petaja appears with Smith in one of the photographs.
Family background and early schooling; beginning medical university; Russian army siege of Budapest in 1945; capture by Russians; march to war labor camp, escape from Russians; experiences under Communist regime in Hungary; work before continuing medical education; attending medical university...
Typescript letters, many on official letterhead stationery ("República Mexicana, Ejército Libertador, Cuartel General" and "Correspondencia particular del Gral. Emiliano Zapata"), signed by Zapata concerning land reforms and implementation of the Plan de Ayala. Some are signed by Manuel Palafox on...
Contains 78 mostly typescript letters of correspondence between two prominent physicists, Emilio Segrè and Cornelis Bakker, covering the time period from August 4, 1931 to July 15, 1946. Sixty-three of the letters are from Segrè to Bakker and are signed....
Contains three typewritten letters from an eminent Italian physicist, Emilio Segrè, to a Japanese professor of the history of science, Kenkichiro Koizumi. Segrè writes of his interest in the history of physics in Japan and comments on the reputation of...
Contains letters received by Emily Ketchum from her friends and suitors. Does not include correspondence from her husband, H.H. Bancroft.
Contains research materials on Thom Gunn, newspaper clippings of Leider's book reviews, and a small amount of correspondence.
Includes a thank-you note to Albert M. Bender, and copies of her patriotic poem, Old Glory.
One photograph shows Wickens and her electric car; the other shows her and an unidentified man in front of her residence in Pasadena, Calif., with the car in the driveway.
Written for her mother, Mrs. Ashford Baker, while her husband, Captain Wm. J. McIntyre, was resident agent for the Alaska Commercial Company.
Includes letters from Ninetta Eames Payne and Katherine Boyd concerning Charmian London and Frances Fuller Victor.
Includes portraits of Emma McLaughlin, photos of social activities and travel, in Japan, Paris, 5th Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations in Banff, 1933, and the Institute's headquarters in San Francisco, other San Francisco Bay Area views (including one...
Contains correspondence, maps, ephemera etc. of Emma Nelson Baker concerning her role in organizing the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California. Also includes Baker's personal correspondence.
Photographic archive of Emma Nelson Baker, in large part reflective of her role in helping to organize the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915. Vols. 1-2: photograph albums documenting the planning and building of the PPIE from...
Copy of College of California commencement address, 1868, by Richard Eugene Poston; annotated copy of Samuel H. Willey's History of the College of California, with letters by the author tipped in; correspondence with Joseph Cummings Rowell; and clippings concerning the...
Copies of letters written: by an English housewife, compiled as a memorial after her death. Included also are copies of a few letters from her husband, Jacob, and from friends; reminiscences concerning her last illness, and copy of sermons read...
Papers of instructor of French, University of California, Berkeley, including notes on grammar, examination questions, poems, drafts of an article on Louis Pasteur, clippings, and two scrapbooks containing clippings, notes, poems, circulars and other papers, some of which relate to...
Contains files primarily related to two Dudley Carter sculptures at City College of San Francisco, Goddess of the Forest, and The Ram. Files include materials used for research and promotion of restoration and preservation work done on the sculptures by...
Notes, newsclippings, articles, and other materials relating to her work.
Photographs show miners, mining, the mill, flumes, trains, and other views related to the Empire Mine and North Star Mill in Grass Valley, Calif.
Materials pertaining to the legal and financial affairs of the Empire Mines and William Bowers Bourn and to the proposed merger of the Empire Mines with the Filoli Estate at Woodside.
Notes taken from Professor Ribbeck's lectures on philology.
Comments on his long career in law enforcement, as agent for the Internal Revenue Service's Bureau of Prohibition, and working with Earl Warren on the staff of the Alameda County district attorney's office and the California attorney general's office. Views...
Collection of photocopies and transcriptions of documents from Spanish, Portugese and Dutch archives relating primarily to Dutch-Iberian global rivalry. The bulk of documents date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Included are materials on colonial expansion, voyages to the Pacific,...
Maps used for teaching history classes at UCB.
