CALIFORNIA S T A T E LIBRARY FOUNDATION Number 119 2017 CALIFORNIA S T A T E LIBRARY FOUNDATION Number 119 2017

EDITOR 2 �����������“Public Libraries Are Unsung Heroes”: A Conversation Gary F. Kurutz with Library Development Services Bureau Chief Wendy Hopkins EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS By M. Patricia Morris Kathleen Correia & Brittney Cook

COPY EDITOR 8 ����������The Earl Cecil Payne and Muriel Hopkins Payne Collection M. Patricia Morris of Twentieth Century California Nature Photography Donated to the State Library By Burt Thompson BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kenneth B. Noack, Jr. 16 ����������Braille and Talking Book Director Visits the National Library in Egypt, President Library of Alexander and Historic Sites By Michael Marlin Donald J. Hagerty Vice-President 20 ��������George Washington’s Writings, Brought by Forty-Niners to Thomas E. Vinson California To Aid Them as “Citizens of a New Community & Treasurer a Rising State” By Nick Aretakis Marilyn Snider Secretary 23 ����������Extra-Illustration: From Marginalia to Scrapbooks. Greg Lucas State Librarian of California Highlights from the Sutro Library By Diana Kohnke 26 ��������The Love Generation: Music & Art from the Summer of 67 JoAnn Levy Marilyn Snider By Sariah Groff Phillip L. Isenberg Thomas W. Stallard Mead B. Kibbey Phyllis Smith Gary Noy Angelo A. Williams 30 �������� Hidden Treasures — Jurisprudence Edition By Gary Noy Jeff Volberg 32 ����������Foundation Notes

Gary F. Kurutz Brittney Cook Alfred A. Hart Granite Monument Dedicated by Mead B. Kibbey Executive Director Foundation Administrator By Gary F. Kurutz Shelley Ford A New Foundation Administrator Is Hired to Replace Departing Bookkeeper Marta Knight By Gary F. Kurutz The California State Library Foundation Bulletin is published when we are able. © 2004-2017. 35 ����������Recent Contributors

Opinions of the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their institutions, Front Cover: A full moon and firefall at Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley. Digital 1 1 the California State Library or the Foundation. scan made from a 2 /4 x 2 /4 color negative by Earl Payne. See article by Burt Thompson, pages 8-15. The Bulletin is included as a membership benefit to Foundation members and those Back Cover: “El Capitan Grandeur” by Earl Payne. Digital scan made from 35mm individuals contributing $40.00 or more annually color slide. to Foundation Programs. Membership rates are: Illustrations and Photo Credits: The editor extends his gratitude to Brittney Cook, Associate: $40-$99 Vincent Beiderbecke and Matt Bartok for their expertise in creating digital scans Contributor: $100-249 and photographs. Michael Marlin and Diana Kohnke supplied the images for their Sponsor: $250-$499 respective articles. Patron: $500-$999 Institutional: $500 Design: Angela Tannehill, Tannehill Design | www.angelatannehill.com Corporate: $750 Lifetime Member: $1,000 California State Library Foundation Pioneer: $5,000 1225 8th Street, Suite 345, Sacramento, CA 95814 Subscription to Libraries: $30/year tel: 916.447.6331 | web: www.cslfdn.org | email: [email protected]

bulletin 119 1 Away from the demands of the Library Development Services Bureau, Wendy Hopkins is photographed in the calm of the State Library’s rare book room.

2 California State Library Foundation Public Libraries Are Unsung Heroes A Conversation with Library Development Services Bureau Chief Wendy Hopkins By M. Patricia Morris

he California State Library has Hopkins likened her role to a connection to virtually every public library in the state through that of an orchestra conductor the programs of its Library Development Services Bureau. On August 12, 2017, I of an incredibly talented team. met with Bureau Chief Wendy Hopkins in her office at the Library to talk about the bureau’s recent activities. During an lowing that she worked for a variety of orga- hour-long interview, she shared many nizations including the Federal Emergency stories that spoke to the creativity and Management Agency (FEMA) before being innovation taking place both at the State hired at the California Department of Pub- Library and in the field aimed at improv- lic Health, where she was responsible for ing public library services. the department’s communications relating State Librarian Greg Lucas chose Wendy to high risk situations such as earthquakes Hopkins two and one-half years ago to and pandemics. head the bureau. Her background is not in During the course of our conversation, librarianship, but in media and communi- Hopkins likened her role to that of an cations. In the 1990s, she served as Gover- “orchestra conductor of an incredibly tal- nor Pete Wilson’s media relations director. ented team.” Then for many years she ran the California When the bureau is at full strength, State Legislature’s broadcast services. Fol- as chief, Hopkins heads a staff of twelve.

EDITOR’S NOTE Patricia Morris is the Foundation’s copy editor. In addition, she has contributed several superb articles to the Bulletin. Morris is active in two Toastmasters Clubs, the Capital Communicators and Capitol Captivators. This year Morris received the Distinguished Toastmaster award.

bulletin 119 3 The creativity in these During the downturn, the bureau lost half health, we felt it beneficial to train librari- its staff requiring the remaining members ans on how to deal effectively and compas- libraries is astonishing,” she to cover the same workload. sionately with any patron suffering with She said, the principal work of the team mental illness, so that not only would the said. “I think public libraries is to “oversee, administer, and monitor librarian staff feel safe and secure in their approximately $10 million dollars in fed- work environment but other patrons in are unsung heroes of eral and state grants.” “What we do,” she the library won’t be disturbed by, or fearful added, “is create grant programs that go of, individuals affected by mental illness. communities. I think people out to public libraries, so they can create “We teamed up with the National Coun- programs that are beneficial to their com- cil of Behavioral Health, and they provided would be truly shocked to walk munity, things like teen programs and five-day training classes for thirty people summer reading programs.” each. Each of these thirty people, by taking into a library and find out how The largest source of library funding that training, had to agree to conduct three administered by the Library Development eight-hour classes of their own. Approxi- vibrant it is. How much there Services Bureau comes from the federal mately 600 librarians and community government through the Library Services partners, like police and fire and other is to offer. It is not just books, and Technology Act (LSTA). The Institute agencies that encounter people affected by for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) mental health, have been trained. just audio, just CDs.” is the federal agency responsible for dis- “There is one component where we are tributing LSTA grant and operational creating a series of eight videos of the dif- funds to the fifty states. ferent things that librarians can do for How do libraries compete for these people with mental health issues. Like grants? Hopkins said, “There are several when someone becomes violent or aggres- different ways, because we have different sive, or how to deal with teens with men- levels of grant programs.” She proceeded tal health issues and that type of thing. Of to describe how one State Library LSTA course any library in the nation can bring program came into being. these videos up on YouTube and benefit from the information that we are sharing. STATE LIBRARY’S MENTAL So that is just one example of the type of HEALTH INITIATIVE grants that we can do,” Hopkins said. “Over a year ago,” she said, “we saw the The creation of the Mental Health Initia- mental health crisis escalating when there tive was so compelling, I was curious about was the San Bernardino shooting. The other LSTA grants the bureau had worked poor people of San Bernardino were so on. “The list is so long,” Hopkins said. But affected. A lot of people raced to the library she accommodated me by describing the because they wanted resources to find out Career Online High School program that how to get help, how to get mental health had its start as a pilot program. help, what to do about gun control. So the point was to provide, first of all, San Ber- GETTING A HIGH SCHOOL nardino with materials to help the people DIPLOMA AT YOUR LIBRARY of San Bernardino, and the local library to “In Career Online High School,” Hopkins help meet those needs. And obviously it said, “anybody of any age can work with can happen anywhere, so we developed it the libraries that have this program and get into a statewide program. their diploma. It is not a GED. It is an actual “State Librarian Greg Lucas, the high school diploma. You can pick up at E-Team,1 and a lot of members of my staff whatever point you are at. felt the need for a grant to be created, a $1 “Say a young person who is three quar- million grant, to go out for mental health ters away from a high school diploma had resources for public libraries. For mental to drop out in their junior year for whatever

