Consists of the autobiography of a Tarascan Indian, including Spanish and English versions, with two issues (Sept. 1947 & Mar. 1948) of the periodical Juchári anápu, which contains the first 15 pages of this autobiography. Also includes a letter from...
Issued by N.A. Covarrubias, U.S. Marshal, Los Angeles, Calif.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Comments on her husband, Robert G. Sproul; role as wife of president of the University of California; living in Berkeley; faculty, regents and friends; famous visitors; entertaining in the president's house; development of the University at Los Angeles; etc.
This collection reflects Ida Frank's interest in the history and activities of the East Bay's Jewish community. It contains correspondence; newspaper and magazine clippings; photographs; documentation of the activities of local rabbis in Selma, Alabama; materials about Frank's work with...
Correspondence, programs, black and white photographs, related to the artistic activities and relationships of Ida Hodes. Includes correspondence and postcards from the San Francisco artist known as Jess [i.e. Jess Collins], programs, and photocopies of news clippings of the work...
Contains correspondence, course notes and organizational records.
Correspondence; programs; scripts; newspaper clippings; and an annual report of the East Bay Council of Jewish Women (1926).
Receipts, notes, check, envelop, account, and fragment of election related matter from Owyhee related businesses or matters.
Minutes of meetings, 1905, of the Improved Order of Red Men, Idaho Reservation No. 20, War Eagle Tribe, Silver City; and receipt to Silver City Lodge No. 13 by the Grand Lodge of Idaho, F. & A.M., 1938.
Biographical sketch of Kittie Wilkins and an extract from the San Francisco Examiner called "The Idaho Horse Queen- the romantic story of the rapid rise of Kittie Wilkins."
1. Neil, John Baldwin, 1842-1902. Letter as Governor to U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Harris Brewster. Boise, Idaho. April 20, 1882. 3 l. 28 cm. Concerning the reputation of U.S. District Marshal Chase.
Comments on association with Marin Co. League of Women voters and service as the League's legislative advocate in Sacramento; election to and service on Mill Valley City Council, 1946-50, and on Marin County Board of Supervisors, 1952-60; controversy over Frank...
Photographic portraits of unidentified Chinese men and boys in traditional attire, most of which are copy photographs of original prints, perhaps cartes de visite, mounted in albums. Also includes photocopies of 2 pages (365-366) of the Owens & Moore Company...
Notes on the mission records collected in Sonora, in 1848, by Pinart.
Discusses childhood in a village in Wales, and social divisons concerning the speaking of Welsh or English. Move to Lafayette, California in 1969 for a job with Chevron, socializing in the community and with other Welsh-Americans.
Collection contains 8 letters addressed to Edward O'Day, a menu from San Francisco's High Bonnet restaurant inscribed by Jones, and a carbon typescript of Richard Prosser's "Of the life and works of Idwal Jones."
Letters written to Jones about his writings; manuscripts of Ark of Empire and other books and stories; tear sheets of articles published in magazines and newspapers, many of them dealing with viticulture and gastronomy; reviews of his books; notes; awards;...
Typescript, extensively corrected in ink and pencil, presumably by Hinckle and the copy editor.
Copies of official letters and documents received or dispatched by Barrutia, governor of Nueva Vizcaya, concerning protection against the Tarahumares and other Indians, defense of missions and Pedro de Rivera's 1724-28 inspection of frontier presidios. Included are two orders from...
Consists primarily of diplomatic correspondence covering the years of Ignacio Mariscal's tenure under Porfirio Diaz' government. Most of the letters are either reports from members of Mexican delegations, European countries, and the U.S., or recommendations of individuals for government positions....
Folder housed in an item box with C-Y 140-215.
Individual and group portraits of a Japanese family (the Nagasawa family?) at Fountain Grove Winery dating from 1899; and views of the Fountain Grove dance hall featuring well-furnished interiors. Portraits of Kanae Nagasawa and others from late 1920's are also...
Contains correspondence, manuscripts and transcripts of writings, a diary in Japanese, copies of internment records of Kando Ikeda, and address books. Correspondence includes letters from Kando Ikeda to his daughters while interned as an enemy of the state. Writings include...
Kwando [Kandō] Ikeda family photographs, including a group portrait (perhaps of Japanese American detainees during World War II), a possible festival celebration in Oakland, Calif., perhaps a Buddhist church gathering in 1950, 1911 wedding photo of Kwando [Kandō] ikeda and...
Biographies and one newspaper clipping concerning merchants and businesses of Chicago.
Transferred from the Henry Raup Wagner papers (BANC MSS C-B 849)
Views show western landscapes, and scenes along the Bidwell Trail through Wyoming, Utah, etc.
Original drawings, and proof prints made from these drawings, used to illustrate works -- greeting cards, invitations, etc. -- printed by James D. Hart.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Drawings show people, streets, and scenes of everyday life in Monterey, Calif., drawn for the 1935 edition of Tortilla flat, published by Covici.
Illustrations of "The Cask Scene" and "The Trial Scene", intended for a projected Illustrated Shakespeare, by Bradbury & Evans. The work was never published.
Collection of illustrations for Stockton Boyhood including views of the town of Stockton, Calif. (based on old paintings), a carte de visite of Carl Ewald Grunsky and other views.
