Albert M. Bender was an insurance broker, patron of the arts, and trustee of Mills College. He had friends of distinguished reputation throughout California and throughout the world. In the allied field of fine printing, his influence has been at...
The Monterey Peninsula Branch, (MPB), of the American Association of University Women, (AAUW) was founded in 1928 and has been active since the 1940’s. Monterey Peninsula Branch is committed to intellectual growth, advancement of women, equity for all women and...
Collection includes various phots by Max Fischer and C.W.J. Johnson as well as photos of views of Monterey, buildings, and sites.
Scrapbook album contains mounted publicity newspaper articles about the Bay View School Parent Teacher Association, lists, mimeographed flyers and memoranda; also two photographs (Bay View School and Bay View PTA Executive Board.
Ingels wrote advertising copy in San Francisco and on the Monterey Peninsula, became an editor of Carmel, Pacific Grove, and Monterey newspapers and various publications, and wrote short stories and articles. She also wrote an unpublished novella entitled "Cannery Row"...
Research files on Italian-American and Sicilian-American women, immigration, and social life.
Some of the favorite ways of preparing Booth's sardines.
The 1949 centennial celebration of the California Constitutional Convention in Monterey went on for eight days. It was part of a state-wide celebration to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Californiaʼs first constitutional convention held at Colton Hall in 1849. Governor...
36 Stamps created by Paul Frederick Volland.
Cards are illustrated with photomechanical reproductions of prints and photographs of views around California, including hotels, missions, scenery, etc. The back of each card illustrated with California poppies and the Great Seal of California.
George Stone was a motion picture cameraman working in Hollywood. While on location near Monterey, he bought a property on the Peninsula, near or in Carmel, from Frank Devendorf, ca. 1914, and built a house he and his wife named...
Consists of a scrapbook containing 24 articles under the column title, "Calle de Alvarado," published in the Monterey Trader from Dec. 3, 1937 to July 8, 1938.
Scrapbook album contains mounted newspaper articles and typescripts about the fishing and canning industry in Monterey from 1941 to 1946, as well as 12 photographs and loose newspaper articles and publications,
Carmel-by-the-Sea Commemorative Pageant of the Founding of the Mission San Carlos del Rio Carmelo in July 1771, held on July 4, 1911.
Anne B. Fisher was born Evelyn Anne Benson on Februry 1, 1898, in Denver, Colorado. She attended the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Medical School, and trained as a nurse. After graduation in 1918, she worked as...
Collection consist of four bound hotel registers for the Central Hotel in Monterey. (The first two registers have hard covers; the last two have had the covers removed.) The registers are records of hotel guests for the time periods: July...
Certified copy of the great register of Monterey county, 1894
Anna Birks' autograph album received on her birthday, December 13, 1905, while visiting from Harrison, Iowa, her mother Anna Birks Aleck's family in New Monterey. The album contains verses and good wishes from her Grandmother Hilary [Hethey] Birks, Aunts Lou...
Scrapbook documents the planning, fundraising, and development of Dennis the Menace Playground in Monterey.
In the spring of 1952, the Monterey City Planning Commission designated a rubbish dump site at Lake El Estero for a new city recreation area, including a baseball park, a picnic area, and a childrenʼs playground. The Monterey Peninsula Junior...
Collection documents an immigrant Irish family of the Central Coast and their subsequent family history in the Monterey area. It contains family photographs, albums, clippings, transcripts, and correspondence.
Mrs. Frances Jeffers created the scrapbook to document important personal and professional activities of Mr. Jeffers. The scrapbook includes clippings, brochures, and a few photographs.
Documents and photocopies pertaining to Monterey's first public library and various other city related documents.
Collection consists of the records and correspondence of Edward F. Ricketts, marine biologist and proprietor of the Pacific Biological Laboratories.
Artificial collection containing ephemera as well as legal documents: land deeds, stock certificates and bonds, brochures, poster and tax stamps, business letterheads, event programs and other ephemera pertaining to Monterey County, donated primarily by local collector Jeffrey McBride.
Consists of 7 United States Army publications and related announcement associated with the Fort Ord Training Center and Camp Roberts, for 1957-1958, and 1967.
Collection contains binders and reports compiled by Monterey City Manager Fred Meurer.
Fort Ord and Camp Roberts pamphlets
Documents the development and expansion of Fort Ord, and early troop training there in the two years prior to entry of the United States in World War II. Includes two articles related to world conflicts (dated 1937; Nov. 1939).
In 1963, architect Francis Palms (1910-1982) and “Connie” Clampett Palms (1897-1992), a former actress, married. Connie Clampett Palms had lived in Monterey and Carmel since 1906. Francis Palms (1910-1982) had worked on housing projects and office buildings in New York,...
