Steven M. Avella papers MS0075
The Rev. Anne Slakey (2013) and Kim Hayden (2021).
Center for Sacramento History
2013, 2021
Contributing Institution:
Center for Sacramento History
Title: Steven M. Avella papers
creator:
Avella, Steven M.
Identifier/Call Number: MS0075
Physical Description:
15.83 Linear Feet
16 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1850-2005
Abstract: The Steven M. Avella papers contain research material, rough drafts, and notes collected and created by Avella during the
process of writing his books on Catholic Sacramento and Sacramento history. Avella gathered material from Diocesan records,
memoirs, and correspondence from religious orders; parish histories; contemporaneous newspaper articles; material on ethnic
communities; and biographical files on bishops and other Catholic notables. The series largely follow Avella's book, chapter,
and subject organization.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Steven M. Avella in 2010 (accession # 2010/33).
Processing Information
Processing and finding aid by the Rev. Anne Slakey, 2013. Finding aid edited by Kim Hayden, 2021.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use. All materials may be viewed, but student papers and material gathered from other
institutions cannot be duplicated. Those citing and using such material for publication should obtain copies from the original
institutions and cite them separately.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests to publish or quote from private manuscripts held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted
in writing to csh@cityofsacramento.org. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron.
No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records. While all material in this collection can be viewed, student
papers and material gathered from other institutions cannot be duplicated. Those citing and using such material for publication
should obtain copies from the original institutions and cite them separately.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Steven M. Avella papers, MS0075, Center for Sacramento
History.
Related Materials
Material related to those in the Steven M. Avella papers can be found in the following collections at CSH: the Sacramento
Ethnic Communities Survey, and the Catholic Herald Collection.
Biographical / Historical
Steven M. Avella was born in Chicago and grew up in Sacramento. He is an ordained priest, a historian, and a professor of
history and former chair of the history department at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He has also lectured at California
State University, Sacramento. His professional focus is on 20th century American history, American religious history, and
the American West. He has written many books on those topics, including books specific to Sacramento history and the history
of the Catholic Church in Sacramento.
Scope and Contents
The Steven M. Avella papers contain research materials, rough drafts, and notes created and collected by Avella while he was
researching for and writing his books "Sacramento and the Catholic Church: Shaping a Capital City" (2008), "The Diocese of
Sacramento: A Journey of Faith" (2006), "The Good Life: Sacramento's Commercial Culture" (2008), and "Sacramento: Indomitable
City" (2003). The collection's series and folder titles largely reflect the book, chapter, and subject organization of Avella's
research material.
The material in this collection brings together valuable information about various eras, persons, institutions, and themes,
particularly related to Catholic life in Sacramento and Northern California. Especially well-documented is Avella's interest
in ethnic history as part of Catholic history, with rich coverage of ethnic groups in downtown parishes, and of the Diocese
of Sacramento's ongoing redefinition of Hispanic ministry in the turbulent decades of the 1960s and 1970s.
Much of the research material in this collection is a result of Avella's extensive study of Catholic newspapers, including
several iterations of Sacramento's "Catholic Herald" and its successor paper, the "Catholic Register." Avella also studied
newspaper indices at the California State Library and articles from other Sacramento newspapers. He also consulted the archival
records of the Diocese of Sacramento; Archdioceses of San Francisco and Los Angeles; Franciscan Friars of Santa Barbara; Sisters
of Mercy, Auburn; and Franciscan Sisters of Penance and Charity at Stella Niagara, New York, and Redwood City, California.
Primary sources include Diocesan records; correspondence and memoirs of religious orders serving the Diocese; parish histories,
financial records, and correspondence; biographical material on Bishops and other notable figures; and newspaper articles
on most subjects. Secondary sources include copies of articles, theses, dissertations, and some student papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California--Religion
Catholic Church--California--Sacramento.
Catholic Church. Diocese of Sacramento (Calif.)
City and town life--California--Sacramento
Ethnic groups
Franciscans--California--History
Manogue, Patrick, Bp., 1831-1895.
Mexican Americans--California--History
Sacramento (Calif.)--Church history
Social life and customs--Sacramento (Calif.)
