Notes on his family and background; experience in liquor business; history of Sussman, Wormser & Company; labor relations and employer groups; his public service.
Contains mostly correspondence along with some poems, typescript manuscripts, and photocopies of art work and cartoons. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to S. Clay Wilson from three Beat era poets, Charles Plymell, Kell Robertson, and Richard Miller, covering...
Consist of files on engineering projects, including bridges, underwater platforms and pilings in California, such as the Hunter's Point submarine quay wall, Richardson Bay Bridge Widening, the Feather River Bridge, the Martinez-Benicia Bridge and others in California. Files include a...
Includes transcript of an interview with the sociologist, conducted by Charles Susskind and Arlene Inouye, re methods for predictions of technological inventions and trends, including discussion of some of Gilfillan's own predictions. Also, a reprint of the article by Susskind...
A few poems (draft, fair copy, and newspaper clipping) and one letter to John [Marshall?].
Letters to John and Mary Marshall, and typescript copies, some with revisions, of unpublished poems.
Letterpress copybooks containing letters to other merchants and also customers, ship captains and family, with extensive comments regarding San Francisco commercial transactions (particularly cargoes of arriving clipper ships), real estate investment, and economic conditions (prices, goods, etc.); and on decision...
Papers of pioneer ecologist, physicist, and philosopher. Includes correspondence, mainly re his writings and lectures, drafts of books, articles and lectures, and transcripts of radio commentaries.
The papers date from the late 1930s through the early 1970s, with most materials from the 1960s. Included is correspondence, teaching materials, research materials, and drafts of books and articles. Also included are materials relating to professional associations and committees...
Contains printed field study note cards (14 x 24 cm) with a list of the names of S.A. Barrett's consultants who are Native American basket weavers. Affixed to each card is a close-up photograph snippet of a basket detail. A...
File assembled to obtain replacement of an official certificate, with documentation primarily on his military career and his participation in various campaigns during and after the Mexican-American War, 1846-1853. Includes drafts of his request, original documents concerning appointment by J.M....
Contains 11 letters among members of the Sackett family based in Ashland, Oregon. Topics of letters include fruit growing, a local flood, railroad strike of 1894 which delayed return of mother in San Francisco Bay Area and a letter discussing...
Includes typescript and page proof of Some reflections of an early California governor (Frederick Low)
Souvenir print booklet containing scenic views of Sacramento.
Pre-emption claims and title documents for lands in the city and county of Sacramento to Jared Sheldon and others.
Include receipts, petition of citizens and an affidavit.
View depicts flooded street with rowboats and people on balconies above covered sidewalks. A sign reading "coffin wareroom" is prominent at right.
Views of buildings and streets during the flood, with signs on businesses visible.
From the T.W. Norris Collection.
Photos captioned: Switch engine guarded by soldiers while switching, during the 'strike', Sacramento 1894 -- Wreck of train #4 by 'strikers' in Yolo Co. 3 miles from Sacramento July 11th 1894... -- U.S. Marshall Baldwin haranguing the 'strikers' at the...
Large leather and corduroy covered accounting ledger book listing amounts fo invoices, disbursements, and vouchers by name and date. Also includes annotations of balance sheet statements with references to orders from the Railroad commission and required statements to be submitted...
Collection contains a blank Sacramento Valley Railroad Company stock certificate with note on verso indicating that this was the type issued to R.S. & Co. (Robinson Seymour & Co.) but which was not surrendered to J.P.R. (Jas. P. Robinson) when...
Primarily views and portraits by early California photographers. Sacramento scenes and images relating to photographers (their work places, communities, family members, and some self portraits) predominate. Stereographs include the Sacramento flood of 1862 and general street and town views. A...
Mainly portraits of Cornwall and family members. Includes an exterior view of the Century Club of California.
Childhood in Colorado; father's work as a coal miner; military service in World War II; first job as a bus driver with Key System, 1946; job training, routes, and equipment; thoughts on the union; two-month strike, 1953; transition to all-bus...
Include letter from William Henry Safford to his brother, 1833; papers of his son, Hiram Sprague Safford, including an 1864 Civil War letter and his incomplete autobiography, concerning his childhood and education in New York State and his experiences during...
The bulk of the collection is snapshots of a United States Navy voyage from Boston, Mass. to San Diego, Calif. with additional 8x10 photographs of USS Raleigh and family snapshots. Views include sailors and naval officers, ship deck, people selling...
A one act farce.
Photographs and drawings of interior and exterior of building, garden, grounds, etc. Sketches show proposed remodeling for W. R. Hearst.
Consists of correspondence and other routine working files from her tenure from 1983-1987 in the 98th, 99th, and 100th Congresses of the United States House of Representatives. Correspondence is chiefly incoming from fellow members of Congress, friends and constituents, and...
Copy of sale, involving the transfer of ownership of 45 slaves, certified in the office of, and by, the judge of the parish of Avoyelles, May 11, 1846.
Photographs documenting the history, plant, operations, offices, workers and products of the company. Includes photographic reproductions of patents and other certificates, letters ordering the company's machines, etc.
Photographs of the harbor of Salina Cruz (Oaxaca, Mexico), many of them multi-print, panoramic views of the town. Many images depict railroad activities and quarrying. Also includes 5 letters pertaining to the employment in Salina Cruz of electrical engineer Louis...
Letters describe her life as a new arrival in San Francisco.
Notes on her childhood in the South during the Civil War; California, 1870, and life in the San Joaquin Valley; experiences as the wife of a Methodist minister.
American war posters created during the First World War pertaining to various subjects, including promotion of Liberty Bonds and other monetary investment; Navy and Marines recruiting; troop morale, loyalty and honorable discharge; and general patriotism and support of the military...
Describes his experiences during the Civil War as a soldier with the New York Volunteers. With these: reminiscences by his wife, Ann Elizabeth Casten Beardsley; and a paper based on the letters, written by his descendant, Nancy Jacobsen.
Contains correspondence concerning Salomon Schonfeld's business activities in Red Bluff, mostly from his brother Jonas in San Francisco. Includes receipts, some illustrated, for payments by Schonfeld to various local businesses, such as dry goods stores and newspapers. Also includes receipts...
Views show Temple Street in Salt Lake city. One of the views shows business buildings, including Carter's View Emporium [business of photographer C.W. Carter.]
Small format professional views of Salt Lake City landmarks, including the Utah state capitol building, Eagle Gate, Brigham Young monument, Mormon Temple, Memorial Monument, Mormon Tabernacle interior with choir, Mormon Battalion monument, and Seagull monument. Also includes a cityscape view...
A view of Salt Lake City from Prospect Hill and a view of Temple Block.
Commercial views of Great Salt Lake depicting Garfield Beach Resort, Garfield Landing, Black Rock and Antelope Island. Views include swimmers, boats, and other signs of recreation.
An account of the federal emergency programs, particularly fire protection and timber salvage, after the 1938 New England hurricane. Photographs and map inserted. Appended: Peirce's correspondence with Amelia R. Fry relative to preparation of his statement. Included also: Peirce's original...
Six letters with envelopes (15 p.), six b&w photographs, and two newspaper clippings from and about Burgey family members serving in different capacities in the U.S. Army with Gen. Pershing and Lt. Patton during the hunt for Pancho Villa in...
Photographs of scenes inside the Black Cat Café, a bar on the outskirts of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. One image, titled "Portrait of my wife, Clare", depicts an artist sketching the portrait of a woman seated at his table....
Portraits of Charles Bukowski posing in various settings: sitting in a shack; lying in bed with a baby doll and beer bottles; standing in the lobby of an unidentified building; leaning on a pole at a street corner (perhaps in...
Materials relates mainly to San Francisco.
The collection contains a complete set of reports published by Kaiser Engineers and Kaiser Engineers International. Reports are numbered and filed sequentially, 1-308 and five are unnumbered.
Photographic prints of Apia, Samoa and Samoan people. Also includes portraits of Maori.
Consists of letters to Captain Samuel Brimblecom concerning the Chinese opium trade. Correspondents include H. DuCommun, Gilmor Meredith, Robert Jackson, Russell & Co., Bush & Co., and D. Rustomjee & Co.
Deed for property in Philadelphia, Penn.
The collection consists of materials relating to the Lipman, Harris, Lesser, Hirshfeld, Bibo, Levy, and Salmonson families, including the following: a booklet written by Rowena Lipman, "The Family of Isaac and Rebecca Harris," that has information about the family history...
Contains 18 legal size typescript (mimeographed) sermons, some with manuscript additions and corrections, on a variety of Christian religious topics and 3 legal size typescript (mimeographed) detailed travel narratives about an ocean trip around Cape Horn (Fall of 1852-February 1853,...
Two handwritten letters from a man to his brother-in-law informing him of his plans to take his family to California for the gold rush opportunities there. He gives descriptions of the caravan of wagon trains and the large numbers of...
Mainly correspondence relating to mining and metallurgy, including his discovery of the cyanide process for gold extraction. Some of it relates also to the building of the Hearst Mining Building. Also included are papers relating to the Dept. of Mining...
Some letters addressed to H. T. Gillson, a college chum and confidant. Two letters of 1880 provide a self-estimate of Butler at the age of 44. With these: menu for a dinner in memory of Samuel Butler, 1908.
Contains materials related to May's professional activities including correspondence, writings, documents related to conferences attended, organizations May belonged to and to his teaching. Also includes materials related to his retirement and a small amount of personal papers.
Contains handwritten and printed correspondence, speeches, dedications, poems, reviews, song sheets, etc. One of the letters (18 p.), dated May 6, 1878, contains an extensive autobiographical account of Upham's life including his family history, his brief time as a gold...
Concerning items from Damon's library lent to H.H. Bancroft.
Box 1: Material, ca. 1929-31, regarding his interest in East Bay regional parks, including correspondence with East Bay Regional Park Association, U.S. National Park Service (with letters from Ansel F. Hall), Duncan McDuffie, and others, and related reports and papers...
With this: obituary clipping from the American Phrenological Journal.
Description of San Francisco; failure of the National Gold Bank and Trust Company in San Francisco; life at Rose's Station near Bakersfield, California, and at Fort Union, New Mexico.
Eighteen letters mainly addressed to his sister, Mary D. Emlen, with explanatory note by C. Emlen Scott.
Record of voyage, 1850, from New York to San Francisco, via Isthmus of Panama; life in the mines (mainly in El Dorado Co.); ranching in Yolo Co.
Contains an agreement between Samuel F. Tracy, a New York City merchant and Orlando C. Osborne, for Osborne to refine gold found by Tracy's men in California. Also contains a memorandum of an agreement between Tracy and Leander Freeman, captain...
Samuel Frew letters, BANC MSS C-B 547:41, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Personal and professional correspondence; minutes; speeches; publications and reports; photographs; and newspaper clippings.
Correspondence, invitation, business cards, and programs concerning his life and activity in California.
Correspondence; articles and clippings; and My Exciting Exodus, a manuscript by Ghinsberg that describes both how, in 1900, he led thousands of Jews from Romania and Russia to the U.S. and his meeting with Theodor Herzl.
Consists primarily of memoirs of Samuel H. Auerbach, composed late in life, recounting family history, including detailed anecdotal account of youthful experiences in Germany, migration to New York, voyage to California via Panama, and life in La Porte, California, Austin,...
The collection includes a photograph of Samuel Harris (1911); letters from Rabbi Martin Meyer to Samuel Harris (1912-1914); and a letter from Rabbi Rudolph Coffee (1922) to Moses Harris about the appointment of Melbourne Harris (Moses' son) to a pulpit...
Collection consists of papers, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to the family of Samuel Hirsch of San Francisco. Among the papers are some of Samuel Hirsch's professional and organizational correspondence; papers, clippings and a memorial scrapbook relating to Rabbi Mayer Hirsch;...
Samuel Hopkins Willey papers, BANC MSS C-B 767, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photographs include banquet scenes, portraits, and many publicity photographs for stage performances at the Greek Theater at U.C. Berkeley. The name "Berkeley Festival Association" appears on some of these pieces. Also includes color plates (from an unidentified source) showing medieval...
Exterior and interior snapshots of Hume residence.
Certificates and diplomas of Samuel James Corbett and various family members.
Samuel James Corbett papers, BANC MSS C-F 95, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
of Ellen L. Fisher;
Includes individual and group portraits of Nutting and Chickering family members, including Samuel Lawrence Nutting, his wife Ellen Chickering Nutting, and other relatives and associates. Family members depicted in the ambrotype group portrait by Vance (item 1) are unidentified but,...
Memorial book for Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (homeopath) that contains eulogies from Jewish and non-Jewish newspapers and from homeopathic journals in America, Germany, and England.
Includes a memorial from Wells Fargo Bank; a letter of introduction from the mayor of San Francisco, James Rolph; a report card for Elizabeth Lilienthal from San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El; and a photograph of Samuel's sister, Caroline Lilienthal Esberg.
Correspondence, accounts, and miscellaneous papers as secretary of the Mokelumne and Campo Seco Canal and Mining Company, and of the Montgomery Gold and Silver Mining Company; miscellaneous papers relating to mining property in Calaveras County; tables of rainfall in Mokelumne...
Re the second volume of his Legends and Stories of Ireland, and his portrait of Dr. John Lingard, Feb. 8, n.y.
Chiefly correspondence, including 59 letters and greeting cards from Samuel Steward to Paul Padgette, with copies of 12 letters from Padgette to Steward, regarding their work, travels, and mutual friends; includes 5 letters regarding Steward's "Dear Sammy". Also includes a...
Mainly accounts, promissory notes, receipts and papers relating to business and to property in Sacramento.
Typescript biography (43 p.) entitled "Fremont's blacksmith: Samuel Neal," letters, and photographs related to Samuel Neal (1816-1859) and the Durham family. Biography written by Edna Hollenbeck (née Edna Reynolds Durham). Photographs include a portrait of Neal and a picture of...
Papers as superintendent of schools and sheriff of Siskiyou County. Includes letters to Fair, accounts as sheriff, personal accounts, report on School District No. 1; writs of attachment and certificates of sale issued from various courts.
Nine handwritten letters of a gold miner from Mercer, Pennsylvania, working the gold areas in Amador County, California, to family members. A self-described "Copperhead" concerning the Civil War, Pearson paints a vivid picture of a miner's experience seeking his fortune...
Writing as Roach's business agent, he comments on business conditions and opportunities in the city, the construction of various buildings, purchase and rental of real estate, destructive fires in the city, the effects of the '55 depression, mining investments, and...
Portfolio of 11 letters dated 1789-1818 relating to the career of the British law reformer; include letters to Jeremy Bentham, and opinions on various cases, mainly relating to litigation in the settlement of estates.
Journal kept while commanding the Third Ohio Infantry, chiefly on occupation duty at Matamoros, Camargo and Saltillo, 1846-1847. Some correspondence, including drafts of letters to General Taylor and President Polk and letters from General Wool. Drafts of rules for the...
Items include Stern's permit to leave Germany (1851), and his American naturalization papers which were issued in Santa Clara County, California (1875).
Correspondence, research files, patents, articles, mostly concerning Untermyer's nuclear reactor work at General Electric Company.
Scenes from a gold seeking expedition to the Kotzebue Sound region of Alaska on the schooner Penelope. Several subjects, including sailors, Eskimos, ice camping and fishing, totem poles. General locations depicted include Kotzebue Sound, Bering Sea and Kobuk River.
Letter to his mother, Auburn, Oregon, April 18, 1866. With two letters from G.B. Draper, Portland and San Francisco, to J.F. Leonard in Boston, concerning Leonard's estate, 1867.
Selected entries, covering experiences with the Mormons at Nauvoo, Ill.; assistance in preparing for the exodus and for his own mission to England in 1846; life in Salt Lake City after his arrival in 1850; work as member of the...
Collection consists primarily of photographs of members of the Samuels, Palinbaum, Korn, Moore, Chaxel, Barth, and Roth families; also contains some photographs of family members from Seattle, Washington, and South Bend, Indiana.
Documents collected by Thomas Savage from the San Antonio de Padua Mission in 1878 for the Bancroft Library. Mainly reports of the mission and papers relating to marriage dispensations.
Includes also records for San Carlos Borromeo Mission, San Miguel Mission, San Luis Obispo Mission and San José de Guadalupe Mission.
Contains abstract of titles for land in San Bernadino: v. 1 includes map of land in Section 11 and 14; v. 2 starts with land of Don Antonio Maria Lugo, Rancho San Bernadino, granted by the Mexican government.
Title from caption on verso.
Includes letterpress copybooks, account books, correspondence, payroll records, and other financial records. Also includes records of the San Bernardo and Salinas Valley Canal Company, including by-laws, minutes of stockholder meetings, 1907-1913, and book of stock certificates.
Information on the Brandenstein and Rosenberg families and the Ranch; development of San Ardo, etc.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Volume 1: Inventory of church furnishings (1793-1832); volume 2: Accounts: for livestock, grain, implements and Indians of the mission (1795-1810); income and expenditures of the town treasury (1826-1848).
Views show an old town in San Diego County, a couple in a boat on a lake at Baldwin's Ranch [probably Lucky Baldwin's estate, Arcadia, Calif.], and the San Gabriel mission.
Includes an aerial view of the San Diego waterfront showing projected site of the Panama-California exposition, and views of: Coronado Beach, West Lake Park in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Escondido Valley. One photo of the U.S. Grand Hotel (San...
Photographs show various views of San Diego and Coronado, including the Hotel del Coronado, various missions, public buildings and private residences, etc.
Two views of unpaved city streets (one looking up 6th from E Street), one of Del Mar farm, and one of Del Mar beach.
Includes application for berth of pilot in harbor of San Diego, letter from postmaster of San Diego regarding non-arrival of mail, and license from the Custom House for schooner H.C. Almy.
Photos show a party of boats riding in the San Diego flume, a view of horse-drawn wagons with supplies of lumber, and a view of men working on construction of the flume.
Original typed transcripts in: the San Diego Historical Society.
Views of hydraulic operations in progress including equipment, miners and visitors. Clearly shown are pipelines, high pressure hoses, sluices, and eroded hillside. Location presumed to be the San Domingo Mine, near Altaville, in Calaveras County.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Exterior views of neighborhood convenience markets in various San Francisco locations, corresponding to the same images published in Chamlee's book of the same title.
Title from caption.
Album containing snapshots of various ruins in San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire, and scenes from various refugee camps in the city. Some landmarks depicted include City Hall, Ferry Building, collapsed houses on Howard Street, Market Street, the...
70 pages of documents relating to the San Francisco Earthquake Fire Included are correspondence, memoranda, and reports which record federal emergency response by the Army's Presidio of San Francisco. Also included are the report and related correspondence concerning Lieutenant Frederick...
1: a wide view of San Francisco in ruins, from Nob Hill (numbered 14 in negative) -- 2: a group of people and an automobile parked among ruins, identified on verso as "part of China town, Best Store", (but appears...
Album contains views taken by R.J. Waters & Co. related to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicting fires burning, fire damage, earthquake effects on buildings, and refugee camps. Among the many subjects are San Francisco City Hall, the...
Compiled and written by a group of young seminarians; preface by Rev. Eugene J. Boyle, co-chairman.
Three photographs of damage resulting from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 (stamped "Shaw & Shaw" on the verso); and 2 photographs of Market Street, San Francisco, illuminated for the Portola Festival, probably the first, 1909.
Items captioned (with photographer's numbers): Chinese Quarter, S.F., Ca. B58 -- Market Street from Third Street, San Francisco, looking east. B522 -- Palace Hotel, San Francico, Cal. B70 -- Court, Palace Hotel, S.F., Cal. B25 -- View of San Francisco...
This collection of earthquake and fire views from 1906 consists of 39 photographic prints in stereograph form. Several of the images have duplicate copies, bringing the total number of images to 43. Some photomechanical prints are included. The photographers are...
Views of San Francisco include general views, the Lincoln Schoolhouse, and street construction. Other California views show the town of Santa Clara, hydraulic mining, the Abraham Lincoln giant sequoia, and a view in Yosemite. Also includes a view of Mexican...
Photographs show the Hotel del Monte in Monterey, historic buildings in the Monterey area, missions, and the Lick Observatory. San Francisco views show Fort Point, Golden Gate Park, a broad view from Jones and Washington, and a stereograph of the...
Collection contains glass negatives of views taken in San Francisco during and after the disaster of 1906. Views show fires burning, earthquake and fire damage, refugees and refugee camps. Includes many views of ruins of churches and synagogues. Locations and...
Includes 22 photographic prints of the interior of the San Francisco Mint (including workers, operations, managers, and offices, ca. 1899), 2 glass negatives of the interior of the Victorian Keeney home in San Francisco, 25 souvenir stamps from the Panama...
Recollections of introduction to printing; the Toyon Press; the Black Vine Press; printers and fine printing in the Bay Area, with comments on John J. Johnck, Harold Seeger, Lawton Kennedy, Wilder Bentley, the Grabhorns, the Taylors, Brother Antoninus, John H....
Includes portraits of members of the San Francisco Ballet.
Experiences working with tugboats on the Bay for Thomas Crowley & Brothers and Crowley Launch and Tugboat Company; description of Barbary Coast, Bay fisheries, San Francisco wharves, etc. Photographs inserted.
Title devised by cataloger.
Album shows women on an ocean trip to Tahiti, Stanford University earthquake damage (1906), camping and picnicking scenes, parade in San Francisco(?), mining scenes in unknown locale, and unidentified residences.
Views of Yosemite and San Francisco. Includes one group portrait of unidentified people.
Primarily earthquake & fire damage in San Francisco, with some views in Oakland and some of Stanford University.
The San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake of 1868 collection contains eleven cartes de visite and two stereographs taken in 1868 by various photographers. The collection documents the damage exacted by the Hayward earthquake of October 21, 1868, estimated to have...
Photos depict moving of a lighthouse from San Francisco to Tinsley Island, Calif., to serve as a clubhouse for St. Francis Yacht Club.
Contains correspondence, pamphlets, reports, drawings and maps relating to possible highway and bridge projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. Projects include a Geneva Ave bridge near Candlestick Park to Hayward; a San Francisco to Tiburon bridge through Angel Island;...
Contains seating charts to various Bay Area theaters.
Received with BANC MSS 2005/283.
Includes individual and group portraits (President Theodore Roosevelt, President Taft, both in Oakland; Taylor family, Thomas family), street scenes.
Large-format photographic prints documenting construction of a pipeline, presumably for irrigation. Workers are shown digging a ditch and laying pipe at an unidentified location near a shoreline in the San Francisco Bay Area, perhaps in Marin County.
Posters pertaining to miscellaneous Bay Area political and cultural topics: 1: People's Park, a photographic show [Phoenix Gallery, Berkeley. Photograph: Warren F.S. Yee.] 2: Twas ever thus, says Mr. Natural. [Artist: R. Crumb.] 3: Free all psychiatric inmates. [San Francisco-based...
Original fliers and posters advertising punk rock concerts. performance art, film, or other arts events, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Architectural projects in San Francisco, Berkeley, and other unidentified Bay Area locations. Includes exteriors as well as interiors showing furnishing and fixtures in the Arts and Crafts mission style. Several views of Native American pueblo dwellings are included.
Handbills promoting concerts at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco), the Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco), and Jabberwock Restaurant and Coffeehouse (Berkeley). Artists include Victor Moscoso, Wes Wilson, Lee Siegel and John H. Myers. Performers listed include The Doors, Country Joe...
Includes slides of the 1964 Republican Convention in San Francisco, photos of Richmond, Calif. (1914-1915), troop review at Camp Kearny, a photo of Culbert Olson, and related ephemera.
Photographs document an International Hotel protest (eviction of Filipino American veterans) in San Francisco's Chinatown, a Bakke case protest (affirmative action), a child and father in a gay rights protest or pride parade (anti-Anita Bryant), a Native American elder at...
Commercial stereograph views of various points of interest in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Locations depicted include several tourist attractions in San Francisco and Oakland; the U.C. Berkeley campus; Marin County (Mill Valley, Muir Woods, Alpine Lake, Mount...
Two views are rural landscapes in the vicinity of north Berkeley and what would later become El Cerrito, near the county line of Contra Costa and Alameda County, Calif. The third view is a wooded stream, Penitencia Creek, in Santa...
Recollections of her father, Herman Whitaker, her husband, Xavier Martinez, and of Jack London, George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, and other writers and artists; life in Piedmont and Carmel; Harriet Dean and the Little Review; her daughter and son-in-law,...
7 35 mm. slides picture the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and a view of the Berkeley hills, ca. 1960-1965. Lantern slides, apparently messages for projection to theater patrons, depict portraits of presidents and also include hand colored slides with messages...
