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Jane Adams Recipe and Menu Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0012
Scope and Contents
Jane Adams collected recipes and menus from hundreds of food manufacturers and locales. The collection has been separated into three sections, the largest being Fliers, Booklets, Cookbooks, and Topical, which is alphabetically filed, and which includes product/company fliers, topical information, and cookbooks by title. Handwritten Recipes and Cutouts includes handwritten recipes and clippings. Menus consists of menus, sorted by...
Dates:
1920-1959
John and Jane Adams Artwork Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0052
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a number of pieces of artwork (etchings, oil, watercolor, acrylic, and others) by early twentieth century American and European artists. A San Diego contingent of landscape artists is headed by Charles Arthur Fries (1854-1940), called the “Dean of San Diego Painters.” Ivan Messenger (1895-1983) was a member of the San Diego Moderns and was also a printmaker of some renown. Rounding out the San Diego scene is Helen Johnston Balfour (1847-1925) known for...
Dates:
1890-1936
John and Jane Adams Autograph Album Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0056
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 30 late Victorian autograph albums. The albums in this collection (except one) all belonged to young ladies. Some have only a few entries; the majority have many pages filled out. The albums belonged to girls in numerous locations across the United States. Some albums have entries from a discrete group of people ("Normal Institute Class"), though most are made up of a variety of friends and family. Often it is apparent that the owner later filled in...
Dates:
1851-1933; Majority of material found in 1860-1890
John and Jane Adams Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0384
Scope and Contents
The John and Jane Adams Ephemera Collection (1856-1996) offers a glimpse into some of the ways printed materials were used to capture the interest of American culture from the late 1800s through the late 1900s. Such a collection can be used to trace shifts in cultural norms, as these items of ephemera typically reflect the prevailing sentiments of the population for whom the materials were created. The subject matter of the ephemera in this collection...
Dates:
1856-1996; Majority of material found in 1880-1982
John and Jane Adams Greeting Card Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0054
Scope and Contents
Greeting cards are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Dates:
1830-1970
John and Jane Adams Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0455
Scope and Contents
The John and Jane Adams Photograph Collection documents the history of photography, including various photographic processes and formats, such as albumen prints, cyanotypes, platinotypes, ambrotypes, gelatin silver prints, glass negatives, carte de visites, tin types, cabinet cards, and more. In addition, the collection also illustrates the evolution of photographic subject matter and studio advertising. Highlights include early daguerreotypes, an...
Dates:
1840-1946; Majority of material found in 1890-1920
John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0008
Scope and Contents
The John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection consists of over 100 years of history and communication through postcards. The postcards are diverse in size, format, and subject. The collection contains more than 4,500 postcards of San Diego County, and 8,500 postcards representing parts of the state of California and the development of California. Individual states in the U.S. as well as other countries of the world also have categories in the collection....
Dates:
1880-2007
John and Jane Adams Postcard Periodicals Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0057
Scope and Contents
The John and Jane Adams Postcard Periodicals Collection consists of magazines, newsletters, bulletins, gazzettes, collectors’ guides, auction catalogs, and ephemera related to deltiology, the study and collection of postcards.
Dates:
1947-1986; Majority of material found in 1970-1985
John and Jane Adams Trade Card Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0406
Scope and Contents
A variety of products are advertised in the collection. All trade cards in the collection are American except two French cards which can be found in the "Miscellaneous Products" folder. This collection has been digitized: http://ibase.sdsu.edu/index.php?a=ViewItem&i=531
Dates:
1875-1915
John Adams Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0377
Scope and Contents
The John Adams Papers document Adams' publications and research, his years at San Diego State College as a professor, department chair, and University Archivist, his relationship with San Diego Union as book reviewer, and some limited parts of his personal life. The collection dates from approximately 1919-1982, with the bulk of documents created from the 1930s-1970s. The collection consists predominantly of publications and correspondence created during...
Dates:
1919-1987; Majority of material found in 1930-1979