Title:
Mary Downing Barnes papers, 1890-1898
Creator/Contributor:
Barnes, Mary Sheldon, 1850-1898, creator
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Sherman, Edwin A. (Edwin Allen), 1829-1914, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
CaballerĂa y Collell, Juan, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Doyle, John T. (John Thomas), 1819-1906, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James, 1858-1923, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Gates, Mary J., correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Rice, Archie Birmingham, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Rust, Horatio Nelson, 1828-1906, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Savage, Thomas, 1823-, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Schallenberger, Moses, 1826-1909, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Victor, Frances Fuller, 1826-1902, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Ord, James L., 1820-1898, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Eells, Myron, 1843-1907, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Clarke, S. A. (Samuel Asahel), 1827-1909, correspondent.
Creator/Contributor:
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology,, correspondent.
Abstract:
Correspondence concerning her historical research, including letters from Hubert Howe Bancroft and others on his staff; notes
and manuscripts of some of her writings on Indians and western history; newspaper clippings and articles; some reports written
by her students at Stanford University; course materials for courses taught at Stanford; miscellaneous pictorial material;
index cards (bibliography and address cards, with additional notes re some of her correspondents); contour map of Indian burial
mount at Castro Station, Calif. (1893).
Collection also includes: 2 letters to Earl Barnes, Mary's husband, one of which is from John Thomas Doyle; 4 letters to David
Starr Jordan, President of Stanford University, from various individuals, including Edwin Allen Sherman; 2 letters to Prof.
Walter Miller from Josephine D. Johnson; 1 letter from Will Sparks to Archie Rice; letter (contemporary copy) from Dr. W.J.
Hall to Mrs. Hall, Pyong Yang [Korea], Oct. 8, 1894, containing descriptions of scenes of the Chinese-Japanese War which he
had witnessed in his trip from Seoul to Pyon Yang. [From internal evidence it seems likely that Dr. Hall was a Christian missionary.].
Date:
1853 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Indians of North America -- California -- Antiquities
Women historians -- California
Women college teachers -- California
Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 -- Personal narratives, American
Historiennes -- Californie
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
Women college teachers
Women historians
California
Bancroft Library.
Stanford University -- Faculty
Bancroft Library.
Stanford University.
Barnes, Mary Sheldon -- 1850-1898 -- Archives
Barnes, Earl -- 1861-1935
Jordan, David Starr -- 1851-1931
Barnes, Earl -- 1861-1935
Barnes, Mary Sheldon -- 1850-1898
Jordan, David Starr -- 1851-1931
Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Some pictorial material (photo prints and a watercolor) were transferred to the Pictorial Collection of The Bancroft Library
(BANC PIC 1991.013--PIC).
In English.
Preferred citation: Mary Downing Barnes papers, BANC MSS C-R 5, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Archives.
Personal narratives-American.
Photographs.
Physical Description:
print
1 carton, 1 box, 1 oversize folder.
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF SITE: Advance notice required for use.