The Doud House Archives contain flat file storage, open shelving and file cabinets with a wealth of historic material.Items include local and global military history, Monterey history (families, architecture, civic, etc.). There is extensive information on Monterey History & Art Association including scrapbooks, posters, oral histories on cassette, and organizational material from the association’s founding in 1931. One 4-drawer cabinet is dedicated to local artists, photographers, and writers.
Inquiries are welcome via the request page on this web site.
MHOD DOUD HOUSE ARCHIVE STORAGE TAN FLAT FILE CONTENTS
DRAWER 1 ITEMS # 1 THROUGH 18
Oval frame with picture of Abraham Lincoln and family, donated by Porter family. #1994.12.026 MHAA
Oval frame with photograph of Escolastica Rodriques de Dye. Lived in old Cypress adobe on Calle Principal. After Mr. Dye died married Bolton and moved to Jolon.
Photograph of Calle Principal circa 1900. Van Buren Ave. on left, Pacific House center right.
Photograph of Pacific House circa 1880 on Calle Principal (Main St) – house unpainted, street unpaved.
Photograph of Pacific House, like photo #4, somewhat distant view.
Photograph of U.S. Army Transport ship “Buford”. Center smoke stack with black smoke.
Blow-up of bar and cabinets at empty saloon. Photograph may be of Bohemia Saloon owned by Sanchez brothers on Gomez lot near Alvarado and Franklin.
Photo of Point Sur Lighthouse Jack W. Rogers 1977 #90.16.663 MHAA
June 1981 City of Monterey Proclamation for 50th Anniversary of M.H.A.A.
December 1975 “City of Riverside Proclamation proclaiming Bicentennial De Anza Day
October 1996 City of Monterey honoring Frank Sino for 60 years of dedication to the culture and industry of boats in Monterey Bay
California State Senate recognition of La Merienda 2013 and its 243rd birthday celebration
Maritime Museum of Monterey Volunteer Watch standers list of names from 5 years to 30 years of service (2 pages)
March 1976 City of Santa Clara proclamation of De Anza Expedition Participation Day (see #2)
September – October 1965 invitation in Spanish & English to second De Anza Expedition
April 1963 Resolution for City Council of Monterey to salute Mayo Hayes O’Donnell for preservation of Monterey History upon her resignation from museum board
June 1990 City of Monterey Proclamation for Maritime Heritage Day
Rear Admiral John Drake Sloat U.S.N. photo print of original Masonic Certificate.
DRAWER 2 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 12
Photo of three (3) children (unk) – gold colored frame
Photo of young (unk) child holding doll – wood frame
Adalene Chapman as a child (3 photos) – gold wood frame
Photo boy child (unk) standing on bridge – wood frame
Photo woman (unk) – gold colored frame
Photo of two girl children (unk) – wood frame
Photo of 6 month old Mary McConnell – wood frame
Adalene Chapman as a young woman – silver colored wood frame
Photo (1924) Alice Spalding Bowen in formal dress – silver colored wood frame
Photo (1845) of Anita Donaldson – black wood frame
Photo of male child (unk.) two poses in a sailor suit – silver wood frame
Photo print of older woman (unk.) – brown wood frame
DRAWER 3 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 5
DIRIGIBLE MACON INFORMATION
Photo of aerial view of Moffett Field with dirigible hangar in center
Photo of air dock dirigible Akron, Ohio #1990.16.264 MHAA
Photo (probably) Macon with Sparrow hawk, plane on reverse side
Display information on the Macon (banded together)
Newspaper article about the Macon #001.9.17 MHAA
