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London arranged clippings, pamphlets, and other notes according to subject. This subject file recreates his filing system and arranges London's clippings in accordance with it. The subjects include: (Box 540): Alaska, Anarchy, Anglo Saxon, Anthropology, Atheism, Authors' League of America, Books. (Box 541): Canal, Cement, Characters, Copyright, Crime, Dancing, DeCasseres, Dogs, Drama, Ethnology. (Box 542): Fiction. (Box 543): Free Will, Freedom of Speech, Freud, Future Fiction, Gonorrhea, Great Britain, Hawaii, Hoboes, Horses, I.W.W., Irrational Management. (Box 544): Japan, John Barleycorn, Journalism, Jung, Klondike, Labor, Law, League to Enforce Peace, Leprosy, London. (Box 545): Man, Management, Medical, Mexico, Miscellaneous, Molokai, Moses, Motion Pictures, Occult, Orchard, Philosophy. (Boxes 546-548): Poetry. Mostly copies of poems London found appealing. (Box 549): Poetry--Gay. (Box 550): Poetry--Grave. (Box 551): Prose Excerpts. (Box 552): Plays, Plots, Prisons, Prohibition, Prostitution, Psychology, Publishing, Pyorrhea, Religion, Russo-Japanese War. (Box 553): Quotations and Excerpts. (Box 554): Science. (Box 555): Socialism. (Box 556): The Sea, Sea Fiction, Selling, Shakespeare, Short Stories, Signa, Sociology, Solomons, South Seas, Spiritualism, Stories to Read, Story Motif, Syndicalism, Tattooing, Tipping, Transportation, Travel, Woman, Woodruff, Writing. (Box 557): Trade Unionism. (Boxes 558-560): War. (Box 561): World. (Box 562): Yachts.
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One painting book entitled Outline Pictures for Little Paint Brushes, published by D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, copyright 1881. The title page is subtitled With Stories Giving Hints for Coloring, by the Editors of Babyland. The figures were drawn by George F. Barnes. The cover of the book shows a young girl sitting under a blooming tree branch using watercolor to paint in a book. The back cover features two outlined images in gold. Twelve of the fourteen images in the book are accompanied by stories which hint at which colors to use and where. All of the images have been filled in using watercolor. The note in the front of the book advises that "a good thing to do is to first copy the picture on white paper, and try colors upon that until you are suited, before painting the one in the book." One free hand image appears at the back of the book. It depicts a young lady sitting on a fence rail, looking back at the viewer over her left shoulder. The last several pages have had the corners trimmed or cut off.
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Four drawing books entitled Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Free Hand-Tracing, New Edition, Nos. 1, 1, 2 and 3, by William N. Bartholomew, published by 3 different publishers, 1881. The first copy of No. 1 (env. 1) was published by Potter, Knight, Ainsworth & Co. of New York, Boston and Chicago. The second copy of Book 1 (Env. 2) was published by American Book Company of New York, Cincinnati and Chicago. Books 2 and 3 were published by A.S. Barnes & Co. of New York and Chicago. Each of the 4 books is 12 pages in length, and contain 24-29 numbered exercises each. These tracing books are intended for use by "children just beginning to draw". The series is progressive in that the exercises range in complexity from simple to more complex, both within each book and over the series itself. Each lesson builds upon the skills learned in previous lessons. These books contain no text; they are images and drawing exercises to be traced or completed. Many of these exercises are shapes and forms, later used to create decorative patterns and designs. Images of simple buildings are also included. All of the images are two-dimensional. The front covers of each booklet are identical to one another; a simple but decorative line frame surrounds the title. At the bottom is an Egyptian aten symbol. On the back cover of each is a publisher's advertisement for Standard Text Books for drawing, spelling and other subjects. The inside front and back covers within each book contain instructions for use and explain the philosophy of the Bartholomew system. "Mary Lewis" is written in ms., in pencil, at the top of the front cover on Books 1 (env. 2), 2 and 3.
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Seven drawing books entitled Bartholomew's National System of Industrial Drawing, Free Hand, New Edition, Nos. 6, 6, 10, 11, 12, 12, 13, by William N. Bartholomew, published by three different publishers, 1881-1882. Nos. 6 (env. 5), 11 (env. 8) and 12 (env. 10) were published by Potter, Ainsworth & Co. of Boston, New York and Chicago. Nos. 6 (env. 6), 10 (env. 7), 13 (env. 11) were published by American Book Company of New York, Cincinnati and Chicago. No. 12 (env. 9) was published by A.S. Barnes & Co. of New York and Chicago. All of the books are 16 pages in length and contain 14-30 numbered exercises. This series progresses from simple, two-dimensional copying and tracing (book no. 6) to significantly more complex, 3-dimensional copying and replication of the provided images (book no. 13). The books in this series are designed to build upon the previous skills and knowledge gained in the earlier books: "the pupil is gradually led to place more dependence upon his own judgement." The exercises in book no. 6 consist primarily of two-dimensional floral designs, patterns and vases and pitchers. Book no. 10 has a combination of two-dimensional patterns and designs, but also has several three-dimensional floral images of leaves and bunches of fruit. Books 12 and 13 are almost exclusively three-dimensional floral patterns, designs and scenes. Instructional text accompanies the exercises, but there is space next to each exercise for copying. All of the front covers are identical to each other; a simple but decorative line border surrounds the text, with an Egyptian aten between the title and edition statements and the publisher. The books published by Potter, Ainsworth & Co. have a publisher's advertisement on the back cover which is entitled Standard Text Books. The lone book in this group published by A.S. Barnes & Co. bears the same advertisement on its back cover. The remaining books have a publisher's advertisement from the American Book Company on their back covers. On the insides of the front and back covers of each of these books is an explanation of the philosophy of the Bartholomew system and the goals and objectives for each book in the series. Only the first copy of book no. 6 (env. 5) has been completed by a previous owner. In this book, the first exercise has been colored in with crayons, and the rest have been completed in pencil. "Robert C. Vose" is written in ms. at the head of this book. Book Nos. 6 (env. 6), 10, 11, 12 (second copy, env. 10) and 13 have ".50" (price) written in ms., in pencil, in the upper left-hand corner of the front cover. Book No. 12 (env. 9) has "3-" (price) written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand of the front cover.
