Guide to the Mount Diablo Museum Advisory Committee records, [ca ]

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1 No online items records, [ca ] Processed by a former Committee member The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, Phone: (510) Fax: (510) bancref@library.berkeley.edu URL: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Note Biological and Medical Sciences --Biological Sciences --EnvironmentBiological and Medical Sciences --Agriculture --ForestryGeographical (By Place) --California --Bay Area BANC MSS C-A 383 1

2 Records, [ca ] Collection number: BANC MSS C-A 383 The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Contact Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, Phone: (510) Fax: (510) URL: Processed by: A former Committee member Encoded by: James Lake 1997 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: Mount Diablo Records, Date (inclusive): [ca ] Collection Number: BANC MSS C-A 383 Creator: Mount Diablo Extent: Number of containers: 11 cartons Repository: The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Abstract: Correspondence, minutes of committee meetings, administrative reports, photographs, reference materials used in preparation of reports, and copies of reports prepared by the staff on the history of the redwoods and on Mt. Diablo. They relate to the projects sponsored by the State Division of Parks under the SERA and the WPA for the preparation of graphic educational material for the California Redwoods Park and the Mt. Diablo State Museum. The Mt. Diablo project, , succeeded the earlier redwoods project. Languages Represented: English Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft BANC MSS C-A 383 2

3 Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Mount Diablo records, BANC MSS C-A 383, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. #1: Redwood Pictorial - Correspondence - Administration and Reports Ctn. 1 Exhibits and Publicity Installation - Temporary Museum Permanent Museum Building Winter Housing Work Divisions Art Maps and Legends Photographs and Lantern Slides Signs and Carpentry Quarters Property and Costs Accomplishment Record December -April 1936 February -May 1937 Administrative BANC MSS C-A 383 3

4 #1: Redwood Pictorial - Correspondence - Administration and Reports Division of Parks, W.P.A., Division of Parks, 2873 Federal Arts, 2130 J. D. Ellsworth R. S. Ellsworth Personnel General Artists Training and Field Work Clarkson Dye Reports SERA Progress Report, 1935 SERA Accounts Ctn. 2 WPA Woolridge, 1936 WPA Progress Report, 1937 WPA Project Proposal, 1937 WPA Progress Report, 1937 Master Report BANC MSS C-A 383 4

5 #1: Redwood Pictorial - Correspondence - Administration and Reports Part I, July 1937 Part II, July 1937 Progress Report of Work for Year 1937 Progress Report of Work for Year 1938 Summary of Work Completed 1938 #2: Pictorial History of Redwoods - Visualizations and Texts Ctn. 2 Master Report, July 1937 Historical Series - general Building a Pioneer Redwood Cabin Splitting Cut Boards and Shakes Pioneer Family Life Pioneer Use of Tan Oak Pioneer Use of Madrone Early Lumbering Operations Scientific Series - General Redwood's Ancestry Stream of Human Events Ctn. 3 How Redwoods Reproduce BANC MSS C-A 383 5

6 #2: Pictorial History of Redwoods - Visualizations and Texts How Redwoods Grow and Feed Redwood's Root System Why Redwoods are Large And Old Plants of the Redwoods Animals of the Redwoods Mammals of the Redwoods Biological Values - Big Basin Life Lists - Big Basin Plants Saving the Big Basin Redwoods Great Men and Sayings (Sequoyah) #3 I. Research on Two University Exhibits - Science in the Service of Man - Golden Gate International Exposition, Ctn. 3 A. Zoology : Five Life Zones in California Correspondence Dioramas - 5 Life Zones Field Trips and Accounts Photographs, Charts and Texts Original Pen and Ink Tracings B. Botany : Flora of California Early Botanical Explorations BANC MSS C-A 383 6