DRAWER #4 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 34
Monterey History & Art original circular art #1603.1846 MHAA
Monterey California in 1842 16”x22 ½ Lithography reproduction #990.16.20 MHAA
“Campaign to Preserve Old Monterey” Certificate to donors to the campaign 13”x 20”
“Historic Old Monterey” Walking map of adobes, plus flags of Monterey 13 ½ x 21
“The Raising of the American Flag and taking possession of California” by Commodore John Drake Sloat, U.S. Navy – Photo (torn)
Pacific House, photo on white illus. board
Casa Abrego, photo mounted on white illlus. board
Casa Alvarado, photo mounted on white illus. board
Custom House, photo mounted on white illus. board
Soberanes Adobe, photo mounted on white illus. board
Larkin House 1880, photo mounted on white illus. board
Colton Hall, 1890, photo mounted on white illus. board
Cooper Molera 1875, photo mounted on white illus. board
California Arts & Architecture, January 1932, reprint
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Supplement, Sept 14, 1904 – Sloat Landing Ceremony, July 8, 2000 reprint
Rear Admiral Charles Henry Baldwin, U.S. Navy, Photo, with story of Sloat Landing
Old Spanish ranch house, photo
“Hydraulic Mining in California, copy of etching
Carmel Mission, artist rendering, a gift from Lidula R. Ware
“Bull & Bear Certificate”, by Eldon Dedini, April, 1969
“California Centennial” S.F. Chronicle, October 18, 1948
Old Del Monte Hotel and train station, two (2) photos #000.192? MHAA
Custom House with row of unknown officers, photo B/W photo #0.16.442 MHAA
Pacific Grove, circa 1940, colored photo Colton Hall with 5 flags, original painting
Monterey City Seal, by artist Bill Stone, colored print
Doubletree Hotel, Fisherman’s Wharf, artist Mark Farina, colored poster
Old Custom House, artist Davis F. Schwartz, colored poster
El Camino Real Missionary de las California, colored poster
“How Hummingbirds Got Fire” (Rumsien Ohlone Story) artist Linda Yamane, colored poster
“Today in Northern California” artist Millard Sheets, colored print poster
“History in Northern California” artist Millard Sheets, colored print poster
“Festival of Trees w/ Dennis the Menace” artist, Hank Ketchum, colored print poster
“Boy Scouts of America Diamond Jubilee w/ Dennis the Menace”, artist, Hank Ketchum, colored print poster
Aerial View of Monterey, black & white photo 22”x27” #90.23.001 MHAA
The Californian – Official tall ship of California
Bark Lagoda of New Bedford, artist Pailthorpe
U.S.S. Constitution in Dec. 1838, colored print
Clipper Ship Swift sure #90.16.860 MHAA
Lowering Boats by Percy Dalton #90.16.863 MHAA
S.S. President Roosevelt, mounted to hang #90.16.658 MHAA
U.S.S. Constitution & U.S.S. United States from Arthur Beaumont painting #88.03.001 MHAA
“Old Ironsides” U.S. Frigate Constitution from Gordon Grant painting
U.S. Frigate Constitution, 44 Guns, from engraving in Peabody Museum, Salem, MA
U.S. Constellation #86.11.001 MHAA
Blackbeard Battle
Handmade wool thread embroidery of ship
Nantucket Sleigh ride by Percy Dalton #90.16.864 MHAA
Small panel “Crooked Stern” junk boat drawing
Ship in bay black & white original drawing (pencil) #65.01.270 MHAA
Ship in harbor- black & white original drawing (pencil) #65.01.270 MHAA
Ship in Bay etching by T.A. Priors Culp
DRAWER 6
Nine prints by artist James Percival Smith (1910 – 1986) telling the history of Monterey and water. Re-printed in 2008. Catalogued as a 1966 California American Water Company Commission for use as advertising.
