The Richard Amero Collection

Scope and Content Note

The Amero Collection, compiled over 40 years, consists of notes, newspaper and magazines clippings, copies of articles in books, reports in government publications, and correspondence taken from—among others—archival collections in the Library of Congress, the Bancroft Library at the University of California in Berkeley, the Avery Fisher Library at Columbia University, libraries at Harvard and Cornell Universities and the Olmsted Historical Site in Brookline, Massachusetts. The collection consists of over 250 three-ring binders.

The collection contains copies of letters written by architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, landscape architects John Nolen and the brothers Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and John Charles Olmsted,, reports from the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Indians of San Diego County, and articles and miscellaneous material on San Diego County Indians, Mission San Diego de Alcala, Old Town, El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, Horton Plaza Park, Balboa Park—including histories of the expositions and of individual museums, the United States Naval Hospital in Balboa Park, Mission Bay, International Workers of the World, San Diego public transportation and water procurement problems, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, San Diego High School, historical articles written by Winifred Davidson, published and unpublished articles by Richard W. Amero, historical preservation applications and conflicts, railroad depot preservation successes in the United States, Japanese gardens in the United States and Canada, the history of world’s fairs and of attempts to hold the same in San Diego, and biographical material on well-known individuals, including singers Schumann-Heink and Galli-Curci, landscape architect Samuel Parsons, architect Frank P. Allen, Jr. San Diego pioneer Daniel Cleveland, aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss and San Diego entrepreneur “Charlie” Collier, and a discussion of the speculative theories of Barry Fell on the early settlement of America by Celts, Phoenicians and Egyptians.

Container Listing ~ a listing of topics by binder

Balboa Park History Notes ~ large section of Amero collection, topics and some text

Kate Sessions History Notes ~ on-line index to Sessions notes, topics only

Samuel Parsons History Notes ~ on-line index to Parsons notes with text

CREDIT LINE: Richard Amero Collection SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY