Moreland Stevens Family Papers
Scope and Content of Collection
The Moreland Stevens Family Papers documents the lives of Charles Edwin Stevens and Alice Biddle Moreland, as well as contains the art and artifact donations of Moreland Stevens. This collection tracks Edwin Stevens' personal life and professional life as a stage and silent film actor during the early 20th century and Alice Biddle Moreland's trip to Asia in the 1880s. The collection includes various paintings and artifacts that had been collected by the Stevens family through the generations.
Dates
- Creation: 1861-2001
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has been assigned to San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections & Archives 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 reader. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital reproductions of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Biographical / Historical
Edwin Stevens was born in San Francisco in 1860. He was a film and theater actor from the 1890s to the 1920s, and later directed and wrote screenplays. He starred in over 45 films, and died at the age of 63 in 1923.
Alice Biddle Moreland, related to Edwin Stevens by marriage, was born in Oregon in 1854. She is Oregon State University’s first female graduate, completing her degree in three years, graduating at age sixteen. She married a professor named William Moreland in 1870 and together they had a daughter named Esther. Years later, Esther Moreland Leithold wrote her mother’s biography "And This Is Our Heritage."
Extent
1.0 Box (1 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Moreland Stevens Family Papers consists of newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, art and artifacts donated by the Stevens family. The bulk of this collection is 1890 - 1930.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into three series: Series I: Alice Biddle Moreland Photo Journal, Series II: Edwin Stevens Papers, and Series III: Art and Artifacts.
All series are arranged chronologically.
Processing Information
Processed by: Monika Lehman Reviewed by: Danelle Moon Date completed: 2014 Accessions processed by: Lauren DeCelle, September 2019
Function
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Moreland Stevens Family Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Monika Lehman, updated and edited by Lauren DeCelle in 2019
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the SJSU Special Collections & Archives Repository
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
San José State University
One Washington Square
San José, CA 95192-0028
(408) 808-2062
(408) 808-2063 (Fax)
special.collections@sjsu.edu