Sisters of Mercy. Sacramento, California (Diocese)
Series 1. Sacramento: Indomitable City
Scope and Contents
This series contains subject folders for Avella's books on Sacramento history, mostly mid to late 20th century newspaper clippings
from the Sacramento Bee and other local papers, with some research notes and drafts.
box 1, folder 1
California Indians
undated
box 1, folder 2
John Sutter/Sacramento Medicine
undated
box 1, folder 3
Background articles
undated
box 1, folder 4
Infrastructure - Schools, Water
undated
box 1, folder 5
Sacramento Politics
undated
box 1, folder 6
Business and Commerce
undated
box 1, folder 7
Land Grants/High Tech
undated
box 1, folder 19
Sacramento & Federal Government
undated
box 1, folder 20
Proposal Draft: Avella Sacramento and Urban Identity
undated
box 1, folder 21
Datel/Sacramento Demographics
undated
box 1, folder 23
Shifting Economics
undated
box 1, folder 26
Burns MS - Capital Dreams
undated
box 1, folder 28
Sacramento and Depression SRA
undated
box 1, folder 29
Sacramento and Depression
undated
box 2, folder 5
Chronologies and Histories
undated
box 2, folder 6
Sacramento Holidays
undated
box 2, folder 7
Newspaper History/City and County Government
undated
box 2, folder 8
Notes Chapter One Consumer Culture
undated
box 2, folder 15
Development and Annexation
1984-1999
box 2, folder 16
Development and Annexation
2000-2010
box 2, folder 17
Military Industrial
undated
box 2, folder 18
Cultural Traditions Conference/Ethnic Diversity (Bee)
1984-9494
box 2, folder 19
Ethnic Diversity (Bee)
1994-2000
box 2, folder 20
Gays and Lesbians (Bee)
1984-2000
box 14, folder 1
Chinese Exclusion
undated
box 14, folder 2
Military Industrial Complex/City & County Government
undated
Series 2. Sacramento and the Catholic Church
Scope and Contents
This series contains material gathered for Avella's book of the same title, and largely follows his chapter and subject organization.
It is arranged into the following five subseries.
Subseries 2.1. Other denominations and religions
Scope and Contents
Subseries 2.1. Other denominations and religions
box 2, folder 21
Multiple Subjects
undated
box 2, folder 22
Other denominations/Church Comity/AB Earle
undated
box 2, folder 23-24
Other denominations
undated
box 3, folder 1
Congregationalists
undated
box 3, folder 2
Unitarian-Universalists
undated
box 3, folder 3
Vedanta/Buddhists
undated
box 3, folder 4
African American Churches
undated
box 3, folder 5
United Brethren/Christian Church/Baptists
undated
box 3, folder 6
Peniel Rescue Home
undated
box 3, folder 7
2004 Church Directory
undated
box 3, folder 8
Sacramento Bee Church of the Week series
ca. 1950-1959
box 3, folder 15
Parish History Talk at St. James, Milwaukee
undated
Subseries 2.2. Catholic Directories
Scope and Contents
This subseries is made up of copies of 19th century national Catholic directories relating to the Dioceses of San Francisco,
Grass Valley, and Sacramento, and 20th century internal Diocesan directories. Also included are lists of priests serving the
Diocese, periodic Diocesan reports to the Vatican (Relatio, Ad Limina, and Quinquennial Reports), and Diocesan Canons.
box 3, folder 16
Catholic Directories Official Service Book
undated
box 3, folder 17
Catholic Directories Diocese of San Francisco
1855-1868
box 3, folder 18
Catholic Directories Dioceses of San Francisco, Grass Valley
1869-1886
box 3, folder 19
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1886-1909
box 3, folder 20
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
191 -1927
box 3, folder 21
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1929-1944
box 3, folder 22
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1945-1957
box 3, folder 23
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1947-1948
box 3, folder 24
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1949-1950
box 3, folder 25
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1951-1952
box 3, folder 26
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1953-1954
box 3, folder 27
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1955- 1957
box 3, folder 28
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1986
box 3, folder 29
Catholic Directories Diocese of Sacramento
1995-1997
box 3, folder 30
Sacramento Priests
undated
box 3, folder 31
News of Clergy Newspaper indexes
1866-1913
box 3, folder 32-34
Diocesan Canons and Reports
undated
Subseries 2.3. Sacramento Parishes
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains a wide variety of material organized into subject files by parish and by ethnic groups served by parishes,
especially the Cathedral and St. Stephens. A parish file might contain Baptismal records, financial reports to the Diocese,
correspondence with the Bishop, parish boundary maps, articles from local newspapers, and memoirs and interviews with parishioners.
