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Lotchin, Roger W. John Francis Neylan : San Francisco Irish Progressive : typescript, [undated].

Title: John Francis Neylan : San Francisco Irish Progressive : typescript, [undated].

A study of Neylan's role in San Francisco politics during the era of Mayor Rolph, his connections with W.R. Hearst and Hiram W. Johnson, his experiences with the labor movement, his career as lawyer and journalist.

ArchivalResource: 27, 5 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26574380 View

Hawkins, J. Allen, 1915-. J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives [graphic], 1924-1972.

Title: J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives [graphic], 1924-1972.

The J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 3027 negatives and 3607 prints (both vintage prints and copy prints), 1924-1972, that depict commercial sites, residences, and other subjects in and around Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential, social, and cultural development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the middle years of the twentieth century. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century. Some of the early photographs may be attributable to Harold A. Parker.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (23.66 linear feet)

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James Rolph, Jr. papers, 1904-1934, bulk 1911-1930

Title: James Rolph, Jr. papers 1904-1934, bulk 1911-1930

The papers of James Rolph, Jr. include material from his five consecutive terms as San Francisco mayor from 1912-1931. Issues and events affecting the city that are reflected in the papers include: the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE); World War I; the 1918 influenza epidemic; and business and labor relations. Also well represented are the citywide efforts, headed by Rolph, to rebuild the city's infrastructure following the 1906 earthquake and fire, including the establishment of municipal railway and water systems; construction projects including City Hall and the Civic Center; and regional transportation, including streets, highways, transbay crossings and the airport. The bulk of the collection consists of routine mayoral correspondence, including requests for letters of reference, permits, licenses, appointments, and employment as well as correspondence with city departments, state and federal agencies. Included are eight mayoral appointment books, a record book of election workers, and scrapbooks of clippings. Also contains campaign material from his mayoral elections and scrapbooks from Rolph's term as governor; minutes and financial records (1914-1927) from his companies, James Rolph and Company and Rolph Navigation and Coal Company; and family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 97 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 34 volumes; (circa 69.0 linear feet)

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Rolph, James, 1869-1934. Letter 1931, February 6, Sacramento, California [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / James Rolph.

Title: Letter 1931, February 6, Sacramento, California [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / James Rolph. 1931.

Pleased to recieve letter with your poems "Man with the Hoe and Lincoln, The Man of the People". Thank you for your congratulations on my election as Governor of California.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44186910 View

Rolph, James, 1869-1934. James Rolph, Jr. papers, 1909-1930.

Title: James Rolph, Jr. papers, 1909-1930.

The collection includes diaries of Rolph's daily mayoral activities in 1917 and 1927, some correspondence, and campaign documents.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.6 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180774886 View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

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J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives, 1924-1972

Title: J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives 1924-1972

The J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 3027 negatives and 3607 prints (both vintage prints and copy prints), 1924-1972, that depict commercial sites, residences, and other subjects in and around Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential, social, and cultural development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the middle years of the twentieth century. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century. Some of the early photographs may be attributable to Harold A. Parker.

ArchivalResource: 50 boxes,; 23.66 linear feet

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James Rolph, Jr. Papers, 1909-1930

Title: James Rolph, Jr. Papers 1909-1930

The collection includes diaries of Rolph's daily mayoral activities in 1917 and 1927, some correspondence, and campaign documents.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes; (1.6 cubic feet)

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Robert Dollar Company photographs, 1858-1960

Title: Robert Dollar Company photographs, 1858-1960

The collection consists of images of the Dollar family, the Dollar lumber empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the many activities of the Dollar Steamship Lines across the globe throughout the first half of this century. Nearly all of the items are photographic prints, with small number of negatives at the beginning of the arrangement. Well over half of the items are from one of six different photo albums. As noted in the arrangement notes, the five series in the Dollar collection are: Vessels and Cargoes, People, The Lumber Trade, Office Views, and Other Dollar-Related Facilities, and Miscellanea.

ArchivalResource: 1365 items.

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Francis Valentine Keesling Papers, 1906-1957

Title: Francis Valentine Keesling Papers, 1906-1957

ArchivalResource: 33 linear ft.

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Keesling, Francis Valentine, b. 1877. Francis V. Keesling papers, 1906-1957.

Title: Francis V. Keesling papers, 1906-1957.

Correspondence, political and business papers. Major subjects include Republican campaigns and policies, the Progressive-Regular Republican split in California (1910-1920), the San Francisco charter of 1931, building of the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1910 and activities of the National Guard and Stanford University. Correspondents include Ralph Arnold, Willis H. Booth, Edmund G. Brown, Calvin Coolidge, Marshal Hale, Herbert Hoover, Goodwin J. Knight, John G. Mott, Elmer E. Robinson, Earl Warren, Wendell L. Wilkie, and John Downey Works.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86130217 View

California. Governor's Office. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1932-1940.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1932-1940.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from M. Stanley Mosk, Executive Secretary to Governor Culbert L. Olsen. Also contains one item from Theodore Dreiser to James Rolph, Governor, State of California.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155897023 View

Jones, Herbert C. (Herbert Coffin), 1880-1970. Herbert C. Jones papers, 1921-1944.

Title: Herbert C. Jones papers, 1921-1944.

Business correspondence, initiatives and referendums, legislation, scrapbooks, maps, newsclippings, and other papers, relating to Jones' career in the California State Senate and to State political activity after his term of office.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122560460 View

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. David Starr Jordan papers, 1861-1964.

Title: David Starr Jordan papers, 1861-1964.

ArchivalResource: 250 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122500408 View

McLaren, John, 1846-1943. John McLaren congratulatory message to James Rolph on his election as Governor of California, 1930 November.

Title: John McLaren congratulatory message to James Rolph on his election as Governor of California, 1930 November.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81079546 View

San Francisco (Calif.). Office of the Mayor. Invitation to James Rolph for ceremony presenting gold medal to San Francisco from the French Republic : DS, 1909.

Title: Invitation to James Rolph for ceremony presenting gold medal to San Francisco from the French Republic : DS, 1909.

Printed form filled in.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26276128 View

Sherman, Edwin Allen, 1829-1914. Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913).

Title: Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913).

Letters, manuscripts of writings, and clippings relating primarily to Edwin Allen Sherman, especially to his service in the Mexican War, his successful efforts to erect a monument in Monterey, California to honor John Drake Sloat, and other activities designed to commemorate historic events in California. His writings include Personal reminiscences of a California pioneer of '49 and The true account of the great Jesuit conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln "the martyr president" of the United States, Friday April 14th 1865. Includes also some correspondence and papers of his wife, Adeline A. Dodd Sherman; his son, Edwin Allen Sherman; and his grandson, Allen Banks Sherman. Four series: 1. Correspondence, 1871-1971; 2. Manuscripts ? 3. Miscellaney, 1882- 1936; 4. Clippings, 1892-1932.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.1 linear ft.).Sloat monument correspondence and MS of Sherman's autobiography (formerly BANC MSS C-B 719) : partial microfilm reel (36 exposures) : negative (Rich. 533:12) and postive (FILM C-B 719).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545142 View

Rolph, James, 1869-1934. James Rolph, Jr. papers, 1904-1934, bulk 1911-1930.

Title: James Rolph, Jr. papers, 1904-1934, bulk 1911-1930.

The James Rolph, Jr. papers include material from his five consecutive terms as San Francisco mayor from 1912-1931. Issues and events affecting the city that are reflected in the papers include: the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE); World War I; the 1918 influenza epidemic; and business and labor relations. Also well represented are the citywide efforts, headed by Rolph, to rebuild the city's infrastructure following the 1906 earthquake and fire, including the establishment of municipal railway and water systems; construction projects including City Hall and the Civic Center; and regional transportation, including streets, highways, transbay crossings and the airport. The bulk of the collection consists of routine mayoral correspondence, including requests for letters of reference, permits, licenses, appointments, and employment as well as correspondence with city departments, state and federal agencies. Included are eight mayoral appointment books, a record book of election workers, and scrapbooks of clippings. Also contains campaign material from his mayoral elections and scrapbooks from Rolph's term as governor; minutes and financial records (1914-1927) from his companies, James Rolph and Company and Rolph Navigation and Coal Company; and family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 97 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 34 v. (ca. 69.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122288066 View

Meyer Lissner Papers, 1903-1923 (inclusive), 1910-1920 (bulk)

Title: Meyer Lissner Papers , 1903-1923 (inclusive), 1910-1920 (bulk)

Correspondence, legal and financial papers, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous printed material including circulars, new releases, speeches, and political hand bills. The papers are predominantly political with particular emphasis on the non-partisan reform movement in Los Angeles beginning about 1906, the organization of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League (1907), and the Progressive movement especially in California through Hiram Johnson's presidential campaign (1920).