Construction progress photographs of various projects, including the Carquinez Strait bridge (fALB boxes 1 and 2, and A box 5); the Oakland Estuary Tunnel (fALB box 2); the Oakland-Alameda tube (George A. Posey Tube) (A boxes 4 and 5); and...
Concern Midland Counties Public Service Corporation and Santa Maria Gas Company (San Luis Obispo); street lighting and natural gas service for San Diego; inventory and appraisal of Pinole Light and Power Company; Central Valley Project.
Snapshots of ships and unidentified passengers, street views and docks, buildings and scenes, all presumably from Panama. Also included are construction views of a railroad (and the Panama Canal?) Additional views relate to dam and lock construction, apparently on the...
Complete set of numbered cards issued by the English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Society pertaining to the history of the British tea trade and international tea culture. Fronts of cards are illustrated by various subjects, including teapots from China and...
Two complete sets, 12 cards per set, issued by the English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Society, pertaining to their activities in the British tea trade. One set of 12 cards illustrates various aspects of the trade, including views of estate,...
Complete set of cards issued by the English and Scottish Joint Co-operative Society pertaining to their activities in the British tea trade, specifically to their Rose of the Orient film series (released 1935). Set is illustrated by scenes of Ceylon...
Boyhood in wartime London, conscientious objector status, alternative service jobs; research work at Kodak, Ltd., 1954-1972, bicycling; British Garden History Society activities, programs, horticultural groups, status; Waters's gardens in England; marriage, and move to Berkeley, CA; connecting with California Horticultural...
The 1758 land document concerns land of Edward Davenhill the elder, and Edward Davenhill the younger and his wife Lydia. The 1867 document concerns Emily Wilkie of Finsbury Place in Middlesex county and Robert Stanton of Glengall Grove in Surrey...
Concerns collections pertaining to English literature and its personalities. Single items cataloged separately. See individual records for content (search under title: English literary miscellany.)
Snapshots of a soul band playing at various venues in the vicinity of Monterey, California. Band members may have been college students living on or near the Monterey Peninsula in the late 1960s.
A comparative vocabulary, with manuscript maps. Includes notes relating to the Pomos and the Pomo dialects.
Comments on growing up in Alameda; involvement in civic affairs, teaching and volunteer organizations.
Contains mostly personal correspondence of Sales, some from Bay Area Beat poet, Philip Whalen, and other acquaintances. Includes a drawing of nasturtiums in a vase and poem (O Greta Garbo!) inscribed "Belated nasturtiams for the birthday of Tommy Sales, with...
Mounted clippings; some biographical information concerning his father, Richard Neseman, and other Marysville pioneers.
Photographs, photographic negatives, product catalogs, publications (Enterprise News; Transamerica Times), mechanical drawings of machine parts, and telephone list of a large machinery and diesel engine manufacturing company that had its start in San Francisco, Calif. circa 1881. Some materials in...
James Orr discusses growing up in British Columbia, using the spectrograph as a consulting engineer, mining diamonds in Brasil, and forming the Orr Engineering and Chemical Company.
Views show environmental damage caused by logging along Redwood Creek, both before and after creation of the Redwood National Park.
Photographs show the impact of human activities in Yosemite National Park, including a garbage area and incinerator, an abandoned outhouse, overflow campers camping in meadows, the development of various tourist and employee facilities, crowds of visitors, etc. Many photographs show...
Contains notes, outlines, and manuscripts relating to Essig's research on the history of entomology. Includes detailed diaries from his travels throughout the U.S., Europe, and North America during 1936-1937 and 1939-1943, as well as scrapbooks of picture postcards and other...
Album consists of snapshots of men and women on trips to Victoria, Canada; Oregon; Echo lake, Death Valley, and Kings Canyon, Calif. Also includes 23rd Annual Outing of the California Alpine Club to Sequoia National Park. Loose photo prints are...
Two group portraits that also include Carroll Wilson, Frank Lewis, Edward Bowles, E.G. Bowen, Alfred Loomis and A.H. Compton, among others.
Contains handwritten and typescript notes and personal correspondence, hotel bill, store receipt, NAACP membership card, etc., of family members related to a prominent black Baptist pastor in Boston, David S. Klugh, Sr. Most of the correspondence belongs to Eolyn [Klugh]...