Views show San Francisco, gold mining, Indians, Hock Farm, and a scene in Mexico.
Primarily illustrations removed from an edition of Cook's Voyages, including scenes of Pacific Islanders and natives of Alaska. Material relating to archaeology, Mexico, South America, and cuts from various publications to be used in a world geography text are also...
One photographic view of Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Vancouver and 8 vintage photographic prints of drawings. The photograph (United States Photograph No. 3) depicts the interior of the Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Vancouver, probably in May, 1860. Drawings...
Views depict: departure of the San Carlos from La Paz -- Soldado de Cuero -- Juan Bautista de Anza -- how the sick were carried -- the vision of Anza -- the march to Monterey -- the Battle of San...
Includes scenic views of mountainous landscapes, waterfalls, rivers, railroads, and bridges.
Copy negatives and photographic print used as illustrative material in the production of Maxine Hong Kingston's Through the black curtain, published in 1987 as keepsake 35 of the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Print is portrait of Kingston. Negatives depict...
Collection of diaries kept by Ilse Otterson, which describe her life with her husband Harold Otterson, including a sailing trip from Los Angeles to Sausalito, into the San Francisco Bay and up the San Joaquin River, traveling in Mexico, and...
Images relate to a group or groups of Indians, possibly from California. Images depict petroglyphs, human skulls, tools, baskets, weapons, and pottery.
Views of mining related equipment built by Prescott Scott & Co. (United Iron Works) show the following: Consolidated Mill interior with pumping engines, hoisting gear for the Savage Mine, hoisting and pumping gear built for the Raymond and Ely Mine,...
Views of the Pacific Lumber Co. log trains showing locomotive pushing a big log and log trains with people posing in front of them. Included are also two views from Virginia City, Nevada, the first featuring the Big Wheel at...
Views related to the Russian-Polish war of 1920, including Red Army troops at the Polish front, enlisted soldiers, and some caricatures. Some images depict 1918-1919 evens featuring V.I. Lenin giving speeches. Copies of Lenin's orders are also included.
3 letters, 2 postcards
Portraits of hippies posing before various buildings on Haight Street, San Francisco.
Receipts for the purchase of a wood cup. Includes cover.
Collection of ephemera created by the Imperial Courts, including coronation programs and other materials related to various empires in California and the West, including Imperial Star Empire Incorporated, the Imperial Court of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, the Mystic Rainbow...
Color lithographs intending to illustrate intersections between science and art.
Comments on events in Russia between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917; career as official in the Ministry of Agriculture; discussion of Russian administrative system. Photographs inserted. Included also: copies of biographical sketch and obituary.
Forms part of: California Supreme Court Oral History Project.
Mainly portraits of Aubrey and Newton Drury (singly and in large groups) commemorating their work with the Save the Redwoods League and their contributions to conservation and the National Park Service. Includes views of the Newton B. Drury Grove in...
Discusses growing up in Houston, Texas, blacks in golf, life in Richmond, California since 1943, the Painters' Union, work in Kaiser shipyard, social life (including blues clubs and churches), move to an all white neighborhood in 1956, and opportunities for...
Financial papers.
Mainly portraits of Claire; also includes portraits of fellow film stars, many inscribed.
Letters and postcards, chiefly from Coolbrith to Mildred Leo Clemens Schenck, but including a few to Iza Hardy and John Howell. Also includes a copy of a letter to Coolbrith from George Wharton James, introducing Mrs. Clemens Schenck and a...
Letter from Jack London to Mr. Whitaker, 1909 August 10, concerning distribution of the monies collected as a relief fund established for Ina Coolbrith. With this, a January 7, 1926 letter to Coolbrith from Albert M. Bender, Chairman of the...
Photographs, chiefly adhered to disbound album leaves, documenting the middle-class Inai family of the Elmira and Vacaville region of Solano County -- including father Kwantaro, mother Teru, and children Josephine, Helen, Julia, George and Francis -- and their local Japanese...
Discusses in youth in Oakland, Calif., and studies at the University of California, Berkeley; his career at Howard University and at California State University, Los Angeles; activities in the American Chemistry Society, National Institutes of Health, and other professional programs...
Photographic postcards depicting centennial celebration of Mexico's Independence Day on the Paseo Hidalgo, in Ensenada (Baja California, Mexico), September 16, 1910. Ceremony takes place at statue of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
Correspondence, financial papers, minutes, and membership lists for the Bodie Lodge.
Minutes of a fraternal organization in Folsom, Calif. including membership applications, ballots, suspensions, expulsions, dues and fees, printing orders, maintenance of uniforms and cemeteries, and celebrations and memorials.
Annual and semi-annual reports; correspondence, mostly with members and with other lodges; and membership applications and other membership materials.
Ledger book of a San Jose, California chapter of the Odd Fellows, a national fraternal organization. Handwritten dated entries include meeting minutes, officer names, trustees, roll call of members in attendance, and actions proposed and voted upon. Also includes a...
Also includes membership certificate issued to John F. Beede, Diamond Springs Lodge No. 9, April 23, 1862; membership certificate issued to E.A. Lewis, San Andreas Lodge No. 50, June 19, 1869; and, letters to Mr. & Mrs. John S. Eagan...
Correspondence with other lodges and members, especially over illness and death benefits; proceedings against members; reports of officers and committees; resolutions; bills and receipts; applications for membership, degrees, and transfers; withdrawal cards.
