John B. Goodman Collection, 1814 - 1991 (MSS 26)

Restrictions: Extremely brittle documents have been photocopied for preservation. These original documents are restricted; researchers may use photocopies located in the collection.

Extent: 12.8 Linear feet (20 archives boxes, 4 card file boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 8 oversize folders)

Collection of John Bartlett Goodman, III (1901-1991), motion picture art director, bibliophile, author, and collector of Western Americana. Materials include manuscripts, correspondence, movie research materials, artwork and sketches, family memorabilia, ephemera, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and historical manuscripts associated with Goodman's interest and research on the American West.

John Bartlett Goodman, III, was born August 15, 1901 in Denver, Colorado and moved to California by the age of three, first to San Diego and then to Los Angeles in 1916. After high school he worked in an architect's office, but left in 1920 after a short time to join the art department of the Famous Players Lasky Company, an early motion-picture company. Goodman's forty-seven year professional career in the motion-picture industry included work on 252 movies. He spent seventeen years with Paramount Studios, worked for Warner Brothers Studios, and served as supervising art director (1942-1945) for Universal Studios, after which, he pursued a freelance career as an independent art director. Goodman won an Oscar for his color art direction of the Phantom of the Opera in 1943. He was the art director for the films The Mountain (1955) and Rawhide (1959) and the weekly television series Rawhide (1961-1965). Goodman retired from film work in 1967.

At the same time he entered the film industry, Goodman began his lifelong avocation as a bibliophile interested in American maritime history, early sailing ships, the American West, and California and the Gold Rush. He was a founding member of the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners (1946) and a member of the Zamorano Club since May 1947. Goodman's major works include The California Gold Rush Fleet (1992), the jointly authored and published Scraps of Californiana series, a collection of six Christmas keepsakes for Zamorano Club members, and An Annotated Bibliography of California County Histories, an extensive unpublished manuscript. Goodman's historical and bibliophilic interests complemented his art direction, especially his passion for historically accurate set designs.

John Goodman died on June 30, 1991 in Los Angeles County, California.

The John B. Goodman Collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, movie research materials, artwork and sketches, family memorabilia, ephemera, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and historical manuscripts associated with Goodman's interest and research on the American West.

Arranged in eleven series: 1) GOODMAN COLLECTION CATALOG, 2) WRITINGS, 3) MOVIE RESEARCH, 4) ARTWORK AND SKETCHES, 5) MATERIALS LAID IN BOOKS, 6) CORRESPONDENCE, 7) GOODMAN FAMILY MATERIALS, 8) EPHEMERA, 9) NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, 10) PHOTOGRAPHS, and 11) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.

Container List

GOODMAN COLLECTION CATALOG

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) GOODMAN COLLECTION CATALOG: An unpublished catalog of Goodman's book collection as of 1983. A mixture of typescript, holograph and Goodman's own pen and ink illustrations, the catalog provides bibliographic description, monetary values, and often times, comments on condition or content of individual works.

Box 1 Folder 1-26
Catalog of the Books in the Collection of John Bartlett Goodman, 1983

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) WRITINGS: Arranged in four subseries: A) Bibliographies, B) Scraps of Californiana Series, C) Miscellaneous, D) Notes and E) Diaries.

A) Bibliographies: Goodman's bound unpublished manuscript Annotated Bibliography of California County Histories, 1855-1953, in two volumes with additional correspondence and notes. Additional bibliographies in this subseries focus on overland travel, the American West and Goodman's personal book collection.

B) Scraps of Californiana: Manuscripts for the production of small keepsake books that Goodman produced for fellow Zamorano Club members at Christmas. Typically, Goodman would write an introduction to accompany transcribed text and often they included a tipped-in facsimile reproduction of a page or illustration. Of the six titles in the series, the collection lacks materials for volume 5.

C) Miscellaneous: An example of a scholarly book review by Goodman, several short essays and extensive typescript and manuscript research materials on Theodore Foster's letters written from Rancho Santa Ana del Chico in California and published in eastern newspapers. The Foster materials remain an unfinished project in Goodman's collection.

D) Notes: Numerous lists, single page typescripts and notes on various research projects.

E) Diaries: Pocket diaries kept by Goodman from 1917-1928, with brief daily entries describing his life as a draftsman and aerial photographer for So. Cal. Blue Print Supply and Kearny Photo Service in San Diego, and for Lasky Studio Art Department in Hollywood. The diaries were added to the collection in 2021.

Bibliographies

Box 1 Folder 27
Annotated Bibliography of California County Histories 1855-1966

Part I.

Box 2 Folder 1-2
Annotated Bibliography of California County Histories 1855-1966

Part II, correspondence and notes.

Box 2 Folder 3
Bibliography - Books, 1954
Box 2 Folder 4
Bibliography of manuscript newspapers
Box 2 Folder 5
Bibliography of Overland Travel: Writings of California Argonauts 1848-1853, 1931
Box 20
Bibliography of San Diego imprints
Box 2 Folder 6-8
Bibliography of the West, 1932

Especially of California and overland travel, together with the Pacific, Northwest, and the Southwest.

Box 2 Folder 9
Books in the collection of John Bartlett Goodman, 1947

Typescript with prices.

Box 2 Folder 10
Books in the John B. Goodman collection of Californiana that bookdealers have catalogued for $100.00, 1983 - 1988

In many cases the prices may be underestimated rather than overstated.

Box 2 Folder 11
Book list, 1939

Typescript includes prices.

