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Kapocine

Date: 1887

Alexander Humboldt

Date: 1890

No caption. Letter from Henry Golombeck of the U.S. Navy to William and Grace McCarthy, on the letterhead of the USS New York, dated May 14, 1937, and sent from London England.

Date: 5/14/1937

Correspondence from Earl Warren to J. H. McClelland requesting attendance for the District Attorney and Sheriffs meeting

Date: January 27, 1942

Genuine Black Diamond Coal

Date: 1897

Memorandum from Warren Olney to C. J. Carey regarding inquiries relating to Japanese in the agricultural industry; see Memorandum for Mr. Warren Olney (R177_089_183-4_003a-R177_089_183-4_003f)

Date: February 18, 1943

Mount Hamilton Stage Co.

Date: 1892

Correspondence from Martha A. Chickering to Richard Neustadt regarding Japanese children in institutions; Attachment: "Recommendations Regarding Institutions Caring for Japanese Children"

Date: April 1, 1942

A Transcript of Appeal is the official written record of a trial, used by a higher court to review the lower court's proceedings. Ellen Van Valkenburg began an important legal battle for women’s enfranchisement in California on July 21, 1871, when she requested that Santa Cruz County Clerk Albert Brown enter her name in the Great Register of voters. After Brown (a willing accomplice in helping her bring the case to court) refused to register her, Van Valkenburg and her lawyer, Santa Cruz Judge Albert Hagan, began legal proceedings by requesting a writ of mandamus, a judicial remedy used to compel agencies to perform ministerial acts, such as registering voters. Van Valkenburg and Hagan argued her case by citing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The new amendment, ratified 3 years earlier in 1868, defined all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. as citizens protected by civil rights. Van Valkenburg and Hagan asserted that American women were considered citizens under this amendment, and that citizenship automatically granted absolute rights, including the right to vote. The case first went to California’s Third District Court. Many of America’s most prominent suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, were with Van Valkenburg in Santa Cruz when the lower court ruled against her on August 16, 1871. Van Valkenburg and Hagan swiftly appealed this decision through the Supreme Court of California. In the end, the Supreme Court of California upheld the lower court’s verdict under the reasoning that as a white American woman, Van Valkenburg already had citizenship and civil rights prior to the passage of the 14th amendment, and that the 14th amendment did not provide her with any additional political rights, such as the right to vote. While Van Valkenburg lost her case, and subsequent lawsuits failed to secure women's suffrage nationwide, the case stands as a critical early example of legal advocacy for women's political rights in California.

Date: September 23, 1871

Correspondence from Earl Warren (by Walter S. Rountree) to Melvin Hoffman regarding transfer of liquor licenses

Date: April 29, 1942