CALIFORNIA S T A T E LIBRARY FOUNDATION Number 122 2018 CALIFORNIA S T A T E LIBRARY FOUNDATION Number 122 2018

EDITOR Gary F. Kurutz 2 �����������Requiescat In Pace: Mead Brokaw Kibbey

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS SIDEBAR: Mead B. Kibbey Fellowship Kathleen Correia & Brittney Cook By Gary F. Kurutz

COPY EDITOR M. Patricia Morris 14 ����������Mead Kibbey and His Contribution to the University of California at Riverside BOARD OF DIRECTORS By Mary Beth Barber Kenneth B. Noack, Jr. President Marilyn Snider 18 ����������Navigating the Government Publications Section Vice-President By Emily Blodget Thomas E. Vinson Treasurer 24 ��������The Insightful Frontier – California’s Presence in the Jeff Volberg Newly Acquired Manuscript Collection of Author Joan Frank Secretary By Marta Knight Greg Lucas State Librarian of California 26 ��������Hidden Treasures – Sid Grauman Edition.

JoAnn Levy Phillip L. Isenberg From the Collections of the California State Library Thomas W. Stallard Phyllis Smith By Gary Noy Gary Noy Angelo A. Williams Susan Glass 28 ��������Foundation Notes, By Gary F. Kurutz

Gary F. Kurutz Brittney Cook Mead Kibbey’s Donation of the Glass Lantern Slides Executive Director Foundation of the Central Pacific Railroad by Alfred A. Hart Administrator Shelley Ford Books, Manuscripts, Prints, and Paintings Donated Bookkeeper by Donald J. Hagerty The California State Library Foundation Bulletin is 32 ����������Contibutors List published when we are able. © 2004-2018.

Opinions of the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their institutions, the California State Library or the Foundation. Front Cover: A fellow sailor took this photograph of Lt. M. B. Kibbey while on board a Yard Minesweeper in World War II. The Bulletin is included as a membership benefit to Foundation members and those Back Cover: Achille Phillion, the “Marvelous Equalibrist” at his tower during the individuals contributing $40.00 or more annually California Midwinter International Expositions in 1894. Mead Kibbey donated a very to Foundation Programs. Membership rates are: rare I. W. Taber album of the event.

Associate:$40-$99 Illustrations and Photo Credits: Pages 2-11 courtesy the Kibbey family, Center for Contributor:$100-249 Sacramento History and the California State Library; pp. 14-16 courtesy California Sponsor:$250-$499 Museum of Photography, UC Riverside; all others from the collections of the California Patron:$500-$999 State Library. Institutional:$500 Corporate:$750 Design: Angela Tannehill, Tannehill Design | www.angelatannehill.com Lifetime Member:$1,000 Pioneer:$5,000 California State Library Foundation Subscription to Libraries: $30/year 1225 8th Street, Suite 345, Sacramento, CA 95814 tel: 916.447.6331 | web: www.cslfdn.org | email: [email protected]

bulletin 122 1 Requiescat In Pace Mead Brokaw Kibbey By Gary F. Kurutz

A fellow sailor took this snapshot of Lt. Kibbey holding binoculars while on board a Yard Mine Sweeper in World War II.

2 California State Library Foundation t is with great sadness that saw it as a hidden treasure worthy of sup- we acknowledge the passing port from the private sector. Many of his of our beloved chief benefactor gifts have been highlighted in past issues Mead Brokaw Kibbey. Mead passed away of the Bulletin. In fact, at the time of his at his home in Sacramento on September death, I was writing an article about his 21, 2018. Born in San Francisco in 1922, most recent donation of a remarkable set his family moved to Sacramento shortly of magic lantern slides documenting the thereafter, and he had been a resident of construction of the Central Pacific Rail- the river city ever since. In learning of road. Until his last days, he continued to his death, friends have rightly called him support our collections. “one of the greatest of the Greatest Gen- Mead was truly a man of broad interests eration,” a Renaissance man, raconteur, and attainment. He graduated from the humorist, and accomplished historian, University of California, Berkeley with a photographer, and sculptor. As another so degree in mechanical engineering. How- rightly put it: “God broke the mold after ever, his studies were interrupted with the making Mead Kibbey.” Over the decades, outbreak of World War II, and he joined Mead has been incredibly generous to in the defense of our country as an ensign the Library and its Foundation showering in the U.S. Navy. His heroics on board the both institutions with precious gifts and minesweeper USS YMS-350 during the promoting the Library’s fabulous collec- D-Day Invasion have been recounted in tions and services. So many see the State the Spring 2004 issue of the Bulletin. Mead Library merely as a state agency but Mead served in the navy for eight years, and in rec- ognition of his heroism, received the presti- gious Navy and Marine Corps Medal along with the French Legion of Honor medal.1 Returning home, Mead entered the lum- ber business and starting in 1951, owned Even in his senior years, and operated the Black Diamond Lumber Company. His work as a lumber company Mead was a bundle of energy executive took him many times to Sierra County and its county seat of Downieville. and was constantly at work He loved the region, befriended many people, and became an ambassador for on scores of projects. Sierra County serving as the “Foreign Correspondent” of The Mountain Messen- ger of Downieville. On a trip aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, he eagerly passed EDITOR’S NOTE out copies of The Mountain Messenger. He Gary F. Kurutz is the Executive Director always carried in his wallet business cards of the Foundation and longtime friend of with his special newspaper title. Early this Mead Kibbey. summer, Mead donated two volumes of the Sierra County newspaper from the 1860s. Several issues carried news of A very photogenic Mead Kibbey poses on the deck the assassination of President Abraham of the USS Yard Mine Sweeper (YMS) 435 near Lincoln. In 1980, this hard-driving entre- Seattle on March 15, 1945. While on board the USS YMS 350 in preparation for the Allied Invasion preneur started the Red River Lumber of France, a mine exploded and sunk his ship on Company that produced redwood planter July 2, 1944. For his heroics in rescuing two men boxes. He retired in 1986 to pursue his serving with him, Mead received a special citation from Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. many interests ranging from photography

bulletin 122 3 tionship with the State Library dating back to his childhood when his mother secured a library card for him around 1930. Our wonderful author and copyeditor M. Patri- cia Morris interviewed Mead in February 2009 for a Bulletin article that included one very memorable experience concern- ing borrowing privileges. Mead, after read- ing a book about ancient Egypt, became deeply interested in Egyptology and dis- covered that the Library possessed a copy of the famous and spectacular nineteen- volume Description of Egypt (Paris, 1809–- 1828) that Napoleon Bonaparte sponsored. He eagerly went to the Library with his checkout card in the hopes of borrowing the great large folio work. The following is his recollection of that experience: Mead: “Can I get this out?” Librarian: “Well, I don’t know. We’ll see.” The librarian disappeared back in the stacks. When he returned he said, “There are fifteen volumes of plates and forty-six volumes of text. What do you want?” Mead: “Why don’t we start on number one of the plates?” The volume was big, three by four feet, and beautiful. Librarian: Upon opening it up, he said, “It is kind of interesting. We have had these books since 1894, and you are the first person ever Mead stands in front the entrance to to carving granite. who took them out or even wanted them.” Pioneer Hall on 7th Street in downtown Over the years, Mead actively served After a while Mead returned to the Sacramento. For many years, Mead was a devoted member of the Sacramento Pioneer on the boards of philanthropic and com- library and asked to speak to the reading Association. Photo courtesy of the Center for munity relations organizations including room supervisor, who Mead described as a Sacramento History. president of the KVIE and KXPR, vice “fairly old guy.” president of the Sacramento County His- Mead: “I would like to buy the Descrip- torical Society, president of the Crocker tion of Egypt. Nobody’s asked for it for seventy Art Museum Association, treasurer of or eighty years. Your usage isn’t very great, Sutter Health, treasurer of Sutter Davis and I would be interested in buying that set.” Hospital, and president for two terms of Supervisor: “No. We can’t do that. Even the Sacramento Pioneer Association.2 though the next person will be sixty years from Because of his passion for photography now, we will have them when they come.” and its history, he donated the archive of Mead: “Boy, that’s my kind of place.”3 the Keystone-Mast Stereograph collection He loved the Library ever since and even to the University of California, Riverside’s taught himself Egyptian hieroglyphics. California Museum of Photography as elo- Starting in the early 1980s, Mead began quently summarized in the accompanying making extraordinary donations to the article by Mary Beth Barber. Library and became an active member Mead had a long and fascinating rela- of the Foundation’s board of directors in