4 California State Library Foundation reason. They had to support their family, she said, “help stop the summer slide when or had to go to work. They can come back kids get out of school. They stop and have a NAPA’S BIKE BRANCH and pick up where they left off and com- fun summer and they lose so much of what To extend outreach to their communi- plete their credits and complete their high they learned in the school year, so they sort ties, a number of libraries in California school diploma, which gives them a better of have to start over again to a degree in the are turning to bike bookmobiles. Hopkins position in the community to get a better next school year. So the summer reading told how Napa Public Library succeeded job and hopefully to go on and get a better programs are designed to stop that summer this year in getting a Pitch An Idea grant education and become a better contributing slide so that kids stay engaged and active to buy a motorized bike to enable its staff member of society.” and still retain and use what they learned to attend more community events. I asked about the State Legislature’s in the school year so they are prepared to go “The bike is basically a three-wheeler involvement. “The Legislature is incred- into the next school year.” that is partially electric,” she said, “so any ibly enthused about this program,” she The third program explores a new staff member of any size or physical abil- said. Hopkins went on to explain that “this technology. “Public libraries,” she said, ity could use it without overexerting or program is supported by a combination of “have these things called ‘maker spaces’ hurting themselves. On the back is a really state and federal funds along with match- through one of the grants we have pro- appealing little cab.” ing funds from participating libraries.” vided for 3D printers so the kids can learn The bike is currently being custom about science and technology and math. built. The plan is that when they to go to IN PRAISE OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES Sure they can go and create something the farmer’s market on the bike, they will In mid-interview Hopkins paused from fun in the maker spaces. They don’t even carry various materials on gardening and reporting on specific LSTA programs to know that they are learning these core things like that in the cab. Later on in the laud the innovation coming from Califor- fundamentals. They are having an abso- day, when someone else is going to take the nia’s public libraries. “I want to emphasize lutely great time.” Bike Branch to a concert in the park, they this,” she said. “We work very closely and “The incredibly great work that librar- will switch out the boxes and put in music have a great partnerships with the public ies are doing and anchoring the commu- and art related information. Back at home, libraries. They look to us for advice. They nity is a wonderful thing to see. It is a the Napa Bike Branch will be parked in look to us for training, but also to create wonderful thing to be a part of,” she said. front of the library, so when people see it in new ideas, so we can keep libraries alive front of the library, they will recognize it in and vital in today’s society. We want to PITCH AN IDEA PROPOSALS the field and gravitate toward it. hear from them. What is going on in your LSTA grants are awarded in a variety of “What a brilliant strategy,” Hopkins world? What needs do you have so that we ways. Some are statewide programs that enthused. “It brings the library materials to can answer and meet those needs? the State Library itself created. Others are the public reminding them that they have a “The creativity in these libraries is projects resulting from ideas submitted by fantastic library right in their community.” astonishing,” she said. “I think public public libraries and which are evaluated libraries are unsung heroes of communi- on a competitive basis. The Pitch An Idea INNOVATION STATIONS ties. I think people would be truly shocked Proposals, though, are Hopkins’s favorite Hopkins had been talking about a smaller to walk into a library and find out how type. About a million dollars a year is allot- library. “But the huge libraries do phenom- vibrant it is. How much there is to offer. ted for these grants awarded at a minimum enal things too,” she said. She proceeded It is not just books, just audio, just CDs.” of $5,000 to a maximum of $100,000. to explain how Chula Vista Public Library She described three programs in pub- This is what they tell the libraries she partnered two years ago with Qualcomm, lic libraries specifically designed for kids. said, “You come up with your best idea for the multinational semiconductor and tele- Teen advisory groups were the first. “There a program that would benefit your com- communications company, to install a are teen advisory groups,” she said, “that munity and you fill out an application, and Thinkabit Lab™ at the library. Since Qual- act as peers and mentors to other teens then we will do a phone call, and you give a comm copyrighted the name, they are that work on the issues that affect teens ten minute sales pitch on why this is such called “Innovation Stations.” today like bullying, social media, and par- a great program and why we should do “It was Qualcomm’s idea,” she said. ent issues.” it. A ten minute pitch and then Q and A. “Chula Vista Library Director Betty Waz- The second type of creative public library Some of the most amazing ideas come out nis had a storage area about as dreary program she mentioned was summer read- of these Pitch An Idea proposals.” She told and gloomy a place as you could possible ing. “Some summer reading programs,” me about one of them. want.” Qualcomm said, ‘Tell you what.

bulletin 119 5 People in the audience started dancing. We’ll come in and help you renovate this space. We’ll put these really cool Thinkabit It was so exciting. And there was a buzz. Labs™ in there.’” The storage area is now in Hopkins’s All I could hear was did the library do words, “colorful, vibrant, painted, alive. There are stations where kids can go and that? The library? Really? build their own little robots. And again it is teaching these kids these core principles of science, technology, math. They think they are having fun, but they are learning.” “This project became so popular,” she said, “the city backed it one hundred percent.” The one thing that remained to be done with this project was to do something about the “very dreary and drab stairway leading down to it” as Hopkins described it. A local utility company, San Diego Gas and Elec- tric, stepped in and painted the staircase adding a mural on how to conserve energy. Reflecting on the successful outcome of This empty stage is set up and ready for Many guest celebrities participated in the the performance of five young DJs who Turns the Tables event. Rapper Lee Laamaj this venture, Hopkins said, “Betty Waznis trained in Compton Public Library’s and pop singer Kay Dee are having some recognized the value of creating community Turns the Tables program. fun posing in front of an event backdrop. partnerships. I think public libraries are getting very adept in making those connec- tions with the right community partners. I could go on and on with story after story.” And she did go on. She had one more story to tell on this sunny August afternoon.