Ledger books containing records of the Independent Order of Oddfellows in Roseville, Calif., Lodge 203. Details include receipts and disbursements, and meeting minutes containing officer names, trustees, roll call of members in attendance, and actions proposed and voted upon. Volumes...
Minute book, Sept. 9, 1875-Aug 26, 1885 and roll of officers, Feb. 16, 1876-July 1, 1885.
Annual and semi-annual reports (1863-1869 and 1873-1885); correspondence (1873-1908); and bonds.
An account of her experiences as a political activist, particularly with California Legislative Conference, 1947-56, and the Californians for Liberal Representation, 1962-72; and her affiliation with the Viewer Sponsored Television Foundation, Los Angeles. Copy of photograph inserted. Appended: photocopies of...
Includes snapshots of Independent Press Association (San Francisco, Calif.) staff and events.
Topics covered include: growing up with mining: pocket and placer gold mines in Oregon; Naval Air Reserve fighter pilot, 1943-1983, combat in Korea; operations and mercury recovery processes, 1955-1970, reclamation 1998-1999; managing and operating other small mines in California and...
Photograph depicts Inderjit Singh, a Sikh, working behind the counter of the convnenience store of a Shell gas station in Sacramento, California.
Descriptions of the photographs in the collection, made by Mr. Graves in the fall of 1963.
Typescript carbon copy of a document concerning land grant cases in California. The "Index of the Spanish-Mexican private land grant records and cases of California" (1958 ; 598 pages), contains a variety of indices of the grants by name, Court...
An alphabetical arrangement of grantors and grantees in a bundle of deeds numbered 1-131 (no longer with the index) Seemingly all references are to property on the Comstock Lode.
Index to the dockets; index to private land claims.
Incomplete index to burial records from various cemeteries in San Francisco giving the following information: name of disceased, place of birth, death date, cemetery, and, occssionally, the grave number.
Blaisdell discusses his childhood and education; teaching in India, 1917-1918; in Chinghua College in pre-revolutionary China; public service in Roosevelt and Truman administrations, 1933-1951; including Resettlement Administration, Social Security Board's Bureau of Research and Statistics, Commerce Dept.; post- World War...
Stereos show views of Indian acorn caches (from the series: Glories of the Yosemite, California) and a grape arbor in Santa Rosa, Calif.
Miscellaneous files, apparently kept by John Collier, pertaining to a range of Native American groups and activities. Topics include portraits of Native Americans in traditional regalia; press photographs of Gertrude Bonin (Zitkala Sa) and a Hopi snake dance performed in...
Linguistic manuscripts (dictionaries, grammars, and texts of sermons, prayers, etc.) relating to various tribes in Alaska.
Linguistic manuscripts (dictionaries, grammars, and texts of sermons, prayers, etc.) relating to various tribes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana.
Includes posse in Eagleville, Calif., and a site with bodies in Little High Rock Canyon, Nevada.
Dictation in handwriting of H.H. Bancroft, with a further typescript dictation, 2 leaves, 1886. To the Tarryall diggings from Iowa, 1860; his father's Methodist circuit comprising the southern half of Colorado; comments on Hamilton and Colorado City; El Paso County...
Pair of early 18th century handwritten Indian wills: Testament of an Indian in Nahuatl language, 1731; Reception of the goods as marked by a testament in Spanish and Nahuatl, 1720.
Snapshots of family, friends, social gatherings, outings, parades, various scenes and home interiors.
Portraits of California Indians, many identified as Piute [sic], and views of mountains from the Lone Pine area.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Index to "third party" cases, U.S. Circuit Court, San Francisco; compiled under direction of J.N. Bowman, with his explanatory note; filmed 1961 April (microfilm only)
Indices to records of the Spanish and Mexican land grants now in archives of the California Secretary of State.
Records include minutes, bylaws, scrapbooks, manuals, photographs, member information, and information on policies regarding the disabled. Most of the materials are specific to the San Rafael Chapter of the Indoor Sports Club. Some other materials refer to the national organization.
Wall calendars published by Industria Eléctrica de México S.A (I.E.M.). for the years 1952, 1956, 1957 and 1958; illustrated with works of prominent Mexican artists. 1952 (lacking sheets for January-March): Amador Lugo, Olga Costa, Carlos Sánchez M., Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin,...
Promotional publication aimed at employers and insurers. Introductory text describes industrial medicine and surgery as it was applied to the treatment of injuries covered by the Employees Compensation Act and similar workers' compensation laws. Photographs illustrate various departments of Goodale's...
Industrial, agricultural, leisure, and street scenes in Oakland, Berkeley, Livermore, and Niles, California.
File concerning legitimacy of Juan José Farias and his brother, including depositions with information on the Farias family, and signatures of witnesses and officials.
Recollections and notes concerning his uncle, Horace Gasquet, California Gold Rush pioneer who settled in Del Norte Co. and built roads and operated stage line between Grants Pass, Ore., and Crescent City.
Early life and political upbringing in New York City; Hunter College, 1936-1940; American Student Union and Young Communist League; political interests and activism in southern California during WWII; working and attending the library school at the University of Southern California,...
Biographical notes and information concerning his work for H.H. Bancroft.
