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Stoneman family papers addenda
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The Stoneman family papers consist of diaries, family and official correspondence, photographs, ephemera, memorabilia, and genealogical and historical research files from the family of George Stoneman, 1822-1894 and his wife, Mary Oliver Hardisty Stoneman, 1836-1915. The earliest letters are written by Mary O.H. Stoneman's father, Henry Hardisty, Jr. There are two letters from 1832 and the remainder are from his European travels from 1851 through 1852. The correspondence concerns family news and descriptions of his travels in Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, and Egypt. There are four letters written by the still life painter and portraitist, Andrew John Henry Way, who appears to be related to Mary O.H. Stoneman. Although there are very few surviving personal and military material related to George Stoneman, 1822-1894, there are a few letters to his wife, Mary O.H. Stoneman from 1883 through 1888. Other correspondence related to George Stoneman, 1822-1894 includes his appointment as United States railroad commissioner and reinstatement to the Army retired list in 1888. Other Stoneman family material includes: Adele Stoneman Schmidgall, Cornelius McLean Stoneman, George J. Stoneman, Julia H. Stoneman, George B. Stoneman, Robert M. Stoneman, Mary Lejeal Stoneman McGinnis, and Virginia Hardisty Stoneman. Most of the correspondence was compiled and organized by George J. Stoneman's daughter, Virginia Hardisty Stoneman. These files also include, but not limited to, printed ephemera, notes, and letters to and from Virginia Hardisty Stoneman. There are fourteen diaries belonging to Mary O.H. Stoneman. Stoneman's first diary begins in 1882, a year before her husband becomes Governor of California, and concludes in 1887. The later diaries detail her trip through Europe from 1902 through 1905. There is also a diary written by Katherine "Kitty" Cheney Stoneman, concerning her European travels from 1894 through 1895. A journal of interest may be Mary O.H. Stoneman father's journey around the word on ships Rolla and Birmingham. Henry Hardisty, Jr., 1808-1855, begins his trip from Baltimore, Maryland and proceeds to Cape Horn. He stops in Cobija, Bolivia, Lima, Peru, Coquimbo, Chile, and Huasco, Chile. On April 16, 1831, Hardisty finds himself in the middle of a "revolution" in Peru. He writes, "…of all public commotions I ever heard of this certainly capped the climax." Hardisty also travels to Honolulu where he witnesses the construction of a wall; meets the father of 37 children by different wives; and describes his encounter with the king "Called upon the King - Kow Kioli - at his palace and find him lolling upon a bed of mats with a motley group of men, women and children," (Aug. 13, 1831). Hardisty's journal abruptly ends, shortly after arriving in Canton, China at the end of September 1831. The donor compiled a portfolio of correspondence, documents, legal documents, photographs, and printed ephemera related to George Stoneman, 1822-1894. These items have been re-housed in a binder. The oversize items are housed separately. The collection also includes a typescript of Civil War Letters of Margaret Sumner McLean; a visitor book with over approximately 600 visitors to the Stoneman's estate "Los Robles"; photographs; clippings; memorabilia; textbooks; and buttons with shoulder marks belonging to George Stoneman, 1822-1894. The 2021 addenda includes a letter by John Bell Hood, two letters by Robert E. Lee, a photograph of George Stoneman and Mary O. H. Stoneman, and a file of correspondence related to the dedication ceremony of Camp Stoneman, Pittsburg, California, in 1942.
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Account book
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This ledger book, covered with corduroy and red leather, contains debit and payment records for the Guadalupe Mine from January 1914 through December 31, 1915. Entries are organized alphabetically by person or company with which the mine had an account or business dealings. Identified bills are for labor, equipment, and materials (livry, assay equipment, fuel, etc.), but most bills do not typically indicate the product or service.
