Description of San Francisco and comments on his saloon and hotel business, new buildings going up, growth of the city, business prospects, prices of goods, etc.

Contains three photographs (circa 1890-1910) of or relating to M. Greenberg's Sons, Brass Foundry and Machine Works, including a line of workers and three cars in front of a building that was owned by the firm and which had the...

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

Accounts for mercantile business.

Formal portrait of Luhan by Carl Van Vechten. Snapshots depict Luhan with Van Vechten, Witter Bynner and her then-husband Tony Luhan; taken in Taos, New Mexico, some on Kiowa Ranch (former home of D.H. Lawrence).

Primarily Berkeley and Oakland vicinity residences, parks, the University of California campus, etc. Numerous snapshots of friends and people on outings. Some views show Mabel Fuller with her camera and tripod. Newsclippings relate primarily to San Francisco Bay Area events...

Photographs pertaining to Macaulay Foundry, including interior and exterior views, operations, employees, products, etc. Especially well-documented is the founding process and the variety of castings produced. Includes portraits of H.C. Macaulay and Harry Bossi.

Records of the Macaulay Foundry of Berkeley, California, including administrative materials, financial records, records of the pattern shop, and other assorted materials.

Mainly letters from Alexander Davidson Macdonald re his experiences as a banker in Victoria, B.C. in the 1860's, with mention of mining, and later as storekeeper for George Hearst in Lead, S.D., 1882-1883; letters to him, including one from William...

Relating to his duties as a lieutenant in the Navy.

The Kirk MacGugan Papers, 1941-1996, reflect the life of a disability rights scholar, advocate, and educator, and chronicle her academic career as an historian and professional career as an advocate, administrator, and teacher, as well as her personal life. The...

The Zelda Mackay Collection of Stereographic Views contains 733 mounted stereographic prints produced from circa 1860 to circa 1900. The general subject matter of the collection is the North American West from Alaska to Mexico (excluding Canada) and Colorado to...

Photographs show William Everson at a reception at the Book Club of California. Other (unidentified) people also present in the photos.

Mainly regarding orders or receipts of books. Some addressed to Alexander Macmillan. Include letters from Charles Cardale Babington, Charles Astor Bristed, Arthur Cayley, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, Frederick Greenwood, John Stevens Henslow, William Gifford Palgrave, Arthur Penrhyn...

Notebook with copies of letters, 25 Aug.-1 Sept. 1849, commenting on prices of goods, land speculation, and business in San Francisco; form letter, 12 June l852, with facsimiles of authorized signatures of members of the firm; circular, July 30, l852...

Scrapbook, compiled by Kathryn Dodge Burkhardt, of playbills, photographs, and other ephemera of the Macondray Lane Players' performances at Macondria. Miscellaneous materials include additional copies of playbills and other printed ephemera (flyers, tickets), the woodblock used to print tickets, newsclippings,...

Interviews, recordings at meetings and background theme sounds for production of the documentary videorecording.

Close-up views of lumber, logs, forests, mills, loggers, industrial machinery, and other lumber milling related subjects are included. Includes a photograph album and a panoramic view of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Co. dated 6/1931.

Title devised by cataloger.

Papers as member, California State Park Commission.

Ten letters addressed to Manuel J. de la Madrid from various correspondents. Two letters from J. Mendoza Cortina and Antonio Algara, 1847, describe the siege of Mexico City, the approach of American troops to Chapultepec Castle, and the tension existing...

Letter to Edna M. Parratt (Sept. 14, 1974), photograph of Mae Burdge Miller, eulogy, and memorial card. The eulogy contains biographical information on Miller's early life with the Francis Marion Smith family, and on her marriage to Bernard Pacheco Miller.

Nursing (training?), leisure, outdoor recreation in Monterey Co. and elsewhere in California.

The Otto Maenchen-Helfen Papers 1921-1974 (bulkdate 1921-1965) contain the correspondence, publications, research, and writings of multilingual Austrian historian, author, and traveler Otto Maenchen-Helfen (1894-1969). The collection has been divided into five series: Correspondence; Publications; Research; Professional Associations; and Biographical Materials....

Holograph and typescript, illustrated by the author. Poems in memory of Magda Ruser, with his comments on the work and autobiographical and bibliographical notes. With this: letter of presentation from the author, Nov. 26, 1967.

The collection includes lighting diagrams, stage drawings, and posters for plays performed by the Magic Theatre. Also includes reel-to-reel and cassette tapes of some productions and a few administrative files.

Chiefly publicity photographs depicting scenes from various productions of the Magic Theatre, as well as portraits of actors, actresses and playwrights associated with those productions. 1998-2002 seasons are especially well-represented. Includes portraits of such notable figures as John Lion, Sam...

Production photographs of early performances of the Magic Theatre in San Francisco and Berkeley, some of which were written by Michael McClure. Some of these performances took place at Mandrake's Bar in Berkeley, and some at the Steppenwolf Bar in...

The Magic Theatre records contain the administrative, production, financial, and publicity records of a theatre company that grew from a handful of graduate students to a well respected company known for its support of new theatrical works. The collection, which...

The Magic Theatre Scripts, 1964-1990, consists of over 1200 works collected during John Lion's tenure as General and Artistic Director with the company. The scripts are written about a wide range of subjects, from sports to racial politics, by an...

Collection consists of invoices and checks (and one letter) from Jewish-owned Arizona businesses dating from 1868 to 1900. Businesses represented are from Tuscon, Tombstone, and Yuma, Arizona.

Collection consists of invoices and checks from Jewish-owned businesses in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Sacramento, and Grass Valley, California.

Consists of photocopies of obituaries and biographies for that appeared mainly in Western US Jewish newspapers and newsletters between the early 1970s and the late 2000s. The collection was compiled by long-time Magnes volunteer Mary Hoexter.

The collection contains biographical material on Adolph Sutro; personal documents such as Sutro's citizenship certificate; correspondence, including seven letters to Sutro from James Phelan, who succeeded Sutro as the mayor of San Francisco; ephemera from Sutro's 1894 campaign for mayor...

Collection consists of materials from and about Congregation Emanu-El collected by the Judah L. Magnes Museum's staff, including a small number of administrative and cemetery records (some of these are photocopies of early materials); materials from the Congregation's religious school...

The collection contains materials from and about Congregation Ohabai Shalome collected over the years by the Magnes staff. Included are a congregational minute book (November 6, 1864 to October 3, 1870); a copy of the Constitution and By Laws of...

This collection consists of items created by and relating to David Lubin collected by the Judah L. Magnes Museum staff between 1969 and the early 2000s. It includes original documents and photographs created by David Lubin and his family as...

The collection consists of materials collected by the Magnes staff, including biographical information and obituaries for Bloch; a letter that Bloch sent to Rabbi Solomon Goldman, of Cleveland, Ohio, on 15 Dec. 1925, stating his preference to be "creating a...

The collection consists of materials collected by the Magnes staff between the early 1960s and the early 2000s that document the life and influence of Judah L. Magnes. Some of these materials are original documents and photographs acquired from Magnes...

Collection consists of some biographical material on Levi Strauss and his descendants and relations, company ephemera and other business materials mainly from the 1960s and 1970s.

Collection includes Brandeis-Bardin Institute materials collected over the years by the Magnes staff. These materials include scattered newsletters (1960-1978), clippings, pamphlets and publicity materials, printed addresses delivered over the years by various dignitaries, and dedication booklets.

The collection consists of a small number of original documents, including correspondence, booklets and brochures, and clippings. Much of the collection consists of photocopies of the original Bay Area materials in the American Council for Judaism collection at the Wisconsin...

Relate to Magrath's publication of an engraving "Caxton submitting his proof sheet", from a painting by Doyle.

Also included: letter to Mahdesian from M.G. Papazian, pastor of the Armenian Presbyterian Church in West New York, New Jersey, Mar. 17, 1936.

Consists mostly of printed materials focusing on the Indian inpedepence movement in the United States, Canada, and Japan in the early twentieth century. Also included is some literature published in Britain and India on topices such as immigration, religion, culture...

The Mailliard Family Papers contain correspondence to and from various members of a socially and politically prominent San Francisco family. In addition, the collection contains family records, journals and diaries, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks, and various publications and memorabilia. The...

Photos show a redwood grove, probably taken in Mailliard Redwoods State Park in Mendocino County, Calif.

Four generations of the Mailliard family in northern California: Page, Peterson, Somers, Ward, other relations, later descendants; horse, sheep, and timber ranching in Mendocino and Marin counties; Mailliard & Republican politics 1940s-1970s: San Francisco election campaigns, Earl Warren as governor,...

contracting and living with effects of polio; UC San Diego in the sixties, accessibility issues; Episcopal Women's Caucus and other church work; practice of real estate specializing in accessible housing; myths about disability; passage of American with Disabilities Act (ADA)...

The Majorie Brush papers document her life as a bohemian socialite and her professional career. Personalia and biographical material include scrapbooks and photo albums; financial, household, and legal records; family documents; newspaper clippings about Brush; datebooks and a travel journal....

Correspondence, clipping, and program concerning the life and activity of Kahn, a congressperson from California and supporter of J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Early interest in photography; study with Clarence White; work with Arnold Genthe; her photography studio in San Francisco; marriage to Maynard Dixon; Bohemian group in San Francisco; beginnings of documentary photography and photo-journalism; photography work for the U.S. government -...

Album includes portraits of Malarin family members or relations or friends, including members of the David Spence family, as well as sitters with surnames Arguello, Pacheco, Abrego, Estrada, Fatjo, Somavia, and others.

Includes reports by Felipe de Goycoechea and José Darío Argüello on the Santa Barbara Presidio, 1784; letter from J.D. Argüello announcing arrival of new governor, Diego Borica, 1794; transcript of Father Ramón Abella's record of the marriage of Juan Malarín...

Predominantly recordings of the court proceedings of the People of the State of California vs. Mario Savio, et. al., April-June, 1965 in Alameda County. Also included are recordings of a KPFA documentary on the Free Speech Movement (December 1964), remarks...

Includes reprints of articles, bibliography, and materials relating to work at the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

Collection comprises correspondence, manuscripts, and personal papers of Malcolm Margolin created between the early 1960s and early 2000. The bulk of the collection consists of notebooks containing personal writings; research notes on native peoples of California and the natural history...

The papers of Yakov Malkiel provide an overview of his career as a professor, author, editor and researcher. The collection, spanning the years from 1882 to 1998, with the bulk from 1942 to 1992, contains correspondence, teaching files, interviews, lectures,...

Includes formal portraits and snapshots of Yakov Malkiel, his wife María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, his mother Claire Saitzew Malkiel, his father Leon Malkiel, his uncles Leo Saitzew and Manuel Saitzew, his great-grandfather Moise Saitzew, and numerous other family members,...

Box 1: Idaho materials mainly prints, many bearing stamp of U.S. Forest Service on verso. Photographs show lakes, rivers, natural landscapes, and other views related to water resources and geology. Box 2: Colorado materials primarily 4x5 color transparencies, with some...

Mallorca locations depicted include the Església i convent de Sant Bernadí, the Església de Sant Pere and Santuari i ermita de la Mare de Déu de Bonany, all in Petra.

Mallorca locations depicted include the Catedral de Mallorca and Església i convent de Sant Francesc, both in Palma; and the Eglésia de Sant Pere and Santuari i ermita de la Mare de Déu de Bonany, both in Petra.

Mallorca locations depicted include the Catedral de Mallorca and Església i convent de Sant Francesc, both in Palma.

Mainly relate to career of Patrick H. Maloney as deputy U.S. marshal, detective for the Southern Pacific, and under-sheriff of Napa County. Some pertain to his brother, James J. Maloney.

Pocket diary in pencil. Includes record of overland journey to California (1861) via Salt Lake, after start of journey to Texas and change of destination in the Indian Nation. With typed transcript and genealogical notes (2 folders)

Consists of typescript drafts of Ethel Ray Nance's autobiographical writings about her work with W.E.B. DuBois. Nance's original draft includes letters and telegrams from DuBois mounted on paper and annotated with Nance's comments. These inserts also include mounted photographs and...

Enclosures: the man with the hoe, printed copy; signed photograph of Edwin Markham.

Topics covered: Moone's career as salesman with Procter Beringer Vineyards and its umbrella company, Wine World, Inc., 1973-1989; marketing in the 1970s; Beringer President Richard Maher, sales and pricing, Los Hermanos label; revitalization of Beringer under Nestlé; acquisitions of Souverain...

Interviews conducted 1966 and 1976 by Amelia R. Fry for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Copy of an article by George W. Thomson included as an introduction. Photographs inserted. Comments on nineteen-year career with U.S. Forest Service, supervising...

As former regional forester in Region 6 office in Portland, discusses changes in organization of the Service and development of land management policy; experimentation in the field and adoption of new methods by Washington office.

Interviews with Gordon D. Fox, Walter L. Graves, and Chester A. Shields, Service officials. Included also interview with Robert H. Torheim.

Discusses involvement in politics, including 1956 and 1960 presidential campaigns, and management of several campaigns, including Pat Brown's gubernatorial campaigns and Clair Engle's 1958 U.S. Senate race. Copies of photographs inserted.

Field notes made during Mandelbaum's research trips to the Kota and Toda tribes in the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India, and the Plains Cree and Chippewa Indians; manuscripts of published and unpublished articles, books, reviews and speeches; incoming and outgoing...

Contains signatures primarily of musicians and actors: Claudio Arrau, George Baklanov, Bertold Brecht, Ernst Deutsch, Carl Ettlinger, Herbert Eulenberg, Paul Hindemith, Vladimir Horowitz, Emil Jannings, Erika Mann, Alma Moodie, Moriz Rosenthal, Hedwig Kauner-Rosenthal, Rudolf Serkin, Egisto Tango, Hermann H. Wetzler,...

Unbound papers consist of business letters received, variously addressed to the Company, Allen and Melville Curtis, John Huber, William H. and John M. Duncan, John E. Boyd, and others, located at Austin and Mineral Hill, Nevada. A few personal letters...

Captioned: Artillería montada en línea desplegada -- Formación en columna por regimentos, con el frente á retaguardia -- Regimento en marcha al paso, en línea desplegada -- El Cuerpo de Ejército marchando en columna, con frente de regimentos-- Líneas de...

Contents: Correspondence (originals and transcripts) of Stephen Hodge Mann, Stockton pioneer, including some letters relating to his mining and farming experiences in California; clippings; and genealogical material.

Includes nearly 75 years of reports from mines in California, Colorado, Idaho, Mexico and Nevada, as well as bibliographies, notes on trips to mines and materials from mining conferences. Many of the reports are mine or mining property evaluation reports,...

Chiefly pertaining to his office as San Francisco City Engineer, 1908-1912, and concerning the city's water supply, particularly the Hetch Hetchy Valley and Lake Eleanor, and the Spring Valley Water Company.

Secretario de Governación under Mexican President Venustiano Carranza.

Correspondence with Andrés Ortiz, governor of Chihuahua, concerning the politics, activities of Francisco Villa and the establishment of a Mexican newspaper in El Paso, Texas; and with F. E. Vázquez and G. J. Jiménez re finances and the government of...

Principally correspondence of the Mexican Secretaria de Gobernación under President Carranza. Some relates to incidents with the U.S. Includes letters from Luis Cabrera, José Diego Fernández and others.

Correspondence with Alfredo Rodríguez, governor of Oaxaca, concerning funds, elections, and the politically controversial movie El automóvil gris; and a report on the two major political candidates in the upcoming election in Oaxaca, with related information on conditions there, prepared...

Mainly letters from his wife, in Spain, written to him while he was at sea on the Cristobal Colón.

Include letters from Pablo de la Guerra, José Rafael González and Francisco Rico.

Relates to military action against rebels and revolutionaries, local elections, politics, roads and railroads, and Yaqui Indians. Includes letters and/or telegrams from Luis E. Torres, Miguel de la Peña, Apolinar Castillo, Telésforo García, Diego Alvarez, Rafael Cravioto, Pudenciano Dorantes, Bernardo...

Letters to Madrid from Jean Baptiste Jecker and others, concerning business transactions in Mexico.

Letter "A los Españoles del Nuevo Mexico," Fort Manuel, September 8, 1812 (2 p. A.L.S. 26 cm.), proposing to open a trade from his post on the Missouri. With this are two accounts with the U.S. government-a receipt signed by...

Proclamations as governor of Alta California, some pertaining to land grants. Terms of treaty of San Fernando, 1845, between Micheltorena and José Castro included. Also letters from Jacinto Rodriguez.

Includes correspondence of Manuel Nunez de Arenas; legal and business papers of Antonio Maria de Mena; correspondence and accounts for the firm of Juan Angel Ortiz; and legal papers of the Castro family in Spain.

Documents relating to his military career before and after the governorship of California in 1831.

Drafts of letters, some written while governor of Alta California, relating to the secularization of missions and to the battle of Los Angeles just prior to his departure for Mexico. Later letters concern his military career in Mexico and various...

Documents as Governor of California. Includes report on census for 1830 and document regarding a dispute, with marginal note by Victoria and letter of Leandro Flores on verso, concerning the dispute.

Reel 1: Ms. Harleian 4034 - transcript of maps, ca. 1682; Ms. Sloane 44 - Description of the South Sea, 1684; Ms. Sloane 45 - atlas, 1687.--Reel 2: Ms. Sloane 47 - Appendix to Sharps South Sea Waggoner, ca. 1682.--Reel...

Individual items cataloged separately.

Material gathered in preparation for books on Mark Twain, John W. Mackay and the Comstock Lode. A collection of Shakespeareana and a few miscellaneous essays are also included.

Each folder cataloged separately, search under title: Manuscripts in the Nahuatl and Otami languages.

1. Letters in Spanish, apparently models for social and business usage, possibly compiled for Indian students of Spanish. Written in Coyotepec (Cuautitlán) and Mexico City, from 1793-1814 (14 p.) -- 2. A Spanish-Náhuatl vocabulary with a concluding note signed by...

Concerns life at Manzanar, construction, army crack down at the Santa Anita Assembly Center and advice on going to the next camp. Also includes two telegrams expressing sympathy on death of daughter.

Lecture notes on courses given by a Mr. Mounier on the Odes and Ars Poetica of Horace and on rhetoric.

Business records. (1863-1893) of A. Blochman & Co., San Luis Obispo, in which his family were associated, are included. There are also records of various companies with which Cerf was associated, records of his legal practice and judgeship, personal and...

San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 1, 1855. Handwritten letter (4 p.) to friend with details of his voyage aboard the clipper ship, The Challenger, to San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Having arrived safely he writes that he has not...

Papers of the New York physician Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa (Prentiss) Whitman. Includes: card of admission for medical lectures, 1825; Marcus Whitman's fragmentary diary notes, May-July, 1835, on journey to Rocky Mountains with Samuel Parker; letters to his...

Mainly recollections of his parents and his life in Germany, his emigration to America in 1882 and to California in 1883, and an account of the hardships in his new life.

The Neil Marcus papers document his life and work as a writer, actor, artist, dancer and disability rights activist from his early childhood through his adult life. There is incoming and outgoing correspondence; writings, including materials related to his play...

This selection of 121 photographs document the primary events and personalities of the Free Speech Movement.

Mare Island, Calif. views are aerial views of the Navy yard during World War I and later. Also includes close up views of ships, buildings, docks, and other WWI era views at Mare Island. Other photos show Robert Morrow's house...

Negative photostatic copy of letter, June 17, 1854, from Secretary of the Navy J.C. Dobbin to Governor John Bigler (with copies of correspondence, 1941, concerning it); positive photostats of 4 letters, 1854-1856, from David G. Farragut, Commandant.

Unmounted cartes de visite prints.

Photographs show detailed views of interior operations at Mare Island Naval shipyard in Vallejo, Calif. Included are: machinery, workshops, the route board, flag room, flag sewing areas and equipment, sewing machines, boiler shop, ship cabinet making division, upholstery department, tool...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Partial contents: Part I (portfolio) - statement (1939) concerning James W. Marshall signed by Miss Kelley, George Johnson and other residents of Kelsey, Calif.; signed poem by Edwin Markham; notes on "Pegleg" Smith; pictures and miscellaneous papers.

Sixteen family photos from album of Margaret Schlichtman, showing the Estudillo home in San Leandro, Margaret Schlichtmann with Harold & Mabel Holmes (of Holmes Bookstore, San Francisco), "Hull's Meadow Cabin 1941" and scenes on family vacation about this same time,...

