Invitations and programs for reunions, 1886, 1890 and 1891, of members of Company F, 2d Infantry Regiment, California National Guard, organized during the labor agitation, 1878.

The collection consists of questionnaires that Grahlfs circulated to American military veterans, asking about their exposure to radiation. The information he gathered was used for his Ph. D. dissertation and a subsequent book.

Cost estimates, blueprints and other data relating to irrigation and hydroelectric power projects in Mexico, and to a railroad in Costa Rica. Oversize folder contains blueprints of dams and other irrigation related projects in Mexico.

Letter and note to J.R. in Walnut Grove, Calif. accompanied Nettelbeck's work he sent to J.R., and praise J.R.'s work.

Chiefly concerning organization of the hospital, its property and merger, 1938, with the Samuel Merritt Hospital. Correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous papers. A few of the papers are from the Oakland Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary Association. Also, scrapbooks relating to medical...

Contains correspondence, legal documents and financial papers relating to San Francisco businesses and families, consisting of files for Edward R. Bacon & Co. and Contractor's Machinery Exchange, as well as the estates of Jonas Bloom and Virginia F. Dakin.

Photographs produced for exhibition, also reproduced in the 2005 book by the same title. The poets represented were all participants in the "Lunch Poems" series at the Morrison Library of the University of California at Berkeley. Poets pictured are: Czeslaw...

Photographs show general views of the city of Panama, as well as detailed views along the Panama Canal. Hotels, dining rooms, and readings rooms of the I.C.C. (Isthmian Canal Commission?) Club, a police station, hospital grounds, laborers quarters, workers and...

Tracings of signatures of fifty-six famous Californians, made from originals in the State Archives for H.H. Bancroft in 1877. Indexed.

Three facsimiles of different pre-American Californian documents, two by Junipero Serra and one by Sebastián Vizcaíno, in Spanish. On each, a note says in English that they were "photographed from the original the "Archivo General de Indias" de Servilla under...

Physicist and professor, Helmholz discusses his family background, education at Harvard and Cambridge, career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, especially the loyalty oath controversy, the free speech movement, UC oversight of Livermore and Los Alamos Laboratories,...

Typescript of the final manuscript as prepared for the printer, with holograph pagination and corrections. Accompanied by 10 volumes (in 9) of notebooks, chiefly containing copies of various source materials used in compiling the history. These include Isaac N. Roop's...

Portfolio of fine art photographs of views taken in Charles Lee Tilden Regional Park and the adjacent nature areas in the Berkeley Hills of Alameda County, Calif. Images chiefly depict trees, especially eucalyptus and oak, and hiking trails found in...

Collection consists chiefly of correspondence between Faith McNulty and Carl Koford. Also included are drafts of Faith McNulty article on the California condor and related materials.

Chiefly photographs pertaining to Fakir Musafar and his work in body modification and related spiritual practice. This work focuses particularly on piercing as well as corseting, tattooing, branding, and other modifications identified with the "modern primitive" movement.

Materials relating primarily to Falk's civic activities. Includes letters written to him, many of them from prominent men in San Francisco and in the State; copies of some letters written by him; biographical sketches; personalia; awards and citations; photographs; clippings;...

View of Fallen Leaf Lake includes man with bicycle on trail as well as electrical power lines. View of Echo Lake taken from high distance with unidentified lake in foreground. Third view unidentified.

Snapshots of family members, friends, leisure activities, social gatherings, homes (exterior and interior), events, and outing locations chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. Views of a trip to Hawaii are also included. Pictured are the family...

Contains views from Alhambra, Redondo, Riverside and other unidentified areas. Also depicted are homes of Ransie Langworthy, Dr. Frary, Cussie Fowler, and others; as well as avenues, beaches, gardens and unidentified family members and neighbors.

Views seem to center around Vallejo, Calif. Includes snapshots of many home interiors and exteriors, groups of family and friends, outing groups chiefly around Northern California, a parlor decorated for a wedding, portraits of the bride, and homes visited in...

Family snapshots on "real photo postcard" stock, mounted in album produced to hold postcards. Outdoor portraits and group portraits of family, perhaps friends, children, and scenes. Includes views taken at the City Zoo, by orange trees, and at an ostrich...

Snapshots of family life and local buildings.

Photographs and clippings document the life of a politically active Chinese family in Hanford, Calif. Includes photographs of Harry Q.H. Lee's herbalist shop in Hanford.

Collected by Abraham Louis Hankin.

Chiefly snapshots, with some studio portraits, of friends and family of Adelaide Lewis. The majority of photographs are in a snapshot album apparently compiled by Adelaide, and dating chiefly from 1908-1914. At this time the family lived at the Presidio...

Photographs show family activities (relatives of donor Eileen Hemmerle?), U.C. Berkeley student life, agriculture in Fresno and Kings counties, and aviation. Family photos show leisure activities (horseback riding, swimming, etc.), San Francisco Bay Area views, family outings, and portraits of...

For the most part the collection comprises portraits of family and friends including: Eva Fergusson, Francis Fergusson, Fred Newton, Lena F. Browne, Mildred Koonce, Jeannette Mursky [or Minsky?], Margaret O'Hagon, and others. Included is also a photographic copy of a...

Chiefly unidentified family portraits and snapshots, with some group portraits of organizations. Summary from seller's description: "Collection of Chinese families from origins in Kwangtung Province to Northern California: San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Stockton, Sacramento areas, from the beginning of the...

Primarily family photographs of children and adults (some wearing fine clothes) doing various activities.

Collection primarily consists of portraits of the Freeman family and friends. Among those identified are E.J. Bennett, W.C. Bennett, Susan and Fred Colley, John Francis Freeman (many), Julius W. Tilson, Sarah Freeman, and many children. Gravestone of J.F. Freeman's mother...

Title devised by cataloger.

Family Service of the East Bay records, 1887-1997, document the work of the organization, from the founding of its parent organization, Associated Charities in 1888 to its termination in 1997. The collection has been divided into seven series based upon...

Snapshots pertaining to one or more families, most unidentified, some taken in New York City, at least one possibly taken in Texas. Chiefly everyday domestic scenes of families, children, couples, friends, house fronts, gardens, etc. A young unidentified woman appears...

Title devised by cataloger.

Snapshots of an unidentified family's outings and travels, chiefly in California. Locations and subjects include Olema, Santa Barbara, the Santa Fe depot in Los Angeles, Avalon (Catalina Island), ruins from an explosion at Melrose, a San Francisco welcome procession for...

Contains family vacation photos from Los Angeles, Mojave Desert, Monterey, Yosemite, Sequoia National Park, and other California locations. Also included are views of the Hetch Hetchy Dam, the San Francisco Bay Bridge during construction, and Oregon Caves. Photos depict sightseeing,...

Recollections of his early life, association with various wineries. The development of Martini family properties, vine culture and winemaking techniques. Additional documentary materials included in separate box.

Recollections of a lifetime in Richmond, California. Topics include: schools, Japanese and black communities, Winehaven, whaling, Todd-California Shipyards, WWII era, recruitment of Kaiser shipyard workers, housing, Japanese internment, and redevelopment in the 1960's.

Photographic archive cataloged as BANC PIC 2006.029.

Subjects depicted in drawings include the artist's former home at 324 Ritch Street in San Francisco (which burned on August 28, 1876); a few scenes of the Berkeley hills and countryside; a culvert underneath a Southern Pacific Railroad overpass (perhaps...

Contains 2 letters from brother Charley discussing his apprenticeship as a shoemaker. Another letter from sister Clara talks about living at Olmstead Farm near the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Two ledgers recording family expenses, including detailed accounts of clothing, contributions, household needs, and personal expenses.

The collection consists of handwritten notebooks and a typescript of "My Memoirs" that describe her early family life in Russia, interactions between Jews and gentiles, immigration to the U.S., settlement and family life in California, and her reaction to the...

Includes material documenting Farha's work with the National Organization of Women, campaigning for the Equal Rights Amendment and for numerous other political campaigns.

Snapshots of farms, farmhouses, ranches, fields and crops, drainage ditches, chickens, cattle and bailing alfalfa. All have short typewritten annotations (recto) of subject and or location. Some locations include Glen Homestead, C.C. Miller's chicken ranch, Bayliss Camp, Yerxa Ranch, Lenard...

Photographs document depression-era conditions in the American South, Midwest, Southwest, and California, including the impact of drought and the living conditions of agricultural laborers. Westward migration, migrant living conditions, strikes, FSA migratory labor camps in Arizona and California, Farm Associations,...

Contains materials collected by Ralph W. Hollenberg chiefly during his tenure as Acting Director of the Farm Security Administration, Region IX, from 1939 to 1941. Contains administrative records, program files, and farm labor research materials relating to FSA activities...

Contains a copy of the final report of the participation of the Farm Security Administration in the evacuation program of the Wartime Civil Control Administration, Civil Affairs Division, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, [in military area no. 1], 1942...

Title supplied by cataloger.

The papers of Farnham P. Griffiths include correspondence and subject files documenting Griffiths' personal and professional life. Included are materials regarding family history, his education, his work with the University of California, records of the Maritime Law Association and the...

Photographs relating to Griffiths and family. Locations include: Bohemian Grove (Calif.), Buckingham Palace (Great Britain), other European locations, and Pakistan.

Materials reflecting his avocations as conservationist, mountaineer, author, and historian. Include letters from friends and colleagues, officials of various government agencies and private organizations, etc., with copies of his replies; and subject files (with mss. of his writings, bibliographies, notes,...

Photocopy.

Include his tragic poem, La Filix; letters of which one (Aug. 9, 1662) contains autobiographical information; sermons, and miscellaneous poems.

Childhood, family background and education, 1930-1952; U.S. Navy, 1952-1959; Crocker National Bank, 1959-1962; Wells Fargo Bank, 1962-1984; second interlude at Crocker, 1984-1986; Seafirst, president and CEO, 1986-1987; Bank of America, 1987-1996, including time as CEO, 1990-1996.

Lin and Guo family history in China; education at home, and at American Methodist School, Jiao Tong University, 1927-1931, and UC Berkeley, 1931-1933; engineer, Chinese Ministry of Railways, 1933-1945; professor of engineering, UC Berkeley, since 1946; organizing 1957 world conference,...

Consists of Frederick Schiller Faust's personal and family correspondence, and working papers, spanning his career from the 1910s to his death in 1944, as well as posthumous reviews, articles, and biogrphical studies. The bulk of the collection concerns Faust's writings,...

Letters from Patrick, John, and Logan Fay to family, mostly written from San Francisco, describing mining activities at Columbia Bar; farming and business around Sacramento; soap trade; life in San Francisco; and shipwrecks in California. Typed transcripts included.

Correspondence with the Adjutant General's Office, Bureau of Pensions, members of Congress, and city officials of Monterey and Sacramento concerning his efforts to obtain the names of members of the regiment; related notes; and list of members compiled by him.

Contains two letters describing the hard working conditions in San Francisco and in the mines.

Contains 3 letters of a man from New York sent west for his health. The first letter from Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico dated April 1, 1900 describes Santa Fe and Tesuque, New Mexico and the Tewa Pueblo peoples...

20230804 uncataloged

Dam construction on the north fork of the Feather River, including the power house, workers, detailed views of equipment, tunnels, the river, various camps, headquarter buildings, the Western Pacific Railroad, and project officials (R.C. Colburn, B.S. Roberts, etc.) Also pictured...

Contains records from the Civil Works Administration in San Francisco, Calif. including applications, surveys and work plans.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Consists chiefly of correspondence; includes some legal agreements. Pertains to Beach Thompson's tenure as director of the Federal Telegraph Company, 1910-1917.

Photos are of the performance of a dance based on Lawrence Gellert's Negro songs of protest, in which Tamiris was the choreographer and principal danseuse. The performance was part of the Works Progress Administration Federal Theatre Project. Includes some related...

Photographs show the interior and exterior of the Federal Theatre at Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. Includes views of the stage, cyclorama, offices, lobby, control board, automatic switchboard, etc. Also shows two views of the Sylvan Theatre,...

Correspondence and bulletins concerning the Western Office, and bulletins and press releases of the New York headquarters.

Chiefly abstracts, clippings, etc., from various publications concerning agricultural labor, including migratory workers, in Calif., 1849-1939. Correspondence & papers pertaining to the project, included.

Interior and exterior architectural photographs primarily of public buildings including schools, hospitals, and others. Also includes some corporate buildings and private residences.

Nineteenth century Californio testimonials. La Jolla, CA : UCSD Ethnic Studies/Third World Studies, 1994 (Crítica (La Jolla, Calif.): 47-53.

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

Contents: Documents as governor of California. Include Instruccion para la fundacion de Los Angeles; letter from Teodoro de Croix to José de Galvez concerning founding of the pueblo; letter from Croix to Neve; regulations fixing prices of goods sold in...

Primarily letters in response to a request by Deutsch for signatures.

Include a few letters written to him, from Robert G. Sproul, Charles A. Murdock and others; clippings of articles written by him; certificates of membership; and miscellaneous papers.

Letters referring to Riesenberg's official communications to the Recruitment and Manning Organization concerning his draft status. Both letters signed: Felix Riesenberg, Jr.

Organizational files including publications, reports, maps, and documents related to a campaign to close and environmentally clean up United States military bases in Panama. Other materials include publications from Panama and other groups active in related issues. Some materials in...

Records include brief histories of the organization; minutes of committee meetings, including administrative, steering, and curriculum; requests for funding; notices of classes and public presentations offered, with course proposals; press releases and other publicity; membership and mailing lists; and, memoirs,...

The Roberta Fenlon papers, 1939-1986, include records and correspondence relating to her professional activity in various medical and healthcare organizations, most notably her presidency of the California Medical Association (1970-1971), her presidency of the San Francisco Medical Society, and her...

Written while on journey over sea in the York as a member of The Pacific Company or Pacific Mining Company. A list of members is pasted on the journal. George N. Cheever was master.

Literary manuscripts: Notes, poetry fragments, single poems, poetry collections, plays, and prose works of fiction and non-fiction, largely holograph mss. and typescripts with holograph revisions; travel journals dating from 1960-1986; notebooks; musical compositions by various composers based on poems of...

Portraits and personal snapshots of Lawrence Ferlinghetti throughout his life; his family, friends, and associates; views of City Lights Books (and other North Beach locales); as well as photographs from trips to Europe and Nicaragua. Includes photographs of Allen Ginsberg...

Mainly business letters for the firm of F.A. Aguilar Sucesores in Guaymas. Also included are some letters and accounts while treasurer of the Compañía Minera Zaragoza and of the Compañía Unión Minera de Las Prietas.

Miscellaneous accounts for hacienda belonging to Manuel Fernandez del Castillo y de Mier, whose daughter married Andres Lefebvre. There are journals, ledgers, cash books, and other records which illustrate the management of a typical family estate of that time, including...

Personal papers, including general correspondence; correspondence with A.B. Guthrie and Richard Dillon; manuscripts of articles; reviews; manuscripts for The Taste of Time, The Eldorado Trail, Sand in a Whirlwind, and Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation.

Experiences as ship surgeon aboard La Gloire during the "Pastry War" in Mexico; descriptions of Lisbon, Havana and Vera Cruz; battle of San Juan de Ulúa, Nov. 27, 1838; Mexican politics; blockade of Vera Cruz, and skirmish of Dec. 5,...

Letters from the director of the health service for the French fleet that was sent to San Juan de Ulúa to enforce payment of reparations to French nationals in Mexico (the "Pastry War") Two were written to Ferré's wife and...

Historic San Francisco scenes, including streets, buildings, and locomotives.

Views show locomotives and cars for the F.C. de Tacubaya line, a miniature, 2-foot gauge railway, that ran entirely through Mexico City (built by Fernando de Teresa in 1896 from a horse-tram line in the Tacubaya district to an amusement...

Copies of letters written by Stuart as general manager of the railroad to the board of directors in London concerning management of the company's properties.

Contains correspondence to and from F.G. Louis Wiesenhavern covering the period of his emigration to the U.S., living in the U.S., including San Francisco, Calif. and Nauvoo, Ill., and his trip to Hannover to visit family. Correspondence discusses home and...

Albums document members and activities of the San Francisco branch of the Na Fianna Éireann Irish Republican Youth Association scout organization. Vol. 1 (PIC box) and vol. 2 (AX box) depict scouts and adult associates at various demonstrations and other...

Photographs were taken to document the varied activities, facilities, and personnel of the University of California throughout the state. A selection of the views were published in Ansel Adam's Fiat lux, the University of California (a centennial publication of the...

Early years, family, World War II, escape, and arrival in America; education at the University of California, Berkeley; emergence as a professional artist; travel in India and Afghanistan; creating and leading Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts; faculty appointment at...

Correspondence and other documents concerning The United States Atomic Energy Commission Management Advisory Committee.

Records of 300 interviews - 270 in California and 30 in Nevada; directed by David W. Reed. Each interview consists of 75 pages in phonetic notation, recording responses to a 602-item questionnaire patterned after those used in Linguistic Atlas studies...

Mainly regarding the disposal of her library.

Many of the letters, written when Field was serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, comment on Court decisions and Field's opinions. A few letters, dated earlier, are not addressed to Field.

Roughly sorted; Field notes, questionnaires, reports, printed matter, and clippings used in preparation of his doctoral dissertation: Productive enterprises among the unemployed, 1931-1938.

Childhood background in the West, 1920-1939; military service 1939-1945; return to the states and civilian life; Alameda County Milk Dealers Association; transitions in industry: changes in distribution patterns, packaging, and process; family and work life, 1950s and 1960s; Northern California...

Discusses her early life in Berkeley, education, travel in Europe, and work for social change. Her efforts for improving conditions for migrant farm workers and rural children, health issues, and her involvement with War on Poverty are focuses.

Boyhood in Richmond, California, undergraduate education, and early career; the work of the West County Toxics Coalition, 1984-present; the national and international context of WCTC's work.

A file relating to the campaign of Berrotarán, commander of the presidio of San Francisco de Conchos, for the pacification of Suma, Apache, and other Indians, ordered by the governor, Juan Francisco de la Puerta y Barrera, in accordance with...

File on the town and district of Apam (Hidalgo) including two reports by Pesa, alcalde mayor, to Bernardo Bonavia, intendant general; a diagram of the district showing its location with respect to Mexico City; and a copy of a letter...

Part of a collection of Chinese business records from Nevada County, Calif.

20230623 uncataloged

Censored files concerning WRA programs and activities.

A fragmentary file containing carbon copies of letters, l942-1943, mostly from Nisei students who were receiving assistance from the Council. Some describe conditions in relocation centers, experiences at academic institutions, etc. Also included are some materials relating to the Council...

Primarily newspaper clippings and press releases.

Include file of correspondence and work of the Chapter, 1945-1946; and file for Committee on International Social Work, 1948-1949.

Brief account researched and written by Shirley Q. Henderson in 1975 describes the role of the church and the use of its Pilgrim Hall, which was designated a Civilian Control Station for the registration and evacuation of Japanese Americans in...

Correspondence, readers' comments, printer's copy of manuscript and revised typescript of the Man Made of Words, etc.

Funeral service programs.

Group portraits of members of the Filipino Federation of America and Equi Fili Brium, taken on various occasions in various California locations, including Los Angeles and Santa Maria. Also includes studio portrait of unidentified Filipino man.

Volume 1: Family snapshot photograph album depicting everyday life of Marcelino "Ninoy" Alcantara and Marcela Alcantara, a Filipino immigrant couple living in San Mateo in the 1940s and 1950s. Also contains photographs documenting Marcelino's service in the U.S. Army's 978th...

Includes FAF people files (directors and other independent filmmakers) and film files (production stills and other promotional material). Also includes photographs documenting the Film Arts Foundation Festival of Independent Cinema, Sundance Film Festival, and other independent film festivals and film...

Film Arts Foundation records, BANC MSS 2008/279, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Miscellaneous photographs from the life and career of Ron Fimrite: as a young man in a studio portrait with his parents; as a student on the staff of the Daily Californian; and various scenes of Fimrite appearing with others, including...

Photographs of landscapes, people, and objects in various Alaska locations, including Sitka, Rockwell (Juneau), Takou Inlet (Taku Inlet), and the villages of Hoonyah (Hoonah), Chilcat (Chilkat) and Klockwan (Klukwan).

Concerning the finding of the Plate of Brass by William Caldeira (Mr. Bocqueraz' chauffeur) while on a hunting trip near Drake's Bay in 1933. Also, transcript of brief interview (Feb. 1, 1956) of Mr. Bocqueraz with George P. Hammond at...

LeCron and Cowles family history in Iowa, friends, schools, Des Moines neighborhoods; life themes, rituals, illness; studying anthropology at Northwestern University, Melville Herskovits; marriage to George Foster and study in Vienna, 1938; fieldwork in Mexico: Sierra Popoluca, 1941, long-term work...

The collection contains materials generated during Rabbi Fine's tenure at Congregation Emanu-El (1948-1964), as well as during his teaching career at San Francisco State University (1965-1980). The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence to and from members of the...

Contains descriptions of art works, information concerning the artists, and note of present condition of the works.

Consists of press files, editorial files, and production files that document the content of the publication, along with marketing and promotion files, business and financial records, and files from Pro Arte Libri, that document the business side of publishing a...