1919 destruction of fishing fleet photo #1990.16.425 MHAA
Monterey waterfront with battleship in bay photo
Fishing fleet photo #1990.16.423 MHAA
San Juan Bautista Rodeo poster by artist Howard Brodie
San Juan Bautista Flea Market poster
Mounted articles describing dioramas made by Jo Mora
Hotel Del Monte advertising poster “Discovering the Monterey Peninsula”
Hotel Del Monte advertising poster “Compliments of the Manager”
DRAWER 9 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 38 - PHOTOS, POSTERS, PRINTS OF PICTURES
Stalin poster
Ft. Ord panorama #2000.01 MHAA
Waves, poster
American Ships #2001.01 MHAA
Communication ad for US Navy
U.S. Fighter plane P-51 #2001.01 MHAA
Oliver Huston, painting of ship on fiberboard
USS Long, USS Washington, photo of two ships
USS Blakeley, photo
Gerald Ford, USS Monterey, photo
US Navy cannon, plans
Set of Five Pencil Drawings #65.1.232 MHAA
Sailing ship 232
Cannon Wheel 233
Trailing Sleeve 234
Gun Carriage 235
Part of gun carriage 236
USS Sardon, photo
Battleship Oregon, 1915
Set of Twelve #90.01.001 MHAA
USS George Washington 001
USS Patrick Henry 002
USS Theodore Roosevelt 003
Robert E. Lee Submarine 004
Abraham Lincoln Submarine 005
Ethan Allen Submarine 006
Sam Houston Submarine 007
Thomas Edison Submarine 008
John Marshall Submarine 009
Thomas Jefferson Submarine 010
Holy Loch Submarine 011
USS Hunley 012
Set of Five #82.08.001 MHAA
Massachusetts Battleship 001
Maine Battleship 002
Indiana Battleship 003
Iowa Battleship 004
Oregon Battleship 005
Set of Five by artist Beaumount Artist, #2001.01.200 MHAA
Terrier 200
Camouflaged Majesty 201
Smoke Screen 202
Mosquito Patrol 203
Air raid USS Enterprise 204
US Navy Battleship, Beaumont painting
USS Sierra, photo #90.01.16. 648 MHAA
Set of Five
Convoy entering Mers-El-Kebi
Gray Morning
Aligning
Loading Operation
Tulagi
USS Barnes
Landing at Inchon
USS Leyte Carrier, Blk/White photo
USS New Jersey, photo #93.18.001 MHAA
Von Acoma #90.16.640 MHAA
Crusader, color photo #90.16.74 MHAA
USS Tuscaloosa, poster #65.1.215 MHAA
Engraving of shipyard #76.13.003 MHAA
USS Columbia under construction #76.13.004 MHAA
Engraving of submarine #76.13.002 MHAA
Paul Farney photo
Watercolor of ship by Glassford
Coast Guard Signal chart
Propeller Club of US #2000.02.998 MHAA
Misc. Newspapers during WWII
Misc. Newspapers during WWII
Sailor & Child viewing USS Constitution
“Flying Navy in Action ”Set of Twenty-one #2001.01.153 MHAA
Pilots Man your planes 153
Easy Does It 154
Fledgling 155
Ready on the Line 156
On to the Ramp 157
Flight Board 158
Flight’s End 159
Get Tough 160
The Convoy Brook 161
By the Light of the Moon 162
The Man in the Rear Seat 163
Handover 164
Satisfaction Plus 165
Making the Buoy 166
The Sluggers 167
Task for Hornet 168
A Language all their Own 169
Life in their Hands 170
Death of the SHOHO 171
The Kill 172
Master of all they Survey 173
DRAWER 10 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 11
Will of Frances Molera (copy)
De Maus shipping collection (copy)
Stilwell floor plan, four (4) parchments
“Visit to Monterey’s Adobes” 1997 spiral bound book
“Monterey Bay Canyon” two sheets of colored slides
Adobe Tour garden party, notes MHAA organization
Harper’s Bazaar 1898
Handbook of Monterey
“The White Squadron of U.S. Navy “ an 1894 publication