Box 21
Names of persons traveling the Salt Lake Trail to California, 1849
Box 22
Pony Express index, 1934-1936

Scraps of Californiana Series

Box 3 Folder 1-2
I. Wood, Harvey. Personal Recollections of Harvey Wood, 1955

With an introduction and notes by John B. Goodman III, galleys, photographs, typescript notes.

Box FB-037 Folder 11
I. Wood, Harvey. Personal Recollections of Harvey Wood, 1955

Manuscript map for endpapers.

Box 3 Folder 3
II. Governor Riley's Proclamation

Notes found in University of California, San Diego's copy #1.

Box 3 Folder 4
III. Lorton, W.B. Salt Lake Trail, 1849

Introduction and note by Goodman to letter written by W.B. Lorton, 1850.

Box 3 Folder 5-6
IV. Baldridge, Michael. Reminiscence of the Parker H. French Expedition Through Texas and Mexico to California in the Spring of 1850

Manuscript materials with an introduction by John B. Goodman, 1961, and printed portraits.

Box 3 Folder 7-10
VI. Pearson, Gustavus C. Overland in 1849: From Missouri to California by the Platte River and the Salt Lake Trail, 1961

With an introduction and notes by John B. Goodman III.

Miscellaneous

Box 3 Folder 11
Book review by Goodman, 1981

Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by Eleazer Stillman Ingalls. Southern California Quarterly, winter 1981, vol. LXIII, no. 4.

Box 3 Folder 12
Forty-Niners Independence Day, 1954

Three page typescript by Goodman accompanied by three transcript newspaper accounts of the first Fourth of July celebration in San Diego.

Box 3 Folder 13-17
Foster, Theodore - "Letters from the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, 1849-50", 1849-1851

By a '49er: Theodore Foster: together with his letters from the Mouth of Gila River 1850, and Los Angeles 1850-51. With an introduction and notes by John B. Goodman, typescripts of letters with Goodman's notes, Goodman's footnotes to Foster letters, original notes plus 1849 Salt Lake Trail data and notes on Theodore Foster, including copied text by Foster ca. 1850s.

Box 4 Folder 1-5
Foster, Theodore - "Letters from the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, 1849-50", 1953-1960

Notes. Response by New York Public Library to Goodman's request for information regarding Mr. Cutler, General George G. Blodgett, John C. Spencer, Theodore Foster, and George W. Matsell. Edited manuscript, 1960. Foreword and notes by John B. Goodman III - master copy notes, manuscript material, 1953. Maps removed from the master copy.

Box 4 Folder 6
Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, ca. 1849, 1944

Six page typescript.

Box 4 Folder 7
Ransom Moody. Overland '49 - The Salt Lake Trail, 1877

Typescript transcription from San Jose Pioneer.

Box 4 Folder 8
Western Frontier Manuscript Newspapers - Includes essays about the Trinidad Herald and its editor Theodore Sedgwick Pomeroy Jr. , ca. 1966

Typescript drafts with extensive holograph notes and annotations.

Notes

Box 4 Folder 9
Browning, Lt. Robert L., U.S.N.

Correspondence regarding Browning and a biographical sketch.

Box 4 Folder 10
Early California newspapers

Holograph.

Box 4 Folder 11
Manuscript notes on California gold rush era artists
Box 4 Folder 12
Manuscript notes on gold rush travelers travel companies, mining companies and prominent figures of the era
Box 4 Folder 13
Notes regarding life aboard a passenger ship in 1850
Box 4 Folder 14
List of collections of California historical items, 1944
Box 4 Folder 15
List of libraries in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Box 4 Folder 16
List of photographs loaned to Margaret Fosten, Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., 1944

Washington, D.C.

Box 4 Folder 17
List of rulers of various countries, from Stories of Great Nations, 1905

By Edward Ellis.

Box 4 Folder 18
List: Whiskies, 1944

Includes prices.

Box 4 Folder 19
Marshall, James W., 1848 - 1849

Notes including transcription of "Who Discovered Gold in California."

Box 4 Folder 20
Mining company advertisements - Transcriptions
Box 4 Folder 21
Naming of Orleans (New Orleans) Bar, 1975

Two page typescript.

Box 4 Folder 22
Notes and copied text on Pittsburgh and California Enterprise Company, 1958
Box 4 Folder 23
Reminiscences of a Boston Forty-Niner, 1963
Box 4 Folder 24
Seattle trip data, 1937
Box 4 Folder 25
Steamer Panama - Long hand rough notes

Diaries

Box 24 Folder 1-11
Pocket diaries, 1917-1928

MOVIE RESEARCH

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) MOVIE RESEARCH: The series documents several examples of Goodman's method of weaving historical research and art direction into motion pictures, particularly his reconstruction of sailing ship hulls into historically accurate movie sets. Goodman directed the restoration of the Downeaster Llewellyn into a facsimile of the USS Constitution. Additional materials, largely photographs, document production sets for the Mountain and Wells Fargo.

Box 4 Folder 26
Captain Jericho (movie) - Set photographs, 1933
Box 4 Folder 27
CMW Productions - Charles Marquis Warren

Rawhide letterhead and logos.

Box 4 Folder 28
Famous Player Laskys - Set photographs, 1920
Box 4 Folder 29
French train station, photo of set, 1934
Box 4 Folder 30
I, James Lewis (movie) - Photos and sketches
Box 4 Folder 31
Indian tepee - Sketch designs

Film name unidentifiable.