Views of San Francisco (one 1837 general view of the city), streets and buildings, Montgomery Street in 1850's, the first Ferry Building, the old Vallejo Street Wharf, the Waterfront in 1860's, and other views.
Photographs of billboards posted on walls around construction sites and lots in San Francisco during the years following the 1906 earthquake and fire. Billboards advertise San Francisco Examiner, Ridgway's Tea, San Francisco Evening Globe, Morgan & Wright Tires, Hunter Whiskey,...
V.1, loose sheets bound together for blocks, 317-420, 1868?-1869?; v.2-3, Homesteads; v.4, Mission blocks 1-203 & Mission plaza. Horners addition, blocks 2-258; v.5, City Hall lots and South Beach blocks; v.6, Fifty vara survey, blocks A-J and 1-316; v.7, Outside...
Lithograph shows a five portraits of San Francisco Board of Fire Commissioners members. Negatives show a sculpture or sculptures, possibly by Arthur Putnam, and also a medallion bearing the words: The Green Knight Garnett Stricklen August 5 1911 (apparently refering...
Possibly mock-up or student project. Volume contains stylized amateur views depicting various subjects and scenes in and around San Francisco, including several views of the Palace of Fine Arts as well as cityscapes, beaches and waterscapes, ships, statuary, Civic Center...
Photos show views of San Francisco buildings, including one at Montgomery Street, an apartment building, the I. Magnin store at Grant and Geary, and the Hotel Brillant.
Primarily architectural details, such as doorways, stairs, windows, porches, roof lines, etc., of Victorian buildings.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Includes scrapbooks; minute books; newspaper clippings; photographs (including a 1921 photograph of a classroom that the Bureau used); and correspondence that relates to or documents the activities of the Bureau and its members.
Bills, statements and receipts from various firms in San Francisco.
Contains correspondence and mass mailings, membership lists, minutes, resolutions, handouts and publications and other ephemera dealing with the labor movement and unions of the late 1930's, in San Francisco, Calif. Most documents are from the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists...
Contains ledgers of fines imposed and collected, and bail receipts for the Police Court in San Francisco.
Contains the roll call of police officers in San Francisco, Calif. The 1888 volume also includes lists of officers' misconduct and of officers' removal from duty by either dismissal, resignation, or death.
Collection contains views of a crowded Ocean Beach with Cliff House in the distance; Southern Pacific ferry "Melrose"; two San Francisco street scenes showing street cars and automobiles (one showing Market Street); the Muir Inn at Muir Woods; a view...
Leases, deeds, title searches for property in San Francisco. Includes some manuscript maps.
The bulk of the collection consists of various forms of legal documents pertaining to real estate transactions in San Francisco, California including deeds, mortgages, conveyances, leases, abstracts of title, tax receipts, etc.
Includes 6 cartes de visite portraits and 1 tintype portrait of unidentified individuals. Identified photographers are all San Francisco studios.
Views of Chinatown, San Francisco, in 1908, depicting Grant Ave. (formerly Dupont St.), a Chinese parade, a shoe-maker, a pharmacy, and a fortune-teller.
The San Francisco Chinese Community and Earthquake Damage album contains 223 photographic prints taken circa 1906. A large percentage of the collection features the students of the Chinese Methodist Episcopal Mission, a girls' home in San Francisco's Chinatown. Included are...
Contains the copied files obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle from the FBI, through the Freedom of Information Act, pertaining to Alan MacGregor Cranston, covering the years 1941-1991.
Contains materials associated with the Two Cents Project, a regular weekly newspaper column that featured comments by the general public associated to particular news stories of the day.The bulk of the collection consists of newspaper sections and tear sheets that...
Correspondence, telegrams, reports, press releases, clippings, pamphlets, minutes, checks, ledgers, vouchers, financial statements, and receipts concerning the activity of the Council in all aspects of union labor organizing and politics.
Engineering drawings for the structural steel construction of San Francisco City Hall. Many include manuscript annotations. The City hall was designed by architectural firm Bakewell & Brown; Snyder was the engineer for the project.
Contains the architectural plans for the seismic retrofit and damage repair following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Views focus on San Francisco, but may also include Oakland, Calif. Street scenes, businesses, vehicles, people, and buildings are pictured, many identified.
Includes cityscape views of San Francisco, several of which comprise a panorama of the city. Also includes views of such San Francisco landmarks as Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, the Palace of Fine Arts and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge,
Volume 1 includes blank enrollment and membership forms, invitations to Grand Ball, correspondence, list of boat captains, and petition against the Vigilance committee. Chiefly pertains to the Committee of 1856. Volume 2 contains 3 membership certificates for the Committee of...
Contains 29 letters related to Vigilance Committee activities and interests. Also includes correspondence regarding mail routes and the building of the Pacific Railroad.
Include constitution, name book, minutes of meetings, accounts, and other records. Also police reports, statements and depositions in criminal cases, especially those involving James Stuart and John Jenkins. Some correspondence and clippings.
Correspondence addressed to the Committee and a scrapbook of clippings, May - October 1856, covering the assassination of James King of William and the activities of the Committee. Also letters, 1853-1855, to Edward McGowan, who was seized by the Committee....
Aerial photographs of Candlestick Park and downtown San Francisco business district skyscrapers. View of Cliff House with 1950's decor, views of Golden Gate Park, Coit Tower, Union Square, and other street scenes. Views of sailing ships on the bay, cable...
Photostats of petitions from the residents of Mission Dolores protesting incorporation within the San Francisco city limits, and presenting charter for a separate town. 52 signatures on 1850 petition; 31 on 1851 petition.
Primarily views taken during and after the fire of 1906, including general views of the city as well as individual buildings and sites. Also includes early views of the city, dating from the 1850's.
Photographer(s) unknown.
Subjects include San Francisco earthquake and fire, parade in San Francisco celebrating Great White Fleet, and various scenes and aspects of rural family farm life in (allegedly) Nevada County, Calif.
Proofs for an illustrated book on the San Francisco fire and earthquake of 1906.
Snapshots and professional photographs of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
Collection contains photographic prints taken in San Francisco by Herman Davis after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Views show fire damage and ruins of "fire proof" buildings. Among the buildings and locations pictured are the Cowell Building, Palace Hotel,...
Collection contains photographs taken by Arnold Genthe in San Francisco during and following the disaster of 1906. Views show fires burning, earthquake and fire damage, cityscapes, street scenes, refugees and relief efforts. Among the locations and buildings pictured are Sacramento...
Collection contains copy photographic prints of views taken in San Francisco during and after the disaster of 1906. Views show fires burning, earthquake and fire damage, street scenes, refugees and refugee camps, and street kitchens. Locations include Market St., Jefferson...
Collection contains five commercial photographic prints taken in San Francisco during the fire (2 taken from Nob Hill, 2 from Market St., and 1 from Russian Hill) and one post-disaster view taken from atop the Ferry Building looking up Market...
Collection contains commercial photographic prints taken in San Francisco during and after the disaster of 1906. Views show fires burning, earthquake and fire damage, cityscapes and a refugee camp. Among the buildings and locations pictured are Alamo Square, Mission Dolores...
Snapshots of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906.
Street views of San Francisco ruins following the earthquake and fire of 1906, taken from Sutter and Mason, Polk and Eddy, Stockton and O'Farrell, and Eddy.
Views show general building damage, debris, and wreckage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Views also show refugees and camps.
Postcards show general destruction of San Francisco, the fire burning, streets, buildings, etc.
Cityscapes and bird's-eye-views of ruins following the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Album includes snapshots taken during the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Photographs depict building ruins, refugee camps, makeshift refugee shelters, street kitchens, and reconstruction scenes. A few photographs depict the burning fire. Also includes postcards, clippings...
Collected by Richard M. Bagley.
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Stereographs collection contains 37 stereographic prints, mostly published by Tom M. Phillips in 1906. The collection documents the devastation caused by the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Pictured are scenes along Market,...
Collection contains commercial photographic prints taken in San Francisco by W.J. Street during and after the disaster of 1906.
Collection contains commercial photographic prints taken in San Francisco by W.J. Street during and after the disaster of 1906. Views show fires burning, earthquake and fire damage, subsidence of streets, U.S. Army troops, and refugee camps. Among the buildings and...
Collection contains six group portraits of unidentified insurance adjusters in San Francisco following the earthquake and fire of 1906. In four of the portraits, they pose before the ruins of the San Francisco City Hall; in two they pose on...
Snapshots of rubble and destroyed buildings following the earthquake and fire of 1906; chiefly general downtown views and landmark buildings. Of note are a view of a family's posessions outside a home, an armed guard with a motorcycle, a makeshift...
Etchings show Chinatown in San Francisco, backyards on Telegraph Hill, a view of the Bay, and Italian family, a wharf scene, and an old whaling fleet.
Local news photographs taken by staff of the Examiner, a major San Francisco daily newspaper. The vast majority of the negative files record local persons and events in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and Northern California. Included are all the...
The San Francisco Examiner photographic print files consist of the news photographs collected by the San Francisco Examiner library. Many are prints from negatives shot by staff photographers, while others originated with wire services or as submissions from individuals or...
Contains many views of the San Francisco Ferry Building; as well as Fisherman's Wharf, Sutro Heights, horse-drawn motor vehicles with men posing in them, pedestrians, etc. Also included are views of Susanville, hot springs in the Bieber area (depicting bathers),...
Photographs depict earthquake damage, fires and fire damage, and refugees of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
Album contains commercial views of various San Francisco buildings damaged by the 1906 earthquake and fire. Among the buildings pictured are the Mills Buiding, San Francisco Gas & Electric Co., Aronson Building, Hale Bros. department store, San Francisco Savings and...
Photographs show effects of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, including damaged buildings, refugees, and similar scenes. Also included are views of railroad tracks in a snow covered town.
Album documents 1948 Flag Day ceremony in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif. Photographs depict U.S. President Harry S. Truman as well as other ceremony participants. Also includes correspondence, ephemera and newsclippings pertaining to the event and, especially, its organization...
Contains office records, dockets, grant files, Buck Trust trial transcripts, newsletters, press releases, clippings, and other miscellaneous papers. Also included are manuscripts of the winning entries for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and the James D. Phelan Award.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Contains programs, flyers, and other ephemera mostly concerning appearances of the chorus in various events throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, sometimes with other choruses, and many sponsored by Golden Gate Performing Arts.
This collection consists of an album of 19 photographic prints of classes in the San Francisco Girls' High School in 1877. The subjects of the photographs are classes of students with their teachers and one photograph of all the teachers...
The Collection of San Francisco Graft Prosecution Records contains copies of legal records and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, including transcripts of the trials of Abe Ruef, Eugene E. Schmitz, Louis Glass, Michael W. Coffey, Patrick Calhoun, et al., and contempt...
The Photographs Related to the San Francisco Graft Trial collection contains 15 photographic prints taken mostly in 1907-1908. The collection features many of the important individuals involved in the San Francisco graft trials of 1907 and 1908. The trials occurred...
Photographs document two San Francisco construction projects: Four Seasons Hotel and 55 Second Street. Emphasis is on high iron workers in action.
Muster rolls signed by Alexander G. Abell, recruiting officers and enlistees.
Views of plant construction at industrial waterfront sites, presumably in San Francisco. Some views clearly are of Western Sugar Refinery facilities, but others may be different sites. One view reproduces a chart on California's petroleum production in 1922, so some...
Includes photographs documenting iron workers at construction sites of Moscone Center and 560 Mission Street, San Francisco, Calif.
The collection provides an overview of the San Francisco Jewish Community Center's activities between 1930, its incorporation, and circa 1979. Files on the building campaign in the early 1930s, recreation, social, and educational programs, institutional finances, board matters, and general...
Correspondence and other records relating to activities of the San Francisco Labor Council (SFLC), the local affiliate of the AFL-CIO. The collection covers all facets of the San Francisco labor movement following the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 through...
Correspondence and other records relating to labor disputes, fair employment, wages, housing, health and welfare benefits, and other activities of the organization. The San Francisco Labor Council was a local affiliate of the American Federation of Labor.
Family background and childhood in San Francisco; B.A., UC Berkeley; J.D., Yale Law School; law practice for diverse clients (Bill Graham, Jefferson Airplane, Patty Hearst); drafting the Charitable Trust Act; California State University System Trustee, 1960-1964 and UC Board of...
A view from Telegraph Hill over North Beach, toward the Golden Gate (about 1863) and a view north-east from Rincon Hill at Second Street (about 1865). The octagonal house in the Rincon Hill view is that of Mrs. Benjamin Henry...
Includes four Yosemite views, four San Francisco area views, eleven Calaveras County mammoth tree views, and one Southern Pacific Railroad view of the San Fernando tunnel.
Primarily San Francisco marine subjects including photos of ferries. In addition, two photos from Los Angeles and Hawaii are included.
Consists of records chronicling the first incarnation of the SF Microscopical Society, 1870-1905, including organizational records, meeting minutes, correspondence, indexes of publications, scrapbooks of clippings, fern mounts, and photographs of microscopic organisms, and papers written and presented by members.
Four items. Include invitation, name tag and menu for the Exchange's 68th anniversary jubilee, and clipping concerning the exchange.
1. List of sailor boarding houses in San Francisco.--2. R.F. Bridewell's recommendation of cable car system for proposed municipal railway.--3. Original constitution for Monumental Hose Company No. 6 (signed by all the members)--4. Two letters from Sara and Jesse (surname...
Professional photographic views of San Francisco Municipal Airport (previously known as Mills Field Municipal Airport, later as San Francisco Airport) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Views include exteriors and interiors of buildings, broader scenes, aerial views, and one promotional...
Relating to litigation involving the closing of the San Francisco National Bank. Included are by-laws and minutes of meetings of the board of directors of the bank; transcripts of legal proceedings; depositions; copies of letters and memoranda; clippings, etc.
Interviews with four participants in the program, commenting on development, operation and difficulties of the program and Harold Zellerbach's commitment to it. Interviewees include: Martin Snipper, Art Commission and the San Francisco Neighborhood Arts Program; Maruja Cid, NAP Community Organization...
This collections chiefly consists of photographic negatives of San Francisco Bay Area news events taken by staff photographers of and its predecessors, and which were daily newspapers of San Francisco, Calif.
The San Francisco News-Call Bulletin newspaper photograph archive consists of the twentieth century photographic files of (1959-1965) and its predecessors publications; (ca. 1915-1929) and (1929-1959). The bulk of the collection as it exists today is divided between The Bancroft Library...
A representative group of photographs from the original photographic negatives taken by staff photographers covering the Free Speech Movement protests at the University of California Berkeley in the fall of 1964 and the spring of 1965.
Contains 175 subdivision cadastral maps and 37 technical drawings of Oakland, Piedmont, Contra Costa County, and Berkeley pertaining to the operations of the San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose Railway.
8 stereoviews form part of a panorama of the city (lacking parts 2 & 9). Also, 2 additional views of Sacramento street and Mission Dolores.
Contains the minutes, financial statements, correspondence, publications and notes relating to the objectives of the partnership, collected by member Jay Cahill. Also includes clippings.
Album depicts various scenes taken in and around San Francisco during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Topics of interest include several residential interiors, leisure activities, Golden Gate Park, the Cliff House, ruins of the 1906 earthquake and fire,...
Photographs show streets in Chinatown and other San Francisco neighborhoods. Buildings, hotels, and cable cars are included.
Interviews conducted 1978 by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Introduction by Warren R. Howell. Copies of photographs inserted. Comments on career of his father, Thomas E. Shumate, as physician, pharmacist, and San...
Contains orders from San Francisco Police Dept., District No. 9 including, the Chief of Police's orders and bulletins, the Captain's orders and the Beverage Commission tax citations and investigations. There are references to crimes being committed in the district and...
Contains 21 logbooks with reports of burglaries in San Francisco, Calif. including the who, what, where and how as well as suspects and the outcome of the case.
Contains a listing by the San Francisco Police Department of prisoners at Folsom information recorded includes dates of imprisonment, parole, discharge, or death; reference to photographs taken of prisoners (not included here); name, crime, country of residence, term of sentence,...
Printed forms, filled in, listing numbers of arrests for each offense and total numbers of arrests.
Each volume contains 720 numbered and annotated photographic prints of arrested individuals. Each print consists of two exposures; a profile and a frontal portrait. Names and charges are noted.
San Francisco Police Dept. mug shot albums containing police identification photographs of arrested individuals. Each print consists of two exposures: a profile and a frontal portrait. Profile views include booking card (which lists booking number and date).
Apparently the personal album of photographer George W. Blum, this scrapbook documents numerous San Francisco murder cases. Includes photographs of victims in the morgue and at crime scenes, mug shots of suspects, newsclippings, and occasional street views. The most prominent...
Received with the John McCone papers (BANC MSS 95/20 c).
Includes studio portraits of San Francisco citizens, celebrities, and unidentified individuals. Numerous poses of the same sitter are often present, and a variety of studio backdrops and props are featured. Some images include a photographic view inserted in the studio...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Accounts for soldiers at the presidio.
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, ticket stubs, liquor bottle labels, printed programs, and other ephemera collected by Frank Carden who served in the United States Army, Company E, 30th Infantry stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco. Also includes a printed 1935...
Street scenes and activity outside produce markets in the district around Front, Pacific, and Drumm streets, San Francisco. This produce district was demolished in 1963, shortly after these paintings were made.
Snapshot photograph album containing scenes and views of activities of the San Francisco Protestant Orphanage Society in the years following the 1924 completion of its new campus in the Sunset district. Images depict group portraits, playground scenes and other recreational...
Psychedelic posters and handbills promoting various events in San Francisco. Posters include (1:) Summer of Love San Francisco, with text by Saint Francis of Assisi, 1967, designed by Bob Schnepf; (2:) Straight Theatre reading and dance concert featuring Michael McClure,...
Contains completed survey forms arranged by section, block and structure. Includes some related maps.
Photographs document the construction of new buildings and reconstruction of older structures in San Francisco during the aftermath of the earthquake and fire of 1906. Also includes photographs of a few Los Angeles buildings taken during the same general time...
Snapshot photograhic negatives taken by James D. Rorabaugh of miscellaneous views and street scenes of San Francisco (1936) and of the California Pacific International Exposition (San Diego, 1935).
Small format, commercially produced views of San Francisco scenes: primarily San Francicisco's Chinese community, plus boats on the bay, the Sutro Baths, and various downtown views.
Views of San Francisco school buildings. Includes photos of classes, class groups, a sports team, and images of Chinese students.
Photographs document formal event celebrating appointment of Matthew C. Carberry as Sheriff of San Francisco, depicting Carberry, his family, Mayor George Christopher and others. First few leaves contain signatures of event guests.
Chiefly views of San Francisco, including Market Street illuminated at night, a Knights Templar parade of 1904, Cliff House and Sutro Heights (including Cliff House on fire), Golden Gate Park, Car Town (or Carville) at Ocean Beach, a shipwreck on...
Bautismos (baptisms); padrones (list of neophytes, alphabetically by first name, including name, "nacion", place or record of baptism, and age; and difuntos (deaths). For marriages, see C-C 4:774 available on film only.
Primarily correspondence of Ruth Witt-Diamant, director, with poets participating in readings at the Center, together with program notes, publicity material, and biographical information submitted by the poets; papers regarding the history, organization and financing of the Center; appeals for support;...
Photographs captioned: Grand Hotel, Market and New Montgomery Streets, San Francisco [Watkins #1399] -- Second Street from Rincon Hill [Watkins # 710] -- Montgomery St. from Market St. [Lawrence & Houseworth] -- The Sacramento steamer Chrysopolis [Lawrence & Houseworth]
1: First Street from Rincon Hill (ca. 1862-1865?, Watkins number 506) -- 2: View from the residence of Bishop Kip, Rincon Hill (Watkins number 701) -- 3: Mission Church, Mission Dolores (published by Taber, photographer's number 1703)
1: Bush Street from Montgomery to Sansome (no. 139) -- 2: Powell Street from Lincoln School House (no. 504) -- 3: N.E. corner Montgomery and Pine streets (no. 174) -- 4: Portsmouth Square, or Plaza (no. 206)
View of Seal Rocks near the Cliff House and a view of a fountain in Woodward's Gardens.
Views show art, architecture, and decor of the San Francisco Stock Exchange Club building.
Four signs of "Burritt" street sign in San Francisco. They show plaque reading "On approximately this spot Miles Archer, partner of Sam Spade, was done in by Brigid O'Shaughnessy."
Photographs show San Francisco street scenes, both including Chinese pedestrians. One street is probably Kearny Street. One shows an advertisement for a curiosity show featuring "Jo-Jo the Russian dog faced boy" and "Unzie the white hair beauty"
Includes views of Market Street, Geary Sreet, Sutter Street, and others. Subjects include cable cars, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, a railroad train, men and women, Oakland Tribune newsboys and a partial view of the San Francisco ferry building.
Administrative and fiscal information concerning the activities and interests of the association such as fund drives, public relations, arts programs, personnel, correspondence, expenditures, and income.
Includes letters of Philip S. Boone, Josef Krips and Jeremy M. Ets-Hokin; and minutes of meetings.
Souvenir portrait photographs of theater and music celebrities and other entertainers, mostly taken by various San Francisco firms presumably during the performers' stays in the city. Among the individuals pictured are actress Lotta Crabtree, actors Frederick B. Warde and John...
Photographs of 1905 bicycle trip from San Francisco to the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon. The trip was undertaken by N.S. Farley, Leo S. Hampton, and Robert E. Geistlich. Album includes newsclippings describing the journey, ephemera from the...
Davis discusses Boalt Hall Law School; Depression and politics in San Francisco in the 1930s; Tom Mooney case; Caryl Chessman case; freeing Alfried Krupp from prison; strategies in the courtroom; constitutional rights; due process, capital punishment; changes in law practice.
Contains information on receipts, expenditures, names of members, etc.
Holograph manuscripts of talks commemorating Benjamin Franklin delivered by Horatio Stebbins and Timothy H. Rearden at the annual meeting of San Francisco's master printers' club.
Souvenir viewbook includes San Francisco views and architecture. Original photographs are views of Monterey, California and its early buildings, some dated 1914 and 1929. All are likely to have been printed in 1929 or shortly thereafter.
Album of San Francisco street scenes and photographs of civic and commercial buildings prior to the earthquake and fire of 1906. Of particular interest are twenty-three views of San Francisco’s Chinatown.
1: The Golden Gate, San Francisco. [View west from Russian Hill, over Washerwoman's Lagoon.] -- 2: Bay View San Francisco [View west from Telegraph Hill toward Russian Hill and Black Point, over North Beach.]
Photographs collected and taken for Blair's books on San Francisco history, with particular emphasis on Golden Gate Park and the Presidio. Includes statues, monuments, historical plaques, buildings, residences, streets, the constructions of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. and San Francisco...
Photographs show San Francisco buildings. Includes both business and residence buildings (one shows the San Francisco News Co.)
The following San Francisco views are included: north front of the 'new' City Hall; the Greenhouse and Conservatory in Golden Gate Park; two views of Woodward's Gardens; a restaurant in Chinatown; the Hall of Records; and Colombo & Co., Manufacturers...
Includes a view of the Treasure Island-San Francisco section of the Bay Bridge being built, a view of two children near delapidated storefronts (in Chinatown?), and a view of a streetcorner (in North Beach?)
Includes five night views of city streets and buildings with decorative electrical lights for Admission Day 1910, pre-1906 public buildings such as City Hall, the Hall of Justice, the U.S. Mint, and Union Square. Several views of navy ships are...
Leaf from disbound album, with San Francisco printed at the head of each side, and Sea Lions printed under Seal Rocks view.
Contains broadsides and labor union publications on various waterfront strikes in San Francisco, Calif. Unions represented include: International Seaman's Union of America; Marine Workers Industrial Union; Waterfront Employers Union; Longshoremen's Association of San Francisco; International Longshoremen's Association; Maritime Federation of...
Scenes of the San Francisco waterfront, and Scott Newhall and Earl "Fatha" Hines in Newhall's office.
Includes memoranda, 1939 manual, and some material relating to child welfare.
San Francisco Wholesale Dairy Produce Exchange records, BANC MSS C-G 161, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The San Francisco Women for Peace Records, 1943-[ongoing] contain materials from the San Francisco and East Bay branches of both Women for Peace and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The collection documents yearly and extended campaigns for...
Includes copies of SFWC Newsletter co-published with San Francisco Women's Switchboard. Newsletters concern issues of women's rights, employment of women, the history of women in the United States and the organization of SFWC. Also includes ephemra.
Correspondence, meeting announcements, program for 1938-1939, receipts, relating to this Afro-American cultural group.