In addition, some parishes have autobiographies, memoirs, and correspondence of religious orders serving the parishes and
their schools. Ethnic folders contain interviews, newspaper articles, secondary articles, and material from the Sacramento
ethnic community surveys.
box 4, folder 1
Parishes Baptisms and Marriages
1911-1930
box 4, folder 2
St. Rose of Lima and St. Rose Franklin Blvd.
ca. 1850-1890
General
Includes Bee and Union articles from the 1850s-1880s; Journal of Peter Anderson, OP; parish history.
box 4, folder 3
St. Patrick's Home - annual reports
undated
box 14, folder 3
St. Rose's, Franklin Blvd; St. Patrick's Home - annual reports, parish boundaries
undated
box 4, folder 4
St. Rose Baptismal Sample
1850-1855
box 4, folder 5
St. Joseph's School
undated
box 4, folder 6
St. Francis - pastors, origins
undated
box 4, folder 7, box 14, folder 9
St. Francis - annual reports
undated
box 4, folder 8
St. Francis - "German Parish?"
undated
box 4, folder 9
St. Francis - School and Province
undated
box 4, folder 10-11
St. Francis - translations of correspondence
undated
box 4, folder 12-13
St. Francis - correspondence with Province (German)
undated
box 4, folder 14
St. Stephen's - Social Functions of an Urban Parish (Avella)
undated
box 4, folder 15
St. Stephen's - Holy Angels School
undated
box 14, folder 14
Japanese Mission (includes Tulelake) - annual reports
1930-1945
box 4, folder 18-19
Cathedral - Centennial Essay Drafts
undated
box 4, folder 20
Cathedral - Finances
undated
box 4, folder 21
Cathedral - Interior Decor
undated
box 4, folder 22
Cathedral - Building and Dedication
undated
box 4, folder 23
Cathedral - Clock and Bells
undated
box 4, folder 24
Cathedral - Eglise Sainte Trinite
undated
box 4, folder 25-26
Cathedral - architect (Bryan Clinch)
undated
box 4, folder 27
Cathedral - renovation
undated
box 14, folder 5
Cathedral, Portuguese - newspaper articles, parish boundaries
undated
box 14, folder 6
Cathedral, St. Stephen's, Holy Angels school - annual reports
undated
box 14, folder 7
Cathedral - annual reports
undated
box 4, folder 28-29, box 5, folder 1
box 5, folder 5
Cathedral - "Ethnic Issues"
undated
box 5, folder 6
Portuguese St. Elizabeth's
undated
box 14, folder 12
St. Elizabeth's - annual reports
undated
box 5, folder 7-9
Irish
undated
General
Includes Avella Irish Catholic Identity and Urban Culture in San Francisco and Sacramento
box 5, folder 11
Italians - ICFA History of the Italian Catholic Federation
1924-1974
box 5, folder 12
Italians - St. Mary's East Sacramento
undated
box 5, folder 13-14
Immaculate Conception
undated
box 14, folder 8
Immaculate Conception - annual reports
undated
box 5, folder 15
St. Joseph's; Holy Spirit; All Hallows
undated
box 14, folder 11
Sacred Heart - annual reports
undated
box 14, folder 10
Holy Spirit - annual reports
undated
box 5, folder 17
St. Mel's, Fair Oaks; St. John the Baptist, Folsom
undated
box 5, folder 19
St. Ignatius'; St. Lawrence; St. Peter's; St. Paul's; St. Robert's
undated
box 5, folder 20
OL Assumption; St. John's; Presentation; St. John Vianney; St. Charles
undated
box 5, folder 21
Summary Parish Financial Statements
1922-1959
box 14, folder 4
St. Stephen's - Baptismal register; Croatians re Fr. Cupcic
undated
box 14, folder 13
Diocesan Statistical Summaries - baptisms, deaths, marriages, attendance
undated
box 15, folder 1
St. Mary's - annual reports
undated
box 15, folder 2
All Hallows - annual reports
undated
box 15, folder 3
St. Ignatius' - annual reports
undated
box 15, folder 4
St. Joseph's, North Sacramento - annual reports
undated
box 15, folder 5
St. Paul's, Florin Road - annual reports
undated
box 15, folder 6
St. Peter's - annual reports
undated
box 15, folder 7
St. Philomene's - annual reports
undated
box 15, folder 8
St. Robert's - annual reports
undated
Subseries 2.4. Building a Latino/a Presence
Scope and Contents
This subseries mainly conatins Diocesan files on ministry to Latinos, including files documenting the Diocese's work with
the Farm Labor movement in the 1970s, with some articles and memoirs.
