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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Installation addresses, Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, California, November 19, 1908
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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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Rare Books
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Rare Books
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Rare Books
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Visual Materials
A group of seven photographic copies of architectural drawings and renderings of Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, California. The images are small (2.25 x 3.25 inches), and mounted on boards. The drawings are by architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey, Pasadena. Two renderings were signed by Elmer Grey and dated 1907 and 1908. Throop became the California Institute of Technology in 1920, at a different location in Pasadena.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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