Association with his brother, Edwin, in his early printing career and with the Grabhorn Press; views on fine printing, other printers, etc. Includes also comments by Jane (Mrs. Robert) Grabhorn on the Grabhorn brothers. Photographs inserted.

Collection includes professional and personal correspondence, articles and extensive notes and research regarding Fineman's Shakespearean literary scholarship, emphasizing the principles of contemporary psychoanalysis and structuralism as tools of criticism.

Some blank pages; a few loose bills laid in.

Contains 12 letters written on McDiarmid's overland journey from Wisconsin to California, May-October 1850 and while in the goldfields. Also includes a 105-page letter written as journal to his wife while traveling to California.

A collection of letters, clippings, reports and pamphlets, 1921-1926, relating to the formation and work of the Committee, and to the Berkeley fire of Sept. 17, 1923.

Collection contains commercial photographs by the Bushnell Foto Co. showing damage caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Buildings pictured include: Call Building (on fire), Hall of Justice, San Francisco Hotel, I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows)...

Describes agent Chas J. Wood's policy holders residences and businesses in Danville, Calif.

Brooks Firestones discusses his early career with and resignation from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; the beginnings of the Firestone Vineyard in 1972; building the winery; and general trends in the wine industry.

Boyhood in Texas; education: San Francisco State University, 1951-1955, Hastings Law School, 1955-1958; early Democrati party activities; election to state assembly, 1964; legislative issues and politics, 1965-1992; Ways and Means Committee chairmanship, 1969-1974; state assembly speaker, 1980-1993, leadership concerns: government...

Group portraits of soldiers of the First Regiment of California Volunteers during the Spanish American War period, presumably assembled at San Francisco's Presidio or another San Francisco Bay Area military base. Images are dated 1899 and therefore follow the regiments...

Childhood in New Jersey; education in chemistry, business; early employment experiences in business management, banking, and as financial and administrative officer for Genentech's first management team; early growth of Genentech, Inc.; corporate financial strategies; raising venture capital, product licensing, private...

Collection consists of a 1900 printing of the constitution and by-laws of the First Hebrew Benevolent Society in San Francisco, California. Also included is a photocopy of the 1867 by-laws and constitution.

Images depict scenes from the San Diego Mission, including interiors, grounds, exhibits, signs, burial marker and garden.

Title from caption. Photographer's label affixed to verso.

Organized by the California Camera Club, the Mark Hopkins Institute and Camera craft.

First World War illustrated broadsides (posters, chiefly text) from 1918, promoting killing of California ground squirrels (including California governor William Stephens' proclamation of Squirrel Week, and commentary by U.S. Food Administration chief Herbert Hoover and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture D.F....

Correspondence; manuscripts, including drafts of his autobiography; reprints of his writings; subject files relating to his research and to work during World War I, and to professional activities; laboratory notebooks, his own and those of his students; clippings; photographs; and...

San Francisco Bay Area political protest posters from the Vietnam War era, most of them denouncing war, criticizing U.S. foreign policy of the Lyndon B Johnson and Richard M. Nixon administrations, demanding support for the peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia,...

Scrapbook of letters, clippings, etc., chiefly from Charles Fish, his brother, Lafayette, and sisters, Caroline and Cornelia, to members of their family. Many relate to ranching in Contra Costa Co., and to bringing of large herds of sheep overland in...

Consists primarily of research manuscripts for Fisher's scholarly writings regarding Latin American history and society, as well as manuscripts for her works of fiction. In addition, the collection contains letters written by Fisher to her mother and others, particularly during...

The Lillian Estelle Fisher Research Materials relating to Mexico consist of transcriptions from documents housed in the Archivo General de Indias in Spain and in the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico city.

Photocopies of letters about Kerner from and to Fisher, 1972-1988 (correspondents include John A. Harrison, Robert F. Byrnes, and Gay Satsuma). Photocopy of article by Fisher, "Kerner, Bering, and the Amur: a refutation"; paper by Gay Satsuma, "Scholarly Entrepreneur: Robert...

Describes his career as a whaler, the life at sea, types of whales, anti-whaling sentiments, and the closing of the Richmond Whaling Station. He also speaks of his family background and Mormon upbringing.

Fisher-Merriam family papers, BANC MSS 2004/112 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Collection contains mostly portrait and snapshot photographs relating to members of the Fisher and Merriam families of California and Massachusetts. Individuals represented include Galen Merriam Fisher, Ralph Talcott Fisher, Sr., Margaret Merriam Fisher, Grace Fisher Richards, and Leonard C. Fisher...

Papers of Charles Frederick Fisk, rancher in Corcoran, California, land developer, mainly in the Tulare Basin area of California, and mine owner in Calaveras County, California.

The Views of Yosemite album contains 68 photographic prints taken by George Fiske, likely in the 1880s. The photographs are mainly of Yosemite Valley in the winter. Views include Black Spring, domes from Columbia Rock, Inspiration Point, El Capitan Bridge,...

Correspondence and documents pertaining mainly to land claims, some to Rancho Sotoyomi. Also accounts of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Delano Fitch.

Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating mainly to the San Francisco Call and the Bulletin, and to California politics and railroads; legal and financial papers concerning the Sacramento Times and Transcript; reports on San Frncisco water supply; biographical sketchs of Fitch;...

Five articles regarding the Cowell family, BANC MSS C-R 156, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Contains views of San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel, and San Luis Rey Missions.

Illustrations captioned: The city of Mexico, The engagemnt [sic] between ye Spanish brigantines and the canoes of the Mexicans, Guatimozin taken in his retreat by Holguin, The great temple of Mexico, and [an uncaptioned general view of Mexico City and...

The Lawrence Fixel papers consist of extensive correspondence (outgoing and incoming) with many notable literary figures, family correspondence, his journals and notebooks, writings, and professional and personal papers.

Reviews for Artweek, including notes and background materials. Drafts and notes for poetry and technical publications, some correspondence. Research materials and drafts for unpublished book on Hollister Ranch.

Includes cityscapes, street scenes and other views of Martinez, Calif., as well as views of other Contra Costa County locations such as Port Costa, Alhambra Valley (including the railroad trestle, the cemetery and the home of John Muir), Crockett and...

The renegado, The sons of Jacob, and Turpentine Grove.

The Roy Flamm Photographs of Buildings Designed by Bernard Maybeck were taken apparently for the purpose of illustrating a University of California at Berkeley memorial exhibition on Maybeck's work following the architect's death in 1957.

The two houses were designed by architect John Yeon, the Watzek house in 1937 and the Swan house in 1950.

Correspondence, manuscripts of writings, reviews, lectures, and journals (1925-83). Besides Hildegarde Flanner's papers the collection also includes letters and sheet music (printed and manuscript) by her sister, Mary E. Flanner.

Scrapbook of Flapper Fanny Says cartoon clippings affixed to leaves. Sections of the scrapbook are labeled according to thematic contents, such as "men", "pants", "evening wear", "sports", etc. Also includes a few clippings pertaining to Gladys Parker and her work...

Letters relate to Flavel Belcher's experiences as a gold miner and Indian trader in California and as a member of Walker's filibustering expedition in Nicaragua.

Studio portraits, snapshot photographs, photograph albums, scrapbooks, wedding books and miscellaneous papers pertaining to multiple generations of the Fleishhacker, Mitau and Rhein families of San Francisco and Atherton. Individuals pictured include Herbert Fleishhacker and his wife May Greenbaum Fleishhacker; their...

Alaskan views, primarily near Kodiak and Unga, Alaska. Includes group portraits, landscapes, ships and their crews, and some mines and settlements. Also includes family pictures.

Personal papers and papers relating to the Sierra Railway Company of California.

Correspondence, primarily with school administrators and government officials; and related notes pertaining to his research projects, including his work on financing of education in Europe; MSS of his writings; and lecture notes. Some relate to his teaching career at the...

Typescript, spiral bound volume, containing a transcription of a manuscript diary of two women who went on a 5000 mile car trip, in a 1920 Ford touring car they called Henry, to visit the national parks including Yosemite, Grand Canyon,...

Correspondence; newspaper clippings; obituaries; and a genealogy of the Brin, Barron, Cain, Epstein, Falk, Firestone, Fligelman, Gittleson, Goldfeather, Goodman, Ingber, Kejlis, Lewinsky, and Friedman families, compiled by Howard B. Brin. Persons represented include Belle Fligelman Winestein, Frieda Fligelman, Fanny Fligelman...

Includes Flight Play for 1914: The Vision of Portola, book and lyrics by George Sterling, music by R. H. Bassett (8 l.); and Flight Play for 1914, A Grove Play, book and lyrics by George Sterling, music by Cass Downing...

from Ken Harrison Western Americana;

Family letters and other materials, including one letter from Thomas Flint (b. 1858) to his father Dr. Thomas Flint (b. 1824) about his engagement. Other correspondence is primarily between Mr. and Mrs. Thomas (Ada) Flint and their daughters Marjorie and...

Contains three typed copies of telegrams, with annotations, concerning the fate of General Díaz that were sent between Mexico and Veracruz. Telegrams numbered: Fojas 2, 8-9, 11-15, 19-20, 22-31, 38, 41-42, and 49.

The Floating Island Publications Records document the works published by this small press, which was located in Point Reyes Station, CA, from 1976-1996.

Photographs depict debris and damage to buildings following the 1928 failure of the St. Francis Dam near Saugus, Calif. Also shown are relief tents and refugees in Santa Paula, Calif.

Blueprint of a floor plan for a building, apparently a hotel.

The collection contains poetry; articles; programs; reviews; photographs, including those of Ernest Bloch and Oscar Weil; a pastel portrait of Harry Lane Levy by Helen Salz; a copy of "Impressions de Voyage" by Rebecca Godchaux, Flora Arnstein's French teacher; and...

Snapshops of the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, San Francisco; scenes of Panama City and of Colón, Panama, and Panama Canal.

Draft of his work on seasonal plantings for flower gardens, with lists of flowers, plates and a table. Two letters (Apr. 19, 1828 and n.d.) by Ritter also included.

Amateur stereographs depict the University of California (Berkeley), Berkeley area views, the Bohemian Grove, San Francisco illuminated for the Portola festival (1909 or 1913?), Bolinas, Monterey, etc. U.C. views include cadets drilling on campus. One view of Santa Barbara (1880's?)...

Features pictured include the Florence Hotel and the home and orchard of Henry Jackson.

Mostly subject files relating to Florence Dickens Gray's 1960s work on the preservation of North Berkeley's Cordonices Park complex, which includes the Berkeley Rose Garden, Rose Walk, Cordonices Park itself, and the Berryman Reservoir. Files include correspondence; clippings; maps; sketches...

This collection contains correspondence and photographs of Florence Freehof and members of her family. It also has items relating to Israeli and Jewish folk dancing, in addition to papers and publications about or from Pioneer Women; the Friends of Shaare...

