Transcript of interviews with Stephen Mavis, Myron G. Gessaman, Col. Duffy, and Paul Maetzel, Columbus, Ohio, August 1938; Summary of interview with Charles E. Conly and Joseph S. Kreinberg, Cleveland, Ohio, August 1938; Clara V. Pendleton Interview, St. Lewis, August, 1938; Comments from F.D. MacDonald, St. Louis, 1938; Interview with Julius Karty, St. Louis, August 1938; Interview with E.J. Russell, St. Louis, August 1938; Interview with E.D. Jones, St. Louis, August 1938; Interview with Mr. Kellogg, Cincinnati, August 1938; Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri statistics; Kansas City interviews with H.F. McElroy, Ray W. Wilson, and Ernest Tucker, August 1938; Document on the Jefferson Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, August 1938; Comments by Ward C. Gifford, Kansas City, no date; List of people interviewed or contacted, Kansas City, August, 1938; Statistics on Toronto, August, 1938; St. Louis, Columbus Ohio, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Toronto (1938?)
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers of Marion Parks, a talented and resourceful personality in Los Angeles during the early 1900s, relate to the history of Southern California. Parks described herself as "a California historian." Her principal contributions in this capacity were a series of still-useful booklets published while she was publicity writer for Security-First National Bank, and the organization of colorful historical pageants (in the Spanish style) in several California towns. Her local history files contain typescripts of her own writings as well as quantities of vintage pamphlets and brochures, mostly from 1930s. Correspondence files date from about the 1920s to the 1940s. The collection also includes 197 photographs taken by Marion Parks of parades, historical pageants, and other events in and around Los Angeles that were probably taken in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Dates
- Creation: 1909-1940 (bulk 1926-1940)
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1926 - 1940
Creator
- From the Collection: Parks, Marion (Creator, Person)
Access
Collection open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 9 boxes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library Repository
800 North Dartmouth Ave
Claremont CA 91711 United States
Email: specialcollections@claremont.edu