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J. S. Holliday papers, 1959-2006.
MANUSCRIPT3050-3132
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Title:

J. S. Holliday papers, 1959-2006
Holliday

Creator/Contributor:

Holliday, J. S., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Burns, Ken, 1953-

Creator/Contributor:

Canright, Anne.

Creator/Contributor:

Chun, Gordon.

Creator/Contributor:

Clark, James H.

Creator/Contributor:

Dillon, Richard.

Creator/Contributor:

Frye, Tom.

Creator/Contributor:

Henley, Jim.

Creator/Contributor:

Holliday, Tim.

Creator/Contributor:

Kibbey, Mead B.

Creator/Contributor:

Kurutz, Gary F.

Creator/Contributor:

Madeiros, Mark.

Creator/Contributor:

Owens, Kenneth N.

Creator/Contributor:

Reineck, Gay.

Creator/Contributor:

Reineck, Jack.

Creator/Contributor:

Starr, Kevin.

Creator/Contributor:

Torack, Amy.

Abstract:

Drafts and research materials from Holliday's books "The World Rushed In," and "Rush for Riches," along with journal articles, and papers relating to Holliday's employment at the Oakland Museum, the Bancroft Library, and the California Historical Society.

Date:

1959 (issued)

Contents:

Box 3050: SFWS; Boxes 3050-3051: Oakland Museum; Box 3052: Bancroft Library; Boxes 3053-3058: California Historical Society; Boxes 3059-3078: "The World Rushed In"; Boxes 3079-3130: "Rush for Riches"; Boxes 3131: Professional papers-other affiliations; Box 3132: Speeches.

Subject:

n-us-ca
Bancroft Library.
California Historical Society.
Oakland Museum.
California Gold Rush, 1848-1852
Historical research

Note:

There are other unprocessed Holliday materials in Room 355; mostly photographs collected for a book about San Francisco that was never completed, and possibly other manuscript materials that were once displayed in LCI. This collection's finding aid contains a list of books and other materials removed.
Jaquelin Smith Holliday II was born on June 10, 1924 in Indianapolis, and served in the United States Navy during World War II. He graduated from Yale University in 1948 with a degree in history and was prepared to enter his family's steel business when noted rare book dealer Ed Eberstadt showed Holliday William Swain's 1849 diary of his journey to California, suggesting that it could be the basis of an important book. Holliday took Eberstadt's advice and began work on what was originally titled "A Pocketful of Rocks," interspersing Swains account with other diaries, and other sources. Due to Holliday's tenures as a professor at San Francisco State, assistant director of the Bancroft Library, director of the Oakland Museum, and director of the California Historical Society, the book took thirty years to complete and was finally published as "The World Rushed In" in 1981. He subsequently wrote "Rush for Riches," another treatment of the California Gold Rush, and had several other projects partially completed before his death in Carmel on August 31, 2006.
Inventory available in library; folder level control.
Holliday
Gift; J. S. Holliday; Carmel, California.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.

Type:

biography

Physical Description:

print
79 manuscript boxes; 15 1/2 x 12 x 3 in.
1 manuscript box; 26 1/4 x 21 x 3 in.
3 file boxes; 12 1/4 x 11 x 6 1/4 in.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.