4 California State Library Foundation Business man Mead Kibbey poses at his desk. For decades, Mead ran successful businesses in Sacramento. He still found time for his many cultural and charitable pursuits.

bulletin 122 5 1988. The following is a highlight of those gifts. The first noteworthy donation was the spectacular large folio by I. W. Taber titled Souvenir of the California Midwinter International Exposition. Taber published the lavish volume in 1894 and illustrated each volume with 130 of his own original photographs. Based on other similarly illustrated Taber publications, Taber pub- lished approximately 100 copies, but less than ten copies of the Midwinter Fair vol- ume are known to survive.4 In 1988, I was contacted by a Southern California bookseller who had obtained a cache of approximately one thousand glass plate negatives and original prints by photographer William H. Fletcher. Dating from the 1880s and 1890s, the images superbly documented the growth of Nancy and Mead Kibbey at the book signing celebration for his scholarly study of railroad photographer Los Angeles and its environs. I asked Mead A. A. Hart. They are shown outside the Mead B. Kibbey Gallery in the State Library’s annex building. The gallery is located at the entrance of the California History Room. if he would consider purchasing the collec- tion on our behalf, and without hesitation, he said yes. Before he turned Fletcher’s Mead was always in archive over to the Library, Mead took the demand as a speaker images to his own darkroom and, with his and he gave captivating presentations to many daughters, made beautiful contact prints historical, service, business, and enlargements from the glass negatives. and community groups in the Sacramento area. Here This greatly helped in creating the catalog he is giving a speech in records. Mead always enjoyed visiting the Pioneer Hall. Courtesy locales where the photographs were origi- of the Center for Sacramento History. nally shot. When the Foundation Board met in Los Angeles, Mead and I went on a little field trip and retraced the locations in downtown Los Angeles where Fletcher may have set up his camera. However, when we explored the once elite Bunker Hill area, we soon discovered it to be populated by the economically challenged, and as several approached us, we beat a quick retreat.5 Through our publishing friends at the Windgate Press of Sausalito, we learned of an immense collection of negatives documenting the Panama Pacific Inter- national Exposition (P.P. I.E.) held in San Francisco in 1915. The collection was in a warehouse in Sausalito. Again, when asked, Mead stepped up and agreed to purchase the collection for the Library. We then drove a van to Sausalito and loaded

6 California State Library Foundation the vehicle with approximately 15,000 vious Bulletin, Mead donated the only Mead and his wife Nancy glass and film negatives. The Cardinell- known complete collection of 381 original Vincent Company of San Francisco, the Hart stereographs of the railroad’s con- enjoyed many excursions in the exposition’s official photographers, cre- struction.6 In addition, he has given an ated the images of the great world’s fair. extensive collection of 310 “pirated” copies High Sierra. Typically, Mead We carefully loaded the van and drove of Hart stereographs to the Foundation. the immensely heavy but prized treasure Back in the 1860s, photographers seem- could be seen with a camera trove back to the State Library. The Cardi- ingly had no compunction in reproducing nell-Vincent images became particularly Hart negatives under their own imprint. suspended from his neck. popular in 2015, the centennial year of Although this gift includes many duplicate the P.P.I.E., and were used at the State images, it superbly documents how oth- Library’s well-received exhibit at the Cali- ers marketed these popular views without fornia State Fair. crediting Hart. His research and collection Mead had a passionate interest in the of everything he could find about Hart led building of the transcontinental railroad to his highly acclaimed book The Railroad and the work of pioneer photographer Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist. Pub- Alfred A. Hart. As highlighted in a pre- lished in 1996 by the Foundation, Mead

bulletin 122 7 dedicated the book to his wife Nancy, “for her untiring assistance in checking word- ing and grammar, for the long hours spent at her computer, for providing help on innumerable photographic excursions, and the inspiration to continue when the whole effort just seemed too difficult.”7 Infused with enthusiasm over the lau- datory reviews of the Hart book and his fascination with early Sacramento history, Mead embarked on producing facsimile editions of two of the city’s earliest directo- ries. Both carried the imprint of the Foun- dation. These publications, however, were much more than simple facsimiles. The first reprint published in 1997 consists not only of the text and advertisements of the original 1853–54 directory, but also Mead’s scholarly introduction and a lucid explana- tion of Sacramento’s complex street address system. In addition, he thoughtfully added a folded facsimile of an 1850 map of the Gold Rush boomtown. The original edition did not include a map. He followed this up with an even more elaborate publication, a facsimile of J. Horace Culver’s Sacramento City Directory for the Year 1851 published in 2000. There are only three known copies of the original, but what makes this excep- tional was Mead’s own additions to the directory. His preface provides the follow- ing explanation: I have added a condensed history, which includes information gathered on a 1999 sea voyage my wife and I took from Rio Historian and photographer Mead Kibbey leans against de Janeiro to Valparaiso around Cape Horn, some illustrations, 55 biographi- one of the massive boulders in his quest to trace the footsteps cal sketches, a conversion table for old of A. A. Hart in the High Sierra. addresses to the modern equivalent, and five appendices to give the general reader a glimpse of Sacramento and its citizens up to the first day of 1851.8 His “condensed history,” I might add, comprises eighty-three pages of fact-filled text and must be regarded as the best interpretative history of Sacramento cover- ing its earliest years. Certainly, an eye-popping gift was the acquisition of a quarter-plate daguerreo-

8 California State Library Foundation type of Theodore Judah, the famed civil engineer who mapped out a route over the Sierra for the transcontinental railroad. Made in 1848, it is the earliest known por- trait of Judah. The story behind its purchase is dramatic in true Mead Kibbey fashion. Noted Sacramento journalist Dixie Reid interviewed Mead at the Sutter Club about the daguerreotype for Issue 73 (2002) of the Bulletin. Before ordering lunch at the Sutter Club, Mead Kibbey took a small package from the pocket of his sport coat, grin- ning like a smitten schoolboy. He carefully opened the worn leather case to reveal a 154-year-old daguerreotype of a man in an odd-looking hat. Kibbey sighed with pride. “When I first saw it, my hands shook,” he whispered. Kibbey was the “go-between,” purchas- ing the daguerreotype, an image produced on a silver plate, for the California State Library for $20,000. He considered it a bargain. The asking price was $30,000. After Kibbey finished his meal that day, he took the tiny treasure down the street to the State Library’s Special Collections Branch and put it in the hands of Gary Kurutz, director of the branch. The pur- chase allowed Theodore Dehone Judah finally to come “home” again.9 For all those acquainted with Mead, pull- ing a historical gem out of his coat pocket became his trademark. He loved reaching for a stereograph or a new camera gadget Mr. Kibbey poses with stereo camera and tripod, much like the one to share with his appreciative and dazzled Hart used in the mid-1860s. This photograph was then used for the audience. We always learned from Mead. Over these many years, Mead pre- gold-stamped engraving that graces the cover of his book. sented the Foundation with other gifts including dozens of stereographs of California scenes; a beautiful print of a California 49er, a ledger book of the La Porte Sawmill in Sierra County; Califor- nia history books, and several California trade catalogs for late nineteenth century machinery. Because of his own skill as a photographer and as an avid student of photographic history, he presented the