Contains correspondence from Hans Hofmann's wife Maria (Miz) Hofmann to Margaret Jensen and other related items concerning Hans Hofmann's career. Correspondence topics include news about exhibitions and personal concerns. Other items include photocopies of Hofmann's lectures at Berkeley in 1931,...

Includes correspondence, agenda and minutes.

Letters concerning the Aid to Dependent Children Program.

Among the documents are deeds to land in Sonoma County and an Abstract of Title and List of Incumbrances ... affecting Lots 2 and 3 ... in Rancho Laguna de San Antonio, Sonoma County, Calif. ... Dec. 14, 1899.

Snapshots and portraits of Native Americans associated with Margaret Langdon's efforts to study and preserve various indigenous languages of San Diego County (Calif.) and northern Baja California (Mexico). Includes photographs taken in Mesa Grande, Jamul, Barona, the Capitan Grande Indian...

Materials relating to the Berkeley Council of the Camp Fire Girls; East Bay Girls Service Association; and other community activities. Includes correspondence, biographical materials, financial records, notebooks, minutes of meetings, theater programs, and photographs.

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of articles written by and about Oliver for various California newspapers as well as Socialist Party publications, including a column she wrote for the California Social-Democrat. Several clippings feature Oliver's Socialist and community activities and her...

One letter (TLS) describing her health problems, and about her new book, Don't put your daughter on the stage; and one postcard (ALS).

Two Christmas cards with designs by Peterson.

Correspondence with Mrs. Paden and with various persons in the area; questionnaires; notes; rough drafts of portions of the manuscript; sketch maps; etc.

Include correspondence, clippings and ephermeral material relating to various localities in California - Fort Ross, San Leandro, Groveland and the Big Gap flume in Tuolumne County.

The collection relates to to the editing and publication of the journals of Jesús María Estudillo. It contains correspondence; manuscript drafts; research notes; document transcriptions; clippings; and photographs.

Photographs relating to the history of the San Francisco Bay Area and, particularly, to the Estudillo family and the journals of Jesús María Estudillo, edited initially by Margaret Schlichtmann, and completed for publication by Marie Wilson at the request of...

Photographs show San Francisco views: the Ferry Building, Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, Fort Point, Land's End (with bathers), ships on the bay, etc. Other photos show Yosemite scenery, Devil's Post Pile, a photographer in the Sierra Nevadas, Mammoth Valley...

Diary describing the social life of a wealthy San Francisco Bay Area family, it also contains Margaret's thoughts about school, war, and entertainment during the Great Depression.

Mainly pictures of Owings and the following friends: Ansel Adams, Evelyn and Amyas Ames, Albert Bender, David Brower, Helen Hobart, Lady Bird Johnson, George and Gerry Lindsay, Edward P. Morgan, Wendy Morgan, Gordon Newell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Nathaniel A. Owings, Emily...

Files relating to her political activities in Berkeley, Calif., 1938-1942; and miscellaneous writings by her relating to her career as a social worker in Berkeley.

Contains manuscripts of Skinner's fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including her book "As green as emeraude." Also includes biographical information, a travel scrapbook mostly about Hawaii and ephemera.

Contains correspondence with friends and publishers including Philip Whalen, Donald Allen and Joanne Kyger; subject files on the greater San Francisco Bay Area; manuscript drafts of books and articles; scrapbooks containing her columns; maps (chiefly in oversize).

Letters to Melville F. Phillips, 1923-1949, containing comments on her former husband, Arnold Bennett, and on Edith Sitwell. With these, a letter of transmittal from Mr. Phillips to Travis Bogard, Nov. 4, l980, with information on Mrs. Bennett.

Letters by the Duchess describe her life in England (sometimes at the royal court); her travels on the continent; activities of her husband, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha; her family, etc.

Includes portrait and snapshot photographs of Maria von Ridelstein and her husband Herbert von Ridelstein, photographic reproductions of their artwork, and photographs depicting art exhibitions and Maria's Art & Style Studio in San Francisco. Also includes original drawings by the...

Letters from her husband, Isaac Child, and others concerning her sister's California plans; letters from her sister, Sophia A. Eastman, (who later married Harrison Eastman) concerning voyage from Boston on brig, Colorado, and experiences in San Francisco, including nursing at...

Views of Mrs. Williams and her friends from the Los Angeles High School Class on the beach at Santa Catalina Island.

Retrospective interviews about Marian Elliott Koshland (1921-1997) with eight individuals--friends, family and colleagues. Koshland's support of immunology as a distinct field, role in the reorganization of biology at the University of California, Berkeley; membership and support of the Haverford College...

Materials relating particularly to Lothrop's work on Mariano G. Vallejo.

Page 224 of Libro de Bautismos containing the recording of Vallejo's baptism on July 5, 1807, signed by Father Baltasar Carnier, and a letter from Jacob N. Bowman (September 16, 1950) transmitting to the Bancroft Library a photoprint of the...

Letters and notes concerning land in California and California history.

Correspondence, manuscripts of her poems, notes and prose writings, journals. Also included, correspondence and papers of George Parsons West, her husband. Correspondence regarding literature and social or political issues is prominent. Major correspondents include: Albert M. Bender, Stella Benson, James...

Contains articles, drafts, and correspondence written by a journalist, Marie Elwell Onions. Onions created an independent freelance syndicate, the Fair View Syndicate, to provide subscribers a view of the construction and progress of the Golden Gate International Exposition prior to...

Chiefly portrait drawings of war veterans drawn at the Letterman Army Hospital, San Francisco, in the early 1950s. Also includes other portraits, including one of Christian Dior; a few fashion drawings; an illustrated holiday greeting card; and a sketch of...

Letters from Myron Brinig, Eleanor S. Brooks (the first Mrs. Van Wyck Brooks), Gladys Brooks (the second Mrs. Brooks), Jaime De Angulo, Langston Hughes, Una C. Jeffers, Ella Winter, Clarkson Crane, Van Wyck Brooks and Henry Varnum Poor. Many of...

Contains one photograph of Harold Anthony Hyde, Class of 1917, speaking at graduation ceremony, one pictorial postcard depicting senior pilgrimage near the Campanile, and a California Alpha Sigma Phi Association bond from 1919.

Materials collected over a period of years from a long-time resident of the area for use in a possible book. Includes typescript of manuscript, research files, index card file (arranged chronologically and by subject), maps, brochures, promotional materials, memorabilia, ephemera,...

The collection contains handwritten notebooks and typed manuscripts with annotations by Sachs; proof sheets; a finished jacket cover and cover designs; and a very short biography of Sachs. The collection also includes the following: a copy of Sach's book, Lost...

Contains minutes and other business relating to the Marin Central Labor Union.

v.1 - undated listing of names and property with evaluations; v.2 - lists for 1854 and 1855, certified by the county assessor, with signatures of some of the property owners.

Includes bids for building bridges; specifications for roads, and other materials.

Collection contains photographs of towns, scenes, and activity in many Marin County (Calif.) locations. The following locations are particularly well documented: Bolinas, Larkspur (especially the Ho Ho Estate: including snaphots as well as prints of drawings by C. Neilson), Marshall,...

Primarily views of San Francisco, Mill Valley, and Marin and Sonoma Counties, California. Includes many views of schools in the San Francisco Bay area, residences, community events, etc.

Joel Hedgpeth discusses his family and education, ecology, ecological communities and the work of Ed Ricketts, his time as Director of the Pacific Marine Station at Dillon Beach, the proposed Nuclear Power Plant of Pacific Gas and Electric at Bodega...

Marine Cooks and Stewards Association of the Pacific Coast minutes, BANC MSS 2004/178 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Portraits of Standish Tynan and others aboard various ships, pictures of numerous ships (identified in finding aid), various newspaper clippings which relate to shipping, and two letters. Several of the voyages represented were to the Arctic from the Pacific Northwest,...

Letters describe experiences mining in Sutters Creek and Placerville, California.

Marinship Corporation records, BANC MSS 83/158 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Views of World War II era launchings from the Marinship shipyard on San Francisco Bay, and of related social events. Views of the drydocks, ships, guests of honor, entertainers, and Marinship personnel are present. Ships featured most prominently are the...

Contains 10 letters describing Savio's experiences in Mississippi including his involvement with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Mississippi Freedom Schools, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and African American voter registration, also discussing the KKK, FBI and his education at the...

Miscellaneous correspondence, chiefly letters concerning requests for congressional patronage or support while De Vries served in the U.S. House of Representatives, and letters attempting to influence him while he served as a judge for the U.S. Court of Customs Appeals.

Correspondence, clippings and notes concerning Alexis von Schmidt, civil engineer.

Papers relating to Marion Randall Parsons' involvement in the Sierra Club.

Views show the Fremont House, a church at Mariposa, a school at Bear Valley, the Mariposa Co. courthouse, and the Mariposa Catholic sunday school picnic, at the Stockton Creek bridge (shows many ladies wearing hats).

The records of the Mariposa Land and Mining Company of California, including correspondence, reports, property records, legal records, financial records, and a few photographs.

A group of pioneers and descendents recollecting anecdotes concerning local figures and events of an early mining town, including crimes and violence.

Art historian Arkelian's research files on Thomas Hill, Charles Nahl, William Hahn and George Inness; includes photocopies of materials that date back to the 19th century. Arkelian was the author of catalogues for exhibitons of each of the artists.

Photographs appear to be mainly of Marjorie Cook Wilson's friends and their families. Mainly contains baby pictures, family snapshots, studio portraits, wedding pictures and related newspaper clippings of various families. Families pictured: Bardsley, Rieger, Hatch, Dean, High, Towler, Davies, etc....

Correspondence and other papers relating principally to her work with the Republican Party, particularly as Republican National Committee Woman for California, 1948-1960.

The collection consists mainly of materials relating to David Belasco and his family collected by Belasco's grand niece Marjorie Himmelstern. There are also materials relating to the Bender family, who were maternal relations of Ms. Himmelstern. Included are 1907 and...

Contains research notes, photocopies of Film Arts Foundation records, newsletter articles, various research materials, used for a research paper titled, Film Arts Foundation 1976-2008: A Regional Media Arts Center with National Impact by Mark Freeman. Includes one copy of the...

Material concerning student days at the Berkeley High School and the University of California, Class of 1900. A few items pertain to the Sierra Club.

written on board the ship Pacific enroute from New York to San Francisco, to his brother, Samuel, February 22-26, 1849.

Chiefly letters from Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford and others, and papers concerning the Central Pacific Railroad.

This collection documents the work of Mark R. Rosenzweig, pioneer and expert in the area of brain plasticity research, and Professor in the Deptartment of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection is divided into 6 series. Series...

Faculty papers and correspondence, primarily concerning his work, and related publications in the field of modern English and American literature.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, published articles, and galleys of his work and interest in writing, publishing, and literary criticism.

Manuscript items associated with Twain &/or his works.

Chiefly concerning land speculation and business operations in Nevada. Some relate to Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada, of which he was custodian after 1871. Family correspondence and papers, included. Among the correspondents are Amos Buch (or Reed), C.C.C. Carr, James Collins,...

Strauss discusses his childhood in Peru, his career as an editor, The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, American Smelting and Refining Company, Southern Peru Copper Corporation, ASARCO, Magma Copper Company, the effect of nationalist movements in the 1960s, marketing issues in the...

Conveying the City's economic ties to both maritime and mining enterprises, these documents include ship lists of arrivals and clearances, current seamen's wages by route from the Far East, the price of gold dust and the supply of Mexican dollars...

Printed by Republic Bank Note Company, Pittsburg, Penn.

Childhood and apprenticeship in Germany, association with various wineries in California, discussion of wine marketing business and business principles. The growth of the wine industry and the contributions of influential individuals. Additional documentary material included in a separate box.

Collection consists of ten invoices (billheads) sent to nineteenth-century Oakland general merchandise firm Marks and Company from San Francisco businesses, including Loupe and Haas grocers, A.S. Rosenbaum cigars, Steinhart Brothers dry goods, S. A. Peyser and Company millenary goods, Marks...

Incomplete record, kept by the parish priest, of "diligencias matrimoniales" for the town of Linares.

Marrige data from the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, 1871-1954. Transcript of records from following parishes: Coixtlahuaca, Juquila, Juxtlahuaca, Nochixtlán, Putla, Silacayoapam, Teposulula, Tlaxiaco and Ximatlán, compiled for the use of Professor Woodrow Wilson Borah.

Forms part of the Thomas W. Norris Collection.

Albums contain photographs depicting multiple generations of the Marsan and MacBeath families of the East Bay (Berkeley, El Cerrito, Oakland, perhaps elsewhere), Los Angeles, and Yuma, Ariz. One album (v.6) depicts the brief childhood of Janet Elizabeth Marsan (b. September...

Chiefly snapshots relating to San Francisco's water supply. Calfornia rivers and dam sites are pictured, including: Crystal Springs Dam, Sunol Dam, Lake Eleanor, Yuba River, McCloud River, Eel River, Russian River, sites in Stanislaus County, Hetch Hetchy, and unidentified mountain...

Correspondence and 2 publications concerning Dr. William G. Donald.

The Marsh family papers, 1815-1960, reflect the life of California pioneer John Marsh and his wife, Abigail Smith Tuck Marsh; their daughter, Alice Marsh Cameron; her husband, William Walker Cameron (also referred to as Camron); and their daughter, Amy Gertrude...

Includes seven letters, 1829-1852, written by John Marsh to members of his family; letters written to him by his family and others; a brief statement of his activities, 1823-1835; letters and papers relating to the administration of his estate and...

Photographs from the Marsh and Camron (Cameron) family. Collection includes large number of portraits and several albums of the Marsh and Camron (Cameron) families and friends. In addition, views taken in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Mill Valley, Pleasanton, Auburn,...

Scrapbooks of photographs, clippings, and other items relating to Jones' career as a guard in the Plant Protection Department of the Kaiser Company's iron and steel plant at Fontana, California.

Included: notes re planned interviews with Mr. Marsh re his career in forestry; correspondence with Mrs. Fry re the interviews; rough-edited typed transcript of a tape-recorded interview conducted Feb. 14, 1966 re his boyhood and study of forestry; photographs, obituary...

Remarks by Mrs. Charles B. Farwell dated Nov. 1, 1890 (1 p.); a history of Marshall Field and Company (3 p.); and a newspaper clipping concerning Field's involvement with the leasing of a structure on Sixteenth Street to the Illinois...

The George Marshall Papers(1836-1993) consists of Marshall's professional materials accumulated during his lifelong career as a leading conservationist. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence and records of three conservation organizations; the Adirondack Mountain Club, The Wilderness Society, and Sierra...

His files on Ishi, Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Muir's Stickeen, including correspondence, notes, and clippings, with letters from James D. Hart, Albert Shumate, Norman Strouse, Saxton T. Pope, Louis J. Halle, Albert B. Elsasser, Paul Brooks and others.

Five handwritten letters (16 p.) from a man working as a gold miner in Northern California to his friend and former Williamsville schoolmate in Wisconsin. He gives details about his mining work and responds to his friend's inquiry about joining...

Carton 1 contains biographical, genealogical, and family information; school papers; business and personal correspondence; newspaper clippings and articles; creative writing; organizational catalogues; brochures; skits; testimonials and awards; photographs; letters from Charles Angoff and Ogden Nash; information about Hermann (Fritz) Graebe,...

Papers relating to Marshall Kuhn's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Collection includes a tintype of an unidentified boy, a carte de visite of an unidentified girl, postcard photographs of joshua trees, views of an unidentified automobile parade, and a photo of a cup commemorating the Mather Mountain Party of 1915....

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts of his writings, speeches, memoranda, clippings and scrapbooks, mainly relating to the Marshall Plan for water development, conservation, Hetch-Hetchy, roads, Yosemite National Park and other parks. Family correspondence and personal papers also included.

Consists of correspondence with family, friends, and professional associates, field notebooks, journals, writings, and other material primarily related to Marshall's forestry career with the Office of Indian Affairs and the National Forest Service. Also included are papers and writings related...

v.1-5 Photos of trips to Alaska in 1930-1931 which depict landscapes, dwellings, cabins, dogsleds, camps and Indians (formal and informal portraits of adults and children) -- v.6 Photos of 1939 Alaskan trip showing people and cabins around Wiseman, members of...

Photographs show views of wilderness areas in the western United States. Includes views relating to forestry (some forest fires), desert scenes, outings, portraits, and related views. Some views show Robert Marshall and the Wilderness Society.

Contains correspondence, articles, awards, endowment files, family photographs, scrapbook, etc.

Contains correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, photo albums of trips to Europe, postcards, etc.

This oral history consists of retrospective interviews concerning the environmentalist Martha Alexander Gerbode. Topics include her support of groups ranging from the World Affairs Council, the Institute of Pacific Relations, and Planned Parenthood, to the Nature Conservancy, and the Art...

Contains approximately 600 handwritten letters of a family who were among the early white settlers in California. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Martha "Mattie" Moad (neé Martin) from husbands, friends, and other family members. One folder of later...

Martha R. Loeffler papers, BANC MSS 2010/175, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Contains writings, reprints, correspondence, conference materials, notes, drafts, early writings on labor topics, biographical material and bibliographies.

Includes the following portraits: Sarah Jane Lux (silhouette), Anne Martin, Edna Rodden Martin (3), Mary Morris Martin, Morris Washington Martin (daguerreotype), Edna Martin Parratt (4), and Mrs. George Rodden.

Includes several studio portraits of Anne Martin; scenic views of Reno, Nevada and its surroundings; views of the Lahontan Dam, Nevada; several unidentified individual portraits; views of W.O.H. Martin's residences; and a group portrait of the Women's International League for...

Martin Bircher ephemera collection, BANC MSS 2011/252, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Contains newspaper articles, notes, and other writings by Bircher dealing with the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft collection. Also includes a marked up draft of Bircher's catalog of the collection, Im Garten der Palme (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998).

Collection contains letters, sermons, and miscellaneous writings of a Methodist minister in California. Letters are chiefly to R. Burr and were written from Concord, N.H., Boston, the steamship Oregon at sea, and Sacramento. Writings relate to temperance, travel "sketches", the...

Research notes and notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts of articles, chiefly concerning research by Kamen and Samuel Ruben on carbon-14 and photosynthesis. Incorporates material by Ruben, ca. 1938-1943.

The papers include drafts of manuscripts, correspondence, lecture and course notes, syllabi, examinations, and grant information. Also includes floppy disks and CDs.

Contains correspondence, research notes, materials relating to Graham's work in the UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, consulting work, depositions in legal cases regarding stray voltage, interactions with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and writings....

Contains documents from and relating to the Kaweah Colony, the Hartly Bay Lumber, Trading & Fishing Company, the Tasmania Colony, as well as information on other cooperatives. The Kaweah Colony records include official documents, correspondence, legal documents from a case...

Includes letters from E.H. Barker re Samuel Parr and from Joseph Gerrald, and two poems about Parr, one of them allegedy by William Mason.

Handwritten letter from a Halifax, Massachusetts man working as an oxen driver near Mt. Diablo, California to his uncle back East. He writes of his arrival in San Francisco on July 4, 1852 and immediately leaving for the gold fields...

Papers relating to Martin Litton's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Written on California Immigrant Union letterhead, the letter concerns the subdivision of the Shafter Ranch, Marin County, and acquisition of nursery stock as samples.

Written as general agent for the California Immigrant Union, on official stationary containing article on the Tule lands, and a list of officers of the Union.

Chiefly correspondence (ca. 775 pieces), but includes a few manuscripts of Martineau's writings, photographs, and calling cards. Also contains correspondence of James Martineau, as well as other Martineau family and friends. Reinhard S. Speck's notes and correspondence regarding his collecting...

Deed, Sept. 1, 1866, from John Moran, with notarization of signature and recording note, Feb. 11, 1868; deed, Nov. 2, 1882, from Guniscindo Correa (her son) with note of recording (at request of Horace Bell) on same date.

Last will and testament, containing information on his family, and relating to his property, which included ownership of five slaves.

Video and sound recordings of performances (One Day in the Life, Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness, In the Crazy House Called America, etc.), radio appearances, video of Eldridge Cleaver memorial, Bobby Seale audio interview, audio interviews with Nisa Islam...