Box 4 Folder 32
Mountain (movie) - Photos of the set, 1955
Box 5 Folder 1-12
Mountain (movie), 1955

Ambulance, Chamonix, France. Hotel Col des Montets, France. Interior shots of house, La Tour, France. La Tour, France, exterior photos and enlargements of selected photos. Elementary school. Coin de Feu Hotel. Farm community. Interior shots of farm house. Barn and hay loft of farm house. Paris, France. Tre-le-Champ, France.

Box 5 Folder 13
Magnolia (movie) - Photographs of sets
Box 5 Folder 14
Pony Express (movie) - Photographs of sets
Box 5 Folder 15-16
Sets - Miscellaneous, and sketches and photos for Goodman movie sets
Box 5 Folder 17
Ships - Ads for California bound ships

Copies of originals.

Box 5 Folder 18
Ships - Bark Nahumkeag, vessel which arrived at San Francisco, 1849

Shipping papers.

Box 5 Folder 19
Ships - Hull at Long Beach, 1939

Photographs.

Box 5 Folder 20
Ships - Komet

Photographs and correspondence regarding restoration.

Box 5 Folder 21
Ships - Llewellyn J. Morse, photos of Downeaster

Redesigned and constructed as the USS Constitution.

Box 5 Folder 22
Ships - USS Constitution
Box FB-037 Folder 5
Ships - USS Constitution

Photograph.

Box 5 Folder 23-24
Ships - List compiled by John B. Goodman, 1936

International maritime museums and a description of their holdings. Principal museums and other institutions in Europe and America containing ship models.

Box 5 Folder 25
Ships - Lists of vessels
Box 6 Folder 1
Ships - Metha Nelson and Falcon

Photos of the old schooner Metha Nelson rebuilt as the ship Falcon and the old three masted schooner Irene rebuilt as the two masted double topsail schooner Seraphine.

Box 6 Folder 2
Ships - List of negatives and prints, blue prints, etc. given away, 1968
Box 6 Folder 3
Ships - Notes on the locations of ships buried in San Francisco Bay
Box 6 Folder 4
Ships - Printed images
Box 6 Folder 5
Ships - Photographs, miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 6
Ships - Photos of the schooner Golden State remodeled as the steamship Sirus
Box 6 Folder 7
Ships - Photos of the Baltimore schooner Virginia, 1926
Box 6 Folder 8-9
Ships - Sketchbook and miscellaneous sketches
Box 6 Folder 10
Trains - Photographs
Box 6 Folder 11
Vanishing American (movie) - Photos of movie sets
Box 6 Folder 12-20
Wells Fargo (movie)

Photographs of set drawings. Photograph of the first Wells Fargo building. Miscellaneous materials, including forms used by the company. List for source material on trains, cars, and locomotives, 1937. Documents relating to the acquisition of research materials, including production notes. Miscellaneous photographs, playbill, receipts, and expense lists. San Francisco Stock Exchange research information.

ARTWORK AND SKETCHES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) ARTWORK AND SKETCHES: Artwork arranged into two subseries: A) By Goodman, and B) By Others.

A) By Goodman: Drawings by Goodman including a map of the City of Visalia, blueprints of a rodeo corral, theatre plans, and sketches of trains and buildings.

B) By Others: Sketches by other artists, including Frank B. Goodman, Will James, and C. Hubbard.

By Goodman

Box 6 Folder 21
Buildings - Sketches
Box 6 Folder 22
City of Visalia, California, 1924

Map drawn by Goodman while there.

Box 6 Folder 23
Miscellaneous drawings
Box FB-036 Folder 1
Miscellaneous drawings
Box 6 Folder 24
Rodeo corral, 1933

Includes blueprint showing measurements of a typical horse.

Box 6 Folder 25
Theatre - Sketch plans
Oversize MC-135-04
Theatre - Sketch plans
Box 6 Folder 26
Theatre plans

Found in Asama Maru ship brochure.

Box 6 Folder 27
Train sketches

By Others

Box 6 Folder 28
Sketch by "Bones"
Box 6 Folder 29
Goodman, Frank B. "Union soldiers", 1909
Box 6 Folder 30
James, Will - Sketches
Box 6 Folder 31
Drawings by C. Hubbard and F.G., 1909 - 1920

MATERIALS LAID IN BOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) MATERIALS LAID IN BOOKS: Items, usually letters, found laid-in to books in Goodman's book collection. The materials are arranged by the title of the book they were found in.

Box 6 Folder 32
Baldridge, Michael

A Reminiscence of the Parker H. French Expedition Through Texas. . .

Box 6 Folder 33
Fletcher, Ed

Memoirs of Ed Fletcher.

Box 6 Folder 34
Gross, William Benjamin

The Conquest of California, A Dramatic Romance of an Unknown Hero.

Box 6 Folder 35
Jackson, William A

Map of the Mining District of California.

Box 6 Folder 36
Oberbeck, Grace J

History of La Crescenta-La Canada Valleys, A Story of Beginnings Put into Writing.

Box 6 Folder 37
Paul, Rodman W

The California Gold Discovery: Sources, Documents, Accounts, and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill.

Box 6 Folder 38
Wood, Harvey

Personal Recollections of Harvey Wood.

