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EDITORGary F. Kurutz

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2. . . . . . . . . . . . “You Don’t Know Oranges until You Come to California” Postcards, Agritourism and Boosterism in Turn-of-the-Century Los Angeles By Elena Smith

8. . . . . . . . . . . . Men, Mules and a Landscape to the Horizon: The Pioneering Legacy of the Bayliss Brothers By Eddy Hood

1 6. . . . . . . . . . “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”: The Extraordinary Photo Archive of Thomas Patrick Vano 1926–2015 By Gary F. Kurutz

24. . . . . . . . . . BTBL News, Winter 2016 By Sandra Swafford

25 . . . . . . . . . . Foundation Notes

Long-time Directors Sue Noack and George Basye Retire from CSLF Board By Marta Knight

New Acquisitions Spotlighted By Gary F. Kurutz

Don Hagerty’s Benevolence Continues By Gary F. Kurutz

Requiescat in Pace Dr. Cynthia Soyster, Great Granddaughter of Adolph Sutro

Prestigious Grolier Club Members Tour the Sutro Library

31 . . . . . . . . . . Recent Contributors

Front Cover: The Newman Company postcard puts California’s orange crop center stage as something worth seeing and even sending postcards about. See article by Elena Smith, pp. 2-7.

Back Cover. Baseball Hall of Fame star and San Francisco Giants slugger Willie Mays and Tom Vano posed for this memorable photograph with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. See article by Gary F. Kurutz, pp. 16-23.

Illustrations / Photos: pp. 2-7 California History Section, California State Library; pp. 8-15 Bayliss Ranch Collection; pp. 16-23 California History Section; pp. 24-25 Marta Knight, California State Library Foundation; pp. 26-27 Sutro Library and California History Section.

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“You Don’t Know Oranges until You Come to California”

n late September, in the heart of downtown Sacramento, resi-

dents and visitors gather to listen to music, eat local produce, and meet with farmers at the annual Farm-to-Fork Festi-val. Put on by the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau, this festival is part of a far wider push to promote area agri-culture, a push that includes tours of area farms, a speakers series, and more. While the Farm-to-Fork Festival is a relatively

Postcards, Agritourism and Boosterism in Turn-of-the-Century Los Angeles By Elena Smith

recent invention, the idea of agriculture-based tourism has deep roots in California, particularly in another region of the state, Southern California.1 In fact, the California History Room’s postcard collection con-tains evidence of a push by Los Angeles County boosters to promote citrus-based tourism at the turn of the last century.

As with many success stories, the turn-of-the-century Los Angeles citrus indus-try had its roots in failure, specifically the

This Newman Company postcard puts California’s orange crop center stage as something worth seeing and even sending postcards about.

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failure of the Los Angeles land market in the late 1880’s. Glen Gendzel, a scholar on Southern California history, wrote that after out-of-state land speculators pulled out of Los Angeles land markets, area businessmen, attempting to recoup their financial losses, chose to market Los Angeles as the ideal environment for growing a specific type of crop, namely citrus. By promoting the area as ideally suited for growing a luxury crop known for its special growing requirements, Los Angeles promoters could attract a differ-ent sort of settler than they had previously. Instead of investors, they were aiming for upper-middle class farmers.2

In order to attract this new type of land-owner to the area, Angelenos had to con-vince midwesterners that Los Angeles was ideal for farming. This sort of persuasion took many forms. Gary and KD Kurutz, in their book California Calls You, pointed out several of the full-color brochures pro-duced by Los Angeles stakeholders such as Southern Pacific. These not only pro-moted the area but also provided practical farming information such as proximity to goods transportation.3 Similarly, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce collected crop statistics and published them in leaf-lets that circulated in the Midwest.4 Los Angeles citrus farmland promotion also took the form of tourism, albeit tourism with a peculiar twist, as boosters invited Americans to come see Los Angeles Coun-ty’s citrus groves.5

The promoters’ push for citrus-based tourist traffic in Los Angeles is very evident in area tourist literature. In the 1903 ver-sion of The Traveler, a publication designed to orient Los Angeles visitors, tourists were invited to take a drive or train-ride through the orange groves, which it listed as one of many “points of interest.”6 The Pacific Sightseeing Company, similarly offered an auto tour through Los Angeles’ famed cit-rus groves.7 Of course, organizations like the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce which put on their own displays and even

area realtors were hopeful that they would turn tourists into landowners, so much so, that realtors complained if orange groves started looking run-down.8 Not only did turn-of-the-century Angelenos use pam-phlets to encourage out-of-town visitors to see their orange groves but they also used a very typical promotional device of their time; postcards.

Postcards gained popularity in the United States after 1907, when the innovation of a divided back allowed correspondents to

The Traveler, a guidebook for tourists in Los Angeles, highlighted many local sights in the region, including orange groves.

EDITOR’S NOTE

Elena Smith is a reference librarian in the

California History Room at the California

State Library. She has a strong background in

local history and archival work, with master’s

degrees in both Public History and Library Sci-

ence, and a work history that includes a wide

variety of local libraries and archives. Her

favorite research topics include California post-

cards, and anything related to the California

History Room’s collection.

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write longer messages without obscuring the image. With that change, they took off as a tourism product.9 Indeed the correla-tion between postcards and tourists is so strong that Carson Hendricks, in his Bul-

letin article on the medium stated, “Post-cards are, after all, made for tourists.”10 Companies across the United States used this advertising medium to encourage tour-ism in certain areas. Yolonda Youngs, in her article on the Teich, a major postcard company, and its postcards of the Grand Canyon stated that the prevalence of certain canyon views in Teich works were largely due to the wholesale purchasing patterns of the Fred Harvey Company, which sold postcards promoting areas where it had concession stands.11 Los Angeles based companies took a similar approach.

At the turn of the century, many Los Angeles postcard publishers made use of citrus grove images to promote the area. One excellent example of this is a 1910 postcard produced by the Los Angeles-based Newman Company. By depicting the navel orange on the card, this com-pany essentially highlighted area citrus as an important local sight.12 The Van Ornum Colorprint company likewise highlighted oranges in postcards featur-ing Southern California vistas. 13

While it might be possible to explain away one or two images as anomalies, the sheer volume of postcards related to Los Angeles citrus agriculture suggests a widespread effort to promote area cit-rus tourism via postcards. The California History Room’s postcard files have many examples of boosterism for Los Angeles citrus agriculture. One particularly clear example is a 1912 postcard arguing that only people who had visited California could truly consider themselves experts on oranges.14 Other earlier postcards made use of the taunt “I’ll eat oranges for you, if you’ll throw snowballs for me” to lure visitors out west as can be seen in one 1908 example.15 The orange motif proved so popular that other agricultural indus-

One of the Pacific Sightseeing Company auto tours advertised in this brochure offered sightseers a panoramic view of the orange groves.

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This Van Ornum Colorprint Company postcard highlights California’s mountains and orange groves simultaneously, but it emphasizes the oranges.

Even out-of-town postcard makers such as the Mitchell company, recognized and used oranges to promote California.

By juxtaposing tourists and oranges, this Western

Publishing and Novelty Co. postcard asserts that oranges

are a major California attraction.

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tries made use of it in tourism pushes of their own. For example, a circa 1910 card promoting Cawston Ranch attempted to encourage tourism by showing a ranch ostrich eating one of Los Angeles’ primary agricultural products, an orange, while visi-tors looked on.16 Even postcard companies outside of Los Angeles helped promote the area’s star crop. One excellent example of this is a 1910 Mitchell postcard made in San Francisco that features an irrigated orange grove.17 While the postcard simply features a California orange grove, the fact that the postmark is from Los Angeles suggests that it was sold as a tourist item in that area.