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The collection consists of personal and business papers primarily related to the James De Barth Shorb family and their business ventures and estate settlements. There is also a substantial amount of material about Benjamin Davis Wilson and his business dealings in California. Topics covered in the collection include agriculture, land development in southern California, the history of the San Marino area, mining operations, water rights and irrigation, politics, society stories, and wills, court documents, and settlement papers related to the Shorb estate. Notable individuals represented in various places throughout the collection include Phineas Banning, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Ynez Shorb Buck, Louis Henry Dielman, Andrew Glassell, Henry Hancock, Winfield Scott Hancock, Isaias W. Hellman, Esther S. Hereford, Thomas B. Hereford, Margaret Irvine, Matthew Keller, Baron Frederich Ferdinand von Levetzow, Catherine McMeal, Ramona Shorb Murtaugh, Francis Noel Parke, Albert Packard, George S. Patton (1856-1927), Ruth Wilson Patton, Anthony Shorb (brother of James De Barth Shorb), Donald McMeal Shorb, Ethel Rebecca Shorb, Dr. J. Campbell Shorb (brother of James De Barth Shorb), James De Barth Shorb, Joseph Campbell Shorb (son of James De Barth Shorb), Margaret McMeal Shorb, Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Norbert Newlands Shorb, George Hugh Smith, Edith Shorb Steele, James M. Tiernan, Annie Wilson, Benjamin Davis Wilson, John B. Wilson, Margaret S. Hereford Wilson, and Tomas A. Yorba. Companies and ventures represented in the business and land papers include the San Gabriel Wine Company, B.D. Wilson & Co., the San Marino Ranch, the Southern Co-Operative Warehouse and Shipping Association, the Barton Real Estate Company, the Huntington Iron Works, and The California Arc Lamp Company. The collection is organized into seven main sections: 1) Correspondence and personal papers (including genealogy and photographs), boxes 1-4; 2) Business and legal papers, boxes 5-7; 3) Financial papers, boxes 8-12; 4) Land papers, boxes 13-16; 5) Newspaper clippings, ephemera and objects, boxes 17-19; 6) Ethel R. Shorb files, boxes 20-24, and 7) Oversize (5 items). Legal documents dealing specifically with land titles or agreements are included in the Land Papers section. Some correspondence relating directly to Edith R. Shorb's newspaper activities and other Shorb family members' estate dealings are included in those portions of the collection. Condolence letters on the death of James De Barth Shorb are included in the Personal Papers series of the collection. Series I: Correspondence and Personal Papers The correspondence consists of both personal and business letters. The majority of the personal correspondence was exchanged between members of the Shorb family and their friends and relatives, and include letters written while the family was living in Maryland from the 1820s- 1860s. Other items include letters regarding the history and genealogy of the Shorb family, particularly those written in response to Louis Henry Dielman's inquiries on the topic. The business correspondence includes references to the wine industry, agriculture, land sales, railroads, mining, politics, and estate settlements. Authors and addressees of the letters include Ynez Shorb Buck, the Earl Fruit Company, Winfield Scott Hancock, Mayo William Hazeltine, Catherine McMeal, John McMeal, Francis Neal Parke, the San Gabriel Wine Company, Ethel Rebecca Shorb, Dr. J. Campbell Shorb, James De Barth Shorb, Margaret McMeal Shorb, Mary Shorb, Norbert Newlands Shorb, Edith Shorb Steele, Adelaide Shorb Tiernan, James M. Tiernan, Charles Augustus Wetmore, and Marcos Yorba. Some notable or interesting pieces of correspondence include: A letter from Dr. J. Campbell Shorb regarding his involvement in the "case of Ogier," in which he asserts that he never gave a medical opinion on or to Ogier before his death (1833). A letter probably written by Donald McMeal Shorb to his parents James Aloysius Shorb and Margaret McMeal Shorb in which he asks them "in giving me up [to the Confederate Army] do not mourn too deeply, for if it is the will of the Almighty to call me from this life on the field of battle, regret me but do not grieve over me as though I had yielded to sickness on the couch of luxury" (1864). A letter from Mayo William Hazeltine to James De Barth Shorb, lamenting the latter's departure from San Francisco. "[W]hen a thirst for gold drives [another friend] to San Buenaventura the void he leaves is not soon…filled. I am told it never thunders in [the] San Francisco sky, but…since you went away there seems less electricity than ever" (1865). A letter from E.B. Washington to James Aloysius Shorb and Margaret McMeal Shorb consoling them on the death of their son (1866). A letter from Annie Ogier to Winfield Scott Hancock, in which she writes of the Rio del Llano mining claim and touches on politics, noting "I suppose you are a Greeley man. I don't know what I am but I am against Grant that's certain" (1872). A letter to James De Barth Shorb thanking him for "securing the reinstatement of those employees who were discharged from the service of the Los Angeles Terminal Railroad Company" (1892). Three letters to Edith Shorb Steele regarding Baron Frederich Ferdinand von Levetzow, including one from a distant relative who notes that Levetzow is "on a walking tour round the world passing San Francisco and Japan on accident of a wager" (1897); one from Levetzow's stepmother M. von Levetzow-Ehlorstorff confirming that "he…is traveling now through America…on account of a wager to cross the world in a certain time" (1897); and a final note from H.F. Studevart informing Edith of Levetzow's death "while out hunting…[he] became overcome with the severe cold and perished. His remains were found the next morning" (1899). The personal papers relate primarily to the Shorb family and include Donald McMeal Shorb's signed oath to the United States following the Civil War (1865), Ethel R. Shorb's passport (1929), condolence letters on the death of James De Barth Shorb (1896), and other items relating to Anthony Shorb, Norbert Newlands Shorb, and Edith Shorb Steele. Also included are an essay by Baron Frederich Ferdinand von Levetzow, a handwritten Ramona Echoes newsletter (1896), and a copy of Gladys A. Wood's San Marino Play: Adapted from History (1932), among other items. Also included in this section of the collection are genealogical notes on the Shorbs and Wilsons; photographs, including those of Baron von Levetzow, James De Barth Shorb, and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb; a scrapbook of clippings and letters (1886-1893); and the manuscript of Memoirs of the Mines