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) CORRESPONDENCE: Includes Goodman's exchanges with book dealers, libraries, historical societies and individuals regarding books and historical research. Included in the series is some correspondence with family members. The materials are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Box 6 Folder 39
Log of letters to and from Goodman regarding manuscript newspapers
Box 6 Folder 40
A - Miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 41
B - Miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 42
Bancroft, Blood and Laws (attorneys), 1945 - 1946
Box 6 Folder 43
Bancroft Library, University of California (Dale L. Morgan), 1958
Box 6 Folder 44
Bargain Book Store, 1959 - 1961
Box 6 Folder 45
Bucknell University, 1956
Box 7 Folder 1
C - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 2
California. City of East San Diego. Board of Trustees, 1922
Box 7 Folder 3
Cooper, Ryan M., 1989
Box 7 Folder 4
Cumming, John, 1975 - 1978
Box 7 Folder 5
Dawson, Glen, 1985
Box 7 Folder 6
duPont, Mrs. Marella M., 1966
Box 7 Folder 7
E - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 8
F - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 9
G - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 10
Goodman, Jessie, 1937
Box 7 Folder 11
Goodman, Irene, 1945 - 1958
Box 7 Folder 12
H - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 13
Harrison, Michael, 1966 - 1990
Box 7 Folder 14
Historical Society of Montana, 1965
Box 7 Folder 15
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1956
Box 7 Folder 16
Holmquist, Gordon, 1957
Box 7 Folder 17
Idaho Historical Society, 1965
Box 7 Folder 18
J - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 19
John Howell Books, 1960 - 1962
Box 7 Folder 20
Kansas State Historical Society, 1965
Box 7 Folder 21
Karolevitz, Robert F
Box 7 Folder 22
L - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 23
Louisiana State University. Department of Archives, 1956
Box 7 Folder 24
M - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 25
Magnolia, Inc., 1966
Box 7 Folder 26
Maine Historical Society, 1956
Box 7 Folder 27
Mexico. Consulate General, Defense Archives, State Library of Sonora, 1958
Box 7 Folder 28-29
Miller Estate, 1945

Photocopies of letters from Goodman's grandfather, undated, and notes on quit claim deeds, 1945.

Box 7 Folder 30
Miller, Roland, 1920 - 1945
Box 7 Folder 31
Miller, Victor A., 1919 - 1960
Box 7 Folder 32
Miller, Mrs. Victor A., 1966
Box 7 Folder 33
Miller-DuPont, Inc., 1966
Box 7 Folder 34
Missouri Historical Society, 1958
Box 7 Folder 35
Mt. Tam Press (Jeff Craemer), 1991
Box 7 Folder 36
N - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 37
National Broadcasting Company, Inc., 1958
Box 7 Folder 38
New York Historical Society, 1947
Box 7 Folder 39
Oklahoma Historical Society, 1965
Box 7 Folder 40
Old West Publishing Company, 1958 - 1965
Box 7 Folder 41
P - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 42
R - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 43
Rosenstock, Fred A., 1962 - 1967
Box 7 Folder 44
S - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 45
San Quentin Museum Association, 1991
Box 7 Folder 46
T - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 47
U - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 48
United States National Archives, 1958 - 1971
Box 7 Folder 49
University of California, San Diego, 1989
Box 7 Folder 50
W - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 51
Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1956

GOODMAN FAMILY MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) GOODMAN FAMILY MATERIALS: An assortment of memorabilia or materials by or about other family members, especially Goodman's older brother Frank.

Box 7 Folder 52
Address book (of Irene Goodman?)
Box 7 Folder 53
Bookkeeping pages (blank)
Box 7 Folder 54
Christmas list, 1962 - 1968
Box 8 Folder 1-2
Christmas list and present list, 1968 - 1989
Box 8 Folder 3
Dinner invitations, 1972
Box 8 Folder 4
Fowler, O.S., 1886

The Practical Phrenologist; and Recorder and Delineator of the Character and Talents of Frank Goodman as Marked by O.S. Fowler.

Box 8 Folder 5
Goodman, Frank - Phrenological Character of Frank Goodman, 1886
Box 8 Folder 6
Goodman, Frank Sr. - Pass to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Box 8 Folder 7
Income tax return, 1920
Box 8 Folder 8
Manual Training High School, Denver, Colorado - Lesson Book, 1898
Box 8 Folder 9
Membership cards and copy of driver's license of John B. Goodman
Box 8 Folder 10
Motion Picture Art Director - His responsibilities, functions and accomplishments
Box 8 Folder 11
Pierre of the Plains

Publicity for show written by Frank Goodman.

Box 8 Folder 12
Pioneer Aerial Engineering Co., 1921

Goodman was a partner.

Box 8 Folder 13
Constitution and By-Laws of the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors

Local 876- IATSE, Ca. 1960.

Box 8 Folder 14
To Fort Rosecrans, 25th CAC, 1918

Hanging plaque.

Box 8 Folder 15
Westerners - Letterhead with John B. Goodman listed as Deputy Sheriff

Includes a group photograph which doesn't include Goodman.

EPHEMERA

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) EPHEMERA: A variety of miscellaneous and printed materials, including brochures from San Diego theatres, menus for restaurants and an example of Pacific Steamship Company letterhead.

Box 8 Folder 16
Antico Caffe Fresco
Box 8 Folder 17
Asama Maru cruise ship brochure
Oversize MC-135-05
Asama Maru cruise ship brochure
Box 8 Folder 18
Balboa Park building images
Box FB-037 Folder 3
Balboa Park building images
Box 8 Folder 19
Boxing broadside - San Diego versus Pasadena
Oversize MC-135-06
Boxing broadside - San Diego versus Pasadena
Box 8 Folder 20
Buena Vista Vinicultural Society labels
Box 8 Folder 21
Cabrillo National Monument information pamphlet
Box 8 Folder 22
California Pacific International Exposition - Souvenir stamps, 1935

San Diego, CA.