box 5, folder 22-23
Migrant Workers - LAMP (Latin American Mission Program)
undated
box 6, folder 1
Diocese of Sacramento - Department of Mexican American Affairs
1970
box 6, folder 2
Department of Mexican American Affairs
1971
box 6, folder 3
Department of Mexican American Affairs
1972
box 6, folder 4
Department of Mexican American Affairs
1972-1978
box 6, folder 6
"To Hear About God in Spanish: Ethnicity, Church and Community Activism in the San Francisco Archdiocese's Mexican American
Colonias" by Gina Marie Pitti
2003-06
box 6, folder 7-8
"The Chicano and the Church in Northern California, 1848-1978: a Study of an Ethnic Minority Within the Roman Catholic Church"
by Antonio Robert Soto
1978
box 6, folder 9
"Mexican Catholicism in Southern California: the Importance of Popular Religiosity and Sacramental Practice in Faith Experience"
by Jeffrey Thies
1993
box 6, folder 10
"The Mexican Adaptation in American California, 1846-1875" by Richard Morefield
1971
box 6, folder 11
"Building the Latino/a Catholic Presence in Sacramento" by Steven M. Avella
2005
box 6, folder 12
"A Ghastly International Racket: the Catholic Church and the Bracero Program in California, 1942-1964" by Gina Marie Pitti
2001
box 6, folder 13
Sacramento Bee articles
1980-1989
box 6, folder 14
Sacramento Bee articles
1990-2000
box 6, folder 15
Report of the Problem of the Church and the Spanish Speaking Peoples in the Diocese of Sacramento; Hallowing the Migrant Trails
Department of Mexican American Affairs
1963-02; 1972-06
box 6, folder 16
Hispanic Presence - the first 100 years (John Kouba) Santuario de N.S. de Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe parish
undated
box 6, folder 17
Report of Gov. CC Young's Mexican Fact Finding Committee
1930
box 6, folder 19
El Centro Mexicano/Alianza Hispano Americana
undated
box 6, folder 20, box 15, folder 19
box 15, folder 9
Cursillo News Release
undated
box 15, folder 20
Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish annual reports
undated
box 15, folder 22
Cathedral schedules
ca. 1970-1979
box 15, folder 23
135th Anniversary 1st United Methodist Church
undated
box 15, folder 24
Temple B'nai Israel congregational history
undated
box 15, folder 25
Tapestry Chamber of Commerce
undated
box 15, folder 26
Sacramento Bee "Coming of Age" High Tech
undated
Subseries 2.5. Homelessness
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes interviews, Bee coverage of homelessness from 1980-2000, an annotated copy of The People v. Loaves
and Fishes, and material on the 1890s Railroad Strike.
box 6, folder 23
Leroy Chatfield memoir, interview
undated
box 6, folder 24
Father Dan Madigan
undated
box 6, folder 25
Interviews; Mayor Joe Serna
undated
box 6, folder 26
"The Economic and Social Dimensions of Survival in Sacramento's West End" by Donald Siersdale
1967
box 6, folder 27
Homeless and Poverty Statistics
undated
box 6, folder 28
Sacramento Bee articles
1967; 1984-1987
box 6, folder 29
Sacramento Bee articles
1987-1989
box 6, folder 30
Sacramento Bee articles
1990-2000
box 7, folder 1
"Case re number of children" People vs Loaves & Fishes 96AS05366
undated
box 7, folder 2
Housing Policy Debate
undated
box 7, folder 4
Loaves & Fishes Battle with city - Bee articles
1994-1996
box 7, folder 5
Loaves & Fishes Battle with city - Bee articles
1996-1997
box 7, folder 6
Loaves & Fishes litigation - annotated excerpts
ca. 1995
box 7, folder 8
Loaves & Fishes litigation - exhibits 1-4
ca. 1995
box 7, folder 9
Loaves & Fishes litigation - exhibits 5-19
ca. 1995
box 7, folder 10
Loaves & Fishes litigation - exhibits 20-31
ca. 1995
box 7, folder 11
Loaves & Fishes litigation - exhibits 32-57
ca. 1995
box 7, folder 12
Loaves & Fishes litigation - exhibits 58-84
ca. 1995
box 7, folder 15
Building the Metropolis / art and architecture
undated
box 7, folder 16
Catholic Herald Annuals
1913; 1918; 1919
box 7, folder 17
Catholic Herald excerpts
1920-1939
box 7, folder 18
Superior California Register excerpts
1946-1949
box 7, folder 19
Catholic Herald excerpts
1950-1955
box 7, folder 20
Catholic Herald excerpts
1956-1959
box 7, folder 21
Catholic Herald excerpts
1960-1966
box 7, folder 22
Catholic Herald excerpts
1969-1979
box 7, folder 23
Catholic Herald excerpts
1980-1983
box 7, folder 24
Catholic Herald excerpts
1984-1990
box 7, folder 25
Catholic Herald excerpts
1990-1996
box 7, folder 26
"The Church and Urban Development in Sacramento, 1896-1926" by Steven M. Avella
undated
box 7, folder 27
"Sacramento and the Catholic Church" outline and notes
undated
box 15, folder 9
Fr. Dan Madigan's Newsletter
undated
Series 3. The Catholic Diocese of Sacramento
Scope and Contents
This series consists of secondary material that Avella gathered for a history of the Diocese and a series of anniversary essays
in the Diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Herald. It includes material that places Sacramento within a state and regional context,
and material on religious orders, Bishops, and other leaders. It has been broken up into the following four subseries.