bulletin 122 9 Mead enjoyed bringing tour groups to the Library. Library with a large format portrait cient to financially secure the Foundation. In this photograph taken in the Library's vault, camera that held 10 x 10-inch glass nega- In June 2001 Mead led a group of us to he is holding an early Sacramento directory. He 10 created facsimile editions of two Sacramento tives along with its support equipment. meet the O’Shaughnessy family in south- directories from 1851 and 1853-54. While these gifts have significantly ern Ireland and to express our gratitude. enhanced the Library’s research collec- Richard F. Larson, a devoted Sutro tions, Mead has been a great cheerleader Library researcher, was keenly interested for both the Library and its Foundation in genealogy and local history and named and his financial acumen led to astute the Sutro Library in his deed of trust. His investments that otherwise would have bequest specified that income generated resulted in very conservative gains. When from the trust be used to enhance the the Foundation was approached by repre- Sutro Library’s genealogy and local his- sentatives of the Michael O’Shaughnessy tory collections with an emphasis on Nova estate, Mead knew exactly what to do in Scotia, Canada, Scandinavian countries, securing the gift and then investing this and New England. When Mead served on generous bequest. The amount was suffi- the Foundation’s Board of Directors, he so

10 California State Library Foundation ENDNOTES The Mead B. Kibbey 1 Kibbey, Mead B. “Memories of a Survivor Fellowship from the Sinking of the USS YMS–350, July 2, 1944.” California State Library Before his passing, the Foundation Foundation Bulletin, Number 77 (Spring established an annual fellowship 2004): 12–18. in honor of Mead Kibbey. Since his 2 Kibbey, Joan. [obituary] in “Life Tributes” death, we have received several Section. Sacramento Bee. (September 30, donations, but to sustain the pro- 2018): 6 B. gram, we are hoping for additional 3 Morris, M. Patricia. “Mead B. Kibbey’s contributions from our members. Eight Decade Library Connection: A Pro- file,” California State Library Foundation The fellowship is designed to sup- Mead stands with Sarah Zimmer, Alfred A. Hart's Bulletin, Number 93 (2009): 14-17. port projects at the California State great-great grand daughter. On August 21, 2017, Mead dedicated a granite monument to Hart. It is 4 Kurutz, Gary F. “Midwinter Fair Album Library by formally enrolled college located in the Kibbey family plot in Sacramento's Donated.” California State Library Founda- and university students regardless Old City Cemetery. tion Bulletin, No. 18 (January 1987):1–5. of academic degree sought. Special 5 Kurutz, Gary F. “William Fletcher’s Glass consideration will be given to appli- Plate Negative Collection of Early Los cants from California State Univer- Angeles.” California State Library Founda- sity, Sacramento, enrolled in courses tion Bulletin, No. 15 (April 1986):10–14. offered by the Photography Depart- 6 Kurutz, Gary F. “Mead B. Kibbey Donates ment and/or associated with the the Only Complete Set of Alfred A. Hart’s Public History Programs of that insti- Stereographs Documenting the Con- tution. Mead was keenly interested in struction of the Central Pacific Railroad, the history of photography and Cali- 1864-1869,” Bulletin, Number 108 (2014): fornia and Western history. 20-27. For more detailed information on 7 Kibbey, Mead B. The Railroad Photographs the Kibbey Fellowship please contact of Alfred A. Hart, Artist. Sacramento: Cali- fornia State Library Foundation, 1984. the Foundation offices or visit its website at www.cslfdn.org and click The gold-stamped front cover of Mead’s 8 Kibbey, Mead B., editor. Facsimile Repro- outstanding book, Alfred A. Hart, Artist. His on Kibbey Fellowship. duction of the California State Library’s talented daughter, Alison B. Kibbey prepared the Copy of J. Horace Culver’s Sacramento City drawings to create the dies for the book’s beautiful cover and spine. Directory for the Year 1851, with a History of Sacramento to 1851, Biographical Sketches, and Informative Appendices. Sacramento: wisely invested this fund that it doubled As I write this, just an hour ago, Mead California State Library Foundation, in value. Because of Mead’s financial wiz- was laid to rest at the family plot in the 2000, p. 13. ardry, the Sutro Library has been able to Sacramento Old City Cemetery. Taps 9 Reid, Dixie. “Tracking Down History: continually upgrade its collections. were played, a nine-gun salute fired, and Foundation Helps Library Acquire Mead promoted the State Library in Navy officers presented Mrs. Kibbey with Daguerreotype of Theodore Judah.” Cali- many other ways. As an active member the folded U.S. flag that was placed over fornia State Library Foundation Bulletin. in local organizations such as the Rotary his beautiful wooden coffin. Family and No. 73 (Summer/Fall 2002):8–10. Club and Sacramento Pioneer Association, friends then gently tossed long-stemmed 10 “Antique Portrait Camera Donated by he arranged for tours of the Library and roses into the grave. Fittingly, Mead’s Mead Kibbey.” California State Library even supported luncheons for members grave is within five feet of the monument Foundation Bulletin. No. 85 (2006): 25. in the staff lounge areas. These special that he had dedicated to the memory of A. 11 Kurutz, Gary F. “Alfred A. Hart Granite tours generated gifts and many visits to A. Hart on August 21, 2017. 11 Memorial Dedicated by Mead B. Kibbey.” the Library’s collections. Mead persuaded To quote Foundation board member California State Library Foundation Bulle- many of these visitors to join the Founda- Katherine Weedman-Cox, “We have lost tin. No. 119 (2017): 32–33. tion and some became board members. an angel, but have gained a shining star in the sky.”  bulletin 122 11 Collections Donated by Mead B. Kibbey

With his glass plate negative camera, William Fletcher took this photograph of Photograph of downtown Los Angeles looking north from Fort Moore Hill by the fashionable mansions on Bunker Hill. William Fletcher donated by Mead Kibbey.

General View of the Court of Honor, California Midwinter International In 1987, Mead donated an elegant large folio volume illustrated with original Exposition held in San Francisco, Photograph by I. W. Taber, 1894. photographs by I. W. Taber of the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. Shown here is the Archille Phillion, the Marvelous Equalibrist, in his Spiral Tower.

Locomotive CONNESS on the turntable at Newcastle. Photographer A. A. Hart took 364 stereograph photographs documenting the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento to Promontory Point, Utah.

12 California State Library Foundation The “Boy Aviator” Art Smith taking off at the P.P.I.E. Cardinell-Vincent Company Collection.

General night view of the spectacular lighting at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Mead donated approximately 10,000 glass negatives of the Cardinell-Vincent Company, the official photographers of exposition.

In 2002, Mead donated this daguerreotype of Theodore D. Judah. It is the earliest known portrait of the famed civil engineer who surveyed a railroad route over the Sierra.