Correspondence and completed questionnaires 1874-1876, circulated in preparation of the Pacific Coast business directory.
Fragment dealing with the questionable election of Juan de Orrantia as alcalde [of San Felipe el Real?], and the calling of a new election which gave the disputed post to Matías del Solar.
Approximately 20 items concerning statistics about converts, etc. Many have the mission name on the top or at the back of the item.
5 photographic views of the Inglenook Winery, vineyard, and facilities in Napa County, Calif., mounted and framed together with five wine labels. Views are of the winery building, some outbuildings, vineyards (with women and a child pictured), and the tasting...
Manuscript consists of six stories written by Maynard Dixon for the Christmas of 1913. The cover is illustrated with a sketch of a Native American child drawn by Dixon, and he also handlettered the title page, and the title of...
Contains publications of Inkworks Press and other social justice oriented presses collected over a period of years. Topics include, but are not limited to, social justice, environmentalism, public policy, economic justice, inequality, poverty, community building, etc.
Transcripts of 30 papal letters from Innocent XI (with the exception of the first by Alexander VII) addressed to members of the royal families of Europe and the King of Siam as follows: nos. 1-12, Louis XIV, nos. 13-15, various...
Typescript transcription, made by Margaret Lantis in 1934, of parts I-II of v. 4 of Russian America, containing excerpts translated by Ivan Petroff from the Russian work: Zapiski ob ostravakh Unalashkinskago otdila.
Testimony of witnesses on Diego Sanchez de Chavez Luduena, the alcalde of Antequera, Oaxaca, who was under investigation by the Inquisition under the direction of Sancho Alzorriz, dean of the cathedral at Antequerra. Alzorriz was known to be a zealous...
A digital video oral history with conceptual artist David Ireland that takes place at 500 Capp Street, the house he has restored and which serves as a showplace for his art: background on family and education; Hunter Africa, African influences;...
Comments on marriage to Evelle Younger and role as officeholder's wife; her activities in the Republican Party, notably participation in the 1952 presidential convention and campaign; her candidacy for California State Senate in 1954; lecturing and community activities; role of...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Images of the landscape, line crews, camps, wagons, automobiles, trucks, machinery, and equipment as telephone poles and lines are installed across the Nevada desert. Signs visible indicate that the project was for the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the...
Comprised primarily of materials relating to the publication of the Ñawpa Pacha journal, including: correspondence; article submissions; layout with text, photographs, and drawings; and published issues.
Consists of a series of 34 tape-recorded transcribed interviews with individuals who had been or are presently associated with the Institute of Human Development (originally known as the Institute of Child Welfare), University of Calif., Berkeley and its Harold E....
Collection of documents (copies) relating to excise and pulque taxes in New Spain; consists of correspondence of the tax official, Arce, with Viceroy Revilla Gigedo and Customs Director Juan Navarra, April 4-5, 1794; text of instructions for assessing and collecting...
Photographs documenting community arts projects and other activites of Integrated Arts.
From Wesleyan University to the Department of History at Berkeley, 1960; thoughts on Catholics and Jews in Academia; Free speech issues and the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, Slate; faculty life, politics, recruitment, issues; campus diversity; educational reform at Berkeley;...
Typed transcript of excerpt from: Informe sobre el estado de Mexico ... 1768-1778, manuscript no. 1091, Edward E. Ayer Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago. Prepared for the Academy of Pacific Coast History, a report drawn up at the request of the...
Includes dances, banquets, and other social events, men and women in military uniform, receiving of honorary medals, Royal Air Force officers, and entertainment.
Correspondence with government officials and representatives, and entertainers; scrapbooks concerning activities; and card file of guests and personnel.
Illustrated monographs on the history, construction, and maintenance of the Alaska Highway, an unpublished manuscript on the history of the Inter-American Highway, 1929-1938, by E.W. James (to which the author retains publication rights), and reports loaned by the Library of...
View within the ruins of the San Carlos Borromeo Basilica at Carmel, with several seated figures and a dog.
Pictures of wood paneled rooms (living room and a study).
Photos depict glass display cases in store, shelves on either side full of merchandise. Several paintings hang above the shelves.
Includes views of manuscript and reading rooms, book stacks, card catalog, patrons, workers' desk, exhibit case, etc.
Depicts a parlor and music room with seated women.
Includes a sitting room, dining room, and a bedroom or lounge.
Views of ornate furnishings and rooms.
Snapshots of the Samuel and Portia Hume's Berkely residence (Hume Cloister) show interior views, furniture, decor, etc. Some are of social events and show Bob and Ida Sproul and other guests with the Humes. Also includes a typed poem "To...
Postcards published in 1909 and 1910 depicting International Harvester machinery in scenes of harvesting from around the world. Locations depicted include United States, Mexico, South America (Argentina), Scotland, England, France, Spain, Romania, Finland, Russia, Siberia, Algiers and India.
Photographs pertaining to the years-long effort to prevent the eviction of tenants of the single-room occupancy International Hotel. Views show activists and tenants demonstrating outside the hotel, an interior view of the hotel, and a courtroom scene.
Collection consists of clippings, press releases, and other materials relating to the Smith Act (Alien Registration Act) of 1940 , the trial of Harry Bridges, and civil rights issues in the labor movement. These materials came to the Bancroft Library...
