Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Grover Cleveland on a tramp
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a bust-length portrait of United States president Grover Cleveland.
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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
Autograph letter signed. Enclosing an order relating to teaching in Native American schools. (2 pages)
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Manuscripts
Handwritten draft of published message to the U.S. Senate regarding "An Act to restore a pension to Harriet M. Knowlton" (Senate Bill No. 719), which Cleveland does not approve. Item is attached to typescript letter signed from D.R. Francis, Department of the Interior, to Grover Cleveland, 1897 February 24; an undated typescript copy of the bill; and published copies of the House and Senate reports on the bill. Also included is a cartoon of Cleveland with handwritten notes on the reverse. Published version of Cleveland's message is dated March 1, 1897. Harriet M. Knowlton was the widow of a Civil War soldier who had remarried and then divorced, and was seeking to restore her previous pension.
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