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San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 collection, 1906-1991

Title: San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 collection 1906-1991

This collection was gathered over many years by Academy Library staff. It is comprised of photographs, correspondence, ephemera, and reports and surveys about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Cubic feet; 2 archives boxes, 1 clamshell box, plus 2 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder

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Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916. Mammoth plate landscape photographs from the George Davidson collection [graphic].

Title: Mammoth plate landscape photographs from the George Davidson collection [graphic]. ca. 1861-1881.

Large format photographs of Western landscapes by C.E. Watkins and W.H. Jackson, collected by George Davidson. The 76 photographs by Watkins can be described as three different groups: Lassen and Shasta views (presumably all from the King Survey, 1870?), Mt. Lola area views taken as part of the 1879 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey under George Davidson and, thirdly, Yosemite views. The 1870 survey views show Mt. Lassen, hot springs near Lassen, Mt. Shasta (including the Whitney Glacier). These views are smaller than mammoth sized, approximately 21 x 31 cm. The Mt. Lola area views of 1879 are mammoth sized. (Note that Watkins' Round Top series owned by George Davidson are not present in the Bancroft Library collection. They remained at the California Academy of Sciences until their 2009 sale at Bonhams and Butterfields. Other copies of the Round Top views are in the collections of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Univerisity of California at Berkeley.) The Yosemite views are all mammoth sized, chiefly dome-topped prints from negatives of 1861, and on exceptionally large mounts. Several appear to be "new series" (1878-1881) images on different mounts, suggesting the items were not not all originally acquired as a single, uniform set. The 25 views by Jackson are from Montana and Wyoming; predominantly Yellowstone National Park. Included are the Yellowstone River, canyon, falls, Mystic Lake, geysers, the Gallatin River and canyon, Mt. Blackmore, and the Teton range. Some, if not all, date from the summer 1872 expedition of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (the Hayden Survey).

ArchivalResource: 110 photographic prints : albumen ; mounts between 36 x 47 cm. and 62 x 86 cm.

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Bancroft, George, 1800-1891,. Hittell family papers, 1855-1916.

Title: Hittell family papers, 1855-1916.

Primarily papers of lawyer and author Theodore Henry Hittell--letters, journal of voyage to California, 1855, biographical sketches, legal papers, and manuscripts of his writings (including unpublished account of Walker's Nicaragua filibuster and history of California Academy of Sciences); some papers of his wife, Elise Wiehe Hittell, including a few items pertaining to Ladies' Silk Culture Society of California; some papers of his brother, John Shertzer Hittell, journalist and author (a few letters and manuscripts, notes, financial papers, etc.); and miscellaneous papers of other members of the family.

ArchivalResource: 6 cartons, 1 box, 1 volume (circa 9 linear feet)

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Keeler, Charles Augustus, 1871-1937. Lectures given under the auspices of the California Academy of Sciences, 1892, with related materials, 1891-1892.

Title: Lectures given under the auspices of the California Academy of Sciences, 1892, with related materials, 1891-1892.

Notes for, Creation by Law (lecture 1), The Fundamental Groups of Animals (lecture 2), Mammals of California (lecture 4), The Bird (lecture 5), Song Birds of California (lecture 6). Also, notes for "Evolution of the colors of North American Land Birds", which was subsequently published by the California Academy of Sciences; and notecards for a lecture on evolution delivered before the Laurel Hall Club, 1891. Collection includes an invitation to six lectures, notes for giving lectures one and two (folders 2 & 3), and notes for lectures four through six (folders 4, 5, 6). Collection also includes notes, lecture cards and a list of lantern slides.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (10 folders)

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Bracelin, N. Floy, 1890-1973. Nina Floy Perry Bracelin papers.

Title: Nina Floy Perry Bracelin papers.

Photographs, correspondence, illustrations, book of old songs, University of California honor list, University of California directory. Correspondence includes letters from Alice Eastwood.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic feet.

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Sexton, Veronica J. Veronica J. Sexton papers, 1925-1996.

Title: Veronica J. Sexton papers, 1925-1996.

Contains correspondence, news clippings, newsletters and greeting cards. Business correspondence and news clippings relate to the California Academy of Sciences and California Centennials Commission. Most of the materials include requests for interviews or information on William McDevitt. Also includes materials relating to her interest in literature.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.2 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85029557 View

Campbell, I. A., 1899-1978. Ian Campbell papers.

Title: Ian Campbell papers.

Publications, reports, manuscripts, articles, pictures, correspondence, certificates.

ArchivalResource: 3.15 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166274338 View

Hopi Kachina exhibition photographs, 1981.

Title: Hopi Kachina exhibition photographs, 1981.

Photographs showing Kachina dolls exhibited at the Museum and crowds viewing the exhibition. The negatives were copied by Sue Middleton. Three of them contain subject descriptions.

ArchivalResource: 87 photonegatives : b&w.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155515288 View

Weather Bureau

Title: Weather Bureau

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/356 View

Putnam, Frederic Ward, 1839-1915. Papers, 1807-1971 (bulk: 1855-1935)

Title: Frederic Ward Putnam papers, 1807-1971, bulk 1855-1935

This collection of Putnam papers were formerly part of the Ralph Dexter Papers at Kent State University Archives. They include FW Putnam family correspondence, professional papers and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet

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Denton Family Papers, 1852-1930

Title: Denton Family Papers 1852-1930

The collection contains family papers, land deeds, business papers related to Denton land surveys, and several maps of the Baja California region.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet; (1 box)

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Rodda, Peter U. Peter U. Rodda papers.

Title: Peter U. Rodda papers.

Correspondence, articles about Peter U. Rodda, and drafts. Drafts include "The Type Specimens of Ammonites hoffmanni Gabb and Melchiorites indigenes Anderson (Cretaceous: Ammonoidea)" and "Paleontological Resources Reconnaissance: Cottonwood Creek Project."

ArchivalResource: 2.2 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166274176 View

Holladay, Samuel Wirt, 1823-1915. Autobiography and Reminiscence of Samuel Wirt Holladay, San Francisco, 1901.

Title: Autobiography and Reminiscence of Samuel Wirt Holladay, San Francisco, 1901.

Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 116-163, Vol. 5. This is a typed transcript of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes. It appears that the photographs in this set were dispersed throughout the regular photography collection, but the photographs referenced in the related materials may or may not be these same photographs. A photograph of Holladay is included in this account. He discusses family history, his youth, schools, jobs, his name and his wife's family. He describes his trip to California, fellow passengers, San Francisco during the Gold Rush and cases he worked on as attorney for the City, the Board of Education and the California Academy of Sciences. Reprinted is his letter (1892) on the naming of Auburn and an account of the North Fork trial (Auburn 1850), by a journalist for the "New York Journal of Commerce" over which Holladay presided as Alcalde. Involving an African-American and a white man accused of stealing from a fellow miner, both received 75 lashings and were banned from the mines. An addendum by him, "The Log Cabin Trial Scene", gives his view of the journalist's account of the trial.

ArchivalResource: [49] p. ; 35 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56125350 View

Smithsonian Archives. Ru 7073: W. H. Dall Papers.

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Ru 7073: W. H. Dall Papers.

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Hardy, Grahame H. Grahame Hardy Collection, 1849-1909.

Title: Grahame Hardy Collection, 1849-1909.

The collection was assembled by author and collector Grahame H. Hardy. The documents and manuscripts demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, municipal, and real estate-related transactions initiated by railroad and mining interests, businessmen, and municipalities in the San Francisco Bay area, Northern California, and western Nevada. Included in this series are legal proceedings, title deeds, mining reports and claims. Correspondence includes business and personal letters to and from Northern California lawyers, railroad and mining entrepreneurs in California and Nevada, and parties involved in the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. Included in this series are letters pertaining to the case of Daniel Sill, a San Francisco-based blacksmith and the trial of A.J. Jackson, an African American tried and acquitted in Marysville, California. Lastly, ephemera include four items: a Mission Homestead Association certificate of stock; one check payable to Jack H. Haverly, a promoter of minstrel shows, from theater producers and brothers, Gustave Frohman and Charles Frohman; the baptism certificate of Everett Loftus Saxondale Kenna; and an undated glossary of mining terms. Prominent persons and organizations featured in the collection include: California Academy of Sciences, founded in 1853 as the one of the first scientific academies west of the Atlantic seaboard; Central Pacific Railroad Company, established in 1861 and financed in part by Leland Stanford and Collis P. Huntington, who are also mentioned in the collection; William Heath Davis (1822-1909), San Francisco merchant and author, spouse of Maria de Jesús Estudillo, who played a key role in the founding of the California cities of Oakland and San Diego; John Brooks Felton (1827-1877), San Francisco Bay Area lawyer and judge, as well as one-time mayor of Oakland, California; Joseph Pendleton Hoge (1810-1891), former U.S. Representative of Illinois and later lawyer and judge of the San Francisco Superior Court; and M.G. Upton, former official reporter of the California Assembly and author of the urban planning critique, "The Plan of San Francisco" (1869).a

ArchivalResource: 85 items.4 boxes.

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Ashcroft, Glenn B. Glenn B. Ashcroft papers, 1851-1927.

Title: Glenn B. Ashcroft papers, 1851-1927.

Material relating to Leander Ransom. Correspondence with Mrs. Amelia E. Neville, Ransom's daughter, 1925-1927; reminiscences of her father; letter from Ransom, Nov. 15, 1852, written from San Francisco to his children in Europe, describing his travels in California, the missions of San Luis Rey and San Gabriel and his visit to Mormon settlement; notebook containing fragments of survey made by Ransom; extracts from field notes in U.S. engineer's office in San Francisco covering establishment of Mt. Diablo base and meridian by Ransom in 1851; correspondence and notes re Ransom's association with the California Academy of Sciences, Knights Templar and Masons; photographs of Mt. Diablo; clippings, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122564932 View

California Academy of Sciences. Amended constitution and by-laws / of California Academy of Sciences.

Title: Amended constitution and by-laws / of California Academy of Sciences. Jan. 1, 1952.

ArchivalResource: 8 p. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11365402 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

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Beck, Rollo Howard, 1870-1950. Rollo Beck Galapagos expedition journal, 1905-1906 (inclusive)

Title: Rollo Beck Galapagos expedition journal, 1905-1906 (inclusive)

Field notebook detailing the collecting activities of Rollo H. Beck during his participation in the California Academy of Sciences expedition to the Galapagos Islands from 1905-1906. Notes include date, geographic information, and daily activities of expedition members. Includes expedition box lists detailing the number of different birds collected.

ArchivalResource: 1 notebook (201 pages) ; 20 x 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777220765 View

Knight, George, 1914-2000. George Knight papers, 1955-1986

Title: George Knight papers, 1955-1986.

Correspondence, business records, personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 2 cartons (3 linear feet)

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James Slater Papers, 1937-2004

Title: James Slater Papers 1937-2004

The James Slater papers documents Slater's career as a world renowned entomologist and faculty member at the University of Connecticut from 1953 until his retirement in 1988. The correspondence, diaries, notes, records, photographs and other materials also reflect Slater's research on milk glass and colonial gravestones.

ArchivalResource: 18.95 Linear feet

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Miller, John Franklin, 1831-1886. John Franklin Miller papers, 1852-1884.

Title: John Franklin Miller papers, 1852-1884.

The collection consists of Miller's bills and receipts, letters, and documents. There are 77 bills and receipts for Miller's domestic expenses, many printed by early San Francisco and Napa printers (some pictorial billheads). Also present are four short letters written to or by Miller, and a certificate of Miller's membership in the California Academy of Sciences. Accompanied by ships' papers for the steamer Oregon, carrying French clothing goods for Verdier Freres & and Belpaume of San Francisco. It is possible that these papers came into Miller's hands while he was San Francisco's port collector. San Francisco printers represented in the collection are: Alta Printing House; Bacon & Company, Printers; Brown & Mahanny; Co-operative Printing Co.; Cubery & Co.; D. Bruce Print; E.R. Robinson; Frank Eastman; Franklin Presses; G.T. Brown & Co.; Payot, Upham & Co.; Turnbull & Smith, Printers; Waters, Newhoff & Co.; and Women's Print. Napa imprints represented in the collection are: Reporter Print, Register Power Press Print, and Register Print, Napa.