Posters and flyers advertising San Francisco Bay Area readings and performances of two works by Marvin X: One Day in the Life, and In the Crazy House Called America. Some of the works include portraits of the author. Also includes...

Letter from father appended. Written to young man at the mines.

Photographs depict efforts of the Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association in California, including health care facilities, medical staff, and patients. Many images document conditions at migratory labor camps at such California locations as Brawley, Porterville, Indio, Marysville, Shafter, Woodville,...

Fragments of documents, probably excised from correspondence written in the 18th century, glued together to form one piece of paper and then glue mounted to a larger piece of paper. Possibly collected for their value as samples of handwriting and...

Scrapbooks containing playbills, programs, and newspaper clippings of performing arts events in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Account of trip overland from Cedar Grove, Iowa, to California. Includes a brief description of Salt Lake City. Pages 1-28 contain the original diary; pages 29-67, a revised and expanded version; pages 68-123, blank; and pages 124-128, recipes and miscellaneous...

A few letters, including two written by her to Sheldon Cheney, and copy of a letter of recommendation written for her by Cheney; manuscripts of poems and plays; clippings; and a reprint of some published poems.

The collection contains some of Mary Cohn's papers and family snapshots, mostly unidentified.

Letters, manuscripts, reprints, and lecture notes of Mary Cover Jones related to her career in child development, particularly at the Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley. Oversize folder contains a certificate of appreciation presented to Jones.

Primarily letters written to her father while she was in school.

Correspondence concerning her historical research, including letters from Hubert Howe Bancroft and others on his staff; notes and manuscripts of some of her writings on Indians and western history; newspaper clippings and articles; some reports written by her students at...

Primarily articles, clippings and photographs relating to Eugene V. Debs, Lena Morrow Lewis, Honore J. Jaxon, Workers' Defense League, Byron Kitto, Douglas Robson, and others, and including also a letter from Debs, June 10, 1919, and two from Upton Sinclair,...

Letters from Elizabeth Cabot (Cary) Agassiz and from Louis Agassiz concerning her application for entrance to the Anderson School of Natural History, autographs of people at the school, including those of Austin Craig Apgar and David Starr Jordan, and a...

Letters (2 - 1 incomplete, with envelope postmarked Amedee) from T. Walker, Secret Valley (Lassen Co.) Calif.; receipt for board, Roble Hall, Stanford University, and letter answering advertisement for an amanuensis.

Re her life in Berkeley.

Photocopy of clippings and notes, and photographs relating to her school, the first private primary school in Berkeley.

Concerning the collaboration of her husband, Thomas Edgar Pemberton, with Bret Harte on the play, Sue, and enclosing a letterpress copy of an undated letter written by her husband.

Contains letters, greeting cards, publications, and photographs from Fabilli concerning everyday life, her poetry, and information about William Everson. Includes a copy of "Mary Fabilli : 1914- a literary life," an autobiographical article about her literary influences. Also includes 11...

Contains correspondence, diaries, notebooks, journals, poems, and other material. Also Includes material relating to her work as a researcher at the Oakland Museum, and religious memorabilia.

Mary Freeman Crabbe papers, BANC MSS 99/310 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Contains letters from Bret Harte, Henry W. Longfellow and Annie A. Longfellow, concerning a piece of writing done by Graham.

Mary Hallock Foote letters, BANC MSS C-H 108 FILM, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Mary Harris letters to mother and brother,1875-1879, BANC MSS 2019/8, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Primarily letters written by Mrs. Austin to Henry Nash Smith and to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Cassidy; transcripts of some letters addressed to her; copy of her play, Fire; miscellaneous items.

Views from her travels in Pakistan, Greece, and Uganda, and of native American tribes in California and Arizona. Also, copy photographs and color slides of 19th century images used in her research on Henry Raschen and Jean Jacques Vioget as...

The papers consist of files containing correspondence, field notes, and articles written by Mary Jean Kennedy. Kennedy's academic career at the University of California, Berkeley is represented by a paper on the economic structure of the San Carlos Apache, written...

Many items pertaining to her dealings in books, manuscripts, printed ephemera, and photographs related to the history of California. Also, personal snapshots and memorabilia from her youth.

Consists of two diaries kept by Hairgrove. The first contains daily entries for 1921, including her move to Calif. with her sister, Helen, and teaching in the English Dept. at Glendale High School. The second contains entries for a trip...

Minutes of the California Historical Survey Commission; other administrative records; and Mary Bowman's reports on a range of Southern California manuscript collections, some in private hands and some in libraries or museums. Included are reports on the following: the family...

Contains the research files for an unpublished biography titled, "Fifty years in the mountains of the West: the life of Norman Clyde." Materials include correspondence, notes, transcripts, memoirs, interviews on audiocassetes, photographs, etc. Includes Norman Clyde's handwritten manuscript of a...

Contains materials documenting Mary Moore's career on the Oakland City Council from 1977-1994 as well as her campaigns for office. Also included is political ephemera from the campaigns of other Bay Area and California politicians.

Postcard views and souvenir minature view sets, chiefly of scenes in Oregon, California, and elsewhere in the American West. Most are "real photo" postcards or miniature photographic print sets, but some are color photomechanical prints. Miniature view sets comprise: Virginia...

Contains three letters to poets David Meltzer and one to David Schaff discussing poetry and including poems of her own.

Chiefly Letters from Mary R. B. Howard, wife of architect John Galen Howard to family members (dated 1920-1959) or to Sadie and Warren Gregory (dated 1904-1956). Also includes ALS from Eulora M. Jennings to Mary Howard, Oct. 27, 1910, and...

Contains printed materials, tree census and inventory list, ephemera, flyers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, 20 color photographs (5 x 7) of protesters and tree sitters, three posters, two t-shirts, etc. related to a protest movement, known as Save the Oaks, against...

The personal papers of Alameda's first poet laureate, Mary Rudge (1928-2014). Included are correspondence, family papers, manuscripts and awards.

Contains correspondence and clippings.

Two handwritten letters (December 19, 1900 and January 31, 1901) from an Ohio woman visiting Berkeley, California to her daughter-in-law in Ravenna, Ohio. Topics covered include descriptions of the University campus at Berkeley and a storm that caused extensive damage....

Three letters from Mary Wollstonecraft to her friend Ruth Baldwin Barlow. The first letter (2 pages), dated February 3, [1794?] is signed "Mary Imlay." The second letter (3 pages) is dated April 27, 1794 from Havre; and the third letter...

Letter, dated Jan. 29, 1861, from the Secretary of the Institute, Edwin A. Williams, to the Gold Hill Lodge no. 32 F.A.M. 1861, accompanied by a broadside announcing the establishment of a medical institute, to serve as a convalescent home...

Includes numerous portraits and group portraits, chiefly of unidentified sitters; local business exteriors and interiors; tradesmen, laborers, firefighters, and others; home exteriors; mines and dredges; agricultural equipment; and parades. Portraits include numerous studio portraits of Chinese men, women, and children....

Collection of photographs reflecting the Czechoslovak Presidencies of Tomǎś Garrigue Masaryk and his successor Edward Beneš, in the period between the World Wars, 1918-1937. Included are diplomatic, political and social events in Prague and other locations, touring of facilities, people...

The Masaryk-Beneš materials were originally collected by Arne Laurin, editor of the Prager Presse. Consists of individual issues of various newspapers and periodicals pertaining to the Masaryk-Beneš period of Czechoslovak politics, as well as miscellanea.

Correspondence, writings, notes, other personal and working papers, including material related to Prof. Maslenikov's teaching in Russian language and literature and Slavic studies at U.C. Berkeley, and to his translations and analyses of early-20th-century Russian poetry, particularly the works of...

Letters from Brayman and his wife, Mary (Williams) Brayman (1816-1886), to their daughter Ada and her husband, William H. Bailhache, of Washington, D.C., during Brayman's governorship of Idaho Territory, 1876-1880.

Letters written to him relating mainly to Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois. Included are an account by Nelson Montgomery of Joseph Smith's interviews with Indians in 1843; letters concerning legal and tax matters, the Mormon question and anti-Mormon forces; a portion...

7 letters with envelopes.

Contents: Circulars and documents as Military Governor of California; letters from Mason describing discovery of gold; methods of mining, effect of mines on California, and problems of government arising after end of war with Mexico; and a few letters to...

Mainly business correspondence as San Francisco photographer.

Approximately 20,000 photographic images. Subjects include: San Francisco Bay Area views, hotels & residences (architectural photography), Yosemite, family photos, Spanish mission buildings, Berkeley Calif. police, lighthouses, views in Utah and Oregon, etc. Includes work for articles in numerous magazines and...

Includes company personnel, developments, housing, etc., mainly in Berkeley and San Francisco.

Correspondence, promotional literature, ledgers, deeds, job files, architectural records, real estate journals, company newsletters, and other materials.

Minutes of director's meetings, lists of stock holders and periodical reports, etc., of company incorporated in Dundee, Scotland, for the purpose of raising and marketing livestock in Texas and elsewhere in the United States.

Views show rubble, damaged buildings and other scenes of damage caused by a hurricane or hurricanes in Matamoros, Mexico. A major storm hit the region in October, 1867, which may be the event depicted. Other hurricanes are recorded in 1869...

Letters addressed to Romero, diplomat, politician, and secretary of finance in the administrations of Presidents Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz. A more complete description is available in film notebooks at Reference Desk.

Snapshots of cast members of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, possibly from a London production, or the Philadelphia production of 1954 or 1955. Some photos taken in dressing rooms.

Part I: Film - Selected list of works, published and unpublished, by California Chinese, with brief biographical sketches of the authors.

Newspaper clippings, brochures and notes, with a few letters and pictures, assembled in preparation of his history of Hollywood.

Mainly articles, pamphlets and photographs.

Photoreproduction of muster rolls for Companies C & K, 1st Regiment of Dragoons, from records, Adjutant General's Office, National Archives; pictures of "Mule Hill" and grave markers; maps and notes, correspondence from 1948-1949.

Scrapbook of clippings, correspondence, stock certificates, etc., chiefly for her father, Samuel P. Dorsey, Wells, Fargo agent, 1857-1904, and former owner, Idaho Maryland mine. Also, material relating to descendents of William Taylor, gold rush pioneer.

Includes her manuscript of the Juárez family tree completed in 1973 (31 x 365 cm.)

Manuscripts, notes, drafts, clippings, etc. for an unpublished book.

Two folders of copies of correspondence, press releases, and a brochure regarding Japanese immigration and propaganda in the public schools.

Correspondence re Lewis and re the book after its publication; research notes; bibliography; books by and about Lewis; transcripts of Lewis; diaries, 1900-1907; Schorer's interview notebooks; copies of the ms.; galley and page proofs; first unbound copy; copy with Schorer's...

Original documents in: The Bancroft Library and the U.S. National Archives.

The bulk of the collection contains material prepared by legal counsel for use in pending suit brought against the San Francisco Unified School District. These include plantiff exhibits, attorney drafts and notes; production requests from the law firm; research materials,...

Includes correspondence with libraries, archives, historical societies, etc., re his research (ca. 1966-1970); notes speeches; clippings, photocopies of articles and other ephemeral material. Special files on architects and on Stanford University.

Clippings, notes, articles and photographs, assembled mainly from the papers of Janet Williams Gould.

Portraits are of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schram. Also includes labels (undated) for Schramsburg Vineyards wine and champagne.

Include programs and notices for churches and fraternal and benevolent societies; clippings; pamphlets and some letters. Some items concern George M. Mardikian and William Saroyan.

Assorted printed and other materials pertaining to the Armenian community in California.

Contains several copies of a 1939 proclamation, with signatures of notable members of the Forum, calling for graphic artists and advertisers to boycott the purchase and use of Nazi typefaces, and encouraging them to use American-made type. The bulk of...

Includes portion of a biographical sketch of Moses Chase, early Oakland settler, written by W.W. Conde, with related notes; transcripts of some Chase family papers, including 1867 diary of George Chase, Moses' son; three notebooks concerned with the 7th ward...

Letters, checks, receipts, certificates of deposit, San Francisco/Oakland telephone directory, pamphlet, and an election flyer, from San Francisco; and similar items from Centreville and Coulterville, Calif., as well as Carson City, Nev., and Tucson, Ariz.

Letter appealing for aid to maintain the Fort; form letters and programs; printed album commemorating anniversary of the founding of the Fort; newspaper article.

Rhoda, Franklin. Henderson W. Luelling, father of the fruit industry on the Pacific Coast (9 typewritten leaves); Rhoda, Franklin. Origin of the fruit business of the Pacific Coast [newspaper clipping and typewritten carbon copy (1 leaf) of part of this];...

Copies of some documents used by Lyman in writing his book, John Marsh, Pioneer, including legal papers in Marsh's trial for conspiracy in Contra Costa County, 1855, and inventory of his estate.

Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters, 1853-1864, from William Russell to John Swett, and clippings concerning Swett.

Miscellaneous materials relating to Julia Morgan, including one letter written by her to Walter Steilberg, Oct. 7, l928, and a photocopy of a diary from her trip to South America. Includes copies of three letters written by Edward B. Hussey,...

Includes a letter from Burbank, 1912 Dec. 20, and a copy of an agreement with him, 1909 Sept. 20; scrapbook of clippings, 1908-1909, regarding his experiments with spineless cactus; promotional material for the publication of the Burbank books; Luther Burbank...

Mainly correspondence resulting from research on Ms. French for M.A. thesis.

Legal papers relating to the Inyo Land Company, the Inyo Canal Company and the Reward Gold Mining Company; and transcript of a report describing the valley and its mining and agricultural resources.

Includes portion of the MS; notes; sketch maps used in the book; design for the dust jacket.

Research material, including minutes of meetings, correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets, and miscellaneous printed material. Includes Taft's working notes, apparently for his 1968 book, Labor politics American style; the California State Federation of Labor.

Includes speakers' manual, press releases, handbills and clippings.

Includes photocopy of notes re the Greenwoods and the rescue of the Donner party; transcripts of letters from Sarah Greenwood re the family's part in the rescue operations; transcripts and photocopies of letters with genealogical information; photocopies of documents relating...

Include typescripts of reminiscences by Sadie Hutchinson re the founding of the town by her husband, Arthur J. Hutchinson, and re ranching in the area; genealogical information on the Hutchinson and Patton families; maps; newspaper articles by Schutt based on...

v. 1 - letter, June 15, 1959, and pamphlet, July 1959, describing how he began his project, the sources investigated and the people contacted; v. 2 - Ms. of his unpublished study, The Legend of the Sleeping Maiden of Mount...

Includes material on the Pacheco and Galindo families (founding families of Contra Costa County) and papers relating to the Alvarado Adobe, dedication of the Salvio Pacheco adobe, and Joaquin Moraga adobe.

Used in her article, Oberi Okaime Script, Texts and Counting System. Includes a dictionary, transcriptions and translations of texts in the language, mainly of a religious nature, by Akpan Akpan Udofia.

Includes letter from WRA director, Dillon S. Myer; letters from U.S. Treasury Dept. regarding licensing; a brief history of the Enterprises; certificate of incorporation; and license from the state of Arizona.

Letter, clippings and excerpts from Jacob N. Bowman to the Bancroft Library concerning the site of Santa Clara Mission.

Copy of articles 8, 9, 21, and 23 of the above treaty, and notes from Robert Glass Cleland's The Mexican Yearbook, 1922.

Genealogical and biographical information regarding the family of Frank B. Rodolph, compiled by Margaret Schlichtmann. Includes autobiographical sketch by Frank B. Rodoloph, including reminiscences of his family's journey to California in 1850, ranching near Cache Creek, and business enterprises in...

Extracts and copies from Archives, original papers, testimony of native Californians and Neophytes, scraps from books, pamphlets, and newspapers, also photographs, etc., being the entire collection on the subject formed during a period of 20 years by The Honorable Benjamin...

Included: outline of the course; list of books on reserve; copies of his lectures; and list of books, manuscripts and visual materials from his collection displayed at class meetings.

Church records, royal orders, cédulas, and other sources on Gálvez collected from parochial archives, various Spanish archives, and the British Museum, by Laurence P. Briggs. See Herbert I. Priestley, José de Gálvez, Visitor-General of New Spain (University of California Press,...

Contains introduction, working notes, and checklists for vol. 1 of the bibliography. Includes letters to Heller from David Magee, and to Heller and Magee from numerous individuals, including Flora Arnstein, Albert M. Bender, Wilder Bentley, Oscar Lewis, Alfred Sutro, and...

Article reprint of her work originally published in the Bulletin de L'Institut francais d'Afrique noire (XXIX, series B., nos. 1-2, 1967); and illustrations of glyphs appearing on tusks from Southern Nigeria, representing animals, humans, objects and symbols, used as illustrations...

Drafts, drawings, and correspondence. Some correspondence concerns their oral history.

Some photographs relate to Union Diesel Engines (Fischer's business) including many ships possibly outfitted wtih Union Diesel engines. Other photos relate to shipping and engineering more generally. Objects are artificts related to early telegraph lines. Also includes a portrait of...

Typescript of book, and correspondence concerning the book's eventual publication as The Grabhorn Press: A Biography by the Book Club of California (1981).

Correspondence and will extracts concerning the deposition of his will and the terms to establish a library endowment.

Subject file encompass social, religious, political, economic, and cultural aspects of Armenians in California, including listings for Armenian General Benevolent Union; Robert Avakian; Spurgeon Avakian; Charles Garry; churches; Aram Saroyan, Lucy Saroyan.

Includes background documentation, typed transcripts of tape-recorded interviews with longshoremen, and clippings. Also information on Harry Bridges, the Longshore Jobs Defense Committee, and the Pacific Maritime Association. Includes papers acquired as research for an oral history, as well as transcripts.

Letters and reports, largely statistical, concerning population, trade and commerce, banking, education, transportation and communications, in Bolivia, Peru, Surinam, Guiana, and the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Pierre et Miquelon. Also a biographical sketch of Paraguayan...

Assembled by the Professor of Spanish, University of California, Berkeley. Include notes relating to prominent Spanish authors and poets; indexes on periodicals; notes on the novel, poetry, and theater; bibliographical material; transcripts of theatre texts and texts of ballads autograph...

Script (200 l., revised typescript, photocopy) by Neal Bell, "Current as of 1-29-92"; Teacher's Study Guide; program.

Includes sample of forms used, and a few post-election circulars relating to registration, appointments, donations, etc.

Circular letter (typescript, mimeograph), 1943 May 21, regarding the U. S. Supreme Court hearing; and printed brochure from the Gordon Hirabayashi Defense Committee.

Carton 1: Statistical reports, 1954-1961; miscellaneous publications and annotated copies of briefs in the case. Carton 2: Microfilm of material used in evidence.

List of Sugar Mills in Mexico and Central America, 1948 (Typed); Preliminary Report - Improvement of Sugar Production in Mexico, 1947 (Typed); Felipe Ruiz de Valasco, Historia y Evoluciones del Cultivo de la Caña y de la Industria Azucarera en...

Includes bibliography of works about Tom Paine, letters and journal articles and menu for Tom Paine memorial dinner.

Correspondence, scrapbooks of clippings, and personalia, relating primarily to his last years with the Service. A few papers pertain to his early business career with the Pacific Coast Borax Company and the Thockildsen-Mather Borax Company. Also included are letters of...

Photograph albums: Vol. 1: Mount Rainier (photographed by Herbert W. Gleason), ca. 1905-1917. Vol. 2: Washington D.C., 1913-1915. Vol. 3: Sequoia National Park and the high Sierra, 1915. Vol. 4: Mather party in the high Sierras, 1915 (album 1). Vol....

Letters, Dec. 20, 1897, and Jan. 31, 1898, from Empire Ranch, Pantano, Ariz. Ter., telling his friend in San Luis Obispo, Calif., of plans for ranching in Chihuahua; letter, Oct. 22, 1899, from El Fuerte, Sinaloa.

Contains legal documents including articles of incorporation, agreements, contracts, complaints, wills and property documents. Also includes administrative and financial documents and correspondence.

Letter from Matilda Bancroft to Aunt Mary Coley, on stationary of The Bancroft Library. Includes 2 additional letters to Mary Coley: one from Olive S. Carter, a sister (July 30, 1884), and the other from Isabel Fuller, a friend (Sept....

Recollections of her father, William Matson, and his shipping company; marriage to William Roth; her family; acquisition of Filoli, their home in Woodside; interest in horse breeding and horse shows; volunteer activities.