While it would be very difficult to draw a direct connection between Los Ange-les’ growth and its use of postcards to promote agricultural tourism, it certainly didn’t hurt. Indeed, it probably helped. As Youngs pointed out in her study of the Grand Canyon, the most visited sites to this day are the ones immortal-ized in Teich’s work.18 What is certain

is that Angelenos’ collective boosterism did draw individuals to the area. Robert Berlo, a California population studies historian, reported [in his summary of the U.S. census] that the population in Los Angeles County tripled between the years 1890 and 1910.19 Whole land colo-nies, comprised entirely of transplants from the Midwest sprang into existence, including towns based almost entirely on citrus farming such as Pasadena. In fact, so notable was the infusion of new resi-dents that Gendzel called it the third gold rush of Southern California. 20

In seeking ways to promote land, the boosters in Los Angeles County leveraged a medium that we use today: agritourism. By actively courting potential citrus sightse-ers in a variety of ways including postcards, Los Angeles boosters not only successfully lured vacationers to California, they turned tourists into landowners. The postcards in the California Room are evidence of their methods and efforts in that regard. !

This C. T. Photochrom postcard leverages the orange motif to promote ostriches as a worthy Southern California sight as well.

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1 Honey Agency & Position Interactive, “America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital Sacra-mento, CA,” Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau, 2015, http://www.farmtofork.com/; Lewis, George H., “Cel-ebrating Asparagus: Community and the Rationally Constructed Food Festival,” The Journal of American Culture 20, no. 4 (1997): 73.

2 Glen Gendzel, “Not Just a Golden State: Three Anglo ‘Rushes’ in the Making of Southern California, 1880–1920,” South-ern California Quarterly 90, no. 4 (2008): 363.

3 K D Kurutz and Gary F. Kurutz, California Calls You: The Art of Promoting the Golden State, 1870 to 1940. (Sausalito: Windgate Press, 2000), 23–24.

4 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, “Work of the Chamber,” Members annual. (1906): 14 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ pt?id=nyp.33433020550038;view=1up;seq=112

5 Gendzel, 363.

6 “What to See,” Traveler, T. Newman Co. 6, no. 351 (1903), 54.

7 Pacific Sightseeing Company, See Los Angeles, (Los Angeles: Pacific Sightsee-ing Company, c. 1910).

8 “What to See,” 51; Jared Farmer, Trees in Paradise: A California History. (New York: Norton, 2013), 244.

9 Larissa Larsen and Lily Swanbrow, “Postcards of Phoenix: Images of Desert Ambivalence and Homogeneity,” Land-scape Journal 25, no. 2 (2006): 206.

10 Carson Hendricks, “’We Wish You Were Here’: The Postcard Collection of the California State Library,” California State Library Foundation Bulletin no. 101 (2011): 3.

11 Yolonda Youngs, “Editing Nature In Grand Canyon National Park Postcards,” Geo-graphical Review 102, no. 4 (2012): 506.

ENDNOTES

12 Postcard. (Los Angeles: Newman Com-pany, 1910).

13 Postcard. (Los Angeles: Van Ornum Com-pany, 1910).

14 Postcard. (Los Angeles: Western Publish-ing And Novelty Company, 1912).

15 Postcard. (Los Angeles: M. Rieden Pub-lisher, 1908).

16 Postcard. (C.T. Photochrom Company, circa 1910).

17 Postcard. (San Francisco: Edward H. Mitchell, 1910).

18 Youngs, 506.

19 Robert Berlo, Population History of Cali-fornia Places, (Livermore: R.C. Berlo, 1998), 80.

20 Gendzel, 363.

This M. Rieden postcard promises that in California anyway, snow is distant and oranges are plentiful.

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The Pioneering Legacy of the Bayliss Brothers By Eddy Hood

Men, Mules and a Landscape to the Horizon

The worthy, ubiquitous mule in

heavy harness, 1915

Charles Bayles left, Daniel Patrick Bayles right.

Circa mid-1890’s

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EDITOR’S NOTE

n the morning we’d plow half the day South, about nine or

ten miles, eat lunch, then plow back North for dinner. Next day we’d plow North nine or ten miles, eat lunch, then plow back South for dinner,” Aaron Bayles recalled.

Bayles brothers Daniel, Aaron, David, Isaac, William, and Charles came to North-ern California early in the 1870’s. Dan-iel, Aaron, and Isaac soon headed north where they found employment on the vast Glenn Ranch. Sources differ on the total North Valley holdings of the Glenn Ranch, varying from 52,000 to 66,000 acres. The Bayleses were intrepid effective managers of labor and production, such that by 1875 their land lease/crop indenture contracts

Eddy Hood received his Master’s degree in

Fine Arts from California State University,

Chico, in 1989. He mounted a solo exhibi-

tion in the Sculpture Court at the Oakland

Museum of California in 2001. He has

painted and drawn 130 commissioned por-

traits over a forty-five year career. His outdoor

public art is in the collections of the City of

Davis and City of Chico. His work is part of

the Oakland Museum’s permanent collection.

For the past sixteen years, he has utilized his

fine arts background in the restoration/con-

servation of paintings, antiquarian books,

and works on paper. His restoration work is

in many private collections, as well as CSU

Chico’s special collections, and the California

State Library’s California History Section.

When Hood’s Rock ‘n’ Roll band, Tar-

nished Angel, played at the 2012 Bayliss

Ranch Christmas party, he noticed very large

historic black and white photographs of min-

ing and agricultural operations, and 19th

century maps of the North Valley and Butte

County framed on the walls. He subsequently

wrote Donna Bayliss, offering his restoration

services should she have any historic fam-

ily materials in need of conservation. She

phoned soon thereafter to say she had a box

of old ledgers that documented many projects

accomplished by her husband’s father and his

brothers at the turn of the twentieth century,

and could Hood come back to the ranch and

“have a look?” Hood noticed that the 1906

ledger volume showed 298 men on payroll for

the months of April and May and surmised

these were probably “significant” projects.

A meeting with Wells Fargo historian Dr.

Robert Chandler two weeks later confirmed

Hood’s suspicions resulting in this important

donation and article.

with Hugh Glenn (customarily with two-thirds of crop sales going to landowner and one-third to the parties planting and harvesting) comprised fully one-half of the Glenn Ranch: 35,000 acres.

Donna Bayliss (aka Bayles) recently donated an important collection to the State Library’s California History Section docu-menting the history of the Bayles broth-ers. This archive comprises fifteen ledger volumes, photographs, news clippings, 250 pages of land lease crop indentures, property deeds, and project contracts. They bracket sixty years of intrepid, sustained enterprise encompassing agricultural, dam, bridge, railroad, highway, and irriga-tion projects, two generations, and several different spellings of the family name.

Donna Bayliss (née Casagrande) married Daniel Bayliss Jr. (b.1917), son of Daniel Patrick Bayles (b.1879), whose construction and agricultural projects form the basis of this archive. After her husband’s untimely death in 1983, Donna Bayliss single-hand-edly kept the ranch moving viably forward.

And like Eliza Bayles (née St,. John) b.1822, whose extensive accounts reside in the Library of Congress, Donna has preserved very much of this family’s history.

Here are records of one California fam-ily’s progress through the end of the Civil War, the rise of large scale valley agricul-ture, gas-powered vehicles and machine production, telephone communications, a world war, and the Great Depression.*

I began curating this collection when it came to light in early 2014 after nearly sixty years in the (thankfully warm and dry) ranch basement. Initially I’d been asked to perform restoration work on the earliest ledger volumes which, rather than hav-ing resided in desk drawers or on shelves in an office, had been packed to and from various turn of the century North Valley construction sites with their open fires, mules, horses, and wagons. And the sig-nificant scope and scale of these projects evidenced by the ledger entries indicated to me there had to be more documentation SOMEWHERE. Subsequently in mid-2015,

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McCloud General Store, Siskiyou County, 1904

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a strongbox was discovered in an old safe. The storybox contained crop indenture agreements, land deeds, and project con-tracts dating from 1883, many of which also required material conservation. The con-tents of this strongbox supplied the second half of the story begun in the ledgers.