of Almaden and Almadenejos by Fernando Bernaldez and Ramon Rua Figueroa (1861). Series II: Business and Legal Papers The business papers include contracts, articles of incorporation, insurance policies, and estate records, primarily relating to the Shorb family (including Anthony Shorb) and their business ventures, as well as to Wilson and Banning businesses. Corporations included in the contract and articles of incorporation section include the Southern Co-Operative Warehouse and Shipping Association, B.D. Wilson & Co., the Barton Real Estate Company, the Huntington Iron Works, and The California Arc Lamp Company, as well as various produce companies who made distribution agreements with the Shorbs. The insurance policies primarily consist of those taken out by James De Barth Shorb for properties in San Marino and Ramona (1892-1897). The estate records are mainly those of the Shorb childrens' settlements and agreements regarding the estate of Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. Other estate matters include those of A.W. Sublette, Stephen S.White, Benjamin Davis Wilson, and Tomas Yorba. The legal papers include wills, power of attorney documents, and some assorted court records. The wills include those of Edward S. Hereford (1894), Ethel R. Shorb (1930 and 1959), James De Barth Shorb (1875 and 1878), Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb (11 items, 1887-1917), Edith Shorb Steele (1949), John J. Williams (1881), Annie Wilson (1930), Benjamin Davis Wilson (1869), and John B. Wilson (1869). The power of attorney documents include those given and received by William T.B. Sanford, James De Barth Shorb, Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Norbert Newlands Shorb, James M. Tiernan, and Benjamin Davis Wilson, including a document giving Wilson's power of attorney to James De Barth Shorb (1875). The court records include case files on The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles vs. Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb (c.1899), a judgment in the mental competency hearing of Donald McMeal Shorb (1918), a pauper's affidavit of Norbert Newlands Shorb (1917), and a report regarding the guardianship of Thomas Yorba (1897). Series III: Financial Papers The financial papers consist of statements of account, bank statements, tax records, promissory notes, stock records, receipts, cancelled checks, and account ledgers. The statements of account and bank statements include those for the San Gabriel Wine Company (c.1887), the San Marino Ranch (statements and plan for liquidity, c.1883-1900), James De Barth Shorb (1879-1915), Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb (1881-1913), Sierra Vista Ranch (1897), James M. Tiernan (c.1886-1895), and Benjamin Davis Wilson (1862-1875). The tax records and receipts include those related to James De Barth Shorb (c.1880-1894), Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb (1868- 1897), Ramona Shorb Murtaugh (1895), William M. Shorb (1889), James A. Tiernan (c.1885- 1893), and Benjamin Davis Wilson (1850-1855). The promissory notes include those of James De Barth Shorb (1872-1895), Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb (1885-1898), Benjamin Davis Wilson (1852-1877), and Wilson & Packard (1850-1851). The stock records relate to the California Arc Lamp Company, the California Fruit Company, the Los Angeles and Soledad Turnpike Company, and the San Gabriel Wine Company, as well as including stock notices from Anthony Shorb. The assorted receipts and cancelled checks include those of James De Barth Shorb, Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, James M. Tiernan, Benjamin Davis Wilson, and Wilson & Shorb (c.1870). The account books and ledgers were kept for and by the San Marino Ranch (1874-1897), James Aloysius Shorb (1836-1842), and James De Barth Shorb (1896-1897). Also included is James M. Tiernan's notarial record (1887-1896). Series IV: Land Papers The land papers consist primarily of deeds, conveyances, certificates of title, mortgages, and maps. The deeds, conveyances and certificates of title are mainly connected to the property dealings of the Shorbs and Wilsons. The properties described are almost exclusively in the southern California area, including Lake Vineyard, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Wilmington, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Stockton, and Rancho Santa Anita. There are also a small number of deeds for land in San Francisco. The mortgages and assorted land papers are also primarily related to the Shorbs and Wilsons and their land holdings in southern California, and include items on the Rancho El Rincon (1899), the General Stoneman House (1873), properties of the James Irvine trust, lots on Meridian Avenue in Oneonta Park sold by Ethel R. Shorb (1917- 1930), land near the Banning house (1874), San Marino Ranch lands, citrus crop mortgages made with the Porter Brothers Company, documents regarding a railroad right-of-way suit in Alhambra, complaints regarding Rancho San Antonio, a memorandum of agreement to Donald McMeal Shorb regarding purchase of the Yorba Grant in Lower California (1914), and documents on the transfer of property from the Tomas Yorba estate to George Smith Patton (1896). The maps are of land in Alhambra (Calif.), Alhambra (Ariz.), San Antonio and Ice House Canyons (1892), San Pasqual, Emmitsburg (Md.), Wilmington (Calif.), and the estate of Bernardo Yorba in Riverside County. Series V: Newspaper clippings, ephemera, and objects The clippings include local newspaper stories on the Pattons, Shorbs, Wilsons, and Yorbas, as well as general California history. There are also a few complete copies of California newspapers from the 1890s. The ephemera consists of calling cards, including those of the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families; memorial programs and notices relating to the Shorb family; a variety of printed advertisements, notices, and programs; printed invitations, mainly relating to Shorb family functions and weddings, including those of Patton family members, from 1855-1940; and other miscellaneous ephemera, including greeting cards, tickets, and envelopes. The box of objects includes cased daguerreotypes, hair and teeth belonging to members of the Shorb and Wilson families, a crest of Dr. James Anthony Shorb, and other items such as a pen box, leather pouch, and gold chain. Series VI: Ethel R. Shorb Files This series consists of the work files of Ethel Rebecca Shorb, who was the Society Editor for The Argonaut Magazine in San Francisco during the 1950s. The magazine files include press releases and announcements on the activities of local organizations and clubs, including the California Federation of Women's Clubs, the Children's Theatre Association of San Francisco, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Junior League of San Francisco, the National League for Women's Service, the Pan American League, and the Women's Athletic Club of San Francisco. The society stories include releases and clippings on concerts, holiday events, home tours, memorials, parties, debutante events, engagements, and weddings, in addition to 51 Del Monte Press Bureau Releases. Other manuscripts include Ethel Shorb's calendars and notebooks, 12 pieces of correspondence addressed to Ethel Shorb, a brief autobiography, and miscellaneous ephemera. Also included are clippings of Ethel Shorb's published articles, her assorted notes, and newspaper clippings. Series VII: Oversize The oversize items consist of newspapers and maps. They include a copy of The Capital newspaper (1896), copies of the Pacific Wine and Spirit Review (1896), a map of Douglass (Ariz.) and the Sonora Development Companies (1890), a plat and written description of the "Prospero" land tract near Mission San Gabriel (1875), and a rolled map of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (1850).