Box 8 Folder 23
CBS Studio Center - Telephone directory, 1966
Box 8 Folder 24
Corinthian Yacht Club of San Diego

Deed of gift from Sir Thomas Lipton.

Box 8 Folder 25
ECV Coloma Express - Gold Discovery Centennial, 1948

Commemorative envelope and cancelled stamp.

Box 8 Folder 26
Foreign currency
Box 8 Folder 27
Friends of the Bancroft Library - Paperweight and newsletter
Box 8 Folder 28
Goodman Gold and Silver Mining Co. stock certificate

Photocopy.

Box 8 Folder 29
Heller's Grocery price lists
Box 8 Folder 30
Historic parks - Maps
Box 8 Folder 31
Hughes Development Company: Glen M. Larson, application for employment, 1930 - 1931

Inter-office memo with price lists; reply card sent to Mr. Goodwin, Chief Engineer, Hughes Development Co. from Frederick F. Durtesehi.

Box 8 Folder 32
Island City Mining and Trading Association

Constitution and by-laws, ca. 1949, photocopy.

Box 8 Folder 33
Keene, Thomas, S. Booth, Lawrence Barnett
Box FB-037 Folder 2
Keene, Thomas, S. Booth, Lawrence Barnett

Photo engraving portrait prints.

Box 8 Folder 34
Levi's round-up of western sheriffs

Brochure.

Box 8 Folder 35
Menus
Box 9 Folder 1
Miscellaneous data, junk 1968, blueprints, receipts, notes
Box 9 Folder 2
Official magazine guide for 1944-1945
Box 9 Folder 3
Overland mail route to California

Advertisement, photograph copy, ca. 1865.

Box 9 Folder 4
Pacific Steamship Company - SS Ruth Alexander

Letterhead and deck plan.

Box 9 Folder 5
Paramount Parade, vol. 3, no. 5, December 1939
Box 9 Folder 6
Plastograph 3-D eye viewer
Box 9 Folder 7
U.S. postage stamps

Sheet of $0.03 California gold centennial stamps, 1948; nine $0.03 Fort Kearny stamps, 1948; six $0.03 Oregon Territory centennial stamps, 1948; sheet of Frederic Remington stamps, 1961.

Box 9 Folder 8
Quinebaug Gold Company, 1949

Photocopy of constitution.

Box 9 Folder 9
Rapid Blue Print Company, photostat price lists
Box 9 Folder 10
Russell, Charles Marion - Photoprints of paintings, 1948
Box 9 Folder 11
Sacramento Book Collectors Club newsletters
Box 9 Folder 12
Sacramento Chamber of Commerce invitation to Governor's inaugural ball, 1939
Box 9 Folder 13
San Diego Athletic Park ball games official pass, 1909
Box 9 Folder 14-19
San Diego theatre programs

The Garrick, Grand Theatre, Isis Theatre, The Myrtle Vane Company, and The Pickwick Theatre.

Box FB-036 Folder 7
San Diego theatre programs - The Pickwick Theatre

Theatre production of the Pit.

Box 9 Folder 20-24
San Diego theatre programs

The Savoy theatre. Star Theatre, The Disciples of Frivolity cast party flyers (1906), miscellaneous programs, and unidentified theatre seating plan.

Box 9 Folder 25
San Diego trolley car schedule and ticket
Box 9 Folder 26
San Quentin Minstrel and Vaudeville Company, 1911
Box 9 Folder 27
Scarab, 1950

Press of Homer H. Boelter.

Box 9 Folder 28
Science Endorses the Revigator

Advertisement.

Box 9 Folder 29
Serra, Father Junipero - facsimile signature
Box 9 Folder 30
Spanish land grants in and around Los Angeles, 1929
Box 9 Folder 31
Steamship tickets (blank), 1866
Box 9 Folder 32
Superior Frameless Screens
Box 9 Folder 33
Theatre programs - Miscellaneous
Box 9 Folder 34
Turk Greenough's Rodeo

Brochure.

Box 9 Folder 35
Wedgewood China - Advertisement

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS: In addition to numerous miscellaneous clippings, this series contains a scrapbook of clippings on San Diego history.

Box 9 Folder 36-39
Scrapbook: San Diego History - Parts I-IV, 1922-1939, 1984

Photocopies.

Box 10 Folder 1
Scrapbook: San Diego History - Part V, 1922-1939, 1984

Photocopies.

Box 10 Folder 2
Cumming, John - Notes from Michigan's Attic
Box 10 Folder 3-4
Dalton, Emmett - West of 96

Holograph table of contents, draft title page, pencil sketch for title page artwork by Goodman, and published version.

Box 10 Folder 5
Dunham, Sam C. - Riley Grannan's Last Adventure
Box 10 Folder 6
FitzRoy, V.M. - The Old-Fashioned Kitchen, 1946
Box 10 Folder 7
Goodman, Frank - Articles regarding organization of San Diego Newspapermen, 1912
Box 10 Folder 8
Goodman , Frank - Newspaper galleys which mention Frank Goodman
Oversize MC-135-03
Goodman , Frank - Newspaper galleys which mention Frank Goodman
Box 10 Folder 9
Illustrations from magazines
Box 10 Folder 10
Miscellaneous articles and clippings

News articles - "Serra Museum Given Watch made at Otay;" Miscellaneous clippings - "California Ready to mark its 100 years of Statehood."