Minute book, 1868 May 19-1869 Oct. 9; list of organizing members, 1868 May 12; and note by W.H. Myrick.
Scrapbook, mainly of pictures, programs, invitations and newspaper clippings, pertaining to members and activities of the group.
Comments on work for the Pullman Co. as porter; formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and offices held in the union; friendship with A. Philip Randolph; fight against discrimination in unions; Earl Warren; 1934 San Francisco waterfront strike;...
Preferred citation: International Typographical Union of North America, Union No. 46, Sacramento minutes of meetings, BANC MSS 70/56 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Include circulars and form letters written by B.G. Haskell, Division Secretary; correspondence, including letters from Charles F. Keller to Charles F. Burgman; B.G. Haskell's diary, 1883-1884, containing membership lists with code; reports of meetings; applications and membership cards; minute book,...
Interviews conducted in 1967 and 1969 by Lois C. Stone, Leonard R. Askham, G. Davidson Woodard, and John B. Cowan for Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Introduction by Raymond B. Cowles. Photographs inserted. Student days at University of California,...
Inter-Religious Task Force for Social Analysis records, BANC MSS 99/347 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Contains program files for exhibition, theater, music, and literary projects. Also includes a small amount of administrative files.
Views documenting the appearance of the yard shop buildings at their construction in 1938-39 and in 1992. The shop was designed as a maintenance site for electric railway cars intended to run across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, but served...
Life of Philip Vera Cruz: childhood in the Philippines, working and studying in the United States, labor organizer, labor leader.
Comments on fund raising for The Democratic Party. Also included: photocopies of letters, 1963-1970, clippings and notes.
Raisin growing in the San Joaquin Valley; formation of the American Seedless Raisin Company and the Sun Main Raisin Growers; litigation involving the Sun Main growers cooperative.
Vatter discusses his childhood in the South, riding the rails in the 1930s, and how he became a radical and activist at the University of Wisconsin, joining the Communist Party. He describes his graduate education at UC Berkeley in economics...
Also includes supporting documentation.
Also includes supporting documentation (4 p.).
Notes her early life; Socialist and I.W.W. influences; work on behalf of various radicals (including Mooney and Billings) on trial; Workers' Defense League; sharecroppers' campaign; Jan Valtin's pardon, 1941; work for the blind; her husband, Douglas Robson.
Comments on his poems and plays; the creative process and influences; role of music in his work, etc. Rough drafts and notes also included.
Regarding her long years of close friendship with the Dobie brothers Charles and Walker includes explainatory note by Ruth Teiser.
Section 1, Myron E. Krueger: Forestry and Technology in Northern California, 1925-1965, covering technological developments in logging, private forestry in the redwoods, lumber code of the NRA, and Society of American Foresters accrediting committee. Section 2, Richard A. Colgan: Forestry...
Re-transcription made on June 11, 1975 of an oral interview conducted by Thorn Mayes. Reminiscences of the early days of vacuum tube development in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the invention of the gammatron; discussion of Heintz's companies and...
Gumbiner (b. 1923) discusses his Indiana background: medical school, internship, and general practice; move to California, 1949, and working in both fee-for-service and HMO-style settings; Lakewood Plaza Medical Group, and the Family Health Program [FHP]: group practice, recruiting patients, fee-for-service...
Wayne F. Miller discusses his career in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area as a photojournalist; being assistant to Edward Steichen; his interest in forestry issues and conservation; being Special Assistant for Environmental Affairs to the director of the...
Transcripts of interviews with twenty-nine subjects as part of Godfrey's research for his thesis. Five of the transcripts do not have corresponding tapes.
Interview with Bill Keys, Nov. 9, 1954, regarding cattle business in the area (2 leaves); with William H. McHaney, Mar. l933, regarding local Indians and gold mines (3 leaves); and with Lester Spell, on the history of the Dale Mining...
Typed transcripts of tape recorded interviews, relating in large part to art and artists during the 1930s and the WPA. Includes interviews with Willis Foster, Otis William Oldfield, Roger Sturtevant, and Glenn Anthony Wessels; also interview with Alfred Frankenstein.
Fifty-four interviews conducted by Charles Smith, l973-l974. Subjects covered include early history of Nevada City, family history, Berkeley Arts and Crafts Co-op, her trip to Mississippi in l966-l967 to start a co-op among the blacks, involvement in various East Bay...
Forms part of: Donated oral histories collection, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library.
Interviews with fourteen dentists, conducted by Warren Longhurst; a joint effort by the School of Dentistry, University of California at San Francisco and the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Photographs and other material occasionally included. Main depository for the...
Section 1, Henry Clepper: The Society of American Foresters; Section 2, Kenneth B. Pomeroy: The American Forestry Association - Operations; Section 3, Fred Hornaday: The American Forestry Association, 1928-1964. Photographs inserted.
Relating to early history of the county, gold mining, Chinese and Indians, bears, lumbering, etc.
Includes interviews with Nancy Bayley of the University of California re her studies on emotional and physical development, particularly, motor development in children; Jean Macfarlane of the University of California's Institute of Human Development re her long-term studies on personality...
Comments on his immigrant grandparents, and his parents; childhood and education in San Francisco; musical studies; trip to Mexico in 1899; medical education in Heidelberg; travel in eastern Europe; practicing medicine in California; medical work in the German Army and...