Subseries 3.1. Regionalism and Religion
Scope and Contents
This subseries documents Avella's historiographic foundation with articles containing various interpretations of the role
region plays in patterns of religious life in the United States. It also includes Diocesan "Church and State" files with articles
and correspondence concerning pending legislation from 1871 to 1970.
box 7, folder 28
"The Church and the Sword: Catholicism in California's Central Valley" by Steven M. Avella
2001
box 7, folder 29
Parish Lists - Diocese of Stockton, Diocese of Sacramento
undated
box 7, folder 30
Convocation 2000 surveys, correspondence; California and the Priesthood (Avella); Bishop Quinn: The Priest of the future in
the Church of the future
ca. 2000
box 7, folder 31
"California Catholicism" notes and bibliographic search
undated
box 7, folder 32
20th century American West Montana-Washington bibliographic search
undated
box 8, folder 1
"Regionalism and Religion" notes and articles
undated
General
Includes "Regionalism & Religion in America" (Brauer); "Religious Geography of the US" (Zelinsky); 'To Build the Catholic
City" (Kantowicz).
box 8, folder 2
"Regionalism and Religion" notes and articles
undated
General
Includes "California & the Southwest" (Frankiel); Frontier Catholicism (Spalding); "Religion, Community & Place" (Williams);
"A Place interchangeable with the rest of the US?" (Firth-Anderson); "Sorting out the Suburbs" (O'Connor); "Emergence of California
in American Religious Historiography" (Ernst); "Religion in the West" (Topping); "American Religious History from a Pacific
Coast Perspective" (Ernst); "Development of an Urban Civilization..." (Larsen & Branyan)
box 8, folder 3
"Regionalism and Religion" notes and articles
undated
General
Includes "Religion and Region in America"; (Hill); "A New Regionalization of American Religion" (Shortridge);
"Religion in the South: A tradition recovered" (Boles); "A model rural parish: priests & people in Michigan..." (Tentler);
"The Church of New York: past and present" (Dolan); "The Progress of the Church in the United States" (Rameur); "The Church
in the US 1870-1920" (Guilday); "Catholicism in the Building of the Nation" (Maguire)
box 8, folder 4
"Regionalism and Religion" notes and articles
undated
General
Includes "Catholic Education in Boston" (Quinlan); "Catholicity in Allegheny & Garrett Counties…" (Corrigan); "Some Implications
of Population Trends…" (Baker); "Standing Shoulder to Shoulder" (Specht); "The Mission Ranchos" (Weber)
box 8, folder 5
U.S. Census, Religious Bodies
1860-1936
box 8, folder 6
A History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
1885-1945
box 8, folder 7
Catholic San Francisco - articles
undated
box 8, folder 8
Contra Costa County
undated
box 8, folder 9
California Counties (excerpts from county histories)
undated
box 8, folder 11
"Catholic California" notes and articles
undated
General
Includes "History of the City to the History of the Urbanized Society" (Hays); "Understanding the Urban West" (Schnell) ;
"New West, True West" (Worster); "Beautiful Downtown Burbank" (Abbott); "Architectural Legacy of Sacramento" (Baird); "In
search of God's Gold" (Loofbourow); "Catholic California" (Weber); "And some fell on good ground" (Sheridan); "Scrapbook The
Franciscan Boys College" (Academy); "Sisters of Mercy"; "Fifty Years of Catholic California" (Weber); "Catholicity in California"
(Weber); "Scrapbook California Catholics in 1848" (Academy); "Certain Churches in the West"; "Parish Missions in 1885"; "Charitable
Beginnings in LA"; "LA Chancery Archives"
box 8, folder 12
"Catholic California" notes and articles
undated
General
"Building the Best" (Burns); "The Dream & the Challenge" (Starr); "Will the real Californian please stand up?" (Limerick);
"California's Catholic heritage" (Weber); "List of Catholic Institutions in California, 1850-1860"; "Parishes in Monterey
and San Francisco"; "Bibliographic Search California Catholic Church 1800"; "California Mission as Symbol and Myth" (Rawls);
