Douglas Tilden papers, 1860-1970.

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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professional correspondence (chiefly incoming), contracts, sketches, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, and "written" conversations between Tilden, who was deaf, and others.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.

11 boxes, 4 cartons, 6 oversize volumes, 1 oversize folder (ca. 12 linear ft.)"The Gap," 1916 from carton 3, folder 21 : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 1485) and positive.Correspondence from A. Stirling Calder, Box 3, folder 8-9 : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 2049) and positive.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7083155

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Tilden, Gladys, 1900-

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Gladys Tilden, daughter of the renowned California sculptor, Douglas Tilden. She served as a business manager, copy editor & editorial assistant at the office of French Vogue, wrote French and German synopses for Paramount Pictures, was a traveling representative for Bonwit-Teller, and free-lanced for Vogue and House and Garden. She also was the first woman managing editor in the engineering department of Douglas Aircraft Company, taught mechanics and edited a variety of other publications. ...

California School for the Deaf

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Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945

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Online Archive of California

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Phelan, James D. (James Duval), 1861-1930

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James D. Phelan was a businessman, civic leader, political figure, and philanthropist, of San Francisco, Calif. He served as mayor of San Francisco (1897-1901) and U.S. Senator from Calif. (1915-1921). From the description of James D. Phelan correspondence : ALS and TLS, 1898-1927. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122394967 Biographical/Historical note Phelan was the son of a pioneer California banker....

California Association of the Deaf.

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Tilden, Douglas, 1860-1935

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Tilden, a sculptor, who lost his hearing and speech at a young age due to scarlet fever, was educated at what would later become the California School for the Deaf (Berkeley), where he later taught. He was a founder of the California Association of the Deaf. From the description of Douglas Tilden papers, 1860-1970. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227464622 Biographical Chronology [Excerpted from ...