COMPTON TURNS THE TABLES Hopkins asked me if I was familiar with the movie Straight Outta Compton. The title was familiar, but “I hadn’t seen it.” “It was based,” she said, “on a significant part Actress Melanie Eke interviewed each of the Turns the Tables attendees gather to of the music industry that has come out DJs as they walked the red carpet as well as photograph two of the events’ many guest of Compton. Well, in one of these Pitch celebrity guests. Here she is pictured talking celebrity participants—Rapper Lee Laamaj with pop singer Kay Dee. and pop singer Kay Dee. An Idea grants, Compton Library came to us and said they wanted to do Compton Turns the Tables. What they asked for was funding for four DJ stations, so kids could learn how to be DJs. “Being a DJ these days,” Hopkins pointed out, “is a viable full-time career.” She went on to explain that Compton Library, a branch of Los Angeles County Library, wanted this program not only as a way for the kids to have fun, but also as a way for them to learn business skills including writing pitch letters and

6 California State Library Foundation resumes to market themselves. The plan kids. There were little kids doing the hip was to have thirty people go through hop dance thing,” she said. “People in the the program for two hours a week for audience started dancing. It was so excit- ten weeks. The California State Library ing. And there was a buzz. All I could awarded them a grant of $50,000 to go hear was ‘Did the library do that?’ ‘The ahead with the project. At the conclusion library?’ ‘Really?’” of the program, Compton Library put on With the 400 people showing up, the a free city concert for the kids to showcase two morning radio shows, two morning their skills. Anthony Lewis, Kay Dee and TV shows, media coverage,” Hopkins many other prominent personalities par- said, they probably had a minimum of 20 ticipated in the event. to 25 million people having heard about Hopkins went down for this concert the event. For an investment of $50,000 held on May 6, 2017 and reported on what that is a return on investment that is just took place. “Compton did it right with their priceless. So there are at least 20 million community partners,” she said. “It was people in the LA area who know there is phenomenal. The library grounds were all a library that can do these things, so with abuzz. They were doing it like a big Hol- any luck, they are saying ‘I wonder what lywood media event. They had this celebrity my library is doing?’” room for the kids with popcorn, hot dogs, and sodas. The kids were loving it.” JUST THE BEGINNING “Then outside, Compton Public Library There isn’t space in this article to report on is situated next to their county government other Library Development Services Bureau building so that they had this big open programs, such as the California Library pavilion. They had put up a stage. They had Services Act (CLSA), which promotes three-hundred white seats and a red carpet resource sharing among public libraries in running along side, so that the kids coming the state, or the popular California Library out walked the red carpet.” Indeed, some Literacy Services in which adult, English of the kids were interviewed on the red car- speakers can learn to read and use library pet before they went on stage. services at a local library. Neither was there Hopkins went on to talk about how the time to describe the unit’s work to extend event was publicized. The Director of Los broadband services to libraries in need of Angeles County Public Library Skye Patrick access to high speed Internet. appeared on two morning radio shows and Our thanks to Wendy Hopkins for giv- two morning television shows. “Each of ing us some insights into the work of the those shows,” Hopkins said, “had a mini- Library Development Services Bureau. But mum audience of 3, 4, 5 million people. it was just a beginning.  Already, you are talking 20 million people are getting the buzz that this is happening.” Hopkins had told them they should get hold of someone from the Grammy’s to be a guest judge and cheer these kids on. Instead she said, “They did far better than that.” Compton Library enlisted four celeb- ENDNOTES 1 rity guest judges from the entertainment The E-Team is comprised of the state librarian, deputy state librarian and bureau industry. “The guest judges,” Hopkins said, chiefs from each department: Library “gave positive critiques to all these DJs.” Development Services, State Library Ser- Hopkins estimated that they had prob- vices Information Technology, Adminis- ably between 400 and 450 people from tration/Business Services, and the Califor- the public show up and listen to these nia Research Bureau.

bulletin 119 7 The Earl Cecil Payne and Muriel Hopkins Payne Collection

of Twentieth Century California Nature Photography By Burt Thompson

he California State Library Founda- tion received a generous bequest from the estate of Mrs. Earl Cecil (Muriel) Payne recently. Mrs. Payne had donated a large collection of private photo- graphic work created by her late husband to the California State Library Foundation several years ago. The collection consisted of both black and white and color photo- graphs of California and its natural beauty from the last half of the twentieth century. They complement the library’s collection of photographic work by C. E. Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. Approximately 2,000 individual images are currently available online in 161 files (records) in the Library’s picture catalog.1 As a serious avocation, Earl Payne spent many years creating magnificent landscape

Muriel Ann EDITOR’S NOTE Payne. Mrs. Payne Burt Thompson is a long-time supporter of accompanied the California State Library Foundation her husband on many of his from Granite Bay. He knew the Paynes for photographic many years and encouraged Mrs. Payne to trips into the High Sierra and desert. donate her husband’s archive to the Founda- tion and Library.

8 California State Library Foundation The Earl Cecil Payne and Muriel Hopkins Payne Collection of Twentieth Century California Nature Photography By Burt Thompson

Landscape photographer Earl Payne checks his light meter in the California desert. Mrs. Payne donated his camera to the Library.

bulletin 119 9 Moonrise over the Alabama Hills, Owens Valley, Inyo County.

views and close-ups of natural wonders. Vanishing Fields. He spent years hiking the High Sierra, and California’s deserts and coast. Many of these excursions took place before paved roads and other developments. Payne’s favorite subjects include bristle- cone pines, wildflowers, the Alabama Hills, and Death Valley. Many of Payne’s views have been exhibited in museums and commercial galleries. Earl Cecil Payne was born in San Fran- cisco in 1921 but grew up in the Encini- tas area of San Diego County when it was still largely undeveloped. Payne was inter- ested in art and photography when he was in high school. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy and became an

10 California State Library Foundation Monarch Flight.

Cactus Surprise.

11bulletin 119 California State Library Foundation11 El Capitan Grandeur.

12 California State Library Foundation Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of the eastern California were a favorite subject of Payne’s.

aerial photographer. He received his basic Navy friend and aerial photographer, Vern photographic training at the Naval School Cartwright was working.2 of Photography in Pensacola, Florida. He Payne became a commercial photogra- was then assigned to Guam in 1944 in the pher, and did school photography most of Pacific to do aerial photography to evalu- his commercial career. He continued to ate bombing results. His work was all in develop his photographic skills by taking black and white with all negatives pro- courses in figure photography from Wil- cessed in the darkroom. It was excellent liam Mortensen in Southern California. hands-on training for him in camera and His personal interest was in nature pho- darkroom techniques. The quality of these tography similar to that of Ansel Adams. photographs was very important since the He began to photograph Yosemite in all photos were used to select the next mis- its seasons to record views under various sion targets. After the end of the war Earl lighting conditions. Typical of that era, Showing a playful side, Payne took this Payne moved to Sacramento where his his early nature photography consisted shadowy self-portrait on the desert floor.

bulletin 119 13 Earl Payne, World War II Photographer. During the war he was stationed in Guam and his main duty was as an aerial photographer.