The collection primarily contains personal and work-related correspondence and material about the Visitacion Valley Community Center and Florence Friedman's time working there. Also included are personal and work photographs, work calendars, diaries, and certificates celebrating Friedman's work in the community.

Interior (including dining room) and exterior of the Florence Hotel.

Published and related materials pertaining to a wide variety of conservation issues and proposed projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. Includes Klinger's independent projects and projects as part of Contra Costa Park Council. Materials include publications from local and...

Papers relating to Florence Klinger's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Pencil illustrations of burros, Native Americans, an eskimo girl, and a rabbit within a spherical form. Photographs depict her painted glass "personality balls", with faces or animal forms on glass spheres. Some photographs bear color annotations by Lundborg on versos.

Photocopies of typescripts mainly re findings in an archeological dig of a Constonoan or Ohlone Indian site in Los Altos Hills. Also, a brief history of the Mesa family, including information on the land grant of Rancho San Antonio to...

Contains correspondence, telegrams, notes, publications, clippings, and programs concerning Democratic Party activities and interests. Concerns James Roosevelt, Calif. Governors Culbert L. Olson and Edmund "Pat" Brown, reelection campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and Helen Gahagan Douglas....

Collection includes biographical information about Mary and Conrad Prag (Florence Prag Kahn's parents), Julius Kahn, Florence Prag Kahn, and Conrad Kahn (Julius' and Florence's son); the writings of Mary Prag, including her essays "My Life Among the Mormons" and "Early...

Album contains snapshots of friends, family, and California scenery including Woodacre Lodge; various outing locations; the Los Angeles area and Exposition Park; Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy and other Sierra Nevada locales; and El Verano. Some individuals indentified as employees of John...

Contains two paper bound scrapbooks of a domestic science teacher at Sheldon Jackson School in Alaska with clippings, announcements, programs, student ephemera, etc. mostly related to school activities. Clippings include images of Native American young adults engaged in school and...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Nos. 676 and 677 to C.L. Nichols signed by indistinguishable signatures, dated October 10, 1910. Printed by Goes, and in corporated under the laws of South Dakota.

An anthology of poems by Tabascan poets, including several items later reproduced in Santamaría's printed compilation, La poesía tabasqueña -- Antología ... (1940).

Collection contains snapshot photographic prints taken in San Francisco, perhaps by David P. Flory, following the earthquake and fire of 1906.

On letterhead stationery of The Floyd Fairlyland Film Corporation (Pueblo and Alamosa, Colo.) correspondence from its vice-president to an investor regarding dividends on shares purchased. Letterhead depicts a reel of film unwinding to create a banner title with the company...

Contains manuscript drafts, including "Tattoo the wicked cross," "What now my love," "Lay my body on the line," "The dirty boogie," "Fandango," "Heat of the hunt," and "La favorita."

The Floyd-Jones Family Papers, 1848-1878, consists of correspondence between the various members of the Floyd-Jones family written in the late 19th century. Fourteen individuals have letters in the collection, including all of the members of the immediate Floyd-Jones family. Three...

List and agreement, with signatures of crew signed on for voyage to Hong Kong; affidavit of Josiah P. Creesy, Master, certified by J. Walton, Deputy Collector, U.S. Custom House, San Francisco.

Contains correspondence, event details and clippings relating to the yearly event.

Street scenes taken in downtown Oakland, documenting residents, buildings, signs, etc., with emphasis on the age of details of the neighborhood that contrast with contemporary development.

Shop interior with dozens of poultry hanging from racks and stacked on counter.

Color snapshots of Foley and Burk shows (carnival or circus) at various locales around California, many at county fairs such as Alameda (1961, 1964), Colusa (1961, 1965), Centerville (1962), Pleasanton(1962, 1964), and Tulare (1962), Many photographs show circus wagons loaded...

Includes more than 2,550 Penguin books published from 1935 through 1965, as well as about 175 reference items–books, serials, catalogs, and articles.

Collection includes about 570 Penguin books published after 1965.

Letters and post cards of acceptance or regrets, often embellished with anecdote and versified reminiscence, from colleagues and friends on the occasion of a memorial gathering organized by Foley following the death of poet Robert Duncan. One letter is a...

Includes hand-crafted biplane and motorcycle constructed from used soft drink cans, bottles, wire, etc.

Childhood and family background in San Francisco and the Central Valley; reflections on great grandfather Henry Miller, including Miller-Haggin Agreement, 1888; UC Berkeley B.A., 1939; history of Miller & Lux; early career at Miller & Lux, 1940s; building Monterey Airport...

Views of canal, guard house, power house, dining hall, miscellaneous buildings, prisoners at work, and a composite portrait of 7 prisoners "who made the break at Folsom in 1893."

Views of prison buildings and grounds including interiors of dormitories, kitchens, dining room, prison cells, etc. Also shows prisoners at work in the quarry, prisoners exercising, and other activities.

Album includes photographs of prisoners, prison grounds, guards and other personnel of Folsom State Prison (Folsom, Calif.). Activities depicted include prisoner entertainment and recreation, quarrying, and guard duties, as well as leisure time activities of prison personnel and their families....

Contains U.S. Public Health Service card, a doctor's cetificate of health and an alien tax receipt.

Four commercial bookkeeping journals from the Fong Wan Herb Company of Oakland, California containing handwritten lists of customer names dated from 1916 to 1927. Entries include a prescription number, though no specifics on actual formulas or items sold is included)....

A collection of papers, mostly originals or certified contemporary copies, relating to the installation and activites of Fonte as Archbishop of Mexico, the majority addressed to or written by him, in Spanish, Latin, and Italian. The first major portion of...

Snapshot photograph album compiled by Chinese American pilot Fook Sam Fong of the U.S. Army Air Forces, while training at Williams Field, Arizona during the second world war. Photographs chiefly depict Fong and his fellow cadets, many of them also...

This collection consists of materials that document the history and activities of the Foothill Jewish Community, an organization that was active from June 2, 1991 to September 1, 1999.

Scrapbook of pasted-in animal sketches in ink inscribed: to Bunny on his 5th birthday from Sandy. Valentine sketch of a stork with a movable wing inscribed: For Bunn Bunn....

Collection contains views of mountains and scenery in the following locations: Mount Whitney, Crabtree Meadows, Cottonwood Lakes, Cottonwood Creek, Rock Creek Lake, and Army Trail Pass. One view shows tents at "Anton's Camp, Cottonwood Creek."

Contains the financial records of a Salinas, Calif. general store. Receipts are only for businesses with names starting with the letters L-P.

Professional photographs documenting activities associated with the Ford Western Roundup, a convention of Ford Motor Company sales personnel held at the Oakland Civic Auditorium (later renamed Kaiser Convention Center) in May of 1948. Images depict attendees dressed in western attire...

Primarily papers of the families of Jerome B. Ford (1821-1889), Josiah Earl (1821-1884), Guy Chaffee Earl (1861-1935), and Ella Ford Earl (1860-1945).

Comments on his father, James A. Blaisdell and his presidency of Pomona College; his own career as director of International House from its inception in 1930 until his retirement in 1961. Photographs inserted.

Typed transcripts of oral history interviews with various persons in the lumber industry, especially the Pacific Northwest and the redwood region of California. The Bancroft Library in 1959 was named one of the Society's depositories in a continuing project.

Incomplete typed transcripts of interviews conducted by John Larson of the Forest History Society with Casimir J. Wood, president; J.W. Lilly, resident manager; and William McCarthy, mechanic.

History of his career in the U.S. Forest Service particularly as assistant chief in charge of management, protection and development of national forest resources, 1935-1952; observations on some of the leaders in the Service; Civilian Conservation Corps.; federal legislation affecting...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Bound with this are two additional transcripts of interviews conducted in 1964 by Mrs. Fry pertaining to the Forestry Service: The Making of a Regional Forester, by Evan W. Kelley, with comments also on the CCC. ([44] l.) Recollections of...

Background of the study conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, the personnel, how it was conducted, etc. Included also: a report on the forest insurance study conducted by the Forest Service, written by Harold B. Shepard for ROHO. Appended: correspondence...

The C.S. Forester Papers (1940-1964, bulk undated) contain manuscripts for Forester's writings in a variety of genres, both published and unpublished. Most materials appear to be final typescripts, although some works exist in multiple or corrected drafts.

Photographs relate to Fritz' career and show logging and forestry, mainly in California, but also in other states and countries.

History of the Hawaiian family and their arrival in California in 1839; marriage into the Konkau tribe of California; comments on the Round Valley Indian Reservation; and life and work with John and Annie Bidwell. Photographs and genealogies for the...

Blank forms for the financial records of the Cuarta Compañía Volante (Fourth Mobile Company).

Family background, Jewish community, Cleveland, OH; education at Lafayette College, and Hebrew Union College, 1964-1969; rabbinical student in Israel during 1967 War; assistant rabbi, Congregation Emmanu-El, San Francisco, 1969-1972; assistant to executive, United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, 1972-1974;...

Sending Murdoch a check.

Contains 545 letters between a WWII soldier, Forrest Miller, and his parents, girlfriend and eventual wife, Grace Helen Grimes, and friends. Letters are handwritten and typescript in various formats such as airmail and v-mail. Also contains two photographs of Miller...

Snapshots of soldiers and gunneries and Fort Barry, and several of the Panama Pacific International Exposition.

Mainly uncaptioned views show homes, a baby, children, adults, motor and horse drawn vehicles, picnics and other outings, camping, and other family scenes. Includes photos of baby equipment: a walker(?), baby carriage, rocking horse, and other toys. Also includes photographs...

Clippings and Mss. segregated from W.A. Carter family papers, pertaining to Jim Bridger, post life, and the physical establishment at Fort Bridger, including the text of a proposed promotional brochure by Mrs. Lulie (Carter) Groshon on the abandoned military post.

Includes registers of letters received, 1865-1866, 1868-1873, and 1885-1890; and copies of letters sent, 1858, 1964-1878. The 1858 letters include orders and special orders of escort troops en route, and at Camp Scott and Fort Bridger. A "History of Post"...

Views show Fort Humboldt as originally designed, and area around the fort.

Pictures document the historical development of Fort Laramie, from its inception. Includes general views of the town and fort, with Indians, officer housing, and other buildings. One photo of Fort Reno, Wyoming is also present.

United States Army photograph album documenting Fort Mason (San Francisco, Calif.) and vicinity. Includes general aerial views, views of structures and grounds, and interior scenes of buildings and facilities of the then-U.S. Army port. Also includes views of the adjacent...

Album includes snapshot photographs depicting soldiers, ships and planes of, presumably, the U.S. Army Air Corps, as well as fortifications and other buildings of Fort McDowell on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay, Calif.). Also includes scenes taken during soldiers' leisure...