“Captain Cook, Hawaii” four issues of Feb. 1978 Honolulu Advertiser (detailed account)
Mission Dolores, San Francisco, 1860 picture
DRAWER 11 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 10
Photo Sloat Landing with miniature figures (reenactment) sepia tone
Photo black & white of carving of fisherman
Jo Mora copies (2) of poster of map of California
Doud House landscape architect drawing for garden
USS Cyane, print – Sloat Landing
Big Sur Lighthouse color photo
160th Anniversary of Monterey in old Pacific Bldg. photo, black & white
Gen. Ampudin treating for the Capitulation of Monterey, with Gen. Taylor September 24, 1846 poster #92.24.001 MHAA
Poster of 18 small Monterey fishing boats from Pat Hathaway Collection in black & white
Photo of beached whale with men standing around, black & white
DRAWER 12 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 24
Photo Album “The Enchanted Circle” Hotel del Monte & surrounding area
Wooden oblong plaque with color photo of Hotel del Monte
Bardell photo miniatures (20 views Monterey)
Large black & white photo of Hermann Hall on mat board
“The Service Weekly” bulletin for Del Monte Hotel employees
“Historic Landmarks of Monterey” sepia photos, text
Large pen & ink drawing of Del Monte Hotel from 1883 photograph
Sepia photo of Felix (last name?) #65.01.517 MHAA
Pool & guests black & white photo, Del Monte Hotel
Photo Del Monte guests on beach (one person is Josephine Fussell)
Hotel del Monte Club House menu #3000.1.2 MHAA
Harper’s Magazine ad for Hotel del Monte
Del Monte Golf & Country ads 1909, 1919, 1911
Hotel del Monte guests at hotel grounds, 3 black & white photos
Hotel del Monte room receipt
“Golf & Other Sports of Del Monte” booklet #90.16.437 MHAA
Hotel del Monte guest at pool, 2 black & white photos
Hotel del Monte matted color photos (2) 31”x14” #1990.16.615 & 2004.05.001 MHAA
“ Raymond’s Vacation Excursions, California”, small booklet
“Legend of Del Monte” pamphlet
Hotel del Monte assorted postcards
Fanny Huntly souvenir photo
“Album of Hotel del Monte” pink color, small #90.16.445 MHAA
“Ostrich Tree”, Pebble Beach – glass negative
DRAWER 13 ITEMS 1 – 3
Uniforms of United States Navy 1776 -1898 prints with information brochure – Three (3) sets of 12 prints each
Uniforms of United States Navy 1900-1967 prints with information brochures – two (2) sets of 12 prints each
Marine in the Frigate Navy – 14 full color print (scenes) with pamphlet description #91.10.001 through #91.10.015 MHAA
DRAWER 14 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 28 - MARGARET BRUTON COLLECTION, PHOTO PRINTS
Defense of Luzon, 10 x 15 #3000.4.13 MHAA
Defense of Luzon, 15 x 15 #3000.4.10
General Strategy of Pacific #3000.4.16
General Strategy of Pacific #3000.4.11
U.S.S. Submarine Operation #3000.4.9
Liberation of Philippines #3000.4.8
Battle for Leyte Gulf #3000.4.5
The Mariana, photo print #3000.4.4
Iwo Jima, photo print #3000.4.6
Invasion of Palau Island #3000.4.3
Return to Philippines #3000.4.12
Return to Philippines #3000.4.1
Battle of Philippines Sea #3000.4.2
Okinawa #3000.4.22
Defense of S/E Asia #3000.4.14
War Against Germany #3000.4.7
War Against Germany #3000.4.14
War Against Germany #3000.4.15
China-Burma-India #3000.4.20
China-Burma –India #3000.4.23
Battle of Coral Sea #3000.4.19
Battle of Midway #3000.4.17
Luzon Campaign #3000.4.24
