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  Chow family collection

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  Series 1: Business and legal files. The first series consists of business and legal files of William Jack Chow. The files are arranged in alphabetical order by subject. These files concern both Chow's career as a lawyer and a businessman. The folders may contain a combination of business records, case files, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, memoranda, and securities. Chow also frequently traveled to Hong Kong for work. Those files are also found in this series and they span from the 1950s through 1970s. A subject of interest includes the Supreme Court of the United States landmark decision to uphold affirmative action in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. At the end of this series are Chow's books primarily related to business and law. Note: Chow's appointment books and business cards are found in Series 2.Series 2: Community and political files. The second series consists of community and political files. This series is arranged by genre and includes: address books and cards, appointment books, awards, business cards, bylaws, membership cards, plaques, political files, and subject files. As a strong advocate of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party, there are numerous material related to the Democratic National Convention in 1944, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1972. The other political files relate to politicians and include campaign mailers, presidential inaugurations, and programs. The subject files mostly relate to the Chow's community activities. These files primarily consist of printed ephemera related to that specific event or organization; however, there are some considerable items related to Anne Chow's work with the Chinatown Opti-Mrs. Club, Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, and YWCA.Series 3: Personal files. The third series consists of personal material related to the Chow family. This series is arranged by genre and includes: bankbooks, currency, death certificates (copies), greeting cards, guestbooks, invitations, postcards, stamps, subject files, textbooks, travel ephemera, and yearbooks. The bulk of the greeting cards are from family and friends congratulating Jack and Anne Chow on their 25th and 50th wedding anniversary. There is also an abundance of travel ephemera, primarily postcards, from all over the world. The postcards that are blank are noted, while the postcards used by the Chow family are organized chronologically. The subject files primarily relate to Chow's education at Saint Mary's College and University of California, Hastings College of the Law and his continued involvement as an alumni. The textbooks are in Chinese and appear to be around or before the 1950s.Series 4: General files. The final series is the General files. This is a catch-all series that consists of books, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs that may be related to the previous three series. The correspondence is arranged chronologically. The early letters from Anne to Jack written in the 1930s reveal obstacles with their relationship. Anne painfully writes, "My mother has forbidden me to go out with you because she's afraid that you would love me. And she emphasized very strongly that no matter what will happen, we can never have each other" (1932, June). In the 1950s, there are numerous letters from Jack updating family on his travels. There are also several letters from government officials, including Diane Feinstein in the 1970s. The photographs are roughly divided into four subjects: events, family, trips, and miscellaneous. The events include campaigns, ceremonies, funerals, reunions, parties, and weddings. The family photographs include birthdays, celebrations, gatherings, graduations, and portraits. The Chow family traveled frequently and their trips included Asia, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. Family portraits from various cruise lines are also part this section. Note: If there were negatives that accompanied the photographs, they were kept with together. The miscellaneous photographs include pictures of Chow's office, furniture, immigration and/or passport headshots, portraits from politicians and entertainers. The other ephemera found in this section includes clippings, invitations, menus, newspapers, periodicals, and programs.Series 5: Oversize. The series consists of oversize material. Box 149 contains awards, certificates, and scrolls. Box 150 consists of photographs, some are enlarged versions found in the previous series. Box 151 contains a scrapbook related to Jack Chow's activities in the 1960s. Boxes 152-153 include newspapers from 1957-1961. There is a painting of the late Jeffrey Jason Chow in Box 154. The two folders consist of additional oversize awards, certificates, and photographs. Most of the material found in this series were removed from frames.Series 6. Additional material. The series contains passports, handbooks, booklets, and miscellaenous ephemera.

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  The Clarion, A Collection of Writings by The Students of Clarion State College, 1969

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  The collection consists of five series: Manuscripts, Correspondence, Photographs, Subject Files and Research Materials, and Ephemera. Manuscripts are subdivided into manuscripts by Octavia E. Butler, notecards, diaries, commonplace books, and manuscripts by others. They are arranged alphabetically by author, then title or chronologically within each subseries. These manuscripts consist primarily of drafts of short stories and novels, and related notes. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the author's last name, then chronologically. This series includes correspondence to and from Octavia E. Butler by friends, editors, family members, and other authors. Photographs are arranged chronologically in several groups: loose photos (small), loose photos (large), album pages, and photo album. This series includes images from Octavia's travels and speaking engagements.The subject files represent Octavia's arrangement of clippings by topic. The research materials are other clippings and subject materials that have been arranged by the cataloger, using Octavia's schema where possible. The ephemera are arranged in 19 subseries, alphabetically. In addition there are oversize materials, housed separately, for all the above series. Researchers should be sure to search the oversize series for additional materials.

