Correspondences

The Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams Papers include personal and business correspondence, financial records, legal records, programs, postcards, business cards, and printed material documenting the personal and business activities of Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams. The papers are organized into five series: correspondence, financial records, legal records, religious activities, and printed material. The bulk of the papers is personal correspondence written to Emma Lee Adams from various relatives in Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois. Many of the letters are from Emma Lee’s sisters, parents, and cousins and discuss general family matters such as weddings, births, illnesses, and work life. Dates: 1951-1959 Collection number: MS 63 Creators: Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams   Collection Size: 1 linear foot (2 boxes) Guide to the Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams Papers Available at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO) We encourage researchers to contact AAMLO before visiting so that we can be prepared to assist you. Please call 510-637-2000 or email aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org to arrange an appointment or inquire about access.

Dates: 1895-1987   Collection number: MS 108   Creator: Albrier, Frances Mary, 1898-1987.   Collection Size: 7.9 linear feet (7 boxes + 2 oversized boxes)   Guide to the Frances Albrier Papers Available at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO) Social activist Frances Albrier (1898-1987) was born on September 21, 1898 in Mt. Vernon, New York to Lewis L. and Laura Redgray. During the late 1930s, Albrier became active in a number of different political and civil rights issues. In 1938, she became the first woman elected to the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee. The following year she became the first woman to run for the Berkeley City Council, led the Citizen’s Employment Council’s “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaign, and organized the East Bay Women's Welfare Club, a women’s group which advocated for the hiring of black teachers in the Berkeley Unified School District. During the 1940s, she continued to be active in a number of women's, civil rights, and union organizations while serving as a first aid instructor in the American Red Cross. After her application to become a welder was denied because Black workers did not have an auxiliary union in Richmond, she garnered political pressure in the Black community forcing Kaiser Shipyards to hire her making her the first black woman welder during the war. The Frances Albrier papers include correspondence, legal and financial records, awards, photographs, records of civic organizations and women’s clubs, and assorted printed material documenting Albrier life and participation in various civic organizations and women’s clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. We encourage researchers to contact AAMLO before visiting so that we can be prepared to assist you. Please call 510-637-2000 or email aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org to arrange an appointment or inquire about access.

Two letters from writer Ambrose Bierce, one each to Carrie Sterling and a Miss Brewer. The letter to Carrie Sterling discusses their friendship and mentions her husband George, and a Miss Katie Peterson. The letter to Miss Brewer mentions "The Colonel" and a Miss Christiansen. Also contains two biographical sketches and a newspaper photograph of Bierce. (OHC MSS BIERCE) 3 items Arranged chronologically.   Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Letter from Mayor Williams inviting Henry [Rabbi?] to participate in the consecration ceremony for Golden Gate Cemetery, to be held on Thursday, October 1st, 1857, in Oakland, California. Andrew Williams served as the fourth Mayor of Oakland, California. (OHC MSS WILLIAMS) 1 leaf in folder (.01 linear feet) Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Materials relating to the creation and workings of the citizen's group Association for the Best in Rapid Transit. B.A. Bell correspondence is primarily related to his role as Chairman of the association. Of note in the subject file: a report on an Urban Renewal Re-Development Clinic, 1957; November 1958 election information from the League of Women Voters; press releases from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District; papers by the Westinghouse Electric Transportation Division; questionnaires from the Bay Area Transportation Study Commission; and reports from the California Division of Highways on proposed alternative routes for the Grove-Shafter Freeway. (OHC COLL 2014-16) 7 folders in 1 box (.2 linear feet) Items within folders arranged chronologically.   Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.      

Records of the Bay Area Paul Robeson Centennial Committee, consisting of fliers and programs for Committee events held in Berkeley, San Francisco and Oakland, California. Includes correspondence between Committee members and various entities, meeting agendas and minutes, copies of their monthly newsletter titled "On My Journey Now," and diverse research materials.    (OHC COLL 2023-3)   5 folders in 1 box (.2 linear feet)   Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Dates: 1957-1980   Collection number: MS 42   Creator: California Native Daughters Club   Collection Size: .25 linear feet (1 box)   Guide to the California Native Daughters Club Collection Available at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO) View online items The California Native Daughters Club was founded in Berkeley, California in the late 1950s. Founders included Bertha Allen, the club's first president, and Ruth Lasartemay, who also served as president later. The club joined the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs in 1959. The club was actively involved in multiple local activities such as California Negro History Week. The California Native Daughters Club Collection consists of correspondence, records, printed materials, founding documents, and artifacts related to club activities and member activities. The collection includes correspondence to and from the club and membership information for the women who were in the club and the club's relationship to outside organizations. We encourage researchers to contact AAMLO before visiting so that we can be prepared to assist you. Please call 510-637-2000 or email aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org to arrange an appointment or inquire about access.