Northern Solomon’s #3000.4.25
Guadalcanal #3000.4.26
Air Assault on Japan #3000.4.27
New Guinea #3000.4.28
The American Review of Reviews, November 1918, edited by Albert Shaw
DRAWER 15 - ITEMS 1 THOUGH 14 - VHS TAPES FROM MHAA
Department of Parks & Recreation, Monterey History Program
Oral History Exhibit Project
“The Scientist of Cannery Row”
Harry Miller “Lighthouse work in Progress”
Stanton Center Maritime Museum 6/3/93
“From Sea to Shining Sea” The Sesquicentennial Celebration of American Forces in Monterey under the command of Commodore John Drake Sloat
“Walking Through Blowouts Picking up Ming Dynasty Porcelain”, Galleon Project
Day on Bay 1980
Eye on Monterey – City of Monterey 7/25/2003
Doud House/O’Donnell Library by Maggie Downer 7/99
Roy Hattori (2 tapes)
“Maritime Museum” News Source
Tour of the Maritime Museum with Donna Penwell, Museum Director
The Show Monterey 1995, with E.C. Herman & Gang
DRAWER 16 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 27
Port of Liverpool, colored print, by G. Chambers #73.04.006 MHAA
Bark Vernon of New York, colored print, G Chambers #73.04.006 MHAA (same as #1)
Canoes of Polynesia Collection, colored print, by Herb Kane #78.03.006 MHAA
USS Gambier Bay, colored print, by C.G. Evans
USS Narwhal, colored print by G. Grant #88.18.002 MHAA
Aircraft carrier, black & white photo #71.11.002 MHAA
USS San Diego, colored print, by Gordon Grant #71.11.002 MHAA
USS Samuel Ingham (Cutter), colored print, by G. Grant #88.18.006 MHAA
USS Preble (Minelayer), colored print, by G. Grant #88.18.009 MHAA
USS Raven (Minesweeper), colored print, by G. Grant #88.18.007 MHAA
USS Hornet (Aircraft Carrier), colored print, by G. Grant #88.18.005 MHAA
USS Pennsylvania (Battleship), colored print, by G. Grant #88.18.003 MHAA
USS Curtis (Seaplane Tender), colored print by G. Grant #88.18.001 MHAA
Motor Torpedo Boats, colored print, by G. Grant #88.18.010 MHAA
USS Gridley (Destroyer), colored print, by G. Grant #88.18.004 MHAA
Aircraft Carrier, colored print, by Worden Wood, mounted on cardboard
Naval Academy 1916 Graduation on parchment, Frank E. Beatty and collection. Officers commissions, documents of Beatty Family, all together in a plastic sleeve.
Patent for ship’s coating, signed by President Monroe #88.32.001 MHAA
Ship Registry #65.01.290 MHAA
Viking Ship, original drawing by Segovia #65.01.227 MHAA
Lover’s Point b/w photo 7/30/87
Whale off Northern Coast #65.01.268 MHAA
Three (small) photos mounted on blackboard #65.01.277 MHAA
Sardine Industry newspaper articles, March 12, 1946 & February 28, 1941
Shipwrecks, newspaper article, February 23, 1953
Fireplace photo with Jo Mora painting hanging above mantel
Luggage Labels (old) mounted on board
DRAWER17 ITEMS 1 THROUGH 38
Sailing ship etching (original) by Atrevida #65.1.223 MHAA
Navy Plane over Moffett Field hanger, photo, sepia
Rhode Island, Battleship B/W photo #60.01.972 MHAA
USS Shaw on Masonite, colored drawing
USS Pennsylvania B/W photo #96.04.004 MHAA
World’s First Aircraft landing aboard a ship #96.04.002 MHAA
First carrier landing B/w photo #96.04.003 MHAA
Pen & ink drawing destroyer WWII #94.25.001 MHAA
Pen & in unmarked drawings Bear & Harriet Lane
Wings of the Navy, six (6) color lithographs in yellow folder
US Navy 1841, mounted color poster
Log of Emily #3000.464 MHAA