"California Mission Indian Commission of 1891" (Mathes); "Fifty Years of Catholicity in California" (Dominicana)
box 8, folder 13
"Catholic California" articles
undated
General
"California & the Church: a Report (Vaughan, 1866); "Myths, Mythologies & the California Missions" (Weber); "The Catholic
Church among the pioneers" (Lyons); "Transfer of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, 1840-1853" (Geary); "Development of Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction..." (Weber); "A light in the darkness: Edward Hanna" (Gribble); "Mary Julia Workman: the Catholic Conscience
of LA" (Engh); "Catholic Church in Southern California" (Weber); "Americanization, Conflict & Convergence" (Isetti)
box 8, folder 14
Diocesan History Drafts with comments from Bishop Weigand, Bishop Quinn, and others
undated
box 8, folder 15
Diocesan History drafts, notes, comments
undated
box 8, folder 16
A History of the Diocese of Sacramento 1850-1979, editions 1-4
undated
box 8, folder 17
Anti-Catholicism - Sacramento Bee & Monitor article, transcripts; Hunt The Heydey of the Denver APA, 1892-1894
undated
box 8, folder 18
Anti-Catholicism - accounts of KKK incident in 1922
undated
box 8, folder 19
Anti-Catholicism
General
"The Rise & Fall of the Know-Nothings in California" (Hurt); "The Bigot Disclosed: 90 Years of Nativism" (Clark); "The Ku
Klux Klan in Politics in the 1920s" (Chalmers); "Review & Rebuttals re Peter Burnett's The Path which led a Protestant lawyer
to the Catholic Church" (1860); "Pulpits & Politics: Anti-Catholicism in Boston..." (Kennedy); "The American Party, 1886-1891"
(Higham)
box 8, folder 20
Church & State - Diocesan file including articles and correspondence related to legislation
1871-1929
box 8, folder 21
Church & State - Diocesan file including articles and correspondence related to legislation
1940-1951
box 8, folder 22
Church & State - Diocesan file including articles and correspondence related to legislation
1952-1970
box 9, folder 1
Church & State - Education
1948
box 9, folder 2
"The Church & Prop. 14: Catholic Civil Rights Activism and Dissent in California" by Steven M. Avella
undated
box 15, folder 10
Central Valley Counties, Placer County, Yuba County
undated
Subseries 3.2. Catholic Institutions
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains Avella's subject files on religious orders, schools, and other Catholic institutions serving in the
Diocese of Sacramento. Files contain correspondence, memoirs, and contemporaneous newspaper articles.
box 9, folder 3
All Hallows Seminary, Ireland correspondence
1890-1927; 1930-36
box 9, folder 4
All Hallows Seminary, Ireland correspondence
1937-1964
box 9, folder 5
All Hallows Seminary, Ireland correspondence
1950-1959
box 9, folder 6
All Hallows Seminary, Ireland correspondence
1960-1966
box 9, folder 7
Air Base Catholics
undated
box 9, folder 8
Bishop Armstrong High School
undated
box 9, folder 10
Catholic Conference; Catholic Journalism; Catholic Social Service
undated
box 9, folder 11
Catholic Worker House of Hospitality
undated
box 9, folder 12
Catholic Church Extension Society
undated
box 9, folder 15
Chancery Office; Charitable Homes
undated
box 9, folder 16
Diocesan Finances
undated
box 9, folder 18
Folsom Prison Ministry
undated
box 9, folder 19
Fraternal Organizations: Catholic Ladies Relief Society; Knights of Columbus; Catholic Daughters of America
undated
box 9, folder 20
Fraternal Organizations: Young Ladies' Institute; Young Men's Institute
undated
box 9, folder 22
Grace Day Home - Sisters' Memoirs
undated
box 9, folder 23
Grace Day Home - Reports to Diocese
undated
box 9, folder 26
Ladies of Loretto
undated
box 9, folder 27
Liturgical Commission
1964
box 9, folder 28
Mercy High, Carmichael
undated
box 9, folder 29-31
Mercy Hospital
undated
General
Sisters' memoirs in folder 30
box 9, folder 32
Mercy Hospital Foundation
undated
box 9, folder 33
Passionists - Christ the King Retreat House
undated
box 9, folder 34-35
Priests of the Diocese
undated
box 9, folder 37
St. Patrick's Home, Franklin Blvd.