7 #3 I. Research on Two University Exhibits - Science in the Service of Man - Golden Gate International E... Escholtz and Chamiso Menzies and others David Douglas Curtis Companion Haenke Fremont Ctn. 4 Memoirs of My Life II. Redwood Pioneering Santa Cruz Mountains Physical Description: 99 Packets Ctn. 4 Original Drawings: Pencil and Pen and Ink for lantern slides Building a Pioneer Redwood Cabin Sketches of Maddock Family Pioneer Use of Madrone Transporting Redwood Products Splitting Out Boards and Shakes Building the Maddock Cabin Pioneer Life Associated with the Cabin Making Furniture for the Cabin Some packets contain preliminary sketches used in planning the drawings and others are source materials Drawings authenticated by surviving pioneers III. Miscellaneous Ctn. 4 Western Museum Laboratories NPS American Association of Museums Records of Santa Cruz daily precipitation , also Del Monte Physical Description: 1 Binder #4: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Files of Correspondence Ctn. 4 State Park Coordinator - Frederick Perl Labor Relations BANC MSS C-A 383 7

8 #4: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Files of Correspondence Workers Alliance Mathew Anglim Marjorie Lee Ctn. 5 Planning White Sands National Monument Physical Description: Booklet Proposed NPS Museum Ansel Hall Advisory Committee Lay Committee Historical Committee Scientific Committee Report of September 1939 Chaney-Drury Opposition Reports Physical Description: 2 copies Fund Raising Committee Minutes of Committee Meetings I. December 8, 1937 II. February 16, 1938 III. April 27, 1938 IV. May 17, 1938 BANC MSS C-A 383 8

9 #4: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Files of Correspondence V. April 28, 1939 VI. September 14, 1939 VII. December 1, 1939 VIII. December 13, 1939 IX. January 25, 1940 Park Commissioner Publicity General Publicity Ctn. 6 Museum Building and Installation Museum Building Permanent Master Plan - Exhibit Layout Temporary Museum Summit House Summit House Registration, April 1938-October 1939 Visitors by World Physical Description: 1 Folder Visitors by State Physical Description: 1 Folder Visitors by Counties Physical Description: 1 Folder #5: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Historical - Visualization and Texts Ctn. 6 Myths of the Miwok by C. Hart Merriam BANC MSS C-A 383 9

10 #5: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Historical - Visualization and Texts Mural - Miwok Myths Folk Lore - Spanish Legends Legend of Mt. Diablo by Bret Harte El Monte Del Diablo by John Fox Indian Life and Cultural Traits Handbook of the Indians of California by A. L. Kroeber - Costanoans Spanish Exploration Fages-Crespi Expedition Anza-Font Expedition Crespi Diary Fages Diary Spanish Borderlands by Bolton Costanso Diary by Teggart Additional Note Cover for Costanso Diary. Spanish Exploration Physical Description: Packet Settlement - John Marsh California Home of John Marsh Physical Description: (4 copies) Physical Description: Booklet S.F. Evening Bulletin, July 19, 1856 John Marsh, Pioneer by George D. Lyman, Oakland Tribune BANC MSS C-A

11 #5: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Historical - Visualization and Texts John Marsh (1) Site of Operations John Marsh (2) Richter Visualizations John Marsh (3) Ctn. 7 Spanish Land Grants - Livermore Robert Livermore - Visualization Robert Livermore - Thesis by Flora Lauretta Denier American Frontier - Fur Trade Reminiscences of John Monroe Walker - MS Bidwell - First Emigrant Train Bidwell - Life in California Base and Meridian - Leander Ransom Ransom Recollections of Leander Ransom Pioneer Engineer, by his Daughter Scientific Surveys - J. D. Whitney Brewer - Up and Down California Coast Geodetic Survey - George Davidson Coast Geodetic Survey Coast Geodetic Survey Tracings BANC MSS C-A

