Photograph files of R. & D. Watson, Inc., documenting the company's engineering projects throughout the state of California from the 1940s to the 1980s. Topics include dredging, excavating, grading and other activities associated with the construction of channels, harbors, dams,...
30 incoming letters to R. Hoe & Co. from various California type foundries and related businesses located in San Francisco, including several from H. L. Tatum, San Francisco agent for R. Hoe & Co.
Floor plans and elevations by Miller & Colmesnic, n.d. (sheets numbered 2-7); 3 unnumbered sheets of details by Houghton Sawyer, 1914-1915.
The Jesse Rabinowitz papers, 1944-1999, consist of correspondence, writings, research, and personal papers relating to his life and work as a biochemist. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, research material, and professional papers that Rabinowitz collected during his...
Includes automobiles, racetracks, and drivers. Named locations are Santa Barbara and Riverside. Some motorcyle races are included. Some multi-image contact sheets of high speed cars are present. Individuals pictured include Richie Gunther, Frank Monise, and Bill Murphy, among others.
Correspondence relating to Rachel Bubes' attempts to get her brother-in-law, Haim Stankkevich, and his family into the U.S. The collection includes copies of letters Bubes received from local legal and financial authorities, as well as a letter and telegram from...
Collection includes personal correspondence from Bruce Conner to Rachel Homer. This correspondence is comprised primarily of mail art with some written letters addressed to Rachel Homer. Also included are several photographs of Conner, two catalogs, several Conner multiples including his...
Snapshots of the leavetaking of Jack London's yacht, the Snark, possibly in San Francisco or Oakland. London, George Sterling and others are pictured on deck.
Collection consists of a letter that Rahle [Pahle?] Abals sent to his brother-in-law, Isidore, from Stockton, California in 1858. Rahle congratulates Isidore on his recent marriage and provides news about businesses in San Francisco, Mokelumne Hill, and Stockton. The original...
Contents: inventory, with appraisal and physical evaluation, of Northern Electric Railroad Company, 1915; and report by T. Falch, assistant engineer, on prices and trends of railroad utilities, ca. 1935.
Stocks, plans clippings, registers of movement for various railroads in California such as the Central Pacific Railroad; California and Oregon Railroad; Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad; West Side Lumber Company Railroad; San Francisco-Sacramento Railroad; Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway and...
Views relate to trains and railroads in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Locomotives and stations of the San Francisco & Alameda Railroad and of the Sacramento Valley Railroad are pictured. Also shown is a time table of the...
Contains engineering drawings of railways in and around Oakland, Calif. of various subsidiaries and predecessors of the Railway Equipment & Realty Company including San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways, East Bay Street Railways, East Bay Transit Co., Key System, and Key System,...
Includes photographs (mostly color snapshots) of protests and other Rainforest Action Network events as well as some posters and publicity material. Also in the collection are T-shirts, a bandana, a tote bag and a cloth print freaturing logos, slogans or...
Includes photographs (mostly color snapshots) of protests and other Rainforest Action Network events as well as some posters and publicity material. Also in the collection are T-shirts, a bandana, a tote bag and a cloth print freaturing logos, slogans or...
Contains subject files for Rainforest Action Network (RAN) campaigns, Rainforest Action Groups, Rainforest Action Network publications, and small quantities of correspondence and photographs.
Contains 12 brown line prints (46 x 38 cm) and 2 smaller black and white photostats of prints, drawn Sept. 1937, for a brewery operating in San Francisco. Prints include those for the brewery, bottling house, and warehouse. Includes plans...
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Satirical scenes illustrating the gradual corruption of Los Angeles Police Department officer Rafael Perez.
Two postcards from a man to his mother written shortly after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 giving her assurances of his safety. Dated and postmarked from San Francisco on April 20, 1906 and April 24,1906, respectively.
Includes pictorial handbills, mostly woodcut prints, advertising various San Francisco productions of Ralph Chessé's Marionette Playhouse Club (566 Merchant St.) and the Blanding Sloan Puppet Theatre (718 Montgomery St.). Also includes handbill for the Puppet Players (688 Filbert St.), and...
snapshots and some professionally made views documenting the 2nd Ohio Infantry of the Ohio National Guard along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition (1916-1917). Pictured are soldiers, military camps and maneuvers. Also depicted are everyday...
Includes correspondence, teaching and research files.
Letters received, accounts and miscellaneous papers relating to his occupation as innkeeper on Calumet Island, Canada.
Fourteen letters giving commentary on current events, including the Lenny Bruce trials, the civil rights movement, radio station KPFA in Berkeley, writers, jazz musicians, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Includes a letter from Gleason's wife, Jean, to Hoffman.
The collection consists of Echo Lakes cabin owner files (arranged alphabetically by surname), Ralph King's general correspondence (arranged chronologically), and other materials relating to the Echo Lakes area and its residents, including files on the Highway 50 Association, the Echo...
Also, material on the salt industry, chiefly in the San Fransico Bay region; and miscellaneous notes and pictures received from W.P. Gregory.
Correspondence, notes, photographs and clippings relating mainly to Stephen Tyng Mather, and to collecting Mather papers for the Bancroft Library. Letters from Horace M. Albright, Herman Phleger and Merrill E. Prichard included.
Inscription to Phelps from Robert Shankland; TLS to Phelps from Horace Marden Albright concerning Shankland's biography of Steve Mather.
Love letters written from Corning and Bully Choop , Calif. to "Myrtie", wishing they could be together.
The cartons contain 3 folders of correspondence and newspaper clippings, 5 folders of patents, 1 folder of photographs, 7 reports on equipment and 10 notebooks. The 2 scrapbooks contain correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings and legal notices pasted in chronological order.
Contains correspondence, writings, course materials, research proposals, and miscellaneous papers.
Memoirs prepared by the family of Dr. Ralph Reynolds of San Francisco.
Notes and transcriptions of documents from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain concerning Mexico, ca. 1773-1796. Included as well is a guide to researching in the Archivo General de Indias written by Kuykendall.
This collection documents the efforts of the American Joint Distribution Committee to resettle displaced persons in Austria after World War II through reports and correspondence. It also includes personal correspondence, materials and correspondence related to Ralph Segalman's work with Jewish...
Portraits of Hell's Angels motorcycle gang leader Ralph "Sonny" Barger, taken at his Arizona home. Other family members also appear in some photos.
Chiefly incoming correspondence, including several files of letters from Leo Eloesser, as well as correspondence from several federal agencies concerning Stackpole's involvement with various New Deal projects. Also contains outgoing correspondence, including letters written by Stackpole as Head of the...
Includes his statement prepared for the California Industrial Welfare Commission on fruit growing in the Saratoga area and labor problems pertaining thereto; a copy of the report of the Resolutions Committee, California Farmers, Inc., for the annual meeting 1958; copy...
Include 3 albums (v.1-3) of young men on hiking excursions in Marin County, Calif. between 1929 and 1931. Some views of trail maintenance work are present, and some are identified as "SCC" related. 2 additional albums (v.4-5), compiled on binder...
Assembled from various sources.
Letters written to him while a student and later professor of philosophy, by Sherwood Anderson, William R. Dennes, Eugène Jolas, Roger B. Merriman, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, Pavel Tchelitchew, Alice B. Toklas and Clement C.J. Webb.
Interviews conducted 1959 by Edna T. Daniel for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Photographs inserted. Mainly comments on teaching career at University of California; loyalty oath controversy; student government; conservation work with Save the Redwoods...
The Photographs of W.C. Ralston and His Mansion in Belmont, Calif. collection contains eleven photographic albumen prints taken by Eadweard Muybridge in 1874. The prints, some of which are stereograph halves, are gathered on four mounts --two prints being individually...
Snapshots of surf at Santa Monica, Magnolia Ave. (Riverside), a sailboat on San Francisco Bay, a woman on board the S.S. Pomona, the Post Office in Sacramento, the Court House in Santa Barbara, an adobe market in Santa Barbara, the...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Letters written to the Mexican Vice President, containing information on activities of the opposition party led by Bernardo Reyes, on political events, and government, and journalism, by Miguel Ahumada, Fernando Celada, Enrique C. Creel, Luis del Carmen Curiel, Manuel Garza...
Vol. 1: Diary, March 24, 1845 - October 16, 1852; Vol. 2: Diary, November 1, 1852 - July 11, 1857); Vol. 1-2 suppl., loose pages removed from vol. 1-2; Vol. 3: commonplace book, 1846 - December 12 [1854?]; Vol. 4:...
Official letters from the political chief at San Antonio de Bexar (now San Antonio) to the alcalde at Goliad, in the state of Coahuila and Texas (now Texas)
Items selected by Professor Donald B. Cooper from the city's architectural records. Reel 1: Materials relating to appointments, licensing, examinations and salaries of architects; repairs on buildings damaged by earthquakes and floods; documents concerning the construction and maintenance of the...
This collection contains a misc. assortment of personal and legal documents. Hill's personal documents include correspondence, speeches, and a few scrapbooks with his poetry. Most of the legal documents are land deeds, including ones held by his son, Lawrence V....
Consists of four letters and one document regarding the appointment of Ramos Arizpe as Deputy to the Mexican Congress in 1822, which show the positive reaction of several politicians in Coahuila and record the progression of events leading to his...
The records of Ramparts magazine and Scrimshaw Press contain materials collected by Frederick C. Mitchell from his own involvement in both organizations. The Ramparts material predominantly concerns the business side of the operation, with correspondence and reports relating to circulation,...
Snapshots of family life, outings, and ranch life in Marin and possibly Lassen Counties, California. Views include horses, livestock, hunting and trapping, a home in Oakland, Calif., automobiles, young men at track events and on hiking trips, and various other...
Rural life and outings. Locations noted include Jackson, Truckee, Lake County, Mt. Shasta fish hatchery, and the Klamath River Valley (Oregon).
Chiefly snapshots of ranch and desert scenes in Arizona, with views from excursions in Mexico and New Mexico. Locations include a trip to the Montoya Mine, Saw Mill Canyon (Ajo Mountains, Arizona?), Estancia (New Mexico), Martin's Ranch (Cerro Colorado), San...
Includes abstract of title (incomplete) and correspondence.
Manuscript legal documents concerning the sale of the Rancho de Matapajaros, located in [Santiago] Tlacotepec in the province of Metepec, Mexico, by the son of a Spanish agriculturalist, Phelipe de la.Cruz Manjarres de Metepec, to some Indians for the price...
Sketch map (negative and positive photostats) of the Rancho San Rafael in the Altar Valley of Sonora, on a former gold-mining site; overlay tracing by Robert H. Becker; letter of presentation from Jacob N. Bowman (Berkeley, Calif., March 31, 1958);...
Papers relating to Randal F. Dickey's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Concerning a pump and other equipment and supplies for mine at Campo Seco, Calaveras Co., Calif.
Relating to the nomination for the National Register of Historic Places of the Sarah Seaver Randall House in Olema Valley. Copies of photographs, information on the Randall family, etc., included.
Contains correspondence of the Randolph family in Virginia and California, including Thomas Lyman Randolph, Samuel N. Jones, Elisabeth Randolph Simonson, Daniel Lyman Randolph, Edward H. Simonson, Louisa Maria Randolph and Anne M. (Mathieu) Randolph, as well as other Randolph and...
Documenting his career with Castle & Cooke, Ltd., and with Matson Navigation Company.
Photos of Wyntoon show the surrounding McCloud River area in snow, and the buildings of the estate. San Simeon photographs show construction of pools, details of interior elements, formal gardens, etc. Some portraits also included: Mr. and Mrs. James F....
Born in May 1851, James Rankin immigrated to the United States from Scotland when in his teens. He first found employment and learned the trade of plumbing from his uncle, Mr. Dalziel of Oakland. He continued to work with his...
Chiefly consists of Robinson's mathematical notes and writings in the areas of set and number theory, complex analysis, geometry, and combinatorics, with some correspondence. Includes his writings on the tiling of the plane.
Collection consists mostly of photographs relating to Raphael Weill's businesss as well as his family, friends, and acquaintances. Among the photographs are portraits of the following: Edgar Meyer, Judge Morrow, Sigmund Steinhart, John French Sloan, Edward Robert Taylor, Daniel J....
The Henry Rapoport Papers, 1936-2003, consist of correspondence, writings, reports, and research materials spanning Rapoport's distinguished career in organic chemistry from the 1940s to his death in 2002. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence and reports generated by Rapoport...
Includes photographs taken of Rapoport throughout his career. Also depicts many of Rapoport's colleagues in the Universit of California, Berkeley Department of Chemistry, as well as some of his students.
The Sonya Rapoport papers document the life and work of this American conceptual/ digital artist. Included in the collection are artworks, research for artworks, exhibition announcements, correspondence and other materials documenting Rapoport's work over the course of five decades.
Chiefly photographs pertaining to Rapoport's various conceptual art projects. Some portraits and snapshot photographs of the artist are included throughout files. Also includes selections of Rapoport's artist's books and a small number of early drawings.
Artist unknown.
Ratcliff discusses the architectural practice and principled philosophy of his father, Walter H. Ratcliff, exploring the relationship of the first two generations of Ratcliff architects to Bay Region architects such as Maybeck and Wurster. They discuss social planning, growth, and...
Papers of Lois Rather, printer, writer, and proprietor, along with her husband Clif Rather, of the Oakland, California-based Rather Press.
Professional and personal papers of journalist Raul Ramirez. Includes materials relating to the libel case, Hearst v. Hearst Corporation, as well as materials regarding his teaching journalism at San Francisco State University.
Snapshots or amateur views including San Francisco's Cliff House and Golden Gate Park, Monterey, Sacramento, Mt. Tamalpais, Sausalito, the Mokelumne River, and the Del Ray [sic] mine. Also present is a view of the tombstone of Eduard Theodor and Charlotta...