John C. Gore, Jr., and Hamilton Gay Howard, appellants, vs. the United States, David Jacks and Pacific Improvement Company,
hotographic negatives (131 total) date primarily from 1924 to the 1950s. They consist of interior and exterior views of the Hotel Del Monte, scenic views, and views of Monterey historic adobe buildings from 1924 to 1937. Collection also includes photographs...
The original album was apparently created by a visiting or resident family, whose identity remains unknown. Some house photographs suggest a residence in either Santa Cruz or New Monterey.
Anne B. Fisher was born Evelyn Anne Benson on February 1, 1898, in Denver, Colorado. She attended the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Medical School, and trained as a nurse. After graduation in 1918, she worked as...
Album consists of various views of the Monterey Peninsula taken around the turn of the 20th century.
Haasis Hikers is a hiking group that meets weekly. Members hike trails throughout the Central Coast, and have conducted special trips to places as far away as England. The group consists mainly of retired men, but women (usually wives of...
Handbook: Camp John P. Pryor, Presidio of Monterey, California, Citizens Military Training Camp, July 8th to August 4th, 1932.
The Clipping File contains information on local and regional history of Monterey, the Monterey area, and Monterey County. Notable sections of the files pertain to the many historic adobes and wooden structures dating from the Mexican period and early American...
The Documents File consists of various unpublished records of original and photoduplicated materials related to Monterey and early California.
The Historic Photographic File covers a wide range of subjects, including individuals, groups, events and places of the Monterey coastal region. Various formats and sizes are represented in the collection.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established in 1935 as part of the New Deal. The Federal Writers Project (FWP), a branch of the WPA, provided work for unemployed writers, journalists, editors, and researchers. The WPA launched the Historical Survey...
Horace Mercurio, born January 4, 1898 in Pittsburg, California, arrived in Monterey at age 20. He was the owner-captain of the purse seiner fishing boat El Rey, and captain of the purse seiner Serra. He was secretary of the Monterey...
Hotel del Monte dinner menus.
Double sided souvenir mailer sent to sports fisherman who stayed at Hotel Del Monte.
Four hotel envelopes and a hand-written letter.
Hovden Food Products Corporation was founded by Knut Hovden in 1916 and continued until 1973 in Monterey. Hovden also initiated another plant at Moss Landing. In 1951 Knub Hovden retired. Hopkins Marine Station purchased the facility in 1967 with Wilbur-Ellis...
Produced for the California Heritage Guides to present the story of the De Anza colonizing expedition of 1775-76 and its bicentennial celebration in 1976.
Property registration and transfer records of the heirs of David Jacks, at one time the largest property owner in the Monterey Peninsula region of California.
The collection consists of Phillips' official correspondence, notebooks, research and field data, graphs, magazines, newsletters, articles, photographs, slides, sketches, maps, and awards.
The Jeff Norman Collection includes materials written and/or compiled by Jeff Norman (September 19, 1951 – October 31, 2007). The items in this collection include: articles, correspondence, electronic files, lectures, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, registers, reports, research notes, maps and pamphlets.
John Cook, born June 14, 1824 in Plymouth England. Cook, was a sailor and carpenter. He arrived in Honolulu in September 16, 1844 and, with the exception of several months residing in California, he spent the rest of his life...
John Rogers Cooper, Part II, Chronology 1761-1836 research notebook.
Josephine Simoneau Fussell, daughter of Jules Simoneau, received and compiled most of the letters and other family memorabilia. Jules Simoneau's great grandson, Tom Ussery, and his wife Gia Ussery, donated the materials to the Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Monterey....
Manuscript copy of a diary written by Churchill on his overland journey from New York to California during the Gold Rush.
Consists of collodian dry plate lantern slides of California scenes, originally stored in lantern slide plates boxes. Includes fifteen views of historic Monterey and Pacific Grove sites.
Lee Harbick was born in Watsonville, Calif. in 1910, the daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant father. During World War II, she worked in the shipyards n San Pedro, Calif., and in 1945 returned to the central coast and to Monterey....
The Leidig Papers consist of business records, correspondence, and advertisements. The Papers are divided into three series: Series I covers the earliest and smaller group of records from 1837 until George Leidig's death in 1899, and includes business receipts from...
Letters written by Major Edwin A, Sherman, secretary and chairman of the Sloat Monument Association of California, to Thomas Ketcham, the Association's marshall.
Contains administration ledgers pertaining to the Monterey Public Library.
Library Monthly and Annual Reports, 1922-1970.
Legal, financial, and administrative records of the Monterey Public Library pertaining to the funding and building of the Monterey Public Free Library in 1910-1911.
London Chronicle newspaper from 1787 which cites a letter that describes the loss of two ships of the La Perouse Expedition at Monterey in 1786.
Margaret Wentworth Owings was born in 1913 in Berkeley, California. She graduated in 1934 from Mills College and the following year completed graduate studies in art at the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. In the 1940s she led successful campaigns...