Typed transcripts (with carbon copies) of originals in private possession.
Mainly accounts of Epes and George B. Ellery for Great Central, Comstock, Masonic Tunnel, Ellery & Antiquarian mining companies. Include a few personal receipts, blank forms, deed of sale for property in San Francisco.
Ephemera includes invitations, calling cards, entertainment event programs, menus, postcards, maps, brochures, etc. Many items pertain to a Mr. & Mrs. A.C. Bilicke.
1 poster and 1 illustrated double-sided broadside promoting events held in San Francisco on September 8, 2018 in preparation for the Global Climate Action Summit held in the city a few days later on September 12-14. Poster: Rise for Climate,...
Primarily contains financial and land documents, including land in Alvarado and the Altamont Pass areas of Alameda County and in Solano County. Also includes some administrative records such as by-laws, annual reports, and minutes of meetings. Details about the Dyer...
Correspondence, newspaper articles, subject files, audiovisual material, printed e-mail, miscellaneous legal documents and other materials relating to the Air Transport Association of America v. City & County of San Francisco lawsuit regarding domestic partner benefits.
Focuses on his experiences as a trustee of the Rosenberg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation; discusses his social work education and professional career with community services organizations, particularly La Raza. He also speaks about the changing concerns of the Mexican...
Growing up on a farm in Napa; UC Berkeley, 1931-1937; UC San Francisco Medical School, 1942; military service, 1942-1946, US Public Health Service: venereal disease research projects, faculty position at Johns Hopkins; Rockefeller Research Fellow, Stanford; M.P.H., Harvard, 1948; County...
Diary, April 8, 1859-July 24, 1862, describing voyage from New York to San Francisco via Panama and Acapulco; experiences mining at Rich Gulch, farming in the Stockton area, and teaching school in San Joaquin County; mention of floods of the...
Contains 12 letters from a 49er starting aboard ship to California and then in the gold fields and San Francisco. Discusses mining, fires, business and the Vigilance Committee of 1856.
Three diaries covering July 1851 through December 1868. The first, for 1851, is very full and detailed, concerning mining activities in the area and gold discovery, politics, religion, Indians, military, wars, and life in the mining towns, including hangings, law...
Includes Rostlund's writings and research notes, primarily regarding birds and native peoples in North America as well as reprints of colleagues' work.
Eric Bellquist papers, BANC MSS 81/148 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Contains typescript and manuscript poems, published poems, unpublished collections of poetry, notebooks, color pen drawings, and publications containing Eric Walker's poems. Unpublished collections include: Schizophrenia, Hearts and Freeways, Poems from the Subterranean Heart, The Heart's Assembly, among others. Includes some...
The collection consists mostly of newspaper clippings regarding Walther Rathenau, along with a few publications. The majority of the items in the collection are in German, with a few English references.
Collection of documents and correspondence, including contracts for the first six Perry Mason novels. Includes a portrait photograph of Jean Bethell.
Diary (original in German; Mar. 20, 1849 - Mar. 10, 1850) of overland journey to California. Nusbaumer started in company with a group of Germans (the German California Mining Company) and ended with one of the small groups from Captain...
Reports of incidents in various mining towns from newspapers and books, compiled for Mr. Wiltsee by Mrs. Eleanor Bancroft and Mr. C. M. Wooster. Includes articles that Wiltsee wrote for a column called "Ghost Towns" in the publication "Stamps" in...
Includes Wiltsee's reminiscences, correspondence with Eleanor Ashby Bancroft, and papers relating to the Emperor Norton Memorial Association. Reminiscences contain recollections of Wiltsee's early life and education; mining experiences in California, South Africa, Mexico, and South America; European life; the 1906...
Chiefly sketches for his murals at Filoli, the Bourne residence in Woodside, Calif.
Letters from Benjamin I. Wheeler, Thomas F. Hunt, Roy E. Clausen, Robert G. Sproul; articles; lecture notes; reports; and photos relating to teaching career and his association with the College of Agriculture, Division of Genetics. Oversize folder contains membership certificate...