The Robert T. Matsui Papers document the career of a Japanese American politician who served 13 terms, from 1979-2005, in the United States House of Representatives as Congressman for California's Sacramento district.

Miscellaneous papers relating to Hibi and Topaz Relocation Center. Included are a report on the Topaz Art School and the text of a speech at the opening of an exhibit at the school; clippings re Hibi and his paintings, many...

Mostly fliers, with some posters and smaller handbills, promoting concerts by punk bands and other performers at numerous venues in San Francisco and other Bay Area locations. Among the hundreds of performers listed on fliers are Dead Kennedys, Mutants, Psychotic...

Contains the minutes of the Board of Directors and the Coordinating Council. Also includes memos, press releases, goals, questionnaires and other handouts relating to the Mattachine Society and the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.

The François Matthes papers consist of personal and professional correspondence and writings spanning his academic life as a student in the 1890s, through his professional career as a geologist, to his death in 1948. Included are artwork, letters, newspaper clippings,...

Pictures from trips (including camping) around the United States include scenes in the Rocky Mountains, views of Montana and Yosemite, Calif. Many views of Sierra Nevada scenes are also included. Matthes is pictured with the crew of the Richfield Eagle...

Contains correspondence, clippings, and other items related to his trial. Also includes photographs of Schmidt, his sister, and of friends.

With envelope, and autograph cut out of another document.

Gold miner in California writing to his brother back East regarding a large gold mining claim he has bought. He describes the physical characteristics of the claim and his plans for working it. He writes of miner life in general...

Statement, recorded for H.H. Bancroft, concerns his voyage to San Francisco via Panama in 1855 and gold mining to 1859; several businesses including a brewery from 1865; position as sheriff of San Francisco, 1875 and 1877. (7 l.)

The collection consists of Matthew Ritchie's correspondence (including correspondence between Ritchie, the Hopi Indians, and the U.S. Congress regarding a conflict between the Hopi and the U.S. government); minutes and memorandums from various organizations; radio scripts; newspaper and magazine articles...

Contents: Diaries kept while a divinity student at Princeton and asmissionary at Macao and at Ningpo, China from 1844; manuscripts of his sermons and writings, including Darkness in the Flower Land and comments on the siege of Shanghai in 1853;...

Mattz family members discuss their lives in a Yurok family in the Klamath River Valley, including cultural and economic concerns of Native Americans along the Klamath and a conflict over Indian fishing rights on the river in 1978, known as...

Contains letters from Herbert F. Laird to Miss Maude Toll during their courtship and early marriage. Laird describes activities organizing ranch hands, scouting land claims, including cost and soil condition, travel in Calif. and Ariz., and wedding plans. Also contains...

Contains photographs of and newspaper clippings about Rabbi Lazowick; copies of letters that Lazowick wrote and received; a copy of a sermon he wrote and delivered about Israel (5 Oct. 1948); programs for various events at which Lazowick spoke; certificates...

Concerns his interest and activity in writing and its publication.

Correspondence, records and a selection of founding documents of the National Lawyers Guild, including a copy of the 1937 Constitution.

Forms part of: Government history documentation oral history series; and, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Oral History Project.

Includes a small amount of correspondence, scientific reports written by Fischer and Bergmann, reprints, and biographical materials.

Letters, documents, contracts, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the career of petroleum engineer who worked in the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve located in Kern County, Calif. for the Navy and, after his resignation, for the Reserve Oil and Gas...

This collection consists primarily of the programs, pamphlets, and newsletters from the various organizations of which Max Eis was a member, including the Brotherhood of Temple Sinai, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, and the...

Contains research material, grant application, correspondenc manuscripts. Research materials include biographies of regents, essays written about the Free Speech Movement (FSM) by other authors, handbills, notes taken at rallies and meetings, surveys conducted on the Berkeley campus, police response to...

The collection consists of legal records utilized in the dispute between Albert Trescony vs. M. Brandenstein and L. Godchaux, a case heard before the California Supreme Court. Specifically, the dispute concerned the ownership of Rancho San Lucas, a property that...

Contains a typescript biographical sketch, with manuscript edits, of Max J. Friedländer. Also includes a letter from Benedict Nelson, the editor of "The Burlington Magazine" (London), on its letterhead stationery addressed to a "Dear Grossman" requesting help with writing a...

Two pamphlets transferred to the book collection of the The Bancroft Library for separate cataloging.

Includes collages by Knight that have German, Israeli and American themes, including: a collage on Sigmund Freud with clipping, Austrian bank note, and stamp; photographs of Tel Aviv; photographs and stamp of Hans Kelsen; clippings on Beersheba land reclamation; clippings...

Correspondence, subject file, manuscripts, notes and honors concerning his interest and activity as U.C. Berkeley professor of law.

Letters written to him regarding his book, The Log of a Cabin Boy; a copy of his book, My Impressions of Japan; a report on the Schmidt family, translated by him from the German; his Christmas cards printed by Schmidt...

Correspondence, clippings, notebooks, scrapbook, minutes, reports, maps, diagrams, telegrams, and other materials chiefly concerning the California Progressive movement and the California Railroad Commission.

Relate to his work with the U.S. Railroad Administration, the California State Railroad Commisssion, and the National Association of Railway and Utilities Commissioners (War Committee). Also includes personal correspondence.

Includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and materials relating to the history of the UC Berkeley Department of Plant Pathology. The collection also includes some J.T. Barrett material.

Mainly typescripts and clippings of Stern's articles; some mounted in scrapbooks. Most of them written, while a newspaper reporter, regarding Hawaii, Nicaragua, the Vanderbilt newspaper enterprise, salmon industry in Alaska, Hiram W. Johnson, co-operative marketing, agriculture in California, prohibition and...

Photographs include: "Ferry Building, San Francisco" (:1) depicting man reading newspaper and other figures standing before main entrance of the structure, and "Army Street, San Francisco" (:2) depicting storefronts and rows of houses, both published in Herb Caen's The San...

The papers consist of correspondence with dealers and artists, exhibition files, and annotated auction catalogs pertaining to Zurier's art collection. Correspondents include Arthur Garfield Dove, Nathan Oliveira, and Marsden Hartley.

V.1: Original decree signed by Maximiliano and Carlota awarding the cross of the Imperial Order of San Carlos to Doña Concepcion Froncoso de Duarte.--v.2: Outline of proposed constitution of Mexico in Carlota's handwriting; letter from Maximilian to Señora Alonte; documents...

An undated draft of Tripmaster Monkey (published in 1989), and a 100-page fragment of The Fifth Book of Peace (1997).

For mining operations in Sutters Creek. v. 1 - receipts for labor and material, 1867-1868; v. 2 - stock certificates, 1868-1871; v. 3 - check stubs, 1869-1871; v. 4 - stock ledger, 1868- 1872; v. 5 - transfer journal, 1868-1871,...

Correspondence, poetry, drafts and published articles on various topics; newspaper clippings, reprints, poetry and scrapbook about Luther Burbank, including reminiscences of the period in which she worked for him. There are also notes and correspondence in Burbank's handwriting, and both...

Six photographs of Luther Burbank, both as a young (age 20, 2 copy photos) and older man, one with him holding a baby, some showing him at greenhouses and experimental gardens, Also photographs of flowers developed by Burbank. Some views...

Photographs from a trip to the Sierra Nevadas including outing groups, pack trains, and Sierra landscapes.

The papers deal principally with May's career as an historian and educator. Correspondence includes chronological files (1946-1983), former students, and other correspondents, colleagues, and friends. Included are working notes and drafts of his books and aricles, and related correspondence and...

Hand-colored portraits of Chinese children May Hing Sam and Yee Chow, taken in San Francisco's Chinatown by Hortense Schulze.

Includes material re her research on Yosemite, Mariposa County, and other localities. Includes correspondence, Corcoran's writings and family papers related to Judge John M. Corcoran and Alice M. Corcoran.

The Maybeck Family Papers span the years 1895-1955 (bulk 1910-1940). The materials relate primarily to the property owned by the family in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Mendocino Counties, and the architectural firm of Maybeck and White....

Contains 3 19th century portraits, including Louis Mercado (possibly the San Francisco civil engineer) at age 15, Louis's sister Mary Mercado, Jr. at age 6, and Scottish architect Norman Shaw; some views of Principia College (Elsah, Ill.); several 1906 and...

Collection includes diaries (10 volumes in German) from 1885 through 1933, one letter from Max Mayer in Butte, Montana, and family portraits and photographs (inlcuding early California cabinet cards).

With family members (his brother, Harry; his sons John and Daniel), art dealers, and fellow artists and literary figures. Significant and principal correspondents include: Ansel Adams, Ernest Bloch, J. Frank Dobie, Sharlot Mabridth Hall, J. Lorenzo Hubbell, Charles Fletcher Lummis,...

This collection contains papers, subject files, and correspondence. In addition, the collection contains ribbons from various California State Fairs for which Joslyn had served as a judge.

v.1: Letters, including two from William Adams Richardson to Mrs. Anna B. Sutton, 1873, mainly concerning the wreck of steamer George S. Wright; and letter from Scollay Parker describing Sitka.

Photographs from a wilderness outing, possibly of Sierra Club members, to Mazama Park and the Mt. St. Helens, Spirit Lake, and Mt. Baker regions of Wasington State.

Removed from a collection of printed Mazarinades (pDC130.M43 1649)

The papers contain field notes, drafts of articles and books, subject files, reviews, and correspondence.

Farquhar discusses her family life in the San Francisco Bay Area, marriage to Francis P. Farquhar, and climbing activities with the Sierra Club.

Primarily views of the McAlpine Mine (most probably McAlpine Gold Mine and Milling Co.) in Coulterville, including buildings, mining equipment, and miners. Also included are three views of Los Angeles and the surrounding area.

Correspondence addressed to McBride. Relate in large part to his work as distributor for the publications of City Lights and other small magazines and little presses, and also to his own writing.

The collection consists of papers of Maxine E. McCloskey’s personal and professional efforts to protect marine mammals and spans the years 1976-2005. It includes correspondence, notebooks, articles written by McCloskey, newsletter and publicity materials, press and clippings, and subject files...

The Michael McClure Papers: Additions, 1874-2002, (bulk 1949-2002), present a comprehensive view of his work as a writer, spanning the length of McClure's career. The bulk consists of notebooks and writings, including poems, prose, and plays in manuscript, draft and...

The John A. McCone Papers, 1904-1991 consist primarily of McCone's combined professional and personal office files as well as mail briefs, chronological files, memoranda, and Foundation and Trust records. The papers include writings, speeches, awards, interviews, biographical materials, photographs, negatives,...

Papers reflect McConnell's career, containing correspondence, manuscript drafts, and published papers, as well as his notes and working files. His work after coming to U.C. Berkeley in 1954 is well represented while coverage is weakest in his early years in...

Photographs of skull and bones, most with calibration scale.

Correspondence, diaries, land papers, accounts and clippings, of Jane E. and John McCulloh, and of their children, Frank, John G., Hiram William and Frances Jane, pertaining to mining and ranching in Amador County, sheep shearing in the West, and education...

Contains personal and business correspondence (ca. 1892-1959); manuscripts of writings; business records; clippings; some printed pamphlets, many authored by McDevitt; printed ephemera (theatrical, World War II, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Socialist Party); other material relating to his wide ranging interests. Principal...

Contains a letter (1 p.) from Francis Hodgins, Clarendon, [Vt.?] concerning a business deal; a note (1 p.) to McDonald and McClennon from Robert Thomson giving them permission to cut white pine lumber in specific lots; and a letter (1...

Chiefly snapshot photographs documenting the history of Tassajara Hot Springs in Monterey County, Calif. Photographs depict buildings and other structures, roads, trails, and visitors and other persons associated with the development of the resort, including family members of early owner...

Includes correspondence, speeches, press releases, newspaper clippings, relating primarily to his role in local and statewide Democratic Party politics in California and his unsuccessful campaigns for political office.

Letters written (1 appears to have been dictated) from two slaves, Prince Woodfin & Albert McDowell, from the gold mining camps in Jamestown, to their masters, Mr. & Mrs. Charles McDowell, and Mr. Nicholas W. Woodfin.

This collection documents the personal and professional life and charitable work of Nan Tucker McEvoy. There are also materials related to her mother, Phyllis de Young Tucker, her father Nion Tucker, Sr., her brother Nion Tucker, Jr., and the de...

Chiefly snapshots of various subjects in Panama, including agriculture, Panama Canal, Panama City, business associates, friends and/or family members, pets. One photograph includes caption refering to "our property", and McEwens are assumedly among those depicted throughout album. Also depicted is...

Contains correspondence, notebooks, scrapbooks, writings, photographs, and books relating to missionaries in Siam (now Thailand) and Cambodia. Photographs include pictures of life in Thailand and Cambodia, including Angkor Wat; of the royal family, including the coronations of King Vajiravudh and...

The Elsa S. McGinn papers consist of materials pertaining to her activity as a public figure in San Mateo County, as well as her personal life. The collection is divided into four series: Business Papers, Civic and Municipal Papers, Correspondence,...

Mainly material used in writing his book, History of the Donner Party, including letters from survivors and members of rescue parties and their relatives, newspaper clippings, photographs and relics. Included also: newspaper articles on the Mountain Meadows massacre and on...

Collection of three generations of McKee family letters, clippings, and ephemera. Includes two letters from Robert K. McKee to wife, Sarah A. McKee during the two years, 1898-1899, he prospected for gold in Alaska. His letter of Sep. 20, 1898,...

Contains architecture plans for renovations and additions to the McLaren Lodge.

Content of the collection concerns gold in all aspects, particularly gold economics and monetary policy; also McLaughlin's term as a Regent of the University of California, especially the Free Speech Movement. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, writings, lectures, interviews, subject...

Pertaining to her interest and work in the Institute of Pacific Relations, League of Women Voters, World Affairs Council of Northern California, Community Chest of San Francisco and other organizations.

Carton 1: Cranmer / Chappell family photographs (Sylvia's family), from 19th century portraits to Sylvia's youth in Colorado. circa 1880-1940 -- Carton 2: Studio portraits and professional photographs, chiefly of Sylvia, Donald, and other family members -- Carton 3: McLaughlin...

Papers of the McLean family of California. Includes correspondence and other papers of Edward McLean, his wife Sarah E. McLean, and three of the McLean children: Agnes, Fannie, and Francis. The bulk of the collection consists of Fannie McLean's correspondence,...

Collection includes many unidentified portraits as well as identified portraits of Fanny and Agnes McLean and other McLean family members. Family pictures include high school drama productions, the college settlement summer home in New York, vacations and outings, the McLean...

Principally letters, 1925-1928, addressed to Henry, James, and John McNally at De Lamar by family members; with a copy of a placer-mining location, 1917, and two business letters of 1927. Correspondents include T.W. Galigher; Mrs. Katie (McNally) Landrigan; John, Mary...

Consists of catalogs and time ledger. Catalogs are of druggists' labels, prescription blanks and office stationery.

Snapshots and portraits documenting multiple generations of the McQuilling and Shriver families of Pasadena and other California locations. Individuals depicted include Donald William McQuilling and his wife Carol Felicia Shriver McQuilling; Donald's father William McQuilling, William's sister Inez McQuilling and...

Includes plans and design sketches for residences (ca. 1929-1930's?), and several drawings for the [St. Francis?] yacht club, San Francisco. Material related to St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco, includes many photographs of the building and of design models, photographs of...

The Carey McWilliams Papers, 1921-1980, provide a selective view of the writing and research gathering process of a prolific journalist and author of non-fiction works concerning racial minorities and migrant farm workers in the U.S., particularly in California and the...

The files include copies of letters written by McWilliams; letters from the secretaries of the Congress (Barbara Chevalier and Harry Carlisle) and from writers contacted, including Humphrey Cobb, Hildegarde Flanner, Elsa Gidlow, Fulmer Mood, Frank Scully, Upton Sinclair and Ella...

Correspondence, research data, manuscripts and reprints of writings, photographs and slides, hearing transcripts, students' theses, etc., relating in part to agriculture, irrigation, and engineering in California, Australia, Canada, Britain, and Mexico. There are typed cards in many cartons or attached...

Heating equipment blueprints for the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum and the American Legion Memorial (Architect, Jas. T. Narbett). Electrical system blueprints for the Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart, 10th and Market, San Francisco.

Title devised by cataloger.

Primarily letters concerning rental or sale of property, meetings, memberships, gifts to the library, proposals for technical courses, and other business matters. Letters from the following included: Joseph S. Alemany, William Ashburner, Matilda Bancroft, William Curlett, John T. Doyle, A.S....

2 medals: 1) Keeping the Promise Campaign: front of medal bears profile portrait of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, with Latin inscription: LAVDENT EAM IN PORTIS OPERA EJVS. Back of medal commemorates the original medal awarded for the International Competition for the...

Contains campaign materials for a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senator of California including a brochure, bumper sticker, issue positions flyers, handout, and a photocopy of a front page article about her from The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California.

Include certified copy of birth certificate for Johann Meder and his passport, issued in Luxemburg, 1852; copy of U.S. patent for a crystal vein located in French Camp, 1892; and a miner's gold scale.

Identified portraits include: O.W. Hurd, Louise and Vinnie Lionberger, Farrington, Jennie Bender, Grandma Reese, James Thompson, Mary R. Chester, Mary Chester Williams, Fred Williams, Fannie W. Davis, Hattie Williams, Mabel Foster, Lou Williams Hall, Willie H. Cravens, and J.L. Cravens.

This collection documents the personal and professional life of pioneering regional planner, systems theorist, scientist, futurist, and University of California, Berkeley professor, Richard Louis Meier. Meier’s papers document his advocacy of sustainability in planning, his efforts to improve the lives...

Portraits of Clarence Darrow, Mary Kaufman, Carol King, Alexander Meiklejohn, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) Collections document twentieth century American legal battles over civil liberties, human rights, labor rights, anti-war, peace law, nuclear proliferation and academic freedom. The collection is built around a core collection of legal case files...

Written from New York and Mexico. Concerning fall of Oaxaca and Chihuahua to the French, Mejía's meeting with Juárez, the recapture of Chihuahua, and Mejía's appointment as Minister of War.

Contains campaign flyers, publications, reprints, one campaign button, and calendar of campaign events in San Francisco for June, 1982. Most of the literature concerns worker rights and opposition to nuclear power and the American intervention in El Salvador and contains...

(V. 1) letters to Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Cohn concerning his paintings and drawings, with clippings showing some of his work and a few sketches pasted in; (v. 2) letter to Mrs. Cohn, May 3, 1918, concerning his ideas on...

Collection includes correspondence, background files, legislative materials, press releases, subject files, press clippings.

Contains two letters to Melissa Price, her mother and sister[s] from her brother in Yreka, Calif., concerning the entitlement for War of 1812 soldiers and their widows to a land grant, gold mining in Yreka Flats, the Fraser River gold...

Includes some correspondence to Henry Mellus, letters by W.D.M. Howard and letter from Mellus concerning state of trade in California. Also some miscellaneous papers.

Snapshots of home, family, friends and pets at the Oak Knoll estate. Captions indicate that the home was built ca. 1866 for R.B. Woodward by architect "Gaynor, of Palace Hotel fame." Includes some views relating to Harry Melone's student days...

This collection documents the personal and professional life of Jewish-American musician, poet, and teacher David Meltzer. His papers also document over 50 years of literary and artistic life in the Bay Area and beyond, Meltzer's expertise as a scholar of...

Letters to Best's writing efforts, including translations from Dante, and to personal matters.

This interview with Melvin Calvin was recorded in a number of sessions between October of 1974 and March of 1978, as part of a series dealing with the development of nuclear research at Berkeley. It was conducted and edited by...

Personnel, events, and facilities of the big-organic chemistry group at the Larwrence Radiation National Laboratory and the Department of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. Includes snapshots of social activities, identification photos of students, faculty, and staff, and...

Swig recalls his activities as a businessman, his overseas work, and his involvement in various Jewish philanthropic organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Contains correspondence, writings, reprints, course notes, consulting files, etc.

The papers include maps and blueprints of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations and other urban transit stations, as well as information to transit-planning studies in California and other states.

Collection consists chiefly of clippings and other printed material (some annotated), typescripts and notes related to Knight's research interests. Files relate to published works as well as courses taught. The folder headings were transcribed for the most part from the...