undated
box 9, folder 38-39
St. Patrick's Home, Grass Valley
undated
box 9, folder 40
St. Pius X Seminary
undated
box 9, folder 41-44
Christian Brothers
undated
box 15, folder 11
Christian Brothers - Minute of Agreement; Isetti, The Latin Question
1924
box 10, folder 1
Stanford Home - Sisters of Social Service
undated
box 10, folder 2
Stanford Home - State Interpretive Plan
undated
box 10, folder 3-5
Sisters of St. Francis
undated
box 15, folder 12
Sisters of Mercy - notes of events
ca. 1850-1900
Subseries 3.3. Catholic Leaders
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains biographical subject files for lay and religious leaders, with the largest files for Bishops Manogue,
Armstrong, and McGucken.
box 10, folder 13
Philos, secondary materials
1854-1858
box 10, folder 14-15, box 15, folder 14
Thomas Connelly (editor of the Catholic Herald)
undated
box 10, folder 16-17, Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 5-6
Monsignor Thomas Capel
undated
box 10, folder 20
Dictionary of the American Hierarchy; Catholic Encyclopedia excerpts
undated
box 10, folder 22
Monsignor Horrigan (Marysville)
undated
box 10, folder 23
Monsignor Patrick O'Neill
undated
box 10, folder 25
Bishop O'Connell - correspondence, Ireland, Monitor articles
undated
box 10, folder 26
Bishop Manogue - correspondence, reports, articles
undated
box 10, folder 27
Bishop Manogue - correspondence, transcripts, notes
undated
box 10, folder 28
Bishop Manogue - correspondence, Monitor articles
undated
box 10, folder 29
Bishop Manogue - Kline Manogue - Miner, Priest, Pastor, Bishop
undated
box 10, folder 30, Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 5-6
Bishop Manogue
undated
General
Includes "St. Mary's in the Mountains" (Lapomarda); "Hartford's Irish Catholic Community" (Duffy); "Old World Antecedents,
New World Adaptations" (Mannion); "Gold Rush Priest" (Barron); "Pagan Bob on the Comstock" (Kleber); "Cathedral on the Comstock"
(McGloin); "Pioneer Catholicism in Eastern & Southern Nevada" (Olson)
box 15, folder 15
Bishop Manogue - statement of the priests of Grass Valley; correspondence
undated
box 10, folder 31
Bishop Grace - correspondence, articles
undated
box 10, folder 32
Bishop Grace - Manogues's will
undated
box 10, folder 33
Bishop Grace - correspondence
undated
box 15, folder 16
Bishop Grace - certificates Catholic Extension Society
undated
box 11, folder 1, box 15, folder 17, Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 5-6
box 11, folder 2
Bishop Armstrong - early life and student days
undated
box 11, folder 3
Bishop Armstrong - Yakima years
undated
box 11, folder 4
Bishop Armstrong - Spokane
undated
box 11, folder 5, Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 5-6
Bishop Armstrong - Register & Catholic Herald excerpts, correspondence, notes
undated
box 11, folder 6
Bishop Armstrong - newspaper articles, notes
undated
box 11, folder 7
Bishop Armstrong - drafts and comments for Avella's "Bishop Armstrong & the changing landscape of Northern California Catholic
Life"
undated
box 11, folder 8
Bishop Armstrong - Catholic education
undated
box 11, folder 9
Bishop McGucken - LA background; Vatican II correspondence
undated
box 11, folder 10
Bishop McGucken - Weber memoir; 1979 interview, correspondence
ca. 1979
box 11, folder 11
Bishop Bell - correspondence, The Month of Mary (devotional) sermons, notes on Vatican II sermons, notes on Vatican II
undated
box 11, folder 12
Bishop Bell - correspondence, talks, sermons, transcripts of Archdiocese of LA archival material
undated
box 11, folder 13, Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 5-6
Bishop Bell - transcripts of AALA material; Catholic Herald excerpts; correspondence, talks, sermons
undated
box 11, folder 14
Bishop Bell - sociology notebooks 1-3
1927
box 11, folder 16
Bishop Weigand - Sacramento Bee excerpts
undated
box 11, folder 17
Bishop Weigand - Sacramento Bee excerpts, Gray Davis "excommunication," Cathedral renovation
undated
box 11, folder 18
Bishop Weigand - Bee excerpts
undated
box 11, folder 22
Catholic Herald Centennial Essays - Rough Drafts - Bishops
undated
box 11, folder 23
Catholic Herald Centennial Essays - Rough Drafts - Ethnic Groups
undated
box 11, folder 24
Catholic Herald Centennial Essays - Rough Drafts - Religious Orders
undated
box 11, folder 25
Newspaper Clippings and Index Cards
undated
General
See also Series 4.