Letters from American writer Charles Warren Stoddard to his cousin Harry Makee and Sunset Magazine editor Charles Sedgwick Aiken. Stoddard and his cousin were very close as demonstrated by the six letters, sent between 1875 and 1886, in this collection. The three letters to Mr. Aiken, sent between 1903 and 1905, are equally friendly, although brief, and touch on submissions to Sunset magazine. (OHC MSS STODDARD) 1 folder (.02 linear feet) Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Letters, municipal records, business records and some personal papers of Oakland, California, mayor Frank K. Mott. The letters relate primarily to his job as mayor (1905-1915), including several that discuss the city's acquisition of the harbor from the Southern Pacific Company in 1909 and the subsequent harbor improvements. There is no discussion of the 1906 earthquake. City of Oakland records include official deeds, grants, and other legal documents, including the Certificate of Election for Mott's first mayoral election in 1905, Official Bonds of the City of Oakland of George Gross as Auditor and Ex Officio Assessor in 1907 and 1909, Mott's brief statement --given that afternoon -- to the people of Oakland regarding the earthquake of 1906, contracts with the Contra Costa Water Company and the Oakland Water Front Company, and financial statements regarding the Grove and Webster Street sewers. Mott's campaign materials consist of blank letterhead and an election mailer. The campaign and recall folder also includes two pieces of ephemera from F. F. Jackson's failed 1911 run against Mott, poems favoring the 1911 recall, a written statement from United States Representative Joseph Knowland against the recall, a list of union men instrumental in the recall effort, and mailers from The Tax-payer's League of Oakland. His personal papers include life insurance policies, leases and receipts for multiple properties, a 1910 Alameda County poll tax receipt, stock certificates for several mining and oil companies, an inventory of household goods for the Mott's home on Lee Street and the accompanying home insurance policy (1935). Bills from the Frank K. Mott Co. and stock transactions and lists of assets of the Suburban Development Co. round out the collection. (OHC MSS MOTT) 7 folders, .2 linear feet Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Correspondence, research notes, and copies of materials relating to the life of Horace Walpole Carpentier assembled by Frederick J. Monteagle of Piedmont, California. Mr. Monteagle corresponded with staff members from Universities and State Libraries throughout California and New York regarding information in their collections pertaining to or originating with Mr. Carpentier and many of the strings of correspondence contain copies of letters by Mr. Carpentier or his lawyers. The Galway folder consists of photographs of headstones from cemeteries in Galway, New York, a brief histoy of the town, "A Tour of Galway Today with glimpses of the past" presented by the Galway Bicentennial Commission, and other materials relating to the Carpentier (previously Carpenter) family's history in Galway. (OHC COLL 2014-18) 6 folders in 1 box (.2 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Three letters from California author Gertrude Atherton to her friend Ednah Aiken. The letters primarily convey her good wishes to Mrs. Aiken, but also briefly touch on her writings, including "California, An Intimate History" and "The Sophisticates." One letter mentions the death of her friend, Senator James Duval Phelan. Includes typed transcripts of the letters. (OHC MSS ATHERTON) 3 leaves Arranged chronologically.     Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Letters to and from Berkeley, California, realtor H. M. Martin regarding the sale of lots in the Rock Ridge neighborhood of Oakland, California. Significant correspondents are Oakland, California realtor Fred E. Reed, L. E. Schulz, H. E. Wetzel, and realtors W. G. Wood and F. P. Tatum of Wood & Tatum, Co. Also includes two letters to realtor P. H. Zens. (OHC MSS MARTIN, H.M.) 4 folders (.1 linear feet) Arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name.     Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.    