Title devised by cataloger.

These appear to be the originals from which transcriptions were made by, or for Zoeth S. Eldredge. (See Yount Mss. in C-R 9).

Memoirs concern childhood in San Francisco, teaching in various parts of California, description of Santa Maria and discovery of oil there (7 l.).

Autobiographical account relating to his army career, ca. 1871-1926.

Manuscript in German script - incomplete. Contents notes (8 p.) and section headings in red ink.

Concerning royalties for English language edition of Prof. Griffis' New Japan readers.

Geological and historical background of the Comstock region; the Virginia & Truckee Railroad; water supply of the Comstock; wood and lumber industry, with photographic illustrations. From typescript owned by the Nevada Bureau of Mines.

Correspondence (including letters from Frank B. Anderson, Chairman, Clearing House Loan Committee, and F.L. Lipman, Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank); Clearing House certificates; draft and copy of Professor Plehn's article, published by the Academy of Pacific Coast History.

Balance sheet, December, 1916. Gives names of men employed, their duties, wages, and other details; includes two receipts.

Incomplete. Accounts for funeral of Francisco de Rivas, with information on expenditures for the settlement of his estate. Accounts for the care and clothing of his daughter also included.

Tributes and recollections by various persons.

Engrossed copies of memorial resolutions passed by the Boards of Directors, California Wine Association and Italian American Bank, with signatures of various board members.

Family and youth in Spain; education at the University of Barcelona, 1923-1926, and at the University of Madrid, 1926-1928, in law; career in the diplomatic services before and during the Spanish Civil War, 1930-1939; thoughts on Second Spanish Republic; marriage...

Autobiographical sketch, mainly concerning his participation in the Balkan War, 1912-1913; photocopy of article, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 27, 1901, containing statements of Madoleff and other Macedonian patriots; poem, The march of the Macedonian Bulgarian Partisans.

Describes her family background and business, her childhood and education in Richmond (Calif.), and her working life at the Filice and Perrelli Canning Company. She also recalls Richmond's small town atmosphere of pre-World War II, the changes since then, and...

Volume 1: Reminiscences concerning his career as actor in San Francisco and elsewhere; his work with Edwin Booth and others; experiences as personal representative and manager of Lillian Russell; activities as stage manager. Volumes 2-4: Scrapbooks containing annotated programs, photographs,...

Recollections of childhood in San Francisco; the earthquake and fire; student days at the University of California, 1910-1914; Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Added to the interview: copy of chapter from Edgar Kahn's book, Cable Car Days in San Francisco, relating to...

Comments on family and childhood in San Francisco; working as law clerk for Gavin McNab; law practice; serving on San Francisco Municipal Court, 1941-46, and as federal judge, District Court, Northern California, 1956-70.

Snodgrass discusses Blackfoot, Idaho; move to Richmond, California, 1923; Richmond-San Rafael Ferry Co., 1924-1956: description of ferry, fees and schedules, crews, accidents, labor disputes, WWII impact; ferrying prisoners to San Quentin; loss of downtown Richmond, 1950s-1960.

1 album containing photographs and original drawings.

Copies of official letters. Volume 1: 1872-1879; volume 2: 1879-1884.

Stereograph views of Mendocino County, chiefly depicting logging activities and lumbering operations. Subjects include logging scenes, loggers' camps and various lumber mills, including Albion Mill, Caspar Mill and Noyo Mill. Also includes some views of natural scenery, a few scenes...

Concerns property in Mendocino belonging to William H. Kelly and his wife Eliza: deed from William Kasten, 1854 May 1; and indenture between Kelly and William Heeson, 1857 Sept. 26.

Materials include invoices; manifests; order and balance ledgers; and time books.

Contents: History of organization of the church, minutes of sessions, register of ministers, and register of elders, trustees, communicants, baptisms, marriages and deaths.

Contains correspondence, minutes, and financial records of the first library in Sacramento. Also includes a history of the library.

Contains correspondence, notices, reports, minutes, personnel files, book orders and inventories, financial records and ephemera documenting the establishment and early growth of San Francisco's oldest public-access library.

County bond No. 146, $500 face value. Signed by Silas March ... and Jas E. Hicks. June 20, 1870, Merced Co., California, and cancelled December 8, 1884.

Mainly pre-emption notices.

Includes supply copybook (305 leaves) of the Arbona Mine in Tuolumne County Calif. and letter copybook (414 leaves) of Merced Gold Mining Co., superintendent F.P. Mills based in Coulterville, Calif.

Documentation of Mercedes Avenue and vicinity, Atascadero, Calif.

Include a diary of his journey from Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, via the Santa Fe Trail and the Cimarron cutoff, there to engage in trade; with a description of Santa Fe and its inhabitants. Miscellaneous accounts, list...

The photographs in this collection accompanied a collection of material described by Robert Heizer in his "Catalogue of the C. Hart Merriam Collection of Data Concerning California Tribes and Other American Indians." (This manuscript collection is available on microfilm with...

Field notes, vocabulary schedules, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, clippings, and printed matter relating to Merriam's work with California and other Indian tribes (1898-1938). Primary material includes lists of tribes, bands and villages of California Indian tribes; ethnogeographic and ethnographic information; and...

Correspondence, letterpress copybooks, manuscripts, notes, clippings, pamphlets, printed matter, scrapbooks, notebooks, certificates and financial papers documenting this naturalist's long and varied career. The papers cover a wide range of topics including natural history, zoology, ornithology, geography, geographic distribution, botany and...

Correspondence, manuscripts and reprints of writings, and some subject files relating to Merriam's career at the University of California as well as his work in palaeontology and conservation.

Papers relating to hikes along segments of the John Muir Trail. Includes: "My diary for the summer of 1940," 1940 (27 pp., transcript); "Rambling in the Sierras," 1941 (13 pp.); "Along the crest of the Sierras," 1942(17 pp., fiction); related...

Correspondence, manuscripts and reprints of articles, notes, translations and annotated texts, relating mainly to the publication of his work as professor of Latin, University of California.

The bulk of the Merritt College Black Student Union collection is an array of event flyers documenting the activism that took place at Merritt College in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Also consists of an extensive collection of clippings...

Mainly portraits of Samuel, Henry, Almira and Isaac Merritt, and Catherine Garcelon. Includes unidentified family groups, portraits, and three photos of men on a construction project.

Papers are devoted to Mertins' study of Robert Frost and his life. The collection includes correspondence, chiefly letters from friends and associates concerning Robert Frost and the writing of Mertins' books on Frost, as well as his original manuscripts. Other...

Consists of two diaries by Merwin Kingsbury Hammond, one detailing his overland journey to California in 1852, the other written in 1863; several manuscript and typescript transcriptions of the diary made by Hammond's great-granddaughter, Alice Jane Englebeck, as well as...

Title devised by cataloger.

Contains family photographs, correspondence, clippings, some family genealogy, and legal documents. Scrapbook on Emma Bierwirth Mesow contains sympathy cards to her daughter Emma Fitch on the event of her death, information on their family, and family photographs. Scrapbook on Helen...

Education, Oregon State University, University of Wisconsin; Union Carbide Co., mineral processing research, solving materials, handling, radiation, viscosity problems; 1962-1981: Bechtel Engineers, chief metallurgical engineer, plant design and construction, plannng for startup, designing for environmental protection; Alberta tar sands; Palabora...

Two views of a late victorian style interior, possibly a home office or the law offices of Rodgers & Paterson in San Francisco. One image shows Arthur Rodgers seated next to another man (Van Rensselaer Paterson?) seated behind a desk.

Papers of Woodbridge Metcalf, first extension forester for the state of California.

Chiefly research photographs depicting trees and forests of California and other locations. Also includes travel photographs, landscapes, individual and group portraits depcting Metcalf and his colleagues, various forestry activities, and domestic snapshots. Some specific subjects include cork oak, coast redwood,...

Contains the papers of several Mexía family members including José Antonio Mexía, Enrique Guillermo Antonio Mexía, and Ynés Mexía. The papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, and writings relating to their family's connection with Mexico and Texas. It also includes...

Papers of the botanist, explorer and lecturer, the daughter of Enrique Guillermo Antonio Mexia and granddaughter of Jose Antonio Mexia. Includes letters to and from Mexia about family, personal matters, and plant collections; writings by Mexia and other pertaining to...

Well-executed drawings by Nepean depicting various pre-Colombian antiquities excavated under his supervision on Isla de Sacrificios, near Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico. Objects depicted include vessels, plates, figurines, musical instruments and other pieces of pottery.

Correspondence, subject files, notes, diaries, photographs, and maps concerning Mexican arts and crafts, particularly cochineal and textiles.

Silk banner illustrated with scene derived from a photograph of marching U.S. armed troops. Image was probably taken during the Mexican Expedition, or Punitive Expedition, in the vicinity of Columbus, New Mexico, following Pancho Villa's raid on the border town...

Materials relating to Ogden's research on the maritime history of California.

Chiefly unidentified church exteriors. Identifed views are: Sagrario [Metropolitano, Mexico City?], Sn. Francisco, Fontaine preste St. Thomas [fountain in front of church of St. Thomas], Queretaro San Agostin, and Marchuela[?]. The single view that is not a church exterior depicts...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Many well-captioned. Amateur and professional views.

Popular calendars from Mexico, illustrated by reproductions of paintings and photographs depicting various aspects of Mexico's culture, geography and history. Includes portrait of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.

Printed labels adhered inside front and back covers: Photographs taken on an excursion to the isthmus country of Mexico, Mexican Isthmus Land Co., Suite 412 Grand Avenue Temple, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.

Collection of [31] unrelated manuscript legal documents (some incomplete) on stamped paper leaves for various two-year periods (1642-1643, 1654-1655,1656-1657, 1660-1661, 1668-1669,1673-1674, 1679-1680, 1699-1700, and 1762-1763). Thirty of the documents also bear the royal stamp of King Charles II for the...

Collection of 13 unrelated manuscript legal documents concerning activities and transactions of the legal authorities of New Spain and the Catholic missions located throughout Baja and Alta California. They include viceregal notes to religious authorities regarding the missionaries, receipts for...

Letters, manuscripts, documents, and other materials relating to Mexican history. Items in this collection are cataloged individually and can be searched under title: Mexican miscellany.

Assorted Mexican documents roughly sorted into the following subject catagories: commerce & finance; history & culture; military affairs; the Mexican Revolution; misc. legal & taxes; personal letters & papers; religion & the church; poetry; misc.

These papers recount John Lind's diplomatic mission to Mexico in 1913-1914, during the Mexican Revolution, as the personal representative of President Woodrow Wilson, and reflect his continued involvement and interest in Mexican affairs subsequent to that time. They comprise all...

Original promotional posters for Mexican motion pictures, chiefly mainstream releases from the 1960s, representing a wide array of genres, directors, performers, etc.

Snapshots of the visit of members of the American Seminar on Relations with Mexico to Mexico City, Xochimilco, San Juan Teotihuacan, Toluca, and rural areas like Acolman (in the state of Mexico), and the ejido Tlahuac. Images reflect concerns with...

Chiefly commercially produced views of Mexican towns and cities, public buildings, churches, monuments, antiquities, and scenic landscapes. Includes some scenes of people engaged in activities such as coffee production. Several views of a family in informal poses are present, possibly...

Largely views taken on outings to various parts of Mexico, apparently by groups of Germans residing there. Many views are group portraits, some of which are identified as a German gymnastic club. Several picture men drinking beer. Other views are...

257 postcards : b&w and color. Various photographers and publishers. Artificial collection compiled by dealer.

Album documents political activities of General Gabriel Leyva Velázquez, governor of the state of Sinaloa. Also pictures politicians Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Quintin Rueda Villagran, Efrain Aranda Osorio, and Braulio Maldonado, among others. Campaigns other than gubernatorial campaigns within Sinaloa may...

Chiefly commercial, real photograph postcards of touristic views taken throughout Mexico. Several include reproductions of details of Mexican murals by Diego Rivera, as well as other artworks.

Includes street scenes, cityscapes, buildings, antiquities, building interiors, murals, people in traditional dress, bull fights, and other typical scenes for tourist postcards. Locations include Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Taxco, Xochimilco, Teotihuacán, Ensenada, Acapulco, Tijuana, and others. Postal viewbook contains color prints...

Primarily promotional art focusing on tourism and education. One education poster incorporates Nazi threat imagery and an Adolph Hitler quotation.

A collection of posters covering various aspects of Mexican community development and culture, including public and personal health, indigenous literacy, peace, and cultural exhibits.

Real photograph postcards depicting refugees of the Mexican Revolution in Columbus, New Mexico.

Scenes from the Mexican Revolution including damaged buildings, soldiers carrying weapons, barricades, canons, etc. Some events relate to Villa Pancho.

Chiefly snapshot photographs taken during the Mexican Revolution, depicting scenes in Sonora, Mexico. Includes numerous street scenes and views of the towns of Guaymas, Empalme and Hermosillo, as well as the United States border town of Naco, Arizona. Photographs depict...

Correspondence, military documents, land claims, petitions, clippings, articles, essays and other records.

Photographs documenting the Mexican Revolution taken chiefly during Francisco I. Madero's term as President of Mexico. Many scenes depict Madero in public, or in groups with other politicians, generals and/or other figures associated with the revolution. A few images also...

Chiefly commerical, real photograph postcards of scenes pertaining to the Mexican Revolution. Photographs depict war casualties, soldiers, artillery, military encampments, prisoners of war, parades and other public demonstrations, and la Decena Trágica. Among the individuals depicted are Pancho Villa (one...

Views show views of Mexico City (many), Guadalupe, Cuernavaca, Tampico, and other towns. Scenes include outdoor markets, grass huts, peddlers and street vendors (some selling baskets and sombreros), wood carriers, burros carrying loads, women at work (washing clothes, grinding grain,...

Scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, clippings and ephemera which document the travels of Corkran in Mexico. Pages are illustrated in white with sketches reflecting the themes of the photographic images. Initially, pages are arranged and labelled thematically: money, gateways, agua caliente...

Views of streets, squares, parks, cathedral and churches, and other buildings of Mexico City; Chapultepec; statues and antiquities in the Museo Nacional de Mexico; Veracruz Llave; coffee operations; Queretaro, various towns in the State of Mexico; silver mine of San...

Primarily photos from Sonora, Mexico, including many views of Arizpe and area, a church at Alamos, a mission at Caborca, and ruins of mission Cocospera.

Includes general views of cities and street views with crowds visible.

Album of 7 commercially produced views and 72 high quality amateur views taken during a trip through Mexico by an unidentified party from the U.S.A. Views include cityscapes, street scenes, people, architecture, flora, etc. Among the locations depicted are Mexico...

Includes personal and military correspondence and military orders. Typed biographical notes accompany many of the items belonging to enlisted men.

Contains views of statues in Mexico City and views (including churches and railroad bridges) from Chapultepec, Amecameca, Orizaba and other places in Mexico

Collection of 7 unrelated manuscript documents relating to administrative matters of Mexico City, Mexico. One document is on stamped paper leaves for the two-year period 1804 and 1805 and bears the Spanish royal stamp of King Charles IV. Contents include...

Contains 3 documents including: detailed regulations for the service of carriages for hire in the City of Mexico; a manuscript list of owners, the location of the carriages, size and number of vehicles, and days of service; a manuscript listing...

Records of the Mexico City Board of Municipal Real Estate and Revenue for transactions of 1736, with a few belated receipts signed in 1737. Contains orders and receipts for payment of salaries and other expenses, such as bills for building,...

Mainly material relating to religious institutions and their hospitals (especially the Royal Convent of Jesús María and the Church of San Pedro with its affiliated hospital, confraternity and school), including accounts of expenditures and architectural records.

Negative microfilm of official communications and decrees, mainly rinted.

Contains the following: 1. A document of 1 page addressed to Rafael Pérez Maldonado, minister of finance, May 10, 1822, regarding a voluntary gift and loan fund. 2. Letter of 1 page to Fray Pablo Vivar, February 1, 1823. 3....

Snapshots of a trip through Mexico in Doheny's private rail car, 1905. Areas pictured include Juarez, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Guadaloupe, Ebino, Torreon, etc. Photos show street scenes, buildings, local people, and views from the train. Also includes views of El...

Photobook comprising views and scenes of various locations throughout Mexico.

Research photographs taken by George M. Foster during his many trips to Mexico. Numerous locations and subjects are depicted.

Portfolio I: Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz,Querétaro); Colegio de Propaganda Fide de San Fernando, Mexico City. Portfolio II: Colegio de Propaganda Fide de San Fernando, Mexico City; Misión San Miguel Concá; Misión Santiago de Jalpan. Portfolio III:...

One volume of duplicate receipts for services and goods, mainly for primary and secondary instruction in Vera Cruz, with information on salaries of teachers, principals of schools, etc. With this, related loose documents, Sept.-Oct. 1915.

The collection consists of materials on the family history of Daniel Meyer. Family lines documented include those associated with the following surnames: Rosenthal, Juda, Meyer, Blochman, Koenigswarter, Sheeline, and Hoexter. Included in the collection are newspaper clippings; interviews with relatives...

The Meyer Heller papers consist primarily of correspondence from 1950-1962, which includes letters from his radio audience providing an interesting insight into public opinion of the time and letters from his colleagues that document the decision making process of Rabbis...

Professional and personal correspondence concerning her activities and interest in writing, poetry and publication. Also contains family papers or genealogical information for the following families: Blake, Bean, Cary, Clark, Cross, Eastman, Gilman, Wells, and Wiltse. Includes Civil War diary and...

Mainly letters written to family from San Francisco.

Include bills of lading, receipts, drafts, checks.

Documents, principally receipts and personnel records, concerning the ship Olive S. Southard, Captain M.H. Walker, Master. The Southard sailed in and out of San Francisco and other Pacific Coast ports, loading and unloading, stocking its stores from establishments in San...

Mounted clippings of articles published in El Universal, giving an account of his revolutionary activities in the Yucatán.

The collection consists primarily of personal and legal documents from Michael Caminetsky's life in Imperial Russia, including his Russian language army registration (1876), his family's merchant license (1869), a death certificate for a family member (possibly a brother), a passport...

Clippings, notes, research material, drafts of book co-authored with Lindsay Chaney.

Fruit crate labels for various brands, chiefly from California. Most are illustrated. Brands include Atlas, Strength, Red C, Chimes, Dr. Forbes, Hi-Shine, Cal State, Cal-taste, There is no nicer, Kathy Anne, Lepe, Mendota, Tri Quality, Farmerette, Gina, Ted's Best, Colace,...

Contains course files, correspondence, administrative files, research notebooks, etc.

Letters from Karl Du Prel, Theodor Herzl, Theodor Hertzka, Henry George, George J. Holyoake, George von Gizycki, Friedrich Naumann, Helene Raff, Werner Sombart, Bertha Suttner and Alfred R. Wallace, reflecting their mutual interests in land and monetary reform, and utopian...

Newspaper clippings which Rabbi Fried gathered relating to a variety of his concerns as well as some"letters to the editor" that he wrote, materials relating to his rabbinate, including a few handwritten sermons and a photocopy of a scrapbook from...

Proposals, draft proposals, and reports regarding Michael Fuss' work in the development of disabled services at the University of California, Berkeley and in the larger community, specifically the Physically Disabled Students Program (later the Disabled Students Program), the Rolling Quads,...

Includes papers concerning Hagerty's work on citrus fruit and other agricultural products in China.

The papers contain recent correspondence and term papers written by Fischer while he was pursuing a Master's Degree in City Planning in the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 1967.

The collection contains correspondence, newspaper columns, and other manuscripts, artifacts, educational materials, and Zarchin's master's thesis: "Railroad Wage Awards in the United States since 1915."

A trader on Green River, killed in 1860. Martin's estate was probated by Judge William A. Carter, from whose papers these have been segregated: Account book, June, 1859-December, 1860; letter to Thomas Papan & Co., Green River, September 1, 1860;...

Papers relating to Michael McCloskey's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Michael McClure papers : additions, circa 1972, BANC MSS 77/65 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Manuscripts of The Mad Cub and Untitled Novel 1963; printer's copy and corrected galleys for Fleas 189-196 with letters and other material relating to its publication; flyers for poetry readings. Material relating to his play, The Beard, including letters from...

Corrected typescript of McClure's Meat science essays (carbon and ribbon), prepared for the printer, with a set of galley proofs corrected and signed by McClure. Also, 7 pages of notes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti concerning the book, and a postcard from...

