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MS.R.029
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Kuchel family papers
Creator:
Kuchel family
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.029
Physical Description:
1.1 Linear Feet
(2 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1860-1940
Abstract: This collection comprises Anaheim-related printed ephemera, photographs, and clippings gathered by the Kuchel family, owners
and publishers of the
Anaheim Gazette, and documenting the family's publishing activities and other local commercial publishing. Other materials in this collection
record the meetings of the Anaheim City Trustees and the Anaheim Water Company Board of Trustees. The majority of materials
in this collection are printed ephemera from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, primarily printed for Anaheim companies
and citizens. These include stationery, business and calling cards, corporate and public notices, flyers, broadsides, advertisements,
tickets, and labels for wine, liquor, and other products. Some of these items were printed by the Kuchels' Anaheim Gazette
press.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Kuchel Family Papers. MS-R29. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Gift of Lutetia and Thomas H. Kuchel, 1965-1966.
Processed by Adrian Turner in 2001.
The Kuchel family of Anaheim published Orange County's first newspaper, the
Anaheim Gazette, for 90 consecutive years. Henry Kuchel, editor of the
Gazette, was born in 1859 and arrived in Anaheim in 1860 with his German immigrant family. His father, Conrad Kuchel, was one of
the original fifty colonists of Anaheim in 1857. He owned several vineyards in the area, as well as the first meat market
in Anaheim. With his brother Charles, Henry purchased the
Gazette in 1887 after working extensively in the newspaper publishing business in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Henry married
Lutetia Kuchel of Texas in 1894. She assisted Henry in running the
Gazette and continued to write for the newspaper after Henry's death in 1935.
Their youngest son, Thomas H. Kuchel, practiced as a lawyer in Anaheim before he was elected as a Republican to the California
state Assembly. He was elected to the California State Senate in 1940 and served until 1945. Beginning in 1953, he served
in the United States Senate and was elected again in 1956 and 1962. He died in 1994.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises Anaheim-related printed ephemera, photographs, and clippings gathered by the Kuchel family, owners
and publishers of the
Anaheim Gazette, and documenting the family's publishing activities and other local commercial publishing. Other materials in this collection
record the meetings of the Anaheim City Trustees and the Anaheim Water Company Board of Trustees. The majority of materials
in this collection are printed ephemera from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily printed for Anaheim companies
and citizens. These include stationery, business and calling cards, corporate and public notices, flyers, broadsides, advertisements,
tickets, and labels for wine, liquor, and other products. Some of these items were printed by the Kuchels' Anaheim Gazette
press.
The collection also contains photograph portraits of Henry Kuchel and an assortment of newspaper clippings concerning the
Kuchel family and the Gazette. A scrapbook of
Gazette clippings records the meetings of the Anaheim City Trustees from 1894 to 1898, and a bound volume of holograph minutes records
the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Anaheim Water Company from 1872 to 1882. The minutes were published in the
Gazette.
The printed ephemera provide a record of early Orange County business and cultural history. Among the business-related printed
ephemera are illustrated business cards for the city livery and stables, banks, grocery stores, vineyards, and hotels. Announcements
range from family wedding invitations and city concerts to grand balls hosted by the Native Sons of the Golden West.
Printed ephemera are arranged by material format (e.g., business cards, stationery, tickets). Within this arrangement, material
is grouped topically by function or purpose.
The principal Kuchel gift included a complete run of original copies of the
Anaheim Gazette from October 29, 1870 through February 19, 1960, totaling 4,426 issues of the newspaper, which was microfilmed by the UC
Irvine Libraries following the donation. The Kuchels also donated issues of the
Anaheim Daily Herald.
Extensive coverage of the
Gazette is represented in UCI holdings. For locations of microfilm holdings (1870-1871, 1874-1964), consult the UC Irvine Libraries'
online catalog. Scattered coverage of the original issues from 1880-1971 can be found in a related collection stored in UC
Irvine Special Collections and Archives, the California Newspapers Collection (Collection number MS-R70).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Anaheim (Calif.) -- Archives
Advertisements -- California -- Anaheim.
Ephemera -- California -- Anaheim.
Photographic prints -- California -- Anaheim.
Broadsides -- California -- Anaheim.
Business cards -- California -- Anaheim.
Publishers.
Wine labels -- California -- Anaheim.
Stationery -- California -- Anaheim.
Kuchel, Henry
Kuchel, Lutetia
Kuchel, Thomas H.
Kuchel family -- Archives
Anaheim Gazette Printers