Oakland, California, resident Harold French was an avid hiker and conservationist. He founded the Contra Costa Hills Club in 1920 and campaigned extensively for the creation of a regional park system, a dream that was realized with the founding of the East Bay Regional Park District in 1934. Primarily the letters and writings of Harold French. Most letters describe the workings of the Contra Costa Hills Club and Mr. French's tireless efforts to create and expand the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD). Personal letters are primarily to his mother and discuss his love of nature and hiking. One letter, to Isabel Borthwick (later his wife), describes a hiking excursion in Marin County. Prominent correspondents include William Penn Mott, Jr., Robert Sibley, and Richard E. Walpole. His two hiking journals detail many hikes in Marin and Alameda Counties, including hikes on Mount Tamalpais, Mount Diablo, and in Wildcat Canyon. The two diaries discuss his everyday life at work and home, including outings with his wife, children's birthdays, his writing, and his gardening efforts. (OHC MSS FRENCH) 8 folders, .1 linear feet. Go here for a more detailed description of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Primarily letters from Helen Julia Clarke to Dr. and Mrs. Elliott Coues regarding the supernatural. Also includes a letter from her mother Julia regarding the disposition of her father Thomas Brownell Clarke's papers, a letter from "B" to "C," and two writings by Helen: a biographical sketch of Thomas Clarke published in The Carrier Dove; and an account of the April 1874 manifestation at her father's house. (OHC MSS CLARKE) 13 leaves Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Correspondence and typescript poems of California poet Henry Meade Bland. Outgoing letters are mostly to John B. Kaiser and incoming letters are primarily from L. Morgan with one letter from Arthur Truman Merrill. Also contains a photograph of Bland standing in a forest, one sheet of letterhead from the Henry Meade Bland Poet Laureate's Association, and a letter, dated 1933 November 9, from Clara Elizabeth Kuck to Warren West that mentions Bland. (OHC MSS BLAND) 27 leaves Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Ina Donna Coolbrith was California's first Poet Laureate and the first librarian of the Oakland Free Library. Correspondence, photographs, poems and other materials of California poet Ina Donna Coolbrith. Also includes some papers of her niece and grandniece.  (OHC MSS COOLBRITH)  23 folders and 1 box. Arranged into four series: Personal papers (folders 1-11 and box 1); Writings (folders 12-17); Professional papers (folders 18-21); and Family papers (folders 22-23). Go here for a more detailed description of this collection's contents.    Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

The Clarice Isaacs papers include assorted letters, thank you cards, and postcards from family and friends of Clarice Isaacs and two plaques awarded to Isaacs from the Circle of Positive Women and the YMCA Century Club. Dates: 1942-1987   Collection number: MS 101   Creator: Isaacs, Clarice   Collection Size: .25 linear feet (1 box)   Guide to the Clarice Isaacs Papers Available at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO) We encourage researchers to contact AAMLO before visiting so that we can be prepared to assist you. Please call 510-637-2000 or email aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org to arrange an appointment or inquire about access.

Irish-born American traveler, artist, writer and government agent John Ross Browne came to California with the gold rush in 1849. Over the next few decades he traveled extensively up and down the Pacific Coast in service to the government. He also traveled in Europe and the Middle East, moving his family to Germany in 1861. In 1863 he returned to the American West, traveling in and writing about Arizona. Browne died December 9, 1875, in Oakland, California. Photo reproductions of two partial letters from Browne, draft of his appointment and memorandum of duties as a Special Agent for the Department of the Interior reporting on Indian Affairs, note offering his services as an Agent in Washoe, 13 of Browne's illustrations from publications, 3 sketches by Browne, and 1 photo of Browne with his two sons. Originals of the photo reproductions date from the 1860s. Also includes a biographical sketch of Browne. (OHC MSS BROWNE) 21 leaves Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library. 

Primarily letters to and from American poet Joaquin Miller. Most of the letters written by Miller are to his second wife, Abbie Leland Miller, and Piedmont, California, native Miss Dagmar Games. Well known correspondents include fellow poets Ina Coolbrith and George Sterling, journalists George Wharton James and Blanche Partington, and publisher Mrs. Frank Leslie. Also includes photographs of Joaquin Miller, mostly taken in the last decade of his life near his home, The "Hights," in the hills above Oakland, California, perhaps a half dozen manuscript and typescript poems, and a few newspaper clippings. (OHC MSS MILLER, JOAQUIN) 9 folders, .5 linear feet Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Materials documenting President John F. Kennedy's Charter Day speech at the University of California, Berkeley on Mar. 23, 1962. Included in the collection are photographs and letters of personal observations from people who had contact with President Kennedy during his visit and from the public at large.  (OHC COLL 2013-15) 2 boxes (.6 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Incoming and outgoing letters of Oakland, California, Mayor John L. Davie. The five incoming letters (1915-1923) consist of three short typescript notes and two pre-printed cards, from William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, the Wilson White House, the secretary to President Woodrow Wilson, and Mrs. Warren G. Harding. The three outgoing letters consist of two short typescript letters to Adolph Sutro (1895), President Calvin Coolidge (1924), and one personal letter from Davie to his grandson, Wilbur Davie, addressed to City Hall (1929), and describing Davie's voyage to Scotland. (OHC MSS DAVIE) 8 letters in 1 folder, .02 linear feet Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Research notes, manuscripts, and publication-related materials created and compiled by author Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel in relation to her 1973 book Ina Coolbrith, Librarian and Laureate of California.   (OHC COLL 2025-1)   70 folders and 6 card files in 14 boxes (10.8 linear feet)   Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library. 