“Young Men Wanted for US Navy” color poster
US Coast Guard spiral bound Life Magazine 1967
WWII Convoys, Hans Skalagard photo album, his paintings
Daguerreotype in brown leather #1990.16.596 MHAA
Horizontal photo of Bay and Wharf B/W #1990.16.422 MHAA
Building, old photo, B/W #4000.254 MHAA
Building, old photo, B/W #4000.249 MHAA
Crowd looking at plane #HPF 4216 – 418 MHAA
Gliding from Fish Ranch B/W photo #HPF-4215 MHAA
Building photo #HPF 4215 MHAA
Wharf Scene photo #1990.16.564 MHAA
Drawing of Monterey 1842, #91.26.003 MHAA
WWI Uniform photo
Jose Amesti photograph? #4000.2003 MHAA
Two men, two women B/W photo #4000.413 MHAA
Monterey Bay 1908, B/W mounted photo #65.01.286 MHAA
Governors Ball NPS, photo #4000.332 MHAA
HOTEL DEL MONTE – DINNERWARE/SILVERWARE STORAGE BOX – LOCATION: SHELF
Simi Winery Hotel del Monte bottle
Metal (silver?) butter dish & Lid
Dinner plate china
Salad plate Syracuse china
Saucer Syracuse china
2 handed cup Syracuse china
Del Monte Pharmacy (Hilby) cracked large
Del Monte Pharmacy (Hilby) small
Del Monte hotel silverware, 1 knife, 1 cocktail fork, 1 dinner fork, 3 teaspoons, 1 ice tea spoon
Del Monte hotel dishtowel
COLLECTIONS AND ARTIFACTS
DOUBLE DOOR WOOD WALL CABINET
Ardaiz Collection: Ardaiz family memorabilia
Minnie Coyle Collection: photos, personal scrapbooks, mayoral history, newspaper clippings
Coyle scrapbooks
SINGLE DOOR WOOD WALL CABINET Books from MHOD
DOUBLE DOOR WOOD FLOOR CABINET
De Lormier Indian Basket Collection
LOCATED ON OPEN WOOD SHELVES
Edwards, Wayne Collection (2 plastic boxes)
Fitch, Roger (Col.) Collection (Boxes 36 & 37)
Guardian News Magazine Collection (Box 38)
Hellam, Monte Collection, suitcase & two boxes
Hitchcock, Hallie Collection (Box 21)
Holman, Ritter L. Collection (Box 12)
Manual of Music Book
Oliver, Myron Collection
Porters Collection of Music Box Discs
Stanton, Virginia Scrapbook Collection
Various items belonging to MHAA
CYLINDER TUBES ON OPEN WOOD SHELVES
Free Inhabitants in Monterey 1860, tube #34
Monterey Area, reprint from Harper Weekly 4/16/1878, tube #32
Mora, Jo poster, tube #35
Texas, Oregon Map, tube #33
FOUR (4) DRAWER METAL FILING CABINETS
Artists, authors, photographers MHOD collection (off white cabinet) Anthony, J.C. & Family Collection (fireproof tan cabinet) Logorio Family Collection (dark brown cabinet) MHOD Misc. records, tapes, supplies, etc. (light brown cabinet)
WHITE PLASTIC BOX ON SHELF ORAL HISTORY CASSETTE TAPES - ITEMS 1 THROUGH 18
Amalie Elkinton, 9/22/86, Annual MHAA Meeting
William H. Ballard, 8/20/87 interviewed by Louis Allair
Fred Starmen ‘Old Fat Boat’, Gloucester Town
Admiral Earl Stone, 5/29/80, interviewed by Col. Dick MacFarland, eight (8) cassettes
Admiral Earl Stone, 12/5/88, interviewed on his 93rd birthday, five (5) cassettes
Encampment Sloat Memorial- Sloat Landing, 1992
San Diego Ceremony with Raymond Aker
Winne Beaumont, 1972, interviewed by Augusta Fink
Robert Peterson, 6/21/90 Danish Metalsmith
Ted Durein Personal History, 12/14/88, interviewed by Col. Dick MacFarland, three (3) cassettes
Ted Durein, 1/11/89, 2/15/89, seven (7) cassettes
Charles W. Morgan
Anne Peterson, 1/13/89, Early Education, two (2) cassettes
Last Eagle Sight
Cline J. Smith, Early Big Sur Recollection, 6/28/91
John Cunningham, 4/11/88, Docent Tour of Flanders Mansion