Collection includes many photographs of the Timber Cove area in Sonoma County, California. The Benitz family ranch and Benitz & Kolmer ranch are pictured showing orchards, apples, and related scenes. The old chapel at Fort Ross is shown, along with...

Plan of the Russian establishment at Fort Ross. (San Francisco, Oct. 27, 1816), letter of explanation (Nov. 13, 1918) from J. Franklin Jameson to Charles E. Chapman, and copy of Chapman's reply.

Views of the Pacific Northwest, including Fort Vancouver (exterior and interior), Washington (including Puget Sound), and Oregon (including Columbia River)

Photographs show a woman in a room (captioned: Gen Bradleys sitting room Fort Wingate New Mexico), a family group on a porch, and a large group under a shelter among trees. Photographs appear to relate to army officer Luther Prentice...

Form letters, financial reports, advertising rates, memoranda, etc.

Comments on work in the president's office as stenographer, secretary and executive secretary under presidents Wheeler, Barrows, Campbell and Sproul; faculty members; the campus during the two world wars. Appended: Stevens' farewell address to President Wheeler and official job description....

The George McClelland Foster papers (1934-2005) consist of Foster's professional materials, which represent a prodigious career in anthropology. The collection contains correspondence; consulting files from various agencies concerned with health and development issues worldwide, such as the Agency for...

The papers of linguistic anthropologist Mary LeCron Foster.

Chiefly diner and bakery storefronts (exteriors), interiors, and window displays. Some photographs of staff in restaurants and bakeries, and some portraits of unidentified executives are also present.

Notes for and drafts of articles; edited transcripts of taped interviews, lectures and group discussions.

Personal and official papers, chiefly as Naval Agent and Charge d'Affaires, U.S. Legation, Korea, and as representative, American Trading Company, in Japan. Includes a copy of a letter from President Chester A. Arthur. A diary, 1884, of travel in Korea,...

Family background in foreign service; onset of polio in the Philippines, 1950; rehab at Kabat-Kaiser, 1951-1954; independent living skills, India and Pakistan; UC Riverside, B.A., and career: HOPE (Handicapped Opportunity Program for Education) and Special Services; UC Davis, Office of...

Background and early marketing experience with Procter & Gamble; developing and marketing Pine Mountain Log and other products; developing Breckenridge Ski Resort; Clos du Bois: vineyards in Alexander and Dry Creek Valleys, producing wine at other wineries, marketing goals for...

Interviews with Harry J. Cooper (23 l.), John F. Forbes (15 l.), James E. Hammond (23 l.), and Anson Herrick (22 l.). Recollections of early days of public accounting in California, their own careers, and the formation of the California...

Decorative panels with ornamental scrollwork and elaborate design elements surrounding human figures in scenes representative of the four elements. Each is individually captioned: L'Eau, La Tierre, L'Air, and Le Feu.

Also included: Photocopy of statement by Walter Sylvester Hertzog concerning the fragments.

Contents. - [no. 1] Typewritten letter, signed, Topeka, Kan., Jan. 23, 1913, to Francis E. Leupp, from T.C. Biddle, supt. Topeka state hospital.-[no. 2] Typewritten letter, signed, Atlanta Ga., Jan. 23, 1913, to Francis E. Leupp, from William H. Moyer,...

Love letters to Burgess written after Robert Louis Stevenson's decease.

[No. 1] Supreme Court of the United States ... June 21, 1881. Relating in part to the proposed publication of a "sketch" by Prof. Pomeroy. (9 p. on 3 fold. leaves); [no. 2] April 14, 1882. Relating in part to...

Manuscript with tipped in photographs: 4 manuscript layouts on 3 boards.

1. Pyramid -- 2. Architectural sculpture -- 3. Mexican subject (town square) after Guanajuato by Nebel -- 4. Mujica's Reconstruction of the Temple of the warriors at Chichen Itza.

With signatures of Warren Heaton, President, and E.W. Haines, Secretary.

Letters concern the thesis written by his son, Charles, L'Hopital Beaujon: histoire depuis son origine jusqu'a nos jours.

Interior views of the Mechanics' Pavilion in San Francisco, Calif. One is a general interior view with a large fountain at center, and the other shows the frames, mirrors, and mouldings exhibit of Sanborn, Vail & Co., a San Francisco-based...

Scrapbook compiled as a contemporary documentation of all the activities of this celebration, principally as recorded in almost all of the city's newspapers, beginning with an announcement of the Celebration Board in the June 5th issue of the Bulletin. Coverage...

Six views show a Fourth of July parade in Oakland. Also included: IOOF parade, April 26, 1869; view of the Golden Gate from Oakland; Lake Peralta; 12th Street Bridge, Oakland.

Enclosing bills to be collected.

Mainly fragments of correspondence, circular letters to the missions, and prayers translated into Indian dialects.

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

310 framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Includes paintings, drawings, prints and photographs dating from the late 1600s to the mid-1970s. Subject matter is chiefly California scenes, events, towns and landmarks, as well as numerous portraits of...

Cover title.

Correspondence with French consuls and ministers in China and Japan, the Korean Foreign Minister, the Japanese Minister and Resident at Seoul; and miscellaneous papers. The collection concerns the opening of the port of Mokpo to foreign commerce and the regulation...

Concerns French social life, customs and history. Individual items cataloged separately. Search under title: France: Miscellaneous letters and documents.

Title devised by cataloger.

Consists of manuscripts and research notes of unpublished works by Frances Rand Smith. Manuscripts are of "Spanish grants and early ranchos in Palo Alto's history," and "The Mission of San Diego de Alcala: a study of the architecture of the...

Contains letters, postcard, and printed ephemera. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Mrs. [Frances] Towle. One letter is addressed to a Mr. Desendorf. Some of the printed ephemera includes Ina D. Coolbrith's poetry.

Correspondence, manuscripts of his writings, and lists of plants relating to his work in acclimatizing plants in Santa Barbara, and in maintaining a nursery of exotic plants. Some later correspondence for the Montarioso Nursery, Aug. 1913-1918, included.

Relate to his work in physics at the University of California at Berkeley and to the loyalty oath.

Chiefly snapshots documenting the leisure activities of Francis Arthur Gravins in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-20th Century, in particular many formal and informal African American social events, as well as gatherings with friends and family members. Also...

Describes activities while an engineer in 1855; living at Shingle Springs in 1868 (written in Bancroft's Diary for 1868, contianing useful memoranda, and table for reference, H.H. Bancroft and Company, bought at J.F. Crawford, Bookseller, 4th and K, Sacramento); Again...

California album (Vol. 1) contains ms narrative text by Rigby describing his observations of several San Francisco Bay Area locales and various aspects of American culture in general (business, real estate, transportation, democracy, boys and girls, police officers and the...

Contains correspondence including letters from lovers Gaetano Felice "Felix" Marchetti and Llewellyn Stone, from his wife Sibyl Augusta Baldwin before their marriage and from Martha Swan, among others. Also includes scrapbook with pictures of Carroll and his wife, a typescript...

Contains sixty-six handwritten personal letters of Baptist missionary to California, Francis Edward Prevaux, and his wife, Lydia Prevaux (nee Rowell), addressed to various other family members. Fifty-six of the letters are written by Francis Prevaux and mostly addressed from Oakland...

Collection includes Francis Hamlin's diaries dating from 1849 to 1902 documenting his life as a rancher and businessman around Yuba City, California. Two diaries document Hamlin's overland journey. This first of these, from 1849, details his journal to California in...

Research on perrology of ultrabasic rocks in New Zealand; 3-axis stage for petrographic microscope; fabric of deformed rocks & artificially deformed rocks and minerals; study of the fabric of Yule marble from a quarry at Yule Creek, Colorado.

Correspondence; copies of his speeches; miscellaneous financial papers; a few photographs; clippings; and genealogical data re the Sullivan family.

25 letters from Roosevelt; copies of 3 letters from Heney. Chiefly concerning the San Francisco graft trials, Progressive Party policies and the Oregon land fraud cases. A letter to Mrs. Heney, May 27, 1918, and booklet for the Welcome Home...

Collection relates to one of the founders of Berkeley and to his associates, and includes documents concerning his estate. Includes titles and deeds to property, notes, legal documents, biographical materials, and news articles.

Manuscript dictation accounts of a United States Navy veteran of his military career during the U.S. Civil War and the Mexican War. The Civil War account (4 p.) includes the capture of Fort Henry, being taken prisoner and released, discharge...

Documents relate to the life of Francis M. Thompson, including a "Fort Square map" (in oversize folder) showing property of Thompson and others; a resolution of the Franklin County Bar Association in his honor, a biographical sketch and related correspondence...

Chiefly snapshots documenting Benjamin's long career in the United States Navy, including both the First World War and Second World War. Photographs document activities and scenes on various ships, including the U.S.S. Mongolia, U.S.S. Melville and U.S.S. Hornet; numerous U.S....

Includes numerous National Parks views (especially Yosemite and other Sierra Nevada locations, with some camping trips and Sierra Club outings), and photos of the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Includes some photographs relating to Francis P. Farquhar's association with The...

Negatives depict various scenes of Farquhar's travels to Grand Canyon National Park, Platt National Park, Tonto National Monument, Roosevelt Dam, Palm Canyon, Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, Zion National Park, Pipe Spring National Monument, Yellowstone National Park, Petrified Forest...

Correspondence, manuscripts of writings, subject files, and other papers.

Collection consists primarily of photos and drawings relating to the Sierra Nevada mountains and the region's history. It includes images taken by Farquhar and his contemporaries as well as photographs of historical interest which he collected as part of his...

Re his historical writings.

Correspondence, envelopes, photographs, post cards, and ephemera of an ordnance officer serving in Europe during World War II. Correspondence is addressed to his sister Lucy Lathrop Boggs of Berkeley, Calif. from a variety of locations, mostly overseas, including England and...

Relate to various military and legal matters.

Correspondence, notes, copies of his articles and photographs, relating to his work on Alexis Waldemar Von Schmidt and the California boundaries. Include letters from Sydney Wilmot, Herbert I. Priestley, Mabel R. Gillis, George L. Harding, Ernest W. Spaulding, U.S. Webb,...

Correspondence, notes, and outlines on research in various Spanish archives for material relating to Cuba.

Contains by-laws minutes, rosters, program information, including newsletters and exhibitions files, and correspondence documenting the work of Telesis (1939-1952). Also includes research of Violich including manuscripts, interviews with major Telesis players and publications about the birth of environmental planning (1974-1993).

Letters mainly from banking establishments in Sacramento and Marysville; Page's will; and revocation of power of attorney.

Papers relating to Francis Walcott's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Consists of articles and two book-length manuscripts: Cryogenic Engineering, Refrigeration, and Gas Liquefaction and, The Solar House: Design and Performance.

