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    People

    Manuscripts

    Articles about celebrities or people Jack London knew. Included are Gertrude Atherton, Rex Beach, Hobart Bosworth, William Chaney, Samuel Clemens, Ina Coolbrith, William Ellsworth, Anatole France, Henry Frick, Finn Frolich, Hilda Gilbert, Emma Goldman, Wilfred Gribble, George Heinold, Johnny Heinold, James Hopper, Martin Johnson, Charmian Jeanne London, Elizabeth Maddern London, Sybil London, Joan London Miller, Joseph Noel, Jake Oppenheimer, Herbert Heron Peet, Charles Piper, Eliza Shepard, James Shepard, Upton Sinclair, Ninetta Springer, George Sterling, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ernest Untermann.

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    Roamer Trips, 1910-1914

    Manuscripts

    115 photographs. Most of the photographs were taken in Oakland or along the Sacramento River delta and feature Jack London, Charmian London, Ernest Matthews, Nakata, French Frank, Edward Payne, and Ninetta Springer.

    JLP 432

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    People and Places

    Manuscripts

    67 photographs, including some of George Sterling, Charmian London, Anna Strunsky Walling, Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer, and Edward Biron Payne. Also a number of views of the Jack London Ranch, some Mexican scenes, and a few photographs of the Bohemian Russian River Grove.

    JLP 420

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    Photographic Prints

    Manuscripts

    The photographs are all original (either contemporary prints made prior to 1917 or later prints made from the original negative). Each print is individually numbered with a "JLP" prefix and filed in its own envelope. Included in this section are a number of photographs of Elizabeth Wiley Baxter; Marshall and Louis Bond; Romaine Fielding; Hawaiian scenes (such as Diamond Head); Jack London Ranch scenes (including the cottage where the Londons lived, the dam and lake, eucalyptus fields, Jack London's gravesite, and the vineyards); George Wharton James; Martin Johnson; Dayelle and Willard Kittredge; Charmian London (over 31 photographs from 1879-1940); Elizabeth May Maddern London; Flora Wellman London; Jack London (over 54 photographs from 1896-1916); John London; Joan London Miller; New York, New York; Edward Biron Payne; Virginia Prentiss; Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer; Louis Edwin Stevens; Vallejo, California; Venice, Italy; Vera Cruz, Mexico; Wake Robin Lodge (in Glen Ellen, California); Anna Strunsky Walling; and Jack London's Wolf House, as well as an array of South Sea Island photographs, some featuring Jack London's yacht Snark.

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    Yosemite, 1890

    Manuscripts

    27 photographs of a trip Charmian made to Yosemite in 1890. Featured are scenic snapshots and a few photographs of Charmian London, Ninetta Springer, and Roscoe Eames.

    JLP 416

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    Kittredge File

    Manuscripts

    The Kittredge File consists of manuscripts, letters, documents, and genealogical material pertaining to Charmian Kittredge London's family. The six-box file is rich in material documenting Charmian Kittredge (and Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer's) heritage. Among the more interesting pieces in the file are: Dayelle Wiley Kittredge's "Diary of a Trip from Oshkosh, Wisconsin," her seven letters to her sister, Ninetta Wiley Eames Payne Springer and mother, Catherine Growall Wiley, and the letters from them. All the correspondence in the Kittredge File is filed in the Manuscripts Catalog and is designated by the call number "JLK."

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