This collection documents the life and work of American physicist and parapsychologist Elizabeth A. Rauscher. Materials include personal papers, professional papers, and research material.
Handbills and promotional fliers promoting rave parties and nightclub events, chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. A few events in Portland, Oregon, in London (U.K.), and other cities are also represented. Most are colorfully illustrated with visual references to...
Primarily views of buildings and street scenes from Cuernavaca, Xochimilco, and other Mexican locations. Two appear to be San Francisco, Calif. views.
List of contents available in the Guide to pictorial collections.
Includes correspondence, writings, and research materials relating to Colvig's publications.
Letters, cards and fragments with the signatures of politicians, actresses, well-known personalities such as William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan, Jules Verne, C.P. Huntington, and Nellie Melba.
Papers relating to Ray Sherwin's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Contains mostly materials from Dr. Raymond Babcock's military service as a surgeon in France during World War I. Materials include notebooks, field medical training manuals, lectures, reports, official correspondence, German and French language translation books, and newspapers. Newspapers include The...
Views of quarry, stone cutting and transportation, and of buildings built with Raymond granite.
Correspondence, course notes, subject files, reviews, and writings as professor of History at The University of California, Berkeley.
Include his annotated bibliography of housing, relief and health care for migratory farm labor in California, (1866-1939); scrapbooks of clippings on migratory farm labor in California, (1942-1973); and notes.
Relate to history of Raymond, Washington, and to the shipwreck of the Robert Bruce; with clippings, photographs of her husband, Leslie V. Raymond, and a few notes relating to Raymond and Pacific County Washington, by H.C. Votaw.
Correspondence regarding the Oppenheimer hearings, 1954; letters from Oppenheimer to the Department of Physics regarding teaching appointment; clippings and published articles on Oppenheimer hearings.
Contains a journal kept by Raymond Wallace in two notebooks of his hitchhiking trip around the western half of the United States from July to September, 1935 (forty pages of the first notebook are Wallace's notes from a chemistry course...
Snapshot photograph album documenting a family stage coach excursion from Raymond to Yosemite Valley via Wawona. Points of interest depicted include Mariposa Big Tree Grove, Wawona Tree, Colorado Tree, Inspiration Point and Camp Yosemite. Also includes a few snapshots of...
Correspondence, chiefly with Alfred Otis Larkin and Sampson Tams, and notes concerning Thomas Oliver Larkin and the Larkin Family. Data obtained from Samuel Hopkins Willey is included. With the above: Extract from a letter, July 5, 1846, from Captain Blake,...
Account of the career and benefactions of José de Torres y Vergara, Archdean of Mexico City Cathedral, founder of the Capuchin Convent of San José de Gracia in Querétaro, Inquisition and Holy Crusade dignitary, and University Chancellor. Written at the...
Log books, reports, budget data, correspondence, legal agreements, blueprints, photographs, etc. regarding the operations and equipment of the Radio Corporation of America's short wave radio station at Bolinas, California. The oversize rolls consist of three blueprints of the station.
Original documents on New Mexico, and several family collections, especially the papers of Manuel Alvarez, 1830-1862, reflecting his life as a fur trader, Santa Fe merchant, and U.S. consul, and papers of the Donaciano Vigil family, 1850-1898, long active in...
Photographs show views of facilites related to the Eberhardt and Aurora Mining Co. including the Eberhardt mine tunnel entrance, the Eberhardt Mill, transportation of logs by horses, etc. Other views show the hotel at Hamilton, Nev., a general view of...
Letters written to or about Pierson Barton Reading, mainly by members of the family, including letters from Richard Bland Lee and Fannie (Washington) Reading (one describing her voyage to San Francisco in 1856 from New York via Panama); letter, 1844,...
Accounts for the Guadalajara branch of the Royal Treasury, covering the periods April 1622-March 1623, 1714, and 1738; arranged in sections corresponding to treasury activities, and chronologically within sections. Each with table of contents, and signatures of treasury officials.
Two certificates for money received from the treasury at Guadalajara, signed by Juan Antonio López de la Paliza, José María Martínez del Campo, and Ramón Gutiérrez del Mazo.
Received in "magnetic" photo album with adhesive pages. Items removed for preservation.
27 postcards: an incomplete set from a souvenir postcard album.
Real photograph postcards depicting amateur views of Native American activities in the southwestern U.S., most if not all likely taken in Arizona and New Mexico. Groups likely depicted include Hopi and Navajo, and perhaps Apache. Possible locations depicted include Walpi;...
Copies of royal decrees relating to the Philippines.
Deeds, survey descriptions, and company board of director meeting minutes.
Contains unbound typescripts and drafts of two of Rothenberg's novels, The Bulrush Murders (published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1991) and The Tumbleweed Murders (co-published by Perseverance Press and John Daniel and Company, 2001). Also includes correspondence, promotional materials, clippings,...
Political posters pertaining to a variety subjects, some promoting events in the San Francisco Bay Area, others promoting awareness of current or historical issues. Topics include anti-war efforts against U.S. invasion of Iraq (1991 and 2003); the administration of San...
Contains pamphlets, periodicals, posters and articles relating to Punk Culture.
Assorted galley proofs of maps published in Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit (2010).
Papers of Rebecca Tracy, site director and Head Teacher from 1971 to 1998 for the University Child Care Program (now the Early Childhood Education Program), which provides full-day care for infants and preschool children of University students, faculty and staff....
Newspaper clippings on Jewish holidays, observances, personalities, synagogues, and on the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. It also has articles on the Jews of Kaifeng, China, and on San Francisco's congregation Beth Menachim Streisand.
Contains two sets of minutes for R.E.C. meetings taken by Helen Bandes: one held on February 12, 1967 in San Francisco, California, and one in Berkeley, California on February 21, 1967.
Collection of 7 printed pamphlets and 8 manuscripts on astronomy, physics, optics, wine and fermentation, and other scientific topics.
Concerns the purchase or repair of footware. Also includes an engraving of Drew by R. Hicks from a painting by J. Moore.
Printed forms filled in.
Receipts and related account records for various materials (food stuffs, coal, hardware) and services provided by numerous San Francisco firms.
Receipts for potatoes (from Sim & Co. and Flint, Peabody, & Co.), for various metal goods (from Ackley & Co.), and for fees paid to the U.S. Custom House, San Francisco.
Printed forms, filled in.
Education at Harvard and recollections of George Santayana, Josiah Royce and Charles T. Copeland; teaching career at University of California, Berkeley, from 1920, and administrative duties on library and budget committees, on President's advisory committee and as chairman of the...
Recollections of early days in the vicinity of Sebastopol.
First overland mail to California (in wagon train led by Col. Chiles, 1848); notes on early days in El Dorado Co.; James W. Marshall; sales and transfers to Sutter's Fort and Sutter's Mill; ferry on the American River.
Recalls his family's relocation to California from Tupelo, Oklahoma in the early 1920s, the "Okie" stereotype, and his recollections of youth at Ferry Point.
Volume 1. Comments on her brief career in motion pictures, 1912-1915; marriage to Griffing Bancroft in 1917; her father-in-law, Hubert H. Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family.
Interviews with John H. Briones, William E. Colby, Herbert M. Evans and Frank Swett conducted by John M. Jencks and Ernest Lowe for radio station KPFA, Berkeley, 1964. With these: correspondence relative to the interviews and transcribing them.
Recollections of early years in Jewish community in Kiev; interest in Russian revolutionary movement; experiences as member of Menshevik faction of Social Democratic Party during the revolution and civil war. Photographs inserted. Included also: brief biographical sketch and list of...
Recollections of Mrs. John M. Jones of overland journey to California, 1846 with the Brown-Allen-Jones party; winter at the Chiles ranch; stay in San Jose; as settlers at Alamo (typescript).
Notes on journey from Massachusetts, via Independence, Fort Laramie, Salt Lake and the Carson River, to the Placerville area. Mention of conditions in the mines and San Francisco.
Discusses Point Richmond in the 1920's; Capt. Raymond Clarke and the Richmond-San Rafael Ferry Co.; labor disputes; the black population and racial tensions; World War II changes; bay pollution; Thoman Crowley and the Crowley Maritime Corp.; California bar pilots; the...
Recollections of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, John Henry Nash, John Swart, Bruce Brough, the Taylor brothers, Max Schmidt, Jr., and other members of the printing community; his printing career; various craftmen's clubs and their publications. Photographs inserted. Appended: photocopies of...
Personal accounts of 30 senior members of the Town and Gown Club, plus their drama director for 40 years, George Felker. The oral histories cover family life and connections (mothers, daughters, in-laws, who were also members); social life in the...
Pennsylvania family background; education at St. Vincent College, University of Pittsburgh; postdoctoral research on restriction enzymes, Yale, 1963-1966; assistant professor to professor, University of California, San Francisco, 1966-1991; recombinant DNA research: collaboration with Stanley N. Cohen, biohazards controversy, development/diffusion of...
Professionally photographed views of new civic, commercial, and residential buildings (completed and under construction), street scenes, public monuments, and leisure and recreation views in Golden Gate Park and at Ocean Beach,
Account book of the Royal Treasury, arranged according to types of income or outgo, such as ecclesiastical tithes, royal fifths, sales taxes, fees for episcopal appointments, revenue from monopolies, donations and fines; payments of salaries, payments to conquistadors, quicksilver payments,...
Journal (sales ledger), November 1863-December 1865; daybook (expense journal), 1869, and ledger (general), 1871-1873. Includes, in general ledger, entries for California Pacific Railroad. Owners: J.W. Brickell, W.H. Krieger, Jeh. Jones, J.D. Hilton (see p. 130 of Journal).
Original records in the National Archives, RG 28.
Includes scattered signatures of judges.
Includes Claim No. 59, 1839, and Case No. 145, 1848. They concern claims made by American citizens against the Mexican government for seizure and deportation to Mexico from California.
The Bancroft Library holds related collections of Thomas O. Larkin material: BANC MSS C-B 37-45 and C-E 1-25.
A chart identifying the number of growth wings; a Stockton Record clipping of February 4, 1922 describing the tree, its history, and the chart; a note from the University of Arizona commenting that an error may exist in the commutation...
Includes names of clients, vessels, information on goods and prices.
Record of sermons preached, primarily in Stanislaus County, California, Jan. 1884-Apr. 1902, including information on text, date, place, number in congregation and comments on weather; at the end: record of funerals at Ione and Oakdale and of marriages at Ione.
Dated lists of ships, barks, etc., with national register, name of captain, latest port and length of voyage. Monthly summaries.
Certificates signed by C.W. Bush, deputy.
Correspondence files and financial records.
Case relating to complaint of air pollution from cement plant operating near Concord, California. Includes subpoenas, depositions, complaints etc. Signatures of various lawyers, sheriffs and judges.
Records for the trial of the murder of Marysville police officer John Sperbeck.
The Records of an Unbroken Friendship but the Mortal Severance album contains approximately 410 photographs apparently created as a memorial to Taizo Kato, a Japanese-American who died in 1924 at the age of 36. The album title implies that it...
Records from Tai Chong, Chow Lee, Chong Lee, Sing Chow Lee and others (gambling houses).
Manuscripts, mock-ups, galleys, and advertising orders for issues 1-3 of the literary magazine published in Berkeley. With these, a few unpublished mss.
Relating to the campaign for a comprehensive state park program. Included are copies of letters written by Newton B. Drury and staff, incoming correspondence, interoffice memoranda, minutes of meetings, press releases, articles prepared for newspapers and magazines, speeches and statements,...
Mainly copies of mining laws, abstracts from minutes of meetings at which recorders for the mining districts were elected, claim notices, bills of sale, deeds of conveyance, powers of attorney, etc. Included occasionally are copies of records of the justice...
Contemporary copies of documents relating to Domincans in Baja California and to their attempts to transfer a mission and establish a hospital in Pitic (Sonora) or in Tepic (Nayarit). Include letters and petitions from Fathers Tomás Ahumada, Domingo Barreda and...
Contains deeds, abstracts, indentures, agreements, U.S. land grants, records of taxes, and other transactions concerning property in Mendocino and Sonoma counties, along with related surveys, field notes, maps, and sketches. Records chiefly concern the acquisition of land by the Gualala...
Journals, logbooks, and reports by Vitus J. Bering, A.I. Chirikov, Nikolai Golovnin, Sofron Khitrov, G.F. Müller, Grigorii Shelikov, Vice-Admiral Sanders, G.W. Steller, Sven Waxel, and Kharlam Yushin. From negative and positive photostats obtained in Leningrad for the University of Washington.
Includes deed from Victor Castro to William H. Gray; and abstract of title to a portion of the Rancho (documents abstracted dated from 1852-1861).
The bulk of the collection consists of Rector-Hirschman family correspondence between 1920-1986. It also includes genealogical materials and family photos. There are also materials related to Mabel and Ted Hirschman, including correspondence and financial records.
In Spanish. Volume is a typescript in journal form, edited in pencil, of drafts of accounts and reports written in January and February, 1912, concerning the opening of a stretch of the Southern Pacific Railroad between the Mexican cities of...
Dictation recorded for H.H. Bancroft by Thomas Savage.
Mainly views of Guatemalan people, and some views of unidentified cities (buildings, monuments, streets), villages (native huts), and landscapes (mountains, lakes, falls). Depicted are street peddlers and markets, women with children (bathing, doing laundry, taking care of children), villagers, religious...
Reminiscences relating to Echeandía's revolt against Victoria, and to Nicolas Robles in Santa Cruz, 1839.
Dictation recorded for H.H. Bancroft by Thomas Savage concerning José Joaquín de Arrillaga; the Solis Revolt; the governorships of Victoria and Figueroa; and the Padrés-Hijar colonization scheme.
Historical and personal account of Alta California, including political history, 1769-1848; social life and customs of the Californios; biographical information on notable persons.