ArchivalResource: 44 items (in 1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702138227 View

Bliven, B. P. (Brunson Pendleton), 1910-1980. Brunson Pendleton Bliven papers.

Title: Brunson Pendleton Bliven papers.

Photographs, field notes, bibliographies and index cards. Includes two bibliographies and one box of photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1.05 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/164853245 View

Slevin, Joseph Richard, 1881-1957. Journal of Mr. Joseph R. Slevin, herpetologist to the Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906.

Title: Journal of Mr. Joseph R. Slevin, herpetologist to the Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906. 1905-1906.

ArchivalResource: 232 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12331203 View

Martens, Wilhelm Ludwig Ferdinand, d. 1931. Wilhelm Ludwig Ferdinand Martens papers, 1868-1926.

Title: Wilhelm Ludwig Ferdinand Martens papers, 1868-1926.

Letters from R.G. Aitken and W.W. Campbell regarding equipment for Lick Observatory, and from Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Grinnell, W.F. Durand, the California Academy of Sciences, Frank M. Russell and others; papers relating to his patent for an improvement on surveying instruments; miscellaneous notes and accounts.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.4 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515033 View

Records of the California State Parks Council

Title: Records of the California State Parks Council

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, lists of speakers and speaking engagements, clippings, and reference materials, particularly relating to parks in other states.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes, 1 carton.

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Hamilton, William J. (William John), 1931-2006. William J. Hamilton III papers.

Title: William J. Hamilton III papers.

Curriculum Vitae, CAS news article, correspondence, grant proposals, budgets and inventories.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166274115 View

Alexander, Charles P. (Charles Paul), 1889-1981. Charles Paul Alexander papers.

Title: Charles Paul Alexander papers.

Manuscripts, galley proofs, illustrations and proofs of "Crane Flies of California. Includes oversize illustrations in flat files.

ArchivalResource: 0.85 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166273967 View

Frank Adams Papers, 1889-1962

Title: Frank Adams Papers, 1889-1962

The Frank Adams papers consist of files regarding his work in the subjects of irrigation, agriculture, and land settlement projects. The materials include the following formats: reports, reprints, correspondence, clippings, and notes, and historical and statistical data. The content includes materials from his projects in Palestine, the western United States with a particular focus on California. There is extensive information on University of California Irrigation Investigations in California.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear feet; ca. 16 linear ft. (35 boxes), 12 online items, ead

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9489p11x View

Beck, Rollo Howard, 1870-1950. Rollo Beck papers. 1885-1985 1886-1924.

Title: Rollo Beck papers. 1885-1985 1886-1924.

Consists of papers relating to Rollo Beck's life, primarily but not exclusively his life as a collector; papers relating to expeditions to the Galapagos (5 starts, 4 completed trips), South America and parts of the Caribbean, the South Seas, and Alaska (two trips); includes also negatives, prints and lantern slides of his travels and some of his life as a farmer. Series 1, Biographical Materials; Series 2, Corresponence; Series 3, Field Journals and Notes; Series 4, Legal, Financial, and Related Papers; Series 5, Other Papers; Series 6, Photo Lists and Photographic Materials.

ArchivalResource: 1 records center carton, 52 archives boxes (some oversize, some glass negative boxes), 1 rolled item (17.88 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26253863 View

Small collection file, [ca. 1800-1980]

Title: Small collection file, [ca. 1800-1980]

Individuals and organizations include Louis Agassiz, Ella P. Amilon, Botanical Society of America, California Academy of Sciences, George Eitan (Malay language - non-botanical), Elgin Botanic Garden, Elm Bark Beetle Conference, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Asa Gray, Sir John Frederick Herschel, Horticultural Society of New York, International Botanical Congress, Frederick Law Olmsted, and S. Light's Nursery.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155463161 View

Eastwood, Alice, 1859-1953. Alice Eastwood papers. 1859-1981 (bulk 1958-1953).