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The following notes on the Turner papers were compiled after only a three-month examination of those papers. Hence they make no pretense of completeness or accuracy. They are compiled only to serve as a general guide to later users of the papers.The following outline, or index, of the sections of this report that follow may make its use easier:1: Correspondence and DocumentsFrederick Jackson Turner's correspondence, together with certain important documents, has been expertly arranged in a series of flat boxes, each bearing a number, date, and appropriate descriptive designation. Within each box the letters to and from Turner, or the documents, have been placed in folders, each of which bears a descriptive title and date. Arrangement within each box in chronological.The correspondence an document boxes may be conveniently divided into several categories:General correspondence during Turner's life.This is contained in Boxes 1 through 47. Included are letters written by and to Turner between the time of his boyhood and his death on March 14, 1932. Three letters from Woodrow Wilson are present, see descriptions for Boxes 3 and 9. General correspondence, 1932-1956. This is contained in Boxes 48 through 52. Many of the letters in these boxes relate to the efforts of the Huntington Library to assemble the Turner correspondence, to the publication of his posthumous books, etc. A large number are extremely valuable for an understanding of Turner, for they were written by friends and former students who frequently reminisced at length on his virtues. Form of citation: TU Box 48, Correspondence, Apr.-June 10, 1932.Biographical and Autobiographical Material. This is contained in Box 53, a large flat box. Contained in this box are diplomas received by Turner, certificates of membership in learned societies, honorary degrees, and the like. Box 62 also has biographical and genealogical data.Manuscripts and Documents. These are in Boxes 54 through 57, covering the years 1877 to 1932. Materials have been placed in blue folders, each labeled and dated, and arranged in chronological order. The boxes contain some of Turner's earliest historical writings, notes for lectures and seminars, drafts of essays, etc., clippings, and other personal data. For of citation: TU Box 54, Manuscripts & Documents, 1877-1900.The Turner-Hooper correspondence. This is contained in eight boxes, the first seven of which are devoted to letters between Turner and Mrs. William Hooper (Mrs. Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper). Mrs. Hooper, a daughter of Charles Elliott Perkins, president of the Burlington Railroad, and wife of William Hooper of a prominent New England family, became acquainted with Turner when he first moved to Harvard University in 1910. She played a leading financial role in establishing the Harvard Commission on Western History under his guidance. These initial contacts led to a lasting friendship, which endured to the time of Turner's death. Hence this is a unique correspondence, in which he discusses his political beliefs, his writing, his teaching, his reading, and the ordinary events of the day with a frankness that he displayed to few others. The correspondence is essential for biographical purposes, and reveals Turner at his witty best. The eighth box in the series contains letters between Mrs. Hooper and Max Farrand concerning the disposition of the letters after Turner's death. Her comments on Turner's character in these letters are revealing. Form of citation: TU-H Box 1, Turner-Hooper Correspondence, 1910-1912. Also in Turner-Hooper Correspondencs, Boxes A-D: correspondence from other people.Turner Family letters. These are now in Boxes A-K.2: Manuscript VolumesIncluded in the Turner papers are a number of items of importance which have been separately preserved and catalogued. Notes on the contents of each of these volumes follow. Citation is to: TU Volume 1, etc.1. TU Vol. 1, Red Book. This contains letters from students and friends written to Turner a the time he left the University of Wisconsin to go to Harvard. They were solicited by one of his former students, Professor James Alton James. Mounted in a red-colored book, they are normally in the form of holograph letters. Folders in the correspondence boxes refer to each of these letters.2. TU Vol. II, Blue Book. When Turner retired from Harvard, his friends and former students held a dinner in his honor. This was arranged by his students in his seminar for 1923-1924. Letters and telegrams written by friends and former students who could not attend have been arranged in a blue-covered book inscribed: "Frederick Jackson Turner May 24, 1924." In the book also is an envelope holding newspaper clippings dealing with his retirement.3. TU Vol. III (1 & 2), Commonplace Book. These consist of two paper-bound notebooks in which Turner jotted down his thoughts, quotations that appealed to him, rough drafts of orations, and miscellaneous items during the period 1883-1887 when he was a student and graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. This is a valuable collection of materials which indicate his interests and the evolution of his historical concepts.4. TU Vol. IV, A. J. Turner, History of Portage. A volume prepared by Andrew Jackson Turner, Frederick J. Turner's father, entitled: "A History of Portage, Wisconsin: A Talk to the local Women's Club." Typescript, 12 pp., fol. c.1900, bound in hard covers.5. TU Vol. V, Letters of Condolence. Fifty-two letters of condolence and appreciation addressed to Mrs. Frederick Jackson Turner between March 15, 1932 and November 22, 1932. Chronologically arranged in a portfolio, entitled: "Letters of Condolence and Appreciation Addressed to Caroline Mae (Sherwood) Turner, on the death of Her Husband, March 14, 1932."6. TU Vol. VI, Collection of Syllabuses. These include both printed and manuscript syllabuses for period c. 1893 to 1909 on: English