Includes original drawings by Peixotto depicting an unidentified California mission building; a view of classical Roman ruins, titled Roma; and, on the verso of the Roman drawing, an unidentified group of buildings in England. Also includes snapshot photographs of Peixotto...
Photographs documenting presence of American oil company employees on the Pacific coast of Panama, near the Garachine region, Darien province. Includes several photographs of the Choco (here spelled "Cholo") indigenous peoples of the region.
Contains unpublished manuscripts, notes, poetry, lecture notes, articles, poster, honorary diploma, etc. Includes an annotated copy of Ecotopia Emerging to be used for translated copies. Also includes a letter of condolence from the mayor of Trier, Germany after hearing of...
Collection includes illustrations of San Francisco Chinatown; Chinese; a church near Monterey; the Plaza Hotel; San Juan Bautista; a railway station and ruins at San Juan Capistrano; the Old Town Hotel (San Diego?); Plaza del Mar, Santa Barbara; Emerald Bay;...
Transferred from the Ernest Peixotto papers (BANC MSS 90/58 c).
Pencil sketches of various locations in California, Europe, and South America. Photograph albums and loose snapshots; mostly views in Europe, some in California. Photonegatives of murals and buildings of the New York World's Fair (1939-40).
Drawings, blueprints, designs, and details for various Bay Area projects, including the Calkins residence in Berkeley and many other Bay Area residences, as well as a hanful of commercial buildings in the area."
Correspondence and chapter drafts concerning the trial of an Attica prisoner named "Shango".
Chiefly news photographs by King and other Associated Press photographers. Also includes images, newsclippings, and ephemera related to King and his career.
Appraisal report of the fair market value of land and improvements at San Simeon, known as La Cuesta Encantada, May 20, 1957. Includes photographs, copies of Julia Morgan's plot and building plans, and maps.
The collection consists of photographs taken of members of the Haas-Lilienthal family and other prominent San Francisco families. Includes photographs of Jesse Warren Lilienthal, Ernest Reuben Lilienthal, Louis Sloss, and Milton Esberg. Also contains a photograph of Gustave Niebaum, Lewis...
The collection contains correspondence too and from Ernest Marcus concerning Thomas Mann (primarily in German); writings on Mann and reproductions of his work; clippings on Mann (primarily in German); and reproductions of photographs of Mann, primarily from postcards and magazines.
Includes personal letters, photographs, medical receipts, and travel papers related to his participation in the 1958 Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests; diaries that include notations on color television research; draft of a speech to West Point...
Consists of scrapbooks, medals, awards, photographs, letters of condolence after the death of E.O. Lawrence and other memorabilia relating primarily to the later years of Lawrence's life. Of particular interest is a photo album compiled on a tour of Japan...
Lawrence in front of a house with an unidentified woman and two children.
The papers contain correspondence with family and friends, as well as drafts and published versions of his poetry, much of which focuses on patriotic themes.
Linoleum block, woodblock and silkscreen prints pertaining to various topics: Zapatistas (EZLN), troubled youth, indigenous myth (Quetzalcoatl, Hummingbird), Arizona politics (Joe Araipo, SB-1070), Mexican wrestlers (luchadores), and the Los Angeles artist's collective Solidarity Ink.
Principally letters by Goldberg to Ernie and Doris Segale and Irene Barsotti.
Original linocut prints created to illustrate erotic poetry collected in the publication Erótica Náhuatl (Miguel León Portilla, ed., Mexico, 2018). Portfolio contains 4 thematic groups of images corresponding to chapters of the book: El canto del las mujeres de Chalco;...
3 volumes of snapshot photographs documenting the Mexico travels of a Ervy J. Redfox, who regularly visited the Morales family in Mexico City and toured throughout the country. Photographs depict cathedrals and other churches, pyramids, missions, market scenes, houses, parks,...
Notes for the manuscript of the book as edited for publication by Elisabeth (Karpenstein) Gudde.
Contains research notes, course and lecture notes, and small amount of correspondence.
Consists of articles written by Erwin Rosenthal on Wilder Bentley, correspondence from Bentley to Rosenthal, and writings and artwork by Bentley. Writings include: "A landscape of the seasons," "Four canons from the Tang," "Two dreams: Canons IV and XVII from...