And an epic tale it is. In the 1870s, the California Bayles brothers, Daniel, Aaron, Isaac, William, and David, farmed 35,000 golden acres of wheat on the Glenn Ranch, which spanned Tehama, Glenn, and Colusa Counties. Try to picture this scene Louis Bayles recalled in 1956, “There were a hun-dred eight-mule teams plowing the Glenn Ranch,” which in 1880 shipped 27,000 tons of wheat to England at the price of $800,000. The Bayles brothers issued their own scrip, which was used as currency for payroll and supplies from Red Bluff south to Gridley. A very large 1888 hand drawn map at the Meriam Library in Chico shows the Bayles Compound, whose scope is sec-ond only to Dr. Hugh Glenn’s.

Major flooding on the Sacramento River in 1878 and 1881, and the murder of Hugh Glenn by an employee in 1883, contributed to the breakup of the Glenn holdings. Dan-iel, Isaac, and Aaron Bayles terminated their wheat crop/indenture contracts with Glenn Ranch, sold their livestock and steam-pow-ered threshing equipment, and moved fur-ther north. They could make better money easier by “selling canned goods and tools to the miners.” By 1904, Daniel Bayles had a large general store in McCloud.

Yet, the Bayles brothers were far from finished with turning up the ground. In the early twentieth century, they found new reasons. On May 15, 1906, McCloud storekeeper Daniel Bayles and R. A. Mon-cure signed a 28 page contract with the Northern Electric Railway Company for the excavation, grading, and surfacing of 30 miles of track bed between Oroville and Yuba City. One month later at the end of June, there were a hundred men working this stretch of track bed. A former worker remembered in 1958, “We did it the hard

way, men and mules, no machinery.”Now, Daniel, William, and Charles

worked together on this one. Their ledgers give us the nitty and especially gritty details. By September 1906, the Bayleses boarded D. Spooner, C. Spath, D. Cosse, and G.

Levee Wall, Reclamation District 10 project. Yuba County, 1915

A C.L. Best model ‘75 tractor on the

Western Canal Company Project,

Butte and Glenn Counties, 1915.

Schwartz, foremen at three camps, at the Western Hotel in Marysville. They were freighting thirty-five to fifty mules at a time between this project and the James Ben Ali Haggin stock facilities in Sacramento.

Early growth of the Bayliss Ranch near

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Biggs, California, grew from many land purchases made possible by Daniel P. Bayles’ numerous and varied construc-tion projects. And he planted his newly acquired acreage in rice with the view that the characteristic flooding of the Sacra-mento Valley might be less detrimental to rice than it was to wheat.

“Cook wagons, skinners, muckers, whis-key, tobacco, teamsters, mules, Fresno scrapers, kegs of black powder, and road-side treats (?),” read entries. These ledgers paint frontier colors and evoke the scope, challenge, and difficulties of working with-out steam or gas-powered machinery. If you’ve ever worked in the blazing heat of a Central Valley July or August, you’ll know why mules were dying. Between May 1906 and September 1907, using only men, mules, horses, Fresno scrapers and wag-ons, they’d excavated and graded three hundred thousand cubic yards of earth and stone for Northern Electric. This project concluded about November 20, 1907.

In March 1908, the brothers and a crew of fifty men began excavating and grading the bulkhead approaches for a new bridge across the Feather River at Oroville. Together with heading up operations at this site, Daniel Bayles had leased and was farming 360 acres near Biggs, and by July 9, he’d purchased half that acreage and by October 1911, added 160 acres to his Biggs holdings.

Good work on one job led to two oth-ers. In 1909, the Valley Syndicate laid out Thermalito Colony, contracting with Bayles for street work. Now they needed irrigation water. In May 1914, Bayles commenced extensive work on the Sutter Buttes Canal. Foreman Harmon Buchan-nan had fifty-five men excavating. Then on June 30, 1914, as revealed by this col-lection, Daniel Bayles signed a lengthy contract with Reclamation District 10 in Yuba County to construct levees and embankments protecting 13,440 acres of agricultural land.

A year later, the Bayles bothers had

three large camps with cook wagons, blacksmiths, and 100 to 150 men. I came across a ledger entry for three gallons of brandy, so by 10 P. M., I imagine you could hear those boys a good distance up and down the valley. During June and July 1915, Daniel Bayles and his men were

pushing forward two ambitious canal projects simultaneously. The Yuba County project alone involved moving 237,000 cubic yards of earth to level flood plains and form levee embankments. Elevations varied between three and fifteen feet in height. Workers took down and re-erected

Humboldt County highway project. The crew foremen with Daniel Bayles far right, 1929.

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Transition period—mules working together with gas powered

machinery. Wyandotte dam, 1923.

Wyandotte dam, Butte County, 1923.

C.L. Best Model 75— Early gas powered tractor. Wyandotte dam project. Butte County, 1923.

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many fences. The Bayles brothers finished the Sutter Buttes Canal in July and the Yuba County District 10 project in Sep-tember 1915.

As the impressive scope of Bayles proj-ect development burgeoned in the decade preceding World War I, numerous fore-men, agents, and clerks were retained by the brothers in countless factotum capaci-ties for the purchasing of supplies, hiring, transporting of livestock and equipment necessary to realize contract deadlines. Many of these agents and clerks were authorized to sign the Bayles name on doc-uments for provisions, payroll, and stock hire. Inevitably, variant spellings of the name emerged and as events transpired, became perpetuated, whether by chance or convenience. Even in U.S. Government land patents dating from 1879 and 1888, the family name appears as Baylis (Isaac) and Bayles (Daniel).

In 1915 at a crossroads in Glenn County, rather halfway between Willows and Chico, there was a settlement called Bayliss, with a hotel, livery stable, and a grammar school. And the old Bayliss store still stands in the vicinity of the library. This community petitioned the Carnegie Corporation for a grant to build a library, and in early 1917, received $4,000. They built a 2,000 square foot stucco building with wall shelving and open floor plan. University of California landscaping students planted the grounds, and their work remains today. This rural crossroads library building is well main-tained, open one day a week for eight hours, and contains a copy of these records.

In January 1915, Daniel, Robert, and Charles Bayles commenced operations with the Western Canal Company that would ultimately irrigate tens of thousands of acres in Butte and Glenn Counties. That month, Daniel estimated yardage for this canal system to be 123,400 cubic yards at a cost of $22,400.

By mid-April, they had established their proverbial three camps. Together they con-tained sixty mules, forty horses, and 228

men. The ledgers show the brothers spent four to five hundred dollars a month feed-ing the men. In May alone, hauling hay and grain weekly from their ranch to the camps to feed the livestock, plus weekly wages for the men totaled $8,500. Just as the summer began to get hot, they finished in July 1915.

Today this irrigation system is called the Western Canal District. Its head gate deliv-ers 1,250 cubic feet of water per second to 58,000 acres of wildlife habitat and agricul-tural lands in Butte and Glenn Counties.

The three projects, Sutter Buttes Canal, Reclamation District 10, and Western Canal took only seventeen months. In that period of time, the Bayles brothers and their men and mules moved 656,400 cubic yards of earth and rock, and employed 658 men. Michael Glaze of South Feather Water and Power told me that those projects today would require a minimum of five to six years to complete—and with huge gas-pow-ered earth movers and excavators.

By 1923, gas-powered continuous-tread, caterpillar-type tractor equipment was fully in use alongside the worthy, ubiquitous mule. Here, too, the Bayles were in step. In 1892, William Bayles, (1871–1923, a son of Aaron Bayles) married Meta Ethel Best, a daughter of Daniel Best of Stockton, who in 1876 had invented the first gas- pow-ered tractor. Previously, for twelve years, Bayles had worked for Best’s competi-tor, Holt Manufacturing, but he was soon employed by his wife’s family business, C. L. Best Manufacturing. The two companies merged in 1925 to form Caterpillar Tractor.