Abascal interviews discuss Mexican society and Christianity, struggles between conservative and progressive religious groups, divisions within Catholics, relations between the government and religious groups, and Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo. Other topics include criticsm of the Revolution's policies and their impact...
Interviews conducted for Kutler's book, The American Inquistion: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War. Information on Gladstein's labor law firm, other lawyers, the 1949 Communist trial in New York, and charges of contempt brought against Gladstein by the California...
The Bancroft Library holds related collections of Sheldon Cheney papers. See also: BANC MSS 78/25, 78/37, 81/42, 83/13, 89/164, and 89/166.
Comments on various architects, including Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck, etc.; his own work; student days at University of California, etc. Also included: photocopy of his address to the Historical Guide Association of California, Aug. 1969. (19 l.).
Signed title page note, and table of contents, July 28, 1777, by Father Fermin Francisco Lasuen. (Many entries also in his handwriting) With added note, 1813, by Father José Sanchez, that leaves had been removed to be used as a...
Incomplete file of documents relating to the settlement of the estate of María Dolores Quintanar, including inventories of household goods, livestock, farming equipment, contents of a store and property located in and near San Juan del Rio and in Mexico...
Typescript copies (carbon) of inventories of parish archives in Jaltepec, Nochixtlán, Tozacoalco, Teposcolula, Tilantongo, Tlaxiaco and Yanhuitlán, prepared by Woodrow W. Borah and Sherburne F. Cook in 1956.
Inventories, complying with an act defining the rights of husband and wife, for cattle and real property belonging to Francisca (Uribe) Ocampo, Paula Romero, Juana (Marona) Rubio, María Antonia (Castilo) Domínguez, Josefa (Sánchez) Pérez and María (Yorba) Burruel. Include signatures...
Comments on student days at University of California, Berkeley, class of '31; teaching at Berkeley in Dept. of Speech; World War II service; work as chairman of Public Ceremonies Committee; on-and-off-campus theatrical activities; presidents, chancellors and their wives; student unrest;...
Printed forms, filled in. One in Spanish.
Enclosures: related correspondence, printed copy of Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling.
Billheads from various Inyo County, Calif. businesses located primarily in Bishop, as well as Big Pine, Independence, and Laws. All 37 items are for goods sold and services provided from such businesses as markets, contractors, household supplies, lumber yards, and...
Contains 4 mining claims in Inyo County, Calif. with many owner.
Chiefly correspondence received by H.M. Yerington, President of Inyo Development Company from L.F.J. Wrinkle, Superintendent of the borax mining operation at Owens Lake. Details operational difficulties in establishing production and obtaining land rights with regard to the claims of competitors....
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Collection of letters sent by a prominent labor economist to Oscar Berland, a labor activist from New York then living in North Carolina. Letters are dated between October 23, 1960 and January 31, 1964.
Describes his experiences mining in California.
Includes writings, administrative correspondence, course notes, committee files, and biographical materials.
Photographic prints, negatives, contact sheets, slides and digital files. Projects (subjects) chiefly: San Francisco Opera, "Frisco", "No Vacancy" and urban renewal / gentrifcation / displacement in San Francisco's South of Market (SOMA) district, North Beach (including Poets series and Cafe...
Photograph books, perhaps produced as artist's portfolios, containing selected images from a variety of Nowinski's bodies of work. Volume 1 contains images taken at the San Francisco Art Institute (including portraits of instructors, school grounds and classroom scenes, taken in...
Photographs documenting people, places and scenes throughout Baja California, Mexico, with an emphasis on everyday living conditions of the disadvantaged. Among the locations depicted are Loreto, La Paz, Cabo San Lucas and Ensendada. Collection includes many portraits and interior views...
The collection contains photographs of six pioneer Jewish cemeteries of the California Mother Lode that Nowinski took in 1984 under the auspices of the Judah L. Magnes Museum's Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks. The cemeteries...
1: Bust length portrait of Adams, likely taken in his Carmel home. 2: Interior of Adams's Carmel home, showing a framed photograph, a sculpture, a plant and a Navajo (or Hopi?) bowl atop a piano, with a few framed photographs...
Contains research notes and a typescript draft of "Our City: The Jews of San Francisco," which Narell published in 1981.
Snapshot photograph albums documenting the activities of Irene Clement and various friends and fellow nurses during Irene's years in nursing school and her early career as a nurse. While various aspects of nursing school and the nursing profession are depicted,...
Consists of original artwork for, and copies of, Irene Dogmatic zines; stationery, cartoons, drawings and posters by Dogmatic; stamp art and mail art from all over the world (on envelopes and postcards) by other artists; crank letters and Christmas cards;...
Collection includes photographs of Irina Tolstoy, her family and friends. Bulk are snapshots from 1950s- 1970s.
The papers reflect Adelman's focus on income distribution and poverty in developing countries; industrialization and agricultural policy in developing countries; and international trade and economic development.
Papers relating to Weill's involvement in the Sierra Club.
This collection documents the personal and professional relationship between artist Irv Koons and author David Dodge. Includes correspondence from Dodge to Koons and sketches, drawings (pencil and pen-and-ink), and proofs of illustrations made primarily for Dodge's travel books. The bulk...