Series consists of six handcolored stereoscopic photographs of tidepool rockweeds, a star fish regrowing a new arm, a cluster of black abalones, goose barnacles and mussels attached to the face of a rock, and sea anenomes and sea urchins.
Store account register (July 1850-December 1852) includes customer names and purchases from the McKinlay store located at Pacific and Pearl streets.
Collection contains two ledgers containing Monterey Peninsula Communities, Inc. board minutes.
On February 26, 1874, a group of businessmen incorporated the Monterey & Salinas Valley Rail Road, with Carlisle Abbott as president and David Jacks, chief financier, as treasurer. Construction of the railroad commenced with 140 workers, including Chinese workers, and...
A pageant to be presented in the Monterey Junior College stadium celebrating the State constitutional centennial written by Dan Totheroh and Frank Lloyd
Collection consists of the research files of Nicholas Roosevelt, compiled while he worked on the plans for the Monterey Coast Master Plan as a consultant. The files consist of reports and proposals with his annotations and separate evaluation notes.
Assessment Roll of Taxable Property in the County of Monterey, 1854.
Exchange tokens of Monterey County businesses collected by Jeffery McBride.
Collection consists of covers or postal stationery displaying postmarks of unique post offices, including former post offices and mobile, branch, and temporary post offices, Wells Fargo post offices and telegraph forwarders.
Documents pertaining to the Monterey Fish Processors Association.
Artificial collection containing collected ephemera related to the Monterey fishing and canning industry, including advertisements, cannery labels, pennants, etc.
Collection consists of announcements, entry rules, posters and a "Certificate of Acceptance" designed and drawn by Eldon Dedini, programs, awards lists, judges' comments by Eldon Dedini, filmmaker John Schofill, editor and Academy Award winner Thomas Stanford, screenwriter and director Ben...
The Jail Register, Monterey County, 1850-1872, provides a unique window on Monterey County and on Monterey, the county seat, during the period of transition to American law and government. This historical record also offers evidence of the method and conduct...
The Monterey Peninsula Community Center was founded by Dr. Martin McAulay in 1925-26, with the support of the Monterey Kiwanis Club and private donations. The Community Center was established to provide child care for working mothers and supply "supplementary meals...
Collection consists of annual editions of the Monterey Peninsula Herald devoted to the local sardine industry, published at the close of the fishing season, commencing with the issue dated February 19, 1936.
By-laws and meeting minutes of the Monterey Power Company.
Monterey area restaurant menus and promotional ephemera, including cards and matchbooks. The restaurants are primarily seafood, although other types of restaurants and cuisines are also represented.
Collection contains 6 record boxes full of various research articles pertaining to the sardine industry.
Compiled by David McCafferty, superintendent of California Packing Co. who, in 1962, gave the album to Ray A. March, a Monterey Peninsula Herald reporter writing a guide to Cannery Row.
Two Monterey School report cards, 1907.
Store ledger maintained by unidentified proprietor in Monterey during 1836.
Album may have been purchased at Duarte's store or Oliver's Mission Art and Curio store near the custom House.
The City of Monterey commissioned A. C. Heidrick to photograph the construction of Municipal Wharf No. 2, during 1925 and 1926.
Collections contains phot albums with various photographs from across California and some from Arizona and the South Pacific Islands of Guadacanal and New Calednoia that were taken by William L. Morgan.
The collection consists of photographic negatives and prints and copy prints, created or collected by Morgan during his career as a local news photographer. Subjects include historic sites and events, auto races, the Monterey County Fair, the Monterey Centennial Celebration,...
Collections consists of five series: I. Artists paintings; II. Missions of California; III. Monterey views.
Series l (boxes 1-2)consists of movie posters and movie promotional materials, including a program, a press release, and seal, of Hollywood movies mainly filmed in or pertaining to Monterey County, primarily in the 1940s and 1950s. Some movie titles include...
Paul Frederick Volland, California poster stamps, 1914.
Daily Official Program Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, August 27, 1915.
Daily programs of events, July 4-7, 1896, celebrating the raising of the American flag in Monterey, July 7, 1846, by Commodore Sloat's "seamen and marines from the ships 'Savannah,' 'Cyane' and 'Levant.'"
Joseph Kurtz Oliver was born on April 26, 1863, in East Salem, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Oberlin College, he studied art at the Chicago Art Institute and in Europe. He taught art in Iowa and Kansas colleges. In 1893 he...
Consists of a collection of individual historic newspaper issues, chiefly from the Monterey area.
Lt. Commander Simeon L. Ostermeier, USNR, collected and compiled a collection of 29 original newspapers, 1806-1852, dealing with the career of Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones. In addition, as an original charter member of the Commodore T. ap Catesby Society...