Schroeder and Strohmaier family papers date mainly from the 1880's to 1920's. Family correspondence consists of letters from soprano Therese Caroline Tietjens and from Karl Marx, love letters between Jacob Strohmaier and Clara Schroeder, and family letters. Other papers include...
File of documents (originals and copies) of title search and bill of sale to James McKinlay for a house in Los Angeles. Added, at end, record of sale of the house, Aug. 9, 1848, by McKinlay to Benjamin D. Wilson...
Records (16 p.) documenting the ownership of a portion of land (sitio eriazo) in the jurisdiction of Teocaltitlan in Mexico City. The collection consists of handwritten copies of property titles or original testimonies for transfer of property for twelve successive...
Contains three blank copies of a printed forms used at a teacher's college in Costa Rica to record grades at the preparatory and teaching levels (No. 3133 and No. 3129) and for graduation (No. 5782).
File of documents relating to litigation over the ownership of a house in Real San José de Mulatos, containing original and contemporary copies; signed by various officials.
File of documents concerning property title.
Photocopy of tracings, certified, 1872, by J.R. Hardenbergh, U.S. Surveyor General for California, of "Expediente 228" which includes: petition of José Antonio Pico, Jan. 7, 1840; approvals by Tiburcio Tapia and Narciso Botello, and grant by Governor Juan B. Alvarado...
Originals and contemporary copies.
Consists of legal documents, rent and tax receipts and correspondence of the Encanto Rubber Plantation Co. and the Esperanza Timber Co. Also includes history of the Esperanza Timber Co. and photographs.
Letters from A.P. Kashevaroff, Curator, Alaska Historical Museum, Mercedes L. Call (Mrs. G.W. Call) and from various state officials, included.
Views of Baywood, home of John Parrott. The residence, grounds and environs are featured, with some views of early buildings of Mateo, Calif. "El Cerrito" and "Millbrae", the residences of W.D.M. Howard and D.O. Mills, are also pictured, as are...
Re the 1906 earthquake and fire and the disaster relief program for teachers and schools through the auspices of the National Education Association; and music education programs in San Francisco public schools while she was director of music.
Wide-angle photographs of Ku Klux Klan gatherings in the Oakland Auditorium (later renamed the Henry J. Kaiser Converntion Center) and, according to donor description, an unspecified outdoor area within what would become Tilden Regional Park, Contra Costa County, taken at...
With this is an extract from a letter by her husband, Rev. J.A. Hanna, Los Angeles, 1904 March 18, copied from Oregon Historical Quarterly (1914 June), describing the same overland journey, and the Presbyterian ministry in the Willamette Valley, 1853-1858.
Contains notebooks, class notes, sketchbooks, correspondence, files, miscellany, clippings, publications, certificates, sketches, a scrapbook, journals, etc. of Esther and Fenner Fuller. Most of the text materials appear to be connected to Esther Fuller with numerous references to her husband Fenner...
Letter from Agapito H. Villaflores, and clipping concerning a letter from M.G. Vallejo.
Includes statement by Father José Viader, July 12, 1803, concerning ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of the church at San Jose; letters from José María and José Antonio Estudillo and other members of the family; and clippings.
Miscellaneous photos related to the life and family of Miguel Estudillo, Attorney. Chiefly portraits, most taken in Mexico by Valleto y Ca. Includes portraits of Miguel and Teresa Estudillo, views of a hunting party with snow camp and man with...
Stage coach station, Old Forest Home, Calif., undated -- Water wheel ore crusher, Angels Camp, Calif., undated.
Art depicts biblical and literary themes, nudes, portraits, etc.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Views show the Indian village of Sobola, San Bernardino mountains -- the Old Martzols Store, Temecula Valley -- San Luis Rey Mission.
Etchings of Mission San Juan Capistrano, & a house (possibly in California). Photograph is of R.L. Stevenson's house in Monterey.
Contains personal and professional correspondence; manuscripts; materials about events; articles about, and interviews with, Adnan; a small amount of personalia; audiocassette tapes; and periodicals. Materials are in English, French, and Arabic. Aside from a few files of letters from individuals,...