Correspondence with Herbert E. Bolton, Herbert I. Priestley and Henry R. Wagner, reflecting mutual interest in Latin American history.
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Contains correspondence between Irving Herr and his wife Luella Winship Herr, with other family members and business associates. Correspondence deals with mining in Mexico and California and living in Mexico. Also contains Luella Winship Herr's diaries covering years spent living...
The collection consists of two annotated manuscripts "Messengers from the Dead" (1970) and "Here I Am: A Jew in Today's Germany" (1971), written by Halperin. The collection also contains a 1964 article written by Halperin and copies of reviews relating...
Papers relate to Herr's work in Mexico as a mining engineer.
Selected letters to and from Langmuir re pre-World War I apparatus for radio communication and post-war high power vacuum tube development, and correspondence with G.N. Lewis re theories in Lewis' book, Atoms and Molecules.
Studio portrait photographs of Irving Murray Scott.
The collection consists of correspondence, sermons, and speeches by Irving Reichert. In addition, the collection also contains publications and clippings.
Thirty-one letters from Irving Slade to his mother written from various locations including Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Mayfield, Belmont, San Miguel, Auburn, Petaluma, Cottonwood, Castroville, Salinas, San Francisco, Gazos Mill near Pescadero, Elko, Osino, and Voss Mill. He writes of...
Contains correspondence from Irving Stone, Jean Factor Stone and Lona Mosk. Correspondence discusses the works of Irving Stone and Lona Mosk, their relationships and everyday life. Also includes newspaper clippings, programs and flyers relating to Irving Stone plays and lectures.
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Contains typescript copies of the plays, "The White Life" (19 pages; based on the life of Baruch Spinoza; inscribed on the front cover to Sylvia Ladar) and "The Life of Man" (18 pages), correspondence to Jane Terrill from various publishers,...
Includes portraits of author Iriving Stone from childhood and throughout his career, and of his wife Jean. Also includes snapshots, photographs of Stone at book signings and other events, family photographs, and other subjects. Also includes snapshots depicting ceremonies at...
Re the establishment of camps for migratory laborers, mainly in the Marysville area. Include letters and memoranda from Harry Drobish, Paul S. Taylor, Walter Packard and others. Also included: some material re Japanese and Mexican laborers in the Imperial Valley...
Contains the correspondence, and legal documents, some relating to mining, of a law firm in Placerville, Calif.
Contents: 13 letters from Wallace Irwin and four from Will Irwin, some of which relate to Mark Twain; one letter from Inez Haynes Irwin about George Sterling. Included also: a brief essay, My First Novel, by Wallace Irwin, and questionnaires...
Collection includes individual and group portraits, family snapshots, etc. Most are identified as Long Island. Other locations include Salt Lake City, and Santa Barbara, among others. Oversize print is a tableau at the Metropolitan Opera House with names of actors...
Photographs, including some of Rabbi Bloch performing services on D-Day; Jews in military uniform, and of Jewish religious services in the military; correspondence; and clippings.
Record of voyage from Massachusetts, arrival in San Francisco and disbanding of company at the city of New York of the Pacific. A few sermons follow.
Experiences in the oil business in Pennsylvania; Colorado after 1874; California; and again in Colorado from 1885 as president of the Continental Oil Company; interest in music; benefactions to the Methodist Church in Denver.
Contains photostats of obituaries and tributes for Davis by the Society of California Pioneers and the Knights Templar, California Commandery, No. 1. Also, biographical information prepared from published sources, and a typed copy of the passenger list which includes Davis,...
Vol. 1: Letters from J.T. Allen, F.P. Graves, T.D. Seymour, and A.C. White; notes and book reviews relating to books written while professor at the University of California, Berkeley; vol 2: Holograph of a Greek grammar.
The collection consists of correspondence, a travel diary (1959), miscellaneous papers, and photographs. The correspondence of Isaac Meyers and his wife-to-be, Annie (Khanka), illustrates how two members of an anarchist group were able to immigrate to the U.S. without money...
Typed transcripts of letters written to Owen, drafts or copies of letters written by him; diaries; reports; and accounts relating to his activities as a missionary minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in California and to the University of the...
Primarily correspondence relating chiefly to the Methodist Episcopal Church in California. Some papers for the University of the Pacific at Santa Clara.
Contains 3 letters home to wife in Maine describing his life as a gold miner near Stockton, Calif.
Include: Diary (1 v.) recording his voyage from New York around the Horn to San Francisco on the ship Salem as member of the California Mutual Benefit Association, his journey up the Joaquin River to Stockton and thence to the...
Mostly concerning the Yuba Gold and Silver Mining Company, Alturas County, Idaho, 1866-1873, including deeds by Lewis Whittingham and George W. Dunn to the Yuba Gold and Silver Mining Company, 1866; assayer's report, 1867; descriptive memoranda; Ms. map of the...
List of members of the Beverly Joint Stock San Francisco Company; record of voyage around the Horn on bark, San Francisco, Thomas Remmonds, Master; experiences in California, including the mines; return voyage, to Realejo on bark, Belgrade, and on steamer,...
Six binders relating to her candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972. Volumes 1-4 include clippings, photographs, and letters; volume 5 includes publications; volume 6 includes sound reels.
Correspondence, 1962-77; writings; notes; clippings; files re International Federation of the Blind, National Federation of the Blind and other organizations; material in Braille.