history (probably prepared by Professor Allen), The Colonization of North America, and The History of the West. Collected in hard-cover folder labeled: "Collection of Syllabuses: [c.1893-1909].7. TU Vol. VII, Bibliography of United States History. Manuscript bibliography of United States history, 1865-1910, prepared by Turner for his section of the Channing, Hart and Turner, Guide. Additions and corrections have been made in Turner's hand, and by others.8. TU Vol. VIII, Dictionary of American Biography. Turner was a leading instigator in the publication of the Dictionary of American Biography under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies. This bound volume, collected by Turner, contains most of his correspondence in connection with the project.9. TU Vol. IX, Town and Gown Club. A facsimile of a book entitled "Golden Anniversary Town and Gown, 1878-1928." The Town and Gown Club was an active organization in Madison, Wisconsin, to which Turner belonged. This book contains its records and history during his years of membership. His name is listed, but there are no comments or speeches by him recorded.10. TU Vol. X, Diary and Correspondence Relating to Children. This volume contains several telegrams and letters received by the Turners at the time of the birth of their first daughter, Dorothy Kinsey Turner, on September 1, 1890. It also contains two diaries that Turner kept to record the day-by-day or week-by-week development of his children. The first, describing Dorothy Kinsley Turner, covers the period September 1, 1890 to September 1893. The second, a briefer document, is a diary of Allen Jackson Turner, June 26, 1892 to October, 1892. Handwritten on cheap paper mostly by Mrs. Turner.11. TU Vol. XI, Journal of Camping Trip. A diary kept by Mrs. Frederick Jackson Turner during the summer of 1908 when the Turners camped with Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Van Hise, apparently in the Lake Superior country. Mr. Van Hise was president of the University of Wisconsin. Handwritten in pencil on small sheets of paper.12. TU Vol. XII, Household Account Book. Notebook containing the household accounts, with notes of expenditures, of Mrs. Frederick Jackson Turner, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for rent, food, etc. Covers parts of 1921 and 1922. Written in pen in Mrs. Turner's hand.13. TU Vols. XIII-XVIII, Student Notebooks. Common notebooks kept by Turner when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin. One bears notation: "Prof. Allen Hist. of U.S. Fred. J. Turner, Feb. 17, 1883." The remainder are undated, but presumably of the same period, and probably represent reading and lecture notes compiled in Professor Allen's course or later during Turner's graduate school career at Madison. Two notebooks marked "Am. History I 1492-1763," and "American History II 1763-1789," cover the colonial period. Three more on the "Period of the Republic" deal with aspects of that story: 1) Foreign Relations to 1820, 2) Political history to the Civil War, and 3) The Slavery Controversy to 1876. A final notebook covers the Civil War period, with heavy emphasis on battles.14. TU Vol. XIX, Retiring Allowance Correspondence. Eighteen letters bound in a folder by Turner concerning his allowance on retirement. Included is the letter appointing him to his first teaching post in American history.15. TU Vol. XX, References on the History of the West. Three copies of the Turner and Merk, List of References on the History of the West (1920 and 1922), heavily annotated by Turner.3: File Drawers 1-22These previously consisted of one bank of eighteen wooden, typewriter-size file drawers and four steel file drawers, numbered consecutively from one to twenty-two; now housed in 91 upright holinger boxes, numbered 1-22 and subdivided in consecutive letters. They contain the wide variety of materials accumulated by Professor Turner during his lifetime of reading American history: reading notes, occasional lecture notes, student papers, clippings from newspapers and magazines, maps that he prepared or found useful, offprints, magazine articles, and sections of books torn apart to e inserted at appropriate spots. Reference should be made to: TU File Drawer No. 1A, 1B, etc.A rough and tentative list of the contents of the various drawers follows:File Drawers 1 through 9. These contain materials noted above dealing with the period from early Colonial times to 1850. Contents of the separate drawers are as follows:File Drawer No. 1. New England, 1492-1659; Middle Colonies, 1492-1659, South, 1492-1659, the West, 1492-1659; New England, 1660-1689; Middle Colonies, 1660-1689.File Drawer No. 2. South, 1660-1689; General, 1690-1763; Middle Atlantic, 1690-1763; South, 1690-1763; New England, 1690-1763.File Drawer No. 3. South, 1690-1763; West, 1690-1763; Far West, 1690-1763; General, 1761-1782; New England, 1764-1782; Middle Atlantic, 1764-1782.File Drawer No. 4. West, 1764-1782; General, 1783-1788; New England, 1783-1788; Middle Atlantic, 1783-1788; West, 1783-1788.File Drawer No. 5. General, 1789-1818.File Drawer No. 6. General, 1789-1818 continued.File Drawer No. 7. New England, 1789-1818; Middle Atlantic, 1789-1818; South, 1789-1818; West, 1789-1818; General, 1819-1829; New England, 1819-1829.File Drawer No. 8. Middle Atlantic, 1819-1829; South, 1818-1829; Middle West, 1819-1829; Far West, 1818-1829; General, 1830-1850.File Drawer No. 9. General, 1830-1850, continued.File drawer No. 10. This drawer, which is seemingly out of sequence, was found to contain far more useful material than the earlier drawers. Principally important are the lecture notes and completed lectures, especially those for the History of Liberty series given at Harvard University shortly after World War I. In these Turner reviewed many of his ideas concerning the nature of American society and its political institutions, often dwelling on his frontier and sectionalism themes in doing so. The drawer also contains notes for his lectures on political map studies, as well as a large number of maps that he apparently used for illustrative purposes while lecturing. The reading notes interspersed among these materials are largely for the 1830-1850 period.File Drawers 11 and 12. In these Professor Turner returned to his chronological sequence, as follows:File Drawer No. 11. New England, 1830-1850; Middle Atlantic, 1830-1850; South, 1830-1820; Middle West, 1830-1850; Far West, 1830-1850; General, 1851-1865.File Drawer No. 12. New England, 1851-1865; Middle Atlantic, 1851-1865; South, 1851-1865; Middle West, 1851-1865; Far West, 1851-1865.File Drawer No. 13. This, too, is seemingly out of place, a position probably explained by the fact that its contents were little used, and hence were relegated to the lowest level. It contains nothing but the research notes accumulated by Turner for his never-completed biography of George Rogers Clark.File Drawer No. 14. This drawer, and File