Box 10 Folder 11
Miscellaneous newspapers
Oversize MC-135-08
Miscellaneous newspapers

The Sacred Cow, June 27, 1915 and The Evening Morning, September 3, 1924.

Box 10 Folder 12
Photograph taken by John B. Goodman and published
Box 10 Folder 13
Powell, Lawrence Clark - Flumgudgeon Gazette in 1945 Antedated The Spectator

Photocopy.

Box 10 Folder 14
Daily News, San Francisco, 1906

Facsimile.

Box 10 Folder 15
Panoramic View of San Diego Bay city and suburban additions
Box FB-037 Folder 4
Panoramic View of San Diego Bay city and suburban additions
Box 10 Folder 16
Dramatic Incidents in San Diego's Past: A Quick Survey!

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 10) PHOTOGRAPHS: Arranged in four subseries: A) Goodman Family, B) People, C) Places, and D) Stereographs.

A) Goodman Family: Images of John Goodman and his family, including photo albums.

B) People: Unrelated people and examples of mounted portraits.

C) Places: Goodman avidly collected images of the American West, particularly California and the urban regions of Los Angeles and San Diego. This subseries contains images arranged by country, state, and city or locality with the bulk of the images representing early twentieth century San Diego and Los Angeles.

D) Stereographs: Examples of this particular photographic process depicting San Francisco, Yosemite Valley, and an address by President McKinley in 1897.

Goodman Family

Box 10 Folder 17
Goodman, John B. - Portraits
Box 10 Folder 18
Goodman family photos, 1882 - 1921
Box 10 Folder 19
Old Middletown School, class picture, John and Frank Goodman pictured, ca. 1907
Box 10 Folder 20
Portrait: John J., 3 yrs. and Frank B. Goodman Sr., Denver Colorado about 1862
Box 10 Folder 21
Goodman family photos - John Goodman's office at home
Box 10 Folder 22
Goodman family - Christmas 1928
Box 10 Folder 23
Uncle Roland Miller's home - Denver, Colorado, ca. 1920
Box 10 Folder 24-25
Photo Album A
Box FB-036 Folder 2-3
Photo Album A
Box 10 Folder 26-27
Photo Album B - Landscape photos of San Diego and other California sites

Items found at front of photo album: playbill and newsclippings related to San Diego. Includes photocopies.

Box 10 Folder 28-29
Photo Album C - Belonging to Irene Goodman, photos of Laguna Mountains - Parts I and II, ca. 1925-1926
Box 10 Folder 30-31
Photo Album D - Vacation photos of Irene and Frank Goodman Sr., ca. 1916

Includes cover and loose photos.

Box 10 Folder 32
Photo signed to Mr. and Mrs. Goodman from Arnoldo

Ca. 1912.

People

Box 10 Folder 33
Asian servicemen captured during World War II
Box 10 Folder 34
Cockell, Berltia, 1891

Mrs. Jancett to Jennie, 1889; Mary Alice, 1886; Jessie Shaffer.

Box 10 Folder 35
Cook, Daniel O. and wife, ca. 1911
Box 10 Folder 36
Dodge, Jack M., 1905
Box 10 Folder 37
Ester, Bennie and Leslie; Jennie Gellis

Compliments of Mr. Ed McIsana - Mounted photographs.

Box 10 Folder 38
Gilbert, Frederick - San Diego actor, ca. 1912
Box 10 Folder 39
Kenworthy, Mrs. Fred
Box 10 Folder 40
McGrew, C.A., 1918

Editor to the San Diego Union.

Box 11 Folder 1-2
Mounted photographs - Portraits
Box 11 Folder 3-4
San Diego actors

Includes Art E. Witting and Mattie Davis Witting

Box 11 Folder 5
Wullner, Ludwig

Ca. 1910.

Box 11 Folder 6
Unidentified

Places

Box 11 Folder 7
Belgium - Forts of Namur
Box 11 Folder 8
England - Plymouth Hoe, ca. 1912

Postcard inscribed by John B. Goodman.

Box 11 Folder 9
France - Venton, W.L. "Somewhere in France", 1919

Photos of airplanes at war.

Box 11 Folder 10-11
Japan - Earthquake, ca. 1924
Box 11 Folder 12-16
Mexico - Baja California - Coronado Islands, Ensenada, Tijuana, Tijuana Fair, Mexico City, Veracruz, ca. 1916
Box 11 Folder 17
Miscellaneous western states trip
Box 11 Folder 18-21
Arizona - Cliff dwellings, Painted Desert, La Osa Rancho, Tuba City, and Indian village, 2nd trip, ca. 1923-1925
Box 12 Folder 1
California - Bird's Landing, CA, 1924
Box 12 Folder 2
California - Carson and Tahoe Fluming and Lumber Co. #1, 1890

At Glenbrook in the nineties.

Box 12 Folder 3
California - Chino, CA, 1935
Box 12 Folder 4
California - Collinsville, CA, 1924

Includes photo of Italian Colony.

Box 12 Folder 5
California - Near Conejo
Box 12 Folder 6
California - Eureka, 1926
Box 12 Folder 7
California - General Fertilizer Association - Building interior
Box 12 Folder 8
California - Ghost towns
Box 12 Folder 9
California - Imperial Valley - Cotton pickers, 1915
Box 12 Folder 10
California - Isletown, CA, 1924

Includes photos of Chinese town.

Box 12 Folder 11
California - Lockport, CA, 1924

Includes photos of Chinese town.