box 11, folder 26
Loose photos (copies)
undated
box 11, folder 27
Loose photos (copies)
undated
Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 4-6
Bishop McGucken - Catholic Herald, The Tidings
1941; 1962; 1987
Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 4
Bishop Bell - Siskiyou News, Tulelake Reporter, The Tidings, Monitor, LA Herald Express
1944-1962
Subseries 3.4. Parishes - Diocese of Sacramento
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes parish histories from throughout the Sacramento Diocese. For the most part, it does not contain the
extra documentation of the earlier series on Sacramento city and suburban parishes. (Missions are not included in the folder
listing.)
box 11, folder 29
Parish Statistics, Mass Attendance
undated
box 12, folder 1
Memoir - Francis Burke (parishes and priests of Altura and Yreka)
undated
box 12, folder 2
Memoir - Fr. John De Andreis ("It Was Born of Faith")
undated
box 12, folder 3
Humboldt & Del Norte Co; Assumption, Truckee; Corpus Christi, Tahoe City; Divine Savior, Orangevale; Holy Cross, Tule Lake;
Holy Cross; West Sacramento
undated
box 12, folder 4
Holy Family- Citrus Heights
undated
box 12, folder 5
Holy Family - Weed; Holy Rosary - Woodland
undated
box 12, folder 6
Immaculate Conception - Colusa, Downieville, Smartville, andSutter Creek
undated
box 12, folder 7
Our Lady of Grace - West Sacramento
undated
box 12, folder 8
Our Lady of Lourdes - Colusa, West Sacramento
undated
box 12, folder 9
Our Lady of Mercy - Redding; Our Lady of the Snows - Westwood
undated
box 12, folder 10
Sacred Heart - Alturas, Anderson, Gridley, Maxwell
undated
box 12, folder 11
Sacred Heart - Red Bluff, Susanville
undated
box 12, folder 12
St. Anthony's - Sacramento (Pocket), Walnut Grove
undated
box 12, folder 13
St. Basil's - Vallejo; St. Bernard's - Eureka; St. Canice's - Nevada City
undated
box 12, folder 14
St. Christopher's - Galt
undated
box 13, folder 1
St. Dominic's - Benicia, Colfax, Orland
undated
box 13, folder 2
St. Isidore's - Yuba City; St. James' - Davis; St. Johns - Dunsmuir, Quincy
undated
box 13, folder 3
St. John the Baptist - Chico
undated
box 13, folder 4
St. John the Baptist - Folsom; parish reports - St. John the Baptist, St. Mel's of Fair Oaks (mission of St. John's)
undated
box 13, folder 5
St. Joseph's - Auburn, Clarksburg (Portuguese)
undated
box 13, folder 6
St. Joseph's - Elk Grove, Lincoln, McCloud, Redding (Gleeson, Outpost on Poverty Flat), Yreka
undated
box 13, folder 7
St. Mary's - Vacaville; St. Monica's - Willows; St. Patrick's - Grass Valley, Jackson
undated
box 13, folder 8
St. Paul's - Knight's Landing, Sacramento; St. Peter's - Dixon; St. Peter & Paul's - Rocklin; St. Philip's - Sacramento (Byzantine
Rite)
undated
box 13, folder 9
St. Theresa's - South Lake Tahoe; St. Therese - Isleton
undated
box 13, folder 10
St. Thomas' - Oroville; St. Thomas More - Paradise; Vietnamese martyrs in Sacramento
undated
Series 4. Full newspapers
Scope and Contents
This series contains full newspapers used by Avella in his research. Many of the newspapers are from the Bishops McGucken
and Bell biographical files.
Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 1
The Monitor, The Tidings
1941-1946
Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 2
Superior California Register
1935-1946
Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 3
Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Union
undated
Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 4
Various newspapers
1944-1998
General
Includes the Tulelake Reporter (1944-09); Siskiyou Daily News (1947-11); LA Herald Express (1958-10); Evening Star (1962-01);
The City (1997-06); Inside the City (1998-09)
Mapcase MC 4:4, folder 5-6
Catholic Herald
1911-1970
box 16
Series 5. Index cards
Scope and Contents
This series contains Avella's handwritten index cards and copies of the Center for Sacramento History's subject index cards
to the Sacramento Bee and Sacramento Union, mostly on Depression-era subjects.