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Pictorial material from the William I. Gardner and Mercedes P. Gardner papers.
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Pictorial material from the William I. Gardner and Mercedes P. Gardner papersCreator/Contributor:
Gardner, William I. (William Irving), 1903-1991, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Gardner, Mercedes, 1905-1991Creator/Contributor:
Philip, Robert A.Creator/Contributor:
Gardner, Susan H.Creator/Contributor:
Riesenberg, Sidney H.Creator/Contributor:
Rogers, Charles Albert, 1848-1918Creator/Contributor:
Brayton, J. G.Creator/Contributor:
Price, Andrew, active 1878-1888Creator/Contributor:
Higgins, E. R.Creator/Contributor:
Bryant, W. A.Creator/Contributor:
Hoffman, Sterling.Creator/Contributor:
Shew, William J., 1820-1903Creator/Contributor:
A.P. Bailey & CoCreator/Contributor:
Day & HagheAbstract:
Photographs and original art, chiefly pertaining to the Gardner, Philip and Harris families of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Carte de visite portraits (PIC box 1) depict James B. Gardner and other Gardner family members of Napa County, including William
Gardner, Maria Gardner Leithy, Maria Gardner Johnson, Frank Johnson, and Ada Gardner Hill. Also includes commercial carte
de visite portraits of Robert E. Lee and Tom Thumb. Ambrotype portrait depicts James B. Gardner as a boy. Other family portraits
and snapshots (PIC box 1) depict Fayetta Harris Philip, Waldemar Bruce Philip, Mary Elizabeth Harris, Dee Harris, Minnehaha
Harris, Robert Bruce Philip, Susan H. Gardner, Mercedes P. Gardner and William I. Gardner. Also includes student drawings
by Robert A. Philip and Susan H. Gardner; and paintings, prints and drawings by Mercedes P. Gardner (all in B box 1). Also
includes paintings executed on wooden barn shingles by Sterling Hoffman (PIC box 2); a landscape painting by Charles A. Rogers
(FR); a drawing of Mt. Tamalpais by W.A. Bryant (FR); an oversize drawing of an unidentified woman (FR); a panoramic photographic
depicting a view from a redwood forest in Humboldt County (G); and a poster depicting University of California campus locations
issued by the Golden Gate International Exposition (D). Also includes a scrapbook complied by Robert A. Philip (ffALB) containing
nineteenth century engravings and other prints which apparently served as models for his drawings. Also includes prints depicting
Keswick Dam and Tracy Pumping Plant; and original lithographic prints by Day & Haghe depicting English railroad stations at
Ambergate and Wakefield (all in C folders).
Additions include photographs pertaining to the Gardner family and William's career (PIC box 3); photographs pertaining to
Fayetta Harris Philip, Harold Philip, Bruce Philip, Robert A. Philip, and a few family photographs pertaining to artist Sidney
H. Riesenberg (all in PIC box 4); a wooden printing block carved by Robert Philip (PIC box 5); travel slides (LAN box 1);
paintings and drawings by Mercedes Gardner and possibly Mary E. Harris, photographs of Feitsui Dam site (China), photographs
by Harold M. Philip, Jennie Gardner China travel photographs, James Gardner family photographs of Napa scenery, and a Jenny
Gardner album of China travel photographs (all in AX box 1); paintings and drawings by Mercedes Gardner and Sidney H. Riesenberg,
and miscellaneous oversize photographs (B box 2, C box 1); approximately 95 nitrate negatives of miscellaneous subject matter
pertaining to William I. Gardner (NNEG); approximately 30 glass negatives of Sacramento taken by Robert Philip, Sr. (NEG(8x10)(gl)
and NEG(5x7)(gl) boxes); 2 landscape paintings by Mary E. Harris (ROLL); and 1 hand colored childhood portrait photograph
of Nettie Harris, the little sister of Fayetta Harris Philip (FR).
Date:
approximately 1860-ca. 1960 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPioneers -- California -- Napa County -- Portraits
Pionniers -- Californie -- Napa (Comté) -- Portraits
Pioneers
California -- Napa County
Gardner, Mercedes -- 1905-1991 -- Archives
Gardner, William I. (William Irving) -- 1903-1991 -- Archives
Gardner, James Buchanan -- Portraits
Gardner, William I. (William Irving) -- 1903-1991 -- Portraits
Riesenberg, Sidney H -- Portraits
Gardner, William I. (William Irving) -- 1903-1991
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Includes 22 carte de visite photographs removed from original album. Album stored separately. Carte de visite photographers:
J.G. Brayton (Napa), Andrew Price (Napa), E.R. Higgins (Merced), A.P. Bailey & Co. (Suisun) and William Shew.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Empty annotated carte de visite album shelved in Bancroft Historical Objects Miscellany as BANC PIC 19xx.031:196--OBJ (Carton
15).
Ambrotype, framed items and empty album RESTRICTED: bRequests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
GLASS NEGATIVES RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via
the Reference Inquiry form.
NITRATE NEGATIVES CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Transferred from the William I. Gardner and Mercedes P. Gardner papers (BANC MSS 98/142 c).
Gift ; Of Leslie Reagan ; 2013.
Additions : Gift ; Of Leslie Reagan ; 2015.
Mercedes Louise Philip Gardner (September 4, 1905-April 25, 1991) wrote scripts for a children's radio show, children's books,
and other literature. She attended the University of California, Berkeley. She is the daughter of Robert Philip and Louise
Ashby Scherb Philip.
William Irving Gardner (October 2, 1903-July 8, 1991) was a geologist specializing in dam and reservoir sites. Born in Napa;
obtained Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley College of Mining in 1928 and Ph. D. from the University
of Minnesota in 1935.
James Buchanan Gardner was one of 6 children of Napa settlers George Gordon Gardner and Sarah Tabitha Gardner. He graduated
from the Napa College Institute; owned a farm in Wooden Valley, Napa County; owned stage lines in the North Bay; and served
as an appraiser at the Federal Land Bank in Berkeley. He and his wife Jennie Ewing Gardner had 5 children, including U.C.
Berkeley graduate and geologist William Irving Gardner.
Charles Albert Rogers was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1848. He studied art in New York City, Rome, Munich and Paris.
For over twenty years he worked in San Francisco, until the earthquake and fire of 1906 destroyed his studio and many of his
paintings. He later worked in Los Angeles. Rogers died in Alameda in 1918.
Preferred citation: Photographs from the William I. Gardner and Mercedes P. Gardner papers, BANC PIC 2014.035, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicArchives.
Portraits.
Cartes de visite.
Ambrotypes.
Drawings.
Paintings.
Prints.
Scrapbooks.
Photograph albums.
Glass negatives.
Physical Description:
drawing
painting
photoprint
print
16 boxes and 1 oversize folders (approximately 600 photographic prints, approximately 100 drawings, approximately 20 prints,
6 paintings, 1 map), 1 album (approximately 1,500 prints), 2 rolled paintings, 2 framed paintings, 1 framed drawing, 1 framed
photograph and 1 cased photograph (ambrotype) ; various sizes
Language:
English
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Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Empty annotated carte de visite album shelved in Bancroft Historical Objects Miscellany as BANC PIC 19xx.031:196--OBJ (Carton
15).
Ambrotype, framed items and empty album RESTRICTED: bRequests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
GLASS NEGATIVES RESTRICTED. Available for use by appointment only. Inquiries should be submitted to Bancroft Reference via
the Reference Inquiry form.
NITRATE NEGATIVES CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.