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Forrest W. Coggan Papers
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This collection contains the papers of choreographer and theater director Forrest Coggan, chiefly dating from 1935 to 2001 and consisting of binders of material, correspondence, dance notes, manuscripts, subject files, notes, ephemera, published books belonging to Coggan, and audio-visual material. Binders These binders were created by Forrest Coggan himself. They contain photographs, manuscripts, blue prints and designs, letters, etc. The Binders series includes several sub-series: Forrest Designs – two binders containing sketches, blueprints, designs, etc., for buildings, houses, and gardens, as well as photographs of rooms that he designed, costumes for dancers and programs for theaters and dance performances. Also includes material Coggan designed for Teatro International Theatre: A Foundation for Pan-Am Performing Arts. Photos-Career – six binders containing photographs (and a few manuscripts written by Coggan and some clippings) that document Coggan's life and career from his birth in 1926 to 2006. The photographs are labeled and dated. The material is organized in chronological order. There is an Index of the binder's content at the beginning of the binder written by Coggan. Words-Career – ten binders containing manuscripts written by Coggan, photographs, clippings, correspondence, programs, etc., that document Coggan's life and career from 1930 to 2006. The material is labeled and dated and is organized in chronological order. There is an Index of the binder's content at the beginning of the binder written by Coggan. Correspondence – eight binders containing correspondence written by Forrest Coggan from 1923 to 1959. These letters are from his early childhood to his time in the US Army in the late 1940s and 1950s. Correspondence This loose correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author and then addressee. This correspondence is between Forrest W. Coggan and his family (chiefly his mother Blanche Coggan), other dancers, ex-students, authors, professors, and dance departments at universities in the United States. Many pieces of the correspondence are photocopies of letters. There are 307 pieces of correspondence. Dance Notes The Dance Notes series contains dance notes for a variety of musicals and performances. The material is made up of handwritten notes by Coggan, diagrams showing dance steps, music, related printed material, copies of photographs, programs, etc. They are arranged alphabetically by performance/musical title. There is one folder of work notes for a dance workshop (1971). The Dance Notes numbers 198 pieces. Manuscripts/Subject Files/Notes These folders are arranged alphabetically by subject/topic. They include manuscripts written by Forrest Coggan (including biographical information), notes written by Forrest Coggan, material collected by Forrest Coggan in his research, chiefly on the subject of dance. It includes handwritten manuscripts, notes, printed material, programs, teaching materials, etc. There are also two copies of Coggan's master's thesis "For the Choreographer." Subjects included are: dance (both teaching and performing), Ruth St. Denis, Teatro International, Inc. and Toyoza. This series numbers 240 pieces. Ephemera The Ephemera is arranged alphabetically by topic. The material includes items related to different dance groups such as the Sacred Dance Guild, Teatro Internacional, World Dance Alliance, and the Valentina Oumansky Dramatic Dance Foundation, Toyoza; as well as dancers Ruth St. Denis, Rose Lee, Vija Vetra, and Ethel H. Clark; dance performances (including photographs and copies of photographs); musician Sage Gentle-Wing; and miscellaneous ephemera collected to Forrest Coggan. The material is made up of clippings, programs, photographs, fliers, articles and pages printed from the Internet, etc. The ephemera numbers 102 pieces. Published Books belonging to Forrest Coggan The collection also contains 18 published books that belonged to Forrest Coggan. The volumes include a typed manuscript entitled "About these Books" written by Coggan. The books are in the order Coggan described them. He knew many of the authors and several of the books are signed by the authors and include handwritten notes by Coggan. Topics of the books are: the Hopi Indians, North American Indians, the Mayans and ancient Mexico, and spirituality. There are two books on dance (they are not on Coggan's list). Audio-Visual The audio-visual material is chiefly related to Forrest W. Coggan, dance performances, Toyoza, American Indians, etc. It includes a series of productions produced by Teatro Internacional, Inc. This series numbers 62 pieces. The audio-visual material is organized by format/type and then alphabetically by title: a. Cassette tapes b. VHS tapes c. CDs and DVDs d. Reel-to-reel (variety of formats) Oversize Oversize Box 16 houses oversize material from previous Coggan boxes. There are then four oversize items, housed separately (not in boxes) related to Forrest W. Coggan's designs including portfolios, drawings, sketchbooks, watercolors, etc. One portfolio is for Toyoza. Coggan designed costumes, theater buildings, etc.