Drawer No. 15, are the two most important for any student of Turner's historical concepts. Drawer No. 14 was apparently that occasionally referred to by Turner in his correspondence as the "Sectionalism" drawer; Drawer No. 15 he also sometimes designated as the "Frontier" drawer. The division, however, is by no means exact, and both drawers contain extremely valuable material on both subjects. In this drawer are the drafts, in various stages of completion, of several of his articles on sectionalism, notes and manuscripts of speeches, fragments of writing on the section, and the like. The materials have been placed in folders and many of them labeled.File Drawer No. 15. The contents of this drawer are even more important than those of Drawer No. 14 for a study of Turner as historian. It contains drafts of several of his articles, a number of speeches, essays in various stages of composition, and a wide range of biographical materials. Most of the items have been placed in folders, and labeled, many in the handwriting of Fulmer Mood. Any student with limited time available would do well to begin with this drawer, proceed to File Drawer No. 14 and to File Drawer 10, and then spend such time as remained on the other drawers in this bank.File Drawers 16 through 21. In these drawers Professor Turner filed the results of his reading and research on the period since 1866. They contain the usual items: reading notes, offprints, segments of books, articles, magazine clippings, maps, student notes, student papers, and an unusually large number of newspaper clippings, kept by Turner in his avid reading of contemporary events. Virtually the only material prepared by Turner in these drawers is his reading notes, and the drafts, usually first or second, of the sections that he prepared for the Channing, Hart and Turner Guide. There is little of interest on his frontier or sectional concepts, but the drawers do illustrate his catholic tastes, and his wide reading. Occasional research notes are buried midst the clippings, together with maps and charts that he probably used in teaching. The material emphasized in individual drawers is as follows:File Drawer No. 16. General, 1866 to present. File Drawer No. 17. General, 1866 to present. File Drawer No. 18. General, 1866 to present. File Drawer No. 19. General, 1866 to present.File Drawer No. 20. New England, 1866 to present; Middle Atlantic, 1866 to present; South, 1866 to present; Middle West, 1866 to present. The bulk to the contents are in the latter category. At rear a few miscellaneous items, including skyscraper book.File Drawer No. 21. The West, 1866 to present. In this drawer materials are arranged topically, under railroads, mining, cattlemen, agrarian movements, and the like. Many of the books and articles have been annotated or underlined by Turner, with his usual red pencil. At the rear of the drawer are several folders marked "Miscellany" which contain a variety of reading notes, bibliography, etc., dealing with an earlier period.File Drawer No. 22. In this drawer are the lecture notes apparently used by Professor Turner during his last teaching days at Harvard. The first portion contains notes for a course that begins about 1860 and continues through Reconstruction; the latter portion contains his notes for the second half of History 39, spring semester, 1924. These cover the period 1880 to 1920. The notes for each lecture are usually in rough form, with tables, maps and charts drawn by Turner to use as illustrative material, and the like. In only a few instances are the lectures written out in complete form.4: File Drawers A-LThese previously consisted of one bank of twelve steel file drawers, typewriter paper size, numbered consecutively A through L; now housed in 45 upright holinger boxes, numbered A-L and subdivided in consecutive numbers. They contain (with one exception noted below) the materials used by Professor Turner in writing his last book, The United States, 1830-1850. Included are, in most instances, his reading notes, outlines and fragments in Turner's hand, student theses, seminar reports, rough drafts of maps, charts, and elaborate tables and statistical data on which the maps were based. Rough drafts of the various parts of chapters are also to be found in some of the drawers.A rough and tentative listing of the contents of the various drawers follows: (Cited as TU File Drawer A1, A2... etc.)File Drawer A. [In folders at the front of the drawer are the correspondence between the Huntington Library and Henry Holt & Co. concerning the publishing of the book, and the accounts of Merrill H. Crissey, Professor Turner's secretary.] *All Holt correspondence has been placed in TU Box 63.* Then follow drafts of the chapters, usually typed carbons heavily corrected in Turner's hand. Drafts of the introduction and some other parts of chapters are in Turner's hand. Each chapter is accompanied by a series of notes and memoranda by the editors, which admirably illustrate the problems of posthumous publication. File Drawer B. This contains the rough data and Turner's notes for political developments during the period covered by the book. The large quantities of statistical data gathered by Professor Turner as the basis for his analysis of elections and for the maps of elections and congressional votes provide admirable evidence of the factual basis for each of his generalizations. This evidence was too voluminous to be shown in footnotes.File Drawer C. The material contained in this drawer deals largely with the public issues of the Jackson-Tyler administrations: nullification, the tariff, the bank war, the independent treasury, foreign relations, etc. Included are many copies of documents from archives in the United States and Europe, in addition to the usual reading notes, seminar reports, offprints, etc.File Drawer D. Included in this drawer are materials for the later political history of the period 1830-1850. Reading notes, maps, seminar reports, offprints, documents, etc. are supplemented by a few of Turner's rough-draft chapters extending through the Polk Administration. The rear of the drawer contains materials not yet reduced to written form when death intervened, extending the story to 1850.File Drawer E. In this drawer are various drafts of the manuscripts for the Lowell Institute Lectures that Turner delivered in Boston in 1918 on "The United States and its Sections, 1830-1850." Because many pages of the lectures were later removed to be incorporated in "the" book, most of the lectures are not complete. Enough of them remain to indicate the scope and interpretation of the subject.File Drawer F. This is devoted to materials for the chapter of the North Central States, 1830-1850. In contains a draft of the chapter, as well as the usual notes, maps, reading materials, etc. Specific items such as the effect of glaciation, population movements, the cost of moving west, and the like, illustrate again