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San Diego Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0419
 

San Diego Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0419

Most of the eleven scrapbooks in this collection date from the early twentieth century and depict San Diego life through the various photographs, news clippings, and ephemera items within each one. Where discernible, the scrapbook creator has been noted; however, the creator is unknown in most scrapbooks. Any discernible named persons, places, events, and/or activities are summarized in the description of each individual scrapbook.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Dates
Creation: 1896-1940
Extent
11.50 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English

1908-1920

 Item — Box: 1, item: 1
Identifier: Item 1

Creator: Unknown; San Diego family Named Persons: Carrie Barrucks, Fanny McIntyre, Isabel Klugel, Olive Hawley, Helen Vesey, and W. O'Farrell. Description: Photographs of various San Diego locations, including Logan Heights School, San Diego Rowing Club, Coronado, Japanese Tea Garden, Palomar Mountain. Photographs of family camping trips to Yosemite in 1908.

Dates
created: 1908-1920

circa 1925-1930

 Item — Box: 1, item: 2
Identifier: Item 2

Fragment (3 board leaves) Creator: Unknown Description: Photographs include Mission Beach, the Giant Dipper Roller Coaster, scenes along highway to El Centro, Hotel del Coronado and Tent City, beaches, Union Depot

Dates
created: circa 1925-1930

1908-1922

 Item — Box: 1, item: 3
Identifier: Item 3

Creator: Unknown Description: Includes family photographs; Navy ships; photo strips with people occasionally wearing props, such as cowboy hats and parasols; a Washington School kindergarten class photo; scenes of beach life and the ocean at Ocean Beach, La Jolla, and Seal Beach; Mission Cliff Gardens, and Balboa Park. Also includes several images taken in Upland and Los Angeles. Many of the people in the photographs are only identified by first names, however there are two nurses identified as Mrs. West and Mrs. Young. One young man appears to be in the military.

Dates
created: 1908-1922

circa 1920

 Item — Box: 2, item: 4
Identifier: Item 4

Creator: Unknown (West family?) Named Persons: Dora Gregory, Mac Gregory, Alice Larson Photographs include Spreckels Wharf, Lemon Grove, Herbert Thompson High School, Coronado Bath House, Electric Railway stations, squatters' residences

Dates
created: circa 1920

circa 1929-1940

 Item — Box: 3, item: 5
Identifier: Item 5

Creator: Unknown Description: Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, postcards, and photographs of several San Diego places including Cabrillo Monument, Palomar Mountain, and San Diego Zoo.

Dates
created: circa 1929-1940

1896-1919

 Item — Box: 4, item: 6
Identifier: Item 6

Creator: Unknown (Relative of Fannie M. McKoon?) Named Person: William Barron, Beatrice Harrden, Fannie M'Koon, Myra Elizabeth Conklin Description: Contains newspaper clippings, magazine articles, postcards, publicity about the town of Borrowash, England within roughly the first half of the scrapbook, which also includes family photographs. The second half of the scrapbook contains clippings, postcards, photographs, and ephemera related to members of the McKoon (also M'Koon) family. Fannie McKoon lived at Fanita Rancho, which was named for her by the builder and her husband, Hosmer Perkins McKoon, in El Cajon. Before Fanita Rancho, the family seems to have lived at a residence built by Irving Gill at the corner of Albatross and Ivy. Clippings relate to the family's involvement in Christian Science in San Diego, the Wednesday Club, and also include editorials written by Fannie regarding the temperance movement in San Diego and attendance at the Women's Suffrage Convention, 1896.

Dates
created: 1896-1919

circa 1930-1940

 Item — Box: 5, item: 7
Identifier: Item 7

Creator: Unknown Description: Possibly made for educational purposes, this scrapbook contains postcards, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and ephemera related to various places around San Diego including Mt. Helix, Otay Lakes, Chula Vista, and Warner Hot Springs.

Dates
created: circa 1930-1940

circa 1900-1908

 Item — Box: 6, item: 8
Identifier: Item 8

Creator: Arthur G. Dyer Description: Scrapbook contains bank receipts, water department receipts, grocery receipts, receipts for voice lessons from establishments around San Diego. Dyer moved to San Diego from Prescott, AZ.

Dates
created: circa 1900-1908

circa 1928-1932

 Item — Box: 7, item: 9
Identifier: Item 9

Creator: Private John S. Reamy, Radio Detachment, American Legation, U. S. Marine Corps Description: Scrapbook of Marine stationed in Peking, China and various points in Southern California including San Diego. Contains newspaper and magazine clippings, theatre programs and tickets for shows for soldiers in China, YMCA materials, handwritten songs, sketches, and ephemera.

Dates
created: circa 1928-1932

circa 1932-1945

 Item — Box: 8, item: 10
Identifier: Item 10

Creator: Mary (or May) Hewitt Description: Scrapbook contains yearbook pictures, handbooks, and commencement programs from Coronado High School (including an issue of student-produced magazine The Echo). Marriage announcements, theater programs, souvenirs, ticket stubs, postcards, invitations to Hotel del functions, stamps, greeting cards, and brochures from San Diego are also included. Movie memorabilia is also included, including an autographed picture of Errol Flynn. Of note is a poster for a magic show to be held in Russ Auditorium.

Dates
created: circa 1932-1945

circa 1918-1919

 Item — Box: 9, item: 11
Identifier: Item 11

Creator: Hugh Thurston Dunbar, Utah 145th Field Artillery Description: Dunbar was stationed at Camp Kearney; his scrapbook documents camp life and his tour of duty in southern France through photographs, news clippings, letters, song sheets, special military orders, leave slips, and uniform patches. In addition to many photos of Camp Kearney and its operations, there are photos of places and events around San Diego, including the Coronado swimming pool and tent village, battleships, and the military presence in Balboa Park during WWI. Of Interest is a picture of the camp in quarantine for scarlet fever, January 1918.

Dates
created: circa 1918-1919