Box 12 Folder 12-36
California - Los Angeles City and County - Big Bear Lake with Rose Mine, 1892-1953

7th CA Infantry, ca. 1900; Aimee McPherson residence, 1939; Arcadia Hotel; Arrowhead Springs Hotel; Alhambra airport, 1935; Big Bear Lake and village, and Rose Mine, ca. 1935; early Los Angeles transportation; Southern California aerial photos of Hollywood, Long Beach, and Santa Ana, ca. 1920; Chinatown, nearly Hill Street, ca. 1934; Cucamonga vineyard, 1953; Culvert City, ca. 1920; Corona, ca. 1934; Glendale, ca. 1934; Hollywood; Long Beach, 9th Infantry N.G.C. camp, 1892; Long Beach earthquake, 1933; Mission San Juan Capistrano, ca. 1925; Red Rock Canyon, 1925; San Bernardino, Squirrels Inn; San Gabriel Mission, 1917; San Pedro, 1932; Santa Catalina Island, rock quarry and St. Katerine Hotel, 1920-1926; Camp Santa Monica, 1898; Ventura, ca. 1946.

Box FB-037 Folder 9-10
California - Los Angeles City and County, 1892, 1898

Long Beach, 9th Infantry N.G.C. camp, 1892; Camp Santa Monica, 1898.

Box 13 Folder 1
California - Monterey
Box 13 Folder 2
California - Morongo Valley, 1926
Box 13 Folder 3-7
California - Mother Lode Country - Parts I and II, 1928

Includes Well Fargo movie pictures.

Box 13 Folder 8
California - Onyx - Brown's General Store, 1938
Box 13 Folder 9
California - Placerville
Box 13 Folder 10
California - Pleasanton, 1934
Box 13 Folder 11
California - Rio Vista, 1924
Box 13 Folder 12
California - Russian at Guernewood Park
Box 13 Folder 13
California - Sacramento
Box 14 Folder 1
California - San Diego - , 1908
Box FB-036 Folder 5
California - San Diego - 5th Avenue, 1908
Box 14 Folder 2
California - San Diego - Auto racer, 1915
Box 14 Folder 3
California - San Diego - Aviation
Box 14 Folder 4
California - San Diego - Backcountry, 1906 - 1919
Box 14 Folder 5-11
California - San Diego - Balboa Park , 1915-1918

General, Indian village, rose garden, panoramic view, Exposition with building detail.

Oversize MC-135-01
California - San Diego - Balboa Park - Panoramic view
Box 14 Folder 12
California - San Diego - Buildings - Municipal, business and residence, 1883 - 1917
Box 14 Folder 13
California - San Diego - Carrizo Gorge
Box 14 Folder 14
California - San Diego - City Hall, 1931
Box 14 Folder 15
California - San Diego - Cityscapes
Box 14 Folder 16
California - San Diego - Civic Center, 1952
Box 14 Folder 17-19
California - San Diego - Coronado, 1905 - 1933

Includes Hotel del Coronado.

Box 14 Folder 20
California - San Diego - Dams and reservoirs - Moreno, Barrett and Sweetwater

Photo Album B.

Box 14 Folder 21-22
California - San Diego - Del Mar, ca. 1914 and undated

Includes Del Mar Racetrack.

Oversize MC-135-07
California - San Diego - Del Mar Racetrack
Box 14 Folder 23
California - San Diego - Downtown panorama
Oversize MC-135-01
California - San Diego - Downtown panorama
Box 14 Folder 24
California - San Diego - El Cajon Valley
Box 14 Folder 25
California - San Diego - Elks Club groundbreaking, 1906
Box 14 Folder 26
California - San Diego - Empress Theatre
Box 14 Folder 27
California - San Diego - Florence Hotel
Box 14 Folder 28-31
California - San Diego - Harbor

Includes filling in bulkhead and new pier, 1913; commercial and civilian vessels; and construction, 1918.

Oversize MC-135-01
California - San Diego - Harbor - Filling in bulkhead and new pier, 1913
Box 15 Folder 1
California - San Diego - Harbor - Construction of municipal pier, 1913 - 1922

At the foot of Broadway.

Box 15 Folder 2
California - San Diego - Tug Bahda, 1909 - 1911
Box 15 Folder 3
California - San Diego - Hercules Powder Company, 1916
Box 15 Folder 4
California - San Diego - Horton Plaza
Box 15 Folder 5
California - San Diego - Julian, 1915
Box 15 Folder 6
California - San Diego - La Jolla Park

Photo Album B.

Box 15 Folder 7
California - San Diego - Lake Henshaw
Box 15 Folder 8
California - San Diego - Lakeside - Lakeside Hotel
Box 15 Folder 9-18
California - San Diego - Military, 1890-1920

USS Bennington explosion in San Diego Harbor, 1905; Camp Kearny, ca. 1919; Fort Rosecrans, ca. 1918; Naval training camp, Balboa Park, ca. 1919; Naval Training Station, ca. 1919; naval vessels in harbor, ca. 1890-1920; parades; radio tower; Rockwell Field, ca. 1919.

Box 15 Folder 19
California - San Diego - Mission Cliff Gardens
Box 15 Folder 20
California - San Diego - Mission Valley
Box 15 Folder 21
California - San Diego - County missions

Photo Album B.

Box 16 Folder 1
California - San Diego - Montserat Rancho (Louis Lighton's ranch), 1938
Box 16 Folder 2
California - San Diego - National City, 1926
Box 16 Folder 3-4
California - San Diego - Ocean Beach and Sunset Cliffs, 1915-1917
Box 16 Folder 5
California - San Diego - Oestring Japanese Garden, 1915
Box 16 Folder 6-7
California - San Diego - Old Town

Doña Juanita and cactus hedge at Old Town.