In between aerial photography missions during the war, Payne became intrigued by the nose art of the planes he flew on. Shown here is one example. Muriel Payne created a self-published book appropriately titled, Wow Fantasies.

almost entirely of black and white images mens. Wishing to share his enthusiasm School for many years. She developed a since color film was still evolving and the and knowledge, he taught a night class in pilot program for the teaching of visual more stable black and white negatives wildflower photography every spring for El and performing arts for the entire state could be enhanced in the darkroom to Camino High School in Sacramento and of California under a grant from the state create large prints. led field trips on the weekends. Using the Department of Education. Her program in One of his special interests in nature was best possible camera equipment, Payne art education is still used in high schools the bristlecone pines, the world’s oldest liv- photographed the wildflowers with his across the state. ing trees located in the White Mountains Hasselblad with close-up attachments. It The once famous road stop Nut Tree in of Eastern California. He made many trips could take hours to set up and take a per- Vacaville hosted several exhibits of Payne’s there before the area was developed. He fect close-up shot without motion and with work featuring his landscape views. Payne’s made large prints in black and white show- good depth of field and perfect lighting. work provides a unique view of California ing the beautiful texture of the tree bark Earl Payne married Muriel Hopkins natural wonders in the late twentieth cen- and the grotesque shapes of the trees after in 1971. They traveled all over California tury. He worked with large format film centuries of wind and harsh winters. Later and the West on photographic trips for cameras and performed darkroom magic he also photographed them in color. The the next thirty-five years until Earl’s death to produce magnificent photographs. All of library has a magnificent portfolio of his in 2006 at the age of eighty-four. Muriel his work was done before the digital camera bristlecone views. In addition to his Sierra Hopkins Payne was an artist by training was developed. Many of his subjects have views, Payne enjoyed the desert region of and was a great scout for finding dra- been destroyed by recent developments in Southern California and created breathtak- matic photographic opportunities for her California. Payne’s work provides a vast and ing photographs of Death Valley, the Ala- husband. Muriel was born in Sacramento varied collection of California nature. The bama Hills, and the Anza-Borrego Desert. and graduated from Stanford University Library has the most extensive collection California’s wildflowers greatly inter- in 1946. She also graduated from Sacra- of his work in existence. It is a great trea- ested Payne and he took both scenic and mento State University with a degree in sure for the State Library and a resource for close-up shots of dozens of different speci- education. She taught at Sacramento High future generations of Californians. 

14 California State Library Foundation Payne returned to the states following the war and became a highly acclaimed photographer. As demonstrated in this photograph, he gave many public presentations.

ENDNOTES 1 The Earl Payne photographs may be accessed on the State Library’s picture catalog via its web site at http://www. library.ca.gov. Click on catalogs and then click on picture catalog and type in the name Earl Payne. 2 Vern Cartwright in 1984 donated to the State Library an immense collection of over 4,000 aerial photographs of North- ern California. In World War II, he was stationed in Guam and there met Earl Payne. He owned and operated one of the largest aerial photography businesses in the western U.S. For more informa- tion on Cartwright see Issue Number 17 (October 1986) of the California State Library Foundation Bulletin.

Working out of Sacramento, Payne emerged as a very successful commercial photographer. In his darkroom, he prepares a negative for printing.

bulletin 119 15 Braille and Talking Book Director Visits the National Library in Egypt, Library of Alexandria and Historic Sites

By Michael Marlin

BTBL Director Michael Marlin in front of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

16 California State Library Foundation s a member of the Library Services to Persons with Print Disabilities interna- tional committee of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), I have traveled to some very interesting countries. My experience in February 2017 in Egypt, first at the Bib- liotheca Alexandrina (BA)—or Library of Alexandria—and National Library of Egypt in Cairo, not to mention some cultural explorations after business was concluded, was absolutely astounding, fascinating, and wonderful. Alexandria is located along the south- ern coast of the Mediterranean Sea about 223 kilometers or 140 miles by car north of Cairo. The current Bibliotheca opened in the year 2000, over two millennia after its original complex of buildings was destroyed by a fire set by the army of Julius Caesar in 48 BC, although there may have been several fires and other attacks or incursions before and after that date. The Shown here is the beautiful and massive interior of part of this Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The photographer is looking down on the main reading room and lower levels from the fourth-floor floating meeting room. BA is a very sleekly designed, set of mod- ern buildings with a main library, confer- ies for the blind is that, due to copyright ence center, planetarium, and museums. restrictions, patrons are unable to physi- Our committee meetings were held in the cally borrow, receive by mail, or download fourth floor “floating room,” an architec- the materials. Instead, patrons must use turally suspended room overlooking the braille and audio materials in the library grand reading room on the first floor and only. While negotiations with publishers four levels beneath it constituting various proceed to hopefully alleviate this situa- public library sections. According to my tion in the future, the dedicated staff of sighted peers, one could spy the Mediter- Taha Hussein diligently produce braille ranean beyond these stepped levels too. and talking books and magazines and cre- Housed within the BA, the Taha Hus- ate special presentations and programs sein Library for the Blind is the national for Egypt’s print disabled community. In library for the blind for Egypt, and it 2016 the library celebrated the 400th anni- produces braille, text-to-speech, and nar- versary of the birth of Shakespeare, and in rated books for its patrons. The difference honor of the bard they produced a print/ between it and other worldwide librar- braille version of Shakespeare’s Famous

EDITOR’S NOTE.

Michael Marlin is Director of the California State Library’s Braille and Talking Book Library. Yasmine Youssef, Digital Books Specialist At one of the Foundation’s board meetings, Marlin made a fascinating presentation on his trip at the Taha Hussein Library within the to Egypt and I thought our membership would enjoy his written account as well as the photo- Bibliotheca Alexandrina, welcomes her colleagues at the recording studio who graphs he kindly provided that accompany his narrative. also serve the print disabled community.

bulletin 119 17 Marlin and Jane Glasby, Program Manager for the San Francisco Library for the Blind and Print Disabled, pose for this striking photograph of the sphinx and pyramid at Giza.

Quotations in English and Arabic, a tac- on the seawall, and directed us to many spells out, a very short trip down the Nile tile drawing of the poet’s face, head, and delicious restaurants featuring all sorts of River on a falooka (sailboat). All the Egyp- distinctive curls, and an Arabic version of delicacies I cannot properly pronounce! tian colleagues and citizens I met along Much Ado About Nothing with voices pro- For our last full day in the country, the the way were incredibly kind and helpful, vided by library staff members. BA staff arranged a tour of several his- and especially interested in the NLS net- After a well-attended symposium about torical sites in Cairo, including a tactile work libraries in California and how we the Way Forward for the Marrakesh Treaty and sighted tour of the Pyramids of Giza serve our readers. And since, alas, I was in Egypt and several days of meetings, and the Sphinx, the Egyptian Museum not able to have him accompany me, my our Alexandrian hosts did provide a day with many ancient artifacts, the Egyptian guide dog Vivaldi was very happy to see of sightseeing and listening, visiting cata- National Library with a private viewing me when I returned, although he was dis- combs (ancient burial tombs), a Roman and lecture of restored scrolls and ancient appointed that the bookmarks and tactile coliseum, a citadel from the 600s AD built manuscripts, and as the title of the article items I brought home were not edible! 

18 California State Library Foundation Marlin and his colleagues happily stand in front of the Great Pyramid at Giza during an unusually cold day.

Enjoying a tactile experience, Marlin touches one of the massive carved stones of the pyramid.

bulletin 119 19 Each volume (save for volume two), bears the bookplate of Edward Everett on the front pastedown and a manuscript note at the top of the bookplate reading “Library of the Boston and California Mining and Trading Company.” Below Everett’s printed name at the bottom of the bookplate in the first volume are written the words “to the California Mining Company.”

