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Bean (Sandra) Home Movie Collection

Dates: circa 1930s-1950s   Collection number: MS 160   Creator: Bean, Sandra.   Collection Size: 1.5 linear feet (1 box)   Guide to the Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection Available at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO) The Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection includes nine reels of 8mm and 16mm film documenting African Americans beginning in the late 1930s. The home movies include four b&w and four color films totaling 103 minutes and shows women gardening, children playing, sleeping car porters traveling across the country working for the Pullman Company, and families enjoying their leisure time dancing and fishing. A majority of the footage is thought to be taken by Ernest Bean, a sleeping car porter from the Bay Area, and documents the work of sleeping car porters working for the Pullman Company and middle class African Americans in the Bay Area during the 1930s-1940s. View online items 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.

Davison (Frank and Diane) Home Movie Collection

The Frank and Diane Davison Home Movie Collection consists of 23 color and b&w, 8mm home movies documenting the family life of the Davison family during the 1960s. The home movies include 63 minutes of footage of the family camping, skiing, at the beach, dancing “The Twist”, and celebrating Halloween, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and birthdays of friends and family members. The majority of the footage appears to take place in Alaska and Pacific Northwest with footage of family trips to Atlantic City, New Jersey, Oakland, California, and Panama. Dates: circa 1950s-1967   Collection number: MS 175   Creator: Davison, Frank, Jr.   Creator: Davison, Diane.   Collection Size: .5 linear feet (1 box)   Guide to the Frank and Diane Davison Home Movie 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.

Harold French papers, 1892-1962

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.  

Rose (Joshua) Papers

The Joshua Rose Papers document Joshua Rose's (1906-1987) life and contributions to the Oakland community as an executive for the Oakland YMCA and as a member of the Oakland Recreation Commission and the first African American to serve on the Oakland City Council. Dates: 1924-1987   Collection number: MS 8   Creator: Rose, Joshua   Collection Size: 1 linear foot (2 boxes + 1 oversized box)   Guide to the Joshua Rose 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.

Snow Museum of Natural History Records, 1917-1962

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.  

White-Warner (Rhonda) Papers

Publisher and media consultant Rhonda White-Warner (1951-2014) was born on July 7, 1951 in Oakland, California. After graduating from Oakland Technical High School in 1969, she attended California State University Hayward graduating with a bachelor of science in child development in 1975. She began her career in the Oakland arts community in 1974 as a program director for the Alameda County Neighborhood Arts Program coordinating and offering technical assistance to Alameda County cultural organizations. In 1977, she was hired as a public information specialist for the City of Oakland’s Office of Parks and Recreation writing press releases and advertising the department’s cultural and recreational programs. By 1981 she created her first media consulting and event planning agency, Authenic Vint’age Promotions, contracting with local artists to assist with graphic design, media advertising, and event planning. The Rhonda White-Warner papers consist of consulting project files, subject files, photographs, back issues and administrative files of Tidbits magazine, administrative files and theatrical programs of the Oakland Ensemble Theatre, and assorted printed material largely documenting the African American performing arts community in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s and 1980s. Dates: circa 1950s-1996   Bulk Dates: 1980-1996   Collection number: MS 144   Creator: White-Warner, Rhonda.   Collection Size: 12.5 linear feet (11 boxes + 1 oversized box)   Guide to the Rhonda White-Warner 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.

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