Box 16 Folder 8
California - San Diego - Otay Dam after flood, 1915
Box 16 Folder 9
California - San Diego - Padre Dam site
Box FB-036 Folder 6
California - San Diego - Padre Dam site

Photo by Erickson.

Box 16 Folder 10
California - San Diego - Pala Mission
Box 16 Folder 11
California - San Diego - Pan-California Expo - Mission floats
Box 16 Folder 12
California - San Diego - Parades
Box 16 Folder 13
California - San Diego - Pickwick Theatre
Box 16 Folder 14
California - San Diego - "A pipe dream that never jelled", 1920s
Box FB-037 Folder 6
California - San Diego - "A pipe dream that never jelled", 1920s
Box 16 Folder 15-16
California - San Diego - Point Loma and Old Spanish Lighthouse, 1915 - 1918
Box 16 Folder 17
California - San Diego - Miscellaneous residences

Photo Album B.

Box 16 Folder 18
California - San Diego - Rowing clubs

Photo Album B.

Box 16 Folder 19
California - San Diego - Isadore Rush

Site of her drowning on beach at the Hotel Del Coronado.

Box 16 Folder 20
California - San Diego - Coronado Ferry, Str. Ramona, 1925
Box 16 Folder 21
California - San Diego - San Diego boat yard
Box 16 Folder 22
California - San Diego - San Diego flume
Box 16 Folder 23
California - San Diego - San Diego High School stadium, 1914 - 1916
Box 16 Folder 24
California - San Diego - Strike at San Diego High School student body and JC, 1918
Box 16 Folder 25
California - San Diego - Post Office, 1912
Box 16 Folder 26
California - San Diego - Presidio Hill
Box 16 Folder 27
California - San Diego Union Tribune building
Box FB-037 Folder 7
California - San Diego - San Diego Union Tribune building, ca. 1920
Box 16 Folder 28-29
California - San Diego - San Diego Union building, 1904-1914
Box FB-036 Folder 4
California - San Diego - San Diego Union building, 1904
Box 16 Folder 30
California - San Diego - Christmas banquet at Savoy Theatre, 1912
Box FB-037 Folder 8
California - San Diego - Christmas banquet at Savoy Theatre, 1912
Box 16 Folder 31
California - San Diego - Santa Fe Depot, 1914 - 1949
Box 16 Folder 32
California - San Diego - Savoy Stock Company
Box 16 Folder 33
California - San Diego - Savoy Theatre, 1912

Mark showing Goodman's former home in the same building.

Box 16 Folder 34
California - San Diego - Sweetwater Dam
Box 16 Folder 35
California - San Diego - Tiny Broadwick jumping from 1,500 ft., 1916
Box 16 Folder 36
California - San Diego - Torrey Pines
Box 16 Folder 37
California - San Diego - Warwick's Studio, 1920
Box 16 Folder 38
California - San Francisco

Early photos and engravings - Part I

Box 17 Folder 1-8
California - San Francisco, 1851-1939

Early photos and engravings - Parts II and III; earthquake postcard scrapbook, ca. 1906; Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939; miscellaneous; Pan Pacific International Exhibit, 1915, panoramic views of the city, 1851-1855.

Oversize MC-135-02
California - San Francisco - Panorama views of the city, 1851 - 1855
Box 17 Folder 9
California - Santa Barbara - Earthquake, 1925
Box 17 Folder 10
California - Santa Fe Railway

Photo Album B.

Box 17 Folder 11
California - Sonora, ca. 1937
Box 17 Folder 12
California - Tahoe vista
Box 17 Folder 13
California - Trinidad Head
Box 17 Folder 14
California - Visalia
Box 17 Folder 15
California - Walnut Grove, 1924

Includes photos of Chinese Town.

Box 17 Folder 16
California - Southern California drive-in establishments
Box 17 Folder 17
California - Southern California earthquake, 1933
Box 17 Folder 18
California - Miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 19-20
Colorado

Mesa Verde National Park and Will Roger's shrine.

Box 17 Folder 21
Illinois - Chicago Airport, 1935
Box 17 Folder 22-25
Montana, 1888-1940

Buffalo on Montana ranges; Campbell's McLeod River near Pitt River, summer 1888; Crow Indians, 1940.

Box 18 Folder 1-2
Montana, 1878-1950

Valley Crow Indians at Fort Hardin, 1950; Ft. Keogh, ca. 1878.

Box 18 Folder 3
Nevada
Box 18 Folder 4
New Mexico
Box 18 Folder 5-6
New York - New York City
Box FB-037 Folder 1
New York - New York City
Box 18 Folder 7
Oregon - Columbia River Highway
Box 18 Folder 8
Texas - Amarillo
Box 18 Folder 9-10
Utah

Cedar City and Monument Valley.

Box 18 Folder 11
Wyoming

Stereographs

Box 19 Folder 1
San Francisco and the American West Coast
Box 19 Folder 2
Miscellaneous Stereoscopic Views
Box 19 Folder 3
President McKinley's Address, 1897
Box 19 Folder 4
Yosemite Valley

ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 11) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES: Original news clippings and other documents that were photocopied for preservation. These materials are restricted due to fragility; researchers must use photocopies located in the collection.

Box 23 Folder 1-4
Originals of preservation photocopies

Restrictions Apply

Box FB-037 Folder 12
Scrapbook: San Diego History, 1922-1939, 1984

Restrictions Apply