Includes letters from Henry Morse Stephens, Charles E. Chapman, F.S. Philbrick, Samuel E. Morison, K.C. Leebrick, Robert H. Lowie and others, and miscellaneous papers relating to his student days at the University of California.

Scripts for a weekly radio program sponsored by Chamberlain Lotion and covering the history of California, from the Spanish period up to the 1930s, primarily focusing on the history of Northern California and the Vallejo family's role in the development...

Letters received by the Mexican general, relating to Mexican internal struggles and resistance against the French. Correspondents include Miguel Auza, Santos Degollado, Manuel Doblado, Mariano Escobedo, Gabriel García, Luis García, Jesús González Ortega, Benito Juárez and Ignacio Zaragoza.

Printed material and original artworks by Francisco Cornejo. PIC box 1 contains samples of illustrated print material -- originally compiled in 2 volumes but disbound prior to library's acquisition -- mostly designed by Cornejo for El Rancho del Artista, including...

Letters written by, or relating to, Brigadier General Toro.

Relate mainly to Guerrero's petitions for land in San Francisco and for an extension of his Rancho Corral de Tierra, with letters and documents from Guerrero, M. Jimeno Casarín, Antonio María Osio and Manuel Micheltorena. Also included are two variant...

Formal portraits and snapshots documenting the family of Francisco Lee Sohu, a Chinese immigrant who settled in Tampico, Mexico where he worked as a dentist. Collection depicts family life of the Sohus, including Francisco ("Pancho") and his wife Luz ("Luchita")...

Stamp of the Taller de Gráfica Popular on the verso of each.

Copies and originals. Include registration of Ocampo's cattle brand by Enrique Avila, 1847; Los Angeles tax receipt, 1865; agreement re sale of cattle, 1869; accounts, 1869-1870; deeds for property in Los Angeles; documents relating to litigation for lots in Los...

Bills, billheads and advertisements chiefly from San Francisco merchants ...

Acknowledgment of receipt of coins for delivery to Barron, Forbes & Company.

Scrapbooks contain clippings relating primarily to his political campaigns and to his service as California Congressman, 1937-41 and 1945-53. Unmounted clippings in carton; mounted excerpts from Congressional Record and copies of legislative bills in the packages.

Papers relating to Frank A. Kittredge's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Contains files on mines in California, Nevada and Oregon, mining companies, the U.S. Mint, and the San Francisco Mint. Mining materials include correspondence, company reports, assay notes, assay blueprints, maps, etc. Also includes documents related to the Leach's work with...

Includes a few portraits of Frank A. Leach taken during his tenure as Superintendent of the old U.S. Mint in San Francisco. Also includes several interior views of the Mint, probably taken in 1899, depicting employees (coiners, melters, refiners, assayers,...

Correspondence, including letters from the American Farm Bureau Federation, the California Farm Bureau Federation, Claude B. Hutchison, and Fred B. Wood; and reports and mss., mainly relating to irrigation in California.

Interviews conducted, 1958, by Willa K. Baum for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Portrait photographs of Mr. Adams and several of his associates, and related printed items inserted. Notes on his family, particularly his father,...

This collection consists of papers and photographs relating to the families of Frank Sloss and Eleanor Lieberman Sloss, including Frank Sloss' research materials on the Hecht, Sloss, and Livingston families, Frank Sloss' correspondence on the history of the Sloss family,...

Includes views of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, post-fire reconstruction, the Lake Tahoe region, Yosemite Valley, the Panama Pacific International Exposition, and miscellaneous other views.

Correspondence, billheads, invoices, and receipts for payments related to Latham's work as secretary and agent with the North Pacific Coast Railroad and to the construction and improvement of properties in San Anselmo and other areas of Marin County, California.

The Frank C. Newman Papers consist of correspondence and subject files. Subjects include human rights abuses, Greek political prisoners after the coup d'etat in 1967, the Supreme Court of California, and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and its...

Consists of letters, U.S. military documents, U.S. government documents, County of Sonoma tax records, family papers and news clippings of Doctor Frank E. Brower. Of note in the collection is his letter sent from Camp Bidwell (later called Fort Bidwell),...

Recollections of his early life in Kansas; murder of his father; experiences with Indians in the Cherokee Nation; pursuit of his father's murderers; career as U.S. Deputy Marshal. Annotated by Eva O. Gillhouse.

Materials related to governorship of California (1935-1939). Carton 1: proclamations, 1934-1936; genealogical information; clippings; miscellaneous. Carton 2: correspondence; addresses, statements, etc.; speeches, press releases, etc.; resume of first year in office.

Frank Finley Merriam papers, BANC MSS C-B 577, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Materials chiefly concern the Junior High School Movement and the Berkeley Public Schools.

Typescript letter (1 p.) from the manager of The Grolier Bookshop in Kansas City, Missouri, Frank Glenn, addressed to Fred W. Allsopp, the buyer of a 1st edition book, "The Art of Bookbinding" by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf. Glenn is forwarding...

vol. 1 contains clippings re construction and opening of Bay Bridge, 1936; vol. 2, souvenir edition of San Francisco newspapers celebrating the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1937, removed from vol. 1.

Stock certificate, Petaluma and Sebastopol Railroad, signed by John A. McNear and Wm. B. Haskell; letter of credit, London, Paris and American Bank, Ltd., signed by Charles Altshul and Adolph Hochstein.

Typescripts (except Blazing the New World Trail), illustrated with photos pasted in, of works titled: Sketches in the Southwest; Lands of Buddha, Mahomet and God; The Bahamas; Blazing the New World Trail (printed article); San Salvador.

Carton 1: lecture notes, laboratory notebooks, etc. from student days at Royal College of Science and Royal School of Mines. Carton 2: notes for speeches; reprints of articles, speeches, etc.; clippings of articles by him and about him and the...

Letters, including several written to him in 1926 on the sale of his paper, The Pacific Rural Press, and three letters from George H. Hecke; notes and writings on his travels after his retirement; clippings of articles written by him...

Reminiscences of childhood in Los Angeles, with information on the family home; schooling; a visit to Catalina Island; his father, mining engineer Charles C. Thomas; the capture of the Mexican bandit Tiburcio Vásquez; and the shipwreck of the "Golden Age"...

Personal and business correspondence, some pertaining to Adams & Company agencies in Sonora and Stockton and lawsuits, 1855. Letters from his brother, Henry (attorney, Stockton), E.A. Bancroft, Wm. P. Morehouse, Timothy B. Storer and others.

Original editorial cartoon drawings for the Oakland Tribune, chiefly pertaining to San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States and international politics. A few predominant and/or noteworthy topics include World War I and associated war debts and the peace process; China-Japan...

Subjects of drawings include First World War (post-war anti-German world opinion, German reparations and European war debt); New Years 1930; 1932 tourist atrractions in California (Olympic Games, national conventions, Shriners); U.S. income tax filing deadline; Thanksgiving turkey and football; bear...

Concerning Mexican land grants in California and his efforts to concentrate all the records in California. Includes letters from Percy G. West, Theodore J. Hoover, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ebert K. Burlew, Hiram W. Johnson, Seth W. Richardson, Grove J. Fink,...

Relate mainly to his life in Helena, Mont., and in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as his experiences as a mining engineer in Mexico and Honduras, and in the western United States, particularly Montana, California, Arizona, Nevada, Mexico,...

Correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, notebooks and publications.

Diaries cover Lecouvreur's travels between California and Germany and his life while in California continuing up to his election as surveyor. Includes a fragment of a letter to "Marie" started from New York, October, 1868 with a second part written...

Volume includes index.

Includes photographic prints, certificates, awards, plaques and newsclippings.

Papers relate to Russell's activities as public member of the National War Labor Board, 10th Region. Included are letters from other members of the Board, union officials, etc.; memoranda relating to dispute cases; and copies of Board reports, directive orders,...

Include letters from his son Raymond, and from William J. Belcher, Henry E. Gill and H. E. Peterson, concerning Goldfield, Nevada in 1906; letters from Reinhardt Harding, John Galen Howard, Edmond O'Neill, J. W. Richards, Albert G. Spalding, and W....

Contains letters referring to Yawara martial arts. Also includes photographs demostrating Yawara, of Frank Matsuyama and of August Vollmer.

Consists of correspondence, clippings and related material concerning Frank Mattison and his father, John Stead Mattison, including biographical and genealogical material compiled and edited by James W. Proctor. Also includes items and information on daughters Ruth Mattison and Lila Mattison...

96 items, including autographs of United States presidents and statesmen, European leaders, authors and poets.

Contains materials related to Frank Moore's career as a performance artist. Materials include his Shamanistic Apprentice readers (#1-26), miscellaneous publications and manuscripts, and performance and workshop scripts. Also includes 313 DVDs of Moore's performances, workshops, and various appearances. Each DVD...

The bulk of this collection consists of newspaper clippings relating to Alameda County, California, local politics, etc.; some letters and miscellaneous papers dating from the period when Otis served as mayor of Alameda; copies of some legal papers in litigation...

Box 1: mostly contains materials relating to Johnson's failed presidential campaign in 1924; Box 2: materials about Johnson's political career in the United States Senate from 1922-1945, including copies of speeches by and about him, 1921-1969; Box 3: disbound binder...

Describes to family in Vermont about life in Southern California and all of the opportunities for business.

Original caricature drawings by Frank Willmarth, and photocopies of his drawings, depicting various politicians, entertainers and others who sat for him at the San Francisco Press and Union League Club; photographic prints documenting Willmarth's career; and a few pieces of...

Relates to gold mining in Yukon Territory. Includes grant for placer mining, royalty and free miner's certificates, agreements re the working of the placer, and memorandum of bullion deposited in the U.S. Mint, San Francisco.

Subject files, clippings, scrapbooks (with clippings), correspondence, photographs.

Includes letters written by Devlin to Agnes E. Erb during their courtship and after their marriage, to her and their daughters, discussing Vallejo fraternal and civic activities, local politics while he was district attorney and state assemblyman for Solano Co.,...

The Frank Rowe papers contain correspondence, legal files, newspaper clippings, flyers, writings and other materials concerning Rowe's dismissal from teaching at San Francisco State University in 1950 due to his non-compliance with the Levering loyalty oath. The papers document his...

Addressed to his brother and sister; describe his experiences on ships up the Sacramento River and along the Pacific Coast. Later letters describe events in Alaska. Included are letters from brother-in-law, Roswell Nash, 1851-1855, also engaged in the same business.

Letters from Frank Allaire relating his voyage to California around the Horn in 1854, and concerning the wreck of the George Law in 1856 (i.e. the 1857 wreck of the steamship Central America, formerly named the George Law); letter from...

Relating to Irving Reichert's book, Judaism and the American Jew. Included are letters from Reichert, Oscar Lewis, George P. Hammond and others.