Photographs, drawings, prints and other pictorial items collected by Michael McClure.

Contains Burning Man ephemera, sketches, spreadsheets, printouts, guides, maps, articles, media guides, legal documents, organizational notes, calendars, VHS videocassetes, DVDs, other publications and articles about the Burning Man event, a periodical index to Burning Man articles (1991-1997), an unpublished history...

Correspondence, notes, writings, and transcriptions of articles concerning Armenian people and culture.

Contains correspondence, posters, and subject files.

Contains correspondence, drafts of articles, reviews and books, teaching materials, reprints, photographic slides, etc.

Contains materials mostly related to the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley including flyers, literature, personal accounts, and newspaper clippings, and personal accounts. Also includes some materials related to other political issues such as the Vietnam...

Michael Rothenberg papers, BANC MSS 2011/250, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Contains documents and photographs that relate to the experiences of Michael Semler's family, which was originally from Germany but relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area before, during, and after the Holocaust. It consists primarily of corresondence between friends and...

Papers relating to Gelobter's work as a climate strategist.

Color lithographic prints promoting leisure, recreation and tourism in California. Subjects of scenes depicted include golfing, beach-going, San Francisco's Chinatown, ferryboats at a crowded dock, a miner and priest at a California Mission, boating (perhaps on Lake Tahoe) and a...

The folder contains a photograph of Michel Weill and biographical information from a newspaper clipping and from the Notable LIving Men and Women of California publication.

Papers relating to Michele Perrault's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts of his poetry, prose, and plays, notebooks and personal papers, and a few of his drawings.

Photograph of San Francisco poet Jack Micheline gesturing, holding a can of beer, perhaps at a poetry reading. Photograph features artistic superimposition of multiple images.

Project documentation, contact sheets and photographs (work prints), filed by subject. Files on projects of small or moderate size (divided into "California" and "Beyond California") are followed by files for three more voluminous topics: Native Americans and the American Indian...

Images include the Human Be In (1967), Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's "Further" bus (1967), a "bunny" in the dressing room at the San Francisco Playboy Club (1968), images related to the draft during the Vietnam War (1968), the...

Chiefly snapshots, with several portraits, richly documenting Japanese American life shortly before and during the Second World War. Compiled by Michiko Fujita, a young woman living with her family in California, the album depicts everyday activities, travels, family, friends and...

Views of Middle Fork Stanislaus River Bridge (Dardanelle Bridge), California State Highway 108 at Middle Fork Stanislaus River, Dardanelle vicinity, Tuolumne County, Calif.

Constitution and by-laws. North San Juan, 1853; Minutes to June 1858, and information on the sale and transfer of stock also included. With this, payrolls, miscellaneous correspondence and accounts, deeds and legal papers relating to litigation over mining property in...

Chromolithographs depict the 1894 Midwinter Fair; photographic prints depict damage resulting from the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.

Album contains brief text followed by original photographic prints that exemplify good housing conditions for migrant laborers.

Album contains brief text followed by original photographic prints that exemplify good housing conditions for migrant laborers. Views include interiors and exteriors of barracks, sanitary and cooking facilities, and dining halls. Several photographs include laborers.

Contains original brochures and related materials concerning the founding and organizing activities of a migrant worker advocacy organization. Materials include 7 original pen-and-ink drawings used to produce coloring books for migrant children, 1 coloring book, 3 paste-up pages used in...

Describes her family's move from the Midwest to the San Joaquin Valley in 1937, agricultural work, their move to Richmond in 1942 to work in the Kaiser shipyards, health conditions there, asbestosis, war-time rationing, the shipyard closure, Filice and Perelli...

Mainly public notices as alcalde of San Luis Obispo. Include papers relating to the trial of the Indian Ildefonso, witnessed by José Mariano Bonilla and Inocente García, and letters from H.W. Halleck.

Regarding sending priests to California missions.

Correspondence, subject file, letterpress copy books, publications, scrapbooks, court transcripts, briefs and opinions, speeches, and account books concerning his life and activity as an attorney. Some materials reflect his involvement as representative of those whose property was condemned by the...

Photographs chiefly documenting rituals, ceremonies and everyday lives of Indo-Hispano (mestizo) peoples of New Mexico and the broader upper Rio Grande Valley. Also includes portraits, street scenes, public events and other views. Numerous images appear in Gandert's book Nuevo México...

Bills for purchase of furniture, and for shipping the furniture to Malaga.

Contains mostly manuscript and typescript correspondence addressed to a Guatemalan-American family living in Northern California. Some correspondence is from Guatemala. One typescript letter on letterhead stationery of the Guatemalan Consulate in San Francisco. Also includes a modern certificate of baptism...

Young men and women on outings, at leisure. Includes Yosemite, Monterey, Big Basin, Russian River, etc.

Box 1 contains photocopies of Rhoda's diaries and writings, biographical materials on Rhoda, and Foster's correspondence about Rhoda and his project on Rhoda; Box 2 contains Foster's manuscript on Rhoda, "Summits to reach: an annotated edition of Franklin Rhoda's Report...

California wilderness areas, flora & fauna, rivers, recreation, etc. Includes signed publication permissions and magazine clippings containing Hayden's photographs.

An Irishman, originally from Kentucky, writes (6 letters, 16 p.) to his cousin James in West Walker River, California, about his circumstances and work looking for gold and other business opportunities in Nevada and California. Addressed mostly from Washoe City,...

Trading cards depicting 134 photographers, most of them American, prominent circa the mid-1970s. Light-hearted portraits of subjects posing as baseball players in action, most of them wearing the cap of a Major League Baseball team associated with the city where...

Consists of personal and professional correspondence, as well as records concerning the Cooper Ornithological Society. Box 1: Bird Banding, 1976-1983; Cooper Ornithological Society records and correspondence, 1954-1975. Box 2: Cooper Ornithological Society records and correspondence, 1976-1981; correspondence, 1947-1966. Box 3:...

Contains a photocopy excerpt (18 pages) from a typescript memoir titled, "Memoirs of the life and times of Mildred Tanner." The excerpt covers Tanner's employment as a housemother and secretary from 1950 to 1952 at Westminster House, a dormitory for...

Research materials and drafts of biographies on hearing-impaired California artists Douglas Tilden (sculptor), Theophilus Hope D'Estrella (photographer), and Granville Redmond (painter). Research materials include correspondence, research notes, reprints of articles, copies of exhibition and auction catalogs, slides, clippings, and index...

Collection contains correspondence (box 1), day books (box 1-2), an oral history interview and photographs (box 2) which document Van Every's career as a social worker working with California Indians.

The collection consists of 43 glass plate negatives from which copy prints have been made. The photographs are primarily of street scenes and buildings damaged or destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire. Also included are two shots of the...

Correspondence concerning their activities in California and Minnesota.

The Josephine Miles Papers, 1911-1986, consisting of correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as a small amount of professional, personal, and family papers, are a thorough representation of the varied interests of this highly regarded poet, scholar, and educator.

Comments on student days at UCLA and graduate work at Berkeley; teaching in English Department at Berkeley; University administration and faculty members; poetry groups in the Bay Area; her poetry, research and publicatons; developments in poetry; student unrest in the...

Handwritten letter from a gold miner in Sacramento, California to a friend in Malta, New York. Contains details of his activities as a storeowner, quartz and gold miner, and descriptions of California life. He also writes, "... the gambling houses...

Includes correspondence, publications, and research papers in support of Milicent W. Shinn's writings on child development.

Letters written to her, many from contributors to the Overland Monthly or commenting on her editorship of the magazine; and school compositions written by her and her sister. Correspondents include May Cheney, Samuel L. Clemens, Richard W. Gilder, Daniel C....

Collection shows portraits of E.L. Huggins and others relating to his military career in the American West, China and the Phillipines. Includes views of military scenes, statues, officers (including those at Fort Mason and Alcatraz in 1867-68), troops at Fort...

Chiefly snapshots documenting the family life of Margaret Wentworth Owings, her first husband Malcolm Millard, their daughter Wendy Owings and her family. Also includes paintings by Margaret Wentworth Owings depicting a colonial town in Mexico (C folder 1); a view...

Ledger of various expenditures with related enclosures tipped in. Undated map (photocopy), partially colored, of lands along the Fresno River labeled in part "Heirs of Chs. Lux" and "Henry Miller."

The Miller & Lux Records consist primarily of business, farming, administrative, and legal records. Correspondence files, which comprise the major portion of this collection, contain few letters dated prior to 1906, although there are many business, legal, and other documents...

Included are general correspondence, 1922-1926, among company officials; newspaper articles regarding the history of Miller and Lux, Inc. and the celebrated 1954 Trust fraud case; a sketch of the Poso Farm house plan; a report on the registered cattle herd;...

Concerns family life and interests in California and elsewhere.

This collection of 38 pencil sketches of the California Missions are the earliest known attempt to depict the Missions in a series (1856). The artist Henry Miller was identified in , 1929, pages 132-133. *...

Contains correspondence, to and from Miller; manuscripts of writings, including poetry; clippings by and about Miller, many about his death. Also includes a small amount of legal and financial records, tributes, programs and souvenirs, and other miscellaneous items. Some correspondents...

Includes photos of Juanita Joaquina Miller and photos relating to her. Also includes set of postcards pertaining to Joaquin Miller and the Joaquin Miller Hights, Oakland, Calif.

Primarily correspondence concerning her weaving and exhibitions, her contributions to periodicals on weaving and textile arts, and her search for newly developed fabrics as weaving materials.

Correspondence as zoologist and ornithologist, University of California; diaries concerning U.C. expedition to fossil beds of the John Day River, Oregon, 1899, Hawaii from 1900 to 1903, marine expedition on the Albatross off the coast of California in 1904, eastern...

Chiefly family portraits, childhood, family gatherings, and colleagues, and Loye Miller's son Alden H. Miller at age 7, from Berkeley and Los Angeles, and Yosemite naturalist classes conducted by Miller in 1921 (students mainly women and children). Includes photograph of...

Papers re his 1970 political campaign, including correspondence, with letters from Edmund G. Brown, Alan Cranston, Roger Kent, Leo McCarthy, George Moscone, Edmund S. Muskie, Elmer E. Robinson, William M. Roth, Sargent Shriver, Benjamin H. Swig and Jesse Unruh; campaign...

Snapshots of the Miller congressional campaign and negatives of Miller's opponent, William Maillard. Additions include snapshots of Miller, of other political campaigns, and of other politicians, especially Jerry Brown, as well as John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton,...

Include letter from the Peruvian Minister of the Interior, José María Gardiano, concerning a petition of Pablo Antonio Barrios.

Scrapbooks of photographs, postcards and miscellaneous ephemera pertaining to Almy's travels to various locations, including the Western U.S. and Western Canada (1959); Greece (1967); Israel (1982); Egypt (1982); Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Bali and Bangkok (1987); and Japan (1989 and...

Professional photographs of the Neptune Society Columbarium (also known as San Francisco Columbarium). Papers include clippings, correspondence, a press release, a historical narrative and brochure, all pertaining to history, ownership and renovation of the columbarium shortly after its acquisition by...

The Randall Milliken papers consist of Milliken's research notes used in compiling his database of Central California Missions as well as his general ethnohistorical research of California Indian populations.

Includes views of women, men, buildings, and seminary grounds.

Typed transcripts of: diary (Dec. 4, 1849-May 5, 1850); letters (1855-1856) to James King of William and J.P. Overton; miscellaneous notes (including accounts for woodyard and Market Street Railway) Also, notes on Bryant & Sturgis accounts (1837-1840)

Letters to his wife provide: account of his journey to California via Panama; description of his mining ventures at Oak Bar; experience as a merchant in Sacramento and in San Francisco; account of fires in San Francisco. Also includes letters...

Exterior and interior views of the Winsor Blacksmith Shop of Milpitas, Calif. taken prior to the demolition of the structure to build a new public library and garage.

Fifteen letters from Milton Lamaster to his brother, chiefly describing his overland travels to the California gold diggings in 1852, and then to British Columbia in 1858. He describes the cost of food and provisions, his trip across the plains,...

Letters concern life in San Francisco, with comments on business and economic conditions there, fire fighting and politics; and experiences mining at Green Mountain Bar.

Kept while a student at Santa Cruz High School and a member of the Class of 1901, University of California, Berkeley. Contain clippings of articles, many written by Schwartz (some for the Occident), theater programs and photographs. At end of...

Description of the University of California expedition to El Salvador to collect specimens of mammals, fossils and plants.

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

Primarily drafts and manuscripts of books, including: The Last Hunt; White Horn, Red Horn; The Black Bull; and Backtrack. Also includes many composition notebooks with story ideas and notes. There is one folder each of correspondence, photographs, and notes, a...

Contains Milton S. Latham's letter of resignation from the governorship of California after the state legislature elected him to a newly vacant U.S. Senate seat, personal and official handwritten correspondence as governor, senator, and private citizen, and an addendum to...

In addition to Salkind, includes interviews with Elizabeth Elkus, Agnes Albert, Ava Jean Pischel Brumbaum, Zaven Melikian, May Kurka, and Colin Murdoch.

Portraits of Elizabeth Elkus and Milton Salkind.

Contains 12 letters to and from California Governor Hiram W. Johnson, and the Oil Industry Association discussing Barclay McCowan, Farmer's appointment to the bench, and about the Oil Industry in California.

Periodicals, songs, programs and printed ephemera from Tule Lake & Poston, and from the detention camp at Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Drawings of Japanese American internees at Topaz internment camp (officially known as Central Utah Relocation Center) in Topaz, Utah during World War II. Each drawing features a large central portrait surrounded by small, often humorous vignettes depicting living conditions of...

Letters, written by Louis Janin, James D. Hague and others, regarding the operation of the Mexican silver mine (Alamos?) and distribution of shares and selling of stock, and information on activities of Henry Janin.

Marian Lane discusses her childhood in Indiana as Winnie Ruth McKinnell, her marriage to Dr. William Judd, social life in Mexican mining camps and raids by bandits, her work in Phoeniz, Arizona, as a medical secretary to support her husband...

Photos show the Saxton Shaft (on verso: Property of the McKinley and Smelting Co. [sic]) and the Giroux Shaft (property of the Giroux Consolidated Co.) in Ely, Nevada.

Detailed photographs, apparently of the Victory Mine, near Colfax, Calif.

Photographs depict mining facilities, miners, mine officials and mining scenes pertaining to the Mineral de La Luz silver mine near La Luz, Guanajuato, Mexico. Photographs also depict views of other nearby mining operations such as Las Palmas, San Juan, San...

Childhood and education in South Dakota, 1923 to 1948; Montana School of Mines, 1948 to 1950; working at Climax Molybdenum Company, 1950-51, 1953; teaching and graduate studies, 1951-1957; Kennecott Copper Corporation, 1957, Union Carbide Corporation, 1957 to 1967; Pennsylvania State...

Photographs show mines in Cananea (Sonora, Mexico), police escorting W.C. Greene, Mexican houses and street scenes, identified buildings in Cananea, a market scene, a Cinco de Mayo celebration, a child with a burro, adobe buildings, and a surveying crew.

Views show San Francisco buildings, tourist attractions, and scenes.

Comments on his life teaching and supervising industrial education in the Islands.

Detailed views show mining equipment and processes. Also includes some scenery.

Ward discusses his education at the University of California College of Mines; his work during the Depression in California, Arizona, and Idaho; his work with various mining companies as a construction engineer between 1946 and 1965; his career with the...

Domestic views show many interiors of homes, including a living room and detailed views of a kitchen with kitchen equipment and a Chinese cook. Also included are Pearson's family and friends, portraits of G.C. Pearson, and many pictures of the...

Forms part of the Western mining in the twentieth century series.

Audio tape recording of the interview also available. (Classified as: Phonotape 2644 C:1-7).

Family photographs show the Dorsey residence in Grass Valley, Calif. from the interior and exterior. General and street views of Grass Valley show the convent and church, the old mill, large groups of men picnicking, horseracing at Glenbrook Park, etc....

Views of town of Rawhide, Nevada with mines in the background (one view shows the Rawhide Mining and Milling Co.). One view of a parade scene in Reno; one view of the Tonopah mining scene; and a bird's-eye view of...

Mining subjects include miners, camps, pack trains, mines, etc. Other views show Alaskan scenery, early settlers, Indians and cabins. Some views taken near Valdez, Alaska.

Subjects include the King Coal Mining Co. (Washington), San Juan Teotihuacan (Mexico), and nature scenes of Hawaii.

Kendall discusses his father striking it rich in 1900 in Tonopah, Nevada, and other historical mining events; his own experiences mining in Boron, Calif., and Saskatchewan.

Childhood in Depression years; Colorado School of mines; from junior engineer to shift boss with ASARCO, mine operation, mining methods; Kaiser Steel, Eagle Mountain iron mine, experiments with new equipment, explosives, management of operations, company housing; Balmer coal mine, B.C.,...

Havard discusses his family background; his years as a mining engineer and executive, with United States Gypsum Company, Pabco, Fibreboard Corp., and Kaiser Engineers.

Arentz discusses his childhood in Nevada and Washington, D.C.; working in mines in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah; employment of Black miners furloughed from the army during world War II; changes in mining methods, organization, and equipment.

Snapshot photographs depicting various mines, miners, and operations of the Globe Mine (Trinity County) and Mammoth Mine (Shasta County). Snapshots also depict the surrounding Trinity and Shasta County landscapes, as well as miners' families.

Contains his recollections of early California mining, his move from the National Park Service in 1933 to become president of U. S. Potash, and his experiences in mining. He also speaks of the University of California at Berkeley, and his...

Two tear sheets with prints illustrating article on lifestyle of gold miners in California. Subjects of illustrations include Chinese miners, miners cooking over campfire in mountains, miners dancing, and miners playing gambling card games Monte and Faro.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Humphrey discusses his family background, and education at the University of Arizona; his work as a mining engineer in Mexico, Peru and Africa; his career with the Anaconda and Homestake Mining companies, and the McLaughlin Mine; and being chair of...

Bulk are 8x10 photographs of the Stibnite / Yellow Pine Mine site and smelter in Stibnite, Idaho; people touring the new smelter; and a picnic. These presumably relate to the career of Worthen Bradley and, possibly, his father Frederick Worthen...

Mining photographs show the Globe Mine in Dedrick (Trinity County, California), the Planet-Saturn Mining Company in Fools Gulch, Arizona, and others. Other related views show mining equipment, pack trains, and construction. Macgregor fire hoses being demonstrated in Oakland and Emeryville...

Includes town views of Dawson (Yukon) and Atlin (B.C.), Surprise Lake, and Boulder Creek. Landscapes, dog sleds, miners, group portraits, hydraulic mining operations, flumes, and sluices are among the images. The development of the hydraulic mining operation is particularly well...

Includes a general view of Virginia City, a silver mine, interiors of a smelter and a pan mill (quick silver works), a street scene in Virginia City, and a mine shaft.

Childhood in Colorado mining towns of St. Elmo and Buena Vista; marriage to mining engineer; life at the Pinguico and La Luz silver mines near Guanajuato (1908-1911) at Monterrey (1923-1928) and at Sombrerete, 1929; experiences during revolutions and with Mexican...

Title supplied by cataloger.

181 letters written primarily while teaching in Arizona, first at the Western Navajo Training School near Algert in Blue Canyon, and then at the Fort Mohave Indian School at Mohave City. Includes material relating to her book Girl From Williamsburg...

Artistic images. Minor White photograph (:1--B), perhaps an abstract, resembles aerial view of ocean, with small waves delineated by sunlight. Roger Mertin photograph (:2--AX) depicts the back and buttocks of a nude woman lying face down next to a window.

Includes snapshots and negatives of, presumably, Minoru Onishi and his friends, colleagues and/or family, as well as oversize panoramic photographs depicting a gathering at a Japanese cemetery in Los Angeles and a class portait of the Military Intelligence Language School....

This collection contains correspondence, reports, and other ephemera from Mintzer's work with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Germany from 1945-1946. This includes letters between Oscar A. Mintzer and his wife discussing his work with the JDC and what he...

1 binder.

Included are samples of the bonds issued and newspaper clippings relating to their issuance.

Carbon copies of minutes of 7 meetings, with inserted printed resolutions and official statements, concerning the construction, development, maintenance and finances of bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area. Also included, mimeograph copy of transcript of public hearing held Dec....