ArchivalResource: 30 linear ft.

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California. Emergency Relief Administration. State Emergency Relief Administration Records, 1932-1941, bulk 1934-1935.

Title: State Emergency Relief Administration Records, 1932-1941, bulk 1934-1935.

Consists of correspondence, memos, resolutions, and project applications largely generated by San Joaquin County, Calif. Board of Supervisors, R.C. Branion, Director, State Emergency Relief Board and Harry L. Hopkins, Director, Civil Works Administration. Box 1 contains records for 1932-1934. Box 2 contains records for 1934. Box 3 contains records for 1935. Box 4 contains records for 1936-1941.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30859780 View

Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970

Title: Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970

Collection includes personal and professional correspondence (chiefly incoming), contracts, sketches, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, and "written" conversations between Tilden, who was deaf, and others. Also includes medals, other personal memora bilia. Principal correspondents are his daughter, Gladys Tilden, James D. Phelan & Alexander Stirling Calder.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 11 boxes, 4 cartons, 6 oversize volumes, 1 oversize folder; Linear feet: 11.6

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Bell, John. Papers of John Bell, 1855-1930 (bulk 1871-1918)

Title: Papers of John Bell, 1855-1930 (bulk 1871-1918)

The collection contains 330 items. The manuscripts and diaries are arranged alphabetically by author and consist of 13 items including John Bell's account of his ocean voyage from New York to Central America, his overland journey by train from Indiana to California and his stay in London. The correspondence is also arranged alphabetically by author and consists of 27 letters, most of which were written to either John or Hannah B. Cooper Bell. The ephemera is arranged alphabetically by type and consists of 219 items, most of which are receipts and statements for property taxes in both the states of New York and California. The ephemera includes the publications: "California Prune Surprise: 100 Recipes for Delicious Prune Dishes" published by the California Cured Fruit Association; "Divine Protection through Extraordinary Dangers, During the Irish Rebellion in 1798" by Dinah Wilson Goff who was John Bell's great-aunt; "An Appeal for the Ancient Doctrines of the Religious Society of Friends," written in 1847; "The Testimonies of Friends," written in 1860; and two insurance manuals. Other ephemera relate to John Bell's business and family life in San Jose. There are 71 items in the volume section arranged alphabetically by title and then chronologically. Forty-nine of these items are volumes relating to John Bell's business in both San Jose (Calif.) and Richmond (Ind.). The other items are notes included in the volumes. Subjects include: Acapulco Bay, Mexico; California Cured Fruit Association; Chinese in Nevada; American Christian Poetry; London; Colón, Panama; The Geysers, California; Home economics; Insurance agents; Irish Rebellion of 1798; Ocean travel; Prunes in California; Puntarenas, Costa Rica; Quakers in California; Railroad travel; James Rolph; San Jose, California; Society of Friends; Sierra Nevada; Tabernacle of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Women from 1870-1920.

ArchivalResource: 330 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299166847 View

Abraham Lincoln Fellowship. Abraham Lincoln Fellowship records, [1930-1935].

Title: Abraham Lincoln Fellowship records, [1930-1935].

Correspondence, including letters from Albert L. Barrows, Francis D. Blakeslee, James F. Cooke, Leland W. Cutler, Theophilus L. Haecker, Carl Holliday, Earl Lee Kelly, Oswald W.S. McCall, Daniel Nash Morgan, Amasa Junius Parker, George C. Pardee, James Rolph, Angelo J. Rossi, Ida M. Tarbell, Louis A. Warren and others; applications; affidavits; minutes of the first meeting; clippings concerning Lincoln and members of the fellowship, photographs, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 carton and portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25616470 View

Lissner, Meyer, b. 1871. Meyer Lissner papers, 1903-1923 (bulk 1910-1920).

Title: Meyer Lissner papers, 1903-1923 (bulk 1910-1920).

Correspondence, legal and financial papers, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous printed material including circulars, new releases, speeches, and political hand bills. The papers are predominantly political with particular emphasis on the non-partisan reform movement in Los Angeles beginning about 1906, the organization of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League (1907), and the Progressive movement especially in California through Hiram Johnson's presidential campaign (1920).

ArchivalResource: 30 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/497927633 View

Rolph, James, 1869-1934. James Rolph letter to May Flynn : San Francisco, 1927 November 8.

Title: James Rolph letter to May Flynn : San Francisco, 1927 November 8.