20 California State Library Foundation George Washington’s Writings, Brought by Forty-Niners to California

To Aid Them as “Citizens of a New Community & a Rising State” By Nick Aretakis

his remarkable twelve-volume set notes that 120 members of the company of the company was the Revered Joseph A. titled The Writings of George were under thirty, and that they were the Benton, who would gain renown in Califor- Washington: Being His Correspon- “best organized and best equipped of the nia for his sermons. The California State dence, Addresses, Messages and Other Papers early companies.” Each member paid $300 Library owns the manuscript diary kept by (Boston: [1833]–1837) was presented to the to join the company, and they elected the Benton on the voyage. Another account of Boston and California Mining and Trading experienced seaman, Henry Smith as their the journey, by company Secretary Willard Company by the noted Massachusetts poli- president. The company purchased a ship, B. Farwell, was published in the August tician Edward Everett. It was the first regu- called the Edward Everett, which departed 1891 edition of The Century Magazine under larly organized Gold Rush company to set Boston on January 13, 1849, arriving in the title “Cape Horn and Cooperative Min- sail for California from Boston, consisting San Francisco on July 6, after a voyage of ing in ‘49.” A third journal, kept by com- of men who hoped not only to find wealth 174 days. At 700 tons, it was the largest pany member Amos Gove, is held by the in California, but also to bring American of the Gold Rush company vessels sailing University of California’s Bancroft Library, “civilization” to a distant land of infinite from Massachusetts in 1849, and its cargo and journals were also kept by William H. promise. The fact that the men of the com- holds contained a small steamboat and Thomes and Mahlon D. Spalding. pany carried with them a set of the first col- four steam engines. Among the members Author Dale Walker calls the Boston and lected edition of the writings of the nation’s founding father, George Washington, is EDITOR’S NOTE. highly emblematic of that desire. The fact This incredible set of volumes of The Writings of George Washington was offered to the that this set of books, carried around Cape Foundation for purchase. The description by antiquarian bookseller Nick Aretakis made the Horn in 1849 and taken into the mining acquisition irresistible as he told such an incredible story about bringing books to Gold Rush camps later that year, still survives intact is California and their connection to Reverend Joseph A. Benton whose manuscript diary is in nothing short of amazing. the California State Library’s collections. Aretakis gave the Foundation permission to publish The Boston and California Joint Stock his sparkling essay. Mining and Trading Company was orga- Mr. Aretakis is a son of California and was born and raised in the Central Valley. He nized in mid-December 1848 by Boston received a degree in American History from the University of California, Berkeley, and then merchant Timothy Rix. Numbering 150 moved east to pursue graduate studies at George Washington University and the University men, the company represented twenty- of Virginia. For fourteen years, he was an associate in the Americana Department at the four trades and fifteen professions, and William Reese Company, New Haven, Connecticut. In 2014 he and his family moved back to one-third of the members were men of California, and he established his own firm dealing in Americana books, manuscripts, photo- property. Historian Donald Dale Jackson graphs, prints, and maps of all regions and all periods.

bulletin 119 21 California Mining and Trading Company providing them with a collection of some time to do it yourself) write the words ‘to “among the most impressive and ambitious one hundred books from his personal the California Mining Company’ under my of the New England outfits” that sailed for library, writing Captain Henry Smith of his name on the book plate or immediately California in 1849. “In the party were mer- intentions in a letter of January 6, 1849: “I below.” The following day, January 9, Ever- chants, manufacturers, artisans, medical am desirous of offering a few books to the ett wrote Brown again, mentioning that he and divinity students, no less than eight sea company over which you preside & which would “not be able to come in & see the captains, a mineralogist, a geologist, and is about to sail for California in a vessel books, & I leave every thing to you.” four physicians. Among them were also which bears my name, in the hope that they We can see from the set-in hand that a sufficient number of musicians to give may furnish some amusement & instruc- James Brown followed Edward Everett’s nightly band concerts, and plenty of learned tion to the members of the company, on wishes. Each volume (save for volume men for lectures. They set up a dispensary their long voyage & after their arrival. Allow two), bears the bookplate of Edward Ever- and library on board, stocked the ship with me to ask what will be the latest time at ett on the front pastedown and a manu- trade goods, enough foodstuffs and cloth- which the books can be sent to the vessel, script note at the top of the bookplate ing to last two years, enough lumber to without inconvenience?” Two days later reading “Library of the Boston and Califor- build two houses, and all manner of min- Everett wrote Smith again, remarking fur- nia Mining and Trading Company.” Below ing equipment.” They produced a weekly ther on the intention behind his gift: “I ven- Everett’s printed name at the bottom of handwritten newspaper aboard ship, called ture to hope that a portion of the volumes the bookplate in the first volume are writ- the Barometer, read from manuscript every will afford you some entertainment on the ten the words “to the California Mining Saturday to the assembled ship’s company. voyage & that others will prove useful to Company.” Each volume is also sequen- The company dissolved within two months you in entering upon the discharge of the tially numbered in manuscript on the of reaching California, and many members duties which may devolve upon you of citi- bookplate and also on the front free end- found nothing but frustration in the gold zens of a new community & a rising state.” paper with the numbers 37 to 48, almost mines. Thirty members of the company Willard Farwell, secretary of the company, certainly indicating their numerical place would eventually remain and become resi- described the books given by Everett as “a within Everett’s bequest. Each volume is dents of California. well-selected library of historical, biographi- also stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine An indicator of the well-heeled nature cal, and scientific works” suited to aid men “California Mining Company.” of the company was the fact that they were who “would take in the social and political For many years, this was the standard able to purchase the ship Edward Everett, organization of the new State which they set of George Washington’s writings, with named for one of the most prominent men doubtless would help to found.” Jared Sparks utilizing Washington’s letter- in Massachusetts. In early 1849, Everett In the short window between his letters books in the compilation. The first volume (1794–1865) was just completing a term as to Smith and the departure of the ship, of the set is a biography of Washington. the president of Harvard, his alma mater. Everett set to work. He contacted a crafts- The Writings of George Washington is In a long career in public service, he was man, James Brown, on January 8, instruct- a marvelous artifact of the Gold Rush, United States secretary of state, a U.S. sena- ing him to build cases for the books he was emblematic of the spreading of American tor and congressman, governor of Massa- donating to the company, and writes that “I civilization from the Atlantic seaboard to chusetts, and ambassador to the United send you some of my book plates to have California, and connecting the era of the Kingdom. He is probably best known today them pasted into them & when they are founding of the United States to the era as the main speaker at the dedication of the ready I will come & write under my name when the world rushed in to California.  Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, his long the words ‘to the California Mining Com- speech overshadowed by President Abra- pany’.” Thinking that the company would ham Lincoln’s brief but immortal address. be sailing on January 10, Everett added that Everett was no doubt flattered to be the “there is not time to be lost.” Later on Janu- SOURCES CONSULTED namesake of the vessel carrying the Boston ary 8, Everett wrote Brown again, explain- Octavius T. Howe, Argonauts of ’49 (Cam- and California Mining and Trading Com- ing that he would not be able to come to his bridge: Harvard University Press, 1923): pp.47-57, 189; Edward Everett Papers (Mas- pany, and he exhorted them to “take your shop to sign the books as he had hoped, and sachusetts Historical Society, microfilm edi- Bible in one hand and your New England instructing Brown on what to do: “I cannot tion). Dale L. Walker Eldorado: The California civilization in the other, and make your come into town this afternoon. I must get Gold Rush (New York: Forge, 2003): pp.143- 1 mark on that country.” Everett showed his you to let [lend] me one of your young men 144; Donald Dale Jackson, Gold Dust (New good wishes for the company’s success by who write [sic] a neat hand (if you have not York: Knopf, 1980): pp.76, 95-96,