Title: Alice Eastwood papers. 1859-1981 (bulk 1958-1953).

Includes papers and materials relating to Alice Eastwood's life, primarily during her time as curator for the California Academy of Sciences. The collection includes memoirs, diaries, correspondence and field notes as well as materials relating to her collecting expeditions. Numerous personal objects and photographs are also housed in the collection as are publication written by and about Alice Eastwood. Series 1. Biographical Materials -- Series 2. Alice Eastwood Writings -- Series 3. Correspondence -- Series 4. Alice Eastwood Biographies -- Series 5. Herbarium and Hall of Botany -- Series 6. Commemorative Materials and Awards -- Series 7. News clippings and Articles about Alice Eastwood -- Series 8. Eastwoodiana Scrapbooks -- Series 9. Ephemera -- Series 10. Photographic Material.

ArchivalResource: 80 boxes (19 manuscript boxes, 40 clamshell boxes, 4 extra large manuscript boxes, 4 half-width manuscript boxes, 3 flat oversized archives boxes, 1 photo album box, and 9 index boxes) (23.09 Cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46454077 View

Sparkman, Philip Stedman, d. 1907. Philip Stedman Sparkman papers, 1896-1907.

Title: Philip Stedman Sparkman papers, 1896-1907.

Correspondence with Alice Eastwood, Alfred L. Kroeber, F. W. Hodge, George Grant MacCurdy (American Anthropological Association), Charles Fletcher Lummis of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, California Academy of Sciences, Constance Goddard Du Bois, Clarence Earle Kelsey, Horatio Nelson Rust, Emory Evans Smith, and John Wesley Powell (U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology); reminiscences of his experiences in New Mexico from 1880; notes relating to San Diego County, California, and to Sparkman family genealogy.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 1 portfolio.Copies : 1 microfilm reel (468 frames) : negative (BNEG Box 2941) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86093756 View

Hittell, Theodore Henry, 1830-1917. Historic account of the California Academy of Sciences, 1853-1908 / by Theodore H. Hittell.

Title: Historic account of the California Academy of Sciences, 1853-1908 / by Theodore H. Hittell. 1978.

ArchivalResource: [352] leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11440518 View

Beck (Rollo Howard and Ida Menzies) collection, 1885-1985

Title: Beck (Rollo Howard and Ida Menzies) collection 1885-1985

Consists of papers relating to Rollo Beck's life, primarily but not exclusively his life as a collector. Included are papers relating to expeditions to the Galápagos (5 starts, 4 completed trips), South America and parts of the Caribbean, the South Seas, and Alaska (two trips). The collection includes negatives, prints and lantern slides of his travels, as well some of his life as a farmer.

ArchivalResource: 17.88 Cubic feet; 1 records center carton, 52 archives boxes (some oversize, some glass negative boxes), 1 rolled item

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2k40335r View

Anderson, Frank M. (Frank Marion), 1863-1945. Frank Marion Anderson papers.

Title: Frank Marion Anderson papers.

Bibliography, notes, papers, articles, photographs, plates, slides, illustrations, maps, correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 8.4 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166273725 View

California Academy of Sciences collection [ca. 2001-ongoing].

Title: California Academy of Sciences collection [ca. 2001-ongoing].

Collection contains publicity file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430371609 View

San Francisco Microscopical Society. San Francisco Microscopical Society records, 1870-1905.

Title: San Francisco Microscopical Society records, 1870-1905.

Consists of records chronicling the first incarnation of the San Francisco Microscopical Society, 1870-1905, including organizational records, meeting minutes, correspondence, indexes of publications, scrapbooks of clippings, fern mounts, photographs of microscopic organisms, and papers written and presented by members.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 13 volumes (2.2 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215028669 View

Birchim, James D., 1946-1968. Jim Birchim papers.

Title: Jim Birchim papers.

Correspondence.

ArchivalResource: .35 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166274488 View