In 1923, Daniel Bayles had a C.L. Best model ‘75 with tracks six feet in length, and in front, a heavy, four-foot high, thirty-four-inch wide steel roller for compacting the matrix of graded materials. Early in a very wet February, Daniel Bayles, fifty men, and twenty-five mules began build-ing what is today the Wyandotte Dam and its twenty-acre reservoir southeast of Oro-ville. It is a hydraulically embanked dam, meaning that part of the construction process involved pumping and sluicing a

slurry of earth and gravel in forming its sloped sides. They utilized the 1858 For-bestown Ditch, a vestige from the gold rush. They built to a height of thirty-eight feet and finished in September 1923.

In April 1929, Daniel Bayles entered into partnership with H. J. Kennedy of Oakland to construct a sixty-eight mile stretch of highway between Arcata and Mad River in Humboldt County. It would entail working hundreds of miles away from their families for most of a year, and a cash investment of $23,400 for new, heavy equipment, a sizable outlay for 1929, only five months before the stock market crash in October. The “steam shovel” cost $14,000, and the Northwest Pacific Railroad charged over a thousand dollars to bring it from Oakland to Arcata.

They purchased a rotary grader. Prior to the invention of this self-propelled machine, hand shoveling to level a road would load out five wagons a day. This new grader could load 600 wagons a day. It had a heavy, horizontal roller 5 feet wide, with twelve herringbone-shaped, toothed buck-ets that dropped the earth and gravel onto a conveyor belt which loaded the material into their small fleet of five ton trucks. They started in 1929 with fifty men, stay-ing in hotels and rented houses.

It was a $75,000 contract with the Cali-fornia State Highway Commission, and the Bayles’s half of the net income would go far to support and expand the fam-ily’s agricultural enterprises in Butte and Glenn Counties.

Here is where the fun comes by work-ing with daily entries. As the project pro-gressed, they needed additional five ton trucks to support their own fleet. Fur-thermore, they subcontracted a paving company to follow their excavating and grading. They finished in December 1929 and sold half of the heavy equipment. From 1929 through 1934, well into the height of the Great Depression, the Bayles family had 198 employees. They did their best to put America to work.

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My initial examination of these volu-minous records ends here. Be inquisitive. Seek out further details in these fifteen led-gers and lexicon of documents as you reflect that this pioneering family’s legacy contin-ues. The Bayliss Ranch today is primarily a rice growing operation. One hundred and fifty years ago, the thousands of acres of the ranch were, as nature had it, organic. The intervening years brought mechanization and chemical applications, and the soil was radically changed. Importantly, though, document donor Donna Bayliss, coming full circle in 1998, converted a portion of the acreage to certified organic.

Arcata, Mad River highway project, Humboldt County, 1929.

In 2001 Donna received the award for Innovative International Business Prac-tice from the California Council for Inter-national Trade, and in 2008 the Bayliss Ranch was inducted into the California State Agricultural Heritage Club.

*Eliza Bayles-St. John, residing in Rock-ford Illinois, wrote a Bayles family history, published in 1900 that begins in 1625, when John Bayles b.1617, departed London aboard the ship, True Love, bound for Ber-muda. Aaron Bayles and his wife Mary, also from Rockford, Illinois, arrived in Butte County in August 1871. Aaron’s father, Rob-ert, died in 1866 in Rockford. !

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Gary Kurutz is the Executive Director of the

Foundation and editor of the Bulletin. He

also serves as curator emeritus of the State

Library’s special collections.

n October 21, 2015, Thomas Pat-rick Vano, one of the great mod-

ern commercial photographers of California, passed away. His pictorial archive of nearly a million items was acquired by the California State Library Foundation on behalf of the Library. This article is a tribute to this gentle man and the rich legacy he created for the people of our Golden State.1

When I first met Tom Vano in San Fran-cisco in 2003, one could see the sparkle in his eyes, the joy in his face, and hear the music in his voice. State Librarian Dr. Kevin Starr introduced him to me as one of the finest ever San Francisco photographers. The more we talked, the more I wanted to see his photographs. Soon, we agreed to meet at his studio in Burlingame to look at his work. As a commercial photographer, Tom was specializing in the San Francisco

Bay Area. Entering his place of business one could sense the history that he was preserving. File cabinet after file cabinet housed large format negatives, color trans-parencies, glossy photographs, and slides. All were carefully preserved in envelopes with the name of the job, client’s name, location, and date. It was a visual feast.

During the course of our meeting, Tom revealed that retirement was on the hori-zon and he was hoping to find a permanent home for his archive. My knees shook. This represented the most comprehensive picto-rial record of San Francisco and its environs covering the second half of the twentieth

Tom Vano at the left is engaged in conversation

with world-famous photographer Imogen

Cunningham. Seated in the middle is Joe Sinel,

industrial designer. Tom is holding his Graflex

camera which he later donated to the Library.

“I Left My Heart

in San Francisco”

The Extraordinary Photo Archive of Thomas Patrick

Vano 1926–2015By Gary F. Kurutz

Vano took this photograph of General Dwight D. Eisenhower at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin following the conclusion of World War II. When visiting San Francisco, Eisenhower remembered Vano and the taking of photograph of the smiling general.

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The popular singer Tony Bennett posed for this portrait. Vano and Bennett, both natives of Astoria, Long Island, New York, were lifelong friends.

century. Moreover, in keeping with the standards of a true professional, his images were sharp and brilliantly composed. Only the photo morgues of local newspapers would exceed such an archive. I thought to myself, “We have to have this!”

Over the next several months, Tom and I kept in touch. His voice on the other end of the telephone was always friendly. A couple of times, we had lunch, and I attended one of the many slide shows he gave to various community groups in the Bay Area that naturally centered on his own distinguished career and the fasci-nating individuals and projects that he recorded. Always so gentle, Tom, during one of our engagements, told me that he was a World War II veteran and became an army photographer at the close of the war. However, he revealed to me his harrow-ing, near death experiences in Germany. I asked him if he had any letters that he sent

to his parents or siblings, and he replied in the affirmative. I then told him how the State Library had many collections of orig-inal World War II letters in the California History Section, and we would love to add them to our permanent collection. This heroic but modest man generously agreed, and they are now available for research.

Prior to the war, Tom grew up in Asto-ria, Long Island, New York, descended from an Italian immigrant family. One of Tom’s best friends in Astoria was another Italian American, Anthony Benedetto, later known as Tony Bennett. Both were born in 1926 and both their fathers were named John and owned grocery stores. John Vano hoped that his son would take over the family business, but while attending high school, Tom started tak-ing classes in photography. However, the war interrupted thoughts of a career in the visual arts or groceries, and at the age of eighteen, this teenager became a private in the 78th Infantry Division and was sent to the Siegfried Line at the border of Belgium and Germany. During the winter of 1944–1945, he fought in the Battle of the Hurt-gen Forest, the single longest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army. He also fought in the Battle of Remagen Bridge where he witnessed the death of several friends. He was wounded three times, and like so many others, Tom endured horrifying and unimaginable action.

Tom’s war letters can only be described as both heart wrenching and filled with relief that he survived. He conveyed the feeling that you are there with him on the battle-field or in a foxhole. Because of my own personal acquaintance with Tom, I can hear his voice as I reread them. He wrote them to his parents and sister at Christmas time in 1944 and in the early spring of 1945.

The following are excerpts from three of his letters from the front as U.S. troops made their way into Germany. In the first letter, dated December 23, 1944, he is writing his sister Christine a letter while crouched in a cold, damp foxhole about

The Baseball Hall of Fame star and San Francisco Giants slugger Willie Mays and Vano posed for this memorable photograph with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

A fellow Italian-American, Vano was a good friend of the celebrated San Francisco sculptor Benny Buffano.

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denly I heard the second one coming. I had enough time to say my Lord & my God. I waited a few min. & took off for my home. After thinking it was over, I decided my number wasn’t up. Dad, I see it this way, if the Lord wants I can pull through this war without a scratch. I leave it up to him. After going thru England, France & Belgium I now realize what we are fighting for. Back home the things I use to read in papers & see in movies I thought & so did you, that it was a lot of propaganda. Yes! Quite a bit of it was. But what I’ve seen with my own eyes is believing. You can’t imagine how fanatical these Nazi are. What they’ve done to these people is unbelievable. Especially the way they have treated the churches & especially women & children. Yes dad, I may be young but I can certainly understand why I’m fighting. I could write a book on the many things I’ve seen, which would describe the jerry as a crazed monster.