Record of his life as a farmer and herdsman at Hot Spring Lake on the lower Jordan River in Salt Lake County, with occasional note of significant occurrences in Utah history; experiences in 1869 as pilot for a detachment of...
Ethel Ames Sagen papers concerning her studies relating to Sir Francis Drake and the Plate of Brass, BANC MSS 72/65 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, articles, notes, and photographs concerning her interest and activity in writing. That of her husband John Kenneth Turner, and that of her daughter Juanita Turner Lusk. Some of Ethel's work concerned a novel called The Orange Tree...
A scrapbook of photographs of artists, writers, and dramatic productions, primarily in the Carmel area and San Francisco's Montgomery Block. Includes Forest Theatre productions and photos of George Sterling, William Merrit Chase, Clark Ashton Smith, model Antonio Corsi, and the...
The collection consists of records of Congregation Beth Sholom's SIsterhood collected over the years by Ethel Fein. Included are Beth Sholom's Board of Directors manual (1979-1980) and minutes (1966-1968); files on the congregation's youth programs and services and on the...
Album of snapshots documenting activities and associates of Ethel Scott, her husband William Thomas Alexander "Lex" Scott, and developers John A. Otto and Fred L. Wright, all of whom were involved developing the Blue Eagle Gold & Silver Mines enterprise...
Views of eucalyptus trees and groves at various stages of maturity. Most appear to be commercial groves, and many include men posed next to trees.
The Eugene A. Hammel papers contain data, manuscript drafts, correspondence, and grant proposals for a working paper entitled, "A Glimpse into the Demography of the Ainu," which was published in 1987.
Views of California and the Western U.S. taken by an avid amateur photographer in mid-20th century, with an emphasis on scenery in National Parks, State Parks and other wilderness areas. Includes many views of San Francisco, Oakland, Yosemite National Park...
Contains printed promotional materials advertising Redmond's newest works and a performance of a play at California State University, Sacramento. Includes an invitation to a holiday event promoting "Bloodlinks and Sacred Places" and "In a Time of Rain & Desire" and...
Mainly newspaper clippings and copies of Governor Knight's speeches, articles, etc.
PIC Box 1: research notes, biographical information, lists of photographs, and copy photographs from various collections of images by Carleton E. Watkins -- PIC Box 2: copies of Watkins family portraits and views by Watkins (including the Hearst Mining collection);...
Contains 21 bound volumes of laboratory notes relating to Eugene D. Commins' electric dipole moment experiments in atomic thallium at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics.
Includes correspondence, writings, speeches, and course materials.
Contains correspondence, subject files, and reprints.
Bread and Butter, and The Ole Davil (Library of Congress); Chris Christophersen, and More Stately Mansions (Beinecke Library, Yale University); Now I Ask You, The Personal Equation, The Revelation of John the Divine, S.O.S. and The Reckoning (Houghton Library, Harvard...
Papers relating to Eugene V. Coan's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Thirteen ms. notebooks detailing events and discoveries related to Hilgard's projects, surveys, and tours in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and California. The notebooks cover a number of topics relating to scientific application in agriculture (includes materials related to...
The records of the Eureka Benevolent Society (EBS) include minutes; reports; histories; scrapbooks; photographs; and newspaper clippings. The collection also contains the by-laws and constitution of the EBS (1858-1860) with signatures of its members; succeeding by-laws for the EBS beginning...
Two letters (2 p.) concerning the selling or leasing of a bed rock tunnel from Eureka Gold Mining Company to John S. Stidger of Sweetland, Nevada County, Calif.
Constitution, by-laws, revised constitution, minutes of meetings, accounts for shares sold, assessments levied, record of wages paid and other expenditures for working of the mine; signed by secretaries.
Minutes of meetings, Oct. 31, 1853 - Aug. 28, 1859, constitution, list of original members, communications, etc.
Two reports from the Jesuit missionary, dated May 3-November 4, 1698, and February 5, 1703. The first describes Apache hostilities and aid rendered against them by the Pima-Sobaipuri Indians, and stresses the need for governmental assistance in the conversion and...