22 California State Library Foundation Extra-Illustration

From Marginalia to Scrapbooks By Diana Kohnke

James Granger’s 1769 A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution.

idden in the bowels of individual unbinding a book then rebind- an eighteenth century British biographer, libraries across the West- ing it, inserting illustrations, maps, engrav- collector, and preacher. In 1769, Granger ern hemisphere, squirreled ings, watercolors, etc., in order to visualize published A Biographical History of Eng- away in dusty stacks, and tucked on narrow a particular subject. Often blank pages were land, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution. shelves in antiquarian book stores, lie hun- bound into the volumes so that various The book was a catalog of prints on all the dreds, if not thousands upon thousands, prints could be added, or pasted in, at a of books made unique through the largely later time. Some went further by custom EDITOR’S NOTE defunct art of extra-illustration. Sutro binding books with artwork on a variety of Diana Kohnke is the Sutro Library’s rare book Library in collaboration with the J. Paul different subjects and interests. Often these librarian and exhibit curator. She created this Leonard Library has revisited this largely books became repositories of art collections fascinating exhibit with the Special Collections forgotten era of printing and bookbind- as well as uniquely constructed books. Department of the J. Paul Leonard Library at ing history in the new joint exhibit Extra- It is a peculiar fact that the history of San Francisco State University. The exhibit Illustration: From Marginalia to Scrapbooks. extra-illustration as a hobby has its origins ran from late 2016 until May of 2017. Her Wildly popular from the latter part of the in Great Britain with a man who never superb essay will enable our readers to gain an eighteenth through the late nineteenth cen- imagined, nor even engaged in the practice appreciation for the Sutro’s extraordinary col- tury, the practice generally consisted of an himself. This man was James Granger— lection of extra-illustrated volumes.

bulletin 119 23 the long-standing practice of individuals interacting with their books as a means of self-expression—historically, culturally, and politically. The extra-illustrated books in Sutro’s collection contain numerous antique and rare plates. In terms of cataloging and art history, extra-illustrations are an untapped resource as they are seldom catalogued, thus virtually hidden from researchers. There are, however, distinct qualities that can help identify a work, such as custom bindings, and bulging and uneven pages. There are also ways to search a catalog using keywords like “illustrations” or “illus” while also being on the look-out for certain genres, like collections of Shakespeare’s works, biographies, botany, natural his- tory, county histories, and travel narratives. Although there is no count on the number American Civil War-issued envelopes. of extra-illustrated books within Sutro’s “worthies” listed in the Biographical His- lectors and experts for them to add notes collection, so far it appears to be indica- tory, which was essentially an eighteenth of new prints, but also with the explicit tive of collections such as the Huntington century Who’s Who. It included all known intention of adding additional portraits. Library’s, whose extra-illustrated books prints that were available for purchase on Further democratization of printing and account for a staggering ninety percent of a particular individual and where to find bookbinding allowed individuals with all of its artwork.2 These books help bring them. The first edition of the book was the means (primarily Victorian upwardly perspective, in terms of the sheer number neither illustrated, nor did it contain blank mobile middle-class) to self-publish. Work- that appear to be extra-illustrated in Sutro’s pages. One of the ironies of the Biographi- shops on how to do so were offered. With collection, to the extent that it shows how cal History is the expectation that a book the technology accessible, individuals money provided access to a mostly male, about illustrations ought to have some, went beyond rebinding the Biographies to mostly elite group of individuals to images, yet it had none. The book contained mini- any number of subjects which interested commodifying humanity’s most important biographies, which prompted individuals them: Botany, Travel, Shakespeare, and sense, our sense of sight. to deliberately unbind the book to insert Architecture were just some of the books As just mentioned, the pursuit of extra- portraits. This prompted later owners to people chose to bind with their own illus- illustration was one enjoyed by the select rebind the book with illustrations. As many trations, notations, maps, and whatever few who could afford it, as it required both prints were available for all the “worthies,” else spoke to them through their imagina- wealth and leisure time. One practitioner the original four volume set expanded. A tions. A whole new visual world was now explained, “No man can expect to make particular copy now on display in Oxford’s accessible to a certain social class of men, a satisfying collection of prints on any Ashmolean Museum now has 18,742 por- and the occasional woman. Imported from subject in less than two or three years.”3 traits, a set that was expanded and rebound Britain, extra-illustration was a popular Within this context extra-illustration was into fifty-seven elephant folios. 1 hobby for Victorian America as well. an important expression of the illustra- Besides ushering in a new hobby, one Sutro’s exhibit has a wide array of these tors’ world, one which involved spending of the unintended consequences was to types of works, works that share many years in searching for prints, in contacting increase the demand for portrait prints, qualities with books that have written agents and in spending considerable capi- and thus the price. As new portraits annotations or marginalia and have a tal. Looked at through this lens, not only do became known, new editions were printed. close relationship to scrapbooks, keep- these books represent their owner’s wealth, A Biographical History of England had some sakes, and commonplace books. All con- individuality, scholarship, and memories, publishers inserting blank pages for col- tain distinct similarities that demonstrate as vessels they verify these things as well.

24 California State Library Foundation The practice had its detractors nevertheless, aggravated by the fact that in searching for a print, an individual might completely destroy a book to extract a desired illustra- tion. So egregious a crime, articles were written decrying the practice as “the very Ishmaelite of [collecting] . . . against every man who loves books . . . .”4 Like railroad tycoon Henry E. Hunting- ton, Sutro’s collection is rich in Elizabethan drama, works on English and American culture and history, and now, as this exhibit has brought to light, extra-illustrated books.5 Sutro’s many fine examples represent a sort of Golden Age of extra-illustrating, with the insertion of high quality prints and supe- rior bindings, roughly dating from the 1810s–1870s. Its demise in the early twen- tieth century came about largely as a result of advances in printing technology and mass production.6 Even in the digital age in which we live, these artifacts remain rel- evant, echoing the many ways in which we now interact with social media, combining various elements from different sources to enhance a topic and theme, or give voice to commentary.7 Extra-illustrated works pro- vide insight into the cultural interests and psychology of Victorians during a period of mass change. The study of them will add greater depth to the historical narrative. 