Reminiscences concerning his revolutionary activities, 1906-1913, in Texas and Mexico on behalf of the Partido Liberal Mexicano, working with Ricardo Flores Magón.
Recollections of the colony brought from Mexico by his uncle, José María de Híjar, Missions, manners and customs in California, etc.
Consists of correspondence, writings, publicity materials, interviews, VHS tapes, and miscellaneous personal ephemera concerning San Francisco Bay Area writer of lesbian erotica, Red Jordan Arobateau. Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence with friends, publishers, magazine editors, and noted individuals in the...
Includes portraits of the author, color snapshots and poster reproductions of his paintings, and snapshots of his partner Dalila Jasmin at home and attending events.
Correspondence with musicians and friends, personalia, notebooks and diaries, mss. of some of his writings, clippings.
Collection includes general views of towns and other locations along the Redwood Highway (southwestern Oregon and northwestern California). Views show rural areas, Indians, parks, recreation, farms, monuments, coastline, forests, buildings, roads, bridges, logging, special events, mines, rivers and lakes, and...
Minutes, correspondence, and reports of the association, its officers and committees, and subject files on association activities, legislation and governmental actions, highway development, publicity, film and photographic materials.
Mainly records kept by Clyde Edmondson, the Association's first manager, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, programs, clippings and miscellaneous papers relating to the activities of the Assonciation and to redwoods, with letters by Edmundson, William J. Losh, George Christopher, Paul R....
The Redwood Manufacturers Company Plant in Pittsburg, Calif. albums contain 274 photographic prints taken circa 1915 to circa 1925. The subject of the albums is the Redwood Manufacturers Co. (Remco), located in Pittsburg adjacent to the U.S. Steel Corporation. Both...
Partial list of contents available.
Slides for a presentation entitled: "The redwood question: how much is enough?" The presentation was used by Redwood lumbering companies in the conflict over an expansion of Redwood National Park.
Items are captioned: "On 'The Avenue of the Giants' near Dyerville, California" and "Mill Creek Redwoods, near Crescent City, California"
Contains: No. 8 Redwood Trees, Santa Cruz Mtns. -- No. 9 Big Trees, Calaveras Grove [Calif.].
The collection consists of an album of 42 black and white photographs taken by George Reed of Sausalito, California, probably in 1888. The album appears to be a family snapshot album. It includes views of the grounds and gardens as...
Family background, education in North Dakota; doctoral study at the University of Illinois; postwar library studies a the University of Chicago graduate library school; head of reference at Chicago's Newberry Library, late 1940s; to UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1950:...
Clippings of editorials from Mexican newspapers, most written under his pseudonym, Blas Urrea, relating to Mexican politics. With these: a few clippings about Cabrera.
The Williams' describe their family backgrounds, the racial climate in Richmond before and after World War II, their observations of the impact of the tremendous influx of people during the War years and changes in Richmond since then.
Discussion of his legal career in New York and, from 1929, in Los Angeles; the Los Angeles Jewish community; his philanthropic, educational and civic activities. With this (as v. 2): photocopy of his Autobiography (37 l.) commenting on his more...
Interviews conducted in Richmond, California, 1975-1977, by Ann Lage for the Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library as part of the Sierra Club History Series. Introduction by Phillip Berry; copies of photographs inserted. Comments on scientific studies at...
Photographs show refugee camp life after the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, Calif. Women cooking on stoves set up in the street, women washing in tubs, a man cooking over a fire on the ground, men sitting on...
The collection contains scapbooks with newspaper clippings; cards and notes from members of the Gans family; and programs, including some for balls Gans sung at in 1882 to raise funds for Russian Jewish refugees, as well as for concerts at...
The collection consists of a small amount of biographical material, correspondence, newspaper clippings, assorted pamphlets and exhibition catalogs, and photographs that document the activities Waldman undertook as director of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews. The oversize item is...
Reginald E. Zelnik papers, BANC MSS 2011/105, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Research, writings, course notes, correspondence, and photographs from Reginald Barrett's career as Professor of wildlife biology and management in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.
Hugh A. D'Andrade (b. 1938): Executive with Schering-Plough Corp., 1981-present; Schering-Plough alliances with Biogen and DNAX Research Institute; commercializing recombinant DNA technology at Biogen and DNAX; biotechnology in New Jersey; comments on BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization). David P. Holveck (b....
Mainly a collection of portraits, but also includes religious art and other images. Organized in folders by name and subject. All are items associated with interviews conducted by the Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library.
Includes Correspondence, subject files, conference files, Scrapbook of clippings, and printed materials. Subjects include: city planning, airport development, the growth of San Francisco, correspondence and reports concerning bridges, and San Francisco traffic survey reports.
Registers of marriages, 1781-1800, and burials, 1780-1828, with signatures of the mission friars and of the provincial examiners.
Registers of baptisms, 1775-1839, marriages, 1776-1850, and deaths and burials, 1775-1837, with signatures of the mission friars and of the provincial examiners.
Registers of baptisms, 1744-1868, marriages, 1744-1868, and deaths and burials, 1775-1805, and 1805-1828, with signatures of the mission friars and of the provincial examiners.
Registers of baptisms, 1769-1818, marriages, 1769-1817, and burials, 1773-1802, and 1803-1821, with signatures of the mission friars and of the provincial examiners.
Three volumes of handwritten voting records(?) for the San Jose area with clippings pasted over. Some of the text is readable. Clippings are primarily poems, cartoons, and political cartoons, with some news stories.
Contains the architectural plans for a renovation of the Fox Theater in Oakland, California begun in 2006. Also includes a three-ring binder containing preliminary documentation for the project including the memorandum of understanding entered into on September 1, 2003 between...
Papers relating to the passage of the California Wilderness Act (1984) and the Condor Range and Rivers Protection Act (1992), including correspondence, photographs, reports, documents, and other papers of this Sierra Club member.
was born on November 8, 1843 on a farm near After graduating from in 1868, he taught at the and the prestigious before accepting a job at the in in 1875. Elected to the presidency of the in 1881, Reid...
Civil War discharge papers, 1864 and 1866, and cancelled paycheck, Jan. 31, 1876, from the Caspar Lumber Co.
The collection contains genealogical materials, including a copy of Walter Hertzmann's "The Reinharts of Nevada: A Genealogy and Family History;" a copy of a letter that Pauline Reinhart wrote about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire while across the...
Photographs depict reinterment of Juan Bautista de Anza in the cathedral of Arizpe, Mexico, 1963. Also depicted are ceremonies, persons and a monument related to the event, as well as general views of Arizpe.
Handwritten manuscript (3 p.) with detailed description of the village Itzquintlan [i.e. Santiago Ixcuintla] in Nayarit, Mexico. Details include civil and religious history, fauna, and geography. Drawn in the bottom of the final page is a map showing direction and...
Original in: the Newberry library (Ayer collection no. 1038)
Documents relating to the recruiting of a company in Queretaro for service in Manila, including proclamation of the viceroy, Conde de Moctezuma, a list of soldiers in the company, and marching orders for the company, with signatures of the viceroy,...
In paper covers; with bookplate of H. Buxton Forman.
The Relief Camps for Refugees from the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire album contains 25 photographic prints taken in 1906 by San Francisco photographer Charles Weidner. The album documents the relief camps constructed for refugees from San Francisco's 1906 earthquake...
Plaster of paris topographical map of the fictional Ponderosa Forest region, located between the actual Tahoe Forest and Plumas Forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Journal of voyage around the Horn, from Thomaston, Maine. Descriptions of Rio de Janeiro and Talcaguana, Chile where the ship stopped for several days for repairs and refitting. Journal ends just before arrival in San Francisco.
Record of voyage of bark, Belvedere, with a company of 74 goldseekers (California Joint Stock Company?), "8 non-members together with 4 ladies and a little girl."
Consists of 7 oversize drawings, a printed portfolio (9 leaves), and an addendum containing text, 25 color photographs, clippings, and other ephemera. "The portfolio provides a brief explanation of each text, beginning with the cartographic and ending with the semantic/semasiographic....
Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as follows: Emelyn Knowland Jewett: My Father's Political Philosophy and Colleagues. Estelle Knowland Johnson: My Father as Senator, Campaigner, and Civic Leader. Paul Manolis: A Friend and Aide.
Snapshots of Berkeley, Calif. Primarily home interiors and family members, with one view of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Contains photographs taken in Nome, Golovin, St. Lawrence Island, Siberia (incl. St. Nicholas), Teller, Pt. Barrow, Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, and Sitka. Includes photographs of settlements, native peoples, ship's crew and passengers. Captain Hamlet and Mrs. Churchill are identified in some...
Mainly relate to early history of Ventura County, with special mention of Tiburcio Vázquez, litigation for the Sespe Rancho, the murder of Thomas W. More in 1877, adobe houses in San Buenaventura, and San Nicolas Island. Partial transcripts of some...
Concerning art and artists of the San Francisco Bay area (particularly since 1910), the impact of the Panama Pacific International Exposition, various art schools and patrons.
Experiences with her husband, Vaughn B. McKeith, proving up a desert land claim at Grand View from 1905, later at Glenns Ferry, then in Owyhee County, with remarks on living conditions in the country, 1920 and later.
Notes his early life and legal training; connection of his family with canning industries (particularly olives); political activities-including association with the Progressive Republicans and various California governors; friendship with Arthur Brisbane; Los Angeles Bar Association and the State Bar; work...
Photocopy of a typed transcript of a tape-recorded interview conducted by Wesley Cook in 1967. Prefatory note by J.R.K. Kantor.
Dictation recorded for H.H. Bancroft by Henry Cerruti.
In-process pictorial portion of the Yañez and Wallis archive consists, initially, of oversize material and objects requiring custom housing. The great majority of pictorial content will remain integrated with the manuscript, ephemera, and audiovisual material that forms the archive (BANC...
The collection documents the careers of René Yañez and Cynthia "Kiki" Wallis, specifically both of their work within the San Francisco arts community from the 1960s to the present day. The collection contains a wide variety of formats including audio/visual,...
Early years in San Francisco; the Fleishhacker, Dinkelspiel and Schwabacher families; UC Berkeley Department of Music, 1937-1941; Jan Popper and the Stanford University Department of Music, 1945; Schwabacher-Frey Printers and Stationers, 1905-1959; performing oratorio and opera; teaching young singers; thoughts...
Interviewees include: William J. Monihan, Elio Benvenuto, Emily Michels, Robert Brennan, Ethel Souza, William Justema, Louisa Jenkins, Maria Luisa Wolfskill, Mary Erckenbrack, Antonio Sotomayor, Paul Ryan, Micaela DuCasse, Mario Ciampi, Stephen DeStaebler, Charles Warren Callister, Vivian Cummings, Harold W. Cummings,...
Correspondence, articles, clippings, and assorted printed material pertaining to dance and dance performances.
Interviews with Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Roderic B. Park and Louise Taylor on the process of reorganizing UC Berkeley's Dept. of Biology and other science departments into the Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Dept. of Integrative Biology...
Unusually informative report, with two letters to Bancroft.
Consists of mounted photographs of company operations, a map of Calaveras County showing the properties of the company, and a sketch map of the Valentine group of mines.
Consists of statistics, graphs and charts on vessels entering San Francisco Bay area harbors including tonnage, and items imported and exported.
Includes maps and charts.
Thomas Savage's report, written in 1879, with detailed information about his trips in California securing copies of manuscripts and archives and dedications from pioneers; portions of the manuscript of Literary Industries; copy of story from San Francisco Bulletin, Apr. 27,...
Documents relating to the career of Dr. García Vallecillos, native of Algeciras, Spain, attorney and judge of the Real Audiencia, Alcalde mayor of Sololá Province, Guatemala, and defender of the Spanish régime in the closing days of the Viceroyalty of...
Two variant copies, illustrated.
Includes copies of reports of Edward F. Haas and Major S.A. Cheney, and tables on flood gages and precipitation, with particular reference to the flood of 1911.
Incomplete transcript of 1728 report prepared by Rivera, Governor of Tlaxcala and subsequently Governor of Guatemala, on the basis of his 1724-1728 inspection of the northern frontier presidios. It is divided into three main parts, in compliance with Viceroy Casafuerte's...
Typed record of first trial for murder of Robert Junior, an Indian. Each volume indexed. Signed by Fred J. Brownlee, official court recorder.
Interviewees and titles of interviews, as follows: Earl C. Behrens: Gubernatorial Campaigns and Party Issues: A Political Reporter's View, 1948-1966. Richard Bergholz: Reporting on California Government and Politics, 1953-1966. Sydney Kossen: Covering Goodwin Knight and the Legislature for the San...
Clark discusses maintaining inventory of state mines and mineral resources; editing California Division of Mines' gold districts of California, a report on 342 districts, published 1969; California mines and people in mining.
Record of amounts of water used, location, crops, condition of ditches, type of soil, and name of person ordering the water.
Views and accompanying Historic American Engineering Records reports on three Los Angeles bridges: the First Street Bridge, Sixth Street Bridge, and Ninth Street Viaduct (Olympic Boulevard Viaduct). Accompanied by reports on an additional five bridges which were determined not to...
Two identical views of San Francisco from the bay, each surrounded by 24 portraits of prominent men of the city. The portraits on each print are of different men.
Collection includes one photograph of Frederic Remington. Other items include many scenes featuring Indians, camps, exploration of the West, etc.
Reproductions of pen and ink drawings of various California missions (San Buenaventura, San Carlos, San Diego de Alcala, San Fernando Rey, San Juan Bautista, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey, Santa Clara, and Santa Inés).
Collection contains images (used as plates?) relating to "Life of the Late Rear-Admiral John Drake Sloat of the United States Navy", and a reproduction of a bust of Columbus.