Pamphlets and brochures on selected Monterey Peninsula organizations and topics.
A. C. Heidrick, born in Austria, enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1902, and was stationed in the Philippines. He then worked as a field photographer in Texas. In 1908 he was stationed at the Presidio of Monterey. Leaving...
Two Path of History brochures, each includes numbered tour sites with descriptions and map.
During the 1700’s the Spanish government looked to assert Spain’s presence in Alta California permanently by establishing protected ports for Spanish ships along the Alta California coast. One expedition in particular was monumental in helping Spain to reach this goal....
Pharmacy prescriptions pasted into register books.
Artificial collection of postcards collected for California History Room.
Documents pertaining to the Prego family.
Former local resident Robert Johnson recovered the Papers from the W. H. Pyburn house in Salinas before its demolition in 1959. The house stood on the present site of the Steinbeck Library, Salinas. Mr. Johnson created an inventory and name...
Robert Johnson recovered the materials from the Pyburn home before its demolition in 1959. The collection was compiled by William Henry Pyburn and his son William Henry Pyburn, Jr., and includes materials collected by W. B. Pyburn.
William O. Raiguel was born in Freehold, New Jersey in 1875. He studied design and architecture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He came to California after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 and became a partner in the...
William O. Raiguel was born in Freehold, New Jersey in 1875. He studied design in California after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 and became a partner in the architectural firm of John Galen Howard, which was responsible for several...
The collection consists of 13 binder volumes containing photographs, clippings, articles on Robert Louis Stevenson, sites associated with Stevenson, his friends and family, and Robert Louis Stevenson Club activities. Also there are three cartons containing collected audiovisual materials on Stevenson...
Account registers include customer names and sundry purchases.
Original typed manuscript of The Salinas : upside-down river, by Anne B. Fisher, published by Farrar & Rinehart.
Documentation of the San Clemente Dam Historic District prepared in accordance with National Park Service Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) guidelines.
Contains materials created or collected by three generations of family members: rancher and businessman Bradley Varnum Sargent; his daughter Harriet Sargent Gragg; and some materials of her daughter, Julia Gragg Breinig.
Scrapbook on Inter-Racial Affairs-compiled by Mrs. Joseph Schoeninger, 1945-1947
A selection of newspaper articles published in 1939-1941, 1947, 2007, 2009 about John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath.
Images of Monterey area family and community activities and events, including festivals, holidays, leisure and work activities. Originals included cabinet cards, snapshots, albumen and other prints.
Collection of pencil and ink drawings from Solomon Islands and New Guinea.
Booklet containing illustrations of various sites in California and information about some of them.
The two parish registers of the St. James Episcopal Church, which make up this collection, date from 1907-1916. The registers include transcripts of early missionary accounts by Bishop William Ingram Kip (1854-1855) and Reverend James S. McGowan (1875-1878), as well...
George E. Stone was a motion picture cameraman working in Hollywood. While on location near Monterey, he bought a property on the Peninsula near or in Carmel, circa 1914, from Frank Devendorf, and in the early 1920s built a house...
Second Lt. Thomas F. Ketchum's letter of application for increased pension for his service during the Mexican War with Company B, 1st Regiment of the New York Volunteers. The letter is written on Sloat Monument Association of California letterhead stationary.
This collection contains memorabilia and ephemera from the Monterey area, dating roughly between 1929 and 1946. The items are primarily focused on fish canning industry and seafood restaurants. It includes fish canning company product boxes and labels, Monterey restaurant matchbooks,...
On July 2, 1846, the United States naval vessels Savannah, Cyane, and Levant, under the command of Commodore John Drake Sloat arrived off the coast of Monterey under orders to "take" important California harbors when war was declared with...
Letter to the son of a family friend attending the military academy at Norwich, Vermont. Colton refers to mutual friends and family living in Middletown, CT.
Collection consists of two invoice statements from Joe Rappa Marine Supply & Tanning Co. and Joe Rappa & Sons Marine Supply.
The Wing Chong Company Squid Industry Records Collection consist of the business records of the dried squid and grocery store operations of the Wing Chong Company in Monterey, CA. The records are primarily those maintained by the Wing Chong Company,...
Winston Elstob was born in Flushing, New York, on January 5, 1927. He moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 1957 and managed a bookstore on Cannery Row called “The Polygon” (1962). During this time he developed an ardent interest in...
Collection consists of the newspaper research files of Mahlon McAnaney covering the development of Ford Ord, Navy Pre-Flight School (later Naval Post-Graduate School), effects on community, and on Japanese internment and Italian relocation during the war.
The photographer Sibyl Anikeyev (Anikeef) was a student of Edward Weston. In the 1920s, she married Vasia (Vasili) Anikeyev, an opera and Russian folk and liturgical singer. After the Anikeyevs returned from Germany and Italy, where Vasia studied voice, they...