Regarding her campaign support.

ArchivalResource: 1 page ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26501095 View

Gridley, James Norman. Correspondence of James Norman Gridley, 1918.

Title: Correspondence of James Norman Gridley, 1918.

In these letters, addressed to Dr. John Francis Snyder and written from Long Beach, California, Gridley talks about the following subjects: his opinion of World War I, his Civil War research, the growth of the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and James Rolph and the election of 1918.

ArchivalResource: 3 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81288791 View

Peter Gulbrandsen Papers, 1917-1954

Title: Peter Gulbrandsen Papers, 1917-1954

Correspondence reflecting his interests in various humanitarian and liberal causes and in Scandinavian (particularly Danish) organizations, his association with the Society of Friends, and his writing and translating; manuscripts and clippings of articles written by him; biographical sketches and personalia; miscellaneous printed material relating to the League Against Yellow Journalism, the Society of Friends, Scandinavian organizations, etc.

ArchivalResource:

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American and Australian Line. American and Australian Line via New Zealand around the world : schedule, 18--.

Title: American and Australian Line via New Zealand around the world : schedule, 18--.

Schedule, with fold out maps of the world, United States, New Zealand, and the British Isles. Also included are two pasteboard invitations: civic dinner in honor of James Rolph, 21 Feb 1934, at Benjamin Franklin Hotel, San Mateo, and to meet Hon. Herbert Hoover, 8 Apr 1938, at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. Schedule includes timetables for connecting transporation services: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe System; Chicago & Alton; Chicago & North-Western (the North-Western Line); Union Pacific; Oceanic S.S. Co. of San Francisco; and Oceanic S.S. Co. of New Zealand.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754864545 View

Rolph, James, 1869-1934. James Rolph, Jr. photograph album [graphic].

Title: James Rolph, Jr. photograph album [graphic]. [ca. 1913-1916]

Contains photos of San Francisco Civic Center, including construction and interior and exterior images of City Hall. Many photos show various civic events, such as processions (World War I draftees) and political and social group gatherings (Boy Scouts), some of which picture Rolph. Includes a photo of city treasurer John E. McDougald standing next to a large table of newly minted coins, and a photo of a drawing of the Civic Center and environs.

ArchivalResource: 1 album (44 photographic prints) : b&w ; album 26 x 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213468344 View

Robinson, Elmer E., 1894-1982,. Americana, 1765-1969.

Title: Americana

Correspondence, documents, photographs, early American newspapers, and printed matter. Includes documents signed by George Washington and 27 other U.S. presidents, government officials, and seven early California Governors. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Hamilton Fish, eight U.S. presidents, and other American government, civilian and military figures. Lithograph portraits with facsimile signatures of all the presidents from George Washington through Buchanan. Photographs with autographs of all the presidents from Abraham Lincoln through Eisenhower with the exception of President Arthur. Accession #87-035 consists of photographs, lithographs, and broadsides which were transferred from the book collection in the Robinson Room. It is one print box and one map folder. The items are unlisted.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft.

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Baker, Emma Nelson. Emma Nelson Baker photographs [graphic] : relating to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, her career, and personal life.

Title: Emma Nelson Baker photographs [graphic] : relating to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, her career, and personal life. ca. 1870-ca. 1940.

Photographic archive of Emma Nelson Baker, in large part reflective of her role in helping to organize the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915. Vols. 1-2: photograph albums documenting the planning and building of the PPIE from the exhibition's earliest stages, depicting meetings, ceremonies, surveying, construction, landscaping and grounds, artwork, sculpture, exibits, directors, officials, staff, and other events and individuals related to the PPIE. Among those pictured are PPIE President Charles C. Moore and Vice-Presidents William H. Crocker, R.B. Hale, Isaias W. Hellman, Jr., M.H. De Young, Leon Sloss, James Rolph; Exposition stunt pilot Art Smith; U.S. President William Howard Taft; and Exposition sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder. Also includes personal negatives and 1 box of personal and family photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2 albums and 1 box (ca. 1,000 photographic prints) and 1 box (ca. 100 negtives) : b&w ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/185027514 View

Arlett, Arthur M. Arthur Arlett papers, 1912-1921.

Title: Arthur Arlett papers, 1912-1921.

Letters, subject files, speeches and clippings, relating mainly to his activities connected with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, California Board of State Harbor Commissioners, Progressive Party, prohibition, and Plymouth Congregational Church, Oakland, California.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122354895 View