The next letter, Tom wrote to his sister on January 7, 1945.

Sis, thank God I’m able to write to you. What I have gone thru is unbe-lievable. I’m not going to tell about it for I want it to be forgotten. All I can do is thank the Lord that I’m here safe & sound. However, I’d like to tell you what I’ve gotten myself. Believe it or not I killed 6 jerrys, wounded 1, & captured another. Done pretty good for my-self haven’t I. I must admit I hated to do it, but it was either they or me. Day before yesterday I received about ten letters & 4 birthday & Xmas cards. Yep! I got them right in my fox hole. Certainly felt good to relax & read them after a day of hell.

For his heroic action, Tom received the Silver Star Medal and was nominated for the Medal of Honor. One can only imagine how

his sister felt after reading this last passage and then sharing it with the rest of the fam-ily. Tom told me how bad he felt for having to kill these men and seeing photographs of the enemy soldiers’ parents, wives, and children tucked into their uniforms. Like many others, he suffered from depression as a result of experiencing this living hell. But his actions under fire not only saved his own life but also the lives of many of his fellow soldiers. As the war drew to a conclusion, Tom traded in his weapons for cameras, and one of the highlights in his archive is a photograph of General Dwight D. Eisenhower taken at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin. Several years later, Tom saw Eisen-hower in San Francisco and the famous general remembered the young photogra-pher shooting that very picture.

Returning home to Long Island, this combat veteran pursued photography as a livelihood. Initially, he worked for the noted New York City photographer Philippe Hals-man. Known for his celebrity portraits, many of Halsman’s photographs appeared on the covers of Life and Time magazines. No doubt, his striking images of famous people like Marilyn Monroe, Albert Ein-stein, Salvador Dali, Groucho Marx, and Bob Hope influenced Tom.

In 1948, the Golden State called, and Tom moved to San Francisco. Initially, he worked at the prestigious Moulin Studios for four years shooting stills, portraits, landscapes, and movies. This job gave him a terrific introduction to the San Francisco Bay Area environment as well as honing his photographic and business skills. In the meantime, he fell in love with Nancy J. Helmka and the two were married in the city on April 1, 1949.

By this time, Tom had gained enough experience as a commercial photographer to establish his own business. His first independent studio was located in the elegant Clift Hotel in the Union Square district of the city. There, Vano Photogra-phy Inc. attracted an array of noteworthy clients. Blessed with an affable personal-

300 yards from the German lines. The let-ter is partially burnt in one corner. Beware that the transcribed text has not been cor-rected for spelling or grammar.

I guess you’re already noticed the paper burnt at the top. My careless-ness again. (as usual). This fox hole is pretty dark so we made a candle with a water canteen which has gas in it. We got the gas from a jeep. (sto-len) A piece of cloth stuck in the top & there’s our lamp. Smart, isn’t it. Now sis, you’ve asked for it, so here goes. There are some things I need. First of all, see if you can get me a cheap watch. And I would like a cigarette lighter of some kind. A big box of cookies like DeBonis sent me in Basic training. Of course I would like some cake. Even though I receive it in crums. Boy I can sure go for some right now. If it’s possible, send some cooked foods in jars or some-thing. Another thing you can send is stationary. I would prefer the book style paper. And to top things off. A box of good candy! Chocolate coated. Well sis, Ill close for now, sending my regards to all. Well so long sis. Love, kisses & God’s Blessings to our dear family. Be good & don’t worry about me. If I pulled through so far, I can make it the rest of the way to Berlin.

The second letter is dated Christmas Day,

Germany 1944 and was sent to his father.

I can imagine how you would take it if something should happen to me. To be honest, that’s one reason why I dread something happening. Let me tell you of an instance when I thought my number was up. I was coming back from chow one morning when I guess the jerrys sighted me and decided to throw a few shells at me. I heard the first one come so I hit the ground; it dropped very close. Sud-

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A priceless artifact from the German front is this letter Vano wrote to his sister from a foxhole on December 23, 1944. A makeshift candle accidentally caused the edges to get burned. Nonetheless, the letter made it home and now it is part of the permanent collection of the State Library.

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ity, Tom further increased his clientele by joining the Olympic Club and the San Francisco Italian cultural organization Il Cenacolo. Of course, he was proud of his Italian roots and enjoyed the rich heritage of the Italian community in North Beach. Among his close friends were the cel-ebrated Italian American sculptor Benny Bufano and boyhood chum Tony Bennett, who became so closely identified with San Francisco because of his signature song, “I Left My heart in San Francisco.” For the latter, Tom created images for album cov-ers and for a book on the celebrity.

Tom’s stay at the Clift Hotel gave him a special opportunity to photograph many of the noteworthy guests who stayed at this landmark hotel. A photograph album he cre-ated contains black and white photographs of celebrities arriving or dining in the hotel’s elegant restaurant or enjoying themselves in the Redwood Room. Noteworthy guests at the hotel were Alfred Hitchcock, Kim Novak, Art Linkletter, Jimmy Stewart, Mitzi Gaynor, Sterling Hayden, and Robert Wag-ner and Natalie Wood. He also recorded the hotel’s chefs preparing sumptuous meals, and the less glamorous, but essential work of the housekeeping staff.

Tom so enjoyed his profession that he worked to the age of eighty-five, retiring in 2011. During his long and rich career, Tom recorded with his cameras the growth and personalities of San Francisco and its envi-rons. Hundreds of spectacular cityscapes grace his collection. Among his notewor-thy clients were the Bank of America, Uni-versity of San Francisco, Port of Oakland, Archdiocese of San Francisco, American President Lines, San Francisco Visitors Bureau, major hotels, wineries, and restau-rants. The Bank of America engaged this talented man to document the erection of its landmark fifty-two-story office tower and headquarters on California Street. Other important construction projects recorded by Tom were the building of the Oroville Dam and the St. Paul Towers in Oakland. Certainly one of the most fascinating proj-

ects occurred when he was hired to create San Francisco on-location photographs in San Francisco of Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 classic film. Achieving a stellar repu-tation, dozens of companies contracted with Tom to photograph their products for advertisements in newspapers and periodicals. His artfully composed photo-graphs included a comely model clothed in a bikini made of plastic BankAmericard credit cards and a beautiful “wine queen” standing next to actor Vincent Price as they admired a bottle of pinot noir. His archive certainly gives the researcher a wonderful look at the world of the late twentieth cen-tury commercial photography business.

Because of his engaging personality and brilliance in capturing the essence of his subject, he was commissioned to photograph notable San Franciscans or prominent visitors. Some of the notables who posed before his cameras were Benny Bufano, Tony Bennett, Diane Feinstein, Joe Alioto, George Moscone, Lou Papan, Stan Delaplane, Trader Vic Bergeron, Ben Swig, and Willie Mays. When a foreign dignitary, Hollywood celebrity, or U.S. president came to town, Tom was frequently called upon to record their visits. Found in his collection are beautifully composed shots of French President Charles de Gaulle, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Mitzi Gaynor, Hugh O’Brien, Joe E. Brown, and Presidents Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.