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Address books and telephone lists, undated
Rare Books
The five series are: Library Records; Personal Papers given to the Library; Francis Bacon Foundation Records; the Walter and Louise Arensberg Papers; and the Art and Artifacts Collection. The Library records include administration and collection records, gifts and acquisitions, exhibit records, and a large portion of correspondence. The correspondence, almost entirely written by library director Elizabeth Wrigley, is with students, other organizations, scholars, and, notably, interested Baconians (supporters of the theory that Francis Bacon was the true author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare). There are also records of gifts to the library, including books, ephemera and papers of Baconians and other scholars studying the Shakespeare authorship question. These papers comprise the Personal Papers series, and are organized by owner name: Isabelle Kittson Brown, Eugene Dernay, George Drury, Johan Franco, R. W. (Reginald Walter) Gibson, Olive Woodward Hoss, Karl [Richards] Wallace, and A. Allen Woodruff. The Francis Bacon Foundation papers contain articles of incorporation, financial and legal documents, and some correspondence of the board members. There are also clippings and photostats on Shakespeare, Bacon and Elizabethan history that were collected for research purposes. This represents only a portion of the Foundation records; the remainder are in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The personal and family papers of Walter and Louise Arensberg include Walter Arensberg's cryptographic research files, charts and notes; personal papers; drafts of his poems and books; correspondence with Baconians; photographs; and letters of Arensberg and [Louise] Stevens family members. The letters between Walter and his brother Charles F. C. Arensberg are particularly personal and informative. This portion of the Arensbergs' personal papers does not include their correspondence with artists or their art-collecting activities. Those papers (the Arensberg Archives) were given by the Francis Bacon Foundation to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which also holds the Arensberg Art Collection of Modern and pre-Columbian art. The last series of the archive is a group of art objects and historical artifacts that belonged to the Foundation and library. Some were collected by the Arensbergs, and some were acquired by the library after their deaths. They are listed with their original descriptions kept by the Foundation. The collection is organized into these series and subseries: Series 1. Library Records1.1 Administrative records1.2 Collection records1.3 Correspondence 1.3.1. General 1.3.2. Colleges, Universities and Schools 1.3.3. Foundations, Societies, etc. 1.3.4. Libraries and Related Institutions 1.3.5. Correspondence with Baconians 1.4 Exhibits 1.5 Financial records. Series 2. Personal Papers 2.1. Isabelle Kittson Brown Papers, circa 1880-19282.2. Eugene Dernay Papers, 1861-1960 2.3 George Drury Papers, 1960-1964 2.4. Johan Franco Publication plates, undated 2.5. R. W. (Reginald Walter) Gibson Papers, circa 1940-1959. 2.6. Olive Woodward Hoss Papers, circa 1920-1969. 2.7. Karl [Richards] Wallace Papers, circa 1960-1973. 2.8. A. Allen Woodruff Papers, circa 1893-1949. Series 3. Francis Bacon Foundation Records. Series 4. Walter and Louise Arensberg Papers 4.1. Correspondence. 4.1.1. General. 4.1.2. Correspondence with Baconians. 4.1.3. Arensberg Family correspondence. 4.1.4. Stevens Family correspondence. 4.2. Personal 4.3. Writings 4.4. Financial 4.5. Legal. 4.6. Research 4.7. Photographs. Series 5. Art and Artifacts Collection. Arrangement: The arrangement and titles of the files have been kept as much as possible in the original order of the records maintained by the Arensbergs and the library staff. Folders are arranged alphabetically by title within series. Documents within folders are arranged in chronological order by date with undated materials residing at the end of each folder. One exception is research files, which have been kept in their original order, which was not always chronological, but often by topic.
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Appointment books/address books (Boxes 1-2)
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The Appointment books/address books series is arranged alphabetically by author. The items in this series chronicle the day-to-day activities of Collis Huntington Holladay, Margaret Broad Holladay, and Henry Edwards Huntington. They span from 1925-1969. The Family Records series is arranged alphabetically and contains such items as application forms submitted by various family members to such organizations as the: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California, Sons of the American Revolution: California Society, and the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Families of New Netherland. These applications show how the family member applying is eligible for group membership by tracing the family lineage back to the family member who can qualify them to be part of that group. In addition, this series includes genealogical tables and family genealogies documenting the lineage of the Huntington Holladay family. The items are grouped by surname Cresap, Holladay, Ord, Saunders, and Vincent. In some way all of the families are related to one another. Items found within this grouping include personal narratives both hand written and typed by various family members, birth and death dates of family members, family trees, and obituaries. Some of the items in this series date back to the 1600's. One item worth noting is a genealogical chart from the Ord family. The chart is very comprehensive starting with James Ord who was born in England, April 1786 and later moved to Omaha, Nebraska with his wife Rebecca Ruth Cresap on January 25, 1873. The Ords are the ancestors of the Huntington Holladay family and the chart traces the lineage up until the time it was made in 1936. Also in this series are newspaper clippings which mention the Huntington Holladay family, a biography of Henry E. Huntington, documents pertaining to the Huntington Family Association and their annual meetings, and lastly, obituaries relating to the deaths of Alfred O. Larkin and Collis P. Huntington.