Brief biography and family backround, work experience, Republican politics 1948-1972 and personal observations on women in politics. Also includes supporting documentation in separate box.
Letterpress copies of correspondence of the Union State Central Committee and the Union Republican State Central Committee. C-A 105 includes minutes for two meetings laid in at end.
Discusses his childhood; Navy career during World War II; his career at U.S. Borax & Chemical Corporation.
Scripts and related material; carbon copy of dissertation.
Correspondence, notes, and clippings concerning Cole's lengthy investigation into the life and California works of Italian-born sculptor, Felix Peano.
Correspondence with various U.S. Army officers (including General W.C. Brown), Adjutant General's Office and various offices of the War Dept.; notes and drafts (including "Battle of Infernal Caverns"); photographs of the forts.
Included is supportive material for nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.
Contains research materials, including photostat copies from microfilm, typed transcriptions, and some translations, chiefly from a variety of sources in the collections of The Bancroft Library. Includes Shaffer's notes, drafts, and clippings related to her M.A. Thesis, presented to the...
Roughly sorted preliminary notes, drafts, manuscripts and bibliographies compiled chiefly by the Federal Writers' Project, Oakland.
Manuscript and plates for his book, The Churches of Mexico, 1530-1810; card bibliography on Latin American architecture, especially the colonial period; negatives of buildings (some with architectural detail) in Mexico, Spain, Portugal, California, and the United States.
Notes, articles and clippings re Spanish-Mexican families in California and land grants.
Documents and articles realting to the career of California educator John Swett. Swett was principal of San Francisco's Rincon School, served as State Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1862-1867, and became City Superintendent of School in 1889.
Whinnery discusses his family background and early education at the University of California, Berkeley; his early career at General Electric; his return to Berkeley as a graduate student, lecturer, and associate professor; his years as Dean of the College of...
Includes portraits of Max C. Eastman and some of his fellow petroleum engineers, as well as photographs of oil fields, offices and other property of the Reserve Oil and Gas Company of San Francisco, Calif. Includes many photographs of the...
By Aston Photo.
Elevations and floor plans.
Temporary list of contents available.
From Schoyer's Books;
Views of the Mauran-Rhodes residence in Santa Barbara, "Mon Désir." Home located at 325 E. Valerio.
Set of drawings (blueprints) for residence at 828 Contra Costa Ave., Berkeley, includes: site plan, front elevation, north elevation, south elevation, rear elevation, section, basement and foundation plan, first floor plan, second floor plan, attic plan.
Views of opulent country mansion of William C. Ralston, depicting exterior, interiors and estate grounds.
Photographs of two residences, one much more lavish than the other and captioned "New Residence of President Brigham Young."
A file on an inquiry, carried out by Aguileta as alcalde mayor and judicial official of San José del Parral, into the official conduct and services of Vega, former justicia mayor and captain of that mining settlement, and of Vega's...
Professional views of home interiors featuring various types of wood paneling popular in 1950s middle-class American residences, specifically those of the lumber region of the Pacific Northwest. Album organized according to room types: living rooms, bedrooms, dressing rooms, dens and...
Part of a collection of certificates, diplomas, and similar documents, primarily from California.
Discusses family life in San Francisco; business interests; other Jewish community leaders; Jewish charity activities (Jewish National Welfare Fund, Federation of Jewish Charities, Jewish Family Service Agency, etc.); formation of and changes in San Francisco Jewish Bulletin. Also included: brief...
Includes coffe mug illustrated with 2 printed images: logo for Restore Hetch Hetchy (depicting view of Hetch Hetchy Valley with no reservoir), and image of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir bordered by text: Hetch Hetchy / Yosemite's Buried Treasure. Also includes t-shirt...
The records include petitions, research, legal documents, publicity, photographs and other materials related to Restore Hetch Hetchy itself and environmentalism in general. Also contains correspondence of key figures in the organization including the notebooks of former Executive Director, Ron Good.
Includes a brief history of the planting of eucalyptus in the region, a list of nurseries supplying the young plants, details on the cultivation of the trees, description of area, tables on expenditures, results of planting and names of species...
The collection consists of correspondence; cantorial materials; musical arrangements, compositions and programs; biographical materials; certificates and honors; some of Rinder's writings and speeches; items from Rinder's tenure at Temple Emanu-El; and photographs. The correspondence consists of general correspondence as well...
Contains mostly newspaper clippings and a small amount of personal ephemera of the Reuel Ford Pray family, including a handwritten, leather-bound "Resolutions" booklet signed by the faculties of the Westwood Public School system in recognition of Reuel Pray Sr.'s eight-year...
Collection files for the Reva and David Logan collection of photographic books.
Chiefly portraits of indigenous boys of Belize (then a British colony) taken by Rev. H.S.P. Warren while he was principal of St. Michael's College, an Anglican boys' secondary school in Belize. Images depict the boys in traditional attire or nude,...
Removed from: Rudolph Blaettler's copy of Sterling's Lilith; a dramatic poem (F855.2.S6035 1926 c3).
Material with graphic designs by San Francisco based artist Rex Ray (1956-2015). Includes book jackets, rock concert posters (chiefly for Bill Graham Presents or Another Planet), promotional handbills, and merchandise. Some of the artist's watercolors, drawings, and block prints are...
Written as Superintendent, American Eagle Mine, concerning employment.
Correspondence (7 letters, handwritten and typescript) between authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror concerning their writing and published efforts.
Correspondence, manuscripts of writings on agricultural subjects and on E.W. Hilgard, and miscellaneous papers, relating to his work with the tenth U.S. Census and the College of Agriculture, University of California.
The collection consists of personal correspondence sent to Dr. Rhea Blue by friends and colleagues over the course of her life. The collection is organized alphabetically by correspondent. Correspondence from unidentified authors has been filed chronologically at the end of...
Correspondence of California pioneer Daniel Rhoads and his wife with family, including account of overland journey from Missouri in 1844 and information on farming in Santa Clara County near San Jose.
Retrospective interviews about philanthropist, community leader, and environmentalist Rhoda H. Goldman (1923-1996) with twelve individuals who discuss: leadership in Congregation Emanu-El's capital funds drive, Jewish Community Endowment Fund, and Mayor Dianne Feinstein's Committee for a Holocaust Memorial; Mount Zion Hospital...
Contains the administrative records and materials from the open mike meetings. Administrative records include correspondence, scheduling, agreement with the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, grant paperwork, signups and biographies on steering committee members. Open mike meeting materials include flyers,...
This collection contains 17 black and white photographs taken between the years 1908 and 1916 of rice fields, agricultural equipment, and irrigation procedures, primarily in Yolo County, California. Several photographs feature Fair Ranch, located in Knight's Landing. Other rice fields...
The Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund Records document a history of charitable giving to nonprofit organizations working in the areas of the environment, Jewish affairs, Israel, population, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reminiscences concerning his career in public health, specializing in child hygiene; his experiences at the Tsing Hua College in China, 1911-1912; work in Europe in chld welfare during World War I; organization of the Alameda County Health Center, 1919; and...
Materials relating to the life and work of German chemist Nobel Laureate (1902), Emil Fischer. Includes photographs, a three volume carbon typescript of the English translation of Fischer's autobiography.
Field notes, correspondence, drafts of reports and papers, and other materials related to Bachenheimer's research in India as a Fulbright scholar working with University of California Berkeley professor David Mandelbaum. Materials contain information on social structures, homes, agriculture, irrigation, kinship,...
Letters of information to George Gibson of the Quartermaster Dept. Include report on trip through Mexico en route to California, provisions available in San Francisco, army establishments in Oregon, changes in California, conditions at Benicia.
Early poems, short stories, "experimental dramas," miscellaneous correspondence with Edna Webster and publishers, and high school memorabilia (diploma). Several of the literary manuscripts were written for Edna Webster or Linda Webster. Most are undated but are known to have been...
Contains notebooks, writings, correspondence and other papers that Brautigan left with his friend Dwain Richard Cox. Also includes photographs of Brautigan, his family, and of a trip he took; some writings of Tanikawa Shuntarō. Writings and correspondence were not sorted...
Includes professional portraits, snapshots, proofs and cover mock-ups for several of Brautigan's works.
Regards Col. John C. Fremont and the Roman Cathalic Church.
Miscellaneous papers, including two commissions as Judge of the Superior Court of California for Amador County. (1896 and 1902) signed by James H. Budd and Henry T. Gage; and his last will (Apr. 19, 1899).
Contains speech writings, publications, reports, photographs, scrapbook, notes, subject files and clippings and other materials related to the career of Trudeau. Includes his work with the Scandinavian Festival, the East Bay Regional Park District and issues related to parklands and...
Photographs documenting construction of high speed railroad lines in Fresno and Madera Counties, Calif. Locations depicted include vicinities of the cities of Fresno, Madera, Hanford, Conejo and Bowles. Railroads (e.g. Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific), highways, agriculture fields, and...
The papers include correspondence, professional papers, family and legal papers, as well as some artwork, photographs and a scrapbook. The papers are notable for rich correspondence that provides an intimate "slice of life" of being an "out" gay man in...
Papers relating to Richard Cellarius's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Diaries, (1934-1977), and unpublished verses.
Engineering files relating to power plant projects, mainly in Hawaii (circa 1950-1964); a small amount of professional correspondence; subject files on topics relating primarily to the construction of steam power plants; a few publications by Powell and others on engineering...
Four brief letters written to R.H. Greg, William Rathbone, Lord Willoughby De Eresby and J.A. Novello.
Correspondence; poetry notebooks, scrapbooks, and manuscripts; some published poetry; proofs of some works published by DPress; and audio and digital video tapes of readings and other events.
Letters from Richard Dering to his brother Henry Thomas and his sisters Elizabeth and Francis discuss a return from the Sandwich Islands, offers of jobs aboard ships, and a description of the Farallones including a possible job at the light...
Psychedelic concert posters and filers for political rallies.
Concerning his poem, The Oak. A signed typescript copy of the poem included.
Includes photographs depicting various San Francisco Bay Area locations and subjects, including buildings and other landmarks on the campus of University of California, Berkeley; Skyline Boulevard and other streets in the East Bay hills after unusually heavy snowfall; and Golden...
Includes poems (manuscript and clippings) and letter to him from Thomas Mathews Blagg (May 18, 1900).
Contains the business records of Richard Garvey including correspondence discussing crops, mines and other ranch business, account records of household related items, and legal documents including land documents and a petition to keep the Garvalia post office. Also includes some...
Portraits of Garvey and a view of what may be the large school house built by Garvey in Garvalia, Calif. (in the vicinty of later-named Monterey Park, Rosemead, and San Gabriel). Also present are later prints of snapshots of various...
Title devised by cataloger.
v. 1-3, journals, Sept. 1852-Jan. 1864, describing arrival in San Francisco after voyage from Boston, move to Marysville and employment in lumber business, trip to East and return via Panama, June-Nov. 1858; v.4-5, letterpress copy books of personal letters, 1878-1880...
Materials relating to an interview with Richard Graves by the Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office. Most are about his unsuccessful campaign for California Governor in 1954. Includes typescript copies of speeches by Graves.
Includes multiple drafts of manuscripts, correspondence, research materials, publications, books, photographs, and audiovisual materials.
Photocopies of typescript transcriptions of approximately 100 letters written by a U.S. Army soldier serving in Europe during World War I to his family. Describes army life near the front lines and in various areas in Europe and France.
V.I. Newspaper clippings of reviews of the work of the Armenian American author.
The papers include correspondence with California governor, George Deukmejian, letters from other American political figures, information about Pacific Gas and Electric Company, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Four undated letters regarding his writing activities and one autograph.
Contains 13 binders of documents, court transcripts, police reports, case studies, notes, etc. related to Richard Brenneman's work as an investigative journalist and author.
Contains unpublished manuscripts, chapbooks, printed educational material, poems, drawings, leaflets, flyers, and other materials related to Krech's creative works and poetry reading performances. Includes an advertising poster for a 40th anniversary poetry reading of Annus Miraculum at Moe's Books in...
Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of the Butano Forest Associates; notes, ephemeral promotional material, and clippings relating to the effort to preserve the forest of redwood trees in San Mateo County, Calif.
Photograph album of chiefly snapshots documenting the early life of Hollywood actor Richard Loo (b. 1903, d. 1983), including many images of family, friends and associates. Includes numerous scenes from Loo's childhood in Hana (Maui), Honolulu and other Hawaii locations;...
Consists entirely of records from Richard M. Leonard's military career including orders, coded telegrams, official correspondence, discharge papers, awards, Bronze Star documentation, certificates, etc.
Photographs of various climbing techniques taken at Yosemite National Park, Calif. Also included is a letter written by Leonard describing army training film for "high angle climbing."
Papers relating to Richard M. Leonard's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Photographs show Richard Nixon speaking, apparently at a political event.
Letters received, accounts and papers relating to his work as inkeeper at Bryson, Canada, and to his interests in mining, particularly in the Grand Calumet Mining Company of Ottawa, Ltd.
He discusses family background; Jewish Welfare Federation; Jewish Community Federation; influencing changes in the United Jewish Appeal and the Jewish Agency; Jewish Endowment Fund; activities on behalf of Israel and other political activities.
Views of Mount Shasta area including Black Butte summit and McCloud in Siskiyou County.
Materials relating to the Telegraph Avenue Co-op Center Council of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, Inc., 1980s. Oversize folder contains floor plans, sections and designs for a proposed health food co-op store, as well as maps of Berkeley neighborhoods.
Includes course materials, research files, project consulting files, and reprint publications.
Contains manuscripts and outgoing correspondence dealing with crime, criminal justice, and penology. Also includes Korn's poetry, a chapbook of poetry "Two Voices", laminated photographs of Korn in academic regalia, pamphlets, ephemera etc. Correspondents include his friend and publisher Robert Hawley.