In 2004, the State Library Foundation and Tom began a friendly negotiation to purchase his archive. It consists of approx-imately one million prints, transparencies, and negatives; publications that repro-duced his photographs; and a large box containing his deluxe Graflex view camera and other photographic equipment. A sat-isfactory agreement was reached, and the Vano Collection entered into the perma-nent collection of the Library’s California History Section. With that transaction, the Burlingame studio closed, and Tom and his wife Nancy moved to Cameron Park.2

Tom made several visits to the Library to add even more material to his great col-lection. Unfortunately, the California economy went into a tailspin shortly there-after and severe reductions in the State Library’s budget precluded the immediate tackling of the cataloging and digitization of this incredible archive.3

I learned of the extraordinary man’s death when his son, Tommy Vano, called to tell me of the sad news. Before his pass-ing, Tom requested that donations be made to the California State Library Foundation. His obituary appeared in the San Francisco

Chronicle of November 8, 2015. To date, over two dozen family and friends have gener-ously sent the Foundation contributions in his memory. These donations will be used for the further preservation and cataloging of his archive. His is a life to be celebrated through his photographs. His work will live on to become a treasure trove for all inter-ested in the history of one of the world’s most beautiful urban centers. In reflecting on the life of this war hero and extraordi-nary photographer, one cannot help but think of Tony Bennett’s signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” !

ENDNOTES

1 In writing this short article, I am grateful to Tom Vano’s son, Tommy, for his assistance. Also helpful is a wonderful biography of Tom by Wendy Schulz in the Cameron Park neighborhood newspaper Village Life, December 31, 2014. It is available online at www.villagelife.com/news/cameron-park-vet-survived-battle -of-the-Hurtgen-Forest/.

2 Like many commercial photographers, Tom’s studio did move about. After the Clift Hotel, he operated out of 194 Church Street and then 840 Battery Street under the name of Vano-Wells-Fagliano Inc. Later, he moved to Burlingame.

3 Despite these difficult reductions, the State Library has digitized a selection of Tom’s “stock photos.” These beautiful images may be viewed at catalog.library.ca.gov. Click on Picture Catalog and then type in the name Vano.

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A delighted Mitzi Gaynor enjoys her view

from her room at the Clift Hotel.

BTBL News, Winter 2016By Sandra Swafford

From the Braille and Talking Book website (btbl.ca.gov) you may access

a web page called “Ravenous Readers’ Corner.” In the upper right of the page is a drawing of a black bird perched on what appears to be an elegant leather-bound volume. The bird balances on his right leg while he reads intently the pages of a book held by his left foot. This must be a raven ravenously reading.

You may wonder what defines “raven-ous” reading. A quick sidetrack to the results of an early 2015 survey of BTBL readers suggests a possible definition. Of the 671 patrons who answered the ques-tion “On average, how many NLS (National Library Service) books and/or magazines from our library do you read in a week?”, 223 respondents chose the selections indi-cating three, four, five, and six. Compared with what most of us manage to read in a week, those 200 plus readers might well be considered “ravenous.” This Corner of the BTBL website is devoted to helping patrons find new titles by providing suggestions from lists and links.

The first resource on this page is the “Book Subject Categories” followed by “Staff Picks,” which is devoted to brief reviews of books read and appreciated by staff members. This special feature can be found in several issues of BTBL newsletters and can be easily accessed from this page. In the fall 2015 edition of the newsletter, the books reviewed had been read by staff when they were young themselves. Here is an example of a staff review:

“Matilda by Roald Dahl is one of those books I can reread an infinite number of times. It has a special place in my heart because it was one of the

first chapter books I read entirely on my own. It’s quirky, fun, and helped make me the insatiable bookworm that I am today. Because no mat-ter how old I get, the kid in me still thinks maybe I’ll get magic powers if I read enough books.” — Melissa, Reader Advisor“Book Lists,” the next section, groups

titles by specific subjects such as “Biog-raphies of Country Music Stars,” “Adven-ture: Novels About Epidemics and Superbugs” and “Science Fiction Space Opera Novels.” Two unusual and intrigu-ing categories: “Gentle and Inoffensive Fiction” and “Horror and Frightfully Sus-penseful Stories” are bound to encourage further investigation.

“Read-Alikes” offers suggestions to readers looking for books similar in tone to a title or author the reader has particu-larly enjoyed. Examples include books which are something like Barbara King-solver’s, or have similarities to The Hunger

Games series, or resemble the storytelling of Zane Grey or Louis L’Amour.

Finally there are suggested links to the NLS selection of bestsellers gathered from a combination of lists published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post, and then to links for general web book lists such as “Goodreads” and “Book Browse.”

Luckily for the most enthusiastic readers, and for all BTBL patrons as well, the num-ber of audio books available for borrow-ing has recently increased. The National Library Service, which ordinarily produces about 2,000 audio books and 500 braille books each year, this year produced a total of 2,876. This record-breaking number was made possible thanks to a donation to NLS of approximately 900 titles by four major publishers of commercial audio books.

Plenty of books. Lots of lists. The out-look for ravenous reading seems very good indeed.

EDITOR’S NOTE

Sandra Swafford is a long-time volunteer in

the Braille and Talking Book Library and has

represented BTBL on the Foundation’s Board

of Directors.

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The Foundation’s holiday luncheon, held on December 2, 2015, was part

celebration, part send-off. Amid holiday cheer and fond reminiscences, Sue T. Noack and George Basye made official their retirement from the board of direc-tors. Directors and their spouses came to wish them well, and to celebrate another successful year at the Foundation.

Sue Noack was instrumental in help-ing then State Librarian Gary Strong form the California State Library Foundation in 1982. Over her steadfast, thirty-three year tenure on the board, Mrs. Noack dedicated herself to increasing the public’s aware-ness of the State Library and to supporting valuable library programs. Her son and current Board President Kenneth Noack, Jr. credited her with instilling an apprecia-tion for the Library in their entire family, so much so that she made each of her chil-dren lifetime members of the Foundation!

George Basye, former president and vice president of the Foundation, joined

LONG-TIME DIRECTORS SUE NOACK AND GEORGE BASYE RETIRE FROM CSLF BOARD

the board in 1997. His professional expe-rience as an attorney proved invaluable to the Foundation as its programs evolved.

Noack and Basye received crystal recog-nition awards for their dedicated service to the Foundation, as well as glowing letters of appreciation from State Librar-ian Greg Lucas and Executive Director Gary Kurutz. Their presence at board meetings and events will be missed, but they leave an inspiring legacy to the Foundation’s future.

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The Foundation seeks to add new trea-sures to the various departments of the

Library through donations from members and Library supporters. These donations are meant to enhance the collections and not supply basic titles and subscriptions that are the responsibility of state government.

The Sutro Library branch in San Fran-cisco has had the good fortune of adding two superb illuminated manuscripts to its collection. When library founder Adolph Sutro went to Europe in his quest to build a substantial public research library in San Francisco during the 1880s and 1890s, he came away with several illuminated manu-scripts from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Unfortunately, many were consumed during the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. No inventory of what existed before that disaster has survived. Newspaper articles, however, made men-tion of numerous medieval manuscripts housed and displayed in Sutro’s ill-fated collection storage facility on Battery Street.

In the spirit of Adolph Sutro, two superb examples have been added to the collection. The first to be described is the Magnificat,

or the Song of the Blessed Virgin Mary. George Ashdown Audsley of London created this spectacular example around 1865. Audsley was recognized as the finest illuminator of his time and authored such key works as Guide to the Art of Illuminating on Paper

and Vellum (1861) and Guide to the Art of

Illuminating and Missal Painting (1867). Like others of his time, this Victorian tried to revive the spirit and craft of the illumi-nator of the Middle Ages. His Magnificat

consists of nine glorious hand-painted and gilded leaves on paper. With this work is the original invoice from an earlier sale, which,

Foundation Notes

NEW ACQUISITIONS SPOTLIGHTEDBy Gary F. Kurutz, Executive

Director and Curator Emeritus

of Special Collections

Noack and Basye were given crystal plaques in recognition of their service.

George Basye and Sue Noack share memories of their terms on the board.

Ken Noack honors long-time Director George Basye for his expertise and enthusiastic support of the Library’s programs.

Board President Kenneth Noack, Jr., reads the inscription on Sue Noack’s recognition plaque, much to his mother’s amusement.

Members of the CSLF Board of Directors and spouses gathered for the annual Holiday Luncheon at the Sutter Club.