Mead donated the only known complete set of 364 original A. A. Hart stereographs. Hart’s views from the 1860s inspired his highly acclaimed book, The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist. It was published by the Foundation in 1996.

bulletin 122 13 Mead B. Kibbey and His Contribution to the University of California at Riverside By Mary Beth Barber

14 California State Library Foundation he California State Library is door neighbor, the Barbara and Art Culver “He was a huge camera collector,” said indebted to Mead B. Kibbey for Center of the Arts. The visual art gallery Gleason. “He loved well-made cameras,” his work and support. But Mead first opened in 1963, and the California and had many made by the Zeiss-Ikon was instrumental in the enhancement Museum of Photography a decade later. company from Germany. Gleason said that and prestige of another state institution as The founding advisory board included when Mead’s camera collection started to well, the California Museum of Photogra- Mead Kibbey. take over the house — specifically the din- phy at the University of California at Riv- “In those early years, Mead really shaped ing room, much to the chagrin of his wife erside (UCR). who we are,” said Leigh Gleason, director Nancy — Mead donated a number of his- The California Museum of Photography of collections for UCR ARTS. She noted toric cameras, and the Kibbey Zeiss-Ikon at UCR is located just off campus in down- the various historic photographic collec- Collection was established. town Riverside and is part of the newly tions that Mead had a hand in, as well as Mead was instrumental in a number renamed UCR ARTS, along with its next- acquiring rare photographic equipment. of UCR’s collections, including images

Screen with 26 mammoth plate albumen photographs by Carleton Watkins and 2 by Barker. Gift of Mead and Nancy Kibbey. Photographs by Michael J. Elderman

bulletin 122 15 by Great Depression era photographer “[Mead] was the booster to make it hap- Walker Evans and a display screen with pen, to get it down here,” said Gleason, two dozen photos by 1800s photographer characterizing the donation as “miracu- Carleton Watkins. But the most significant lous” and an example of Mead’s passion contribution is the Keystone-Mast col- and devotion to such projects for the public. lection, with over 350,000 stereoscopic In addition to the donation negotiation, photographs and negatives of the world there were special shipping crates that had between the late-nineteenth and mid- to be created before the collection could twentieth centuries. Segments of the col- move west. At one point during the trip the lection have been digitized and displayed, truck was pulled over in a Midwestern state including 9,000 views of the Middle East and the local jurisdiction levied a “shipping as part of a National Endowment for the fee” for transport. “Mead equated it to high- Humanities project in 2008. way robbery,” Gleason chuckled. Shown here is one of the many Zeiss cameras donated by Mead. The Keystone View Company started While Mead’s focus was on the Cali- in Pennsylvania in the late 1800s, grew fornia State Library, his contributions to over the decades, and acquired various the collection at UCR put the university collections of stereoscopic photographs and museum on the map with photogra- and negatives. The company was sold to phy experts, especially with the Keystone- the Mast Development Company in 1963, Mast collection. and much of the collection remained idle “He’s really important to us,” said Glea- for decades, even before the sale to Mast. son. “This is such a loss.” That’s when Mead convinced the Mast Mead Kibbey’s legacy and contribu- family to donate the collection to the Uni- tions are remembered. His and his wife’s versity of California at Riverside. names adorn a special collections area that stores the collections he worked so hard to provide for the people of the State of California at UCR. Gleason speaks for Untitled Walker Evans silver-gelatin print depicting the interior many when she remembers with fondness of a miner’s home in Morgantown, West Virginia, July 1935. Mead’s love of stereographs, his kindness, and his spirit as significantly contributing to the success of the California Museum of Photography at UCR. 

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16 California State Library Foundation A very pleased Mead Kibbey stands next to the display of Zeiss cameras that he donated to the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside. Photograph by Michael J. Elderman

Untitled silver gelatin print of the railroad tracks, at Edward Depot, Mississippi by Walker Evans, February 1936.

EDITOR’S NOTE Mary Beth Barber is currently the special projects coordinator for the California State Library. Previously she spent a decade with the California Arts Council in special projects and communications, has worked in multi- media and project management, and started out her varied career as a political journalist.

bulletin 122 17 Navigating the Government Publications Section By Emily Blodget

Do you know where in the California State Library you can find all three of these items? • A 1943 collection of recipes for cooking muskrat meat • The Simple Sabotage Field Manual • Diagrams of the special shoes Michael Jackson used to lean at an impossible angle in his “Smooth Criminal” music video All of these and more are located in the Government Publi- cations Section (GPS).

Herbert L. Dozier, Recipes for cooking muskrat meat. Wildlife leaflet 229. United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. October 1943. Recipes include wine-fried muskrat, pickled muskrat, muskrat pie, and stewed muskrat liver.

No bite on the neck--just a drop from the finger! your cholesterol count can predict your risk for heart disease. Defense billboard ; 129. Alexandria, VA : American Forces Information Service, Dept. of Defense, [1999?] The American Forces Information Service created a series of posters for service members on topics including health, information security, how to act during a hostage situation, and the dangers of easy credit.

18 California State Library Foundation What is the Government Publications Section?

The California State Library has collected for California state documents along the eign governments. We are also a Patent California state, federal, and other govern- same lines as the federal program.2 and Trademark Resource Center, provid- ment documents since its establishment Today’s GPS has a variety of docu- ing information on how to apply for pat- in 1850. In 1895, the Library joined the ments in print, microform, DVD, elec- ents and federal and state trademarks. new Federal Depository Library Program tronic formats, and even the odd puzzle.3 We offer in-depth instruction on how (FDLP), which distributes federal gov- We are a complete depository for federal to search for existing intellectual prop- ernment documents to libraries nation- and California state documents, and erty—such as Michael Jackson’s “Smooth wide.1 The 1945 Library Distribution Act have smaller collections from California Criminal” shoes, U.S. Patent 5,255,452— established a depository library program local jurisdictions, other states, and for- Herbert L. Dozier, Recipes.4

Chad Terzeki Oasis, 2000. Earth as art. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, c2012. This picture is one of many in the full-color NASA coffee table book Earth as Art.

bulletin 122 19 Joby Harris. “Relax on Kepler-16b: the land of two suns, where your shadow always has company.” Pasadena, California: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.), [2015] NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory created the eye-catching “Visions of the Future” poster series featuring locations both in and beyond our solar system.

20 California State Library Foundation What does GPS do? California. Legislature. Senate. Besides providing assistance finding gov- Select Committee ernment documents to everyone, we sup- on California's Wine Industry. port the governor, the legislature, and other Sustainable state government employees by providing a Winegrowing centralized information hub to help them Certification Programs: do better-informed work more efficiently. Informational We improve government transparency by Hearing. Sacramento, California: Senate ensuring that government publications Publications & remain perpetually available. As the FDLP Flags, [2013] Regional Depository Library for California Most California legislative documents and the head of the California Depository have plain covers, but Library Program, we guide and support this report features a colorful photo of a California public libraries in their govern- grapevine, highlighting ment documents work. We collaborate with the importance of the other libraries to archive the ever-changing California wine industry. state government websites, and whenever possible, we digitize important documents to improve access for distant users.

How can the public use government publications? Government publications can provide 1822 report on James May of Detroit, whose interest. Did they count households with information on both current and historical farms had their fences and outbuildings running water? How have perceptions of interests, and free public access enriches used for firewood by freezing soldiers in 1813, racial categories changed? The California public knowledge and scholarship. For names several Army officers, government Industrial Welfare Commission’s Budget instance, you might want to find the latest employees who evaluated the damages, and for a Self-Supporting Working Woman lists unemployment statistics or a congressio- neighbors. It describes May’s farms down to prices for many goods and services in 1961 nal report on prison sentencing reform. Or enumerating the fence posts and rails and and suggests which were deemed essential. perhaps you’re curious whether droughts identifying the wood used: cedar and oak.5 (They budgeted for three girdles per year are becoming more frequent and want his- Another report relays a request from “a at $6.90—around $58 today—apiece.)7 torical precipitation data. committee of citizens of Sacramento” for an Those muskrat recipes inform about both Genealogists often benefit from govern- appropriation to refund them the “consider- Maryland cuisine and wartime meat ration- ment publications. Legislative and agency able sum of money, expended by them for ing. (Dubious readers can rest assured that directories may list names and titles, bio- the relief of a large number of emigrants, “Prejudice against the meat results usually graphical information, and even home who were represented to be in a destitute from lack of skill in cooking or from care- addresses. Military rosters are another good and perishing condition along the route, lessness in skinning the animal.”)8 source. Private bills (concerning individu- between Missouri and California.”6 Several Other publications contain scientific or als rather than issues) and associated con- individuals are named. technical data, education research, legisla- gressional reports can describe a person’s Obviously, such documents are useful tive history, and even art. We have news- immigration history, war service and pen- for general historical research too. The letters authored by California prisoners, sion, or requests for reimbursement for gov- Census reveals not just demographic data, children’s books about preventing diabetes, ernment-caused damages. For example, an but which information was considered of anthropological studies, and comic books.