Montana dwellings: Medicine lodge (:1); Cactus covered roof no. 1 (:2).
Letters written to and by Floyd, president of the James Lick Trust; accounts; some minutes of meetings, memoranda and reports of the Lick Trust; photographs, specifications and blueprints of Lick Observatory (some mounted in a scrapbook); clippings; legal papers in...
Papers relating to Richard Searle's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Grouped into series for Family History, Organizations, Writings, Performances, Recordings, Scrolls, and Awards
Contains 2 letters of a miner's account of prices, conditions, lack of mail, large numbers of people coming to California for gold, and his eventual success while working a claim of another miner.
Material on elections and political issues, primarily at the state and local level, but including Presidential campaign information. Largely focuses on Democratic Party politics in Oakland and Berkeley from the late 1940s to early 1960s. Includes Democratic State Central Committee...
20 letters from R.V. Dey to his mother and sister in New York describing early life in San Francisco. He includes an an account of Digger Indians (July 30, 1855), a steamship outbreak of cholera (Sept 18, 1855), an account...
Scrapbook of school-related ephemera belonging to Richard Victor Langford, a student in Pasadena and Los Angeles. Includes materials from the 1920s and 1930s related to Langford's experience, service, and activities in elementary, middle school, and high school in South Pasadena...
The Papers of Richard Walker document his nearly forty-year career as a Professor of Geography at U.C. Berkeley. Included are records of his work with Faculty for Human Rights in El Salvador and Central America (FACHRES) in the early 1980s,...
Correspondence (including a significant number of letters to and from U.C. Berkeley colleague, David Rynin), course notes and syllabi, newspaper clippings, lecture notes, articles, research notes and manuscripts.
from Marc Selvaggio ;
The papers of Leon Josiah Richardson, Professor of Latin and Director of the University Extension at the University of California, Berkeley, contain correspondence, drafts and notes for articles, poems, and speeches, as well as material relating to his teaching of...
Scrapbooks labeled "California Scrapbook No.1" and "No.2," contain newspaper clippings concerning California life which have been pasted over the original entries in the day books.
Photographs included aerial views of the Richmond yard befoe and during construction of the shipyard, as well as the visit of Commissioner Edward MacAuley.
Title devised by cataloger.
The Norma B. Ricketts Papers contain research materials on the Mormon presence in California, from the Gold Rush era to present day.
The William Nauns Ricks Papers contain more than 450 individual poems and nearly 100 short stories and other works of prose, written or collected by Ricks between 1899 and 1963. The collection also includes a small amount of correspondence and...
1848 diary with sparse entries re life in Boston, with some accounts; memorandum of his voyage from New York to San Francisco via Panama in 1849, with mention of his tending store for J.L.L. Warren at Mormon Island, noting prices...
Chiefly portraits of multiple generations of the Ringo family associated with Mary Peters Ringo and her daughter Fannie Fern (Ringo) Jackson. Collection includes two portraits of Mary Peters Ringo; several portraits of Mary's daughter Fannie Jackson, Fannie's husband Frank M....
Photographs of boxing matches, with boxers and dates of fights given. Advertising sign in background indicates a San Francisco location.
Includes copies of manuscripts and research notes for her books, as well as correspondence and journals.
Includes portraits of Hermann Kopp, Howard P. Short (as a young man taken in Central House, Calif.), Koluholsky, and Prof. Carl Schmidt. One small photo of the Laboratories de L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes from Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), Germany, is also present.
Photographs show views of deluxe train cars, the Super Chief on its maiden journey, the Denver Zephyr, scenes along the Santa Fe railroad line, dignitaries on board the train, etc. Some views show aspects of life on the rails: reading,...
Description of Jewish rites and ceremonies, evidently prepared for the instruction of inquisitors.
Bound volume of manuscripts by, and collected by, Joseph Ritson, Joseph Frank, and others.
Images documenting "Judea" Holy Week celebrations of the Cora people of Nayarit, Mexico.
COLLECTION RESTRICTED: See Information for Researchers for more information. Original courtroom art depicts many famous California trials of the late 1960's to early 1980's. These drawings were used to report on the trial in the media, as cameras were not...
Contains mostly files concerning the legal trial of River Island Land Company v. the State of California, #12827 concerning development of Sherman Island. Also includes one carton of various files concerning other agreements, leases, general files, etc.
This collection consists of an album of 79 photographic prints of Rivergarden Farms, an agricultural area apparently located near the Sacramento River in the vicinity of Knights Landing (Yolo County) and Grimes (Colusa County), California. The photos were taken circa...
Photographs include views of Pasadena, missions, ostrich farms, agriculture, orange groves, landscapes, a multiplate panorama of Los Angeles, and numerous booths decorated with flowers, each representing a Southern California city in an exposition or fair.
Includes two views of streets, one lined by palms and pepper trees, the other with a canal at one side; and one photo of avocado harvest.
Contains correspondence, notice of locations of mining claims, proof of labor in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, marriage licenses, deeds, crop mortgages and tax records for the county of Riverside, Calif.
Collection includes a photo-catalog of the Rix Compressor and Drill Company and several loose photos depicting post-1906 earthquake rubble of the company (located in San Francisco, near Market St.), an office interior, and Mechanical Engineers Association dinner in 1910. The...
Records of legal proceedings, kept by the alcalde of Santa María del Oro and Indé in the state of Durango. Include complaints, testimony and judgments rendered.
Originals in: the office of the County Clerk.
Consists of papers relating to the career of mining engineer, Robert A. Kinzie, on Douglas Island, Alaska, and in the states of Sinola and Jalisco, Mexico. Includes mining reports, geological surveys, blueprints, notebooks, ledgers, business correspondence, a personal investment ledger,...
Letters from E.A. Dickson, C.H. Rowell, and G.E. Mowry; and documents and clippings relating to the organization and activities of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League in California.
Mainly letters to Allen with a few from him concerning his duties as Quartermaster at Benicia. Include several from H.W. Halleck, some pertaining to civil fund expenditures and to the printing and circulation of the California Constitution.
3 prints are portraits of journalist, editor, biographer and critic Robert Allerton Parker. 3 prints depict a sculpted portrait of Parker.
Includes many photograph of rock and roll bands and performers of the 1960s and 1970s.
Includes chiefly southern California landscape views from the late 19th century, and also views in San Francisco, Monterey, Stockton, Calistoga, Watsonville, and the Washington Territory. Of particular note is a group of 38 Pasadena area views on boudoir card mounts...
Of Linda W. Coski and Phila W. Rogers;
Negatives covering Oakland and San Francisco Bay Area news, circa 1946-1986.
Historic buildings and locations in California. Focus is chiefly Northern California, with many locations in the Gold Country and Sierra Nevada towns as well as Napa and Mendocino counties, the Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen vicinities, etc. Also, copy photographs...
Collection includes pictures of the Barton family, their house, R.G. Barton Vineyard, etc. Also includes portraits of Laurette Taylor, John P. Sousa, Elsie Janis, Paderewski, Robert Barton, and the Lampers Club of Fresno, Calif. Outdoor scenes (Fresno area?), and interior...
V. 1,- 1954-Mar. 16, 1956; v. 2, Aug. 1955-Jan. 3, 1957; v. 3, Jan. 4, 1957-Mar. 9, 1958; v. 4, Mar. 11, 1958-May 20, 1959; v. 5, May 21, 1959-Oct. 16, 1960; v. 6, Oct. 17, 1960-Apr. 22, 1962; v....
Large collection of photographs of political cartoons drawn by Robert Bastian. Subjects focus on the politics of the 1960's including the Vietnam War, President Nixon, Kent State University, the United States economy, the Daily Californian (U.C. Berkeley's student newspaper), KQED,...
The Robert Bigham Brode papers including correspondence, course materials, notebooks, administrative files and artifacts.
Include letters from William Henry Bateson, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, Frederic William Farrar, Helen Gladstone, Arthur Gray, David Masson, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, William Bruce Robertson, Herbert Stephen, Charles William Stubbs, Howard Overing Sturgis and William Aldis...
Contains correspondence, course materials, University of California, Berkeley administrative records, research materials and writings, and some photographic materials.
Regarding publication of a collection of his poems.
Refusing an invitation.
Original gouache paintings by Robert C. Stebbins used to illustrate the field guide Western Reptiles and Amphibians (by Robert C. Stebbins, most recent ed. published 2003). Includes paintings of salamanders, newts, toads, frogs, turtles, geckos, lizards and snakes. Also includes...
Campbell was a fur trader in the American West, ca. 1825-1835.
Contains personal and family papers, research files, programs with notes for Commanday's articles for the San Francisco Chronicle, reviews, awards, and obituaries. Also includes, audiotapes and slides of Commanday lectures and photographs, most from a 1950s trip to Japan with...
Contains project files, draft reports, and photographic slides relating to Conradt's work in transportation and parking studies. There is also a small quantity of personal papers.
Mainly letters from William A. Bolinger concerning the sale of a mine in Plumas County.
Spiral bound volume containing photocopies of correspondence between Professor Raymond B. Cowles and his former student, Professor Robert C. Stebbins, from June 18, 1945 to November 7, 1975, with special emphasis on human population and resource issues.
Chiefly snapshots and portraits of Robert Brotherson, his parents, friends, and other family members. Especially well-documented is Brotherson's boyhood in southern California, Napa and Nova Scotia. Several photographs depict Brotherson's father and other soldiers during World War II. Also includes...
Contains mostly research and writings for Harlan's books on John Henry Nash, David Hall & William Strahan, and William Doxey. Also includes several copies of various articles, keepsakes, book reviews, and interviews by Dr. Harlan concerning Anton Roman, George Labon...
Contains various printed legal briefs of the Supreme Court of the United States case No. 76-811, The Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke. Also includes a small amount of related case material for the Superior Court and...
The papers relate primarily to the publication of the Book of the Fair and the Book of Wealth. Include correspondence with Hubert Howe Bancroft and his wife and children, and with Francis B. Graves, Edward H. Mitchell and Charles O....
Includes photographs of Dollar Steamship Lines steamers and other vessels, exterior and interior, and portraits of Robert Dollar and family.
Comment on his work and work of other writers; art and literature, politics, etc. Copies of poems, essays and other works frequently included as enclosures.
Contains summaries of 9 interviews with California Democratic politicians used for Hennings' doctoral thesis, "James D. Phelan and the Wilson Progressives of California." Interviewees include: Mrs. Henry Hyer Whiting; Thomas M. Storke; Eleanor Wilson McAdoo; John B. Elliott; Prof. B.H....
Drawings throughout. Diary begun, Apr. 3, 1849, on journey to California as a member of the Fremont Association of New York. Landing at Galveston from the ship, Benjamin R. Milam, the party proceeded overland via the Tucson cut-off. Subsequent volumes...
Correspondence; contracts and bids; programs and advertisements; and a small amount of photographs, dating from 1923 to 1957, and belonging to Robert Edward "Bob" Rooker, rodeo promoter and performer in the northwestern United States. Material documents Rooker's interactions with performers,...
The papers include letters from Duncan to John Allen Ryan, typescript copies of poems by Duncan, and holographs and typescript copies of poems by a variety of poets.
Includes letters addressed to John Martin, Werner Vordtriede, Cid Corman; manuscript of an untitled poem; and photocopy of a typescript of A Play With Masks, a masque Duncan wrote for a gathering of friends, and a ticket for a Duncan...
Includes eight notebooks containing drafts of poems, journal entries, prose sketches, writings in early stages, dream fragments, etc., covering the years 1940-1969; and letters to him, circa 1938-1941, from Harvey Breit, Nicolas Calas, Lawrence Durrell, Mary Fabilli, Charles Henri Ford,...
Box 1. Letters written by Duncan, primarily to Robin Blaser, with a few addressed to Jack Spicer; a few letters written to him; Christmas and birthday cards designed by him and Jess Collins, sent to Blaser; copy of his 1961...
Primarily materials relating to Cowan's Collection of rare Californiana, purchased for the University of California by Collis P. Huntington in 1897. Includes correspondence; newspaper clippings; invitation for a reception for Phoebe A. Hearst's loan collection, 1916; and list of items...
Concerning the MSS. and illustrations for his Weird Tales.
The poems, in typescript and manuscript, were assembled about 1939, with a view to publication, a project afterwards carried out under the title Always Comes Evening; the Collected Poems of Robert E. Howard (Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1957) The accompanying papers...
Correspondence, notes, and drafts relating to Bell's research on Jane and Robert Grabhorn and the Grabhorn Press. Includes correspondence with Jane Grabhorn and others associated with the Press; excerpts from the diaries of Jane Grabhorn; and reminiscences of William Saroyan...
Contains 357 technical reports, publications, internal reports, memoranda, papers, etc., authored or co-authored by Robert F. Sawyer, numbered and filed in chronological order (1959-2013). Includes Sawyer's Ph.D dissertation from Princeton University, a file concerning his appointment to the California Air...
Four letters (4 p.), three of which concern copies of Charles Lamb's Elia (1823) and The last essays of Elia (1833) being offered to Williams by MacGarvey; the fourth is from Bronson and concerns a copy of "Mrs. Atherton's article."
Includes letters to William Mervine and Henry Augustus Wise; and letter from William Brown Ide concerning proclamation of the Bear Flag Republic.
Includes letter to Curtis H. Page; photocopy of last will; manuscripts of seven poems and of his preface to the work of Sidney Cox; and miscellaneous items initialled by Frost or relating to him and his work.
Consists of 19 letters and telegrams, of which many refer to Frost's lecture tours and to trips to California. With these: notice of funeral service for Elinor Frost, Apr. 22, 1938.
In the Long Night (A.ms.S, 1943) and Name Unnamed (A.Ms.S, 12/20/35). With these: poem by Wilfrid Gibson, The Golden Room, with note in Frost's handwriting at end (A.ms.S, 4/20/45).
