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Anne Ackerman Finnie family papers, 1899-1981.
BANC MSS 2010/735 oversize folder 1B; BANC MSS 2010/735 box 1; BANC MSS 2010/735 box 2; BANC MSS 2010/735 oversize box
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Anne Ackerman Finnie family papers, 1899-1981Creator/Contributor:
Finnie, Anne Ackerman, 1911-1995, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Lange, Dorothea.Creator/Contributor:
Cunningham, Imogen, 1883-1976Creator/Contributor:
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942Creator/Contributor:
Dassonville, William E. (William Edward), 1879-1957Creator/Contributor:
Mortensen, William.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1992.005.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection consists of family papers, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs relating to Anne Ackerman Finnie, her parents,
Louise Sloss and Lloyd Ackerman, and her grandparents, Bertha Greenwald and Leon Sloss, Sr. Among the materials in the collection
relating to Louise Sloss and Lloyd Ackerman are Louise's travel diaries from 1905-1906, two wedding scrapbooks (1909), and
a wedding certificate. The collection also includes a scrapbook kept by Louise Sloss about her father Leon Sloss, Sr. and
research materials and essays by and on various Sloss family members. Among the photographs are portraits of Anne Ackerman
and her siblings, Lloyd Jr. and James (including some by Dorothea Lange, William Dassonville, and William Mortensen), portraits
of Louise Sloss and Lloyd Ackerman around the time of their wedding in 1909 (done by Arnold Genthe), photographs of Louise
Sloss' and Lloyd Ackerman's 1909 wedding at the Sloss estate in San Rafael, California, and an oversize photograph of Bertha
and Louise Sloss (1899). The collection also includes a drawing of 1818 California Street, San Francisco (by Stanton Keeney),
a 1975 print depicting the corner of California and Franklin Streets (by J. A. Kendall), San Francisco, and a Testimony of
Appreciation from the White House to Leon Sloss, Sr. for his work in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915.
Date:
1899 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFinnie, Anne Ackerman -- 1911-1995 -- Archives
Ackerman, Lloyd -- 1882-1968
Ackerman, Louise Sloss -- 1888-1982
Sloss, Bertha Greenwald -- b. 1868
Sloss, Leon
Ackerman, Lloyd Jr -- 1910-1946
Ackerman, James -- b. 1919
Schlosser family
Ackerman family
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Jewish families -- California -- San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1992.005.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Anne Ackerman Finnie family papers, BANC MSS 2010/735, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Associated item: Portrait of Rebecca Ackerman (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life; WJHC 1992.005.1).
Associated item: Painted photograph of Lloyd Ackerman, Sr. as a child (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life; WJHC
1997.016).
Objects, including textiles (clothing, hats, fur, feathers and lace), cassette audio tapes (with an interview of Anne Ackerman
Finnie and a recording from the Sloss-Gerstle picnic and family reunion in 1975), and two large rolled family trees (for the
Greenbaum-Gerstle family and the Gerstle-Sloss families) transferred to the museum holdings of The Magnes Collection of Jewish
Art and Life for separate handling and cataloging.
Anne Ackerman Finnie (1911-1995) was the daughter, and second child, of Louise Sloss Ackerman (1888-1982) and Lloyd Stuart
Ackerman, Sr. (1882-1968). Louise was the eldest child of Bertha Greenewald Sloss (b. 1868) and Leon Sloss, Sr. (1858-1920).
Louise and Lloyd were married in 1909. Anne's brothers were Lloyd, Jr. (1910-1946) and James (1919- ). Anne married Lester
Sawyer in the 1940s and had four children: Janet, Christopher, Timothy and Pamela. The Sawyers divorced in 1957 and Anne married
Richard S. Finnie in 1965. Anne Ackerman Finnie co-founded the Emeritus College at the College of Marin, served as Executive
Director of the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Center, helped establish Huckleberry House, a center for runaway children
and teens, and served on the St. Francis Hospital Auxiliary. She also served on the boards of the Marin Child Development
Center in Tiburon and Planned Parenthood. Anne Finnie wrote plays, short stories and poetry. She was also actively interested
in the history of the Sloss Family, including their involvement in the Alaska Commercial Company and her father's involvement
with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Louise Sloss Ackerman, Anne's mother, was an artist as well as a patron
of the arts and Anne continued the family support of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art whose Fine Arts Library was named
after her mother. Anne's brother James became an architectural historian. Lloyd Ackerman, Sr. was a Yale graduate and a successful
lawyer and his father J.H. Ackerman was involved in a number of retail ventures.
Type:
Family papers-California-San Francisco.Photographs.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
2 boxes, 3 oversize boxes, and 1 oversize folder (1.8 linear feet)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2010/735 oversize folder 1B
BANC MSS 2010/735 box 1
BANC MSS 2010/735 box 2
BANC MSS 2010/735 oversize box 1
BANC MSS 2010/735 oversize box 2
BANC MSS 2010/735 oversize box 3
BANC MSS 2010/735
BANC MSS 2010/735
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.