bulletin 122 21 H. Charles McBarron. “The American Soldier,” 1906. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History: U.S. G.P.O., [1982?- ]

H. Charles McBarron was renowned for his artistic works

featuring historically accurate military uniforms and

equipment. This painting from his “American Soldier”

series published by the Government Printing Office shows

soldiers from the Presidio unloading relief supplies for the

survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Creative uses for government publications Conclusion One creative use of a government publica- projection. Average citizens can “[s]ee that Government employees, historians, gene- tion is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s incorpora- the luggage of enemy personnel is mislaid alogists, inventors, entrepreneurs, writers tion of lines from Washington’s “Farewell or unloaded at the wrong stations” and and artists, activists, scientists, and anyone Address” into the song “One Last Time” “refer all matters to committees, for ‘fur- else interested in nearly any topic—includ- in Hamilton.9 For an angrier resignation, ther study and consideration.’” Dramatic ing how to cook muskrat—can usually see California State Engineer William characters can “Cry and sob hysterically find something in GPS. Whenever you’re Hammond Hall’s 1887/88 report. He at every occasion, especially when con- browsing or researching at the California accuses the Legislature of favoring other fronted by government clerks.”11 State Library, be sure not to overlook this agencies and trying to eliminate his due What about food besides muskrat? valuable resource.  to personal vendettas and declares that For historians, documents describe “the State can no longer have my services meals for California orphanages in 1914, EDITOR’S NOTE . . . in any capacity,” proving that even a how the Army baked bread in 1910, and Emily Blodget is a California State Docu- report on irrigation can reveal dramatic Depression-era California labor camp ments Librarian in the State Library’s Gov- personal conflicts. 10 menus.12 For home cooks, modern works ernment Publications Section. She grew up Those writing about saboteurs in Axis offer heart-healthy versions of classics in Folsom, which makes for fun conversa- 13 territories may find inspiration in the like pozole and oven-fried chicken. To tions with out-of-state acquaintances: yes, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Simple bridge historical and modern tastes, see it’s the town with the prison; no, she never Sabotage Field Manual. Bold saboteurs can the United States Department of Agricul- went to Folsom Prison or met Johnny Cash. burn down warehouses (“Whenever pos- ture (USDA) Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes. She enjoys helping people find all sorts of sible, arrange to have the fire start after Try nose-to-tail dishes like beef tongue information in government documents, from you have gone away”) or add sugar to gas and kidney stew. Discover the mysterious historical rabies statistics to Titanic survivor tanks (“use 75-100 grams of sugar for each “boiled dinner.” Experiment with pickled testimony, and thinks more people should be 10 gallons of gasoline”). The fanciful can cherries and gooseberry jam. Enjoy time- using these resources as inspiration for his- disrupt propaganda films by bringing “two less favorites like peach ice cream, nut torical fiction and fantasy (because honestly, or three dozen large moths in a paper bag” brittle, and apple turnovers. Or what about some government documents are weirder than 14 and releasing them to interfere with the fried apples and bacon? fantasy novels).

22 California State Library Foundation ENDNOTES 1 California State Library. Government William Waldo, and of a committee of citi- 10 California. Office of State Engineer. Publications Section. “Federal Depository zens of the City of Sacramento... (S.Rpt. 370; Report of the State Engineer to His Excellency Library Program.” http://www.library.ca. Serial Set 671.) Washington, D.C. : Govern- R.W. Waterman, Governor of California, for gov/government-publications/federal- ment Printing Office, January 17, 1853. the Year and a Half Ending December 31, depository/ 7 California. Industrial Welfare Commis- 1888. Sacramento : State Office, 1888: 3-6. 2 California State Library. Government Pub- sion. Division of Labor Statistics and https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1. lications Section. “California State Docu- Research. Budget for a self-supporting work- $b627146;view=1up;seq=7 ments Collection and Depository Library ing woman, California, June 1961. San Fran- 11 Office of Strategic Services. Simple Sabo- Program Information.” http://www. cisco : [s.n.], 1961: 17; price in 2018 dol- tage Field Manual—Strategic Services (Pro- library.ca.gov/government-publications/ lars from United States. Bureau of Labor visional). Strategic Services Field Manual state-document-depository-program/ Statistics. CPI Inflation Calculator. https:// no.3. Washington, D.C. : Office of Strate- 3 United States. National Aeronautics and www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator. gic Services, 17 January 1944: 8, 14, 26-27, Space Administration. From data to image: htm 20, 28, 32. https://www.cia.gov/news- making images from space. [Greenbelt, 8 Dozier, Herbert L. Recipes for cooking information/featured-story-archive/2012- Md.: NASA Goddard Space Fiight Cen- muskrat meat. Wildlife leaflet 229. United featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSim- ter, 2008] Description: 1 jigsaw puzzle (35 States Department of the Interior, Fish and pleSabotage_sm.pdf pieces) : color, mounted on cardboard ; 22 Wildlife Service, October 1943: 2. https:// 12 See Jaffa, Adele S. A Standard Dietary for x 27 cm., in cylinder, 18 x 8 cm. + 1 sheet. archive.org/details/recipesforcookin- an Orphanage : Written for the State Board 4 California State Library. Government 229dozi of Charities and Corrections. [Sacramento:] Publications Section. “Patent and Trade- 9 “Though in reviewing the incidents of my California State Printing Office, 1914; mark Resource Center.” http://www. Administration I am unconscious of inten- United States. War Department. Office library.ca.gov/services/research/patents/; tional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of the Commissary General. Manual for Jackson, Michael J., Bush, Michael L., of my defects not to think it probable that Army Bakers. War Department document Tompkins, Dennis. Method and means for I may have committed many errors… I no.358. Washington : Government Print- creating anti-gravity illusion. United States shall also carry with me the hope that my ing Office, 1910.https://catalog.hathitrust. Patent 5,255,452. United States Patent country will never cease to view them with org/Record/001621685; and California. and Trademark Office, October 26, 1993. indulgence, and that, after forty-five years State Relief Administration. Bureau of USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Data- of my life dedicated to its service with an Camps. Camp Department Nutrition Regu- base, http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph- upright zeal, the faults of incompetent lations and Instructions. [Sacramento? : Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p= abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as s.n.], January 1937. 1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch- myself must soon be to the mansions of 13 From Platillos Latinos, Sabrosos y Salu- bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d= rest… I anticipate with pleasing expecta- dables = Delicious Heart-Healthy Latino PTXT&s1=5,255,452.PN.&OS=PN/5,255,45 tion that retreat in which I promise myself Recipes. Bethesda, MD : U.S. Department 2&RS=PN/5,255,452 to realize without alloy the sweet enjoy- of Health and Human Services, National 5 United States. Congress. House. Com- ment of partaking in the midst of my fel- Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung mittee on Claims (1794-1946). Report low-citizens the benign influence of good and Blood Institute, 2008. https://www. of the Committee of Claims in the case laws under a free government--the ever- nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/public/heart/sp_ of James May, with a bill for the relief favorite object of my heart, and the happy recip.pdf and Heart-healthy home cooking of James May, and the legal representa- reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, African American style : with every heartbeat tives of William Macomb. January 2, labors, and dangers.” From Washington, is life. [Bethesda, MD] : U.S. Department 1822. Read, and, with the bill, committed George. “Farewell Address,” September of Health and Human Services, National to a Committee of the Whole House to- 19, 1796. A compilation of the messages and Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, morrow (H.Rpt. 7; Serial Set 70). Wash- papers of the presidents, prepared under the and Blood Institute, 2008. https://www. ington, D.C. : Government Printing direction of the Joint Committee on Print- nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/public/heart/ Office, January 2, 1822. ing, of the House and the Senate, pursu- cooking.pdf ant to an act of the Fifty-second Congress 6 United States. Congress. Senate. Commit- 14 Van Deman, Ruth, and Yeatman, Fanny of the United States (with additions and W. Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes, Revised. tee on Claims (1816-1946). In Senate of the encyclopedic index by private enterprise). United States. January 17, 1853. -- Ordered Washington, D.C. : Government Printing New York : Bureau of National Literature, Office, 1931: 16, 18, 116, 133, 135, 123, 129, to be printed. Mr. Adams made the following c1897-1917. Online by Gerhard Peters and report. The Committee of Claims, to whom 104, 85. https://archive.org/details/aunt- John T. Woolley, The American Presidency sammysradior1931unit was referred the several memorials of Captain Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ ws/?pid=65539.