the staggering amount of evidence that underlay each generalization in the final draft.File Drawer G. This is also devoted exclusively to materials on the North Central States, with notes, memos, and manuscript drafts on such topics a agriculture, transportation, business, banking,and the land system. These are a number of preliminary drafts in Turner's hand of sections on canals, and other small parts of the whole.File Drawer H. In this drawer are comparable materials dealing with the political and cultural history of the North Central States, 1830-1850.File Drawer I. This drawer contains reading notes and similar materials for the first five chapters of the book: the introduction, the United States in 1830, and the discussions of New England, the Middle Atlantic states, and the South Atlantic states. In each case various drafts of the chapters or fragments of chapters are filed with the other notes.File Drawer J. In this are comparable materials for the chapters on the South Central states and for Texas and the Far West. There are no drafts of chapters included, but fragments of drafts are tucked in with the other materials.File Drawer K. This is devoted to materials on the Far West that formed a basis for the latter part of the Texas and Far West chapter. The usual reading notes, theses, pamphlets, offprints, etc. deal with such subjects as Indians, trade, settlement of Oregon, etc.File Drawer L. Largely compiled after Turner's death, and having little relation to the other materials in this bank of drawers, this drawer deals largely with the preparation posthumously of Turner's book of essays on Sections in American History. Included is the correspondence between the editors and Henry Holt & Co., the publishers, a folder of permissions from prior publishers of the materials, copies of each of the original essays sent to the publishers to be reproduced, and a variety of materials on sectionalism that have no connection with the book: many maps by Turner, one manuscript on sectionalism, jottings by Turner on the subject, offprints, articles, and similar materials on the subject.5. Contents of 3 x 5 FilesThe following brief notes on the contents of the drawers are based only on a hurried examination, and are tentative. They are designed only to provide some introduction to a 778 rather complex note-taking system. Citation: 3 x 5 File Drawer No. 1.Drawer No. 1. Internal evidence (handwriting, a few scattered dates, etc.) suggests that this drawer was compiled and used in the 1890's and to about 1904. It contains bibliographical notes and brief reading notes on the social and economic history of the United States, and was perhaps compiled in connection with Professor Turner's course on that subject, given at the University of Wisconsin. A number of notes suggest the type of reading that he was doing at the time of the preparation of the "Frontier" essay. At the rear of the drawer is a section on "Immigration" apparently of the same period. This was possible collected when he was preparing the articles on immigration for the Chicago Record-Herald, August-October, 1901.Drawer No. 2. This drawer was also probably compiled during Turner's early teaching career. Material has been added later, however, distinguished by a later handwriting and differing paper types. Most of the cards contain bibliographical or reading notes, with the emphasis on sovereignty and nationalism. The Revolutionary Period receives most attention, but early social compacts are included as well as some later periods. Probably these notes were connected with Turner's course on American Constitutional History, given at Wisconsin.Drawer No. 3. A calendar prepared by Turner of three collections of manuscripts in the Library of Congress: the James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Albert Gallatin papers. Individual cards, arranged chronologically, describe each manuscript item.Drawer No. 4. A similar compilation and abstracting of the papers of James Barbour, Rufus King, and George Clinton, with a chronological arrangement employed under the heading of each individual. The latter portion of this drawer also contains a series of bibliography cards on American newspapers, and others on American public figures in the period 1820-1850.Drawer No. 5. This drawer contains a bibliography for the period 1820-1830. Arrangement is topical, with headings under "Gazetteers," "Newspapers," etc.Drawer No. 6. A chronological file of the period 1820-1830. Cards are arranged by year, and sometimes even by month within the yearly division. Most of the cards contain brief notes on research, dealing with all of the public issues of the day. (Note: for the probable use of this material by Turner in his writing, see note on his methodology, below, immediately after the description of Drawer No. 21).Drawer No. 7. This drawer contains research and bibliographical notes for the period 1820-1830, as does Drawer No. 6. Those in this drawer are, for the most part, arranged by subject, and deal largely with social, economic, and political events during the decade.Drawer No. 8. In this drawer Turner has arranged his biographical notes on which he based his essay on "The Children of the Pioneers." The first card in the box has a brief note in Turner's hand suggesting the method that he was to follow. The drawer is especially interesting in revealing the staggering amount of detailed work that underlay his statements.Drawer No. 9. Internal evidence suggests that this drawer, and those that follow, were for the most part arranged by Turner in his Harvard period. This drawer contains bibliographical material and brief research notes on the period from the Civil War to the 1880's, largely during the Grant and Hayes Administrations. Within each presidential administration, material is arranged under topical headings: "labor," "tariff," etc.Drawer No. 10. The contents of this drawer are comparable to those for Drawer No. 9, but for the period of the Harrison and Cleveland Administrations. Bibliographical information and brief reading notes are arranged topically.Drawer No. 11. Bibliographical and reading notes, arranged topically, for the period since 1900.Drawer No. 12. This contains a variety of material, largely bibliographic. Included, moving from the front to the rear of the drawer, are: a topical bibliography for the period 1865-1910, a bibliography on economic history, largely in this period, a bibliography on immigration and racial groups, apparently compiled later than that in Drawer No. 1; a small packet of cards held by a clip containing notes that appear to be related to Turner's early research and thought on sectionalism; and a miscellaneous bibliography dealing largely with the period 1865-1900.Note: The remaining drawers in the file were those used by Turner in writing his United States, 1830-1850. Their purpose will be made clear only after reading the following note on Turner's methodology and