Administrative and cultural records of the San Francisco Zen Center, including minutes, correspondence, business records, and materials relating to the founding of the Center, including photographs, ceremonial records, and extensive audio-video and transcripts of Dharma Talks.
Records the electrification of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and the Golden Gate Bridge, by Alta Electric and Mechanical Company. Volume 1 contains photographic prints with some typescripts, articles, and prints from periodical sources. Volume two contains newspapers and an...
41 views of construction of the Bay Bridge, with 7 views of Golden Gate Bridge construction.
Photographs show details of contruction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as well as freeway construction on land.
Views document construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and are accompanied by a typescript describing the equipment, structural details, or activities pictured.
Photographs document construction of the new east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, with emphasis on the actions of the construction workers.
Set of commercial postcards depicting various aspects of construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, including simulated views of the completed bridge.
Photographs document pile splice crews at work during construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Bay span replacement.
Contains engineering blueprints of the Stillman Street and Sterling Street ramps.
Working drawing with red ink edits depicting a section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge under reconstruction.
Technical blue line prints derived from technical drawings.
Dated variously from Aug. 2, 1931 to July 1932.
Photographs document the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span replacement. Emphasis is on the hoisting and placement of test piles in 2000.
Unbound, edited transcripts of interviews with six participants in planning and successfully completing Arguello Park, 7th Avenue, between Anza and Geary Streets in the Richmond District of San Francisco, a park which stands as the result of community activists working...
The collection consists of an album of 30 photographs taken circa 1890 in the Pasadena and San Gabriel area.
Contains taxes paid, probate receipts and other financial documents for several estates in San Joaquin County, Calif.
Mainly pre-emption notices for land in the county and title documents for property in Stockton.
The San Joaquin Delta collection contains 97 photographic prints taken primarily by Charles A. Bishop circa 1904-1907 documenting various aspects of the reclamation, irrigation, and cultivation processes undertaken in the Middle River area of the San Joaquin Valley. Activities featured...
Snapshots, chiefly of young adults, in various locations. Most images are of friends or family members posing in front of homes, by automobiles, in parks, in the desert, or at the beach. Some views picture young women in trousers. A...
Certificates of title, policies of title insurance and abstracts of title for property in Santa Clara County, California, mainly in San Jose.
Views show the General Merchandise store of C.L. Willett (manuscript caption indicates this was the first grocery store in Campbell) with a woman and child on the porch, a man in a buggy in front; the City Carriage Works with...
Include proposed ordinance, agreements, and petitions relating to its francise.
1. A letter from John Burton to Joseph Bartine Hull (1847) responding to an order to disband troops and transfer arms to San Francisco.--2. A statement from Pierre sansevain regarding bran from the mill at San Jose (1848)--3. A promissory...
Chiefly street views and commercial buildings in San Jose's business district. Included are Santa Clara Street, First Street, the Bank of San Jose, Alameda Road, the Commercial and Savings Bank, the Normal School, Auzerais House, and the University of the...
V.1: Cantos de la misión: texts of chants used in the Mission, preserved by Benancio Rios and by Ramón Yorba, with a brief history of the chants at the end of the volume. V.2: Account book, 1866-1886, kept by Father...
Contains records of church rights, finances, and the Archconfradia de Santisimo Sacramento. The church rights records include baptism, marriage and burial documents. The financial records include lists of charitable funds, account books of the Parish, Sanctuary and Chapel, statements of...
Collection includes photographs of loggers engaged in various logging, lumbering and leisure activities in the San Lorenzo River Valley area of Santa Cruz County, Calif. Among the individuals identified are Ed Saxton, Ray Saxton and camp engineer Henry Webster. African-American...
Mainly legal documents. Includes papers in dispute between José María Villavicencio and Francis Ziba Branch.
Views of San Luis Obispo, Calif., and of the Steele family residence there.
Contains documents concerning the creation of a cabildo (townhall) to govern the barrio (district) of San Marcos Sacatepequez, including a petition from town representatives, and a detailed list of all male citizens broken down by race.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes of stockholders and directors meetings (1874-1880 and 1893-1910) and certificate of dissolution. With signatures of various officers.
The Views of San Quentin Prison and Events album contains 355 photographic prints taken circa 1925-1935. The album features views and scenes of the the prison grounds, interiors of many of the structures, and various recreational acitivities. Besides general grounds...
Compiled by Leo L. Stanley, longtime chief medical officer at San Quentin Prison.
Collection includes: letterpress copybooks containing copies of official prison correspondence, 1885-1892, and 1908; register of prisoners discharged or transferred, 1930-1940; register of law enforcement visitors, by county, approximately 1949-1953; and descriptions of prisoners, 1920-1932. Also includes a record book of...
Views of buildings and grounds at San Quentin, including exteriors and interiors, and some birds-eye views. Pictured areas include cells, machine shops, classrooms, barber shop, infirmary, bakery, kitchen, chapel, and laundry room. Prisoners are visible in some photos.
Seventeen volumes of descriptive registers for prisoners entering San Quentin prison between 1851 and 1940. Registers include name of prisoner, commitment number, and date of arrival; information on nationality, crime, length of sentence, occupation, physical description, etc.; and information on...
Photographs document highway construction in the vicinity of San Simeon, Calif. Views depict road and bridge construction, California Highway Commission workers, Deer Creek, Salmon Creek and the adjacent California coast.
Two interior views chiefly depicting altars and devotional objects, and one general exterior view.
Mainly letters from Thomas J. Sanborn, describing his voyage to California via Panama, the shipwreck of the Winfield Scott, life in Benicia, the operation of a flour mill and wages paid, temperance activities, farming in the area, and comments on...
Includes pictures of Permanente Cement Operations.
Title supplied by cataloger.
The bulk of the collection consists of unidentified poems and manuscripts, representing Russell's work as a poet. Also included are drawings and sketches; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; and personalia including diaries, identification documents, and school papers.
Most items unidentified. Includes some touristic views of New York City.
Collection of cartes de visite, tintypes and photoprints including family pictures (mostly of African Americans) taken in San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton, and Colorado. Two views are apparently in a circus setting and depict a black minstrel troop and a band.
Clippings concerning the activities of various directors of the California Department of Mental Hygiene, including information on hospital facilities and on care of the mentally ill. V.1: 1938-1939; v.2: 1946-1949; v.3: 1963-1964.
Contains journals, files of clippings, correspondence, and ephemera, and publications.
One, written from a camp on the North Fork of the Platte River, comments on the journey east; the other, written October 4 from Sacramento, shortly after his arrival, discusses plan for going to the gold region.
Papers related to his research with Karl F. Meyer on the development of the Brucellosis Medicine; other papers related to his University career are included.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photos captioned: Corridor of the Santa Barbara Mission built in 1786 -- San Fernando Rey Mission. Built in 1797.
Views show a date palm grove, the shoreline at Castle Rock, and a view through an arch on aqueduct wall.
Papers relating to land grants, taxes and appointments.
Views of buildings, farmland, and friars at Mission Santa Barabara, one view of nuns seated at a meal, and street scenes, shops, and people in San Francisco's Chinatown.
List of holdings of registers from various missions in California.
This collection consists of 20 photographic prints mounted on cardboard (one is a stereograph) of views of Santa Barbara, California, ca. 1875. The photographers include Hayward & Muzzall, W. J. Rea, and I. N. Cook. Included are images of Santa...
Photos captioned: Abolone Point, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island -- Country Road, Los Angeles.
Album includes many snapshots of Santa Catalina Island, including Avalon, the surrounding topography, and various island views taken from the water. Other locations and events depicted include Point Fermin near San Pedro Bay; Echo Park; Pasadena, including the Tournament of...
Views of Santa Catalina Island, especially the town of Avalon and various boats in Avalon Bay. Town views include tourist tent cabins, the Bath House, and the Metropole Hotel. Collection also includes views of fishing catches, natural features of the...
Blank sheets of stationery with a different illustration on each. Pictured are: the Wrigley mansion, Zane Grey's Hopi Indian home, Avalon Bay, the St. Catherine Hotel, the casino (2 views), the ferry S.S. Catalina, Lover's Cove, and Avalon town.
Photographs documenting various phases of installation of submarine telecommunications cable from mainland California at San Pedro to Santa Catalina Island. Many photographs are reproduced in accompanying brochure.
Mainly pertaining to San Jose. Includes official correspondence, 1826-1845; proclamation concerning defeat of revolt led by Joaquín Solis in 1830; court documents; and copies of ordinances.
Sheet removed from mug shot album. Each side of sheet includes a photograph of a prisoner, with description written in pre-printed fields, e.g. name, nativity, residence, occupation, physical characteristics, legal status, nature of crime, date of sentencing, etc. Prisoners depicted...
Abstracts of titles, deeds, etc. relating to land transactions in San Jose and Los Gatos.
Papers relate mainly to property in San Jose. Includes transcripts and translations of documents in U.S. Land Commission case no. 286, pertaining to the Pueblo Land claims of San Jose.
Recollections of career in California State Assembly, 1909-1914; comments on Francis Heney, Chester Rowell and other Progressives; experiences in the LaFollette campaign of 1924. Copies of campaign literature and other documentary material appended. Photographs inserted. With this clippings, campaign materials,...
Three legal documents (13 p.) in a case dealing with street railroads in Mayfield (later Palo Alto), Calif.
A volume of mounted clippings (33 leaves) from the "Santa Cruz Local Item," July 1876 to August 1877, containing transcriptions of documents in the Santa Cruz County archives. Also included are clippings of a series, Santa Cruz Then and Now,...
Santa Cruz, Calif. area photographs show landscapes, log milling, the Santa Cruz mountains, sea shore, Año Nuevo lighthouse, river scenes, a lumber wagon, and other scenery. No views of downtown Santa Cruz are included.
For lots in the town of Santa Cruz; one to J.D. Stevenson.
Also includes certified copy by José Antonio Peña of enlistment papers of Manuel Leonor Moreno; letter from Juan Alvirez to the Alcalde of the villa de Branciforte; and, an affidavit of Annie E. Lake denying authorship and responsibility for the...
The dates for the information are in the 1700's and 1800's.
13986: Exterior of the Holy Cross Catholic Church that stood from 1857 to 1889, with letters "D O M" on central tower. The view, with a man standing near the church door, may date as early as 1860, approximately, but...
Sante Fe scenes including streets, the plaza and Palace of the Governors, religious processions (including Our Lady of Guadalupe), and a patriotic parade. Also includes San Miguel Church, military drills, Native American ceremonies with on-lookers, pueblo buildings, and portraits and...
Views in Santa Fe, New Mexico including burros loaded with wood in the street, and the San Miguel Chapel.
Views of depots in San Francisco; Topeka, Kansas; and other unidentified locations; trains; interiors and exteriors of repair shops for locomotives; interiors of standard Pullman passenger and dining cars; etc.
Contains several items of ephemera related to the Santa Fe Tertio-Milllennial exposition of 1883: a horse racing program (May 26, 1883), five receipts of the Santa Fe Tertio Millennial Anniversary Association made out to by E.L. Bartlett for payments of...
Archivo de la Mission de Santa Inez: Libros y Documentos Extractados por E.F. Murray para la Bancroft Library, 1877. The extracts are for the 1880's.
Petitions concerning land belonging to the Nahuatl community. With partial typed transcript.
Photos of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers in various settings in and around Santa Monica, Calif. Includes views of the couple at Minerva Treadwell's studio (artist?). Santa Monica scenes show the beach, parks, many homes (most identified), trolley car, gardens, nature...
Vols. 1-11: ledgers (depositors' accounts), 1873-1885, 1888-1891, 1896-1900, 1904-1905, 1907-1909; v. 12-15: general ledgers (bank's accounts), 1885-1888, 1896-1902, 1906-1911; v. 16-17: savings accounts, 1903-1904, 1925; v. 18: ledger, Ukiah Branch, 1873-1876.
Letters and reports from the mine superintendent in Mexico, R.M. Deneen, to R. Wegener in San Francisco, concerning the problem of getting the mine into operation; also assay reports and correspondence.
24 double-sided pages.
Contains 14 letters and documents relating to the appointment and tenure of Hernando (Fernando) de Polaco as Corregidor (mayor-judge) of the city of Santiago de Atitlán, Guatemala and its territories especially the town of Guazacapan. Includes orders and messages about...
Correspondence and papers of several generations of a family from Guanajuato, Mexico, relating to mines, farming, church affairs, etc.
Sara Bard Field letters to Amy Requa Long, BANC MSS C-H 165, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Include a letter to Helen Meiklejohn, Jan. 9, l956; a holograph poem, Preparation; and page from her diary, July 27, l927, mentioning Alexander Meiklejohn.
The collection consists of research materials Sara Cogan gathered during her work on the three bibliographies that she published for the Western Jewish History Center: "Pioneer Jews of the California Mother Lode, 1849-1880" (1968); "The Jews of San Francisco and...
The collections consists of three folders: two folders contain a memoir by Sara Brenner describing her experiences growing up in Austrian Galicia, World War I, and her emigration to Canada and the U.S. The third folder contains eight photographs of...
The collection contains materials related to the women's movement and the women's studies movement at the University of California, Berkeley. It includes correspondence, Birken's curriculum vitae, papers written by Birken and drafts of parts of her BA thesis on women's...
Letters while on trip to California, 1865-66, to family in Maine, and letters from her husband, Captain Leoline Howell Drinkwater, included. Included are letters concerning a voyage to, and short stay in California, 1865-1866.
Include letter from an eastern friend, letter from Mrs. Cool to her brother concerning her life in Los Angeles, statement relating to ownership of property there, and papers relating to the settlement of her estate.
Primarily compositions written while attending Girls' High School, San Francisco.
Written between 1884 and 1886 at the request of her son Josiah Royce; based on her "Pilgrimage Diary." Published in 1932, with some textual differences, as A Frontier Lady.
Decorative album for graduation (1914) that contains notes and autographs, photographs, and a list of graduation presents.
Primarily correspondence with husband-to-be George R. Child and with friends relating to courtship; social life; her teaching career in Snelling, Antioch, and at the Durant School in Oakland; her travels, etc. Included also: some George Child correspondence (family and business).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Papers of anthropologist Vincent Sarich dating from approximately 1979 to 1999.
Re negotiations for publication of Two Short Paris Summertime Plays, by the Library, in a limited edition.
34 letters written primarily between 1932 and 1934, to another young author. Comments on his current writing, his background, theories of writing, other authors, etc. Letter (Apr. 4, 1932) contains five unpublished poems.
Includes formal portraits depicting Saroyan throughout his career. Also includes a photograph album and other snapshots depicting Saroyan from early childhood, as well his immediate and extended family; snapshots of Saroyan with various friends; reproductions of art work by Saroyan;...
Subjects include geographical aspects, physical and cultural, of various regions in South America, including Chile (Antofagasta, Chiu Chiu, Calama, San Pedro de Atacama, Lasana, Río Loa, Mamiña, Pica, Pueblo Hundido, Ancud, Castro, Puerto Montt and Temuco), Bolivia (La Paz, Tiahuanaco),...
Research notebooks of American geographer Carl Orwin Sauer, consisting of copies of documents from a range of Mexican and Spanish archives (dating from circa 1525 to 1802) relating to Sauer's research interests in Mexico and Latin America.
Collection consists of correspondence, including letters of Louis Lurie and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; benedictions, invocations, and eulogies; family-related information; photographs; congregational programs and announcements; newspaper clippings; scrapbook materials; and Rabbi White's columns for the San Francisco Jewish Bulletin.
Views show Salt Lake City, the interior and exterior of the Mormon Tabernacle, Gardo House, the Assembly Hall, and the Lion and Bee Hive houses.
The Pavilion, Garfield Beach -- Wasatch Mountains from Anderson's Tower -- The Old White House, built by President Young.
Consists of receipts and accounts of the Savage Mining Co. Also includes two outgoing letters.
Introduction by Harold Gilliam; Afterword: "My role in the creation of Bay Conservation and Development Commission" by Mel Scott; interviews with: Barry Bunshoft, Esther Gulick, Catherine Kerr, and Sylvia McLaughlin.
The records of the Save the San Francisco Bay Association document the work of the organization committed to preserving the San Francisco Bay as a natural resource. Based in Berkeley, California, the association was founded in 1961 by Esther Gulick,...
This collection chiefly consists of photographs (approximately 9,700 photographic prints, 5,400 negatives, and 1,000 slides) of redwood trees, forests and parks in coastal Northern California, as well as giant sequoia trees in the Sierra Nevada area, taken by, taken for,...
The Save the Redwoods League records document the organization's work to preserve redwood trees, and its role in the development and protection of state and national parks in California. The bulk of the collection covers the tenures of League executive...
Corrected typed transcript of tape-recorded proceedings at dedication of redwood groves, Pepperwood Flat, honoring Newton B. Drury, Thomas A. Greig and Norton R. Cowden, and at a banquet at Eureka Inn. Comments by Ralph W. Chaney, Horace M. Albright, Newton...
Interviews with Art Bonwell, Margaret Kovar, Robert Doyle, Susan J. Watson, Seth M. Adams conducted by Walters; interview with Genevieve and Bill Sattler by Annie Whittey; celebration of the life of Mary Bowerman by Susan Watson.
Mainly thank-you notes, addressed to Miss Emily Turner, her mother and her sister, Evelyn (Turner) Buel. Letter from nephew telling of Miss Misawa's death included.
Includes notes and manuscripts of his writings relating mainly to Show's career as a forester for the U.S. Forest Service and forest fire control in California, some written in cooperation with R.W. Ayres. Manuscripts are arranged alphabetically in boxes 1-3....
Description of voyage, as master of the Sarah Moers, from Maine, around the Horn, to San Francisco, and record of commercial transactions (including buying, selling and outfitting ships) in San Francisco and coastal voyages to Oregon and Chile.
Letters from Ann and Dominick Scanlan to Michael J. Scanlan and other members of the family; deed and mortgage for portion of Rancho El Pinole, Contra Costa County, 1870; obituaries for members of the Scanlan and O'Neill families; and notes...
Include three letters, 1915-1927, to Mary Cloys Scaparone, from American actor and film star Bruce McRae, with related clippings, documenting his work on the stage and in the movies; letters to Dr. Gian Giacomo Scaparone from Italian diplomat Ferdinando Daneo...
PIC boxes 1 and 2 contain studio portraits and snapshots documenting the Scaroni, Annand and Carcello families of Santa Cruz and vicinity, with an emphasis on scenes of everyday domestic life and leisure. Individuals depicted include Pio Scaroni, his wife...
Views show various nature scenes from Oregon: the Columbia River, Crater Lake, the Rogue River area, Medford and vicinity, etc. California views show Mt. Shasta and vicinity, the Redwood Highway, the Petrified Forest (Napa Co.), and various forests and unidentified...
Photographs show scenery at Yellowstone, a Chinese laundry, Minerva Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, geysers, craters, etc.
Images include view of the town of Manitou, Colorado, the cog-wheel railway engine and car, railway staff, scenes along the route to Pike's Peak, the half-way house on the route, and views at the summit. Also present is a view...
Photos captioned: Just over the trestle in the Blue Cut, before coming to the Loops -- Marsh's crossing, Corte Madera Avenue.
Photographs show people attending events, bands playing, and similar snapshots of Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco. Some possibly taken at its opening.
Includes snapshots showing Moqui and Navajo Indians, cliff dwellings, Indian petroglyphs etc.
Photographs of Bodie, Calif. (ca. 1927) show various town scenes including a church, bank, and mill. Also two unidentified cartes de visite portraits taken in Bodie by Kemp and Coleman.
Views of California show missions, Los Angeles, San Francisco, hotels in various cities, Wawona and Yosemite, Monterey area scenes, etc. Colorado scenes show the Garden of the Gods and other scenery. Views of Salt Lake City are also included. Some...
Street scenes, historic sites, scenic attractions, and residences, mostly in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but many other California towns are included as well, such as: Dunsmuir, San Diego and vicinity, San Jose, Monterey, Pasadena, Riverside, and others.
Contains a view of a crowded marketplace (possibly San Francisco Chinatown) and an interior of a shop in Chinatown. Also included is a printed leaflet about Winkler by the Chicago Society of Etchers.
Contains scenes of early American life showing Indians, settlers and their cabins, bison hunting, goldmining, etc.; depictions of towns and settlements, including Salt Lake City (Utah), Galveston and St. Antonio (Texas), and Nauvoo (Illinois); and views along Mississippi, Missouri, and...
One original panorama of the village of Scotia, and 1 copy photo "Society belles and dog, Scotia, 1900;" 2 copy photos of Pacific Lumber Company passenger train, Humboldt County, one of them by Pillsbury Picture Company.
Chiefly real photograph postcards of scenes taken during the aftermath of the events of La Decena Trágica in Mexico City. Views include soldiers, ruined buildings, and street scenes. Also includes scenes of other events pertaining to the Mexican Revolution, and...
The Domes of the Yosemite Valley, 1873 -- Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay, 1874.
Drawings depict a snow scene at the Grand Canyon, a pueblo near the Taos River, and a man on horseback.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Views depict: a church in Pisco, houses seen from the sea (Islay Province), and an embarquement with sailships (Chincha Islands?).
Views show various scenes at Arroyo Seco (including Commodore Sweitzer at Sweitzer's Camp and guests), San Fernando Mission, San Antonio Canyon, the beach at Lugonia, fishermen at Santa Catalina Island, San Pedro harbor, Camulos Ranch, Sawpit Canyon, San Gabriel Canyon,...
Scenes of penitent activity of members of Hermanos Penitentes, or the Penitente Brotherhood, in New Mexico. Also depicted are penitent crosses and adobe structures (moradas?). Taken from a distance, with majority of images depicting penitentes bearing crosses in outdoor desert...
Photographs used in Schaffer's "High Sierra hiking guide # 18 - Sonora Pass." Mountain scenes some including lakes (Duck lake, Wolf Creek Lake, Topaz Lake), valleys, Basque shepard carving and stone work, and the contruction of the Pacific Crest Trail.
Correspondence and papers relating primarily to Scharrenberg's career in the labor movement and his other positions. Includes letters to and from Scharrenberg; subject files containing committee reports, memoranda, copies of correspondence, notes, printed material, clippings, etc.; scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings...
The Herman George Scheffauer Photograph Album contains 130 photographs taken circa 1885-1925. Nearly all the photographs in the album feature Scheffauer, many of them being portraits taken by professional photographers in San Francisco, London, and Berlin. Other notable persons featured...
Records of a machine shop, presumably at Santa Rosa.
Slides pertaining to Schevill's research on Mayan textiles, chiefly depicting materials from collections and exhibitions of several institutions (e.g. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley; Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University).
Include two letters from publishers in Spain, sample printer's sheets, and a transcript of Lope de Vega's La Dama Boba.
Female models posing among product displays of various "Schilling's Best" merchandise (coffee, tea, baking powder), manufactured by the San Francisco firm A. Schilling and Company.
Interviews, primarily with women, documenting their roles in the fields of health services, birth control movement, and abortion reform. V.1: Sadja Goldsmith; v.2: Estelle Griswold; v.3: Arlene Carmen; v.4: Beatrice Blair; v.5: Constance E. Cook; v.6: Sarah Marcus; v.7: Caroline...
Interviews with people documenting their roles in the fields of health service, maternal and child care, family planning, and reform of abortion laws. V.1: Sarah R. Weddington; v.2: Helen B. Taussig; v.3: Lana C. Phelan; v.4: Sarah and Christopher Tietze;...
Interviews with women documenting their roles in the fields of health service, maternal and child care, family planning, and marriage counseling. Photographs inserted. V.1: Martha May Eliot; v.2: Emily H. Mudd; v.3: Loraine L. Campbell; v.4: Florence Clothier; v.5: Louise...
Interviews with (in v. 1); and with Ernest F. Wuthmann, Stewart Norris and Lorenz Schmidt (in v. 2). V. 1 covers the early history of the company, with extensive comment devoted to the identification of pictures of the company plants...
Collection consists primarily of scrapbooks containing label samples and advertising materials.
Two scenes from the American Civil War showing troop combat.
Includes individual and groups portraits and snapshots of, presumably, Schneider and other associates in the pharmacology field. Also includes a few photographs of pharmacy drugstores.
The collection consists of four photographs taken of members of the Schoenfeld family in front of and inside their family's store at 1600 Ward Street, in Berkeley, California. The collection also includes photographs of Irving and Harold Schoenfeld with their...
Box 1: memorial program and tributes, student tributes, History 4 B notes, articles on Brentano, and offprints. Videocassette: Robert Brentano teaching History 4 B, May 8, 2002 (Motion Picture 1331 D). Sound cassettes: June 25, 1999 interview with Brentano conducted...
