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.
Julian Elihu Bagley was born in South Jacksonville, Florida in 1892. He earned a degree in agriculture from the Hampton Institute and served in the Army during World War I. He moved to San Francisco in 1922 to open a waterfront hotel, and he became well-known as the concierge of the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. He served as the opera house’s official greeter for 39 years beginning on its opening night on October 15, 1932. Bagley was also the author of a book of animal folktales, Candle-lighting time in Bodidalee, a collection of African folktales set in his native Florida. The collection includes five photographs, nine pieces of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and programs from the author’s memorial service. Dates: 1925-1981 Bulk Dates: 1951-1981 Collector: Gerrits, Elwood Burton Creator: Bagley, Julian, 1892-1981 Collection Size: .1 linear foot (1 box) Guide to the Julian Bagley Collection 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.
Primarily letters to and from Alameda artist Bessie Sloan, including some correspondence with American ethnologist George Wharton James. Also contains manuscript and typescript copies of several of Bessie Sloan's poems, including "Sentinel Redwood Remembers," photographs of Bessie and, presumably her sister-in-law, Vera Sloan, and clippings. The clippings are primarily about Vera Sloan's stage performances. (OHC MSS SLOAN) 6 folders (.1 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents. Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.
Dates: 1982-1997 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1994-1997) Collection number: MS 152 Creator: Black Women Stirring the Waters (Oakland, Calif.) Creator: Butler, Mary Ellen, 1940- Collection Size: .75 linear feet (2 boxes) Guide to the Black Women Stirring the Waters Collection Available at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO) Black Women Stirring the Waters is a Black women’s discussion group founded in 1984 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The group was conceived by Clara Stanton Jones, the first African American to head the public library of a major city and the first African American president of the American Library Association, and Aileen Clarke Hernandez, activist, and former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW). The group was organized with no formal structure, no taboo subjects, and no requirements for membership other than an interest in the dialog. Black Women Stirring the Waters takes its name from a quote attributed to the 19th century abolitionist, Sojourner Truth. In 1997, forty-four members of the group published a collection of autobiographical memoirs discussing ways they have dealt with obstacles and have grown in their lives and careers. The Black Women Stirring the Waters Collection includes contributing authors’ manuscripts and correspondence, history and records of the group, and audio recordings. The collection documents the creation of the organization’s 1997 publication, Black Women Stirring the Waters. 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.
Primarily scrapbooks of clippings on the life and work of American poet Edwin Markham. One scrapbook also includes clippings about his son, mystery writer Virgil Markham and holiday cards from the scrapbook's creator. Also in the collection, a letter from Markham to Ruth LePrade and all friends of The Poet's Garden and one letter from Markham to Charles S. Greene. American poet Edwin Markham (April 23, 1852 – March 7, 1940) was working as a principal at Tompkins Observation School in Oakland, California, when his poem "The Man With The Hoe" was published in the San Francisco Examiner on January 15, 1899. The poem was quickly republished throughout the country and made Markham famous. (OHC MSS MARKHAM) 5 folders, .4 linear feet Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents. Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.
Collection documenting Ina Coolbrith Circle member Rosemary C. Wilkinson's efforts to bring the Fifth World Congress of Poets to San Francisco, and provides a record of activities of the congress in July 1981. Includes pre-conference planning and preparation, congress proceedings, and post-congress publications and correspondence. (OHC COLL 2015-11) 1 box (1.1 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents. Available at Oakland History Center, Main Library.
Primarily published and typescript copies of poems by American poet George Sterling. Also includes three letters from Sterling to fellow poet Joaquin Miller, a brief note from Mary Austin to Sterling, a photo portrait of Sterling, a Bohemian Club midsummer jinks programme from 1926, a program for the Western Drama Society quarterly performance in Carmel, California (1913), commemorative writings about Sterling by Milo Mosier and Mary Austin, and a letter from John Howell discussing Sterling's poem "Yosemite." Writings contained in the collection consist of: The abalone song (3 printings); The ballad of the ghost-arrow; Ballad of the swabs; The black hound bays; The evanescent city; A first-class fighting man (essay); Forenoon on the Pacific; The guerdon of the sun; Lilies of stone; Lonely beaches; Nora May French; Pavement; The sailing of Keats (includes some of Sterlings thoughts on Keats); The shadow maker; Sierran dawn; Song of friendship; The song of Henry Maxwell; Sonnets to Craig; Stars of the noon; Together; Under the rainbow; Wilshire's I-ON-A-CO (essay); Yerba Buena, July 9, 1846. Writings are poems unless noted otherwise. Most were published in Sunset Magazine and The American Mercury. (OHC MSS STERLING) 3 folders (.1 linear feet) Go here for a more detailed description 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.
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.
Newsletters, scrapbooks, correspondence, and other materials relating to the Ina Coolbrith Circle, a California poetry society established in 1919 in honor of Ina Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate. It holds meetings and poetry contests, and publishes anthologies. (OHC COLL 2015-10) 1 box (1.1 linear feet) 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.
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.
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 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.
Biographical narratives, bibliographies, writings and images clipped from journals and newspapers, and other materials relating to the life and work of poet Joaquin Miller. (OHC COLL 2017-1) 1 box (.3 linear feet) Arranged alphabetically. Go here for a more detailed list of this collection's contents. 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 original drawings published in the Overland Monthly when Charles S. Greene was assistant editor or editor (1887-1899). Artists represented in the collection are Grace Hudson, Ernest Peixotto, Lafayette Maynard Dixon, Pierre M. Boeringer, George E. Lyon, Pearl Finer, G.H. Piper, an artist with the initials H.B., and several unidentified artists. Also includes a signed photograph of Frederic Remington and a letter regarding the estate of artist Alvin H. Sydenham. Biographical sketches of Charles Greene highlighting his work at both Overland Monthly and the Oakland Free Library are also included. (OHC COLL 2022-3) 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.
Morrie Turner (1923-2014), the first nationally syndicated African American cartoonist, was born on December 11, 1923 in Oakland, California. In the 1960’s Turner created “Wee Pals” a comic strip about an ethnically diverse group of friends. The “Wee Pals” originally appeared in only 5 newspapers but that eventually grew to over 100. In 1972 ABC produced 17 episodes of the “Wee Pals” as an animated series for their Saturday morning lineup. In 1965 Turner became one of the founding members of the East Bay Negro Historical Society (EBNHS). The Morrie Turner Papers consist of five boxes, original drawings and comic strips of the Wee Pals as well as copies of those clipped from the newspaper. Also included are coloring books by Turner, family photos, professional correspondence and contracts as well as an oral history interview with Turner and original hand puppets based upon the Wee Pals. Dates: 1924-2014 Bulk Dates: 1965-2014 Collection number: MS 24 Creator: Turner, Morrie Collection Size: 6 linear feet (4 boxes + 2 oversized) Guide to the Morrie Turner 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: 1924-1993 Creator: Wyatt, Faricita Hall Collection Size: 1.5 linear feet (3 boxes) Guide to the Faricita Hall Wyatt Papers Available at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO) Educator, poet, and artist Faricita Hall Wyatt (1912-1993) was born on October 29, 1912 to William M. Hall and Susie Sylindia Pinkney Hall. Wyatt published two books of poetry The River Must Flow (1965) and By the Banks of the River (1974) and was also an accomplished painter. The Faricita Hall Wyatt Papers include correspondence, poetry manuscripts, photographs, awards, and guest books that document the life and career of Faricita Hall Wyatt. 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.
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