Contents: (Pages 1-599 missing) Aldermen's minutes: v.1, p. 600-709 (1852, Nov. 4-Dec. 20) p. 710-926 missing; v.2, p. 927-1049 (1853, Mar. 21-June 6); v.3, p. 1050-1224 (1853, June 6-Aug. 24) p. 1225-1289 missing; v.4, p. 1290-1587 (1853, Sept.? 14-Dec. 23);...

Record of activities of the court, primarily concerning the erection of the county court house, with signatures of F.M. Warmcastle and R.N. Woods, county judges.

Manuscripts of published and unpublished poetry and prose, including articles on Robinson Jeffers, George Sterling, and on architecture.

Letters and documents relating to the career of General Joaquin Miramon, native of Puebla, who rose through the ranks from second lieutenant to General during the troublous period before the Mexican War with the United States and the French invasion,...

Scenes of everyday activities, festivities, traditional tools, etc. of the Mayans of Chiapas; portraits; views of various locations.

Printed title-page.

Manuscript and some printed material possibly pertaining to literary history.

Decker & Son, manufacturers, pianofortes, #8168; state and county taxes, San Mateo; H. Dobbel & Son, general merchandise, Purissima; L.A. Hansen, Turlock Harness Shop (formerly A.A. McDole, Turlock Harness Shop)

Autobiographical information on California pioneers, recorded by agents of the History Company for use in the works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Each item cataloged individually; search under title: Miscellaneous California Dictations.

1: View from Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel, Cal. (Watkins New Series no.4832) -- 2: Mrs. Blake's Female Seminary [...] Oakland, Alameda Co. (Houseworth & Co. no.1448) -- 3: The City, from Russian Hill, looking down Vallejo St. [San Francisco,...

1: an early San Francisco view of buildings among sand dunes, perhaps taken from Rincon Hill looking south toward Mission Bay, or part of a panoramic series from Sacramento and Taylor Streets. Numbered 52 in negative, and attributed to Charles...

Photographs organized into the following folders by subject: Missions (includes Santa Barbara and Carmel) -- Yosemite -- Outdoor areas other than Yosemite (Viznagar Mining and Milling Co. in Alamo, coastal scenes including La Jolla and San Francisco's Seal Rocks &...

Includes views of California missions: Dolores, Carmel, San Fernando, San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey, San Miquel, and Santa Barbara. Also included are views of Shasta Soda Springs Resort, hotels, agriculture-related scenes (farms, crops, workers drying grapes in...

Various unrelated documents, largeley from the England and the United States. Includes signatures of English noblity, a letter on discharge hospital letterhead from World War I. Some fragments contain only signatures and most correspondence include illegible signatures.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes dictation of Judge R.B. Ord concerning vigilance committee action against a band of desperadoes in Monterey in 1850; a list of violent deaths in Santa Barbara County from 1850 to 1874, taken from records of the coroner; transcripts of...

The prints in this group are of a miscellaneous nature. Included in this group are accounts of Juan Alonso de Sosa, treasurer of Mexico, 1531; a report on a voyage of Juan de Herrera y Montemayor from Mexico to Peru,...

Contains miscellaneous documents and fragments, mostly concerning religious matters in New Spain and signed by various officials. One of the document refers to indulgences and makes references to papal bulls and decrees by various popes. Others have references to various...

Includes two photographs of Ku Klux Klan members assembled and preparing to march, presumably in Oakland or vicinity. Also includes the Diamond Jubilee at San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco landmarks, a sailing ship on San Francisco Bay (by Rovere...

Views depict Hawaiian flower vendors, a native hut, and a bay with people in outrigger canoes.

Box 1-3: slides used to illustrate conference on the Codex Fernández Leal, given by E.J. Molera before the California Academy of Sciences, Feb. 17 1896 -- Box 4: Santa Barbara earthquake of 1925 -- Box 5: San Francisco earthquake of...

Photographs show the Rosebud Agency soldiers camp from the Indian War, pioneers (many women) surveying a western landscape from a rocky escarpment, an Indian woman in front of a thatched dugout, a western railroad snowplow with a group of men,...

Many photographs relate to Robert Louis Stevenson: various Stevenson houses, monuments, and other associated images. Includes portraits of unidentified children and adults. California landscapes and views of scenery around the southwest United States are also included. Many images are probably...

"Representative Men of Oakland" (1 item); Young Men's Hebrew Association (Oakland, Calif.) photographs (3 items); Jewish Community Center (Portland, Oregon) photographs (5 items); Camp Kelowa (Huntington Lake, Calif.) (1 item); J. Jacobs family photograph (1 item); Fleishhacker family photographs (2...

Photographs by Watkins show Mission San Jose (copied by Watkins ca. 1870's, from a daguerreotype of 1853-54), a "photomicrograph" of a flea, the Central Pacific ferry boat "Solano" crossing the Carquinez straits (from Watkins' New Boudoir Series #B3793), and the...

Contains various New Mexico views, including the old town in Albuquerque, pueblos, churches, adobes, etc.; several views from Manitou, Colo., such as the Cliff House and a bath house; general and specific views of Long Beach, Calif., including homes, a...

Various photographs from Los Angeles, California including: Palm Drive, Adams Street; St. James Park; Central Park; Fourth Street west from Main; two views of the home of I. W. Hellman near Hollywood; view of residential area S.E. from Nadeau Hotel...

Views of streets and buildings of Oakland, California.

Album includes garden photos of the Hacienda del Pozo de Verona and several views of a building and an arbor. In addition, the collection includes a number of portraits (many of Hearst family members); views of various residences from ca....

Includes photos of dead on a battle field and refugees in camps.

Includes: 1971.074--STER: 21 stereographs by E.L. Bickford -- 1971.075: outing photos by H.C. Bradley -- 1971.076: mountaineering views from the "Club de Exploraciones de Mexico" -- 1971.077-.082: Sierra Nevada photos by William E. Colby, Marjory B. Farquhar, Herbert W. Gleason,...

Unidentified single and group portraits of Haskell family members, many of whom were involved in California socialist movements, including the Kaweah colony. 1 photo of interior of a room.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Gift of Donna Stein and Henry Korn, 2004.

1: woodland or rural scene (numbered "4") by Salomon Gessner, 1775, with two women or nymphs in classical attire -- 2: woodland scene (numbered "5") by Salomon Gessner, undated, with one woman or nymph in classical attire -- 3: 20th...

Includes photos of UC Berkeley (1890's?) ; photos of 1906 San Francisco fire; San Quentin ferry ship; Point Richmond; one scene at a Santa Cruz Mountains mine shaft entrance after an explosion (ca. 1890.); two views of Marin Circle (Berkeley)...

Contains miscellaneous photos from various locations including a number of views from Oregon such as: hotels (many in Portland) and the Columbia River Gorge; logging and mining scenes (location?); San Francisco earthquake and fire photographs; photos of Indians (Cree and...

Handwritten documents from approximately the 1850s. Includes correspondence, lists of names, information on commissions, and financial information. One sheet has a Gior Magnani watermark.

Western views, in generally poor condition. Of note are several San Francisco views 1897-1905, including the City Hall (and Hall of Records), Market Street, and the conservatory in Golden Gate Park (hand colored). A hand colored view of oranges and...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Items captioned: Grand Musical Festival of the Pacific Saengerbund, San Jose ... -- National Herb Institute of China Main Office in America Grand Opening Banquet (group portrait) -- ... Dr. Besant and Krishnaji taken on their arrival in Los Angeles...

Various unrelated documents which include both typewritten and handwritten portions. One is an annotated example of correspondence by Maurice Elvey. The second document is an April 20, 1904 Western Union Telegram from Albert E. Fisk of Hillsboro, Illinois to Mrs....

Contains views of Salt Lake City, including Mormon Tabernacle, Bee Hive House, main street and buildings. California photos include views from San Francisco (Bush and Mason Streets), San Leandro, "Hayward Express" stage coach, unidentified school house and group portrait of...

Views of Alaska show a church at Sitka and the town of Kodiak. California scenes include San Bernardino, the Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel, the Carnegie Institute Building at Stanford University, and Mariposa Big Tree Grove.

Views of the Fairmont, Palace, and Grand hotels, a bread line, Call Building and the I.O.O.F. Building in ruines, and other scenes following the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Also includes photos of a neighborhood in Los Angeles,...

Includes 23 photos of Oakland (many wharf scenes) San Francisco, Alameda County-- 8 photos of Garberville-- 8 photos of Mendocino Co.-- 6 photos of Sonoma Co. and the North Bay-- 6 in named miscellany -- 8 unidentified miscellany. Views include...

1: Great Chinese dragon parade in Los Angeles Chinatown (by [Charles B.] Waite), showing Chinese men in traditional dress, dirt streets, and wood frame buildings -- 2: a block in Chinatown, Los Angeles (by Roberts & Fellows, no. 5064) --...

Views show Mushroom Park in the Garden of the Gods (and other Rocky Mountain scenes), Longfellow Monument, a scene in Mesa Verde National Park, cliff dwellings, campus buildings at the University of Colorado, and desert scenes including mud volcanos and...

Landscapes, portraits, lava flows, residences, Hawaiian girls and boys.

Includes: 1971.084--AX: Sierra Nevada photo by Eleanor Ryan -- 1971.085--B: "Winter shrine" photo by Henry E. Timby -- 1971.086: etchings and photos by George J. Young -- 1971.087--AX: photo club booth at the Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco, 1905 -- 1971.088--AX:...

A wide variety of subjects are represented, primarily of California and Western America. Includes panoramic or bird's-eye views of cities and towns, posters, portraits and group portraits, etc. Includes some views of Mexico, Panama, and South American towns.

Professionally-produced views of school children during staged classroom activities. Despite captions, children appear to be younger than high shool age. Subjects presented in teaching aids include Geography, U.S. History, Immigration, Transportation, and Economics. One print labelled "K.S. Practice teaching room."

Single items relating to California missions and churches; each cataloged separately.

Single items, numbered serially, relating to California missions and churches.

Mission records for Bautismos: Nos. 1-1918. (1817-1839); Matrimonios: Nos. 1-556. (1818-1839); Difunciones: Nos. 1-807. (1818-1839).

Account of his search for the origin of the emblem on a baptismal font cover in the San Xavier del Bac Mission, covering to some extent history of the Arizona and California missions and their cattlebrands. Photographs and drawings included.

Edward Vischer's was completed in 1878 and bequeathed to Vischer's son Hubert upon the artist's death that same year. The collection contains 49 water-colored drawings primarily featuring California's twenty-one Franciscan missions and their environs. The collection also contains 4 photographic...

Interior and courtyard views of the Mission Inn hotel: the Spanish Patio; the Spanish Art Gallery, and the Cloister Music Room (or Spanish Knights' Hall.)

Professionally-photographed views of the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif., taken by various photographers, chiefly at the turn of the 20th century.

Collection consists mostly of photographs, a small number of slides, pencil sketches and contact sheets. Depicted are San Francisco's Good Samaritan Community Center (Potrero Ave.); Mission Adult Center; Mission Community Center; and streets and buildings in the Mission neighborhood. Youth...

The records of Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc., a social service organization in San Francisco, from its founding in 1958 until 1972. Also some records from predecessor organizations dating back to 1941.

Book of baptisms of the mission, April 21, 1807-February 21, 1828; book of burials, May 16, 1807-November 18, 1825.

Photos show the Mission San Antonio de Pádua in ruins and during restoration sponsored by the California Historic Landmarks League. One shows an anniversary celebration of the mission. One photo shows two young men inside a room with tubs and...

Views of tile roof and garden wall of Mission San Fernando, San Fernando, Calif.

Photos show 2 views of the Mission San Jose before restoration, and 2 views of Jose de Jesus Vallejo's flour mill.

Mission records for baptisms, marriages and deaths, signed by officiating priests. v.1 Bautismos. (Nos. 1-6200; Sept 2, 1797-Nov 17, 1830); v.2 Bautismos. (Nos. 6201-8945; Nov 22, 1830-May 8, 1859); v.3 Matrimonios. (Nos. 1-2587, and Indice; Sept 24, 1797-May 17, 1859);...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collection contains views of Mission San Miguel, Mission San Luis Rey, and Mission Santa Inez. Also includes a photograph of the summit of Mt. Lowe showing the hotel and observatory, and a reproduction of an 1847 watercolor of the corner...

Chiefly snapshots in northern and central Mexico. The first page has a postcard of the Sarah Davis Deterding "College of Missions" in Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes many snapshots and group portraits of young women and children (presumably from American Protestant mission...

Fragments of materials probably relating to Mexican or California missions. Includes: portion of a play (12 leaves, bound); manuscript, ca. 1776, concerning a law regulating games of chance, which includes the names of the various games (1 leaf, folded); and...

Album contains postcards with views of California missions. Photographs show wilderness areas throughout the Sierra Nevada, and also Crater Lake National Park, Or. Some show the 1915 San Diego Exposition grounds and vicinity.

San Luis Rey -- Santa Inés -- San Diego -- San Buenaventura -- San Juan Capistrano -- San Fernando (2) -- San Miguel -- Santa Barbara (2)

Photographs document mission buildings of Mexico (and Arizona). Exterior and interior views are present, with an emphasis on interior details such as furnishings, religious art, and architectural elements. Exterior views show the effects of flood and other damage.

Most of the images concern four missions: San Luis Rey, San Fernando, San Juan Capistrano, and Santa Barbara, and their asistencias. Chiefly represented is mission architecture, although some friars and Indians are shown at San Luis Rey and Santa Barbara....

Two photographs of early San Francisco depicting 1: houses on sandy terrain of the Mission District, with a barrel in the street; 2: bird's-eye view, presumably taken from Telegraph Hill, of houses near waterfront with Golden Gate in background.

Copies made from negatives used by Bernard DeVoto in writing The Course of Empire (Boston, 1953). A Ms. by James Mackay (1759-1822), Notes on the Indian Tribes, ca. 1804, reflects Mackay's observations while serving the British North West Company in...

The correspondence consists mainly of letters to and from other iris growers, but also includes some re: libraries and librarianship.

Portraits; acitivist meetings; street scenes; a church bombing in McComb, Mississippi; construction; etc.

"Mixed Pickles," subtitled "Reminiscences of an Old Man Who Did Not Become President," is a 1931 typescript autobiography (104 p.) by Pierce, who describes himself as "at times trapper, hunter, canal builder, soldierette, musician, merchant, cowboy, banana planter, lawyer, judge,...

The papers document the passage of Measure E by the citizens of Berkeley, California, in 1998. This measure authorized a special tax to fund emergency services for severely physically disabled people. The city awarded the contract to Easy Does It...

Title devised by cataloger.

The collected writings of Duflot de Mofras, including newspaper clippings, manuscript copies, and published materials. Volumes 6, 8 and 9 composed entirely of published material.

Clippings of his writings on the Institut de France, Louis Pasteur, E. Jenner, Mesmer; reprints of his article on the geographic globe at the Paris Observatory and the prize for astronomy of the Académie des Sciences.

Scenes show: portrait of M'liss, name of actress Annie Pixley in lower left -- Arrival of the widow, cast list on verso -- M'liss rescuing the schoolmaster -- M'liss denoucing the Mexican.

Contains a poster drawn by Harris that compares Judah Maccabee to President Taft (1912, 2 copies) and another poster that compares Judah Maccabee to Gen. Edmund H.H. Allenby (1918, 2 copies).

The Mobilized Women of Berkeley records, 1917-1969, includes meeting minutes that serve as a record for the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors, general monthly meetings, bi-monthly luncheons, and annual meetings. They consist of attendance logs, address lists for members...

The collection consists of administrative materials from Oakland's Modern Day School dating from 1958 through 1966. Included are correspondence, constitution and by-laws, brochures, a meeting minute book, and some lists of board members and staff.

Official correspondence and documents, 1865-1878 compiled for Lava Beds National Monument, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Region Four, by Olaf T. Hagen, Regional Supervisor of Historic Sites, San Francisco, 1942.

Contents: Reels 1-5, selected items from U.S. army records at the San Francisco Presidio; reel 6, Applegate papers; reel 7, from the National Archives: selected items from War Dept., Adjutant General's Office - Fort Klamath and Camp Warner (Oregon) letterbooks...

Included are portraits of Captain Jack and the following prisoners of Capt. C.N. Throckmorton and Gen. Jeff C. Davis: Donald McKay and Jack's captors, Burgess and Bogus Charley, Schonchin and Jack, Black Jim, Bogus Charley, Boston Charley, Curly-Headed Doctor, Hooka...

The Photographic Views of the Mojave Route, El Dorado Canyon and Fort Mojave collection contains 41 photographic prints taken by Rudolph D'Heureuse in 1863. Pictured in the collection is the Mojave Desert region from the San Bernardino Valley and Cajon...

The Photographic Views of the Mojave Route, El Dorado Canyon and Fort Mojave collection contains 41 photographic prints taken by Rudolph D'Heureuse in 1863. Pictured in the collection is the Mojave Desert region from the San Bernardino Valley and Cajon...

V. 1: 1854-1858; v. 2: 1892-1907.

Mokelumne Hill papers, BANC MSS 97/141 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Clippings regarding strike, lawsuits, and other events.

Family background, education, postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Francisco, 1975-1977; scientist at Genentech, 1978-1994: somatostatin project, human insulin project, human growth hormone work, early days of Genentech, business strategies, monoclonal antibodies; work at Genencor; Glycogen, Inc., March 1990-November 1991;...

Views of commercial fishing and scenes of the fish trade at the piers of San Francisco, with emphasis on salmon, crab and herring fishing.

The Momo's Press Records consist of editorial files, records of magazine, and administrative files. Editorial files contain final copies, manuscripts, and production materials of books published by Momo's Press as well as correspondence and publicity materials. magazine records contain manuscripts,...

This collection is comprised of correspondence, genealogical research materials, a few newspaper articles and religious memorabilia of a Mexican family descended from Sicilian royalty. The majority of the papers appear to have been gathered together for the purpose of proving...

Studio portrait photographs, photographs of paintings, and snapshots of Moncada family members. Many are of Margarita Raigosa Y Moncada and family. Includes interior and exterior shots of homes and businesses in Mexico. Identified people and places include: Margarita Raigosa y...

36 ALS (ca. 600 pages) written primarily to his sister, "Nina," but including a few letters to his father. The letters cover the young Conte de Monclar's stay in Mexico as an attache of the French Legation, from his arrival...

Minutes of meetings, programs, by-laws, etc.

V. 1- Warrant stubs, 1861-62; v. 2- minutes, Board of Equalization, 1861-80; v. 3- records of property license and tax collector, 1864-67; v. 4- miscellaneous bills, 1878-86; v. 5- records of trial of John P. Lee for murder, 1891; v....

Holograph manuscript dated December 26-27, 1988 (19 leaves); photocopy of final corrected typescript, n.d. (9 leaves)

Contains 4 account ledgers, 1860-1884, for Wyrouck's general store in Virginia City, Montana Territory, listing names of numerous individuals and local businesses, including 2 bakeries, a meat market, miner's supply store, and a blacksmith. The first ledger also includes rental...

Letters and invoices from various Calif. merchants, mostly San Francisco, to the Montana Mining Co. in Marysville, Mont., regarding equipment and supply needs.

Concerns commerce and mining in Montana.

Newspaper clippings concerning Montana.

Bachelor of Science certificate from the College of Chemistry of the University of California, at Berkeley, for Montefiore Koshland.

Collection includes vacation pictures from Silver Lake (Amador County), Shasta Springs, Sacramento, Salt Lake City (Utah), the Monterey Bay area, a birds eye view of Quincy, and some family portraits.

Views of the Hotel del Monte, a missionary's oak tree, the Monterey waterfront, the interior of a fruit fair, the Carmel Mission, bathers at Pacific Grove, scenery, etc.

Captioned: First theatre in California -- Pacific House -- David Spencer House -- Ruins of Mexican jail -- Monterey Whaling Company -- Quartet House. Other photos show the bay, wharf, and boats; Chinese fishermen; street views showing businesses and inhabitants;...

Many photographs relate to ships and other maritime subjects such as lighthouses, wrecks, etc. Other photos show the Monterey Bay region more generally.

Views show Monterey, Cypress Drive, the Hotel del Monte (including an indoor swimming pool), Mission San Carlos, and other area scenes.