ENDNOTES 1 H.J. Jackson. Marginalia: Readers Writ- ing in Books (Yale University Press: New Haven, 2001),190–191. 2 Sharon Mizota. “Everything is Illumi- nated: Extra-Illustrated Books at the Hun- tington”. Retrieved December 2, 2006 at https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/ 5 John Hill Burton. “The Book Hunter” A sample/plate/entry from a Japanese photo albums by Felice Beato, 1875. everything-is-illuminated-extra-illus- from Laurence Hutton, From the Books Of. trated-books-at-the-huntington. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892. 37. 3 Ibid. 6 Jackson, Marginalia, 60. 4 Laurence Hutton. “Extra Illustrating in 7 Folger Shakespeare Library. “Extending New York,” The Bookworm. An Illustrated the Book: the Art of Extra-Illustration,” Treasury of Old-Time Literature. Second Retrieved November 21, 2016 from http:// Series. New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son, folgerpedia.edu/Extending the Book: the 1890, 180. Art of Extra-Illustration.

bulletin 119 25 Music & Art from The Love the Summer of 67 Generation By Sariah Groff

uring the Summer of Love, an Music was at the heart of the counter-cul- estimated 75,000 of America’s ture movement. Musicians, experimenting youth flocked to San Francisco, with LSD, created psychedelic rock, a new drawn by psychedelic rock music, the idea sound based on musical improvisation and of “doing your own thing,” and the promise alternative instrumental arrangements. that something unforgettable was happen- Indoor concerts and events had accompa- ing. This was the summer of peace, love, nying light shows, which helped create a and personal freedom. To celebrate the fifti- hallucinogenic atmosphere. Bands popu- eth anniversary of this event, the California larizing this new style included the Char- State Library created an exhibit, The Love latans, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Generation: Music & Art from the Summer of Dead. The exhibit featured several concert `67. On display were photographs, prints, posters from 1967 printed by Family Dog posters, books, and other material related Productions for the Avalon Ballroom. to the summer of 1967 and the countercul- ture movement. EDITOR’S NOTE Gene Anthony was a professionally Sariah Groff, the creator of this exhibit, trained photographer living in the Haight- is a museum curator III. She oversees the Ashbury neighborhood, who captured Library’s Preservation Office. The exhibit was many of the iconic moments of the Sum- on display from May through October 2017 mer of Love as they happened. The Library in Gillis Hall and the Circulation Room of On display in this exhibit case were broadsides, has a portfolio with twenty-two of Antho- the Library & Courts Building. Her eloquent fliers, and pamphlets published by the Communications Company during the 1960s, with ny’s original signed prints. Included in article is published here to share with our most of the material relating to the Diggers. The the exhibit are three of Anthony’s photo- readers not only the event of fifty years ago Diggers were advocates and practitioners of “life- graphs with copies of others appearing on acting.” the San Francisco Diggers championed but also the diversity of materials found in the the free use of public space. the exhibit’s interpretive panels. Library’s California History Section.

26 California State Library Foundation Michael Dolgushkin, California History Section librarian, designed this spectacular poster for the exhibit.

bulletin 119 27 Poster art promoting concerts at the Fill- more Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom defined the style and aesthetic of psyche- delic art, which is known for its rich colors, symmetrical compositions, and unique and bizarre iconography. The lettering is elaborate and often abstract, requiring the viewer to puzzle out the letters in order to decipher the information. Concert posters were created by several artists, including Wes Wilson, Stanley “Mouse” Miller, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, and Alton Kelly. Vic- tor Moscoso created several of the concert posters on display in the exhibit. Moscoso studied art at Cooper Union in New York and at Yale University. He often used vibrat- ing colors, intricate typography, and photo- graphic collage in his posters. In the Library’s collections are broad- sides, fliers, and pamphlets published by the Communications Company during the 1960s, with most of the material relating to the Diggers. The Diggers were advo- cates and practitioners of “life-acting.” Their goal was to take theater directly into the streets, removing all barriers between performer and audience, between art and life. Taking their name from seventeenth century English anarchists who advocated

The Library has a portfolio with twenty-two of Haight-Asbury photographer Gene Anthony’s original signed prints. Displayed here are three of Anthony’s photographs, with copies of others appearing on the exhibit’s interpretive panels.

28 California State Library Foundation The exhibit features several

concert posters from 1967

printed by Family Dog

Productions for the Avalon

Ballroom designed by Victor

Moscoso. The artist often

used vibrating colors, intricate

typography, and photographic

collage in his posters.

free cultivation of public land and an end park, advice for finding shelter or a “crash moment in time. Decades later multiple to wage labor, the San Francisco Diggers pad,” and for interacting with police. books, articles, and documentaries have championed the free use of public space, As summer turned to fall, many of been produced attempting to explain how a sharing economy, and an end to capi- the youth who flocked to San Francisco the counterculture movement evolved and talism. Concerned about the lack of food returned to school or drifted back home. its significance to American history. Mem- and housing available for many of the Most of the original Haight-Ashbury hip- oirs and biographies have been written, young people who came to San Francisco pies also left, weary of the numerous young offering insight into the movement and during the summer of `67, the Diggers people and tourists who invaded the neigh- the people who attempted to change society organized food drives and provided free borhood. In October 1967, the Diggers through music, love, and communal living. meals in Golden Gate Park. They also staged their last major parade, “The Death For those interested in learning more about opened a store where all the merchan- of Hippie.” Costumed pallbearers carried the Summer of Love, the counterculture dise was free, and helped establish a free a coffin to Golden Gate Park, where it was movement, and the 1960s, visit the Califor- clinic. On display were fliers printed by ceremoniously burned. nia State Library’s California History Sec- the Diggers advertising free food in the The Summer of Love was a unique tion and explore the collections. 

bulletin 119 29 Hidden Treasures Jurisprudence 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.

hroughout its history, California has Chief Justice produced memorable individu- als, instances and items in the Hugh C. Murray pursuit of justice. Our legal system has Hon. Hugh C. Murray, late Chief Justice seen the quirky and the upright, the trail- of the Supreme Court, State of California blazers and the brutal, the troubling and San Francisco: Lithograph print by L. Nagel, c. 1857 the heroic. In this “Jurisprudence Edition” of Hidden Treasures, we consider a judge California History Room: and a lawyer. Picture Collection; F-MAP PORTRAITS: MURRAY, HUGH C., 1990 - 1692

EDITOR’S NOTE Mr. Noy is a dedicated member of the Foun- ugh C. Murray was the youngest chief annals of California appellate jurispru- dation’s board of directors and a frequent justice in the history of the California dence.” An example from Chief Justice patron of the Library’s California History H Supreme Court. A native of Missouri, he Murray’s opinion: “[The Chinese] are a race Section. In addition, he is an instructor at served in the Mexican War of 1846-1848 of people whom nature has marked as infe- Sierra College in Rocklin and author of the as a second lieutenant in the 14th Infantry rior, and who are incapable of progress or well-received Gold Rush Stories published Regiment. Following legal studies in Illi- intellectual development beyond a certain by Heyday and Sierra College Press earlier nois, Murray came to California during the point, as their history has shown . . . .” this year. Noy is frequently on the road giv- earliest days of the Gold Rush. In Califor- Hugh C. Murray also possessed a hair- ing lively lectures on stories about the Sierra nia, he quickly achieved distinction in the trigger temper. Upon hearing a critical Nevada and the Gold Rush. courts. At age twenty-four Murray was comment from prominent Sacramento named to the San Francisco Superior Court. merchant Thomas Hill, Chief Justice Mur- In 1851, when Murray was only twenty-six ray assaulted Hill in his store and beat years old, he became an associate justice of him senseless with what was described as the California Supreme Court. A year later, a “heavy bludgeon.” he ascended to the position of Chief Justice. Chief Justice Hugh C. Murray died of In 1854, Murray wrote the notoriously consumption, most likely tuberculosis, in anti-Chinese decision in People v. Hall, 1857 at age thirty-one. His obituary in the which barred Chinese people from testify- Sacramento Age concluded that “As a lawyer, ing against white people in court. In 1996, Hugh C. Murray was considered more pro- legal scholar Charles McClain noted that found than skillful . . . . As a man, he was the decision contains “some of the most driven by quick impulse, and the mental offensive racial rhetoric to be found in the vastly predominated over the moral.” 