Chiefly letters from San Francisco to his mother in Texas.
The E.V. Laitone papers, 1929-2001, consist primarily of the publication reprints of E.V. Laitone, former professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Contains mostly personal correspondence between Eva Davis (née Weintrobe) and Morris Davis covering the time period up to and including their marriage in 1938. The bulk of the letters are addressed from Eva in Liverpool, England to Morris in London...
Eva Dean correspondence to Mr. Sloan, BANC MSS 2011/264, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Includes notes, pictures and maps of the Cherokee Strip, 1874-1903. Drafts and proofsheets of the manuscript. Correspondence for research and with publishers. Many letters and suggestions from Ned Bradford, Little, Brown and Company.
Correspondence, financial materials, subject files, briefs, manuscripts, and publications concerning his career and his activities with The U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
Includes two letters by her, and letters to her from Donald James Allan, William C. Helmbold, Victor F. Lensen, sir William David Ross and Enid Starkie. Letter from Miss Starkie, with enclosure, her account of André Gide's visit to Oxford,...
Bibliographies; letters relating to his collecting efforts, maps, articles clipped from magazines, etc.
Photographs depict California residences, schools, railroad stations, hotels, churches, missions, bathhouses, and other buildings.
Photos related to his scientific career include portraits of colleagues and famous scientists from history; UC Berkeley lab scenes; research photographs of fetuses and ovaries of animals, etc. Collection also includes family photographs.
Contains memorabilia from Evelyn Marie Dulfer's social activities, travels, charitable works including Catholic charities, political activities in the 1980's for the Republication Party, photographs, menus from San Francisco and Hawaii, and newspaper clippings.
Regarding Billy Graham in San Francisco, James A. Pike, Douglas MacArthur, the Stephanie Bryan murder case, Grace Kelley, Herbert Hoover, et al.
Letters from Bessie Beatty, Matthew Brady, Robert L. Duffus, Sara Bard Field, Frederic W. Kellogg, Rose Wilder Lane, Clarence R. Linder, Ella Winter, and others relating to Wells's biography of San Francisco journalist Fremont Older, 1935-1937. Also includes manuscripts of...
Papers re her work as public assistance worker assigned to Marysville WCCA office, to help Japanese Americans during World War II evacuation. Include Wartime Civilian Control Administration correspondence and memos; copies of her reports; letters written to her by the...
Photos documenting the infancy and childhood of Everett Johnson of San Francisco, Calif. (born 1909).
Correspondence and poems by Everson (as Brother Antonius) to Evans, the latter of which were intended for publication but never published by Evans, according to the letter of transmittal from Evans to the University of California at Berkeley Library. Also...
Chiefly portraits of Everson in his later years, most taken by professional photographers, including a portfolio of portraits by Leigh A. Wiener (ffALB). Also includes an early portrait as a young man, portraits of Everson's mother Francelia Herber, a few...
Contains 5 documents relating to mining claims held by E.W. Doss and his family in Kern County, Calif. Also include a document relating to Boulder Bar Mining Company's claims in Kern County.
Correspondence, U.C. loyalty oath controversy, and Central Valley Project studies.
Correspondence, case studies, subject files, course mateials, and writings related to Grether's activities in economics, business administration, and marketing at University of California, Berkeley.
With this is bound a second manuscript beginning: "Se le città a piu cospicue del mondo sono qlle che nouerano a lor gloria molti secoli qsta nra città Tiburtina ..." 11 p.
Anonymous record of voyage on unnamed ship from the Carribean to Java and return by the Cape of Good Hope to Europe.
Depositions in cases of ships (Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, etc.) captured by English privateers on the high seas, to determine legitimacy of "prizes." Many relate to American trade. Microfilmed in the Public Record Office, London.
Contains legal documents, correspondence, financial records including stock ledgers and payroll, maps and minutes. Also includes records of stock holders Rufus Butterfield and Arthur Tribe.
Excerpts from the collection for the period 1845-1850, copied or reproduced in 1936 from manuscripts in the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
Early years, political activity, City College, NY; Army combat intelligence; marriage, writing for Commentary; to San Francisco, 1951, executive director Jewish Community Relations Council: issues of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazi activities, Soviet Jewish emigration, church and state, civi rights, black-Jewish relations; cooperation...