writing techniques. This was sent by Merrill H. Crissey, his secretary, to Avery Craven, on July 5, 1932, and is in TU Box 49, Correspondence, June 11-Dec., 1933:"Throughout the dictated portion of the book (including all the chapters on Presidential Administrations), the procedure, in the case of each chapter, was, first, to make a chronological card file of the raw material. Earlier researches had yielded a mass of notes, partly on cards (3" x 5", white), partly on paper. The former were at once put into a pasteboard-box file, by date; the latter were transferred to cards, which likewise went into the file. Additional cards were then prepared; material for these came from both secondary works (general histories and biographies --for a skeleton of events --and special studies deemed valuable for a particular phase of the narrative) and sources (principally the writings of political leaders, the debates in Congress, and contemporary journals). Guide cards, in color, were used for the years and months. Subject tabs (improved from gummed manila paper) were affixed to note cards bearing on topics or events of chief importance. This arrangement of notes made it easy to bring together material on any outstanding subject an d facilitated correlations. The file of notes was supplemented by sectional tabulations of Presidential-election votes and important votes in Congress."Crissey goes on to explain that Turner dictated from these notes, with the first draft recorded in triple-space; the resulting manuscript was then corrected and revised in several more versions.The following listing of the contents of drawers used in the compilation of this book uses the words employed by Turner in labeling each of the cardboard boxes from which the notes were transferred to the metal file cases:Drawer No. 13. "Correlation 1827-35."Drawer No. 14. "Campaign 1836 and Topics."Drawer No. 15. "1836 by States."Drawer No. 16. "1837."Drawer No. 17. "1838, 1839, 1840."Drawer No. 18. "1841-1843."Drawer No. 19. "Administration of James K. Polk, 1845-1849." In addition to the research notes referred to in Mr. Crissey's note above, the drawers of this series contain occasional small maps drawn by Turner, usually of congressional votes.6: Black Boxes Nos. 1-14The materials in these fourteen black boxes were apparently arranged by Merrill H. Crissey, Professor Turner's secretary, either before or after Turner's death. They consist of offprints, clippings from magazines and newspapers, pamphlets, small booklets, and an occasional student paper. Many of the items have been heavily underlined or annotated by Turner, and are valuable in indicating the nature of his historical reading and thinking. The items are numbered throughout, in Crissey's hand, from 1 to 298; the numbers that follow the drawer numbers below refer to this classification. Suggested form of citation: TU Black Box No. 1 (1-25), Item 1.Box No. 1 (1-25). Material dealing with the origin and outbreak of the Civil War. In some instances heavily annotated and with side comments by Turner.Box No. 2 (26-40). Continuation of materials on the Civil War. In addition to the usual offprints, clippings, pamphlets, etc., this box contains three student papers prepared in Turner's courses.Box No. 3 (41-64). A continuation of Civil War materials, with emphasis on military events. one student paper, from Turner's Harvard period, is included.Box No. 4 (65-83). Largely magazine clippings, but with a few additional items, dealing with the military history of the Civil War. Greatest emphasis is on the Battle of Gettysburg.Box No. 5 (84-100). A continuation of materials on the military history of the Civil War, with later battles emphasized.Box No. 6 (101-110). Materials dealing with diplomatic aspects of the Civil War.Box No. 7 (111-138). Reprints, pamphlets, clippings and the like concerning the early phases of Reconstruction, and particularly the administration of Andrew Johnson.Box No. 8 (139-159). A continuation of materials of reconstruction, with some also on the purchase of Alaska.Box No. 9 (160-168). Miscellaneous materials, having little relationship to contents of earlier boxes. Two items deserve special mention. One is a series of pages clipped from the 1890 census report containing the well-known passage on the closing of the frontier, underlined by Turner. The other is an 1891 advance sheet on the 1890 census, dealing with the spread of population between 1790-1890. (Items 163 and 164).Box No. 10 (169-206). Pamphlets, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings on technological developments and especially on the depletion of natural resources in relation to growing population needs. Source materials for Clark University address.Box No. 11 (207-228). Materials dealing with political history after Reconstruction, and emphasizing the Progressive Period. The last items are on labor and immigration history and policies for the period.Box No. 12 (229-249). Materials on labor are continued from the last box; this box also contains items on the South in the twentieth century. Newspaper clippings are more numerous than in many earlier boxes.Box No. 13 (250-274). Beginning with a few items on the South, this box also contains some materials on the Pacific Northwest and the northern Great Plains. A few items deal with foreign policy in the twentieth century.Box No. 14 (275-298). Clippings predominate in this box, on politics in the 1880s and 1920s.7: MiscellaneousThe following items are included in the collection of Turner papers:Maps. Maps drawn or used by Turner are in two filing-case size drawers. These include many political maps of others of a like nature used to illustrate his sectionalism concept. Note: In addition to the maps in these two drawers, hundreds of others are scattered through the large file drawers containing his research and reading notes.Student Thesis. One large file drawer contains a number of theses prepared in Turner's classes and seminars. These have been arranged alphabetically and labeled by Merrill H. Crissey, Mr. Turner's secretary. They have also been dated where this is possible. Note: Many other theses, term papers, and seminar reports prepared in Professor Turner's classes are scattered through File Drawers 1-22 and A-L.Lantern Slides. The lantern slides used by Turner in his teaching and lectures. Many of the slides are of political maps, elections, congressional votes, etc., prepared by Turner. Also includes 7 wooden boxes that slides were originally housed in.Ephemera. Miscellaneous materials having only a remote connection to Turner's career as teacher or scholar have been assembled in a flat cardboard box labeled "Ephemera." Included are many of the advertisements and similar material received through the mails after his death.8: Index cards These index cards consist of typewritten and handwritten notes regarding Turner and Western history.
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