Contains correspondence between various Frank Simpson family members including his wife Ettie, son Frank Jr. and daughter Olga, and from business acquaintances and the fraternity brothers of Frank Jr. Also includes a small amount of newspaper clippings, concert programs and...

Collection of 17 invitations addressed to Frank S. Brittain for various opening celebrations of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition, as well as a small selection of event programs and other miscellany. Also includes a small celebratory plaque presented by...

Documents relative to the "Petition of Frank Soulé, of California, praying the passage of a law relieving him and his bondsmen from liability on a judgment rendered against him as Collector of the First District of California."

Scrap of paper, 5" X 8", bearing a quotation attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, apparently in Unger's hand; 7" x 11" sheet of paper with a poetic inscription to Frank, in George Sterling's hand, signed and dated Sept. 7, 1914;...

Includes photographs taken in the Discovery Shop of Gump's department store of displays of Mexican-inspired crafts, including tableware and furniture.

Family letters, 1858-1866, including some written by a brother from a Civil War battlefront, and scrapbooks.

Travel diary of Frank W. Preston entitled A Winter Cruise in the Tropics from Frisco to New York. The diary documents a trip Frank W. Preston took with his friend on board the City of Panama steamer (in steerage) from...

Five handwritten letters from Frank William Bye to his mother Frances Bye dated March 25, 1866, January 27, 1867, January 16, 1868, October 28, 1868, and June 17, 1870. The first three were sent from Placerville, California, and the final...

Chiefly photographs by Riedy, including views of San Francisco before and after the earthquake of 1906, views of Berkeley, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Berkeley fire of 1923, the Panama Pacific International Exposition, and Plumas County scenes....

Contains correspondence, writings, consulting files, project files, grant materials, lecture notes, photographs of wind tunnel tests, etc.

Drafts of writings concerning Treasure Island, and Emperor Norton and Mark Twain's use for the character Father Peter.

Draft of his book, The Seacoast of Bohemia, published by Book Club of California, 1966, and changes and additions for the trade edition published by Peregrine Smith, 1973, with related notes, correspondence and copies of photographs; copy of his article...

Contains materials concerning the influence of Arthur Samish in California state politics. Includes a typescript article titled, "Can A Dummy Talk" by "A Layman Citizen Reporter", likely written by Franklin Hichborn. Other items include some unrelated handwritten notes and clippings...

9 signed and 10 typewritten copies of letters concern strategies in politics and government, with mention of Lane's illness and perspective. Includes typed copies of each letter (with a typed copy only for a telegram of 1921 March 26), and...

Copies (mss., typescripts, clippings, etc.) of articles, speeches and press releases, chiefly as Secretary of the Interior. A biographical sketch by John McNaught included.

Dictation and partial draft of a revised edition of the History of Texas (New York, 1856), written by his brother, Henderson King Yoakum (1810-1856).

Contains correspondence, research materials, subject files, course materials, and reprints. Includes material relating to decompression sickness.

Reminiscences concerning his political and legal career in Utah as prosecuting attorney, member of the council of the legislature, and general counsel for the Mormon Church, including his participation in the struggle for statehood; the formation of corporations to retain...

Two bound pocket-sized journals dated 1883 and 1884. The earlier journal, titled, "Webb, Road Book, 1883," contains various handwritten entries for personal expenses, accounts, a listing of members of a Hook and Ladder Company, and other miscellaneous information. The later...

Papers relating to François Emil Matthes's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Chiefly portrait sketches and woodblock portraits executed by Franz Geritz in the early 1920s. Among the subjects are actors, dancers and other entertainers. Identified subjects of original works: Verna Gordon in "Javanese Dance", Isabel Latimore, Nicholas Roerich, Christopher Carson, John...

Includes correspondence, research notes, and drafts of Schneider's writings for the Pestalozzi Press.

Includes ten small-format commercial scenic views pertaining to the Navajo, accompanied by original paper mailer with printed title "Life of a Navajo Indian"; six promotional display photographs illustrating various sets of commercial views published by Frashers -- e.g. "Life of...

Contains five items sent to Fray José Guilez, procurator of the Calfornia missions. One item is a receipt for 1340.5 pesos received from "Juan Martiarena" [i.e. Fray José Manuel Martiarena], dated Feb. 17, 1809 and signed by ship captain, Juan...

Inquiry of Carmelite monk concerning taxes on the monastery, with reply by José Ignacio Pinto, and note that the treasurer's office had been informed.

Written from Mexico, mainly to his wife, describing his work with a mining company in Tlalpujahua; his archeological discoveries in the ruins of Palenque; travels in the state of tabasco during revolution; and cholera epidemic. Also included is a letter...

Contains mostly correspondence from several authors and publishers to Fred Brunke, a bookseller and small press publisher in Berkeley, California. Also includes some poetry and writings from many of the same authors. Includes several photocopies of photographs and one photograph...

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Includes letters from Abigail, Joaquin, and Juanita Miller (some enclosing copies of poems by Miller) and from William Jennings Bryan; a few letters by Brooks; clippings, reprints, etc. of published works; manuscripts of a few moving picture scenarios; clippings, programs...

Views of buildings in downtown Watsonville documenting damage caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989, many taken within days following the disaster. Also includes views of some of the same buildings taken shortly before the earthquake. Majority...

Chiefly includes that portion of Iltis' photograph archive pertaining to his visits to Mexico where he documented the indigenous and poor inhabitants of various locations, including Michoacán and the Distrito Federal (Mexico City). Includes portraits, still lifes, street views, and...

Three items. One rejection letter for his manuscript The Relations of the United States and Mexico from 1848-1860, and two seeking teaching positions at universities.

Concerning mines and mining operations in Calif., Alaska, British Columbia, Mexico and Central and South America. Files include papers of some mining companies as well as Morris' own correspondence.

Includes original drawings executed by California cartoonist and caricaturist Fred Lundy throughout his career, chiefly for publication in magazines. Most works are preliminary sketches, studies and other unfinished drawings; only a few apparently finished, publication-ready pieces are included. General subjects...

Original editorial cartoon drawings, likely published in the Oakland Tribune or San Francisco Examiner. Subject matter includes journalistic topics of interest pertaining chiefly to the San Francisco Bay Area and California, with some national and international topics included. Specific subjects...

Contains professional correspondence, documents relating to the organization of the department and its mission, campus administrative documents, design drawings for UCB and other theaters, letters praising productions he was involved with (many from prominent UC faculty and chancellors,) articles by...

The collection includes genealogical information about the Wartelsky and Benioff families, materials relating to Fred Phillips' campaigns and work as a Nevada State Assemblyman (including scrapbooks documenting his political and civic activities), materials relating to Webster Phillips' service in World...

Includes letter by Perris, Apr. 26, 1876, concerning inaccuracies of the recorded copy of the plat of Rancho San Bernardino; notes on surveys of the Monitor and Beatrice Mines in San Bernardino County; notes tracing the boundary of Rancho Muscupiabe,...

AX folder: snapshot photographs taken by Fred Voltmer of various demonstrations and other activities pertaining to the Free Speech Movement on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley during the 1964-1965 academic year. Views show crowds attending speeches, smaller...

Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, research materials, and professional files.

Photographic prints documenting structural damage caused by California earthquakes in Santa Barbara (June 29, 1925) and Long Beach (March 10, 1933). Also includes a few prints depicting damage caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fire (April 18, 1906); 37...

Contains documents signed as Governor of California and letters, mainly concerning California lands.

Chiefly letters received from literary scholars, historians and writers. Principal correspondents include: Van Wyck Brooks, Bernard DeVoto, William Everson, Henry Alonzo Myers, Eugene O'Neill, George Rippey Stewart, Laurens Van der Post and Hyatt H. Waggoner. Collection also contains reprints and...

A card file of historical notes arranged chronologically, records of graduate students, lecture notes, class grades, book reviews, and speeches. Correspondents include: Albert Beveridge, Arthur Schlesinger, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt.

Contains mostly correspondence and notes of Frederic M. De Witt concerning Joaquin Miller's legacy and a proposed purchase of Miller's home and property by the city of Oakland, California for the creation of Joaquin Miller Park. Includes two letters from...

Concerning his life in Butte County, California - gold mining, working at various saw mills, including the Sierra Lumber Company, and ranching.

Correspondence with Robert O. Ballou; draft of article on type; printed copy of Ballou's article on Goudy in the American Mercury, 1923; obituary clipping; photographs of Goudy's estate, Deepdene, in Marlborough-on-the-Hudson, New York.

Photos of Goudy's estate, Deepdene, in Marlborough-on-the-Hudson, New York, his press (Village Press, founded 1903) and typefoundry, and the home of Dard Hunter, d. 1936, papermaker and printer.

Contains three letters from Hall to S.J. McKnight, president of the Vallejo Gas Light Co. concerning shares of stock owned by Mrs. Hetty H.R. Green; one letter from McKnight to Hall with attached receipt form; and one letter from James...

Most letters are addressed to Whyte, mainly as editor for Cassell and Company. Correspondents are Winifred Ashton (Clemence Dane), Sir S.B. Bancroft, Charles Marriott, Neil Munro, Sir F.C. Gould, E.W. Hornung, and Barry Pain. One letter, undated, is written by...

Frederick A. Fay papers, BANC MSS 2012/136, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Primarily his writings on various aspects of forestry.

Correspondence (13 letters) and photocopies of newspaper clippings of Sierra Club hiking trips by Fred Holmes. All of the 13 one-page letters are from C.M. Goethe, a noted Sacramento philanthropist, to Mr. Holmes (8 letters) and the Mother Lode Chapter...

Consists of 116 letters written by Hess to his wife, Tobitha, while he was a soldier with the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War. The letters were written from battlefronts in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina....

Concerning his experiences with his printing press and his Arundo Press publications, comments on other printers especially in the Bay Area, and a few specimens of his work and clippings as enclosures.

Concerns his interest and activity in fine printing, particularly that of small presses. Oversize folder contains a poster for a Frederick Folger Thomas lecture on "Petroleum in Its Geological, Chemical and Economical Relations," Aug. 15 (no year).

Certificate of appointment as professor of mathematics in the U. S. Navy, signed by Abraham Lincoln; biographical data; letters of condolence to his children; and obituaries.

Ledgers and papers including receipts for gold bullion, 1863; deed to property in Marin Co., and commissions as postmaster, San Rafael, California.

Papers relate to Tibbetts' career as consulting engineer.

Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Incomplete drafts of some of his writings and research and lecture notes.

Mainly carbon copies of Olmsted's correspondence, 1910-1916, relating to legislation concerning the National Park Service, with a few references to the Hetch Hetchy controversy. Include letters from J. Horace McFarland and Richard B. Watrous (American Civic Association), Mark Sullivan (Collier's),...