12 #5: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Historical - Visualization and Texts Ghost Towns - Coal Mining Panorama Photo - Tassajera Valley Panorama Photo - Tassajera Valley Coal Mining Coal Mining in Mt. Diablo Region by Margaret Bullard - Thesis Physical Description: (2 copies) Early Development - Recreation #6: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Natural Science - Animals and Plants Ctn. 7 General Subject Matter General Subject Matter - Outline Mt. Diablo Pictorial Packet of Photographs Physical Description: Packet History of Contra Costa by F. J. Hulaniski Historical Geology Geology of Diablo by Clark Origin of Mt. Diablo Roadside Stations Prehistoric Life Ctn. 8 Invertebrates Black Hawk Quarry BANC MSS C-A

13 #6: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Natural Science - Animals and Plants Fossil Animals Prehistoric Life General Prehistoric Life Mt. Diablo Animals McClintock Wild Life Study Check List Birds - Kayne Check List Birds - Leach Check List Birds - Grinnell Living Bird Life Bird Life (Mounted Photos) Plants Wild Flowers of California Physical Description: 1 Booklet Bowerman Check List General Plant Lists Progress of Paintings Artists Meetings Field Trips Collecting Vegetation Types Common Flowering Plants BANC MSS C-A

14 #6: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Natural Science - Animals and Plants Plant Lists - Greene Plant Lists - Eastwood Plant Lists - Bowerman William Henry Brewer Volney Rattan Edward Lee Greene Duncan Wild Flowers Trees of Mt. Diablo Summit Woodland Chaparral Grassland #7: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Administration and Work Divisions Ctn. 9 Administration Division of Parks WPA District 7 WPA, September 1937-July 1939 WPA Bulletins and Requisitions BANC MSS C-A

15 #7: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Administration and Work Divisions Parks: District Superintendent Mt. Diablo: Warden R. S. Coon Materials and Supplies Housing and Property Sponsors Contribution Work Divisions I. Art Work II. Photographic Work Photographs Park Office Photographs - Transmittals III. Lantern Slides IV. Maps V. Cabinet and Carpentry Museum Cases 1 File VI. Signs VII. Clerical Work Technical Supervision Transportation and Travel Costs BANC MSS C-A

16 #7: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Administration and Work Divisions Technical Supervision - Rodney S. Ellsworth Qualifications Ctn. 10 Transportation and Personnel Account Travel Authorizations Personnel Administration Artists Field Work Staff Meetings Conflicts and Suspensions Artists - Biographies #8: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Reports Ctn. 10 Project Proposal, October 1937 Physical Description: Master Copy Project Proposal, October 1937 Physical Description: Working Office Copy Report for Year 1937 Completion Redwood Pictorial # 2873, September 15 Beginning Mt. Diablo Pictorial # 7754, October 27 Progress Report, July 1938 Physical Description: Master Copy Progress Report, July 1938 Physical Description: Working Office Copy Cover for Progress Report (unused) General History Newspapers BANC MSS C-A

17 #8: Mt. Diablo Pictorial - Reports Walnut Kernel, 10th Anniversary Walnut Kernel, August 14, 1941 Miscellaneous newspaper accounts Geographical Location and Area Contra Costa County and Miscellaneous Folders and Pamphlets Contra Costa Development Association Histories 1. New York Landing, Nortonville, Pittsburg Landing, Sumersville, Empire Mine 2. Pacheco 3. San Ramon 4. Crockett 5. Richmond 6. Agriculture 7. Relocation of Crockett-Martinez Highway El Monte del Diablo by John Samuel Fox, Landmark Series Physical Description: 5 copies Ctn. 11 Museum vs Non-Museum Controversy Museum vs Non-Museum Controversy Cabinet Shop Museum vs Non-Museum Conroversy Contra Costa Schools Use of Project Architect's Drawing - Permanent Museum - Mat Overflow from Box # 6 Prehistoric Animal Life Physical Description: 3 Packets Wildflowers of California principally Diablo Mt. Diablo and Setting Physical Description: Large Photograph BANC MSS C-A