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Foundation Notes

fortunately, added important information concerning its history. Bookseller C. Howes of Hastings, England, stated in his bill of sale: “All the originals of Audsley’s are in the South Kensington Museum [Victo-ria and Albert] . . . this is the only exam-ple which has ever been offered for sale.” Howes sold it to a Mrs. W. Hooper of Man-chester, Massachusetts, in 1927, and it was passed down through the family. Recently, the Magnificat was purchased through a bequest of Dr. Cynthia Soyster, the great granddaughter of Sutro.

Through another source, the Sutro has obtained a late fifteenth century Flemish Book of Hours on vellum written in Gothic or liturgical black letter. This gorgeous manuscript contains thirty-two leaves each measuring 61/4 x 41/4 inches. The first part consists of the Office of the Dead, and a sec-ond section of two leaves forms the Con-

fiteor or confession of sins. Both sections are adorned with two miniatures or reli-gious scenes embellished with illuminated initials in color and brushed gold. In addi-tion, the first page of the Office of the Dead is further enhanced with a border of acan-thus leaves and flowers in various colors and brushed gold. Individual text leaves also include tiny colored decorations to indicate a new verse or paragraph. One can only imagine the painstaking work involved in creating such a splendid book. Unfortunately, there is no indication who commissioned this work, but, more than likely, it was created for a member of the aristocracy or a clergyman.

Rare and unusual Californiana contin-ues to be added to the California History Section via the largess of the Foundation. Many examples of real photo postcards (see article by Elena Smith), ephemera, and

photo albums now are available for public research. A dealer alerted us to an extraordi-nary series of twelve photo albums contain-ing 450 images. Given California’s ongoing love affair with automobiling and auto sports, this acquisition seemed particularly appropriate. Al Moss (1927–2012), the leg-endary founder of Moss Motors in South-ern California, created the albums. The albums record the history of hot rodding, midget cars, foreign sports cars, motorcycle racing, and the birth of motocross in post-World War II Southern California. As docu-mented by this amazing pictorial record, many mechanics and machinists displaced at the conclusion of the war, came to Cali-fornia eager to display their skills. Origi-nally developed in England around 1906, motocross consisted of off-road motorcycle racing and was first called “scrambles.” As narrated in the dealer’s description, “The

George Audsley created this magnificent illuminated leaf for the opening of Magnifcat, or the Song of the Blessed Virgin Mary, circa 1865.

The Berkeley home of photographer Oscar V. Lange, 1890

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motorcycle races feature the grandfather of modern motocross racing, including gruel-ing events at Lakeland Park near El Monte sponsored by the Royal Riders Motorcycle Club, and the 1950 California Season open-ing with the English Scrambles at Crater Camp.” Moss was just as passionate about foreign cars, and the first rally that he orga-nized took place at the end of 1948 and featured European models racing from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Porsche Speed-sters, MGs, Austin-Healeys, and Jaguar XK-120s all participated in the rally. Ever eager, Moss entered the first post-war road race in Southern California in Palm Springs on April 16, 1950 driving a Hillman Minx. All-in-all, these albums superbly portray Cali-fornia’s infatuation with speed and its love affair with exotic vehicles.

The Al Moss albums contain scores of photographs of the furious action of

motorcycle and car races held in California. Shown here is a “scrambles” or off-road

motorcycle race at Crater Camp.

Two photographs of laundry vehicles of the United States Laundry Company of San Francisco document an era in the 1920s when well-to-do families sent out their everyday clothes as well as suits and dresses for cleaning.

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Foundation NotesIn contrast to these motoring sports, the

Foundation obtained a photo album dedi-cated to the commercial laundry industry in Northern California. Oblong in shape and housed in a luxurious ostrich skin binding, the album contains sixty-one black and white images picturing officials, workers, and vehicles of the United States Laundry Company in San Francisco and the Contra Costa Laundry Company in Oakland. The two companies presented the album as a birthday gift to Frank J. Huebsch on December 13, 1931. Huebsch served as the president of the Metropolitan Laundry Company, the owner of both the San Francisco and Oakland companies. A gold-stamped tribute to him is found on the front pastedown of the binding. Ini-tially, the laundry companies started out by washing and pressing businessmen’s shirts, suits, and collars but then evolved into doing everyday family wash. Mounted

into the album are sharp black and white photographs by the then well-known Bear Photograph Company of San Fran-cisco showing executives standing next to company-owned 1930 Model A two-door coupes and four-door touring sedans; mechanics alongside of 1920s Republic flatbed trucks and drivers posed in front of their delivery vans. The delivery vans came equipped with wooden spoke wheels, and elaborate advertising on the sides embla-zoned with the words “United States Laundry,” “We Use Ivory Soap,” and “The Careful Laundry.” Two photographs show the company’s smiling mechanics proudly standing in their oil-stained dungarees. Included in the album are photographs of a large laundry truck which came with a large overhead cab that enabled the drivers to stand while steering the vehicle.

Individual photographs continue to be added. Two, however, deserve special men-

DON HAGERTY’S BENEVOLENCE CONTINUES

tion. Photographs of photographers and their businesses are particularly rare espe-cially from the nineteenth and early twen-tieth centuries. C. E. Watkins, for example, is regarded as California’s greatest pioneer photographer, and yet only two images of him are known to survive. This dearth is explained by the fact that photographers did not make money capturing their own like-nesses. We were pleased however to obtain an 8 x 10 inch view of Oscar V. Lange’s beautiful home in Berkeley. Lange, recog-nized for superior landscape and city views, lived in a late Victorian-style home over-looking San Francisco Bay. His two-story dwelling is surrounded by vacant land. The other photograph is a 1902 view of George L. Wilcox’s studio in San Francisco. Located on Sutter Street, it was situated above an ice and candy cream parlor. The second story location brought in natural light – an essen-tial ingredient for portrait photography.

Foundation Board Member and Secre-tary to the Board Donald J. Hagerty

has once again bestowed upon the Library treasured acquisitions. Two years ago, he donated his outstanding Maynard Dixon Collection of original letters and photo-graphs as well as his own voluminous collection of research notes and bibliog-raphies. These are now in the process of being cataloged as the Donald J. Hagerty Maynard Dixon Collection.

Hagerty also has an abiding inter-est in California art in general and over the decades has given prints and books highlighting Western artists. This last December, he enriched the State Library’s collection by donating two vintage prints, two oil paintings, and a several books. The oldest and most prized addition is a hand colored lithograph titled San Francisco in

1854 from the Head of Sacramento Street by

Sarony and Co., of New York. It shows the teeming city at the apex of the Gold Rush. It is still in its original nineteenth century frame. The other two prints are by Arthur Millier (1893–1975). He achieved recogni-tion for his etchings and watercolors and also taught art at several Los Angeles area schools including the Chouinard School, Otis Art Institute, and University of South-ern California. High Sierra from Owens Val-

ley is a handsome trial proof of his etching that was reproduced in the Southern Cali-fornia Auto Club’s Magazine, Touring Top-

ics for July 1928. The other is a 10 x 10 inch signed etching titled Point Sur, dated 1930.

Mary DeNeal Morgan (1868–1948) achieved fame for her painting and etchings of Carmel and appropriately Hagerty’s gift is an oil on canvas paint-ing titled Carmel Valley, circa 1940. Born in San Francisco, she was a favorite pupil

of the celebrated artist William Keith and studied at the prestigious San Fran-cisco School of Design. In 1909, Morgan moved to Carmel and established her stu-dio in this inspirational community. She flourished in this environment, and in 1928, Scribner’s Magazine named her as one of the nation’s foremost women art-ists. The other painting, Lew Robinson in

his Kitchen, Randsburg, Cal., is an oil on canvas by Irwin D. Hoffman (1901–1989). Born in Boston, he gained recognition for his portraits and landscape paintings, etchings, and sculpture. During his life-time, he won many awards and his works were exhibited at several of the most pres-tigious art museums in the nation. His framed painting of Robinson captures the likeness of a grizzled man standing next to his stove in his shack in the rough-and-tumble desert mining town.