Most photographs show Robert Frost's homes in England; Derry, New Hampshire; and in Ripton, Vermont. The Vermont photographs focus on the countryside in the surrounding area. Three photographs show scenes at a San Francisco event in honor of the 90th...
Recollections of her long years of service with Robert G. Sproul in the University of California, from the comptroller's office to the presidency. With this: documentary material supporting the interview, including reprints of his inaugural address, memorial tributes, etc.
Albums show launchings of the U.S. William W. Campbell, October 29, 1943 (Permanente Metals Corp.) and of the S.S. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, November 27, 1942 (California Shipbuildings Corp.). These show shipyards, launching ceremonies, and related social events. Loose photographs include...
Interviews with various university officials and friends of Robert Gordon Sproul.
Files kept while member of the National Parks Advisory Board concerning the redevelopment of old Sacramento and the preservation of the San Francisco Mint. Include correspondence, clippings, reports and related materials.
Subjects and projects include labor and working people particularly in Detroit, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Appalachia and perhaps elsewhere on the East Coast; and work based in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on criminal justice, policing, jails, and prisons (including photographs...
Correspondence and files relating to Becker's historical publications. Includes material on The Plains and the Rockies (a bibliography of exploration and travel in the American West), Disenos of California Ranchos, "Spanish Southwest Letters," and other subject files.
Views taken at various locations within Petrified Forest, Arizona. An unidentified man, perhaps photographer, appears in a few images; a large group is depicted in another.
Contains mostly correspondence, some on letterhead stationery, between McFarland, other railroad enthusiasts and organizations, and railroad companies. Most of the letters concern the buying and selling of railroad photographs. Also includes some railroad ephemera, a brochure for The Western Pacific...
Collection includes manuscripts, unedited and edited, of the book, AMERICAN COMMANDER IN SPAIN: ROBERT HALE MERRIMAN AND THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE, as well as clippings, and other miscellaneous documents, chiefly photocopies, relating to the Merriman and the book.
Collection consists of a Yosemite Institute booklet with cover and other photos by Ansel Adams; a Yosemite Institute brochure from 1979-1980; a brochure for the Mountain Medicine Symposium in 1980; supplements to the catalogs of the Yosemite Institute (1974-1976); a...
Collection of letters from listeners of a 30-minute radio talk given by Robert Harold Scott in defense of atheism. The show aired on radio station KQW [i.e. KCBS] on Sunday, November 17, 1946. Responses to the show range from strong...
Contains handwritten and typescript correspondence to an antiquarian bookseller and poetry publisher in California and his wife. Includes letters and publications from Archibald Hanna, the curator of the Western Americana collection at Yale University concerning book collecting, publishing activities of...
Contains correspondence, campaign materials, speeches, manuscripts, clippings, paintings, photographs and other printed ephemera. The collection focus on political campaigns and political reform in New Mexico and the United States including documents concerning Kefauver's and Hubert Humphrey's bid's for president, the...
Includes a daguerrotype portrait of Robert Howe and an ambrotype portrait of Robert and his young wife Mary Ellen Hammond Howe (both in CASE box). Also includes a snapshot of Robert, Mary Ellen and other family members; a later portrait...
Consists of land deeds, land patents, mortgage records, court records, a ranch brochure and other business documents from Blossom's ranch.
Contains files on theater in the Bay Area and other major U.S. cities. Includes playbills, many with notes by Hurwitt, transcribed interviews with playwrights, directors, and actors, and media kits.
Materials gathered by Robert J. Brophy for the production of special memorial issues of the Robinson Jeffers Newsletter dedicated to poet William Everson (a.k.a. Brother Antoninus). Materials include assorted reflections on William Everson sent to Brophy by a range of...
Correspondence, notes, research materials and publications related to Prof. Kerner's research and teaching in history at U.C. Berkeley. Primarily material on Slavic countries, Russian and Soviet history and diplomacy, and Eastern Europe. Focus is on the late 19th and early...
Contains published writings, correspondence, and research notes created and collected by astronomer Robert J. Trumpler. The bulk of the research notes are about the star clusters Pleiades and Praesepe. Before becoming an astronomer with the University of California's Lick Observatory,...
Two handwritten letters of a personal nature from Robert K. Reid, the superintendent the state asylum, to his cousin containing references to the cool relationship between them and some details of Reid's recent financial difficulties.
Discussion of poetry, particularly influence of magic; other poets; etc. Also included: letter from Gerrit Lansing to Bialy, May l3, l968, with copies of two of his poems; and Robert Duncan's letter, Dec. 9, 1982, to the director of The...
Photograph album compiled by Robert Y.Y. Kim (born 1921) containing chiefly snapshot views and portraits documenting his youth in Honolulu, especially his classmates and friends at McKinley High School; girlfriends Florence Sasaki and Florence Shigetani; and various members of his...
Contains circa several hundred typewritten letters between Robert L. Herbert and his sister and brother-in-law, Pat and Fred Cody. Contents mostly deal with family matters but with frequent mention of the Cody's bookstore. Also includes a small amount of clippings...
Contains research files, upublished typescripts, correspondence, and photocopies mostly concerning the writings of I.N. Choynski, a prominent San Francisco Jewish journalist. Includes Robert L. Singerman's unpublished typescript of selected excerpts from I.N. Choynski's columns, writing under the pen name of...
Includes correspondence, reports, project files, personnel records and photographs from Smith's time employed with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1940s to the 1990s. The bulk of the collection are correspondence files, including letters with colleagues in the field...
Martha Usinger correspondence, ca. 1974-ca. 1996; a draft version of Usinger's autobiography; manuscript on Usinger's ancestry; bibliography of Usinger's writings, 1969; correspondence re the Usinger memorial fund; reviews of Usinger's writings.
Primarily Usinger's papers as a professor of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. Includes correspondence, drafts and other materials relating to Usinger's publications; materials relating to grant proposals; Martha Usinger correspondence; research materials, including field notebooks; photographic materials; and...
Includes photographs for his book "Robert leslie Usinger : autobiography of an entomologist;" many childhood pictures and snapshots of Usinger; many portraits, especially groups of entomologists at meetings and events in various places; also photographs of outings, including Galapagos Islands.
Includes mostly correspondence, course notes for specific classes, and undated general notes. Correspondence includes general incoming correspondence (A-Z) and specific correspondence from numerous other mathematicians, doctoral students, and advisees (alphabetical arrangement). Course materials for specific courses are organized by class...
Confidential memoranda and character sketches, together with notes mainly concerning European diplomacy. Microfilm of manuscripts in the Library of Congress.
Robert letters to wife Lucy, BANC MSS 2017/89, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The collection consists of Robert Levinson's research materials on the life of Montana Jewish merchant Julius Basinski. Materials include correspondence, notes, interview materials, and an article Levinson wrote on Basinski entitled "Julius Basinski: Pioneer Montana Merchant" (published in volume XIV...
One photograph of Stevenson seated with a large group of Samoans and Europeans on the porch, presumably of his house at Vailima. This scene is identified by the National Library of New Zealand as Stevenson's birthday party, approximately 1893. One...
Includes letters written by him to his mother and father, to James M. Barrie, to Jules Simoneau and to others; a letter from his father; and letters, reminiscences, papers, etc., about him, assembled from various sources.
Typed transcripts of briefs, and other materials, as attorney with Austin Lewis, for three cases appealed to the California District Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Includes case of Charles Alden vs. Pacific Coast Lumber and Mill Company.
Correspondence, reports, biographical information, and photographs (of Los Alamos) concerning his career and activities with the University of California as an accountant, treasurer, and consultant.
Collection contains copies of Hunter's published articles and letters to the editor, correspondence, ephemera, and printed pamphlets from organizations he was involved with. Items from his life in Liverpool (bulk 1870's-1880's) include writings about English politics, income tax, London and...
Letters, reports, reprints and maps of the consulting engineer, relating to hydro-electric power developments in Colorado, Mexico and California, and to irrigation in Colorado.
Transferred from the Robert McF. Doble papers (BANC MSS 70/61).
Correspondence with William Haller, the Renaissance Society of America (W. J. Bouwsma, William Nelson and Rensselaer W. Lee), and the New York Public Library (George Freedley); manuscripts and reprints of his writings; notes concerning John Milton and other authors, and...
Correspondence, research notes, subject files, and patent applications relating to Kibby's work in materials science.
Includes last will and testament, diplomas from Transylvania University, Kentucky, business correspondence, and letters to his daughter Ann (Mrs. William Anderson Scott) With notes and correspondence of William Anderson Scott concerning the Nicholson family and property in Ireland.
Letters received while editor of the Chicago Daily News and the Ben Franklin Monthly, mainly concerning articles and reviews written for the publications, from Bruce Rogers, James Guthrie, James Weldon Johnson, D.B. Updike, Thomas A. Boyd, Clarence Darrow, Paxton Hibben,...
Includes scrapbooks and photographs related to the University of California Marching Band.
Clippings of "Riptides," a column O'Brien wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle. Columns for 1950 are lacking. Consists of 8 volumes.
Chiefly letters to Robert Ferry in Milwaukee, Wis., from various members of his family, mostly involving family matters. There are two letters from his brother Phil written from Pasadena, Calif.: one from Oct. 12, 1915, details Phil's ideas and sketches...
Letters concern Mrs. DuBois' property in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington.
Four autograph letters from Robert Payne to his brother Thomas J. Payne in Fayette, Missouri. The letters (26 pages; dated June 1, October 15, October 16, and December 12, 1849) detail particulars of the trail and early California gold mining,...
Ledgers record the business of Pierce's drinking water delivery company in San Francisco; also, a copy of letter from Helen L. Grant concerning her grandparents and the business operation.
Negative microfilm of typed transcripts of 22 letters, describing overland journey to California in 1849; mining at the Agua Frio Mines, Mariposa County, 1850-1852; and farming on Texas Ranch, 1852-1859.
Photographs of various California locations, chiefly in the Sierra Nevada, including Bridal Veil Falls (Yosemite Valley), Hot Creek (Mono County), Barney Lake at Duck Pass (Mono County), and mountains near Mammoth Lakes. Also includes photograph of the beach at Tennessee...
Correspondence, including letters from Paul C. Aebersold, Charles S. Cameron, Horace R. Gaither, Alan Gregg, Hugh F. Hare, Bertram V.A. Low-Beer and Shields Warren; manuscripts of papers; and notes relating to his teaching career and to his studies of the...
Contains grammar of several Uto-Aztecan languages including but not limited to Hopi, Tubatulabal, Numic languages, Takic (or Luisenic) languages and Piman languages. Grammar includes words for animals, plants, body parts, actions, and numbers 1-5. Not every language is represented for...
Includes portraits of various members of the Sibley family, and family travel in Europe. Views the Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939-1940, San Francisco, and the World Power Conference, 1936, Washington, D.C. Photos of family events and banquets (including the family...
A few letters to Sibley, including letters from Stanley E. McCaffrey and Frank M. Jordan; miscellaneous papers relating to his work for the California Alumni Association and the East Bay Regional Park District; and manuscript of a biography of Sibley,...
Consists of personal, academic and professional correspondence of Robert Spira during his time as associate professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University (1964) and assistant professor of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee (1964-1967).
Record A. Ms., (July 28-Oct. 5, 1849) for U.S. Topographical Engineers' survey under command of Captain William H. Warner (killed by Indians, Sept. 26) Exploration of the northern Sierra Nevada, chiefly along the Lassen Cut Off, for a possible railroad...
Photographs of the Lake Merritt area in Oakland, Calif., including views of the lake and lakeside scenes of fishing, the boat house area, archery practice and Canada geese. Also includes views of the Alameda County Courthouse and other buildings in...
Included in: History of science and technology collection.
Papers relating to Golden's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Includes street scenes and cityscape views taken at various locations in San Francisco.
Records of Kenny's lifelong participation in the National Lawyers Guild including correspondence and case work during two terms as president, from 1940-1948, and his term as Attorney General of California from 1942-1948. Case documents include transcripts, briefs, correspondence and clippings...
Includes letters from A.L. Bancroft, John B. Elliot, Jerry Giesler, Thomas J. Mooney and Earl Warren; clippings and miscellaneous papers.
Robert White was a drug store dealer in Placerville, Calif.
The papers consist of reprints of Park's articles.
Consists of Berdecio's personal and professional papers, spanning his career from the 1930s through the 1990s, as well as articles, photographs, books and Taller Gráfica Popular print materials. Also, concerns Berdecio's work on the restoration of the "Hidalgo Libertador" mural,...
The Edward V. Roberts Papers, 1953-1998 [bulk 1975-1995], consist of writings, professional activities, subject files, and biographical information documenting Roberts's leading role in the movements for disability rights and independent living. The majority of the material is about Roberts's professional...
Photographs pertaining to A.M. Robertson and his fellow bookseller and publisher Paul Elder. Includes portraits of Robertson and Elder, views of Elder's bookstore and library, bookplates of Robertson, and images of title pages of various publications (Personal Impressions, Types: Borders...
Photographs were taken during Robertson's European trip in 1963 and at his retirement in 1969. European locations include Budapest and Moscow. Other photos are of official functions of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union: meetings, congresses, etc.
Correspondence of Robin and David Kinkead.
Included: manuscript of his novel, Laughter out of the Ground, and of his poem, The Mending of a Continent.
Contains diary entries, correspondence, writings, artwork, and legal documents of Robin Leigh. Also includes records of the BlackMan's Art Gallery, consisting of history of the gallery, catalogs and press releases.
This collection documents the life and career of science fiction writer Frank M. Robinson. It includes correspondence; manuscripts for Robinson's short fiction, longer works, and screenplays; research material and reviews; conracts and royalty agreements; and personal material. Included are the...
Manuscript correspondence (12 items) consisting of small love-letter notes written on paper and scraps of envelopes. Two of the notes appear to be poetry. One of the poems is written on a full sheet of paper. Also includes a small...