Primarily correspondence and photographs of longtime Oakland, California, resident Juanita Miller. Also includes handwritten and typescript notes on the annual productions she put on in Joaquin Miller Park's Woodminster Amphitheater to celebrate the literary legacy of her father, poet Joaquin Miller, drafts of her writings, and her applications for recognition as a Native Daugher of the Golden West and for her father as a Pioneer of California, blank postcards from a series she copywrited featuring her father and their life together at "The Hights," and two volumes of posthumous clippings relating to her father. Notable correspondents include her father, poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and politician Robert B. Roosevelt, and lecturer George Wharton James. The photographs mostly date from her adult years, many showing her annual productions in Woodminster Amphitheater.  Juanita Joaquina Miller was born in New York, New York, in 1880, the only child of poet Joaquin Miller and his second wife, hotel heiress Abbie Leland Miller. After her father's death in 1913, Juanita Miller continued living at "The Hights," dedicating the rest of her life to the arts and to relentlessly promoting her father's legacy and writings. She died in an Oakland convalescent hospital in 1970 after a brief illness. (OHC MSS MILLER, JUANITA) 12 folders (.5 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Excelsior diary for 1905 kept by Oakland, California, Attorney Leonard M. Clark. Regular and extensive entries for January 1 through June 19, with sporadic and brief entries for the rest of the year. Address list, memoranda, and accounts are in the back of the volume. (OHC MSS CLARK) 1 v. ; 12 cm. Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library. 

Unsigned letter from a Berkeley, California, woman to a Miss Effie, describing seeing unemployed men in Downtown Oakland during the Great Depression, listening to the radio, and her family goings-on. Includes a typed transcription of the letter made by Oakland History Room staff. (OHC MSS EFFIE) 1 leaf Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Letters from residents of the San Francisco east bay written following the San Francisco earthquake and fire on April 18, 1906, relating their experiences of the earthquake and its aftermath, work in relief efforts, damage to buildings, and the smoky sky over San Francisco. (OHC MSS EARTHQUAKE) 1 folder, .02 linear feet. Go here for a more detailed description of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Fourteen letters to Captain George E. Black of Oakland, California, written to him while he was in Fairplay, Wisconsin during the winter of 1880 to 1881. Nearly half of the letters are from his wife and three are from his brother in Connecticut. (OHC MSS BLACK) 20 leaves Arranged chronologically.   Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Wiliam Dallam Armes graduated from the University of California in 1882 and served as Associate Professor of American Literature in the English Department for many years. He was a founding member of the Sierra Club and served as the Club's first secretary. Collection includes letters from naturalist John Muir, poet Fred Emerson Brooks, and NYU professor Francis Hovey Stoddard.  (OHC MSS ARMES) 7 leaves Arranged chronologically.   Go here for a more detailed description of this collection's contents. Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Four letters and one postcard from Bay Area native Lieutenant Peter N. Kujachich, United States Naval Reserves, to Miss E. Lorenzini and Miss Morgan of Berkeley, California, written at the very end of World War II. The letters primarily contain his observations about the places he was stationed, including Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, Manila, Philippines, Jinsen (Incheon), Korea, and Shanghai, China with brief mention of Princeton University, life aboard ship, and his voyage through the Panama Canal. His letter of April 14, 1945 touches upon the death of President Franklin Roosevelt. (OHC MSS KUJACHICH) 5 letters in 1 folder, .02 linear feet Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Marguerite Rodgers was appointed to a position in the Reference Department of the Oakland Free Library in July 1911. In 1928 she was made head of the Pictures Division where in the course of a long career she amassed a substantial collection of photographs, art prints and other graphic materials. She retired in 1961. The Oakland History Room of the Oakland Public Library received this collection in Apr. 2007 from the Deschutes Historical Society of Bend, Oregon. Primarily personal and professional correspondence. Also includes notes and memoranda relating to her library career and some materials regarding her personal finances. (OHC COLL 2013-26) 6 folders in 2 boxes (.6 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Four letters and one card from novelist Mary Austin to her friend Carrie Sterling, wife of poet George Sterling. The letters primarily discuss Austin's writing, and life in New York City and Carmel, California. Some letters mention Jack and Charmian London, George Sterling, and the Forest Theater. Also includes one card to "Dear Poet." (OHC MSS AUSTIN) 10 items Arranged chronologically.   Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