bulletin 122 23 The Insightful Frontier California’s Presence in the Newly Acquired Manuscript Collection of Author Joan Frank By Marta Knight

INTRODUCTION

ne of the privileges of processing other people’s minds.”2 Ms. Frank’s writ- Reviews Book of the Year Award for an author’s manuscript collection ing is alternately achingly personal and Because You Have To: A Writing Life. The is gaining insight into his or her cre- side-splittingly hilarious, with razor-sharp collection, which contains personal notes, ative process. The California State Library, social commentary and gentle reminders rough drafts, reviews, correspondence, Special Collections Section can now boast that yes, we are all mortal and full of faults, and galley proofs, will be of interest to the privilege of owning the personal papers but also glorious in our own right. Her readers and aspiring women writers who of Joan Frank, one of California’s most work resonates deeply with women facing want a glimpse into this talented author’s gifted contemporary fiction writers. Ms. the aging process in a brutally ageist soci- journey through her craft. Frank’s brief biography does not do justice ety. She deftly weaves the landscape and I asked Ms. Frank to elaborate on why to the richness of her literary gifts. She has energy of California into the background California figures so prominently in her authored six books of fiction, as well as an of her novels and essays. For example, The work, and why she chose the California essay collection about the writing life. Her Great Far Away is set in a Sonoma County State Library as the lucky recipient of her latest novel, All the News I Need, won the that is undergoing its own struggle over manuscripts.3 prestigious University of Massachusetts identity of place which mirrors her charac- 1 2017 Juniper Prize for Fiction. ters’ life challenges. EDITOR’S NOTE Carolyn Cooke calls her fellow author a Frank’s other works have received Marta Knight is a Public Historian and for- “human insight machine . . . [she] writes numerous high honors and awards, mer Administrator for the California State prose like no one else’s – so psychically including the Richard Sullivan Prize for Library Foundation. With Foundation sup- vivid it’s like walking around wearing Short Fiction, and her second ForeWord port, she processed the Joan Frank Collection.

24 California State Library Foundation 1. Why did you decide to donate your per- 2. Your writing is very evocative of time and 4. What sort of researcher would you like to sonal papers? And why donate to the place, and often features California land- see avail themselves of your collection? California State Library in particular? scapes as a backdrop. Which landscape or scene from your writing is the most hat a penetrating, thoughtful ques- hank you for asking! About a year “quintessential” California scene to you, Wtion. I’m so honored and proud to Tago (age 67), I began to think hard or just your favorite scene in general, know my work will come before the eyes and seriously about my own mortal lim- and what do you love about it? of the curious. Among those who may be its—and about what too often happens to moved to research it, I’d be deeply grati- an artist’s work after her passing. From ’d hazard a guess that the slender novel fied to know that readers, teachers, soci- time to time, I would notice a news head- IThe Great Far Away contains some of ologists, and scholars who may wish to line about an author’s conveying her or the best descriptions of a certain zone of better understand a particular portion of his papers to a chosen venue, and the real- Northern California. That said, the novel time in the latter part of the 20th century ization began to sink in: I’ve produced a Miss Kansas City evokes a San Francisco and the early-to-mid part of the 21st— significantoeuvre — four novels, two story Bay Area that’s also pretty intense—as do in other words, my lifetime—will find collections, two essay collections, and with my other novels (Make It Stay and All the descriptions and reflections that will help luck, more to come — along with related News I Need) and both story collections: them envision, and see more deeply into, materials —(letters, awards, events, arti- Boys Keep Being Born and In Envy Country. how we lived and what we thought and cles, manuscripts.) Time became ripe to (“Envy Country” refers to fancy neighbor- feared and desired. In other words, I hope take action on the work’s behalf. My most hoods in San Francisco.) I guess it sounds my work may serve as a kind of biopsy passionate objective as an artist, bowing immodest, but I have lots of favorite scenes sample of the way a certain “westerly!” first to love and health, must now beto from different books. One gallingly satisfy- demographic of Americans lived during assure my work’s protection and ongoing ing scene in Miss Kansas City finds its pro- those years. It feels eerie to look beyond availability. tagonist, a young woman called Alex who’s one’s own life and try to imagine how exis- Why CSL? Three reasons: first, grow- been pushed aside by her married, wealthy, tence may proceed; how people may think, ing up in Sacramento, with a father, Bob famous older lover, suddenly hurling her- live, and carry on. If my work can be a kind Frank, professor of English Lit, Philoso- self at him and pushing him into an icy of testament of human thought and feel- phy, and Humanities, who taught gen- Sausalito Harbor. Oh, that was delicious. ing, of how it felt to live inside our bodies, erations at American River College and minds, hearts, souls, on this planet during CSU Sacramento. Second, awareness of the above-named period, then I imagine I and love for, and a sense of obligation to 3. What “gems” would you like to steer can welcome, unseen and unknown to me — a new generation of my own California researchers toward in your collection? now, any aspect of future investigation.  family now raising “baby Californians.” Finally, the fact that my work is infused ince my most recent work is at the with California at multiple levels — cul- Sforefront of my mind and memory ture, landscape, weather, sensibility, even just now, I think I’d steer readers toward as a kind of spiritual raison d’être. It feels my latest novel, called All the News I Need. logical and fitting that CSL be the guard- It is a tender, bittersweet, but also actually ian of, and sanctuary for, my papers. funny story of friendship, which I have ENDNOTES come to see as perhaps the last and most 1 For more information on Ms. Frank’s meaningful frontier in human relations— illustrious career as an author see: http:// because true friendship proves itself to be www.joanfrank.org. pretty much unconditional and eventu- 2 Reviews of All the News I Need. http:// ally transcends other, earlier conditions, www.umass.edu/umpress/title/all- definitions, and phases of needs in life. Of news-i-need. course, the novel also explores love and sex 3 Ms. Knight asked Ms. Frank the questions and mortality; art, travel, and loneliness; via e-mail and the replies were answered connection, authenticity, and meaning. All in the same way. Her answers are all the cherries on the slot machine! verbatim.

bulletin 122 25 Hidden Treasures Sid Grauman Edition

From the Collections of the California State Library, by Gary Noy

In this Bulletin department, we highlight unusual photographs, documents and artifacts from the California State Library that have been unobserved for years, sometimes even decades.