Nine addressed to Frederic I. Carpenter; one to Alfred A. Knopf; one to Thomas R. Smith.
Personal and professional correspondence arranged alphabetically (circa 1932-1985); professional files; files from WIlliam's career at the University of Michigan; files from William's career at UC Berkeley; and some personalia. The UC Berkeley files document William's work in the Virus Lab...
Correspondence, clippings about the history of the "California farmer and journal of useful sciences", and film transparencies. "California farmer" was an early California newspaper devoted to agriculture.
The records of the Rockport Redwood Company, a predecessor of the and the are a rich resource on the redwood lumber business from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. The files contain correspondence, reports, legal records of land transactions, surveys...
Photos captioned: R.C. Luesley's burro pack train in a mountain pass, loaded with merchandise for his store at Silverton, San Juan [Colorado] -- Pike's Peak, 14,336 feet high, from Pike's Peak Ave, Colorado Springs -- Manitou and Pikes Peak, Colorado.
1: Hanging Rock, C.C.R.R., looking [remainder of caption illegible. Photographer's number 2000.] 2: Mother Grundy, C.C.R.R. [Photographer's number 2002.] 3: Silver Plume and mines, Colorado. [Photographer's number 2011.] 4: Grey's and Irwin's Peaks from the Diamond Job, Kelso Mountain. [Photographer's...
Various photographers, including George W. Baker, San Francisco, and McVeigh Studio, Bayview.
Snapshots.
Box 1 contains the diary (1873-1874) of M.E. Olmstead Wood, and the correspondence of Winfield Scott Rodgers and his two wives. Box 2 contains incoming letters, A-Z. The volume is an assessment book for Santa Cruz County (circa 1877-1880) and...
Strong discusses his Vancouver, Washington background; training and work in dance and theater, Seattle and New York, and choreography in postwar Paris; with Charlotte Winston Strong, founding Tiburon Vintners, 1959; Windsor Vineyards, 1962, Alexander's Crown and Chalk Hill; Sonoma Vineyards,...
His research notes and manuscripts of articles and of a projected book relating to the Kaweah Cooperative Colony Co.
Consists of correspondence and ephemera pertaining to Ellsworth's membership in the Save the Redwoods League (1920-1951) and the Sierra Club (1916-1952).
The Frank B. Rodolph collection consists of 1,254 original photographs taken chiefly by Frank B. Rodolph in the 1880s and early 1890s. His subjects include a variety of cityscapes, Oakland residences and other buildings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area,...
For expedition from Mission San Juan Bautista to Sierra Nevada Mountains (vicinity of San Joaquin River) in search of runaway Indians, Signed at Mission San Juan Bautista, May 6, 1828.
1) Br. Mus. Add. Ms. 18287. Rodrigo de Vivero. Relación. 1609; 2) Discursos de D. Rodrigo de Vivero, Conde de Orizaba: a) Pt. I, pp. 1-125. Transcripts from Vol. X of Muñoz Coll. in Madrid; b) Pt. II, pp. 1-60....
Includes research materials, field notebooks, correspondence, and site maps.
Papers relate primarily to Lapham's work with the National Defense Mediation Board and the National War Labor Board.
This collection consists of a compact disc entitled "The Haas Sisters of Franklin Street: A Look Back with Love," which contains two interviews with Frances Bransten Rothmann, and another compact disc entitled, "Reminiscences of Marin," which contains an interview with...
Boxes 1-3 are primarily typescripts of articles, lectures, and book reviews. There are small quantities of personalia and subject files. Cartons 1-12 consist of correspondence, conferences, project files, manuscripts, and reprints.
Roger Ingpen collection of material relating to Percy B. Shelley, BANC MSS 72/237 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Correspondence relating to U.S. and California politics; subject files, including clippings, notes, press releases, and letters; miscellaneous clippings related to U.S. and California politics, notes and speeches, political pamphlets, and ephemera; depositions and court records. Included are depositions from H....
Roger Levenson letters to Nancy Hawver, BANC MSS 2017/1, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Includes photographs taken by Roger Sturtevant of the Temple Players' (of San Francisco's Congregation Emmanu-el) 1928 production of S. Ansky's The Dybbuk. Many photographs are portraits of the play's lead actress Carolyn Anspacher. Also includes later portraits of Anspacher.
Paintings of street scenes and people in San Francisco's Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Map and photographs are of Camp Douglas, Utah Territory showing buildings and grounds of the camp.
This collection documents the writings and teaching career of University of California, Berkeley political scientist Michael Rogin. The bulk of the collection contains drafts of articles, reviews, and books; reprints; research files (with photographs and slides); and teaching materials. There...
Hand-made posters with social and political themes created with stencils, spray paint, and corrugated cardboard. Topics depicted include the Black Lives Matter Movement, voting, racial justice, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, etc.
Greeting cards featuring reproductions of etchings by Roi Partridge. Images depict various landscapes; identified locations include Chaos Crags (near Mount Lassen, Calif.), and the beach at Kihei (Maui, Hawaii). 3 cards include printed caption: "Reproduction of an etching -- with...
Contents of notebooks and scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, correspondence and exhibition notices. Also includes audiocassettes and a reel-to-reel audio tape.
Includes announcements of programs, notes on illumination and fireworks for the Bohemian Grove plays, blueprints of Bohemian Grove buildings, copies of plays, notices and papers re midsummer encampments, membership lists, and other materials.
Notes and articles concerning visual education, compiled while teaching at University of California, College of Engineering; and policy books for guidance of new instructors of the Ordnance Unit, Research Officers Training Corps, 1923-1928.
Interviews conducted 1960 by Amelia R. Fry for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Part of a series on University history. Photographs inserted. Comments on his grandfather, James Sinclair of Hudson's Bay Company fame and his...
Consists of planning papers for a conference examining "The Role of Women in the Black Movement." Contains "work draft" transcripts featuring conference statements by panelists and participants, who included Dorothy Pitts (conference planning committee chair), Bobby Seale, Sonia Sanchez, Sid...
Contains some biographical material and reproductions of cartoons, some for the 1912 and 1928 political conventions.
Mainly deeds and other legal papers pertaining to land and property of the Doane, Hall and Winslow families in Massachusetts and New York. With these: South Carolina paper money, 1777; 2 deeds to John W. Park, 1846-1850, for land in...
Views of Roma Wine Company employees, winemaking facilities and company offices, presumably in Fresno and/or Lodi, Calif.
The bulk of the collection consists of Fitzgerald's letters to Nasreen Mahmud, a longtime supporter and advocate for his freedom. Other correspondents include Bruce Richard, Angela Cayafas, Merritt College students, and Ann Garrison. There are a few letters to Ericka...
Snapshot photographs documenting activities of Dignity/San Francisco members, including the San Francisco Pride Parade, parties, dances, barbecues, religious ceremonies, baptisms and other gatherings in churches and private homes.
Collection contains research and writing materials, biographical information, and material regarding Bohemian Grove performances.
Contains course materials, lecture notes, review clippings, and many annotated books from Loewinsohn's career at the University of California, Berkeley.
Includes manuscripts of his book, Tom Stoppard; original holograph draft; typescript with revisions by Stoppard; revised typescript; printer's copy; and galley proofs. Also included: postcard and letter, 1976, from Stoppard to Hayman.
Contains field notes, and photographs, primarily concerning Olson's archaeological research in Peru while working at the American Museum of Natural History. Small amount of correspondence.
Contains letters, reports, and memos regarding Friends of the Earth (FOE) staffing, budget and Brower's dismissal and subsequent lawsuit against FOE. Also includes clippings regarding dismissal.
Dunckel commenting on the establishment of the General Electric Theater program and Reagan's role in tours promoting the program. Copy of photograph inserted and copies of documentary material appended.
Contains materials related to Rivlin's scientific research work including two bound volumes of his published articles, notes on scientific topics, lecture notes, notebooks, correspondence with other scientists and colleagues, book chapters and drafts, conferences, organizations, etc. Includes a significant amount...
Contains materials given by Frank Roney to Ira B. Cross to complete his book, , including correspondence, writings, materials relating to Roney's activities with labor organizations in San Francisco, clippings and ephemera. Writings include Roney's diary when he first arrived...
Collection contains correspondence and subject files documenting Nichols career as well as some of her writings.
Contains the supporting textual documentation relating to Rosalie Ritz, her career as an artist, and the court cases that she documented. Includes copies of incomplete typescript drafts she was preparing for a planned publication titled "Trials: Art, Media and the...
Includes ribbons, buttons and other items promoting or otherwise pertaining to Mount Moriah Baptist Church, an African American church in Los Angeles, Calif.
Include letters to her friend, Carrie Laidlaw; clippings and programs concerning her career as singer and voice teacher; announcement and foreword for her book, Sixty Years of California Song.
This collection documents the work of UC Berkeley political science professor, Carl Gustav Rosberg, a pioneer in the study of African politics in the United States. Rosberg's papers detail his scholarship on Africa, his contributions to the field of African...
The Rosborough family papers consist primarily of letters documenting the family's experience of various significant events and settlements in the American West. The letters date from 1850 through 1900 (with a few dating into the 1920s) and were primarily authored...
Mainly papers of law firm, Rosborough & Berry, 1855-1861, and of Andrew Madison Rosborough as Siskiyou County judge, 1857-1868. Includes court records, bills, letters and other documents. Also account book of A.M. Rosborough as special Indian agent. A few papers...
Mainly deeds for land in Alameda County, California.
Personal correspondence, together with papers and items copied in various foreign archives. Materials accumulated during Hill's long career as Latin American historian, teacher, and archivist.
Photographs relating to the life and career of Roscoe R. Hill, pertaining primarily to his work as an historian and archivist of Latin America. Included are photos from his college days at Eureka, Illinois, portraits and a few family snapshots,...
Includes letter from Maria Rose, writing from Conneautville, Pennsylvania (April 13, 1852) to her husband about feelings of him being away; and letter of William G. Rose writing from Sacramento (July 25, 1852) about his experience on board an unnamed...
Contains Rose Kuper's lecture notes from Hans Hofmann's art school lectures. Also includes letters from Hofmann to Kuper, drafts of translations done by Theodore Kuper of Hofmann address and article, gallery catalogs, clippings on Hofmann, and course flyers for the...
A draft in the handwriting of Alfred Bates and copy of a statement by Edward F. Spence (Aug. 27, 1891) included.
Contains research notes for articles on Italian-American relocation and internment during World War II and information on exhibit "Una Storia Segreta" about Italian-American relocation. Also includes biographical information on Rose Scherini and a copy of her article "Executive Order 9066...
Exterior and interior views of residence at 150 Lake, Oakland, Calif.
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
The collection consists of family correspondence, providing information about the family's history, involvement with the arts, and friendships, featuring letters from Abraham Rosenberg, Alice Greenbaum Rosenberg, Louise Rosenberg, Ernest Bloch, Isaac Stern, Oscar Weil, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Imogen Cunningham,...
The Rosene family papers document the travels of Russell David Rosene (b. 1922) and Juanita Haupt Rosene (b. 1927) and their children in the United States, the Alaska Territory, Mexico, and Central America. The Rosenes were foreign aid workers for...
Photographs taken by Russ and Anita Rosene during their many travels throughout the Americas. Subjects of photographic prints (PIC box 1 and AX folder) include Russ and Anita Rosene's 1947 hitchhiking trip across the U.S. and Canada, including some prints...
Includes photos of Rosenshine's miniature sculptures (grotesques, masks, etc.) mainly from the 1920's and several from the 1960's. Some sculptures are portraits of her friends and associates such as Florence Wills, Jane Heap, Malcolm Smith, Nianco, Rebecca West, Heywood Broun,...
Interviews with residents of the Bay Area, primarily Richmond and the East Bay, about their wartime experiences during World War II. The interviews attempt to uncover how and why people from different backgrounds came to the Bay Area, what they...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Includes studies of rocks, plants, views of waterfalls and wilderness scenes. Sierra Nevada locations include: Mono Lake and Pyramid Lake areas, Saline Valley (Inyo mountains), Walker Pass, Cherry River, and others.
Letters to Elizabeth Ross from her brother, Benjamin, and her cousin, Robert T. Dyer. Some relate to mining in Auburn and Volcano, Calif.
Chiefly snapshots documenting the life and career of journalist and activist John Ross. Ross is depicted throughout the collection, as are numerous friends, family members and associates, most unidentified. Most events and locations -- chiefly demonstrations and other political events...
Collection comprises: 3 pieces of correspondence (1 typed letter signed, February 23, 1966, from Philip D. McCutchan, chairman of the Crime Writers' Association, informing Macdonald that his novel, The Far Side of the Dollar, has been selected for an award;...
Includes one letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to his brother William, n.d.; six letters from Christina Rossetti to various correspondents, l88l-1888, including one to Jefferson Davis, Jan. 9, l88l; and five letters from William Michael Rossetti to various correspondents, 1875-1907,...
From various members of the family, including one, Nov. 27, 1865, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; two by Christian G. Rossetti - June 6, l882 re her writing, and Dec. 29, l89l, to Katherine Aspinell; and two, l899, by William M....
Contains digital copies only of 32 photographs of the 1964 Free Speech Movement events at the University of California, Berkeley and 4 images from printed album covers.
correspondence, including letters from C.N. Hackett, Helen C. ham, R.B. Haselden, Lewis M. Knapp, Charlton M. Lewis, James M. Osborn, Henry Suzzallo, C.M. Torrey and Benjamin Ide Wheeler: notes on Restoration drama; material re Dryden, including notes and Mss. and...
Contains papers relating to U.S. relations in Central America, specifically in El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti including newsletters, political buttons, slides and audio tapes presentations on El Salvador in the early 1980s, and information on labor rights. Slide shows are...