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the journey are missing. More than likely, this Illinois Argonaut followed the Platte River Road and then the California Trail into the gold fields. The next letter found in the collection was penned on March 15, 1850, from the North Fork of the American River. Like so many others, Thomas, as he informed his anxious wife, tried mining but did not succeed in making his “pile.” Thankfully, he found an alternative means of making money to the backbreaking work of digging for the elusive metal. At a place called “Pleasant Springs House” between Sacramento and Auburn, the former lawyer operated a bar or “tavern stand” and drove an ox team and reaped gold as compensa-tion for his services. The final letter is dated New Year’s Day, 1851, telling his wife that he was sending “beautiful gold” to her via a Mr. Stiles who was headed back home to Illi-nois. Eventually, Anderson did return home having done well enough in California to purchase more farmland in his home state.

The Thomas letters have been processed and transcribed and are available for research in the California History Room. Members of OCTA are planning to pub-lish his letters in their outstanding quar-terly, the Overland Journal. The Library and Foundation, of course, are most grateful to the OCTA membership for their contin-ued generous support.

SPARKLING GOLD RUSH LETTERS DONATED BY THE OREGON-CALIFORNIA TRAILS ASSOCIATION

The California-Nevada Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association

(OCTA) recently acquired a fabulous col-lection of overland Gold Rush letters for the State Library. Several years ago, OCTA established a fund to purchase books and manuscripts to augment its Western Overland Trails Collection at the Library. To date, OCTA has donated over 950 titles to the Library. The decision to obtain this collection of twelve handwritten letters by William S. Thomas of Illinois was made at the organization’s annual meeting held at State Line, Lake Tahoe, in September 2015. Foundation Executive Director Gary Kurutz gave the keynote address at this national conference.

Like tens of thousands, Thomas, a law-yer and farmer, suffered from a raging case of gold fever and left his wife, Elizabeth Thomas, in the spring of 1849 and headed overland to California in quest of mak-ing a fortune for his family. The collection consists of twelve detailed and articulate handwritten letters totaling 8,500 words. Thomas wrote his first letter on April 7, 1849, from St. Louis as he prepared for the trek. Another letter dated May 28, was writ-ten at Fort Kearny, Nebraska where he noted that 2,500 wagons had already passed on their way to the gold fields. Unfortunately, his letters to Elizabeth covering the rest of

REQUIESCAT IN PACE DR. CYNTHIA SOYSTER, GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF ADOLPH SUTRO

We are sad to report the death of Dr. Cynthia Preutt Soyster who passed

away early in 2015. She not only was the great granddaughter of library founder and pioneer Adolph Sutro but also a strong supporter of the Library that bears his name. Dr. Soyster lived in San Francisco her entire life. She received a doctorate in psychology and practiced her profession at the Stanford Medical Center. Many years ago, she purchased on behalf of the Sutro Library the magnificent and monumental Arion Press edition of Birds of the Pacific

Slope by Andrew Jackson Grayson. Pub-lished in 1986, this fine press masterpiece included a large folio portfolio of 157 color prints of birds. Dr. Soyster purchased copy number thirty of a limited edition of 425 copies. She was a frequent visitor to the Sutro Library and in early 2013 attended the grand re-opening of the Library at its new facility in the J. Paul Leonard Library of San Francisco State University.

She so loved the legacy of her great grandfather, who, during his lifetime, was the foremost rare book collector in the nation, that she generously left in her trust a substantial donation on behalf of the Sutro Library. Her bequest will be used to purchase material in the fields of inter-est of her ancestor and to further promote the Sutro collections through digital and preservation projects. Items purchased through her donation will acknowledge Dr. Soyster as the donor.

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PRESTIGIOUS GROLIER CLUB MEMBERS TOUR THE SUTRO LIBRARY

case of bibliomania and built one of the largest private collections in U.S. history foreshadowing the likes of J. Pierpont Mor-gan, Henry E. Huntington, Henry Folger, J. K. Lilly, and others. It was given to the California State Library in 1913 by Sutro’s daughter Emma Sutro Merritt with the provision that it always remain in San Fran-cisco. However, it never had a permanent home and for generations moved to vari-ous locations. Finally, in 2013, Sutro’s great legacy found a permanent home at the university. To be clear, it is still owned and operated by the State Library. Thus, after a century of wandering in the bibliographic desert, Adolph Sutro’s library finally rests in a beautiful space, open to the public.

Led by Grolier Club Member and State Library Special Collections Curator Emeri-tus Gary F. Kurutz, the tour began with an overview of Sutro as a book collector and the fascinating history of this misunder-stood library. Sutro rare book curator Diana Kohnke assembled dozens of highlights for members to view. Both Kurutz and Kohnke happlily expounded on individual titles. Reference Librarian Colyn Wohlmut also handed out keepsakes including special issue Number 104 of the Bulletin. Examples included the celebrated First Folio of Wil-liam Shakespeare (1623), incunabula, illu-minated manuscripts, King James Bible (1611), Aldine imprints, rare medical books, natural history plate books, Chinese trade paintings, and Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. At auction, Sutro purchased the papers of Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), the distinguished naturalist and longtime president of the Royal Society. Found in his papers and shown to members was a drawing of the HMS Bounty delineating the location of the infamous breadfruit plants.

At another London auction, this “California bookman” as he was called, obtained the sixteen-volume herbarium of Lord Robert Petre, which includes specimens collected by John Batrum, the first American bota-nist. Members also saw the only known copy of Pieter van den Keere’s famous 1610 wall map of the world. It measures a stupendous 78 x 50 inches. In the afternoon, members were able to stroll through the rare book stacks to see the thousands upon thousands of volumes that grace the shelves.

The tour also included a visit to the Special Collections Department of the J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University. The university library has the Frank V. De Bellis Collection of early Ital-ian music manuscripts, illuminated man-uscripts, and woodcuts. It was donated to the university in 1960. Special Collections Curator Meredith Eliassen and Assistant Curator Luca Facchin generously assem-bled a stunning array of collection high-lights. The De Bellis gift again represented a little known collection of significant rarities ranging from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Table after table of Italian illu-minated manuscripts, Gregorian chants, music manuscripts, incunabula, and Ital-ian printed books both enchanted and stunned members. The core of the collec-tion spotlights the music of the Baroque era. A special treasure is the 1707 Ales-sandro Scarlatti manuscript of “Il Primo Omicidio.” Another manuscript for view-ing was “L’Armonico Pratico al Cimbalo,” 1708, by Gasparini. Eliassen and Facchin created extensive notes for each item.

Also on hand was University Librarian Debbie Masters. She graciously smoothed the way for the Saturday tours and made available a delightful space for lunch.

On Saturday, October 24, 2015, sixteen Grolier Club members and guests

led by Dr. Andrew Nadell visited the Sutro Library branch of the California State Library in San Francisco. The Grolier Club, headquartered in New York City, is the most prestigious bibliophilic organization in the country. Dr. Nadell, a prodigious rare book collector in San Francisco, suggested the tour as the Sutro Library has one of the least known rare book collections in the U.S. In addition to spending the morning and part of the afternoon enjoying Sutro Library treasures, members also received a breathtaking tour of the Frank V. de Bel-lis Collection housed in the Special Collec-tions Department of San Francisco State University’s J. Paul Leonard Library. When members left, all were not only impressed and delighted, but also astonished by the richness of both collections.

Dr. Russ Davidson, emeritus professor of librarianship, University of New Mex-ico, in his excellent history of the Sutro Library published in special issue Number 104 of the Bulletin wrote: “It is quite pos-sible that in the annals of American book collecting and library history, there is no collector who has received less recogni-tion—in relation to the value and impor-tance of his library than the San Francisco entrepreneur Adolph Sutro (1830–1898).” Contrary to the writings of some modern book historians, the Sutro Library still exists and is flourishing in its new per-manent home at the university. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire did not entirely destroy the library and what sur-vives is a rich and diverse collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, prints, and photographs formed by Adolph Sutro. The Prussian native was born with a raging

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