n the primitive days of motion cially true after the emergence of Holly-

pictures, at the end of the nine- wood studios, the development of “movie Sid Grauman and his mother, Rose, teenth century, movies were stars,” and the extraordinary cultural c. 1935. From the Caroline Wenzel considered ephemeral novelties and, in impact of the first truly global motion pic- Collection, California History Section, Picture Collection; Photo: Grauman, Sid.; some instances, actually used to encourage ture celebrity — Charles “Charlie” Chap- California State Library, Sacramento. patrons to leave theaters. The earliest films lin, the “Little Tramp.” The Nickelodeons were shown on “peep show” machines or simply could not handle the increased (1922) and Chinese Theatre (1927). These projected in theaters as “chas- patronage of the movies, and new ways of venues provided spectacle as well as a ers,” utilized to clear out audiences fol- exhibiting and promoting motion pictures movie. Grauman added live prologues to lowing the live performances. These short were needed. Enter Sid Grauman. his exhibitions, clever promotions, and films, or “flickers,” were generally less than Born in 1879, Sidney Patrick Grauman introduced the glitzy motion picture pre- a minute long, presented a single scene, entered show business thanks to the Klon- miere to the starry firmament. usually of everyday life or slapstick comedy. dike Gold Rush. While in the Yukon, young Grauman’s employees and ushers/usher- Occasionally a flicker featured recreated Grauman and his father David, a failed ettes at the Egyptian and Chinese Theatres historical events, such as the sinking of the prospector, learned that the miners were wore themed costumes and, in the Egyptian battleship Maine during the Spanish-Amer- starved for and would pay handsomely Theatre’s earliest years, Grauman would ican War. They were crudely made but ade- for entertainment. The Graumans offered change props, furnishings, and lighting quately served their limited purpose. rudimentary stage shows and prospered. in the forecourt to match the theme of the As motion pictures increased in popu- The Grauman family continued to offer film being shown. larity, particularly after the turn of the entertainment after they left the Yukon and The Chinese Theatre opened with the twentieth century, venues dedicated to settled in San Francisco in 1900. Quickly, gala premiere of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic film presentations arose. Called “Nick- they became prominent vaudeville empre- King of Kings on May 18, 1927. The event elodeons,” these theaters were merely sarios and managed several theaters. As featured not only DeMille’s motion pic- converted storefronts in the beginning. early as 1903, Sid Grauman began showing ture, but an extravagant live prologue Critics argued that the Nickelodeons were movies in his theaters and branched out to entitled “Glories of the Scriptures” that cramped, dingy, poorly ventilated, charac- exhibit “flickers” in San Jose, Stockton, and boasted a cast of 200. The premiere also terized by uncomfortable wooden benches Sacramento. By 1917, Grauman moved to marked the first “footprint ceremony” that and were the haunts of the disreputable, Los Angeles motivated by his developing became the most famous element of the dangerous, and derelict. In reality, his- belief that moviegoing should be an enter- theater. According to legend, while the torical research indicates that the Nick- tainment itself and that patrons deserved “a theater was being constructed, the actress elodeons were mostly patronized by the theatrical dinner, not just popcorn,” as he , a Grauman friend, working and middle classes, generally described this idea in his later years. visited the site and accidentally left her comfortable and some held as many as In Los Angeles, Grauman constructed footprint in wet cement. Upon reflection, 1,000 customers. lavish “movie palaces” to match his vision clever marketer Sid Grauman developed During the first twenty years of the twen- of an opulent customer experience. These the long-standing ritual whereby dozens tieth century, attending a “moving picture palaces included the Million Dollar The- of movie stars have left their footprints, show” became a more and more desirable atre (1918) and the Rialto Theatre (1919). handprints, and signatures in the fore- weekly activity for many. This was espe- Best known were the Egyptian Theatre court cement as a glamorous promotional

26 California State Library Foundation The Egyptian Theatre was constructed in 1922. To enhance the moviegoing experience, Grauman would change props, furnishings, and lighting in this forecourt to match the theme of the film being shown. Postcard by Neuner Corporation of Los Angeles, 1930, plate in Real Photo Postcard Collection Depicting Hollywood and Los Angeles, vol. 2, page 37, California History Room, Picture Collection, Usherettes at Grauman’s Egyptian F869 L8 P67 1890z. California History Section, California Theatre, c. 1925. Postcard by California State Library, Sacramento. Digital ID: 2010-1485 Greeting and Postcard Company of Los Angeles, c. 1925, plate in Real Photo The interior of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Postcard Collection Depicting Hollywood in 1928. Photograph by Mott Studios, and Los Angeles, vol. 2, page 33, California c.1928. California History Section, from the History Room, Picture Collection, F869 Mott-Merge Collection, Box 7, Folder 251 L8 P67 1890z. California History Section, California State Library, Sacramento. California State Library, Sacramento. Digital ID: 2010-1469

A detail of the famous forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, featuring the footprints, handprints, and signatures of dozens of movie stars dating back to 1927. Postcard by Western Publishing and Novelty Company of Los Angeles c.1940, plate in Real Photo Postcard Collection Depicting Hollywood and Los Angeles, vol. 2, page 27, California Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in 1949. The Chinese Theatre History Room, Picture Collection, F869 opened with a spectacular movie premiere of Cecil B. L8 P67 1890z. California History Section, DeMille’s epic King of Kings on May 18, 1927. Postcard by California State Library, Sacramento. Playford Company of Los Angeles, 1949, plate in Real Photo Digital ID: 2010-1382 Postcard Collection Depicting Hollywood and Los Angeles, vol. 2, page 32, California History Room, Picture Collection, F869 L8 P67 1890z. California History Section, California State Library, Sacramento. Digital ID: 2010-1460

tool for the Chinese Theatre. . He died in 1950. Drama and Literature in its train . . Sid Grauman became the comrade and Perhaps the legacy of Sid Grauman is . . Then Hollywood began to pulse confidant of many motion picture execu- best expressed by Grauman himself. In with an awakened fervor of culture tives and performers over his long career. the program marking the opening of his and genius . . . . Men of sane reason Drawing upon his personal experience, Egyptian Theatre in 1922, Grauman wrote: dare no prophecy of what Hollywood Grauman even served as an advisor to A score of years ago, the settlers on may become in another score of years. in the production of Chap- [these] lovely slopes . . . numbered Personally, I cannot be conservative in lin’s 1925 comedy The Gold Rush, which scarcely 500. They called Capital — my views, for I am a dreamer and my focused on the Little Tramp’s adventures and Capital came. They beckoned Art vision senses a grander prospect than I during the Klondike Gold Rush. — and Art rushed in, bringing Music, would dare put into words.  Grauman was one of the original thirty- six founders of the Academy of Motion EDITOR’S NOTE Picture Arts and Sciences, which, since Gary Noy serves on the Foundation’s Board of Directors and is a history instructor at Sierra College 1929, has awarded the coveted Oscar. In in Rocklin. He is an engaging lecturer and has written many books and articles on the history of the 1948, Sid Grauman received an honorary High Sierra including Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels and Luck (Heyday, Academy Award for his contributions to 2017); Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots and Rogues (Heyday 2013); and The Il- film exhibition. Grauman has a star on the luminated Landscape: A Sierra Nevada Anthology (University of Santa Clara and Heyday, 2010).

bulletin 122 27 Foundation Notes

By Gary F. Kurutz

Mead Kibbey’s Donation of the Glass Lantern Slides of the Central Pacific Railroad