Daily expenditures, Sept., 1896-Aug., 1904, and Sept., 1906-Oct. 1926, for Alfred Rotchy, chemist, and his family in Chicago, Vancouver (Wash.) and Antioch (Calif.)
Contains a photograph and pamphlet for the Rothschild House in Port Townsend, Washington; and a letter from Dorette Rothschild Lemon discussing the history of the house.
39th Parallel astronomical and triangulation station, which was the primary U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey station in the Sierra Nevada. Includes views of the mountain peak, survey instruments, and the station cabins constructed near the summit. One station office interior...
Contains incoming correspondence and accounts of lumber and building supply company in Antioch, Calif. Letters are from wholesale distributors, and lumber yards and mills.
Photographs document trip taken by members of San Francisco Board of Supervisors to the future site of the Hetch Hetchy dam and reservoir in Hetch Hetchy Valley. Points of interest depicted include Stockton Hotel, Preist's Stage Station, Hamilton's Stage Station,...
Miscellaneous photographs perhaps once belonging to Alfred Louis Kroeber. Collection Includes files on indigenous peoples of Peru (taken approximately in the mid-1920s) and Chile (e.g. Chiu Chiu, Arica, Cobija); skulls and pottery from Peru associated with artificial deformation and "pathological...
Miscellaneous photographs perhaps once belonging to Robert H. Lowie. Collection includes a photograph album presented to Lowie containing snapshot portraits of attendees of the 24th annual International Congress of Americanists in Hamburg, Germany (including Lowie, Franz Boas and dozens of...
This collection is composed primarily of letters written to Rowell while he was Librarian of the University of California, Berkeley. It was transferred from the Rare Books and Special Collections Department in August 1970. The letters have been arranged alphabetically,...
Chiefly accounts but also including 1 loose page containing the minutes of the meeting to dissolve the association at Sacramento on Oct. 4, 1849. Initialed by C[harles] B. B[urrell, Treasurer.].
Diaries, 1910-1911; correspondence; reports made for the Federal Land Bank of Berkeley regarding irrigation companies in California and Utah, 1921-1933; clippings, postcards, personal items, reports and data on irrigation and water supply, federal highway project in Colorado.
Contains a scrapbook, writings on his travels and ministry, and video and audio cassettes of lectures and sermons. The scrapbook includes materials on his unsuccessful run for the Berkeley School Board in 1961, his election as a bishop, and photographs.
Contains correspondence, materials relating to attending college, and documents about collecting property after leaving internment. Also includes a photograph of Japan Day in 1939, a couple of drawings one at the Heart Mountain Camp and one by his sister Grace...
Chiefly snapshots documenting childhood of Roy Tanabe from the year of his birth in 1940 to his high school years in the mid-1950s, mostly in Honolulu County. Roy's parents and many other Japanese-American family members and friends are also depicted....
Contains items used in Roy Thomas's course work at the University of Calif., Berkeley in Black Cinema, including scrapbooks. African Americans' covered are Stepin Fetchit, William Marshall, Oscar Micheaux and Clarence Muse, among many other famous African Americans in movies.
Five handwritten letters (11 p.) to the founder and owner of the Fisk Hotel discussing business matters affecting the hotel, gold mining, and shipping cost reductions. Three of the letters are from family members in Silver Mountain, California, including two...
Collection includes annual report, reservation form for the 78th annual festival, letter from Gladys Cooper, as chair of the annual festival, to Gerald W. Henderson. Also includes 1 envelope addressed to Henderson and 2 notes by him to Gabrielle Enthoven.
Four journals that document the early life and overland journey to the California gold fields of Royal T. Sprague. Vol. 1 begins on Sprague's 21st birthday and concerns his teaching experiences in Potsdam, N.Y. and Zanesville, Ohio. Vol. 2 begins...
Collection of royal decrees, viceregal orders, and related documents, mainly copies, originating in Spain and Mexico and concerned principally with the University of Mexico or its relations with other educational institutions. Corresponds substantially in content with the main portion of...
Concerning books and articles published by Houghton Mifflin & Company and the Atlantic Monthly, of which Scudder was editor. Some pertaining to John C. Fremont.
V. 1: The greater torment (novel); v. 2 3: King Pandar (novel); v. 4: Short stories (1922 1931 and n.d.); v. 5: Four plays. Copies of portraits pasted in each volume.
Papers as president of lumber companies such as Wolf Creek Timber Co., Plumas Co., California, and Elk Lumber Co., of Oregon, which companies were based on timber acquired by Mr. N.P. Wheeler of Pennsylvania.
Three letters (14 pages, in two items) written by Robert Stockton Williamson to members of his family in September and October 1849 during his expedition in search of a practical railroad route from the Sacramento Valley over the Sierra Nevada...
Incomplete file (copies and originals) of documents concerning Rubí's inspection of frontier presidios. Include letter from Julián de Arriaga notifying Viceroy Cruíllas of Rubí's appointment as inspector; correspondence of Rubí with Paraja and Huejuquilla presidios; and Rubí's letter and report...
The collection consists of two Holy Bibles; one, which was presented to Isaac Rubin by a Freemason lodge in Omaha, contains genealogical information about the Rubin and Kopald families. The collection also contains photographs of Earl, Louis, and Isaac Rubin,...
National Lawyers Guild chapter correspondence, newsletters, reports, and convention records, including materials from committee work on school segregation, labor law, prison task force, and international law. Also includes briefs, reports, ephemera and correspondence from the California State Bar Association.
Letters written to Rubio concerning farming operations on haciendas near Querétaro.
Contains correspondence between Lawrence Fixel and friend Ruby Riemer, including typescripts of poems and other works, copies of published works and reviews.
Includes snapshots and portraits depicting Rudge and various family members, friends and associates, and numerous poetry and dance performances in Alameda, Oakland and elsewhere. Photograph album contains mostly family snapshots pre-dating Rudge's lifetime, many of them depicting First World War-era...
Forms part of the History of Science and Technology Collection.
Includes 18 letters from Sauter to Harrison, a letter from Viola Sauter to Harrison; cards from Viola and Rudolf Sauter to Mr. & Mrs. Harrison; carbon typescripts of Harrison letters; related materials.
Include letters from H.D. Austin, Elizabeth (Altrocchi) Chiostri (re a visit by Porfirio Díaz to Guadalajara in 1908), Renato Fucini, C.H. Grandgent, Richard T. Holbrook, Mario A. Pei (as editor of Italians in America), H.L. Koopman, Charles W. Lemmi, Pio...
This collection consists of George Sterling manuscript materials collected by Rudolph Blaettler. It includes incoming correspondence from Mary Austin, Douglas Fairbanks, Frank Harris, Charmian London, Edgar Lee Masters, Blanche Partington, and Mary Craig Sinclair; outgoing correspondence primarily to Mrs. Rose...
Includes research notes and photographs, correspondence, reprints, W.W.I materials, personal miscellany.
6.5x8.5 and 5x7 inch glass negatives, and several photographic prints, all dating from circa 1904-1910, containing scenes of the American West, as well as Berkeley and San Francisco, California. Views in Colorado and Utah are presumed to have been made...
Childhood and early influences, education in the United States and abroad, social and intellectual life in San Francisco, interest in oriental art, development of artistic techniques and theories or color and design, founding of the Schaeffer School of Design and...
Letters to Schevill from scholars in Romance languages and others from: A. Alonso, D. Barrows, R. Beer, H.A. Beers, J.C. Cebrian, G. Chinard, G. Cirot, W.L. Cross, W. Entwistle, A. Farinelli, J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, J. Ford, L. Hanke, W.M. Hart, P....
Two letters (4 p.) concerning troop movements, discipline, and the physical ability of the 11th Regiment.
The letters, written to his wife in Detroit, Michigan, describe his voyage from New York to California via Panama, with a stop in Los Angeles, and his stay in San Francisco to test a magnetic device for separating gold from...
Aerial view above Nob Hill depicting ruins of San Francisco following the earthquake and fire of 1906.
Received with the John McCone papers (BANC MSS 95/20 c).
Photos show exteriors of adobe buildings of Hartnell School, built by William E.P. Hartnell.
Views of adobe ruins.
Notes concerning the family and early San Francisco; newspaper clipping concerning a celebration by survivors of Stevenson's Regiment in New York, October, 1896, and obituary notices for Adolph G. Russ, June 25, 1902.
Russ House, menu, 1863, and blueprints, 1st and 2d floor plans; Brooks & Rouleau, Abstract of title (1869) 50 vara lot 263; C.V. Gillespie, Abstract of title (1881) 100 vara lot, 230; Joseph Clement, Abstract of title (1878; continued to...
Records of fruit grower Russell B. Blowers and Sons in Woodland, California. Contains ledgers, time books, shipping records, agent's price catalogues, lists of shipments, receipts, and other material related to marketing of California fruit by Sgobel and Day, agents in...
The Russell De Valois papers include correspondence, writings, course materials and research notes from his tenure at UC Berekely as well as his time as a student.
Original photographs compiled to illustrate Day's unpublished memoir Glory in My Hand. Includes World War II scenes documented by Day during his military service as a war photographer: U.S. Army soldiers during naval passage to Europe; various locations in London;...
Three scrapbooks chronicling the life of a California businessman, Russell F. Bjorn, containing numerous photographs, ephemera, clippings, mementos, etc.
Scenes of every day life in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif., touring and outdoor activities in California, and family photographs. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Russell are pictured in front of their home at 331 Alcatraz, Oakland; other people shown outside several...
Correspondence, writings (poems, stories, essays, etc.), diaries, artwork, small-press books, and photographs. Includes manuscripts by Helen Adam, James Alexander, Robin Blaser, Paul Blackburn, Richard Buckle, Victor Coleman, Robert Creeley, Wesley Day, Samuel R. Delany, Thomas M. Disch, Harold Dull, Lewis...
Photographs documenting various aspects of the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans during World War II. California locations include Los Angeles County (Little Tokyo, a train station, and Santa Anita reception center), San Francisco, San Benito County, San Juan Bautista, and...
Plan and specifications as Oakland City Engineer.
Album contains snapshots of a small group of United States soldiers in World War I, taken during leisure time at various locations in France and Germany, including Blois sur Loire, Chaumont sur Loire, Tours, Toul, Fort Gondreville, Sorcy, Creue, Conflans,...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Experiences during World War I and with the White Army; life as a refugee in Shanghai; Japanese occupation of Shanghai during World War II; removal to the Philippine Islands in 1949 and refugee camp at Tubabao; arrival in San Francisco,...
Personal photo album of a young man living in Berkeley, Calif. Includes Camp Hillside in Guernewood at the Russian River, and photos in and around the Preston School of Industry (for boys, in Jackson, Amador Co.), some of the Spreckles...
Bancroft discusses her early interest in gardening; architecture studies at the University of California, Berkeley; historic houses and gardens in Walnut Creek, Calif.; tour of the garden of cacti and succulents; working with the Garden Conservancy.
Contains professional and personal materials mostly from Ruth Beckford's later life, 1990-2011. Career related materials include her journal, notes, programs, ads, clippings, of projects and activities, posters, etc. Personal material includes family documents such as original birth certificates, school certificates,...
Documents the placement of the statue, repairs, and controversy over its replacement after vandalism.
The collection contains an original letter from and a photocopy of a memorial service for Egon Frey, a cousin; and programs, including one for a piano concert given by Hephzibah Menuhin (1928) and two for the Distribution of Annual Awards...
Contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, reports and financial records, announcements, publicity, brochures, etc. from various local government committees and boards with which Ruth Hart was involved. The bulk of the material relates to: United Bay Area Crusade, YWCA, University Section Club,...
Box contains song cards created by local artists for screen projection in the Barndoor Canteen, a U.S.O. facility in Carmel, California. Scrapbook contains clippings, letters of appreciation, and handwritten comments from soldiers who visited the U.S.O. Also included is a...
Contains correspondence, mail art, drawings, postcards, notebooks with sketches, invitations, catalogs, publications, etc., concerning Ruth Howard's work as a mail artist.
Correspondence with the U.S. District Court (Southern District of California) and the Tulare County Board of Trade concerning the Kaweah Cooperative Colony.
Chiefly snapshots documenting the everyday life and travels of Ruth L. Annis, a privileged San Francisco woman who lived in and visited various locations in Japan and China during the 1920s and early 1930s. Both albums depict Annis' many friends,...
Portraits of Ohlone women, elders and youth, and other photographs documenting traditional Ohlone activities. Collection material is associated with two documentary projects: Ohlone women elders: restoring a California legacy (2006), and Ohlone elders and youth speak: restoring a California legacy...
20th century snapshots and other photographs taken by or collected by Ruth Teiser; many related to the California wine industry, the food industry, or printers and printing. Also includes personal and family photographs. A large part of the collection consists...
Collection of individual poems written by ruth weiss. Production methods and sizes vary; most are holograph in silver ink on colored cardstock; some contain illustrations by Paul Blake.
Consists of posters, flyers, magazines, and promotional materials including a group of materials relating to the European Book Festival's 1998 Prague Project: A Beat Generation Fest. Posters and flyers relate to ruth weiss's public appearances, including some in California, but...
Consists of personal and professional materials related to the life of Asian Studies scholar Ruth-Inge Heinze. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence and email, personalia, materials related to the Independent Scholars of Asia and the International Conference on Shamanism...
Contains typescript non-fiction essays and transcriptions of family members accounts concerning various historical aspects of the José de Jesús Vallejo family in California, Mission San Jose, and California history.
This collection portrays a cross-section of poetry and related activities in the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s to the early 1990s through a broad array of manuscripts, mostly unpublished, and local periodicals. It offers material for researchers...
Consists of lectures, exams, art project assignments and criticism written by Worth Ryder during his time at UC Berkeley as a Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor and Professor Emeritus.