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  Dole Family Papers

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  The collection is organized in the following manner: 1. Diaries (Box 1); 2. Family Correspondence (Boxes 2-3); 3. Genealogy Information, Photographs, and Ephemera (Box 4); and 4. Photograph Albums and Scrapbooks. The first three series are arranged alphabetically by author; the photograph albums and scrapbooks are arranged chronologically. The Diaries series contains 22 diary transcripts of daily diary entries by Charlotte Close Knapp Dole, George H. Dole and Clara Rowell Dole (covering 1850-1884). Charlotte Dole's diary talks about her husband's work as a missionary, other missionaries, church meetings, the Punahou School, and Hawaiian royalty. George H. Dole's diaries include a trip to the United States in 1864-1865, as well as details about his work on several sugar and rice plantations including crop numbers, Chinese workers, effects of weather, etc., and events taking place in Hawaii. The Family Correspondence series contains 128 pieces of correspondence, the majority of which are written by Clara Rowell Dole to her husband, George, her sons, Walter and Herbert, and brother-in-law, Sanford B. Dole. Most of these letters were written from her home in Kapaa, Kauai, while her husband was away and her children were attending Oahu College (Punahou School). She talks about her daily activities, the school, her children, an outbreak of measles, the Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese workers, and some about Hawaiian royalty and government. There are five letters written by Sanford B. Dole, three to his brother George and two to his nephew Walter, and he is the addressee of nine letters. The rest of the correspondence includes letters by Clara and George's children and family and friends. The majority of these letters written by their eldest son, Walter, are from his time at Cornell University. Details about ship arrivals and departures are included in both the diaries and correspondence series. The Genealogy Information, Photographs and Ephemera series includes legal documents including last will and testaments, some letters, genealogical charts, and manuscripts regarding the Dole, Rowell, Noyes, and Thurston families as well as photographs and ephemera. There are also several documents and letters regarding the estate of Sanford B. Dole and the distribution of his estate to family members. There are four photographs: two of William Rowell, one of Sanford B. Dole, and one of several Dole family members taken in 1899. The ephemera includes some genealogical items (family trees) as well as two copies of newspapers, from San Francisco and Los Angeles, featuring articles about Sanford B. Dole as President of Hawaii and Hawaii becoming a Territory of the United States (1898). There are three photograph albums and five scrapbooks, the majority of which belonged to Walter Dole. These deal with the Dole family in Hawaii including photographs of the family and scenes in Hawaii; there is also material about the Dole family while they were living in Riverside, California. There are many articles about Hawaiian politics, the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawaiian royalty, and Sanford B. Dole. Much of the photograph album and scrapbook contents deal with George and Clara Dole's sons' sports careers with Cornell University and Stanford University (football and track). There are also a few articles about James D. Dole, of Dole pineapple fame, and a cousin of the family.

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  Etha Mayo Woodruff Memorial Collection of Family Papers

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  The collection covers the Mayo and Woodruff families from the Civil War to World War I. The collection is arranged in the following manner: Manuscripts, Correspondence and Ephemera. Each series is arranged chronologically. The collection deals with four general topics: the American Civil War, the American West, physicians and World War I. American Civil War Three of the family members talk about the American Civil War. General topics covered by these authors include: President Abraham Lincoln and President Jefferson Davis; General Ulysses S. Grant and Civil War hospitals. The two diaries by William Henry Mayo detail two years of his experience with the 8th Regiment of Louisiana Infantry and Army of Northern Virginia. William talks a lot about marching from camp to camp, his feelings about the North and the war, ladies he meets along the way, the looting and burning of property, as well as fighting in battle and seeing friends of his die in front of his eyes. He specifically talks about Gettysburg (Little Round Top) and the Battle of the Wilderness, General Robert E. Lee and various other officers he sees on the battlefield and the conditions he sees while in Richmond, Virginia. William spends much of his time wounded or sick (he sprained his ankle at Gettysburg) so he writes often about traveling to and from his regiment to the nearest hospital; he travels through Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama detailing what he sees and the people he meets. (There is a tintype of William Henry Mayo in the ephemera of this collection. His third diary, written in 1868, covers his life in Louisiana as a farmer.) In the memoirs of Russell O. Woodruff, Lesley Day Woodruff Riter, talks about Woodruff's experience in the war with the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment and U.S. Army, Department of the Tennessee. She mentions specifically the hospital administrator Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Stephen A. Hurlbut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and the battles of Fort Donelson and Vicksburg. Russell spent time in Andersonville Prison in 1864 and Riter talks much about Russell's recollections of his time in the prison. The American West Two items deal with the American West as experienced by Edward Day Woodruff. Both his own memoirs and "Through the Years. Stories that My Daddy Told Me," by Lesley Day Woodruff Riter, detail Woodruff's experiences in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado in the latter 19th century. In these manuscripts Woodruff and Riter talk about Fort Laramie, Wyoming, the Chinese in Wyoming and the Rock Spring Massacre, mining, outlaws, the building of railroads, mountain men and trappers, the Oregon Trail, as well as the Shoshoni Indians and Chief Washakie. Edward also talks a lot about his brother John Dwight (J.D.) Woodruff and his activities as a trapper and Indian fighter. Physicians The ledger of Harry Nathaniel Mayo lists patients' names, addresses, diagnoses (mostly tuberculosis), and treatments. World War I In his five letters to his sister and brother-in-law, Edward R. Woodruff, talks about his time at Kelly Field waiting for an assignment from the United States Army. He talks about life at the camp, his fellow soldiers and their barracks. These letters are written on Knights of Columbus letterhead. The sixth letter in the correspondence is by Lesley Day Woodruff Riter to her brother, Edward R. Woodruff. In this letter she talks about the distribution of her parents' property and her life in Salt Lake City. In the ephemera section, there is a photograph of Woodward Bruce Mayo in an Army uniform taken in 1920. The ephemera includes a tintype of William Henry Mayo, a marriage certificate for William Henry Mayo and Ella A. Curley, newspaper clippings, photographs of the Mayo and Woodruff families (and two photographs of Native Americans performing sun dances) and a printed obituary of Edward Day Woodruff published by the Utah Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

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  Abel Stearns Papers: Addenda 2

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  Personal and business correspondence of Abel Stearns, chiefly letters addressed to him. Also included are several documents and receipts for merchandise.

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  Papers of Abel Stearns: Addenda 2

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  Personal and business correspondence of Abel Stearns, chiefly letters addressed to him. Also included are several documents and receipts for merchandise.

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