Bailey Millard photographs c 1880s-1905

Historic Photograph Collections

Bailey Millard photographs, c. 1880s-1905

Collection number: PH104

Extent: .25 linear ft. (1 containers)

Abstract

Bailey Millard (1859-1939) was a printer, journalist and publisher who became acquainted with prominent writers. The collection consists of portraits of Jack London, Frank Norris, Edwin Markham, David Graham Phillips, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Image shown: "Stevenson enjoying a social chat with a Scotch visitor in his cottage in Honolulu, Lloyd Osborne in foreground." [Candid shot of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) with friends.] Date: 1880s-1894. By: Unknown. Loc: Hawaii. Bailey Millard photographs, PH104-6-2, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299. All rights reserved.

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Hazard Stevens photographs, PH101-[item number], Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299.

Biographical Sketch

Bailey Millard was born in Markesan, WI. Much of his education was obtained as a printer's deveil and tramp printer. He worked his way west througfh a succession of newspaper and printing shops. In the 1890s he was city editor or literary editor of the San Francisco Call and the Examiner, and in 1918-1919 was managing editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. From 1913-1914 he was in New York, managing editor of Munsey's. In San Francisco he was acquainted with an published a succession of new writers, among them Jack London and Edwin Markham, He first published Joaquin Miller's best-known poem, "Columbus."

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of portraits of literary figures.

Box 1: Prints

PH104-1: Jack London at the time he wrote Call of the Wild. [Portrait of author (1876-1916) in suit, c. 1904.] Date: 1904 c.. By: Unknown. Loc: Unknown
PH104-2: Edwin Markham. Today at eighty-one. [Portrait of writer (1852-1940). Half-toned print with typed comment.] Date: 1933 c.. By: Unknown. Loc: Unknown
PH104-3: Edwin Markham, Los Angeles, 1935. [Portrait of writer (1852-1940) in a garden] Date: 1935. By: Mertins, Louis of CA. Loc: California-Los Angeles
PH104-4: Edwin Markham, Los Angeles, 1935. [Portrait of writer (1852-1940) in a garden] Date: 1935. By: Mertins, Louis of CA. Loc: California-Los Angeles
PH104-5: Edwin Markham at the time he wrote "The man with the hoe." Feb. 1899, "To my good friend Bailey Millard." Date: 1899 Feb. By: Unknown. Loc:
PH104-5: Edwin Markham at Westerleigh, Staten Island, his present home. 1912. [Portrait of author in coat in yard.] Date: 1912. By: Unknown. Loc: New York
PH104-6.1: Mr. & Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Strong, Mr. Lloyd Osborne, Mr. Stevenson's mother. [Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) with friends and family, playing cards in cottage.] Date: 1880s-1894. By: Unknown. Loc: Hawaii
PH104-6.2: Stevenson enjoying a social chat with a Scotch visitor in his cottage in Honolulu, Lloyd Osborne in foreground. [Candid shot of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) with friends.] Date: 1880s-1894. By: Unknown. Loc: Hawaii
PH104-6: Frank Norris. [Portrait of the author (1870-1902).] Date: 1912. By: Bushnell, H.H. of San Francisco, CA. Loc: California-San Francisco
PH104-7Missing: [Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) in bed, playing recorder.] Date: 1880s-1894. By: Unknown. Loc: Hawaii
PH104-8: David Graham Phillips, to my good friend Bailey Millard. [Portrait of author and journalist Phillips (1867-1911) in dressing gown, standing at writing table. Date: 1905 c.. By: Unknown. Loc: Unknown

Related materials

Bailey Millard papers are housed in the University of Oregon's manuscripts collection as Ax 431.

Ownership

Publication rights: Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish images must be submitted to the Photographs Curator of Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.

Access restrictions: None.

Provenance: The collection was donated in 1969 by the Millard family.

Processed by: Normandy S. Helmer

Date Completed: March 2006