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Ruth St. Denis papers and addenda
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This collection contains the papers of American dancer Ruth St. Denis and includes scrapbook binders, photographs, negatives, and slides, ephemera, audio-visual materials, correspondence, and newsletters. Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the globe, Denishawn dancers, the Ruth St. Denis Center, the Ruth St. Denis Foundation, the Ruth St. Denis Theatre Intime, Jacob's Pillow dance festival, American Dance Film Association, Society of Spiritual Arts Church, the various teachers and pupils at St. Denis' dance studio and school, the Orient trip the Denishawn dancers took in 1926, as well as dance productions and events St. Denis put on throughout her career. There is also much material about St. Denis' effort to have her studio and school become a non-profit entity and her desire to create an artist colony in Hemet, California. More specifically, several dancers show up in the notebooks and photographs, including: Harold Kreutzberg, Peter di Falco, La Meri, Karoun Tootikian, Miriam Schiller, Jean Léon, Gladys Bowen, Antonio Gades, Devi Dja, Doris Humphrey0, Mary Wigman, and Martha Graham. The series "Binders" includes 42 volumes of material related to Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, the Denishawn dancers, etc. They are like scrapbooks and contain several different formats of materials including photographs, clippings, programs, dance notes, correspondence and financial documents. The material in the binders were left in their original order (as they came to the Huntington Library). It seems that the majority of the material was gathered and put together by Dorothy Lee Trifal, Ruth St. Denis' assistant and the manager of St. Denis' dance studio. The first 19 volumes are organized (and were titled) with dates and date spans. The next 23 volumes are organized alphabetically by their titles (ex. "American Dance Film Association"). Some of the titles are cataloger supplied. The Photographs, Negatives, and Slides series contains 409 photographs, negatives and slides. Although the majority of the photographs are of Ruth St. Denis in dancing poses, there are several other categories of photographs including: Ted Shawn, dance performances, special events and celebrations, other dancers, the dance studio and students, the film "He is Risen," and Jacob's Pillow. Photographs can also be found in the Miscellaneous series in the material regarding "The Dancing Prophet" as well as the Oversize series. The Ephemera and Miscellaneous series contains a variety of formats including: programs, publications (magazines as well as printed books), miscellaneous material such as one letter by Forrest Coggan to Dorothy Lee Trifal, and a postcard from Forrest Thornburg to Dorothy Lee Trifal. The majority of this material is correspondence, documents and contracts for the film; some authors include Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Alfred Frantz Stury, Director of the Ruth St. Denis Center, film maker Edmund F. Penney, and Janice Lovoos. The series also contains several printed manuscripts written by St. Denis including "Dialogue for a Temple for Prayer For Artists," "Poems," "The Divine Dance," "Current Biography," and a notebook belonging to St. Denis. There is also a copy of the published book Lotus Light written by Ruth St. Denis in 1932. Also included is a scrapbook with clippings and photographs of dancers and two published volumes of poetry by Jane Sherman (who was a Denishawn dancer). There is one box dedicated to material related to the film "The Dancing Prophet" about Ruth St. Denis (the film reel is in the A-V series). The audio-visual material consists of cassette tapes, reel-to-reel/magnetic tapes, albums (records), and one VHS tape. This material consists of interviews with Ruth St. Denis, speeches by St. Denis, her reading from her journals, music, some composed by Clifford Vaughan, and dance performances. There is also a reel of the film "The Dancing Prophet." A lot of what is on the reel-to-reel/magnetic tapes and some of the albums can also be found on the cassette tapes. The majority of the A-V material is undated. It is organized by type/format and then alphabetical by title (if it had one). The Oversize series contains: Sheet music (some with dance instructions and photographs, which are arranged alphabetically by title), some of which is written by Clifford Vaughan, images of Ruth St. Denis, and two photograph albums with photographs of various dancers and celebrities (most of which are not identified), one of these is also a scrapbook with programs from her various performances. The series also contains oversize photographs of Ruth St. Denis. The Individually Housed Items include a glass plate negative of Ruth St. Denis ("Devi Ja," 1951), a copy of the two-volume Ruth St. Denis: Pioneer & Prophet: Being a History of Her Cycle of Oriental Dances by Ted Shawn, a poster of Ruth St. Denis, and a banner of Ruth St. Denis. The Addenda (84 items total) contains correspondence (between Ted Shawn, Dale Lefler, and E. Marie Albery) and newsletters by Ted Shawn (1945-1962) as well as photographs of Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and other dancers. It also includes several copies of programs from their dance events/shows (including Jacob's Pillow), brochure for St. Denis' dance school. There is a program for a show with Martha Graham, signed by her and a printed book for the dancer Barton Mumaw showing him in various costumes, signed by him. Also included is a galley proof of St. Denis' autobiography "Ruth St. Denis: An Unfinished Life" (1939). Consists of two boxes (one is oversize).
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