ead B. Kibbey, our late and most around the edges. This served to protect “fired with enthusiasm” and had just Mgenerous benefactor, continued his the image from dust and scratching. The been fired in the same way. I had been enhancement of the photographic collec- finished slide was then ready to be loaded reading a book called High Road to tion devoted to the building of the Central into the projector. The projector itself used Promontory by George Kraus. I noted Pacific Railroad in the 1860s with a recent a concave mirror to project the light source that the date of our Rotary meeting donation of fifty glass magic lantern slides through the slide and an adjustable lens was exactly a century later since con- in their original wooden box and a vintage onto a screen or white wall. With the intro- struction began on the railroad and I lantern slide projector. On August 1, 2018, duction of easier to use 35 mm film slides started trying to find a member to give he presented the Foundation with this and overhead projectors, lantern slides fell the speech — no luck — so I decided amazing gift. In this digital age of Pow- out of favor in the late 1930s. to do it myself — I called a public erPoint and Keynote presentations, it is It is fascinating how Mead came into relations person from the Southern interesting to see examples of this earlier possession of these unique slides. The fol- Pacific Railroad in San Francisco, and means of projecting images on a screen. lowing is based on a recollection he shared he said come on Christmas Eve and The actual slides are reproductions of with me: I will have something for you. I got original stereographs created by railroad I had been the program chairman to the Southern Pacific building on photographer Alfred A. Hart. His views of the Sacramento Rotary Club and time, but the guard at the door said are supplemented with portraits of the Big had induced Dr. Clark Kerr, president everyone went home! — I explained Four, the panoramic painting by John A. of the University of California, Berke- how much I needed his help and he MacQuarrie of the ground-breaking cer- ley, to be that day’s speaker in late said George Biagani, the Southern emony of the railroad in Sacramento on December of 1962. His office called Pacific’s president was still there, and January 8, 1863 in the Sacramento Valley to say that he had come to Berkeley he’d take me to Biagani’s office. Station, and some of Mead’s own color transparencies of railroad views in the Mead obtained this magic lantern slide projector from the Southern Pacific Railroad and High Sierra. used it for many illustrated presentations on railroad photographer A. A. Hart. Lantern slides, also known as “lime- light views,” became popular in the late nineteenth century as a means of visually entertaining audiences or for educational and religious purposes. Before the inven- tion of photography in 1839, hand-painted slides were created as a means of project- ing a large-size image. Candles served as the light source. To put it simply, a photo- graphic lantern slide is a positive print of a photograph on a glass slide. For added effect, the slide was matted with opaque paper to mask out or hide parts of the image not wanted. Finally, another piece of same- size glass was mounted over the positive image and held in place by pasting paper

28 California State Library Foundation Biagani and I were both UC Berke- ley mechanical engineering graduates and he told me about giving lantern slide speeches as a young engineer. We then went down to the basement where under a single ceiling light an old man gave me a nice wood box with slots for fifty glass 3 1/8 x 4-inch slides — some with hand-written labels. Mead gratefully received the slides and its projector. Of course, his magic lantern slide show was enthusiastically received by the Rotarians. From there, he went on to give similar presentations to community and historical groups. A few years back, he wowed an audience at an evening pro- gram in Room 500 of the State Library. People were amazed in this digital age by how good the glass slides looked when projected on the screen using the origi- nal projector. They also enjoyed watching a friend manually load the projector one slide at a time. Because of his skill as a photographer and training as an engineer, Mead became fascinated by Alfred A. Hart and his com- pelling stereographs documenting the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento to Promontory Point, Utah. Giving this talk led him to collect original Hart stereographs and using these photographs, to write his highly acclaimed book The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist published by the Foundation in 1996.  The box of fifty glass lantern slides donated by Mead Kibbey.

Bulletin 122 29 James Winkler (1894-1979). Night in Chinatown. Etching. 9 x 12 1/2 inches. Edition of 54, circa 1933-1936.

Blanding Sloan (1886-1975. Mark Twain’s Cabin at Jackass Hill. Etching. 7 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. 1931. James Winkler (1894-1979). Fisherman’s Home on Telegraph Hill. Etching. 9 x 12 1/2 inches. Edition of 35, circa 1933-1936.

Books, Manuscripts, Prints, and Paintings Donated by Donald J. Hagerty

rt historian and retired Foundation association. Bruff wrote perhaps the best- cial appointment as county assessor from ABoard Member Donald J. Hagerty, known overland journal of the Gold Rush Judge Moses Bean which again showed like Mead Kibbey, has made extraordinary era. It was published in two hefty volumes respect for his abilities. The last manuscript donations to the Foundation for the ben- in 1944 by the Columbia University Press. dated March 28, 1852, is a three-page letter efit of the Library. This summer he gave Settling in Butte County, Dorsey was affil- from Dorsey to Washington discussing his several rare books, Gold Rush era letters, iated with the Stoney Point Mining Com- farming adventures, opportunities, young and a spectacular array of watercolors, pany on the Feather River. Shortly thereafter, women, and his desire to return home to oil on board paintings, etchings, and one Dorsey received a letter dated May 10, 1850, Alexandria, Virginia. Apparently, California early lithograph. from Charles J. Whiting, the Surveyor was not for him as he did return home. The letters clearly demonstrated Hager- General of California, outlining the duties The Library’s California History Sec- ty’s “good eye” in spotting important mate- of a county assessor. Somehow, Whiting tion has an extensive collection of prints rial when at book fairs. The manuscripts learned of the newcomer’s excellent judg- by California artists consisting of views of consist of three letters written during the ment and to trust him with this important historic buildings and Gold Rush towns, early 1850s concerning two members of task in a remote section of California. The landscapes, and portraits. Included in the Washington City and California Min- letter was written in San Jose when that Hagerty’s gift are four etchings from ing Association, H. Carter Dorsey and city served as the state capital and before the Mother Lode Country by the highly Richard Washington. Joseph Goldsbor- California’s admission into the Union. On acclaimed artist Blanding Sloan (1886– ough Bruff served as the captain of the September 4, 1850, Dorsey received an offi- 1975). All are signed and dated by the

30 California State Library Foundation Beautiful Photograph of Early Electric Car Obtained

n this day and age, when so many of its operating simplicity and silence. Bat- Icompanies are developing hybrid and tery technology must have been well devel- battery-powered motor vehicles, it is fas- oped as Marcia’s box-shaped automobile cinating that electric cars were popular as had a range of one hundred miles at mod- long ago as 1910. Through the Director’s erate speeds. This stood in stark contrast to Fund, the Foundation obtained a beauti- the noisy, smelly and smoky gasoline pow- ful photograph of a young lady standing ered engines that began to dominate Cali- next to her 1910 Detroit Electric Model D fornia roadways. In 2013, a well-preserved Type R Brougham. The vehicle, with its Model D Type R Brougham came up for well-appointed interior and curved glass auction at the auction house of Bonhams, windows, was given to a Marcia Weaver as and it sold for $55,200. The auction catalog a gift from her Hollywood grandparents. highlighted its “curved glass front quarter At the time, Marcia was eighteen years-old windows, dual electric carriage lights on and her lavish gift was one of only three the body pillars, embossed decorative inte- electric cars in Los Angeles. rior leather trim, and vis-à-vis seating with Women liked the electric vehicle because left side mounted tiller steering.” 

Traveling via Aerial Ship in 1897 artist. Subjects include James Marshall’s new arrival thanks to a Foundation that its design was far more superior than cabin, Sutter’s Mill, Mark Twain’s cabin at Apurchase is a tiny booklet given as the conventional balloon as the cone bow Jackass Hill, and one titled “Stage Drivers a souvenir at the California Exposition presented minimal air resistance, and its Retreat and Billiard Hall, Columbia, Cali- held in San Francisco in 1897. The Atlan- propellers could propel the lighter-than-air fornia.” Up to this point, the Library had tic & Pacific Aerial Navigation Company craft at one hundred miles an hour. only one Sloan print in its collection. of San Francisco produced the souvenir Unfortunately, there is no evidence that Another noteworthy artist was James to promote the “aerial ship” that it was the San Francisco company ever “got off Winkler (1894–1979) and the Library has developing. To assure potential investors the ground.” However, others in California an impressive collection of his etchings of and passengers, the company stated that had achieved some success with the pre- California scenes. Hagerty donated three “it will be constructed on scientific lines,” decessor of the dirigible or directional air- signed examples of his work. Fisherman’s made of aluminum, driven by propellers, ship. In fact, as early as 1850, Rufus Porter Home on Telegraph Hill was produced in and its buoyancy would be achieved by sold tickets for an “aerial locomotive” that an edition of thirty-five copies, and the hydrogen gas. Sandwiched in between text would take gold seekers from New York to very print that Hagerty gave is reproduced pages is a tiny sample of aluminum mea- California in only three days. Porter, by the in Norman Kraft’s Great American Prints, suring 2 1/2 x 1 1/2-inches that the com- way, was the founding publisher of the Sci- 1900–1950. Another striking image is pany planned to use. Finally, the text noted entific American. titled Night in Chinatown. It was printed in an edition of fifty-four copies.

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