Manuscripts
Alfred W. Uhrich Papers and Addenda
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Alfred W. Uhrich papers and addenda
Manuscripts
The papers of Alfred W. Uhrich consist primarily of his business records relating to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, records of the estate of James A. Craig, and personal photographs. The collection is arranged alphabetically.
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James D. Hague papers addenda
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The addenda contains correspondence, business papers, estate material, diaries, account books, scrapbooks, photographs, and other material related to the work and family of James D. Hague. Other Hague family members represented in the addenda include Marian Hague, his son William Hague, and Mary Hallock Foote. Subjects included in the collection: Clarence King, mining, engineering, Guano Island, South Seas (Oceania), Japan, and the Lick Observatory. Also found in the addenda is a small group of papers of Horace F. Cutter of San Francisco, a friend of Clarence King; and a small group of papers of Edward Singleton Holden, who was an astronomer and Hague family friend. Holden was director of the Lick Observatory, president of the University of California, and librarian of West Point. The addenda also contains unprocessed folders and boxes of ephemera and realia including a chemical set, ore specimens, and printed material; photographs in Boxes 57-63 were transferred to the Photo Archive.
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Homer D. Crotty Papers and Addenda
Manuscripts
The Homer D. Crotty papers and addenda are one unified collection of papers with two separate organizational schemes. The Homer D. Crotty papers were organized in accordance to the original order as received by The Huntington Library and without any series designations. The papers consists primarily of Homer D. Crotty's business and organization papers, including agreements, bylaws, clippings, correspondence, financial records, insurance records, invitations, lists, memorandums, minutes, notes, pamphlets, photos, programs, receipts, reports, speeches, tax records, time sheets, typescripts, and writings. The papers also include a small amount of education and personal records. The addenda is organized into three series: 1) Personal papers 2)Organizations 3)Oversize Personal papers include records related to the personal lives of Homer and Ida Crotty, such as correspondence, book catalogs, birth certificates, death certificates, diaries, passports, photos, notebooks, speeches, travel ephemeral, and writings. This series is arranged alphabetically by genre. Organization records document the creators' participation in various clubs, charities, legal associations, and nonprofit organizations. This series is arranged alphabetically by organization name. Oversize items include architectural drawings, lecture notes, letter books (correspondence), photos, prints, and textbooks. This series is arranged by item size.
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James Thomas Fields Papers Addenda
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This collection of papers of Annie (Adams) Fields (1834-1915) and James Thomas Fields (1817-1881) consists of notebooks and loose papers containing their poetry, essays, notes for speeches, a few scattered diary entries, and memoranda. Also included are letters to and from the Fieldses, as well as a group of letters from James Fields to Annie. Complementing the fully-catalogued Fields Collection, these personal papers of James and Annie Fields comprising the Addenda contain anecdotes and references to some of the literary figures represented in the main body of the Fields Collection.
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Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda
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The collection consists of two distinct sections: the Grace Nicholson papers (2,926 pieces) and addenda (1,444 pieces). The papers are primarily correspondence, while the addenda is primarily notes. Both relate to Grace Nicholson (d. 1948) and her work in the fields of Native American and Asian art. There are many letters in the collection of Native Americans corresponding with Nicholson about what it is they are working on as well as thanking her for the copies of pictures she took of them. Complementing these letters are the extensive diaries and notes that Nicholson kept on her buying trips through Native American territory, especially of the Karok, Klamath, and Pomo Indians, covering the subjects of Native American legends, folklore, vocabulary, tribal festivals, basket making, business in art trade, and living conditions. There is also a considerable amount of correspondence from China, Japan, and Korea between Nicholson and her buyers, as well as from Nicholson herself on the trip she took there in 1929. Asian art figures well in the collection and covers a broad range of subjects such as Chinese art and architecture, Japanese art, Korean art, Javanese textiles, Siamese art, Philippine art, life and social conditions in Asia, and the business of trading Asian art. Being a well-known dealer in Native American and Asian art, Nicholson was in contact with many artists, such as Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928), W. Herbert Dunton (1878-1936), Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944), Elizabeth Conrad Hickox (1872-1947), Louise Merrill Hickox (1896-1962), Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937), George Wharton James (1858-1923), Lilian Miller, Hovsep T. Pushman (1877-1966), Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), and Millard Sheets (b. 1907). Nicholson was also in contact with and purchased materials for many fine art and historical institutions such as the Field Museum of Natural History, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.). Her intimate relationships with Native Americans give particular insight into their lives and culture. Thus she was a key source of information about them and historians and academics sought her out, including A. L. (Alfred Lewis) Kroeber (1876-1960), Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928), and C. Hart (Clinton Hart) Merriam (1855-1942). Nicholson also received correspondence from political figures such as Frederick Webb Hodge (1864-1956), Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Hiram Johnson (1866-1945), and Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt (1882-1945). Two people who figure prominently in the collection are Estelle Bynum and Thyra H. Maxwell. These two women were assistants of Grace Nicholson and after her death were also the executors of her estate.
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