Collection consists primarily of photographs of Isabelle Grant and her activities with charitable organizations that educate the blind. Some photos show Dr. Grant at civic events in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Many of the photos were taken in Pakistan (Lahore...
Scenes taken at night, depicting the Electric Tower and other Exposition structures illuminated by electrical light.
Photographs show interior and exterior views of Isais W. Hellman's house at Franklin and Sacramento streets, San Francisco, Calif.
South Sea Islands scenes of native peoples, military installations, troops, war casualties and devastation (possibly in the Philippines). Also includes views from various islands, including Tahiti, Samoa, and Fiji, with several portraits of native royalty.
The collection consists of the records of the Israel Golden Gate Lodge in Oakland, California. Included are by-laws and constitution; minutes; applications for membership, lists of its members (these have information about the country of origin, age, profession, address, and...
Diary records his voyage on the brig Percy Edward from San Francisco to Tahiti, with descriptions of passengers, the Marquesas Islands, pearl fishing, Tahiti, and the Chinese there, French government, price of food, and Kanaka natives.
The collection contains family and business correspondence; family documents; legal documents pertaining to real estate and stocks; business materials/receipts; applications to and membership cards for various organizations; invitations; donations to Jewish and non-Jewish organizations; and tickets to services including one...
Contains lecture notes and correspondence.
Press releases, publicity materials, speeches, clippings and notes, relating primarily to Edmund G. Brown's gubernatorial campaigns and Pierre Salinger's campaign for U.S. senator from California, 1964.
Contains typescript copies of letters written from a California gold miner, from his voyage around the Horn, to his prospecting for gold in California.
Letters written from the gold fields in California to his wife and children, in Spring Prairie, Walworth Co., Wisconsin, and including one letter written to his brother, in Unadilla, Otsego Co., New York.
Include a letter from Bruce Porter; corrected typescript and galleys for Our Mountain Hermitage; copies and clippings of her articles; photocopies of two Stevenson MSS; transcript of Fanny Osbourne Stevenson's Vailima diary; transcripts of Fanny Osbourne letters to Timothy Reardon,...
Interviews with four key participants in Ronald Reagan's campaign. Copies of photographs and of some documentary material inserted. Interviewees and titles of interviews, as follows: Franklyn C. Nofziger. Press Secretary for Ronald Reagan, 1966. Gaylord B. Parkinson. California Republican Party...
Focuses on Way's career in the U.S. Senate, 1962-1976-- his criticism of Adult Authority; Senate presidency pro tem; Medi-Cal legislation; penal reform legislation in the 1970s; Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976; recollections of Ronald Reagan; Edmund G. Brown, Jr. administration:...
Childhood and disability diagnosis; University of Illinois, 1974-76; rejecting disability identity; JD/MBA program at UCLA, 1977-181; California Department of Corporations, 1982-89; Westside Center for Independent Living, Bouvia "right-to-die" case; ADAPT transportation demonstrations, 1985; Technology Access Center in Nashville, 1991-96; beginnings...
Papers and correspondence relating mainly to the discharge of boilermaker foreman, Harry F. Cody. Contains letters by John F. Stevens, George W. Goethals, Harry F. Hodges, and others.
Collection of 7 unpublished anonymous working notes in manuscript by two or more advanced students following a university course in astronomy. The course was probably given at Bologna, Italy, and based on the works of the Cassini family.
An account of her travels in Italy, illustrated with photographs and sketches.
Topics covered: Three generations of Rossi family winemakers; winery at Asti, California; various owners of Italian Swiss Colony; flavored wines; influence of Louis Petri; winery personnel; brandy and high-proof wines; research and development of products; international investigations for Heublein; professional...
Items catalogued individually. Search under title: Italy : miscellaneous letters and documents.
Material relating to the Tubbs Cordage Co. and the Manila Cordage Co. was apparently collected by Herman D. Nichols, and includes programs, company correspondence, and some information about the Tubbs family. Some correspondence relates to H.D. Nichols.
Comments on working in the Helen G. Douglas senatorial campaign, 1950; election to and service on the Los Angeles City Council; marriage to Eugene Wyman and his role in Democratic Party, including state chairmanship; Democratic Party politics; business interests after...
Mainly letters, 1874-1886, from Petrov to his wife, concerning various trips to Alaska and to neighboring islands, his association with H.H. Bancroft, and the Alaskan census in 1880-1881.
Views of Santa Cruz, Calif. (with descriptive information on verso); Kathleen Norris' castle and garden at Guerdon (France?); the Del Norte Wonder Stump (two tree stumps grown together); a blimp flying over Berkeley; a school in Yuba Co., Calif.; a...
Includes geneaological material, marriage certificates, correspondence, blueprints, stock certificates, railroad bonds, deeds, clippings
Views of various subjects taken on some of the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu views depict points of interest along Nuuanu Avenue and other streets, business buildings, waterfront scenes, Queen's Hospital, and Waikiki, among other subjects. Other Oahu views include Diamond Head...
Photographs, family papers, and books collected by the Iwamoto family between approximately 1930 and 1996. Photographs show family members and family activities, including mushroom hunting and travels to Japan and other locales; also includes aerial photographs of Tule Lake Relocation...
Original art transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2017.122).