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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The services and collections of Lyman Copeland Draper
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters (including 1 letter book), manuscripts (including 50 diaries), documents (including 55 account books, 12 cash books, and 5 miscellaneous volumes), and photographs related to the lives and activities of various Janin family members and the extended Janin-Blair-Jesup-Croghan families. Subject matter in the collection includes: politics and government in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana; society and customs in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans; Blair House (Washington, D.C.); land titles in Indiana Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri; the Ocean Canal and Transportation Company, which ran from Louisiana to St. Louis; the history of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the time of purchase by John Croghan in 1839 until 1932, when it became a national park (at which time Violet Blair Janin was the primary owner); and mining in Australia. Persons represented in the collection include: James Lawrence Blair, Mary Jesup Blair, Violet Blair Janin, John Croghan, William Croghan, Albert Covington Janin, Louis Janin, Julia Clark Jesup, Thomas Sidney Jesup, George M. Wheeler, and Lucy James Blair Wheeler. Organizations represented in the collection (with which Violet Blair Janin was affiliated) include: Daughters of the American Revolution, National Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, National Cathedral Association, National Society of Children of the American Revolution, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
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Manuscripts
Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Manuscripts
The four letters that Draper wrote to Benson J. Lossing in 1855 (Jan. 9, Feb. 28, May 7, and June 20) discuss the affairs of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and its at times tense relationship with the state legislature, the goings on in Madison, Draper's research for his book on Daniel Boone. The latter portion lists many interviews he had conducted, including his attempts to contact the family of J.J. Audubon. The letter of April 18, 1864 mentions a proposal to publish a childrens' edition of biography of Daniel Boone ("about the size of Mayer's 'Pioneer Boy & How he became President'), intended to alleviate Draper's financial circumstances, discusses his literary plans, and acquistion of the papers of Daniel Drake (1785-1852).
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Visual Materials
A collection of 21 photographs and 1 oil painting on cardboard related to the Moore and Draper families and the family business, the Moore & Draper grocery store, in late-19th century Los Angeles. The store is seen in one photograph showing a large wooden building with a sign and Moore, Draper, and others standing in front. There are three images of family members in front of houses in Los Angeles: a bungalow at 4109 S. Figueroa, and a house at 4735 Compton Avenue, taken on Thanksgiving, 1903. The portraits are by a variety of early Los Angeles photographers including F. C. Dando of the Lamson Studio; James D. Westervelt; Lawrence & Son, Excelsior Gallery, Downey Block; Lorenz; and James B. Blanchard. Portrait sitters include: Henry A. and Phoebe Moore and their son Eugene; Durell Draper; Henry and Emma Draper; Kitty Draper; Warren C. Waite (Phoebe's brother) and his family in Chillicothe, Missouri; Minnie Waite Stowell; and members of the Washburn, Crockett and Davies families. The nonprofessional oil painting is a portrait of Joseph Clark Waite.
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Visual Materials
A collection of 21 photographs and 1 oil painting on cardboard related to the Moore and Draper families and the family business, the Moore & Draper grocery store, in late-19th century Los Angeles. The store is seen in one photograph showing a large wooden building with a sign and Moore, Draper, and others standing in front. There are three images of family members in front of houses in Los Angeles: a bungalow at 4109 S. Figueroa, and a house at 4735 Compton Avenue, taken on Thanksgiving, 1903. The portraits are by a variety of early Los Angeles photographers including F. C. Dando of the Lamson Studio; James D. Westervelt; Lawrence & Son, Excelsior Gallery, Downey Block; Lorenz; and James B. Blanchard. Portrait sitters include: Henry A. and Phoebe Moore and their son Eugene; Durell Draper; Henry and Emma Draper; Kitty Draper; Warren C. Waite (Phoebe's brother) and his family in Chillicothe, Missouri; Minnie Waite Stowell; and members of the Washburn, Crockett and Davies families. The nonprofessional oil painting is a portrait of Joseph Clark Waite.
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