Contains letters of recommendation for scholarships to the University of California.
Received with the Zelda Mackay pictorial collection.
Primarily school group portraits from Davis (Yolo County), Tremont and Dixon (Solano County), as well as Hyde family outings. School photos include children from grammar school through high school in front of school buildings. A variety of school dress is...
Contains ships log between San Francisco and Japan. Also includes notice of directions for the American Foghorn.
Portraits of Schorer taken throughout his career.
Childhood in Germany and early years at sea; emigration to U.S. in 1905; arrival in San Francisco 1907; working in city's restaurants; purchase of Schroeder's in 1922; managing restaurant business; etc.
Include early records of the family in Germany; letters from August Martin Schütt to his brother in 1864 describing mining activity in Austin and Geneva, Nevada and in 1865 from Petersburg, Va. during the Civil War; letters from friends and...
Golden Jubilee yearbook that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Schuetzen Verein of San Francisco.
The papers of Franz Schurmann, American historian and sociologist and expert on China during the Cold War.
Concerning extra copies of speeches.
Family portraits including one ambrotypes, one daguerreotype, two tintypes, and six photographic prints.
Mainly correspondence of Sigmund and Frank Schwabacher. Letters from George C. Perkins included.
Family background and education; Genentech work and research including: human insulin project; human growth hormones; tissue plasminogen activator.
Stanford University, thesis in chemistry, interest in botany; work with Cornelius van Niel, Hopkins Marine Station; fellow, Microbiology Laboratory, Polytechnical School, Delft, Holland; Berkeley, 1936-75: soil microbiologist, Agriculture Experiment Station, 1936-50; Dept. of Biochemistry, 1950-75: discusses program in Comparative Biochemistry,...
Correspondence, writings, and research files, mainly concerning Scott's publications on art, regional planning, and growth in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Research files account for the bulk of the collection, and include notes, clippings, and miscellaneous printed...
Papers relating to his career with the San Francisco Chronicle, including correspondence, memos, inter-office communications; readership studies; files relating to San Francisco and California issues, legal matters, Bud Boyd, the comic strip Romulus of Rome, Sir Francis Drake Commission; Newhall...
Correspondence; church records; diaries, mainly of European trips; accounts; clippings re the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856; manuscripts of articles and sermons. Mainly concerning the Presbyterian church in California, Louisiana and New York.
Photographs document the 4th Scout Naturalist Expedition in Yosemite National Park. Images focus on geology of the region, general wilderness views and close-ups of natural features. François Matthes is present in several views. The collection is divided into two sections:...
Clippings concerning Mt. Diablo, its history, roads and visitors. Copy of letter to Walter P. Frick and letter from James F. Hoey, included.
Newspaper clippings and manuscripts of his poems, articles and speeches; press notices of activities as Nevada Congressman and Senator and U.S. Minister Resident to Hawaii; obituaries.
Mounted newspaper clippings and photographs, including articles by Mrs. Patton on schools established by "Brooklyn Mormons" in Yerba Buena, 1847, and in Alameda Co., Calif. (Centerville), 1850.
Mounted correspondence and newspaper clippings.
Photographic prints, drawings, clippings, telegrams, business cards, receipts, wax seals, dried flowers and other ephemera. Subjects include Alaskan views and artifacts, waterscapes, scenic views, views relevant to Californian and Alaskan history, portraits of Davidson and others, and scientific equipment (microscopes...
Clippings are mainly portraits and pictures of costumes of various actors and actresses, including: Julia Marlowe, Ellen Terry, Ada Rehan, Olga Nethersole, Sarah Bernhardt, Maxine Elliot, N.C. Goodwin, Maude Adams, William Favesham, Julia Arthur, etc. Also includes a cabinet card...
Album contains advertising cards from various industries and businesses, especially fashion supply. Also contains greeting cards. Most cards show ladies and flowers, a few show the products advertised.
Chiefly mounted clippings dated 1894-1906; some unmounted pieces laid in.
Relating mainly to bond issues for parks, sewerage and road improvements in Oakland.
Contains photographs by and of Steckel, including his portraits from childhood to old age; and individual and group portraits of mostly unidentified people. An interior view of Steckel's photography studio in Los Angeles and a view of his estate in...
Scrapbook consists primarily of postcards acquired on various trips around California and the West from 1908 until 1962. It was apparently compiled in 1961 and 1962, with captions written at the time of compilation. Also contains clipping and related ephemera.
Scrapbooks of advertising trade cards, greeting cards, tickts, and similar printed items showing products, scenes, etc.
Document the career of the American actress. Volume 1 is a scrapbook (circa 1914-1930), including a brief autobiography. Volume 2 includes clippings of Maude Adams in costumes from a production of Peter Pan (1906).
Temporary list of contents available.
Scrapbooks including clippings, letters and programs.
Legal agreements re founding; minutes of meetings of board of directors and of staff; papers re sale of stock and lists of shareholders; other financial papers; royalty statements; correspondence files; material re production, promotion and sales; copies of reviews. Box...
Certificate of incorporation, deed and abstract of title, concerning mining interests in Lake Co., Colorado.
Contains newspaper clip files on the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1963-1969.
SDiane Adamz-Bogus (born 1946) is a writer, educator, and new age healer who also writes at SDiane Bogus.
Promotional views of new homes in the Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco. Development by Allen & Co. Includes views of Golden Gate from the west and beaches below Sea Cliff.
The papers of University of California, Berkeley political scientist and foreign policy expert Paul Seabury.
Correspondence; typescripts of his short stories and novels; research materials and manuscripts of his biography of Theodore Roethke, The Glass House; diaries, 1924-1931, and diary notes, 1931-1960. Correspondence; typescripts of his short stories and novels; research materials and manuscript of...
Blank and printed by Galloway Litho. Co., San Francisco.
Photographs depict interior and exterior views of the Seamen's Institute building. Some views include the nearby San Francisco waterfront and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Report includes history of the building.
Primarily recollections of her work for woman suffrage and equal rights, including work in various state offices of the Woman's Party; prominent feminists with whom she was associated, including Mabel Vernon; travels in Africa; writing and lecturing about African women...
Author unknown. Miscellaneous notes on various facets of English history.
Records consist of correspondence and business records, including abstracts, affidavits, deeds, and other legal documents, pertaining to the activities of this Nevada City, California law firm. With one exception, these date from 1863 to 1925, during which time Niles Searls...
Includes sections entitled: "Views of the ruins" and "Thirty days after the fire - the city of tents".
Album depicts the National Pavillion of Argentina at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915. Includes exterior views of building and grounds, and interior views depicting exhibits, theater, courtyard, gallery, halls and other spaces, as well as...
Includes posters relating to the war efforts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, and Greece.
Contains reports on construction of railroads in Mexico. Includes correspondence, maps, drawings, charts, tables and photographs.
Minutes of meetings kept by Mrs. Minnie Kjer.
Guarantees of title and policies of title insurance for property in Fresno and Tulare Counties.
The See the Sierras album contains 71 black and white photographs on 68 pages taken by Frashers Foto Company of Pomona California, probably in the 1930s. The album was prepared as a promotional tool for the Robinson Pack Train in...
View of Pyramid Lake, Nevada (with text about John C. Fremont and the lake, dated April 1942) and of Mount Timpanogos, Utah (with text dated May, 1942)
This collection documents the personal and professional life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist and University of California, Berkeley professor Emilio Segrè and offers insights into the history of physics and physicists in the 20th Century. Segrè's papers include personal and professional...
Includes addition of 2 drafts of manuscript "On the volume of a sphere."
Chiefly slides documenting projects associated with Seim's career as a bridge engineer for the state of California, for T.Y. Lin International, and as a private consulting engineer. Many files are present for various projects related to bridges of the San...
Correspondence and related papers, mostly to and from the secretary S.D. Townley and Perry Byerley; some by Townley in his capacity as editor of the Society's Bulletin and his involvement with Stanford University's Branner Seismological Station.
The collection consists of a copy of Nahum Seitzick's memoir "Nahum's Story," which describes Seitzick's experiences in Russia; his emigration from that country and his settlement in the United States; his subsequent marriage; and the experiences of his children. The...
An official signed certificate of membership for Seixas Solomons in San Francisco's Vigilance Committee (June 20, 1856).
Collection of Armenian birth and death announcements, and graduation and wedding invitations, BANC MSS 69/148 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Cases involving Indian and Negro slaves. From Archivo Municipal de Historia de Parral, Chihuahua.
Copies of documents from the Public Record Office, London, and the Ayer Collection in the Newberry Library, Chicago.
From the Adolph Sutro papers (C-B 465)
Negative microfilm of residencia records and other documents selected and filmed by Mary Ross in the Archivo Histórico Nacional and the Biblioteca Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
Relate to taxation in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Yucatan.
Transcripts of documents which relate to Dutch and Spanish colonial activities, and in particular with Indian relations, pearl fishing, trade, foreign intrusions, and defense of the Pacific Coast of Peru.
Subjects include explorations and settlement of New Spain and California, 1574-1775; history of the Provincias Internas, California, and the Louisiana-Florida territory, 1606-1817; religious orders in Baja California, 1702-1768; local and state government in Mexico, 1629 and 1848-1849; description of Peru...
These copies were the gift of Fr. Marion A. Habig, O. F. M., in 1954. Four folders are typed transcript; one is photocopy. The transcripts are carbons of copies in the Bolton papers (#356, 359, and 378)....
Microfilm of transcripts of AGI documents, in the Chacón Collection, Academia de la Historia, Havana.
Selected documents from the Consular Correspondence in the U.S. National Archives regarding Barranquilla, Bogotá, Catagena, Sabanilla, and Santa Marta, 1823-1922; and items from Bogotá periodicals consisting of laws, contracts, censuses, etc., for Cartagena, Santa Marta, Barranquilla, and the lower Magdalena...
Correspondence by the Office of Secretary of the Treasury, 1865-1866; abstract journals, and related papers, of the Shubrick, March-April, 1865; papers relating to charges against Captain Charles M. Scammon by Colonel Charles S. Bulkley, 1865-1867.
Originals in: the National Archives.
From the Colorado Superintendency and Utah Superintendency files of the Office of Indian Affairs, National Archives, supplemented from the records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior. Gathered by the Confederated Ute Bands for their suit before the...
Filmed by Philip W. Powell.
Selected for filming by Thomas E. Downey.
Part 1: El Archivo del Juzgado de Teposcolula, 1688-1843; Reels 1- 12: Ramo Civil; 13-30: Ramo Criminal; 31-32: Ramo Criminal. Distrito de Coixlahuaca; 33: Ramo Panal; Part II: From officials of Coixtlahuaca, Tlajiaco, and other towns (1830's); Reels 34-37: Siglo...
From originals in the National Archives, filmed from the St. Louis Superintendency, the Upper Missouri and Arkansas agencies, and the Great Nemaha, Kansas, Mandan, Miscellaneous, Santa Fe Trail, Sioux, and Osage files.
Includes material re Chouteau, Kearny, Drips, Kennerly, Lewis, Fort Pierre, etc.
Letters from priests, "cartas anuas", and reports.
The files, filmed in their entirety, are: Nos. (930) Jedediah Strong Smith; (1377) William Henry Ashley; (665) Antoine Citoleux; (651) Holley Wheeler; (887) David Cunningham; (863) John Hanna; (1155) Thomas Virgin; (3242) Etienne Provost; (69) John Potts; (80) George Drouillard;...
Includes copies of correspondence and papers selected from the Texas Archives for the use of Clyde Allen Tree in his thesis on British economic interests in Mexico; materials concerning Philip Nolan, Pedro de Nova, and Pablo Boriel LaFitte; and documents...
Record prints of Docs. 327, 423, 450-1, 461, 489, 912, 959, 2241?, 2353B, collected by Alexander S. Taylor and now in the archives of the Chancery, Archbishopric of San Francisco.
Materials mainly concerning exploration of California, including : Add. Ms. 13986 (Papers relating to Spanish possessions in America)*, vol. III - Extracto Historico de la Expedicion de Sonora ... (1769 expedition from Sonora to San Blas and San Diego). Another...
Letters received in the adjudant General's Office relate mainly to military expeditions to the West, to exploratory tours in Indian territory and include letters, reports and copies of orders by R. Holmes, Benjamin Riley, H. Dodge and A.C. Maccomb.
Miscellaneous documents, 1862-1894 and lists of commanding and senior officers, 1856-1946.
The transcripts of these papers, originally in the Depósito Hidrográfico at Madrid and now in the Museo Naval, were made for Henry Morse Stephens, approximately 1909-1910. Includes Alejandro Malaspina, "Descripción física de las Costas de la California, comprendidas al Sur...
Copies of documents in the Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid, relating primarily to the Florida boundary controversy carried on by John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State, and Luis de Onís, Spanish representative in the United States. Includes record prints.
Letters, 1823-1824, from William Clark, Supt., Indian Affairs, St. Louis, and communications from W.H. Ashley, L. Talliaferro, and B. O'Fallon concerning trouble witht the Arikara Indians. Letters, reports, etc., 1829-1830, from Bennet Riley concerning military protection of the Santa Fe...
Material, 1823-1846, from Ritch Collection: letters and documents signed by William Clark, William Becknell, Santiago Abreu, John Gantt, August Storrs and others.
Microfilm of selected manuscipts in the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., comprising ethnological documents relating to the Navahos, 1870-1882; a monograph by Dorothy L. Keur, Navaho Origins; a Consideration of Ethnological and Archaelogical Evidence,...
Each of four manuscript items comprising this selection is cataloged separately; search under title: selected manuscripts relating to the fur trade and Northwest Coast, from the Coe Collection, Yale University.
Contains: 1. Ross, Alexander. The fur hunters of the far West ...; 2. Wolfe, James. Journal ...; 3. Hempstead, Thomas. Letterbooks ...; 4. Meetch, J.B. Letter to John Davis ...
The documents concern the Yellowstone Expedition, 1818-1819; Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1820; the Arikara campaign, 1823; official intercourse with the Governor of New Mexico, 1824; the Santa Fe Trail, 1829-1830; and Forts Atkinson, St. Anthony (or Snelling), and...
Contains typescript copies of 5 sets of documents found in the Archivo del Estado, Hermosillo, concerning the encroachment of Americans into the Sonora area before 1828; beaver hunting rights along the Gila and Colorado rivers; defense of Guaymas against possible...
Chiefly concerning the Shoshoni and Paiutes of Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Nevada, including the Paiute War, 1860.
Correspondence and papers received, 1870-1881, by John Wasson, U.S. Surveyor General for Arizona, with some miscellaneous papers (originals and copies) including communications from Land Commissioners and Surveyors General for California and New Mexico.
Palomar assembled and maintained this collection, which contains letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other records on the rise of the rebellion, organization of La Liga Nacional Defensora de la Libertad Religiosa, course of the revolt, and the aftermath of defeat....
Lacks title; title supplied by University of California Library.
Shaffer recalls her career as a bookseller, librarian, and Director of the Silverado Museum. She speaks of other bookellers and collectors, including Edward Dawson, Mrs. E.L. Doheny, and Norman Strouse.
Contains correspondence, ephemera, clippings, menus, programs, postcards, etc, mostly related to Selina Solomon's work on the women's suffrage movement in California. Some of the correspondence is on the letterhead stationery of women's suffrage movement organizations, such as Leslie Woman Suffrage...
The collection contains diaries; date books; personal financial information; correspondence; photographs; medals for Sabbath attendance and a kaddish card from Congregation Beth Israel; religious instruction booklets from San Francisco's Congregation Sherith Israel; and high school and college publications.
The Selma Rochdale Company records constitute a sample record representing a consumers' cooperative movement which spread over California between about 1900 and 1910, during which time there were more than 100 of the Rochdale types of cooperative stores organized in...
Album of copy prints compiled by W.W. Richards for the 27th anniversary meeting of the Sempervirens Club in 1927. Images depict scenes in the redwoods of the Big Basin area, which the club was dedicated to preserving; logging activities; and...
Portraits of: Timothy Guy Phelps, Ferris Forman, Joseph Walkup, Aaron R. Meloney, James Anderson, John Coulter (annotated as Joseph Coulter on sheet, but printed John Coulter by Hutchings), Ephraim Garter, John Chilton Burch, William T. Ferguson, Isaac Allen, Alfred W....
Family background and education; Genentech work and research including: hepatitis B vaccine; protein expression; foot-and-mouth disease vaccine; human insulin; human growth hormone project.
Birth in Chile; childhood in England and Canada during World War II; Lycée Français de New York, 1946-1952; Harvard College and Law School, 1952-1957; contracting polio and adapting to life with a disability; teaching legal writing at UC Berkeley Law...
Letters from Riley Senter describing his overland journey from Perry, New York, to California, 1849, with the California Enterprise Co. under Capt. Owen, and mining at Angels Camp; diary-account book, 1850-1851, of mining operations on the Stanislaus River and at...
Sierra Nevada landscapes and camp scenes taken in or near Sequoia National Park. Views are unidentified, but a trail marker photographed indicates the trip was along the High Sierra Trail from Eagle View Point to Mount Whitney. Some views include...
Snapshot views of Sequoia National Park depicting General Sherman Tree, Bear Pit, and Thorp's House at Log Meadow; Kings Canyon National Park (formerly General Grant National Park) depicting California Tree; and Yosemite Valley.
Title from box cover.
Photographic portraits of Guatemalan men taken between 1987 and 2003.
Contains materials relating to 19th c. San Francisco, greater Bay Area ; mounted photoprints, scrapbooks, block books, and a blueprint and architectural design of the Flood Mansion.
Various original works by Sergio Sánchez Santamaría pertaining to subjects and themes common to his work: history and politics of Mexico; rights of indigenous peoples in Mexico, including land rights; the centrality of corn (maiz) to indigenous Mexican cultures; Mexican...
Drawings and watercolors by Kathy Rose, Sally Cruikshank, John Haugse, Linda Heller, Kathleen Laughlin, Dennis Pies; posters by John Heartfield. Unknown connection to Serious Business Company.
Serious Business Company records consist of correspondence (letters, contracts and miscellany); publicity materials (brochures, programs, flyers, screening calendars, press clippings, photographs and negatives); and accounting and invoice statements from and to filmmakers. Also included are correspondence and documentation regarding film...
An incomplete collection of Lenten and Easter sermons, written in Spanish, with some Latin passages.
A collection of sermons and orations on religious and political topics (the Sacraments, lives of saints, the Council of the Indies, Philip V, etc.) delivered in Havana, Madrid, Mexico City, and possibly other localities. Preceded by an undated dedication, obviously...
Copies of reports, interview transcripts, reprints and other documentation pertaining to the life and work of Father Junípero Serra, the purpose of which is "to present the views of historians and scholars on Father Serra's role in the early history...
Contains correspondence between Caroline Schultz Service and family and friends, as well as writings and personal papers.
The Grace Service Papers, 1855-1957, contain correspondence, diaries, short stories and other writings, along with some family and personal papers, with the bulk of the collection spanning the years 1905 to 1954.
The John S. Service Papers, 1925-1999, document the life experiences of "Jack" Service, a member of the United States Foreign Service who was posted to China during the 1930s and 1940s, and later accused of "losing China to the...
Military service records for José Joaquín de Arrillaga, Pablo A. Cota, Pedro Fages, Manuel Carcaba, Nicolás Soler, José F. Ortega, Felipe de Goycoechea, José D. Argüello, Pedro Amador and Manuel Vargas, with signatures of José J. Arrillaga, F. de Goycoechea,...
Testimonies concerning his services against the Indians, 1640-1684; papers signed by Charles II, Antonio de Otermín, the Conde de Galve, and others.
Typed transcripts, edited, with preface and biographical sketch, by his daughter, Ruth (Baun) Sayer in 1971. Copies of photographs and maps inserted.
Interviews with A. Setrakian (1971), Bruno T. Bisceglia (1976) and Robert Setrakian (1977). Copies of photographs inserted. A. Setrakian's interview covers the period from his birth until 1922. [His death in 1974 prevented completion of the interviews]. The remaining interviews...
Describe his mining efforts in Log Town, Mud Springs, Coloma and French Canyon, with information on prices of goods, Indian activities, religion, gambling, crime and frontier justice, Chinese tax on foreigners, spiritualism, politics.
List of members, business and organization records. Some entries for church at Gold Hill.
Include notes, correspondence (originals and copies), legal documents, description of property and clippings. Letters and telegrams from Joseph R. Knowland, Allen Griffin, Hiram W. Johnson, John J. McGrath, William G. McAdoo, Argyll Campbell, Christian J. Peoples, Newton B. Drury, U.S....
Preliminary agreement May 5, 1891, articles of association, by-laws, minutes of stockholders and directors meetings and certificate of dissolution. With signatures of various officers.
Professional quality street scenes and views of buildings documenting reconstruction efforts in San Francisco one year after the April 18, 1906 earthquake and subsequent fires destroyed much of the city.
Professional quality street scenes and views of buildings documenting the damage to San Francisco in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Photographs documenting reconstruction of San Francisco business and public buildings two years after the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fire.
Research and reference files (including correspondence). Includes a substantial, but incomplete, run of the SFL Newsletter (March 1965-April 1971), as well as scattered samples of other serials on issues of sexual freedom.
Research materials gathered for the biography, Lola Montez: A Life, by Bruce Seymour.
Ships (troop transports) and boats on San Francisco Bay, family portraits and snapshots, and outing photographs around Northern California. Locales include San Francisco, Calaveras and Alpine counties, Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake and vicinity, and the McCloud River area. Several views...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence, minutes, administrative documents, publicity materials, and a banner, primarily relating to the California Writer's Club's participation in the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940), and Writers' Conference of the West (1941, 1942). Includes the Club's newsletters Monthly Letter (1929-1942) and...
Photographic archive of Shaefer's Battery and Ignition, a Los Angeles automobile repair and parts shop. Collection includes photographs of the shop's various locations on Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards, including their expansive art deco-style structure at 6730 Sunest. Also depicted are...
v.1, letterpress copy book, 1855-1866, of law firm of Shafter & Park, San Francisco, containing letters by T.W. Park, James McM. Shafter, Oscar L. Shafter, Elijah Dewey and S. Heydenfeldt; v.2, daybook for the firm, 1856- 1863, including a few...
Studio portraits and snapshot photographs documenting several generations of the Shahzade family of the Fresno region in California, as well as other Armenian Americans. Clippings and other scrapbook material document the teaching and coaching career of Arthur Shahzade as well...
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographic archive of San Francisco Bay Area based freelance commercial photographer Barry Shapiro. Images include photographs shot for documentary projects, magazine stories, commercial promotional work, and portraiture. Of note are his series on "handmade houses"; portraits of men dressing in...
The Saul E. Shapiro papers concern his participation from 1948 as chairman of the Butte County Democratic Central Committee, and as a member of the State Central Committee. The collection consists of correspondence, campaign material, speeches, reprints, and articles concerning...
Pt. I: papers of Frederick W. Sharon re his business and property investments, the operation of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, and the Sharon Estate Co. Pt. II Louise Sharon's social and family correspondence and letters re her business affairs....
Photographs of the Sharp Park facility show interiors and exteriors of buildings including mess halls, dormitories, recreation rooms, the library, etc. Some photographs show detainees and guards.
Consists of a small amount of correspondence, manuscripts, personal writings, and reviews that span a portion of William Sharp's literary career. Correspondence includes letters from Amelia Robertson Hill, concerning the bust she was making of Sharp, with notes concerning her...
Sharpe house located on south side of Sutter St. between Powell and Mason Sts., San Francisco; was later remodelled elaborately by William Sharon (cf. accompanying note). View includes residents posing at windows, on lawn, etc., and appears to date from...
Views include: #3735: Mt. Shasta -- #3747: Mossbrae Falls (Shasta County) -- #B1166: the Golden Gate -- #3718: Cliff House in San Francisco.
Views of various stages and aspects of the construction of Shasta Dam, showing laborers and other personnel, machinery, transportation methods, and construction progress.
Album photographs depict various views of process by which gravel is gathered, milled and conveyed from Columbia Construction Company gravel plant in Redding, Calif. to construction site of Shasta Dam. Album also includes a map and flow sheet drawing of...
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Two aerial views of Shasta Lake; one aerial view of unidentified location depicting small development and some farming tracts along river in valley, perhaps in vicinity of Shasta Lake?
This collection consists of an album of 90 photographic prints of Mount Shasta and vicinity, taken in July and August, 1899. The photographer is probably Mary McLean Olney. Included are images of Mount Shasta and vicinity (including Castle Crags and...
Exterior and interior views of printing ink shop, probably in San Francisco. Exterior view is of storefront with men standing behind barrels of ink labeled for various newspapers. Sign for Blake, Robbins & Co. paper house is visible at left....
Chiefly family portraits on cartes de visite mounts. Names noted are "Grandma Shattuck", Dr. [John Langdon] Swett (1810-1900) of New Hampshire, his wives and relations named Elizabeth Kimball, Rebecca Beaman (or her parents), and Lizzie Shattuck. This collection of portraits...
Primarily marine photographs showing vessels in and about San Francisco Bay.
Collection of family snapshots showing leisure activities in California (mostly Marin County and San Diego). Bulk are of Leonide Sheehy as a child and young adult, then with husband Samuel Rodman. Of note are the early snapshots of Leonide and...
A collection of documents chronicling the origins, boundaries, survey of property, and otherwise general history of the town site of Sheep Ranch in Calaveras County, California. Also included are statements of general, individual, and delinquent financial accounts.
Includes original letters, transcripts, notes, and related materials on theater.
Contains correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, photos, and other papers relating to art, architecture, theater, dance, and Cheney's publications in these fields. Also includes personal and family papers and documents relating to Cheney's founding of Theatre Arts Magazine in 1916.
Subject file, writings, and various items such as programs concerning his interests and activities associated with art expression and appreciation such as theater, movies and writing.
Correspondence, subject files, and writings concerning his interests and activities associated with art expression and appreciation such as painting, sculpture, corporate contributions and support, photography, music, architecture, and his writings on the topic.
Include letters, telegrams and press releases written by the newspaper and radio executive; clippings concerning him; and material relating to the Knowlands and to the Oakland Tribune.
Where possible, the original catalog system has been retained. Books with original marks have been retained in their original position in the sequence; gaps have been filled with unmarked designations except where the gap was in the middle of a...
These records (principally) consist of: Division Cadastral Engineering - Preliminary survey data (mineral and other); Public land, Homestead Entry and other surveys; Group Field Notes Tablets; Spanish and Mexican Grant surveys. Correspondence Files - U.S. Surveyor General; Register and Receiver;...
Typescript of an unpublished novel, obituary notice for Bennett, and two letters of condolence received by his sister, Mary Bennett.
The carton contains correspondence, estate papers, financial records, genealogical material and legal documents related to Abraham D. Shepard, Esq., his first wife Elizabeth (nee Crissom), his second wife Margaret (nee Bowen), their children and their families. The box includes Abraham...
Photographs show the Everett Shepardson family, their homes, co-workers, the Los Angeles State Normal School (where Everett Shepardson taught), family outings and vacations. Mainly southern California views, including Riverside, Los Angeles, Dr. Kate Shepardson Black's ranch in Burbank, Yosemite, Mt....
Eli T. Sheppard papers: Chiefly relating to his diplomatic career as U.S. Consul to China and later as Advisor on International Law to the U.S. Minister to Japan. Includes correspondence, diaries,chitbooks, writings, certificates, scrapbooks and clippings. Includes some material pertaining...
Sherburne Friend Cook papers: additions, BANC MSS 87/34 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Primarily regarding demographic research in Mexico.
Information concerning his interest and activities in North American Indians, including ethnography; censuses; tribal rolls; vital statistics; probate records; his own notes, writings or reprints; excerpts, notes, copies or reprints of material of colleagues or others having an interest in...
Phonodisc 142: Interview of Feb. 26, 1949 -- Phonodisc 143: Interview of Mar. 4, 1949 -- Phonodisc 144: Interview of Mar. 19, 1949.
Identification photographs of men, youths, and women, apparently arrested in San Joaquin County. Numerous ethnic groups are represented; those of European descent predominate, but Asians, Latinos, and African Americans are also present.
Letters, manuscripts of writings, and clippings relating primarily to Edwin Allen Sherman, especially to his service in the Mexican War, his successful efforts to erect a monument in Monterey, California to honor John Drake Sloat, and other activities designed to...
Contains subject files, pamphlets on Central American groups and clippings concentrating on El Salvador and relations with the United States.
Papers include minutes, agendas, reports, memoranda, budgets, financial records, publicity, campaign and election materials, subject files, newsletters and publications.
Letters relate to mining in Yuba County.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence, drawings, manuscripts, and ephemera relating to his activities in publishing, writing, and relating to the Grabhorn Press. Some correspondence is from Valenti Angelo and William Everson, and some drawings by Robert and Jane Grabhorn.
Correspondence and poems concerning Grover's interest and activity in publishing, writing and collecting. The poems are by Angelo Valenti.
Forms part of the History of science and technology collection.
Contains a group portrait of UC Berkeley students taken during a 1881 camping trip to Butano near Pescadero, Calif.(Milicent Washburn Shinn appears in this photo; for description of this trip see related manuscript collection.) Also included are individual portraits of...
Stereos captioned: Launch of the Comanche, San Francisco. 677 -- Building the Comanche, San Francisco. 688, 689 -- Merchants Exchange building, San Francisco -- Fireman's Fund Insurance building, cor. Sansome & California streets. 1367.
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Interviews with six participants in the 1936 murder case (known also as the King-Ramsay-Conner case) which involved Earl Warren as Alameda County District Attorney and members of the Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers Association as defendants. Copies of photographs...
Photographs, including aerial views, of shipyards, shipbuilding, personnel, worker housing, launchings, etc., of the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation and others, especially at Swan Island yards.
Correspondence in reply to Shipley's letters and questionnaires concerning capital punishment; article based in part on replies received; studies of capital punishment in various countries; and clippings. Also included are manuscripts and reprints of Shipley's writings, material on the Shipley...
Primarily views of ships, boats and buildings with maritime associations (many exterior and interior views of the Sailor's Union Hall). Also included are San Francisco waterfront views and streets of the Barbary Coast district.
Includes photos showing ship construction, christening, and launching. The SS Paloma Hills, SS Benjamin Goodhue, and facilities of the Marinship Corporation, the California Ship Building Corporation, and Kaiser Richmond shipyards are depicted (among others). K.K. Bechtel, Elizabeth Hay Bechtel and...
Eight manuscript ships' logs by an unnamed New York sailor, covering several voyages, 1838 to 1851, entitled: "Abstract Log of a Voyage to Lima l837[-1838]" (2 vols.); "Abstract Log of a Cruise in the Pacific, 1838-40" (1 vol.); "Abstract Log...
Views of ships in various California and Japanese ports.
Letters, including several from George C. Perkins, to Nancy Deck (later Nancy Coburn) and M. Shirek; inventory of property destroyed by Rogue River Indians, 1856; menus; assessment receipt for Eureka Tunnel Co., Oroville, 1856.
Correspondence between Shirley Kaufman and other poets and writers; writings and materials regarding publication of poems and other writings; notebooks and journals; publicity materials; some biographical materials, including interviews and articles on Kaufman, some personal files, photos and some recordings,...
Consists of materials collected by Shirley Tanzer documenting Oregon Jewish history, including: (Oversize folder) a poster for a presentation of Memory is Survival, a multi-media presentation about the history of the Jewish community, in May 1976, and a copy of...
Correspondence, speeches, press releases, personalia, clippings and subject files, relating primarily to political activities, particularly her role as Democratic National Committeewoman from California, 1952-1956, and the Stevenson-Kefauver presidential primary campaign.
Includes documents on the Fellowship's values, including one by founder Willie Minzey, a broadsheet, a letter for the release of Minzey, and one issue each of the "Berkeley Barb" and "Good Times," which include articles on Minzey.
The collection contains miscellaneous materials from Oregon-based Shivtei Shalom, including organizational bylaws, newsletters, correspondence, and brochures; newspaper clippings; a poster and Garden of Israel ketubah; photographs; and an Oregon Minyan newsletter (1977).
Street scene in Chinatown (Taber number B3667); Shop in Chinatown (Taber number B42).
Senator Short served as chairman of the Committee. Files include correspondence with federal and state agencies, concerned individuals, private organizations, distillers, breweries, wineries, medical schools, etc.; reports and statistical data gathered in the course of the study; testimony presented...
Ledger book with index and numbered entries containing detailed information on diamond jewelry sales. Divided into sections by the form of the jewelry. Entries information includes date acquired, description of the basic stock, making, box, selling price (in code), purchaser...
Concerning points raised in Montgomery's book on the Civil War, The Shaping of a Battle.
The collection consists of an oral history transcript, as well as a scrapbook with newspaper clippings, both original and photocopies.
Mostly pages from two scrapbooks of Sidney S. and Eustace M. Peixotto documenting their work with the Columbia Park Boys' Club and Public Schools Athletic League of San Francisco. The scrapbooks also include theatrical programs from San Francisco. In addition,...
Photographs are in folders labeled: Sidney Coe Howard, Sidney Coe Howard World War I, Sidney Coe Howard [as a] child, family, WWI, Europe, portraits, misc, homes. Negatives also show the Panama Pacific International Exposition, WWI, family, and a "western trip"...
The collection consists of the Sierra Club Board of Director Meeting Minutes from 1892-1995. Filmed from originals held by the Sierra Club.
The Sierra Club California Legislative Office, located in Sacramento, began in the late 1960s. It was one of the first offices established to work strictly on state-level environmental legislation. The staff consists of a state director, currently Michael Paparian, legislative...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Nature photography, wilderness views, Sierra Club "High Trips", and other backpacking and hiking groups, chiefly in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. PIC boxes 1-3: xerox copies of prints retained by the Sierra Club, numbered to correspond with matching negatives...
Sierra Club executive director during Reagan administration: James Watt, passage of wilderness bills, club growth and organizational issues; executive directors Douglas Wheeler, Michael Fischer and Carl Pope; role as club chairman, 1985-1999: representing the club in Washington, D.C., working on...
Matte finish enlargements of views in the Sierra Nevada range. Locations include North Pallisades, LeConte Canyon, Muir Pass, Kings River, the Garfield Sequoia Grove, and many others.
Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings, 1960-1989.
Contains views of group activities such as hiking, eating, swimming, etc.
The Sierra Club International Program Records document the activities and policies of one of the first organizations to be granted nongovernmental representative status at the United Nations. The records in this collection include correspondence, financial records, minutes, agendas, notes, policy...
Includes correspondence, by-laws, membership rosters, history, publicity scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, administrative files, etc. regarding chapter and national Sierra Club activities.
Slides show scenery, forests, flowers and other plants, and views showing logging effects along Redwood Creek in Humboldt County.
The records of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund at The Bancroft Library are incomplete. Included in the collection are agendas, minutes, reports, clippings, financial reports, dockets, new matter forms, notes, and subject files pertaining to SCLDF's Mineral King litigation....
Photograph album documents numerous outings of the Loma Prieta chapter of the Sierra Club from 1948-1953. Other photographs depict various outings and other chapter events, and veiws of redwood trees.
The collection contains committee records for the Executive Committee on Political Education, meeting minutes, activity schedules, subject and issue files, press releases, and newspaper clippings.
A wide variety of Sierra Club leaders are represented in this collection, including staff members engaged in national environmental politics; activists of critical importance to the development of the conservation movement in the United States; and volunteer activists involved in...
This collection documents the internal affairs, activities, and conservation concerns of a chapter which is based in Sacramento, but which includes most of northeastern California as well as the upper San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. Because of the large geographical...
Contains the Sierra Club Mountaineering Committee records, artifacts including register containers, and mountain registers mainly from California summits of the Sierra Nevada.
The Washington, D.C., office of the Sierra Club carries the principal responsibility for lobbying on legislation at the federal level. Records from this office reflect the Club's leadership in the drafting, enactment, and revision of laws, the implementation of which...
Interviews with five Sierra Club leaders. Interviewees include Abigail Avery, Robin and Lori Ives, Leslie V. Reid, and Sally M. Reid.
The Sierra Club of Northern California/Nevada Conservation Committee records document the organization’s conservation policy and conservation position work in Northern California and Nevada, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Sierra Club Office of the Executive Director Records contain the office files of the Executive Directors and may include correspondence, memos, board and committee minutes, reports and other documents relating to club administration, policy and procedure. The bulk of...
v. 1 (1905.06894): Yosemite Valley, Liberty Cap, & the Sunrise Trail. John Muir may appear in two images. -- v.2 (1905.06895): Tuolumne Meadows, Tuolumne Canyon, & Hetch Hetchy.
Primarily views of Yosemite National Park and other Sierra Nevada scenes. Also includes "Stumps and Mist, Northern Cascades" and [Beach with offshore rocks].
Scenery and views from all over the world, but mainly California; subject files ranging from anthropology to wildlife; views of various national parks; and scenes relating to the environmental movement.
The Sierra Club photographs and other pictorial materials consist of more than 44,500 images, chiefly photographic prints, picturing wilderness areas in California and the American West. Many document wilderness outing groups from the San Francisco Chapter of the Sierra Club...
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1971.026.001: 29 wilderness cards -- .002: 1 "Discover Our Outdoors" poster by Jack Davis -- .003: 8 photographs and 7 negatives for "On the loose", by Terry Russell (c1967) -- .004: 110 Sierra Nevada exhibition prints (by H.S. Lawton?) --...
A miscellany of Sierra Club photographs, postcards, and other printed pictorial items. Locations include San Francisco, Sierra Nevada mountains, the Grand Canyon, Glacier National Park, Muir Woods, Yellowstone, and other wilderness areas of the United States.
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Miscellaneous portraits of Sierra club members, groups, and individuals attending club events or outings. Includes some dedications and ceremonies with public figures (J.F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. and Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and others.)
Phillip Berry discusses various legal issues relating to the Sierra Club; financial issues and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, which in 1998 changed its name to the Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund (cf. Appendix B); Sierra Club litigation; his...
The records form one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of environmental records in the United States. The Club designated The Bancroft Library as its official archives in 1958, and the organization began transferring records from the San Francisco...
Interviews with the following Sierra Club leaders: Francis P. Farquhar, Joel H. Hildebrand, Bestor Robinson, James E. Rother, Harold C. Bradley, C. Nelson Hackett, Philip S. Bernays, Harold E. Crowe, and Glen Dawson.
The Sierra Club Southwest Office Records (1900-2000, bulk 1966-1996) document the conservation, research, and political activities of the Southwest Office and its individual Sierra Club chapters.
"Burros" shows a burro trip in the Sierra Nevada led by Milton Hildebrand (includes many photos of Hildebrand); "Misc. Trips" shows rocks, desert scenes, mountain climbing, wildlife, and views of Southern California; "Glacier Park" includes photos of equipment, maps, signs,...
Snapshot album documenting a Sierra Club High Trip to Yosemite Valley and the adjacent Sierra Nevada environs by students from the University of California, Berkeley. Also includes scenes taken in Berkeley (Calif.) and on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Also includes...
Contents: receipts, Langton's Pioneer Express, Downieville, Feb. 10, 1863; memorandum, Wells, Fargo & Co., to Downieville agent, J.W. Orear, Apr. 23, 1868; power of attorney, Henry Scamman to Samuel Davis, to dispose of stock in Keystone Quartz Mining Co., witnessed...
Documents concerning the rivalries among Dominicans, Augustinians, and Franciscans in the Sierra Gorda region from the late 17th to the early 18th century. Included are requests by Dominican friars in the 1690s for royal license to establish a college in...
Included also: information on the Society and a copy of a letter written by A.W. Decker, Sept. 2, 1892.
Album contains snapshots, postcards, and clippings of pictures and descriptions of Sierra Nevada lakes, tourist resorts, and other facilities. Locations include: Stockton (Mission Hotel), Donner Lake, Lake Independence, Webber Lake, Lake Tahoe (Tahoe Tavern, Pomin's Hotel, Cuthbert's Rubicon Park, Hotel...
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Chiefly views in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, many of them along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad. Includes views of felled giant sequoia trees. Also includes Utah views taken along the Union Pacific Railroad at Devil's Slide (Morgan...
Views principally of California (High Sierra, Yosemite, Death Valley) along with other western locales. Includes scenery, rock climbing, trips and excursions,
Collection consists of a panorama of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a smaller version of same marked up as a "key plate" with peaks identified, and a printed description.
Views include a stagecoach at the Kern River, Wanda Lake, Muir Pass region, Tehipite Dome area, and an unidentified sequoia grove.
Wilderness outing scenes, including Mt. Winchell, Mt. Darwin, Mt. Humphrey, Mt. Tyndall, the Kearsage Pinnacles, and other locations.
Prints made by Ansel Adams of historic Sierra Nevada outing photographs taken by Joseph N. LeConte on camping excursions with the Sierra Club between 1896 and 1909.
Photos of Sierra Nevada scenery including Tuolumne River Canyon, Kings River, Mono Creek, San Joaquin River, Tehipite Valley and the Yosemite, Mt. Lyell, Mt. Ritter and Devil's Postpile regions.
Stereos captioned: "Bear Valley, 85 miles from Sacramento" (view shows train in mountains) -- "Emigrant Gap tunnel, wall and snow ocvering".
Photographs mainly show waterfalls in Yosemite National Park, and views of mountain peaks and other scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Some were taken to illustrate Badè's article "The Ascent of Mt. Ritter". One view of Juneau, Alaska also included.
Photos show the following locations: Priest's Hotel, Tuolumne Co.; Table Mountain, near Sonora; Lake Tenaya, Tuolumne Meadows, Mt. Watkins (Yosemite Nat'l Park); the Merced river; Barnard's Hotel, and a view of Fiske's advertisement on a sled pulled by a burro,...
Identified scenes include: Falls on Bubbs Creek, Tuolumne Meadows, and Ten Lake Basin. A stone cabin with timber roof beams is also pictured.
Includes photos of locomotives, wagon trains, laying track, trestles, views of right of way; one photo of Nevill's Hotel, Jamestown, Calif., under construction; two photos of the inspection party which include André Poniatowski.
Boxes 1-5 and oversize folder 1 : Fragmentary collection, consisting of correspondence files of various officers of the company; minutes of meetings of directors and stockholders (2 v.); by-laws; copies of annual reports (3 v.); timetables; equipment rosters and specifications;...
From the Honeyman Collection.
Photographs of sightseeing family (mostly of children accompanied by adults), some taken at the Panama- Pacific International Exposition grounds, and some on a coastal walk.
Programs for performances by Sigmund Rader's pupils Harry Cykman (1930) and Philip Tobenkin (1936); a clipping about Harry Cykman; a short biography of Sigmund Rader (written by his daughter Lilyan Abramowitz) and two photographs of Sigmund Rader (circa 1930).
Includes signatures of the governor, secretary of state, U.S. senators and U.S. representative, and state senators and representatives.
Contains the papers of a lawyer from New York State who journeyed to the gold fields of California, began investing in claims, and practiced law in Chinese Camp. Includes handwritten, correspondence, receipts, telegrams, property deeds and claims, sketches and maps...
Consists of vital documents and photographs of the families of Lou Silberman and Myrtle Mueller. Included are a marriage license for Lou Silberman and Myrtle Mueller, birth certificates, an 1879 naturalization certificate for Albert Mueller (Myrtle's father), an 1888 invitation...
Silhouettes are of Frank Gelett Burgess, Willis Polk, Bruce Porter, and Ernest C. Peixotto, all involved in The Lark.
Silhouette portraits of Robert Frost (#19-20)
Photographs depicting history of the quarry, "pender mills" and the silicate plant near Lompoc, Calif. Photographs also depict the changing landscape over several decades.
Photographs show the Idaho Hotel in Silver City (exteriors, with men sitting in front); a group at the Old Boise City Hall; a parade in Dehamar; the War Eagle Hotel in Silver City; the Banner Mine; men with tools in...
Ledger for 1904-1908; daybook for 1914-1919.
Seven notarized deeds for mining rights and lodes in the Scandinavian Cañon Silver Mountain and Great Mogul mining districts, Alpine County, Calif. Deed details include the names of lodes, ledges, mining companies, and mining claims as well as survey measurements...
Letters written to him and copies of letters by him; manuscripts of speeches, course lectures, papers and books; reprints; notebooks; research proposals; materials relating to University committees and institutes, research notes; personalia, etc., documenting his career at the University and...
Concern plans to go to California and experiences there in the Sacramento region.
Concerns the attempt by the Bill Clinton administration to start a national health care system, with the scrapbook paying particular attention to people with disabilities. The scrapbook also includes Litvak's journal entries concerning the issue.
Primarily papers of Orrin Simmons pertaining to his business affairs in Costa Rica and San Francisco and his land holdings in the Berkeley area, Alameda Co., Calif. Included are letters from Juan Rafael Mora, papers concerning the College of California...
The collection includes a translation of a marriage certificate for Aaron Senderman, father-in-law of Simon Bachrach (who was married in San Francisco in 1861); a resolution from the Young Men's Hebrew Association thanking Bachrach for his services as secretary (1878);...
Inserted in the autobiography are letters, clippings, photographs and other materials documenting his life and career as a radio engineer and inventor. The Lee de Forest memorabilia include articles by and about the vacuum tube pioneer, letters, clippings, Simon's reminiscences,...
Contents: Bill and letter to Sigmund Simon, 1867 & 1872; check of and letter to L.M. Simon & Son, 1891 & 1893; deed of mining claim, Beaver Creek Mining District, Siskiyou Co., 1895; letter concerning Siskiyou Co. volunteers, 1898; letter,...
William Sanderson to George Paule, signed by Simon Forman, Jasper Yeardley and others.
Material relating to agriculture and migrant labor problems in the 1930's.
The collection consists of typed manuscripts of writings and speeches by Simon Lubin dating from 1902 to 1933, eulogies and obituaries, clippings, and photographs. The writings and speeches address topics relating to Judaism, education, immigration, and other social, political, and...
Includes correspondence, manuscripts, curricular materials, research files and notebooks documenting Karlinsky's career as a professor of Russian Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Also includes musical scores composed by Karlinsky.
Thirty-nine letters written by Simon S. Lucy (sometimes referred to as "Spaulding" or "Spalding") from the Nevada City area and Santa Clara Valley. Many of these were sent to his sister, Mary, in Mass., but also to other family members,...
Includes exterior and interior views of various mining operations: Keyes Mine, Monte Cristo Mine, and Union Consolidated Mining Company. Shows many kinds of equipment and contains flash photographs of miners in the shaft. Includes a few pictures of Virginia City...
Collection consists of membership information, brochures, clippings, a typewritten organizational history written by Dr. Abraham Bernstein, entitled "A history of Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco," and a copy of the 1949 booklet "The Perfect Tribute: The Story of a...
Mainly bills for purchase of dairy products. Included also are a few statements of sales, 1903-1904, and letters, 1935, relating to a historical study of agricultural commodities in California.
Letterbooks, invoices, receipted bills, etc.
Sir Arthur Gilbert papers, BANC MSS 2006/141, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
1826 letter describes travels in Italy and impressions of Italian art.
Include minutes of meetings, accounts, scrapbook of clippings and programs, membership lists, and correspondence, with letters from Francis P. Farquhar, Sarah Louise Kimball, and others.
Extracts of diaries, prepared by Margaret Digby; diaries, 1881- 1932; correspondence; and obituaries. Sir Horace was a rancher in Wyoming, 1877-1889, then returned to Ireland, and was afterward very active in Irish agriculture and politics. (For papers of an associate,...
Letters; miscellaneous correspondence; manuscripts and documents; works, diaries, travel journals.
Political correspondence and documents, journals, account books, and family letters, especially for the period 1825-1841 when Porter served as British consul in Caracas.
Transcripts of items on early mines, diggings, locations, origins of names, Indian wars, and payment of war claims.
Title documents to land in the county, and a few papers relating to mining claims.
Chiefly papers of F.C. Horsley as Sheriff of Siskiyou County, California, including summons, certificates of sale, accounts and statement of taxes collected in the county. Also applications for liquor licenses, a few papers of the justice court of Yreka, and...
Consists of Sisson's personal and research correspondence, writings, and research files on Jack London. Correspondence is chiefly with friends and other London scholars, including Tony Bubka, Marlan Beilke, Becky London Fleming, Russ Kingman, Earle Labor, and Joan London. Includes bibliographies...
Tinnemann discusses growing up in Oakland; her graduate studies at Berkeley; joining the Holy Names College, Oakland, staff as a Sister; her later research and views concerning the Holocaust and the reaction of the Catholic Church in Germany; local Oakland...
Multiple orders: 16 boxes plus 5 oversized objects, and 34 cartons plus 1 portfolio of oversized visual materials.
Chiefly concerning María de la Concepción Argüello (Sister Dominica) Letters from Mrs. Ysabel Argüello Den included.
Contains the letters and journal of a nun to her convent back home while traveling in Central and South America.
Contains Articles of incorporation; meeting minutes; flier, program and clippings for benefits show for the inner city inmates of San Quentin.
Photographs depict members of San Francisco transvestite gay activist organizaion Sisters of Perpetual Idulgence posing at unidentified event.
Three minute books, signed by Six Companies directors (including Warren A. Bechtel, Stephen D. Bechtel, Henry J. Kaiser and Kenneth K. Bechtel) containing certificate of incorporation, by-laws, treasurer's reports, and reports on the construction of Boulder Dam and the labor...
Snapshots of a group of men on a trip along a river at the bottom of a canyon in the Southwestern United States (probably the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Ariz.) The bulk the views are of the canyon.
Included also: two page typescript, Why I Am No Longer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or The California Shore-Bird in Its Native habitat or Brahms' Double Concerto in A Minor.
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Included also in the collection: letters (1913-1943) from Charmian London to Ralph Kasper (82); photographs; and miscellaneous items, including two lists of books by London and a character reading for London prepared by Prof. G.E. Beauchamp.
Views of the Hotel Del Monte and other scenes from the Monterey Bay area.
Bowker discusses his family background and education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University, his career at Stanford University and City University of New York, his his time as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. Among other topics...
Comments on growing up in Sacramento; education at University of California, Class of 1912; career as a San Francisco lawyer, with discussion of labor cases, waterfront strikes, and representing Joseph DiGiorgio, Matson Navigation Company, Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association and the...
Family background, Arkansas and southern California; UC Berkeley, B.A., and J.D., 1933; reflections on World War I and World War II, the Depression, and the Revenue Act of 1932; Thelen, Marrin, Johnson and Bridges law firm, 1933-1986: tax work for...
Scrapbooks compiled in 1984 and 1991 by Roy Sifford, relate to his family history and their operation of the Drakesbad resort in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Scrapbooks cover the years 1919-1965 and include both original and photocopied letters, documents, photographs,...
Four letters (10 p.) from a "Hindu student" to a fellow student at the University of California, Berkeley. Mitra seems to be infatuated with Miss Lamoureux, repeatedly asking to call her "sister." The letters include details of his life in...
Includes views of Navy buildings and agricultural activity on Skaggs Island, as well as many views of San Francisco, Napa Valley, Northern California and Washington State.
Album of travel sketches executed primarily in Southern California. Some pages have multiple drawings.
Sketchbook of unknown artist containing drawings of Roman, Greek, Etruscan and Egyptian artifacts in various Italian museums.
Sketches of San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey, and Panama show street scenes, sailboats, early California buildings, dwellings, etc. Includes views of the damage caused by the 1868 earthquake in San Francisco.
Pencil and pen-and-ink drawings (some with wash), from travels in Mexico, apparently on a tour from Sierra Hermosa to La Luna, and on to Mexico City and Guadalupe. Notes on rear flyleaf outline these locales. Most views depict provincial architecture,...
Sketchbook contains portrait drawings (generally of romantic and classical types) and animals possibly done as exercises for a drawing class at Washington College (Irvington, Calif.?)
Title supplied by cataloger.
Drawings of subjects associated with the Sierra Nevada Mountains, such as snow shoes, sign posts, water skins, mountain scenes, and the like, executed as designs for Christmas cards to be issued under the auspices of the Sierra Club.
Chiefly outdoor scenes and building exteriors around Alum Rock. Includes a bridge near Berryessa Station, Alum Rock Station, and a hotel at Congress Springs.
Includes mining town and camp views including Atlin (B.C.), Skagway (Alaska), Bennett City (B.C.), and St. Michaels. Numerous mountain views, coastal landscapes, and views along the Yukon River are present as well as several of ships and one of the...
Recollections of family life in San Francisco; her study of art and friendships with various artists, including Gottardo Piazzoni and Ralph Stackpole; her portrait painting and poetry; marriage to Ansley Salz; social life; her part in establishing Presidio Open Air...
Seven watercolor sketches of small islands.
Sketches of Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Waterhouse captioned "Portrait d'une jeune comtesse" drawn on Big Dipper Mining Co. stationery and "a mon ami 'Strainer' Frank Norris" Photographic copy prints show views of Waterhouse and others at the Big Dipper Mining...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Includes views of the Gilbert Islands and Samoa depicting scenery, Samoan people and their activities such as sailing, grinding, etc. Photographs of Strong, one taken while painting at Bohemian Grove, Calif., are also found.
Photographs of skiing, showing McDonald Salter, Murray Kirkwood, and Walter Mosauer and the mountainous landscape area around Mt. Baldy, in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern Calif.
Description of election frauds in San Francisco, particularly use of false-bottomed ballot boxes.
Letters, diaries, drafts of speeches and articles (including a biography of Hilgard), diplomas and photographs, relating mainly to his career at the University. Some papers pertaining to property in Berkeley and to his estaste, and a small group of...
This collection documents the history and activities of SLATE and its predecessor, TASC (Towards an Active Student Community), student political organizations active on the University of California, Berkeley campus from 1957 to 1966.
Included: document, Nov. 5, l827, Lawrence Co., Alabama, authorizing use of slaves in payment of owner's debt; pass, July 3, l833, Wilmington, Delaware, signed by the mayor, attesting that Sophia Cook was a free negro resident of that city and...
Photocopies of insurance records for slaves, approximately 1846-1848. With these, a report to the California Legislature.
Panoramic group portrait of assembled celebrants of Slavonic Day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, September 20, 1915. Among the banners depicted are those promoting the Slovenian-American Fraternal and Beneficial Society, the Slovenian-American Literary Benevolent Society and the Slavonic Illyric Mutual...
Includes fragments of diaries kept by Louis S. Slevin, 1886-1894, recording vessels seen in San Francisco; James S. Slevin's description of San Francisco in 1896; correspondence, 1954, of Joseph R. Slevin regarding the Plate of Brass, including letters from Amelie...
Views of Berkeley hills, Carmel coastline, lone cypress in Monterey, President Harding's funeral in San Francisco, and copy print of 1870s view of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco.
Images of boats, barges and machinery repairing canal after landslide.
Slides show Hiroshima and Nagasaki, destroyed by bombing during World War II.
Slides show the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Golden Gate International Exposition, the Marchant Factory Building (San Pablo Ave., Berkeley) and site, and the Carquinez Bridge.
Slides appear to be pictures of a young American naval officer and his wife, and their touristic views of Manila and Shanghai. Other views show family life in Long Beach, Calif. Three views at end from the late 1960's appear...
Missions and asistencias depicted include Santo Tomás, El Rosario, San Ignacio, Todos Santos, Santa Rosalia de Mulege, Loreto, Caborca, Pitiquito, Oquitoa, Tubutama and Magdalena.
Slides include images of maps, plans, and drawings which accompanied Bandelier's works on the native tribes, archaeology, and missions of northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
Includes portraits and other photographs of Muir taken throughout his adult life. Also depicted are such notable associates as Galen Clark, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Andrew Carnegie, John McLaren, Rev. Samuel Hall Young, Charles Augustus Keeler, William Keith and John Burroughs;...
Contains various photographs of members of the Sloss family, including portraits of Leon Sloss, Sr., Hattie Hecht Sloss, M.C. Sloss, Margaret Sloss, and Richard Sloss. Also includes a photograph of the 1931 salute to Louis Sloss by the Society of...
Contains Engel Sluiter's research notes and copies and transcriptions of historical documents from archives throughout Europe and Latin America made during approximately 1930-2001. Subject matter concerns Dutch voyages to the Pacific during the early 17th century, Dutch-Iberian global rivalry between...
Includes correspondence, grant proposals, publicity, and conference proceedings of the Smalefest at UC Berkeley.
Snapshots of four unidentified adult African-Americans, three in each shot.
This collection contains the organizational records of Small Wilderness Area Preservation, a conservation organization founded by Los Osos resident Emily Polk for the purpose of buying up small parcels of land for preservation as nature parks and reserves. It is...
Portraits of the Eaton, Skinner, and Smiley family of Salinas Valley; snapshots of Maude Smiley McCollum and her friends, Berkeley, ca. 1915; snapshots (1940 and later), taken by Paul M. Crosby, of Okinawa and Lake Tahoe area; snapshots of San...
Contains typed and handwritten manuscripts of poems (some in French), epigrams, haiku, prose and short stories. Also includes correspondence, some to George Haas from both Clark Ashton Smith and his wife Carol.
Title devised by cataloger.
Letters of Pardon Bowen Smith and his brothers, Dorillus G., Ebenezer H., James V., and Cyrill C. Smith, describing gold mining and pioneer life, chiefly at Camp Seco, Calif., to their family in Me.
Account of the voyage of the two brothers from Boston to California in 1849, around the Horn; description of San Francisco; work in Pittsburg, California; founding of the town of Antioch, California; career of William Wiggin Smith as farmer, carpenter...
Collection primarily consists of correspondence & research materials pertaining to Smith's published works, lectures and other professional activities and interests. The correspondence files are particularly extensive.
Daybooks, ledgers, cellar and order books; scrapbook of wine labels and photocopy of a price list.
The Mary Perry Smith papers document her career as an educator and advocate for Black filmmakers. The bulk of this collection consists of records from two organizations Smith co-founded, the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement Program (MESA) and the Black Filmmakers...
Chiefly stereographic views of Yosemite by various publishers. Most, with the exception of some of the E. & H.T. Anthony views, are in poor condition. Also present are several 20th century views relating to Modoc Indian culture, ten 19th century...
Maps showing registerd California historical landmarks by county.
Written in several hands (probably government agents), this journal contains entries about chores, business, weather, etc.
Accompanied by a printed chronological list and partial calendar of the letters, compiled by Arthur W. Browne.
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Stereographs by W.S. Smith collection contains 24 color stereographs published in San Francisco in 1906 by W.S. Smith during and following the earthquake and fire which destroyed much of the city. Notable scenes of...
Photographs document Smith-DeVries house of Milpitas, California. Photographs depict exterior and interior views of house, as well as other structures on the surrounding property.
Mostly papers of Peter S. Jones (1835-1865), younger son of Sally (Smith) Shiffer Jones (1791-1871), eldest sister of Jedediah Strong Smith, whose life was spent mainly at Ashtabula, Ohio. With these are papers of Bernhard Reichert, who married Peter Jones's...
This collection consists of five albums of black and white photographs taken by P. T. Glass of the Golden Gate International Exposition. The exposition was held from February 18 to October 29, 1939 on Treasure Island to celebrate the recent...
Album of a young man containing views around California. Locations include San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Park, various home yards, relatives in Los Angeles, the Mount Lowe Railway (a derailment), the University of California campus at Berkeley (5 views), Stockton,...
Snapshot photograph albums chiefly depicting Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd Infantry's 100th Battalion during World War II. Photographs document the soldiers' leisure-time activities in various European cities (Milan, Rome, Capri, Pisa, Florence, Paris, Zurich, Schwabach) as well as New York,...
Snapshot depicts Annie Alexander and Louise Kellogg seated at Egyptian-style camping tent at Last Chance Gulch, Kern County, Calif.
Chiefly snapshots of the childhood and early adulthood of Helen Taylor of Los Alamitos, Calif., and her student years at the California Institution for the Deaf and Blind in Berkeley. A few photographs show school interiors: a wood shop, drawing...
Views of dams, sluices, and related features during construction.
Primarily snapshots of individuals, most identified by name, taken at the Emeryville race track/Oakland trotting park. Includes photos of jockeys, bookmakers, sports editors, horsemen, gamblers, businessmen and other men of note, including Charles Gilman Norris, Colonel Daniel M. Burns, William...
San Francisco views show St. Mary's Cathedral, a Chinese New Year celebration, and the Palace of Fine Arts (before restoration). Some views are related to the Oakland Mole (ferry and rail terminal). Other California towns pictured include: Camanche, Volcano, Campo...
Photographs show people (Warren Coolbaugh's family or friends?) in front of various historic sites and buildings in California. Some California scenery also included.
Pictured are family and friends, apparently of a Sausalito and San Francisco based family. Includes many outings, picnicks, and groups in informal poses, some studio portraits, and scenic views in locales in various parts of California. Yachting views in the...
Photograph album compiled by sailor, chiefly containing snapshots taken on his voyages on various merchant ships to Hawaii, Panama Canal, China, Japan and the Philippine Islands. Points of interest depcited iclude Honolulu (where the funeral procession of Queen Liliuokalani was...
Photos are mainly of swimming pools and adjacent areas at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif.
Photographs show views of New Almaden (machinery, cemetery, adobe), historic buildings in San Jose, Saratoga, Sacramento (including Sutter's Fort), Auburn, etc.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Snapshots include 1: [Building on hillside.] -- 2: Sight seeing in Colon [tourists in carriages] -- 3: The old French canal and the American [canal] (at Mindi?).
Snapshots of poet Richard Brautigan taken during a 1981 poetry reading at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. Also appearing in one photograph is poet Robert Creeley.
Some bear annotations that are not accurate: for example, 1911 dates on San Francsico views prior to the 1906 earthquake.
Snapshot photographs of buildings, grounds, sculpture and miscellaneous scenes from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco, Calif. in 1915. Also includes four snapshots of an unidentified train wreck in a river bed, resulting from track erosion.
Contains correspondence, financial records, contracts and land documents mostly concerned with Smullin's business dealings. Also includes correspondence, property deeds and donation records regarding the Methodist Church in Honcut, Calif.
This album of 15 Taber photographs shows railroad cuts through the deep snow of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Machinery for cutting through the drifts and railroad workers are also shown in several photographs. The photographs were taken in Placer County...
Materials cover Snyder's environmental work in the Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina, including his activities with the Sierra Club, his work with the National Wilderness Committee, his involvement with the designation of the Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness, and his successful opposition to...
Snapshot photographs documenting a canoe camping journey undertaken by a group of 3 unidentified English friends across France in the late 19th century, chiefly along the Marne and Seine rivers and adjacent canals. Locations and other points of interest depicted...
Includes letters from Monroe Snyder to Jane Elizabeth Lemmon (later his wife), some describing his life in Yolo Co.; letters to them from her family; his 1859 diary written in Ohio and on return trip to California; miscellaneous Snyder family...
Family in Baltimore and New York City; early interests, film, Hollywood; Air Force Altitude Training Center, WWII; Harvard Dept. of Social Relations; faculty Gregory Bateson, Florence Kluckhohn; London School of Economics, thesis, Raymond Firth; marriage to Marion Steuber, London friends...
An account of events and conditions depicted in the manuscripts presented to Stanford University by Moses Schallenberger. Calendar of the documents also included.
Contains leaflets, flyers, posters, publications and ephemera. Gathered by the Social Protest Project primarily on Sproul Plaza for the UC undergraduate library between 1969-1982, the material primarly relates to the Vietnam War and Civil Rights demonstrations although there is significant...
Contains leaflets, flyers, posters, publications and ephemera related to the social protest movement in California, collected by the Berkeley Public Library. The material primarily relates to the environment, education, women's rights, civil rights, and capital punishment, as well as other...
Minutes of meetings, July-Nov., 1912, signed by Mrs. Elvina S. Beals, pasted in; lists of members at back of book; campaign leaflet, 1917, and other items pasted in.
Constitution and By-laws, convention minutes and reports, flyers, newsletters, documents on the Socialist Workers Party and the Maritime Committee for a Communist Party, International Workers School lessons, related materials.
Concerns activities and interests of The Section such as petitions of The Chapters to The Section, membership lists, newsletters, meeting announcements, various committees, financial information, and the Forest Practice Act.
The records include correspondence, committee files, minutes of meetings, chapter files, and other administrative documents.
Records relating to the operation of the Red Point Mine near Damascus, California. Records include two bound ledger journals, expenses sheets, vouchers, receipts, proofs of labor, etc. Ledgers and expenses sheets have printed headings in French with manuscript entries in...
Two women and two men, all African American, are pictured in a soda fountain, cafe, or candy store believed to be in Oakland, California. Coca Cola advertising signs are on the walls, and sweets or baked goods are in display...
Collection contains photographs of various soil conservation projects in Colusa and Solano Counties, possibly documented by the United States Soil Conservation Service shortly after the creation of the agency in the mid-1930s. Photographs illustrate soil erosion, its effect on orchards...
Details cases in Solano County, California, many before Judge Septa Fillmore Hyde.
Mainly tax title documents.
Images promoting and/or documenting the short-lived Solano Irrigated Farms, situated between Suisun, Elmira and Rio Vista, and associated undeveloped tracts of Solano County. A section of a larger range of photographs, the present collection depicts developers; a ceremony for "Solano,...
Snapshot portraits of prisoner Alex M. Herrera and various groups of inmates at Soledad Correctional Training Facility (commonly known as Soledad State Prison). One image depicts two visitors seated with Herrera. Also includes sheet of mailing labels with Herrera's prison...
Reel 1: The men. Track 1: 701 ft., track 2: 562 ft. With Doris Maxwell, Inez Williams, Georgia Jackson, Floyd Silliman, Richard Silver, and Fay Stender -- Reel 2: The prison. Track 1: 693 ft., track 2: 577 ft. With...
Part of a collection of diaries of overland journeys to California.
Five letters from composer Ernest Bloch to Rabbi Solomon Goldman that express Bloch's dissatisfaction with the response to his years with the Cleveland community, his opinions about his music, and his thoughts on being appointed director of the San Francisco...
Handwritten transcript of an interview of Solomon Hirsch, probably made by an agent of Hubert Howe Bancroft's History Company, 1888 October - November.
Contain names of many Sonoma inhabitants.
Galli family background, San Francisco; artistic beginnings, schools; world of advertising and commercial illustration; marriage to Frances Salvato, war years; magazine clients True, Saturday Evening Post, others; Famous Artists School, comments on some famous artists, friends; thoughts on artistic influences,...
Collection comprises project files, artist files, grant applications, photographs, and business records of the SomArts Mural Resource Center from 1975 to 2008, with the bulk of the materials from the 1990s.
Engravings of portraits of the Emperor and of François Le Fort inserted. Painted velvet covers. The manuscript was presented to the Duke of Sussex.
Reminiscences of life in Georgia; genealogical notes concerning the LeConte-Nisbet families, with mention of John and Joseph LeConte; association with Sidney Lanier; participation in the Civil War.
Biographical sketches of S.F. Butterworth and J.B. Randol, administrators of the New Almaden mine.
Notes on a trip taken in June, 1933, to the Hacienda of Francisco Villa, at Canutillo, Durango, donated to Villa by the Mexican Government to provide him and his followers with peaceful employment. Contains a description of the estate, an...
Photocopy of text of a talk presented at a fund-raising gathering to preserve Tor House and Hawk Tower.
Relating mainly to the connection of Mills College with the Seminary and Mary Atkins.
Notes on the Riverside Citrus Experiment Station; the University's Department of Agriculture, and start of the Agricultural Extension Service in World War I; and the Coit Agricultural Service.
The collection consists of manuscript and galley proofs of Levitin's writings; correspondence; reviews; articles; an account of Levitin's mother, Mrs. Helene Wolff, that also describes the family's ordeal, including a lengthy separation before the family was reunited in the U.S.;...
Research files of the Bay Area rock art archive, consisting of site reports, research notes, and other documentation assembled by Sonin and relating to rock art in California and other western states, including Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, New Mexico,...
v. 1: Mainly petitions to L.W. Boggs and grants and deeds signed by him. Also petition to Cayetano Juarez and deed by John H. Nash. v. 2: Printed land grant forms filled in and signed by Boggs.
Relate for the most part to court cases: summons, verdicts, court costs. Also included are a few promissory notes and a deed.
Lachryma Montis (General Vallejo's home: one view of his carriage), an historic "bear flag" plaque, Sonoma (with Mrs. C.C. Pierce on hillside), & Fort Ross (including a view of earthquake damage.)
Miscellaneous court documents, ordinances, and petitions by citizens, including a holograph affidavit written by John H. Nash, Justice of the Peace, Oct. 1846, concerning debts of William Mark West to Jesse L. Beasley; an ordinance to provide for the purchase...
Chiefly Sonoma County views, many of them depicting an unidentified group of men and women during various leisure activities. Locations include McKinley Cottage; Camp Meeker (with a few views of the group posing before a sign for Camp Llah); Sant...
Mainly deeds, other than alcalde grants, for lots in Sonoma and Sonoma County.
Contains mining claims, superintendent Oliver Roberts' annual report on the Socrates Mine, and articles relating to mercury mines in Sonoma County, Calif.
Stereograph views of Sonoma County depicting logging and lumbering, Santa Rosa and Healdsburg.
Richard Arrowood discusses his early career, founding Arrowood Vineyards in 1986, winemaking and vineyard management, and financial growth.
Sonoma Lumber Company records, BANC MSS C-G 96, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Phot. 1. Entrance gate -- Phot 2. View of field.
Collection contains materials related to specific projects of the company including Golden Bell/Pine Tree Project, Clio Mine, Alameda Mine, Eagle Shamut Mine, Dutch-App Mine, as well as documents from miscellaneous mines and historical documents on mines and mining in general....
Papers relating to Sonya Thompson's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Family portraits and snapshots pertaining to Wing Soo Hoo and multiple generations of his descendants, chiefly in California. Also includes a panoramic group portrait of members of the Chinese Presbyterian Church, Oakland, Calif., taken on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1930...
Relate primarily to family matters but also contain comments about San Francisco.
Contains undated autobiographical sketch, in which she focuses on her career in astronomy and mathematics, as well as in the field of education. Included with this is a list of publications which feature McDonald's writings. Also, typescripts of two reports...
The collection consists of two hundred and fifty-two letters exchanged between Theodore Lilienthal and Sophie Gerstle Lilienthal between 1877 and 1889 as well as eight letters exchanged between Theodore and other members of his family and his personal friends. Theodore's...
Addressed to Monsieur St. Edmé Jobert.
Correspondence relating to productions of her play, Machinal. Includes letters from Hans Bartsch, copies of 1919 contract, poster of 1937 production in Hungary, program and clippings of reviews for 1960 production in New York.
Title from captions.
A professional photographer's views of mine facilities at Soulsbyville in Tuolumne County, Calif. Includes the slime plant, Penn Shaft, mill, office, a horse team hauling fuel oil, Davidson Shaft, the road into town, the mine manager and office staff, an...
Speeches and lectures by Christian and recordings used in her work. Includes recordings by and/or about Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, June Jordan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bob Kaufman, Walter Rodney, and others.
10 reel to reel tapes are recordings of a series of lectures by Kerr, the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures for 1970 on "Students and Society in the U.S." The remaining reels and cassettes are other speeches or appearances by Kerr, ca....
The bulk of the collection is recordings of training seminars conducted by DREDF on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 held in various U.S. cities. Also included are recordings of texts on law and disability, disabled women's health...
Tape 1: Ten years of Fine print, talk by Sandra Kirshenbaum, January 30, 1984, Friends of the Book Arts Press Lectures; tape 2: Why buy fine press books? talk by Sandra Kirshenbaum, July 30, 1985, Rare Book School Lectures; tape...
Photocopies of letters accompanying tapes shelved as Phonotape notes. Originals in the Philip Whalen papers.
Typescript copies of material assembled by Cornelius James Brosnan for his doctoral dissertation on Jason Lee (Berkeley, 1929)
Notes, speech, letters, transcript, and certificate concerning such topics as land settlement, agricultural labor, Indians of South America, neutrality, newspapers, and commerce.
Locations pictured include Brazil (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, etc.), Chile, Argentina (Buenos Aires, etc.), the Andes mountains, and Panama (including the Panama canal). Views are of scenery, general views of cities, and scenes along mountain roads.
Documents of the pro-Indian independence political group, Hindustan Gadar Party, headquartered in Calif. in the early 20th century, and other pro-Indian independence materials.
Includes portraits, group portraits, copy negatives (of text documents or printed pages) relevant to the history of South Asians in California and elsewhere in North America and to the Hindustan Gadar Party in America.
50 to 2,497 shares signed by various individuals as secretary (J.W. Clark or T.F. Cronise) and as president (J.W. Mather) and lithographed by Fish & Co., 511 Sacramento Street.
Detailed views of the construction of the new truss bridge, the 2nd on the site, built in 1929-1930, and the workers. One view of former narrow suspension bridge included.
Views of the demolition of the truss bridge, the 2nd on the site. Includes views in background of new concrete box girder bridge built up stream, the 3rd on the site.
Photos show views (taken by Don Tateishi on May 14, 1985) of truss bridge, built in 1930, on the South Fork Trinity River (Humboldt and Trinity counties, Calif.), with aerial views (taken by Lynn Harrison on Feb. 10, 1986) of...
Title devised by cataloger.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Album of illustrated matchbooks pertaining to various Southern California topics. Some illustrations are not relevant to topic of advertisement. Grouped thematically -- e.g. pin-up/cheesecake women; public safety; restaurants, entertainment venues, and other local establishments; political campaigns; health and beauty, etc.
Views of Santa Catalina Island show Avalon, old government barracks, and bathers at the harbor. One postcard of tents at Camp San Luis Obispo also included.
Chiefly views highlighting popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s in the greater Los Angeles area.
Scenic views and attractions in Los Angeles County, Riverside and San Bernardio Counties and the specific locales of Long Beach, Catalina Island, Mt. Lowe, Ocean Park, Sierra Madre, Venice, and Pasadena. Frequently pictured are public buildings, general town views, hotels...
Photographs are captioned: Old Ridge Route -- Grapevine near Bakersfield -- Long Beach Oil Wells.
Two snapshot photograph albums documenting leisure activities in Southern California, chiefly in and around the greater Los Angeles area, taken in the mid-1920s. Albums share some common subject matter and, in a few instances, identical images. Volume 1: identified locations...
Views includes outdoor scenes and residences in Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Santa Monica.
Includes views from Avalon (Catalina Island), Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, Calif. Photos depict Eastlake and Westlake Parks, General Fremont's headquarters, Mission gardens in Santa Barbara, and plaza and mission in Los Angeles.
1-3. Panorama of Santa Barbara: 3 sections only of original 4 taken by N.H. Reed -- 4. Los Angeles residence on Pearl Street near Sixth -- 5. North Marengo Ave., Pasadena, taken by William Graham -- 6. Incline Rd., Mt....
Photographs show Spring Street in Los Angeles, views of South Pasadena (showing the Raymond Hotel and Sierra Madre Mountains), and San Luis Obispo, and a wharf in Port San Luis, Calif. (also known as Port Harford)
Many photos of the San Bernardino Mountains in California, including scenery, Wilson's Mill and Wilson's Camp, Rubio Canyon views, the old tavern at Mt. Lowe, the residence of Mr. Stewart, and citrus orchards. Also contains views of the San Gabriel...
Copy, received in San Francisco Office Oct. 16, 1885.
Correspondence, trial records, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, circulars and posters, relating mainly to train robberies in California, Oregon and Arizona, particularly the De Autreamont case. Some materials also relate to labor disturbances. The bulk of the collection appears to consist of...
Views of Southern Pacific Railroad's ferry steamboats Eureka, Sacramento, Santa Clara and Transit. Boats are depicted in various unidentified California locations (San Francisco Bay likely).
Include copies of articles of incorporation, by-laws, correspondence and resolutions concerning stock and other matters.
Film copy of station cards of the great majority of railroad station names that had existed or were in existence in 1988 on the Southern Pacific system.
Views of various Southern Pacific Co. trains and lines, chiefly in California. Images of locomotives predominate.
Views of the "principle points of interest on the entire Southern Pacific system." Includes New Orleans; Louisiana Bayous and cane fields; the Alamo; Casa Grande and other Arizona scenes; the Salton Sea (including "plowing salt") and Indio, Calif. vicinity; Riverside,...
Correspondence, reports, press releases, legal documents, pamphlets, etc., documenting the formation of the union and its activities to improve the lot of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, small landowners and migratory farm workers; its relations with government agencies, other unions and other...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Interior and exterior views of the building in Petra, Majorca, where Junípero Serra was born; simple furniture is visible inside.
Box containing display of mounted mineral specimens from the gold mines of California, including a gold nugget, another specimen of gold, a piece of petrified wood, and 9 other unidentified minerals from various counties in California's Mother Lode region (Nevada,...
Photoprints taken on the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899. Views depict landscapes, geographic features, towns, native Alaskans, and expedition members. Many settlements are identified.
Professional souvenir photographs of couples taken at various San Francisco nightclubs or other restaurants, some located in well-known hotels. The same unidentified blonde woman appears in each photograph, accompanied by various men, most if not all of them from the...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Views of cities and villages on the route of the occupying forces of Emperor Maximilian. Pictured are streets, plazas, aqueducts, monuments, churches, and other buildings. Occasionally wagons appear in the images. More infrequently, human figures are present. Locations include Vera...
Description of his travels in Italy, with sketches. Clippings pasted in.
Album includes 33 cartes-de-visite sized portraits of Emperor Maximilian and his consort Carlota and other political and military figures (including Benito Juárez, Santa Anna, and Miguel Miramón.) Also present are 31 full-plate sized views of buildings, streets, a palace and...
Journal of a voyage on the French frigate La Lamproie, April 25, 1844-July 1, 1848. The voyage extended from Toulon to the South Sea Islands, via South America, Mexico, and San Francisco, touching at Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Callao, Lima,...
Includes papers of A.F. Nunes, his daughters Wilhelmina Nunes Bossana and Mary Nunes Souza; records relating to business interests in the Nunes Investment Co., Felix Oil Company, Kettleman Equities, and other enterprises.
Includes poetry, holiday greetings and documents concerning personal property, salaries and eclesiastic appeals. Individual items cataloged separately. Search under title: Spain: miscellaneous letters and documents.
Prints form a single panoramic image looking north toward Camp Merriam in the Presidio of San Francisco, showing tents of Spanish American War troops, buildings of the Presidio to the west, San Francisco residences to the east, and San Francisco...
Propaganda broadsides promoting Catalonian support of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War; illustrated with comic panels satirizing those associated with the Nationalist cause, discouraging Catalonians from siding with the Nationalists, and promoting various Republican themes -- e.g. anti-fascism,...
Chiefly proof photographs intended for illustration of Spanish colonial arts, an unpublished manuscript, depicting a range of Spanish colonial crafts of New Mexico, including furniture, textiles, sculpture and decorative art -- e.g. chests, tin craft, blankets and other weavings, doors,...
Two perhaps unrelated handwritten 17th century Spanish documents. One is dated January 23, 1653 and has been re-handwritten in the original language.
The first scrapbook (BANC PIC 1964.026) was assembled by Graupner in 1899. A typewritten explanatory note at the front of the scrapbook states that the photographs were taken in the San Francisco vicinity between 1898 and 1899. The second scrapbook...
1. Parade of volunteers on San Francisco street surrounded by spectators, some waving flags (Taber no. 8864); 2. transport ship Newport leaving for Manila (Taber no. 8997)
Stereos show troops in formation, weapons, warships, army hospitals, casualties, and general views of the Philippine Islands at the time of the Spanish American War.
Reminiscences of campaigning for woman suffrage; friendships with Alice Paul, Sara Bard Field and other women in the movement; Anne Martin's senatorial campaign; organization of the National Woman's Party; campaigning for world peace. Appended: interview with Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan conducted Jan....
Consists of letters and accounts and other commercial records of his store in Monterey from 1832 and in San Francisco from 1836. Some relate to partnership, 1836-38, with William Sturgis Hinckley and Jacob Primer Leese.
The Records of the California Special Crime Study Commission on Organized Crime span nine years years, from 1945 to 1954. The majority of the records in the collection are dated between 1947-1952. The materials consist of correspondence, memos, field notes,...
Includes works by Ukai Uchi yama. Others, unidentified, possibly are by the same artist.
Collection of miscellaneous leaves and fragments.
Includes Congressional reports, radio programs, speeches, and miscellaneous recordings.
Contains legal, financial and land documents, mostly relating to the Queen Bee Mining Company, as well as business and family correspondence. Also includes Garner Spencer's patent for a two cycle engine and ephemera.
Miscellaneous business and personal papers, correspondence, letter books, and clippings, mostly relating to Brigadier General Peter W. Spicer (?-1834) and his son, John W. Spicer. An important part of the collection consists of correspondence and letters of recommendation assembled by...
The Jack Spicer Papers, 1939-1982, document Spicer's career as a poet in the San Francisco Bay Area. Included are writings, correspondence, teaching materials, school work, personal papers, and materials relating to the literary magazine . Spicer's creative works constitute the...
Material documenting Spier's work as an anthropologist, primarily relating to American Indians. Includes correspondence on his research on Indian cradles; comparative notes on ethnography; field notebooks, mainly on the Plains and Klamath Indians; and material relating to Salish Indian weaving....
Consists of personal, academic and professional correspondence of Robert Spira during his time as associate professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University and assistant professor of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee.
Photographs relating to the history of lumbering and logging including views of sawmills, logging equipment, flumes, locomotives, oxen, forests, railroad construction, etc.
One view of Spokane Falls, C and C Milling Co. and adjacent area of Spokane, Wash. along Spokane River, and one view of Shoshone Falls, along the Snake River in Southern Idaho.
Documents relating to the estate of Harry I. Spotts, 1867; deeds and abstract of title for property in St. Louis; accounts, 1861-1871; miscellaneous correspondence of Albert T. Spotts, 1872-1897; In Memoriam by the California Title Insurance Company for Albert T....
Spreckels financial records primarily concern the financial activities and investments of Adolph and John Spreckels. The bulk of the collection spans the years from 1880 to 1925, documenting the financial transactions of several joint ventures statewide. Includes ledgers, journals, cash...
This collection consists of an album of 28 photographic prints of Joel Parker Whitney's Spring Valley Ranch in Placer County, California. The photographs were taken by the firm of Runnels & Stateler of San Francisco, circa 1889. Included are photographs...
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
The Spring Valley Water Company records, 1856-1952, consist of minutes, organizational papers, and correspondence from the presidencies of William B. Bourn and Samuel P. Eastman, along with property, stock, and financial records for the "S.V.W.Co." and its predecessors, Spring...
Allan Sproul's papers primarily concern his financial and banking activities and interests. Much of the collection consists of correspondence, both to and from other bankers and economists, largely discussing financial trends and policies. The collection also contains extensive files...
Includes photographs of various business and political functions; dedications and gatherings possibly connected with Sproul's activity with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1945-1956) when he was president, his advisory work on banking policy, and service of bounds of...
Concerning his work in phrenology and his travels in Scotland.
Letters from S.R. Shrader of Liberty (Missouri?) to William James Knox. Letter of 1852 July 8 includes mention of a "gold tunnel" along with business news and discussion of local politics. Letter of 1853 May 21 introduces Lawson A. Talbott,...
Photographs depict S.S. Cape Mendocino (T-AKR-5064) arriving in San Franciso following World War II duty in the Pacific. One photograph depicts ship approaching waterfront; other photograph depicts portion of ship's deck crowded with troops eager to disembark.
Photos show detailed views of the S.S. President Hoover, including close up views of damage (caused by ammunition?) and workers repairing the ship. The ship is shown in an unidentified harbor.
Contains letters to various relatives, describing the journey west and life in gold rush California.
Photographs depict Coulter family members and others in attendance at the 1943 launching ceremony of the S.S. William A. Coulter cargo ship at the Permanente Metals Corporation shipyard no. 1 in Richmond, Calif.
Letters with copies of communications from the General Land Office, concerning Mexican land grants in Southern California, many in dispute with the railroads.
Collection contains a, 1876 letter from D.G. Goodrich to E.F. Winslow regarding an annual rail pass, with Winslow's reply on verso, an 1879 legal release and cancellation of taxes and ratification of the board of supervisors filed by Winslow as...
Agreement of March 30, 1810, for sale on court order of property belonging to the late Joseph Robidoux (mortgaged to Cavelier & Petit, New Orleans) by Edward Hempstead, their attorney, to Peter Primm and his wife Mary, showing satisfaction of...
Typescript and mimeograph copy of several drafts of the play, co-authored by Countee Cullen, based on Bontemps' novel, God Sends Sunday. Also includes a mimeograph copy of the screenplay from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, dated March 12, 1954.
Primarily letters written to Sarah Prideaux. Correspondents include Selwyn Image (1898-99, discussing type), E. Gordon Duff (1903, about early bindings), Samuel P. Avery (1894-1903, regarding books bound for him by Prideaux), Sir Emery Walker (concerning her Catalogue of bookbindings), C.H....
Letters, writings, speeches, scrapbooks, etc., relating mainly to Adolphus Frederick St. Sure's career as attorney and judge in Alameda County, Calif. and U.S. District Judge of the Northern District of California, and to Joseph Paul St. Sure's career as attorney...
Contains ledger of California gold mining business.
Professional photographs depicting Stackpole's figurative sculpture at the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco; a detail of one of his murals in Coit Tower; and an abstract sculpture ("Stone for a furn [sic] forest") in Chauriat, France. Also includes snapshots...
Stage settings and scenes for the 17th Grove play of the Bohemian Club, Wilson's Life, produced in 1919; includes photograph showing a painting for Templeton Crocker's The land of happiness, the 15th Grove play, produced in 1917.
Includes 12 sections of a stained glass window by Robert Duncan. Also includes slides of the assembled window (dated 1958), of Duncan in a garden, and of portraits of Duncan by R.B. Kitaj, as well as other subjects.
Stan Brakhage letters to David Meltzer, BANC MSS 2018/106, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Includes views of Salt Lake City, and of the railway near Thistle, Utah, Glenwood Springs, Colo., with interior views of the buildings there, and Garden of the Gods, Colo.
Launching of the ship "Alaska Standard", and views of sea, coastlines, and landscapes in Alaska.
Blueprint specifications for spikes, rails, tracks and other equipment used by the railroad.
Childhood and education, New York City; higher education, New York, Pennsylvania State University, Washington University, St. Louis; postdoctoral research with Arthur Kornberg and Herman Kalckar; research on amino acid activation, tumor viruses, recombinant DNA; Asilomar I conference (1973), recombinant DNA...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pre-Stanford career in industry; establishing a technology licensing program at Stanford University; Cohen-Boyer recombinant DNA patents: negotiating with inventors, Stanford, and University of California; commercial potential, royalty distribution, controversy over patenting in biology, licensing plan, recombinant DNA controversy, National Institutes...
Pre-emption notices for land in Stanislaus County.
Greyson's views include exterior and interior of the Stanley's Grocery Store, a school building, a Presbyterian church with parishioners inside, a view of an "Early day Grayson" and a drawing showing humorous scene described as "Scenes, personalities and incidents belonging...
Accompanying inventory includes history of bridge construction and use.
Album contains baby pictures, childhood pictures, family snapshots, and views from family outings in various parts of California. Boxed photographs include views of outings with family and friends, including photos of the 1930 trip of Sierra Club to the Sierra...
Journals entitled "life books," started by her mother, Julia Mann Barr, and continued by Doris until mid-1935, shortly after her marriage to Dan Stanislawski. Journal entries are supplemented by letters, photos, clippings, and memorabilia, pertaining to childhood in Stockton and...
Writings, correspondence, and subject files relating to Weir's work as a merchant seaman, longshoreman, author, publisher, and professor. Includes material relating to his disagreements with ILWU president Harry Bridges, court documents from Williams vs. PMA-ILWU (1963-1980), and Singlejack Books, Weir's...
Personal and biographical materials; correspondence with family and friends, including literary figures and artists; work-related correspondence with agents and editors; research materials, manuscripts and correspondence relating to Noyes' work, Los Comanches: The Horse People, 1751-1845; other writings, including poems, short...
Include a short biography which contains information on the mechanization of his father's bakery in San Francisco, expansion of the business, building new plants, and comments on the depression, unemployment, his political beliefs. With this, related materials including a membership...
Papers document the career and activities of Wendell M. Stanley through correspondence; his writings including research notes, speeches, and draft articles; and papers submitted by his colleagues at the UC Berkeley Virus Laboratory. Other materials include news clippings about Stanley,...
Diaries kept on the expedition commanded by the U.S. Topographical Engineers, Captain Howard Stansbury and Lieutenant John Williams Gunnison, sent to survey the Great Salt Lake and adjacent valleys. The Stansbury and Gunnison diaries (9 v.) describe the journey to...
The collection contains mostly documents produced during the family's emigration from Austria during the 1930s, including immigration papers, identity documents, birth certificates, naturalization papers, and passports (reisepasses) from Nazi Germany and the United States. The collection also includes some family...
Stapleton Cotton Combermere letters, BANC MSS 74/79 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Copy of claim notice and by-laws, and minutes of meetings of stockholders and board of trustees.
Chiefly photographs taken by Walter Augustus (Peter) Starr, Jr. and his father Walter A. Starr, Sr. of various locations in the Sierra Nevada mountains, including the Minarets Wilderness where Peter died during a mountaineering expedition in 1933. Also includes photographs...
Correspondence, subject and biographical files.
Comments on parents, Roy and Grace Service and their YMCA work in China; work in U.S. Foreign Service, 1933-42, with various posts in China; political events; growing strength of communists and civil war in China; assignment as political advisor to...
Forms part of: China scholars oral history series.
Educational prints depicting various activities of Native Americans and trappers from Colorado's history.
The collection contains three albums and an accopress binder of photographs documenting the development of the State Land Settlement Project at Delhi, California, from 1920-1922.
The collection consists of three albums and an accopress binder of photographs documenting the development of the State Land Settlement Project at Durham, California, from 1918-1919.
Consists of miscellaneous legal documents including legal correspondence, telegraphs, journals, penal codes, testimonies, cases, etc. Some significant subjects include correspondence to the Jefe Política concerning the incarceration of Francisco Villa in 1901, an 1817 document listing Realista soldiers and their...
C-A 50 Tomos I-IV; C-A 51 Tomos VI-XI.
C-A 52 Tomo I; C-A 53 Tomo II.
Dictation recorded at Sacramento, Apr. 18, 1888, by William J. Kerr; letter of thanks from the History Company and receipts for purchase of Bancroft's Works.
Relates mainly to the treatment of Californians taken prisoner by the Bear Flag Party.
With covering letter from Dan B. Fisher, business manager, to Bancroft Library (Oct. 23, 1940). Included also is a printed circular concerning the Agabeg Temple in Los Angeles.
Includes Richard Graves' statements covering issues raised by the California Labor League for Political Education, and the CIO-California Industrial Union Council, etc.
Statement of goods bought of McMillan & Adams, Sept. 30, 1873; receipt for use of Dayton, Virginia, and Carson Toll Road, Nov. 1, 1873; water statement, Virginia & Gold Hill Water Co., Aug. 31, 1874.
Describes his ranch in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.
Yreka, Los Angeles, Oakland, Folsom, Marysville, Weaverville, Scott Bar, San Jose, Ophir, Stockton, Mariposa, and San Pedro. Mostly concerning freighting and freightage, and merchandise.
Interviews conducted 1981-1982 by Malca Chall for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, with individuals involved in state, regional and local land-use planning in California. Volume 1: State and Regional Planning Initiatives, 1950-1975. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as...
Contemporary copies. Alex Campbell presiding judge, in cases Cassafourth vs. Ramirez and Franklin vs. Curell & Leitch.
Portraits of Mexican "types" from Oaxaca and perhaps other locations: 1. [Older Oaxacan woman carrying child on back. Photographer's number 153.] 2. [Oaxaca farmer posing before carts and cattle. 161.] 3. [Young Oaxaca woman holding pottery jug on shoulder. 226.]...
Horses being loaded at a San Francisco dock, bound for the Philippines during the Spanish American War.
Bound manuscript ship log kept by Captain Edward Von Schmidt containing dated entries from August 15 to October 30, 1883 for a voyage of the Hawaiian steamship, Kinau, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Honolulu, Hawaii via Cape Horn. There are 79...
Records generated by the company's trustees after its dissolution in 1927 also included.
Dampers providing sway reduction for high rise structures, designed by Leslie E. Robertson, with the firm Worthington, Skilling, Helle, and Jackson, and used in construction of the World Trade Center. These two specimens were retrieved from the debris pile following...
The Dwight C. Steele Papers, 1942-2002 (bulk 1970-2001), contain correspondence, subject and organizational files on various environmental conservation issues, with particular focus on the San Francisco Bay Area and Lake Tahoe Regions.
Correspondence, receipts, daybooks, ledger, journals, songbooks, deeds, map, cheques, business cards, clippings, notes, and manuscripts reflecting the personal and business interests of the Steele brothers. Includes materials relating to the California State Grange and the National Grange.
Revised typescript of a brief history of Nevada, the development of its mines, arrival of missionaries, and the establishment of churches of various denominations.
Includes a letter from Joseph Steffens on the birth of his son, Lincoln, 1866; obituary clippings for Joseph Steffens and his second wife, Orinda (Miller) Steffens; letters written by his daughter, Hattie, concerning family history, 1924-1927; and genealogical notes on...
Assorted ephemera regarding Steffens Superior Shows, an Oakland-based carnival company that appeared throughout the U.S., including California, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah. These items include letters concerning business operations, contracts and agreements for upcoming appearances, city and county licenses, clippings, and...
The Alan Stein papers documents the work the Point Baker and Salmon Bay Protective Associations did to protest clearcut logging and lobby for buffer strip legislation in the Tongass National Forest on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. The collection...
Primarily snapshots of Allan Stein as a child, providing numerous views of childhood and family life in San Francisco of the 1890's. Christmas and birthday celebrations are prominent. Also includes pictures of Gertrude Stein (p. 22), Leo, Michael, and Sarah...
Photographs apparently show Stein family members and friends (most unidentified) in various activities, some in Europe. Includes views of a home by Le Corbusier in Garches (France). Scenes of fishing and swimming are included. Many photos show Allan Stein as...
Included also are letters to the Steinbecks from Hector Bolitho, Paul de Kruif, Gene Fowler, Howard O. Hunter, Charles Jackson, Ed Ricketts, Barrie Stavis, Annie Laurie Williams, Stanley Young; and others; notebook containing draft of scenario for the film, The...
Contains letters full of description and even some drawings of the many places Stella Benson lived and traveled to, including England during World War I and fighting for women's suffrage, living and traveling near Berkeley, Calif. when Prohibition began, a...
Collection of books, serials, manuscript materials, rubbings, and pictorial materials, from the library of Stella Patri.
Topics include: Welfare reform during Ronald Reagan's second term as governor--cabinet budget and policy discussions, staff task force; his role as Director, California Department of Social Welfare--reorganization, legislative debate; his earlier experience as deputy director, California Department of Public works--reorganization,...
The Gunther S. Stent Papers reflect the varied functions of Stent's life as a research scientist, teacher, mentor, administrator, editor, and author. His career spanned a period of profound changes in the life sciences, and his eclectic interests encompassed not...
Letters received from: Marion Connors, Morris M. Estee, Charles N. Felton, Chancellor Hartson, Joseph E. McComas, Charles Emmett McLaughlin, John Willock Noble, Chester H. Rowell, and John F. Swift.
Carbon copies of 47 letters written from Honolulu, 1847-1848; and from San Francisco, New York, and Boston, 1849, before the organization, and during the existence, of S.H. Williams & Company. The majority of the letters are written to Williams' principal,...
Record, Apr. 30-July 20, July 20-Sept. 14, Sept. 15-Oct. 27, 1823, of U.S. expedition to explore westwardly and northwestwardly of Lake Superior.
Written mainly from California, they relate to his voyage around the Horn in 1849, frontier life, and experiences gold mining.
Mainly letters from Field. Includes statements from R.C. Hopkins, keeper of the Archives, relating to land grant files in his charge.
Contains documents concerning Stephen K. Tollefson's application for discharge from the United States Army Reserves on conscientious objector grounds during the Vietnam War. Documents include typescript statements, correspondence, letters of support, a transcript of the conscientious objector hearing, and the...
The collection contains copies of photographs of people, documents, and buildings that were collected by Stephen Kinsey for his 1973 Master's thesis, "They Called It Home: Development of the Jewish Community of San Jose, 1850-1900." The photographs include images of...
Includes correspondence addressed to Morris, one letter from Morris to Julien Michel, poems, clippings, photographs, and a promotional poster for a modern poetry reading.
Papers of University of California philosophy professor Stephen Pepper contain a typescript of his "The cultivation of taste," lecture notes for philosphy classes, notes he took on books and during seminars, and other teaching or research materials relating to philosophy.
Contents: notes on Indian vocabularies; portions of a manuscript on California Indians; notes on Indians of the Northwest Pacific area; letters to H. H. Bancroft.
selections from 3 series, designated by the photographer as Pismo Beach portraits, Central Coast beach landscapes and Central Coast agricultural landscapes. Portraits depict tourists and local visitors to a weekly Pismo Beach art and craft fair, where the photographer regularly...
Letter-press copy books reflecting his mining interests in California, Idaho and Nevada and association with Sam Bell Wakefield, broker, San Francisco.
Includes, correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, mail art, notebooks and journals, books and catalogs regarding the Beats, Beat Generation discography, and research material.
Images of Black Panther Party leaders, members, and others at various events and rallies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Included are Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, George Murray, Reies Tijerina, Charles Garry, Angela Davis, David Hilliard, Huey Newton,...
The collection includes materials relating to Smale's career in mathematics as well as to his involvement in the anti-war and free speech movements. Among those materials documenting Smale's academic career are correspondence relating to his own work as well as...
Includes letter from Miguel de Pedrorena relating to the sale of merchandise of the brig Corsair; letter to his son; and translation of documents pertaining to the grant of Bodega Rancho.
Contains 11 letters to publisher about publication of "Twenty-five poems" (Helsinki, Eurographica, 1988) and another unpublished work.
Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and journals concerning Stephen Spender's interest and activity in writing.
Contains correspondence, notebooks, diaries, journals, poems, plays, short stories, drafts, reviews, etc.
Contains a typescript carbon copy volume of a dramatization of Henry James' "The Golden Bowl", co-authored by Stephen Spender and Mary Hope Allen (132 leaves, undated [1945?]). Also includes one folder of correspondence containing seven letters by Stephen Spender, one...
Five letters from Stephen T. King (7 p.) and three letters from James L. King (10 p.) to their brother John H. King describing events and every day circumstances of business in San Francisco. One letter is a personal account...
Notes on his early life and family; law practice in Sacramento; California State Reclamation Board; various reclamation districts and projects; irrigation districts and their Association; water problems; the legal profession; California politics and politicians (including his brother, Sheridan Downey) Small...
Contents: Letters, Jan. - May, 1847 (4) to W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War (describing the military situation in California and his plans), to W.A. Richardson (instructions as Collector and Harbor Master, San Francisco), to J.M. Bonilla (to continue as Alcalde,...
Includes his summary of his legal career; notes for the interview; material re the Merced Irrigation District.
Journals, 1852-1860, and letters to his family, 1853-1857, relating to his voyage to California via Panama in 1852, to his mining experiences in Placer and El Dorado Counties, and to his return to Massachusetts. Some accounts and sketches at the...
Correspondence, manuscripts of articles and books, lecture notes and clippings, mainly relating to his career as professor of history, University of California, and to his activity in the acquisition of the Bancroft Library. Also included: material relating to Rudyard Kipling,...
Correspondence, clippings, notes and papers relating to his career as professor of history, University of California, Berkeley.
Also included is a manuscript of a poem, "The Mighty Mother for AE," written for his friend, Albert M. Bender.
Pt. I : Mainly letters and papers of John Lloyd Stephens; papers for the settlement of his estate and some correspondence of his father, Benjamin Stephens. Concerning John L. Stephens' travels in Mexico and Central America, his publications and his...
Family history and education; law practice in Los Angeles area; appointment to municipal court of the East Los Angeles Judicial District; elevation to the Superior Court of California for Los Angeles County; associate justice of the California Court of Appeal;...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Primarily studio portraits of Paiute, Ute, Snake (i.e. Shoshoni) and Bannock Indians, including single persons and groups (men, women and children); one shown on a horseback; one identified as Pahute Jim.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Views show Main Street in Gold Hill, and a general view and mining works in Virginia City, Nevada.
View of "Hercules prostrate[...]" showing fallen tree and a man, and a view of "Mammoth tree grove" showing sequoias.
A miscellany of uncaptioned stereo views from Watkins' Pacific Coast series. Image descriptions: Street in small rural locale -- Horse and buggy: two white horses, driver wears top hat -- Yosemite: square top buggy with driver; couples on horseback on...
Several residences in the Rincon Hill area of San Francisco, views of the Vallejo Street wharf and the Pioneer Woolen Mills in San Francisco. Rural scenes include views of San Mateo, San Juan Bautista, Martinez, and Vallejo, Calif., and a...
Stereos show Stockton buildings, businesses, an artist's studio interior (of Miss Mary Hamilton), etc. Also includes a view of Farmington, Calif.
Primarily views of mineral formations, springs, waterfalls, geysers, etc.
Most views of Oregon, but some of California and Arizona.
Views show waterfalls, giant sequoias, and other Yosemite scenes.
This collection consists of 60 color stereographs of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. The publishers of the photomechanical prints are unknown. Includes images of earthquake and fire damage of buildings in San Francisco, such as the Fairmont...
Stereograph views of Arizona, BANC PIC 19xx.372, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Stereographs show Monument Park, views around Manitou, Leadville, Colorado Springs, Clear Creek Canyon, Idaho Springs, and other views in Colorado. Also includes a view of tornado damage to buildings in Louisville, Kentucky.
Captioned: Salt market, Cuernavaca 10853 -- Coffee tree loaded with ripe berries 10877 -- Preparing coffee for the fastidious consumer, Orizaba 10879 -- Governor's palace and plaza, Vera Cruz 10917.
Includes views of antiquities, churches, various towns and cities, street vendors and markets, and other views of general interest to tourists.
1: Evening view of the Golden Gate from the Female College, Oakland [Houseworth no. 22, ca. 1865] -- 2: Company A Veteran Reserves, C.N.G. [photographer's number 108, California National Guard company in parade, ca. 1900-1915?] -- 3: Naval apprentices [cadets...
Includes several railroad construction views and miscellaneous Panamanian scenes. One color halftone of the interior of the cathedral in Mexico City is included.
Views of San Francisco: in particular, Woodward's Gardens (including "Japanese performers," children, boats, art gallery, etc.). Other Calfornia views show Montecito, Mt. Tamalpais, geysers in Sonoma County, a waterfall near Pasadena, and girls on Marengo Ave. in Pasadena.
Views principally of Colorado, with some views of the New Southwest (Arizona and possibly New Mexico) and California, including 6 of San Francisco from Watkins' Pacific Coast series. Colorado views feature the Pikes Peak and Manitou regions, and include numerous...
Includes scenic views of the Monterey and Carmel vicinity, coastal landscapes, the Hotel del Monte, outing groups, and unidentified mountainous terrain presumably in the hills of Monterey or Santa Cruz counties. One view of brick-walled mine(?) shaft entrance is included....
Items captioned: Ascent to the summit of the Chilcoot Pass [sic] elevation 3500 feet -- At work in the gold mines of the Klondyke [sic], Alaska -- Transports in the Klondyke [sic], Alaska
Views of antiquities, landscapes, ports and ships, and scenes with local inhabitants. Originally published with accompanying text describing a tour through the region.
This finding aid describes 1,042 stereographs acquired by The Bancroft Library through the year 1995. The stereographs were acquired as single items and collections of fewer than 30 stereographs. Collections of more than 30 stereographs have been described separately in...
Thirteen views of Yosemite, 4 of Mexico City, and 1 of Sacramento, Calif.
Includes In Camp Grove (an unidentified outing group: 2 copies), Hutchings, Hutchings Hotel, Royal Arches, and Lake View (with small boat in foreground and a seated man fishing.)
Contains views from and around Sitka, Juneau, Skagway, Fairbanks, and other Alaskan locations, including photos of members of the President Harding's party; Eskimo, Athabascan, and Malemute Indians, their villages and artifacts; glaciers; animals; etc.
Views captioned: Birdsall Mill [large wooden building on a hillside] -- Point Zephyr, Lake Bigler, Nevada -- Slippery Ford Galls, from Placerville road.
:1 Ward's Cascade, numbered 135, from the series Views on Supply Creek (Utah Territory) -- :2 A Cañon, numbered 163, from the series Views on Winslow Creek (Utah Territory).
Stereos show Yellowstone, the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Tetons, and the Garden of the Gods. One shows an Indian family and teepee, another shows photographer and tent on a rock ledge.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Captioned: Nick of the woods - a very singular tree, Valley of Lake Tahoe (no.645) -- Uncle Tom's Cabin, from a point 40 feet in the interior of the Big Tree Eagle Wing (no.894) -- Under the dome of the...
Stereographs showing a view of Catalina Island, Calif. with cliffs and rocky shoreline visible; view of interior ruins of San Luis Rey Mission, taken from the top of the walls.
Colorado locations include: Georgetown, Manitou, Estes Park, Idaho Springs, Central City, Denver, Glen Eyrie, Monument Park, Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne Canyon, Golden, Leadville, Pike's Peak, etc. Other locations include Prickly Pear Canyon, Montana and Blue Rapids, Kansas. Views are...
Two stereographs, the first showing the First Presbyterian Church[?], Second and Fort streets, Los Angeles, Calif.; the second showing Mrs. Longstreet's residence and grounds, Los Angeles[?], Calif.
Collection includes a view of the Golden Gate, E.P. Flint's residence (12th St. Oakland), Oakland City Hall, Central Pacific Railroad Co.'s steamer "El Capitan", various views from College Observatory, and the Webster St. bridge and marsh.
Includes a general view of Santa Barbara, views of the Santa Barbara and San Gabriel Missions, and "Dancing resort of native California" showing "Big grape vine" rite.
Views of the school grounds, buildings and superintendent residences. Also includes a view of Tilden's statue of Grizzly and Indian.
Five views from the Colorado River Series (mainly Grand Canyon), one from the Arizona series.
Views related to wool trade and industry showing interiors of wool factories and mills. Photos taken in factory in Alhambra, Calif. depict various wool production processes such as: carbonizing, sulphuric acid bath, dying, final washing and drying. Photo from Australia...
Collection focuses on Yellowstone Park, but also includes views from Ogden Canyon (Utah), scenes along the Snake River, and a view from Montana. Includes views from the following series: Views in Utah, Idaho, and Montana; The Great West; and Scenery...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Stereoviews show Mirror Lake, Mt. Watkins, Clouds' Rest, the Three Brothers, the Wawona Tree (Mariposa Grove), Yosemite Falls and the Sentinel Hotel from Glacier Point Trail, Half Dome, and a general view of the valley west from Union Point.
Captioned: Hydraulic mining, the Palm Claim, Yuba County (no.794) -- Hydraulic mining, washing down the bank into the sluice (no.796) -- The lower lead of the Blue Gravel Co., Smartsville [Yuba County, Calif.] (no.805)
Contains correspondence; manuscripts of poems, essays, stories and plays; Carmel diaries; clippings; bibliographies and checklists; publishing agreements, certificates of copyright, etc.; papers regarding his estate. Also includes some letters addressed to his sisters regarding preparation of biographies and settlement of...
Includes correspondence, notes, and manuscripts of German émigré physicist Otto Stern whose work encompassed both theoretical and experimental physics in Germany and the United States. Photos and awards are included. Correspondents include Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and other prominent physicists....
The collection includes portraits and snapshots of Otto Stern from childhood and throughout his career, and group portraits and snapshots with physicist colleagues and friends. Groups at international meetings of physicists and Nobel laureates, chiefly in Europe, are the subjects...
This collection is primarily comprised of correspondence and ephemera documenting Rosalie Meyer Stern's familial and social life. Also included are diaries, biographical and genealogical material relating to Stern's maternal and paternal relations, newsclippings, some materials on Rosalie’s paternal uncle, Leon...
The papers of Rabbi Willam Stern of Oakland, California. The collection includes files on Stern's involvement with various local and national organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish; files from Stern's years at Temple Sinai; correspondence, including letters of appreciation to Rabbi Stern...
Photographs document bullfighting and other festivities of a Portuguese festa in Riverdale, California.
Photographs depict scenes at various wholesale distributors in Oakland's produce market district, including warehouse interiors; street scenes; transportation; boxes, crates, bundles and other packages of produce; and much employee activity.
Comprises 55 letters from Douglas Blazek (1965-1974) and 26 letters from Charles Bukowski (1978-1994). Also includes original poems by Bukowski, postcards, paintings, materials related to Blazek's poetry newsletter Olé, and various ephemera.
The Steven Fama Collection on Bruce Conner consists of three main subjects: interviews with Bruce Conner, transcripts of lectures given by Bruce Conner, and materials related to Conner's exhibition, "2000 BC, The Bruce Conner Story Part II." The collection also...
Chiefly concerning charges brought against her.
Correspondence and papers, relating mainly to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Group of eight original military documents concerning preparations for outfitting and departure of the second part of the First New York Volunteers (Stevenson's Regiment) which sailed from New York in August, 1847. Collection includes a personal letter from a member...
Twelve letters written to him by Gertrude Stein, 1934-1945; 64 letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1939-1963; MS of Gertrudes Stein's opera libretto, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (carbon typescript, with emendations in Miss Stein's hand); photocopy of MS of a...
Many views of Dawson, Yukon Territory from the gold rush era (1898-1904). Includes several groups of frontier women of Dawson. Views of a 1925 trip to Keno City, Yukon Territory are also present. One photo of a U.S. Mail dog...
Typescripts of manuscripts for "African Adventures" and for "The First Safari," written in the form of diary entries, describing his experiences big game hunting in Africa; and of brief logs kept while in Italy and on board ship in the...
Stewart Edward White papers, approximately 1920-1945, BANC MSS C-H 86, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Mainly written to Margaret Stewart, 1862-1865, by relatives, describing experiences during the Civil War. Also included: miscellaneous family letters from Illinois and California, 1873-1916.
Primarily papers of James Oscar Stewart; many re mines in Calaveras Co.
Illustrated monographs on the history, construction, and maintenance of the Alaska Highway, an unpublished manuscript on the history of the Inter-American Highway, 1929-1938, by E.W. James (to which the author retains publication rights), and reports loaned by the Library of...
Many photographs and original negatives relating to his books "U.S. 40", "N.A. 1: The North-South Continental Highway", "Donner Pass and those who crossed it", and other publications. Collection contains files of photos, many mounted and marked for publication. Locations include...
Contains correspondence with publishers, editors, agents, writers, teachers, research associates, family, friends and fans; research notes and documents; manuscripts of writings including: Ordeal by Hunger, Storm, Fire, Names on the Land, U.S. 40, Earth Abides, The California Trail, Pickett's Charge,...
The George Rippey Stewart Papers: Additions contains incoming correspondence, financial records, personal papers, and family papers. Correspondence is with publishers, editors, agents, writers, teachers, research associates, readers, family and friends. Financial records are mainly royalty statements. Personal papers include engagement...
Contains family correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, land documents, ledgers and accounts. The collection describes everyday life of a pioneer Jewish family in Calif., an Indian uprising in Modoc County, and agriculture in Southern Calif. Also includes genealogical information.
Received with the Stiner family papers (BANC MSS 2005/222).
Included are 1 certificate for each of the following: Fire and Marine Insurance Company of San Francisco; Mercantile Library Association, San Francisco; Metropolitan Homestead Association; Alisal Homestead Association; Stanislaus Central Bridge Company.
0 to 1000 shares from the following companies: Bullfrog Daisy Mining Company, (Nevada), April Fool Extension Mining Company Manhattan (South Dakota), Hurricane Mining Co. (Nevada), King-Baldwin Mining Company (Washington), Manhattan Union Amalgamated Mines Syndicate (Nevada), Shoshone National Bank Mining Company...
Lists of subscribers with number of shares and value, under organization in Washington Territory, Dec. 29,1860 and Oregon, Oct. 1862.
The collection consists of ca. 212 titles published between the years 1976 and 1996. Many issues are undated, but the bulk seem to have been published in the 1980s. In general the collection contains only a single or few issues...
Photos show views of Stockton: mineral baths, portraits of Mrs. George West, John Nightingale, and William P. Miller of Stockton, etc. Other views show Cook Springs, Colusa Co., Calif. (croquet game, workers at water bottling works, hotel, etc.); a portrait...
Photos may be two plates from a panorama, showing general views of Stockton, Calif.
Two photographs taken from inundated street intersections in Stockton, Calif. during that city's flood of 1907.
Contains names of students, information on where they were born, when they began attending the school, where they live, attendance reports, record of demerits and standings in various classes at end there are census returns for that year.
Contains correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and clippings. Correspondents include Japanese author Yoné Noguchi and editor Frank Putnam, as well a letter or two from his many fellow authors. Writings include journals and notebooks, poems, autobiography entitled and collection of poems by...
Include letters from John Forster and Francisco Ocampo, and deeds to portions of Rancho Santa María.
Consists of Stone's correspondence; research material, drafts, publicity, and ephemera related to his writings; professional and personal papers; and subject files, along with some papers of his wife, Jean Stone. Stone's correspondence reflects his many activities as both a private...
Consists of Annual reports, publications, HIV Prevention Awards material and publicity material. Publicity material includes posters, pamphlets, cards and stickers.
Photographs show views of Lake Tahoe, roads, businesses, hotels, and other facilities nearby. Some photos illustrate the same view over time.
Mays discusses his family background, Waterloo, Iowa; Free Methodist Church; move to Richmond, WWII; Kaiser Shipyards: schedule, supervision, pranks, women welders; ironworkers: health risks, women and minorities in trade, work on Richmond- San Rafael Bridge; postwar Richmond.
Correspondence; manuscripts of his writings, including his memoirs; personalia; papers relating to his legal career; financial records; papers relating to the operation of the Storke ranches in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties; personal papers of other members of the More...
Correspondence; biographical material including his memoirs; copies of his speeches; financial records; subject files; clippings; scrapbooks; photographs; genealogical material. Relate to his activities as editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press and his opposition to the John Birch Society; his civic...
Letters written to him and by him; manuscripts of his novels, short stories, articles and other writings; copies of periodicals in which his writings appeared; diary, 1928-1929; notebook, ca. 1935-1937; publishing contracts; reviews of his books; some technical papers relating...
Memoirs concentrating primarily on her family and her personal life, but containing some information on her voyage from New York to San Francisco around the Horn, January-August 1852, and on early Oakland, where the family settled. The narrative concludes prior...
Letter by William Henry Chase, 1823, relates to the death of Horace C. Story, Judge Story's brother; 1825 letter by Finch Ringgold.
Notes on his background and early life; work in New York; radical labor activities in San Francisco; trial and conviction with Tom Mooney for the San Francisco Preparedness Day Parade bombing, July 22, 1916; defense efforts, including the California Supreme...
An account of his capture by the Confederate steamer Winslow, his treatment as a prisoner, and his parole to Washington to effect an exchange of prisoners. Covers the period June-October 1861. A photocopy is also included.
Typed transcript of an account of his experiences as a member of the Western Union Telegraph Company's expedition for the Russian Extension, under the command of Col. Charles S. Bulkley and Maj. Robert Kennicott.
Some letters signed by Alexander Stott.
Mainly documents relating to lands in Missouri, Idaho and Utah.
The papers of American dancer and painter Hubert Julian Stowitts, including biographical materials, correspondence, and exhibition/performance related materials.
Childhood in Missouri and Arkansas; streetcar conductorette in Los Angeles; driving streetcars for Key System in Alameda County during World War II; change to driving buses; National City Lines purchase of Key System, 1946; and AC Transit purchase, 1960; changes...
Dutch ship stranded at Point Reyes, Calif.
Photographs showing actors, actresses, scenes and stage settings.
Includes correspondence, scrapbooks and miscellaneous papers concerning Stratton as Collector of the Port of San Francisco, 1900-1913; Republican party activities; and business interests in California and Oregon (including land holdings in Klamath County) Correspondents include many of the most prominent...
Correspondence; clippings; notes; and manuscripts of books, lectures and articles, relating to his career as professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley. Included are files of his students' recollections, in 1919, and of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Mainly letters received by Stratton, ca. 1883-1901; letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence, 1881-1903; account books; diaries; survey records; deeds and tax receipts.
Contains correspondence, financial records, minutes, teaching materials, scripts, posters, musical scores, photographs and slides, documenting the creation and productions of the Straw Hat Theatre and the Festival Theatre.
Contains chronological files, including correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, architectural drawings, financial records, and notes on activities. Carton 3 also has a small number of newsletters and photographs.
Views taken from the street of frontage and signs of commercial buildings. Businesses pictured are: Call Me Jack Radios & Tools; a passport photo studio and neighboring print shop; and Cafe 326 Cocktails. Parked cars are in each view.
Includes views of vehicles decorated with flowers; people in photos are identified.
Photographs show laborers doing road work with heavy equipment in Berkeley, Calif.
Volumes 1-9, fliers, correspondence, fan letters, proofs, and photos.
Photographs show houses in West Berkeley (one on 9th Street), a funeral procession on Shattuck Avenue, Fred J. Williams' home, men in front of a train, men in uniform in front of building with sign "B.F.D. No. 4" (Berkeley Fire...
1849 letter from Louisiana (Erwin) Strentzel describing her journey from Texas to San Diego, California; letters from John T. Strentzel from Alhambra Valley near Martinez re agriculture in California and land matters in Texas; miscellaneous accounts and documents; autobiography of...
Photographs in albums show a variety of California subjects, including: views relating to the creation of Garin and Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Parks; Locke, Calif. including Chinese, homes, daily life; Bodie, Calif. including details of buildings and wagons; Strohmaier's home...
Various images of damaged structures in Hayward, San Leandro, Santa Rosa, and San Jose including Edmonsons Warehouse, and the San Leandro Court House. San Jose image and Santa Rosa image are apparently from much later dates.
Typescript (incomplete draft) of work based on her experiences as Supervisor, Adult and Vocational Education, at relocation center for Japanese evacuees, located at Manzanar (Inyo Co.) Calif., during World War II. (270 leaves.)
Activities in Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia, imprisonment and exile in Siberia, political activities after the revolution, emigration to U.S. in 1923. Included also: text of speech delivered June 1954, Fight for Freedom in Siberia: Its Success and Failure. Photographs...
Correspondence, most of it prior to Struve's service in the Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, biographical materials, bibliographies of his writings, photographs, and some papers relating to various members of the Struve family. Also includes materials concerning his interest...
Notebook containing observations on the milling of ore in various gold mines in Nevada, California, and Mexico, with charts and diagrams, and notes on the cyanide process. With this: a photocopy of "My Golden Opportunity," his reminiscences re mining in...
Includes field notes, interview transcripts, newspaper clippings, research studies, and labor publications used by Jamieson in authoring his doctoral dissertation, "Labor Unionism in American Agriculture, 1941-1943."
2003.068--D: Tehipite Dome by Walter A Starr, July 29th, 1896 (enlargement, printed later) -- 2003.069--C: a mountain lake in the Sierra Nevada, by W.L Huber, 1908 -- 2003.070: panorama in spring, near Yosemite Valley, with the Sierras in the distance,...
Apparently students of the class of 1879 and others associated with the University.
Experiences coaching for Olympic games; association with the University of California, Berkeley, from 1932, as track coach, assistant in the dean's office, and director of athletics; discussion of role of athletics in the University. Photographs inserted. With this: photocopy of...
Comments on student days at University of California, Berkeley, 1939-1943: student activities, housing problems, Welfare Council, ASUC, etc.; work as social secretary to Mrs. Clark Kerr, wife of the University president. Photographs inserted.
Interviews with Mario Savio, Steven and Pam Brier, Barbara Garson, and Steve Hamilton conducted by Bret Eynon and Ronald J. Grele. All were student participants in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
Student papers, chiefly on topics in California architecture but including a few for buildings in Nevada & Oregon. Also contains papers on the influence of 19th and 20th century Chinese and French art and culture in California.
Snapshot portraits of numerous graduate students of Howard A. Bern, taken over several decades during the professor's career at U.C. Berkeley. Also includes portraits of Bern and other colleagues.
Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Primarily California views, but also includes Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, and other western American locales. Also some Mexico, Philippines, Asia and perhaps other locations.
Several views of early submarines at surface and submerged (dated April, 1903), as well as views of the bow of a warship with waves breaking over the deck.
Title devised by cataloger.
Includes list of the regimental field officers, names of members of the committee on regimental colors, signatures of the ladies subscribing, and a statement of costs signed by the committee members.
Correspondence; miscellaneous bills and receipts; insurance papers; financial records; agreements and leases; announcements and invitations; calling cards.
Letters from Helen P. Beattie, Helen S. Giffen, Woodrow J. Hansen, Beryl Hoskin, Rosena A. Giles, William S. Brown, William W. Robinson, and others. A few announcements of books included.
Correspondence; manuscripts; diaries; clippings; some legal and financial papers; cards, announcements and invitations; concert and theatre programs; address books; snapshots and photographs. Mainly concerning cultural and social life in San Francisco and Carmel: his role as patron of the arts,...
Includes ca. 288 portraits and snapshots in folders labeled as follows: Gabrielle & Rene Alexandre, Feral Benga, Leander James Crowe, Henri Deering, Doyle-Sullivan-Mahoney families, Henri Guigon, Roland Hayes, William Justema, Krishnamurti, Pascal Quartet, Edward Pharr, Mario Ramirez of the Argentine...
On stamped paper; stained and torn.
Journal, circulated privately in the Soviet Union, containing abstracts and commentary on the following topics: philosophy, philosophy of history; history and current events; literature; painting, fine arts; information about publications; in memoriam. Included here are 1979: no. 1-4 (individual issues)...
Career in U.S. Forest Service; interest in tropical forestry; Pack Foundation; writing career; international forestry; Food and Agriculture Organization; U.S. contribution to and aid in foreign forestry. Photographs inserted. Appended: copies of letters relative to the interview; and copy of...