Mainly letters from European firms concerning the purchase of equipment for the Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley. Included are letters from Cyrus Fogg Brackett, Alfred Marshall Mayer, John Harmon C. Bont'e, Edward S. Holden, William A. Anthony and...

Two letters, one referring to the election of President Arthur, and the other, addressed "to the President," concerning approval of Senate Bill No. 1820.

Coville's personal diary of the Death Valley Botanical Expedition from 1891 January 3 through September 1.

Includes correspondence, department files, teaching files, research materials (including for the Junior Pentathlon General Athletic Ability test report and his writings), writings and other materials related to Cozens' career in Physical Education and Physical Fitness.

Interviews conducted April 5 and 26, 1956 in Pasadena by Corinne L. Gilb for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Recollections of his early life and interest in Indians; associations with the U.S. Geological Survey, Hemenway...

The papers of Fredric J. Mosher, faculty member in the the University of California, Berkeley's School of Librarianship.

Consists of small collections and single items donated by participants in the Free Speech Movement (FSM) to the FSM Digital Project over a three year period, 1998-2001. Includes letters, writings, pamphlets, leaflets, programs, songbooks, and ephemera.

Correspondence with private and small press owners; records of his press, The Platen Press, in Orinda; clippings, including some on labor unions. Contains material on the Rounce and Coffin Club and the William Morris Society.

Correspondence and manuscripts of Dean of School of Education, University of California, relating to education, to junior college conferences, and to the publication of the 1947 handbook for the National Society for the Study of Education.

Series 1 contains video cassettes of field trips to rock art sites in California and elsewhere with supporting documentation. Series 2 contains video and files regarding Ethnopsychiatry, a term coined by George Devereux, which reflects Freeman's professional interests in Transcultural...

Photographs, taken between 1969 and 1985, of everyday life for African Americans in the South.

Views of Freeman's Crossing Bridge (Middle Yuba Bridge), California State Highway 49 spanning the middle fork of the Yuba River, North San Juan Vicinity, Nevada and Yuba Counties, Calif. Includes inventory of 15 photographs made in 1992 by Don Tateishi,...

Part I: papers of John C. Fremont, his wife, Jessie, and their children, Elizabeth, Francis and John, including correspondence, memoirs, clippings, scrapbooks and miscellaneous items. Part II: notes, clippings and transcripts of papers collected by Allan Nevins in preparing his...

Mainly documents, including passports, emanating from or pertaining to the town of Molsheim, 1460-1877; paper money and a bond from the period of the French Revolution; an official telegram, 1870, regarding the whereabouts of the Prussian troops; and a letter,...

Contains mining company records in French Corral, Calif. including Gold Bluff Mining Company, Milton Mining & Water Company and others. Includes legal documents, financial records and correspondence.

Relating to his army career and his duties as member of Parliament, ca. 1835-1865.

French Hospital Benevolent Society, San Francisco records, BANC MSS C-G 285, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

1: Exterior of California French Laundry, 1642 13th Ave, G.B. Laffitte, proprietor (with horse and wagon) -- 2: exterior of South San Francisco French Laundry, with horse and wagon -- 3: laundry interior, with mangles and other machinery -- 4-5:...

Letters detailing aspects of his life in California, first as a gold miner, and later as a businessman. A few early letters (1850-1852) detail his life and relatively unsuccessful exploits in the gold fields. Most of the letters (1852-54), however,...

Three passports issued in Molsheim, France.

Chiefly textual posters (broadsides) collected in the Left Bank of Paris during the 1936 elections. Posters represent various candidates and parties. Included are the Communist Party (Parti Communiste), the Centre de Propagande des Republicains Nationaux, miscellaneous anti-communist, anti-fascist, or anti-popular...

Ledgers, cash books, and miscellaneous accounts, primarily for ranches in Glenn and Colusa counties in California.

Reminiscences of the Powers family, early settlers in California; the family fruit ranch near Fresno; establishment of family winery, Mt. Tivy winery in 1933; other wineries in the area, etc. Photographs, copies of clippings and documentary material inserted.

Mainly mining claims and pre-emption notices.

The Grass Valley and Vicinity collection contains 56 photographic prints taken circa 1894 by Désiré Fricot.

Mainly notes concerning the cultivation of vineyards and orchards. Naturalization papers also included.

Letters to the editor of the Herald, Livermore, California, and letter as Governor of California.

Includes studio portraits of Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (2), Louis Agassiz (2), Henry W. Longfellow and Harvard mathematician Benjamin Osgood Pierce.

Photographs show eagles, David Brower, an unidentified dam spillway, Jimmy Carter, Marion Edey, George Alderson, and unidentified workers in an office.

These records include documentation of domestic and international conservation campaigns from the origins of the Friends of the Earth organization in 1969 through the late 1980s. The collection contains significant documentation on legislation and elections related to numerous conservation issues...

Articles, congressional bills, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, news clippings, publications, reports, research notes, petitions, testimonies, and written statements compiled by Friends of the River. This collection contains four series: New Melones Dam, California Senate Subcommittee on River Management, Miscellaneous, and Clippings....

This collection contains documentation collected during the campaigns to preserve the Stanislaus River, stop construction of the New Melones Dam and protect other creeks and rivers through grassroots public awareness campaigns and water policy legislation.

Description of life of Mormon farmer and teacher, his work for the church and other activities in Peterson, Utah, in Arizona and in New Mexico. Some accounts included.

Papers of California forester Emanuel Fritz.

Informs Mr. N[athaniel] C. Carter that, on doctor's orders due to her mother's ill health, she and her mother will be coming to Sierra Madre on the noon train, December 8th, for a visit to stay at Carterhia.

Correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, press releases, booklists, reviews, and other records.

Childhood and education in New York City; discovering poetry; moving to California, 1940s; writing poetry; meeting Allen Ginsberg, Maya Angelou; marriage to Jane Hill; marriage to Ann London; writing for Playboy magazine, 1960s; living on houseboat in Sausalito; USCO (mulitmedia...

Souvenir poster commemorating the United Nations Conference on International Orgainzation held in San Francisco, Calif. in 1945. Poster image contains humorous cartoon drawing alluding to theme of international organization. Drawing represents the bureaucratic and cultural complexities of the U.N.'s document...

Comments on career as professional volunteer for the Democratic Party in California, particularly as a fundraiser; posts she held in party organization, including National Committeewoman for California, 1965-1968; role of women in the party; campaigns in which she was active,...

McLean discusses his pioneer family background; his career with the East Bay Municipal Utility District; various San Francisco Bay Area waterworks, including Pardee Dam; water supply projects and conservation policies.

Reflections on her work in the Repulican Party - in women's organizations, as precinct worker, in state and national campaigns (particularly the 1958, 1962 and 1966 gubernatorial campaigns in California and the 1960, 1964 and 1968 presidential campaigns), and as...

Upbringing in San Diego and Beverly Hills, California; University of California, Berkeley, 1937-1941; Navy service during World War II; law school at George Washington University and Hastings College; deputy legislative counsel for California Attorney General, 1949; attorney with Edwards &...

Family background, childhood education; graduate study in New York, early career; early years at the East Bay Regional Park District, 1964-1968; general manager of East Bay Regional Park District from 1968; managing the District during and after Proposition 13; later...

Comments on career as an attorney in San Diego; election to California State Assembly in 1954; legislative issues; her unsuccessful reelection campaign, 1956.

Typed transcript (149 p.) of a doctor's narrative account of his overland journey from Memphis, Tennessee to the California gold rush via the southern route of Fort Smith and Santa Fe and his return home a year and a half...

Forms part of: California Supreme Court Oral History Project.

Scenes illustrate Quinlan's boyhood in the Half Moon Bay, Calif. region. People featured in the memoir are caricatured as artichokes.

Notes on his trip as Sierra Club member in 1896, and on the construction of trails in this area. (2 l.)

The Seymour Fromer papers document the life and work of the founding director of the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, CA (now the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life). A large portion of the collection is dedicated to...

Includes many early 20th-century commercial postcard views of Bethlehem, Jerusalem and other regions of the Holy Land, as well as portraits of jews and Jewish types from Palestine. Also includes commercial stereograph views of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Tiberias, Mt. Sinai, Mt....

Album contains photographs of the Frontier Boys horseback riding club from Alameda County, Calif. taken during their annual outing in Mendocino County. Photographs include portraits of club members, riding scenes, and scenes of group at camp. Many members also sport...

The collection contains the general office and editorial files for , a scholarly journal edited by Kathi George. The journal was first published by the Women's Studies Program of the University of Colorado, Boulder, later by the Women's Studies Programs...

Scenes of frozen and canned food processing, packing, shipping and experimentation including workers, equipment and procedures, at various locations in Oregon, Washington, and California. Factories and shipping terminals depicted are Hershey Packing Corp., Gresham Fruit Growers, Bozeman Canning Co., R.D....

Collection of manuscript documents, engravings, and other pictorial material chiefly from the 17th century relating to the activities and membership of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, the earliest German learned society, founded in 1617.

Correspondence (including letters from George Davidson, Benjamin I. Wheeler and Charles W. Woodworth); MSS of his writings and lectures; lecture notes and course material; and clippings. relating to his study of China and the Chinese and to his career as...

Chiefly snapshots of Esther and Fenner Fuller's everyday leisure activities and events associated with their involvement in the museum and art communities of the East Bay. Locations depicted include Fuller homes in Oakland and Fresno; Mills College; and the Oakland...

Transferred from the Leonard Franklin Fuller papers (BANC MSS 79/91 c).

David Stare discusses developing Fumé blanc and Meritage wines at his Dry Creek Vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif.

Photographs show a long line of people walking, carrying a sign which reads "Fellow Worker McKay Murdered at Bay City Mill by a Co. Gunman May 3rd, 1923 A victim of capitalistic greed. WE NEVER FORGET!" The same sign is...

Funeral photos showing officials, flower arrangements, casket and mourners.

The letters, written to a childhood friend, contain references to her father, John Muir, and other members of the Muir family and to the Muir home in Martinez, California.

Family and values; beliefs and therapeutic orientation; psychiatry and child development; psychiatric work in Chicago, Hull House, dysfunctional families, women in psychiatry; pacifism; her gifted son Ivan Heisler's life; Leon Trotsky in Mexico; Mexico's people and the world today; Carmel,...

Family photograph album depicting everyday lives of various members of the Furuta family of Oakland, Calif. between the mid-1910s and mid-1920s, with an emphasis on the social and leisure activities of young men Yoichi Furuta and Denge Furuta, both in...

Guest book containing unlined pages signed by guests of Dr. F.W. Vowinkel. Some pages also contain additional comments by the guests about their activities at the house and favorite quotations. Also contains 4 tipped in black and white photographs of...