An exhibit case with 18 books bound by Cobden-Sanderson prior to establishment of the Doves Bindery.
Title supplied by cataloger.
14 autograph documents plus 1 printed document with autograph additions.
Documents relating to the claim of Elias Sunga y Mendosa for a lot, signed by witnesses and the notary.
Documents relating to petition of Lucas de Mañozca to participate in hereditary benefits granted by royal decree to his father-in-law, Pedro de Chávez, as grandson of Captain Gutiérrez de Badajoz.
A file on the right of chief constables and other officials to appoint subordinates. Includes petitions on conflicting claims addressed to Governor Juan José de Vertiz, gubernatorial orders, notifications and related material. With signatures of the governor and various local...
Three sheets of notebook paper that were used to track and total monthly expenses, mostly for ordinary items of clothing for men and women.
Interviews cover the Goldman and Haas families in San Francisco, 1900-1990, civic leadership, personal philosophy, and role in organized charities. Includes discussion of Mt. Zion Hospital, American Cancer Society, Jewish Welfare Federation, Yosemite Fund, the San Francisco Holocaust Memorial, and...
Dictation recorded by Thomas Savage for H.H. Bancroft, relating mainly to his experiences as a soldier at Santa Barbara; with account of searches for fugitive Indians, activities of the pirate Bouchard in southern California, José Estudillo's 1823 expedition to the...
Experimental papers- Philippine Fibrous Raw Materials, BANC MSS 2017/85Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Frank Joklik discusses his family background in Vienna; his education at the University of Sidney, and early career in Australia, as well as being manager of the Mt. Newman Iron Ore Project; his time, initially as exploration geologist, with Kennecott...
Photographs of San Francisco before the construction of the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Primarily views of the undeveloped exposition site, later to become San Francisco's Marina District. Also color postcards of San Francisco scenes and views of the Great White...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Entries for Kit Carson's baptism and his marriage to Josefa Jaramillo, and for burial of Carson and his wife.
Reports copied from Baptist publications, written from Kansas by various missionaries, 1860-1867, with single reports from Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada in 1872; mostly religious matters, but mention of "hard times" in Kansas, 1860. Compiled by Coe Hayne from the files...
Five positive photoprints including M.G. Vallejo's oath of office, May 5, 1851; petition to the Council for protection of an avenue of trees, April 10, 1852; tally for election (Vallejo as Mayor) May 3 1852; bill to the city; Council...
Journal entries cover the traveler's voyage on the brig Forest around the Horn. Bound in is a photocopy of a page of the original diary.
Deal primarily with murder and other crimes, apprehension and trial of criminals, threats of action by viglinates, etc.
Chicago background, family, early experiences with a camera, Art Center School; Naval Photographic Unit, Edward Steichen, Hiroshima; Guggenheim to document the northern Negro, 1946-1947; work for Life and other magazines; move to the West coast, a house in Orinda; thoughts...
Photographs of participants of the Eyes West conference including photographer Ansel Adams, advertiser Howard Gossage, producer and actor John Houseman, architect Louis I. Kahn, author Lewis Mumford, music composer Gunther Schuller, and art director Henry Wolf.
Letter soliciting business for Erich, a mining consultant.
3 letters from Ezra Gregg and 2 from his brother William, to their sister and brother-in-law (Luke and Lucy Ann Town, Stowe, Vermont), concerning their life in California and their activities in the mines; 1 letter from A.E Pottle (June...
Letters from Ezra Pound to the Misses Adah L. and Ida B. Mapel (1906-1958) and to W.B. Yeats and Elkin Mathews (1916) re publication of Lustra; letters from Mrs. Pound and Omar Pound to the Mapels (1928-1957); miscellaneous letters re...
Reel 1: 1896-1925; reel 2: 1926-1947. Letters are addressed to his parents and to various authors, including James Joyce, H.L. Mencken, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore and T.S. Eliot. Transcripts of a few letters addressed to Pound also included.
Texts from broadcasts monitored by the U.S. government as transcribed by the Federal Communications Commission.