(OHC MSS KNOX) 10 folders (.3 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  Letters to and from Minnie Knox, mostly discussing the publication of her poetry, as well as programs, bulletins, and speeches relating to her involvement in several local clubs, articles, short stories, poetry, speeches and address by Minnie Knox, and some photographs of her, including portraits and images from Poets' Dinners and other events. California Writers' Club materials are primarily issues of their monthly Bulletin while those of the College Women's Club relate primarily to addresses she gave at their 30th and 50th anniversary dinners. The Poets' Dinner materials consist primarily of place cards, place card rhymes, and typescript copies of the "coronation" speeches given by Minnie Knox over the years. Several of the speeches and addresses relate to her involvement with the American Legion and Daughters of the American Revolution. Poet Minnie Faegre Knox was born on April 20, 1886, in Flandreau, South Dakota, and received her post-secondary education at the University of Minnesota (graduating in 1908). She married Walter K. Knox 1909 and they eventually settled in Oakland, California, where she wrote poems and plays and joined clubs in the area. Minnie Knox was an editor of the California Writers' Club and a member of the College Woman's Club of Berkeley and the Daughters of the American Revolution, among other organizations. She died on December 12, 1980, at age ninety-four and is buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California.

Primarily correspondence. Includes some programs. The Oakland Art Gallery, later called the Oakland Art Museum, was established in January 1916 as an administrative unit of the city of Oakland. Its name was changed to Oakland Art Museum in 1953. Its first director was Robert Harshe, while William H. Clapp served the longest as director, from 1918 to 1952. The first gallery was located in the loft of the Oakland Auditorium. Although intended as a temporary location, the auditorium remained the home of the collection until, in 1969, the collection was merged into the new Oakland Museum. (OHC COLL 2014-1) 5 folders in 1 box (.4 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Primarily letters, to and from Paul Martin, many regarding the San Francisco Symphony's performance of his orchestral composition, "Elegy to an Unknown Hero, Opus 14" in November 1929. Also includes several of Mr. Martin's writings on music, the beginnings of a Symphony in C minor, an application of copyright for his "Elegy to an Unknown Hero," and the Chinese national anthem transcribed for piano. Composer and educator Paul Martin served as principal for several Oakland, California, schools from 1902 until his retirement in 1938. (OHC MSS MARTIN) 2 folders (0.05 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Oakland California's Snow Museum of Natural History opened in 1922. Specimens collected by big game hunters Henry A. Snow and Leslie Simson on a city-funded African safari in 1919 formed the majority of the collection. Henry Snow was the museum's first director, followed by his daughter, Nydine E. Snow, after his death in 1927. In its early years (1922-1926) the museum also featured some live animals which were cared for by Henry Snow's son Sidney Snow. This small zoo formed the roots of the Oakland Zoo with Sidney Snow serving as its first director. The Snow Museum closed in 1967 and many of its natural history exhibits were folded into the newly created Oakland Museum of California which brought three city-funded museums, including the Snow Museum, under one roof.   This collection includes correspondence, monthly reports and legal documents of the Snow Museum of Natural History in Oakland, California.   (OHC MSS SNOW) 8 folders (.3 linear feet)   Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.  

Oakland Heritage Alliance files related to the development of the Uptown area of Oakland, California. Files principally concern the designation of the “Uptown Retail and Rehabilitation Area,” of the Central District Urban Renewal Plan, and subsequent development proposals. Materials include city documents, development proposals, including for the Fox Theater, correspondence, including from merchants and Uptown Business Association; and newspaper clippings. Also includes planning documents for a tour of Uptown (2001-2002).   (OHC COLL 2024-1)   7 folders in 1 box (.4 linear feet)   Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library. 

Primarily incoming letters and photographs relating to McCracken's eight years as Mayor of Oakland, California. The letters are mostly congratulatory or thankful in nature and the photographs are mostly of ribbon cuttings, banquets, and other ceremonial events. Also contains one folder of programs and campaign material, including programs for the opening ceremonies of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and the groundbreaking of the Broadway Low Level Tunnel in 1934. Of particular note in the collection are photographs documenting the goodwill visit of the German cruiser Karlsruhe in March, 1935, including images of the parade which show the German Nazi flag flying on Broadway and in front of Oakland City Hall, a banquet honoring Amelia Earhart, the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan and his airplane, Oakland Pride Club activities, and the Presidential dinner with Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorating the groundbreaking for the Golden Gate International Exhibition. (OHC MSS McCRACKEN) 9 folders (.3 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents.  Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.