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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Penn-Yan Bill's wooing
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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 James William Eldridge collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, printed military forms, autographs, ephemera, and approximately 4000 portraits and contemporary photographs, which date from 1797-1902. The collection documents military history of the Civil War, from both the Union and Confederate sides, concentrating on commanding officers, military and naval operations and administration, the armed forces of South Carolina and Virginia, and the everyday life of the common soldiers (including prisons and medical care). Also included are materials on civilian administration and politics during the war years, concentrating on governors, mayors, and congressmen. The bulk of the collection deals with the American Civil War, although there is some material on the antebellum and post-war politics and military history, including the raid on Harpers Ferry and the post-war Navy. The collection contains materials from US presidents James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and Rutherford B. Hayes.
mssEG
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Manuscripts
This collection consists of typescripts of reminiscences, diaries, notebooks, and photographs. The first typescript was written in 1941 and is an autobiography that details Parker's life from his high school days in New York to his times in Alaska, Mexico, and New Mexico as a mining engineer and assayer. The next typescript was written in 1945 and is titled "History and my story about White Oaks 1880-1900." This typescript gives more depth into his families' life in White Oaks as mine owners and as a prominent family in the community. The last typescript was written in 1947 and is titled "Mules, mines, and me in Mexico." This typescript covers Parker's life in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico and his extensive travels throughout the region as a mining engineer and consultant for such mining companies as Fortuna-North Tigre, La República, and many others. In this typescript he discusses the following people: Plutarco Elias Calles (1877-1945), Britton Davis (1860-1930), James Stuart Douglas (1868-1949), William Cornell Greene (1853-1911), George Wylie Paul Hunt (1859-1934), William Colt MacDonald (1891-1968), Pascual Orozco (1882-1915), Luis Terrazas (1829-1923), and Pancho Villa (1878-1923). Parker also covers the Mexico Revolution, 1910-1920 and conflicts with Yaqui Indians.
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Manuscripts
Fifty-four drawings by Franz Hölzlhuber of clothing, tools, weapons, instruments, and hides used by Native Americans, as well as portraits of individual Native American men and women (Menomonee, Chippewa, Winnebago, Comanche, Oneida, Blackhawk, Ponca, Sioux, Pawnee, Concaw, Oshkosh, Ottoe) in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Hölzlhuber titled the drawings on the front (in German) and there is text on the verso of the drawings (also in German). Also present is the original housing of the drawings, a volume that was entitled "Costüm-Bilder waffen und Geräthshaften einiger Indianerstamme im Nordwesten America." Box 6 contains photocopies of the German text on the versos of the drawings. There are no English translations.
mssHM 9892
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Manuscripts
The Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Ephemera Series is organized by genre, subject, and/or original order. The contents include address books, biographies, card indexes, comic books, correspondence, financial records, Hong residence construction documents, manuscripts, periodicals, subject files, and transcripts of Y. C. Hong's congressional testimony.
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