30 California State Library Foundation Esto Bates Broughton Photograph with signature from George H. Tinkham, History of Stanislaus County, California (Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1921), p. 485, California History Room, Stacks q979.457 S7a;

Portrait in manuscript collection of Ethel L. Bornefeld, 1906–1986. Research material for book on California’s first women legislators, 1978–1981. Box 1865, Folder 2. California History Room: Picture Collection; MANUSCRIPT, 2010-4923

sto Bates Broughton was a pioneer- Republican, Prohibitionist, and Social- Eing lawyer and politician. Born to ist. Broughton’s tenure in the assembly a prominent Modesto family in 1890, is best remembered for two legislative Broughton graduated from the Univer- actions. She took the lead and introduced sity of California, Berkeley, in 1915, and legislation promoting agricultural irriga- received a law degree from the univer- tion projects that could also generate elec- sity’s Boalt Hall in 1916. Esto Broughton trical power. The immediate result was was the first practicing female attorney in the construction of the hydroelectric facil- Stanislaus County. She earned a reputa- ity associated with the Don Pedro Dam tion as a civic leader and fearless advocate Project. In 1921, Broughton spearheaded for Prohibition, and, in 1918, Broughton a consumer campaign to make illegal was recruited as a candidate for the 46th the sale of artificially-flavored drinks that District of the California State Assembly, advertised themselves as being made located in Stanislaus County. She ran as from “real” orange juice or lemonade. a Democrat, won and joined three other Esto Bates Broughton left the assembly women, all Republicans, as the first four in 1927 and returned to the practice of law. women elected to the State Legislature. She also served as the publicity director for Only twenty-nine years old when elected, the Pasadena Playhouse and as a Sacra- Esto Broughton was the youngest woman mento political reporter for several news- to serve in the legislature until 2002. papers. In 1932, Broughton was a delegate Broughton was reelected to the assem- to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention bly in 1920, 1922, and 1924. Under the that nominated Franklin Roosevelt as its unique California election practice then presidential candidate. Although she died in effect, Esto Broughton “cross-filed,” in 1956, Broughton continues to be an or registered as a member of multiple influence on Stanislaus County politics. political parties. When she ran for reelec- Annually, the Stanislaus County Com- tion, Esto campaigned simultaneously on mission on Women sponsors the Esto several tickets. For instance, in her 1924 Broughton Reception, honoring all elected bid, Broughton was listed as a Democrat, women in the county. 

bulletin 119 31 Foundation Notes

Alfred A. Hart Granite Monument Dedicated by Mead B. Kibbey By Gary F. Kurutz

Mead Kibbey, prior to giving his stirring talk, is pictured holding his Foundation Executive Director Gary Kurutz highly acclaimed book on pioneer photographer A. A. Hart. unveiled the Hart monument at Sacramento’s Historic Old City Cemetery.

n Monday morning, August 21, 2017 the most challenging construction project The dark gray stone camera includes on OFoundation Board Member Mead B. in California history. In 2014, Mr. Kibbey the front side two lenses, a short biogra- Kibbey dedicated a beautiful granite monu- donated to the Foundation the only known phy of Hart chiseled in white letters, and ment to pioneer photographer Alfred A. complete set of Hart’s original views. a photographic reproduction of one of the Hart. The ceremony took place before an Hart had no final resting place. He died photographer’s stereographs. Sandwiched appreciative audience at Sacramento’s His- in poverty in the Alameda County Hos- in the middle is a carved camera bellows, toric Old City Cemetery. The monument pital and his body was sold to a medical and on the rear, is a photograph of a ste- is adjacent to the Kibbey Family Plot. Hart school. Mr. Kibbey, long fascinated by reo camera. To create such an extraordi- (1816-1908) was the official photographer Hart’s stereographs, wrote a superb book nary tribute, Mr. Kibbey commissioned for the Central Pacific Railroad from 1863 documenting his life. Highly acclaimed, the Ruhkala Monument Company of Sac- to 1869 and photographed with a dual- it was published by the Foundation in ramento. The company first moved the lens stereograph camera thousands of 1995. It had been a cherished goal of Mr. heavy monument, weighing over 2,000 men rushing to build the transcontinental Kibbey to provide a burial monument to pounds, to the Center for Sacramento His- railroad from Sacramento, over the High this great photographer. He conceived the tory until the site could be prepared. Sierra, and to Promontory, Utah, a distance idea of creating a granite monument in On hand at the ceremony were many of 690 miles. In so doing, Hart created a the shape of a stereo camera, similar to Kibbey family members, State Library series of 364 stereo views documenting what Hart would have used in the 1860s. employees and Foundation members,

32 California State Library Foundation Following the unveiling of the granite monument dedicated to A. A. Hart, Mead Kibbey is surrounded by appreciative family members and friends. Kibbey arranged to have the monument located in the Kibbey family plot at the historic cemetery.

staff from the Center for Sacramento His- tory, and members of the Old City Cem- etery Committee. Through Mr. Kibbey’s effort, Hart’s great-great granddaughter Sarah Zimmerman, also attended. All listened with rapt attention as Mr. Kibbey gave a beautiful account of Hart’s life and the story behind the creation of the mon- ument. As the Foundation’s executive director, I had the privilege of whisking away the red cloth that covered the stone. Everyone’s face lit up in awe. Thanks to Mr. Kibbey’s generosity and imagina- tion, Alfred A. Hart now has a permanent memorial recognizing his storied career as one of California’s premier pioneer photographers.  Mead Kibbey proudly stands with Sarah Zimmer, Alfred A. Hart’s great-great granddaughter.

bulletin 119 33 Foundation Notes

A New Foundation Administrator Is Hired to Replace Marta Knight By Gary F. Kurutz, Executive Director

arta Knight has left the Foundation ground in journalism, digital photography, Mto take a new position that is much preservation of historical photographs, and closer to home. Over the last four and one- office management. Along those lines, she half years, Marta has done fabulous work received a bachelor’s degree in photog- for the Foundation, and she will be dearly raphy and journalism from Sacramento missed. During that time, she applied much State University. She is currently working energy to managing the day-to-day affairs on her master’s degree in library science at of the Foundation, supporting the board Syracuse University through their online of directors, upgrading and updating our program. In addition, Brittney already has website and social media presence, making done contract work in the State Library’s contributions to the Bulletin, organizing special collections digitizing the landscape special events, and working with various photographs of Earl Payne (see article by library departments. As devoted Founda- Burt Thompson). Consequently, she is tion Board Member and Officer Marilyn already familiar with the general operation Snider wrote: “It is hard to imagine anyone of the Library. Previously, she worked as a could be as good a Foundation Administra- production assistant for Cox Black & White tor as Marta. She has been wonderful to Photography in Rancho Cordova and as a work with and has always been on top of photograph and production assistant for what the board has needed.” Cost Plus World Market in Stockton. Her I am very pleased to announce the hir- versatility, energy, attention to detail, schol- ing of Brittney Cook as the new Founda- arship, office management skills, and all tion administrator. She is well qualified to around delightful personality will be a real assume this important position and Marta asset for the Foundation. She is looking for- has been most generous in showing her ward to promoting our wonderful Founda- the “ropes.” Brittney has an excellent back- tion and State Library.

34 California State Library Foundation Recent Contributors

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