Photos depicting company property in San Benito County, Calif. Includes detailed views of mining equipment, slopes, coal belt and limestone, bunk and cook houses, etc. General views of the Priest Valley, Monterey Co., are also present.

Mainly petitions for land.

Deed, certificates and abstract of title for property in Pacific Grove and Carmel, California.

The Monterey Improvement Club, a local organization of Monterey, Calif., created in the 1920's to promote improvement in their community including education, keeping streets safe and clean, to organize parades and to control juvenile crime.

Accounts for the soldiers at the presidio. C-E 47 (1 v.) contains accounts for 1830. C-E 51 (1 v.) contains accounts for 1828, with some entries signed by Mariano G. Vallejo, José de Jesús Pico, Simón Cota, José Joaquín de...

This collection relates to the concession to build the Monterrey to Gulf of Mexico Railway; also included are documents concerning the proposed construction of railroad lines from Matamoros to Monterrey (built later), and from Matamoros to Guatemala.

Chiefly slides, descriptive notes by Montoya and related reports documenting the relocation, restoration and installation of two sculptures by Carter, "Ram" and "Goddess of the forest", at City College of San Francisco (PIC box 1). "Ram" was relocated from one...

Architectural views of momuments, both colonial and from the Republic of Mexico. Includes both interiors and exteriors in various locations; primarily Tacuba, Coyoacán, Tlalpan, and Churubusco, Mexico.

Correspondence with literary agents, Russell & Volkening, Inc. (Diarsuid Russell) and publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company (Sterling North, Hardwick Moseley, Waddell F. Smith and others), Macmillan Company (Glen Dines); W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (George P. Brockway, Storer B. Lunt, H.P....

Psychedelic posters promoting various concerts by Moonalice, mostly in San Francisco, and many taking place on the April 20 counterculture holiday in celebration of marijuana and cannabis culture. Posters feature artwork by prominent artists associated with psychedelic art of the...

The Thomas J. Mooney Papers document the attempts to free and vindicate Thomas J. Mooney who was wrongfully convicted of bombing the San Francisco Preparedness Day Parade of 1916. Although the collection does include personal papers of Mooney and his...

Mostly copy photographs of images taken chiefly between 1936 and 1939, presumably assembled by the Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee, depicting Thomas J. Mooney; Rena Mooney; Warren Knox Billings; views of the July 22, 1916 Preparedness Day parade in San...

Views of Panama Pacifc International Exposition buildings, grounds, artworks, banquets, speakers, foreign delegations, and honorary guests.

Ship repair, shipbuilding, and other structural steel building activities at Moore Dry Dock and Moore Shipbuilding in Oakland, California.

The collection consists of files of ephemera, newsclippings, and some correspondence relating to political action and social protest movements mainly in Northern California and mostly in Sonoma County. Mary Moore, a political and social activist and one of the original...

This collection contains the papers of the American poet, documentarian, producer, and public radio pioneer Richard O. Moore. It includes correspondence; manuscripts for poetry and prose; notebooks containing poetry and journal entries; and material documenting Moore’s involvement with KPFA public...

Collection consists of 13 journals written by William Moore and assorted other papers. Among the journals are five that document in detail Moore's sea and overland voyages (from Ireland to New York, from New York to Illinois, from Illinois/Iowa to...

Hattie and Minnie Mooser were hostesses who were a part of the bohemian and theatrical life of San Francisco. The collection consists primarily of scrapbooks documenting the Mooser sisters' interest and work in theater and their businesses (the Tiffin Room...

Three letters written by Mordecai Simon Cohen in Yiddish with Hebrew quotations and traditional messages for the New Year (Rosh Hashanah). One letter is from Cohen to his son, Pinchas Zelig Cohen, and his family; another to Mordecai Simon Cohen's...

Photoreproductions of selected items. Letter from M.G. Vallejo included.

Correspondence includes letters written in England and Wyoming during 1881-1886 concerning the Powder River Cattle Company of Wyoming, of which he was founder and promoter; correspondence with Sir Horace Plunkett (q.v. [Film Z-G 17]), a partner in the same firm;...

Contains personal files, correspondence, writings, research files, departmental and university files, and lecture notes documenting her education and career from 1905 to 1967.

Includes portraits, banquets, photos of women scientists in UC Berkeley laboratories and elsewhere. Some photos relate to the history of Iota Sigma Pi.

Letters from the officers of three ships engaged in trading and whaling on the coasts of California and Latin America. Contains: letter from George B. Worth, 1831 Oct. 12 (ALS, [3] p.), sent via the clipper ship Courier from Payta...

The Dale L. Morgan Papers are extraordinarily rich in source materials for historians of the Trans-Mississippi West during the 19th century. Major topics include the Mormon Church and related sects, mountain men, mapping and exploration of the Rocky Mountain and...

The Julia Morgan Architectural consists of Morgan's drawings, chiefly from her partnership with Ira Wilson Hoover and records of from her own firm, for the years 1907-1929. The collection contains pencil sketches, along with blueprints, linens, and one specification for...

Contains documents relating to quicksilver mining in California during the 1930's and 1940's and the Shasta Iron Company. Also includes a small amount of material on Howell-North Books and Press and personal papers with a black and white photograph possibly...

The collection includes doctoral and rabbinical certificates from Germany; clippings (1941-1956); a musical program autographed by Yehudi Menuhin; a scrapbook; two letters from Rabbi William Stern; and a photograph of Rabbi Winter giving an Eternal Light Medal to the first...

Letter from Andrew Jackson Smith (1815-1897) to Roger Jones, U.S. Adjutant General, written "Near Council Grove on march to Santa Fe," September 2, 1846 (1 l., A.L.S.); and covering letter for return for Mormon Battalion of which Smith had recently...

About 400 biographical sketches of Utah pioneers prepared by the Historical Records Survey and Federal Writer's Projects Administration, 1935- 1939, deposited in the Library of Congress.

Pertaining to the Mormon War of 1838 and its aftermath.

Photographs of unknown provenance which seem to document the lives of a group of Japanese American alumni of San Francisco's Morning Star Institute who attended the school prior to the Second World War.

Collection contains records of the Morning Star Mining Company, operating in Nevada and Alpine County, Calif. Stockholders and others associated with the company include H.C. Holmes, R.C. Keystone, and various members of the Todd and Gary families. Records include articles...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes views relating to the 1849 California gold rush depicting people rushing to California on the news of gold discovery, gold mining and miners, Indians attacking train, saloon life in San Francisco, and other related subjects.

Portraits of Morris Badt (:1), Morris Badt and Lena Posener Badt (:2) and Mirel (Myrle) Lipshuetz Badt (:3).

Description of journey from Iowa to California, with record of route and experiences with Indians, and mention of other members of the company. Notes by Elias Beck at the end of two letters.

Information and anecdotes relating to early California history, government missions, land grants and public records.

Views show a barber pole and hydrant in Needles, California (1938); and a view of a parlor near Norfolk, Nebraska showing a coal-burning stove (1947).

Typed transcripts of letters mainly relating to purchase of a horse for Laine and shipping it to the Hawaiian Islands. Included also is local news and information about the cost of mules and the price of honey in California.

Collection of political literature primarily from progressive organizations in California and Berkeley. Includes fliers, pamphlets, and newsletters concerned with veterans' affairs, McCarthyism, union issues, student activism, civil rights, and progressive political parties. Also includes sample ballots and election materials pertaining...

Family of R.M. Shanks resided in Barber County, Kansas.

The John Clifford Mortimer papers contain the literary manuscripts (holographs, revised typescripts, and revised typescripts with holograph additions) of his novels, stage and radio plays, scripts for television and screen, short stories, autobiographies, anthologies, articles, reviews, lectures and other writings....

Oakland and Berkeley, Calif., and the surrounding East Bay, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Also prominent are pictures of early airplanes and automobiles.

Correspondence, lecture notes, and business files relating to his career as architect and as professor, University of California, Berkeley.

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts and reprints of articles and lectures, and clippings, pertaining to his career as professor of history, University of California, and as U.S. Commissioner in the Philippines.

Ticket for passage from Boston to San Francisco aboard the ship Capitol, with list of passengers and crew; passport issued in Massachusetts, 1849; complaint and summons in case, Reed and Porter vs. Patten, Chase et al; and deeds to Chase...

Contains handwritten personal letters to and from various members of the Moses Emery family. Many of the letters are addressed to Moses Emery from his son, Thornton C. Emery. Some others are from another son, Charles C. Emery. Some are...

Contents: Diary, 1832-1834; letters from John Dougherty, Indian Agent at St. Louis, 1834-1837; correspondence and reports, 1832-1839. Materials concern his life as missionary and teacher of the Oto in Bellevue, Indiana Territory (now Nebraska).

Volumes of professional correspondence (1903-1906), including letters to Jacob Voorsanger, Jacob Nieto, Samuel Dinkelspiel, and others concerning the successes and failures of the agricultural settlement of Jews from Kishinev near Colusa, Calif; land deeds and titles; photographs of Moses and...

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Heilbron discusses his family background, and education at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and his service in Europe during World War II, the law firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, the formation of the...

Dan Duckhorn and his early life at Crocker-Citizens National Bank, and Matson Navigation Company; Duckhorn Vineyards startup; winemaking and management; marketing and distribution.

Many captioned items lacking from pages.

Family background, childhood and education in San Francisco; training as bioanalyst at the University of California, Berkeley; marriage to navy dentist Charles Hemphill; World War II, Hawaii, 1941-1943; executive director, Irwin Memorial Blood Bank, 1943-1982: personnel policies, evolution of techniques,...

Item captioned: Motion picture luncheon and reception in honor of Southern California's distinguised guests. The members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committees and the flag officers of the fleet, given by Jack L. Warner...

"Do You Know Your Bay Area" ca. 1973; "Sky's the Limit," 1978, produced by Kenneth White; and "Ticket to Ride," 1977.

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Primarily letters written to him, many of them relating to President Taft's visit to Alameda County in 1909; copies of some letters by him; a few copies of municipal reports; clippings; invitations, etc.

Title from accompanying documentation.

Covers over six decades of Mott's professional life as a student of landscape architecture and as a park and recreation professional managing parks at the local, regional, state, and national levels. A comprehensive collection of his speeches form the bulk...

Letters and documents of Isaac T. Mott and his son-in-law, Alexis W. von Schmidt, relating primarily to litigation involving Johnson's Rancho in Yuba County in the 1850s and to von Schmidt's survey work. Included are copies or drafts of letters...

This collection consists of an album of 54 photographic prints of Bohemian Grove activities, circa 1906-1909. Most of the prints are identified as Gabriel Moulin photographs. Included are photographs of groups of people and theatrical productions at Bohemian Grove. The...

This collection of Gabriel Moulin photographs consists of one album of 53 photographic prints and 7 loose photographic prints. The images consist of interior, exterior, and garden views of "The Pines" estate, taken circa 1927. The estate, owned by Mr....

Photographs of the production of "The Piper", a Bohemian Grove play of 1938 written by Dan Totheroh and Eugene Heyes.

Interior views of opulent home with furnishings. Electric lights visible.

Photos show a sunset from Twin Lakes, large cravasses on Mt. Baker, and ice climbers labeled "Kiser party ascending a perilous snowslope". One photo shows Field's Hotel near Lake Chelan.

Contains bylaws and minutes of annual shareholder meetings, beginning with the first held on Sept. 2, 1878, as well as miscellaneous correspondence, deeds, agreements, and other title records for claims recorded by George Edwards in 1880, and in 1882 with...

Photographs and accompanying report documenting buildings and grounds of Mount Carmel Ranch.

Correspondence, minutes of committee meetings, administrative reports, photographs, reference materials used in preparation of reports, and copies of reports prepared by the staff on the history of the redwoods and on Mt. Diablo. They relate to the projects sponsored by...

The Mount Hermon Association is based in Santa Cruz. Volume 1, 1906-1909, includes minutes of meetings of the board of directors; Volume 2, 1909-1914, includes minutes of meetings of the board of directors; Volume 3, 1906-1914, includes president's reports to...

Summit view includes 3 men with climbing sticks; Big Spring (source of the Sacramento River) view includes man standing at spring; Fellow's House view depicts croquet scene on lawn. All views captioned.

Series of 12 interviews documenting the peace mural unveiled in Mt. Shasta, California, in 2007. The interviews are with the lead artist, project coordinator, contributing artists, and community members who participated in the project. They detail the process of designing...

Receipts from Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, San Francisco, Calif. for school books ordered between 1897 June 2 - 1898 March 12. Some orders made by Rev. Arthur Crosby. Also includes receipts from Payot, Upham & Company, San Francisco, Calif. for...

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This collection contains minutes, bylaws, correspondence, departmental records, reports, financial records, publications, photographs, slides, audio tapes, books and memorabilia covering Mount Zion Hospital Association and successor institutions from its formation in 1887 up to its merger with the University of...

Records of mining company operating in Shasta County and Martinez, California, from 1896 to 1968.

Chiefly (or entirely?) mountain peaks in California's Sierra Nevada range.

Each print marked in ink or pencil with caption, date, and copyright notice of the Flag Studio.

Two views of mountain glaciers, one of the Eiffel tower, and one of a town with a lake and mountains in the background [possibly Switzerland?]

Stereographs concentrate on Mount Hood, Oregon and vicinty: group in a carriage, climbers in snow, men signalling into valley from summit of Mount Hood, glaciers, crevasses, ice formations, and other views related to mountaineering. Other stereos show the Arkansas River,...

Letter, May 30, 1853, from San Francisco, mentions activities of fellow Rhode Islanders, Lola Montez and impending Gwin-McCorkle duel.

Carton 1: Chris Jorgensen watercolors and drawings (many European), photographic portraits of Jorgensen in San Francisco, and family snapshots of the Littell family -- Carton 2: 11 albums and sketchbooks ca. 1900-1940. Includes European sketches by Virgil W. Jorgensen, snapshots,...

Portraits of a mixed race couple who ran a curio business in San Francisco's Chinatown. She is of European descent and he, Chinese. He wears traditional Chinese costume in all images, and she is in Western dress in one, Chinese...

Letters and reports relating to her daughter's education at the Academy of the Sisters of Notre Dame in San Jose.

Contains 2 letters requesting money.

Contains correspondence from Bernard Moses to Mrs. C.J. Blake discussing world events including the Russian Revolution, France, Germany, Japan, the League of Nations, Woodrow Wilson, Berkeley, Calif. and political views. Also includes a letter from an unknown friend in Japan...

One written by Ira B. Cross concerns stocks and the stock market, the other, 1925, is written from Paris by C. M. Gayley and deals with the poetry of John Masefield and the English educational system.

Kept by a Piedmont, California housewife. Diaries include information about daily life, current events and politics (domestic and international) and her travels.

Her reminiscences of childhood in Germany; voyage to America in 1855, then via Panama to San Francisco; life and various business enterprises in San Francisco, Sacramento, Alameda and Berkeley.

Souvenir views from Cavell Drive of Angel Glacier, Throne Mountain, Mount and Lake Cavell, Mount Sorrow, Pyramid Range and other sites.

v.1 & 2: copies of articles of incorporation and of minutes of meetings of board of directors and stockholders (including those of its predecessor, the Mill Valley and Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway); v.3 - 5: clippings re the railway and...

Views of glaciers and effects of mud flows on Mt. Shasta.

Correspondence, passports, army orders, accounts, certificates of appointments, fragments of diaries, mainly relating to his military career in Mexico and to his activities as Mexican consul in San Francisco, 1859-1863. Also included: ship manifests with related papers, copies of documents...

Letter from John Muir to Secor, accompanied by a letter to Secor from Muir's daughter, Wanda Muir [Hanna] (includes an envelope with incorrect postmark of Feb. 26, 1908).

This collection consists of digital images of the correspondence of John Muir from 1856-1914. The vast majority of the letters were sent and received by Muir, although the collection also includes some correspondence of selected family members and colleagues. Muir’s...

This collection consists of digital images of the correspondence of John Muir from 1856-1914. The vast majority of the letters were sent and received by Muir, although the collection also includes some correspondence of selected family members and colleagues. Muir’s...

Chiefly photographs pertaining to Nicaragua, the publication Nicaraguan Perspectives and the Nicaragua Information Center.

Images documenting buildings, architectural details, town and city scenes, urban landscapes, natural attractions, and the history and antiquities of Mexico. Emphasis is on architecture (colonial and modern) and pre-Columbian sites, and on costume and cultural "types" of various regions. Collection...

Correspondence with institutions in the United States and abroad to solicit interest in housing Mujica's Collection of original hand drawn reproductions of the art and architecture of pre-Columbian Mexico and New Spain. Also personal letters concerning his stay in the...

Papers of David Donald (Don) Mulford, California State Assemblyman for the 16th District and the 18th District (Oakland-Berkeley-Piedmont) from 1957 to 1970.

Printed forms; one filled in.

Snapshot photograph album of Munder family travels to various Northern California locations. General topics include camping, hunting, fishing, automobile travel, boats and boat yards. Among the particular points of interest are San Francisco (Golden Gate Park, Islais Creek, Lux School,...

Portraits: old man characters.

Correspondence relating mainly to Murdock's activities as editor of the Pacific Unitarian and as a printer. Drafts of talks on various subjects for the Chit-Chat Club, San Francisco, also included.

Related collection: BANC MSS C-D 792: Biography of the Murphy family prepared for Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth (1888).

Box 1: Correspondence, original letters and transcripts, of Walter and Alexander Murray with family in England, including accounts of Walter's journey to America from England in 1843 and his work as printer in Boston, life in San Luis Obispo, crimes...

Five letters total: 2 letters from Henry E. Murray to his brother, both written from San Francisco; 1 letter from F. S. Murray to his wife, written from Panama; 2 letters from James M. Thayer to F. S. Murray's widow,...

portraits of military officers, women activists, soldiers in camp, scenes after battles, executions, and street scenes. Views in and around Agua Prieta, Columbus (New Mexico), Veracruz, Tampico, and Cuernavaca are included (among others). Also includes group portraits from the First...

The Murray R. Benedict Papers document Benedict's career as a professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1931 to 1961. Included in the papers are course materials, subject files, information on his committee work and publications....

Subject file containing correspondence, notes, publications, reprints, excerpts, and clippings concerning his interest and activity in ecology, forestry and range management particularly in the Southwest.

Contains receipts for the Musante & Button Oil Company and the McNear & Button Oil Company in California.

The Charles Muscatine papers include materials related to the Loyalty Oath controversy, his involvement with the Free Speech Movement (FSM), the Collegiate Seminar Program (Strawberry Creek College), and undergraduate education reform more generally. There are administrative files, conference materials, correspondence,...

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The Muybridge Lone Mountain Collection of photographs consists of 1700 stereographs, 6 albums and 39 individual photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, chiefly taken during the years 1867 to 1875.

The Stereographic Views of San Francisco Bay Area Locations collection consists of 42 stereographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge from circa 1865 to circa 1879.

Mammoth plate views of Sierra Nevada scenery, primarily of the Yosemite Valley. Includes one view of the Mariposa giant sequoia grove.

Includes sketches in Marin Co. (San Rafael and Mt. Tamalpais), Oregon and Washington mountains, Columbia River scenes, Fort Ross (Calif.), and some South American and European scenes. Also contains some unidentified portraits and caricatures - including Russian soldiers.

Includes photographs related to: livestock & ranges, forestry, watersheds, wildlife habitat improvement, plants and weeds, etc., primarily in California and Arizona.

Collection of transcriptions in various hands, from Spanish and Mexican sources, relating to disturbances in Mexico and dealing primarily with the outbreak of January, 1624, the related disputes of the Marqués de Gelves with the Audiencia and Archbishop Juan Pérez...

Recollections of the reign of Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlota in Mexico, written some 43 years after the events by a daughter of one of Carlota's ladies-in-waiting. Her account covers the period of preliminary negotiations and the election of Maximilian...

Include subject files, correspondence, and clippings regarding Jaffa's work.

The collection consists of an illuminated book presented to Rabbi Levy when he left the First Hebrew Congregation (Temple Sinai) of Oakland; the book was signed by D. Magnes.

Includes 1 typescript biography of James William Ramsey; 5 letters to the Sierra Club, History Committee, Marshall Kuhn; 4 photos and artifacts (1 tie pin, 1 watch chain, 1 wedding ring, 5 arrow heads) related to the collection.